minutes with how long it's going to last. >> first tonight, two children shot. one of them dead and mother is behind bars. >> it's a story that hastunned a community. veronica youngblood is accused of opening fire on her own children last night. >> bureau chief julia careys live outside the apartment where the children were fnd. julie? >> reporter: yeah, doreen and jim, that apartment where the shooting took r placeht through the woods there, a few blocks away from tyson's gal rest. the big qn tonight, what would cause a mother to turn a gun on her own child. w we don't know the answer to at th, but what we do knowe from th court documents there was strife within the family. the wife and ex-husband h been fighting over child custody issues for years. >> reporter: veronica youngblood charged with an thinkable crime, shooting two children. youngblood's da-ohter, 5-ye brooklyn, dead from a

gunshot wound to the head. the otherhild in life-threatening condition. dispatch calls show police began searching right away for the >> fairfax county is asking that we be on the lookou for a 30-year-old hispanic female dressed in all black. >> reporter: youngblood turned up at a home in the ashburn area banging on the door. advising ood terra the suspect is there saying she just killed her two daughters, currently has a n. >> reporter: it was around 11:30 p.m., this woman was just arriving back in the neighborhood. her two children were in the car when she saw a police r,offi gun drawn. >> he was very steady like this, pointing that way wh the gun and my daughter saw it and said why are you pointing the gun,ut mommy, he was just walking with the gun like that. and put your arms up, do not move, do not move. >> reporter: it wasn't until this afternoon that heidine mil le that the woman she saw get arrested was accused of killing her own doubter.

devastating for me as a mom with my children that a mother is capable of doing something. it's heartbreak. >> repter: police are barred by law from identifying the two victims. court documents revealo in addition 5-year-old brooklyn youngblood has an older court records also show youngblood and her ex-husband have spent years in cour first in a divorce proceeding and then hashing out custody issue even though they divorced court documents report that they live together in this oakton townhouse so both cf be part the girls' lives. >> the family moved out of that -- but the m familyed out of that townhouse a couple of weeks ago. we're not sure what brought them to this tyson's apartment complex. we also know from these court th documents tha family was scheduled to move to missouri this week where the ex-husband was relocating. pewe know the s didn't want to go. she will be appearing in court tomorrow. antime, she's being held without bond. jim, back to you. >> julie carey, julie, thank

you. ng there.eartbrea >> reporter: we have breaking news tonight, a new sexual abuse scandal within the catholicnd church, this one could have implications right here in ceshington. the d of pittsburgh says it plans to release the names of clergy members accused of child sexual abuse. in a letter to parishioners or the weekend the bishop promised names will be releas once the grand jury report investigating the abuse is released. now thes letter s nearly 90% of the reported cases in the diocese happened before 1990. that the couldnc coie with the time that cardinal worrell was the archbishop there. worrell was there from 1998 to 2006. at this point there's no link between worrell and the investigation. dev aoping right no school bus driver charged with sexual assaulting a young girl with i special needs montgomery county. police arrested etienne kabongo. they say he a assaulted

12-year-old last week. news 4's nicole jacobs is in rockville with reaction from the school district. nicole? >> reporter: doreen, i can tell you the judge here today called etienne kabongo's alleged actions brazen, but it's what he's accused of doing just a couple of days later that has prosecutors considering him a flight risk. 62-year-old etienneabgo facing three felony charges including seco-degree rape. he's accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old speciae needs stu on the school bus he drove for montgomery county public schools. it allegedly happened july 31st, according to authorities, and was captured on the school bus survei inside the district court today, prosecutors say kabongo was made aware of the allegations and then allegedly purchased a plane ticket from newark, new jersey to ethiopia, and for that they considered him a flight risk. thg judge rul to hold him

without bond. >> it's every parent's worst nightmarir to have t child accosted at school on a school bus or on the way tknand from, yo, child care. >> the school superintendent jack smith released a statement reading in part words canno convey my anger, disgust and disa aointment in theeged behavior of mr. kabongo. abusing a position of trust and authority to take advantage of the most vulnerable among us is despicable. investigators are looking intoo whether or kabongo has any other victims. they are hoping that parents will come forward or perhaps en more surveillance video will alert them to that. again, kabongo is held without baac. he's due b in court later this month. jim, back to you. >> all right. nicole jacobs, nicole, thank you. probably don'tave to tell you it's a hot and humid day across our area with somesolated pop-up showers for many of you. storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer is here now

