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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 80s. but as we go through the afternoon hours, we'll see most
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of our rain moving in. a closer look at what you can expect withlief coming tomorrow. i'll show that you in a bit. jack taylor has aheck on the ds. gorge jor good morning, jack. an overturned tractor-trailer at delaplane. pethey've temporarily st traffic once again on 66 west leaving delaplane. if you hop off early, use 55 and get back on in markham. eastbound lanes are unaffected. outer loop of there beltway be georgia avenue, there was a crash in the left lane. very quickly now moved over to shoulder. authorities arrived on scene and now the traffic is light enough to move itw. in northwest, closed between 7tn 9th street due to ongoing police activity on rhode island. b>> we're gearing up for another day of pos dangerous storms. the national weather service
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confirmed a small tornado touched down in northern virginia. >> we tracked it live on the air yesterday on news you can see the damage it left behind on the athletic fields ae thomas jefferson high school forcience and technology. all mangled and twisted there. the tornado was an -0 with winds around 70 miles per hour. nobody was hurt. we've se o a lot flooding all over the area this week because of all that rain. >> more flooding could be coming todays another round rain is expected. oads n finch is on the this morning check being things out. on?'s going >> reporter: angie, aaron, just got off of 270 here and made our way into frederick. as you can see on the roads, light in has fallen out here as we make our way around here. not heavy at this point. the roads are getting slick out here because of that rain. seeing sheen on the blacktop. but nowhere near the heavy rain we saw this time yesterday. as you mentioned, we rain is coming later on today.
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a heavier rain at that. th many areas across our region have seen that heavy rain. we've seenonding and flooding in areas. you do want to be mindful of tha have that rain gear ready to go just in case. just because you don't see rain coming dn does not mean it's coming your way later today. back to you. >> justin finch live for us in frederick. >> we've learned the name of woman hit by a tree. >> she wasa insiduse when a tree crashed through it. firefighters say that day of rain around the roots of the tree caused ito fall sdwliefrnl. flooding and storm damage in maryland, they had a fair share of standing water. this is along queen anne's bridge road in bowie. stick with us roughout the day for complete coverage of this line of rain and its impact on our area. 5:04 right no
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a developing story in the district. the search continues for a man who shot someone less than a block from d.c. police headquarters in northwest. >> this happened near the intersection of thirdnd d street near the i-395 tunnel. investigators closing the ramp and searching that tunel for evidence even though there was virginia-bound traffic in the stot clear if anyone saw llrea. what happened. no word on the victim's condition. nine days after a wild shootout, an innocent by stander is being laid to rest. >> family and friends say good-bye it a 10-year-old girl who was murdered trying to get ce cream. >> nicole jacobs is live in east washington. what have the emotionseen like since the shooting? >> reporter: understandably a wreck. they're very emotional. angry that no one has been caught. i can tell you, a week and a half and still no arrests.
