now, it was sprinkling. >> good morning. >>erkeley county, west virginia schools are on a two-hour delay because of the flooding. if any districts make similar announcements we'll let you konw he air and online. >> working for you this morning. keeping an eye on the roads that may still be a bit wet. but we begin with chuck bell on all the rain wre getting. >> still a weather alert because of all the rain we h yesterday. more showers today and flooding concerns and we're watching hurricane florence. >> we couldn't stuff more information into the forecast. with what's dealing left of gordon, first. that's what brought us the heavy rain yesterday. it's now across pennsylvania, new york and new england. still plenty ofud c and rain chances for today. today are hit and miss intermittent showers.

not thaty ste downpour we went through yesterday. yesterday over two inches o rain. over an inch and a half yesterday. and that follows that on friday. for today, don't expect lot of sunshine this morning. later on, i think the will thin a bit. it will be a little warmer. current temperatures in the mid 60s around the city. upper 50s in the valley. high temperature back up tou 80 degrees. yesterday's high was 67. so it will feel a lot warmer and more humid today. rain chance stays at 70%. >> thank you, chuck. speaking of the weaer aow the roads, near the dulles greenway has flooding. a andale, near duncan drive, new problem with a crash that just popped up.

tidewater trail just north of landsdown road there. looking good from 70 down to the spur you're nice and >> thank you. it's 4:32. now back to the storms still leing an pact on our area. this is what old town alexandria residents dealt with. the water rose quickly and caught some people off some people had to be rescued by boat from businesses and others had to be helped to their cars. flooding was not the onlyssue they dealt with. >> with the ground being so saturated trees toppled overnortheove over northern, virgin. one tree fell on to power lines. and news 4 is working for you and tracking hurricane florence. you can see the storm's projected track there. as of now, they'll have the exact break down in just a few minutes. emergency management officials say now is the time for

virginians to prepare for the storm. th biggest concern are coastal and inland flooding, damag from high winds and widespread power outages and video on twitter yesterday, the virgini governor said residents should prepare for florence and the rest of hurricane season. you can getp to the minute information right on the nbc washington app. >> breaking news w, d.c. police are looking for three missing children. >> take a close a look your screen here. the kids are all under the age of 6. d.c. police tell news 4 they went missing yesterday from the 800 block of division avenue northeast. they're with the woman you see on your screee to the right. she is the mother of one of these kids but doe not hav permission to have her child with her. she may be using public transportation. >> aroup of catholics spent

part of their weekend demanding reform within the catholic church. they stood in the rain yesterday holding signs in nthwest d.c. we call it the vatican embassy. later today anotherti eal gathering will take place today. the cathedral of st. matthew the apostle plans to hold two listening sessions to allow people to share their thoughts with the church. they're meant to help bui transparency between the catholic chur and it's followers. there's new calls for cardinal wuerl tore-sign. he's calling for wuerl to step down. he says i was n an easy decision. a recent granjury report ccused him of covering up claims while he was in pittsburgh. he denies a cover up but asked for forgiveness for his errors in judgment. that he im in a letter can no longer participate in any mass lead by the cardinals.

>> for the good of the church, that we step away from tradition archbishop. >> they declined to comment ont his . cardinal wuerl called for six weeks oforiday prayer recognize them. >> it's now 4:35. tomorrow opening statements are set to begin in the mansion murder case. on friday, 12urors and alternates were selected. 7 women and 9 men. they'll decide his fate. murderharged in the 2016 of three family members and the housekeeper. according to court documents his former cell mate told investigators another person was involved in theer murd that person's dna did not match evidence from the crime scene and it's not clear whether the cell mate will testify for theo ution. he faces life in prison. >> it is 4:36 now. re's a look at other top

stories this morning. a dallas police officerhat shot a killed a man inside his own home is out of jail. she posted bond last night after bein arrested a charged with manslaughter. dallas police say she went into the man's apartment last week thinking itas her own and shohi because she thought he was an intruder. >> cbs'sceo les moonves is o of a job. he parted ways with the company yesterda it came hours after six women came forward with allegations he sexually harassed and assaulted them. he denied sexualon miscct since the allegations first came forward this summer. >> coming up at 5:00, we'll break down how new players lead that teamo victory. >> the mystics are facing elimination in the wnba finals. one more loss will send them home without a championship.

you still have a chance to s the match up in person. they'll play game 3 and game 4 in o area. due to scheduling concern they'll be held at eagle bank arena. the team will provide shuttle service beten the metro station and the arena. wednesday is the first home game. tipoff is at 8:00 p.m.. turn it around. >> coming up, a new ranking of the top colleges. hang on. we'll let john f legend sing a second. i usually don't interrupt him. we do wan to tell you about the new ranking that'sout. one local school climbed to 25 on this list. which alumns have extra bragging rights. straight ahead. >> more on the amazing feat joh

