rails. let's get to amelia draper first. where is the storm, and what are we expecting? >> the storm is down in georgia and south carona, but it's interacting with a cold front that's just to our west. as these two systems kind of come together later today, we're going to see some heavy rain around here, especiallf east 95, where flash flood watch is in effect for prince ,george charles, calvert, st. mary's county, down through parts of stafford and king geo counties. this starts at 2:00 p.m. today until 6:00 a.m. on your friday. the heaviest rain impacts everybody for the afternoon and evening hours. there arca already someered showers out there. if you're in the flash flood watch, you can anticipate about 2 to 4 inches of rain elsewhere, including mostro of the m area, about an inch of rain, maybe a little less. still,ot a great day out there. you definitely want to grab the umbrella. recess for the kids today could be indoors. i think a lot of us will be impacted by rain. take a look. showers scattered across the area. melissa tracking rain along 20.o

hopefully this morning commute isn't impacted too much. >> i'll take a look at some cameras he there. beltway here at forestville road looking pretty good. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway, no big complaints. we're keeping an eye on the rain today. hyattsville, southbound bw parkway after 50, right lane gets by the paving. bottom of the beltway, prince george's county, into town, out of town all nice and clear. 95 northbound, no problems. qutico to the beltway, going to get there quickly here this morning. and 66inbound going8 miles per hour. i'm going to take a look at 270, e if we s anything falling at this point, and be back in a couple minutes. >> melissa, thank you. it's n 5:01. let's get back to our coverage of the damage caused by michael. the category 4 storm was the most powerful hurricane on

record to hit florida's >> wednesday clocked in around 155 miles a category 5. shy of that monster storm hit panama city beach, orida, hard, splitting trees in half, ripping off roofs, tossing car and ucks like toys. for about two hours, michael battered the city, damaging practically every home, business, and tree i that area. the storm gutted ale t-mo store. you see it here. shredded just about everything inside. you can see the debri scattered all over the streets. the powerful winds also blew out the windows of homes and hotels. on top of all that damage, people are dealing with flooding too. >> and here's a bird'syeiew of the damage in panama city beach, florida. florida gernor rick scott says search and rescue teams are heading into the state's hardest hit areas help survivors. two people have died in the storm, one in floridwe and the on mentioned in georgia. >> we'll stay in panama city beach and show you know video this morning that shows the moments the sto ripped o a building's roof.

you can see the roof flying like a sheetn f papere wind there. a woman riding out the storm in a friend's sixth floor apartment recorded this evideo. told local reporters she also saw the wind blow out windows and dolish a resort. we'll move a bit inland now. asen for people sheltered inside buildings, there very real threat. nbc's lesterou holt that out first hand. he was riding out the storm in a hotel room in >> the power is now out. we were outside for a little bit. we were forced inside. hurricane michael proving to be everything it was advertised to po. >> at one t, lester's crew put a mattress i front of the windows over fears the wind would shatter the glass. it was a good idea too. just one floor up, the wind blew out the windows, sending glass flying across that room. the good news, no one was inside when this happened. lester was safe inside, but

take a look at this moment with nbc's kerry sanders. >> wow. thanyou. thank you. >> man, the weather channel's jim cantore coming to kerry's aid there ker kerry later said he was thankful he was wearing a helmet. he hit his head ding that scare and could have suffered a concussion without it. and while hurricane michael t, president trump was on the campaign trail. he's catching heat for refusing spto postpone a campaign rly to deal with the storonse. l ke a look at this video just hours after michaerrelled into florida as a catego 4 storm. shortly after the storm hit, the president landed in erie, pennsylvania, to speak to supporters. reporters reportedly president if he considered cancelling the event, but he said he did not want to disappoint the people who showed

up. mr. trump did talk about the storm at the beginning of his remarks.en >> i want toour thoughts and prayers of our entire nation to everyone in the path of hurricane michael, especially in the florida panhandle where it's hitting d hitting hard. >> today we're hoping to learn about the president'plan to ur these damaged areas. according to the president's schedule, he is set to have a rally in ohio tomorrow. our coverage of tropical storm michael and the aftermath continues all morning long. you can also check out the nbc washington app for the latest images from the clnup and path.of the storm's 5:05 now. we're following a developing and disturbing story this morning. f bi fbi agents stopped a plot that could have claimed a lot of lives.fb tharrested a new york man before he was able to bomb the national mall. news 4's justin finch is on the