checking out the radar. doug, what's in store for the rest our night? >> we're watching one storm, onr we saw one around gaithersburg and rockville a little while ago andhi tracking one storm right here in leesburg, and as i'm looking at this the another one starting toheop up in no parts of loudoun county. right around learnedion and reston. is has a lot of light associated with it around reston town center and over towds -- near the ashburni area. ant to take you to the reston live camera and show you what we're dealing with. visibility way down, heavy rainl isolated hey that's about it. the rest area not seeing much at all except for the heat andmi ty. more on that as it continues tomorrow and into wednesday and the chance. severe teather one ofse days. i'll be back here in 10 to is a minutes. >> all rig. welcome back, doug. president trump is out of sight so far this week, but he'o no of action. he's raising the stakes behind the scenes with iran.

>> today he reinstated tough sanctions that were suspended under the iran nuclear deal. ayne alexander has our report. blayne? >> reporter: well, doreen and jim, the president is turning up the heat on iran but he's also facing se heatimself over a 2003 that he sent that isn issuing interesting statement on a now infamous meeting on trump towe >> no news cameras allowed, but the white house tweeting this phtro. presidenp reinstating tough sanctions against iran. >> i think our goal should be as a nation to drive this regime into the ground without firing a shot. >> reporter: iran declaring the u.s. is showing that it cannot be trusted and critics say president trump has scrapped a nuclear deal that waswo ing. >> and what i fear is that what he's done today is going to make it more likely that either iran acquires a nuclear weapon because theytecide tha we violated the program or we'll have a conflict with iran. >> meanwhile a tweet with the teesident is conflicting with a key stant about a 2016 trump tongr mee between a russian

lawyer and donald trump jr., initially being explained as a meeting about foreign adoption and he says it was a meeting to get information on an oppyent. totaegal and done all the time. >> legal experts disagree. >> it's against the r:w. >> reporn a radio show today trump jr. dismissive. >> sort of the cycles of the mediaarrative. the other stuff isn't sticking. >> reporter: the president's sot sayi story never changed. >> and more heat after the president tweeted about lebron james aacking his intelligence. athletes and at least one ohio politician rushingo defend the basketball star. >> i think lebron james will get the last laugh. >> reporter: critics calling it a presidential foul, insulting one ofoh 's favorite sons on the eve of a highly contested special election. >> and now we're seeing the first lady weighing in on all of this. through her spokesperson -- her spokesperson is praising lebron's work with children and sa that mrs.rump would be open to visiting his new school.

guys, back to you? >> blayne alexander, thank you, blayne. another topic on theid prt's mind today, the trial of his former campaign manageraul manafort on bank frau and tax fraud charges. >> the prosecution's star witness rick gates took to the stand late today. gates started as an intern at manafort's political firm back in the mid-'90s and worked directly with manafort in 2006. today gates testified that he committed crimes with manafort including failing to report offshore bank accounts and faifying tax returns. in a surprise gates also admitted that he embezzled hundred of thousands of dollars from manafort by submitting false expense reports. gates is cooperating with the prosecution in exchange for a reduced prison sentence. >> top stories tonight, an outbreak of violence in ccago. people ay more than 60 were shot over the weekend. a dozen people died. police say the shootings are

gang-related a some innocent people were caught in the crossfire. family a friends will say good-bye thio week t a 10-year-old girl who was killed by a fallen tree. visitation and funeral services for lydia ghergis will be held. lydia was in her bed when the tree crashed too her home in warrenton. aryupdate to a s we've been following for about a week now. a teenager who was reported missing last monday in montgomery county has been i fod safe canada. 17-year-oldable la ahmed was with a gro of students who were visiting the -- from old. it's not clear how hep wound in canada, but police say he was safe and unarmed. when we come back tonight, tro clarifies its plan for the d.c. this weekend. ly right here >> we'll have in an update on what

you can expector security when white supremacists come to town. >> imagine coming home from a family vacation to find a deado body inr yard. we'll explain the a bizar disturbing discovery. >> all newt 6:00, the rewards of a good deed. of a good deed. dozens of bic

