>> her explanion why as an fbi investigation hangs over her head. and d.c. unveiled the plans to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana in the city. >> announcer: news 4 begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. and right now a severe thunderstorm warning has been issued fohparts of t washington area. >> we're talking fairfax, mont goom -- montgomery, prince george's county and the district. storm tm 4isx4 out crug checking for trouble spots. >> let's start with storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer. >> numerous warnings, counties all along the i-95 corridor ince george's county. anne arundel county. montgomery county, and southern as ions of howard county well. you can see how this line has progressed across or region. we're going to continue to see the strong thunderstorm threat right in through the 66.

look at 66. a lot of very heavy rain associated with this and right upugh bethesda. this is a big storm that's about to come right into the d.c. metro area. this will come right through downtown. this storm here, let me go baf bere i get back to it, this he right here, one's right aro d laurel. i want to take a live shotun aro the laurel area. this one really coming down now around that area. this y some nast weather. ouis is i-95. you see i-95 s on the left sides just a mesout there as you make your way through.f a lot o people have their flashers on as they're moving on through. a mess out there tonight. severe thunderstorm warning. this one until 4:30. this one through 4:15. i do think it will be extended. one this about thee, these are not moving all that fast. in this area particularly, i'm really thinking fairfax county. if youve li in fairfax county around 66 and points to the south including d.c., this is an

area i would not be surised to see some flooding, some flood concerns, because again, these are not moving very fast, even n though it's raining right now in burk. you could see some very heavy rain over the nextouple of hours. we're getting another warning here. anything else on that? i want toee if that's the latest warning. don't see anything popping up. we continue to get these warnings. i'll be the first one to bring them to you from the storm center. >> before you go, we know you're tracking storms throughout the night here as well. what about tomorrow? are we going to see the same kind of activity? >> the last couple of days we've know thinking friday was the day. yesterday we said maybe thursday is the day we see the strongest storms and that's w we're seeing now. we do not think we will see too much in the forecast tomorrow. we have a chance tomorrow afternoon and then tomorrow night. but right now i think these may be the strongest storms we see over the next couple of days. >> we'll let you get back to itk fo now is a really good time to make se you have your nbc washington app. it is free. won't cost you anything. you can si up for alerts.

hits your neighborhood. we've got breaking news now. a body discovered here in the district may be that a of missing ninth grader from frederick, maryland. >> police are not making the connection on that just yet, but this boy's school sent out a leater today saying th one of their students was found dead in d.c. this past weekend and the only body that we know of was the one that was discovered in some woods near the chain bridge. news 4 darcy spencer is in frederick right now. darcy, tell us what you've learned about this boy and why police aren't yet making a connection. >> reporter: well, pat and leon, we're still trying to gather details and confirm information about this developing story. we are here outside the high sehool where class let out right about 2:15 this afternoon. parents confirming that they received that ltter and the email informing them that a ninth grade student here had died tragically and that his remains were found in d.c. over

the weekend. we are still trying to figureif outhere is a connection between that time that happened in the district, but there are growing concerns that the body found near the chain bridge in d.c. saturday evening may have some connection to the high school studeat's. the student has been identified through the school letter. it's emerson sanchez.s it says he wa in ninth grade. brederick police took a missing person's report at this teenager on friday evening. we're toll a family member walked in the police station and reported him missing. he was last seen about 6:00 on friday evening and from what we understand there were n communications with him since that time. now, the body that was found c nearain bridge had multiple traumatic injuries and that's what's making the identification process so difficult. the police chief in d.c. told news 4 mark segraves that that's why it's too soon to identify this body because of those traumatic injuries. we spoke to parents at dismissal

about this letter that went home today. >> it is sad to hear that this happened in our local school here where our granddaughter is a st ent. we feel for the family. >> reporter: now, we are still again trying tf conm details about this, but in fact, there was a letter that went thome confirming the death of this student. i talked to numerous students today. some of them knew him. some of them did not. many were very set, emotional. some had gone and spoken to a guidance counselor today just trying to figure out what exactly is happening and w this happened. also this was aounced on the morning announcement earlier today. back to you. >> sad. thank you, darcy. we'll get ck to you later. more breaking news now from baltimore. mayor katherine pugh has resignediv effectimmediately. news 4 erika gonzalez monitoring developments from the live desk.