mall this morning. what are you hearing about a possible motive here? >> reporter: well, aaron, ti says that 56-year-old paul rosenfeld was willing to blow himself up and potentially harm or kill incidenter bystanders on the mall, all to send a political message on election day. the feds here say that his plan had been coming together for the past few months from his basement of his home out in rockland county, new york, just outside c of new yorky. the tips came from a pennsylvania reporter with whom rosenfeld h been speaking about his d.c. bomb plot. it turns out that led law enforcement to him on tuesday of this week. he also revealed to investigators that he recently bought eight pounds of black powder online to be used in a near 200-pound device he planned to set off here on the mall on election day. also foundn that basement where he was building that bomb, test explosive devices. obviously troubling news for his

neighbors and the nation. >> they found the actual explosive device. he called andntade hist known to blow himself up on election day in d.c. this was an actual active itthi. as a real threat to the safety of our country. >> reporter: that threat is now contained, b you might be asking why election day. turns out law enforcement saysf that ros was frustrated with the country's politics as of late, and he also wante to advance the idea that calls for randomly choosing government aders. officials also say he has no known criminal history and no ties to any terrorism affiliates. live on the mall, justinfinch, news 4. >> justin, thank you. it's now 5:07. this morning the man accused of beating a woman and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in woodbridge remains in jail. yesterday adam seth waltera facd judge for the first time and

refused to speak. he's accused of grabbing the girl on her way to school tuesday morning. a neighbor tried to helpwher she realized something wasn't right. police say walter attacked the riighbor andly held her before she was able to get away. he is due back in court in december. happening today, we may learn more about the randota that left a woman dead in d.c.'s logan circle neighborhood. >> anthony crawford is set to be in court he's accused of stabbing wendy martinez to death last month. she was joggi down p street in northwest d.c. when that attack happened. investigators are s it was an unprovoked attack. a man in a wheelchair died while trying to ride up an escalator at the columbia heights metro station. lsmetro offic say paramedics found the man lying at the bottom of the escalator yesterday afternoon. he tried tose theelevator, but for some reason gave up after a short time. that's when he tried to ride the escalator instead. at some poin the manell backwards and then his wheelchair fell on top of him.

>> i seen a guy laid out. i saw his legs was all bloody, really bad. i saw about ten people crowded around him. >> metro says the elevator the man was trying to use before the accident was fully functional. we're learning new details this morni following saturday's deadly limo crash in upstate new york. the operator of the limousine company is now charged with criminal negligent homicide. nauman w hussain arrested last night and released on b d last night. as part of his release, he had toe g up his u.s. passport. police say when they arrested him, he had packed bags with him. his attorney says that was because he was reiving death threats. he's pled not guilty. police say the limo involved in the crash failed recent safety inspections, and the driver who was also killed, was not properlyns li. 5:09 now. today, metro plans to present its board a proposal to allow food sales in and around stations. >> the transit agencyt' says

all part of a plan to increase revenue. news 4's chris lawrence is live at the clarendon station. >> reporter: all this could look a whole lot different. later this morning, metro is going toor put this b a metro board committee to see if it flies. i can tell you food is just one part of a much largerhi plan. what would allow metrodoo , these new regulations, it woulllow metro to cut commercial deals on its own without going back to the board to get the okay. metro would be able to rent out any space onetro property for private or commercial use. think of those food vendors. although, we're talking food that's wrapped up because you b still won't able to eat or drink on the trains. it goes beyond that. you cod see electronic kiosks like r box, photo booths, lottery machines, even vendors selling health and beauty oducts. so why do this? like so many things, it comes down to money.

