rht now, parts of our ar ripe after weekend rain caused flooding like this. old townpelexandria od for business this morning despite those floed streets and more rain in the forecast. and hurricane florence is now a h category 3ricane on radar. we're going to talk about that flooding coming up again. but here you see it, perfect-lacking eye. this is a strengthening hurricee on a path to .s. i'll show you the updated path, coming up. and morea social me attacks by president trump on bob woodward and his new book. the president calling the book a scam and woodward a liar. we g the journalists' response.

hi, everybody. good mornomg. we to news 4 midday. i'm angie goff. >> and i'm eun yang. we begin this morning with the weather. there are flood concerns this morning after heawe rain this end and more rain on the way. we're also keeping a close eye on hurricane florence. the storm cou cause problems for areas later this week. >> meteorologist sheena parveen begins our coverage with the latest on e wet weather. we are dealing with that right now. hi, sheena. >> hey, guys. we're talking about a little bit of light rain around the area. i'll show you the rad in a second, but we just have the hurricane ck now o florence. so i want to show you this first. at this point, this is a reallyi good-l hurricane as far as when you talk about a perfect-looking category 3 storm. that's what it is. it's very organized. we only see it strengthening, as we go forward. look at this updatedtraffi potentially a category 4 before it nears land. and the general thought still is that the carolin will have the best chance of any exaimpact fr this storm or at least direct

impact. again, we still have time for this to change, that would be by the end of the week, mostly friday into saturday. it really depends how far inland it goes. but this big area of high pressure over new england, that would keep the storm to our soylh. northern md still dealing with some flood warnings, but the radar showing not too much rain right now, just a few light showers. i'll show you what you can expect for the rest. day and the rest of the week more abo florence, coming up. >> sheena, with thank you. flooding returns to an old town alexandria after a brief reprieve from the weekend rain. >> news 4's justining finch is on king street now where they are getting the worst of thete rising >> reporter: a messy start to the morningere in old town, zlair. alexandria that high water making its way back just as the days begins out here. ifus you take a lookt behind me, you'll see that marker there. the water just under 6 feet,n based o that count there. bue i want to tak you to some video from just last night, where we had much of asc simila e out here. people out here gathered for their late sunday eving, when

all of a sudden, that water began to make its way on to king street, just as businesses were booming and customers were out. we are told that many out here were caught by surprise by wow fast thaer made its way in. and many were caught by surprise, as well, the alexandria fire rescue had to roll in their boats to people, get them to drier, safer ground, and take others to their cars. for oldtimers who have seen this come and go for years, they hey that is fastest they have seen flooding roll up here for a long time. >>t's never been this bad, though. honestly, everyone says it's never been this bad. my manager even id, this is the first time it's gone up this much. >> reporter: so now we know we're watching storms off the east coast, more r forecast this weekend. the sandbags will be necessary out here in other spots as well. a reminder, when you see this kind of water, you want to avoid walkingnto it and driving into it. you just don't know what could be underneath. in oldtown, alexandria, i'm

justin finch, news 4. back into you. a scary situation for a driver in fairfax, virginia, this aweekend. taook at the this scene here. fairfax county police posted this pictutt to t yesterday, showing a tree smashing a car on arlingtonar boul at cedar lane. you can see the tree slammed down right where the driver was seated. police say the driver has non-serious injuries and is expected to be just fine. close ll. >> mm-hmm. well, this morning, we have two good reasons to plan ahead. hurricane florence could cause probms for this area. and september is national preparedness month. storm team 4's emilia drape recently spent some time at fema and got this advice. >> take a look at their insurance. that i c make sure they know what they're covered by and use thipp month s antunity to review their own readiness. and if they have a shortfall in nsurance, if they're covered by flooding, which is a hazard in this area. onfemalso suggests logging to ready.gov.

