i heard all the rain coming to work this morning. a lot ofloing around region. we have you covered. good morning to you. thank you for joining us on ""news4 today"." i'm eun yang. >> and i'm angie goff in for aaron. let's gormo s team 4 meteorologist sheena parveen. i'm optimistic with the rain quickly moving to t nort and a lot of people are most likely not getting on the road for the commute. but if you are, you're going to get into problems. this morning we are looking at water on the roads. we h some very heavy rain move through northern virginia. now it has lifted to the north, but in those areas we're seeing

floodwarnings. i'll show you where in just a second. around the beltway, light, spotty showers. things have improved in the last 30 minutes. laurel seeing more moderate rain near gaithersburg. leesburg and frederick, virginia, seeing the heaviest rainfall. this is all sliding up to the now in northern virginia, parts of fairfax and foster county, flood warnings until 7:00 a.m. through 7:45 this morning. we are looking at ponding on the roadways. we hav a very unsettled weather pattern all the way into the weekend. coming up, we'll she you what the weekend is going to look like. we'll go to jac taylor to see if we have issues on the ys road jack? we have issues this morning, unfortunately. the oute loop of beltway near the big curve where the traffic merges with the 270 ur, traffic has been stopped, but we have one left lane tting by near riverroad. the high-standing water is blocking two lanes.

the same situation on inner loop of the beltway heading to 270. north on the spur, high standing water blocks the left lane. a tree fell south on the george washington parkway justnside the beltway. all lanes are blocked. traffic irom callers saying they are on the ramp and turning around northboundo access t beltway again. we are off to a tough start. good luck getting out earl please be careful. back to you. thank you. 4:02 and breaking news inor prie gege's county. police are searching for the person who shot and killed a man blocks away from the elementary school. this is the scene at putnam road and richie road. the man was found in the roadway and died at the scene. call the police if you have information on this case. >>or and thisng we're learning about a couple killed in a possible accident in

kazakhstan. >> they logged a blog called simply on sunday a car ran them off the road. assailants jumped out and statbed them to deh. imo other tourists were killed. isis c responsibility for this attack. >> lauren graduated from orgetown university. her family will remember her openness for new people and places. jay's previous employer was here in d.c. and said t he left world doing what he loved with the person he loved. and the state department if ng advice for people traveling out of the country. >> i encourage all u.s. citizens to enroll in the steps program. that ables the state department to reach you in case of an emergency. >> although isis claimed responsibility, ckajikistan is

trying to attract cyclists and adventure tourists. officials say they see no evidence of specific threats against americans. more drama is expected today in an alexandria courtroom as testimony resumed against paul manafort. during opening statements, prosecutors pais him greedyng hiillions for the ukrainian government to avoid paying taxes. manafort's lawyer placed the blame on his former business partner rick gates. gates pleaded guilty and will be a key witness for the prosecution. this is the first case to go to trial involving charges filed in special counsel robert mueller's inestigation. thlection meddling will not be the focus. testimony resumes this morning at 9:30. andid president trump d not say anything aboutanafort or the special counsel mueller during his rally last night in tampa, florida. on his border wall, immigration

and pushed for strongeer v i.d. laws. >> you go o y and want to buy anything, you need i.d. and you need your picture. this country, top only time you don't need it in man cases is when you want to vote for a president, when you want to vote for a senator, when you want toa vote for governor or a congressman. it'scrazy. >> more than half of states in the u.s. require some form of identification to vote, including virginia. it's now 4:05. lawmakers will hold a meeting one day after a disturbing report from facebook. the social media network just removed 32 fake account from fake boost and instagra it says they were involved in covert efforts to influence upcoming midterm elections. the pages were creat between march of last year and this may andad 290,000 followers.

facebook says it doesn't know who is behind the effort but sources tell nbc news the fake accounts have quality similar to those viewed by russian hackers during the 2016 election. stop at the lastsecond. late last night a federal judge in seattle blocked blueprints for untraceable 3-d printed guns from being posd line. terms of the settlement between the texas company and the federal government would haved allowee plans to be downloaded starting today. democrats in congress wantr presidenump to reverse the settlement. the president tweeted he's looking into the matter and that making the guns available to the public doesn't make much sense. > well, an offer to help a motorist ends with an arrest and now a lawsuit. a stafford county sheriff's deputy pulled over to help a couple having car trouble on jefferson highway back in april of >> so when the deputy asked for the driver's i.d., he whdecline. happened next was caught on the officer's dashm.

