we are talking about some flood threats across the area as we go into tonight. i'll show you who can expect that and the timing of some pretty heavy rainfall coming up. new fallout this morning after wookd protests by white supremacists and counter-protesters. why metro is beingcr icized. and concern this morning for singing legend aretha franklin. the any reports about her failing health. >> announcer: news4 midday starts now. good morning,everyone.

welcome to news4 midday i'm angie goss. >> >> i'm ann yang. storm team is tracking rain once again. this is concern about flash flooding now. sheena parveen has more on when to expect the rain. >> we havesh flood watch for northern dc, northern virginia, maryland, parts of westirginia through 10.m. tonight. we are dry right now. but we have an area ofsu low presre, which is really right overse us. you casome of the circulation here. most of the heavy rain is in philadelphia moving north. now we are seeing the edge redeveloping as the day goes on. frostburg, skoerted showers and storms currently. as w go through the evening we will see more of those for the rest of the area. future cast is showing pop-up developing showers by 3:30. certaiy not for everybod but then we go into the evening hours. these will beore widespread. we could see heavy rain north of

d.c. thatti could inie flash flooding. we will tal about the rest of tonight and thee rest of week coming up.ng [ chanti >> a lot of people in our area are breathing a sighf relief today. yesterday's planned protest from the far right did not turn violent. >> but the city of charlesville, where a protest turned deadly last year istill trying to heal. snikki carve hall report from capitol hill. >> reporter: about two dozen unite the right demonstrators showed up outside the house sunday under heavy police protection far fewer than the 400 organizers planned 2 for. teams. we are not in the jim crow era. white people aec bing a minority in the united states and europe. and we face real discrimination. >> reporter: the protesters themselves were in the minority, outnumbered by tr counter-demoors kept back

behind police barricade. >> we need to let them know and the wor know that the world is against them. and specifically, most o the country is againsthe tir ideas. >> reporter: a mostly peaceful protest cut sho m byher nature. >> today it was a success because it was a very peaceful protest. there was no violence. everybody cooperated. >> we had to prove that we could do a peaceful rally and that we could speak, and we did that. >> reporter: but afterwards counter-protesters did scuffle with police and were pepper sprayed. in charlottesville, the site of last year's rally, a calmer scene. the mother of the woman killed in that protest address rotters. >> it is my mission. >> reporter: one community o healin the verge of a tragedy. and the other -- >>g stepp up. >> reporter: and shutting down white nationalists.he ultimately, was only one

arrest made at that d.c. protest. nikki carve haul nbc news washington. today there is outrage about how white supremacist marchers were transported downtown. >> metro unions says they were given special accommodations. >> now slie are c for the general manager to lose his orj. >> rr: i think ay, the union is saying that the mager allowed the white nationalists to be escorted to the rally on a private metro train. but metro officials say that's not true. the fallout from one train ride is lasting far longer than the actual protest. >> i understand both sides, because it was aurity issue. and especially with charlottesvitee. >> repor on sunday police escorted jason kessler's group into the last car of an orange line train. only police and supporters were

in that car. other passengers were moved to the front of the train. when it arrived at foggy bottom othe passengers were asked to exit first so the unite the right protesters could be escorted off. now they are being blasted. >> i if go down to complain or be pro something they don't escort me. >> i guess they don't want to see fights or anything like that. so i definitely would have done the samething. >> they were alreadyranted the permit. on that point i think it would be on them to find their own mode of transportation into d.c. >> reporter: metro admits it closed part of the vienna station so the protesters could get the train. >> once they were on the car, we opened the b station tooard that train. >> reporter: police made the final call in the interests of keeping everyone safe on board. > the train made stops on its route to foggy bottom just as it would any other service day.

