and "first at 4:-00," happyh friday, a day, another weather alert. more rain out there means more floodingor and there are concerns all across the area. in lynchburg, virgin i, a dam danger of giving way which could lead to severe flooding. that's right. closer to home in stafford county, they are still working to clean up from a huge flood back in june. that impacted many businesses in that area. >> team coverage beginning with meteorologist lauryn i ricketts the storm center. >> we're looking at heavy rain and rtions of our area pushing through the region. can you see it's pretty scattered out there right nno. everybody is getting wet right now, but we're still weather alert because we'll have waves of heavy rain and even thunderstorms. let's go o a little radar tour. heavier downpours just out to rout 50 between que anne and

deatherling. al just little areas of moderate rain throughout the region. back h te towards shenandoah valley you've been getting it all afternoon around the winchester area and this coming through culpepper county will continue to head towards district. there's moderate rain in that. of w course,ve got the city open going on this evening, the nats game and right now in d.c we're getting peaks of sunshine, and that's not necessarily gooc e that could destabilize us lat. thice south wind bringing in the humidity, but we do have more sunine in theorecast. we'll talk about that for this weekend coming up and also time out the storms for tonight. that's coming up at about 4:30. guys? >> the nbc washington app handy all night as the rain continues. the -bhohour forecast is right there in your hand. download the app if you don't

already hav. a short time ago police say they found a 12-year-old girl ng who went mis from reagan airport yesterday. erika gonzalez at t live desk with what we know. >> jin jing ma has been fou safe with her parents in queens up in new york. the news breaking minutes ago. accohiing to the wton airport authority the 12-year-old was found today after an aer alert was issued thursday. mom was part of a tour group visitings the sta from china. the fbi is now leading the investigation as to how and why the young girl became separated from the group. from the live desk, i'm erika gonzalez. an emotional plea from the parents of a 25-year-old man. >> the 25-year-oldan was killed back in november. tonight their family is taking the quest for answers back to couur >> he was my best friend. >> david culver joins us now to

explain what the family is in dema money. >> reporter: certainly part of this. a lot, $25 million. the man's mom, sifather and sisr filing the d wrongfulth suit. the 25-year-old accountant was rear ended on theg.w. parkway and continued driving even as the police pursued. what you're looking at here dashcam video that showsep his jetopping twice. the final stop, two u.s. park police officers you hring there firing nine shots. he was not armed. tonight the family say eight nths after the shooting they do not know who those officers are, and fhey sayeral officials are holding back information that could answer what sparked this deadly encounter. >> wt is the u.s. park police hiding from the family a the public? > if you can apprehend school shooters without firing a shot,

you didn't need to shoot my brother. >> i did reach out to thethe u. attorney's office and the u.s. park police. they have not immediately responded to our request for comment regarding today's lawsuit in particular. in the past we've reached out to them, and they have declined to comment on this case, pat and >> $25on is what the illeon. family is asking for. why that specific amount, some target or goal here? >> they broke it down into several categories n.part they want some of the money to go towards trainingth police officers to avoid similar scenarios. they say other victims of police-involved shootings are going to need some help witfu ral expenses. they hope to help pay for those. >> is that right. >> the main thinghey want is answers because they don't have very many. >> that's the biggest thing they are pushing and they think a federa judge could deliver on that. >> nice work, david. thanks. new at 4:00, police say the man wanted for killing a houston-area doctor has killed himself. earlier today

chief announced that joseph james pappas shotin himself durg a confrontation withth police. say he had body armor on during the atconfron. he's accused ofhoing the cardiologist last month while he was on his bike. the doctore used to car for former president george h.w. bush and now a look at what the motive may have been coming up in the next half hour. >> montgomery county police are looking for a t who wsappeared earlier this week. abdullah ahmed with a group of students visiting her from iraq. the 17-year-old was seen athe national 4-h conference center wearing black jeans and fli flops. if you've seen him contact the police department immediately. now an update on the story that msing young iowa woman,