this gives families advice on planning ahead fordisaster. new this morning, safe and a ed. d.c. police have located three missing children. >> a lot of interest in this story this morning. the community has bee sharing their pictures on social media for hours. news l4's chrisrence joins us now live from d.c. police headquarters with more on this positive ending to what was really an urgent search. chris? >> reporter: sure was. we're learning a lot more information about what went down and where these kids were found. but the bottom line this morning is all three are safe and sound. here's what happened. k all threes were at their grandma's house in deanwood on sunday when tyana dudley walkese out of the hith the three kids. now, she's the mother of th amirr shamirra, the 18-year-old. the 3-year-old and the 6-year-old, she's related to them, but she's not their mom.ay the grandma she doesn't have a car, she walked out of the house with the three kids. the grandmaalled police.

when the police went to go check at tyana's house, she and the kids weren't there. that's when those alerts sta ed goint. we covered it throughout the morning on news 4 today. we are now hearing -- we heard probably in the last hour or so that the kids were found in southeast -- abo a mile away from the grandma's house, just off east capital reet. police say someone phoned in a tip, and that helped some of the police officers track them down. i want to put this case in perspective. whnk you start to tbout missing kids in d.c. you know, about four years ago, there were nearly 1,500 missing kids in d.c., but that number has been coming down. orand some of the investig that we spoke with this morning say that downward trend reased use ith an i of social media. they are able to get these kids' pictures and information out faster and toar more people than they ever could before. and that graphic kind of shows w you, you knore it's fallen to, even at this point in september.

back here now live, outside police headquarters in northwest d.c., i'v got to tell you, this case is ending the way we wish all of these stories could end. the kids safe, sound, and back home where they should be. angie, eun,o back you. >> indeed. chris, thanks so much. detectives are searchir for the muruspect of an 18-year-old man. police say taquan pinkmy of southeast died yesterday afternoon after being shot in broad daylight. the shooting happened in the 2800 block of stanton road in southeast which is about half a mile from the anacostia metro station. d.c. policere offerin a reward to anyone who has information that leads t can arrest aviction in this case. a group of catholics spent rt of their weekend protestingdi and demanng reform. they stood in the rainte yesrday holding photos and holding signs. this is tside the vatican embassy in northwest d.c. later today, anoth emotional

gathering will happen. the cathedral of matthew apostle in d.c. plans to hold two listening sessions today as well as next monday to allow people to share their thoughts with the church. these listening s sions are meant to help build transparency between the catholic church and its followers. now, at the same time,here are new calls for washington's donald op, cardina wuerl, to resign. deacon james garcia from st. matthew's here in the district is calling for wuerl to step down. he said it was not a easy decision. a recent grand jury report accuses wuerl ofp covering u priest sex abuse claims he was bishop of pittsburgh. wuerl denies the cover-up, but has askedveness for his errors in judgment. deacon garcia tells news 4, he told wuerl in a letter that he cati no longer parpate in any mass led by the cardinals. >> and i urged him, for the good of the church, that we both love

so dely, to step away from h position as archbishop. >> a spokeswoman for the archdiocese declined to comment. wuerl has called for 12 weeks of prayers to recognize the pain of the victims. for the first time since the th2012, do you remember , the redskins start the season with an ep wi win. >> the boys defeated the arizona cardinals, 24-6. how y burris breaks dow some new players. helped sure the win. >> reporter: the redskins starting the season o with a win. playing his fist game since november and coming off an injury, chris s thompsontarted the scoring off early. and adrian peterson joined him in the end zone. the burgundy and gold s three touchdowns in just the first half. the defense held the cardinals ocoreless until the final minutes, leading a 24-6 victory, their first season opening win under head coach jay gruden.

>> guys kept reminding me all week about the dang 0-4 sttt. bu win or lose, we're 1-0. >> i feel likee owe coach gruden, the way he takes care of his guys and make sure his guys are straight, i feel like he deserves everythginha tt's coming to him. >> reporter: ted are skins proved they can do it on the ro a. next sunda chance to do it for their fansn a home opener against the indiapolis colts. >> and this morning, many are still talking about cindy mccain's appearance at the skins' game. senator john mccain's widow served as honorary captain. she participated in the coin do toss on behalf of the arizona cardinals, who also saw there, she's giving a hug to wide receiver larry fitzgerald. he became a friend of the arizona senator years ago and gave one of the eulogie at his funerals last month. >> that's a nice relationship and a sweet friendship. new this morning, bob woodward defends his book about president trump and trohele inside thite house. why he says he can be trusted. and lyme hasease.

