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 dumpsters. >> yes. >> and that just shows you how

strong water is, and even talking about a ton, but just a little bit will make things a big problem and what we're going to see for later on this evening more rain, some of that heav and that could be adding to the flooding issues, again. >> how about aew severe thunderstorm warning. this is going to go into 6:30 and this includes parts of west virginia and frerick county and into virginia and this includes hagerstownnd parts of the martinsburg and 70 as well. again, this severe thunderstor warning just issued until 6:30 for frederick county andnd maryown through parts of west virginia and frederick county and maryland. we also have a thunderstorm watch for all of the counties here. this includes fauquier, loudoun and ca county. this severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until 10:00 tonight. this is the line that causes the severe thunderstorm warning and notice all of the storminess down around the trucksburg area and leonardtown area as well. this is moving from th south and moving in from the west very slowly and here's the pential

impact times for you and hagerstown around 6:20 and towards beaver creek and they arement, maryland, right around 8:00 in the evening if it holds together. if it impacts fredeck city a maryland. the biggest threat windy this eke with any storms heavy rain and gusty winds. winds couldead to some wind damage and isolated flooding issues and possibility. i'll have much more on timing coming up in a few minutes with sheena. >> thanks. >> now to the breaking news about the president's former fixer michael cohen. he's free on bond this evening. just left the courtroomfter pleading guilty to crimes that include campaign finance >> it was a bombshell up in new york, and while he did not name president trump in court, hi appears to have implicated him. here's blayne alexander with the late e. >> reporter: michael cohenoday unexpresident clinto gdly

pleadiuilty to charges including campaign finance violations for actions aimed at helping his form boss. >> what he did isay worked to money to silence two women who had information who he believed to be detrimental to the 2016 campaign. >> he also pleaded guilty to charges of tax evasion. from the courtroom today, nord n whether cohen struck a deal to cooperate and testify against the president. >> mr. cohen disregarded that training, disregard that had tradition. and have decided that he's above the law and for that he is going to pay a very, very serious price. declareawyer who once he who take a bullet for donald trump secretly recorded his rmer boss. >> financing. >> what financing? >> last month news organizations obtained a conversation about hush money from "playboy" model karen t mcdougal silence her story of an alleged affair.

>> don't pay cash? >> no, no, no, no. >> aegations of another affairth adult film actress stormy daniels and back in february federa investigators raided cohen's home and office to get office including the secret tapes. >> now thothe othere dropping here in alexandria, breaki news from the federal fraud trial of former trump campaign manager paul manafort. >> the jury in alexandria deadlocked on some of those charges against him but returned guilty pleas on manafort on the others, and president trump jt reacted to the verdicts. let's get the latest from scott macflane at the live desk. >> paul manafort convicted on eight counts, eight felonies and ten. there was a mistrial declared. prosecutors have until the end of the month thaty have to retry those ten. here are the eight upon which mr. manafort were convicted. a count of failure to report a c

banknt and two counts of bank fraud. president trump reacted to the verdict. >> paul manafort is a good man. he was with ronald reagan. he was withf a lot different people over the years and i feel very sad about that, and it doesn't involve me but i still feel, you know, it's a very sad thing that happens. this has nothing to do with russian collusion and it started as russian collusion and this has absolutely nothing to do. this is a witch-hunt and it's a disgrace. r. reporters in the courtroom in alexandria showed manafort has no expression as the jury read the verdictig on those charges. here's the timetable. after prosecutors decide to movw forwarh the ten other charges, it's a pre-sentencing report and sentencing hearing andhat could go into next year and mr. manafort has a d.c. federal case to worry about. the next filing in that case due on friday. at the live desk, i'm scott

macfarlane. wendy, back to you. >> we're going to continue to monitor both of thesetories on cohen and manafort througho a the hour you'll get the details on the nbc washington app. >> nowo the two cases of violence in the same block. in the past 24 hours a 6-year-old girl was snd a man was stabbed. now both of these incidents happened along 56eeth s in southeast d.c. just a few blocks from thed d.c./maryl line. news 4's pat collins has been following it all and joins us live from the scene. pat? >> jim, a shooting last night, a stabbing this afternoon. that's a lot of violence for this little block. last night a burst of gunfire and 6-yeho-old girl s and wounded in the leg and her grandmothers nearby. she talked about what happened. she asked that we conceal her identity and disguise her voice.

