a mother is charged with skilling -- killing her 5-year-oha daughter. >> she told police and what they found inside her rental car. somee are watching for storms to be headed our way. we have a frontal system that will be m wing its through the area. possibly strong storms this afternoon. we'll time it out for you, coming up.

want to give you a live look at the backpacks for kids now. first, t's check the forecast. how is it lks heading into the lunch hour? >> it's not that bad right now. it's a little on the warm side out there but it's august. you expect temperatures to be like this before noon. 86egree s our temperature now. we have the southerly wind that help to bring in the humidity. it's august. it's summer here in d.c. p that's what we usually have here. we're going to have the heat index pushing that centuryma . then widen out storm team 4

radar all the way from torontog down thr ohio and back towards western tennessee. w we'll talk about the timing and what neighborhoods could see them. the fast moving storms yesterday caused flash flooding in several areas an our region. one man h to be saved from his car after trying to drith ugh. the storm caused a tree to topple over. what are you saying? >> reporter:he lef over debris all still visible as we brace and wait for even rain.

daybreaks and new light shines upon this 30th street home in northwest. the damage undeniablundeniable. all the rests of this toppled tree. rain soaked grounds brought it down. >> appears that whole side of the house is damaged. i put t addition in not too long ago. it's a trend making these scenes common when a massi tree damages not home but two. >> my neighbor received the brunt of the problem. they are young and have jet been hbout a couple of years. >> reporter: the good news here, no one was injured. back to you.

>> thank you. m right now a father in silver spring is trying to find his daughter. the father believes they ran away from home but he says they left h no necessitienecessities. >> they're girls. they can't defend themselves. they left with nothin they got nothing with them. no money, no clothes, nothing. >> he says his daughters often hang out at the mall. anyone with information is askel to c montgomery county police. first on 4 we have new details about e deadly, shocking shooting after a woman shot her two daughters. police combed through her rental car and found glock magazin and others inside. police say on sunday night she shot and killed her 5-year-old

daughter in her apartment on c lincolncle road. she's accused of wounding another child until this house. youngblood waived her right a confessed to the crime. the life of this promising high school student about to show you has been cut short. 16-year-old kevin wilson junior was murdered on monday night. news 4 jus hn finchas more on this developing story from montgomery blare high school. >> reporter: kevin wilson junior is someone who meant so mucho so many here. th that's why grief koumers will be sta -- counselors will be standing those w he had so much sby. going for him. he's also arisingunior here at montgomeryblare. there's many who are wondering who would take that promising life from onhim.

monday night, prince george police officers found him shot several times off new hampshire avenue. he died short time later. we were able to speak with kevin's coach who tells us he was the kind of p ayer that the other teammates wanted to be around. >> from the moment i met kevin, great spirit, great energy. the things he brought to the teamy athletica and mental wise, he was a leader. just one of kids that everybody would go to if they needed anything. >> reporter: police believe there's otherhe out with information. there's a cash award for tips that will helpolice find those who are involved in kevin's de. talk about too close to call. that's how things stand in a race in ohio. it's been reliably red for the better part y of tenrs but

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witness stand after another dramatic day of teimony. rick greats revealed new tdetais about the crimes he says he committed on manafort's behalf. >> reporter: a former partner turned state's witness. >> case is at the witness table. he's talking to the jury. manafort is glaring at him. >> reporter: the admissions ontinued yesterday from rick gates. the man who said he committed crimes with and for paul manafort for years. >> no question this is potentially, potentially devastating testimony for manafort. >> reporter: the defense going after gates for an extramarital affair, a secret london apartment and for admittedly stealing from his. own bo >> they seem not to like rick gates. i think that'snd undersle. i think it should be enough to survive and sustain a conviction. >> rorter: already in manafort's trial for bank and tax fraud, prosecutors have

shown plenty of evidence that maems to back u what gates is saying. nafort tried to get a cabinet level position for banker who helped him get a loan viail e- >> he's not th om onnly one in s trial thatr. said m manafort committed a crime. the documents will show it. and >> reporter: the defense continues to attack mr. gate's credibility. this weekend will mark one year since the deadly unite the right rally in charlottesville. while wounds from that day are still open, the same organizers are planning to hold a rally here in tion's capital. the white natiolist group plans to demonstrate between 5:30 and 7:30. this map shows all the street closures for that day. organizers are expecting up to 300 people to demonstrate. at the same time large groups of

