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the government's star witness delivers a bombshell today in the trial of president trump's former campaign chairman. from the great white way to the white why some of broadway's biggest stars took their show on the road t deliver a powerful message in d.c. tonight. we begin with that tragic situation in northern virginia. a woman accused of shooting and killing her younght da. >> veronica youngblood hadre aply been in an ongoing dispute with her ex. court documents showed that included a recent fight over his planned move to another state. >> and we expect to learn more tomorrow whenyoungblood appears before a judge. shamari stone is in mcclain tonight with the latest developments. shamari? >> reporter: doreen and skbriji people who live in this mcclain neighborhood are dumbfounded, asking themselves how a mother

can be accused of killing her own children? happened behind me in this apartment complex. she is expected to appear in court tomorrow and a lot of w folkt some answers as to why this happened. 33-year-olderonica youngblood is charged with murder, accused of shooting her two daughters. it happened inside an apartment at post tysons corner sunday night. youngblood's daughter, five-year-old brooklyn, was dead from t a gunshot woundthe head, according to a medical customer. the other child suffering with life-threatening injuries. accordin to court documents, youngblood divorced her husband two years ago, and at one time her ex-husband got a protective order against her. even though they divorced, court documents showed they lived together in this oaknd townhouse so they could raise their children together. dispatch showed police began searching right away for youngblood sunday night. >> fairfax county is asking that we be on tko l for a 30-year-old hispanic female

dressed in all blacep >>ter: youngblood showed up at the home of an acquaintance in ashburn and banged on the door. >> the suspect is there saying she just killed her two daughters. currently has a gun. >> reporter: heidi milan lives nearby. she saw a police officer with his gun drawn. she is shocked that youngblood is accused of soting her o kids. >> it's devastating for me as a mom with children that a mother o capable doing something so nuts. it's heartbreaking. >> reporter: now, youngblood is being held without bond. ain, she's expected to appear in court tomorrow. live in mcclain,hamari ston news4. leon harris here at the live desk watching president trump's former business protege inourt this morning. he appears back in court

tomorrow. rick gates told the judge that he and pau manafort engaged in crimes. that included making wire transfer payments that did not get reported to the government. he said they also conspired together to falsify tax documents and hideillions of dollars in foreign bank accounts. gates also toldrt the c that when he worked for manafort, he actually embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars from manafo. he is now cooperating with robert mueller's team. even though tma d played out in the courtroom today, president trump once again shifting that aount of the once infamous meeting of his son at trump tower. he said that meeting was set up to collect information about hillary clinton, negative information. originally mr. trump said that meeting, also attended by paul manafort and jared kushner,ab w t russian adoptions.

but over the last year, that story has evolved, and today donald trump jr. tried tolame the media. >> they've gotten plenty of mileage out of this thing and they're going to continue milking itor as long a they possibly can. >> the president's legal team also calling it totally legal, but in fact it is illegal for a campaign to solicit any gift of value from a foreign government or person. back to you. >> t leon,nk you. we're used to seeing demonstrations outside the white house, but ast proonight had a different kind of tune to it. take a listen ♪ >> tho are broadway cast members from musicals including icked," "beautiful" and "hamilton" who lent their voicer to take in an ongoing protest in lafayette square. this event was organized in part

byosie o'donnell. >> let your voice be heard. >> reporter: although we should egard how loudly they sang tonight, the president is not here in washington. he is on what the white house calls a working vacation at his resort inje new ey. a discovery nobody wants to findm when returning home f vacation: a dead body in the yard. a man in spotsylvania county tells us he found a body next to his fardly's porch yes morning. this is in fredricksburg. this is a pture of the suspect, jared smith. police say smith and another man were driving in a car when it crashed into a ditch. smith reportedly dumped the victim's body and hid it soul i d not be seen from the road. officers say the victim had used heroin earlier in the night. here's reaction fm the homeowner who made that discovery. he did not want to appear on camera.

