rain, just incredible the amount of rain we've seen. still coming down. have another 24 to 36 hours of rain. at times it will be heavy. right now for the mostart 're looking at lighter rain across the d.c. metro area and heavier rain back towards the county andwarren clark county. shower activity. most light around the d.c. metro area.o starting t see at least some of these showers break out. they are becoming a little bita r into parts of montgomery county. north of gaitburg and that's a heavy shower. this one around bethesda right around the kensington area. right up to georgia avenue and you might see some moving on in here. a lot more where that came from. moisre out of the uth, but not a lot of yellows an oranges. not talking heavy rain for the next few hours though weo anticipate it picking up. much more on this, and the dryer pattern setting up for it the

end of the week. i'll have that for you a little bit later. >> thank you, doug. we invite you to download our nbc washington app if yout don' have already. that's where you'll find doug's hour-by-houru'orecast. find a live interactive radar which really comes in ndy these days. do have a favor to ask you. if you do have heavy flooding oe y rain near your home, please send us your pictures or your video if you can do so safely. we appre tate it. ed of dodging all the raindrops, but this weather is more than from us straight. >> it's quite dangerous. it can even be deadly. we just learned the name of the woman who was killed by a flen tree in burke, virginia. she was in the house last night when the tree's roots slipped t out of wet ground. our bureau reporter david culver is checking on damage across northern virginia. he's liv in alexandria where a tornado may have touched mown in thst of all of this

david? >> reporter: can you believe that, wendy and jim? they are investigating that right now. the national weather service looking into the possibility of a very low level tornado. it would be an ef-0 if it came through. here you look behind me and you see the school, the thomas jeffern high school for science and technology looks fine. the building itself didn't sustain any damago. see the damage and destruction we take you to the back. tonight a cleanup on the athletic fields ama the t jefferson high school for science and technology. officials try to determine if a tornadod all of this, things bent, trees knocked over and a storage container seemingly tossed to the side, a mangled mess. an off-roading experience for me lorton residents. old colchester road open for now, buthe mud a water making for a bumpy ride.

>> we need the rain so where i live we have problems with the ngcreek ri and the road ends up being closed so that's been the major issue. >> reporter: tuesday started out with a downpour that closed dozens of roads in northern virginia. as they started drying waters receding and some drivers venturing through. others not risking it. following the drivernt in f of them, a seemingly choreographed round-about on hunter mill road in vienna. a it especially rained for block of seven days. it makes it almost impossible to get anything done. >> don't want to talk about that. >>eporter: the rain has meant chris gunn cannot clock into work. s moving jobs pushed back waiting on dryer weather. >> moving people. >> reporter: soou're going to outside? >> this rain is like no work today. last three days there's bee no work. >> reporter: back here live in front of thomas jefferson high on the back end there's still a mess back there, and what we

howed you is after much of the cleanup. jim, one of the storage containers spilled a lot of the uipment but folks her were able to clean it up as quickly as possible and the good news is nobody got hurt. >> that good news. david, thanks so much. to maryland and prince george's county we go where there's been some trouble sts like here at queen anne's bridge in bowie, maryland, but t county has so far been spared from any major flooding. coming up at 5:30, our tracee wilkin t shows us what county is doing now to stay ahead of the rain and how you can prepare ur home. wendy? >> well, now to a violent dispute that occurred inside a metro station. a worker at the station actuay abbed a passenger. when that b passengerame upset an confrontational about delays on the red line. news 4's pat collins outside the friendship heights station in upper northwest to give us the latest. pat? >> reporter: y, the train was late, and he was angry. he goes into the station

nager's kiosk. now are that station manager, she has a knife. vit getslent. they say he hits her in the arm, and then she stabs him in the chest, and now he's in the hospital. a metro passenger is said to be in grave condition tonight after a violent confrontation were a station manager. >> this how they tel the story. it was about 22 minutesfter midnight. the red line train to shady grove was running late. a guy waiting in the friendship station was. ups he went to the station manager's kiosk to explain about the delay. somehow the guy gets into the kiosk. they say he hit the station manager in the arm, and she lls out a pocket knife and then snaps him in the chest. falls here to the ground.