the ridership has dropped more than 10% over the past few years. remember, taxpayers in d.c., maryland, and virginia are going to start sending metro a dedicated source of funding, but that money, talking hundreds of millions of dollars, comes with a caveat. starting next year, metro will spending.d cap on so this is yet another way to increase reven w. agaill have to see if this flies, but these metro stations like the one i'm standing a could look a lot different in the years to come. >> chris, thank you. ea> still our coverage of the aftermath of hurricane michael continues. >> we're live in the hardest hit areas, and it is a story so many of you are talking about. a woman sees a black man with white c cldren andalls police. find out what they say and why the incident is considered a teaching moment. how abouter our wea amelia? >> despite rain at times today, it's going to be another mild day. already in the low to mid-70s with highs around 80 degrees. showers out there at the bus stop right now.t

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it's been one of the most commented on stories on the nbc washinon facebook pag a black man says he was babysiting two white children when a woman became suspicious, started following him, and eventually called police. >> all because i got two kids in the backseat that do not look like me, this lady has took it upon herself to say she's going to take my plate down and call the police. >> cory lewis works at a youth mentoring program in marietta, georgia. he started streaming on facebook live when the woman began following him. lewis said she had confronted him and tried to ask the st children qns. she followed him for more than

an hour to his home and then called police. >> i was really shocked. i was angry. i was scared. at the end of the day, just because someone does not look like how you prefer for them to look doesn't mean that they're a bad person. >> lewis' video has received ndreds of thousands of views on social media. he says he hopes it can beas us a learning experience for other people. it is 5:16. we are tracking michael, now a tropical storm. the category 4 hurricane battered florida's panhandle yesterda packing winds up to 155 miles an hour. >> one of the hardest hit areas wasanama city beach, florida. that's where news 4's jay gray joins us live t morning. describe what you're seeing out there. >> reporter: well, eun, aaron, this wasua a threat, michael. water that caused dramatic flooding and then the winds that have done things like this.

i want you to take a look. a big roadside sign snapped by those winds, thrown into a business. but michael wasn't done at that point. you can see them winds fhe storm shredding this business. just really tearing it apart here. unfortunately, i believe as the sun comes up, we'll see scenes like this across the entire strike zone. just a devastating storm. we t talk abous thing being a history maker. a few quick notes on that. first of it's the strongest .ctober hurricane ever to make landfall in the u and the first category 4 storm to strike the flori panhandle. that's amazing when you think about all of the storms they've dealt with in this region. if windst 155 miles an hour had made landfall, those are the strongest winds we've felt from a hurricane here in the u.s. since andrew i back 1992. it had winds of 167 miles an ur. aaron and eun, this was one for the record books.no the difficult cleanup and

recovery begins.ll >> right. jay gray live for us in panama city beach. jay, thank you. 5:18 now. octor is domestic violence awareness month. it's believed 2 that ever minutes someone, somewhere in the u.s. is abused physically or emotionally by their partners. >> local groups are taking stion trying to help victims becomevivors. last night i spoke at the anchor fund benefit. this organization provides critical resources for domestic violence victims. one of the reasons victims stay in abusive relationships is they don't have the tools to leave. the anchor fund is making sure women and famies can have the support they need to get out of a terrible situation. amy goldberge executive director. nbc 4 has a campaign called safe at homean where you find important stories about survivors and where you can go and help a pential survivor.

this is not a huge organization, but they do tt critical work. so many women, it's those first hours of trying to get away fro an abusive relationship where they need those resourc so decemb desperately. >> such a wonderful cause. to get out of a situation like that, to have the resources available is so critical. >> indeed. all right, amelia. we're talking about rain moving into our area today. >> scattered showers today duringheorning and midday hours. heavier rain will move in onight. if you're headi the door now, hopefully you're home from work before that heavy rain moves in again. the time og ing about 5:00 to 6. the heaviest rain willall east of i-95. that's why there's a flash flood watch for the counties here. it starts at 2:00 this afternoon until 6:00 a.m. on your friday. 2 to 4 inches of rain is possible in the watch. elsewhere, we'ng talbout an inch of rain. again, the biggest concern fora flooding today is east of

i-95. regardless, it's still kind of a nuisance day out there. we're dealing with some wet roads out there already. coming home, a lot of us are going to be dealing with wet roads from more widespread rain moving in. by tomorrow morning, we return to dry conditions and much cooler temperatures. take a look an sto team 4 radar. tracking the heaviest rain just south of fredericksburg. also heavy rain around fredd frederick. a cold front is helping to push michael out to sea. maximum sustained winds down to 50 miles an hour. here's the newra. it moves through raleigh as a tropical storm later today. by tomorrow, early in the morning it's oe of h over the atlantic. that's why we dry out very early on friday morning. here's a quick look at the ten-day forecast. 64 for a high tomorrow with breezy winds throughout the day. much cooler. melissa, temperatures for the

