afternoon. doug? >> yeah, guys, we continue to be in an extremely rainy pattern. some areas seeing heavy rainfall and a severe thunderstorm warning. the big iue is the flooding that could be going on this afternoon. >> we'vead so much rain out there since mid-july and most of us are under a flash flood unti. 10:00 toni >> a severe thunderstorm warning in effect for fauier county and fairfax county. what we're talking about, you see the stormsnd building making our way across the region. the heaviest right here with this line that's moving very east.y off to the more storms up towards the frederick area. manassas, around manassas, prince william county, now under a severe thunderstormng war this until 4:30 tonight. can you see a lot of lightning with this storm right here. a lot of lightning with that. i'll zoom in show you what's happening with these. big storm right here along 66 ll to the west of manassas around gainsville and this one east of manassas. lightning associated with this as it crosses over into fairfax county. that warning until 4:30.

to the north, more around the frederickol area and the system just rotating around a big air offia low pressure, anp level low. a chance of showers and thunderstorms right on through the rest of the evening really, guys, we've got a lot in the forecast over the next ten days. much more on that. see you back h ie 10 to 15 minutes. >> thanks, doug. you can stay ahead of the storms with our nbc washington app. if you haven't already, now is he app.e to download you'll be able to access our live interactive radar in the palm of your hand. breaking news now. the queen of soul aretha franklin is reportedly very sick. we're told she's in hospiced cae oday could be the day the music legend passes away. ♪ you make me feel so good >> she's been called the voice of the civil rights movement and has lived a life beyond compare, but now her family is with here

at bedside in what could be her final hours. in about 20 minutes, scott evans from "access hollywood" will share some special memories of aretha franklin. we all have some memories of her, don't we? right now detectives say they believe they have the man who could be responsible for more than a dozenex crimes. now, these are the spots where they happened in nthern virginia as you see here, but there were actually more crime scenes in d.c. as well. news 4's mar segraves is live in arlington with more on this story. mark, how did they get this guy? >> reporter: good old-fashioned police work, leon. two d.c. police officers who h a lookout description, a very vague description of a man. when they saw someone who fit that description he happened to be sneing up behind a woman who they think he was getting ready to attack. that's when they intervened and he ran off. police say he is now --e' been charged in five separate cases in maryland and virginia and d.c.

they say he's a so apect in at least a dozen more cases, including three cases happened right here in this one block here of clarendon boulevard. since 2016 police in the district and virginia have been investigating incidents where a man would sneak up behind women, expose himse and sometimes try to grab the women in their private areas. >> horrendous and disgusting. it's very good to get a predator like that off the street. >> reporter: police arrested 34ear-old santiago campos after two d.c. police officers sneakingim as he w up on a woman wearing a mask. after police caught him, they we able to get his dna which matched several open cases in d.c. and arlington. now, he's been charged with four sexual asslt cases. two in d.c. from 2016 and two from this year. he's also been charged with one case in arlington from 2017,

arlington county police say he's a suspect in at least nine other cases. >> obviously this is somebody behavioreen doing this for a long time. in addition to our detectives reviewing this, we're asking the public to come forward if they have any information about the activities oe mr. camp p so we can investigate them. poce both in c. and virginia say his m.o. was the same. he would look for women in isolated areas where there's noc surveillanceera and no other people around, and then he would act af he was doing something else, perhaps getting in a car, and as they would walk by him, that's when he would come up behind him. they are asking the public inr d.c. virginia if they know this man or think they know something about this case togi police a call. leon, pat, back to you guys. >> thank you, mark. >> all right. just last month a was caught an camera sexually assaulting a woman in d.c. in a separate case. chilling footage shows him following the victim outside of a foggy bottom apartment

building. she was walking out of the building on i street near new hampshire avenue when a man approached her from trhind and d to take her clothes off. they released these images hoping someone can tell them who the man is. an update on this terrible bus crash we talked about earlier. some 50 people were on board. they were headed to an overnight trip from ud.c. to new jersey, and the bus slammed into an overpass at newark's penn station. the impact sheered off the back end of the bus. we've learned all victims should recover from their injuries. liberty coach operates the bus involved in the accident, and so far no comment from that company. students want to make sure their safety is a top priority for lawmakers who r the country. about 25 students staged a die-in today on capitol hill.ed they prote near the offices of prominent republican senators. the group is demanding immediate changes to federal gun ws, and they say their concern goes

