restaurant came crashing down. just one example of the damage yleft behind days of storms. across the region, we've seen trees down, flooding on roadways, roads that were closed because of all that. plus, there's good news today. >> we're going to look at day's commute. first, chuck and sheena are here with a look at the forecast. we like the green moving over the water behind you there. >> we like to see the green going away fromhe area. > when talking about green, i thought he meant erika's dress. she's not moving over twater, no, she's not. a tiny chance to catch some eded breaks in the rain. storminess going back up into new enand. it will be mostly dry today, a 10% or a 20% a most chance that with a random

drop or two. the showers in prince george's county. they will be moving out towards the bay bridge ther the rest of the area is rain-free this morning the it's waterlogged this morning. 60s in the shenandoah valley. it will b a warm and humid day today. thatng bright shipbject in the sky, melissa, that's what we call sunshine. >> i don't care what you call it, i'll take it. alexandria, 395 afterward work. in mclean, georgetown pike and be bellview. we have a downed tree. in the district, northwest, broad branch road at 27 street. right there, you see the beltway looks pretty good this morning. 270 southbound to the spur,

looking good. and frederick to the spur, no problems, either. imagine having a nice sitdown dinner interrupted by a falling season. >> exactly what happened to the diners at the sur restaurant last night. parts of the ceiling started falling. that's a lot of water. eventually, everybody evacuated the restaurant. patrons and restaurant workers were stunned by this whole ordein. >> it was g inside. that's the only real way to describe it. once it started going, it was taking ceilingh tiles wit it. it took marble out of the seafood bar. it was enough volume that quickly it did challenge. >> the restaurant will not be able to reopen for a few weeks. >> it was a wild weather all around the area. d.c. fire tweeted this video of

a mail truck off of the road there. the driver was nowhere to be found, the driver was later found okay. two other people hado be rescued nearby on grant road, afterheir car was stuck there. you look at this rain pouring into red line train, during rush hour. it created aminiflood near the train door. and the rain went right into the railcar there. >> over takoma park, storm drains were edoverfl >> the heavy rainfall also took a toll on local. rive chopper 4 capturiac the i on the monocacy river. some homeowners say they found water in their basements. the threat of more rain apprs to have subsided, flooding impacts could linger thrghout theday. stay with use 4 on our air and efforts or our cleanup

and impact. virginia state police have issued an amber lalert. chrirence at the live desk, what do we know? >> a man abducted a teenage girl and there's an urgent move to find her. grace galliher was abducted by richard itester. 52. galliher is 17. they were seen at a hotel in marion, virginia. he abducted her just south of there, in bristol, tennessee. right now,nvtigators think they're heading north. what to look out for on the roads, here'shat the fbi wants you to see. this 2004 navy through trail blazer with a tennessee tag. tester may be heading north on . i-81 i posted all of this information on my twitter page. >> chris, thank you. about 4:05. we turn to a developing story.

a confrontation during a police investigation led to a akshooti. >>a park police say the suspect fired on the officer first and then the officer shot back. it happened in d.c., just over the city line in new hampshire avenue, northeast. the suspect was conscious andin brea when paramedics took him to the hospital. d.c. police handling the new details on a story we brought you yesterday morning. the man who ran on to the tracks at the gallery place metro station, is the same person wanted for the shooting near d.c. policeeauarters. surveillance video captured what happened on wednesday morning. you can see m a jumping from the platform on to the tracks. he is accused of shooting a man on the sidewalk near the entrance to i-395 on tuesday, when he was on the tracks of the metro station. other riders thought he needed help and they went to his aid. >> i was saving a han being. he is assisting, i guess, the

police, detain auy who was a suspect. it was a good deed i guess. >> police found a semiautomatic handgu handgun. he has ahistory of jumping on to metro tracks. he was arrested for assault in october. he oversees robert mueller's russia investigation, and this morning some republicansant him removed fromoffice. arly a dozen of gop lawmakers have issued impeachment against rod rosenstein. they say he has thheld documents from congress. to e democrats were quick make a statement opposing the impeachment. they call the move a panicked and dangerous attempt to undermine an miongoing crinal investigation to protect alesident trump as the are closing in around him and his associates. rusan presidentladimir putin will not visit d.c. during

the middle of the ection season. his much-criticized visit to the white house has been bushel pushed back he says president trump believes the next meeting should happen after e, quote, russia witch hunt is over, end quote. that news broke just before mike pom foed some tough questions from republicans andd crats on the hill. his biggest concerns, his recent meetings with the senators from north korea and russia. pompeo said he knew, when he asked to the translator that was in the om. i haven't. >> i understand the game that you're playing. >> mr. speaker, i don't like you ch macterizin questions. we don't know what the truth is. >> secretary pompeo assured