>> well, it was katherine pugh's lawyer who gave the press conference in which sheread a very brief statement from the now former mayor annouing her resignation. take a liste >> i am sorry for the harm that i have caused to the image of the city of baltimore and theed cribility of the office of the mayor. baltimore deserves a mayor who can move our great city forward. >> and that was about it. the whole thing was over and done with in a matter of minutes. the attorney did not take questions. pugh was accused of receiving roughly $800,000 from a hospital network and others that did business with the city of baltimore for copies of her healthy holly children's books. pugh hasn't been seen since early april when she went on leave for pneumonia. since then the fbi raided her two homes and office. still no sign of pugh. last week three of her staffers who were on leave were fired by

the acting mayor jack young and in the former mayor's statement she wished him the best of luck. desk, i'm erika gonzalez. >> thanks, erika. this heavyweight fight between democrats and attorney general william barr ratcheted up another level today. after barr's chair sat suppinrt du a house hearing on the muelle report, speaker nancy pelosi fired and accused barr of lying to congress and said, quote, that's a crime. she also noted refusal to respect congressional subpoenas are is an impeachable offense. sent a letter calli the mueller report political. he said the president also reserves ability to instruct aides not to testify. president trump says thinking about god helped him get through the investigations of his administration. the president made t remarks as he and the first lady hosted a national day of prayer service at the white house today.

the president spoke about recent attacks on places of worshipli cal them evil and a hate-filled he offered prayers to the people of venezuela who are suffering a humanitarian crisis during this time vil unrest. we're learning more today about why a high school teacher was arrested for improper behavior with some of her students. allison briel has been teaching -- had been teaching at loudon county high school for the past two years. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey joins us from the courthousein leesburg with a look at what court documents revealed. julie. >> reporter: well, pat and leon, allison was arrested a few days ago but tomorrow morning sheis expected here in loudon county court. she'll be there to face three misdemeanor charges of taking indecent liberties from some of her students. 25-year-old allison briel could almost pass for a student herself. e's been the marketing teacher and deka adviser at loudon

count. from november of 2017 to november of last year she began engaging in improper contact e with thre her male students, their ages 16 and 17. the charges allege she sent numerous inappropriate photos and messages to the boys. they included pictures of briel wearing only a bra and thong which revealed her buttocks. she also solicited sex from two of the teenagers. briel was rested on april 30th. we stopped by her apartment today to see if she had anything to say about the allegations, buter no one answ the door. now, the teacher was held briefly in jail, but she was able to bond out. she's due here at 9:00 tomorrow morning in juvenile court. that is because of the age of her victims. leon, back to you. >> thank you, julie. > it's been more th a week, but no motive or suspect has emerged in the murder of a former university of maryland athlete. someone shot and killed marcell

preston outside of his family home in kettering on easter 4 nday. news spoke with his father. he says he had no idea who shot his son or wh he tells us he heard the shots and ran outside. >> he was on the ground. i went over him, overo him. just held himas he breathing. trying to breathe. i held him. at that point he didn't make it. i just know he's going to be missed and i'm going to cherish his name and honor him for the rest of my life. >> preston ran track at umv in 2017. before that he was a record-setting runner at largo high. a smash and grab robbery scare overnight at a 7/7 in silver springs. r robbers forced employees to get to the floor and another person driving a pickup plowed through the front of the store taking out the window and frame. then loaded u the atm and took

off from the screen. the workerst the convenience store were not hurt. several atms have be targeted for seft. police eral jurisdictions looking to see if they're connected. a young life cut short by gun violence will live on through a foundation guided byhe her m and sister. these girls are the first to carry on makiyah's name. it's a mentoringm prograthat met for the first time last night help the adults and older girls hope to create a sisterhood that will create young women to be active in the community. it is named after makiyah on her way to get ice cream. she was 10 years old at the timle seven peopave been arrested and charged in her murder. storm team 4 declares a weather alert for your thursday night. >> douis tracking the storm.

