let's do this now at 1:00, carolinas in the bulls eye. rescue teams prepare to deploy as the biggest threats fro florence move south, but our threat isn't over. >> everybody here in the d.c.on reeeds to be ready. >> the catholic church in crisis. breaking tonight, cardinal

donald wuerl says he'll discussg resigninith pope francis. and the sports bar admits ie dr the ball. the apology to mystics fans and e player befor a do or die gamee th news 4 begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. >> we w starth an update on hurricane florence. the strong category 4 storm spinning south of bermuda right now. >> people in north carolina starting to make their way out. the carolinas, very much in the cross hairs right now. the bulls eye of the hurricane moved south today, squarog right uphe north carolina coast. >> that lowers our threat here in the d.c area. we're out of the cone of uncertainty now, for now. but 5.4 million people are already under hurricane warnings and watches tonight. we've got team coverage, begins ith chief meteorologist doug kammerer.

doug, thees watchow include virginia beach. r virginia beach under tropical storm watchesht now. the latest advisory just came out from the national hricane center. and it's even better news for our region, even worse new for the carolinas. let's show you where this storm is. you mentied just south of bermuda, south and west of bermuda right now. still churning in the atlantic as a category 4 hurricane. it hasn't changed all that much from the 8:00 or 5:00advisory. winds of 140 miles an hour. still well aw, miles away from the coastline. pressure up jus a little bit at 940 millibars. here is the latest track. he it's even farther to south. yesterday at this time, the cone of uncertainty was all the north of washington, d.c. now it's well to the south of washington. cape hatteras no longer in the cone of uncertainty, but this storm is gng to still come very close to cape hatteras. going to give them a wallop

there at a category3, category 4 storm, 130 miles per hour, inland at 110 miles per hour saturday. and then all the way back to atlanta, the cone of uncertainty huge here. not exactly sure what this storm is going to do once it comes towards the coast. it's going to sit for days and that's going to prompt a lot of flooding. we continue to see the coastal flood warnings in and around the d.c. area. alexandria, st. mary's county. i expect this kubd of flooding all the wayext week because of florence. we'll talk about that, what you can expect in your area, and the impacts it has here, i'll show you how. >> it's a big one. it a big one. a lot of folks are going to be impacted. thank you, doug. thousands of people are getting out of the carolinas right now. emergency shelters are opening w tonight for those can't evacuate safely. >> our jim handly is in the outer of north carolina where people could start feeling the impact as early as thursday.

>> reporter: we're just two days out her in nags head. some are heading out, some are hold after all, it is stuff to say good-bye to a scene like this, but to a person, peopleill tell you there is something yifferent about florence, perhaps a force taven't seen here since the 1980s, even 1950s. >> thinking, what the hell am i going to do? right now, i'll sitng 50/50. >> reporter: he's from washington. a former coach at the sidwell friend's school. foryears, john and his family have called the outer banks home. he's boarding up his business today, but is still once the f about leaving his beach house. >> irene was the big one. and as a matter of fact,bee wouln about three feet of water right now at the peak of irene when it flooded the town he. and both times i came back and everything was fine and i wondered, you know, why did i do that? total waste of time. >> reporter: didn't lose power, no damage? >> no nothorg. >> rr: you think this is going to be different? >> it could be. that's what got me on the edge >> don bet your life on riding

out a monster. >> reporter: car simmons is cutting her vacation short, just two days here. now he's sending back to maryland. >> i don't like the way it's coming straight for here. i've never seen that before. so -- i just -- i'm worried about everybody down here. >> reporter: the real concern for those who stay and try to ride it out or decide too late to leave may not be the twinds, he rains that follow. they could see up to 30 inches of rain in some par of north carolina and south carolina, too. a lot of minds could be changing tomorrow as florence draws closer. jim handly, news 4. >> well, count on jim and our photographers to bring us updates from north carolina all week. you can find their continuing coverage right here on news 4. w, while people are leaving the coast, others are gearing up to move in. members of maryland'sor task one are preparing to deploy for a potentially life-saving mission. that mshomari stone caught up

with them >> reporter: good evening. we'll expect to see more nights like this tonight, as the potomac river jumps its banks, and where peo ce woulde down for romantic walks, tourists taking photos. bigger flood threats are expected down south. montgomery firefighters are waitingalor a that could send them into the most dangerous it is washingtons. >> hurricanere floure is a very formidable enemy. a very dangerous storm. >> reporter: montgomery county firehief scott goldstein is concerned about her khan florence. >> people needo take heed. take precautionary steps now. >> reporter: as florence churns owards the east coast, the chief tells me 80 firefighters from the urban search and rescue force are ready to deploy. >> the sta of maryland, maryland emergency management and governor hogan have asked that we stay here as a ste resource until the track of the storm is determined.

