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 they have the man who could be

behind more than a dozen sex crimes. these are just the spots coming up here in virginia. there are more in d.c. news 4's mark segraves is live for us in arlington. mark, how did they catch this guy? >> yeah, it was good old-fashioned police work. two cops in d.c. saw him actingt suspiciously a mask, and when they chased him down they arrested him and got the dna off of him and that matched several cases. as you said, b he'n charged in five separate cases in d.c. and virnia but is a suspect in nine more cases here in virginia including three blocks on karar clendon avenue here alone. >> police had a big description of aan wearing a hoodie. a man would sneak up behind

women and expose himself and sometimes try to grab the women in their pvate areas. >> horrendous and disgusting. >> very good to get a predator off the street. >> last week police arrested 34-year-old santiago rodriguez campos after two d.c. police officers spotted him as he was sneaking up on a woman wearing a mask. afolice caught him they were able to get his dna which matched several on cases in d.c. and arlington. he's now been charged with four sexuse cases in the distri. two from 2016 and two from this year. he's also beenh charged w one but in arlington from 2017, arlington county police say he's a suspect in at o least nineer cases. >> obviously this is somebody who has been doing this behavior for a long time so in addition to our detectives reviewing hethis, we're asking public to come forward if they have any information about the activitie

plaintiffampos so we can investigate them. >> police in d.c. and virginia say they expect the list of victims to grow as their investigation continues. >> we're examining a cases that we have and see what cases he could be a suspect in. >>e do anticipate additional charges are pending again p him. ice in d.c. and virginia are searching back through years of open sexuaabuse cases to see if he's a suspect in any of those. he was arreste at his home in virginia. he's married and a father of two young children. that's the very latest he in arlington. back to you guys in the stud g. >> you'veot to wonder how many more victims could be out there. mark segraves, mark, thank you. pat? >> omarosa manaigault newman ha more recordings from her time she's been on a media blitz ahead of the release of her new book "unhinged" in which she levels a number of accusations against the president.

leon harris with a closer look at what she's saying today. leon? >> pat, omarosa is saying thet presid himself talked often about the importance of taping his enemies well, we've now heard recording that she has shared with nbc, including a call withhe president, and another in which she says the chief of staff john kelly brought her to the situation room to fire her. >> i was really, really surprised that he would implicate himself. that's when you know someone is mentally challenged when they uld even jeopardize their own livelihood by saying thing that are just insanet times. >> so if the team pressed the president to lie to lester holt. >> they encouraged him to lie every day. >> the president told lester that he fired ed comey quote for the russia thing. when asked why if the president and others in the administration are told to e, why did she

stay on as long as she did? well, omarosa talked about a lack of diversity among west wing staff. >> right now there is african-american senior staffer in the white house, and are issues that face this community that can't be ig ared. th making decisions about us without us. >> as you might expect the president d not take this quietly. he fired off a series of tweets targeting omarosa calling her wacky, vicio and not smart. commentsays that those raise concerns about a pattern in which the president appears to attackfhe intelligence african-americans who disagree with him. now back to the recordings. asked earlier on the "today" y recordeshe apparen john kelly in one of the most secure rooms in the white house, if not in the world, omarosa saidote, leave it to your imagination. pat, over to you. >> all right. thanks, leon. the president is also taking aim at the russia probe today

focusing on peter strzok who has beenired from the fbi. strzok has been a lightning rod for conservatives andor fe punching bag of the president over his text messages with an fbi lawyer that weritical of mr. trump. special counsel robert mueller removed strzok from his teahe after discovery of those messages, and an attorney for n strzok tellsbc news the termination goes against the disciplinary review that called for strzok to be demoted and suspended for 60 days. strzok's lawyer accused the deputy director of bowing to sspolitical pree. there's calls for metro's chief to be let go over alcusations that the transit agency gave spereatments to participants in the white supremacist rally. some including the union representing its union said metro did exactly what i would not do. news 4's darcy spencer is live for us at the foggy station with a closer look at

thiser contr. darcy? >> reporter: well, jim, you'll remember leading up to the unith right rally metro officials made it very clear they were not going to provide any special accommodations for white nationalists, white supreme court sifts coming here for this real, but critics are saying that is exactly what happened yesterday afternoon, andyhat's metro's union is calling for the gm to be fired. news 4 was there as metro transitolicescorted jason kesler and other white nationalists to a metro train car at the vienna station. they were headed to d.c. for the controversial unite the right rally. nstro officials had said there were no pla to provide separate or special accommodations for the group, but critics say they clearly did. >> do yo feel at this point that metro lied to the public? >> i think that metro miscommunicated. >> robert white is an at-large member of the d.c. council. he says he was from us trade by