weekend in the 50s to around 60 on saturday. mid-60s on sunday. unfortunately, someng showers on saturday. how are the roads with the rain? >> you know, good point. glad you pointedut we're seeing rain here on 270. you can see it there. a little sheen on the roadway. 270 southbound, northbound here at clarksburg road. tl is going to be a l wet out there for you in spotss thi morning. southbound bw parkway after 50, right laneets by the paving there this morning. as you look at the beltway, you can see we're nice and clear. zooming in for a moment, arlington, southbound gw parkway after 66, roosevelt bridge, left side is blocked by a crash. 66 southbound. this happens every day until loout 10:00 a.m. the left lane bcked by the work zone there. aaron? >> all right,maielissa. thank you. still ahead, you can rate your uber and lyft driver. you know that. did you know they can rate you too? t toit matters if you w

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of heavier rain. how this impacts your morning in my updated forect. michael now a tropical storm. its latestath and a lookt the destruction it's already left behind. that's next.

right to that storm team 4 weather alert at 5:30. the category 4 hurricane that caused all this damage is nowop tral storm michael. it's beende downgd overnight but still left a ton of destruction everywhere. >> is still making its way through the southeastern united states. today we could be feeling somea of the i of this powerful storm. storm team 4 meteorologist elia draper is in for chuck this week. she's here to fill us in on the latest before we check the commute. >> right now i'm tracking scattered showers and pockets of heavy rain moving through the area from sthwest to

northeast. take a look. this is due in part from some of the moisture of michael and a cold front as well. you want to grab the umbrella as you head out the door today. notice in parts of southern maryland, especially charles county, a pocket of moderate rain there. more moderate to heavy rn in parts of the panhandle of west virginia and frederick county, maryland. this moisture will continue to stream into the areaghout the day. we're in weather alert mode because we'll be trackin heavy rain during the afternoon, especially during the evening hours. mainly eastf 95 because of the potential for heavy rains from michael and that cold front. the national weather service has issued a flash flood watch for the counties along and east of i-95. this includes prince george's county. it starts.mt 2:00 thiste afrnoon. melissa, we always say, but it's iways a good reminder, turn around, don't dro you come across a flooded road. >> absolutely. might seem like it's safe, then it's not. 66 here at 123. you seehose headlights. they are inbound here this morning. we're seeing some volume here

righ now. no actual issue in the way. it's just slow headedinbound. fredericksburg southbound near 17, left lane blocked by that work zone. arlington, southbound parkway after 66, left side is blocked by a crash. the beltway right now looking pretty good. >> melissa, thank you. it's 5:32. howling winds and heavy downpours, michael slammedor in a's panhandle as a category 4 hurricane. panama city beach had the worst ofta it. a look. uprooted trees, damaged homes, and tonsf flooding. the storm had winds of u to155 miles per hour. powerful enough to gut some businesses in just about every part of the city. there's at least one confirmed death in florida. a man died when a tree fell on his home. nowhousands of people are without power. members of the national guard have already been deployed. those who decid to ride out this storm now say they regret

at decision. >> i've been through a couple s one anes before, but t was pretty rough. definitely wasn't a wise choice to stay. >> i'm still in awe right now. i don't know we going to do. basically probably relocate because this is going to take a while to fic. >>el is now making its way into the carolinas and may impact our area. still ahead, the latest on michael's path. news 4's jay gray will give us a closer look at the damage in florida. at 5:33, we turn to ato developing here at home. the fbi says agents stopped a man' plan for suicide bombing on the national mall. >> agents found bomb making materials when they raided the man's home in tappan, new york. justin finch is live at the national mall with tatest on this thwarted plan. >> eporter: this could hav left a lot of innocent bystanders here on the mall hurp haps even worse.

