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>> what's left of florence moving north, revealingio devastatn in the carolinas with more flooding to come. >> on this star-studded emmy night, a local celebrity shows support for the woman accusing judge brett kavanaugh. will the allegation derail a supreme court nominee? smoke and flaming shooting from tse apartments. >> stand by. >> tonight, the lasting impact on more than 100 people. stormws 4 begins with a team 4 weather alert. >> hi, everybody. an entire businessstestroyed utside of richmond tonight. that's ol ghdominion flooring i

chesterfield, virginia. >> the video dramatic. one person died when that business collapsed. the are reports of up to seven tornadoes in the richmond area the national weather service will try to confirm those numbers tomorrow. severaler homes also hit and about os6,000 peoplet power. >> let's begin touight withg kammerer, he's in the storm center. doug, this is all thanks to florence, right? >> absolutely, guys. when we talk about a land fallingcane or tropical system, we do get tornado threat that goes along with that. we saw t the last couple of days in parts of the carolinas, and now that threat has moved into virginia. let's show you what's happening around the area right now. you see the spin here in the atmosphere. this is the remnants of florence. not tight spin like we saw earlier, but a spin down toward the south and west. i'm tracking this area right here. this is a fairly dangerous situation, think, that we've got going on. you notice what's happening along ki-95 and b to the west around the charlottesville area. big-time thunderstorm

and they a moving our way. now, some very heavy rain with that, and once again, we still have a flash flood watch inct efntil 4:00 in the morning. and look at the training going on erre. are flash flood warnings down into this area. even a tornado warning in this area, as well. now, around vleesburgy heavy rainfall there, i-95ha seeing tt rain. look at the rainfall around i-95. and then as i move the map down to the south here, right around charlottesville, this area, another tornado warning, flash flooding occurring, as well. this is allovrying to back into our area. we're not out of theed woos yet with this. i'll let you kno what this means to your tuesday and when florence finally gets out ofhe entire country. i've got that for you coming up. >> all right, it's been a rough, ride and it continues tonight. thank you, doug. now, to the latest onbr king news involving president trump's nominee to the supreme court. will hearrom the woman accusing judge brett kavanaugh of sexual assaultbohen they were in high school. >> yeah, dr. christine blaseynd

ford judge kavanaugh will both appear before the senate judiciary committee and all those cameras, one week from today. our team coverageon beginsht with leon harris, he's at the live desk with the latest. >> jim, doreen, brett kavanaugh spent nine hours at the white house today after washington post" published that story, identifying his accuser over the weekend. nbc news sources describe that meeting as positive. they say ital included a cl with twyers that work for republican members of senate judiciary committee. sources tell nbc news kavanaugh reiterated that he's eager to testify about this incident. christine blasey ford told "the washington post" that kavanaugh was stumbling drunk at a high school party. ford says that kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, groped her and put his hand over her mouth to stifle her. kavanaugh denies the allegation. now, despite being at the white house all day, kavanaugh did not meet with the president, but as you'll hear, he still has his support. h is one of the great

inestlects and one of the people that anybody has known. you look at his references, i've never seenything like it. >> a lot of comparisons are being made between ts situation and the hearings involving anita hill and justice clarence thomas back in 1991. hill'sestimony lasteight hours. we'll see what happens with kavanaugh and blasey ford o monday. doreen, back to you. >> before they became a supreme court nominee and asychology professor, brett kavanaugh and christine blasey ford were high school students at p vate schools in montgomery county. tonight, fellow alumni,in incl emmy winner and "veep" star julia louis-dreyfus are choosing sides. jackie vinson is live outside the supreme court with that story. jackie? >> reporter: doreen, more than 200 alumni of the holton arms school in bethesda have signed a letter of support for judge kavanaugh's accuser, whom they

knew as christine blasey, class of '84. > hlying. we believe her! we believe her! >> reporter: a cloud clash of opinions at a rally outside the unit states supreme court. representatives from a number of groups gathered to protest judge brett kavanaugh's nomination to the nation's highest court. they expressed anger that character attacks have already begun on dr. christine blasey ow ford, n expected to publicly testify about her allegation that in the 1980s, kavanaugh, then a 17-year-old student at the privatere georgetown school in bethesda, sex sually assaulted her at a house party. she was 16 at the time. kavanaugh denies the tallegati. burden of proof should not be on a survivor. let's be clear on that. >> and i came here as ak urvivor to trough why we must believe survivors, why we believe dr. ford and why brett

kavanaugh must be stopped. ne reporter: chris blasey ford graduated from the private holton arms sool in bethesda in 1984. more than 200 alumni have signed a petition for her, including actor julia louis-dreyfus. "i was class of nd'79 sewned this letter." the letter reads in part, dr. blasey ford's experience is all too consistent with stories we edard and l while attending holton. many of us are survivors rs ves. you may remember that letter last week signed by 65 women who said they knew brett kavanaugh in high school, vouchingis for good character. according to the online news organization politico, sev of those women who signed that letter say they still stand by m, but many others were either unreachable or unavailable for comment. live outside the u.s. supreme court, jackie bensen, news 4.