>> was she scared to dth that little girl. >> yes, sheas. very scared. who wouldn't be. boom, boom,oo sounded like a machine gun but a grenade at the same. >> reporter: we call her peaches. nde's the grandmother of the little girl shot wounded last night on 56th street southeast. it happened around 8:00. the little gi, her mother, her 12-year-old sister were in an jeep w someone fired off a number of shots and then drove off. >> they came in and the 6-year-old had a leg injury, and you sould see that had a bullet in there because it was there was like an entrance but not an exit. >> reporter: so the bullet was still stuck in her leg? >> yes. >> reporter: they say the little girl's mother and sister injuries from e glass and debris from the shooting. veryone eere isxpected to be

okay. call. was a close when you saw what happened, what went through your heart? >> tha god they are alive. i told my daughter-in-law it could have been worse. all three of them could be gone. >> reporter: then this afternoon, this afternoon, this aften a man stabbed and wounded on the same block. police called back to theen is it possible that the stabbing today is relatedo the shooting last night? police are tryingo figure that out. wend back to yo >> pat collins, thank you, pat. >> reporter: no one wants their neighborhood to lookike a landfall, but tonight there are growing complaints in prince george'sounty of illegal dumping, and now county officials are saying what they are going to do to stop t.bureau chief tracee wilkins with what's being left for others to clean up. >> this was the family-owned business.

myad and i started it up other in 1978. >> reporter: when linda kearney looks out at what happened around her autobody shop on fair>>unt avenue. t's scary. stop.ot to someone has to be in >>control. eporter: threatening fines for dumping there's dumping, couches, trash, construction material and worst of all cmes. ith license plates and some without. >> i would like it to be sane clean looking, you know. you don't want to live in a ju-yard, and that's what it looks like. >> reporter: today after a "washington post" ale on the issue the department of inspections without questions and taking notes, linda has said shs seen this before. >> we've had several ynversations over the last five, sixrs. they come in and say oh, this group is going to do this. this group is doing to do that. it happens for a day or week maybe and then all of a sudden they are gone. >> reporter: really tried to be a technology basis to ore proactive. >> the director of the county's department of environment say

they have a new program that identifies hidden hot pots and hidden cameras when nature. >> we're able to launch an investigatio and work with the state's attorney's office. in the last four years we've prosecuted 250 cases in the county, but it doesn't mean that we're catching everybody, so the more coordination we havmo the effective we'll>> be. eporter: the new spotlight and attention on this issue is hoped to clean up this street and others like it in crince georgenty. officials say if you see any illegal dumping, call 311. th in far mount heights, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. >> still ahead. a new twist in the notorious d.c. mansion murders as we get our first look at the defense team strategy. >> a local landmark nea the famous exorcist steps in georgetown will be leveled to make way f condos. we'll show youro how thect could impact an already congested part of ocity. new guidelines for women in the fight against cervical cancer and why it could make pap

smears a thing of the past. >> and this just in. we have a new severe thunderstorm warning issued for parts of a washington frederick county. this will go until 6:30, likely tended to 7:00 in the evening. sheena and i will have the latest on t severhee ♪ you know when you're at ross and that cute dress gets even cuter? yes. or when you can say yes... to both?

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we are tracke threat of more rain and storms tonight. severase roads closed bec of high water. amelia and sheila will have a look at the conditions in your neighborhood. that's coming up in just a few mirstes. a new twist as the man charged in the murder of a family and their housekeeper in a d.c. mansion prepares to go on trial next month. news 4 has obtained court papers to show how lawyers for there suspect dar windt are trying to discredit the d.c. police. they are focused on officers who may be called as witnesses. the defense is trying to gather documents which s ow some those officers were disciplined for misconduct. prosecutors want a protect le order toit the details from any internal investigations to protect the privacy of police witnesses. a hearing on that is going thibe held friday. windt's trial for the savopoulos murders is set to begn the 5th of september. now to a grim milestone. the today marks one year since

