you tonight, folks, and the weather whiplash. amelia and sheena standing by. a busy map. >> tornado warnings in parts of st. mary's county, afternoon storms and more storms through the evening hours. >> not done with the activity just yet. tracking a line of thunderstorms moving the west that's through. we could see the thunderstorms moving through fairly later in e evening hours. >> yeah. we could see some after 7:00 p.m. >> l o's take you here with the radar and what we're looking at right now. tracking showers up around a th sterlia and loudoun county. really not all that impressive. also tracking areas of rain down in parts of charles county and moving out of staord and king george county right now. intove some activity back parts of st. mary's county around the same area where there was that tornado warning earlier in the evening. that tornado warning was a radar-indicated tornado warning. no tornadoes were actually as we take a look at the wider

image right now, you can see this is tha line of thunderstorms. we still a severe thunderstorm warning. this includes parts of the panhandle o west virginia and frederick county in virginia until 5 bel of the counties here in pink are going to under a severe thunderstorm watch until 10:00. this includes areas like winchester, martinsburg, leesburg and back through parts of frederick county. all of frederick county, maryland, loudoun and fauquier counties are going to be under th severe thunderstorm watch until sock p.m. tonight. we're tracking potential for very heavy rainfall and on top of that flood warnings continuing for parts of the d.c. metro area through at least the evening ho y. >> thank, amelia. >> now to the breaking news out of alexandria this afternoon. paul manafort the man who once chaired donald trump's presidential campaign, is now a convicted felon. within the past hour the jury announced guilty verdicts 8 of the 18 felony cnts against

manafort. those charges are related to bank fraud, tax fraud and failin a to reportank account. the judge dlaring a mistrial in the other 10 charges. those felony c cntsld carry 30 years. nbc's justice correspondent pets willia has been following this case for us, and h has a look at what's coming next. >> the government willsk the judge and the jury to let them take some money, ill-gotten gains to usehe old phrase, they will seek forfeiture on one of his bank accounts in the fraud. that has to happen. these counts all had to do with paul manafort's actionsvo ining his lobbying for ukraine, not his work for the trump campaign. however, on one of the counts, the bank fraud count against the bank of california and the -- and the citizens bank. in both of those cases he applied f the loans in 2016, and so of the government's

arguments has been that while he was work on the trump campaign he was continuing to mislead banks to borrow money, but the arges don't relate to the condt as a member of the trump campaign, either as a volunteer or as a campaign hairman which he briefly was for three months. >> we are also following a big development up i new york which is where the president's former fixer and his personal attorney michael cohen has reached a plea deal. >> these charges are related tos hush payme made to women who had alleged affairs with president tretp. >> let'sight to scott macfarlane who has a closer look at this plea and what it means as they move forward. scott? >> the plea was entered atmo the same moment that the manafort verdict was red. michael cohen pleading to bank fraud and taxraud and this

agreement does not include a requirement that michael cohen cooperate with a prosecutor or federal investigation. there's a possibly that they will recommend three to six years in prison for president trump's former attorney. michael cohenui pleadingy this hour to bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance violations. we're trying to get a copy of the plea agreement. should be posted momentarily. when it is, we'll get back to you. macfarlane.tt now back to you. >> thank you, scott. ngre in our area 6-year-old girl is recove after being shot in the leg. this afternoon we're hearing from the girl's grandmother, hand that shooting lasht nig happened along 56tth str in southeast. this is not far from the d.c. maryland line. late this afternoon another violent attack on that same block. news 4'sli pat c joins us live to talk about how that pat.lded. >> there are only about half a

dozen homes on that block, but last night a shooting. this afternoon a stabbing. what's going on on 56 street? a man stabbed and wounded this afternoon. a little girl shot and wounded last noht. twiolent attacks in lace than 24 hour -- in less than 24 hours in the same block. could they somehow be porelated? ce are trying to figure that out. re last night a burst of gunfire into a jeep. a 6-year-old girl shot in the leg. her mother and 12-year-d sister injured. her grandmother norearby. the grandmother asked we conceal her identity and disguise her voice. >> sound like a machine gun and grenade at the same time.