the fbi says that paul rosenfeld of new york state planned to blow himself up here on the mall art to advance the idea of sortition, which is the idea of choosing lawmakers at random. this tip came fromr a repor based in pennsylvania, with whom rosenfeld had shared his ans. he did admit on tuesday to this d.c. bomb plot as well as buying eight pounds of black powder that he would use in that bomb here just recently and transporting that powder to his home to continue building that bomb. bi sweep of his home yesterday did turn up not only the evidence of that bomb but also test explosive devices. back out live, we can tell you at this point it doeea a that paul rosenfeld himself was behind this plot, that he has no other ties to a terror group, and also no pastriminal

record. officials say he now faces as long as two decades behind bars this plot. we're live on the mall, justin 4.ch, news >> all right, justin. thank you. 5:35 now. an update to breaking news you saw here on news 4 yesterday. d.c. police have identified the man killed during a carjacking late tuesday night. they say 53-year-old curtis barnum was stabbed multiple times after stopping for gas on minnes avenue northeast. barnum's family tells us he was a giving man and always tried to help others. the suspect was arrested yesterday, but take a good look at your screen. police are still looking for barnum's truck, his white pickup truck, which was stolen. prosecutors will have their chance to question the man accused of killing three members of a d.c. family and their housekeeper later today. the defense hopes daron wint's testimony will prove the case they laid out in the opening statements. they're arguing wint's brothers used his blue minivan to drive to d.c. where the murdered the

family and tricked daro wint pickcoming to the house to up his minivan. it is a great day to be a caps fan. i say every day is a good day to be a caps fan. last night theaps took on a familiar rival looking for some stanley cup revenge. just like the cup, the caps came out on top. the team dominated the golden knights 5-2. despite having the last six days f, the offense was on fire. so was the star, alex ovechkin, picking up two goals for the night. the caps are back on the road to take on the new jersey devils. puck dro tonight at 7:00. now 5:36. coming up, online threats on the rise. now a warning to remember before you tweet. hear from the man who says his post neay landed him in

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welcome back. these days it's pretty easy to argue and get angry about politics, but we all hav friends who take it a little too far on social media. >> a lot of people are unfriending those kinds of friends. authorities are stepping up threats tions into against federal officials. as the news 4 i-team reports, you should think before you tweet. ha reporter: threats against federal official become almost common place here on capitol hill. the number of threat c investigatioducted by u.s. capitol police nearly doubled from 2016 to 2017.es some of the are happening on

social medialatforms, facebook and twitter, including one local man who thought he was just tweeting a political protest until the fbi showed up at his door >> the charges i was facing, i could have gone to prison for 25 years for some tweets. >> reporter: the number of federal prosecutions for this increasing. and it's not just fel officials getting the threat. in so many cases, it's their staffers opening it and reading it and having to deal with it. >> it affected the staff, you know, internally to a level we had to bring in counseling.te >> rep the u.s. house leader shot on a baseball field in alexandria last year tells us hell getting threats too. >> why do we have such a dramatic increase from where we were years ago to where we are now? >> the rhetoric has definitely got an lot hotter. >> reporter: what is being done to protect these officnd the thousands of local e vernment workers from threats? and what's being d catch the people making the threats? our news 4 i-team instigation tonight on news 4 at 5:00.

i-r now on capitol hill, scott mcfarland, news team. and we're in storm team weather alert mode for the potential of heavy rain in spots today. coming up, w more onn that heavy rain impacts the area and who could see the most rain. bottom line, grab the umbrella today. there's a high likelihood everyone is dealing with at least some showers. stl mild though. mperatures in the 70s with a high around 80. again, more on the severe weather threat here i our area nfr

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rescue crews are in contact with the astronauts. we're told they're in good condition. 'll update you as we learn more. now we turn backwh to micha, h has lost a bit of its punch. take a look at the storm's latest path. actually, we' showing you the radar picture here. you can see it's making a big mark along the southeastern part of the u.s. we're also getting new video this morning that shows the devastation from that category 4 storm in florida's. panhand take a look at what's left of a middle school gym here. the wind justhe rippedoof right off, leaving the court exposed. >> debris is everywhere, as you can tell. it looks like one wall just completely collapsed. news 4's jay gray is live in panama city beach with closer look at all this damage. jay, the i destructi massive there. >> reporter: yeah, eun, aaron, unbelievable. michael was a dual threat. we had the water, flooding, rains, and storm surge.