the "uss john mccain" trashed into ata cer ship in sing more. ten sailors were killed including timothy eccles of maryland. news 4's mgan fitzgerald was with the victim's grandparents today as they paid tribute to him. >> it's been hard because i like to say iiss him smuch. >> reporter: there's nothing like a bond between a grandfather and hisnly grandson. >> he gave me a lot of cheer, a lot of life. >> reporter: ervin pinkton said wmothy eccles his pride and joy. ervin served in the arm and when timothy enlisted in the navy the biggest fun was betting on the army/navy game. >> he even owed me $50 for the army/navy game. >> reporter: it was a dream to atter the game toget but ervin's life changed on august 21st of last year. >> timmy was presumed missing

along with tenothers. >> reporter: tim was on board the "uss mccain." it was he hadding to singapore when it collided with a merchant vessel trapping ten sailors inside. >> i g up at 5:30 in the morning because that's when we got the message and i just got on my knees and said a prayer. >> reporter: the pain and emptiness stillingary year later, but his grandparents say they feel closer to tim here at arlington national cemetery where was buried with full honors. >> i want to go there and tell him that t washington capitals finally won the stanley cup. >> reporter: it hasn't been easy. >> so everywhere i go -- >> reporter: timothy's k grandparenw he'll see them

one day. the ceremony today was to honor the ten fallen sailors, including her son. >> we're in weather alert mode. let's check init amelia and sheena to see what's coming next. >> this morning we didn't have o much going on except for a few showers and then the thunderstorms this those caused a lot of flooding issues and we're watching the storm threat for the the storms are not only bringing usty winds for isolated wind damage. also talking about very heavy rain fall and that's leading to more flooding concerns for part. of the a as we continue on into the evening hours, the two biggest threats are going to be heavy ssinfall and that creates some floodings and some gusty winds that will bring some wind damage across the area. can't rul out some hail, though we haven't seen any reports of adhail. we've two tornado reports today in the area. no word on confirmed o torna any damage from those, but you couldn't rule out an isolated weak. torna really we're focusing on strong gusty winds and heavy rainfall with severe thunderstorms that

are now back in parts of west virginia. frederick county in virginia, washington and frederick counties in maryland was a t sevenderstorm warning for the areas here in orange. that's going to go until 7:00 tonight. here's the line and the latest based on the movement off towards the east moving intoro boonesh at 6:30 and thurmond, moving there at 645. middleton at 7:00 p.m. and walkersville at 6:15 and mt. pleasant at about yo7:22. can see here we're also tracking flood warnings. all the areas in green a flood warnings through at least the evening hours including parts of the d.c. metro area and down through northern st. mary's county and back through parts of west virginia a frederick county in west virginia. we also have a severe thundersto watch until sock p.m. we're not done with the thunderstorms just yet, and you have more on >> oh, yes, amelia. we're talking about some late evening, unlate-night rstorms in the forecast, and some of these, like hey melia mentioned, could be providing heavy rape and more flooding assues ando

damaging winds. of course, we don't want to see that happen once the sun goes down and once it gets dark things get more hectic dealing with heavy rain. hopefully, most people will be home by then, but from now unt 10:00 p.m. strong to severe storms in the forecast. we're already starting th see e bubble up across the area. severe howed you the thunderstorm warning in northern maryland. flooding and damaging winds is what we'll keep an eye on as we hrough the evening. here's future weather. as we go through the next hour and a half here, than, that we're looking hat more storms to our south and continuing w sh therms up near martinsburg and hagerstown and these togethe to come the model has been very consistent about the iming and the storms potentially organizing. by 8:30 some around the d.c. metro area and parts of maryland and then we leave. now we're looking at 11:00 p.m. and we could still have showers and storms moving through the d. area. 8:30 in the morning, mostly cloudy skies and could have a