>> two families are tragically lost people now. they hav bigger stress problems than what i have. >> the victim has been identified as 23-year-old diondre miller caldwell. the suspect has been charged with con sealing a body, which is felony. a grassroots campaign tonight on the streets of d.c. to try to save lives. it comes after a huge spike in overdoses involving synthetic drugs known as k2. nee4's jac benson has the emergency effort now to bring awareness after hundreds of people in the city were rushed to the hospital last month alone. >> reporter:eople who witnessed this fatal outbreak say it was so horrifying they had to do something, anything, to try and keep it from happening agsin. the clinic area of ps, north d.c. nonprofit that

helps sex workers and others, clients started erovsing one after another after another. >> we had 15 overdoses within two days, and they managed to save them thanks to having narcain. >> reporter: news4 was there. d.c. crews tended to people who overdosed on what officials beeve was a possibly fatal dose of drugs, sometimes called k2 marijuana even though itsal chem components are different. >> we've had two people die from k2 overdoses. > >> he was so alarmed by the o deadlybreak he saw going on at the homeless shelter that he and his staff organized a town hall meeting to discuss the matter with residents. >> k2 is the latest thing that's kicking people while they're it's a drug that's actually taking advantage of people in er their p in order to get a cheap high, but in the process

it's killing people.r: >> repor d.c. officials say 300 people were treated at hospals for erdoses during a 10-day period in july, more than all of july in 2017. in northwest, jackie bensen, news4. turning to our weather w. t ready totay in the a.c. >> deep in that freeze, the heat index is on the rise and will be creeping up to 100 degrees tomorrow. >> doug is here to tell us how long thexcessive heat is with us. doug? >> this is exactly what we expect, hot and humid with a chance of thunderstorms. los. at the numb high of 91 degrees in d.c. today, 92 rshawn, even 92 up towards new york. and tomorrow into wednesday, we get even warmer, climbing into the mid-90s. there's nothing to show around our region right now. we did see showers and storms

earlier, though. if you got them, you saw some pretty heavy rain with those thunderstorms moving on through. as we t move onough the day tomorrow, what were we expecting? continued hot humid. more storms tomorrow, although we're not expecting a lot. that's different on wednesday. weould see severe storms on wednesday afternoon. much more of the heat will last, chance of thunderstorms as well. i'll see you back here in about 10 minutes. >> okay, do, thank yo as we deal with heat and humidity here, people in colorado are fighting the hail. look at the damage today in lorado springs. hail smashed car windshields in a zoo parking lot and blew out the bac windo of some cars. some 300 vehicles were damaged here. 11 peopleuffered minor injuries from the hail. zoo workers said the ai softball-s killed a as a rule tour and a duck at the zoo. the storm system also caused street flooding, as you can see. back home some headaches over a major transportation project. metro's purple line will

eventual allow you to go to more places. but in the meantime, it may surw rive to work. one area to avoid is on the eastbound right-hand lane of east-west highway. long-term construction is underway between kenilworth avenue and mustang drive. the purple line is expected tpl be ced in four years. still ahead, incredible video as a tanker truck crashes, sparking a big ball of fire, the flames so intense, it caused part of the road toco llapse. there is growing speculation tonight over amazon's plans for theirecond headquarters. why the short list o finalists could be getting even shorter. kids j will dot about anything to get likes on their social media feeds,

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c this out. a tanker truck crash overseas sent this massive fireball across all lanes of a freeway, killing at least two people, injuring dozens more. this is out of northern italy where a tanker truck failed to slow down. it b fst intomes after hitting another truck, but then another vehicle appears to hit it, causing an even bigger explosion. the blast was so powerful, part of the roadway actually collapsed. to ama drac rescue now caught on a police officer's body camera. this is inatlanta. the officer used a fireti exnguisher to put out the flames and pry open the car door to get a passenger out of there. two others in the car were rescued by good samaritans. l three people went to the

hospital. police say the car crashed into a utility a pole the engine was engulfed in flames when they arrived. white supremacists are coming to town ts sunday to rally in the shadow of the white house. while our city has a lot o experience handling protesters, anxiety is high because this group has a history odl dy violence. demonstrators for unite the right will gather this weekend with signs and confederate flags. this is the same group, you'll recall, that held a rally last august in charlottesville where a counter-protester was killed.y metro s there will not be a private rail car for thegroup. they won't say exactly how people will be kept safe, b they are working closely with wlice andill provide extra train cars if needed. it was one of our'sar darkest days. a mass shooting inside a maryland newsroom. now the police chief in that close-knit community is talking to the news4 i-team about changes tog prevent it from

happening again. jared ramos is charged with murdering five newspaper employees inside their offices at the capital gazette in annapolis back in june. he's pleadedot guilty. police records show for years ramos sent disturbing tweets to newspaper employees. anne arundel county police chief tells our i-team his department gets at l cst onel every day about a threat. now he plans to monitor social media for concerning flanguage. >> we're not trying to get better after every bad thing that happens, we're not doing our job. thate chief created position after the school shooting in parkland, florida earlierar this coming up tomorrow night on news4, 5 and 6, we'll hear more from that one onon including how social media is changing the role o police officers and preventing crimes. we have a health warning tonight from the u.s. government