mollie tibi mollie tib et cetebetts who dis two weeks ago while on a jog. mollie's family is now offering a big reward for the 20-year-old's safe reward, $172,000 andnt cg. donations are flooding in from coast to coast. >> we believe that mollie is still alive, and if someone has abducted her, we are pleading with you to please release her. >> officials looked into a possible sighting at a missouri rest stop last week, and they ve ruled thatut. it wasn't mollie, but her family is determined to push forward. all of rain we've been getting is taking its toll on the area's infrastructure. >> yeah. in southern virginia there's concern the college link dam cod give way. high waters are putting pressure on dam, but officials say it's stable for the moment to. give you an idea of how serious the threat is, officials say if the dam does fail, the wath den lynchburg can rise to

more 17 feet in just 7:00. here's a map to show you wherall of this is happening. officials just have gave us an update a short time ago, and they say that they did haveo t evacuate people who lived another that dam. >>ircity, and police evacuated approximately 150 homes in a periodf less than two hours. multiple city departments coordinated to achieve this safe and timely evacuation. in all 150 homes had to be evacuated. we'll keep an eye on the wtuation, andll bring you any updates as soon as we get new information here.me time, lauryn is tracking today's weather alert in the storm celler. >> and w go to her in a few minutes. restaurant popular burns down. now police are saying it was no accident. >> a former waitress is accused of setting al's deli supreme court on fire in upper marlboro. news 4's aimee cho talked to

people who knew her and were shocked to learn she's accused of arson. >> reporter: this is the fire that broke out at al's deli supreme. flames burning through the night, the restauran fire investigators say this former waitress was the one who started it 26-year-old jessica poole who worked at al's deli until she was recently let go. >> she seemed like a norpel on. >> reporter: jennifer hughes lives across the street from poole and was stunned to hear what her neighbowas accused . >> have to be careful who you trust. the kids used to play in her house. god only knows what else she's possible of or anybody for that matter. eporter: over at the restaurants customers dropping by to see the damage for themselves andki t about the server turned suspect. >> you wouldn't see it in her. i didn't she know was capable. >> reporter: was she a good server? >> absolutely. yeah, yeah, if i leave a $5 tip you've got to be a good server. >> never thought she'd do something like that in a million hears. thought was a nice young laidy.

>> nobody was hurt but several people's apartments werede royed. poole is facing charges of arson and reckless endangerment. poole was also arrested for dui a few years ago andor theft b that. she will be appearing in court for the arson charge at the end of august. in upper marlboro, aimee cho, news 1? al's country kitchen has been a staple in that community for decade, and managers are they hope to one day rebuild that restaurant. well, we're watching some storms tryin to make their way into the area. areas of heavy rain. can youhe see greater washington area dry at this point, but, again, some periods of heavy rain as we continue through tonight. we'll talk about timing and we'll talk timing that have sunshine. that's all coming up in justw minutes. the chesapeake bay isn't the only place dealing with a h ae messer last month's storm. >> popular parks and beaches in northern virgia have been closed down for weeks now. bureau chief julie carey hasn a updatehe cleanup effort. and the price of some of the

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>> fe go to northern virginia. julie deary is in stafford where they are still picking up thees pifter the storms last week. julie? >> sounds like she's getting pounded. >> we hear the rain coming down. >> reporter: yea if just broke loose. thought we'd dodge it today. i'm standing inhat is officially known as the historic port ofh falmo park. the big draw is a beach right through the whtrees. you look at this mess around me. look at all this debris. you can see why no one has been allowed to sethioot in park for weeks now.th falmark has been closed since june 23rd when the worst floodwaters in decade coated much of the bike trail and road in mud, but that's just partf theroblem. the other part, debris. >> large number o trees from upstream, whole trees, portions of trees. s >> reporter: i park that

blends history and recreation. those signs now muddied or knocked down, and you wouldn't want to grill o this anymore. starred countyco-- stafford ty' challenge how to clean it up. last week they used county workers and lots of trucks to help clean upme the . >> we had 75 dump truckloads of debris taken out ofre about 340 tons of debris. so that was the first effort. it's been so wet that we've not been able to get in until just this past weekend. >> reporter: the trees too big to remove are getting scked up along the river. a big bonfire planned for fall, but even as progress is being made, ptfloodwaters s through again earlier this week. >> behind us is a bike trail, and that bike trail was sort of cleared off and now it's all muddy because of theoding that we had just two days ago. so it's one step fndward a two steps back sort of mentality where we keep fighting it. >> reporter: the goal, to get the parp cleaned enough so that the parking lot and part of

