# >> announcer: news 4 at 11:00 starts now. >> we begin tonight with a look at some significant storm damage in neighborhoods across our region. >> che it out. chopper4 giving us a tour of the storm damage in college park he. trees came down on home after

home, after highaiinds and blew through the area earlier this evening. it was a real mess o there tonight, folks. debris strewn across more than half a dozen streets. >> the hardest hit area down nearue rhode island aven and university boulevard. shomari stone is live nearby tonight. he starts offur team coverage. shomari? >> reporr: good evening. there is significant damage ini theighborhood relatively near university of maryland. take a look at indian lane.ll tape right across the roadway. why? a tree toppledli pul down the lines. the lines are not active. people will have to walk around this yellow tape to get out of their neighborhood, taking detours for their morning commute. one woman described this storm as having hail, fierce wind she's upset to see the road closures, but can't wait for crews to clean upag the d >> the wind just came out of nowhere. i mean, it was ferocious.

>> reporter: vicky hill yar is stund to see her college park neighborhood. a tree sliced through her house on hollywood road. >> a tree came down in our backyard. there was hailik there was l a huge lightning that sounded almost like a bfeb. you could it. >> reporter: chopper4 shows you aerial video, trees toppled, pulling down power lines, falling i streets, yards, slamming into homes. >> we heard a hugeth bang o front porch and we said, oh, boy, what's that? >> rorter: dennis hartman has lived on black foot road for 40 years. this is the first time heavy winds slammed this maple tree onto his house. it hurts. >> it's a rough feeling because there's been a lot of patience, blood sweat and tears put into this house. >> reporter: people wondered how fast the windsere going to causal this damage. >> i'm from kansas. it felt like a tornado, it really did.ha the winds werepowerful. >> reporter: now, the good news is that there hast been any reports of injuries. however, people are calling

to r insurance companies take care of the damage. meanwhile, they're going to have to again take a detour to get out of their neighborhoods because several roads are closed. livein here college park, i'm shomari stone, news 4. >> shomari, thank you. >> the worst is over but there is still a chance for rain tomorrow, folks. idoug is tracking all from the storm center. doug? >> yeah, guys, it is over. we're not dealing with any more in the way of showers and thunderstorms tonight. take a look at storm team radar. high and dry, finally we need to dry out because of all the rain we've seen the last couple of days. and the severe weather we've i am t a look here. inseen. it does look like shower activity trying to forma under -- forma round the frederick area. take a look back. watch the storms for and move right up towards baltimore andt evenally into philly. they were severe the entire time from prince wiiam county all the way up i-95. look at the reports we got. every single one of these dots re is either a hail remark or hail report or a wind damage

report. winds in d.c. comg int 51 miles per hour. i bet those winds in theollege park area could be 60 to 70 mile an hour winds. now for us things are starting to calm, but we still have ts storm rotating around our area. we could see more showers and storms tomorrow.n update o that, take you hour by hour. see you back here in just a minut,. >> all ridoug, thank you. make sure to turn on nbc4 when you wake up in the morningor an update on the clean-up efforts in college park and how it might affect traffic. plus chuck and sheena will time-out the storms that could be coming in the afterno. >> the mere thought of it may make you gasp. >> a toddler is dead after falling from a 24th floor balcony in northernia virg that balcony is at the skyline tower apartments in falls church. that's where jackie benson is tonight. jackie? this isn't the first time a child has fallen from this building,s it? >> reporter: no, doreen.

the toddler fell from one of thr uploors of this very tall building, from a spot justelwo stories where a toddler fell to his death last may. >> it was tragic. i don't know what else tbore is to say it. >> reporter: residents of skyline towers on seminary road say they cannot believe it happened again. >> around 4:00 today, officers wered dispatc to the 5600 block of seminary road for a child that had fallen from the 25 th --4th floor of th balcony. >> reporter: a child described as a toddler. the police wouldn't say if it was a little boy or girl. fell from an upper floor, the 24th about 4:00 p.m. one es are department who did not want us to show his face said, after a 3-year-old fell to his death from a wedow on 26th floor of this building just last may, he decided to upgrade the saf of his family's apartment, lining the balcony rails with chicken wire.