couple ofho lingeringrs. those would not be a big deal. just talking about a few passing light s fwers or a passing sprinkles. as the kids not looking at the thunderstorm activity. at the bus stop in the morning, mainly dry with the excepti for a passing sprinkle. res sed should be pretty good. a mix of cun anduds through the afternoon. you might notice humidity dropping. it will feel way more comfortable tomorrow afternoon with the lowering humidity but that's going to carry over until the end of the week so we'll see lhe ten-day. >> it w feel like fall on thursday and friday even into the first half of the weekend but by sunday the 90s are back. check out the storm team 4 forecast. ghs in the mid to upper 80s. humidity lower on the day on thuray and friday. highs in the low 80s and saturday low 80s, and the humidity will start to creep back in, and then we're in the low to mid-90s all of next week, burks again, wendy and jim,

we're keeping a close eye on storm team 4 radar as we ntinue to track severe storms moving through our area. >> one more reason to love thursday and friday. >> yeah. >> thanks. >> thank you, both. up next at 00, a new tool to fight crime. >> yeah. how a local sherf's department is turning to the community to help catch criminals in this digital age. >> i'm adam tuss. your fav gas station may be gone. this just isn't any gas station. this one sits on prime real estate.

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when it comes to gas stations, you probably have a favorite, and one of the most regnizable ones in our area is now gone. i drive by it just about every day, but it's too price m for the key bridge exxon in georgetown is shuttered new and slatedore a big redevelopment. >> this evening our transportation reporter adam tuss will tell us what's going there next. >> this, this is the key bridge exxon behind the metal fencing. condos are supposed tthgo here. problem is nobody knows when that condo projects actually going to break ground and that's causing some concern. when is a gas station more than

a gas station? when it sits on prime real estate. iconic may bg too strere and the key bridge exxon in georgetown certainly has had r plenty ofognition and use, and the fact that it's gone has sol drivers wconcerned. >> yeah, i mean, right here in this location i do think it's a big deal. >> reporter: now in place of the gas station new condos are slated to go in, but as you enter or leave the dis using the key bridge now, no l place to fueup. >> if you're running out of gas, you need some place to stop for gas. ootherwise you're out luck. >> reporter: such an issue that d.c. council member jack evans who represents georgetown says the property needs to be closely watched. >> people will listeto to m late. usually that's when it happens. we're running out of gas stations in this city and we'll beute aent soon where you won't have to be able to buy gas. you'll have toeave the sound in order to buy gas. >> reporter: literally at thef basee exorcist steps, this plot of land draws lots of tourists. immediately wanted to get

down here and take a picture. >>teporter: and this p of land was also the focal point for georgetown's portion of potomac river gondola. that project now appears to be even more lily. at this point it's not clear exactly when it will all be tn down but nevertheless gas stations is now gone n.georgetown, adam tuss, news 4. >> we're w dking to trackn the date for the ground breaking for that site. >> we remember the controversy last years a when they hung that banner, remember the valdez, to all the residents that hate it had going in there. that came down. >> exxon, they didn't like exxon's part in the valdez. >> the weather is a big story tonight. >> next at 6:30, amelia is tracking the conditions and lets us know when all this rain rolls out ofgi you're . >> and a potential game-changer for women. there's a new approach to fighting cervical cancer which could make aic cla test obsolete. plus a mother's emotional death. after her son's

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back to the breaking bombshell that could have major implications for the trump whote e. first in alexandria where a verdict came down in the paul

manafort trial. a j cyvicting manafort on eight counts of tax and bank fraud but failing to reach at verdicn ten other counts. presiden verdict a disgrace, and it has nothing to do with russian coemusion. the drats say today's velopments prove the russia investigation is anything but a witch-nt. >> and in new york, the s president'o-called fixer and former aorney michael cohen just left the courthouse after pleading guilty to crimes including campaign finance violations. >> he agreed to paying money to silence two women during the 2016 campaign. new statements nowrom cohen's attorney. scott? >> reporter: this case directly implicates the esident, wendy and jim. the attorney for michael cohen who ware himselfdent trump's attorney issued a statement. cohen's attorney is lanny davis, a former attorneyor the clinton family as well. in the statement mr. davis says today he stood up and testified under oatum that donald directed him to commit a crime