the beach can be reopened in early september. but park visitors are not the only ones negatively impacted by this. this is having a real impact on the businesses nearby. we'll hear more from them coming up on "news 4 a 5:00." >> stay dry out there. >> a gofundme page been set up for a 10-year-old girl killed in warnington, virginia when a tree crashed through her house. lydia gherighis died before crews could take her to the hospital. you'll find ain lin the nbc news app. >> there's no way to prepare. when rains fall like that the grounds are getting ansaturated

trees will fall. >> hopefully we'll get a break that lets things dry out for a . wh >> that pattern is breaking down overnigh tonight and not until then. we'll deal with thundershowers and thunderstorms and that's have we're weather alert today and tonight because of the that will be pushing through our region. now, as you can see, we're not seeing too much around the d. area right now. where julie carey was down other in stafford county, getting nice little cells down here that way. in the washington area, we're mainly dry. a few storms just towards west wrginia inchester in the northern shenandoah valley and more storms coming up through leigh and central north carolina. those will continue to lift to the north, but you can see we've got -- we've got aittle sturbance over here on the western side, and eventually it's going t push to th northeast. behind it, nothing happening in nicincinnati, nothing hap in kentucky. high pressure in place. so we'll see a gradual drying-out period. it's not going to happenmontil

ow morning and then through the weekend. severe weather today. here's the weather questiold there ce a few isolated showers and storms that become strong to severe, and floodingo is to be the main concern. it's not going to take much to get some flooding across the gion, but, again, for the ayvere weather, nothing like we saw yesterday but a storm or two heading into the evening. now, we're drying out for the weekend. thank goodness. if you're headed to the beaches this weekend, maryland, delaware beaches, could have rain showers on saturday. again a o theer banks, rain showers on saturday and sunday looks fantastic. flash flood watch goes for ve everybody, areas towards the beaches. this isn't until 6:00sa a.m. rday morning because we'll get a few showers overnight. we'l start the futurecast at 4:00 p.m. you can see areas of dryco itions. as we advance it and go through the evening commute, just as we get into 6:00, o the heartthe commute on friday, we're looking at some showers rolling right through the district right now

and then some heavier stuff as there has been lining up to the west. a lot of h stuff staying west as we head to the late w eveninh more waves of rain moving through, a few showers overnight and tomorrow morning we start to dry out. there could be a few showers i-95 into the soviet uniorn tomorrow g, but for the most part we're drying out through the day. isolated chancesay through the tomorrow and afternoon. look at that sunday. plenty of sunshine. so your rain chances again, early southnd east of d.c. for saturday, but then we start to dry out as we get into monday and tuesday. current temperatures out there right now 70s and 80s. it's a muggy one. if you're headed out to nats park for playing the cincinnati reds at 7:00, good chance of rain moving through our area, again, with temperatures i 70s. the weekend forecast, temperatures right around 90. it's goiid to be hoth days. that humidity is not going anywhere, and, again, the beach forecast could have some rain especily as we head through the weekend. tomorrow morning, rain south and east of d.c., hot and humid all week and ielievee'll timely

get to the sunshine. tomorrow morning's early rain will burn offy the afternoon. next chance of rain after tonight will be tuesday andda wedn a frontal system will come through and the humidity stays up and temperatures stay up as well and plenty of dry time as we go even into next week. >> good deal. can't wait to get there. a recall to tell but this evening, especially those who are lactose intolerant or trying to avoid lactose. more than 145,000 half gallons of vanilla almond breeze milk, avoid it because it mayctually contain milkilk, an allergen lists on the label. they have been distributed to two dozen states including maryland and virginia. if you have a baby, chances you are spend a lot of money on diapers. if you use pampers, you might s want tock up because you're going to pay more for those. procter & gamble s hiking the price about 4% in the

