that weather alert at 4:30, waking up to anher wet morning. storms are still ming over our area. they will be sticking around all day. >> they might not be coming down in your neighborhoot now, but it's only a matter of time. the good news, there is some relief in sight. good morning everybody. welcome back to the broalcast this hour. i'm aaron gilchrist. i'm angie goff in for eun yang thismorning. jack taylor in for melissa, watching the roadways. >> let' begin with meteorologists chuck bell and sheena parveen and see how wet we're going to get today. >> i guessme areas, maybe not as wet as other days. bit's still going rainy. the raueniny pattern continues. >> aery gray day today. if it's not raining at your house now, know that you should be um brel-ready. more rain in charlottsville, virginia towards culpepper and

warren ton and eventually into the western sides of the d.c. area. be umbrella-ready for the mainder of the day. localized amounts, over an inch in sfotpots. the forecast models hint that there will be ang scatter of showers and storms. underneath any of those individual storms, youd co get a quick half an inch to inch of rain. man, is it steamy outside. in washington. 77 in annapolis. 70 degrees lesburg and winchester. afternoon highs today upper 70s and low 80s. pretty much where we've been the last few days. a near 100% chance you'll get rained on atnceast oe today. jack tayr, you could get rained on two or three times. >> i need the water to stopg pourto my basement for an hour. that might help. >> oldn domin drive unfortunately closed because of downed wires. crews are on scene and they're going to put things out between the intersections of lynn way

terrace. we have fox mill road closed between vale road and wap ls. also the big issue out of delaplane is 66 moving westbound between delaplan and markham. all traffic stopped at milepost 20 with the accident. ou can get on in markham. if you have the ability to divert early, get on 55 and get back on 66 headed west. eastbound lanes are unaffected. angie, aaron, back to you. >> thank you, jack. let's continue our team coverage with justin > finch. 's driving along i-270 and checking out the road conditions early. looking?how are things >> reporter: hey there, angie, aaron. so far good news. we haven't se mu rainfall here at all really. we saw some sprinkling happening at one point. even that has gone away. taking a look at theroad. traffic is moving at speeds. the road is by all accounts dry

given all the rain the past several days. the roads not looking too bad. i can tell you, the neighborhood streets, you might want to look out for ponding and flooding out there. but the highways andbyways so far have not been that bad. more rain is coming and drivers should be on guard for that. make sure you're aware of the conditions outside as you're making your way to work this morning, guys. back to you in the newsrom. >> thanyou, justin. the tornado warning storm team 4 tracked for y live yesterday morning turned out to be an actual tornado. t> you can see some of the damage it l behind here on the athletic fields at the thomash jefferson hhool in alexandria. the batting cages twisted and mangled there. it was an ef-0 tornado with bonds around 70 miles per hour. you n was hurt. one d.c. firefighter is injured ter battling this fire in northwest d.c. thankfully, though, that okrefighter, we're told, is expected to be.

fire officials say it started on the rooftop deck of a bar and burned downward. the four-story bar is near the intersection of 73 and i. the company's prime minister describing a deadly wildfire as quote unspeakable. chris lawrence at the live desk with the latest on this tragedy in greece. chris? >> aaron, we've been watchi the images for days now. they're only getting worse. at least people have been killed by the flames. that number is expected to rite. inferno swept through a resort area near hens. crews are an a gruesome search through the chred holes and blackened cars to find the remains of anyone who couldn't outrun the flames and was iorrifically burned todeath. one man descrd the fire as some sort of flaming tidal wave. one father searching for his missing twin daughters. he spotted them alive tv news footage of people getting off a fishing boat that had come to rescue people.

aaron? >> chris, thank you. it's 4:35 nowe' hers a look at the other top sties. a recording of a conversation between then candidated onald trump is former attorney, michael cohen has been made public. cohes attorney gave the tape to cnn. they talk about paying for the playboy's ormer alleged -- we will air that recording in a few minutes and tracie potts will have reaction from the president. 10-year-old makiyah -- she was shot and killed outside her home in northeast d.c. four men in a nearby parking lot jumped out of a car here and started shooting. one of their bullets hit kiyah. so far, no arrests have been made. the man stabbed at the friendship heights metro station was 28-year-old jeremy bond of rockville. police say bond was upset about the red line train running late went into ight a complain.er's booth to he got inside the booth and hit

the metro employee. that's when she pulled out a pocket knife and stabbed bond in the chest. the police chief says the employee may have a case for self-defense. no charges have beenl . new details now on a violent barricade si montgomery county. a mother is now in a shelter because she had nowhere e e go. her ex-boyfriend started a fire in her rental home while their n 3-year-old as inside. this is what it looked like after the violent confrontation monday night. we first brought you this story yesterday morning. he forced his way into that home, barricadedhimself inside and tossed burning objects out of the window. a police officer shot him as they entered the home to rescue the little boy. he is no expected t survive. the time right now is 4:36. famili whosurvived a massive apartment explosion two years ago are demanding more help for montgomery county. during a meeting last night, the survivors asked for mental health suprt and housing assistance. in august of 2016, seven people

died in a gas explosion here at the flower branch apartments. dozens of people were hurt. the blast leveled two buildings forcing more than 80families out of their homes. this morning, a teacher in fairfax county is w up in olil after being accused of soliciting sex inng minor. he faces two felony charges.l e say he initiated a conversation with a detective who posed as a teenager on a social media app. tte he asked the ive for -- he taught at westfield and west springfield high school last year. police fear there may be more c ms. it was a story watched all week. mega millions says somne has won that jackpot. a $522 million prize. someone matched all six of these numbers. the white balls, 1, 2, 4, 19 and

