ssories are even better when you find them for less. at ross. yes for less. >> announcer: news 4 today starts now. 6:00 on this sunday morning. there you see it, florence taming strength. the looming thr in the atlantic ocean growing stronger. we are tracking how it could affect all o us. a swimmer disappears, now search crews hoping they can get back on the water and find a mas that lost in the river. a narrow escape. a howard county family says they were able to get o of their home just minutes before it exploded. yikes. welcome in and thank you so much, for being with us.i' adam us the. >> and i'm angie geoff.

you know you knout i like things cold b this was a surprise. >> you may even need a light jack. >> we knew it was going to be cooler. it might be a shock to the system b we knewt was coming and we knew heavy rain was coming as well. we have fog out there. this is the way it's going to be today. the sun comes up in 45 minutes from now. at temperature, 64 degrees. but outside the beltway, a lot cooler. again, temperatures in the 50s. see thatwind? not only will we have the rains out there today but we'll have gusty winds. and right now we're seeing rae s moving through the area. so heavy rain in the areas in yellow. and this is all from tropical storm gordon that continues to impact the area so we'll see moisture throughout the we have a flood watch through 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.

we could g a couple inches of rain before this is said and done tonight and then we tk on re rain through this week. we'll talk about florence's latest track thatust cameout. that's coming up in a little bit. guys? >> a lot to get to, lauren, thank you. 6:02. there is a state of emergency in virginia. >> because of florence. governor ralph northam's has created a state of emergency so that people can start preparing right now. you can find out how to prepare site. web further south in south carolina, they've declared a state of emergency as well. some people preparing and already buying the storm supplies. they loaded up on things like generators, ponchos. the governor wants everyonetao ke this storm serious ly.

>> this is a strong storm now. it's been strong and it has the potential to get very strong. >> north carolina has also declir declared a state of emergency. we are tracking florence as it gets closer to the coast. you can t up to the minuten storiesur app. >> a man disappeared while swimming in toff myrtle point park the swimmer is a alexandria resident in his 20s. several agencies, including the coast guard, are involved in this search. a howard county family isnk safe thas to their quick-thinking eyactions. escaped their home just before it exploded this picture

shows the moment after it happened. wow. investigators say som inside the home smelled natural gas. they called for help and just as fire crews arrived, the house exploded. neighbors blocks away from the blast also felt the impact. >> everybody felt like a tree landed on their personal house,t how loud and impactful it was and then we look out the window and there was an inferno. it was crazy. >> yike the exact cause of this explosion still under investigation. meanwhile, neighbors are trying family.that all day today trains on the orange, silver, blue, and yellow linel be running every 24 minutes and on the red line a major safety drills is closing plath form platform at two stations. the exercise is from 70 this morning to 2:00 p.m. that means the red lines at metro center and gallery placed will be closed to the public.

both will be open for other lines. buss will run between farragut north and judiciary square. you may hear simulated sounds in the area during the drill. a man carrying this 9 millimeteroad handgun was stopped by tsa at reagan international airport. they sayis it was in carry-on. police allowed the man to place the gun unloaded in his checked baggage. a new school year has begun but concerns about safety in thr clm have not stopped since several school shootings a few months ago. >> this weekend is a different kind of back-to-school rally. in alexandria students celebrated a new school year with another push for change. here the story. >> reporter:ly never forget that my first funeral'd ever been to was for a 16-year-old girl who was shot whi trying to get

her education. >> reporter: jackson o'mara is a senior in st. mary's county where her classmate was shot and killed last march. >> i will never forget walking in, seeing the photos and videos of her and seeing her family standing next to their daughter's casket. o'mara was onef the speakers at the back-to-school rally in alexandria >> for me, back-to-school season means shopping for bullet-proof backpacks and waiting for the news of another shooting day by day, hour by hour. t >> reportet's the new reality for many young people -- fear that something could en ha >> personally i'm kind of scared to go to school now because you never know wn it could be your turn. >> reporter: the event was also organized by young people. a middle school student and a hi school udent. they wanted to bring people together to talk about gun violence a school shootings. >> we got our speakers and we were passionate about the issues so it wasn't that hard for us

and it's just something that needs to be held. >> reporter:dl naomi waer is an 11-year-old anti-gun activist who spoke at the march for our lives rally. >> i'm being here today to be motivating and empowering and there's a great reminder that there is power in numbers. reporter: they also encouraged young people to register to vote and to use their voting power to push for rtronger gun control laws. da darcy spencer, news 4. time right now,6:07. taking a live look outside as we get a sunday i morning start the nation's capital. a bit drry, a bit cloudy, it's cool outside. lauren's got

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welcome back. floodwaters are to blame for a sheriff's deputy's death in missouri. authorities say the deputy's patrol car was swept awayff the road and into a river frida. nigh rescue crews found his bodyin de his patrol car. they say the 36-year-old deputy had worked for the sheriff's office for a little more than year. heavy rain in ft. worth, texas, caused deadly flooding there. check this out. a mother and who two-year-old daught drowned whe their car was swept off the road yesrday morning. later in the afternoon, dive teams pulled an elderly man from his submerged vehicle. >> yikes. we're dealing with a lot of rain around here, too. and now we're keeping our eye on what could be a major hurricane to impact the east coast. 'r >> y watching a couple systems, right, lauren? >> definitely a couple t system atlantic right now. we're making our way through gordon. e are seeing the remnant of what was gordon through some of

the i didn't do owe you just saw innd missouri texas. we do have flooding concerns for our area because we have a lot of that rain last night and we have more rain out there throughout the day today. so your weather art today for the heavy rain. now the heat and humidity come back in tomorrow. hetemperatures will be in 80s as we head through the beginning of this work week and, agn, at humidity pumping in as well overnight. then we're tracking florence for our area by the week's end --th sday, friday, saturday and sunday of this upcoming work week. current temperatures out there right now, look how chilly it is. especially outside the beltway to thete west. eratures are in the 50s. 64n d.c. a little onhe cool side. we have the flood watch that ends at 6:00 a.m. on monday morning but we could have rain showers throughout the overnight as well but periods of heavy rain out there today.