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w back. we're now getting the backstory on what went into producing "fear," that tell-all back about present trump and the white house, which is out tomorrow. >> bob woodward sat down with savannah guthrie on the "today" show this morning. he defended his unnamed sources. >> why should people trust you? >> uh, because -- but the

tecidents are not anonymous. you -- it gives a it gives a time, who participates. most often, the president himself and what he says. >> let me ask, there's a couple of things that are -- i mean, they leap off the page. you have john kell the white house chief of staff, calling the president an idiot, saying, we'row in crazytn. that's a quote. >> yes. >> john kelly now says, that it.r happened, i didn't say jim mattis, another person quoted as saying the president's understanding isifike a or sixth grader. he comes out subsequently andt says, i diday it. are they lying? >> they are not telling the truth. >> not lon before that interview, president trump tweeted his thoughts on that book. he called it a joke, saying it's another assault on him, and the president also said many have come forward to say the quotes by them are fiction. he then added tha he will write the real book. and even after the interview, he called woodward a liar and a dem operative for the midterms. developing this morning out of dallas, whete police

officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man over the weekend has bee arrested. officer amber guyger says that she went into the man's apartment, thinking that it was her's. when she saw the man moving, she opened fire. nbc's miguel almaguer has more. >> reporter: this morning, dallas police officer amber guyger arrested for manslaughter. the four-year veteran releasedo bond after she was booked at county jail. police say last thursday night, guyger shot and killed 26-year-old botham john i his own apartment, mistaking the unit for her own. >> we're glad see the district attorney have responded to the cas from this mmunity. >> reporter: lawyers for the victim's family say this video was takeny an eyewitness moments after the shooting. a female officer can be seen talking on a cell phone. it's unknown if it's guyger. investigators say after finishing her shift and still in uniform, guyger rourned what

she mistakenly believed was her apartment. encountering jean inside, but she police say it's not clear what the interaction was between her and the victim. then at some point, she fired her weapon, striking the victim. after the shooting, guyger called 1. emts rushed jean to the hospital, but could not save his life. jea as an active member of his church and worked as ane associt pricewaterhousecoopers. last year while on duty, guyger shot a suspect after he wrestled her taser away during an arrest. the suspect survived and guygerf didn'te disciplinary action. today, jean's mother is calling for justice. >> if he was a white man in that apartment, would it have been different? uld she have reacted differently? >> he went to his grave never

knowinghy the police officer came into his apartment and shot him. >> reporter: that dallas police officer is now free on a $300,000 bond. she has not returned any phone calls and her lawyer has also not made a back to you. >> and that was miguel almaguer repo ing. also, developing this morning, one of the most powerful men in television is now out of a job. cbs announced late yesterday, it is parting ways with longtime ceo, les moonves. six new women have come forward, accusing him of sexual harassment and assault. you may recallarlier this summer, six women also accused moonves of sexual misconduct. he denies the allegations and is expected to receive a settlement worth millions of dollars. however, cbs says, it will no decide on a payment until anig inveion is complete. cbs says $20 million of any payment will be donated to one orrg moreizations supporting the me too movement.

any college students have a tough time choosing a field of study. well, a new report just may help them select the most profitable courses to major in. according to bankrate.com, science majors -- when we talk about numbers -- in science and statisti and economics rate the highest. experts say it can lead to finance and management and oraduates can earn an average salary ofthan $108,000. zoology comes in second and e nucleaineering in third. later in the newscast, this year's best colleges and how our local schools are ranked. zoology? i think i could do that. the other ones, i'm like, or my head. >> i'm trying to push my kids, make sure they do science and s.t.e.m. and that kind of stf. >> and everyone is saying cybersecurity, a lot of demand for that. we're alsoorking for you when it comes not only to your money, but also t your health. lyme disease strikes millions of americans every year and the