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experience handling protesters, anxiety is high bgrause this p has a history of deadly violence. there are particularth concerns afety on our metro. >> news 4's darcy spencer joins usive now to explain what metro is and isn't doing to keep iders safe. darcy? ll, jim, metro is making it very clear they are not going to provide separate train cars for these white supremacists coming here to washington for this protest, but this is going to a major security challenge. tro is still trying to figure keep w they are going t everyone safe in the system. the unite the right white supremacist rally i charlottesville ended in counterprotests and tvi ended i ence and the death of a counterprotester last yeaem coming to challenge poses a

serious securitychallenge. >> it will be a test here in the district because there's never been a group lik that coming here to protest against anything. >> reporter: metro has not said extly howt will keep riders safe as participants carrying signsndde confete flags in vienna and get off at foggy bottom before marching to the white house for the rally. me metro riders say they are steering clear. >> you're not going to be on the train? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: metro officials say they are working closely with police to protect riders and employees and they say they are working through special security challenges because of the tight space in metro rail cars and some riders say they are not worried. >> i don't think i would be any more concerned than i am on any other day getting on metro. >> reporter: the latest statements say the agency is nor aring a special train for the private use of any group, including these protesters. it was welcome news to riders who say that would have send the

wrong message. would you be concerned if you were on metro that day? would you make other arrangements? >> yes, i would. >> reporter: metro says it will provide extra train cars if needed and restrict access if us platforms get too crowded. now i spoke to d.c. police by phone a few minutes ago. they tell me that they are planning to do a media briefing later this week to outline some srecifics on their security plan. doreen, back to you? >> darcy spencer rorting. thank you, darcy. >> reporter: voters in montgory count may see three names on the ballot when thee choose their next county executive. count member nancy florine submitted 20,000 signatures, more than tree times the number necessary to get her name on the ballot. she's a democrat who to run as an independent. he says tre cur nominees are flawed candidates. what does this do to the race? a lot of people think it will split the vote.

>> you know, it'speot. le are concerned about that. mr. finger is going -- mr. fick going to come in third and what you're hearing is a demand and hope for unity in montgomery un coy, not for splitting the community apart. >> the board of elections will now count each signature for verification and make the final >> talk about a goal kick. the district unveils a br mini soccer pitch or field here at the reck center. it's part of the development with the u.s. soccer foundationp the gro is hoping to put the play spaces in communities all across the country to give kids ace safe p to play in the neighborhood. the foundation says by 20 they hope to open a thousand mini fields nationwide. that's good stuff. al surprise today for some alexandria school administrators. they built bicycles by hand for

what they thought was a team building tercise. >> ins out the bikes will go to kids in need who came to pick themp today. aichs wsne >> we've got four all on the same side. >> these administrator switching gears for a day and helping to build bicycles for kids in need. >> it felt great. >> someo will get a new break. >> reporter: each group has just 28 minutes to get the job doneak >> teamwork the dream work. >> reporter: and not only will the kids be getting free bicycles they will also get a helmet to make sure they stay fe sa but what these principals don't know is thes are about to pick up the bikes at this very moment. >> reporter: for some of the kids it's the first time they have ever had a brand-new bike to call their own. >> yay! >> reporter: what do you think of your bike?

>> it's good. >> reporter: this girl has had one before but hers brono and she no longer has to worry. >> i can ride it to the park. i can ride ior to the or i can just ride it around the neighborhood. >> every day i w come tok and work with kids i'm making a difference so it's just even better tsee the long products. >> my legs won't be tired no mar. >> i wanted to say thank you because i really likeit. >> reporter: these kids rew y to take on the school year at full speed. in alexandria, aimee cho, news 4. >> great story. think it would being take me 28 hours. >> how did they do that, wow? >> coming up, police knew about the past of the man accused of killing five people inside anan polis newsroom, so why couldn't they stop him in the news 4 i-team are uncovering what some are calling a critical gap in the law. a we've got a warning for