what he saw play out on tv and social media police escorted demonstrators through the vienna metro station and on to a separate train car at the backf anrange line train. >> last night like every other resident that had the expectation that these far right folks would not be given special accommodations and special cars i felt misled and verytr fred. >> the union that represents bus and train operators sent out a strongly word statement saying metro lied. the statement says the speciala mmodations for a hate rally in washington, d.c. was dishonest, unprecedented and not a reflection of the prince pls of atu local 679r d.c. values. the overall police strategy was to keep white nationalists separated from counterdemonstrators to prevent violence. >> we did restrict traffic, and we did keep theup g separate. >> reporter: the metro's general

manager did put out an e-mail today thanking employees for their service yesterday and providing safe transportation in what he called excellent customer service. heid not address the union's call for his termination. pat, back to you. >> all right, darcy spencer. darcy. u, new at 5:00 a pregnant woman's boyfriend is getting released on home detenti before trial after police say he set her on fire. charged withs is two charges of attempted murder. woman gave birth to a baby girl seven weeks premgeurely. the j granted the release this morning because dna evidence has not come back. phillips has to wear an ankle device while at home. a trial is expected sometime in december. o the famila manassas mother of five is mourning her death tonight. the victim's body was foundur early sy inside a home where she had been visiting an

acquaintance. now the man accused of beating her is charged with murder. our bureau chief juley c has been talking to neighbors today about this shocking discovery. julie? >> reporter: hi, jim. well, neighbors here declined to do on-camera interviews today, but they have shared with us the frightening moments that woke some of them f up onday night. now the house back there with the red brick, that's where the victim's body was found. this the house right next door, that's where an 84-year-old man came running for help. >> teri jo hilbrand was visiting a home t ofs man david wolfe. wolfe's elderly stepfather was awakened by the commotion and ran to see what happened. >> he located a family member who also residesom in the on top of a person assaulting them with a blunt object. >> reporter: when he couldn't stop wolfe, he ran for helpo t

me police arrived teri jo hilbrand was dead found lying inside the front door, her attacker still inside. >> he was located in another area of the home by our officers, and he was arrested withoutin dent. >> reporter: investigators are still looking into whether t injuri were self-inflicked or came from the scuffle. and dale wolfe is now facing a murder charge. he's being held without bond at prince william county adult detention center. julie. carey, news >> leon harris here with late-break news coming to the live desk. we're working on a story, a very tragic story in fairfax police say that a child has died after falling out of a window on seminary road in falls church, and we believe that this happened at the skyline towers building which happens to be the same building where a 3-year-old

died back in maye afterll out of a window. we've go the our jackie benson headed there to the scene, and as soon as show checks in with us we'll have a live report coming up. >> thank you, leon. privas concern surrounding one of the world's biggest internet. ahead, the infortion you're giving to google even though you think you stopped track your physical whereabouts. >> months after announcing her retirement, the green of soul aretha franklin is said to be seriously ill. right now we've got an update on her condition from someone who saw her today. andtorm team 4 is tracking the chance of severe weather and flash floods. liug and amea are backin the

storms out there right now bringing sure hail to region and the threat of flooding. doug is tracking the conditions right now j hens us in just a few minutes with the full weather outlook. oore breaking newsn a busy afternoon. prosecutors in the paul manafort trial have rested their case. they called 27 witnesses over ten days. they are trying to prove that manafort lied to avoid paying taxes on mlions of dollars in income. manafort's defense will now have a chance to call witnesses. well, a lot of us use google every day. some have turned off our location histo we can't be tracked, but now an explosive

new report that suggests the security feature still allows the company to follow you. nbc's liz mclaughlin has our privacy at risk report now and ho police are using it to find suspects. >> traffic is light as usual. >> reporter: google's app's can help you find destination, personalize a search and even help you remember where you parked your car.ve that cence is thanks to a slew of personal data including yourlocation. >> if they know you go to mcdonald's a lot, you'll start to see mcdonald's ads, and those ads are very valuable to google. >> reporter: even ae g maps feature that tracks a minute-by-minute account of yore whereaboos. convenientome and freak toe others. according to a google support page there owes salethingd location history that urs can pause, but that may not stop from gathering your information. according to an investigation by the associated press, google apps us amatically store time stamped location data of users without their permission. this data has been usedaw by

