live, breaking news as we come on the air ou democracy on display in the district. a white supremacist rally coming ton an end lafayette square, even before it was set toegin. that demonstration pales in size to the counterprotest. that counterprotest includes anti-fascists who are causing trouble near h the whitese. [ sirens ] >> that was the sceneithinhe hour at 17th and pennsylvania avenue. anti-fascist demonstrators lit fireworks and threw bottles at police near a whiteouse barrier. you'll remember, members of thio

same caused all sorts of destruction in our city dnaing theuration of president trump. earlier, a much more peaceful show of force from anti-hate activists. thousands gathered in freedom plaza and marched in the direction ofaf lette square. that group was kept far from unite the right demonstrators. thes atmosphere wanse. it was angry. it was emotional. especially as a group of about two dozen white nationalists arrived at the foggy bottom metro stop. d.c. police, some wearing riot gear,te escord the white tionalists east towards the white house. no arrests have en reported at this point. the eyes of the nation arec.n

tonight, and news 4 has every angle covered. we have a teamorf rrs spread out across the district monitoring the different ovotests. ourage tonight begins with mark live in lafayette square. mark? >> reporter: yeah, good afternoon. we're right outside the white house actually at 17th and pennsylvania. you can see there are still d.c. police officers standing guarde on pennsylvania avenue outside the white house. as you said, this is all but er. sooner than it was expected. this was supposed to go on until about 7:30 this evening. as you said, when they got here, about two dozen white supremacist yprotesters, t began their speeches in a sequestered stage far away from the thousands counterprotesters who wereer h tonight. but the real tension came when they marched here from the foggy bottom metro, escorted by dozens of police officers on motorcycles, bicycles, and on foot, bringing them through a gauntlet of counterprotesters who hurled insults at them, yelled at them at times threw botts at them. that did not dissuade about two

dozen of these white supremacists led by jason keler when they got here to the white house. there were some dust-ups between some trump supporters and some counterprotesters in the crowd where they started yelling at one another. but again, i just got off the phone with a skesperson who's been monitoring thisntire situation today. they tell me thereave been no arrests today related to these protests and no serious injuries. is exactly what police in the district were hoping for, a peac demonstration that went off. there was a lot of emotion here today, but agai no arrests, no violence, and we can tell you that at the end of this, kessler and his group of followers were taken back to anothereetro whhey have now left the city. that's the very latest reporting live outside thehite house. mark segraves, news 4. >> mark, thank you. stay safeuthere. breaking now, the white supremacists are returning to

the vienna metro. they left d.c. even before the rally was scheduled to begin. earlier, northern virginia bureau chief was there when their leader explaid what he said this rally was about. >> reporter: police provide a protective escort for the unite the right contingent as they arrived at the vienna metro, their flags flying oead as their small group came down the sidewalk and headed into the station. counterprotestersoutnumbered e unite the right ralliers, shouting at them as they passed by. the organizer of the secondig unite the r rally, jason kessler, telling reporters his purpose is to stand up forree speech rights. >> people are attacking my supporters. they have their cars vandalized. they're threatened i social media kicking off people for hatech spee >> reporter: but counterprotesters see kessler's rally in a muc different wa as promoting hate. >> you're not welcome here. like, i don't want any of you --

a don't want of your hate speech in my neighborhood. so it felt like the right thing to do. >> reporter: kessler's group wal guided bye to the last car on the train reserved for them, part of aep plan to sate them from other riders. this kessler supporter from northern virginia, who is hispanic, explains why he came along. >> defend fre,om of speeou know. everyone has their message. he has a right to speak. >> reporter: thereas one arrest outside the station, a man who spit on two virginia state troopers. and here's the scene just about ten minutes ago at the vienna metro. jason kessler and his small contingent of people arriving back here agn, being surrounded by police andco ed out to the parking lot at the vienna south metro, where presumably they've got into their vehicles and hd home. i asked jason kessler how he would respond to those who say his demonstration today was failure, particularly when you look at those small numbers. t was a he believes