>> reporter: we call herac s. she is the grandmother of the-o 6-year victim. now they say the shooting happened around 8:00. meone fired off some shots from another car and took off. w peachet to the aid of the little girl. >> when they came in, all you could see was the blood. the 6-year-old had the bullet in the leg because there was anen g. there was like an entrance but not an exit. >> so the bullet was still stuck in her leg? >>s. >> reporter: they say the little girl's mother and 12-year-old degreewere injured by and glass from the shooting, but they say everyone including the 6-year-old is expected to be okay. but s peachesd it was close. >> when you saw at happened, at went through your heart? >> i saw my daughter-in-law, it

could have been worse for all three of them. >> reporter: then this afternoon a man gets stabbed down there. i saw him as they took him to the ambulance. he appeared to be wounded in the side and what's behind the stabbing? police are still working that case. jim, back to you. >> pat collins, pat,>> thank yo we've got some new image this evening of the most --

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>> we take a look at what e calendar looks like and you have to make decisions based on that information. >> and there are onles 37 g left in the regular season. the nats hosting the phillies tonitt. coming up6:00, we hear from daniel murphy. live from the newsroom. sherree burruss, news 4 sports. >> tough signs coming from the nats camp. sherree, thank you. we probably are a gas station you use all the time and one of the more recognizable stations in our region is now history. the key station exxon has now been shuttered, and the area is slated to be redevelod, but that causing a number of concerns tonight. our transportation reporter adam tuss is live for us at the old exxon site to tell us what's coming next >> reporter: jim, this is the key bridge exxon, the exxon we all know s much. it's now behind this metal mesh fencing. of course, a lot of people here along canal strt and m street, they rely on this gas station.

condos are slatedo go here afterwards, but the problem i nobody seems to no when that condo development project is actually goingo start here, and that causes some concern. >> when is a gas station more than a gags station? when it sits on prime rea estate? iconic may be too strong of a word here, but t key bridge exxon in georgetown certainly has had plenty of recognition and use,he fact that it's gone has some drivers, well, concerned. >> yeah, i ermean, right in this location, i don't think it's a big deal. >> reporter: in place of the gas station new condos slated to go in, but as you enter or leave the district using the key bridge now, no place to fuel up. >> if you're running out of gas, you need som place to get gas or otherwise you're out of luck. >> such an issuehatd.c. council member jack evans who represents georgetownays the property needs to be watched. >> people will listen to me too late. usually that's whetn

stations in this city, and we'll be manhattan soon where you won't be able to buy gas in the city. have you to leave the sound in der to buy gas. >> reporter: literally at the base of the exor sift steps, this area draws a lot of tourists. i immediately wand to get down here and take a picture. >> reporter: at this point it's not clear when this will all be torn down, but nevertheless the gas station is gone. now some other peopl are concerned here about new condos thathe traffic impact that would then put on the road and we'll find out when a redevelopment and a ground breaking day will be. wendy, back to you. >> it will be unrecognizable for those of us who have lived here for a while. three years have passed sinc parents, a little boy and a house keeper all murdered in a d.c. man, and only on 4 tonight we're learning new details about the strategy that the defense team may be using as the case heads tort c also at 5:00, how a lal

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deltils in the federal g plea entered by michael cohen, the man capped psident trump's fixer and attorney. a man who said he'd take a bullet for president trump. he's entered a guilty plea on financial crimes and one count of causing an illegal gain contribution. the southern district of newea york, a based on the crowd assembling, and the number of tcrophones, a press conference is about begin. he was released on half a million in bail. he paid stormy daniels in a federallection and didn't mention president trump's name. you're looking at footage ofco michael n leaving the courthouse a few minutes ago. he's been whisked away. don't expect to hear from him in front of the microphones but perhaps prosecutors from the southern district ofr new york perhaps mr. cohen's attorney who has put out a statement or is expecting to put out statement sometime later this evening. michael cohen pleading guilty to ght federal criminal charges. he's been released and

sentencingor scheduled december 12th in manhattan. t the live desk, scott macfarlane back to you. >> scott, thank you. it's been one year since the "uss john mccain" crashed and killedtic think eccles of maryland. >> they remember how many joy b timothught into their lives. >> he was my only grandson, and i loved him very much. >> reporter: ervin's bond with his grandson was unbreakable. tim was hisie best . >> gives me a lot of life and cheers. >> reporter: ervin served in the army and when he enlisted in the navy the greatest joy was being on the big game. >> each though he owed me $50fo the army/navy game, but i overlooked it.

