news4 begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. >> oh my god. >> a ceiling comes crashing down under the weight of water. an incredible amount of rain night causing flash flooding

and damage all over the dmv. >> a lot of roads are still impassable at this hour. others looking like raging rivers. this was the scene on broad branch road in the district tonight. >> incredible amounts of rain again. this after a week to week and a half ofntense rainfall. finally the rain moving out of here. but theng flood war continue right on through part of the morning rush. much more in a just minute. >> thanks, doug. we want to start with some of the video we've been gathering to show you how dangerous things got o there. >> some close calls in a lot of places. d.c. firefighters had to rescue several people every flooded roads around rockek park. this is one of the videos they tweeted out tonight of a mail truck off the road. the driver nowhere in sight. late found okay. two other people had to be rescued nearby on grant road after their car got stuck. >> inar ngton, this is what it looked like at the boston

quarr parking garage. cars forced to drive through deep water to get out. how about takoma park, storm drains overflowing. a manhole cover no match for all the rain. >> but let's start back inn arlingow where news4's stow shomari stone caught up with the owner of this restaurant tonight. that's a lot to clean up there. >> reporter: you know what, it is a mess inside. imagine being a barista in thi restaurant. all of a sudden, the ceiling tiles start falling down to th ground. there are tens of thousands of dollars of damage. you can comever here and people who were in this restaurant at the time tell me that they we snned to see this and tonight, the top chef is saddened. >> it's awful. >> reporter: jo's hart is broken in arlington at this restaurant as crews clean up all this water. >> to see the place i normally

am superroud of to be ripped to shreds. >> reporter: the head chef the at spanish restaurant covered in ceiling tiles, olive oil containers and napkins. >> you feel completelyot it i guess. >> reporter: their cell phone video captures the heavy rain pouring from the ceiling like a faucet, tiles falling about 100 customers dining. > our goal is to get everyone out of the restaurant as fast as possible. >> take a look at the ceiling there. that is where the built up.on there are drains on the. roof there was so much water that it could not withstand it and right over here, look at there. a decorative ironically filled with water. some roads are underwater during a flash flood. take a look at these cars on kabul road and arizona avenue during rush hour. >> it's been very frustrating. > we've been working all day. we want to goome and have a hot dinner. that's it. >> reporter: police direct

traffic. it's not the best situation for these folks in northwest near the metro station waiting for the rain to ease up. back in arlington, at the restaurant,n johrt will never forget wednesday july 25th. >> the day the roof collapsed. >> reporter: right now, we're back out here in arlington. if you look down here, you can see all of this trash. this was trash nsbuildup ie of the restaurant. they're now going to have to continue to clean this place. the good news is no one was seriously injured, n one hurt. however, the bad news, tens of thousands of dollars ige da they're going to have to reach out to the insurance companies and they hope to reopen within the next couple of weeks. live here into arli shomari stone, news4. >> thank you. look at this rain pouring into a red line train at the noma metro station during rush hour. it created a small flood near the train door and went into the rail car.

>> no stranger to flooding, there was a close call again tonight in ellicott city during the height of the rain. howard countypl warned p near main street to move to higher ground. then steady r caused water levels to rise in theri r. officials are still monitoring it conditions there tonight but the threat to main street appears to be over. back to doug. we know the flash flood warngs areover. there's still an awful lot of green on the radar. >> what can we expect overnight? >> it's simply amazing the pattern we'veeen in for the last week and a half. some locations picking up over 16, 17 inches of rain over the time period. as you lookno the good news is, this is all finally starting to move out. no longer seeing heavy rain. here's what came through earlier tonight bringing 1 to 3 inches around the d.c. metro area.y it rea intensified around the metro region. look at these. evyingle one of these circles you see is flooding or a

closed road some way, shape, or form. many of these roads will still be closed early tomorrow morning. that's why the national weather service continued the flood warning. the storm system moving out. evenven though the rain is gone, the rivers will be high. the flood warning from stafford county upheowards baltimore area back towards montgomery and loudoun. this goinggh 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. give yourself plenty of extra time leavingow tomo i'll update you what to expect tomorrow as we try to dry out. i've got that for you in ten minutes. >> things areeating up on the hill. a group of house republicans want thean who oversees the russia investigation removed from fice. leon harris live. nearly a dozen lawmakers it introduced articles of impeachment against rod rosenstein. the resolution accuses him of trying to block congressional oversight of robert mueller's

investigation. the congressmen say rosstein has withheld documents from congress and made misleading ohio congressman jim jordan helped introduce the articles. top house democra were not impressed. three of them issued a blistering statement saying the move is a "paniced and dangerous attempt to undermine an ongoing criminal invtigation in an effort to protect president trump as the walls are closing in around him and his associates." republicans could force a voten rosenstein late this week. no response yet from the deputy attorney general himself. he doreen, back to you. >> breaking right now, a confrontation during a police investigation led to an exchang of gunfire and an officer sht.ting a suspec takoma park police tell us the suspect fired on thefficer first and the officer shot back. that shooting actually happed in d.c. just over the city line near new hampshire avenue cenortheast. poay the suspect was