senators that the u.s. would not allow russians interrogate diplomats which was sgested at that summit. today is the deadline for all migrant childrene to reunited with their parents. they were separated from their parents after entering the u.s. el illegally. >> the separations received partisan backlash from lawmakers. the department of homeland security said that 2,500 separated from their families. more than 1,100 have been reunited sofar. the exact number still separated is unclear. 463 migrant parents have been deported without theirchildren. kirstjen nielsen told congress, she was confidenty that the could meet the deadline. one democrat said he didn't see how that was >ssible. e want to go to breaking news out of beijing. there's been an incident near

the embassy. >> nbc news just received a statement from a u.s. embassy spokesperson. they confirmed that a person detonated a bomb in a public area just outside the u.s. embassy in beijing. other than the bomber, there were n juries. this is a look outside the embassy. you can see a lot o people in that area. r nbc news producer, who is in contact with officials there, is being told that thexplosion was caused by a,quote, firecracker-like explosive device. the suspect in this incident is a 26-year-old from inner mongolia. we're hearing reports not independently confirmed by nbc news, tha there may have been a second incident in chinese media is reporting that a woman sprayed herself in gasoline and set herself on fire. we will keep you updated as soon as we learn more. >> chris, thank you. switching gears now, you can save a life a save some money

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oran you make a secure donation online. >> it seems le this h all worked out rain-free, just by one y, right, chuck? >> all we needed was a little chance to exile and dry out around here. and today will be one of t days for most of it. there's a tiny chance for rain this afternoon. compared to the deluge, things ha almost driedup. it's the rainiest second half of july on record. as you pmebably er, that follows the all-time driest first half of the month. we had zero raingh thr july the 16th. we've had over nine inches of rain at reagan international airport. bulless, nine inches. and bwi marshall has had 16 1/2 inches of rain just in the month of july. fortunately, the heavy rains

we've been enduring, those are pulling out. today's rainhance is a isolated nature, before late day thunderstorms come in tomorrow. mainly dry this morning, where the skies have cleared in the shenandoah valley, the fog is chick. lar in the afternoon, you can see on future weather, a chance of a stray shower bubbling up. rain chances today, extremely low but not competely zero. here's friday afternoon at 2:00. the chance for storms peaks between about 4:00 and 8:00, friday afternoon into the evening, along the i-95 corridor. and then, migrates its way on out toward the beaches. if you're goiin to the coas the best chance for rain are later on in the day. you can use our app to stay ahead of any weather. flood warnings or weather warnings of any kind will be out

in a push alert. nice day day. tomorrow, the afternoon storm chance, saturday, mainly dry. and rain chances come back sunday into monday. next week could be almos as rainy as this one. >> ooh. that doesn't sound not too promising. but good for the yards, for sure. taking a loo right now, mclean, 195 both ways between bellview and towelston. we're going to see how thi develops to see how impactful that is this morng. in northwest, broad branch road between27 27th -- nea street in northwest. downed tree with all lanes blocked there, as well. as we zoom out, the beltway looks good. all of the other main routes into town or out of town, no worries. earlier roadwork on 395 is now gone. coming up, what is goodur f

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right now at 4:28, a lot less to cleanup after days of rain. the storms may be over but your commute may be just as chaotic as it's been when that rain is falling, because ofoo ng. parts of this is still closed. melissa is tracking the >traffi.

or the first time this week, our radar istl m clear. if we had shown you a tighter ot of washington, d.c., would have been mostly clear. >> it's a perspective. glass half-full, glass half-empty. >> i think all ofhe glasses are half-full at this point. >> let's get to chuck and sheenh standing by w a forecast that's not dominated by rain. >> absolutely. a little chance to catch our breath and dry out for a smidgen. >> a lot of standing water. >> i don't know what that means. s> you know what that means. >> what d that mean? >> mosquito. standingat. >> encephalitis. suspect that what you get from mosquito bites? >> i don't know. but i have another thing to be ranoid about.

i have bug spray in my desoo here's the zmed in look at the radar. we have a couple of springkles around annapolis. this is going t now. away for it is 74 in washington. 69 dulles and manassas. we have ypatch fog. this morning, the kids are heading out to summer today is a day when they can go outside for once. it will be a hot and humid one. we'll look at when the rain chances return. melissa is on the road. >> i'm sure the camp counselors are grateful for today. looksing at inorthwest. th the video we were showing you with the water gushing down the street.