what's the latest? >> tracking the storms with a ton of lightning, especial ght around laurel maryland. this one really coming down. heavy rain the biggest issue along with some very strong winds and in and around laurel, anne arundel county. the district, this one right here also hasdome pretty goo hail with it coming through right downtown, right along 16th over towards georgia avenue as well, then bac along 66. and to fairfax county. hrough torms moving in the rest of the night tonight. i'll update you on what to expect and what we see tomorrow and your weekend. i'll be back in 90 seconds. i'm consumer reporter susan hogan. i'll show you how thstpictures ponline may be putting your private information at risk and how to remove the hidden data. d.c. lays out a new floon legalize recreational marijuana in the district.

right now aevere thunderstorm warning is up for parts of our area.th s is a live look at the roads in northwest washington. tou g is tracking the system. he's back in two minutes with an up date. love sharing your photos with your families and friends online? it turns out you might be sharing a lot more personal information than you think you are. >> susan hogan reveals how the photos you post online may contain surprising hidden data that could put youou or yr family at risk. >> reporter: take a look at this

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you may want to remove the location data before sharing on social media. whilether users won't be able to access t data, the social dia companies can. >> we spoke to the popular social media companies and they all told us that exif data isn't used for advertising purposes, but some coebanies like fack and twitter do they s use exif data foral anics. >> the data typically travels os with phot you text or email, so keep that in mind when you're sharing. vem sure you were wondering how to remo the data from your l photos al together. well, we have the consumer ports instructions for you on how do just that. it's on our nbc washington app.t search ph privacy. it's a little bit of a thing to get through, but we have it for you step by step. isn't that crazy? >> i bet everyone at home did the same thing we did we were watching that. what? >> just when you think anything,

gps locator, of course we have that. this is different. >> who wants to go through the tro fle to do that every photo. >> exactly. go on to ourapp and you'll see the inseauctions. >>y helpful. good stuff. thank you, susan. d.c. mayor muriel bowser is ready to take on congrs over the sales of marijuana. today she announced a plan to begin selling recreational pot as early as nxt year. that despite a congressional ban on it. in the past whd. the government considered legalizing sales they were warned holding public hearings will violate federal law. the may disagrees. >> it has always been our opinion that the council has the legal authority to proceed with continues to hat be our view. >> d.c. council chair bill mendellson will hold public eearings but said residents shouldn't get thir hopes up. the ban expires in 2020.

she hopes ase democratic hou of hopes they will support her effort and not renew the ban in the next budget. turningto the eather, you got more on the thunderstorm warnings and it got really t.sty f >>%óg especially in prince geos and anne arundel county. yocan see behind us. you almost can't see behind us.i >> we lostt for a second with raanother came shot. >> commits coming down so hard. not just the very heavy rain, but we've already had wind damage. let's look at what's happening right now. this was actually a tower cam. look what's going on here. you see the storms coming on through. there's vertical motion out ahead of the storms. here comes somef the very heavy rainfall that's making its way in across our area. off in the distance, you see plenty of sunshine there. what a difference just a couple of hours makes. that same shot inundated with the rain. w this ist i'm thinking now. look at this line that extends from baltimore right on down through prince george's county, through the district and ck through 66. then you see more storms now

forming in towards fauquier county and points to the south. these are some of the strongest storms and i want to go ahead and show you, we do have the warnings now in from d.c., prince george's county and fairfax. no warning here, but very heavy rain all along 66. you think 66 is normally a mess, it's going to be a big mess out e tonight. as we move along 66, look what's happening right now through the district, through falls church. 66 right on in towards the d.c. metro area, along 295, out through route 50, nasty storm, thunder and lightning here. some wind as well. look at all of the lightning here. this is also where we're going to see some wind damage potential arnd glen burney. if you live in bowie or crofton along route 3, heads up. you're about to get hit hard as well. the pictures, this is a little boundary that's coming through. we expected this during the day. the other thing we expect, we