one to three inches of rain possible. flooding on creeks and streams out there so they will come up out of their banks. i had a lot of large puddles with road spray so that will increase. but we have moderate rain in spots, especially in the yellow but theil heaviest rain fall just to the north of d.c. where this dynamics are forgordon, but this is a big system that we will continue to watch throughout the day today. so periods of heavy rain, temperaturestaying in the 60s. not only will we have the rain but we'll have the winds. the winds will be gusting up to 25, 30 miles an hour so here is your futurecast again. in throughout the door. you are looking at heavy rain, even showers as we continue into morning.day then they'll dissipate but i have a chance for showers and

thunderstorms later on tomorrow afternoon. we start to dry out a little bit on tuesday. florence, let's talk about that right now. .here it it's not quite a hurricane yet but it's expected to become a hurricane later on today. nds are 70 miles an hour, we need them up to 75ri for hne status. however, look at the latest track right here. category three headed towards the wilmington beach area so we will watch that. that would be thursday into friday. so that will impactur ather. it could have a lot of rain around that region if that track holds trse, other temperatures in the 80s after today. >> all right, thank youur . 6:14. that means reporters n up next. >> we are back in 15 minutes with more of themorning's top story. the trial of the man charged in the so-called d.c. mansion murders is under way. it was a shocking crime. three years ago, three members of a wealthy northwest family and their housekeeper were tortured, murdered and the

home set on fire. darren wint the only spect arged so far. there's so much to discuss. i realize that last week you talked about the details in the case you uncovered several pieces of evidence unreported let's talk about the fires. >> so we knew that the mansions set on fire. that was initially how t call came out for law enforcement and firefighters was to this house i . the firefighters and the law enforcement quickly realized that the fire was set for a purpose and they believed that was to cover up the four homicides in this case. and so we knew there was that fire. we also knew very early on that there was a second fire. the family' foporsche was found several hours after the initial murder call went out so police had told eve to be on the

look for thi porschend then it turns up in prince georges county on fire. what we were i digging int the court file was another fire that we hadn't heard of before and it kept coming up like a dozen mentions. so we start digging into that to find out what the fire was about. it was a blue minivan that was ound in prince georges county also on fire in the days following the murder and we have come to learn that that was the defendant, daron wi nt's miniva. he was arrested a month and a half, just shy of two months prior to the murders. it was unregister sedo presumably he'll argue it wasn't his hevan. as driving it at the time so he was charged with driving it. it was a charge in d.c metro police and the tags were reported stolen out of prince georges county. >> we've als learned about the witness who saw the car after the murders? >> that refers to the porsche.

and this was a critical witness early on because police spoke to this individual who was stopped at a traffic light next to the porsche and noticed it because it's a beautiful kind of high-end car you wouldn't see on the road and paid attention to the driver and gave a report of someone -- and hiss report alw had the description as a thinner build which does not look like daron wint with close cut -g weomed hair and daron wint had dreadlocks. but we know over the summer when prosecutors were talking to this witness, presumably preparing for trial, he added another detail andha that was in the coverage of the case he saw a photo on television of jordan wallace, the driver of

savapolous. so now he added to his story and told prosecutors think he is this guy. who is a critical witness in the case because he divered the $40,000 ransom to the house and roscopen under the m although police never charged him with anything and did look at him. but this witness is presumably identified or said i think it's but then said my mind could be playing tricks on me. >> is there a second witness with a possible connection to wint? >> that's jordan wallace as b wellieve it or not. >> but one of the interesting hat there learned is may have been a lot of evidence that was missed. >> w found a document in which prosecutors acknowledged to the defehere is missteps in the case and that started on day one when the crime scene technicia i we there collecting the evidence, they acknowledged they did not collect water bottles and glove found at the scene because the kind of lead crime scene evidence pern was told that tse were used by

firefighters. experts have said they should have collected everything and then tested the firefighters and ruled out it was theirs so that ev if it was evidence was presumably left behind at the scene. there were waterotes in the upstairs bedroom where some of the iividuals were found and the answer to that was that refighters had taken water from the victims' refrigerator in the room a drank i and left the bottles. >> that sounds so -- unbelievable. >> we thought so, too. the experts we talked to said what it was there was ashein eyes and they immediately needed water. what p if they were about s out. fighting fires is tough work, you're wearing heavygear, you're hot, upstairs for hours putting out a fire. the otheras critical piece that urine was not tested from some of the there was urine from one toilet tes bud noed but not from other when she was asked she was told

firefighters used the toilet. >> so this adds up to what sounded like it might have been an open-and-shut case, an easy case, may not b after all. >> we talked to experts, law enforcement experts, prosecution experts and the defense expert. s on theecutor expe law enforcement side will tell you this isn't a huge deal. there is no such thing as a perfect case, no such thing as an open-and-shut case but they acknowledge that this could raise questions and the defenset ex called this a bombshell so it will be interesting to see how prosecutors explain this away and how theea defense says to the jury no, no, no, this will be important. >> this will bewo month long trial. for more details on this case and what law enforcement experts are saying, you can watch a news 4 special entitled "mansion murders, inside the investigation." log on to the nbc washington web site, nbc washington.com and

search mansion murders. when we come back, adam as the talkut purple line disruptions, the new d.c. speed cams and trains onk.he wrong tr as your home becomes more connected... shouldn't your internet keep up? it's time for fios. because fiber optics move crazy amounts of data at even crazier speeds. and fios is the 100% fiber-optic network, so you can get phenomenal capacity for your tech. we'll even help you get another device to put it to the test. right now, get $200 toward a range of google and nest smart home devices when you switch to fios... plus the fastest internet available, plus up to 200 tv channels, plus phone, with a 2-year price guarantee, all for $79.99 per month with a 2-year agreement. and if you order online by september 30th, you'll get a $150 verizon prepaid mastercard. now is the best time to switch. so call 1.888.get.fios to learn more.

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first -- first of all i can't believe it'sdeing built. he thing with the purple line is it's so close and person personal. it's literally in people's backyards, next to homes and businesses. weboe talking feet away so people are starting now as the construction has picked up to thatthe impact of we spoke to one woman who lives in east silver spring by silver avenue, lintonville, she is living with cancer, she istt ng breast cancer, she is -- works from home, she can'g leave but outside her window is this heavy construction and they'reil ng this new station right outside her window and she says from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. it's going around the clock. >>ere they giv any options for relocating during portions

of the construction or -- >> the state has notified people for years for homeowners who were getting notifications, so it's not like people didn't know but when you get into these specialized cases because a woman needs to stay home because's sicknd not physically well enough to move to a hotel for x number of months or whatever it may be, there are cases like this where it's going to be disruptive and in every transportation project you're to deal with some level of discomfort. there are people who want it, some people who don't. at this point in the construction, it's completely -- in montgomery county it's really being felt and people are stting to feel the impact. the state and the contractors say, sthough, that t fall a lot of that heavy, heavy work drilling into the ground, into the core, building tunnels, thal amp back a little bit. >> so there will be some relief. >> a little bit is whatst the

e is saying. never mind the fact that by 2022 there will be aun trainng next to your house. >> jodi, how would you like to live >>there? think of the typical not in my backyard but this takes it to a who new lev because you're talking about not just the n construction bt to trains for the foreseeable future. are they expecting to have noise underground from the trains once they exist or lots of people around that station and congestion in the area? this is something these neigors have been fighting for years and now they're not only having to watch itappen but they have this kind of annoyance of the loud noise. >> this is a case,again, in a lot of transportation projects you see this push back and forth d the projects get pushed through ultimately. >> the price of what some would call progress. >> yeah. slow down, you could be onp d.c. s cams, new and improved cams, that is. the old cameras are gone, the new ones popping up all over the district. they're part of a new crackdown on. speeding