about what your dog may be ting. the fda is looking at possible links between grain- foods and the deadly form of heart disease. it's important to note no recall and no brands have been named yet, but officials say pet owners should watch out r foods where potatoes, peas, lentils and other legumes are the mn ingredients. instead, vet say, you should switch to a common, well-established protein source. amazon may be whittling down the finalists for its new headquarters. the tech giant is considering 20 finalist locations, including montgomery county, nor aern virginia d.c. the "new york times" is reporting that amazon will cut that list significantly this month and then ask falists for their best and final offers. the neweadquarters will create 50,000 jobs and $5 billion in construction investment. companythe report, the has been tight-lipped about plans. amazon's alexa is learning

some new tricks that could help keep burglars away from your home. a new feature allows alexa to play pre-recorded audio tracks that run about an hour each. the audio includes real conversations and skits that could make a burglar think people are actually in the house. kraer crea rs say the idea is bui around funny but somewhat common conversations including the couple breaking up. some of the tracksere created by former "saturday night live" writers. >> if your burglar is also a comean or "snl" fan, you may be out of luck, though. >> that's so funny. >> yeah, it is. >> it's the best use of alexa that i've heard yet, i think. >> i'm still trying ure that thing out. i know she can do some good stuff. she's probably saying "you're welcome." she isn't doing you're welcome. keep the conversation going. i think we're on to something here.

as youde look outhe next couple of days, hot and humid. that's where we're going to be and that's where we should be this time of year, as a matter of fact. high temperature today 91 degrees. out there right now, it's justh d, not too hot. 79 degrees. very warm. winds coming in at 8 miles an hour under mostly lower temperature skies. 83 in annapolis, 80 on the eastern shore. still around 80 in fredricksburg. nothing on rathe radar. we did have scattered showers and storms. when you did see the storms, parts of southeast arlington, fallshurch and theoston area, parts of loudoun county, montgomery, winchester. they were comingn d pretty hard, the rain was coming down pretty hard, that he. in eastern half of the nation, notice the 90s from dallas all the way up to new york and boston. the heat is on and it's going to stay this way for the next few days. now, we will see some relief,

but it's going to come at a little bit of a price here a lo the showers and storms they fired up. that was w really it, the few and far between. same deal tomorrow. same type of situation tomwerow with s and thunderstorms. here's a line of storms making itsay fro chicago on down to parts of ohio. it willllow showers and storms tomorrow and keep the heat here. a much better chance of those storms on wednesday. your rain outlook tomorrow? only scattered. like today, about a 40% chance. wednesday, however, more widespread.so of them could be severe. wednesday we may even go with a weather alert day considering how many storms may fireup. gursday and friday, both days lookingd there. a chance of showers just in time for the weend. 74 at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning waking up and stepping out the door. humid and muggy for noon. not the bes day to eat lunch

outdoors. you could do it but you'll be sweating a ltle bit. 93 degrees at 3:00 with that storm chance across the area. 83 by 7:00. we could still see storms by 00 tomorrow night. 94 on wednesday. that's the hottest da 89 on thursday, 90 on friday. so yeah, it's hot, but the humidity a ltle bit better. turday and sunday, chance of storms. not a washout those days, so m don't worry th about that. it's a hot temperature forecast. our average high is 87 or 88 degrees. we're a littlebove each day. >> it's august,ba by. trent williams working hisw y back. you know when you're at ross shopping for backpacks...

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tr williams is not playing, butis coach is confident he will be ready n when heeeds it. >> one t football plahat doesn't need to practice is trent. he did an inside move, spins around 360, a great talent, a physical freak. >> it's just the workload, not playing football, not pushing it time. long it's more so being cautious than anything. >> he'll get some work, he'll get some reps hopefully in the third pre-season game, maybe get a quarter o two. >> that trip just over a month away. sherrie burrous, nbc4. greg stromo with a valiant effort catching five.

one was six. cthat's a prettyl drill. it's time to get our game faces on because this is something that should be done. one, two, three, four footballs. cus is paramount. you have to be ready for thuray. >> these are keepers. >> we're awake no dave. >> and look for this because it's televion. you canisten on tv. redskins kick off the pre-season against the. patrio the game is 7:30 right here on nbc4. we'll have you covered with an after-game post-game report and news4 at 11:00. i'm ready for some football now. >> go

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