counter demonstrators are anning to be there with their own message. president trump isn't scheduled to be at the white house while this is happening. the machin who shot preside ronald reagan wants more freedom. he served 35 years in a mental health hospital before bng released to his mother's home. that was back in 2016. they do not return oo request for comment but we know federal prosecutors will want him to upside undergo another mental

evaluation. a judge will hear that request in mid-december. . the next time you get sick, your treatment could be a phone call away. >> what one pharmacy is rolling out to help itscustomers. collecting backpacks for kids and looks le you've collected quite a lot. >> reporter: look at where we at this time in our campaign. it's hot as a fe cracker out here. we have theco fair faty and rescue trucks to join us come up next on news 4 midday. you know when you're at ross shopping for backpacks... next on news 4 midday. ...and mom also gets a back-to-school bag?

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tack. it's water proof and light as a feather. you attach inato your fingil, bathing suit or sunglasses and it measures the amount of uv rayoieur skrays yo absorbs. >> it will tell you here is how much time you have to inrema in the sun with the data coming from this device before you get burned. >> the company i working on making this device widely available and it could be available next year. pretty cool. >> could save some folks from developing skin cancer. we're talking about the dire situation o west. >> some experts are warning with the sustained heat and draught caused by global warning, this could become t new norm.

miguel has the latest. >> reporter: fi >> reporter: firefighters have never faced a monster like this. it's blazing path of destruction like we've never seen before. after destroying don ining doze, itea thrning largerur stru. smoke seen from space is drifting as far east as salt lake city. >> it's very challenging just tting to the edge of the fire as well as firefighters safety. >> reporter: these terrifying fire natos spinningt 150 miles an hour tore across the hills outside los angelest giving only minutes to ee. >> it was racing. it w catching us. >> reporter: with 14,000 firefighters on the front lines

today, grueling shifts can last 24 hours. across the state, more than 2,000 structures have been destroyed. 619,000 acres scorched. t >> loud roar. the loudest roar i heard. it sounds like a jet taking off. >> reporter: back in wine untry, the hills are sti exploding. facingme f that can shoot more than 100 feet into the air. >> they were huge flames. we were probably a good halfway out across the valy you could feel the heat off the trees. >> reporter: this morning california is cooking. a view of history nobody wts to see. nbc news. >> some of the fire chiefs oute th saying they've never seen it burn that hot, that fast. >> pretty incredible. summertime is starting to slip away and that means it's

time to start getting ready to go back to school. today you can help students in our arearetart tore for the new schoolyear. >> it looks like things have picked up. how's it's going? >> reporter: in a big way. our news 4 viewers have come through in such a special way. look at the bins full. full of backpacks right here.ti we need more because the need is great. it really is thanks to the good folks at f appleederal credit union, you can tell u about this is a hunl out put but there's still much more that needs to bdone. you're correct. if you're unable to come down, go to a local county brewery.

get a backpack. >> i love that. of course, it's hotirs a rescue. we have company number five with us. >> we're always coming out wanting to assist them. we run calls and see the kids and the things they need. items like ts is a bigeed for the kids. >> i'm going to let you throw p yours in on tof the pile. let's give a round of applause to the news 4 viewers who took the time to come out. if you can't come out, y can donate online. zernl ba search pack backs. there you have it.

we nd toake this thing spill over. we have until 12:00. we'll be here. we're watsing foreyou. kids in the area really need this. kids in need. that's what this i all right. that's the latest live. we'll see you. come on down. back into you, pat. t' all right. that's what all about. thanks so much. the washington mystics picked up an unexpected win heading into the wnba playoff. how weather played a rol be rig back. ht

lebron james will be the executiv producer of a documentary called shut up and dribble. he's focus onf the role o changing athletes through the lens of the nba. it's going to premiere on showtime in october which is also when james will make his debut with the lakers. mpls th the wnba issued this statement in whicham the ge will count as a forfeit giving the mystics a win. after two hard fought cagam

for d.c.'s mamie johnson little league team, the hometown boys are coming they lost 18-7 to a tm from berlin, maryland. the season may be over but these little a stars made us so very proud. they're the first predominantly african-american tea to advance to the mid-atlantic regionals. they are still stars in our eyes. one team from our area is keeping their world series dreams alive. theouth little league team defeated a team from alabama yesterday. today they move on to the southeastern finals against team from georgia. if they win, they're off to the world series. we have champions all around. >> congrats to those kids. pretty cool. it's not school outside.