the police chief says this stabbing could be justifiable. >> we believe right now that there may be a viable claim telf-defense in this case and that's something te have to look >> reporter: these are some of the things riders are saying. >> was she right on a wrong? >> f push. got to be the bigger man or bigger woman and just call whoever you need to call. you don't retaliate like that. been way the people hav treating the bus drivers i guess i don't blame r. >> the station manager shouldn't have pulled out a knife. >> it all depends on the situation, how far it went, what happened. i just feel like it's all across the board it's terrible when anybody gets hurt. >> reporter: police it continue to investigate, but so far no charges here. jim, back toyo >> pat collins, thank you. a teacher in fairfax county

is facingon f charges tonight used of soliciting sex to minors through a socia app. county police tell us 50-year-old norman aiken is being held without bond now. a detective aosed as teenager when he initiated a conversation and asked for sexual contact. the detective says he also sen a sexually explicitge i he was a latin teacher that taught during the 2017-'18 school year. police fear there may be other victims on there. >> capitol hill there were touch questions for the department of homeland security becaus of election security, and that included whether maryland's voting system could be at risk in the upcoming mid terms. scotcfarlane is iacfarlane is h more. >> reporter: the state of maryland hired a russian-owned contractor to help run the election system and they help

run the network used by the maryland state board of elections. at a u.s. house hearing tod the u.s. agency says the russians can not impact the maryland electn but couldn't swer all the questions. >> at least according tiothe inform i've seen, there was o ability to influence based on that venture capfirm, but we are conducting a broader assessment of th risk environment. >> are there states who have election venrs today tha are running elections in november who have ties to russian olighechs or putin government? >> sir, at this point i don't have information t share on that. >> maryland's house members require all u.s. election vendors be owned by americans. at the live desk, i'm scott cfarlane, wendy, back to you. >> thanks, scott. one of the organizers behind that deadly white nationalist rally in charlotteille last year is nowng withdra his

request to hold another event in that city. jason kesler had asked for a court order that would compel the cityo issue a permit so at he could hold rally that marks the one-year anniversary. kesler claimed that e city's refusal violated his free speech. day he abandoned his legal fight, but police say they are still preparing for that anniversary, and they are monitoring social media. kesler is also planning an event here in washington next month. d.c. has seen a significant spike in overdoses. 300 people in just the lasten days. several people have died. streetse drugs have names like scooby or k2, but district officials warn there is a new strain of this drug, and they fear it will kill more people. news4' mark segraves explains what is being done to stop it w. >> reporter: this was the scene last week just a block from headquarters.

the drug causing the overdoses? synthetic k cannabinoidwn at k2 or spice. the chief medical examiner is investigating the possibility that the synthetic drug overdoses are responsible for as many as four. recent deat >> there's cities across the country that are seeingimilar spikes, and d.c. is seeing this now. we'reha hoping the programs that we're putting in place can get tndividuals the helpt they need. >> reporter: here's how big the problem is. the in the past ten days the d.c. fire department has 261 p synthetic overdose. in that same ten days they have treated an additional 99 people who were not taken to the hospital. comparehat to only 105 transports in all of july last syear, but thi isn't the first summer d.c. has experienced a spike in these types of overdoses. in july of 2016, d.c. fir transported nearly 600 overdose

victimso the hospital. dr. jennifer smith with the d.c. department of forensic sciences tells news 4 a new typ of synthetic cannabinoid has hit the streets. >> they are all very extremely dangerous. part of what makes them dangerous is as you buy this product you don't know what's in there. >> reporter: the district is now distributing this flyer warning of the potentially fatal batch of k2 that's on the streets. most of the overdoses have been near homeless shelters. synthetic cannabinoids sell for ase lit $2 to $5 a pack. in the district, mark segraves, news 4. >> i'meon harris working some breaking news here at the le desk. star pop singer demi lovato has been rushed to the hospital for an apparent drug overdose. firstnd ress gave lovato in a loc-- lovato naloxone.