>> 3, 2, 1.ni on. >> while you were sleeping space-x launched this rocket. the company's falcon 9 rocket lifted off a few hours ago. carried a new communication satellite into orbit. off.hat deployed after lift the rocket landed safely on a drone ship atlantic ocean.he it's always cool to see, right? aying a new house is stressful time in anyone's life but it became even more complicated vor aginia family when they realized their new home was already occupied and i wasn't by people. story a preview of the you'll see on news 4 tonight. >> couple bought this home for their growing family not alreadyg another family lived here. inside the walls, a colony with hundreds of bats. >> 500 to aou nd. yeah, a lot.

>> our walls were aliveit activity. learning later that they were well.g birth as so the adult families were having babies in our walls. >> we could hear them. you could hear them climbing ck and forth. it was crazy. >> theyhronicled the journey to get the bats out of their home and tonight, they have ag warnor other homeowners. >> you know i couldn't have moved into that house. it would be a short sale. i'd have to lose money. >> david's story is coming up tonight on news 4 at 5:00. >> ig4:42 now. >> that's a little disturbing, huh? this morning, showers aund the area. more showers moving in throughout the day. flood warnings up in northern maryland. chuck is back in a few minutes to show you thend timing what you can expect with hurricane florence coming up. >> and that rain causing problems on the ads.

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the 110 stories of the former world trade center. ch participant wore a badge with a picture of one of the fallen responders. a symbol of bravery was dedicated toon h those that lost their lives on flight 93. >> the tower of voices was dedicated to the crash site at pen. it has 40, one for each of the passengers andberew m on board flight 93. there will be tributes in our area tomorrow and we'll list them all in the nbc washington app. >>y a week later and the new york times op-ed is stille alk of washington this morning. >> vice president mike pence is calling for the author of tt piece t come forward and re-sign. >> to have an individual who took that oath literally say that they work every day to frustrate the psident advancing the agenda he was elected to advance is undemocratic. it's not just deceitful but it's anlt on our democracy.

>> pence again w denying he the author, even offering to take a lie detector test. the justice department should find the author adding it was an issue of national security. tracie potts is folwing the story live from capitol hill this morning. >> we know the writes still an anymous person here but we heard from arosa. >> she said the president was insane, crazy, unhinged and that he wasit changing pns by the hour causing people working around him like herse to use the #tsa referring to the amendment allowing the removal of a president from office. vice president pence sayin never saw anything like that. the white house says she has been largely discredited and she has no credibility and she goes poundmoting her book as

well. >>l tracie, wis book be used for the president's crits? >> one book is already out talking about it. and more than00 on the inside h of the whise. and he was meticulous and he waa carefu sometimes even watergate style interviews meeting peoe late at night in their homes to get the information he needed for his book. >> live for u on capitol hill, tracy, thank you. >> this morning bob woodward will give his first live interview about his new book. that will be on the "today" show. you can see thatere at 7:00.

now 4:48. now to a developingtory from paris. a man is in custody after officials say he stabbed several people near a movie theater in downtown paris. the suspect allegedly of afghan nationality did not know the victims. last anight'sack left four of them with serious injuries. police are investigating the case as attempted murder. right now there's no evidence of a terrorist >>motive. new list is out this morning ranking the top colleges in the country. u.s. news and world report's annual list was released overnight. here's how local schools stack up. georgetown was the top in the area. a uvo cracked the top 25. you see it there. the college of william & mary at 38. george washington university. university of maryland college park tied for 63rd place. virginia tech and american university cam in at number 76 and 78. howard university in the top 100

poclined 21 from last year. number 89 here. that's on top of the 14 spot decline the year before. the rankings are based on 16 measures of academic quality and nsider more than 1,600 four year colleges and universities u.s.s the >> that's a good showing for our region. how about that? >> redskin fans should be feeling good this morning as the team heads home from i first week one win since 2012. >> right. i can't believe the last time. memory. like a distance our season opener. i heard you say that. thank you very much. another part of trip to arizona you may be hearing about doesn't have anything to do with the athletes. instead, a lot af people still talking about cindy mccain'sap arance. >> american hero and long time senator from here in arizona, john mccain. cindy mccain one of the captains today. >> senator john mccain's widowr se as honorary captain. she participated in the coin

toss. she was giving a hug to larry fitzgerald. he became a friend of the mccains and gave one of his eulogies. >> we are going to continue to deal withoi tropicalure for the rest of the day. then we get warm, humid air in here for most of the week and of course all eyes will be on florence for late this week and next weend. for now, dealing with the rememb rememb reminants of so use extreme caution this morning. the good news is the heavy rain is done withs for now but it will be a bit of a showery day today. now a hurrica bk up with 90 miles per hour sustained winds and the forecas tracker remains