with the humidity, with the heat. will will feel to 100 degrees this afternoon. you can see the haziness. showing mostly clear skies. ur weather questions strong storms today. mainly through the afternoon. then as we head into the evening, we could have rain right taaround the d.c. area at 7:00. that nats game may be delayed. i don't think it will be postponed. if these storms stick arounds ther chance, a lot of people have been asking us about that nats game.do the humidity fall? it's going to fall a little bit for your thursday and frido. not going be quite as muggy as it is right now. it comes back in for the weekend. he'll have rain around for week both saturday and sunday. temperatures out there, it's

warm. nothing on the radar now. it's mainly west along i-81. 5:00, i think everybody will have a chance i-95 and points to the west. 92 will be our daytime high and some of thoseer aon storms could be strong. we start the future cast 12:30 12:30. as we go 3:00, you can see storms starting pop up. they really fire up othe eastern side. 5:30 when the commute is wetting startehave some rain rolling through d.c. talking about gty wind. we'll keep the chance through about midnight tonight and start to dry out as we head into the overnight.d localilooding going to be a concern. since the ground so saturated, gusty winds could take down some

trees. tomorrow we're going to b at 90 degrees and slightly less humid through t day. r the weekend we're looking at cooler conditions for the weekend butgh rain thrt the weekend. we'll talk about the weekend and that beach forecast. that'soming up right after c

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. >>e just a few more weeks until the sounds of school bells. my kids are already start ask about it. >> it's time. just about time for most of our students. tell us how things have been going. >> reporter: people are coming and going. th fire truck is now leaving fromfairfax county. want to say good-bye to those guys for coming out today. look at the pile of backpacks. we're taking backpacks right here at this location.

some of her kid will be receiving these backpacks. look at this turn out. >> it'samazing. it's absolutely amazing. i picked o eded out this fabulo with super heroes on because all the folks donating are super hero ntroes. put i context what this means for kids the need starting out the right way. when youn walk somewhere and you are ready to go, you're feeling confident. you're ready to learn. that's what we want for every child in fairfax county. it's >> it's amazing that so many kids are in need and we can do our part to help out. >> absolutely what at's amazing is apple federal credit union has been part of fairfax family. we're a family here. >>we are family.

nbc 4 proud to partner up year after year. look at the pile here. we're here until noon come on out and see us. drop off your school supplies. make a dation or you can go online to nbcwashington.com. all the informationill be there for you. we want to meet the needs of the kids in the dmv who need our help. we'll see you in a little bit with muc more. >> supply. it's all the stuff that's in the backpack. so important to the kids. great job. right now the trial of paul manafort is wrapping up its first full week. hi dfrs team hefense team has t prosecution's star witness on the stand for cross-examinatio peteilliams is there. >> reporter: it's day three on

the witness stand for rick gates. his trusted aid who admits stealing hundred of thousands of dollars from his former boss. some of that helped him carry on an affaiin london that he hid from his wife. a secret life that they call it. gates said he repeatedly bezzled money from manafort's overseas bank account to bay lls s. asked why, he said i was living beyond my means. inub rarelic statement satisfied. >> manafort had a great rday. eporter: the defense hopes to paint gates as the real villain responsible for the crimes that prosecutors charge manafort with committing. in a case built on bank andax records muddying up gates may not work. >> i think it was not enough to tank the case. there are enough duments that have already put into evidencete

that corrobohat he has to say. >> reporter: prosecutors disclose after manafort left the trump campaign he continued asking for favors fromed gates o stnto work on the trump inauguration. he e-mailed gates to s a banker who helped him get a loan should be considered f cretary of the army and say the banker and his son should get tickets to the trump inaugural ceremony. they've agreed not to object when his lawyers asked for a sentence of probation even though he could face years in prison for all the cmes he's admitted committing. pete williams nbc news, alex alexandria. let's take a look at how you can wcome a furry friend into your family. >> hi. if you'reut thinking a adopting a pet, now is the perfect time. we're almost a week away to our

