[cheering] right now at 11:00, flood warnings and watches an remain in effect. ne pictures show the high water rescues that were launched because of ratoday's . just hours before the deadline to sign up for coverage, a federal judge struck down thear

affordabact. >> if the entirety were to be found unconstitutional, it will really cause major chao >> new reaction to the ruling, including a change in tone from on of the law's harshest critics. >> news4in bwith a storm team 4 weather alertg. >> good even i'm erika gonzalez. flood warnings and watches continue tonight. if you lk at storm team 4 radar, it's pretty easy to see why. we are in weather alert wed. samarra says you can expect the same thing tomorrow. >> we are in for more rain tomorrow. and the flood warnings actually continue into tomorrow. it's kind of setting the stage for your sunday. it's going to be soggy. for now, the more pressings mattere flood warnings and watches. look at this map. at this point, prey much everyone in the area except in southern maryland is under a flood watch. this lighter shade of green is the floodwarning. this means we're already seeing flooding in a lot of these areas

for thern gs, they're extending -- expiring from 10:30 p.m. tonight till 6:30 a.m. the farther northng you head a i-95. we are expect agadditional 1 toc 2s of rain on top of the record-breaking rain we got today. we'll go ove records later on. for now i want to show you the radar, heaviest of the rain situated in ldoun into montgomery county, frederick. it's going to be comin down all night into tomorrow. i'll help you plan your sunday and getou ready for your workweek, as well. back to you. >> we'll see you then. driving in parts of the region beca t so dangerous due flooding, some folks had to be rescued from their cars. darcy spencer is live in viennaa virg to continue our team coverage. darcy? >> reporter: erika, at this hour, there are more than half a dozen roadser closed in fairfax county. the rain is still coming down. it hasn't stopped all day.

that list will probably grow in the overnight hours. what's happening here behind me, you see the white car nose down in a ditch. this is the aftermath of what can happen when you get stuck in high water. flooding shut down hunter melon lawyers roads in oakton. it didn't stop people from driving through. the same thing happened at burke lake road where motorists made splash as they took a chance to make it through the high water.t ately, no one got stuck here, but others weren't so lucky. theses phoom fairfax county fire show one of four rescues. this one happed at chapel and cold point roads in clifton. one person had to be pulled from a car stuck in high water. and take a look at these photos from montgomery county fire. they're from brighten darn road, an area that flooded many times before. six people had to be rescued when their cars got stranded in

the floodwaters. rain copied throughout the day, making driving conditions dangerous and some roads impassab impassable. fire and residue departments are asking drivers to heed the warnings and signs. if the road is closed, find another way to g what you're looking at here is a flood marker in this road it says that the water is about a foot high. and i can tell you just from looking at the road here, it is very deceiving. you would never think that the high. is up that a foot high. and that's what is fire and rescue officials are don't drive through standing water because you don't know how high that wat is. you could end up like some of the folks on the having to be rescued. erica, back to you. >> good advice. don't chance it, turn around, don't drown. darcy spencer, thank you. breaking news now out of northwest d.c. where a pipe burst beneath the ground serious lay injuring a construction

worker. it rocked the corner of pennsylvania avenue and third street. the national gallery of art and u.s. dustrict court are located in the area. the worker is expected to survive. investigators aren't sure wha caused the explosion orpl who t ee works for. new at 11:00, a saturday evening noma erupts in gunfire. the shooting victim may not survive. the rain was coming down hd as police roped off the crime scene here in the 1100 block of street and northwest. police finding a man shot outside some homes. firster respos rushed him to the hospital. no word tonight on the suspecter shoor even a motive in this case. you now have less than hour to sign up for open enrollment for the affordable care act. just yesterday a federal judge ruled the health law unconstitutional. but as nbc's kelley o'donnell t explainst decision is setting up a legal showdown. >> reporter: a downpour didn't dampen the president's reaction.