tell us what makes these cameras better than the ones they replace. >> ihe guess on whatmean better. >> perspective. >> they have higher resolutions, luey can see in 3d, they can track 20 vehicles at a time. driver who drive little fast might not t likem because they can catch those easier and if you remember the boxy cameras, this is another reason why they've gone to these newer high tech ecameras. ity is moving away and putting these newer high tech cameras up on polls and there's in more discreet locations. d.c. will tell you that you'll see that photo enforced sign, anticipate there will be a speed camera if there is that sign. never mention the fact thatany people won't tell you if you go back t charles msey, if you

don't want a red light camera, don't run a red light, if you don't want a speed camera, don't speed. camerastion with speed and why people don't like them has always been about the placement. ke are they in a spot where the speed limit should be are they pointed down a hill? that's what kind of makes people angry about these speed cameras. but these new ones pie pop up all over the district. >> socthat exa do they look like? >> almost like a half moon shape. they'rend smaller stuck high up on poles. >> more difficult to see. >> more difficult to see, yes.ll >>righty, traveling on the wrong tracks. metro is working to determine how two trainsnded up on the wrong track recently. one of them, a silver line train wound up on the blue line, a blue line train ended up on the wrong station. how did that happen? >> this was a signal problem at rosalyn. if you billion to low metro you know that the rosalyn choke point delight where the blue orange and silver comes through to get into the district and

they sploff, that is the choke point of the entire metro system and you have a lot ofns trhat are getting rerouted and going in different spots. what happened was this signal s malfunctioning and it wasn't giving the proper coding as to where the train should have gone so as you mentioned, two trains in two days went to the wrong ot now when people hear they went on the wrong tracks you think oh, my egosh, you'll h head on collision. it wasn't that at all. they were going in the same direction as another train would ve been going so yidn't have the potential of a collision, yet you had an inconvenience toiders who thought they were on one line and ended up at another line >> did i take them directly back to where they were going? >> no, they would have to get off thetrain, boa another train which in the middle of the day for metro can take 20 minutes to catch another train and go back so it was more of an convenience but it points to metro's aging infrastructure which is what we talked about to years and the need upgrade signals and switcoss at these ver points specifically. it's important where the

switches will take you down one track or t next and metro has old switches and tracks they need to fix. >> well it speaks to aging infrastructure and customer satisfaction. no one wants to wind up at the wrong destination when you get on boa train. absolutely you here is many metro related stories as the transportatn porter but we get constant e-mails. >> at this point in time when they're trying to win riders back they need the small things to go well and you can't start dog this type of stuff. they do say the problem is fixed. >> that's good news. adam, jodi, thank you both. i'm pat lawson news. news 4 today continues. > gaining strength. tropical storm florence is now

expected to keep growing into a major hurricane and it's getting closer to the east cot. a swimmer from virginia riveng in a until a man went underwater in myrtle park and hasn't been seene. si red line flat forms at metro areer and gallery cente closed for a safety drill. buses will shuttle people who need r lineservice. metro riders can use that service for other lines but another warning, trains on the orange,esilver, b and yellow lines are running every 24 minutes. quite a lot going on on this sunday morning but i wanyoto than for starting your day with us. i'm adam us the. >> i'm angie goff.

lauryn, you have a lot on your plate today. >> we do. we have tropical storm florence so we havend helene three systems we are watching out there in the atlantic starting to heat this up in the tropics. what you're hearing of is florence because that's going to be the most direct impact for us and it's going to impact us closer than isaac and helene. so we'll pay attention a little bit but talk about florence and concentrate on that coming up. but concentrate on this rain from gordon. oh, yeah,ust names all around out there. this is remnants from gordon that went right through the gulf of mexico through texas and the ddle part of the united states but now we are seeing the rai from that and heavy rain. this will continue all day today so expect rain, heavy at times through the day, we have a flood watch until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. a couple inches of rain possible

so thats flooding concern real. we have widespread rain out there today, scattered showers tomorrow. chances on tuesday of some more rain and then wednesday and thursday more isolated chances before our focus turns to florence that could impact that eastoast mid to end of next week. so we'll be watching that and show you the latest track in just a few minutes. >> nklauryn, tou very much. a lot to keep track of there. this morning there's a state of emergency in virginia. >> we want to break down what governor ralph northam's decision means. th orderelps mobilize resources to prepare for the storm. it less sens potential dama.ge the governor wants people to sttar preparing with emergency kits. find mor information on what to include in tho kits and how to prepe for a hurricane in our nbc washington app. stay with storm team 4 forn uing coverage on florence. we continue to track this storm as it gets closer to the east coast. you can get more informati and updates in the app there as

well. let's turn our attentiti to po now. after two years on the sidelines, former president obama back on the campaign trail. nesterday the former president stumped in south california for democrats hoping to flip the house in the midtermleions there. unlike friday's speech, obama didn't mention president trump by nam but target was still pretty clear. >> the good news is, in two months we have a chance to restore some sanity in our politics. [ cheers and applause ] >> nbc's chuck todd is going to take a closer look at that scathing "new york times" op-ed questioning president trump's leadership. chuck will be with us here inio stn just a couple minutes to talk about that and a bunch of other topics in another busy week. >> 6:33. a contentious u.s. open. serena williams and the chair umpire had several war of words during thematch. >> i've never seen it. you owe me an apology.

say it. say you're sorry. then don't talk to me. you stole a point from me. you're a thf, too. >> well, this all started early in the second set during her match with naomi osaka yesterday in new york. williams' coacho appeared t gesture for her which was seen by carlos ramos, the umpire. he gave a warning.wi lliams with emphatically denied it. a few games later, williams broke her cket, earning a point penalty when she called ramos a thief f taking the point she was given a game penalty. at that point, williams calle for the referee, contesting her punishment was unfair. >> i'm going to continue to fight for women and to fight for us to have equal -- like cornet to take her shirt off without getting fine, this is outrageous. and i feel like the fact i have that to go through this is an

example for the next person that has emotions and that want to aexpress themselves they want to be a strong woman and they're going to be allowed to do that becausef today. maybe it didn't work out for me but it's going to work out for the next person. >> very emotional williams. she fell s hrt of request for a 24th grand slam title. naomi osaka clinched the win. a first for japan. >> well, take alook. this picture shows the moments after a family's home in howard ty exploded. this happened on friday night. smoke rising from the ash could berd seen all day yes and as news 4's derek ward explains, it's what the family started to smell inside theayome that m have saved their lives. >> reporter: a home and everything in it reduced to a smoldering pile of rubble. it happened in woodbine, maryland, in howard county ound 11:00 friday night. miraculously, no one was injured. t a resident o home smelled the odor of natural gas. after the report, everyone got out of thehouse.