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debut. it's the first time we officially see quarter back ex smith in a red skskins jersey. both of them rocked the number 11. you'll watch smith and the rest of the team in action tomorrow righere on nbc 4. they'll be taking on the patriots in new england. kick off is at 7:30. we'll have you covered after the game with a redskins post game report and news 4 at go:00. a feeling we're not going to see tom brady in that game. >> ion't think so. a colorado artist spent 20 years collecting materials for his latest project. >> it only took his two days to credit his masterpiece. >> it's just a lovelylace to be. >> reporter: an artist knows inspiration ebbs and flows. when i flows, tom seizes the opportunity because he knows it

heig might not come again. >> this is my first season and also my last. aye been coming down here and collecting trash fm the creek every few days for 20 years. >> mostly beersoans. sometime cans. for some reason i started collecting the shoes, the flip-flops mor:ly. >> repor strays, flip-flops. >> all of these washed up right >> reporter: now strung together from trees along boulder creek. >> we call it t tibetan prayer flip-flop.23 >> reporter: swept away. saved by tom. >> this is like your children. you can't pick a favorite flip-fl >> reporter: just what you expect a sandal savior to say. >> some of them have really fallen apart. here is a couple of pink ones. look at the shiny stuff on here. that's pretty impressive. look at the thickness of that one. it's made of --- i don't know what. itf a lot them. >> reporter: tom would never wear any of these.

>> i hate having anything between my toes. >> reporter: he gets a kick out of playing with them. >> my wife is an accomplished artist and my father was and my sister but not me. >> reporter: art is in the eye of the behold. >>t really is something. >> reporter: especially in boulder. >> what exactly, i'm ot sure but it's something. >> he's also a professor at the university of. colora as for his work of art, he is hoping people to come down the creek to appreciate it. don't try to add anymore flip-flops. two pilots are officially in the hisry books. they are the first all female hurricane hunter flight crew. the women flew toward hurricane hector in hawaii on suayay. the two they are so proud of their accomplishments. hurricane hunter program startba in the 1960s. >> that's awesome. that's fabulous. >> they're going be busy the next month or two.

especially the pacific heating up. there's a little disturbance out in the atlantic right now. we haven't seen too much develop, which is fine with me, by the way. >> it's still early. >> reporter: hurricane season goesoll the way inovember. that will something we will keep our eyes on for you. right now we're keeping or eyes on storms but forrm s later on this afternoon associated with a cold front. temperatures will dip a little bit. it's another h day out there today. we do have those showers and thunderstormsou rolling t the area this afternoon. some of them could be strong. humidityill drop just a tou behind that frontal system. a little less than what we'reel g out there right now. you're still going to feel the humidity. it's sti going to be a little mug kgy on thursday and friday. it's not even noon. our temperatures already at

appr approaching 98 degrees. radar not showing anything right now. this is the front system right here stretching all the way up western o back down to tennessee. then it's going to be moving through our area. that's going to bring a for possibly severe weather. now thursday and friday just some isolated chance of showers otherwise saturday and sunday we bump that chance back up whereee we could more rain for this weekend. looks like we could have rain around. by 6:00, 7:00, the game starts at 7:05. it's goi to be humid and sticky out there. we're talking about storms developing along i-81 after the lunch hour. really moving to the east. probably around the d.c. metro area. between about 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. we'll keep the chance until about 10:00, 11:00 for storms as they push from the west tthe east. temperatures are going to be in the low 90s today. eling close to 100 degrees.

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ik it sure doesn't feel it out there today but summertime is slipping away. that means it's time to start getting ready for school. you can help students prepare fp. >> let's get a final check. who do you have thereith yo >> reporter: you know what, look how cool we look in our news 4 shades. i wasn't smart enough to bring myun shadesut in this 5,000 d d dgw degree weather. people are still coming. it's even bigger. i want to thank apple federal credit union for this partnership. what do you want to say about what thi looks like and how this is for the community? >> this is fantastic. i want to thank everyone in the community. our apple family for supporting us today. we're not at our goal yet. if you haven't come today, stop by a local fairfax county brewery. drop off a backpac and get a pleasant surprise. we're still taking andr