>> big ruling, a great ruling for our country. >> reporter: following a solemn visit to arlington national cemetery, today president trump spoke for the first time about texas federal court overturning obamacare anticipating a higher court showdown. >> we'll sit down with the democrats, if the supreme court upholds. we'll sit down with the thmocrats and get great he care for our people. >> reporter: that sudden call for cooperation at odds with years of raw political conflict. >> and we've decimated obamacare. >> health care was on the ballot and health care >> reporter: but friday, a texas federal judge upended the volatile obamacare debate. a 55-page rulingeclared the key requirement to buy health insurance, the individual ma ate, unconstitutional after congress willed some mandates tax penalty last year. without it, the judge ruled the entire law is now invalid.

threatening many popular provisions like protection for pre-existing conditions, fe preventive care screenings, young adults covered on parents' an till age 26. a new dose of anxiety. >> it adds uncertainty to people who now aren't sure that the benets that they hav and the insurance they have is going to remain. >> reporter: m but changes happen immediately. insurance contracts are lhrked ingh next year. making time for ar extended legal >>fight. this is an enormous law and if the entirety were to actually be found unconstitutional, it would really cause major chaos in the health care system. >> as kelley o'donnell reporting, theor centers medicare and medicaid services says there's been a 20% in the number of people who enroll this had year compareto 2017. interior secretary ryan zinke blames "vicious and politically motivated attacks for his resignation." presidened trump twe the news

of zinke's departure today despite nke's claims he's facing federal investigations into his travel into political activity and potential conflicts of interest. mr. trump says zinke's replacement wl be announced sometime next week. n reaction tonight from the father of the 7-year-old guatemalan girl who died while in u.s. border patrol custody. what he want from the federal government. and a plane landing just this is not a bed.

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jessup. thefficer was escorting an inmate for kitchen duty when he shoved her in a closet and attempted to sexually assault he medics took the officer to the hospital to be ccked out. drenching rain didn't stop hundredss from placing of thousands of wreaths at arlington national cemery. 'll take you to the somber ceremony. >> hi, guys. i'm matt damon. i'm hosting saturday night live with mark ronson and mil

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the rain didn't keep thousands of volunteers from honoring the sacrifice of our

veterans today. they fanned out across arlington national cemetery laying wreaths at each headstone. volunteers laid down more than 200,000 wreaths here. this wreaths across america is taki place at cemeteries across the u.s. and around the world. the goal is to place a wreath on every single american veterans grave no matter where their final resting place is. >> and a man who sved his community more than six decades as a police officersed away. police lieutenant tom jay cox was maryland's longest serving law enforcement officer. he died yesterday at the agef 86. news4 was at his retirement party a couple yearsago. he always wanted to be a police officer. he joined the departmentack in 1955 after enlisting in the army and serving in the korean war. jay cox spent the next 61 years serving in a montgomery county police department.

>> a day at the beach turned chaotic when a plane made an emergency landing landing onbo beach two hours south of los angeles. investigators believe a loss of eower may be to blame here. sand had to cleared from beneath the tractor thaecame stuck. it was brought in to tow the plane. neither the pilot nor the passenger were hurt. good news there prosecutor there are signs that the health of rock creek could be in trouble. one of those signs has been slithering through the waters, eels have been sighted recent. ekolss say they havero come f the north atlantic ocean but scientists say there are other issuese concerns including runoff andos ern. a lot of runoff flo into the eek and kills off nutrients and comes out just as harmful as sewer outflow. >> it all comes out as you see over here, there's a great big storm thain. all come out into our creeks which is why they're

running as high as they are right no >> scientists do point to facts that efforts by dc leaders to divert storm water a bioretention area and planned growth that filters water are all helping. hoff said santa only rides a sleigh? heday he switched things up a bit. an dipped had his sleigh and rode into town on aey tro in old town alexandria. santa paid a detour from theol north pe to be here in the area. then didn't stop a lot of kids fromoming out to take pictures. they had rain jacks on and rain boots. guess what? keep them out. you're going to need them tomorrow, as well. storm team 4eo mlogist somara joins us to talk about the rain. there's not a better way to put it. it's been nonstop. >> all year when you look bhek over summer, the fall, so dreary and wet. the thing iis,s one for the record books, folks. depped.really unpress take a look at some of the

records we broke just today. so you know, it's been the wettest year on record at dca. this record was set back in 1889 at 61.3 inches. listen, i'm still counting as these numbers are coming in. as of thisg, even we're definitely 63 plus inches because of the rain we got today. not only that, but it's also the wettest december 15th ever on cord. no wonder why. look at the radar right now. this isn't just light rain. look at some of the originals, yellows, moderate to heavy rain coming down in loudoun county all theay up into ederick, parts of montgomery. this entire area is under a flood warning b of that. seeing some of the lighter showers in washington, i.c., downn southern fauquier coming tlup for a lbit of breather before the next round of rain moves in. here's a look at t warnings area in lighter green. you my friends are under a flood warning. we are seeing flooding in that