>> have you committed a crime? >> ino. idn't say you did. >> am i free to go? >> not right now, no. >> well, the deputy arrested george wingate and charged him with failing todentify himself, obstruction of justice and resistance of arrest. the judge later thrut the charges, but now the man says he believes race played an important part in their encounter. >> is time that we stand up for our rights and do this the right way. >> he walks a up is insisting on identifying himself and the gentleman doesn't need to. it's a consensual contact. and the consensual contact is just two people that come together. that gentleman could technically walk away. and he has to and the police officer says, no, you can't. >> well, news4 did reach out to

the stafford county sheriff's department and they told us that they cannot comment on pendingo litigaecause of the interview. but he's not responding tour requests. safety changes are on the way for cyclists and pedestrians on the h street corridor. the demand for improvements comes after the death of a 19-year-old who died in june when his bike tire became struck in the streetcar track. hadim fell into the path of theu oncomingr bulls. the his family and bike safety advocates gathered yesterday. >> if those streear flanges were there, just like a little piece of rubber to go inside the ack, he didn't have to get caught in there. and if he didn't get caught in there, he wouldn't have flipped in the air. he didn't fp many the air, he wouldn't have gotten thrown in e bus' way. >> muriel bowser has asked to

evaluate and test the rubber flask technology. ddot is advising cyclists to use streets a just north south of h street for travel. it' 4:09. and developing this morning, u.s. officials are preparing to hon honor north korea. >> this is a day decades in the making. this historic moment last week when north korea handed over 55 boxes. the north says that t korean war soldiers are from thest unid es and its allies. today they are holding a ceremony at the air base in south korea. here's a live look at the h ceremony now w officials talking there. the remains will be flown to hawaii to be analyzed and hopefully identified. their arrival on america soil will be marked by what the military calls the honorable

carryerony at joint base pearl harbor. it is ually the agency that identifies your wedding ring, i.d. tags, to help identify the person. tage will be one military for all these boxes, so this could take a long time. >> many are waiting and have been for a long time. thank you, chris.er firefight are battling this massive fire moving across ae state of california. 15 wildfiresre burning now. two of the fires appear toe converging into one putting 12,000 buildings at risk for construction. many of them homes. 44,000 have been evacuated so far. eight people torched thousands of acres and destroyed more than 1,000 homes. it's now 4:10.

for the second time in a month, thieves made offit a car left unlocked with theey inside at the same southeast gas station. this is last week's surveillance vide from pennsylvania avenue and eastern market. you can see the man get out of the passenger side of the black suv. then the man jumped inside the car at a nearby gas pump and drives away. w the same situation on july 4th. the thief was caught on camera taki car at the same gas station. the man got out of the car in the red and tn stuck oveo the black mercedes and jumped in and took off. more than e80 peo were displaced by this huge apartment fire in greeekelt last now the prince george's county communety is coming tr to help families in need. the franklin park apartment complex in theity of greenbelt nonprofit group and churches have built every corner of the complex's office with donations. it is giving those who are displaced hope for a fresh