enforcement to determine the location of suspects such as this warrant served by police in raleigh, north carolina last week to find devices near a murder scene. >> this debate over, you know, privac t versus kind of benefits you get from these different services will continue to rage on. >> reporter: turning your phone off may be the onl way to stay off therid. liz mcl lip, nbc news. >> wl, we've got storms out there this afternoon. let check in with doug and amelia. how is it looking right w? >> coming pretty fast across the area. some of us seeing srain,e not much at all. >> the flash flood watch will be in effect until 10:00 p.m. tonight. we're looking mainly dry overnight and then more storms potentially tomorrow, doug. >> let's show you and show storm team 4 radar where the storms are. notice back to the west, hagerstown, fredericks and winchester and around leesburg. these storms a all off to the east, and they continue to move that way.

ige severe thunderstorm warning with this storm here. severe thunderstorm warning for prince george's county down to 545. we've had numerous trees down with this storm as it made itsr way prince william county in towards fairfax county. d.c. a tree down along a car ght along massachusetts avenue and right along rook creek and even an injury with that, but fortunately minor injuries there. another tree down on a house around the burns-howard drive area in aspen hill. zoom on in. notice where this is around laurel. a wt of lightningh this and some hail still with this storm. this storm is moving right up i-95. it's going to be a ms of a night on 95. look at 220, also a mess and you can see the inner county connecto will be a mess there as well. all this during the evening rush and more sorrmsng right around 301 towards clinton and down towards walledore and the quantico area. these are all movingast. any one of them could become quite strong. we have thisod flash f watch until sock.

>> this is for the entire d.c. metro area, montgomery county districtgton and the as well. areas farther north and well. all of the areas in solid green will be under the flash flood watch until 10:00 tonight. earlier tod the ver heavy thunderstorm that moved through parts of rappahannock, culpepper and madison counties before heading off to the east dropped about 3.5 inches in parts of rappahannock cnty. that's incredibly impressive. it did prompt a flash flood warning to be issued but that's been since been answered. if you come across a flooded roadway never drive through it. you don't know how deep that water, is especially as thear s to go down. here's a look at the total rainfall amounts eimated b our radar over the last 12 hours. c athe afternoon hours, wnanyon ts s of rappahannock and culpepper and madison counties at 2.5 inches. prince william and fauquier counties a picking up inch of rain and more in parts of montgomery county.

eiunder an inch roared. frederick county, under half an inch right now. what i'm showinge you h are storm reports across the area. all of these circles are indicating some report ofen incl weather from today, from these thunderstorms this afternoon. some of them have reports of hail and some with reports of damage. take a look, one does just mention. we're headingo the scene to see exactly what it's like. right at warside drivee did have thunderstorm damage of a tree down and that did impact a car. now,s weook to tomorrow afternoon, more scattered showers and thunderstorms are in the forecast. ke otlylie n a g stormet chances f into the weekend. >> areawide rainfall and we still have a strong thunderndorm or two maybe even a strong thunderstorm tomorrow. high temperature 87 and a little less hum and 91 on wednesday. hot, again, not too humid and the humidity moves right back in thursday and friday and highs in

the mid-90s thursday and friday with a chance a of stormin friday all the way through the middle of next week. we've seen a tremendous amount of rain over the past month or so. it looks like that trend will continueight on into next week. doug, thank you. he was caughtn camera repeatedly punching a man in the face. now the officer in e center of this case is leaving the job. up next at he5:00, t bigger impa this is having on baltimore's police department. plus, an inn consistent bystander killed by a stray bullet in the middle of a shootout. shootout. the message tod fromay h