area. elsewhere out towards and run del, farther south, has a flood watch. so as we head through the overnight hours the warnings don't expire till about 6:308 p.m. times are staggered. now the watch expires at 6:00 a.m. we're expecting an additional 1 to 2 incs of rain on top of what we have seen since yesterday. here's a look what we've seen since yesterday. 2.47 inch of rain, nearly three inch of rain in geathersburg, 2.5 inches at dulles. f lighterther south. but in the d.c. metro area, copis amounts of rain since yesterday. as just said, 1 to 2 more inche possible. take a look at your future cast here. running through time, this is 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. we'realking rain through 10:00 p.m. notice how it starts to lighten up just a bit. so that is some good news. byll 3:00 p.m., w be on the tail end of this. farther north, w could see a

few wet snowflakes especially in rinorthern fre county. it will be conversational. by monday morning, it's out of we're drying out and clearing out. but for tomorrow, we still have to make it through the rain. not a great day to decorate tomorrow. make sure you have the rain gear if you step tside. temperatures leveling out in the low 40s. your ten-day outlook as you can see, dry to start off the workweek but also breezy. through the week, guess what, more rain. so we a not just breaking this record. we are breaking this record.er teures are going to be in the 40s and 50s so not too bad. this is just really some amazing astounding stuff, erika. >> it seems a bit mild. am i right, for december? >> pretty mild. >> so i'm hoping forco a little oler temperatures, maybe even some snow would be nice. sohe cap

this is the xfinity "sportsdesk" sneak you know, as t stanley cup business it's not easy. only one team has won consecutive cups in the last 20 years. the penguins did that. look, it'snly december. we're a long way away from the parade marching days of this t past summer. e caps winsers of 11 of the last 13 games are giving us reasons to believe. the great ap scoring a hat trick each of his last two games. later in the first, kuznetsov finding a wide open jakub vrana.

capitals lead after one. seco period is, game is tied. buffalo man advantage. puck squirts free. dahlin makes it a 3-2. third nhl goal. but the caps responded. eaechkin, his league lng 29th goal of the year. this one tied at three apiece. we need a shoot-out to determine the winner. tied after three rounds. ovechkin's turn. delivers.in that problems to be the winner as pheonix coplegets a stop with theiritals fifth straight, 4-3 the final. 13th-ranked virginia tech taking on washingtoning in atlantic city. this one allro hokies the start. up eight in the first half, tech works the. ball around hill watch this, he will drill the triple. a three-pointer. hokies extend the lead. justin robinson hesitates a bit

but hits theough shot. hokies by 18 at the break. exander walker three names but gets two points here. a tough shot. he led everyone with 24 points. virginia tech wins, 673-61. we know this guy, our friend patrick ewing and his georgetown team taking on southern methodist. smu led by as much as 13. the second half, mcclug finishes. nsstangswer back. mcmurray that's cornerthree, extends the lead to seven. georgetown loses -73. cu hosting college of charleston in richmond today. rams down two in the second half. jenkins hits the three that gives vcu the lead. that was the last one the rams would have. they couldn't slo down brantley. 26 points. vc ku falls 83-79.

josh johnson is getting ready for his first sngrt at bei ready is what johnson's all about. before last week when he came nto the field in relief for sanchez, he played the madden video game. in ten years, jnnson has bee with a total ofms2 nfl tea and yet he looks forward because of his past growing up in oakland. >> everything i went through in oakland is real life. that's what all of a lot of people go through. when i had the opportunity to go out and play a game that only maybe 2,000 people get the opportunity to do,ing there ain't nothing t complain about. this is like going to disneyland every day for me for real. just a week ago i wasom at h in the hood, chilling with the kids, othe uch, possibly thinking i might not ever play again in the nfl again. look at me now. a great opportunity to get us a victory in jackmanville. >> gd things happen when you appreciate what you have. nfl football back on saturday's

first game of theday. this one closer than a lot of people thought. jets ball. mcguire will power ahead. i think he gets in. that's a touchdown. jets take the lead. you can celebrate. next possession hard to stop this guy. deandre hopkins. houstons improto 10-4, 29-22 win. tomorrow lebron and the lakes are in town. no, i don't have tickets. i don't have tickets. >> dave, thank you so much. thank you for joining us. matt damonosts aew "snl" coming up next.

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