beyond protecting their federal students. it' not just about school shootings. it's about the gun violence that happenevery day that's not a mass shooting. there's inner city gun violence and domestic abusend there's suicide and so many cases that's just more than school shootings and mass shootings. obviously i hope there's a renewed urgencyet but l not focus is just on schools. >> the students are planning another protest on capitol hill in november. now to new questions about how metro handled demonstrators re for yesterday's white supremacist or unite the righty ra today some are saying metro wound up doing exactly what it said it would not do. news 4's darcy spenc has been asking questions and is joining ys live from foggy bottom with the v latest. darcy? >> well, leon. many people are asking the question did metro give special treatment to this group of white nationalists heror the unite the right rally by essentially giving tm their own train car

when they got on the metro at vienna and got off here at the foggy bottomti s. that's what they said before the rally that they were not going to do. in some critics are taking it a step further and say that feel misled by metro. now, news 4 was there as jas kesler and his croup associated with the unite the right rally was escorted by metro transit police through the station and on to a train car. now, police say they were trying to prevent violence esterday like what we've -- [ no audio ] a d.c. down member has said they feel very frustrated. >> last night like every other resident that had the expectation that these far right folks would not be given speciat accommns, special cars, i -- i felt misled and very frustrated. i'm still frustrated at the -- at the poor communication.

>> there wasn't a special train. what t officers d they reserved one car to keep the two groups separate once kesler's group was aboardhat car. we reopened the station and allowed patrons to board that train. >> now the union that represents train operators also released a very strongly worded statement last nightti czing metro over this incident and saying the general manager should be fired. pat, back to you and leon. >> darcy spencer, we'll h lot more about this story in the days to come. the fbi agent who sent anti-trump text messages has been fired. pete strzok was a senior fbi official and led the investigation invanving russia the trump campaign until the text messages were discovered. he also worked on the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. her texts revealed pro-clinton views. the texts were exchanged with fbi lawyer lisa page with whom

he had an affair. today strzok's lawyer says the firing should be deeply troubling to americans because none of strzok's testimony before congress showed evidence that his personal views affected his> work. ore than two years after a prince william county worker was murdered first day on the job. jury selection is under way for ronald hamilton. army vet is charged with killing his wife crystal,hen officer ashley guindon who arrived on the scene in februaryf 2016. jury selection is expected to take about three weeks, and the trial is expected to last three months. matthew sclohlonsky wanted do more with his wife, but the grad studentersity was gunned down, unintended d.c.t in today a judge sentenced the three men involved.

>> reporter: justiceor served an innocent american university graduate killed in the crossfire. andre dudley and marcus king both 22 years old and d 28-year-hristopher proctor were all sentenced to princeon time for the shootout that killed 23-year-old matthewns shloky as he emerged from a uber in the middle of the afternoon back on august 15, 2015. a family member who a spoke at hearing for the convicted says the family is stillby devastate the loss. >> we couldn't believe it, you know. what were the chances of that ppening, you know? somebody that we knew jint wa down the street. >> reporter: andre dudley will serve 18.5, yea christopher proctor 12 to 14 years and marcus king 15 to 0 years. the judge called the crime brazen and reckless. derrick ward, news 4. a maryland family up in arms. fter the death of a football star who died following a tough practice. >> everybody loved you. everybody loved you.

>> his uncle's strong word for a local university. he talks only t news 4's tracee wilkins. >> and a look back at nbc's interviews with aretha she shares what she's most proud of about her career. doug, more updates on the storm chances? >> flood flash warning i effect and right now a severe thunderstorm warning in effect for fairfax county. tch out if you're around clifton or burke, this storm has had a history of producing quartesized hail. more storms developing back to thendulles airport down to the south. the south. a lot of storms and

