>> thanks for joining us for "news 4 today." fire insid a row home on newcombe street. >> chris lawrence at the live desk with what we know about this. >> four people have been left without a home.ai want to get st to some pictures showing how that heavy fire was knocked out. it's a three-story row house between other homes. the residentsay haveeen asleep when it started. and firefighters hadus to the windows to get them out. the fire started in the first floor and it engulfed other homes from there. this could have been a lot worse. no word on the cause of the fire, but here's a look at where itst started in south d.c. newcombe street on 2nd. no one has been injured. the red cross has been called in, with the residents, called for ala to live. we're keeping an eye on the commute and the forecast.

jack taylor with a eye on the road. >> let's start with chuck bell and therainy forecast. no surprise here. more rain. >> your friday's going to be lost. all of your outdoor plans lost es rain cha again. there are chancesf sunshine before tomorrow is through. it will be sunny today. that sunshine will be moving here, as we get into ahe morning laernoon timeframe. a highhrloodeat in roanoke and the lynchburg areas this morning. that rain is coming northbound. our rain chances here around the d.c. metrorea will be increasing with time, as we go flu the remainder of the day. flood watches have bee extended, now, until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. we may be able to get a chance for that to expire. we'll stay in the upper 70s and low 80s for highs today.

rain andan thunderstorms be heavier today and especially late tonight. more about that weekend sunshine chance coming up. jack taylor, how is the friday morning commute? >> we start things off. crews were ableo do wor overnight. they were on the outer loop by connecticut avenue. crews are working and two left lanes are getting by. on 395, headed noghbound. a l couple of work zones between duke and king street, blocking a left lane. not causing a slowdown early. 95 in virginia, headed nortound after the center park parkway. right lane getting by. justearing of a crash in maryland on i-95 southbound, route 32. blocking the left half of the roadway. this can cause delays. hopefully it's minor inur n and they can move it quickly. we're sta tng on of the breaking news about a missing 12-year-old girl missing from china. >> she has been missing for nearly 24 hours.

she was abducted by a woman at reagan national airport yesterday morning. man and a woman arrived at reagan national yesterday morning. >> next time the woman appears on surveillance camera, she was walking with ma. they walked to the aivals area and disappeared out of view in the security camera theoman in the picture is also visiting from china. >> police believe the man picke up the woman and girl in this white w infiniti suvh new york plates. it was an hour before anyone in the 12-year-old's tour group knew she wasg. miss >> we don't know why the child left with this asian female. the child appears to have left thout any force. >> ma stands 4'11", and weighs 90 pounds. she has brown eyes and black

hair. >> the woman is five feetall and wearing a black dress. now, to breaking news out of virginia, evacuationsn lynchburg as a dam may fail. chris lawrence at the live desk. what's happening? >> we're talking about the possibility of 17 feet of water in a matter of minutes. look at your screen. all of the rain that the area has seen in f the past weeks has overwhelmed the college lake dam. and people who live near there have been told to get out. the e.c. glass high school auditorium is aheter for those forced to thacuate. e's no evacuations at the university of lynchburg.e school is not downstream of the dam. if there's a complete failure, wtheer depth in lynchburg could exceed 17 feet in jt 7 minutes. we checked with storm team 4's chuck bell and lynchburg

could see two more inches of rain today. our stormy weather maye to blame for a virginia family's unbelievable loss. this girl's parents just tucked her into dead. she was pinned under the tree and died in her room. neighbors tell us that the 10-year-old played violin and played softball. >> my heartbreaks as a mom, to have to go through something like that. definitely having her a few times, she's a sweet girl. >> neighbors are collecting money to help her family. you can find a link in the nbc washington app, search memorial fund. details on the upper marlboro fire in breaking news yesterday. the fire wasn't an accident. investigators believe a former