and it's a good thing. just asst the fir fire crews were showing up iplwhen the exosion happen ed. >> i heard a loud boom and m room shook. >> it was the same for neighbors blocks away from the >>blast. verything felt like a tree landed on p theirsonal house. >> reporter: the explosion has not been ruled as the cause of the explosion, still evacuating the house liquly. other neighbors plan to gather to see what they can do to help e family t escape what could ha been the worst nightf their lives. in howard county, derrick ward, news 4. well, check out this parking job. >> yikes! >> wow. wentrong in alexandria. the suv tore through theall of a second-floor parking garage, landing in this ecarious position. it happened on seminary road.

the driver managed to get out, was not hurt. a tow truck drir had to figure out how to hook the vehicle up. i'm sure this is a first for before close to on pulling it down to the ground. a building inspector was called to assessam thee to the garage. >> yikes. students getting back to school, back to class. they are facing a new reality. yesterday in alexandria young advocates gathered to rally against gun violence. that event was off to organize by young people, a middleud schl t and a high school student. they say their goal is to bring people togetherboo talk these recent school shootings and gun violence. >> personall i'm kind of scared to go to school now because you never know when it could be your turn. >> reporter: organizers also enuraged young people to register to vote and to use the vote to push for stronger gun control laws. a exccelebration of african-american can culture and history in alexandria.

the beautiful sights and sounds from africa fest yesterday. people enjoyed performances by african dancers and got to mple traditional food from vendors. the smartphone's museum of african art partners with several roots and africans embass sponsored this event. dog lovers, before d.c. public pools are drained, our four-legged friends get a chance to take a dip. it was t annual doggie day swim. take a look. severalpe locations were o including this one in northwest. aw. dogs played fetch as they splached around splach -- splashed the dogs loved that. >> doggie paddle. >> they waited all summer. >> are they racing? >> probably. they got a big pool. kickoff sunday. h finalle for the redskins and this year's team will look much different from last year. new quarterbackmi alex is

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goodness. and then woodward and his book. what do you make of those two things and, it's funny, i've been looking at the nbc twitter feed. they'reystematically going and saying people who deny that statement. >> did they start with 100 people? >> here's the good news -- everybody but one is n lying. somebody perhaps on that list is lying. in some ways, we didn't learn a thing this week. right? because the stories are the same. the aneotes in the woodward book were like the anecdotes in the michael wol book and everybody's like well, that's just michael wolff, woodward has discovered the same anecdote bus in national security realm. then you read the op-ed, but if you've been following the twitter of feed of any nbcrt re over the last six months you rmonthe s you know are stories that try to put up guardrails

and sometimes they are just k s exasperated. so it'sorew new ition and yet i think the extent with which the staff may beth runnin white house, i think at some point if you're a supporter of the president you should b ncerned because it feels like there's some unelected cabal out there, either thwarting the will ofe the peo or they think the president's unfiof for fice. eithern evaluat is unsettling for the country. >> i want also talk about the supreme court nominee, the hearings, brett kavanaugh. they got very contentious at times. what w your big take away? >> i think when you look back it's sort of that the hrings weren't about brett kavanaugh. the hearings seem to be about the people asking theon ques the hearings became about the protesters. the hearings were about the 2020 democratic senators, i'm thinking speaking a little bit in short hand, ckamala harr,

cory booker. the process was to fight, but the substance, there was a moment where i thought they had him feeling a bit defensive on abortion. he hadn't answered the roe v. wade question very well. i think to the satisfaction of those they are -- that maybe don't want to see it overturned and y i thought the democra were so consumed perhaps with their own psonas or trying to have these other fights with the -- with senate republicans that they may have missed an opportunity to be frank. but i think, look, i think kavanaugh -- he's stumbling to this c firmation buthe's going to get confirmed. >> tell us who you have coming up on the show today. >> kellyanne conway, we want to know who's running the white house and two senato, ben sasse, republican of nebraska who probably had the most fascinating statement at the hearings who basically said, you know, we're the reason why the judiciary system is so oken,

meaning congress. and senator dick durbin of illinois. nother great show comingup. you can see "meet the press" after news 4 today. chuck, thank you so much for by stopping her name is miranda and she may be the most talked-about baby into washi d.c. >> that right? oh! >> there she is, three months ago mayor muriel bowser announced she was adopting a newborn and becoming a mother. >> and earlier this week she opened up to the "today" show's hoda kotb about her bundl of joy. but before that, who else did she talk with? she w talked about she's finally ready to introduce miranda to the world. >> this is the first time mayor muriel bowser has allowed fuse cameras to see her new baby. >> now we're happy to kind of be out and we're settled in and miranda will beaptized on sunday. she'll have a little party and then she's going back to being a

normal little baby. >> reporter: bowser chose to share her and miranda's story with the "today" show's hoda kotb after kotb talked about her journey of being a single mom with a bus schedule. >> i enjoyed watching her on the "today" show, gotow to share her story meant so much to me and a lot of women. >> there'st a mom where that child is put in your arms. describe that moment f me. >> i think the moment that really sticks out to meas literally looking down at miranda and tho -- just those eyes looking back at me and knowing that i was her entire world. and when i had that feeling, i knew that we could be together forever. >> when she looked at you, what did you see in thoseey ? what did you see? >> i saw my baby girl. i had no hesitation, no -- the

feeling was that it's going to be two of us and we would make in the the world. >> reporter: as for why she wanted to become a single mom in her mid-40s, the mayor talks about that wh kotb. but she told us -- >> i think d.c. was eager to have a firstdaughter. >> a first daughter of the district. >> that is so sweet. >> i like that. >> and they obviously bonded o so many levels there, but what a beautiful baby. >> a child is a beautiful thing as we know. >> a e miraclry one of them. >>e i l kids. >> lauryn will find that out at some point. >> at some point. not today. or nine months from now. >> we are also keeping our eye to the sky because a lot of rain today. >> flood watch is in effect, right? >> all ove the place until 6:00 a.m. on monday morning so we are going to have rain, a good deal of it throughout the day today. heavy at times and we willo

continue see showers during the overnight and we have a lot of rain to deal with.f a lot tropical systems to deal with. this is the remnants of gordon that we'g see moving through the area. and we have florence, we have helene, we have eaac. ang is all here. so, again, taking a look outside, you see se fog out there, not the prettiest of mornings right now. and thiyis pre much how it will look all day today. heavy rain today. ye we are goingo have heavy rain at times today. dry times today, don't count on them. unless you are realar southf d.c. but for the most part we are all going to have rain all times today so if you have events outside, i would think about moving them ecinsidese we have flooding concerns, a couple inches of rain possible around the way today. will florence impact us? the jury is out but 's getting close to the east coast. i'll show you the latest flak a few minutes. i'll show you the track of this