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and we have a newde thtorm warning in fairfax county and arlington county including the areas around alexandria. big-time storm right here. this has a history of r- quarzed hail and now we've just learned and put a tree into a house in prince william county. again, big time winds associated with us moving north and east a 20 miles per hour. more storms forming back towards the airport. mwe'll tonitor this. i'm back in just two minutes. >> thanks, doug. we'll getk b you. >> meantime, from pop warner all the way up to the pros, football season is here, but there's a tense situation developing at the university of maryland with

tball program. >> player jordan mcnair died after collapsing on the field from heat stroke. now accusations of toxic and abusive coaching are plaguing the big ten school. >> bureau chief tracee wilkins is talking tonight wit mcnair's family about his life and his school. >> i had just cut his hair that start, that friday before he went away. t neveught i would never see that boy alive again. >> reporter: wilam tarrant is heartbroken over the death of his nephew, umd football player jordan mcnair. >> next time i saw him when i was cutting his hair getting ready for his funera h >> reporte suffered heat stroke during a university of maryland football practice they have placed the head coach d.j. durking on administrative

live after an abusive and toxic enent was revealed that may have contributed to the boy's death. the pain is great. >> he wanted to be in the nfl. that's definitely wha he wanted, go to the nfl and take care of his mother, you know, have a good life, and for this to happen it's tragic. it's just -- it's past tragic. he was just starting hislife. >> the university of maryland is conducting its own independent instigation as to what happened here. that's expected to be madeep public bymber 15th. in college park, i'm tracy wilkins, news 4. >> the attorney representing jordan's family said on sunday that they will most likely file a civ lawsuit, but they are waiting on results of that investigation that tracy just reported on. pat? >> a 6% off sale is now under way in maryland, the ste's annual tax-free shopping spree. clothing and footwear under $100 will be exempt from sales tax and so will the first $40 of a

backpack or book bag and for the irst time students who post maryland-related shopping photo on social media with the #shopmdtaxfree will get a chance to a w2,500 scholarship. getting out to do some shopping may not be a good idea in certain areas. let's get backo doug with an update on new severe thunderstorm warnings we've right now. >> doug, these are popping up quickly, aren't they? >> tracking them right now, a new severe thunderstorm warning that we mentioned a few minutes ago. this for fairfax county and arlington county and this is maki its way towards the district. can you see what's happening as we put it into motion i a couple o minutes. i want to show you what we're dealing w.severe thunderstorm warning right now to the south ne the city of fairfax. that's that i'm watching right now. we've got another one that's around the dulles airport region right around the sterling area, so this is the oneight here that has a warning with it. with this storm we've seen

quarter-sized hail and trees down on a couple of houses in towards manassas. once again, this is an area that we're watching very, very closely. this storm actually moving more to the northeast here. it says arod woodbridge, parts of southern fairfax county around mt. vernon under that warning. yeah, this is actually moving more north than northeast. if you live in falls church this is coming right toward you. city of fairfax right here.ht burke rn here. if you live around burke, this storm right on top of you right now. the history of producingin and hail damage. back to the west a storm right around the airport, too, a lotni of lightng with this and more down towards the anne ar adel area manassas area. on that track taking 423 right through andale.

this is all due to the big upper level low. you can take a look at the rain and thunderstorm activity, especially this little swirl right here. that's where we're seeingng the stnd severe storms. that's why we had this flap flood watch in effect until sock. it includes loudoun county and fairfax county, and eve the north and east. almost the entire state of maryland with the extension of extreme southern maryland and esback towards virginia and back towards romney and the agerstown allards towards the flash flood watch until 10:00 tonight. definitely mea business and we'll continue to watch these the rest of the evening. more stohs and a h temperature of 87 degrees. a little less humid and we'll see af chance an afternoon thunderstorm again. 91 degrees on wednesday. thuray coming in at 92. the humidity starts to increase here as well, so lots of sunshine wednesday and thursday, but then the srm chances return on friday and into the weekend. we've got a chance of sto friday. a high of 94 degrees.

rather humid and look at all of next week. the storm chances return. once again there could be more flooding potential as we make our way into next week because with all the rain we've seen in the next month and a half it does not take much to get flooding. we'll be right back with you throughout the evening hours and right now we're tracking all of this from the storm center. >> all right. >> thank you, doug. >> thank you. new twists and an explosive story. next at 4:00, the president la responds to cs from former omarosa. e aide and a new honor for women who served. we'll show you what's at arlington national to mark

we've got a severe thunderstorm warning. this is a new o on camera. an amazing storm popping up here. severe thunderstorm warning right now. from fairfax county, extreme northern fairfax county and also in towards montgomery county. this storm right here. all montgomery county. i don't know if we can take that re lon cameraking right at that storm. look at this. look at the rain shaft there. you can see from the left side of your screen how it's right and how it gets light.