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a severe thunderstorm warning with this storm. we still have the other onecet prgeorge's county and eastern montgomery county at 5:45 and now for howard county and northern portions of anne county. watch out in this area. this area until 5:45 towards the sage areaowards laurel and towards columbia and south of baltimore. i-95 is going to be a mess tonight over the next hour to two hours. much more on these storms. see you back here in five. >> right at the rush hour. doug, thank you. the redskins are practicing with the jetsor second straight day. not the kind of fighting we saw yesterdahe ouree burruss joins us now live from richmond to tell us about one playerugho is t to get other and is fighting to

stay. sherree? >> yeah, jim, it was a fight-free practice between the redskins and jets here today. we saw maybe one or two scuffles break out, but really the onlyf ghting we saw were for roster spots. there was a new face for redskins fans out t here on field today. number 88,il dan wliams iii. he caught oured eye iiately making some nice grabs just on day one. but the jets defense already knows what williams is capable of after just cutting him from their practice squad. this just another hurdle he's overcome in trying to make it to the nfl. >> i'm from east st. louis, linois, you know, a tough place growing up. like top three murr rate, and it's just like a kid like me to have rea that --al thate figure to tell meea how to ld was, it was kellen winslow. he came from my high school and i just had to, you know, me

coming from jackson state i to work harder. hard work took me here. all thear h work put into this nfl stuff, but i just told him i'm jus like you, so he's helping me get there, get to my goal. >> so if you noticedli ws is so new he didn't even have the name yet on the back of his jersey, but trying to make a name for himself out here for the redskins. jim, back to you. >> hopefully that won't be the case for good for him. just trying to be great. that'shat he said. good for him. sherree, see you at 6:00. the coacht the university of maryland football team upped fire today from the family of a student athlete who died after practice. today news 4 talks to jordan mcnai uncle about the tragedy and what should happen> next. young guy was promising.

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at waterside drive in northwest. this i a very busy area for commuters at this hour. a woman was taken to the hospital with some minor injuries. we understand crews are clearing out that tree still right now. doug is in thetorm center tracking all these storms. something tells me we'll see a lot more trees c wing down. >>ve seen them all day today. reports of trees down with this storm right hehe. this is last two hours from prince william county from fairfax and d.c. and prince george's. seen trees down all along the way and seen hail associated with that there is more right now going on. severe thunderstorm warnings still in place for northern prince george's county and anne arundel county and as well towards howard county. that until 6:00 tonight. take a loo at whe this storm is. right over laurel here over towards savage around odenton and down towards extremely heavy rainfall. can you see the roads here. this is 29. this is 95. you've got route a 1 the vw

o parkway. downe south more rain right along 301 just south of the upper marlboro i area and through parts of prince george's county and more down towards charles county, too. all of this moving east. we'll continue to update you on where the storms are going and what's coming next. see you back here in a minute. >> now to the scandal within the university of maryland's football program. >> player jordan mcnair died after collapsing on the field from heat stroke. now accusations of toxic and abusive coaching are plaguing the big tschool. >> let's get some new information now. bureau chief tracy wilkins is talking tonight to mcnair's family about his life and his school. >> i had just cut his hair that saturday before that friday a before he wey. never thought i would never see that boy alive again. >> reporter: william tarrant is hearroken over the death of his nephew, umd football player jordan mcnair. >> next tim saw him is when i

was cutting his hair to get him ready for the epfuneral. >>ter: he's very clear on what happened to his 19-year-old nephew. >> the university of maryland killed my nephew. the training staff and peopl killedhim. >> reporter: mcnair suffered heat stroke during a may football practice at the university o maryland. two weeks later he died. the university of maryland has placed a fewcoaches, including the head coach d.j. durkin, on administrative leave. an attorney representing durkin's family called for him to be fired aft an espn investigation showed an abusive and toxic environment tha may have contributed to jordan's death. the president releaseata ent saying the university of maryland is committed to a football program that's safe and hune and whereur student athletes are successful in their athletic and academicndeavors. but for jordan's family they may never trust this university again. >> they knew what was going on down there. they knew.

we did. we didn't know. his mother didn't. obviousl we wouldn't have p him in harm's way like that. >> reporter: a sports med cane consulting firm is doing its own independent investigaon into exactly what happened here. the university of maryland is going to share that information by september 15th. in college park, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. now the attorney representing jordan's family said sunday they will most likely file a civil lawsuit, but they are waiting on the results of that investigation that tracee just mtioned. d.c. mayor muriel bowser is back in el salvador. she interrupted his trade mission to return to towner yey to monitor the unite the right demonstrations. while in el will salvador she's expected to sign an agreement promoting commercialowies. tomorrhe visits a small town once hom to a lot of salvadorans now living here in washington vi newnce uncovered in the shooting deaths of the two