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okay. stop if you've heard this one before. hives of rain p through the region this afternoon. >> sounding like a broken record. steam 4 issued another weather alert today. layerun ricketts lauryn ricketts is checking for more. >> there's a severe thunderstorm warning in roanoke which eventually will make its way through our area. we'll see if it can hol the dynamics. a few scattered and stronger downpours n lightning associated with these. right up here on 140 out of clark county, and shenandoah county getting nice downpours. here inside the beltway and d.c. area not seeing much, but south of quantico marine basee're seeing heavier downpours through south of gaithersburg. a few isolated showers are

moving across st. mary's county into the chesapeake and eastern emaryland. weooking good in our area, but i think this is going to increase in coverage as we continue through the afternoon and evening. we'll talk about timing coming up. >> more things to know. let' c get yought up this afternoon. check out the scene at a popular park in sfford county, virginia. crews are removing storm debris by the truckloads from the falmouth park. so far they have carted away 76 truckloads of debris. the park along the rappahannock river has been closed since it first flooded at the end of june. the familiar life an unarmed accountant shot and killed by u.s. park police is suing the government. the wrongful death suit was filed today. bijansa r's family says despite requests, federal authorities refused to share information about their son's killing.d the man wante for the killing

of a houston-area doctor has shot and killed h aself. he'sused of shooting dr. mark hausknecht last month while he was on his bike. he used to care for former president george h.w. the chinese girl who disappeared from the reagan airpt yesterday has been found. she was part of a tour group visiting fromhi. she's been found in brooklyn with her mother. ey are investigating why and how the gl became separated from the group. >> thanks, erika. there's a new twist in the high-profile mansion murder case that left four people dead in northwest d.c. a month before the man charged goes on trial, a ruling from the judge that sent shock weeks through the courtroom. meagan fitzgerald has the developments.

>> reporter: darren wendt has ten only person of keling th savopoulos family inside their d.c. mansion and today in court evidence was presented to the court to suggest else carried out the murder. not only did the judge agree sayi the evidence was permissible but she also ruled the defense does not have to explain their evidence. >> if these defenad any chance to wint iwas this ruling. >> reporter: legal expert and criminal defense attorney bernard grimm sai this is a turning point in the case. >> the government needs to prove that wendt is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and that the other guy didn't do it beyond a reasonable doubt. >> the judge says that the evidence attorneys are using is the same evidence that the prosecution collected. >> it's evidence that the government turned over in the cour of discovery so they think it's reliable to some extent. they just didn't believe it was

enough to charge that person baud they h-- because they had . prosecutors say ithe placed man in the house. when the trial startext month, the jury will decide whether he's the killer or morant. >> china is you go the ante with new tariff threats in the ongoingtle over trade between our two countries. meantime, president trump and i his ownelligence chiefs appear to be at odds again over the issue of russia. susan mcginnis joins us now from russia with details on this story. susan? >> reporte lots going on here in washington. while the president is out of town, today the white house began the d taking credit for some positive job umbers. the nation's employers continue adding jobs to the econom h the whise cheered today's numbers showing another drop in the joble rate. these are good numbers. it's another strong jobs report in a series of strong employment reports. >> reporter: but an economic threat lies on the horizon.

china warned today i president trump continues to escalate the trade war, it will retaliat hiking tariffs on u.s. beef, seafood and thousands of oth goods totaling $60 billion. china hitting back after tpresident trump's threa more than double his proposed tariff on $200 billion worth of chiness go if china doesn't back down. >> there's a tariff problem, lack of res boss try and they are lotech-stealing, they better take the president serious. >> reporter: meanwhile more eviden the president doesn't take the threat from russia seriously, soon after his top official affirmed the threat on u.s. elections the president threw cold water on it. >> now we exhindered by thess n hoekax. >> reporter: analysts are puzzled by the disconnect. he >> you expect president of the united states to speak to the american public, so let's re tly underline strange aspects of this historically.

