news 4 begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. >> good evening and thanks for joining u tonight on news 4 at 11:00. first came the tornado warning just before dusk and now we're watching a second round of dangerous storms.

we are working for you with live team coverage. our crews are spread out in virginia and maryland this evening but we begin with amelia draper in the weather center. what do we need to know before we go to bed and io monday morning. >> the area is under a tornado watch until 3:00 a.m.ou as head to bed tonight make sure that you have your app turned on to get the weaer alerts because we could see severe thunderstorms and even the potential for a tornado or two. >> that's right.he along withhreat for damaging winds and possibly flooding. >> absolutely. and for re, check it out. here's a look of the latest watches andgs warn now we don't have any immediate severe thunderstorm warnings in our area ber everybody in yellow is under a tornado watch until 3:00 a.m. that means there is the potential. the winds are right in the atmosphere where we can't rule out a tornado or even just strong gusty winds that are going to produce wind damage. back to our west, this orange coloring here back around the petersburgrea is a severe thunderstorm warning that's in

effect until 11:00 tonight. this is the line that we're going to be tracking. right now moving toward the east at 35 miles per hour. so timingut the potential for severe weather in your area moving through hagerstown after midnight at about 12:20. frederick at 1:00 a.m. gaithersburg at 1:45. the district atbout 2:25. now the severe weather threats tonight until 3:00 a.m. on your ndmonday, by far away heavy rain that could lead to flooding and strong gusty winds tha could produce wind damage and i can't rule out a few isolated tornado warnings. she's going to be tracking this line moving through your area hour by hour coming up and i'm going to let you know what that means then for the rest of your monday. >> thank you so much and as they just mentioned that second round ofeather is coming in after parts of our area got hit with some heavy rain right around dinner time.

>> the rain stopped awhile ago but theoads in this area are still wet. i want to show you what's happening here now. take a look at the flag whipping we have seen the winds pick up and they're onl expected to strengthen overnight. >> the rain came down deadly on market street in frederick and the i-270. corrid the skies darken and the winds pick up as the first band of storeny weather move through. thearowntown ea, a virtual ghost town. many stayed inside the bars and restaurants as then moved in. it was the same in leesburg and tyloudoun coun showers drenching the roadways. traffic was light. many chose ho staye to avoid potentially dangerous driving conditions. theorst is yet tome. severe weather is expected overnight.

>> i just hope the wds aren't bad. i don't want any power outages. >> there's definitely a possibl for strong winds. >> i'm sure. especially where we live it's all power lines. >> hopefully i'll just try to get home and stay inside and when i work tomorrow, i'll just, you know, probably give myself a little extra time to get to work beforehand in case traffic is impaed by the weather. >> maryland governor larry hogan issued a statement earlier this evening asking maryland residents to pay very close attention tthe weather and take the appropriate icprecautions. back to you. >> darcy spencer in germantown u.r us. thank the same system bringing us severe weather has wreaked havoc across the south. at least 8 people are dead toda a tornado touched down in troy, alabama. and mississippi is still recovering from a line of severe veorms and then in texas, tornadoes c a path of destruction destroying several mes. some people just thankful they made it out alive. >> it's our house.

it's gone. but i am so thankful to be alive. >> one of the deaths i texas happened after a strong tornado tore through atate historical site during a native american cultural festivaltun ay. the national weather service says the tornado was an ef-3 with winds of about40 miles per hour. be the first to know when severe weather moves into your neighbhood where ever youare. the nbc washington app will track the weather conditions and send you warnings from our team as well. now.right, we switch gears the mayor of front royal, virginia is headed to court he charged with soliciting a stomorrow. prostitute. it's a story that you saw fir on news 4. hollis tharpe confirmed h was indicted on a solicitation charge. he calls the chargebaseless. court documents say this is

connected to an incident in may of last year. tharpe says it stems from visit to a masseuse hefa found book but he said the encounter was not sexual. he became mayor in 2017. we reached out t him this evening but his attorney advised him not to comment any further. > the controversy over a racist yearb photo continues to follow virginia governor ralph northam. the photo surnced february and the governor denied he was in the picture but admitted that at one point sometime in the 80s that he darkened his face once to resemble michael jackson in a dance contest. protestors were set to confront him but he canceed at the last minute. >> this was the scene outside of a fund-raiser for dave marsden's

