>> right to the weather alert and the storm that woke you up overnight. you could hear the thunder cracking for hours overnight. it certainly woke me up. >> the roads are also wet this morning and flash flooding watches are in effect all over the area. this was the scene as one of our team membeo came i work this morning. you're going to want to leave yourself ext time onhe roads today. we also know virginia schools are closed today because there's concerns about road conditions

in that. coun melissa is tracking all the trouble in first alert traffic. >> more storms on the way today. when we heard that lightning, we thought more rain, chuck? again? >> again. thvye's another round of h rain possible later on this afternoon. grab the umbrellas. weher alert mode yet again. this i suspect will be the last weather alert day for awhile. rain now moving across partsf the county. outside at the tv station in northwest washington now. rain drops are pulling outf prince william and moving out of fairfax county as well. ae cou of rain-free hours this morning. don't plan on seeing much sunshine today and there's more rain across parts of western maryland. that's what is left of the spin asso with florence. flash flood watches remain in place until 6:00. this highlighted area from washington on upe to baltimore area up the i-95 corridor, that's a flash flood warning that goes until 8:30

this morning. it fee like the tropics outside, mid 70s this morning. again, more rain and thunderstorms likely later on this afternoon. melissa, could be a slow ride home as lowell. >> a ride in for some for sure. silver spring for example, a lot of high standing water on various roads around town. southbound new hampshi avenue colesville have that flooding here with the southbound lanes blocked. richt now not as a huge impact because it's so early. the rest of the beltway is looking good but you can see the rain falling around town. arlingtock left side b by that flooding. >> melissa, thank you. your time is 4:32. closer look at roadio cond. melissa just mentioned, this is forest glenn . the road is closed because of

flooding. nicole jacobs is driving through that spot. we'll let you know what you need to know in a couple of minutes. >> the remembnts of florenceit us hard. a tornado touched down in chesterfield, virginia destroying a business. it lifted the roof off of old dominion flooring. you can see debris in an area rnat would be busy at this point in the afn. that roof ended up in a neighboring business's front lawn. one pson died when the business collapsed. the debris destroyed several cars andaused a gas leak. this was one of a number of reported tornadoes in the area last night. the worst of florence may have

passed but parts of north carolina are still experiencing serious flooding. thousandsleading to of water rescues. rivers overflowing into neighborods left people scrambling for higher ground. several national guard high water trucks helpedeople get to dry land yesterday. the flooding situation could get more dire since several aren't expected to crest until later in the week. they're unearthing all sorts of creatures. can you guess what this is? it is a colony of fire ants flooding in flood waters in columbus county. that colony hassa nthous of fire ants. people have seen them all over and these fire ants can seriously hurt someone that alss fi themselves stuck in flooding so stay away. >> but you can't handle that. i don't know why that's freaking me out. look.m trying not to maybe because it looks like a big blob. it could be several weeks before evacuees from the carolinas can

gok home. >> this morning the university of maryland is home to dozens of people that fled hurricane florence. she left her storm ravaged home in jacksonville, north carolina with her children and grandchildtn. she didn'ven plan to come to maryland. she just kept driving north. she said she is thankful that the red cross shelter was there. >> i appreciate it. allworkers. they're very lovely to the children and myself. like i said, they took care of me. i needed insulin. >> more than 17,000 evacuees are staying inhelters from here to north carolina. the red cross is asking people to donate money instead of bringing splies to the shelters. now we will continue to track theemembnants of florence.