then the wind that did thikes li this. i want you to take a look. first snapping what is a roadsiden sig here, throwing it into this business. this beachside business shredded. it ripped through this business, just tearing everything apart here. i'm afraid as theom sun up and we get a better look a day iner the storm made landfall this region that we're going to see more scenes like this. i think we're going to see a lot more destruction. you've got these areas where u've had the flooding and it's going to take time for that water to recede. the cleanup, t recovery here really just will begin in earnest a bit later today. >> i'm sure we'll see much more damage in the day ahead. jay gray livea in p city beach. jay, thank you. and storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper will have more on michael in a secondet right now l's turn to politics. while that hurricane was happening, president trump wasa on theign trail.

this is a look at that rally in erie, pennsylvaniant >> the presis now catching heat for refusing to postpone that event. many are sing that he should have been focused on dealing with the stormpo re. news 4's tracie potts is live on capitol hill n. tracie, did the president make any mention about hurricane michael? >> he did, eun. the irony is back in 2012 during superstorm sandy, he criticized president obama as wrong for doing a political event while th storm was going on. last night president trump did the same thing. after the onset of a category 4 rricane, the president defended that in an interview with fox last night ngsa look, there were thousands of people who were waiting. he didn't want to disappoint th. he did talk about the storm, saying that fema, the federal government, was ready. they had their people and supplies in place. and he's also said that he will visit florida soon. we don't know where or when. >> tracie potts on the hill for us this morning.

tracie, thank you. it's 5:49 now. metro may be getting into theag food and bevbusiness. >> they plan to present a proposal to allow food sales in and around station news4's chris lawrence is live at the clarendon station with how is this going to work, chris? >> reporter: well, stations like this could look a lot different, eun. the officials are going to present this to a metro board committee later this morning to see if it flies. food is just one part of auch larger plan. so these new regulations would allow metro officials to cut deals with commercial vendors without going back to the board to get the so they'd be able to rent out any space on metro property for privateommercial use. those food vendors you mentioned, although food would still be wrapped upecause you wouldn't be able to eat or drink on board the trains. but they could allow electronic kiosks like red box, pto booths, even vendors selling health and beauty supplies.

we spoke with some metro riders. definitely a mixed reaction. >> probably not necessary. >> i would like people to be -- have good manners if they did it. >> reporter: so why are they doing this? money. dership is down more than 10% over the past couple years. remember, taxyers ind.c., maryland, and virginia are going to start sending metro a dedicated source of funding, but a caveaey comes with starting next year, metro will have a hard cap on spending. ve at t clarendon metro, chris lawrence, news 4. >> thanks,is c. amelia ldraper, aittle rain coming. >> yeah,ea theest rain moving in between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. while the evening commute is under way. take a look at the weather question. some of the rain today is from michael, especially that heavier rain later in the day. also from a cold front moving through the area fest to

east. second weather question, is some flooding possible here in our area? unfortunately, yes. the best chance for flooding is east of i-95. are we going to have major impacts, wind damage, things like that? really noteeing that. down toward the northern neck, i can't rule out an isolad tornado. th course, mike slchael is a rog system. might cause a brief spin-up later today. i'm not seeing isolateds tornadere in the metro area at all. but i do want to mention that. then big changesor the weekend. autumn is moving in tomorrow. looks like it's here to stay. here's the latest. notice rain moving through the area from southwest to northeast. a lot of southn maryland right now dealing with showers anywhere from light to moderate in intensity. for the most part, areas inside of the beltway getting a break. a heads up, some showers wilbe moving through over the next hour or so. that's really going to be the case today. ome rain at times, otherwise cloudy, humid, and mild. here's a look at the bigger e. pict here's tropical storm michael.er