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it's certainly enough to say that aa10-old being llrdered is what's triggering all of this anger,f this frustration. it's been a tough week for this community, and today they will say their good-byes as makiyah wilson is laid rest. the murder has left the community traged. four masked men jumped out of a vehicle last monday, randomly spraying bullets in herth nst apartment complex. five people were hit. makiyah died. the commuty and supporters of the 10-year-old's family have come together i recent days out of concern, shear broken hearts and a desire for justice. >> i am hoping justice comes real soon. give them what they deserve. becauid that baby't deserve that. this community didn't deserve that. >> reporter: police have located the suspect's vehicle used in in
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murder. but the suspects are still out there. makiya will be laid to rest here at house of praise church today. the funeral services begin at 9:00 a.m. aaron, angie, back to you. >> nicole jacobs live for us there. thank you. the investigation into president trump's former attorney, michael cohen. recording of a conversation between then candidate trump and cohen has been made public. cohen'sttorney gave that tape to cnn. that conversation is said to have taken place in 2016. two months before the election. in the audio, you can hear talke about ps for the rights to former playboy model karen mcdougal's story about an affair a month ago. >> i have spoken to allen about how to set the whole thing up. >> so what -- >> funding. it's all thestuff. you never know where that
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com any -- >> b -- >> correct. i'm all over that. i spoke to allen about iten t comes time for the financing. >> what financing? pay with cash? >> no, no, no. >> full disclosure, we do not know ie audio has been edited we hear talk about plans to set up a company to buy the rights to mcdougal's story by the national enquirer. they never ran the story. rudy giuliani released his own transcript of the tape. much of audio is difficult to understand. today, secretary of state mike pompeo will be in the hot seat on capitol hill. senators are excted to dril pompeo about president trump's policies towards russia, north korea and iran. mthey will also ask habout the president's meeting about his timeeting with vladimir pun last we week. preasident trump has not rd any details about the
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closed-door meeting in helsinki. new details n a stabbing we told you about yesterday. jeremy bond of rockville was upset abo the red line tra running late. he went to the nager's station booth at the friendship heights metro station to complain. police say somehow he got inside the booth and hit the metro arm.oyee on the police say she pulled out a pocket knife and stabbed bond in the chest.d ectives are reviewing surveillance video now. the employee may have a case for self-defense the police chi says. at this point, no charges have been filed. in alexandria, concern among neighbors after someone killed an 82 year mollman. onday, jerry ott's death was suspicious when they found him dead in his home on ea reed avenue. detectives found bullet holes in the side of the house and roped off a nearby dumpster as part of their investigation. so far, no arrests. continuing covege on the dramatic spike in k-2 overdoses.
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emergency crews treated more than 300 people. much of them have been near homeless shelters. several people have the synthetic drugs tend to sell for $2 to $5 a pack, have street mes like scooby and spice. there's a new strain of the drug itand they fear will kill more people. >> they're all very extremely dangerous. part of what makes them dangerous, as you buy the du pr, you don't know what's in there. >> officials are putting up flyers alerting folks that there could be a fatal batch of k-2 out on the streets. messages of encouragement are pouring in for pop singer demi >> she's recovering after an apparent drug overdose. param ics were called tor home in hollywood yesterday afternoon. they used narcan, an emergency medication, to reversetshe efff the overdose. lovato was awake and talking to her family last night. she celebrated six years of sobriety back in march. just last month, she released a
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song called"sober" about relapsing. here's the number for the substance abuseen andl health services administration. 800-662-hp. that lines staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. >> she's been so public aboutgh her and trying to overcome this. u can't help but root fher. >> hope she's rising above it. it was a story that america watched all moek. thising, mega millions says somebody has won a massive jackpot. >> we're talking about $522 million. chris lawrence is at the live desk with more on this lucky individual. w. >> yeah. guys, what do you say about half a billion dollars except none of us got a piece of it. an the winner is in california. take a look ath t video we just got into the newsroom. it was sold at this store in san jose. that $522 million prize works out to just over $300 million in
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cash. it's the fifth lporgest ja in mega millions history. take a look. someone matched all sixheumbers in drawing. the white balls, 1, 2, 4, 19, 29. plus the mega ball 20. cnbc posted the results to a survey which asked people what they wouldwio a multimillion dollar windfall. turns out most of them would invest the money or save. although, donate to charity was also pretty high l on tt as well. the next drawing is friday with a starting value of 40 milli$40. >> not too sbby: i'll take that without question. cyois, thank coming up, a local burger place under fire f aeet that made light of the killing >> a journalist at the hands of isis. plus, how to avoid the food borne illnesses in your own kitchen. news 4 is working for you. theraud allegations against uber. how some riders say they were
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forced to pay hundreds dollars more for their ride. chuck? good morning everybody. a little bit more rain movingin parts of northern virginia headed towards prince willam counties, eventually into the western suburb we'll keep a close eye on that. if you're thinking about the ea , a little chance for rain over the weekend. no washouts. sheenahas o
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i'll call her ba. don't tell her i told you that. award-winning little journey a baby essentials fri. weather alert mode this morning. days of heavy rain hit the d.c. area and we're in for round today. there's a threat of flooding. storm team 4's sheena parveen will join us with a look at your forecast. it's about5:16 now.
