cueper and stafford counties still don't have power. good morning to you, i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. more on yeerday's protests in just a moment. first, a look at the forecast. what aummer it's been. >> it really has been, yes. >> very quiet hurricane season, but these storms day after day after day doing all this damage. >> talking about the flooding issueali issues all around. first, let's check in with chuck bell and sheena parvn. >> we've seen everything and this morning planning for storm cleanup. >> about 50% more rain than average and most of that has come in the last 30 days or so. crazy rain around here. unfortunately, more rain chanc coming back for later on today. don't put that umbrella away, everybody. most of the rain from late last evening is dried up and i think we'll start out theay with

amounts of sunshine and skies have tried to clear out overnight and whe they cleared out most effectively in the shenandoah valley now a dense fog. be on the loo out for low visibility and current temperature comfy 63 in leesburg and 68 in manassas and 75 downtown and by the y. you better get out there early today if you want to enjoy time by thepool, rain chances increasingh wme today. up 25 up to 70% chance of rain.lw you shoulds have your nbc washington app ready to go. track thosehowers as they move in. first sign of, thundlissa mollet, time to get out of the pool. >> inside quickly.la i always e to the kids, we need to go. two right lanes blocked by the work zone and that's still hanging out. 66 looks okay here. southbound south capitol street and right side blocked bycr a h and that just cleared out

of the way. you don't need to worry about that 66one. looks okay. you can see here flying in fairfax county parkway to the beltway. take you about eight minutes here this morning. no worries on have that one situation and sterling whitewater drive aar sandbank sand all lanes blocked there and police on tor scene to wk you through there and prince george's county. no major issues. 4:32 right now. we return to our top story now. protests in the streets ofhe nation's capital. these groups were on alert when white supremtists, but it was the folks protesting them that made the most noise. some peoples identifying a anti-fascist clashed with police. this incident happened more than an hour aft the white nationalist group left d.c. bottom r went off near had white house.sp ite the tense moments, police report no majorproblems.

compare that to the than 30 people who showed up for the unite the right 2 rally. our cameras were there as group members boarded the metro trains on their way into d.c. yesterday. it is that ride that really has people talking this morning. >> chris lawrence is live at the vienna metro station to explain now why some say general manager shouec lose his jobse of this. chris? >> aaron, they're saying metro officials allowed kessler's group to ride a private train to the rally. something that one d.c. cncil member calls wrong and distbing and exactly the opposite of what metro said it would do. got to the metro station around 2:00 in the afternoon. police esrted them onboardhe rear car of anin orange l train. for a few minutes,ff oicers did block riders from entering the station. but, the train wasn'om cetely

private. there was some journalists on board and once kessler and their group their train left, then tthey reopened the rest o station. the train did make regular stope but sn advising other passgers to move to the front of the train to avoid kessler's group. once they arrived at foggy bottom, all the passengers wer asked to exit first a then kessler's group wasescorted off. we did reach out to metro officials and they released a statemen saying kessler group traveled from veania to foggy ttom on a regularly scheduled train with other passengers, media and law enforcement. police roadn that rail car. so, this has sparked a lot of concern. one council member said he is deeply concern in getting answers and the largest union said they're demanding that he

step down. >> interesting to see a what happen a result of these allegations. chris, thankyou. and stay with news 4 as we continue to follow the aftermath of yesterday's rally. we have more information in thei nbc wasngton app and coming up 5:00a.m., we will hear from the unite the right 2 organizer and why he insists yesterday's asall turnout not a failure. now 4:35 this morning. bowser is heading back to el salvad salvador. she returned to monitor the unite the right. she hopes that sends asa m of support in the midst of tough times for immiants.

telemundo 34 is in els salvador. here's a look at our other top stories at 4:36. metro riders will have to make adjustments. the silver, blue and orange lines are all affected. l ble trains will only run between franconia and springeld. this is part of the capital improvement project that work won't be finished until augt 26th. all riders need to plan ahead. university of maryland football coach durkin is on administrative leave. a player collapsed in may during practice and diedee several wks later. the attorney reprenting the player's family wants durkin fired. the football program is now under review. federal investigators are reviewing the data recorder.st

ole that plane in seattle on friday and crashed it. they a the remains are being examined by the medical examine. summer official is officially over some students. culpepe county and king george county. whether you're a teacher getting you ready for fill you in on the best things to buy during tax-free week in maryland. that's in just a few minutes. 4:37 and coming up it's something that n expected while shopping. a sinkhole swallowing cars outside an outlet mall. this morning, that hole is growing. first, late night shockers. if you went to bed before d.c. teams finished playing. a few surprises in store. we'll fill you in on the wild win

a heartbreaker a wrigley field. i mean, come on. the nats b tw their lead in bottom of the ninth losing to the chicago cubs. a pinch-hit grand slam by the cubs helped them win 4-3. t were up 3-0. we were going have a shutout game. nats are 5 1/2 games hebehind t national league east. tonight they take on the cardinals in st. louis. but, there isd some g news for team.er d.c. d.c. united won a late-night