>> in between them, any 2-year-old can put their head through, you know, the gap. my wife wants me tomove, buy a house. she just told me now. >> reporaxr: faiounty police were on the scene for hours. they examined and photographed the balcony the child fel from. a police spokesman was asked if an investigators had determined who was watching the child at the time of the tragic fall. >> at this time we don't have that information and we're still conducting interviews right now. and there's a lot more to do. >> reporter: a spokesman for equity residential which owns the billion releasedta ament to news 4 that reads, our thoughts and prayers are with the family at ts very difficult time and we are working with the authorities on their investigation. and we know that i2015 a toddler fell from a 5th floor apartment in this building, landing in some bushes, survived. live in fairfax county, jackie benson, news 4. >> all right, jackie, thank you.

tonight friends and fans are awaing word on the condition of the queen of soul. amid multiple reports that aretha franklin is gravely ill in detroit, that is accordingl o seve members of aretha franklin's family who spoke with our nbc affiliate in detroit. franklin canceled performances in march and april after her management team said she wasby ordereer doctor to get some rest. >> we have new details tonight on a boil water advisory that caused confusion and frustration parts of d.c. last month. tonight new reaction and new information on the cdenges being ma to make sure you are better prepared if it happens again. news 4's leon harris is in the newsroom now with story you'll see only on news 4. leon? >> well, jim, a d.c. water and d.c. homeland security met with city coumber today. they wanted to figure out a better way to notify the public the advisory that was issued last month was a precaution as veficials tested the water after a v was found open at a

station. that initial test came back positive for b bacteria,ut further tests shod there was not any in the water and the water was safe. the d.c. website was crashed as people logd on to find out more about the boil advisory. they said several improvements were discussed tay including a second computer server to prevent the website from crashing again. >> this high level of anxiety that was caused by what seemed to be a kind of late notice. it is imperative, i think, that we get those vulnerable populations contacted right away with a confirmation, yes, now they know. >> find out ho how to sign up for the vom untri emergency notification tz by visiting the nbc washington app. >> a woman extremely upset after a prince georges counsel woman accused her of setting her on

fire. >> he doesn't deserve it. he tried to take my life and my daughter's life. >> he wi be released with an ankle monitor until his attempted murder trial. that attack happened last september inapitol heights. andrea sustained burns toth mor an 07% of her body and was force today deliver baby more than two months early. the baby survived. >> the uncleit of a unive of maryland football player who died this spring blames the university for his nephew's death. 19-year-old jordan mcnair collapsed of heat stroke during pr and died at the hospital. over the weekend umd put the coach on leave for abusing players. >> a backlash for what someay is preferential treatment for white supremacists unite the right ithe district. they want paul fired for it, but

metro refutes theg claim say all station ands all trains remained open to the public. >> mayor bowser traveled back to el salvador early this morning after returning to d.c. sunday to monitor that rally. and tonight alongside her counterpart in san salvador they signed a sister city agreement. >> they hope this will further cultural ties between t the advertise. our sister station telemundo 44 was there and has more. >> reporter: a part of downtown san salvador came to a halt to welcome mayor bowser. both mayors added more significance to a tripre that h y been historic. mayor bowser and mayor mason with the stroke of a pen rthering the ties between two cities deeply intertwined. > i am very proud to be standing here with you, mayor mason, to signhis historic

agreement between our capital city. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: it happened in the center of san salvador at the plaza. e hope this agreeme brings opportunities for salve dorians and d.c. residents alike. earlier evidence of those possible improvements in the school in columbia heights working together. >> when we heard our mayor was coming here to bring a delegation, it was a no-brainer. >> reporter: mayor mason welcoming mayor bowser to city hall. they feel a little closer to home toght. the capital of their home country in a city where they now have their lives, tonight closer than ever. in san salvador, news 4. >> new hope for transplant patients, but there's a catch. >> i took the chance. >> how an infected kidney became this man's life line. >> fallen and up rooted trees during today's storms. stm team