by making payments to twoomen for the principal person of influencing an election. if those payments were a crime forichael cohen, then why wouldn't they be a crime for donald trump? the statement just posted by michael cohen' attorney lanny davis. mr. cohen left the courthouse in manhattan without speaking to the media that congregated out on the federal plaza in manhattan. michael cohen returns to that cohen september 12th for sentencing. the reporters in the courtom for his plea hearing this afternoon say the proposed sentence in this case will ber between f and six years for eight guilty pleas to federal charges. ative desk, i'm scott macfarne. wendy, back to you. >> we're also staying on top of our weather. the potenal for moreeather and storms this evening. >> it's been a wild afternoon, and we're not done with it yet, folks. amelia is in storm center 4 with a look at what to expect. if all of this gives way to a gorgeous few couple of days we're ready. >> i think so. you know what, we're looking at really nice fall-like weather on

thursday and friday and tonight we're in storm team 4 weather alert mode and the time line for storms, here it is. we'll continue to see stormynt weather about 9:00, 10:00 as temperatures fall into the upper 70s. by 11:00 p.m. still a chance for some rain and can't rule out heavt rain at t point. likely not severe in nature with gusty, damaging winds. 82 degrees right now and here's the latest. this severe thunderstorm watch continues for everybody in pink until 10:00 tonight. frederick, loudoun and fauquier counties including in the watch and severe thunderstorm warnings or parts of west virginia and washington and frederick counties and maryland. this will go until 7:0.m i posted this on facebook and twitter. here are impact timesoving rough tawneytown at 7:10 and frederick, the city, around 7:25. there is a chance for an isolated shower tomorrow. i'll have more on that when sheena joins me and we're talking about lowering humidity levels coming up in 15 minutes. >> see you then, amelia. this evening a father are reliving a painful

loss. their son, a george masontu universitynt never returned home. tristan medina took lsd and then jumped to his death. this was nearly a year ago. his mother hopes his story will inspire parents to talk to their children before they head off ao colleg our bureau reporter david culver has her word of warning. >> a deeply personal facebook ssage from a grieving mom to young people entering college.e think bef you act. >> you see all these other people doing all this stuff without consequences. so, hey, why can't i do it? one time is not going to hurt. will, tristan's one time did hurt him and he lost his life. >> tristan medina jumped to his death from his fifth floor dorm window last fall. the george mason university sophomore had takendr lsd. s he bought from a fellow fraternity brother. >> i think parents need to be are of what's going on. the there's dodgers out there.

>> they fear the college culture, specifically greek life, pushed drug and alcohol use and the outcome can be deadly, as they have wperienced. are just used to these kinds of situations in this country. all you got to do is look at the news. a student dead here, a student dead there, you know. we've just become immune to this kind of news. i don't think it's right. i don't accept that. just don't accept tha something has to be done. >> the medinas want colleges like george mason university to do more >> has george mason done anything to prevent anything like this from happening?n' i know. they haven't said anything about it? >> reporter: in an e-mail response george mason university say they take enforce president lc drug andol policy very seriously, adding that violators face sever consequences, criminal charges. but the medinas say the university has stopped reaching out to them, t soy are now hoping to reach young people and

parents through theirocial media. >> we're missing a piece of our family. we he to learn to live like a family new again witho tristan. >> a mom and dad sharing their pain to spare others. in fredericksburg, virginia, dave culver, the father of jordan mcnair, the university of maryland football player who dd after the team workout, released a statement in support of the school's president today. mcnair died in june after a suspected heat stroke. his dad is against any talk of terminating the school's president dr. waace lowe who announced earlier the university accepts responsibility for mcnair's dth. mcnair's father released a statement in part today. it would b a complete shame if after such a display ofeccy and humanity dr. lowe were to be letdeo. ncy and transparency are the nly path forward for our family, the university and its sports programs to heal and

emerge as safe places fores famione trust their children. dr. lowe's leadership is critical to this happening. the father didn't mention theh coac d.j. durkin, who remains on administrative leave. >> pap smears could become a thing of th past forost women. there are new guidelines on screening for cervical cancer, and they wer released today. for the first time the u.s. preventive servicesce task is recommending a method f some women that does not include a pap smear. instead, women betweens the a of 30 and w65 are not at a high risk for cervical cancer can opt to be screened with the hpv test every five years. women younger than 30 still need a pap smear every three years. the recommendations are bed on evidence that shows almost all ases of cervical cancer are caused by the human papilloma virus, and the hpv test is the best way to detect that virus that can lead to that ncer.