no confirmation on what shedo ovd on. the singer is stable, alert and breathing. our colleagues at nbc news areg workhis story and will have continuing coverage right here on news 4. wendy, back to you. new at 5:00, ihe-team takes on a changing mindin stigation and what inmates are telling us is behind the rise of suicides in jail and y what te doing to turn this trend around. >> a little boy in maryland shoots his father. we're live with what set off this dangerous situation. >> and we have new deo. this is a water spout. justneore crazy bit of weather that we're enduring. doug says theicystem thatd this up is affecting our acrecast. he's going to be to tell us when we might see the heavier

. >> all right. look how thick it is behind us now. the live pictures. we can't makean out hing. >> we don't know where we are. >> i think it's you know, guys. it could be that we're begging for rain for weeks. i think we c turn it off now, can't we? >> that's the thing. you beg long enough, d all o a sudden mother nature says oh, you want that and, boom, you get a foot of rain and that's how much we've seen in about a week. >> through july 16th only had a trace of raiall here in

washington and like you said the oip was switched and we've had over a foot rain in some areas. >> we're going to end july as the wettest all time ine. baltim top ten in d.c. take a lock outside. dealing with the rain coming downtown. most of this is onhe light to moderate side but it's fairly steady now. right downtown our camera right here ander hea shores in toward montgomery county and frederick, virginia. i'll zoom into this area so i can see what i'm talking about right around east gaithersburg and north of kensington. as we look south, we've got a lot more rain coming. nothing too heavy. expect to see a couple of heavier downpours as this whole system moves out and what's causing this system. first off, a flash flood watch

and that' effective until 6:00 tonight and 6:00 tomorrow night because of all of the heavy rape. take a look at this. look at our moisture coming all the way from the top. it comes all the way down from key west. started at key west yesterday, and it's allhe way into our area and moving up into canada. the rest of the countryy extremry and extremely hot, too. dealing with record high temperatures. phoenix today 115. the los anges area around 100 to 108 today. las vegas right now is at 112 degrees. for us complete opposite. we've got aig trough of low pressure. that trough dips down and this is the jet stream. ps into the tropics, and all thehere it lifts moisture our way, and as it does so we deal with the rain and flooding here and that' what we've dealt with and one more day tomorrow and we start tobr k out and with a little bit more let's head over to amelia.

>> it's not an all-day rain and when it's not raining we'll have mostly cloudy skies. the rain outlook through sunday. again, widespread rain tomorhuw andday and friday most of us are looking mainly dry. the sunshine is finally bacur o ay and especially during the afternoon hours. partly to mostly sunny skies. friday a small chance for late-day showers hand most of the daytime is dry. a chance for showers han thunderstorms and morning and midday hours for sure are looking good on your saturday and sunday. take a look at the weather and how it will impact your weekend. pool time is not as impressive out there right now, and you'll want to go earlier. yard work, plan for the morng hours a plan for wet lawns out there. we would hold off on going to the car wh over the weekend, doug, because we're looking at more rain in the forecast next a week and not much as we've picked out this week. still a chance of rain onay the mohrough friday on the

step-day forecast. ou any of the days we pick up heavy downpours. take a being loop. 13 tomorrow and 100% chance of lein. weather day and 88 on thursday. heat index and a high of 91. most of the day isn' dry. rule out a stray thunderstorm and a better chance we think on saturday,nd then next week, all the way through next friday. we've got a chance of showers and storms just about every single day. not anticipating every day to be a washout. n't be t case at all and m we'll seee rain into next week. >> thank you, dog. police say the man who barricaded himself in his ex-girlfriend's home with their toddler is not expected to survive. montgomery county police say the entireta ordealed with a call tore an assault in the silver spring neighborhood. more now with the details. >> reporter: this happened around 8:00 last night. just behind me here you can tell