jackie, thank you. weave incredible video of flames that spr qd souickly through a prince george's county apartment building here. >> they're the reason 13 people need somewhere to stay tonight. news 4's shomari stone has the latest. >> this is a row of three story in t front, fou story in the rear. >> reporter: prince george's fire video captures flames and smoke shooting out of this apartment complex inlanham, maryland. >> there appears to be one, ret, th or four buildings all terconnected. it appears the fire is spreading rapidly alongoo the r line. >> reporter: firefighters spray water on the raging flames under rainy conditions. >> i just -- >> reporter: jay clark isy relieved theound pepper inside their third floor apartment. it now has smoke and water damage. >> because she's a such small dog, she could have been under i anyt. she could have been anywhere.

>> reporter: firefighters tell rt the fire sta in a fourth floor apartment and quickly spread to 44 units. around 130 people can'treive here any >> i'm heartbroken for them. to have that much damage. >> reporter: okesman mark brady tells us the hydrants in this community had depleted fresh, forcing firefighters to getater from downhe street. >> we had to establish a water supply back from 85th avenue. >> reporter: as firefighters put out the blaze, moments later, hot spots flared up. jay is thankful they found pepper. >> i want to thank all o them for what they're doing, what they do all around the place. >> reporter: now, fortunately, no one was injured. that'se including peo who lived in the building along with firefighters. the red cross is helping the victims of this fire with temporary food and housing vouchers. meanwhile,re firefighters trying to determine what caused this fire. as theying you updates become available on our nbc washington app. live here in lanham, maryland,

i'm shomari stone, news 4. >> aough night for folks there. shomari, thank you. florenceay be out of the carolinas, but the flood risk is far from over. and we may k notw the true toll of this aftermath for weeks or months to come. now, tonight, we can tell you that the number of people killed is rising. at last count, 3 people, including a 1-year-old swept away fromis mother's arms. one road in will ming on the is back open now. the city was completel cut off by flooding, but the power is still out there and a shortag of gas for generators forced three local tv stations off the air. rivers in north and south carolina continue to rise this v ing. many not expected to crest for several more days. news 4's chris lawrence reports tonight a city already devastated by flood waters, new bern, north carolina.r: >> reporwell, we're days

out from the storm. and just look at what folkslre st dealing with tonight. little swift creek has come up and this road that normally you'd be driving 35, 40 miles an hour, this drops off into nothing, completely submerged. now, in other areas like new bern, theater has receded, but that just means a lot of families are getting a first look at the damage, including one woman who showed us nest cam deo of florence pushing a wall of water into her home. >> and started working like a battering ram against the side of the house. >> this whole bottom part of the artment was covered in water and got about as high as that middle ste, there. that's when you -- >> we still haven't goter power ovthere, and i wouldn't put the power on anyway until, you know, it's safe and completely dried out. >> reporter: but when you see what's happening in some of these areas, right now, dried out, could be a long way off. chris lawrence, news 4. next at 11:00, em night in

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>> that's the emmys moment everyone is talkingou an emmy win turned into a surprisel proposa for millions to witness. >> can't get more public than that. people are loving it o social media tonight. >> you know, that guy, university of maryland grad glenn weiss. >> he's a terp. and he took the time alotted for his emmy win for directing the oscars t precept his girlfriend with his mother's wedding ring, of course, a gd thing s said yes. >> it was quite a moment. the happy couple weren't the only bigto winners ght. henry winkler won his first emmy,ntive decades his long career for the show "barry." and if you haven't i binged yet, the big winner of the night, amazon's "the marvelous mrs. masiel." >> you love that. i got some catching up to do. "game of thrones" won for outstanding drama and its star peter dinklage won.

there was a surprise appearance from 96-year-old betty white. she looked amazing. the show highlighted its most diverse group of nominees ever. well, a d.c. native is one performance away from possibly being named the next winner on "america's got talent." >> you can help. brian king jeph iseaded to tomorrow night's fin to wow audiences one more time with his violin skills. theal 27-year-oldd to us today about his journey and his first performances here in d.c king joseph says if he ones, he plans to use the million dollar prize to help local children with musical talent, but who can't afford lessons. >> i want to open up ahaty in d.c. to helhi thoseren and to funnel them through programs, for free, that they can develop and find their love and find their passion. >> you can watch the "america's got talent" finals tomorrow night on nbc 4. it all kicks off at 8:00.