efcts of the disease can be truly debilitating. we're talking fatigue, pain, issues.nitive >> so if you're a pet owner, you probably know, there is a vaccine for dogs and ca not why not people too? nbc's kristin galgren takes a look. >> reporter: it's a growing threat, spreading y ining quicks the country. some 30,000 dgnosed with lyme disease every year, but the cdc says in reality, there are probably close to 300,000 new infections a year. vicky was diagnosed back in 2012 and says the effects are st deing. >> couldn't even get out of bed. >> reporter: lyme can affect the nervous eart, and the system, but as of now, there is no vaccine for humans. >> there's a vaccine i get for my dog and yet there's nothing for my kids. >> there was a vaccine for humans. it was available in the late '90s, early 2000s and it was pulled from the market after

erf several years. >> reporter: dr. erol fikrig suz one of the doctors that worked on that vaccine and says it was 80% effective, but was ultimately pulled because of risk ofide effects. now he's turned his attention to making a new type of vaccine, that would make thre body stant to ticks. >> we can make an animal, as we call it, tick immune. it's no longer susceptible to effective tick bites. >> they're having success stopping ticks from latching on to animals like guinea pigs, and fikrig thinks they could eventually do the same for humans. eliminating not just the risk of lyme, but other tick-born diseases as we>>. e have some promising results. openfull hopefully, within the next three to ten years, there'll be a vaccine that's hopefully effective. >> reporter: hope that a destructive disease could some day be stopped i its tracks. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, new haven, connecticut. >> that would be a life-changing vaccin for so manypeople. >> yeah.

all right, get ready for a week of lanlosures at one of the area's busiest potomac crossings. we'll have you navigatti the constr projects. and new at midday, hurricane florence is now a category 3 storm. sheena's here. she is going to show us the updated track.

right the now, hurricane florence is rapidly intensifying. south carolina, norrolina, and virginia have all declared a state of emergency ahead of the >> also ahead of the storm,

flooding rains. nbc's steve patterson has more on the extreme weather. >> reporter: millions battling surging floodwater,orrential in acrosshe tountry. in north texas, severe flash flooding turned fatal. saturday, a teenager motherrond toddlered in ft. worth. their caroa swept off the into 30-feet-deep water. alejandro juarez sai h tried to help, but the current was too strong. >> the car tried to cross the channel and the water just swept it away. >> reporter: hours lat 7, a man in h also drowned after his car was submerged. >> we found the vehicle about 300 yards downstream. >> reporter:arther east, constant rain. from kentucky to new york, slow-moving storms have put 52 million americans under the .threat of floodi in chicago, a man died after a wave swept him into a lake. all of this as the southeast scrambles to prepare for hurricane florence. >> i am worried. i'm concerned.

i'm going to do everything i can. >> reporter: the storm now picking up strength over the atlantic could be the first hurricane to make landfall on the east coast this season. >> preparet, for the wo but hope for thebest. >> reporter: the threat comes exactly one year afterne hurri irma ravaged the southern seaboard, devastating the florida keys, causing more than $50 billion in damage. the country already feeling the full wrath of surging storms while millions more now brace for impact. steve patterson, nbc news. >> it's just devastating. >> mm-hmm. >> and we are justotetting a break here in our area. and we're not seeing flooding that bad, but i feel like the rain keeps coming. >> oh, yeah. we're in a bit of an weather pattern, i guess you could say. yesterday was just a washout of a day. but as we go through the rest oe this , we'll still have rain chances, it's still going to be enough where i would tell you to k.ke yr umbrella with you every day this wee but we still also do have some flood warnings f our northern counties in maryland. so just something to keep in mind if you're up there today. youight be seeing some flooded

out roadways or rising creeks and never drive through flooded waike we just showed you. here's a look at the radar. a couple spotty light showers around the arein we're not taabout anything heavy. i don't think we'll see anything very heavy today either. but we are still kind ofin stuc his cloudy, wet weather pattern. the main area of rain, these are ye remnants of gordon, by the way. remember that tropical system? well, it's finally up in new england now. and that's what's still providing us with high rain chances,s we go through most of this week. temperatures right now, we're in the upper 60s to mid-60t warming up too much with the clouds and rain. if you're walking the dog today, though, rainboots, most likely, is what you'll need out udere. this is available for adoption at the prince george county spca. you can head to their website to find out how to give him a home. temperatures onl reaching about 80 degrees or so this afternoon. here's future weather, cloudy, some spotty showers around through this afternoon. and somho more spottyrs trough the rest of the week. now we'llalk about hurricane florence. look at that thing. it's a category 3 hurricane. this is a very organized storm.