>> reporter: it was a dream to attend t t gameether one day, but ervin's life changed on august 21st of last year. as>> timmy w proumd missing along with ten others. >> reporter: tim was aboard on e "u singapore when it collided with a merchant vessel trapping ten sailors inside. i got up at 5:30 in the morning' because t when we got the message. j and iust got on my knees and said a prayer. >> the pain and emptiness still but his year later, grand parents say they feel closer to tim here at arlington national cemetery where he was a buried with full hor.ha >>an w io the washington capitals finally won the stanley cup. >> reporter: it hasn't been easy. and everywhere i go it'sharder. >> reporter: timothy's grandparents know that one day they will see him again.

>> he's always with me, always. >> reporter: meaga fitzgerald, news 4. >> an eccles mother is in japan where they held a special ceremony to honor the ten fallen sailors. >> meanwhile, arlington national cemetery is set to announce the details of an expansion for 40,000 burials. several areas have to be closed or realigned. xpe cemeteryts to be out of room. in 25 years the proposed addition will keep it running through 2050. a meeting is set tomorrow to review new details about the project. >> td storms that have rol in today have already caused a lot of problems, and in one instance one man's car got stuck in floodwaters in prince george's county. news 4's tracee wilkins have more on wt drivers haveeen experiencing. >> reporter: i'm here on woodland road at suitland road

near the suitland parkway. this is what iwas like woodland road all the way across the roadway. you see the waterway. it flooded its banks and made a huge mess here. there were a number of vehicles that had to be resfed out standing water. take a look at what it looked like here just a little while ago. this is video from the prince george's county fire department. this was not the only area that had flashflooding. this is the area that ritchie a marlboro hads well and several vehicles had to bef taken out o rushing water and some of those vehicles occupied by people that had to be a rescu well. same thing happened here. there was a rescue that happened here and just off of suitland road. his store ended up being flooded and so was the roadway. >>hat happened? they had to come get you? >> and the thing to remember here is turn around, don't

drown. don't matter what kind of vehicle you have. n't try to drive through it. you can easily be swept away. with flash flooding, as quickly as theater rises it goes right back down again. luckily no injuries reporting. reporting in morningside, tracee wilkins, news 4. >> hold on, folks. moreng up out there. amelia tells us they are coming from the west and south again. >> tracking is thunderstorms and some from the west thunderstorms coming up from the south, and we actually have a new sere thunderstorm warning until 6:00 p.m. this is more morgan and berkeley countiesn west virginia and washington county and maryland. there's aer s thunderstorm warning right now. a lot of heavy rainfall issued for the potential of strong gusty winds up to 60 miles now where that could bring down some trees. this thunderstorm is moving towards the northeast and not all that fastoverall at about 25 miles an hour, so here's impact timesnd with you moving towards clear spring at 5:40. moving towards hagertown at 6 sack and moving towards

waynesboro right around 6:25, so we're keeping a very close eye on this line of thunderstorms out to the west and when i talk about activity moving up to the south, notice this activity leaving richmond and towards the fredericksburg area. this is set to con to impact parts of southern maryland through the evening hours and then this line backo heree west likely impacting parts of northern virginia and western maryland during the evening hours. we might see that famous d.c. split happen here in the metro area tonight withhese thunderstorms. but everybody in pink is under r severe thunder watch. this is going to go until sock this eke. ere's only frederick and loudoun and fauquiers count and panhandle of west virginia and winroester andthe heavier rain earlier today and still tracking flood warnings for the metro area a parts of southern maryland back into parts of northern virginia and e in fau county through at least the evening hours. at least 8:00 p.m. if not later. 6:00 p.m. still noticing that line generally back to the west.

south.coming into the by 7:00 p.m. though we could really see those storms to the westo start intensify and heavy rain and gusty winds could concerniggest here we are at can the p.m. the istential for stronger storms around theict and especially into prince george's county. as we move towards 11 p.m. and midnight we do see things quieting down. 81 degrees and upper 70s by 11:00 p.m. and we continue to track stormy continues until about 9:00, sock p.m. still a crsnce for sho out there at 11:00 p.m. tomorrow looking lik a mainly dry day. only a small chance for a hashower. thate looks to be around the midday hours and otherwise we start off with a temperature around 74. increasing sun throughout the day and low humidity by the day's end. 86 degrees tomorrow at about 4:00 with aigh overall of 87. after that, take a look at ts ten-day forecast. we haven't had a ten-day forecast like this in a while.id t rom that isolated shower