success, that it showed they could demonstrate here peacefully. but no doubt critics are going to seehis much differently, as a day in whi the white nationalists were drowned out, both literally by this weather and figuratively by the counterprotesters. back to you in e studio. you said it, julie carey. counterprotesters have been ridrowning out fat activists so far today. news 4's darcy spencer h been speaking with demonstrators who have been denouncing hate. she joins us live at lafayette square with reaction. >> reporter: that's right. i've been with the counterdemonstrators for the last several hoursan today. iell you many of them felt very good, very proud of the fact that so many turnedor out the counterdemonstration today. their numbers far outnumber the people who were he forhe unite the right rally. i'm right here at lafayette . squa you can see there are still some people milling around, but the rally is over, like you said basically before it was even set to begin. they arene, but the

counterdemonstrators s hanging around here even though it's raining. i want to show you some video that we shot before the rall took place right over on 15th street, not far from the white house. people took t the streets for a demonstration. black lives matter and other organizations came together to protest in the street, saying that hate is not welcome here in the streets of washington. many were very passionate, saying not here in o city, we do not welcomeen hate. they came over here to lafayette square where they came up to the fence, they could look over and see the unite the right people here for that rally. many were justed . they were saying, is that all? t ishat all the people who are to show up? some of them were mocking the people here for the rally, telling them sha, telling them show their faces. so manyere were feeling very good in the fact that so many counterdemonstrators showedp. we spoke to one man from northern virginia who described himself as a veteran. >> to send a message this sort

of thing is not accepted in oura community, that's not what america is about. you can see from my sign, i'm a vet. i fouor this country. the people on the far right, the extremists, the racists, that's not what i fought for. that's not what my brothers fought for. it's not america. i wanted my family to come out and send a message that they're not welcome here. >> silence is come plipliant. i'm not going to sit at home and look at the coverage from the news. i'mot here to pick a fight with anyone, but i think it's important for people to come out and show thereol is noance for this. >> reporter: back out live he at lafayette square, you can see an balanambulance arrived here e scene.an we underst one person may have fallen due to dehydration. again, the counterdemonstration is pretty much wrapping up. there are still some people here pretty mucht, but everyone is heading home after what they would call a vercc sful day. as far as my observations here,

very peaceful. i have not seen any arrests, at least over here in lafayette square. >> darcy spencer live at lafayette square. thank you. the demonstrations start it ended early. but we're still tracking the fallout as counterprotesters face off with police. stay with news 4 and our nbc washington app as we follow all the developmen and i'm still tracking some areas of rain on storm team 4 radar. me light tooderate rain impacting the area. some thunderstorm activity down in parts of sthern maryland and the northern area. i'm tracking more back to the west. scattered showers is and maybe a rumble of thunder will continue on into the evening hours. no more severe thunderstorm warnings, but we're still the concern for flooding out there. all of the areas here in green are under flood warnings.lu this is fredrick county in maryland, culpepper and stafford county. i have more rain in the forecast

for tomorrow. i'll have the latest timing coming up. >> thank you. heath er heyer wasng killed duhe charlottesville violence. one year later, her mother's inspirational message for supporters. and we continue to follow our top story tonight. counterprotesters dwarf the turnout at thehite sup you know when you're at ross shopping for backpacks... ...and mom also gets a back-to-school bag?

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in charlottesville today, an outpouring of love and support for heather heyes mother. susan bro visiting the spot where her daughter was killed a year agohen a vehic plowed into a crowd of counterprotesters. she told the people surrounng her that today is about more than just her daughter. >> focus on the issues. that's exactly what heather would say. quit looking at me, look at the issues. my daughter had a mission, and it's my job to complete that mission. >> susan bro also recognizing the sacrice of the two virginia state troopers who died when their helicopterthrashed day. their chopper footage over charlottesville elped police track down the driver charged with killingey h. and in downtown charlottesville today, the message is one ofhealing. large crowds of counterprotesters linking arms in solidarity as police looked . there were some minor skirmishes ith officers, but no major incidents. police arrested four men for