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some uber riders are catching drivers are accused of vomit ra . uber drivers staged fake vomit scenes in cars and hitustomers with an $80 to $150 cleaning fee. uber says in confirmed cases of, frau it will take appropriate action. with 15 million uber trips every day, this kind of thing can happen. >> sometimes we've g peop who are not quite all right. >> we contacted theff uber oe here in d.c. they sa if you spot anything out of the ordinary with your uber trip, you should report i immediately. the sharing economy is movininto your garage. >> uh-huh. the biggest car company in america has a new project that could actually make you some cash. general motors launched a peer to peer car share business. this is how it works. anyone with a 2015 or newer gm car can list it sharing app.n
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users can rent the car through the app. car owners get 60% of that money. and the rest will go to gm. the company also provides insurance on the rental. recall of packaged crackers like ritz and goldfish over salmonella concerns are causing a stir at the grocery store. the food safety experts say that food-related illnesses are more likely to occur in your own kitchen. they're caused by cross-contamination of raw meat. any bacteria on your hands can be transmitted to countertops, utensils. the best way to avoid illnesses, thoroughly wash yourands after handling raw meat. z burger is asking for forgiveness. the apology comes after a tweetc from theiunt created a backlash over the weekend. the now deleted tweet had a photo of james foley murdered by isis with the image of a
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hamburger. the caption say s when you you want a burger, someone says let's hit mcdonald's. it was created a by media company hired to do social media for the burger company. z burger posted this ssage. our design team fut this up not knowing what the cut-out image i was. ocent mistake. 5:18 now. not the only ones dealing with flooding damage from much rain. >> experienced nothing but storms since the weekend. hat damage. of this is in baltimore county. a tree falling on top of that home yesterday. nobody was seriously h this is a parking lot but looks like a pond. several roads were flooded out. the fire department rescued at least 30 people who tried to indrive through the standg water. motorcycles even trying to get through. >> okay. see, a motorcycle?
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>> of course. >> best way to ruin your bike. >> i'm never surprisede. anym we talk about it all the time. i'm never surprised. i just kow when we have rain, we'll see video of someone driving through. >> it's truly dangerous. going to be deadly. >> yeah. you never know how deep the water is.i is why we tell to you turn around, don't drown. take a look at these numbers, though. rainfall since saturday, since the rainy pattern really started was saturday. at've seen rain every day since then. dulles, 6.34 inches since just saturday. bwi, 7810 reagan national. 73. lot of rain so far and we expect more showers and more accumulation as we go throu the day today. take a look at the radar currently. not too much in around right now. in parts of loudoun county, maiy northern parts of loudoun county, one shower towards frederick. you'll start to sehrain there soon. more toward culpepper, that will
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continue north in northern ouvirginia the nexte of hours. mationary front responsible for thesture not going anywhere. the front is not moving. the cold front will eventually push this out of he way. there will be relief in the forecast starting tomorrow. not today. today we have the flash flood watch for the area through this evening. we'll watch and see if it gets extended. morela accuon. temperatures as you walk outside. not raining everywhere. in the mid to low 70s. throug time here by lunchtime. cloudy skies with a couple showers moving in. s mowers later this afternoon and evening. tomorrow, the breakhrcoming gh the afternoon. we'll see more sunshine, warmer temperatures. by friday, we're still going to leave the in chances t. future rainfall going through an day today, about half inch to an inch more on top of what we've friday forecast looking dry near 90. over the weekend, couple small rain chances nothing like
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we've seen lately.th forecast coming up in a bit. let's check the roads. good morning, jack. >> sheena, good morning. 66 westbound once again wean delaplane and markham, the lanes areblocked. the right lane was getting by. the heavy duty wreckers on sne. divert at 17. use 55 takes you into markham to rejoin 66 west. eastbound lanes never affected. old dominion drive, that unfortunatelily is still closed. he downed wires are there near sixth place. dom as you approach georgia avenue, a fender bender in that area.s everythingved to the right shoulder safely. in northwest, rhode island avenue blocked betwee and 9th streets due to ongoing police activity.y hopefu the clearing stages to wrap up. back to you. jack, thank you. coming up, home repairs. some jobs require a pr ofessional's help. before before handymn,ach for a