girls in fairfax county. the person accused of killing them was their own mother. veronica youngblood is charged with the death of her 5-year-old daughter brooklyn and teenage daughte sharon castro. the shootings happened last week. he teenager died over the weekend. court documents revealed that a cleaning company uncovered a eletter insid the apartment. it was written in spanish in aa detectives details the murder. police say now have letter. court records show lengthy divorce proceedings with youngblood's ex-husband. a shoing during the middle of the day and a recent american univerty graduate student caught in the crossfire. matthew shlonsky had just n epped out of an uber w gunfire erupted three years ago in the district. today a judge sentenced the men accused of taking part in that shooting. news 4 owes derrick ward has reaction from the victim's cousinbout a life cut short.

this surveillance video shows the moments when shots were fired just outside the shaw howard subway university station back in august of 2015. a shootoutmo three people left an innocent bystander dead. matthew shlonsky, a recent graduate of american university, was getting out of an uber near seventh and s and was shot in the chest killing himst intly. >> we couldn't believe it. what were the chances of that happening. >> reporter: a cousin of the victim were in court for the sentcing of the three men who last month pled guilty in the death. the judge called alere d and marcus king, both 22 years and 28-year-old christoph proctor reckless before sentencing the three. dudley will serve 18.5 years, proctor 12 to 14 years and king 15 to 20 years. the family had asked for more time. >> the loss ofhim, the devastation to his family, impacted me worse than any loss i've had in my entire life. >> reporter: chrisocpher r, the only one of the three to speak in court apologized to the victim's oo

family and full responsibility for his actions on that day back of august of 15. >> i think it's a shape. it's scarey. >> there were other people, people who hadiv to d for cover or had guns pointed at them on a beautiful sunday afternoon in a place where many believeddn coul happen anymore. derrick ward, news 4. disappointing is the way baltimore's police chief describes this video showing an officere punching a man and push tg him to ground here. this video surfaced online on saturday. that officer was suspended the same day a resigned on sunday. he served less than two years on the force. todayhe baltimore police department aitted this video shows there are, quote, deficiencies itheir training. >> we're trained. we should be trained to never act inn emotional way, particularly when it comes to engaging with citizens, and,

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strong and severe thunderstorms moving through the area. the heaviest activity is along and east of i-59 where a stoere thunde warning is in effect for parts of anne arundel and howard county in effect until 6:00 p.m. savage, marylandd up aro columbia really under the gun right now. a lot of lightning and the fpotential gusty winds. this is moving towards the glenn burney area. storms willd down by 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. mainly dry. more storms possible tomorrow. doug and i have that timing u comi ♪ you make me feel like a natural woman ♪

>> the family of aretha fraislin sking for prayers this evening as the queen of soul is said to be in grave. conditi the 76-year-old recently announced plans to retire after a career spanning more than five decades. franklin h the most grammy awards more than any foe mail singer ever. i frandown but she is not out. >> it canake several years to find a suitable donor and a lot of people with kidney disease don't survive the wait but tonight there's new hope for people who may be waiting for transplants. doreen against le is here with o study that a lot of promise. doreen? >> it has a lot of potential, pat. it cavld be a life for a lot of people on dialysis waiting to are a kidney transplant. a new study shows hundreds of kidneys infected with hepatitis b" not available for transplant

right now coulde saving lives. a procedure is being done at medstar georgetown university hospital, but right now only on patients who already have hepatitis "c." after the kidney transplant, patients are given medicine that cures the hep "c." >> i took the chance and i looked at my daughtersnd wife and i said, you know, i want to spend more time with them. >> we look for ways to not waste the kidneys. the last thing we want to do with 100,000 people waiting for kidneys is to waste any of them. >> we'll talk to a patient who had lot of success and a surprising role that the heroin epidemic plays when it comes to the kidney donations. an important story that we'll for you tonight at 6:00. ji >> all right. thanks, doreen. well, it's back to school for some childrenur area, and like any parent you want yos to succeed. up next at 5:00, what change you can make to their routine