rain as it pushes from the southwest and moves from the north and east. yellow is signifyingra heavier in the region but widespread steady rain pretty muchouossible all throu the day today. as i said, if you are south, you may hit some dry spots but areas to the north, especially if you'relose to the mason/dixon line you will have rain and it will be heavy at times and this the area that has the most rain but again this is all a feat of moisture continuing to stream in from what was left of gordon. flood watch in effect until your 6:00 a.m. monday morning. one to three inches of rain possible. we have ponding on the roadway out ther high standing water from -- information from my friends at wtop. so make sure you tune into them gcause they'lle you an idea of where that high standing water is throughout the day day. 64 degrees right now. it's not going to get much better thanthat. not only do we have the steady rains but the winds will pick up. it's going to be a fairly windy day out there todayith gusts

up to 20 miles an hour. 68 degrees will be our forecast for daytime highs today and periods of heavy rain. here's your futurecast. again, you can see the rain pushing through the area all througho the day, through lunchtime, through your afternoon and evening. becomes more showery later on this evening and through the overnight but i believe we'll have fog and swers around for that monday morning commute. could get a break through the day tomorrow withf peaks sunshine. that will be the exception not the rule and then we'll have stronger storms as we head into your monday afternoon, monday ,vening. think about mond we'll be in the 60s today, back in the 80s for mondaynd tuesday and humidity rolls back in as well and by tuesday morning we start drying t. tch out, visibility is low throughout as well with some fog. temperatures tomorrow will be in the d-s and, again, some storms and rain possible later on in the afternoon and evening. here's florence right now, still a tropical storm. winds are at 70 miles an hour but another five miles to g and

that's a category one hurricane. you have to have winds at 75 miles an hour. so this is the latest track right now, coming on shore of north carolina as a category three hurricane. that's a major hurricane and this will be friday morning so,, agthat's right around the wilmington area. but what is happening? we have a stalled frontal system that will pass through onin mony and of stall to the south of us on tuesday and wednesday so we're keeping a chance of rain on tuesday and wednesday but this may push it back out to se so, again, here's some different tracks that we'll have to wch in white, possibly come up to virginia, possibly go rightouack to sea but still bring us some rain on the eastern sea board. so, again, we'll have plenty of me to watch that. better ideas as we get into tomorrow but, of course, your thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, that's when we are watching formpacts for florence around our region. temperatures in the 80s

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welcome back. scam artists targeting your ti children p them at risk for identity theft. >> this is a growing issue but there's a new law you can use to protect your child's personal informs before it's too late. nbc's jo lin kent explains. >> i got adill that s collection notice on the front of it. to gavin. >> reporter: when her s started receiving bills for acme skin care, karpinsky called the company. >> they said he'd been a regular customer. i said he's five. ' reporter: one in four ki identities will be stolen before they become adults. children are popular targets for data thieves because the crime can go deched for years and parents sometimes help identity thieves byiving away critical

details on social media. is posting specific information about your child a target? >> it makes the identit thieves' jobs easier. if you do a birth announcement and describe the gender, name and birth date of your child, that's three data pois already. >> reporter: expert recommend llecking and freezing your kids' credit with three major credit agencies for free after a new law goes into t effects month. gavin's information was stolen from a doctor's office. >> and they wanted to steal someone. and they picked me. >> reporter: his mom nowrying to protect his financial future. jo ling kent nbc news, new york. >> that's wild. >> it is, but it's happening more and more everyday. much more news ahead on news 4 today. hour-by-hourudes an look at your forecast with look at your forecast with auryn

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7:00 on the dot on this sunday morning. look a r your screeht there. hurricane florence or soon to bc hue florence gaining strength. the threat in the atlantic is getting stronger and we are tracking how it could affect all of us. a swimmer disappears and search crews are hoping they can get back onhe water and find a man lost i the priver.

>> and a how a family was able to get o of their home just minutes before it exploded. . >> but first let's talk to lauryn, we have some fog out there. >> heavy fog has blanketed the regi region. just minutes ago when i was doing my forecast you could see everything from the camera and now you can't. it's going to be a foggy day and a windy day as well steady rain will push through

the region. this continues to be remnants from gordon. now i've already seen some ponding on the roads out there, flooding, high-standing please don't drive across any flooded roadways. i believe that i going to be an issue today. it's chilly, 63 right now isur temperature, wet and rainy all the way through the morning with steady rain by 10:00 a.m. by are noon we are looking at thatind toick soup it will be a wet raw day out there and a cool day. t we'lk about the hurricanes season that's rampi up. tropical storm florence. we'll show you the latest track and where we expect her to go. >> 7:02. this morning there is a state emergency in >>virginia. let's break down what

governor ralph northam's order means. it helps mobilize resources to prepare for the storm, lessens damage and streamlines the process for the commonwealth to send assistae to other states. the governor wants people to start preparingith emergency kits. you can find out that information on what to an include in an emergency kit and how to get ready forca a hur on oureb site. >> and for the south of us, south korea declaring a state of emergency as well. people already buying up storm supplies, things like generator and ponchos. the governor wants everyone to take this storm seriously. >> it's a strong storm now. it's beentrong and it has the potential to get very strong. >> nk declarorth carolina decla state of emeency as well. stay with storm team 4 for

up-to-the-minute updates on our nbc washingt s app. thrch continues for a man who was last seen swimmi im in the patuxent river in maryland. the swimmer is an exceed resident in his 20s. a howard county family is safe thanks to their quick thinking actions. that o i got otheir home just before it exploded. investigators say someone in hde the smelled gas and called for help and as fire crewsri d the house exploded. neighbors blocked the way from the ast, they also felt the impact. >> everybody felt like a tree landed on their personal house. at's how loud and impactful it was and we look out theindow and there's inferno. it was pretty crazy.