>> reporter: with one d.c. councilmember calling it unbelievably wrong and disgraceful and another saying he is deeply ccerned and demanding answers, and you combine that with what thenion is saying we certainly haven't heard the last ofla this. chrience news4. many metro riders are going to have to make adjustments on their way home from wok today. the silver orange and blue lines will be affected. trains will be single tracking. blue linesill only run between fran conia springfield and arlington cemetery. the work won't be completed until sunday, august 26th. metro says all riders need to plan ahead. now to a developing story that involved a coach bus headed tom d.c. new jersey. 50 people are recovering after the bus they were on crashed into an overpass overnight. the bass which you see right there is called our bus. it was being operated by liberty

coach. you can see the front end of it sheered off. the bus was headed to newark penn station. it was almost there when it barrelled into the overpass. no crashes involving liberty crash have been reported in the past years. the cause of the crash isnder investigation. right now, it is the first day of class for students in spotsel veinia, culpepper, king george, and warren county public schools. whether your parent, a teacher or trying to avoid all the new traffic we are getting you readc for hool. be sure to look out for our special reports a month long. schools in married don't head back to class until after labor y. but stock up on school supplies this week if you can.ec that'sse married's tax free week runs through saturday. you won't have to pay sales tax on clothing and foot wear that cost les than $100 per item. in addition, backpacks and

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r-e-s-p-e-c-t. >> her voice and songs familiar to so many this. morning, aretha franklin reportedly seriously ill. a person close to the singer is not giving t sorted press details on the illness. but we do know franklin, who is 76 years o canceled planned concerts t earliers year after she was ordered by her doctor to stay off the rd and rest up. this morning, former white house aide omarosa newman revealed a secretly recorded phone call she had w president trump. >> if president's once loyal aide turned on him accusing him of being racist, a misogynist and h saysis in serious mental decline. the question this morning, isre sheble or just settling scores in an effort to sell books? peter alexander reports. >> reporter: this morning,

president trump on tape. overnight, former white house aide omarosa neumann providing nbc 6 with ts scuff excerpt of a phone call she says she received from the president. she says the phone call came a the day after she was fired by johnkelly. >> omarosa, what is going on. i just heard on the news that you are thinking about leaving. what happened? >> general kelly came to me and said you t wanted me leave. >> nobody told me about that. they run a big operation but i didn't know that. i didn't any that. damn it, i l don'te you leaving at all. >> reporter: nbc news doesn't know what was said before or after that exchange. >> can i ask you a couple questions. is the president aware of what's going on? >> let's not go down thatroad. this is a non-negotiable

discussion. >> this is a white hou where everybody lice. the president lies to the american people. sarah huckabee stands in frontr of the cound lies to the people every day. i had to protect myself and i had no choice about it. >> reporter: once mr. trump's most loyal allies on the apprentice. >> omarosa, you are fired. >> every detractor will have to bow down to president trump. >> reporter: now a fierce adversary, expressing regret for other role in the west wing as she attacks president trump and questions his fitness for office >> they continue to deceive this nation by how mentally declined he is. now he is not engaged in some of the most important decisions that impact our country. >> reporter: over the weekend, the president dismissing his former aid. >>ow life. she's a low life. >> reporter: white house press secretary sanders adding torque sneak a recording device into

the white honse situaoom shows the blatant disregard for our national security. and to brag about it on national ctlevision further proves the lack of cha and integrity. in her book unhinged. omarosa writes where she was told about a tape where mr. trump used the n word during production on the apprentic meet the press she said she heard about it herself but only aft after. i heard his voice you. >> heard it yourself. >> absolutely. >> sclaung had this to say. >> she is trying to sell bookse and setcores and you have to be anti-trump for that. nothe white house had comment when nbc news asked about the exchange between the president and domarosa. he also says after her firing she received from an e-mail from the president's re-election campaign offering a job. but it included a non-disclosure

agreement tha included a cause disparaging the president, his family or any member of their companies. omarosa says she turned it do. the officer who still has not been named by officialsas seen on cell phone video deshawn greer.ching a man named the video is g aphic may be disturbing for some of you. we silenced theau video bec of the bad language. according to our nbc affiliate station in baltimore this was recorded back in june. it is said this is not the fir t time officer had gottenit physical wh a client. the second officer is on pendingrative duties the outcome of the investigation. in prince geoes county a murder/suicide investigation.

