that weather alert continues this morning as we track huicane florence. outerbands make their way on to land. this is a live look atinhe and the rain. it might be hard to see but it's pummeling north carolina. the rain also coming down hard in columbia, south carolina.

you can see the rain falling down there. >> sometim tv does not do justice to how hard the rain falls. here's the radar showing florence right now. the worst of the storm really hasn't reached land just yet. we're working with you a team coverage from storm tm 4. >> sheena has the latest on hurricane florence and then chuck will fills in on the local forecast ahead. >> look at this storm. it's a category 1 hurricane now spinning off the coast of north carolinay still fairl organized. a l of heavy rainfall will be make its way on shore. nore than what you see now. the r bands extend into the southern portion of our area this morning. now we're looking right near wilmington, north carolina and north topsail beach. there's the eye.ch tecally it's not made yet.fall just so eventually that storm will be

moving on take a look at these wave heights. 27 foot waves by radar indicated. close to the outer banks 18 foot wave hikes. close to wilmgton, 12 foot waves. it will be slowing down once it moves ore and picking up speed as it gets closer to us by monday and tuesday and we'll talk more about the storm coming up but first our local weather with chuck bell. >> good morning. yes, off to a cloudy sta and breezy outside as well this morning. this is, indeed, the northern most band of hurricane florence bringing rain showers to of the lower eastern shore. st. mary's county, charles coty, all of these showers going eastbound. that's the way it will be for much of the day.hi er rain chances the farther south you live or travel today. so more likely to be rained on in fredericksburg than frederick and inis temperature we're in the tropical air mass.

we're in the low to mid 70s across the area now. friday cast, hit and miss rain showers off and on this morning. staying in the 70s for temperatures today. a lot of clouds in the 70s tomorrow as well. more about that sunday home opener for the redskins forecast coming up. let's go to jack taylor. hey, chuck. good moing. we have a painting project outside the belt way heading toward plyers mill. they should be in the wrap up stages. it's along the left se of the roadwa now 50 near the bay bridge, we have warnings but no vehicle restrictions for now. there was a crash on 123 northbound before workhouse road. apparently a vehicle overturned. the tow truck is trying to clean it up r thht side of the roadway tting by north on 123 before rk wohouse road. back to you. thank you, jack. it's now 4:33, back now to our team coverage of hurricane

florence. rom the is the view road in wilmington, north carolina. the roads are empty now. a lot of people listening to the evacuation orders but they're veryet andslippery. the rain still coming down hard. the most powerful partf the storm already knocked out power to more than 80,000 people along the coast. it's bringing 90 miles per hour winds on to land already and we're getting new video into t newsroom too showing the power of the storm. ake a look at this. the winddismantled a gas station cany in topsail beach, north carolina. it ripped the legs right off of the groun that caused the canopy to topple over and then it was dragged across the parking lot. look atthat. florence is still offshore but the winds up to 100 miles per hour to the outerbanks area. this ist flooding a playground in new bern, north carolina.

stor surges caused several feet of water to spill into the streets and the water win m very quickly. large trucks trying to get around also had to take it slowly. see that's dangerous right there. forecasters say because of the winds and the drenching rains storm surge may beor the part of this hurricane. in some areas it could exceed 11 feet. new overnight the hurricane made i impossible for a local tv station to stay on the air. the sabction had to be evacuated because of rising flood waters. ese are videos and pictures the employees were posting as the water started movg in. two meteorologist were live on the air telling their viewers that the station was being evacuated. they actually stayed behind for sometime to keep reporting but eventually it got too dangerousd they also to leave the building. good news is everyone was able to make it out safely. here close to home maryland and virm virginginia remain unds

of emergencies for this morning. >> d.c.'s major resendcinded he state of emergency last night. but keep in mind weekend events have beentp ped for cancelled. ouws 4 is working for you and will bring all the hurricane updates as they come in. coming up at 5:00, jim handly will be live as hurricane florence prepares toake landfall. >> tributes cetinue to com in for a high school graduate that was shot dead in the district. family and friends gather near the spot taquan pinkney was killed. he was shot while walking to a corn store on sunday. al the non-profit helps with after school homework and tutoring had plans and he was working

to pay for tuition. it's now 4:36 and here's some of the other top stories we're working for you this morning. ing toigators are h learn about a series of home explosions in the bostonbu s. one man has died and at least ten others are hurt. thesi exps are gas fires in as many as 80 homes. look at the scene here. entire neighborhoods had to be evacuated. emergency manag says the gas lines were over pressurized. >> new allegationsgainst supreme court nominee kavanaug areual in nature and date back to his high school days. the senator from california said she received a letter from someone that didn't want to come forward and she turned tha information over to the fbi. coming up in 15 minutes a live o report onther major story out of washington. paul manafort may have just struck a deal with robert mueller. >> and andrew cuomo won the