chance tomorrow, completely dry. also want to point out some great things on there. frid morning youtart off at 65 degrees and saturday morning we start off at a refreshing 66. we'ren the 80s through saturday and feeling like fall on thursday and friday and tn another heat wave starts onay sund through all of next week, guys. >> thanks, amelia. >> a george mason student took lsd. he then jumped to his death ande now as c is starting his message. david culv-- dana culver with

we have some breaking developments in the case of the missing iowa student mollie tibbetts. details from a news conference still going on. >> reporter: we're just getting this latest twist in this case. police have just announced that they have made an, arre and the man they have now is 24-year-old christian rivera. police say that he was one of thepl last p to see mollie tibbetts, and new he's charged with her murde tibbets was last seen on july 18th jogging i her hometown of brook lyn brooklyn, iowa. ever sin then investigators

and family and friends haven b searching the ground from the air. they haven't confirmed if the body is mollie but they do believe it was her. police say rivera interacted with tibbetts while she was in ru >> and while he was interfacing with her he actually tells us that he ran alongside of her or behind her, and then at one int he tells us that mollie grabbed ahold of her pho and id you need to leave me alone. i'm going to call the police and then she took off running. he in turn chased her down and then he tells us that at some poin in time he blacks out and then he comes to near an intersection whiche believe he then placed mollie. >> police say rivera is an undocumented immigrant. now this is a fast developing we'll stay on top of it and bring you any new developments as we bring you any new information in the newsroom. >> two big velopments. >> totally on board tonight

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a severe thunderstorm watch at sock p.m. -- at 10:00 p.m. severe thunderstorm warnings are up to the west of hagerstown. that's going to go until this evening. those are heading to the northeast. they will be in hagerstown here shortly and the next hour or so. flooding issues around the d.c. metro area earlier. these are still up from the heavy rain this aftnoon until 00 p.m. and now we're watching more thunderstorms south of fredericksburg really cometo ther and organize here so this is something we're watching through the evening after 6:00 p.m.e' i think see a better chance for strong to potentially severe storms move in and the highest threat could be flooding issues and high winds. amelia has a closer look at this coming up. >> sheena, thanks so much. back to the breaking the news rocking the white house th new york. the president's former fixer and personal attorney has reached plea deal including a charge of ating campaign finance laws.

our scott macfarlane working the story frothe live sk. >> reporter: yeah, jim, an absolute torrent of breaking news coming in. wel try to navigate our way through it. guilty plea just entered by michael cohen in new york city thatre implicates thedent, according to nbc news reporters who were in the courtroom and according to the plea agreement that we're reading through right now. he's pled guilty to eight federal charges, mostly financial charges, bank fraud, u tax fr but he's also pleaded to a o charge caution an illegal campaign contribution, and t accordingo the plea agreement and statements made in court today mr. cohen has alluded to a federal candidate directing him to make a payment, a paynt of $150,000 for the principal purpose of influencing an election. he didn't say president trump's name, but a clear aleutian to president trump when he says a candalate for fed office in

>> he works to pay money tonc si two women who had information he believed to be th detrimental t 2016 campaign and to the candidate and the campaign. addition, mr. cohen sought eimbursement for that money by submitting invoices to the ndidate's company which were untrue and false. they indicated that the reimbursement was for services rendered for the year 2017 when in fact those invoices were a sham. he provided no legal services for the year 2017 and it was simply a means to obtain reimbursement for the unlawful campaign contribution. >> speaking on federal plaza in manhattan the deputy u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, the office prosecuting the cohen case. that's not a special counsel robert mueller case. d bond, cohen has pos half a million dollars. he is released.