>> reporter: still, the president's intel chiefs continue to insist it's the president leading the charge against russian meddling. and this week the the senate voted against additional funding for states to shore up their election system. leon. >> thank you, susan. have a good weekend. >> omarosa is back and is making some serious claims in a new tell-all back about her time in the white house. "the daily mail" published an excerpt and in it it appeared the president was in a mental decline that could not be denied. omarosa served as an assistant to president trump and also appeared on "the apprentice" where most folks know her from. the bo is called "unhinged" and it will be released on august 14th. we've allre been t trying to squeeze the last bit of ketchup out of the paquette. >> -- out of the r packet. earchers at virginia tech think they have found a solution coming up with super slippery

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it honors the late reverend billy graham. the exhibs called pilgrim preacher. it the includes the pulpitsng ud du two of graham's major crusades. there are alsoermon notes and personal bibles opened by graham. many of the items are on loan nrom the billy graham library north carolina. the museum wants to showcase how graham's interpretation of the bible influenced his ministry. >> i wanted ton focus something that was central to his own life t ahow he understood himself. in doing so we'll bettar unde how he's shaping the post-war environment after world war ii. >> graham died in february at the age of 99. the exhibit ope this weekend and runs through january 27th. for your weekend, winnie the pooh returns to the big screen. >> to a lot of fanfare. >> disney's "christopher robin"

opens in theaters and with christopher robin's help pooh exbarks on a jurn a t find his friends. >> mhee thoughts now about movie. >> reporter: in the voice jim carey is spot on and pooharry think sounds spot on. lots of jokes great gnostic callmebacks and we've got pooh stretching and the t-i-g-g-e-r song and i thought it was nice to have a family flick that reminds us of the important things in life. >> ian mcgregor plays christopher robin and jim cummings is pooh and tigger. you've go the some options including the summer spirit festival saturday and sunday, and jimmy buffet is in town at jiffy lube live andanson

performs at wolftrap and bryan ads at wolftrap on sunday. lots going on. >> sounds exciting.et now get to a story about a monk on a bike. >> gregory fillson is a monk whu grew in maryland and lives in a temple in japan and has been biking across the country to ise money for the children's national medical recently had a cancer scare and he wanted to do something to help others. he said biking cross-country asn't been's,ut he has no regrets. >> cannot ride the bicycle on a road up there and cannot ride the bicycleoa on a back there. the only way to ride the bicycle is the road under the tires so this kind of thought was really orportant for me. >> gregs ride started in san francisco and ended at the u.s. capitol. he didn't raise as much money he would have like for the hospital. if you would like to donate we

post link in the nbc washington app. >> doesn't look like one but sounds like one. >> a nk in really good shape. >> that's for sure. >> up next, the weather alert continues. >> lauryn. >> we continue to watch some showers and thunderstorms moving through the region. heavy rain now off to the south and west. that's goinu to con to push through the d.c. metro area. we'll talk timing on wsen you'll rain in your neighborhood. that's coming right up after the break. >> fairf county is sounding a health alarm after its first case of the wt nile virus shows up this year. the best way to stay safe with all the rain. >> hiding in plain sight. the man believed to have killed prominent houston docrto

well, the friday evening commute is under way and it's got a very wet and potentially dangerous one depending on where you are, and we're tracking the

threat for more flooding tonight in the area, and lauryn's got the light at the end of the tunnel coming for us whichill be here in just three minutes. a new twist in the murder of a doctor who used to care for former president george h.w.. bu police say the man accused of killing that doctor has just taken his own life. nbc reports, it happened during a violent confrontation with police. >> reporter: a two-week manhunt in texas' largest city is now over. >> i'll goat what everybody is wondering. this is our suspect. >> reporte houston police alerted to the location of 62-year-old joseps james pap by a city employee who tried to approach pappas and picked up the wallet had left behind. pappas wearing body armor killed himself as police closed in. >> but i thank god that that second officer got there when he got there, because the suspect the ot complying with commands of the officer. you normally don't put on aet buoof vest when you're thinking about suicide.