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the bange are the smaller local hardware stores. >> susan hogan is working for you to help you make a art hoice when you decide to start a project. >> washington consumers checkbook recently compared 94 hardware stores in our area, big and small, to see which ones hammered home the goods. >> all set? >> thank you. >> looking for a hardware store that checks all the xes? j.e. rice true value in manassas nailed it. consumers checkbook gave tm top marks for quality and price. ratings of d.c. area stores reveal that, while big chains like home depot and lowe's typically charge lower prices, smaller % less, the independent hardware stores came out on top for customer especially when looking for the one-on-one advice for larger projects. did find, though, that one way you can save at these independents is if you have a really big project, ask fo a
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contractor's discount or a volume discount. some will offer 10% off if they know you're going to spend a t in that visit or over the course ntof a that's one way to get your prices back down to where the big box stores are. >> when it came to refund, checkbook found most stores had reasonable return policies. word of advice, hethough, t be sure to ask if they accept f eturns. eveney're out of the original packaging. susan hogan, nws 4. >> if you want to see where your neighborhood hardware store landed in the rankings, search haware stores in the nbc washington app. it is 5:26 right now. you may need help with home improvement today. streets already flooded. now more rain is on the way. chuck is here tracking the weather alert. >> exactly rigl. ourd threat remains very, very high. flash flood watches continue all the wayhrough the remainder of your wednesday. more rain coming today.
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weather alert at 5:30. waking up to another wet mornin storms still over the area and they will stick around all day. rain not be coming down where you are now, but we're working for you with aook a how the forecast could impact your commute. justin finch is out on the roadwa roadwtas. jackor is in for melissa. >> but let's start with meteorologists chuck bell and sheena parveen much what's on tap today, guys? >> it' been a mess since about
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saturday. very messy weather. no changes. >> none. >> wish we could update the forecast. by the way, we take it back. it's gning to be sunny and e. not the case>> eventually, h. tho >> tomorrow honestly is looking good. what did annie say. the sun will be out tomorrow. >> not a lot of sunshine. flash flood watches for the are maytually have to be extended beyond that. today is the last day with a real chan for widespread rain chances. lower rain chances when you geto towards tow and friday. we are dealing with the rain this morning down towards culpepper county headed northbound here. our friends and neighbors i fauquier county will be getting rained on shortly. dry for a couple of hours. download our nbc washington app. it's free and has an interactive rar feature on it and push alerts in case of additional flood warnings. increasing rain chances later
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today. high only 82 degrees. more coming up with sheena. good morning, jack taylor. g >> chuckd morning. 66 westbound outside of delaplane. the overturned tractor-trailer. the heavy duty wreckern scene. use 55 to get back on, on markham. southbound on the george washington parkway after 123, a broken down vehicle block being the right lane. old dominion drive remains closed near 6th place with downed wires. power cws are on scene. rhode island avenue has reopened between 7th and 9th street. all the earlier police activity has cletred. continue our team coverage on this weather alert day. more flooding as another round of heavy rain heads our way. rive and creeks a swollen after days of rain. we want to go to justin finch in frederick, maryland. justin how are things looking
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out there? >> angie, good morning. here in frederick county, they have their eye on several flooding markers. monocacy river, more than 12 feet high. it's on track to surpass flood stage by this afternoon. it could tax the wastewater system as well as other waterways like carroll creek in baker park. you can see a few feet from overflowing its banks. although at this time it appears to be handling the water moving olrough the area normally with the flood con system. n t even this syste cbea you may recalln may, it was heavily flooded, baker park and the surroundg areas. even the flood control system was overtaxed due to the rainwater we saw for a long period here in may. they have theirn whether or not the system will be available to handle mo predictive rain.