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k doug is b from vacation looking all tan and rested, and you know you missed one of the worst weather weeks of the year. >> he planned >> we had one before that week and then another one. we've been inundated with the amount of rain. my lawn is this high. got to ge to it. try to get to it tomorrow. the hard thing it's hot and humid and doing any of that yard work will be. tomorrow for the nationals game, first one at 1:05,he douber, second game at 7:00. we're tracking one area of eeorm. we've s storms off and on. down towards the bowie and wheaton area and off and on ht now thirms and r is the only area seeing those storms. we saw some in gaithersburg and rock that storm is gone and that's what happens on a day like today. they pop up and qui ly wring themselves out and right now heavy rain right along the

turnpike and reston right along restonparkway, seeing heavy rain and this one just develed here just to the north of that and as the storms die they send out al nice coo breeze and that cool breeze starts new storms and it's starting a new storm rif t heree right around route 7 and in route 28 as they move on through. look at all of the lightning associated with this. a lot of lightning and very heavyain alo route 7. have somebody coming home along route 7. let them kn or give them extra time. they may need it. to the north, one othertorm or shower. just west of frederick and right along 70 and heads up for that one, too. closeo themiddletown area. not a lot of rain. most us are dry and seeing heavier showers. scattered showers and downpours across the area. same thing expected tomorrow. this evening if you're out most us dry. 88 degrees and we were atnd 91 dropped to 83 with the rain and back to 88 now. the heat index now at 95.

85 by 7:00 and very humid night tonight, a very humid day tomorrow, too. current heat ind is 95 d.c. and 100 out towards leaguesburg with the storm verylose to that area. next couple of days, 93 tomorrow and 94 onsd wed. better chance of storms on wednesday and maybe even a severe thunderstorm or two. that's somethinge' be watching tomorrow for sure. thursday and friday, much more on thefo weekend cast, plans for the weekend, i've got that for you coming up at 6:45. >> always have plans for the ekend. thank you, doug. it stunned all of us, the shooting inside that annapolis newsroom. as the news 4 iteam reveals next, some say the accused gunman left a lot of w signs online. >> i knew he was going to do something violent. i just knew it. the. >> so why couldn't police stop m? th i-team's jodi fisher is working for you tonight uncover

in the law threatening all of our safety next. >> and an

this local attorney says he and others lived in fear of the accused "capital gazette" gunman for years. >> and he blames gaps in maryland law for leaving them

powerless. now he says it's time for cht'ge. >> and t what has to come out of this, where all those people died for absolutely no reason. >> tonight the ns 4iteam asks the exper s andome of those closest to this case why law enforcement couldn't do more. >> investigative reporter jodi fleisher joins us w liveh the changes they say have to happen. jodi i >> reporte maryland for electronic communications to be considered harassing it has to be sente nd received l e-mail. experts say that's one of the reasons why these hundreds of tweets that the suspect posted online for years did not count as threats even though the people he targeted definitely feel threatened. >> he would say that they wanted to kill hathemselves, they would be dripping in blood. >> reporter: in all his years as an attorney brennan mccarthy has never seen a suspect like jarrod >> i knew he would do something violent, just knew it. >> reporter: mccarthy battled

him in court on behalf of a client named laurie. ramos pled guilty to a racing her by e-mail in 2007 and after he served his probation the threats moved to twitter. >> he never came out and directlyaid he'd kill me. ctcouldn't do anything about it. >> reporter: enic communication has to be sent to a person and be received by the concern according to maryland law, meaning threatening language posted online doesn't always count, even if it references violence. >> you're not saying i'm going to t come your house tomorrow and kill you. >> reporter: you think that was not an accident or coincidence? >> no, he had read the law. >> reporter: the journalists fter theyter targets reported on the case. ramos started to tweet about mckaerlt, the newspaper's torney and even local judges who ruled the paper had not defamed ramos with its coverage. >> ias scared for my client and basically anyone that he identified in that twitter feed? he said ramos chose his words carefully tweeting about blood

in the board room at the newspaper posting journalist hell awaits and about murdering a reporter's career. the newspaper called police in 2013. >> i think our citizens expect us to be abl to handle someone like him. >> reporter: kevin davis had just started as ae arundel county police chief when a detective wrote this repor a looked ramos's criminal history and checked he had no register weapon and read through the twitter account. >> he did not according to our existing laws go far enough for us to dout something a him. >> the detective wrote he did not believe that mr. ramos was a threat to employees noting ramos had not attemed to enter the capital newspaper building and didn't send threatening corresponders. the newspaper opted not to pursue charges because that would be like putting stick in a beehive. >> we end up walking away and tell folks call us when s toohing happens and tha