>> reporter: take a look in the rockville warehouse. bags are packed. flat boats, inflatae boats, are attached to pickup trucks. leave ave the capable to town, support a local community for up to ten days. >> reporter: the team is experienced. they pulled dogs out of floodwaters and helped people afr hurricane harvey hit texas. they also searched for people in major floodinne after hurri maria devastated puerto rico. >> many different types of disasters, natural, man-made or the other, we've been there.te >> rep now, i literally just got off the phone with people, thespokesperson for montgomery county fire rescue and he tells me that t crews will be deployed tomorrow morning at approximately 6:00 in e morning. they are heading to south carolina. again, we just found this out from pete, he's going to put more information on that on twitter. meanwhile, as i can tell you, that the georgetown waterfront,

you can see it is very busy right nowfn terms the potomac river coming over during hide rede. eople are expected to come down here to take pictures of it as they are in tawe jo see this. live here at the georgetown waterfront, i'm shomari stone, news 4. >> more rain on topf that, so, that flood situation on the potomac headed our way. onto other news now. presidentrump raise some eyebrows today during a briefing about fema preparatis for hurricane florence. a reporter asked him what the its could learn from response to hurricane maria last year at this time. at storm pummeled puerto rico. it killed nearly 3,000 people. d power wasn't fully restored to the island until just last month. here's the president's take. >> i think puerto rico was incredibly successful. puerto rico was actually our toughest one of all, because la's an is, so, you can't drophings onto it, everything is by boat.

and when the storm hit, they had no electricity, essentially before the storm and when the storm hit, that took it out entirely. i think that puerto rico was an incredible, unsung ccess. >> at that same briefing, the presiden s said theety of the american people is his absolute highest prrity. we'll have the latest on preparations in the carolinas coming up in a few minutes. breakin tonight,amid calls for his resignation, cardinal donald wuerl say w hel ask pope francis himself directly for guidance about his future as archbishop of washington and whether he should resign. cardinal wuerl has been condemned for the way he dealt with priests accused ofabexual e during his time in pittsburgh. in a letter, cardinal wuerl says, quote, the decision needs to be made sooner ratherla than r so we can move on. he says he plans to go to rome to meet with the popebout the resignation. he already offered three years ago when he turned 75. meanwhile, the vatican is preparing to address allegations againsthe pope himself.

pope francis is accused of knowing about allegatns against ex-cardinal the ore mccarrick before they went public earlier this year. the parents of a university of maryland football player who died in june have filed paperwork that could allow them to sue the university. jordanamcnair'sy says he died of heat stroke after collapsing in a team workout at the end of may. according to espn, the family filed formal letters notifying intent to of their u sue. not a guarantee a suit will be filed, but espn reports they could seek up to $30 million. investigations into mcnair's death and the overall conduct of the maryland football program are still under way. still to come on news 4 tonight, the major impact hurricane florence could have on you, whether it hits us hard or not. >> we'llalk about the ripple effects already starting for travel up and down the coast. doug? >> and you can see right here, florence just about 700 miles away from the coastline.

the latest updated track and the impacts in o area, and why this won't be all that bad for us. we'll talkbo a

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a sports bar i asking for a mulligan. they want a do-over, they want to try to makehis right with the washington mystics and their fans. >> mystics player natasha cloud days grill he glory for refusing to put game two of the wnba final on any of its tvs on sunday. >> yeah, and now the bar is apologizing and they're going to do it right. they're planning a watch party for game threeomorrow night. news 4's nicole jacobs reports.