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storms out there right now bringing heavy downpours, folks, and the threat of more heavy flooding. doug and amelia are tracking the conditions right now and will s in a couple of minutes with the update. w wt to head back to some breaking news right now in fairfax county. one child is dead after falling from a window at the skyline towers in falls church. our jackie benson live on the scene with the latest. what are you learning, ckie? >> well, jim, you could see over here this is the area that

police are surrounding right we believe that is where the child fell. we do not have any informati on the child's age or whether it's a boy or a girl. but that is the same are where a child fell from the windows in wsy. ne4's julie carey tells me this is the third time in three years a child has fallen fro these windows. twof those incidents have been fatalities. i talked to a resident of the building a short time ago who said that there have been a number of pple in the building who have asked that the window locks on those windo be made stronger. he said that they are very flimsy nylon locks and people are very, very concerned about this. again, we do not havef a lot information at this time, but we are shortly expecting a pressnf ence from fairfax county police and hopefully we will get

some more information. live in fairfax county, jackie benson, news 4. back to you. >> all right,ie ja thank you. there's a new exhibit at arngton national cemetery honoring a century of womene in marine corps. 100 years ago the first woman enlisted in the marines. when women first started joining in world war 1 they were limited to desk jobs. a lot has changed since then. >> back when i was in, we certainly at that time, we were not train as they are now to do whatever is needed and be deployed wherever it's neeitd. >> even expanded roles women today only make up about e 8% o marines. >> serving their country. >> all right.

let's get the word on the weather, folks. we have a busy weather d there, so what's the worst of it right now, guys? >> right now it's all east of the d.c. metro area from baltimore right on down through southernand and down to fredericksburg forming a bit of a line there. west of d.c. we may be out of the wds for the most part. >> we're still most of us under a flashat flood until sock tonight and we could see additional thunderstorms develop and never drivehrough a flooded roadway. >> absolutely not. >> take a look at where the storms are now. strongest storms in through portions of anne arundel county. so for howard and northern anaren dull that goes to 6:00 and this area aund baltimore. flash flood warning for baltimore and numerous storms forming right over baltimore right now. lookt this line that has just formed. these storms have all just come together over the last five to ten minutes. you see these over to bowie and the crostonme area. we'll n in. you can see it right along

croston and right along 50. ese are very strong thunderstorm active. a lot of lightning and very heavy rainfall. no warnings yet. w if thereas to be a inwa most of anne aren dull a-- of a. most of t is rotating around an area of low pressure. you can see this line right. he that's the line with the severe weather with. it not much going on behind it. are we done? maybe for the next couple of hours. not quite yet. i want to see and go t back this before i get out just to see if they do issue a warning for this right here because we hear it. nope, nope. severe thunderstorm warning for baltimore now. f that's baltimore and extreme northernde anne ar county. we could see some storms stillp pop overnight. >> seen a lot of damage reports today. trees down into houses. we've had reports of hail out theres well.

strong wind gusts. at the airport reagan national, the was wind gust of 51 miles per hour and university boulevard at route is in college park, we have a lot of large trees down into houses. we'll head there and check out the scene. we also had tree down at waterside drive by rock creek park. this is a massive area if you're trying to get out o town so traffic likely a mess out there tonight. take a look. this is aatlash flood in effect for the d.c. metro area. this includes prince george, arlington, arlington, fairfax and montgomery counties0 until 10.m. tonight. we saw the storms moving through areas like rappahaock and culpepper counties earlier today andt around about 3:00 p.m. we had reports in rappahannock county of about 3.5 inches o rainfall falling in parts of rappahannock county. these were very heavy rain-makers. when you look back to tomorrow and evenack covering the weather this weekend, dealing with stronger thunderstorms

moving through the area especially yesterday and today we continue to seat damage reports. it's cerinly been a wet month out there, even heading into s mid-july i been super wet out there. we are now the third wettest mid-july to mid-august o record, and we're going to continue to see, again, more rainfall out there tonight. as we take a look hopefully now -- there you go. there are the stats. so mid-july to mid-august, the third wettest on record and get this. we've had the most flash flood and flood watches and warnings issued in the nation out of everybody since july 10th, and we've only, doug, had nine out of the last 30 days completely by across the area. so certainlyn wet out here again. most of us under thelo flash watch until 10:00 p.m. tonight. we get a break outth there unti midday hours and more scattered showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for tuesday aft evening. >> yeah. we may get a couple of days here wenesday and thursday whe may get a little bit of a break.