when we come back on "news 4 at 6:00," up yman's legacn the radio airwaves and why he's leaving his role aft decad at thera top. e eyes and ears for the sheriff's office. i'm julie carey in stafford county where they are asking business owners and homeowners to register t [music playing] at havertys we know it's ht'd to get a good nighsleep. havertys meltress sale is here to h with our wide selection of top brands and ouprice match guarantee you can find the perfect mattress for everyone in the family. and right now save $550 on select tempur-pedic mattresses. it's time everyone got a good night's sleep. havertys life looks good

it's our first look inside amazon's new fulfillment center here in baltimore county. it's huge. it's the size of 13 football fields. >> wow. >> 1,500 employees working alongside robots to help your amazon orders. the center will ship mostly to customers between richmond and new york and it's going to be up and running by the holiday shopping season ande'll give you access to more items that are eligible for the same day or the one-day deliverier is jis. >> i feel lfilled. >> caught in the act on camera. it's happening more often these

days with so many more security cameras in homes and businesses. well, now the stafford county sheriff's department is hoping to take advantage that technology. turk to the community as a ti crime-fi partner. our bureau chief julie carey reports that the idea is already catching on. >> the security cameras at this stafford business have only captured what you m call a minor crime. >> we had somebody go to the bathroom on the side of the wall and we figured out who that was. >> it's not uncommon to see homb aniness cameras documenting that or even worse and thays hey are making a new pitch to the community asking ecsinesses and residents to register their sity cameras. that way if a crime occurs in a certain area, deputies will findiately know where to camera video that might quickly identify a suspect or getaway vehicle. >> the goal is we'll actually see some of the crimes on tape and be able to get the lookout quickly and see suspects in

>> the new program is called scope. >> may be as simple as possible. >> thosenterested just enter their name, address, e-mail and phone number on the sheriff's office webte. the new program was announced on monday. in the first 24 hours, 19 people e already signed up t register their security cameras. >> travis harris says he'll gladly add cameras of his business to the registry. >> feel tha it's just going to help the police and it's another way to help them out and -- and,ou know, something ever happens around here, it would help us out too. >>nd the sheriff's office is hoping the new program will not only pay off with quicker arrests but will also create a stronger relationship with the community. in stafford, i'm julie carey, news 4. >> now d.c. operates a similar kind of camera program that was launched two years ago and then expanded all over the citich the incentive program offers rebates to district residents and businesses w purchase security cameras. the city has approved more than 4,200 rebates so far for more

than10,500 cameras. >> new tfallout for fixer for president trump. >> and how one local man put his stamp on a powerhouse radio station and what he plans to do next after decades at

we have new reaction for michael cohen's federal plea deal. cohen pled guilty on eight criminal counts including t that involved campaign finance violations. he admitted that payment were

made before the election towo women who claimed to have sexual encounters with mr. trump. cohen said the payments were made at the direction of the candidate but did not name the presidentic specally. >> tonight president trump's attorney rudy giuliani called cohen dishonest. president trump says he feels bador his former manager paul mafort, now a convicted felon. j a federury convicted him onnt eight cous including bank fraud and tax fraud. the jury deadlocked on the remaining eight charges. the charges are not connected to manafort's work running the owump campaign. they are,er, connected to manafort's political consulting work for a pro-russian political party in ukraine. manafort has aecond trial coming up in the district next month. wendy. >> whur's long reach dates back

fo decades. it set an industry standard and it became a legacy station at howard university's campus. more now on a big change that's coming at the top. >> 9:00 in the nation's capital, progressive 96. >> reporter: from the very early days on t air it's been about elevating the reach of a music i exce. >> i came out to volunteer. and i started volunteering my time andheext thing i knew i was here. >> reporter: jim watkins was 19 years old. >> we hit the air with the 36 degree total lack of experience and the rest was history. >> reporter: after three decades of ushering in big moments. >> here i am on a picture from "the washington post" and whur got its first number one rating. >> reporter: that was 1986. most gm's last five years, watkins is one of the longest serving radio station general