collecting ydonations. we have jeff mckay. with the fair fax county school board. what do you thinkut this? >> this is awesome. we have a generous community county.fairfax what's more important than making sure than every one of shot.ds gets a that's what this is all about. i'm proud our cohiunity is t generous and we keep doing >>th. reporter: you know about the immediate in the community. >> it's amazing. 29% of the f students rfax county public schools come to school living in verty. programs such as this with the backpacks and 75 different smaller organizations comthg to to increase the number of backpacks by 50% this year is just wonderful. every childee the opportunity to snucceed coming to school with brand new

backpack filled with all their school supplies is wonderful. reporter: we're winding things down out here. you can still continue to give. row can gi you can give online. go to nbcwashington.com. you can search backpacks. one have one little final st of all the backpacks that are piled up here. don't know the count yet but i know we're trying to get 4,000 leyooos i hnav hool kid n them start off the school year in the right way. that's the latest live from the kings town area of alexandriahe at apple federal credit union. we have ae few mnutes so we're still waiting for you to come down if you're close by. back into you pat. >> keep thosekp bks coming. there's another festival coming to the washington area. we are getting a special eview today.

we want to wbelcome the grammy winng folk duo. thanks so mump fch for joining . >> thank you. this is a week long extravaga a extravaganza. >> we're inspired by your weather report. we're going to create our own tropical disturbance in the area. >> it start eed te ee e te eed the concert on the lawn. the next yea wepened it up to a five-day sort of music camp for all ails. we have people -- our youngest students have been five and six with the help of the parent and our o students have been up in their 70s and early 80 we teach all levels from beginner to very advance players.

it's an awesome social music instrument. it's a lot of fun. we have five day of classes and concerts for people who havre registered and the community can come from free. >> you don't hav to know how to play the instrument in order to take part. ten years, how did you first get involved? >> we fir got involved as doing an out door concert. then ever year it grew. theoutdoor concert was so successful. we're like how can we make this better. there's a community with a need outthere. started welcoming beginning players from the very first year. people could just get either at the festival or before they got to the festival and play a few cords and play along with everybody. we are actually the only festival that has an advance track. we've been going long nufr aenod

our students have been my personal students. >> there are other artists. we have some folks coming out from california. all the way from hawaii we have ginger johnson. marcie and myself are teaching. we bring people inrom all over. they fly in from all over to be part of it. >> you have to rentgister. i understand it's been very successful. you've sold out except for the free concert that takes place on th15th. >>he cool thing or one of the many cool thing s the pre-show strum along. around 6:00, we have a pre-show strum along. h we wile hundreds of people playin the y ining all tolg-- t.

>> i want to hear a little something. >> what are we going to play? ♪his will do. ♪ ♪ >> oh, my goodness. i'm coming. kathy and marcie. that's fantastic. this is a beautiful banjo. >> it goes well with any outfito than both. >> thank you. back to you. >>. than sounds fantastic. take another live look outside. a hazy hot and humid afternoon. we'll get a live check of your focast, coming up.

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illnesses. cvs says insurance cover aage wl be available in the comingnt and any hour of the day an night. the service will arizona, california, idaho, maine, mississii, new hampshire, virginia and washington, d.c. and will be expanded nationwide by the end of the year. let's get a last check on your forecast. >> how's it looking? >> not looking too bad. the radar is dry. we can expect strong storms late on through thefternoon and evening. that could lead a delay of the ats game. th taking on the braves at 7:05. we'll see how long the storms can stick around. humidity will fall just aouch as w get into thursday and friday. the weekend looking wet. future weather, you can see we have a few storms popping off just after about then around the d.c. metro area

between 5:00 and 7:00 and some those storms could last between the late evening before they clear out as we get into the overnight. some fog setting up for your thursday. just a chance of an isolated pop up. temperatures around 90 degrees. better chances ofom rain as we get into the weekend. 40% chance of rain on saturd. some widespread rain, possibly flooding as we get into sunday into n that will lead monday. looks like we could clear out as we head into tuesday. temperatures are pretty warm. about seasonaoe as we through the weekend. >> all right. >> thank you. that's going to do it for news 4 midday. > we're back on the air a 4:00. you can get news and weather any time with the nbc washington app. see yor.

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