late. >> several shots have been fired. >> we're responding to the active shoot sneer five years went by before ramos burst through the doors of the newspaper and gunned down five ployees. >> everyone knew he was a danger. and we jus don't have the tools from doingo stop him what he's doing before he does it. that's the proble m >> reportearthy says he's making it his mission to change maryland lawo police can act on earlier behavior before it escalates. rightow police require clear directly threatening language to make an arrest. >> in many cases we've seen there is not a directthreat. >> reporter: and threat assessment expert says the overwhelming majority of mass shooters do reveal hints about eir plans even if the language isn't specific. >> we could do better job of changing the laws to allow law

forcement much better latitude. >> reporter: maryland should also ban people who have threatened, stalked or harassed someone from legally buying a gun like ramosdid. >> when these people are identified everyone looks themselves in the mirror a l thk at each other and they say i'm not surprised, and that means that something is wrong with the system. >> reporter: marylan passed a law against cyber bullying, but it only applies to minors. mccarthy say adults need the same protection and that officers must follow up, even if a crime hasn't been committed yet. >> reporter: what there in place to keep watch on him to make sure he's not a threat in the future? >> none? there's your frightening answer. none. >> now that's something thatco d change in coming months, at least in anne andel county. coming up we go one-on-one with with the current police chief about these issues and others he's looking at in the wake of the shooting.

jo jodie fleisher, news 4. >> we've posted some of the suspect' tweets. we warn you may find some disturbing. >> reporter:escuers are still working to reach all the areas devastated by a powerful earthquake in indonesia, the second in a week. >> nearly 100 people have died. so far there's concerned that grow aser could emergency workers get into communities that are cut off right now. the magnitude 7.0 quake struck yesterday. more than 120 aftershos have been reported and three popular vacation islands were impacted and now several thousand tourists are trying to evacuate. >> there are reports that amazon can whittle down its liz of finalists for its new headquarters this month. right now amazon is looki at 20 finalists, including d.c., montgomery county and northern virginia. the "new york times" is reporting that amazon will that list significantly this

month and then ask finalists for their best and final offers. amazon says the new headquarters will create 50,000 jobs and $5 billion in construction investment. despite the report, the company is not saying a report about its plans. >> along of fingers crossed in our region, >>hu? yes. >> when we come back, we'll tell you about a disturbing discovery. the vehicle came into the ditch where you see the ground all torn sup. >> n 4 talks to the northern virginia man who came home from vacation to find a body in h front yard. >> an important warning tonight. certain types of dog food may be doing more harm than good for your family pet. >> and i'm tracking a couple of storms out there. fairfax county, one moving to the east towards the city of fairfax and another back around sowards therling area. we're watching them and could see more

a man went out to mow his lawn hand a fouody in his yard. tonight the homeowner who lives on enchanted woods way i fredericksburg is talking about the disturbingry discove. meagan fitzgerald has new details about the man who died and a new arres made in the case. >> so the vehicle would have came into the ditch where you see the ground all torn up. >> reporter: scott mattice doesn't want to go on camera but he knew a car crashed into the ditch in his front yard on thursday because the neighbor sent him a text while he was on vacation but he wasn'txpting what he would find three days later. spotsylavnia county sheriff's deputies say jarred smith was driving the car when his friend 23-year-old deandre mier-caldwell overdosed on heroin when smith panicked and crashed his car into the ditch before carrying the body to the side of mattice's house.