as we go through time here, by the end. we -- of the week is whe it would near land, then rapidly weakening as it does approach land. at this point, it looks like the carolinas will ben the path o this. high pressure to our north will be buffering this storm down to our south, and it really d tends how fa inland it goes. and that will depend on how much rain we get here locally. still plenty of time for the tracko change fit stays farther south, less rain and winds in our forecast. if it goestl a lbit farther north once it goes inland, we would have a lot more rain and wind in the forecast. so foril now, u we get there, we're just looking at those rain chances through the week and scattered showers starting friday into the weekend,rehat's when w tracking florence. more details on that, coming up. >> all right, so busy there, sheena. thank you. we are hearing from the young winner of the u.s. open. see what she says about the controversy over serena williams and theud court and how it clouded the win. ws the good is, in two months, we have a chance to restore some sanity in our

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you're watching news 4 midday. >> now to politics and a clash of the titans. with the midterm elections crucial to both parties, there b tle between presidents.

>> president trump is trying to preserve amaepublican rity. democrats are turning to former president barack obama to frarg theirents to voters. here's nbc's kristen welker. >> former president obama taking the rare step of c oing the sidelines and entering the political fray, aiming to helpa democrate back the house, calling out president trump by name in id inois. >> it not start with donald trump. he is a symptom, not the cause. >> reporter: and barnstorming in critical races ica fornia. >> the fact is that if we don't step up, things can get worse. >> for his part, president trump tried to dismiss his predecessor. >> i watched it, but i fell asleep. >> reporter: the vice president taking a different tactic. >> it was very disappointing to see president obama break with thr tradition of for presidents and become so political and roll out the sam

tired arguments. >> reporter: it comes as the trump white house is increasingly engulfed in its o n se controversies, including that sp-thing o by an anonymous trump official. more than two dozen officials have denied writing it the op-ed echoing themes in the tell-all book from veteran journalist, bob woodward, accountingsfidespread ction. over the weekend, mr. trump lashed out. >> by the way, then this idiot,w woodward, wte this book, which is all fiction. >> reporter: but woodward fired back. >> he's orong and my repting is met ulous andcareful. >> reporter: telling cbs news -- >> you look a the operation of this white house and you have to say, let's hope to god we don't have a crisis. >> bob woodward's book comes out tomorrow. plan ahead for your commute this week. starting today, one lane in each direction on the memorial bridge is going to be closed between

8:30 in the morning through 3:00 p.m. now, the entire bridge will be closed to drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists ony frida at 7:00 p.m.. it will reopen at 5:00 a.m. next monday. the construction i part of two-year project to shore up the aging bridge. buying a new house is stressful for anyone, but it became even more complicated for a virginia family when they realized their new home was already occupied and it wasn't by people. here is a previewf david culver's story you'll see on news 4 tonight.or >> rr: a fredericksburg couple bought this home for their growing family, not a realizinther family already lived here. inside the walls, a colony with hundreds of bats. >> high hundreds to thousands. yeah, a lot. >> our walls were alive with activi t, learning latt they were giving birth, as well. so the adult females were having babies in our walls. >> i mean, we could heawh them we were working.

you could hear them climoffit, t was pretty crazy. >> rorter: they chronicled their journey to get the bats out of their home and later they have a warning for other homeowners. >> i can't even imagine wt at would be like. i don't like the bats. >> but they're cute. >> no, with ing angie. >> you can see david's full story tonight at 5:00. so two daype later, and le are still talking about the controversial u.s. open. and you said people are going to be doing this for days. the champion herself elaborated on what she saw happening between serena williams and the chai umpire. williams was fined $17,000 on saturday during the match with n naomi osaka. williams received three penalties. osaka said she did t really understand what was happening in

