as you can see, police are standing by right outside the door. shot.people a 57-year-old man. a 48-year-old woman believedo be a husband and wife and three injured as well. a 22-year-old woman and twove children bel to be the couple's children. all three are in critical condition.

>> we're investigating this as a domestic related incident between male and females who are overseas. >> as you can see right now live investigors walking outside of that home. they have been in and out ofow this home for hours trying to piece together what happened here late last night. we have two dead. a believed husband and wife and three cn said to be in critical condition. we will be on the scene throughout the morning bringing you updates from silver springs. >> we'll check back in with you soon, thank you. i right nows 4:01. good morning and thank you for joining us on thisy busy mon morning. >> we're still tracking this historic fliedi historic flooding in north carolina as florence keeps raining. >> that could bring showers to our area today. >> we'll start with chuck bell and a look at our forecast. chuck, what are you seeing? >> we have the points hightentir

locally hean coming our way. flash flood watches have already been issue for a big chunk of the valley. no flood watches in the immediate d.c. metro area. that could change ler on in the day. heaviest of the rain along the i-81 corridor. not i-95. but look at all the heavy rain across parts ofli north ca. that's all spinning in our general direction so rain chances g ng up withtime. it's dry for now here around the city but there's already rain drops in charlottesville, a roanoke and some of those areas are bringing down heavy rain, indeed. this area is probably going to be our highest rnfall totals with all of this. again a couple arepo ible. flash flood watches already issued. they just expanded that to include the washington metro area. that is brand new as of the last hour or so. heaviest rain, though, 2 to 4

inches possible from the blue ridge westbound. locally 1 to 2 inches of rain possible. we'll be talking about temperatures and the return of sunshine coming up in a few more mi >> good morning, chuck. taking a look at the beltway, outerloop there. new traffic pattern blocking the middle of the roadway. this will be happening throughout the morning so you have to split a bund thedge work they're doing there and that's going to be sometime before that's done and cleared. es burgundy verted there at river creek parkway. l lanes blocked there and we saw that one as well. >> melissa, tha you. your time is 4:03. florence wreaked havoc since making landfall on friday. thisiv you the idea of the damage left behind. >> flooded neroads, dow trees,

no power. that's the reality this morning. the latest victim was a 3 month old that died when a tree fell on his home. 34 inches of rain fell betweenn thursday sunday. in some areas there's already more than 2.5ee of water rushing into homes and businesses and more wat could be on the way. more than half a million people don't have power this morning. >> conditions are not expected to improve either for days. expectedivers are not to crest until later this week. he's in kingston to show us how high the flood water i this morning. >> i want to give you an idea of what folks in north carolina are dealing with right now. i'm 6 feet tall. this gives you an idea of how gh the water is rising. you can see the street sign, the stop sign and believe it or not this water is still rising. it's not supsed to crest until the end of the week. this is a park. a kid' playground, completely

submerged. we have been talking to people grabbing their boats andto tryi o back to their neighborhood and seeing their entire neighborhoodel compl submerged under water. water up to the second story window. right now the real worry at this point is the flooding and whether this water continues to pour into some of the neighborhoods around here. chris lawrence, news 4. all that flooding lead to more than 1,000 water rescues. take a look, a man in a,boli north carolina had to wait in the bed of the pickck up t for rescuers to arrive. water was about to flood even the bed of the truck. he was attempting to eape the teooding when his car took on too much >> a dam in eastern north carolina couldn'told backhe large amount of water brought on by the storm.

it failed saturday night because three lakes in the area drained soickly. boiling spring lakes is also dealing with several washed out roads. the national guard is helping we vak y evacuations. fema leaders says their focus is on search and reue. even as north carolina lawmakers warn it's going to be costly. >> it's always a very frustrating process for people. it's fair to say in termsf onomic impact, rebuilding, that we are talking in the llions ofdollars. >> president trump wants to see the destruction first half. he plans to visit the carolinas once he gets the okay fro fema. >> we turn to what is being called the biggest storm in the world. typhoon mangkhut is wreaking