>> reporter: their blood, sweat and tears hav earned them a spot in the wnba finals. the washington mystics, down two games, but fighting their way back. but guard natasha cloud finds herself fighting for something else. respect for her team. sometimes i think we can be the forgotten team in the city. >> reporter: it was sunday, game two of the finals, her family friendintended to watch the game here at glory days grill. >> bartender originally turned on one of the tvs to the mystic. >> reporter: the bartender asked the response, she ys, was unexpected. >> he's like, yeah, no, we're not switching any ofshe tv, because it's sunday and the nfl games are on. >> reporter: now play for the women's hometown team on any of the televisions, not even one in the corner. >> laughed in their face. >> reporter: using hat rm, she took to social media, posting an instagram story of her disappointment, tagging the

mrestaurant and f there, retweets, posts and traction. glory day grill apologizing and cloud accepting, for now. >> ioon't want it be a temporary fix. >> reporter: news 4 received a statement from e sports bar, reading in part, we obviously dropped the ball here and we aren't excusing it. we are making every effort to ensure that this doesn't happen again, and t lt allal teams, regardless of gender, age or ly representeduate l in our restaurant. >> we're talking about the wizards, this wouldn't even be a thing. >> reporter: but it's back to the court, facing the ampionship game ahead, hoping the foul outside of the arena turns into support and another win for d.c. >> we should not be lesser to a man's sport. no, we do the same thing. >> reporter: nicole jacobs, news 4. >> they could be the champs. we should be following the let's get back to hurricane florence now. even if we don't get a big impact here, the storm will effe travel all along the east

oast over the next several days. charlotte, north carolina, is the southern hub for american airlines, which means a lot of connecting flights are going to be canceled. their system will be effected there. starting tomorrow, lot of canceled amtrak trips south of d.c. and the planned weekend closure of the arlington memorial bridge, that has been delayed until next weeken that wil help drivers get away from the coast. >> got a couple of hurricane flourns evacuees headed for house right now. >> is that right? >> yes, i do. my brother and nephew are driving up from there. >> a lot of people have aed me about flights, i think d.c. airports, fun, dullesin is to be fine. but the connecting flights, you may have some >>oblems. charlotte, atlanta. big hubs. >> absolutely. >> and you asked me last night at the end of the show, what did you ask me, do you remember? >> what scenario cou help us -- give us a break here? you,d we got that, i told if it stalls, it stays south, that's the exact scenario that

we have out there, it is going to stall right now and that means much less of an impact for us, as we make our way in to the next couple of days. a lot of people today out at stores picking up bread and milk and all that stuff, water, i saw numerous reports, hey, no water at the gnnt over alexandria -- hey, no worries in our area. you.on't need we're going to be fine in our region. t is all down towards the carolinas andt's where the most concern is and that's where it's going to continue to be. hurricane florence, a monster of a storm. the eye right there. it's looke a little ragged here and there, but still a category 4 orm. about 700 miles away from the coast now. and you can see where it is mght now, moving west-northwest at 17es per hour. 1 140-mile-an-hour category 4 hurricane. pressure up tout 946 millibars. came up just a little bit. but may strengther. this w right here in is extremely warm. this is the warmest water there is, it's the gulf stream, very warm water, close to 90 degrees at times. this is going to fuel and

continue to fuel florence. now, coming in, 130-mile-an-hou4 catego hurricane, thursday at 8:00, moving in towards the n,rolinas. ag stalling, stalling coast ally just off the before findly being able to move in. and a lot of the computer models move it south and then towards myrtle beach and that's why this cone issor t she next threedays, but day through five, this area, really, really tough to forecast exactly where it's going to be. i can tell you where it's not gog to be, around our region. why? area of high pressure. ssure to se of high p the north, blocking and just pushing this down to the south, keepin from moving to the north. normally a storm in th position would come right up i-95. instead of moving north, it's going to move to the west. urat takes risk way down. now, we still going to see some rain, yes. we are going to see some rain. right on through the nextee or so. how much are we expecting?