>> can you imagine the exact cause of the explosion still under investigation. meanwhile, neighbors now trying to help out that family. a travel alertor you this morning. all day today trains on the orange, silver, blue and yellow lines will run every 24 minutes and on the red line a major safety drill is closing platforms at two stations. the exercise that began aut five minutes ago and will last until 2:00 this afternoon. that means the dline platforms at metro center will be off to the public. but both stations will be open for the other lines. buses will replace red line stations between farragut north and judiciary square. you may hear simulated sound in that area during the drills. a man carrying thisim 9 mier loaded handgun was stopped by tsa at reagan national airport. they say it was i his carry-on.

police questioned the man on fridayed and a him to place the gun unloed in his checked baggage j bagga baggage. a new school year has begun but concerns about safety in the classroom hasn't stopped. >> this weekend there was a different kind of back-to-school rally. in alexandria, students celebrated a new school year with anoer push for change. news 4's darcy spencer has the stor >> i will never forget that my first funeral i'd ever been to s for a 16-year-old girl who was shot while trying to get her education. >> reporter: jackson o'mara is a classmate where her classmate was shot and killed last march. >> i will never forget seeing the photos and videos of her and seeing the family standing next to their daughter's casket. >> reporter: o'mara was one of

the. speake >> for me, back to school means waiting for the news of new school shootings rolling in day by day, hour by hour. >> reporter: that's the new realityan for young people -- fear that something could happen. >> personally i'm kind of scared to go to school now because you never know when it could be your turn. >> reporter: the event was organized by young people. a middle school stunt a a high school student. they wanted to bring people together to talk about gun violence and school shootings. >> we got our speakers and we were passionate about the issues so it wasn't that hard for us and it's just something that needso be held. >> reporter: naomi wadler is an 11-year-old anti-gun activist who spoket the march for our lives rally. >> i'm being here today to tivate and empower and it's just a great reminder that there is power inmbs. >> reporter: they also encouraged young people to register to vote and to use

their voting power to push for stronger gun control laws. darcy spencer, news 4. >> hundreds of teachers in our area have lost their licenses 2000.isconduct since but finding out why isn't always easy. the i-team is breaking down what parents can or can't find out about educators who t in about educators who t in trble.ou

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when tracking the histories of their kids' former teachers. > negative and negative is a positive. >> reporter: with summer vacation over, the days are more hectic for carrie knapp and her daughters, thatludes learning new names when it comes to teachers. >> especially because i have a midd schooler so she has, what, seven different teachers? >> reporter: in virginia, wit a ju few clicks and less than a minute at her computer she can find out a lot about who is teaching her child. here on the virginia department of education's web portal you can check thed degree h by any public schoolteacher, when his or her license expires a the teacher's special area of study like chemistry or english. >> they' going to be there, what, almost eight hours a day? so i want to make sure that they are with someone who is trustworthy and has goodls mo. >> reporter: you can also find the names of teachers stripped of their licenses for misconduct, something the news 4 i-team investigated over the past two years. at the start of the 2018/2019 school year, the commonwealth of

virginia hasevoked or canceled the licenses of more than 500 virginia teachers since 2000. about 170 maryland teachers in the same time frame lost their hicenses, buts have changed in that state. after our i-teamrt rethe maryland state department of education began posting the names of all teachers from whom it's revoked a license f misconduct. if you go on the web site, there's a link in the bottom right. you click on it and you will see the names of tse t chers and the school districts in which they worked and the dates the licenses were revoked. maryland does not have one of those online portals where you ca check the licenses of the other teachers in this state. for that you have to e-mail or call the state department o education itself. same for d.c. parents. there's noen online l search in d.c., either, instead requiring a call or e-mail to e office of state superintntdef oeducation. >> it takes a lot to get se someone's l revoked. >> reporter: chiafy

advocate jennifer alvaro says parents must be vigilant to do their home work if they suspect something is wrong with ate her who suddenly left a school because in our investigation we discovered students don't announce publicly whe a teacher's license have been revoked. >> when you have someone's license revoked for inappropriate conduct with children, it should be takenve , very, very seriously. >> reporter: but parents won't find any teachers with revoked licenses in the district, because d.c. education officials say they're stilliz fing policies that will allow them to yank a license, even though neighbening states have doing so for decades. >> i think it's important. eople thatse are the are shaping our kids' minds and i want to know that someone hasn't committed a felony. >> now, virginia state legislator have approved new laws making it easier a efficient to revoke a teacher's license from misconduct, a direct response from our i-team investigation. to find the updated list, visit our nbc washington app and get

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brace yourself, huge changes are coming as work to fix the memorial bridge ramps up very soon. >> this time next week, the bridge won't be busy at all because it will be completely closed for traffic. i take a look at the issu from a distance, the memorial bridge looks as good as it always has. but get up close and you can already see signs of what's coming. orange barrels, scaffolding, barges underneath the bridge, even square pieces of the bridge deck cut out and replaced with steel sections. >> it's very bad. very bad. >> reporter: major work is coming to fix the bridge and commutersec elly are bracing? you got to do what you've got to do. if it falls down, that would b quite a sight. >> reporter: the bridge isn't in danger of falling down but take a look inside. as we've documented, some of the steel support here is paper thit and needso be replaced. next weekend, from september 14 to the 17heth t entire bridge will be closed to set up for a

major >> it's going to create more traffic than what we already put up with anyway. >> come october, there will be full-time lane closures and shifts and all-around construction zones. >> there will be a nber of cranes on the bridge. there's going to be a staging area, a barge. >> the army ten-miler race is impacted by this work. this will be the first year the 34-year history of the race that runners don't cross the memorial bridge. so if you use the structure, brace for the changes that are coming. boaters are also being asked to stay away from the center part ofgehe br the work is expected to last for the next two and a half years. so get ready for that. but next weekend cometely closed. that will impact you, lauryn. d yeah, i know. i'm glad you this story. i had no idea. >> you would have been late to work. >> i had no idea. >> so all eyes, obviously, on

florence and what d it'sng as it moves closer, we can't ignore what's happening out. he >> this is gordon. >> this is gordon. this is remnants of gordon that left the flooding in southern portions of texas and missouri. this is remnants from gordon, that'shy we'll see steady rain throughout the day and pockets of hvy rain throughout the day so don't expect dry times for today. live capitol camera -- >> yuck. >> right? you're right, angie, that fog came rolling down in a matter of minutes and this is how it's going to look outda there it's not going to be the prettiest of days, visibilit has cut down quite a bit here in d.c. it's down to two miles so again, w visibility. as far as what we're expecting fortoday, rain and wind. so we tack on the wind gusting up to 25 miles an hour. now, we have aew showers overnight and through tomorrow morning and then some evening

storms possible tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening. tuesday just an ilated storm possible and then mainly clouds on wednesday. i'll keep a chance o an isolated shower or storm but it will be straight chances by wednesday a our focus turns to florence towards the end of this upcoming work week. temperatures out theight now, it's chilly. we here in the 50s and low 60s, only topping out in the 60s for daytime highs today and it may feel cooler to this system because we haven't h temperatures like this in quite some time and plus we're going to have winds to deal with. so winds, rain, maybe a good day just to stay inside and watch some movies. watc football. welcome back, nfl. as far as the radar is concerned, we're looking at heavy rainhrhat scootsgh the area in spots but this is going to continue to feed in so expect rain pretty much all throughout the day. the heaviest rain is going to stay just aroundhe mason/dixon line and up through pennsylvania where they're just getting battered with rain the last