gunshots on meadow lark avenue in upper moral borough. two wnse found deade a home. no names have been released. this morning new calls for the university of maryland's football coach to be fired.>> coach dchltd j. durkin is on administrative live amid alletions of abuse within the football program. we are examining the controversy om college park. >> reporter: the calls for firing are coming from the family lawyer of jordan mcnair, who died in june. he says that coach durkin's cultur for the team allow forys phal and verbal abuse. the coach is now on paid leave. three other athletic staff are on leave as twell. thgt auto of athletics, damon evans, says that the univsity now committed to looking into the allegations which first cameif to in an esba report on friday. jordan mcnair w a 19-year-old sophomore lineman who collapsed at a practice in may andied some weeks later in june. the lawyer for his family now

saying it was a quote obvious case of heat stroke and could have been prevented. we do know at this point an external review are underway. the results of that a due in about a month's time, september 15th. the family has not yet filed charges against the university. the family lawyers saying perhaps they will wait for the results of the investigation. in college park i'm justin finch, >>news4. > happening today, prosecutors inorhe paul mt trial say they plan to resas theire this afternoon in alexandria. that means attorneys mount their defense of president trump's former campaign manager. he is being tried on charges of tax evasion and bank fraud. this rning, dc mayor muriel bouzer is headed back to el salvador. she interrupted her trip to return to the district and monitor yesterday's unite the right demonstrations. when she arrived back in el salvador she is expectsed to sign an agreement promoting commercial ties between d.c. and

el owlvador. tomo she will visit a small town where a lot of el salvadorians living in washington came from. our sistertation telemundo 44 is in el salvador with mayor bowser and he willin have conti coverage here on news4. another political scandal a. look a who is accused of spending millions. this could be the firstft spaceco touch the sun. the information the mission could conf ir

liftoff of the mighty delta 4 heavy rocket with nasa's parker solar pro a daring mission to shed light on the mysteries of our closest star, the sun. >> you heard him correctly. forget reaching for the stars. nasa is reallyeaching for t sun. the hottest one out there. the .5 billion spacecraft is named for the parker probe after the scientist used theories it will test. tom costello has more on the man who has waited 60 years for this liftoff. >> reporter: cutting through the silence of space, nasa's parker solar probe is lightning fast. traveling at eser hond bui toithsndil43 m00,00 temperatures of00 degrees fahrenheit. the mission, to literally touch the face of the sun. >> we want to understand all

that's happening here so that we can protect ouras inucture, we can one day travel the stars. >> reporter: to do that the probe are orbit the sun at a dischance of 4 million miles. forcientists it is a unique opportunity to studyhes coro, the outer atmosphere of the sun that is a million degrees hotter than the sun itself. tithe sci who made that discovery in 1958 is professional eugene parker of the university of chicago. th parker probe a named after him. what is it like to have a major nasa mission named after you? >> a bit of a thrill. >> reporter: the theory he hopes to confirm, that magnetic solar winds get hotter the further they eggs tend from the sun. >> one needs now to get out there and see in detail what kind of waves is it? where do they come from on the sun. >> reporter: the magneti

explosions on the surface of the sun occasion ally reach the earth disrupting electronic fields. >> heating up the plasma and sometimes shooting it out towards us. >> reporter: the sun is the only star we can actually stut study up close. for dr. parker whose solar wind discovery was first dismissed by critics, vindication in a probe that n bears his name. >> that's the fun of doing serious science. >> reporter: serious science, indeed. >> everything that nasa turns out is so cool. to touch the m sun. d blowing. >> only nasa. >> we will see what happens. i'm grious. someth like that. i don't know -- >> is it going to burn? >> is it going to makeit? we will see. >> touching the sane. but it's still 400 million gazillion miles away. way over my head but fascinating. >> don't hold your breath to get the results back from that. it might be a while, right? >> yes. today we are looking at