2020 re-election campaign. the governor was supposed to be there but even he doesn't see him as a liability. >> he's been an effective leader and we want to work with him. >> marsden was among those calling for northam to step down. he's changed his position. >> politics is aes tough bus and we have to stand up and say what's on our minds and we made a recommendation to the governor that he might step aside. he chose to stay and do what the people elected him to do. >> that's made for a peculiar alliance. several dozen virginians from different ends of the political spectr turned up outside. on the left the local naacp. on the right, the local gop. >> they found something they can agree on. it's their tdislike for governor. > the governor is associated with the klan.

and that shouldn't be okay. >> it's the late term abortion bill that kick started all of this. but then admitted to being in the yearbook photo and then took it back. >> it was announced that the governor would not sho up out of safety concerns. >> the fact that he didn't show up is a huge win. >> he knows by now that the people of virginia won't stand for his racism or infanticide. >> he still got hisra funer and election coming up. >> these other things will work themselves out in time but right now effective governance starts we elections. >> derek ward news 4. >> there is a report of a sexual assault inside of a night club in loudoun county. the alleged attack happened at the rio cantina in sterling around 1:30 this morning and started in the stairwell. a man she doesn't know began kissing and groping her and then pulleder into a private room. he is described as a black male. freckles around his eyes and nose with wavy blackhair. he is around 5'7" with a stocky

build. you can call the loudoun county sheriff's office with any information related to that case. anwhile, police looking for suspects after a deadly shooting overnight in suitland. officers found two men shot inside a home on mayood lane. one of the men was pronounced dead on the scene. the other was taken to the hospital with severe injuries. police are still wking to determine a motive. >> evebody inside made it out safely when fire spread from the hirage tos home in hyattsville. arriving on 63rd avenue before 10:00 this morning. investigators are trying to figure out how the fire got started. >> prince george's county firefighters also had to cut a driver out of a car this morning. twicle cars -- excuse me, that was a two-car crash on veteran's parkway at annapolis road in hyattsville. th drivers are hurt but we're told that both drivers are expected to be okay. stall right. l to come on news 4 at

11:00, a historic day for one of the latest democrats throwingth their hat i ring for 2020. mayor pete as many people know him tolds supportoday he is running for president. why his announcement marks several firsts in the country. and we are looking ahead to what will be one of the biggest stories in washington this week. what you need to know before the mueller report drops. >> things got pretty quite around here but round two is on the way. >> it's playoff time in sports final. the caps with carol a on their mind as they look to take a choke hold on the series. the keys to victory as the ifseries . plus the come back complete for one of golf's legends. what tiger woods says about his journey back to greatness. all of that and much more after the news tonight on sports final.

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christians around the world celebrated palm sunday today. it comes a week before easter every year and commemorates jesus's triumphant entry into jerusalem before his death on the ksoss. it m the beginning of the holiest time of the year for christians. a moment ofistory today when pete buttigieg launched his presidential campaign. >> my name is pete buttigieg. ey call me mayor pete. i am a proud son of south bend

indiana and i am running for president of the united states. >> he is 37 yearsold, gay and married. if he is elected he will become the nation's youngest commander in chief and the first openly gay american president. there's a lot of c paigning to do before then but he picked up momentum. he's in third place in iowa and new hampshire. demoats are pushing back tonight on president trump's proposal to send migrants seekingsylum to sanctiuary cities across the country. kelly o'donnell reports. >> a destination detour for central american migrants.at a d ignited by the president that claimed the absolute legal right to relocate, apprehended illegal immigrants to sanctuarycities.

places local authorities don't enforce federal immigration laws, in demratic strong holds. president trump that visited his private virginia golf club today said we here by demand that they be taken care of at the highest level, especially by the ste of california. >> press secretary sarah sanders pulled back to describe the idea as an option under consideration. >> we don't want to put all the burden one or two border communities and democrats sta ad ti time again they support ry n borders and sanct cities. let's spread it out and put it in those other locations. >> seattle is among the nation's nctuary cities. he says migrants are welcome and the president's words are no threat. we will not let this president demonize people or marginalize t them andreat them as if they're a commodity to be shipped from place to place. we must deal with this

>> but put willingness aside, democrats argue president trump cannotegally pay for migrant relocation. >> the president has no right to spend moneyor appropriated other purposes to ship immigrants all over the country. >> he's using the immigrants as pawns in his political game of chess. he's not reallyn interested a solution. >> kelly o'donnell reporting e. th now to what is certain to be a very b w story inashington this week. we expect to see special counsel roberts mueller' report but we will not see the 4 entire page report. attorney general william barr told congress that he was working with mueller to black out information that would violate grand jury secrecy, reveal intelligenceources and compromise on going investigations or violate the privacy of low level people tha were not charged. barr summarized the main conclusions in a four page letter to lawmakers last month but according to a u.s. rsficial, some mem of

mueller's team told associates on the matter of obstruction of justice, the rort is more itical of the president than barr suggested. >> the aim energy that brought this devation to parts of the south is moving through o area overnight. we don't anticipate that destruction here but storms could wake you up t.overni they're tracking the storms from the weather center tonight. >> that's right. we're not going to call it the calm before the storm, it's the calm in between the storms.th gs were active earlier and they'll get active again soon. >>e did have tornado warning in frederick county, butin you' to be under the gun especially between 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. as another line of the e storms move through area. >> that's right. as a result it has prompted the tornado watches to continue until 3:00 a.m.