the eight guilty charges, eight guilty pleas came at the same moment a jury b handedk its verdict in alexandria in a similar case. >> that's right. theury convicted president trump's former campaign chairman on 8 of th 18 charges he wasng . paul manafort found guilty on tax fraud and guilty on failing to report a bank account and guiltyfn two counts o bank fraud. the judge in this case declared a mistrial for the t remainingen charges, but even before manafort is sentenced i this se in alexandria, he will be a facing separate trial on tax fraud in the federalourt here in washington. he i facing an estimated 7 to 9 years in onpr >> going to be interesting. the president speaking to crowds in west virginia, whether he addresses either issue tonight. to well, new details coming light today. less than a month before the d.c. mansion >> it has been three years since three members of a.c. family

and their housekeeper found dead, murdered inside their burning home, and in the past week several motions have bee filed, giving us a look at just defend lawyers plan to the man who is accused of those brutalscrimes. >> n4's chris gordon has been going through that court paperwork today. >> reporter: defense lawyers will try to discredit some of the d.c. police officers who have been investigating the urders of family and their housekeeper in may of 2015. deron windt is charged with murdering the savopolous family as wel as their housekeeper. the man allegedly held the family captive and set the nsion on fire. a motion was filedor materials prosecutors may have involved in investigating mr. windt's case have been subject t

disciplinary proceedings, have credibility issues or otherwise have bee accused of engaging in some form of misconduct. the defense team does not name the officer or specify at, if any, misconduct may have been involved. prosecutors filed to get a protective order limiting the use of interl investigative information involving witnesses in this case. the restricons will allow prosecutors to share the information with the defense while procting the legitimate private interest of law enforcement sources. the matter will be decided at a court hearing this friday. earlier this month the defense team was granted permission tode use ee they contend proves that someone other than deron windt committed these murders, but they have not revealed wha that evidence is. the trial in the mansion murders case will begin on september 5th in d.c. superior court. that's the latest from the jim and wendy, back to you.

>> all right. chris gdon. chris, thank you. the father of the university of maryland football player aho dier a team workout says he supports the school's president. jordan mcnair died in june after aea suspected stroke. his father now is against any talk of terminating the university president, dr. wallace lowe. lowe announced earlier that the university doeccept responsibility for mcnair's death. mcnair's father released a statemen that says in part, quote, it would be a complete shame if after such a display of decency and humanity dr. lowe were to be let go. wacency and transparency are the only paths f for our family, the university and its sports programs to heal a emerge as safe places for families tone trust their children. he goes on to say that dr. lowe's leadership is critical to this happening. the mcnairs did not talk about

the team's head coach d.j. durkin who still remains on administrative leave. a new plan for in the suburbs. a partnership that the local sheriff is forming withrs membe of his community. and some maj

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south around fredericksburg into southern maryland overex the few hours. also a line of storms back to the west around i-81. arting to see a few isolated thunderstormsevelop on their own into parts of northernia virg around soc10:00 and i11:00 p.m. more severe thunderstorms >> could be a long night. woman may soon find theiral anap smear test a thing of the past. released new guidenes for reenings on cervical cancer and the u.s. preventive task force recommending a method that does not include a pap smear. instead, women between the ages of 365 and who are not at high risk for cercal cancer can o to be screened with just the hpv test every five years.

health experts say women young than 30 still need that pap test every three years. friday is a changing of the gud at the marine barracks in washington. sergeantsty the 14th is retiring as the official mass cost marine corps. the sergeant is pedigree english bulldog who began his tour of duty five years ago. his last official duty will be marching in a parade friday evening. hireplacement will be private chesty the 15th. mascots are named in honor of legendary general lewis chesty puller. they have participated in an evening parad since july of 1957. love the markings on that nam r a character from "m.n's.h.." i t know why that is. >> okay. >> what a cutie pie. >> yeah. a mother's message as a new school year is beginning. her warning for other parents in students after the death of her son at george>> mason.

'm julie deary in stafford coun where thesheriff's office is pitching a new partnership withnd homeowners a businesses. they want them to register their home security cameras with them so they can solve crimes

scott macfarlane back at the live desk. trump justiv a in charleston, west virginia for a 7:00 p.m.en rally. e departed air force one he was asked about the conviction of his formerma campaign chan paul manafort on his eightesederal charg here's what the president had to say. >> i feel badly for paul. i mus tell you that paul manafort is a good man. he worked for ronald reagan. he was with a lot oifferent

people over the year and i feel very sad about that. it doesn't iolve me, but i still feel, you know, it's a very sad thing thad. happe this has nothing to do with russian collusion. this started as russian ollusion and this has absolutely nothing to do. this is a witch hunt, and it's a disgrace. this has nothing to do with what they started out looking forru ians involved in our campaign. there were none. i feel very badly for paul manafort. again, he worked for bob dole ond worked ford reagan. he worked for many people, and -- and this is the way it ends up. it was not the original mission, believe me. it was -- it was something very much different. so had nothing to do with russian colluon. continue the witch hunt. thank you very r.much. >> m president, what about michael cohen? >> is as he walked away the president declined to answer questions about michael cohen. more details on that in a moafnt. first mt.