conscious and breathesing when paramedics to k hime hospital. the officer was not hurt. d.c. police are handling the investigation. >> new reactio tonight from today's dramatic take-down of a man inside a d.c. metro station. surveillance videoaptured during this morning's commute shows the man jumped from th gallery place metro platform onto the tracks there. p was wanted for shooting a man near d.c.ice headquarters last night we told you about. all new at 11:00tonight, jackie bensen with the man who ran to help. >> reporter: this started as a strange incident that got even stranger. >> all of a sudden. >> see the individual falling into the tracks. >> reporter: frances so torrez says it was likely his army training kicking in as he instinctivel reacted to an incident during his morning commute. if you look closely at the video, you can see the man has he's falling. > there was a train coming m thro was coming.

i immediately, i don't t remember about the rails. i just jump into action to like move him out of the >>rail. eporter: he says he was surprised by how many police officers arred and how quickly. turns out they had been look forth man, mamadou s.e.c. since shortly after he was id as a suspect in a shooting tuesday evening. ficers found a man suffering from a gunshot wound on the sidewalk near the entrance to the tunnel of sthbound i-395. surveillance camera video helped develop s.e.c. as a suspect. he has a criminal history of assault and a previous arrestss for tresg on metro train tracks. metro transit police officers spotted him at gallery place. >> they go to confront him, have conversation he flees and jumps over the parapet wall. >>nd police f a semi-automatic handgun in sec's e ssession. >>s arrested for assault last august in arlington.

in northwest washington, jackie bensen, news4. >> tomorrow is the court ordered trump e for the administration to reunite all migrant children with their parents after separion at the u.s./mexico border. the department of homeland security says it's working t reunite 2500 children. more than 1100 children are said euto beted so far. the exact number still separated unclearonight but we know 463 migrant parents have already been deported without their children. homeland security secretary kirsten b nielsenefed members of congress today on the progress so far and said snf was ent dhs could meet morrow's deadline. one democrat said he didn't see how that was even possible. it was a grilling.ar secr of state mike pompeo faced tough questions today frod democrats republicans up on the hill.

lawmakers we concerned about president trump's recent sitdowns with the leader of north korea and the leader of russia. the senators demanded to know what mr. trump and vladimir putin discussed in that private two-hour meeting earli this month. pompeo said he knew but was then asked if he talked to the translator who was in that room. >> no, i ven't. >> senator, i understand the game that you're playing. >> no, you know, mr. secretary i don't appreciate you characterizing my qutions. my questions is to get to the truth. we don't know what the truis. >> moments before pompeo testified, the white house announced an invite for putin to visit the white house will be postponed till next year. >> next, a push to fast track a promising new treatment for al eimer's disease as researchers look at a possible connection between risks for the disease and motherhood. >> mark zuckerberg's terrible, awful, no good very bad day.

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back in on storm tea 4 radar, the worst of the rain is rolling out now, but there is still a lot to clean up. tomorrow, take a look now at what we saw live tonight on "news4 at 6." a great example of turn around, don't drown. this suv driver got into the water. then thought better of it. move. we saw several cars do the same

thing along westla w road here in poolesville. thankfully, no one decided to try going all the way through. there's some hope in the fight against alzheimers disease tonight. a new drug appears to slow the progression of the disease. we get more from nbc news medical correspondent dr. john torres. >> reporter: today a rare success for aheimer's research. a new drug tohelow down progression of the deadly disease which currently has no effective treatments. >> it's hope in terms of that we continue to look for pottial treatments. the data is intriguing. > biogeneported tod at a major alzheimer's conference after 18 months of treatment, paents who received the highest dose saw a 30% reduction in memory andai function decline versus those given a placebo. the drug removes buildupald plaques from the brain thought to be responsible for alzheim s

alzheimers. while similar drugs failed, the key, theer drugs given to patients with the earliest stages of the disease. >> if we can intervene eearly, can reduce or slow accumulation. >> it's important to detect this as early as possible. >> absolutely. >> while researchers will continue to study this drug, they'v asked thefda to fast track approval. the news today tiving hope those like 41-year-old greg donovan who lost both his fat and grandparents to the disease. >> it's a v criticalal need. and there's so much human suffering involved with alzhei alzheimer's. i hope the research continues. >> also today, we learned about some new research tt shows a link between motherhood and zheimer's. the study of 15,000 women found that those hose had three or more children were 12% less dementia develop compared to women with only one child. the reason is unclear but it could be linked to the hormone

changes that happen during pregnancy. almost two-thirds of the people with alzheimer's are women. >> mark zuckerberg has to face facts. he has lost nearly a quarter of his net we the falling from the fourth richest person in the world to the eighth. it was a bad day at the office today but in his league, bad, of course, is, relative. facebook's stock took a hit after the second quarter earnings report missed analysts expectations. forbes says he lost nearly $20 billn. save your farpz he is still worth about $64 billion. the company he cofounds has been reeling in recent months over privacy issues and its content policies. as the new school year approaches, news4 want to make sure your children are prepared. our annual backpacks for kids initiative starts tomorrow. bring a new backpack school supplies or a donation to the tod moren center.