nailbiter here at home. this play, i can't even talk about it. >> took on orlandocity. and then rudy fed the ball for a goal.co finalre here, 3-2.sd on wedne d.c. unitedes tak on portland timbers. >> what you didn't see in thec. video d. unitehead an empty goal. rudy came outo of n where to tackle the guy from to other team get the ball back. >> is there tackling in soccer no >> side tackle. anyway, it was legal. he had the ball and passed it to, lobbed it up and then he scored, again. that was a hat trick for him. >> little excited there? >> the play was nside. >> ifpretended i understood anything about soccer. >> this is why he's paid the big bucks. he can do stuff like this. >> glad he's shown he's worth

the money. eun, canle youe do guest commentary. i love listening to your enthusiasm. it's fantastic. >> i'm just a fan. this morning a flash flood watch for part of the area, not everybody. northern maryland and northern virginia off towards 81. uck's back in just a few minutes to show you the timing of some rain later on today. that's straight ahead. plus, blasting off for the sun. an outis world mission just getting started. a look at the first of its kind

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we have so many tools at our center. this is what attracted amy all the way from new york. three were people who xperts in their field. and for us that was the best choice. learn more about our breast center at cancercenter.com/philadelphia this was the scene as counterdemonstrator filled the downtown d.c. streets yesterday to be a force against hate. nearly 1,000 peoplehod up to uni unite to right and comparehat to the supremacists who showed up for the rally. despite the tension, no violent conferenrontations between the sides. the crowd stayed low in

downtown charlottesville. people demonstrating against hate groups and minor alrsrcations with offi nothing big, though. also an outpouring of support for heather heyer's mother. we'l have continued coverage of the rally in our 5:00 hour. good morning, angie goff with breaking news to report. the baltimore officer in the o centa violent viral video resigned late last night we're told. the officer who has still not een named was scene on cell phone video punching a man. we are about to show you that video. before we do, we want to warn you that it is pretty graphic and may be urdistngoso some vide. we have silenced video because of all the bad words in it. according to our nbc affiliate station in baltimore. this was recorded back in june.

this was n the first time that this officerteas got physical with his client the second officer is on administrative duties we know, as well. a preliminary hearing for this is scheduled f next week. in the meantime, the mcgreerey atto plans to hold a news conference later today. we'll follow up on that. >> thank you. it's 4:47. paul manafort's federal trial resumes this afternoon andec th prion is expected to rest. >> attorneys will sta h on defense. nbc's nikki joins us live now on capitol hill. good morning. >> hey, aaron and eun, good morning. we're expecting the state to call one more witness when court resumes this afternoon and then after that, like you said, wrapping up the case. then the defense's turn. we don't know how many witnesses o call. going they don't have to release that information until after the state rests. we may get closing argumen as

on as tomorrow. on friday, the judge called an unexpected recess for several hours. we never really heard what that was about but a lot of speculation surrounding that. manafort is being charged with bank fraud and taxevasion. within the next couple days, the jury looks like i is deliberating on this case. >> nikki on the hill. thank you. it is 4:48 now. today we could learn about additional charges for the mother who allegedly shot her po daughters. the second daughtesed away over the weekend. fairfax county pottce say the girl died early saturday morning nearly a week after roshooting. venica youngblood is accused of shooting the sisters inside their apartment. one o the girlsied at the apartment. their names have not been released. a woodbridge man charged with killing his wife and police officer.

the shooting death of crystal hamilton and officer gwendon. she was responding to a callth d that was her first day with the police department. new veo out of lancaster, pennsylvania, showing a sinkhola ing. take a look at your screen right here. you can see the parking lot crumbling a fallinginto the sinkhole. this is happening outside of the tanger petlets there. ned on friday swallowg six cars. if you think that is bad, check out this sinkhole in china. there is the white car dangling on thee e flood waters push it to closer to the sinkhole. then something incredible happens. dozens of people team up to use their manpower and menpower.

they managed to pull the car back. >> why? c>> not everyonean afford to buy a new car. >> let's put people in risk. the sinkhole is one of many in the areas. caused at least 20 streets to cave i over the weekend. >> look how close it was to get goingder. this is an incredible effort. >> i don't think i would hav risked it. >> they're far enoug. away do you think they would fall in? take a look at this. ta 4iftoff of the mighty d heavy rocket with nasa's parker solar probe. a daring mission tohed light on the mysteries of our closest star, the sun. >> 23 stories tall that rocket is. forget abouting for the stars, nasa is reaching for the sun now. the biggest star. this massive rocket blasted off into space early sundayin mo that spacecraft will fly through the edges or theil probe fly

through the edges of the outer solar atmosphe makin it the first spacecraft to fly that close to the sun. now, it's protected by thisre lutionary new heat shield and should reach the suner by nove it will swing past venus in october and then it is going to get as close as 3 million miles. about 4 million miles. >> don't boforget mercury. >> it will skip that. no. it will get 4 million miles away from the surface of the sun. il only nasa. >> we're 93on miles away and it's still hot around here. >> imagine what they could learn about the sun. >> it'sd time to go. relative solar minimum for us. e solar cycle runs on a 22-year cycle. we're at an11-year minimum and start ramping back up. >>his is good. >> interesting to see. >> don't ask me about soccer, ut we can go all day on this. >> thank you,aaron.