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welcome back. we are racking hurricane florence right now. take a live look from the roads in wilmington, north carolina where you can see the effects of this storm right now even though the eye still hasn't made it's way on to the east coast.

the storm was downgraded last night to a category 1 but it's still very dangerous with 90 miles per hour winds. >> a new advory is due out in about 14 minutes. chuck and sheena are looking out for it. they'll be joining us for the latest update. >> he is about 20 minutes away from that that you just saw. >> right there. >> let me get you new information from the national hurricane center. the eye wall is beginning to brush agast theorth carolina coast so we're getting ready to see landfall at some point but a very slow moving orm. the attack has been relentless. sheets of rain beingy pushed strong wind gusts here. much higher than expected. at's moving closer to the

shore. it's around here and these conditions are likely to continue for a full day or more here and across the strike zone right now. this is the beginning ofwe what e going to see from this storm and i can tell you right now, we're already dealing with severe flooding in many s areas the idea of getting this rain is going to continue to fall for ad exteeriod of time. it's going to cause some very significant problems across the region. j >> is live for us. thanks so much, jay. >> news 4 is working with you for team coverage across the coast. >> jim has been feeling the effects of hurricane florence since yesterday afternoon and will join us coming up at 5:00 a.m. a pretrial hearing in the case of paul manafort today could include a pretty dramatic

development. >> he may hav reached a tentative plea deal with special counl robert mueller. we're joined live from capitol hill with what this could mean for manafort's vp case. >> it could mean no second trial for paul manafort. this case is related to charges that he failed to register as a foreign agent for some lobbying work he did in ukraine but we don't kn what this deal could include. if he has agrd to cooperate in his investigation and especially whether or not he's agreed to give testimony to the special counsel about the trump campaign and it's ties toss . he could also be looking at a reduced sentence for his last conviction last month. in a virginia courtroom he wasd convicf tax fraud. with that verdict, the president distanced himselfis from one time campaign chair saying that the result was very sad but it had nothing to do with him. the president's lawyerow

saying whether or not manafort effect e deal it wou the president's decision to pardon him. so it does sound like that's mething that president trump is considering at this point. this would be the 4 guilty plea related to robert mueller's investigatio into russia. and manafort is going to be in a d.c. courtroom later on today. >> thankyou, kki. something to keep an eye on all day. >> it's now 49. chilling new information is revealed in the d.c. mansion murders. >> yeah. jurors learn what happened while this family and housekeeper were being held captive. >> prosecution called several people to testify on thursday but chilling details that we never heard before from the owner of a sprinkler company. the mant testified t amy savopoulos had an appointment at

9:00 a.m. on the day theyere murdered. no one answered the door then but he talked to am at 1:12 that afternoon. the man says she soundedd sca and nervous. she said her son was injured and she had to go to the hospital right away. 12 minutes later, 911 dispatchers receive a call that the mansion is on fire. their long time housekeeper also took the witness stand. theye prosecution p for the jurors the voice mail that he left nelly and they were held captive inside this home on may 13th of 2015. last week the judge told jurors that there would not be court on friday. so the triill resume on monday ing. megan fitzgerald, news 4. hurricane florence is not only a threat to the people in it's path but the animals as

well. ey had to transport more than 40 cats aog during the storm but the trip didn't go quite as expected. the alternatorailed and that left animals stranded at a gas station in north colina for hours. >> so more 5 than people arrived at that gas station to get the animals to help, air conditioning cars and now they're all safe and they also said they wanted to replace the van as well. there's a little bit o the video we were talking about. the dogs and cats are going to be up for adoption soon. so very good news. >> thank goodness for the kindness of strangers. >> i wonder if the girl dogs will be named florence. >> that's a good question. flo. >> so we'll continue to keep a very close eye on the orm. it's just now starting to scrapn al the north carolina