also coming up at 5:00 a.m. chris lawrence will have a live repo n fromth carolina. breaking news into the newsom now, montgomery county police are looking for a missing man. what doe know? >> well, police just released this picttae. a good look. the 31-year-ol dewight allen whitaker was last seen at his job in germantown on friday. 6 feet tall, 230 pounds. he has tattoos on his arms. he may be driving a black 2011 toyota camry with washington state tagayd8608. family and friends are very concerned for his emotional and physical welfare. we're working with montgomery county police and we'll continue to bring you updates as we track the story. but for now, back to you. >> angie, thank you. it's 4:36 now to the that's dominating capitol hill. monday we'll hear from the woman upaccusingme court nominee

brett kavanaugh of sexual assault. she isd expec to testify before lawmakers about the incident. she was attacked at a house party in the 1980s. she was a student at the private school in bethesda andan kavaugh was at geortown prep a the time. more than 200 fellow alumnite signed a l of support for ford including julia lewis dreyfuss. sh tweeted i was class of '79ig and sd this letter. >> outside of the supreme court yesterday a cloud clash of opinions. representatives from a number of groupsent to protest kavanaugh's nomination to the highest court. 65 women that knew him from high school signed a letter released last week saying he treated

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i worked across party lines to target sexual offenders and take guns away from domestic abusers. in congress, i'll stand up to president trump. i approve this message because, like every working mom, what's ahead is as important as what's in the rearview mirror. weather alert mode this morning. flash flood watch are i effect all over our area. this was the scene that one of ourue colleags here at news 4 today spotted in silver spring overnight. >> we have live team coverage from the roads across our area. nicole jacobs will take us to the problem sps. we'll have your alternate routes. it's now 4:46.

supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh could face the woman accusing him of sexual assault when they were high schoolers. >> they were both called to testify at the public hearing. e know this hearing delays the confirmation vote. president trump reacting to that? >> well, presidentrump says he's willing to wait even though he was eager to get this vacancy filled. he now said the whole story needs to be told and he's willing to wait. he is standing by judge kavanaugh who spent hours atushe white and hours on the phone apparently with lawmakers trying to tell them that this is a completely false allegation. hhe says wasn't even at the party where she accuses him of tryi tossault her. meantime, her attorney says she's getting death threats for coming forward at great personal expense and the bll both here on capitol hill to tell the stories on monday. >> and president tmp has orders the department of justice to declassify a trov of

documents and text messages tied to the investigation. what are we expectingo see in these documents? >> the president had about 20 pages of the application to get surveillance on one of his campaign aids. he wants all of the information that the government presented to make that point to gethe surveillance made public. also text messages that involve the fbi director, deputy director, another employee and two agents who the president says were biased against him in the hillary clint e-mail and russia investigation. he wants all of that made now the justice department and intelligence offices will do a review to see if there's anything that could threaten national security before releing it. tracie potts on the hill this morning. thank you. a man has been charged wit sexual abuse while he worked at a montgomery countyhild care

center. thomas henry ridges faces ltiple charges including two counts of sexual abuse of a minor. he's a employee at horizon child care in silver springs. he also worked as a teachers assistant in montgomery county schools and coached boys basketball. new details about what happened in the hours and minutes before a family and their houkeeper were murdered inside their d.c. mansion. yesterday an assistant gave emotional testimony about delivering $40,000 to the homead he no idea that theamily was being held htage inside and that the money would be used for ransom. the defense tried t poke holes in his testimony and tried to establish a link between walce and the brother of the man on trial for these murders. prosecutors will continue to question wallace later today. new this morning, to infinity and beyond. spacex signed the world's first paying passenger to fly around the moon aboard the big falcon

rocket. a fashion entrepreneur and artm curator f japan said he dreamed of visiting the moon since he was a kid. he is the founder of the company and reserved a trip for a gro of artists to travel with him for free in 2023. spacex fnder elon musk announced the group will travel 24000 miles to the moon and spend the week there. >> it's intended to bee a to carry anyone to the moon and to mars and he's ultimately helping pay for the average citizeno be able to travel to other planets. >> musk says the first orbital flight will begin in about two to three years. >> vacation? > right now he's helping storm

victims in the carolinas. >> it's a similar act of kindness that he showed hurricane maria last year. he wrote a book about puerto rico released last week but he didn't waste any time heading down to the hurricane zone once he heard how bad the storm would be. barbara harris caught up with him before he. le he said puerto rico was on his mind in traveling to north carolina. >> i want it to happen. what happened in puerto rico. i know may puerto rico will never happen again but i feel we are more there like making sure that weeeel peo are going to be fed. >> you can watch barbara's full interview with andres on the nbc shington p. >> 451 right now. eastbound 66 shutdown, melissa. >> guys, eastbound 66 after 123 is where this crash is. initially before the full response got on to the scene here this morning we had some lanes and we are now closed d,