havoc inna c after devastating the philippines. 60 people died there. it roared ashore this weekend. on the coast, the storm surgepu ed boats right into homes r.ong the wa heavy rain caused flooding and winds toppled buildings. >> 4 of 7 now democrats on capitol hill are fighting to postpone the vote on judge brett kavanaugh's supreme court nomination. this after the woman that accused him of sexual misconduct talks publicly for the first time to e washington post. the alleged incident happened in the 1980s at a party. the accuser tells the post, kavanaugh was, quote, stumbling drink when he pinned her to a bed. i thought he might inadvertently kill me. he was trying to attack me and remove my clothing. kavanaugh denied the allegations. republicans sayh' kavana committee vote will still happen

later this week and coming up nn thet half hour, tracie potts will have more on the call to postpone the vote and reaction from capitol hill. we're bollowingaking news right now in prince george's county, what was happening? >> a bicyclist is dead after colliding with a car. this happened athe intersection of annapolis and morley road around 10:00 last night. the drivertayed on the scene. the road was closed for awhile but we'll continue to monitor this from the live desk. n ck to youe studio. >> thank you. this-o morning a 17-ye boy is recovering from a gunshot wound. he was shot in southeastast night. witnesses report seeing three people run from the scene. theeenager was alert when medics took him to the hospital. at ce don't have a motive this time. a controversial initiative is makingdl hes again because it could be overturned

by the d.c. council. a hearing is being held today for initiative 77. this would boost hourly pay for tip workers to $15 by 2025. some people question whether th legislation would help the tip workers. >> it would make my life easier. >> it's going to hurt the workers and it's going to hurt the industry and more importantly it's going to hurt sommunities. the price in restaurants are goin to go up. >> hundreds of people signed up to testifynd for against initiative 77 in front of council today. now.:09 right the first home game of the season for the redskins was a disappointment on the film and in the 'tands. >> i celieve this is the same team that beat arizona on th road. i don't know what happened. >> you can't? >> the decade long streak ended

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saturday. all the women killed were prostitutes he picked up. another woman said she escaped from ortiz and alerted police. >> ak att by a phony band in new york city is reportedly gang related. a gunman dressed as mariachi band killed five people. t accordin media reports there the shootings are linked to a turf w bween two rival gangs. >> massachusetts residents recently displaced because of gas line explosions are finally returning home. people from thr communities were evacuated after a series of explosions and fires. one person was killed a 20 others injured. officials say overpressuasd natural lines were to blame. utility crews worked through the weekend in the effected areas.

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thrones, handmaid's tale, and this is us. tir friends from saturday night live are h this year. >> yes. i'm rooting for this is us. not because it's nbc but because it's the only show i watch. >>t's a goo show. >> it's excellent. >> i've never seen a single show. get on board. are you a game of thrones kindg of y? >> no, it's football season. >> there you go. >> weather wise, florence, we will not have to be talking about florence probably into again after tomorrow. we have to talk abouter today and tonight and early tomorrow but by wednesday florence will beothing but a bad memory for big pieces of the east coast. here you can see what's left. the main center of the low essure will go well to the west and take the he haviest of the rain opportunities go west

with it. you can see this band of heavy rain lifting in our direction so we will have an opportunity for locall heavy rain this evening as well. grab that umbrella. you'lleed it. raining across much of the central parts of the vaey, charlottesville. that will be in fredericksburg over the next hour or two and locay, probably a wet second half of the morning commute. most of the rainoving in by 9:00 or 10:00 in the morning around the saturday. heavier rain, and it could ally be coming down in buckets to the west of the blue ridge. that's the reason flash flood watches are posted. ain still possibilities of locally heavy rain through here. that should taper off a littl bit starting late tonight and then for tomorrow, i think stilh cloudy w lingering wetness around in the morning but later tomorr w, an actuather front is going to pick up whatever is left of florence and give it the heave out of it.

by 8:00 tomorrow evening rain quickly coming to the end. skies clearing to thest clearing skies, he says? holy cow. haven't seen sunshine in over a week iteels like. but flash flood watches for all of the89 corridor. it does include arlington county, the distct, fairfax, ud n, montgomery, frederick. >> the only people not included in that would be fredericksburg to maryland. 2 to 4 inches west ofhe blue ridge. download your app and be ready to . follow and like me on social media as well. here's your five day forecast. rainy weather today and tomorrow. melissa, look out, sunsh alert for wednesday, thursday, and friday a little taste of summertime as we get ready. >> i better gety sunglasses

ready here. camp springs outer loop to the belt way before allentown road. they continue this road work. the middle of the road is blocked. you have to stay right to get around it. leesburg, eastbound 7, the lanes blocked here this morning and veirsr springs eastbound mill between 193 and 97. >> you'll find them in almost any school. a quick way to divide a classroom but it's a machine n that can t deadly. a closer look at those