three days later on sunday morning. >> i went out to cut the grass because you can see it's kind o thick. walked around the side of oe house t where i store my mowers, and -- and --at >> mce made the disturbing discovery. >> around these bushes and where you see the lime all covered is where he was laid to rest. >> reporter: that's when he called police who had hoursscn e. >> the two families tragedy lost people now and they have bigger stress problems than what i had. >> reporting in fredericksburg, meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >> smith has been charged with concealing a body which is a felony. he's being held witho> bond. government warning this evening about dog food. the fda is looking into possible links between grain-free dog foods and a fatal form of heart disease. recall and no brands are named yet but officials say pet owners should be wary of fos with potatoes, peas and

lentils among ingredients. instead they represent a dog food based on grain with a common well-established protein source. that's across the country. they have seen similar ces of heart disease of dogs on a grain-free diet. the good news is once the diet is changed the heart disease can fix itself. >> coming up a look at drones and your safety at popular venues. outnother hot and humid day there with temperatures feeling well over 100 degrees. well over 100 degrees. storm team 4 tracking showe

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we've got a quick look now at our top stories tonight. fairf county mother facing murder charges accused of shooting h two children. the 5-year-old daughter of suspect victoria youngblood has died and the other girl is in critical condition. youngblood is being held without bond and is due in court tomorrow. >> a montgomery county school bus driver is accused of sexually assaulting a student with special needs of the police say video on board the school bus captured etienne kabongo assaulting a 12-year-old girl last week. a judge denied him bail today after he bought a plane ticket to ethiopia. and it is hot here, folks, but our neighbors up to the north areeay sweating it out? 50 million people are under hea nevisories from philly up to maine. w york city and boston could setsecords. doug back with our forecast in just three minutes > aviation officials have

warned for some time that drones create n air traffic safety hazards, and now we see a potential example of an even more ominous threat. >> the venezuelan president complains weaponized drones were used to kill him at at milt parade. iby now you've seen but see what happens on live television. [ explosion ] >> bodyguards rushed forward to protect the president with ballistic blanke . officials claim explosives were dropped from armed drones but fire officials say the blast came from a natural gas explosion at a nearby apartment building. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins us nowte does this set off alarm bells about security in this untry? >> reporter: it sets off alarm bells that have been ringing for some time already because was a known threat. you may remember about five years ago a very scary scene

where a drone came down the reet in germany as angela merkel was speaking at an outdoor event and crashed harmlessly at her feet but this is something homeland security officials have been worrying about for a long time. the u.s. military has been deal with the drone threat overseas for years and have many means to take drones down. they cot sho them down with devices that track drones and actuallyeaire an at them. they can disable them by firingt radio signals the drone that disrupt instructions on where the drone is supposed to go and it harmlessly falls to the ground and other companies have trained birds to grab drones out of the air in flight. pictur on "nightly news" tonight. hard to believe that they do that. the trouble is none of that can be done here. the homeltmd security dept says the law won't permit it, and the homestand security department is asking congress to

change the laws. there's federal laws against disrupting aircraft w hch is drones, and second they are opposed to disruing signals of drones in flight. it's very much the worry here but this government can't really do much to counter the threat right now unless the law is changed. >> it's only going to grow because they are everywhere. >> already a million drones registered with the faa w and knows how many more that aren't registered. >> because we started selling them bore they had t register, right? that's right. by the way, you noted there's some skepticism about what happened in venezuela. i should t sayt some american intelligence officials believe that this was actually a drone attack. >> what should we do if you're going out to a nats game or concert? what do you experts say we should do to protect ourselves and our families? is there anything else? >> ask the members of congress to change this law.

basically. the whole interested is to skip over the physical security on the ground now. owl of the events are geared for truck bombs,ple carrying explosives and this is a way to get over all of those barriers and that's why the department of homeland security the. there are, however, things that the for can do to counter threats and we suspect the secret service has some kind of authority to deal with threats whenever the president is mov tg arout deal with drones specifically and the signals that control them, but it remains a very serious concern. >> pete williams, thanks so much. apprecete it. >> pas more reporting on this story straight bcahead on "n nightly news" with lester holt right after this newscast. >> doug is back now with more about our crazy weather. th heat and humidity. >> you know, it's here. this is the beginning of august, exactly what w expect.