inbo 66 after 123. a massive problem for folks. her problem as well here because of flooding and all of the rain. you can see here it almost looks like a rainbow and i that water falling this morning. silver spring, southbound new hampshire avenue, southbound lanes shutdown because of flooding there. also outer loop at colesville. street flooding this morning. when we zoom out, we don't have any massive impact he on t belt way this morning but once again 66 inbound is closed and when you see something our maps it means it's shutdown. not just slow this morning. arlington southbound, gw parkway at the 14th street bridge and wt l have water on the roadway there. as much. much more on this situation on 66 coming up, k.ch >> it just keeps on piling up. check out the rainfall totals. this is year to date now.

ths the third rainiest year to date.3 47 inches of rain at national arport. 47 eve dulless airport and 49.35 inches of rain. averaging about and 19.oi it's gng to push the rest of this deep tropical moisture y.erhead to rain chances today stand at 80%. may not rain all day. more showers moving in to the inner harbor at baltimore. moving straight up 29 and at the bw parkway there. rain pulling out of fairfax at this point in tim but more rain lingering out to the west and rainfall potential for today and these hit and miss t hnderstorms yoe a very high likelihood

of leaving almost nothing in one spot and nearly t inches in another. just know that if you get under ese showers today, a quick inch to an inch and a half of rain is possible. so flash flood watches have been posted until 6:00 for all of the d.c. metro area. this floarning that goes right up the i-95 corridor here goes until8:30 this morning. so be careful. you can also get push alerts on any severe weather warning on our nbc washington app. download that and you get all the information in the p your hand. there's your ten day forecast. a crazy thing is going to happe tomorrow. the sun is going to come out and you we might get 3 or 4ays in a row. the weekend rain chances are ushed back to primarily sunday. thank you.

the home opener for the washington caps.'s hat time again. they take the ice as we get ready for the upcoming seasoe' and wll start it off with some new ice. yesterday crews put the finishing touches on capital one arena. that will be raised in another month when the caps start the regular season. >> tonight's home opener will be against the boston bruins. me opener? preseason. >> preseason home opener. we have to get ready to rock the d all over again. tonight starts the finals of america's gotnt ta >> and a d.c. navy is one performance away from winning it all. ♪ that is d.c.'s brian king. he impressed the judges and the

electric ar with his violin skills. he talked to us about his incredible journey. if he wins he plans to use tiot mill dollar prize to help local kids with musical talent thatan't affor lessons. >> i want to u ope in d.c. to help those children and funnel them throughpr rams, for free, that they can develop and find their love and find their passion. you can hatch ite on nbc 4. >> don't forget to vote for brian to win it all. we'll find out who the winner is on wednesday. >> still ahead on news 4 day, a wild weather night in virginia. >> a rash of tornadoes strike the richmond area leaving one person dead and a lotmaf . >> and we're working for you. cars that have been damaged duri hurricanes often find their ways on to used car lots. the extent of the damage may not be obvious.

what you need to know to avoid trouble. news 4 today continues in just a moment.

here's a lookha at you may encounter. >> news 4 nicole jacobs is out

on the roads taking a look at spots with flooding. she'll bive in a few minutes. >> chuck bell is standing by with details on w today'sther alert but we'll begin with breaking news about the commute this mornin >> a major problem this morning in fairfax. this first alert traffic alert. right now camera not working. 123.ound 66 after we're shutdown there this morning. dl bad crash there this morning. debris in the m of the roadway. this is going to be quite sometime. what can you do? commit right now. commit to 50. do something else. do not get on 66 any tim soon if you're getting on anywhere before 123de and h inbound. another closure right now. silver spring, this is where nicole jacobsea isd for us. southbound new hampshire avenue. so southbound lanes are blocked for flooding. outer loop at the beltway with the right side blocked here this morning. the rest of the beltway looks okay but a new