that's the wallf an extremely heavy rainfall falling around the poolsville area. where is this, guys? this is 495 inrobinson. this is from the other severe thunderstorm right aroundfa fax county around the braddock road exit andd aro the robinson turnpike. more storms continuing. back to the map here. i want to show you where the storm is. severe thunderstorm warning for fairfax county and arlington county right here. i'm going to zoom in on this ar right here until 5:00 tonight. this thing just blew up. a big time storm south and east of pools ville. this is river road all the way ou river, and then you'll be making your way up to the quince orchard area and back towards any new storms that develop we've got them for you right here. >> got it. thank you, doug. clouds and rainy skies probably will set the perfect mood for

music lovers today whose hearts are heavy for a good reason.ha we've learned aretha franklin is expected to pass soon. she left an indelible mark on american mike and american culture. scott evans from "access hollywood" joins us live with some special memories of the queen of soul. scott? >> reporter: leeon, you said it there. i've got goose bumps as we're talking aboutt. music icon, the queen of soul aretha franklin is reportedly gravely ill and in hospice care surrounded by her friends and family. "accs" has spent many time with aretha over the years. take a look. >> when you look back on your career, what are you most proud of? is there anything that kinf stands out? >> what am i most proud of when i look back on my career. i am most proud that i distributed my time well between my children and my career. ♪ r-e-s-p-e-c-t ♪ r-e-s-p-e-c-t

w♪ >>t do you think has accounted for your longevity i this business where so many artists, you know, come and go and are struggling to keep current, you've never had that problem? what do you think it is? if y o can kin be objective about aretha franklin. >> i think just loving what i do, the endeavor to give people the best and stretch and create my own express of creativity, loyal fans, good friends. >> definitely. goodolid friends and fans. >> i have to say the first time i ever met aretha franklin was at the white house correspondents dinner and s kweeted me with a hu ee kwe kweeted -- greeted me with a hug. she was nominated for 44 grammys and won 1 she became the first woman inducted into the rock 'n' roll hall of fame and she w the recipient of the medal of freedom in 2005 and performed at

inauguration for three presidents, jimmy carter, bill clinton and barack obama. i just - map, my heart is heavy today. >> as you talk about that, in my mind, i was thinking about that inauguration performance for obama in that hate,nd performahe completely blute entire country away. >> she always made a statement. >> reporter: one of my favorite me me s is h memess walking out on to the b.e.t. stages. our hear are heavy along with many today. >> talk to you soon. >> she's in our prayers. a former white house aide makes explosive allegations against the psident and now he's firing back at omarosa. >> and a live picture of the forms over parts northern virginia right now. this is from a camera inst , and you can see the skies back there darkening. doug is back to show you

doug is back to show you severe

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have that damage associated with it into princeam wil county down into fairfax county. reports of hail around fairfax county right around burke. here's the other one. this severe thunderstorm warning in for montgomery county. i want you to notice something. the warning actually goes east. this one is going to the north and east ng gatht gaithersburg. here's the one. this is 395 and 9 the 5, robinson terminal around 495. that area is getting pelted right now with hail around that region. this is going to come right up through falls church right here around the mccle area coming up and in towards parts of arlingtori again, alexa and mt. vernon, you're in thatnd warning a this storm is moving moreorthhannest so watch out there. a lot of lightning and wind damage associated with that. here's the other storm that's ght now over montgomery county. you have a severe thunderstorm warning for par of fairfax. it won't hit that part of fairfax county.it

won't this either. kind of confused why the weather service hass this. he up around the gaithersburg area and arod quince orchard. we'll watch as the storm moves on through the rest of the area. ohis is a big one in time. this is coming iarts of d.c. over the next hour. much more on this. amelia joins me in ten minutes. >> see you in a little bit. we inviteou todownload our nbc washington app. you'll be able to access our live interactive rad and you'll be able to watch our hour-by-hour forecast right in the palm of your hand. pat in. >> secret recordings and bitter recriminations and angry backlash. the former white house aide omarosa manage yacht wman is promoting her book and sharing another audio clip with nbc news. >> reporter: omarosa is out with mo attacks on the president, and the president is firing back. today former white house staffer and reality tv star omarosa