new hope tonightor thousands of people waiting for kidney transplants. it can e takeht years to find a suitable donor, and a lot of people with kidney disease just don't survive the it. now a new study shows of kidneys that are not available for transplant now could safely save lives and lots of them. >> we're going to hook to a machine f four hours three days a week, which after treatment from the afdialysis, r being off that machine, my day wasretty much done. i mean, i couldn't do anything

at the house. all i could do was get in the bed and rest. >> elliott stevens is talking about the kidney dialysis that kept him alive while he waited edr a kidney transplant. he's a mar father of two, active in his church for many yearca a loner delivering packages for fedex. o failis kidneys started in his 50s, everything changed. with that dialysis schedule, he couldn't work. he couldn' travel. >> it just drained my body. i couldn't do things with my g daughters a out with my wife to dinner and things like that. but then about 15 months after he went on the transplant list, he got the late night phone call he'd been hoping for. >> and it was georgetown hospital asking me -- that theyd said they f match for me as far as a kidney. would i be interested in it. and me and mywife, we embraced and we were thankful. >> but there was a catch, and a big one. the donor kidney was infected

with hepatitis c. it's a virus that can slowly destroy your liver. stevens had to make a quick choice. reject the offer and spend years waiting for another donor, or ta the infected kidney and spend the next three months taking medication to cure the hepatitis c. t >> ik the chance, you know? because i looked at my daughters and m wife and i said, you know, i want to spend more time with them. >> so we looked for ways to not waste those kidneyng the last te want to do with 100,000 people waiting for kidns is to waste any of them. >> dr. alexander gilbert is a nephrologist at georgetown hospital. they managed the successful kidney transplant. >> we wouldn't want to give it to jusan ody. for example, patients who don't do well on dialysis, who haveio excelly long times to wait, they're patients who

may -- their only chance for transplant may be to get ahe patitis c kidney. >> mr. stevs was a candidate only because head already hepatitis c from a childhood blood transfusion, he says. now more than a year after his transplant, he has a new kidney and he's free from hep c. there are two thingt make this a life line for people waiting for kidney transplants.n their powerful new drugs available that can cure oepatitis c, two, this new study followed people olunteered to take the hepatitis c infected kidney. after treatment, people in the study were free of the virus. >> which was remarkable. >> dr. gilbert and the team at georgetown are hopeful about the chance to help more people who need kidney transplants. before they can do that, more research is needeth to confirm results of this small study. elliott stevens has all the proof he needs and he wants to spread the word that this option works.

>> i just feel grateful to give back what someonead givenme, and that's a second chance at life. >> ts has a lot of potential for a lot of people waiting for tranlants right now. it is also sad that the heroin epidemic and all theoverdose deaths are creating so many new organ do hepatitis c is spread when drug users share needles. there is a lot more inforttion ab kidney transplants on georgetown hospital's website. we have posted a link at nbcwashington.com. >> what a new life for him, though, now. saved his life truly. >> it certainly did. gave him a whole new opportunity. >> absolutely. >> so, those were some crazy storms that came through. >> they were some crazystorms. looking at my radar, you have severe thunderstorms. next thing you know, woosh, thet brou in some winds that were most likely a micro burst that of thed in the portion college park area. but it moved on out of here and you get, you know, whe stuff

like that moves out, you get some nice pretty stuff and you now what i've been missing lately? pat collins. pat collins shot today. th was after one of those storms made their way on through there. even a double rainbow. look at that. on his day off. >> we ohink hey comes out with a snow stick. >> even in august. >> patollins rainbow. it's now been named the pat collins rainbow. it shows once every 17 years. it's really quite amazing let's show you what is's happening outside right now. looking pretty good across our region. we're dealing with partly cloudy skies. all the rain is gone, thunderstorms gon 74 degrees now, winds out of the southwest at 7 miles per hour. around theeest of region 68, baltimore 66, 68martinsburg down towards fredericksburg. going to be a nice night and nice day tomorrow, too. on the radar, the only action out there towards the eastern shore, some showers, thunderstorms out there towards the ocean city area, the rest of us high and dry. this is ground clutter around our region now. ske a look at this.