the moment, won her first grand slam title, duting the award ceremony, there was a crus pres umpire. at first, she did the jeers were for. >> i felt a little bit sad because i didn't know if they were booing for me o it was the outcome they wanted. and i also could sympathize, because i've been a fan of serena my whole life, and i kneo badly the crowd wanted her to win. so i don't know, i was just really emotional up there. >> it was so uncomforhble to wand so sad. osaka says she appreciates williams sticking up for her, though, during the ceremony. which is what she did,ut she her arm around her and showed the support for everye to stop booing. so after a wet weekend, aren't going to have much time to dry out. sheena is back after the break with the rain chances that are pretty much going to stickee around all >> and the mystics need fans to

show up big-time. the team is facingevaluation, wt are hoping the hometown crowdill bring them luck. we'll have

the mistics are now facing elimination in thwnba finals. they narrowly lost game two, 75-73. you still have a chance to see a finals matchup in person. tthe nextwo games will be in our area. the games will be held at eagle bank arena. shuttle service will be provided between the vienna metro station arena. game three tips off this wednesday night at 8:00. they need the fans the to rally around them! do they do! they and there's lots of parking out there at eagle bank arena. >> that's helpful. >> so no excuse. go out there and support them. we told you about an exhibit during baseball's all-star week,

but with all the rain, it is a good time to remindeople about it. >> so this is going to take you through the history of the game. from the first baseball card to babe ruth's cleats. us s harry smith takes inside the library of congress. >> reporter: in a crowded corner of the library of coness where you won't get shushed, there's a special exhibit celebratingor t hi of baseball. documents and letters rarely, if not ever displayed before. real baseball diamonds, like the first-known reference to the game. in a diary, a college student laments his inability to hit or catch. the year, 1786. and check this out, baseball's magna carta. >> this is where we get the modern game tha a we enjoy. >> reporter: cuebtor, susan n says, these notes from the meeting in d57 setn the rules still in use today. >> nine players to a side, nine innings, 90 feet between the bases. >>eporter: indeed, there's an oh, wow around every corner.

the first basebl card, babe ruth's cleats, and his yankee contract. the 1992 film, "a league of their own," depicted the all-american girl's professional baseball league, formed during world war ii. >> there's no crying in baseball! >>eporter: the libraryas the uniform of rockford peach star, dottie key. >> she was their record holder course, she's o doing it in a skirt. >> repter: when jackie robinson took the field for the brooklyn dodgers in 1947, america wasastonished. baseball integrated before much of the country was ready to. here's aetter in robinson's own hand, thanking dodger manager, branch ricky, for hiring him. i want to thank you very much for all you have meant, not only to me and myfamily, he wrote, but to the entire country. an, particularhe members of our race. dr. karla hehayden, librarian of congress, loves the game and loves what it's done or the country. >> baseball is community. iseball that unites people

the stands. baseball that has really helped change the culture. >> reporter: baseball, so much re than just a game. harry smith, nbc news, washington >> it reall, it's such a big part of our culture, and the library of congress has so many amazing things to offer. if you haven't visited it, it's just ndectacular. >>hey really in recent years have done a lot for children. so if youre a parent, they do these things on the weekend all the time, and i mean, it's a gr t place for the entire family. >> that's cool. i remember when i was little, my jr. er had a ken griff card. it was the one where he jumped up to catch, i think, a foul ball, and that's the card where he broke his wrist terwards, so -- but that was -- but anyway. w.don't know where it is maybe it's in the library. i think we lost it when we were younger.s, anywf you're about to step outside right now, well, we're not looking too bad. all the rainrom the remnants of gordon, those are moving into new england right now, those showers. a as we zoom in my,e loca we have a couple of light, spotty

showers around, but that's going to be the forecast for today. cloudy with some spotty showers, so just make sure you have your umbrella. we still have some flood threats through northern maryland. flood warnings are still going to be up as we go through the early part of the oon, at least. so if you see any flooded roadways, don't drive through them. make sure you alwaysurn around, we have to remind you. temperatures are in about the mid- to upper 60s for the most part. for today, though, right around 80 degrees. clouds are not going to be leaving us.e' one thing that really paying attention to, this is hurricane florence. kt's still very far out in the atlantic, but l at the eye on this thing. this is now a category 3 storm. it's very organized, you can see your atmospheric conditions very favorabl and we expect it to strengthen even more, could become a category 4. it's on the same path. we have noteen thi track change too much. it's been pretty consistent, which is at least a good sign, because there's not too much uncertainty, but there is still plenty of time to ange. course, this is not good for the carolinas. they have been in the track the entire tim we've seen this track actually approaching the