employee set al's country kitchen on fire on purpose. prince george's county police say she was recently f firedm al's. 100 firefighters battled the flames that ripped through that well-known diner yesterday morng. it was three-alarm fire that spread to nearby businesses. residents w lived before the restaurant had to evacuate. a murder mystery in northern virginia. a gunman walked into a home in arizona avenue in woodbridge and shot a man toh. de as many as ten people live in the home where the shooting happened. the roommates are cooperating with detectives. we're learning about the scare that shut down streets around the capital. they found a vehicle with a gun police arrested a 23-year-old

man from georgia. we're told there is no connection to terrorism. 4:07 right now. ssia is still trying to interfere with u.s. elections. >> that was the message from tha top nat security officials. leaders from the fbi, department of homeland security and intelligence community made a surprise appearance in the white house briefing room, just three months ahead of the midterm's ttailed pervasive russian effort to tryhe weaken ade dihe u.s. so far, efforts are not as robust as during the 2016 campaign. but that could change. >> make no mistake, the scope of this foreign influence threat is broad dd deep. >> oocracy itself is in the crosshairs. >> hours later, president trump continued to cast doubt on meddling, refring to the russia probe as a hoax during a rally in pennsylvania. it's 4:07. first daughter, ivanka trump is

ancing herself from some of her father's controversial policies. she answer eed questions at an event yesterda when asked about her high and low points during her time at the white house, she said that one of the lowest points was seeing the family satepns at the u.s./mexico border. >> that was a low point for me, as well. i feel very strongly about that. and i am very vehemently against family separation. >> ivanka trump was asked whether she believes the med was the enemy of the people as her father has repeatedly said in public. she sai no. the president later commented on the question tweeting, quote, they asked my dauter whether not the media was the enemy of the people. she correct it is the fake news, which is a large percentage of the media,

which is the enemy of the people. federalon prosecutorsnue to build their case against former trump campaign chair paul manafort. mo witnesses were called to the stand, detailing manafort's lavish lifestyle. we learned that rick gates will testify against him. prosecutors told the judge they have every intention of calling gates too the stand. manafort is facingrial for tax evasion and money laundering. his lawyerslamed gates during opening statements. gates pleaded guiltyarlier this year. testimony will resume at 9:30. urban meyer could be fired by ohio state over what he allegedly knew but did not report. meyer said he was unaware of several instance nedomestic abuse of one of his assistant coaches. the wife of that coach saidth 's not true. meyer's contract tells him to

port any violations of the policy. that assistant coach was fired earlier this week. amtrak is investigating what happened after a train derailed from d.c. th train came from new orleans. >> everyone was okay. but passengers were stuckran that more than an hour after the incident. it happened yesterday, just after noon. according to d.c. fire and e.m.s., one set of wheels on the lead engine came off the tracks. >> all we heard was a loud ise. and w felt it and it stopped. and the fire department a everybody stormed the train. people were wondering what was going on.n that's w the conductor said stay calm. >> amtrak is inspecting all of the railcarsinvolved. several members of a virginia family had to be rescued after being caught in rip currents. this happened in north carolina. for -straight ys, swimmers had been warned about dangerous ocean conditions. the warnings lifted yestday.

the mother said she noticed her teenager struggling as they weru ed into deep waters. lifeguards and firefighters had to pl everybody to safety. >> it was pretty rough. and i was really scared tha i, like, last week, when the guy passed away, i was scared that something bad was going to happen to either me or my sister. >> firefighters say nobody had to go to the hospital. an ohio man thought he was saving some dogs i a hot car. >> richard hill was leaving a walmart when he sawop several standing around a car with two dogs inside. someone called 911 a anoth person went inside to find the car's owner. but hill grabbed a hammer and smashed one of the car windows. police showed up shortly heafte. >> officer told me that i should have waited. that i had r noht to break that window. >> we don't condone leaving animals in cars. but what's reasoning and what's unreasonable? >> hill was cited for criminal

damage. a judge will have to decide if he was acting in good faith. peta has offered to help pay hill's fine. >> i'm scratching my head on that one. >> about -- >> what's the reasonable amount of time? >> it's so subjective. who knows how much danger. >> a lot of people would say there's no reasonable amount of time. what's the germiest places in america? we'll have the results of a new study. > plus, gamers beware. the cautionary tale one mother s for all parents, after her son was contacted by a stranger through the game fortnite. happy friday, everybody. hi wish i good news for you. unfortunately the news and the weather department is all about more rain chances coming our way later today and tonight.