cloudy conditions. we have rain in the forecast. mostly cloudy skies rignow. but we still have some sunshine coming through. it is 80 degrees oute there, will be in the mid 80s later on laday. we have a flood watch even though we are not seeing rain around right flash flood for northern virginia, northern maryland, parts of west virginia. this is going until 10:00 night. we have late afternoon and evening thunderstorms. we have some alreadyng for just to the west of westchester. frostburg seeing showers and storms here. most of the heavy rain though is up to our north. s that big area of low pressure. goihe day goes on, we are to keep seeing these showers develop across the area and thunderstorms mainly lat tod today. temperures in the upper 70s. we'll keep warming up. look at this cute face. she is at the prince georges county spca. this is her after the makeover.

isn't she cute? you didn't see her beforehe makeover. she was dirty. need a haircut. this is after the haircut. again, up for this afternoon, showers developing, mid 80s. a higher chance of sevenrsinhoge some of them locally heavily. clear the shelters is this weekend. end out mn which shelters are participating near you on the nbc washington app. here's future weather. threw theafternoon, 3:30, some showers trying to form here but not foreverybody. later on this evening i think we will see more widespread heavy rain and thunrms. we will be watching that throughout the afternoon today. tomorrow we still have a chance of sh mainly in the afternoon. then we dry out for wednesday and thursday. we'll see sunshine, more humidity also by thursday. temperatures back in the 90s. 91 wednesday. thursday. 92 friday. we have a chance for afternoon storms on friday. and that leads us into some weekend rain chances. i'll show you that with the

ten-day forecastoming up. >> thank you sheena. utscary, very rare. pets giving people life threatening infection. hear from o victim's family. new evidence discovered in c bizarree out of seattle. an airport worker steals and crash as commerci al

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spain. take a look. you can see debris scattered everywhere. investigators say last night the wooden boards gave way during a concert sending people into the. sea be ere than 300 people injured. at least five of them seriously. city officials are vestigating. we have breaking news right now. nbc news just learning that the fbi has fired pgenter strzok. he is the agent who sent the anti-trump texts as he vestigated the russian interference case in the 2016 election strzok's lawyer says he was originally told he would be demoted and given a 60 day detention. the fbi director ordered the friday. what was richard russel thinking? that is the question the fbi is trying to t answers midday. >> russel is the baggage handler who stole a commercial plane in seattle on friday night, flew it r an hourefore allegedly

crashing that plane. hans nichols reports. reporter: overnight the fbi announcing they recovered the plane's black boxes and cockpit voice recorders. they are hoping it will shed new lightic in tord russel's high flying joyride. on friday he flew the 76 seat commercial ashlgt through the skies over seattle. what the hell. >> reporte after stealing the plane from sea-tac he talked to air traffic controllers while doing wild airborne stunts. >> all right. hey, pilot guy, can this thing do a back flip do you think? >> reporter: his aerial acrobatics stunning onlookers and scramblingiger jets in response. a i'm going to do try to do barrel roll. if that goes good i'm going to nose down and call it a night. >> reporter: ending in a fiery crash on an island in puget sound. he was employed by alaska air.

he used a towing tractor to back the plane onto a runway. the incident reveals a troubling security gap in our nations nirports where thousands of ramp workers and mec have access to planes. zachary was shocked to learn his long time friend was involved. >> he wasn't the type of person to do a othing dark drastic. >> reporter: but his final trip, ending in tragedy. even though that crash sparked a wildfi on the ground no structures were burned and no humans were hurt on the ground. hans nichols, nbc news,sea-tac. look at this video a. single engineesa made an interesting emergency landing on interstate 80 in california this weekend. the pilot was trying to get to the hayward airport when a fuel line ruptures. the plane was not damaged. neither were any of the cars on the freeway. today we do learn about additional charges for the