hot and humid and chance of thunderstorms in t afternoon. >> sounds like a forecast. back to you, stan. >> right now cloud covercrs the area right know it looks like it's from fairfax county. 88 degrees. sb88 lg and 9 is fredericksburg and 84 over towardshuntingtown. heat index 90 to 959 so extremely warm. we haven't seen much in the way of storms elsewhere. we saw them right along i-95e ad beltway. a few other storms winchester and fauquier counties. we have a sto left over sterling and another right around northern fairfax and oakton area and i'll zoom o in. this did have lightning associated with it and what happens with these storms. th, build veery quickly

and throw lightning and very heavy rain and kind of and that's what is happening here. no more lightning here rig along route 7 and right along the dulles tol roodt as we make our way along 123. seeing shower activity here. all dyi out all part of a system that we're seeing all across the southeast. very hot c and humidditions all the way up towards the northeast, too, as we mentioned with temperatures in the 90s there. forhat's what we're going to see tomorrow, too. just rather warm and humid. by noon we're all still on the cry s dry side. trying to see showers and storms form. most us remain drynd if you t into one of the downpours it could be fairly heavy. this is 5rm0 showing more s around the d.c. metro area. theesday morning, again, o dry side and watch what happens wednesday. more widespread showers and torms and wednesday is the day i'm really watching. could see severe weather on

wednesday. scattered thunderstorms tomorrow just like today. wednesday widespread and ahat could weather alert day and something we're tracking the next few days. very, very low. on the dry side there in the weekend andhey do become scattered again as we see another system head our way. tomorrow humid and muggy. 87 by noon and not a bad day for lunch outside but definit ay wa humid. 93 degrees by 3:00, and as you move on through the next couple of days. 94 on wednesday. both tomorrow and wednesday the heat index between 100 and 105. 89 on thursday and 90 onfriday, still hot and humid. average high temperature this time of year now down 87 so we'revet or a average most of the next ten days. yeah, it's hot and it's humid, but that' exactly what we expect this time of the year. >> it is august. >> thanks, doug. coming up, theha redskins ng fun in the sun ahead of

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sherree burruss has more from richmond. >> first preseason game means more than just football is back. for these rookies it's years of hard wor paying off just for a chance at making it in the nfl. the rskins veterans, they can feel that excitement leading up to thursday night. >> guys are going to be putting for theins uniform first time, you know.n that i itself is a sight to see. you get to seeeople fulfill their childhood dreams and other than that justo see them attack itnd to be able to hit a different color jersey for oce. >> i want to gout there and hit somebody and it was amazing ng the bus over to arrowhead, recovered a fumble on the second play of the game and kept the ball and still got it today. a big-time memory, man. just enjoy it and it's really nerve rackingou know, but it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. a lot of people don't get to experience that. you'll go out there and have fun

with it. that's all it epis. >>ter: keeping practice exciting the punt returners turn things into a competition. how many footballs can you hold one? catching another stroman finished his second with five footballs in hand behind maurice harris. >> i took six. i should have tried defense. just a concentration drill and have a lot of nun competing doing the drill. >> just catch ball really. we're doing the drills, and that's just -- i don't know, increase the focus and find other ways toat the ball. >> reporter: harris now has the bragging rights untilext time. from richmond, sherree burruss, news 4 sports. i all right. punting drillthe newsroom. it all starts on thursday, redskins and patriots kic off at 7:30 here and have you covered with the post-g report and "news 411 at 11:00."

>> by the all-star break with only a .500 record theats seem broken. rumors swirled around bryce harper and since then rumors have beenreplaced by results. errper is still h in d.c. and the nationals might finally be on their way. the nats you see are on their way up for a, chan winners of 8 of 11 and bryce harper batting .367 and in the 15 games before, it harper was batting .176, and tanner rourke has been shoipg for the nats. 3-0 in his last three starts. that came in the last two weeks, less than two weeks. matt beaters is a big reason t catchers are backn track.

>> are those kirks, a new recreation center unveiled thanks to d.c. united, parx a reck and the idea is to increase access for soccer f more kid and families. folks can use thepa play now past daylight hours. >> i think it's awesome because it's not inch al. it's in a recreational center and everybody in the community just come together a play on it and like practice stills on it. >> just a great experience being here and watching the kids smiles on their faces. i think it's great what everyone is doing and them getting together and buildin place like this is really good and giving theses k an opportunity. >> the what this is all about is giving kids a safe place to play and make friends and develop confidence and out of that you're going to find some kid that will benspired and motivated and maybe change the world. >> right in their own . neighborho >> going to walk right to it.

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