vote for brian to win it all and then watch the results show on wednesday. >> he is pretty >> he is.e. and you're incredible. we're glad to have you backla >> i'm to be back. >> after a week in north carolina. >> thank you so much. we stillave a gre team down there, and they are bringing back all the pictures with chris, b.j., joe and beth, too, you know what it's like, tlo road back, you were in puerto rico. we're still talking about it. they're gng to betalking, as you know, doug, thank you for guiding us towards the best and away from theworst. >> absolutely. yeah. >> i tell you, it's -- as you know, this thing isot stopping any time soon. >> no, it's coming our way. but sin hum to see what they're going through down there. really kind of puts you in this ace in the world, people are struggling so hard to watch this storm and we've been watching it for us into our area, and when is it going to get here, when is it going to get here? we told you this would not be a big deal for us the entire time, but it is finally here, and we were dealing with it today. a lot of thunderstorm activity today. heavy rain. and right now, we are dealing with heavy rain again, and you

can see what's here are the remnants, and that's what it's called now, remnants of wflorence. but you notice right away, look at all the lightning right along the i- corridor this is a line that's just formed over the last couple of hours here. takeht look, r now, let's zoom in. and you can see lightning around baltimore, right down towards the charlottesville area. a few more showers and storms aroundes rg, too. you have this area in laurel. this area, zoom into this area, this is right around leesburg, urbana. very heavy rainfall. raing right now in gait gaithersbu gaithersburg. in the south, areas just south of d.c. now, in througfairfax county, mt. vernon seeing heavy rain. right around stafford county, woodbruj, y woodbridge, you were hit hard today with heavy rain. 4:30, 5:00, 6:00, it waswn nast there. and then farther to the south, tracking even more rain that's

prompted flooding. we have flood warnings everywhere that you seehe bright green here. flood warnings to the west including orange county. there are numerous roads closed as a result of all the htvy rain t we've seen. and a flash flood watch still in effect for the rest of us until about 4:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. this could be an issue overnight really for the next couple of hours. some of the storms that i'm watching down to the south are strong and even have ather tornado warning south of charlottesville right now. he.m's 7:00 tomorrow. notice shower activity, maybe some heavier showers. but i dxpect wet roadways. by 1:00, it's mostly right along and east of i-95. for the most part. that's where i expect itobe. look at southern maryland. more rain into this area. now, n expecting severe weather tomorrow, but we could, just like today, see heavier storms move on through. by tomorrow nigh it's moving out. tomorrow, 81, rain and storms. best chance, i-95 to the east. some of that may be on the heavy side.

85 on youry. wednes let's finally say good-bye to florence. it does move to the northeast. they could see some problem there, too, tomorrow. but then, it's out of here, brr.ging nice weat 82 on thursday, 89 on friday. we get on the hot side. and then weee a front come through and that gives us a chance for showers starting with the first day of fall on saturds, but also bri in much cooler weather. we're only in the 70s next week. >> all right, here w go. right straight into fall. >> yeah, big time. up all right, thank you, doug. coming , the redskins trying to turn boos into woos is sunday. thsp

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>> the list of disappointmehts sunday ntarted with the way the redskins played, extended to the number of fans who didn't even sho for the game. today seems to be mutual frustration from both sides. >> this team is better than what we showed out there, and for me, i was real -- i was realoi disapped, i was mad. i didt have much to say asterday, you know, because i think we are way better team than that. >> i don't think you sit on it long at ale i think kind of, you got to man u t and look athe film, you got to be honestf with yoursel as a team and, you know, as individuals. mpecially with a like green bay, you don't want to lose to one team in week two and have that carry over tweek three. all right, heading down to south beach, nats starting a ries against the marlins. napts already up 1-0 and victor robles i makes two. absolutely crushing this ball tt er. this is his first career home run, putting the nats up they lead 4-0 in the third.

but we skip ahead to the eighth. marlins erased that lead. miami ahead 7-5. starling caarro, a big pt of that, making it s5 with t home run. three rbi in t f game castro. nats fall to the fins, 8-5. what's up, fans? it's yours, boys and girls. we're the stanley cup champions! yeah! >> hey, babe t it's captain's birthday. alex ovechkin turning 33, and what a year it's been. he won his first snley you see here, his first cup stands. he danced all summer long. he and his wife welcomed their first child, a son. won't be a year ovechkiforgets any time soon. happy birthday to to eovechkin. up stands, the fountains. let's do it again. >> let's dot again. oh, that was awesome.

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