u.s. it is expected to slow down. that would be friday into saturday, slowing down and heading farther north wouldre mn ain for us, by the time we see what's leftover of it, with high pressure to our north, though, keeping it a little bit farther south. there's plenty of time for it to change.if t heads farther south, that would mean less rain and wind for us. as we gohrough this week, we'll be seeing some rain chances each day, but it's really friday into the weekend e when we'll be tracking florence. we'll hdee a better as we go through the rest of the week and be updating you through the tternoon and evening as well, guys. nk you, sheena. >> i was just looking at that. i was thinking, i never really want it to be monday, but that monday looks pretty good. okay, so the "h" street festival is one of the most anticipated festivals in cte distnd it's happening this weekend. and camping with a gourmet twist. one of our area's top chefs is here to tell us a about a one of a kind culinary event. stay with us. we'll be rht back.

it is the great culinary campout of the year. award-winning chefs and a mean drink maven from our area, taking our skills to the outdoors for a one of a kind experience. chef chris morgan from my dawn and compass roads joins us now. how you doing? >> good. >> so congrats toteour . my don just named one of the restaurants of the year from food and wine. so that's a big deal. >> yes, ma'am.

>> in addition to all the other awards that you have. so congratulatioyo to you and team. this event seems like something different for food lovers and outdoo y people. ca tell me how this works? >> absolutely. last year we did this event around the same time, basically, it's a cooking demonstration, outdoors in patuxaiver park. it's literally a from-scratch kitchen. erything's cooked over live wire. last year was about 1ip or so partts, this year we're looking to get about 300. we have the chef of tail up goat, the chefth and owner o partisan and red apron doing a mo, followed by him participating in the meal, carlie steiner -- >> that was the mean drink maven i was talking about. >> yeah, she's incredible. rob ruben froaruben from. >> now, you have experience cooking over the open fire. obviously. >> a little bit. >> but tell us what kind of

foods will you eating in the outdoors to have every meal from scratch outside. >> a wide variety of things. we want to show people how beautiful it is to cook oveli fire and it's a time you can truly let the ingredients shine. and being this time of year, oo it's really a time to do something like this, because produce is so widely available. that 're kind of makin produce transition from summer to late summer/early fall fproduce, which is reall for us. we're going to really just try to showcase a beautiful product from the area. bringing a couple of our farmers from moon valley farm to join un for the , as well. which i'm really excited about. >> i was going t ask you about, what are the products and produce when you're transitioning from the summer to the fall? >> yea you're kind of leaving tomato season, which is my personal favorite. >> sod. >> but heading into hot peppers or continuing on with peppers and you havoo lots oft vegetables, which are now coming into full swing, being, you know, radishes and turnips are really beautiful right now. and the you also have lots of squash starting to come up, as

well. which is also really exciti f, like tst signs of fall. >> gotcha. so, chef, sexplain what we're looking at here. >> i wanted t brick you a little representation of what we'll be having, apoeit the fire ion of it is a little tough. >> yeah, we don't want to set the studio on fire. >> exactly. pre-dinner we're doing a live fire demonstration, obviously. we're doing a pig rakedown, so this is much different. this is one of our condiments thh will be served w brined hams that we're going to be smoking over the fire for about 12 ho as. it's chow chow made with summer vegetables from moon valley >> are those peppers? >> it's like a southern vegetable relish, almost. green beans, cabbage, tomato, green tomato and peppers and onions. and here's kind of a display of what the breakfast will be like, for people who choose to stay the itnight. s an overnight event, following morning, homeland granola,ou have a squash jam with pine nuts, apricot c here, local honey, sour cherry