couple days. flood watch in effect through monday mornin we could have a couple inches of rain. already dealt with ponding on the roadways coming . that's only going to get worse. i know there's high standing ters out there with road closures so please heed caution andra obey thoseic signs if, in fact, there is a road closure. temperatures are in the mid to upper 60s. here in d.c. elsewhere lower to mid-60s. futurecast shows pockets of heavy rain that will scoot through through lunchtime. by this evening possibly more showery in naturee'ut keep a chance for showers into tomorrow morning, there will be fog tomorrow morning as well. possibly some dry times tomorrow during the day and then more showers and thunderstorms possible tomorrow afternoon w through tomor evening. tuesday we'll start to dry out and then we have that isolated chance of a storm, temperatures are backnto the 80s and humidity comes back as well. we've got tropical orm florence right here. it's starting to regain that

intensity little bit as it's moving into ocean waters in the atlantic that are above normal. look at our spaghetti plot. this takes all the computer models that we have and shows the track and look where that track goes, right into the eas coast so goodha betat least somebody on the east coast will be impacted but from chleston up to the outer banks. we are going to watch this track, it's sev al daysaway and this would be thursday night to friday depending on the speed g.of this th it looks like it slowed down a little bit. we have a fhantal system will be pushing this out so that's going to be another variable towards the end of thi work ek. but family and friends on that eastern sea board will have to ike caution becausecould come in as a major hurricane above a category three so that's why the forecast gets murky towards friday, saturday, and sunday for us. ne have to wch where the rai

welcome back. new video shows the brazilian presidential candidate stabbed at a rally recovering in the hospital. he h had surgery since the stabbing on thursday. in a weak and scratchy voice he thanked the medical team for helping them out and the man cused of stabbing the candidate is in prison.

the police are trying to determine if he act alone. >> violence erupting in northern greece. demonstrators threw molotov cocktails, police fired tear gas over a pposed name change to the country of macedonia which borders northern greece. an agreent was signe back in june allowing macedonia to join nato. macedonians will vote to call itself republic of north macedonia. greece has long argueddo maa's name implies a greek province of the same name. north korea celebrates 70 ars with an elaborate gala. that's how the festivity began with a huge concert. it kicked off a month of performances and other events. e goal is to get support from foreign investments and boost

tourism. north koa is dealing with international sanctions over its weapons program. meantime, in california, demolition work on an old bridg is completed with two massive explosions.co in san francishe california department of transportation -- whoa -- imploded two marine foundations. they also say tests were done before, ring, and after each blast to evaluate the impact on water quality and on animals in that area. wow. >> that was intense. >> think they got it done. okay, we're dealing with rain drops and a lot of fog but that's not all. we also have flood warnings in effect. don't expect lots of dry times

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gaining strength. tropical storm florences expected to keep growing into a major hurricane and getting closer to the east coast. virginia mer from still missing in a maryland river. a man went underwater off myrtle point park in st. mary's county yesterday. hasn't been seen since. now search crews are waiting to get back on the water and keep looking. >> red line platforms are closed for a safetyrill but they will shuttle people who need red line service. metro yriders, can use the stations for other lines. but trains on the orange, silver, blue and yellow lines

are running every 24 minutes. welcome in. ng's 7:31. thank you for b with us. i'm adam us t adam tuss. >> and i'm angie goff. we're dealing with so much, the fog,he coolness, the crisp in the air. >> it's hurricane season and outside,e dealing with this was what was a hirricane. >>is from remnants of gordon that is moving right through our area right now. that's why we'll have steady rain tonight and into tonight and moderate rain bringing visibility dowross the region, lots of fog blanketing the area right nowe so ple be careful as you make your way out the doorway. not only do we have the fog in place, we have standing water

from the w rain that got last night, ponding on the roadway which is is creating the road spray which is making visibility even worse around the area and that will continue as we go through the day. again, pocts of heavy rain is what you can see and yellow right here. we have a flood watchor almost our entire region and that goes until tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. sohis is going to continue all through the day toda th heaviest rain staying to the north towards the pennsylvania border but again we are going to get a good deal of rain today. look at these temperatures. 50snd 60s. i want to tell you about that before it becomes a shock to the system. we'll talk about florence and the iusact on that's coming up in 20 minutes. >> got your hands full. >>ly absolu lauryn, thank you very much. because of florence, there is a scyte of emerglready in virginia. >> we want to break down what governor ralph northam's decision means. the order helps mobilize esources to prepare for t

storm. it lessens any potential and streamlines the process for the commonwealth to send assistance to other states. the governor wants people to start preparing right now where emergency kits, get ahead of the game. you can find more information on what to include in tho kits and how to prepare by going to nbcwashington.com. also stay with storm team 4. that will be your best bet for continuing coverage of florence. we're tracking a storm as it gets closer to the east coast, get up-to-the-minute updates in our nbc washington app. >> to politics now. afterearly two years on the sidelines, former president barack obama is back on the campaign trail. yesterday he stumped in southern california for democra hoping to flip the house in midterm elections. unlike friday's, spee obama didn't mention president trump by name b his target was clear to. >> the good news is, in two months we have a chance to

restore sanity in our politics. [ cheers and applause ] >> today on "meet the press," chuck todd will takese a c look at the midterm elections, and the scathing "new york questioning president trump's leadership. he will join us in the 10:00 hour to talk about what is ming up on the show. 7:34. a contentious u.s. open. serena williams and the chair umpire got into a wild argument during the women's finals. >> i have never seen it. you owe me an apology. say it. say you're sorry. then don't talk to me. you stole a point from me. you're a thief, too. >> this went on for some time. it started early in the second set during her mat in new york. williams'oach appeared to gesture to her w earned a warning from the umpire. a few games laterreaking her racket. got a point penalty for that and she called the umpire

for taking away a point. and she was given a ge penalty for that. at one w pointliams called in the referee to contest her punishment, saying it was unfair. >> i'm going to continue to fight for women and to fight for us to have equal and to be able o take her shirt off without getting a fine. is was outrageou and i just feel like the fact i have that to get with this is just example for the next person that has emotions and wants to express themselves and t wants be a strong woman and they're going to be allowed to do that ocause of today. maybe it didn't wo for me but it will work out for the nextperson. >> williams fell short of her quest far 24th grand slam title. naomi osaka clinched the win. a first >> wow.pan. a lot going on ther>> take a minute, look at your screen here. this picture shows the moments afr a family's home in howard

county exploded. it happened friday you can see smoke rising from the ash. it washere yesterday as well. as dark ward explains, it's what the family started to smell. >> reporter: it happened in woodbine county. no one was injured but resident of the home smelled the odor of natural gas. when the fire crews showed up, the explosion happed. >> ieard a loud boom and my room shook. >> everybody felt like a tree landed on their personal house. at's how loud and impactful it was. windown we look out the inferno.e was an >> reporter: while that reported smell of natural gas preceded the explosion, it hasn't been ruled as the cause of the