you're watching "news 4 today." >> you areki l at a massive wall of dust here that hit a jor section of phoeni >> i know what that's called. >> what's it called? >> a idboob. >> you enjoy that? >> uh-huh. thank you. >> this dust storm caused sky harbor airport to delay and cancel 100 flights. the dust was followed by thunderstorms, damaging winds and flashou floodinged that area for hours. not that unusual up there. >> not goingo talk about barometric pressure. dew points and stuff. >> we'll confuse oursves. if your kids play online games, you might want to this. >> a family in minnesota, says an 8-year-old was cxed into sharing personal information with strangers.

charlie was playing fortnite with teens out of state, when other gamers convinced him to share his mom's personal information. his mom found text messages to secretly send her driver's license and other documents. >> thi guy was able to talk charlie into doing something behind my back. >> police are still investigating but charges may not be filed unless they c prove that information was used illegally. parents have to talk to their kids about playing online games. google glass never caught on with conventionalum cos. but it could be a life-changing tool for peoplwith autism. researchers at stanford pair people with autism and google glass and the app.re parent reporting more eye contact with their kids and

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today. >> take the >> i should put myself in a bubble. >> it hasn't killed you yet. >> it's hard to kill the old man. >> you don't get old without being tough. we're going to need the frogman suit again. everybody likes frogman. it isust another day with deluge of nce of a rain coming. temperatures in the steamy 70s here first thing thismorning. and another wave of low pressure coming up through the ohio valley, is going to channel that tropical plume of moisture that we've been enduring for most of the las three weeks. this is going to hopefully be the beginning of the end of this pattern. we'll see. a long way to go between now and the end of it. nonetheless, good news down ross central virginia. no crazy heavy rains. there's the lynchburgarea. every drop is a problem for lynchburg, with the t dameat

breaking. we have a little chance to dry out. there's plenty of puddles around this morning. and the flash flood watch has been extended to 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. they may have to extend it to 10:00 a.m. or noon tomorrow. here's future weather. a rain-free first thing. showers likely to move in late this morning. off and on pockets of heavy rait arou area, during the afternoon. here's 4:00 this afternoon.da the f afternoon escape from the city over the bridge, down to the beaches, could be real mess. you want to leaveorow ir to beat the traffic. rainfall amounts from half an inch to an inch potentially another inch or more for sunspots overnight. heaviest rain will be south and east of the d.c. area. one two to threenchesf rain. 83 with hardly anything in the way of sunshine. tomorrow, the rain should be over before noon, saturday afternoon and evening, should be

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> "new 4" begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. >> we start with a look a the radar, as more rain heads our way. you likely won't see much rain on yourcoorning ute. but the threat of flash floodg remains high as we head into the weekend. chuck is here with the warnings and the res of your storm team 4 forecast. we are on top of an amber alert the of a young girl who is from china. we have photos that are providing some clues to where she might be. i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist.

we'll get to the breaking news in a few minutes. jack taylor will fill us in on your fday commute. >> chuck bell is here with the all-important forecast and a lookhead to the weekend. >> yes, indeed. a little chance for somo rain come to an end across the area. that would be welcome news -- >> having atl lite trouble hearing mr. bell. we'll try to the kinks worked out. >> should i stand closer to youe >>'s the microphone. >> it's a miracle. here's a look attorm team 4 radar. a little break in the rain around the city for now. it's not going last, though. there's more rain near charlottesville. that rain in central virginia has eyes onus, in probably about the next two to three hours. the very early part friday commute, not a problem. flood watches, as you wou expect, have been extended until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. watch out for high, standing or fast-movingwater. don't let your