everything de -- here is made from scratch. and then our house lebna and a ttle tomato jam as well with toasted sesame. >> and this will all be made on the premises for the cookout? >> yes, this t all goingbe prepared in advance, this portion of it. and this is going to be like a help yoursstf break the following morning after you are kind of recovering from the feast the night before. >> light and healthy. >> it's reallycool. there's going to be mountain eyking, kayaking. we're donating mack to la cocina as well as city kids ec wilderness pr which is a really cool organization rei sponsors. so a lot of fun things happens. >> chef from maydan and compasss rose, thaor joining us. now we're hungry. >> so many great reasons to go out and eat. coming up, we' going t tell you where our local schools land when it comes to this year's list of best colleges.

"u.s. news & world report" released its top colleges list alernight. >> quite a few lchools made the cut, with georgetown at the top for our area, tied at number 22 in the country. a also cracked the top 25. college of william & mary -- just visited that this past weekend, beautiful c ranking 38. george washington university and universi of maryland, college park, eun, tied at 63

virginia tech and american university came in at number 76 and , howard university also in the top 100, climbing 21 spots since last year to number 89. that's on top of th 14 spots i climbed the year before. >> i think it's awesome. and it's going to keep climbing. >> yeah. >> if rankings are based on 16 measures ofmi aca quality and consider more than 1,600 colleges that are fyears. >> wow. >> and that's across the u.s. so congratulations to all of those schools. making us look good. >> george mason, you're always in my heart. we don't need no numbers. but, no, he was a local kid, he made waves on social media. ok, this is tirst time i saw this morning. >> oh -- >> hilarious! >> he was crushingt outthere. >> he was killing it on the cruise ship and it hit the internet and took o from there. >> take a look for yourself. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> so that's with the nae nae but with his own flair.

10-year-old ryan stots from dunkirk, maryland took part in a dance competionon and and today he's appearing on ellen. >> you didn't know that someone was filmi that and then it went viral. were you surprised on how many people saw it? >> yeah, i never thought i would go viral at the age of 10, but it ended me up on my favorite to show, s'm okay with it. >> that's so sweet! >> smart boy. ellen wurl have aise for ryan, but you'll have to watch the show to find out what it is. and it airs right here on nbc 4 at 3:00, followed by news 4 at can't wait to see what she comes up with. "h" street, an area rich in history, is celebrating its legacy with a big festival this saturday. >> this year's theme takes a look back at the devastating 1968 riots and how far the area has come since then. news 4's nanette green has a preview.r: >> reporll right, just a sampling of the live acts set to perform this a saturday the "h" street festival, which celebrating the old and t new.

one of the themes, of course, the 1968 riots and how it all has changed since that time. i want to bring in a little bit of thenew. we're inside the solid states bookstore, brand-new, on "a" street. scott abel is the owner, and you saw a need, what was that? >> that need was great independent bookstore in a part of the city that didn't have one and we feel likeiteracy and the culture that we provide is something that the city really needed over here. >> reporter: that's what it's all about. we're going all the way back to 1968 until today. dr. brandy thompson summers has studied what theans for a neighborhood like this. >> absolutely. and it's important to show the e changes that appened over the last 50 years. but at the same time, recognize the rich histo that's still here and that's also leaving. >> the "h" street festival, set for this saturday. we're talking about 100 live acts, 0 exhibiters, 14 stages. anmar salim is the executive director. what do you say about all of that? >> we have something fyb every. that's what it's all about. >> reporter: that is what it's all about.

as you take a look here, an eclectic mix, right? everybody.for it all kicks off on saturday at 12:00, with come on wn the "h" street festival gets bigger and bigger every year and more diverse culturally.at s the latest from "h" street. i'mmolet terkte green, news 4. >> today, just have your umbrella with you. rain chances will be in the forecast bas then thursday, friday, saturday, that's when we would be tracking to hurricane florence. more updates on it throughout the afternoon and later on tonight, guys. >> all right. thank you,na sh that's going to do it for news 4 midday. thank you so much for joining ac. we'll be on the air this afternoon starting at 4:00. >> and you can get the latest news and weather anytime the nbc washington app. have a great day. we'll see you in the morning! >>ye. b

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