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caught on video. the moment a police offtoer had save a man from being hit by n new jers take a look at this.s t week that officer, kyle savoy i can't. wentfo check on the welfare a man lying on the tracks. watch as he sprints for his life here in order to save another person. >> stop the train! buddy, move! me! move! >> wow. his life-saving actions managed toslow down the train just in time. sehe man thanked him profu and was taken to the hospital. no word on his condition today. he's only bn on the job for six months. but he did not hesitate to help somebody who neededit. more new video this morning to share with you. this next one shows a crazy robbery all caught on the surveillance cames at a lululemon store in california.

the three women came in, didn't even try what they wanted to do. look at them stuffing their bags getting away with as much merchandise as they could. shoving athletic gear into the bags right in the car sightof employees and customers. they ened up getting away wth $17,000 worth of stuff. it happened on sunday. fresno police say the same women returned to the store yesterday afternoon and took even>> more. well, you need the umbrella still today.e' still stuck in this rainy pattern. it's going to change through the next couple of days. locally, a shower in loudoun county. some in charlottesville. if you plan to exercise outside, do it this morning. we're going to be mainly cloudy. through theafternoon, more rain moves in and still under that flash flood watch. chuck has the details and when iwill finally come to at n

now.4:46 right our weather alert continues this morning. it's all about the rain again. it may already be raining where you are. but either way,ee you'll beg more of it today. >> most of us will be seeing the worst of it around lunchtime. this is on top of all the rain that we've already had. flooding again aeeig concern. a and chuck are working for you and will be back with a full

forecast, including when we're going to see sun again and dry skies. that's in just a few minutes. some new video this morning showing the emotional reunion of anndocumented ecuadorian father detained for more than a mont you may remember the story of pabloville la vincennes yoe. he was delivering pizza to the base on june 1st.ju a federae ordered his immediate release. the judge ruled the father of two young daughters has been a model citizen. he says villavicencio can remain in the u.s. while he tries to .in legal stat a recording of a conversation between then candidate donald trump and his former attorney, michael cohen has been made public. cohen's attorney gave that te to cnn and the conversation said to have taken place before the election in 2016. >> in that audio, we can hear talk about paying for formeroy playodel story about an alleged affair with trump about a decade ago. take a listen.

>> spoken to allen wise he will berg about how to set the whole thing up with -- >> yes. >> and it's all the tuff. all the stuff. you never know where that company, where he's going to ber t. so i'm all over that. i spoke to allen about it. when it comes ti for the financing, which will be -- >> we'll have to -- >> no, no, no. i got this. >> news 4's tracie potts on capol hill withreaction to this, this morning. tracie, has the white house said anything about the recording? >> nothing about the white house. the president didn't respond to shouted questions. he slammed the media last night. we are hearing from his current attorney, rudy giuliani. couple of things. he said it's disastrous f a lawyer to tape a client. the president wanted to do this

payment in a way that could be tracked and a way that could be traced and that he did nothing wrong here. not everyone agrees with that. not everyone agrws with what said on that tape. eae quality of the tape is not particularly especially in the area where the president talks about cash. what some people heard was pay in cash. what some people heard was not in cash. now it becomes a question of whether or not this is a political problem or whetr the president said anything or his on this said anything tape that could become a criminal problem.>> > hopefully more answers ahead. tracie potts from the hill, thanks so much. 4:49 now. the oganizers of last year's g unite the ht rally will not be back for the one-year anntlersary. pary because they want to bring it to washington. they asked for a court order to make the city of charlottesville give him permit on the date of

last year's rally.cl ims the refusal violates his free speech right. he posted a messa on twitter and say they will focus exclusively on a rally outside the white house in lafayette ark on august 1. ten minutes before 5:00. scrapping the swimsuits is just beginning. leaders of the miss america organization vowed to include women of, o, all shapes and rdy sizes, end quote. the groupleased a full list of updates to the pageant. they're calling i missmerica ea0. it's a pag focusingn less o oloks and more on personality and schships. this new version of miss america is designed by the organization's new board. they were installed after an e-mail scandal last year forced board members to resign. it's all about the head to head battle happeningonight on nbc's world of dance. did you stay up and watch it? i >> no missed it. >> the duel rounds bin tonight and the d.c.-based jam project