explosion. still evacuating the house quickly once gas was smelled likelyav the family's lives. other neighbors planned to gather to see what they could do to help the family to escape what could have been the absolute worst night of their lives. in howard ,county derrick ward, news 4. so this is crazy. look at this parkiob gone wrong. this is in alexandria, virginia, the suvt tearing through wall in the second floor parking garage landing in that ti precarious po. it happened yesterday at a parking lot on seminary road. the dver managed to get out and was not hurt before the fire department got there. eventually the tow truck driver moved in and figured out how to hook the vehicle up and get it down. a building inspector was called in to assess t damage that was done to the parking garage. scarystuff. n you imagine being in the car? >> no. >> kickoff sunday is finally here for the redskins. all right, this year's team gets

to look different from last year with new aarterbacklex smith leading the way. >> you like that? no way -- that's the wrong guy. he's minnesota. >> redskins are i arizona to take on the cardinals. the game starts at 4:25 this afternoon, the home opener set for next sunday when the team plays against the indianapolis colts at fedex field. but the weather today -- > probably good to be in arizona, good to be in the desert today. coming up, he's back on the job after a tryoedy. ll meet the school resource officer who had to shoot ast ent. he sit downes for his first interview since that day. he tells erica gonzalez why he's rey to be back in the school even if his own children are worried about his safety. the story s you'll right here on news 4 coming up next after the brk.ea

welco back. great mills high school was the sixe of a deadly shooting months ago. now only on news 4, erica gonzalez sits down with a school resource officerho ran towards the danger. >> you feel like you did everything that you were supposedoo do and you could that day? >> i do. reporter: in his first sit down interview, deputy blaine gaskel talks about the day last march when he ran towards gun fire inside the h ah school st. mary's county. he was onhe swat team but it was his first day as a school re source officer. on that day, a young man killed his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend and another student. >> our policy is simple, single officer responds, go.

>> reporter: rollins fired a gshot, takin his own life. gaskel was okay but he says the whole ordealeft his young daughter rattled. >> after the incident she was concerned and crying and all that stuff and she gets nervous for me to go to work, period. >> reporter: deputy gaskel was awarded a specialnd comion from maryland governor larry hogan and finished out the school year. do you think there isnything be learned from that day that maybe you would do dferently in this new school year? >> so yes. i had a chance to watch the video of the incident and there's a fewth things at i noticed that needed to be changed or hodressed. our for what happened did an excellent job. >> post-event, i don't think anybody is the same.on and i d't mean that in a bad way, but your dirspective is

erent because it happened here so we're a community where it happened. >> reporter: with this new ahschool year d, the deputy tells me he's excited to get back to work, excit to continuiding young udents, he says, as he reminds his family, especially his daughter, of oneery important thing. >> i just told her dad will come ck home. >> reporter: that was erica gonzalez reporting. since the shooting, st. ry's county public schools added new safety measures and bolstered others. for starters, every school in the county will have interior room locks and security cameras. the countas hired seven additional safety and security assistants and a new school safe coordinator. great mills itself will have a front office security station. it's a prototype for what could be coming to all st. mary county public schools. >> a lot goi on there. time is 7:43 as you take a look outside on what is a dreary sunday morning, folks. and it's also cold. you will notice that the second

you step outside this mornin we'll get a full look at your forecast when we come back.ra plus,ing a potential hurricane headed towards the east coast. east coast. aggressive yellow.

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stretches east. david culver, news 4. >> david got a tough assignment. hanging out with the keg-o-rater and hanging out on the roof top. >> it's incentive -- >> sorry, did i sound upset? >> and he wasn't wearing a tie. >> he had no tie on. david. >> it's also -- you know, they're known for trying to poach diffelont ees and stuff so it's like the more incentives they give them to eay there the m fun it is. >> listen, we have three places on the short list and if amazon comes here it will be a game changer. >> traffic, too, get ready. >> plentyo talk about there. also plenty to talk about in the weather department. have gordonight here right now. >> it's cool out there. >> it's cool. it is chillys out there t morning. temperatures in the 60s today? football weather. >> that's what i was saying but e thing is tomorro the 80s, back to that humidity. >> i'm going to get sick. this is howeople getsick. >> this is what's going to happen all this week because we have this chilly raintoday, not

only do we have the rain, we've got winds, winds will be gusting up to il20, 25 an hour as we go through the day today but look at that. >> beautiful! it?t's beautiful, isn't football weather. yavy rain today, yes? we'll answer some r weather questions. kind of distracting with the rain drops going around the back of the camera. dry times today? don't count on them. if you have outdoor plans, find a plan ." flooding concerns? absolutely. we had some issues last night and i thinke we'll hore today. will florence impact us? that's the big question. andight now we are continuing to watch that track and i have the latest track for you. radar right now showing you heavy rain across the area. that's what you see in the yellows and oranges but steady rain continuing throughout the day with pockets of heavy rain. don't expect this to go anywhere. this is how it will look throughout the day today. it may becom more showery later on this afternoon thrgh the

evening but this is remnants of gordon moving through our area.w a floodch in effect until monday morning. we could get a couple inchesra and flooding on the streams s.d creeks coming up out of their ba that's what we have to be concerned about with this steady rain today. so we have widespread rain today,ed scatt chances tomorrow and then a cnce as we go into tuday,solated chances on wednesday and thursday and then our focus ceturns to flor as far as temperatures are out there, 50s and 60s. it's ahilly morning out there and it will be a chilly day. temperatures in the 60s right now, staying in the 60s topping out in the upper 60s but it will feel cooler with the winds. so we are looking at heavy rain that pushes through the area, all the way through the day today. again, a little bit more showere in nat later this afternoon and through tonight but you'll have rain tomorrow morning f the commute and the kids headed back to the school. and then maybe ath few

derstorms tomorrow afternoon. we could have a few dry hours in between during the middle part of your day tomorrow. but, again,ar it will be tomorrow. those temperatures will be back in the amid-80s we get humidity. let me show you what's going on. not only do we have florence but we have isaac, tropical storm isaacnd alsoropical storm helene. so we are really amping things up butlet's focus on florence right now. florence was a little weaker yesterday but now it's starting to intensify and in fact it's moving into atlantic waters that are above normal. this ithe track we're looking at. category three hurricane, this will be fniday m at 2:00 a.m. with winds at 120 miles an hour. we'll continue to watch this track because we have a frontal systemt t will moving through monday night into tuesday. that will stall. that couldre push fe out back to sea but winds are extending out ofut this a 125

miles an hour so -- 125 miles from theo center we are going to continue to feel theac i even if it heads back to sea. still a lot of tracks but we'll figure that out as we go through the next couple days. weather alert, we've got chances isolated through thursday and we're tracklorence towards the end of next week. we

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