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unclear. fairfax county police tell us their investigation is on going. >> that's still a question i have. how could that have happened and it shouldn't. >> retired fairfaxounty teacher carol bailey wants to makeure it doesn't happen again. what she is doing to try toec pr students and find out what their investigation uncovered that prompted this reaction from her. >> it's just mind boggling. you can't imagine and particularly after this? >> plus we're working for you with an easy way to finf out your child's school has one of these motorized walls. that's tonight at 5:00. >> 4:22, coming up a fire sparked by a bst inside a bethesda apartment. now we know which electronics

caused this explosion. storm team 4 weather alert agn today because of the possibility of heavy rain and flash flooding, especially this afternoon and evening. so your commuting forecast, grab that umbrella and be prepared to use those wipers again today. stay with us, news 4 today coming back soon. >> plus we continue to follow the breaking news. a deadly shooting inside a silver springs home. what we're learning about the victims, including two children, next in a live report.

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right now to that breaking news at 4:25. a silver spring neighborhood is waking up to a police in pstigation after fiveple were shot inside a home on amberly drive. we know that two people are dead and two of the victims are children. justin is at scene for us.

we'll check in with him in a few minutes. it's 4:26 now. >> we also continue to track a weather alert as what's left of florence makes it's way north. storm team 4eo metlogist is here now and melissa gives us an update on the commute. what are you seeing? >> i seeot a of rain in the immediate future. that will be changing very, verc y. the center of the circulation that was florence is working it's way into southern west virginia. the heavy, deep, tropical moisture in place with that storm is across south central virginia and north central carolina. this is all lreting in our ion so rain chances are going up with time here through the remainder ofng the mor and could be rain heavy at times later today and tonight.

but flash flood watches have already been posted along and to the west of i-95. already some showers and they'll be here and no rain yomediately. have some dog walking to do, do it first thing this morning, in now and then be ready for a very soggy day today. look at future weather, bringing the steadier rains bain, py before the morning commute is over. sin could be very heavy at times where you the yellows and oranges. that could be rainfall rates over an inch per hour. and especially the westernlf by 2:00 in the afternoon, heavy rainste winch into leesburg and that will be changing latere in the oon. there's a broader view of it.

temperatures to get you out the for on a monday morning st and close to 80 degrees and locally heavy rain today. that promises trouble for the commute both today and probably tomorrow as well. >> no dot, i belie that. right now on the key bridge after mstreet. outbound here this morning, on the right side we have road work happening so you get by there on the left. this is going to be a longer term belt way even through that section looks fine right now. it's so earlyng approac 4:30 in the morning right now. you can see we don't haveny big delays here this morning. leburg westbound 7 diverted on

to river creek parkway. that has cleared out of the way and silver spring, you have that now. >> melissa, tnk you. it's now 4:29. ty have breaking news out of montgomery coun two people are dead and three others are hurt on what police are calling domestic incident. nowome of the victims w know are children. justin, bring us up to speed. >> this is an apparent murder suicide they're looking into now. the scene right behind us. this home you're seeing, all the lights on as m investigatorse their way inside combing for clue clues. all the members of the family shot last night were found up said. a man and woman believed to be husband and wife. their three children injured as well including a 22-year-old

woman and two children now in critical condition. police were tipped off by this after a 911 call came from inside of the home. they arrived to this o house the 100 block of amberleigh drive. they did find a handgun as well as the shootin came after a dispute between those two adults haands what preempted all of this here. workingay they're still to piece together the details. have a listen. >> we are investigating this as a murder-suicide domestic related event.ot it's a random event and we don't believe there's any danger to the public or the neighborhood. >> we did a if there were previous calls to this home about domestic issues. police say at this time they don't have that information. however, at this ptime,ice are still focused on this home. again, two dead,re three chi