there is a decision prosecutors will have to make by august 29th, w wre told,ther to re-file and re-try the ten counts upon which the jury did not come to a verdict. they will make that decision by the end of the month after which there will be sentencinghe led. that goes next year. as we come back to the live desk, let me talk a michael cohen case. he's been released on $5,000 bond. sentencing in his c is december 12th. he's pled guilty to eight federal charges including onen which he implicates the president in the violation of campaign finance law. at live desk, i'm scott macfarlane, back to you. >> we won't be hearing from him for michael cohen. the might h wer from his attorney. >> in written form or not and we expect something soon. >> thank you. many college students across the country are adjusting to a new independent lifestyle. tonight a warning from a sovirginia couple whose a george mason university student, never returned home. it's beeny nea a year since

tristan medina died. he took lsd before jumping to hisea. today our northern virginia reporter david culver sat down parents. >> from home life to campus life, move-in day, af parte college experiment, tristan medina made that move from fredericksburg to george mason university. >> to see students go in for their third year, junior year, nd tristan is alive. >> reporter: tristan jumped to his death from a fifth floor window after taking lds. >> when you lose a child, there's triggers and certain i emotions,t's just a roller coaster of grief.as >> reporter:t month a judge sentenced tristan's fellow fraternity member alejandro prada to 15 years in prison and pled guilty to selling the drugs. >> i can hear tristan's voicesa mom, you need to forgive him. he made a mistake like iouid.

if can forgive me, then you need to forgive him. >> reporter: the medinas believe needs more neede to be d to change the college culture. >> my son did not treat the culture but walked into it. >> reporter: a posting was made aimed at high school students and theirrearents. ing in part think before you act. >> to know that the peer pressure is it's out there. >> reporter: the medinas also want to kno what george mason university is doing to prevent similar incidents.ay they the university has stopped reaching out to them. >> i think george mason needs tp p and answer some of those things that we don't know. >> reporter: in an e-mailed response george mason universaky says they enforcement of drug and alcohol policies very seriously,dding that violators face severe consequences, including criminal charges. the medinas are pressing for more action over words. >> you know, my sons gone. at this point i just don't want

anything like this to happen again. >>ter: a mom and dad sharing their pain to spare dehers. in fcksburg, virginia, david culver, news 4. despite an convict and sentencing, george mason university has yet to turn over tristan's cellphone, laptop and wa wallet to his parrsts. the uniy says there's still evidence in case of an appeal. if you want to read jill medina's full facebook post find it on our nbc washington app. just search gmu student. >> more and tore oftenay ecurity cameras help identify criminal now people are being asked to register their security cameras. julie carey talks about how this newrogram in stafford county could lead to faster arrests. >> reporter: outside thisaf rd business security cameras clear to see. ns that n array of scr travis harris can pull up on his cell phone if he wants. now the sheriff's office is

hoping harris and hundreds of otherusiness and homeowners will consider registering their cameras. that way if a crime occurs in a certain area deputies will immediately know where to find camera video that might quicklyt identify a sus or getaway vehicle. >> the goal is we'll actually see some of these crimes on tape and be able t get to get the lookout quickly and get the suspects in custody. >> rorter: the new program is called scope. signup is called interested ae thnterested enter their name, address and e-mail and phone number on the sheriff' office website. another important part of bargain, it's up to the business owner or homeowner to decide i they want to turn their video over to the sheriff's department. travis harris says he's planning to sign up. >> i like it. i feel that is going toelp police and there's another way to help them out and somethingro ever happensd here, that would help us out here, too. >> reporter: besides crime fighting, the program may have another fringe benefit forging police community relations. >> we believe the partnership

with t community is paramount to crime prevention.e the mor the community trusts us and works with us, the better alances there are of catching the crimins. >> reporter: in stafford, julie carey, news 4. >> all right. ameola joins us. we're wondering is this cloud is the sun breaking through? >> we've got some peeks of sunshine out there and eve any sunshine that we're seeing right now is going to help to continue to fuel some thunderstorms coming in from th west and moving up to the south. in fact, let's take you out west where we're timing out se understorms. these are moving towards the northeast at about 25 miles per hour, so based on thees l track here or impact times, martinsburg at around, 55 and gainsboro at about 6:50. winchester at about 7:25 and eventually heading on towards frederick at 9:00 p.m. you can see the timingn them. definitely a little bit later on the evening hours. trackingsolated areas of rain developing in parts of stafford, prince wliam and loudoun countys and then stronger thunderstorms leaving the richmond area pushing up towards