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that's set to roll throughxt in ew days. back to you in the newsroom. justin finch in frederick coty, maryland justin, thank you. the tornado warning that storm team 4 tracked for you live yesterday morning turned out to be an actual tornado. thomas jefferson high school in alexandri the fencing and the batting cages there, badly mangled. it was an ef-0ou with winds arnd 70 miles per hour. we know nobody was hurt. nj> this morning, one d.c. firefighter ised after battling this fire in northwest. the firefighter is expected to be okay. fire officials say the fire started on the rooftop deck in the bar andrdburned downw. the four-story bar is i near and 7 -- breaking news from greece. the prime minister of country describing a deadly wildfire as, quote, unspeakable. chris lawrence at the live desk with the latest. >> we've been watching the imagea for the few days. getting better. at least 79 people killed by the
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flames. that number is expected to rise. it swept through an area near arathens. crew on a gruesome search through these charred homes and blackened cars to find the remains of anyone who couldnot outrun the flames. one man described the fire as a flaming tidal wave. his morning, one greek father is searching for his his missing twin dahters. he spotted hem in tv news footage getting off a fishing boat that had come to rescue people. aaron? >> chris lawrence at the live desk. thank you. it's 5:35 now. here's a look at the oth top stories. a recording of a conversation between then candidate donald trump and his ,rmer attorn michael cohen has been made he gave the tape to cnn. they talk about paying for t rights to karen mcdowellal's story about an alleged affair with trump. in a few minutes we'll air that recording and tracie potts will have reaction from the president. the man stabbed at the
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friendship heightstation was jeremy bond. he was upset about the red line train running late on monday a nig went into the han jer booth to complain. he somehow got inside the booth and police say he hit the metro manager. 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 been filed. a fairfax county teacher in jail accused of soliciting sex from minors. 50-year-old norman -- of woodbridge sent sexually explicit pictures to someone he thought was a teenager. he was talking to a detecti who posed as a teenager on social media. he was a teacher at west springfield high school last year. pice are concerned there may be more victims. it was a story america watched owl week. mega millions says haat someone won the massive jackpot. we're talking about an estimated $522 million prize. somene matched all six numbers.
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the white balls. 1, 2, 4, 19 and 29. 20.s the mega ball, the winning ticket was sold at this store injo san e, california. this is the fifth largest jackpot, by the way, in mega millions history. cnbc put out a poll. they asked people if you won, what would you do with all this money? most of themhe saidwould save it or invest it. smart winners at that. >> that's what they say. >> that's what they say. i'm going to the bahama >> the next drawing is this friday. starting value of $40 million. 5:37 right now. coming up -- >> oh, goodness gracious. >> a scare during the mostam ous cycling race in the world. how a cyclist is doing after flipping over a wall. in>> stealing in p sight. thieves stuffing their bags at a popular store. how much they got away with and
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mfient. a policcer saved a man from being hit by arain in new oersey. that officer we check on who was re of a m lying down on the tracks. to save another person.ushes in >> stop the train! buddy, move! move! move! move! >> his actions managed to slow down the train just in time. the man was taken to the hospital. no word on his condition right now. he's only been on the job for about six months. >> everyone already hailing him
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a hero. this next story, a crazy robbery caught on the surveillance cameras at a to lululemon in california. the three women to the left side, they went inside the re st didn't even try to hide what they were there to do. getting awaywith asuch merchandise as they possibly could. they'ng shoving everyt pants, leggings, into their bags in front of the employees. they ended up getting away with $17,000 worth of stuff. all of this happened on sunday.s police said the same women actually came back to the ore yesterday afternoon, took even more things and now they're reporting that there's been at least a dozen robberies at differe lululemon locations in that califnia -- in that part of california. >> wow. >> sheena, what's going on >> clearly, nobody is stopping them. that's for sure. today, have the umbrella. i am suredo you saturday, a lot of moisture
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5:45 right now. this is a live look from hershey, pennsylvania. bviously reporters doing reports on what you see here. severe flooding is happening in that area.o this is thankshe same weather system hitting our area. >> this is a lk at theradar. if it's not raining near your house right now, it probably will be later today. that's what chuck said. he saidou can count on it. flooding is also a concern re. sheena and chuck working together for you. we'll be back in the full forecast including when we'll see the sun and s.y sk a recording of a conversation between then ndcandidate donald trumpis former attorney michael cohen has been made public. cohen ge the tape to cnn. it's said to have taken place before the 2016 election. > in this audio, you can hear talk about payinr a former playboy model's story about an
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alleged affair with trump about decade ago. >> i've spoken to allen about how to set the whole thing up with funding. yes. it's all the stuff. all thestuff. you never know where that company -- >> correct. am all over that. i spoke toen about it. when this comes time for the financing. >> what financing? >> well -- no, no, no. [ inaudible ] >> tracie potts is on capitol hill with reaction to this. e said, has the white ho anything about this recording. >> no. the president didn't answer shouted questions. he slammed the media saying don't trust thsnm. he ha specifically responded to what's on this tape. his attorney is speing out though. rudy giuliani says it's disgraceyeul for a l to tape his own client. this proves that the president ags trying to be above board.