one of the computer models giving us about an inch. mostly one to four inches in our area. the most down in the southern zones here. but to the south,lm gton, upwards of 20 to 30, even 40 inches is the potential dhere. that's why this area is going to be hit so hard. not only because of the storm surge, not only because what's happening right along the t coa wi wind, but the inland flooding is going to be huge. for us, inodnd fg not nearly as big of a deal. we'll still deal with the coastal enflooding. dealing with that for a week. 72 degrees out there right now. winds out n of theth at 6 miles an hour. we do have showers. not around the metro, but in tords culpepper county. you see what's happening, the area of rain is moving up towards our region as a boundary moves that way, so, that means tomorrow, we get a little warmer. temperatures, upper 70s to low 80s. 50% of showers through thursday. and then tracking florence friday and saturday. we will see rain as a result of

florence and that easterly flow. temperature-wise, we'll be in the low 80s. and we do have a chance of rain just about every day through next tuesday. again, it is not heavy rain, it is not all day rain. we will see just shers, the impacts from this storm way down, maybe 20, 30-mile-an-hour ones here, but that's it for our region. >> that is good news. >> but no sun for e the nextht days here. >> it's going to be hard to come by. ow, but goingtomo to be hard to come by. >> the mushrooms are taking over in my yard. >> we bet count our blessings. little sunshine -- >> true. >> compared to what some people are going through. >> that's true. new tonight, inside access to a star-studded even. bradley cooper was in georgetown for the premiere of his new movie. >> the film is lady gaga's debut into acting. tonight, tommy mcfly caught up with gaga's costar one-on-one. >> lady gaga'sin a is amazing. what did you teach her about

acting, what did she teach you >> well, i think what we gave each other was the confidence to dig deep and never waver from per suing the goalf achieving this story, the best way we could. i think having a partner, having to do something for the first time, we both had that challenge. that's a ver vulnerable thing. so, the thing i could look to her and, oh, she's going thrgh the same thing, that's soothing. >> this new film already getting award show buzz. yo c canch "a star is born" in theaters starting october 5th. >> actually a very thoughtful answer. >> yes, yes. an he probably has given it 50 times lately, right? >> exactly, exactly. alright, still ahead, juan soto continues to make his case for rookie othe year. for rookie othe year. f >>

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this is the xfinity sports desk. >> you know, nothing says september like baseball around midnight. what the heck is going on? >> doubleheader, extra innings. double the baseball, double the fun for the nationals today. rain caused the first game of this series against theto phills e moved to this afternoon. the second game of the night, a late for washington. juan soto making his case for rookie of the year. top of the fourth, nab national with a man on. launching this ball into right-center. moon shot. s 17th home run of the season. a two-run shot gives the nats ad 3-0 . bottom five, phillies cop back to tie it. two on and two out for an old

fiend,ormer national wilson ramos, hurting his old club here. one run comes in to score. the two-run single. phillies sinre five runhe fifth. they're up 5-3. now later, a scary moment. ad eaton fouls this ball off the third base line. maikel franco running over to make the play, flipping over. franco flips into the camera well. both teams check him out. he does walk out, really, he took a tumble there. he was taken out of the game. nats tie it in the sixth. top of the tenth, who else bull juanoto shows thatot so pop. you see what i did there. hes 18th of the season. nationals lead t phillies, 7-6, in the 10th. soto pop. game one, spencer kieboom, he lost a tooth eating, then he thought he lost it in the game. but his fst career home run.

that ball out of re. showing off his missing tooth. missing his tooth and putting the natsp 1-0. in the seventh, herrera fouls this down the left field line. seso juan , again, doing juan soto things. the 19-year-old reaching over with the i fredible catchor that final out. soto with an impressive day, really, all around. nats win this one 3-1. he is very goo we head to fedex field. fans of el salvador andanrazil on for this friendly. they got to see one of the most popular players in the world, neymar, on a penalty kick. in the fourth minute, puts brazil up. alex ovechkin in the crowd. coutinho puts it in the back of the net. s second goal of the night. brazil wit a big win over elle salvador, 5-0. down in nashville, usa

taking on mexico in a friendly. both teams with plenty of t. suppor skip ahead, scoreless in the 71st minute, here comes the united states. centering pass for tyler adams, and he scores f hisirst international goal for the 19-year-old. another 19-year-old making things happen. usa ones it 1-0, their first win in their las four games. and their last outing, get this, was to eybrazil. id lose that one, but you know, all on the same page. >> all right, bringinerit back toge >> tonight's sports all aboutre ly young people. it feels like. it feels like. >>nd we'll be right b aac

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