group must win or go home. ♪ c now, in the duels round, competitors get ose their opponents. the jam project chose to battle it--ut with here's a look at the competition. you can watch the jam project battle it out at 8:00 tonight on nbc4. >> yeah. think they ha an advantage. derrick, one of the judges, tap is onegg of the t -- he wants to see this classic form of dance really get back in the mainstream. rooting for you. >> we'll be dancing in the rain. where is gene kelly when you need him? >> this is an ongoing marathon with the rain. >> it started a week ago yesterday. in the last eht days, most of the area had nearly 10 inches or more ofl.rainf yesterday alone, another third

of an inch at national airport.i the last eight days, we've had 8.5 inches of rain at national rport. dulles, another .75 inches. over 8 inches for the month and bwi marshall, oh, my goodness, another 4 inche of rain yesterday, bringing their monthly total to 15 inches rain. nearly 12 inches above average. been dog digging back through the climate records, so far not the rainnst month baltimore ever. but getting close. the rainiest ever, 18 inches back in august of 1955. there's still more than enrtgh opity now and the end of the month to get another 3 inches of rain at bwi marshal on average, 8 to 12 inches of rain. again, today, locally another 1 to 2 inches. not everyone is going to get an inch of rain but somebody sure is. there's more rain down to our south. that big push of tropical moisture coming up. we have a little break in the action here early this morning

around the city. there's alady more rain towards locustdale and culpepper moving in toward warrenton and manassas. c ple of raindrops ne leesburg as well. future weather going into the day today, again, not a big rain threat here early this morning. add ayt little dme heating into this, i think we'll bubble up quite a bit more rain later on in the day today. and ady for a wet commute rainy evening today as a front tries to push this rain out of here. our forecast model, again, the nature of this is hard to predict. another halfn inch to an inch or more. somebody might get 2 more inches of raintust ay. little chance to dry out nomorrow and friday. only isolated rhances over the weekend. after today, we have to have a little chance to dry out.un ortunately, this incredibly rainy pattern comes back next gek. jack taylor,d morning to you. good morning, chuck. all right. 66 we're going to go westbound

between delaplane and markham. good news. we havene a right letting by at the scene of a crash. overnight, they unfortunately had the lanes blocked. eastbound was never affected. the right lane is getting by tween delaplane and markham. old dominion drive remains closed. it puts it basically near sixth place. it was basically wires down and authorities at this stage are saying they're going to have that in place for some time. fox mill road blocked between vale road and waples mill road. a georgia lawmaker resigning after dropping his pants and using a racial slur on television. >> chris lawrence at the live wisk with more. what's going o this, chris? >> angie, representative jason spcer announced his resignation. it comes after his appearance in show on show time. here is a short clip of what got him in hot wer.

>> how do you -- >> start screaming. take your clothes off. >> literally minutes after thate sound he shouted a racial slur multiple times ando ripped his pants. >> now, his resignation will effective the end of july. aaron? >> chris, thank you. a scary moment as a cyclist crashed head over heels in the tour de france. belgium's philippe gill ber was leading the stage. a ride down a steep hill didn't end wellor him. listen to this. >> that is a 7lo kiter glide. oh, goodness gracious. >> gilbert was able toba climb on the road. he was treated by medics. he actually was able to get back up bike and re-entered the race. he was forced to withdraw afterf suffering actured kneecap, though. today the most challenging day of the tour.

gilbert will not be participating. well, 4:55. if you haven't seen hamilton on stage, another option is waithng inwings. >> the musical could be coming to the movies. the "wall street journal" reports hollywood studios are bidding f the film rights. several broadway favorites like lay miss and chicago were adapted for the screen. hamilton won't be a film adad,ation. insteat's a recording of the show made with the original cast, including miranda as alexander hamilton. > still ahead on ne 4, we are checking ouge the dama already done by days of heavy rain. plus, how local communitiesrire pre for another day of rough weather. d.c. firstes rponders continue to struggle against a rise in overdoses. 300ople treated in a matter of days. we're taking a look at another drug believed to be at the center of it all and what's being done to stop it. "news4 today" continues next.

news 4 begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. another day, another weather alert. more heavyain on the way. it's the last thing a lot of us need. some of us have already seen flooding. look at the scene in fairfax county. this was on tuesday. today, you may see that again. we're trackeg storms o again headed our way. just about 5:00 a.m. now. good morning everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. i'm angie goff in for eun yang. we've got a lot of ground to cover this morning. we'll get a check of the commute in a moment. sheena paeen has returned. just in time to tell us about

relief we're going to get hopefully. >> a four-day weekend lost to ra ndrops. sorry about that. >> kind of. no matter where you go alongco east, you're dealing with rain. >> absolutely. >> streaming in from the south. st week we were talking about we need rain. >> stop saying that. >> i think we'r good with the rain. the rain machine can stop now. here's the thing, it going to after today. today we're still dealing with the rain. we have a dry condition for most of thearea. we are watching some showers down to the south. culpepper will be seeing that soon. they're moving mainly to the north and northeast here. as m weve over into parts of loudoun county, near leesburg and hillsborough, seeing light to merate rain showers. the rest of the area fairly dry. all the moisture is still streaming from the south. today, again, is g to be a day where you need the umbrella and the rain boots, all that. temperures in the mido low 70s right now. as we go through the day, we'll on t get into abo low 80