mcclain mom who allegedly shot her two daughters. the second daughterassed away this weekend. police say the little gir dd early saturday morning nearly a week after the shooting. vern ka young blood is accused of shooting the girls inside their apartment. today jury selection begins in the capital murder trial of a man charged with killing his wife and a police officer. ronald hamilton faces charges for killing his wife and an officer who was responding to responding to the domestic call. it was her first day on the squb. lawmakers are trying to impeach the state supreme court over $3.2 million in office the house is to discuss next steps and determine whether the senate would put the justices on trial. suspended justice allen lowry is

under fedal indictment and named in eight impeachment articles. theynclude allegations that he took home a $42,000 antique desk and a leather couch. we continue to work for your health with a warning for pet owners. bacteria transferred from the mouth of your pet c give you a blood infection. >> and it could critically weaken your immune system. >> reporter: dan larson says his wife sharon got sick quickly anj died ine from a rare infection. the unlikely source? a tiny nip from their family dog. the same thing happened to this man, had to have his hands and feet amputated in order to save his life. he became ill after coming in

contact with dogsaliva. >> dog bitesash tissue and crush the tissue. the bactea can be inoculated into the wound and all of a sudden you get very sick with sepsis. high fever, low bloodeppressure >>ter: the bacteria is common in cats and dogs but harmless to them. it can impact humans specifically those with low immune systems. even then it's really wear. people most at riskre over 40, have compromised liver function or have hadee their s removed. doctors say there is little reason to panic. >> this is a very unusualevent. it's probably less common than being struck by lightning. >> reporter: a rare and terrifyi illness but no reason to give up on your best friend. steve patterson, nbc news. . it is scary. >> it >> we understand that it's very rare. so not to worry if you have regular interaction with your pets. >> reporter: storm team 4 is

tracking rain and the poflibility of ooding. a closer look at when you will need the umbrella. and youight also notice gas prices are a little higher these days a. look aexwhat you cact in e weeks ahead.th

new video this morning out of lancaster pennsylvania showing a sinkhole expanding. you can see the parking lot crumbling and falling into the sinkhole. is is all happening outside of the tanger outlets there. the sing hole first opened up on friday, swaowing six cars. no one was hurt. if yous think that' bad, check out the size of this sinkhole in choichblt you c see the white cag there daij on the edge as the flo waters pushed i closer to the sinkhole. then look at this. this incredible thing happens. dozens of people teamed up, used their manpower and managed t pull the car back from the brink. >> wow. were there people in that car?

>> i don't think so. >> no. >> all right. th wanted to save the car. >> that sinkhole is one of many in the area. heavy rains caused 20 streets to cave in. serious stuff. manpower.hole lot of >> i don't know. that seems like a dangerous situation. erwtldn't w t awh offbenye t them. the rain fell so hard that you couldn't even see oute of house. it blew -- i thought the windows were going to blow out. that's how hard it did. >> severe storms soaked parts of our are yesterday bringing down trees and power lines. look at the size of the roots on that tree. hundreds of customers in cull pepper and sllfford county sti don't have power and there is still a lot to clean up on the roads. >> we were here yesterday when we got the alert that capp in from cul of didn't realize it was going to be so drastic. >> a lot of high wind itthere. knocked over about three dozen trees in that area.

>> a lot of damage. >> you see size of them. today they really have until maybe 5:00 p.m. to do se cleanup until more showers and storms develop. >> round two. >> yeah we could see heavy showers and storms for part of the area. today is going to be another day thwhere there is rain i forecast. here's a look at the satellite and radar right now. the areas that saw the storm damage yesterday that we just showed you video of, they are dry currently. it is rain that we are watching off to our west right now. near are like frostburg and it's conti ing to develop to the south and near 81. these are scattered showers and storms. this is because of low pressure that's on top of us. it's really starting to get a little energy now that the sun is up a little bit more. waroing to see scattered showers and storms developing throughout the rest of the afternoon and evening. we have a flash flood watch until 10:00 p.m. that's going to run pretty late. i think a lot of these showers dto srms will be pretty late as well. there you kind of can me out

the say,lation forming especially off to the west with all the lightning you see on the radar. that's the low over us. unsettled weather pattern in place. 80 in washington. 82 annapolis 77 in dulles. we will be in the mid 80s this afternoon. if you are exercising over the next fewosours of the area stays drou by 7:00 p.m.ould have a better chance for storms to develop. future cast showing the next few hours.sc tered storms: 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 more widespread heavier showers. heavier showers too. nort of.c. look at a flash flood watch through this even. tomorrow we will be on the mostly cloudy side. a 87 for high and a smaller chance for scattered showers mainly ithe afternoon. we dry out for wednesday but look at, that back in the 90s. sunny,91, humid on thursday, and hot, 93, but still dry.