fredericksburg and southern maryland. we'll continue to trackco storm itions in parts of maryland through 10:00 p.m. tonight. that's why you see the severe thunderstorm watch for all of the areas in pink until 10:00 p.m. we have a severe thunderstorm warning including parts of frederick county in virginia. this will go until 6:15. everyone under severe thunderstorm watch north and west of d.c. sheena, these run through the evening hours, and, again, we're not done with the rain as well. >> that's right, amelia. that's why we're watching for the heavy rain later tonight because on top of what we've seen with flooding issues, we could see more. mostly it will be after 6:00 p.m. when we see strong to severe storms start t up from the south and damaging winds, lightning and heavy rain and heil possible and highest threat is going to be wooding and very potentially damagingds. future weather is showing, watching storms to our north and west and watch whatappens by 00 p.m. more storms emerging from the

tsouth andse continue to move up and organize potentially by 8:30. we could see storms around aas like hagerstown and frederick. by 10:00 we could still have showers and thunderstorms lingering before we finally dry out into tomorrow, so here's wednesday. 8:30 in the morning. we could see a couple of stray showers. ld not be looking at any thunderstorm activity. these would be light passing showers, but it's going to look way better tomorrow than it did till , or what we're expecting this evening. here's your wednesday as the kids head back to school. mainly dry. 74 degrees by 7:00 a.m. and a mix of clouds and sun by the afternoon. mid-80ess and ls humid, and the low humidity is going to continue, amelia. >> yeah, exactly. it's going to feel like fall out there on thursday and friday. lohi at amazing storm team 4 ten-day as sheena just mentioned only a stray shower tomorrow. after that we keep itompletely dry. and all of next week we're in

the 80s and after that another heat wave that lasts through at least nextriday. fwe

we don't have to tell you the mural outside ben's chili bowl is almost as iconic as the >> the latest design was featuring some of the most prominent african-americans with ties to the district including ague jim d and col vance.

>> in preparation for the restaurant's 60th anniversary celebration tomorrow, a conversation with the artist himself about howam this all together. >> reporter: famous faces color the outside of ben's chile a mural that's a big part of the d.c. restaurant'snd history not sure of the upcoming anniversary celebration. >> of 0 years of a black-owned >> reporter: the artist who brought it to life with imas of icons past and present. he has a story to tell in all of thesees f >> harriet tubman, you know, holding a torch and that's the dal of this mural and it's like it starts with her and trickles down to the current. what i love about this project is erybody is significant. >> that's why ben's chili bowl first let the publi weigh in. >> we did a poll for who made

this mural here. we had over 10,000 people, you know, go on to the poll and say who they wanted. >> reporter: his favori, the purple one himself. >> favorite has to be prince. it's disappointing. he has a look on his face he's pointing at the viewer so as you're walking by it's almost like he's pointing a you, like, hey, there you go. >> remember the date that this is one of the most consequential days for donald trump's white house. >> the man who used to make president trump's problems go away may have become his biggest problem yettr p's former fixer and longtime lawyer michael cohen pleading guilty to eight felony charges that carry prison time. >> and former trump campaign manager paul manafort found guilty of eightriminal charges

by a jury here in alexandria. cohen dropped some hints in court today about what may be to come. >> and manafort has a lot to think about because he's heading into the next trial. more on both those stories in just a moment. >> meanwhile, our other big story tonight, you've looked out your window and maybe you've been driving init the weather floodwaters are falling in parts of our region, but, folk the threat is not over just yet. >> it could get worse tonight. we're tracking the potential for strong storms and more flooding. this was the sceneaxn fai county. that driver stranded in high water obviously. this is woodburn road in annandale. rescue crews called in to help get that person to safety. >> check out the dramatic pictures from arlington cars submerged at joint base meyer henderson hall a as dumpster floated across the parking lotndhere. ameliaheena are tracking the conditions and looking ahead what's coming the way the rest of the night. >> we've got floating dump