ultimately,s the path. i'll have a closer look at 6:20. there's that cold front. these are kind of combining, coming together, and pushing out to sea late tonight and early tomorrow morning. guys, future weather, 7:00 p.m., notice these bright colors. that's heavy rain. that's where we could see flooding with 2 to 4 inches. for most of us, we're talking about around an inch of rain today. everybody needs to have the umbrella. recess potentially indoors for the kids today. it is still t-shirt weather. tomorrow you definitely want t grab the jacket. 64 degrees for a high. we start off with temperatures in the 50s. it is a breezy day out there. for the weekend, maybe scatterer showers sy morning. 50s and around 60 for a high on saturday. low to mid-60s for highs on sunday. how are the roads? >> right now a couple of things happ inner loop before river road, hard to see from this camera, but i can tell you we have asa ed vehicle blocking the right side of the road here. washington, southbound 295 after

eastern avenue, a crash reported there this morning. take a look at this radar showing you some pretty heavy stuff here down through prince george's county. camp springs, inbound suitland parkway, use those windshield wipers. a disabled vehicle there. arlington, southbound gw parkway, left lane blocked by an earlier crash. 66 inbound looks okay. 95 north going 40 miles p hour. 270, no problems. top of the beltway lookingre go. mber to listen to wtop 130.5 fm when you hop in your car. >> melissa, thank you. if you were counting on winning last night's powerball drawing, you still have to go to work today. >> too wad. ther no jackpot winner. the prize is now worth $314 million. you may have won a smaller prize if you matched the numbers. here they are. 8, 23, 27, 42, 60. the powerball is 7. >> if you plan to buy a ticket

for saturday's drawing, maybe buy one for mega millions too. that jackpot now $548 million. that's ahead of tomorronight's drawing there. sources are telling cnbc that apple will let users of its deviceon like the i and ipad watch its upcoming streaming free.ce for that tv service will be preinstalled and will include some original content as well as third-party channels the customers can subscribe to like hbo and starz. the offering could turn into more of a paid netflix-like service down the road. i'm frank holland. have a great morning. >> you too, frank. thank you. it's now 5:54. today is the international day of the girl. e "today" show is having a special show to commemorate the occasion. former first lady michelle obama will be live on the "today" set this morning. the scial show will also feature three music stars. kelly clarkson, jennifer hudson, and meghan trainor.

well, it's a neighborhood plagued by violence, and there are a lot of people trying to make a difference in the lives of young girlsnsnd t >> we're taking you to a community center where dance is building self-esteem, kping many teens focused. but they need new costumes as requests toe perform for the community. news 4's molette green is live at the benning fort community center. tell us about this fundraiser. morningter: goo yeah, we're inside this tiny little community center with some big goals for these dancers, these young dance ages 7 to 12. they're stayingeyfocused. re building up their self-esteem. but they nmd a little help f the community as they try to raise money to get some costumes because they're getting more and more requests from the community. as you can see behind me, they haveavsupport. they local police officers and community leaders and parents who are on their side. we're going to tell you 6:00 hour how you can help. all right. we want to help them out, right?

[ cheers and applause ] >> looks like some talented young ladies. can't wait to earn more. see you in a few minutes. stillsahead on n 4 today, we continue our coverage of hurricane michael's aftermath. >> hundreds of thousands without power now, and entire communities left in ruins. a look at the hardest hit spots wh. we come back stay with

oh, my gdness. >> a hurricane for the history books. what is now tropical storm michl left a trail o destruction across the southeast. this video coming in from alabama, where strong winds caused power lines toe, expl as you saw there. fast approaching 6:00 a.m. now. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. similar scenes played out across florida. this morng, hundreds of thousands are without power. overnight, the storm moved g north, hittirgia and heading into the carolinas.

in georgia, an 11-year-old boy killed. first responders say it took em nearly 30 minutes to reach him, but it was too late. they say it looked like a bomb had gone off in the county where he lived. this morning we're expecting some of that rain to hit our a region because of that, we're in weather alert mode. >> melissa is standing by with a check on roads and rails. let's start with amelia draper. where is this storm now? what are we expecting? >> the storm right now is in georgia, south caroli it will be moving into north carolina as the day goes on and eventually bringing heavy rain to our area, mainly during the eving hours. take a look. because of that heavy rain later today, the national weather service has issued a flash flood watch forrince george's, charles, calvert, st. mary's county, down through stafford and king george county as well. now, the heaviest rain is going to be thiernoon and evening. i'm already tracking scattered showers out there right now with some pockets of heavier rain. if you're in that watch, you want to anticipate about 2