whichouse it is, andou can see the doorway that's boarded up. the board itself is laying there on the front lawn. neighbors ted neighbors tell me this suspect chasing her and wanted to kill b herore she ran into the home with her 3-year-old son. it was a frightening experience monday night for the mother of a 3-year-old boyho was renting this home on mozart drive. police say they rushed to the scene just before 8:00 when they got a callhat a woman and her current boyfriend had been assaulted. >> the woman who claed that she had been in the home and had been assaulted by a former eiyfriend. >>bors say the incident happened in the parking lot. moments later 30-year-old john carlos perez r inside where he was holed up with their 3-year-old son. >> she explained her former boyfriend was in her residence

and shouldn't be so officers approach the door and attempted to have a conversation with himw >> reporter:n that didn't work officers brought in their emergency response team and ed negotiators tor hours to convince the suspect to open the door, but when they realized thathe 3-year-old was likely in danger, they had to act. >> he was moving furniture around and barricading doors and windows and they also at one point obsved him light something on fire and throw it out a second storywi ow. >> police moved in shooting perez makinghe sure little boy was safe. an time the folks who own the whole create -- meantime the folks who own the home were

sorry for the disruption. >> what not to do on rainy days like this. a driver took a chance and ended up in deep water. coverage on our flooded roain co, and you don't want to be this guy. with more reports about what's happing across our region. >> plus, months of alleged sexual abuse deraile her dreams of olympic diving. for the first time she opens up in an nbc news exclusive. >> it was you're mature, you're kind, you're honest to here a picture. >> w

a water spout took some vacationers by surprise in myrtle beach. doug says this water spout was triggered by the same system that's affecting our forecast. it spanned about 15 yards. eventual did make landfall. tossed around some beach chairs and umbrellas. one man was even dragged along the beach a bit before the water spout just dissipated. one time an olympic hopeful, and now she's seeing usa diving, ohio state and aormer coach who she says abused her when she was underage. esther pryor say s when was just 16 and ohio state coach who .as 27 at the time sexually abused h she told nbc's megyn kelly that theoach had photos and videos of their encounters.

pryor says it toohea big toll on emotionally. >> whenes you i your life into a sport and your identity is created throughout that and within my own private community which was -- which was a very wealthy community i was known as esther pryor, the diver,wh and this happened, it -- my identity was changed because somebody like him hn such effect on me. >> now pry saysfter the school found out, ohio state fired the coach and got authorities involved, but pryor says she decid not to prosecute. >> i was 17 years old, and they made it my rponsibility to take action for somebody else's mistake and it's taken me years to actually come to this point but i think that's wrong. >> now ohio state it has no tolerance fxual misconduct and followed through with police. spryor's attorney beliehere

may be other victims out there. he also said it took a number of months for usa diving to ban that coach. the coach did not respond it a request for comment with megyn wlly today. higher in parts of maryland as communities there brace for more rain, andur live team weather coverage continues right after this. we provide you with some steps you can take now to protect your home. >> we're in weather alert through tomorrow, folks, and storm tm 4 radar shows you why. doug's back with an updated rain total, and chances for weekend storms, too. >> education espionage. how an iernational student how an iernational student allegedly stole some