yes. he failed gym class, but he was a c student. mosy cloudy skies across parts of the d.c. metro area and from our friends at the national welaher service issued a flood for frederick county and northbound of t a pa line because the possibility of am heavy rain later on today. plus, that's the places that got the heaviest rain late last night. be on the look out. teeratures in the mid-60s and thick fog to deal with out h ross parts of the shenand valley. closer to 70 around town and not much of a fog issue. here's your planner. for today, a dry, rain-free start to the day andlouds developing around lunchtime and showers and thunderstorms quite likely later on today. very unsettled weather pattern fooday. and probably for tomorrow, as well. eventually this area of lowsu pres will move its way out. as it does so, we'll go back to sunshine and 90 degree weather stedting onsday afternoon. for today, though, there is that

first wave of heavy rain moving through northern marylan this morning. there's a look at future weather. not much going on duringrs the part of the day and sunshine to get temperatures up to t mid-80s before the heat and humidity turn into showers and thunderstorms. here's 4:00 in theafternoon. showers in montgomery county and showers across parts of shenandoah valley and the rain chances increase by 6:00, 00, 8:00 this evening. you need to be ready for rainfall. keep that in mind. your rain ahance stands a very healthy 8 0% and another day in the 80s tomorrow courtesy of some rain chances. drier weath and degree weather comes back for wednesday and thursday. chance of some showers lat on friday. saturday, the first half of the weekend could be a little lshowery. sundks to be the drier half of this coming weekend.a afteuple days in the 90s trend back. little something for everybody. today, melissa mollet, make surl the winds wipers are at the

ready. >> i will do that. thanyou, chuck. right now starting with metro, slow downs. still this week running through august 26th. orange and silver and single tracking between singl square and smithsonian. as far as the blue line goesrv e between franconia and d.c. or maryland because of all this track work happening now. inner loop, outer loop of the beltway, nice and clear here this morning. no road work there. soutound 95 after 123 two work lanes blocked by the zone and 270 looking goodrom frederick down to the spur. aaron? >> thank you. we are helping you get ready for school now. shoppers in maryland don't have to pay sales tax on certain items. you take a look here. maryland's tax free week, i i guess,s a week that started yesterday. it will run through august 18th. is that a ? yeah, that's a week. you don't have to pay sales tax on clothing and footwear that

costs r $100ss per item. in addition the first $40 of a bookbag will be tax free. the baltimore orioles rolled out theed r carpet to the mamie johnson little league team. >> now, yesterday at orioles park ty were recognize on the field before the game and also met outfielderdam jones. we know the jones helped to pay for the team's transportation to the regional championship in connecticut. >> camden yards really beautiful, too. i love that mamie johnson getting all the love. they deserveit. little league team from berlin, maryland, is out of the enning. theam was taken down by new yoth yesterday. pitcher from the new york team had six perfect innings allowing runs, no hits and no walks. wow. pitcher.hat's a the final or 4-0.

olympian katie ledecky plans to swim in a new event the 15 meter freestyle. ledecky says she won't drop any of theen other she's competing in. we'll see her in the water tackling all fr distances. she's become dominant in so many. more of he longdistance. i think this 1500 meter, i cespect she'll win gold, again. >> the four dists 200 meters up to 1500 meters. a lot to tabckle, but she can d it. >> she can do anything. it is 4:56 right now. a brutal murder investigation under way in capital heights where a man was beaten to deathe police a still trying to track down his killer. the protests are over, but this morning still anger over

how white nationalists traveled to yesterday's rally. we'll explain.

counterdemonstrators clashed with d.c. police in the streets after yesterday's unite the right rally ended before it was scheduled to begin. thosest demonrators far outnumbered the white nationalists who showed up, but how they travelled to lafayette square is drawing more attention. es a bigs in stafford

county and now neighbors are cleaning up i and more ra heading our way. news 4 today starts now. it is 5:00 a.m., good morning, everybody. i'm aarongilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. ada busy s and today thousands of kids are headed back to class. the time is athere. appened to summer? >> slowly drifting >> we're keeping an eye on the commute. let's start with the forecastora bus stop fecast maybe, guys. >> maybe so first day of school, you know what that means, start getting our afternoons kid-free, once again. >> this is true. t there is still t whole dropping back off from the bus stop, parents waiting. >> o the rare occasions i go to the mall, i go right in the middle of the afternoon when those kids will be fewer and fewer. bye, kids, see you next summer. >> as the kids a