coastline. this is going to be a real problem. storm.category 1 the winds are at 90 miles per hour. the newest advisory from the hurricane center, expected to come out right about 5:00. so about 8 minutes from now. we'll bring you that information as soon as we get it. there's the outl eye w now. just starting to make contact with the north carolina coasine. once the center of the eye comes on shore, shouldn't be more than another hour or two and we'll be maki an official landfall point. you can see the big swirl though and notice way up here on the northern part those clouds you see, that is the northern extent associatedd shield with this storm. the storm is going to continue to make a slow west and southwest ward jog here over the next 24 hours or so. this wl be in contact with the coastline for a long time and again, you ow, you s oh, it's only a 1. there's no such thing as only a 1. this is going to be a big

coastal problem for the eastern half of north carolina. they're already on the onhore de of this storm for wind flow and they're going to stay there. so this is going to be probably 2 or 3 high tide cycles with a 90 miles per hour on shore wind. so huge problems forec elly southeastern north carolina. the latest track from the hurricane center we ha a little bit more of a northwest warddrag. yesterday all the way into parts of north georgia and now gimarily into south carolina and thenng into eastern tennessee. if you had travel plans down th81 to s western vginia or the western darcarolinas, eastern tennessee, i delay that trip. it's in ohio, pennsylvania, and parts of west virginia. that will be our rain yesterday around here will be monday. rainfall amounts are going to bi extreme with storm. check this out. down across parts of southern north carolina. ybe as much as 25 inches of rain. for us at least, i think we get

at least an inch to two inches of rai aroundhere. doesn't sound very impressive compared to that but our ground is already saturated so we could have significant high water issues around her on monday. there's your ten day forecast. clouds and showers and breezy today. more clouds tomorrow. not a whole lot of rain on sunday but monday and tuesday could be on the west side around here. let's go to jack >> hey, chuck, thanks. good morning, we have one crash aring fromuthorities now. they just cleared 123 northbound. there had been a crash blocking the left side of the roadway. both travel lanes areop now . we have wind warnings in effect. there's no vehicle restrictions' so at least w good to go at this stage. just watch your speed. whiteserry due to the high water on the potomac closed. this weekend you may want to

give yourself extra time in prince george's county. on saturday night crews will be working on bdge repa from the outerloop. some of those lanes will be closed starting at around 4:00 l the afternoon. alles should be reopened by sunday morning. >> a surprise for many kids in the district. last night, nbc 4 and comcast employees brought n a backpack and supplies for students at turnle entary school in southeast. thanks to your donations. look how cute they are. new gear and new attitude. >> that is where you can find the very first restaurant in our region to be awarded 3 stars by the michelin gu

>> that's a big deal. it's in washington virginia about 70 miles off western d.c. this is video of the chef that can be credited. there's only about 120 restaurants worldwide that earned that. >> patrick o'connell is a genius. she's inspired s many other local chefs. they were awarded two stars and pineapple and pearls. 13 were honored with one star and dozens others hhlights great restaurants that are more reasonable. like three soues for und $40. >> that's my kind of place. but amazing. ngratulations to all t awardees. hurricane florence now impacting the e >> hundreds of thousands of people, they don't have power now and the contions are only going to get worse. when we come back, jim handley

joins us live from a place already experieing a dangerous

florence is here and the storm is only begiing. winds of over 100 miles per hour hit the east coast. the rain maybe tt m damaging aspect of this monster storm. up to 20 inches or more over the prxt few days and that will cause widd flooding and a lot of damage. that's why people are headiedin the warnings to get out of there. >> we have been talking about this storm alleek and now we're just starting to see how horrible it really is. >> thiav morning we team coverage. news 4'sim handly is live and

chuck bell is tracking then latest the storm's path and intensity. let's start withhuck though and check on theor localast. >> theuter eye wall coming into contact with the wilmington area. th going to be a long duration event for our winds across north carolina. they'll see the swirl just barely offshore. the hurricane center mentioned the fact that the eye wall is coming into contact with the the official center of circulation is still about 20 miles away from wilmington, nort pcarolina. itbably going to be making land fall here from the next hour to hour and a ha t. wh center of the eye is over the coast. that's when they'll consider that thlandfall. swirl though, that is the northern most extend of hurricane florence. there you can see still 90 miles per hour sustained a winds the wi