87 tomorrow and 40% chance of afternoon storms. any srms that form tomorrow do have a chance of strong to severe storms. 91 on wednesday and 92 on thursday. a little bit more humidity on thursday and friday a high of 94 degrees and a good chance of t storre. take a look all the way into the middle of next week. talking about a chance of storms each and every day. we're f by not out of the roads as far as the rain and flood concerns continue. >> thank you, doug. for some parents andgs yors, sleepy summer days are just about over and the days of barelg sleepn are over. this week students go back to school in spotsylvania and fauquier county and parts of virginia and students at 13 schools are back in class as part of the city's extended school year program and doctors are pencouragingents to put the focus on healthier sleep schedules saying it can help kids do betr in the classroom.

>> did you know each school day your child is taking in several streams of iormation at any given moment, and we're not talking about just what's on theirmartphone or tablet screens. >> in the classroom kids areo attending five or six different things as once. the lessonplan, learning, following the teachers socialcu . all of their friends social cues. >> a poor cght's rest disrupt all of this and over time derail learning. dr. daniel leeuwen is a slope specialist at children's national hospital and says now m is the to take steps to improve your child's sleep and yours, too. one quick and easy way. >> eliminating devices within half an hour or an hour o bedtime optimally is very important because devices provide light which changes the sleeve wave schedule. >> reporter: how much sleep does your child need? perhaps morehan you real i'd. our age and natural c bodycks can determine our sleep needs but in general younger people m just neede sleep.

>> teenagers need between 8.5 and 9.5 hrs of sleep a night and that's older teens. younger teens in the 12 to 14 age range need closer to 9.5 to 10.5 hours of sleep. >> the younger the child the more sleep they need. newborns as much as 16 hours a night and elementary schoolers just under 12 hours. if you're not on a schedule yet, can you start by dialing back bedtime an hour earlier each week until you fall into a healthy rhythm. justin finch. news 4. >> good luck. >> dial back one hour. >> boy, my sle schedule is all over the place. way beyond school. >> what's your excuse? >> work. >> everybody has their own story sd sometimes the voi of those who find themselves on the wrong side of the law are ignored. >> ahead at 5:00 the program helping them put power to their words. >> and storm team 4 following our sev oe weather there. an update from doug

everyone has a story, ande rlington county sheriff's office and the nonprofit program heard are giving inmate a creative outlet to shareni thei. t they honored winners in the first ever inmate creative writing contes news 4's nicole jacobs interdueses us to one writer who never knew he had the talent until now.

>> some kind of cold metal bracelet. >> reporter: some never understand the power of words. >> it was a beautiful sunday morning. eporter: until their own words become healing. >> i'm the worsp that k. >> reporter: and putting pen to paper inmates have the arlington county detention facility speak their truth. >> i'mbo dreamingut the future and i dream about the past. >> reporter: nine winnersere chosen. >> i dream about the mountains and i dream about the sea. i dreamf all the places that i would rather be. >> reporter: this man 26 years old locked up forossession of heroin has been here before. >> now this isn't my first time it. i struggled with addiction for a while, but i'm trying to overcome it. >> reporter: but just recently he began writing.

>> reporter: his fst place po written for his brother who is serving life. >> he pretty much tol me sometimes he feels wrong for having big dreams because he's no going to be able to fulfill them >> even juan's dreams arehi stalled be the jim suit and time behind bars and time to explore creativity and release emotion. >> i'm going to have a hard time talking about their emotions, and because it'sev true. yone does have a story, but he hopes to make t as just part of his and now how it ends. >> now i'm looking at writing as maybe even a career. >> in arlinon, nicole jacobs, newss 4. >> "n 4 at 6:00" starts with rain anden the potal for flooding in parts of the washington region. >> now at 6:00, severe storms over parts ofur region

tonight. inanassas and burke, virginia. >> heavy downpours and it's led to dangerous driving conditions. take a look at this. a tree cameow crashing here on a car on rock creek parkway at waterside drive right off mass ave in northwest d.c. a woman was taken to the hospital as crews still clear that scene. >> fast moving storms have alady left national harbor and more bad weather on the way and potential for flooding. >> doug amelia are tracking it all from storm center 1. >> guys. >> this has been one day of severe weather for sure thate won't forget. we've got really one former. there were two severde thtorms at up time but one storm has left a really big path of damage. >> yeah. and we're hearing that potential lit worst of the damage up ound college park, university boulevard and route 1 and rhode island avenue, doug, dozens of reports of trees down into homes. so much so that the police in prince george's county setting up a command post because of how much damage. we have a