manage fault newman revealed a cond audio tape. >> omarosa, what's going on? >> reporter: a secretly recorded convsation with the preside a day after her firing last year? >> they run a big operation, but i didn't know it. i didn't know that. h reporter: nbc newsas not been able to listen to the full recording to know what was said before or after. this morning on twitter the president called her wacky, nasty, a low life and not smart. mana manigault newman turned on her former book called "unhinged" which she calls him unfit for office. >> he h serious mental impairment. >> reporter: she released a firestorm with audio of her firing of her firing with white house chief of staff john kelly from the white house situation om which is a stunning security breach.

>> the presidentore blunt with his former protege. >> reporter: she's a low life esd the ent's critics slam her claim that she heard a tape using the "n" word. the white house calls her a former disgruptlntled employee. >> to settle scores you've got to be anti-trump to be successful. >> reporter: manigault newman says there's more tapes but hasn't decided whethero release them. >> she did sign a non-disclosure agreement. pat? >> susan, thank you. as for omarosa taping her coersation with john kelly inside the situation room, sstional circuit court experts are expg alarm about a serious breach of protocol. that sry is published in nbc washington app an search omarosa. d.c. mayor murual bowser is back in el saffold dore th afternoon. the mayor interrupted her trade mission to return to town

yesterday to monitor the unite the right demonstrations. shs expected to sign a agreement promoting commercial ties. tomorrow she visits a small town once home to a lot of salvadorans now liv ig here washington. alberto pimienta is in el salvador with the mayor and will have continuing coverage right skre on news 4. >> the rs are practicing with the jets for a second day in richmond, and things got little chippy in the first day today. our sherree burruss is here to give us a look at the scene. did they behave a ltle better today? >> much, much better, leon. there was practically no fighting, just one or two scuffles as two superowl alumni watched on the shrine. super bowl xxvi stars bred edwards and darrell greene, thes don't mishe hits or the practice they told us.

burgundy and gold faithful remember them for this memorable performance from theills and darrell greene still looks like he could play a the age of 58.e now, from th two guys who know a thing or two about winning, the former redskins optimti is yefrar'som squad. >> reporter: the big thing is the whole idea of coming together. i like the way they responded to yesterday's fight. they said, man, we're not here to we're here to get better. to me, when you get guys who mature lik that and are thinking that way who are going to come together like that, you have a chance. >> got to stay healthy. if you look a last year's trajectry. the way it started and the way itsh fied, that was the common denominator or most impactful piece. athletically there's not a great dustup between them and the rest league. the the experience and identity in my mind. >> reporter: greene and edwards are working together at george mason.

edward is the aletic director while greene is the associatea. live from richmond, sherree burruss, news 4 sports. >> you're right, darryl could play. i agree wityoun that one, sherree. see you in arit. sum comes to an early end for a dozal locschools. >> up next on news 4, a look at the first day back for thursdays of students and the strategy behind the early start. could other districts follow suit? doug is also trackingeevs.er sttroracmsking these two storms here. is one is about to move in towards arlington and into parts of washington, d.c. heads up in this aa. we mayet a new warning for this one up towards the bethesda area and t sn thisrm right here still very strong just to the west of the gaithersburg area. this ones starting to show signs of increased intensity as well over the last fivto ten inutes. know when you're at ross shopping for backpacks... ...and mom also gets a back-to-school bag? that's yes for less. ross has the brands you want for back to school. and it feels even better when you find them for less.

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fks, we're in weather alert mode. amelia draper is standing by in the storm center. amelia? right now doug and i are tracking severe thunderstorms with incredibly heavy rainfall right now on rhear. coming up we'll let you know how long this lasts and what to expect tomorrow on your tuesday. ♪ ♪whoaaa-oooaaaa ♪as long as the suns up... ♪there's no holding back.♪ ♪whoaaa-oooaaaa ♪and every moment, ♪you gotta make it last.