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not everyone es. the attorney for stormy daniels, the other woman who alleged an affairhe with t president. this shows that they were conspiring to pay offhisoman or pay off a media organization for her story so itouldn't get out. two months before the election. now there are discrepancies around what was heard on the tape. as you can tell, it wasn't extremely clear. some heard the predent say pay in cash, some heard him not paying in cash. bottom line, washington questioning whether this is a political problem or whether it cod lead to any charges. >> tracie potts on the hill. thank you very much. new aovernight, georgia lawmaker is resigning after dropping his pants and using a racial slur on tv. >> chris lawrence at the live desk wmth e. >> georgia congressman jason spnncer annd his resignation. the colleagues have been discussing this.
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he shoutedia r slur over and over. that's not al >> show me the bottom -- no. drop it down. >> okay. go. spencer shows his rear end and starts starting usa and america. this all went down on sacha baron cohen's satire. they thought they were making a coterrorism video. he'll be leaving congress by the end of the month. >> chris lawrence at the live sk thank you. today the community will say good-bye to 10-year-old makiyah wilson. she was walking to an ice cream truck when she was shot and killed outside her home last week. >> there were four men shooting. nine days after her death, still no arrests. news 4's nicole jacobs is in northeast where makiyah will be laid to rest today a moren the ongoing investigation.ni good mo. >> reporter: angie and aaron,
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she was just an innocent litt girl. 10-year-old makiyah wilson murdered right on he doorstep. today, her funeral. w last monday the little girl who we're told loved basketball was simply going to an ice t creamck when four masked men jumped out of a ca firing bullets. makiyah was hit and died in her arms.r's since then the community has been outraged. no arrests have been made. thegi little 's killers are still at large. in recent days, there have been vigils and gatherings for makiyah where some say the reality is setting in. >>eople starting to realize this can happen on any given day in our city and it can be any of us it can be any of us. we can no longer take this lightly. >> police didte lo the suspect vehicle used in this murder. but, again, the suspect, the murderers aretill out there.
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makiyah's funeral services begin today 9:00 a.m. angie, aaron, back to you. >> thank you. 5:51 now. the organizers of unite the night rally will not be back for the one-yearsaannivry. it's partly because they want tl bring a ry to washington. j jason kessler asked f a permit on the one-year anniversary of last year'seadly rally. he said the refusal violated his free speech right. t abandonedhe legal fight and posted a message o twitter saying they will be focusing on a rally outside the white house on august 12th. firse scrapping t swimsuit was the beginning. leaders of the miss america organation vowed to include women of, quote, all shapes and body sizes. the group released a full list updates to the pageant. they're calling it miss america 2.0. it's a pageant focusing less on
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looks and more on personality and scholarship. this new versio designed by the organization's new board. they were installed after an e-mail scandal la year forced board members to resign. these pageants have been getting lower ratings.te it will be isting to see if people still watch for whatever -- >> we'll watch fo people that are more relatable to them, too, right? in ae se >> we'll see. >> meanwhile, mr. bell is here. in fashion today. umbrellas. and rain coats.mu prett, if it will keep you dry, have it ready to go today. not a whole t of rain this morning. that's the good news. we've caught a break for the last few hours. unfortunately, our threat for heavy rain comes back. more rain as t absolute last thing we need. most of the rainfall amounts come down in theast eight days since a week ago yesterday. 8.5 inches at reagan airport.