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a weather ale now at 5:30. it was an ef-0 tornado that came through parts of northern virginia. ale winds twisted up and messed up some bas folds at thomas jefferson high school in alexandria. >> yeah. a lot of damage. take a long. more rain is rolling in. showers are scattered across our radar right now. doug says the rape wiin will pi again doug?. >> some areas not seeing any rain. some showers a while ago a not seeing much. d.c. seeing some of that rain coming through. you can see heavier showers back through the west and heavier showers in a line in parts ofou

montgomeryy and the district. i'll zoom into this area right here inside the beltway around the bethesda region moving right up wiscons avenue. that's coming through. down at the airport and that was the one that jus about 15 minutes ago we couldn't see through ourer to cam at all because the rain was coming dowv rain through the rest of the area and more of that come up to dhe south. this promp a lot of flooding around the area including some in fairfax county. overnight last night. in the only did we have the in that that carad floodg. right there once again tried t go through flooded roadways. i say it over and over again. we all do. turn around and don't drown and multiple calls for help because people tried to drive through flooded roadways. please, once again, we have to watch out for that. a long way to got r 24 to 36 hours for this. prince george's county has been spared fm the worst flooding so far and tracee is out there

with more on what to expect in that ea. >> reporter: they are doing a lot of monitoring in prince george's county watching the areas that we knowne are p to have flooding. here in hyattsville in the pimonton p station it's all quiet. these pumps are not moving because as it stand we've not had enough water coming down today t trigger those pumps, but all over the county there are areas whe they have seen some standing water. all the rain we've been getting has to somewhere. >> i mean, it's really dangerous. >> reporter: the rain is working fast, but it's not enough for all of the rain that' been sitting over prince george's county. anneeighbor here on queen bridge road tells me the water was this high this morning. as you can see, it's much lo pr. thence george's county department of public works there continuing to monitor these low-lying areas, trying to figure out when it's time to completely close the road. in addition to monitoring roads county officials hav people working 24 hours a their

automated water pumping stion. >> forhe most part we keep people monitoring these stations throughout the storm just in g.se something goes wron >> reporter: like a loss of power or generator that dies. that could mean flooding for ll neighborhoods along the anacostia river. that was happeniul rly about ten years ago. >> so this is the old original station. >> reporter: then the county added on to its edmonton pumping station. it now has five pumps pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons water. >> as the waters rise it triggers the pumps to come on when it's supposed to. >> reporter:e've had some storms where all five pumps have been triggered. dave howard, chief inspector for prince george's county's department of public works says it's helping more now than ever. are you saying that our storms rew are n batig ggester issue i not just the amount of water. it's the time frame in which it falls so you're getting more bursts. >> reporter: looking like here at anacostia, this is what they we paying attention to and what

triggers the pumpsn it gets too high. the water is theigh butot as high as it would need to be to igger the pumps. sometimes it gets as igh as where the brown marking is below the grass. when that happens, these pumps go into full force to make sure that the neighborhoods are not seeing anything flooding. let pea just say here we're seei little bit of the spitting rain. it get really light, and all of a sudden it' harder and then light again, the annoying rwen all rain. reporting live, tracee wilkins, back to you a in the stewed yes. >> thanks, tracee. a long night for folkshere. unt on news 4 to get you safely where you need to go in the morning. 'll alert you to any trouble spots on your commute, and chuck and sheena will tag team your "news 4 today" starts at 4:00 a.m. president trump brought hma in america showcase back to the white house today, and it comes amid trade w disputesith other nations. vice president mike pence spent time meeting with small business owners from all 50 states. now the businessesake

everything from denim to garden hose nodsles to custom gingerbread cookies. business owners say they are proud to make products in the u.s. butome still need to import raw materials. >> and if yourom wine from california it cld include amount ofart criminaparticles in the napa valley wine that were produced after the japan nuclkr meltdown b in 2011. the study shows red wines have higher levels than say a rose or white. the radiation is far too low, however, to hurt you. the same thing happened to the sines in france in the 1980 after the chernobyl power plant disast. >> so tha doesn't explain our headache or hangover, i guess. >> no, those are the sulfites that are always there.