most of friday loo dry until the afternoon or evening. that's when we have a chance for some showers and storms. saturday we have a rain chance. could be the second half of the day mostly. saturday is clear tshelters. we will be talking about that as we get closer. so far sundaydr looks >> thank you sheena. eatingwell. this week you have a chance to do it for less. more on restrant week after the break. protecting your credit score. wh

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loss at wrigley field. wh. the nats ble their lead in the bottom of the ninth leing to hicago cubs a. pinch-hit and slam by the cubs. tts are now five and a half games and tonigake on the cardinals in st. louis. here at home, dc united won a late night nail biter. they took on orlando cit at audi field. the teams were tied at 2-2. but then super star wayne rooney fed the ball across rig there. and boom. heads it into the goal. final store, 3-2. the crowd goes wild. i jumpnto the stands. and there is wayne rooney celebrating, too. on wednesday, dc feis the portland timbers at audi field. crazy rich asian as highly anticipated new film out this week has everybody talking abouy diversn hollywood.

>> the books were so good. i can't wait to see the movie. jo ling kent talked to the director about the film's impact. >> reporter: for the first time in 25 years, an all asian cast is taking center stage in a major contemporary hollywood film, "crazy rich asians". >> what about us taking -- >> like queen. >> reporter: it is about a middle class woman mting her boyfriend's super rich family. >> damn, rach 'em, like the asian bachelor. >> reporter: sharing the big screen with legended, a newcomer, and tv's constance woo. >> you are like the prince william of asia. >>hat's reticularlouse. more of a harry. >> reporter: is this a moment in hollywood for changing the tide for asian actors? >> it is changing because we are making it change. not because anyone is letting us in. >> reporter: with hollywood's diversity issues in t

spotlight, the director feels a sense of obligation. >> we knew that the importance of this project was to get it on the big screen. >> reporter: his mission, shattering stereotypes and showcasing the stories of asians of differeou backs. >> when a young asian american looks up and says way i can identify with her a little bit what does that mean to you? >> it kind of makes me cry right now. because you don't see that growing up. you don't feel like you can be the hero of your own story. >> reporter: the movie has criticism, too. >> i grew up in asia. i was born in asia. i think it was healthy to have that conversation, but, you know, i'm asian through and through. >> reporter: the film's ultimate goal, to prompt more movies starring asians. >> we would love to crack that door even more toelp others, other story tellers so we don't have to depend on one story with one set ofay characters to

everything about asians. >> reporter: a glitzy new comedy that goes more than skin deep. jo ling kent nbc news los angeles. the last movie that had an allas asian was joy luck club. in the late 90s. 11:57 right now. want to check in withheena who tracking more showers. >> yes. we have rain in the forecast later today. most of thatng is go be this evening. but tomorrow, still some showers in the forecast. not as widespread by the afternoon. that's when those will be here. then we are in the 90s as we go through the rest of the week rain chance saturday. >> thank you sheena. that'soing to do it for news4 midday. thank you for joining we will be back on the air this afternoon at 4:00. >> get the news and weather at any time inhi the nbc wton

♪ we are live in five, four, three, two, one. >> you know that we have an interview right after this and i know you want to go in with more time. i will answer your lastd questin ou will see that the time -- >> what time do you need to go >> you know it is a seven-minute interview and now we are at 10. >> does she have a book?ro >> o right there. >> natalie's otoff. evans. >> this morning we are in a morning meeting. we watched the entire interviewu what do y make of