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8.3 at dulles. bwi had another 4 inches of rain. bwi marshall is at 15 inches, the allime rainiest month in baltimore is 18 inches of rain, as far as i can. th was in august of 1955. that record is within reach.s flood watc are posted again for today. have our nbc washington app.t oenl do you get your storm team 4 forecast on there. but also pushlerts for arnings that ood come out. you can find me on my social media pages as well. the scoop and score of moisture drowning us for days will continue later on in the afternoon. some light rain near locustdale this morning. more rain moving into downtown fled frederick maryland. you can see on future thw, a very high chance for rain later on in the day today. mainly in the ternoon hours. here's 2:30 in the afternoon. afer that, the coverage of the rain starts to increase quite a
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bit. i think the heaviest rain today will come between 6:00 p.m. and midnight. could easil hget anotherlf an inch to an inch or more of rain toda i keep in mind's sort of that hit and miss, very scattered in nure of the heavy rain >> the good news, we catch a little break. not much of aain threat. afternoon highs near 90 degrees. over the weekend, isolated rain chances, primarily on sunday.up this s soaker pattern, jack taylor comes back next week. >> all right. we'll welcome that with closed armts. 66 going westbound, we have our closure out of delaplane headed towards markham. an overturned tractor-trailer on its side. you'll find westbound traffic, 55 into markham and back on 66 west beyond the activity. easound lanes unaffected. south on the george washington parkway, after 123, dealing with a broken down vehicle blocking the right .la good news in woodbridge, 95 northbound has activity at the
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prince willia parkway. crash along the far left side of the roadway. everything was safely moved to the leli shoulder. on scene. they'll keep you out of the far left side of the roadway. that ramp from the express lanes to join. it's just rubber necking now. angie, aaron. back to you.nk >> jack, t you. 5:55 now. a sca moment as a cyclist crashed head over heels in t tour france. >> philippe gilbert was riding down a stp hill that didn't end well. >> that is a seven kilometer glide. >> o goodness gracious! >> gilbert was able to climb back up and treated. he re-entered the race with a backup bike but was forced to withdraw aft suffering a fractured kneecap. today expected to be the most challenging day of the tour for the rest of the riders >> it's all about the head to head battle on nbc's world of
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dance. >> the duels round bgins tonight and the d.c.-based jam project must win or go home. ♪ >> in the duels round, competitors get tohoose their opponents. they chose to battle it out against this competition. ♪ >> you can watch the jam project battle it out tonight at 8:00 here on nbc4. still ahead on "ayws4 tod we're checking out the damage already de by days of heavy rain. plus, how local communities are preparing for another day of rough weather. d.c. firon reders continuele to stru against a rise in overdoses. 300 people treated in a matter of days. we're takiother look at the drug believed to be at the center of it all and what is ing done to stop it. "news4 today" continues.
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i it coming up on 6:00 a.m. now. our weather alert continues this morning. this is a live look at roads in hershey, pennsylvania. that's the same weather system hitting our area today. this is obviously video from . fairfax coun >> yes. we want to take a look over our region as we look at the radar. quite active.
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we're tracking another weather alert day. standing water, ponding. again, a big worry for many of you this morning. hi everyone. angie goff in for eun >>yang. 'm aaron gilchrist. we have a lot of ground to cover. we'll check on your commute in a first, we want a check on the weather. >> that's right. we have jack taylor standing by th more on the roads. but sheena and schuchuck, dynam duo back together aga and tracking yet another wet day. >> sheena is back after a four-day weekend. all it did was rain. that was it. >> yep. that's the only thingha that pened all weekend. >> you'd have to go to texas or beyond to get away from the akrain. it's g the eastern seaboard. >> there's nothing tsh it out of the way until tomorrow. big changes. dry for most of the area as you walk outside. as weoom in to frederick county, one heavy to moderate
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