so tt's everyone in thearea. tracking showers and going into southern frederick, you already had enough rndn there you'll get more. denoting that heavier rai coming down. but we have even heavier rain on the way. it's this line of storms that's getting ready to sweep into the d.c. metro area. here's the timing. it's moving at 35 miles per hour so we're expecting it to arrive within the next three hours. straight line winds and possible flooding. an isolated tornado can't be ruled out and we can even see hail with it. notice the time stamp. 2:00 a.m. things start to flare-up and pick up. that's when we'll gne the strong moving through. things are starting to improve

for your monday. >> that's right. as you head t bed tonight once you download the app and i did this tonight, open it u and then just hit settings and that's going to bring you to the weather alert. ur phone will get that notification if we get a tornado warning overnight tonight. head to the basement. if you a a issued tornado warning, if you don't have a basement, go to aner ir room like a closet that does not have a window. so be weather ready tonight. tomorrow it's all about the cooler air out there andhe breezy to windy conditions that are going to be with us throughout the day. so windy and colder tomorrow. that's going to be your second weather headlinendhen as we talk about more strong to potentially severe thunderstorms we'll have our sights set friday for the potential for stronger thunderstorms later in the day.r

at 61 degrees and hang out in the 50s with wind gusts up ts 40 mer hour. by 7:00 p.m. 56 is feeling more like 40s when you factor in the wind. so the weather having a pretty low impactn your monday. the commute really no issues. maybe wind restrictions on the bay bridge. heading off to school, make sure that the kids have a jacket. but for the most part we'll be in weather alert mode tonightras we the line of thunderstorms moving through to bring the potential for heavy rainfall. damaging wind and isolated tornado or two and you'll be all over it tonight. that's right. things are quite to start the week but then we're right back to it. at the end of the week we'll track another ystem that has the potential to bring storms with it. we're going back into the 60s so

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i forgot about all the years of the struggles and to see him hoist upis son and his daughter like. >> tears. >> ably. >> completely drama and if you listen to social media you'd have thought that tiger woo had won the iron throne because he just captivated everyone.

much like game of thro s. hiimprobable win had social media ablaze. he got congratulatorym texts f trump, obama, and cl hton. love or hate him, tiger knows how to deliver the gallery full for the final round. everyone watching one of golf's great come backs. francesco molinari was the leader coming io the day. on 12, he makesak a mie and that ball ends up in the drink. a lot of golfers ended up in there today. on 16, woods with a one stroke lead and look at this tee shot. vintage tiger. he's dancing on the green and it just keeps goinglor and closer to the hole. tiger would birdie this one. fans feeling like if he made that everyone would have just exploded. on 18 he needed a two-putt to this d after he does it, is this cathartic release of

emotion. he got to share it with his kids. two years ago he wasanked 780th in the world two yearsango d now he's just grateful to be back. >> theosnatsng the pirates. struck out 7, allowed three runs. pirates up 3-2. he comes through and lines it through the gap. tenth of the season. he's amped. cash money right there. same scor two outs.nt age martin. the bull pen woes continue. that's a ground rule double. the go-ahead runom in to score. pirates up 4-3 but get this, bottom 9, second in the league in batting.

this is the guy you want. d he pops out. nats lose 4-3. series. gh takes the >> to fenway park, orioles visiting the red sox. bottom 8. boston with a 1-0 lead and two on for bogartsnd going dee to center, it's gone. he had a big day yesterday. streak.is hitless red sox beat the orioles 4-0. they'll play an early one tomorrow. an 11:05 start. we have stanley cup playoff action. ome shockers so far. formercapital's head coach has the penguins on the brink.

taking a 3-0 series win. sidney crosby has yet t score a point in the playoffs. the lightning are also in trouble. the lightning t best team during the regular season and they won the president's trophy. they're in a hole. a 3-1 win. columbus a win away from moving now after the news we'll have sports final and talk more about tiger woods and 'll get personal about it as a matter of fact. >> really? >> yeah. yeah. it's going to be deep. >> really? okay i mig