i'll widen out you can see it. look at this motion here. this is a big upper-level low. this is the kind of storm that we get from october to rch, vearely do we see this during the summer. but it's already happened twice. that's why we have been so wet over the course of the last month and a half. we'vwi seen it, once in the month of july, now in theth m of august as well. we seen saw something similar back in may. amazing how much rain we've seen out of these stormsti we cone to watch as if chance comes tomorrow as this upper-level lo continues to sit around our region. it will move off, r however, finally by wednesday. here we are going through noon. notice the cloud cover around most of the area on the dry side tomorrow afternoon. a couple scattered showers, maybe a rumble of thunder coming through parts of the region. it will be coming from the northwest during the afternog. and even most of us remaining on the dry side. that's some very good news. we need to stay dry. 86 is where we'reng tomorrow. mix of sun and clouds, still humid, not as i humid as has

been. showers and a few thunderstorms. as i mentioned most of us dry. 87 in the city at the airport. 91 wednesday, 92 thursd. then we get hot. 94 on friday. so a little heat wave coming at of the week. if we're not raining, we're on the hot side. with a chance of storms back in for the day on friday, saturday and sunday. hey, just about all of next week. we've got a chance for tho storms to come through. you know, hopefully we don't see the foding chance again. this is august. any time we have that daytime heating good chance weould see stronger storms. we're not done with the flood risk yet. >> likehe to see pattern and soon. get it out of here. thank you, doug. >> coming up, the redskins close to wrapping it up in richmond. plus the nats have a bad case of there is a place

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>> announcer: this is the xfinity sports desk. >> all right, dave. it's pretty tight for the nats tonight. >> we like say in sports, it's nats season. one big micro burst. we like to throw around here. over and over the nationals go into five star game meals to match the five star service they receive on their charter flights. but all that luxury cannot ease the sting losses, especially not last night where the nats loss, remember, the grand slam on the bottom of the 9th in chicago. there is only my friends, comfort in victory. write that down. martinez winning last having a good time in the dugout. we're going to skip ahead to the seventh. a man on, soto changes that with a pop. seats.it to the 15th home run of the season for

the 19-year-old. to the 8th, a bad case of deja vu for the nats. up 4. matt carpenter up. gone. inez can't believe it. a three-run shot. 6-4 lead. 9th, daniel murphy up with two on. he takes it to center. that bris in a run. nats pull to within one and they just tied this game withic aro burst, yeah. game tied at 6 in the 9th inning. all right. mmertime in the nfl, you know, injuries to wring our hands over like darius with the season results that don't matter like the loss of the patriots. and milestones to mark. like tomorrow, red skins final day of training camp at richmond. a milestone. an event marking a significant change or stage in development. sounds dramatic, for now. shari burris has the latest. >> joint praice day two went smoothly. yesterday an afternoon brawl broke out, but o today only or

two fights as the second to last day of training camp in richmond wrap up. unlike, sund the teams able to get through their two-hour practice unscathed. a relief for the burgundy and gold. >> it's always good when you can get a goo practice in. as far as footballou it's bnd to happen. luckily it didn'tome over and transfer over today. w was good we were able to get a good day'sk in. >> no fighting, you know, nobody got hurt or anything so today was a good day. >> worti connued after the fun. back up quarterback curt mccoy, his youngest fans rocking the number 12 jersey are his icchildren. a break in the final days of camp in richmond. tonight the redskins final night of hot living before getting to go home for the first time in almostee weeks. from richmond, shari bur ss, newsrts. >> nats and cardinals 6-6 in the 9th. all night lg. on>>

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