>> next, a bad attitude. nats getting criticism for their character on the diamond. >> and then a sry you're only going to see here on 4, a young teacher killed a in anul crash, and now her mother is talking to news 4.ho >> god wasng off when he made her. >> how the communitys remember iin

major league's baseball game here in washington is starting

to feel like a distant m the nats are back in the business of the regular season but far from business as usual. dave johnson joins us with more from the newsroom. we need to puthe tog back-to-back victories, dave. >> reporter: that would be a step in the right direction. that's how we're n below .500, the nationals. they wrecks pected to win the division, andow we wonder if they areivide. remember friday max scherzer and stephen strasburg exced words in the dugout a now a benching over a bunt. davy martinez not happened with trey turner because of what happen in milwaukee. backed out onhe fastball and bunt didn't work. turner just walked up to third, supposed to walk up first, he's out, and younow what, turner is out of the lineup tonight. irony here, turner received he nationals heart and hustle award today. obviously voted l on befort night. we've got more coming up in sports, and, yeah.

>> wow. shame on let him sit one out or maybe two. >> thank you, dave. >>ha survivors of deadly gas explosion in silver spring it s this time or roughly around this time last year say that e been forgotten, and tonight those residents will demand that montgomery county take some action to helpem the 2016 explosion was two years ago at the flower branch apartments that kil seven people. two of the people were children. s say they have struggled over the last two years and they need rental support after they were displaced. and some 200 leaders are expected to meet with county leaders tonight at broad acres elementary school in silver spring to address these issues. >> the news 4 i-team expos a dangerous trend in our jails. inmatesalk to our scott macfarlane about what's driving them to attempt suicide. >> i woke up that day, and i

thought i'm done. it was like, oh, [ bleep ]. i'm still here. >> the steps local jails are taking now to keep people safe. amelia? t >> jim, here' latest on storm team 4 radar with mainly just scattered showers out there right now. no heavy rain at this time, b we're going to continue to see some heavy rain overnight tonight and throughout the day tomorrow, and witht we'll continue to see flood warnings. green the areas here in are under flood warnings whether ieey be flood warnings, coastal flood advis or advisories on area creeks and streams through at least tonight. when does the sun return, and when does the sun return, and en are wewh

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are not going to see a break any time soon. in fact, doug says more heavy rain is on the way. he's going to tell us what the time line is like and when the soggy forecast is going to pull on out of here, if ever. >> wow. leon here at the news desk. back to that breaking news that we told you about at the top of the hour. pop star singer demi lovatoas been rushed to the hospital for an apparent drug overdose. ellen degeneres tweeting this. i love demi s lovatoo much. it breaks my heart that she is going through. she is a light in this worl and i am sending my love to her and her country singer brad paisley calls demi one of the kindest most talented people she's met. praying for her right now. addiction is a terrifying disease. lovato was found unconscious in her hollywood hills.ome tod first responders revived her

with that loc with naloxone. we'll have continuing coverage right here on news 1. >> so sad and popular with young people and everybody. leon, thanks so much. > despair and danger in an isolated place. >> the number of suicide tempts in local jails is rising quickly. >> i was found passed out. >> reporter: from the pills? >> fromls the pnd slitting of my wrists. >> also on the rise, pressure on local communities to reduce this suicide risk. as part of our changing minds campaign to raise awareness about mental health, scott macfarlane and the news 4 i-team are reviewing what's being done to stop this deadly trend behind bars. ♪ she wasn't supposed to be here talking to the news 4 i-team. >> they pute in a cold room with a metal bunk, no mattress.