not very settling for interests along thendoutheast coast that includes especially the state of virginia and any variion in track could make a big difference on how much of an impact that we get here.es the l thinking from the hurricane center is a concerning one because itrings the storm on shore as a category 4 storm north carolina late thursday night. into friday though. it then stalls and rains itself out across southern virginia, western north calina, and western south carolina. that is a huge problem for there. any viance in that that would bring the storm farther north would bring the possibility for severe flooding for us. late thursday night and into fridaywend the end. for now, though, what's left is bringing heavy rain to new york, pennsylvania and headed on up into new england if you're traveling today. pittsburgh, philly, new york or boston, there cou be a lot of slow travel or air travel. it will be along and to the west of i-81 but everyone has a

pretty high chance of at least getting some amount of rain today.re future weather. by 3:00 in the afternoon, you might actually get a little peak or two of sunshine today. then overnight tonight, staying on the cloudy side and then for tomorrow, less rain until maybe later on in the afternoon. most oftomorrow's rain chances later on in the so showery weather today and hit and miss for tuesday and t wednesday an we'll have to wait and see thursday and especially friday into the weekend where florence decides to bring the heavy rain. if you have north carolina and the chesapeake bay stay very aware of this forecast. >> good morning, that rain causing some problems for the roads and commuters as well. here's one thing, white's ferry shutdown because of high water and debris. we'll let you know as the day progressesow could be shu tomorrow as well because of the high water on the potomac. flooding there as well with that

road shutdown. fredericksburg, all lanes still blocked by t earlirash here this morning and now to maryland again.ee you can 95 from 32 down to the belt way nice and clear here. southbound, northbound also pretty good. >>hank you, it' 4:54 right now. if you use the memorial bridge, yoancan expect closures this week ahead of the major closures this ekend. loe lane in each direction will be csed between 8:30 in the afternoon and 3:00 in the afternoon. the entire bridge is supposed to be closed to drivers and pedestrians and cyclists too on friday at 7:00 p.m.. it will be reopened next monday at 5:00 a.m. this is part of the two-year project to sure up the aging bridge there. we'll see what happens with the weather coming in. >> new york, you are miss america 2019.

congratulations. >> there she is. miss america. a new miss america from new york. she was crowned last night. >> that's verynice. >> she beat out 50 con stestant in atlantic city. this is the first pageant where theyudere notd on their physical appearance and there was no swim suit competitio a big shout out to miss d.c.e sh finished in the top 15. they all happen to be pretty though. >> you can say it's not a requ >> how about this, john legend joins an exclusive club. he has won an emmy, a grammy, oscar, and tony. this is a big deal. last night at the creative arts emmy awards, legend won for producing jesus christuper star live right here on nbc. really great reviews. he also played the title role ands nominated for outstanding actor in vie.

that will be announced next week. the 70th primeti emmy awards will air right here on nbc 4 on septem7th. >> i wonder if he thought his career would lead him to an academy award, an, em mean, this is amazing. >> what people don't know about is he started -- he went down the producing route before he became singer. >> before he sang. >> yes. soe was working with kanye and others early in hiscareer. i'm a bit of a fan. >> a little bit. it's4:56. page?ich >> all right. a weekend full of pounding rain leaves a mess ofg flood behind. we're looking at thest harit areas. >> plus leaving your children home alone. parents strug with a decision over whether to do just that. we're l oo

a weekend of heavy rain left it's mark on t d.c. region. this is cell phone footage taken of the river spilling over it's banks. >> we're going to get a check on your commute in just a moment but first let's che in with chuck bellh wit more on the storm team 4 weather alert day. good morning. >> good morning. we already had nearly six inches rain in the first 8 days of september. i hate the fact that there's more rain in the forecast. >> unfortunatel yeah especially depending on what happens with hurricane florence. we c lld have a of rain in the forecast or we get to see little bt it of rain out of thi. this morning, still flooding

concerns in northern maryland, but you still see the rain. mainly off to the west here's the flood threats as we go through the day. the bright green, those are floods warni and as we talk about the afternoon forecast, we're still telling you toeep the umbrellas because we have showers in it. we're notoing to be drying out too much today but at least it won't be a wash out like yesterday. temperatures are in the mid to low 60s. leesburg at 55 degrees. here's your weather showing the cloudine spotty showers at least as we go through the afternoon. we'll talk about hurricane florence coming up in a few te mi see how your commute is going. >> fairfax station, this is northbound 123 at fairfax county parkway. a reminder of a couple of other th