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right now the skies are dark over nationalarbor. doug and ameliaon tracking strg thunderstorms in the region. they are back soon to show you when they could hitig your orhood. >> it may still be summer, but thousands of kids across the eaded back te school today. this is with a the first day of school for 13 city schools that have an extended school year. news 4's aimee khoe caught up with students at cook elementary. >> what will everyone think when you're not there? >> reporter: even though summer was shorter for kids at cook elementary but kids don't mind school the page on a year a little bit earlier. >> my friends are here. i love the teachers.

i love books here. >> so good. i've been here in an empty building the last foureeks so to have the little bodies back ln the building makes it feel more like a schnd the energy is contagious. >>ee's lwe i s cf an the kids s cool longer at the end of the year to give them extra time for learning and make sure theyor don'tt it over the summer. >> do you like school? >> yeah. >> why do you like school? >> i like the school so i can learn new things. >> hello. happy first day of school. >> reporter: dropping by today . interim executive amanda alexander. you are kindergartners? >> yeah. >> i can tell you. look like kindergartners. >> it excites me, and it makes me feel good that they want to be here. >> yes, adrian. >> reporter: and though the little learners are ready to read this school year, that's not the only reason they are

excited. at cook elementary northwest, aimee cho, news 4. >> all the public school students will be back in wlass onk from today. summer is over, kids. >> oh, yeah. >> but they are happy to be in school. a new program giving a voice to some of those who often go up heard. new at 5:00 today, the story of how words are healing some of those behind the bars of the arlington county jail. jim handley is in our newsroom to tell us more about this story. jim? >> this is a great story. everybody has a story toell, right, but sometimes the voices of those who find themselves on the wrong side of the law are ignored. well, now there's a program putting the power to the words some localle inmates whi giving them an outlet. our nicole jacobs will have their story. plus, privacy concerns surrounding google after an investigation to discover the internet giant is tracking your location without your permission and even when you don't think it

is. ahead at 5:00 tonight, how it's getting t information and what you may be able to doo not be tracked. i think you guysiore in the st the thing about tv, we always know where we are. >> we're easy to track. >> thanks a lot, jim i >> see you just a bit here. >> let's get back to our team coverage of the weathow. we're in weather alert mode. >> doug and amelia are monitoring severe thunderstorm warnings for some f you right now. where are they moving? >> continuing to tra these righ now and putting them in motion. we're watching them become severe aroundhe d.c. metro area. >> we're tracking very heavy wind outside our studios. two severe thunderstorm warnings out there rignd now tracking a flood warning back in pardons of madison and rappahannock and culpepper county. >> two severe thunderstorm warnings going until 5:0 and waiting to see if the weather service actually continues these warnings. thesenetorms have wea a ,ittle bit over d.c.

still, very very heavy rain associated with these and more storms up to the north arod frederick county and howard county and carroll county and a few more as well towards annapolis area. these are the two that have prompted warnings. one thing you notice right away with this storm. not a lot of lightning here, but as i tol you, this will move right over towards d.c. over the arlington area in towards parts of northwest washington and around bethesda and chevy chase coming through. thisas had a lot of hail associated with it and a fell tree dow around prince william county and a lot of hail around bu and now it's looking a little bit less of a hail threat west of downtown. it's clipping a littl bit of downtown, too. alexandria you're in the warning. it's not coming your s way. thrm to the north. we've got rockville and gaithersburg underneath a severe warning. look at all the this storm.with we could start to see hail out of this srm and more towards thevi late area.

all of these rotating around an area of low press ce. you see that here. you can see the ring of fire here with the lightning associated witht. we could see more storms develop as we make our way through theifying. the strong storms, the rain may be the biggest factor here. we're talking about this because we've seen so much rain over the last month. >> can't catch a break. the national weather service issued a flash flood watch for most of us that will 10:00 p.m. ton. this inclusion the entire d.c. metroin area. george's, fairfax county, as well as arlington and the distri and alexandria under this flash flood watch. we've already had reports of three and a half inches of rain with one thunderstorm in parts of rappahannock. turn around,ry don't never drive through a flooded roadway. here's the flash flood warning in effect for parts of rappahannock until 5:30 in the evening so another 40 heminutes. 's statistics for you and