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share. >> this young autistic man is stocking shelves at the grocery store. an a worker recruited him to work as a team. this is jack on the right a who was o trip to his grocery store in baton rouge and wanted shelves.stock the jordan welcomed him with open arms and encouraged him to put items into the refrigerator. jack's family says they are grateful and pla to thank jordan for his kindness. you know what?am rk makes the dream. >> that's right. i have a saying, speak your kind do something that speaks to your kindness. little acts likethat. >> and that probably made that kid's day. >> and every little thing. i think that people realize that even t small acts can be such obbig one, a smile, a wave, and doing it wheny is looking, right? >> and something so small. a small thing can ruin somebody's day, too. so be careful sometime. hopefullyoehe rain't ruin your day. >> oh, my goodness. lly bad onding is r today. >> i was driving here, and it

was basically monsooning. and very heavy rain. this morning, though, we're watching the rain head to the north. so here's the thing, for the morning commute, for most of the morning commute, if you are the typical commuter after5:00 and 6:00 a.m., you'll be fine as far not heavy rain falling, but from the rain early this morning from the past few hours, you may be running into the ponding on the roadways. that could be dangerous out urthere. we'rently looking at the rainfall in parts of frederick county, northern parts of montgomery county near gaithersburg. that's where the green and more moderate rainfall is. so thatrt continues too. and as we zoom around the beltway, we're looking at mainly dryer conditions. but right near parts of 495,th 's where we are looking at more moderate to heavy rain. but that is one small area. most of us around the beltway have seen the rain leave. flood warnings are uparor of fairfax county down to faulkner county until 7:00 a.m. some of the flood warnings may go until 7:45.

in the ars, we had heavy rain earlier. we could be seeing some flooded roadways. never drive through the flooded waters. we have a lot of c rain aud cover in the forecast the next several days. later today, we have the for severe weather potentially where you see the yellow shaded area.tl this is m north and west of d.c. we could see severe storms later this ening withamaging winds, heavy rain and lightning and hail. we'll be watching that going through tonight. temperatures before you step outside, mid to low s. here's the future weather, going throughout the morning hours, we start to dry by. noon, fairly dry, mostly cloudy. then through the evening, there you can see the chance north and west. that's going to be mainly after 6:00 p.m. tonight. but weet could some strong storms. tomorrow, another rain day, especially in the afternoon showers and thunderstorms. friday, rain in the morning and throughout the afternoon. and inten the we we're going to hold on to the rain chances. chuck will show you what it looks like next week coming up. now to jack taylor to get a look

at the roads. good morning, jack. hey, sheena. good morning, the storms are packing a punch. we'll start on the george washington parkway. up in maclaine headed southbound, you'll find yourself rerouted and turned around. fortunately, there's a downed tree near the park police headquarters. and we have activity near the 14th street bridge with a downed tree and flooding in the 29 lee highway is closed near 234 and sud lee foded out. sudley is also closed near the manassas battd because of the flooding. a big crash on the outer loop in maryland near t 270 spur and the big curve. only the lef g lane isting by at the scene. back to you. jack, thank you. still ahead, 30 million americans arebout to finut if they will owe more taxes next year. we'll tell you how to find out whether you are of the them and what you can do to stop it

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is underway. on august 8th we'll be at apple branch collecting donations of new backpacks and other school suppliesto if you can't by, always make an online donati. head to nbcwashington.com and search backpacks. it is 4:26. ahd still d, a high-end heist. a luxury d.c. store, how thies stole thousands of dollars worth of purses in a matter of seconds. plus, a terrifying gas station explosion. we'll show you the video where proof thatthis is this was sparked on purpose. > and good morning, everybody. you're looking outside this morning. it's cloudy. the hviest of the rain for today may already be over, but moreve a chance for toowers and srms before this when a new breast cancer patient comes to cancer treatment centers of america in philadelphia, she's coming for the multimodal therapy where the specialists form a treatment plan together. we were looking for a cancer team that would help us decide the best course of action.

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on therun, game over. >> and what a win. history made as nionals nation celebratesith a major star. first this morning, you may have woken up to the soundhe of all rain. we saw it on our dve to work into the studios this morning. we do have flood warnings in effect as iteeps coming down. we're going to keep you posted on all the latest i the forecast looking at the storm team 4 radar. good morning, eryone. m eun yang. >> and i'm angie goff. aaron has the morning off as we wake up. jack taylor is already by tracking trouble on the roadways. but first, let's get to the recast with chuck bell and sheena parveen. when is the rain going to >>end? maybe next week. do you reay want to know, eun?