>> repter: thisormer d.c. jail inmate wanted to die. >> i had already planned it out. >> reporter: nia said she already had mental health issues before jail but the isolation and bellyiullying from inmates d her to the edge. >> i woke up that morning and thought i'm done. >> reporter: and she decided to slit her wrists. >> i not only ordered pills, but i had a spork that i didn't turn back in. >> reporter:ail officials found her and rushed her to the hospital. >> it was like oh[ bleep ], i'm still here. >> reporter: you woke up and you weren't happ >> no. >> reporter: you were disappointed?gh >> >> reporter: cases like nia's are a growing trend across the country a national alliance on mental illness. >> it's a very traumatizing experience. it's a shocking experience. people are particularly vulnerable during those times. >> reporter: ts new 4 inmates w attempted suicide in our areas

since 2014.ai according to records around the area obtained by the team. 400 tried and at least 42 died, including a montgomery county inmate just this summer. y e convicted killer found guards hours before his transfer to prison. >> with a number of inmates, the news 4 i-team surveyed a dozen facilities to see what they are doing about this risk. as people wit mental health conditions begin and end each day behind these bar >> we' tasked with keeping people safe, alive and healthy. >> there's been 14 suicide attempts this past year in mo gomeryunty's jails where the director robert green says his officers are trained in how to spot inmates that m ben distress. >> america's jails and prisons have become, you know, mental health treatment rfacilities. orter: u.s. justice department estimates between 40% and 60% of inmates nationwide have mental health problems. d.c.'s department of corrections

says it performs mentalealth screenings on all inmates once they enter the central cell k, blnd they have added new safe cells for high-risk inmates,ells that are free of physical structures like towel racks and radiator vents from which inmates can hang themselves. >> you can't make a jail entirely suicide attempt free. >> reporter: maryland prisons say they put two inmates in cells which reduces the risk of suicides and pay inmates to perform suicide watch. >> ine the f world you have all these numbers to call and in these services, but se ton all you have a agerehoie including virginia's department of directions say theyui r mental health training for officers, including recognition of scidal behavior and cpr training, too, but nia says there are reasons not to tell them you're feeling suicidal. >> they put me in a cold room with a metal bunk, no mattress,

and a gown that was suicide preventive, and if you know what's coming and it's going to take away your dignity,ou're not going to reach out. d.c. officialsn told the i-team they are running suicide drills and staff are given small knives toraice cutting down inmates. coming up tonight, those on the front lines dealing directly with inmates who make the suicide attempts. jim and wendy? >> what a tremendous problem the numbers you share, just incredible. >> reporter: there are efforts to divert more people outja of s and prisons, but it seems impossible to get them all into other places. so they are on front lines in jails. >> and the woman y just interviewed, the last thing she just said, you know you don't help them by punishing them and putting them in a cold cell. that's not -- that's not -- they need to change. sounds like they need to change rthor all correctional agencies. in some jails if you say you're

suicidal thewill put you in a place you don't want to be. >> and make it worse. >> and you already have enough ail.air because you're in thanks so much. >> really enlightening, thanks. if you know someone who may be in need of help, we invite you to visit the changing mind section of our nbc washington app and you'll find links to resources in your area. >> let's get another check from doug and amelia aboutny this r forecast and what it looks like for the future. >> light rain rig now but that's going to change, right? >> we're going to see periods of heavy rain as we movnto parts of tonight and into the day tomorrow, too. that really endshis long five-day period of extremely heavy rainfall.ho fully tomorrow is it. >> we get a break thursday and friday and on into the weekend the sunshine comes out but then we see more rain next week. >> let's take a look. storm team 1 showing the rain. back towards the shenandoah valley and it comes into the d.c. metro area. most of this ishi on the

side and even here we've seen a couple of downurs, right along 270, never a nice go of things, and you can see this right here around the rockville and gaithersburg area. more showers down around waldorf and quantico. heavier rain. winchester towards martinsburg. this is an are that's seen a couple of heavier storms. i'll zoom in on this one in the gaithersburg area coming through gaithersburg. heres the 370 split right and 200 as you make your way out the inner county connector. heavy rain is moving right towards the gaiersburg area an montgomery villag l if ye here, get ready. a lot more rain to go and right now the heaviest well down to the south. we see light rain and steady rain an light rain coming through. not a lot of storms moving through, and that, i think, will ange tomorrow. that's why we have the flash flood in effect until 6:00 tomorrow evening for just about the entire area. the only exception, the far western counties in westvi inia. so far d.c. 8.5 inches of rain