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supremacist r ends early without any major disturbances reported. ists started act to emerge in the district, the crowd quickly became agitated. >> reporter: a lull in the action here at the foggy bottom metro station, but a very different scene from just a few hours a when the unite the right rally staed here. they emerged fromhe foggy bottom metro station to a gauntlet of cheers and taunts. they were immediately by police officers to make the roughly one-mile trip to lafayette park. was more of a hurried stroll. all the tay alonhey were outnumbered by the officers guarding them, the bystanders heckling them, and even the press covering the event. the trip was pretty much made without incident, though tempers did flare. so ing those protesters probably didn't get a chance to

look at were these messages written in chalk on the sidewalk. messagke love drives out fear. the rain is coming. that could mean a lesson lost. at foggy bottom, derrickwa , news 4. >> she cut her trip short on a trade mission. she tweeted about the far-right d demonstrators saying, quote, we have people o coming t city for the sole purpose of spewing hate. it didn't make sense last year, and it dsn't make sense now. protect and defend d.c. values, end quote. the mayor is expected to head back to el salvador tomorrow. in other news tonight, we're tracking more breaking news. in prince georges county, policg investigat murder-suicide. somebody heard gunshots and culled police to this neighborhood on med low lark savenue. thisbout 2:30 this afternoon. police found two adults dead.t they havreleased any names

yet. new calls for the university of maryland's football coach to be fir. the athletics program is under fire after the death of a player following a strenuous workout. day the attorney for jordan mcnair's family says coach b.j. durkin should be fired. he cites a preliminary autopsy report that shows mcnair die of heatstroke. he collapsed in may and died in june. seral members of the school's athletics department are now on administrative leave.nd we're in storm team 4 weather alert mode with northern virginia and parts of u west virginer a flash flood watch until 11:00 p.m. u'ill tracking showers out there. see here with your first weather headline, you want to have the umbrella handy againow tomoith some scattered showers at times. a few isolated thunderstorms as well. we'll also get dry time, but for your monday, rain is really possible at any point. not the case ouesday. dry for the morning, midday, and

early afternoon hours. then somete ay showers and thunderstorms will impact the area. it's finally completely dry out there on wednesday and thursday, but it is looking hot with higm atures around 90 degrees. here's the latest on storm team 4 rad s. i'rt you off with some of the heaviest rain continuing to fall around area, mechanicsville, and st. george island. you can see oranges and reds there. elsewhere across the area, generally light to moderate showers moving through. these are pushing out toward the east. indianapol annapolis seeing some ofhi rain. baltimore seeing some showers. looking back to the we, some isolated showers and thunderstorms pushing through western maryland and west virginia. once this main batch of rain is out of here, i can't rule out a few mor scatteredhowers and maybe a rumble of thunder until about midnight. after midnight, looking mainly dry with patchy fog developing overnight. when we have that very heavy rainll earlier today and severe thunderstorms that were mainly south of washington, we

did see a l of storm reports coming in. take a look here. these are all the reports i queried. we're looking at everything from wind damage to hail to flooding issues. we also had some damage reports up around the fredrick area. here in the metro, we had some moderate rain, a few rumbles of thunder, but thankfully no severe weather impacting the d.c. metro area this afternoon. here's tes l on that flash flood watch. in effect until 11:00 p.m. all the area in solidgreen. i think the national weather service might cancel this a little earlier becau i'm no longer tracking any widespread heavy rain moving into the region. takeon look. we'llnue to track some showers out there until about midnight. after midnight, we're looking at mainly dry conditions. tomorrow at 6:00 a.m., there's a chance for showers. notice around noon some widel scattered showers. otherwise, a few peeks of sunshine. we head into the afternoon and evening hours tracking showers and thunderstorms. once again tomoow, i can't rule out some heavy rain because of the humidity, among other factors. we start off the day at 72.

we finish at 84 for a high. on tuesday, high temperatures in the upper 80s with late-day tshowers andnderstorms. we'll keep it dry wednesday and thursday with high temperatures around degrees. maybe some late-day thunderstorms out there on. frid right now i'm going to keep next weekend dry, but we might need to introduce the chance for a few thunderstorms as the week rolls on. i figure it's sunday evening, give everybody something to look rward to. thanks for not being a downer. appreciate that. rc least the week doesn't look like a sr either. thank you. still ahead, things getting chipt camp. the redskins and jets, well, this practice takes a turn. we'll talk more ngout is comi u

my friends, fully confident the redskins are current with their insurance provider, but fe toay they've blown through their deductible. on thursday against the patriots, lost for the season with the torn acl. they return toractice in richmond only to loseviobert for the season to a l