you can make a secure donation online also at nbcwashington.com. just search backpacks. >> always makes a big difference. >> glad they'ret doing tomorrow. whoever scheduled for tomorrow, they knew something. >> nicel done. >> this is crazy. s we went frh a serious droughting to record breaking rainfall. >> we've seen ts a coupl times this year. we were in droughton condi and saw may, which was extremely wet. similar conditions we saw in july. june and july very wet. then over the last week and a half, the last week and a half some of us hav seen upwards of a food and a half of rain. that's incredible. againe today, we saw it about 1 to 3 inches in parts of the region. you can see the rain finally coming to anend. going back six hours, it was coming down around the metro region in time for the evening rush. we saw so many problems with area roadways being flooded because we had so many people on ads. right nthough, look at this.

we can breathe a sigh of reliefr still sctivity going on towards the eastern shore. you cross down around the easton area. that's about it. the wider view shows what's going on. you can see spin in the sfeestd making its way up to the north and east. the front bac to the west, still showers back towards west virginia. these will daise they mov our way. that means for us a pretty nice day tomorrow for the most part. a lot nicer but hot and humid. look at the rain. national airport, 9.16 inches, dulles 9.68. dwi, 15.4 inches of rain. three of thosead days over three inches of rain, two of them over four tches. and j matter of a couple of days. this is not a tropical storm or hurricane. this was just a tropical feed of moisture we ha had for days. flood warnings continue across the i-95 corridor till 6:00 a.m. onom stafford county towards the northeast porof maryland,

back towards the leesburg area. once agn,umerous roads are closed. this is why we've got intense heat going on bac towards t west. you've seen the numbers. upwards of 100 to 120 degrees in some spotsf e southwest. that dip in the jet stream was able to pick up the moisture the way from the bahamas near cuba and bring it all the way up the east coast into the parts of canada. simply amazing. that's why we had the rain. that's why wead theflooding. the fortunate part is it's moving out of here but a ilectacular pattern move in again next week. talking about that in a second. 71 in gathersburg. 72 in manassas. the one thing i'm worried about tonight, fog could be an issue tonight as we do wake up to areas of fog. heads up for that. areas of f tomorrow morning. 80 by noon. sun is back. thank goodness. chance of aer sh maybe an isolated that your. 92 on friday.

40% of a late evening could be on the strong side friday night. that oneum lowersity for the weekend. saturday looking great. sunday looking good, too. we have a better chance of showers on sunday. monday through friday this pattern sets back up. it's not going to have the same tropical characteristics but it will bring a lot of chances for rain and thunderstorms next week. not the same but something watch for sure. >> thank you. >> coming up the nats finally wake up i

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"sportsdesk." >> this is what we've been waiting for. where have they been hiding? >> they probably want to know, the general manager wan to know. everybody want to know. for a while now as the losses piled up, we've heard davy mards say his team will turn it around they're too good not to. then we see more self-inflicted wounds and interm controversy. beginning play today, seven place.out of first it's go time. today'sn finale milwaukee was as close to a must win as there is in a season. anybodyhungry? the nationals were today against theew brs. bryce harper to the plate. two on, two out. you know wherehis is going. first pitch perfect for harper. launches it to right. that's gone. three-run shot. his 25th of the shot. nationals lead 6-0. top six, nats staying hungry. ron soto crushes this one deep to nter. deepest part of the ballpark. home run. his 11th of the ar.

nationals out to a 7-0 lead. that worked for tanner rourke. the best for a nat starter since june 5th. eight scoreless innings, 11 strike outs. nationals avoid the sweep and win 7-3. orioles hosting red sox.do in hawaiian shirts. bark at the park night in bat more. boston baing. bundy got bit.rt maez crushes this to center. solo shot, his 32nd of the year. red sox up 2-0. to the second, more problems for bundy. mookieen betts sds this over the wall in ft. three-run shot. 25eth of season. then the rains came. and this one was postponed. so nothing we just showed you counts except the dog in the shirt. no makeup day announced. final preparations taking care of down inri mond.

redskins first practice in row ning camp, 9:45 tom morning. also the first chance for fs to see new quarterback alec smith up close in person. smith's 14th se on, his third team in his career. his head coach n worried about the chemistry with his new teammates. >> en'ortless. do go out of his way to try to do that. people gravitate towards hill. he's a natural leader. and we'll see. i don't think that's ever going to be an issue with him and never has y en. just a b work he's put in the nfl and what people have 'vid about him is all true as far as whate seen so r. >> world team tennis tonight.pl the 14th raners in the world venus williams plays for ane washington cases against diego. this one goes the distance. venus in a super tiebreaker delivers the wier. castles win it, now 6-2 and one match out of first place. and d.c. united losing tonight

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