and another 1 to 3nches possible in some spots. some locations could pick up even more through the end of the day tomorrow. 8.5 in d.c. some others have received a lot more than that, a little bit more on how much we've seen around the area. let's go over to amelia. >> doug, balmore has see enough rain that this is now the wettest july on record. thethe most part across area we've seen 6 to 12 inches of rain since lt tuesday more information on my facebook and twitter pages, the top ten wettest july here d washington, t's the wettest seven-day stretch as far as rainfall amounts go. more rain in the forecast tomorrow. dealg with wet roads out there tonight and tomorrow morning for that commute and tomorrow evening as well. i'm seeing heaviest rain tomorrow actually around the midday afternoon and evening hours unlike what we saw today with the heaviest rain out there in the morning. not only a we dealing with rain but humid conditions as well. it's feeling muggy and oppressive out there, and that's going to continue through your friday. now the good news as we head on

throug weekend. s ttaeortit flee humid on satu and sunday. actually feeling really nice out ouere on saturday overall. here's whateed to know. we know that one of our cameras is out there in the background.w that it's black. we'll have more rain at times into wednesday evening and, doug, we get somewhat of a break thursday through sunday and then we have more rain and muggy continues next week. now g thed news next week, we won't pick up as much rainfall as we saw this still, not what we want to hear as we close out july and look to the beginning o >> even next week, you know, predicting a couple of inches of rain, but any o location could pick up very heavy rain next week as a similar pattern begins to set up. high temperature tomorrow 83 degrees. thursday and fday upper 80s to low 90s. heat index into the low 90s and extreme heat again as far as the humidity is concerned. the frontal boundary is on through here which puts us back into the mid-80s. once again that rainy pattern sets up for jusneabout all of

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where a considering the teacher was killed in a crash. herame is lacy finney frock. she died last week in a crash that occurred nr her home. news 4's chris gordon m he on this mother of five. >> this isn't supposed to happen to good people. but it does. >> reporter: kathleen hope patton says her daughter lacy always wanted to be a teacher. she would drive dale toe waersville elementary school in frederick county maryland from her home in pennsylvania. friday evening 42-year-old lacy finney frock was killed in a car accident just a mile from home near the liberty mountain resort. shves a husband and five daughters. >> beautiful, loving, mother, teacher, involved in the community. got was showing off when he made here? for ten years lacy finney frock taught kindergarten at walkersville elementary school. she was close with the other kindgarten teachers here at the school. >> we're a very close team.

we're friends. we're not justco-workers. we do a lot of things together outside of work, and we have shared a lot of laugh and tears together. >> reporter: teachers and staff gathered here at walkersville elementary school to share hugs and tears at time of heartbreaking loss. >> right now we just -- we want to take time and mourn her loss and give our staff time to do that as well before we even think about next steps. >> lacy finney frock had a special place in our heart for children with special needs. now her family is thinking about set will up a scholarship fund at the school to help children facien learning chas. they say that would have made lacy happy. reporting from frederick county, chris gordon, news 4. this just in, the national weather service confirming a small tornado touched down in

virginia near thomas jefferson high school i alexandria. some minor damage near the football field, but nobody was hurt. >> across the region high drama as floodwaters rise shutting down ads, creating problems for a lot of drivers. many of us are under a flash flood watch until tomorrow. >> here's a live loot the conditions in northwest d.c. right now. the good news is that the rai has stopped for most of us. the badit news. not over yet. we've been in weather alert ode for four straight days and not a sign letting up. we have team coverage all across our dmv. let's begin with doug and ameli in the storm center. guys? >> saw the truck out there.e looked l military west. wet road, just some light rain falling right now, a this is going to be the same scenario setting up allgh the day. some areas getting rain, o. ers not at a >> we'll see