>> reporter: pap has has been on the run since july 20th when he shot and killed dr. markus echt who once treated president bush as he biked to work in broad daylight. >> hardo believe. u don't expect your neighbor to be a murderer. >> reporter: pappas carried a grudge against the doctor for more than 20 years after pappas' mother had died during an operation. pappas researched hausknecht's life who police say found a dossier in his home. >> i'm thankful we'll end this eek with a great sense of relief in the city of houston. >> reporteic now ols are looking to trace his movement over the last two weeks. the immediate search over as the investigation continues. the same white supremacists who marched in charlottesvillee last year h bring their protests to the district next week. >> and both metrond d.c. police are considering how to

keep everyone safe if that happens here. i wendy riegthe newsroom with a look at what's new at 5:00 tonight. hey, windy. >> there's a possibility we'll see hundred of white opremacists marching in the streets d.c. next week, and this is a'l story youl only see on news 4 tonight. we're learning about plans under consideration to make sure there's nowh violence. do you think about a separate train on metro forf memberse alt-right group? news 4's mark sraves is breaking this story and will join us with details andht reaction ton we hope to see you soon. it's really been a very b ay friday ts we have a lot to tell you about. >> and the weather isn't h. ping eith >> no, it's not. we'll head right behind you with the day's weather. >> lauryn, how long is this next round going to last? >> unfortunately, pat, we'll see ep last until the overnight hours. g chances of rain into the overnight and then we start to dry out tomorrow. timely we t start dry out through the day tomorrow. you can put the rain boots away,

the umbrella away. it's looking a lot better. let's go ahead to the maps and show you the rain out there. of course, always a goodime to download that nbc washington yp. especially if're out and about this friday night. seeing rain showers setting up around annapolis and coming all the way through the chesapeake bay. hthose are showerse and nothing here in the d.c. metro area and if we head west we're seeing a few downpours right around interstate 70 and coming through frederick and just to the south and east of haigers town and eastern west virginia and heavier rain out to the west of us, especially into the shenandoah valley and also outnto west virginia. down to the south, we're seeing mounrate rain right a our area in fredericksburg and warrentonndauquier county which will head to the district in the next hour.as nove thunderstorms or severe weather out there right now. as we go through the evening,

episodes of rain through the night tonight. flooding as still going to be concern. we have that flash flood watch, and that will continue through tomorrow morning at 6 a.m., and then we start to dry out as weekend.to the temperatures out there right now, it's warm. it's muggy. temperatures are in the low to mid-80s right now. we've got 70s out in the shenandoah valley where there's rainy and tve been worked over a couple of times. heading to the evening, a lot of things going on not because it's friday night but the nats came is goingn at 7:00. could have rain in the forecast by then. temperatures in the s by that time at nats park. we'll get rain here in d.c. or any location, expect the temperatures to come down. we could have more storms increasing covere as we head through the later evening, and that's a 60% chance, not a 6% chance. that sounds great but, fwep, a 60% chance that we'll have thems later on through evening and then the storms get less and less. let's time it out f y by

6:30. rain inside the beltway and heavy spotty rain towards the shenandoah valley and i-81. more storms as we head through the thevening. is 9:30 and along the blue ridge mountains. night, still ght a few showers and thunderstorms. they are making their way up to the i-95 corridor and even to the overnight and we start to dry out. tomorrow rning, still a few showers south and east of d.c., bu we'et sunshine heading through your saturday morning. your planner becoming sunny besidee a lit bit of fog southeast in the morning. weekend outlook, pool time hot and humid. headed to the farm market, still looks try. sunday low 90s and low 90s o monday and next chance of rain not until tuesday or wednesday d this ten-day forecast though it's hot looks better than the

last couple of ten-day forecasts we've had over the last two weeks. >> all this rain means standing water and that means mosquito problems. fairfax county has its first reported case of wireaus which only be transmitted to people by mosquiton >> chris goras more. >> reporter: these lab technicians are working to protect us from the mosquitos that transmit the west nile disease which can be deadly. from april until october they are busy here at the fairfax county health department'sto mosqab and are looking for mosquitos infected with the virus that can transmit the disease. the numbers are growing because of the recent rains. t meaning that there is t potential for more increase west nile virus in our area. >> the work to find infected mosquitos starts by setting up traps p inks at storm water management facilities and watersheds. he average there's been four cases each year of west nile diseasethrougho the county