i'll post them on facebook and twitter as well so check them out. 9 of the last d0s completely dry at reagan national. this is a statistic from capital climate, a fantastic following on twitter. from mid-july to mid-august we're the third wettest on record hand another stat from terp weather, and another great follow onth w. we've had the most flash flood watches and warnings ithe nation since july 10th. just to give you an idea of how wet it's been around here. doug, for the commuters out the tonight, a lot of kids coming home for the first day contending with e heavy rainfall. it's looking dry out there tomorrow morning, doug, but more showers and thunderstorms later in the day tomorrow but likely not as intense as what we're tracking across the area right now. >> we'll track those right on through the area tomorrow, too. flash flood watch tonight continues until sock. the two storms waiting to see if we get another severe thunderstorm warning around the gaithersburg area and points just to the north of that region

and right around the d.c. metro area seeing very strong storms there as well. next couple of days. let's time this oe as move on through the day. a high of 87. hot on wednesday and not too humid. a high of 91. humidity returns on thursday ana frid back to the low to mid-90s on friday with a high temperature of 94 and then a chance of storms,yeah, continues, again, gu, for seven of the next ten days so continue to keep the umbrella handy. disappointing is the way the baltimore chief describes seeing an office other punching a man and pushing him to the ground. we eel ear about to show you this video and we want to warn you it may be disturbing. the officer was suspended the same day and resigned on sunday. served less than two years on th force. today the baltimore police departmentdmitted the video shows there are deficiencies in their training. a lawyer f the man who was punched say c hislient has

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control tower and questionsn the ground. >> what is the guy doing? >> reporter: wno now what richard russell was doing. >> just a broken guy. got a few screws loose i guess. never really knew him until now. >> the baggage handler at at sea-tack airport. >> as friends and family andig inveors search for answer. some are concerned the incident may have revealed a dgerous flaw in security procedures. >> we're fortunate in the sense that it wasn't a terrorist or somebody who was focused on causing mass destruction. wh this incident did was demonstrate a vulnerability that is still existing here. almost 17 years after 9/11. >> thousands of workers and mechanics had the same access russell had. >> might need to be a procedure

in place where if you're not a pilot or flight attendant you're not allowed on the plane unless there is someone there responsible for t >> as airports across the country now consider the possibility of an insider attack. jay gray. nbcews. such a difficult loophole to close and a difficult story to cover there in so many different ways. pat and jim,y definit this won't be the last that we hear from this investigation. following it.l be >> leon, thank you so much. >> here's a look at what we're working on for news 4 at 5 now. right now at 5:00, a storm team 4 w alert and severe storms roll through our area and quite the sceneut there right now. check out this video of what appears to be hl. this sent in by viewers in manassas and burke, >> meanwhile a look at some pictures now showing the storms approaching. the skies are macing over

several areas. we're hearing thunder, for example, as the rain begins o t fallut here in northwest washington. rm >> s team 4's tracking is all for you this evening from storms and the potential for flooding once it comes. >> boy, we're starting out the week on a noisy note, folks. doug and amelia are in the sto center right now. this will get worse before better, right it is. >>e've got a good warning here. taking a look a this warning. >> put this into motion, want to show you where the storms are. theail hti pot is here for the time. >> we're getting reports of wind damage and some tnes are d into houses across the area. you can see where the storms se are. re thunderstorm warning and in fact for d.c. and prince george's county, alsoea extreme ern montgomery county. this is until 5:45 tonight. 5:45 tonight for this storm right here. v

anothey intense storm around gaithersburg and the rockville area. n you see where this one is right here through d.c. the storm itself has been weakening little bit, but now back into severe mode into downtown and right across. here's george avenue right here. this is 16th street so making its way over towards college park and towards the bowie areaw north andt of bowie, and back to the west. around ngaithersburg,ice around rockville, 270 here, just a nasty mess this ening. here we are heading into rush tur on 270. going to continube a mess as we make our way with this storm. not a warm. storm this warning expired at 5:00. do have a severe warning on this storm yet. wouldn't be surprised if we see one moving to the north. more storms. one over towards annapolisrend in and around our area and all rotating around this big o ar low pressure. much more on this. i'm back in just a couple of minutes. >> wd evening. thanks, doug. right now detectives believe