managers in the country having a remarkable stretch to wire the university's stand-alone ra commercial opeon into a network of six stations. >> this is whur. processing, autationing material. >> watkins can retire knowing he's put his own stamp on the a station kno the home of the original quiet storm. >> a hit music format creed by famed d.j. melvin lindsey. >> we need things like being it and the first african-american station with it on sirius xm. >> reporter: that's how he pushed the station to evolve past the dial on 96.3 fm. beyond syndicated talk shows,ns but wat wanted his all music station to keep delivering daily news and major community events, dnd hur radio thon in the late

'80s hel house abandoned babies and today yearly food,at and toy drives helpedth sands every year. he says his work here is now done. >> i'm rewiring, not retiring. >> reporter: in northwest, news 4. >> iove that. i want -- we need to use that. >> yeah. when watkins does leave at the end of the moh, the reaso he's rewiring he's only taking a few weeks off and then jumping full back into the communications consulting firm that he started ten years ago, and melvin lindsey and the quiet storm that really tak me back. amazing. >> has he seen changes there since the age of 19. what a loyal audience they had and community commitment. >> goto love radio in this town. >> you do. >> let's get the word on the weather. i wt to know are things going to calm down or are they getting worse,s? fo >> it depends where you live at this point because in some parts of the area things have c amed do we're really seeing cloudy skies, but we have a line

storms to ourouth developing and we're still watching that line off to our west. >> right, we're going to continue to track strong tohu severeerstorms moving through parts of the area until about 10:00 p.m. tonight. take a look.at thet right now on storm team 4 radar. notice that line back intoof pas est virginia and down into parts of frederick county in virginia and up towards parts of hagerstown. this line is severe. ls a lot ofhtning with it. one named batch of rain and then the next, the second named batch is down h in parts of southern maryland and down around fredericksburg and down through the northern neck. lated seeing a few i showers develop in between the two. first, let's head down south where we're trackingn heavy r out around the leonardtown area and down through parts of the nort prn neck andarts of charles county and seeing some of that heavy rain right now. this is all moving towards t northeast at about 30 to 40 miles an hour. kindha ofing speeds. this line back here in far western maryland is moving towards the east right now and here are some impact times for you, moving towards frederick at about 7:30.

mt. airy at 8:00 and continuing off towards the east towards eldersburg at about 8:22. you can see we'reracking severe thunderstorm warnings for parts of the panhandle of west virginia and parts of washington d frederick counties. that will go until 7:00 p.m. i do think we'll see the severe thunderstorm warning for this line extended for areas off to the east, so i'll be here and updating the latest on facebook ander. if there's any additional warnings issued, you'll be seeing them crawl at the bottom of the screen at the evening hours. not over yet. most of us north w andt of washington under a severe thunderstorm watch until 10:00 tonight. >> that shows you how lateun so. rstorms could go and some of the future computer models are showing storms through 11:00 p.m. couin could bering. strong to severe storms are continuing to develop and head towards the area. we'll be watching for this throughout the evening and what any severe storm cantain is

damaging winds and lightning and heavy rain and the highest threat will be flooding and higa ging winds. again, we saw the flooding issues earlier today. any rain o top that have could cause bigger problems. here's future weather. now we'll go through the next couple of hours here by 8:00. we could certainly see some morm thunders move into the area. we're watching those down to the south and those continue to move up into parts of northern virginia. the storms off to the west and they kind of just come together here. by 9:00 p.m. we could certainly have heavy rainfall around the d.c. metro area in maryland. martinsburg and movinghrough 11:00 p.m. we could see rain lingering in the d.c. area.ha somehave could be thunderstorm activity. clearing out overnight with drier conditions overnight. we'lle looking at cloudy skies as the kids head backo school. not looking at morning thunderstorms and that's good news. by the afternoon they humidit will be lower and that's going to stay the case for the rest of the week. amelia. >> yeah, beautiful out there on thursday and friday and hints oh

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