over the past few years. now the current patient is in the northeast region. >> we did analysis and found that cases were productive. >> reporter: he says to avoid mosquito bites,se mosquito repellant and wear lang hons and avoid areas where mosquitos are common at peak biting time at dusk and dawn. it's important to empty standing water from containers once a week. >> i'm erika gonzalez here at the live desk. a stunning admission from one of college sport's most powermel n urban meyer. the headl footbal coach at the ohio state universit now says he knew about domestic violence assistants against an coach years before the staff

member was fired. he just posted a tweet university to the and its alumni. just last week meyer told the media he knew nothing about the 20 is a allegations against zach meyer's job appears to be in jeopardy. the school has plad him on administrative leave and have launched an investigation. >> a big democrat there, erika. a big day coming up mark your calendar for august 18th because that's the daye'll work to clear the shelters in this area and help anima find a new home. nbc and telemundo will team up for the fourthnnual annual adoption drive. every year millions of anima d up in shelters. august 18th if you're so moved plan on adapting at least one. shelrs are going to waive or offer fiscounts to theees as part of a one-day adoption drive. remember that, august 18th. >> such and wonderful drive a lot of pets that need home.

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this is what the storm team 4 radar looks like right now. we're under a weaer alert with scattered showers expected to continue through the overnight, bunges are coming. lauryn ricketts is back in three minutes to tell you how to plan out your weekend. n nasa is celebrating. the agency which for eight years has been shuttling astronauts to the international space station on russian rockets now has a clear path to use american-made spacecranb. s jay gray has details. >> reporter: in aep rally style announcement at johnson space center. >> ladies and gentlemen, i present to you our commercial crewau astron. >> reporter: nasa introduces a new team of astronauts and a new era in u.s. spaceon explora >> for the first time since 2011, we are on the brink of launching american at nauds on american rockets fro american

soil. >> reporter: and they will fly for the first time in cmercial spacecraft. if everything goes a the boeing cst 100 starliner and spacex cw dragon will launch manned test flights early next year. >> to have the opportu ty to work with these great companies on something that's so important to our nation and to nasa, this is the stuff of drtems. >> rep the new ships will carry four astronauts per trip. >> and liftoff. >> reporter: current russian flights have three-person crews. >> it's an exciting time for human space flight and exciting time for our nation. >> reporter: both companies must still complete the test flights to receive nasa safety certifications. once approved, each is slotted for six missions to the international space station. jay gray, nbc news. >> right now at 5:00, weather alert once again. some strong storms possible tonight but sunshine on the wal. we'll all about it coming up. plus, only on news 4 metro. considering theontroversial an to help people attending a white supremacist rally get

around the district. how they say it's going to help protect the public. a family's emotional plea for answers. >> this is day 259, and i have cried multiple times. >> reporter: new push for information between a deadly encounter between an unarmed accountant and u.s. park police. new developmentsch in the sef the girl who went missing from reagan airport. she's now safe, and what exactly led to her disappearance? "news 4 at 5:00" starts right now. and "first at 5:00," yet another weather alert because of all of the green stuff as part of our area sees more rain and the chance of even more heavy storms. >> we remain under a flash flood watch through the early part o tomorrow and the concerns not just limited to our area. evacuati os from beenered in lynchburg, virginia, where aam

is in danger of giving way. >> and we're keeping on top of all of it tonight. let's head to meteorologist lauryn ricketts in the storm center. >> yeah, guys, we continue to watch waves of rain that will bg pushhrough our area, and you can see here in the d.c. metro area s we're noting much just outside montgomery county coming down through the mixing bowl and i-95. there may be a few isolated showers, and then you have tgo well back to the south and to the west to actually find some rain. so head to the west right now. you can see coming through hagerstown, eastern panhandle of west virginia, frederick and frederick county, gemaryland, ing a downpour. these are continuing to push north and east. those areas hav been worked over quite a bit. another area worked over here in southern maland, charles county also getting stronger storms right there, and this is going to continue through the night where we'll have waves of rain pushi through our area. temperatures in the low 80s right now. certainl human out there. we've got a lot of moisture in the air, bute've got some sunshine coming.