may see some flooding, northern virginia, southern maryland as this kind of stalls out just around and south f washington.h that's we're fairly concerned about now through the rest of the evening hours. more unsettled weather back t.wards the w kentucky. tornado wa5z back towards arkansas. right now it is heavy rain and temperatures have come down as a result of that rain. we were in the upper 80s earlier. now down to 79 with fnds out o the south at 12 miles per hour. as we move on through, this is at w 5:00,ch what happens here. they're still here. they sink just to our south.t ards calvert county. watch. they don't move much. this is 11:00. between 8:00 and 11:00, not much movement. that's why i highlighted fairfax county, southern fairfax into parts of southern maryland. the potential for the heaviest rain tonight. tomorrow morning shower activity along 270, but most of tomorrow now looking d. here's noon. i think we're dry at noon and this will help temperatures to go way up tomorrow.

re comes some afternoon thunderstorms around 3:00, but very light -- very scattered in nata e. not like ne like today where we could see stronger storms around 7:00. they start to clear out. could see some more. mostly coming in after about #1 oly coming in after about we have some storminess to come. still have a chance on saturdayr although a low chance. much better chance of just plain rain early on sunday. temperatures falling to around degrees. guys, a little unsettled the ext couple of days. we'll keep you posted on ese warnings. >> a lot to look out for. thanks, doug. tomorrow on news 4 today, tips to stretch your summer trip budget. >> news 4 molette green is hitting the road. >> fasten our seat beltsand t's go.re ou can go on one tank of gas. watch us live friday on news 4 today. i've got the map. let's go, irene. >> first eun yang

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when police found evidence of a fight between him and a woman there. sheal declined medic treatment. schroder was arrested last month on the same charge. his lawyers have not returned calls to nbc news. schroder beca famous back in the '80s for his role of ricky stratton in theitcom "silver > spoons". >>the american dream is out of reach for a lot ofe. peopl our region has some of the highest home prices in the nation. now a new report y findsur career could determine whether or not you own a home. eun yang breaks wn the findings. >> reporter: we don't have to tell you buying a home in our area can be hard and a new study released toda by real estate webse is showing us it's becoming increasingly difficult for people with certain careers. take a look. the median home list price in our area is now more than $434,000. that's up 1.15% from a year ago. the average teacher can only afford 32% of available homes. that percentage is even lower

for first responders at 26 1/2%. restaurant workers can only afford 1.5% of available homes. that is for the entire d.c. region. the closer you are to the district, the6odi her most of te housing prices are. eun yang. back to you. storm team 4 issues a weather alert. doug is coming back to show us where severe storms are frmg plus an early look at your weekend. one of the days could be a . washout >> the potential impact of diet >> the potential impact of diet drinks on your children's

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if you are just joining usa now 4:30, let'sxú& get you caught up with four things to know. a body found near cha bridge in d.c. may be tied to the death of a high school student in frederick, maryland. today the high school principal announced the death of freshman emerson sanchez. his remains were found in the district, but d.c. police have not fiefted t not identified the remains. the mayor of baltimore ju resigned at the same time she has been the focus of state and federal investigations. she is accused of receiving $800,000 for her children's books. the court documents facing a

loudon county high school teacher allison briel is accused of indecent liberties with minors. she is accused of sending a racy photod to teenage boys anfrúv soliciting sex from them. severe thunderstorm warning are in effect. we've got a live drive c showing what the roads look like out there right now. this is our storm team 4x4. this is in northwest d.c. i think this is pretty close to mcarthur boulevard. pretty slow going out there. this town gets alittle crazy when we get rain. please be careful out there on the road. nice and easy does it. back over to you all. >> thanks, erika. g > this on top of it is screwing everyth. >> it really is. right now the heaviest rain 50 right through right on through the city, right across sticks and very heavy rain along

66 and of course i-95 in the belt way, winre contng to see that heavy rain right on through. take a look at the severe thunderstorm warnings in effect for prince george's county. they continue now. area. the d.c. metroe we just lost one in prince george's county. that has been allowed to expire. the only warning, ngude i reoeas around annapolis. that's where we're seeing the heaviest rain coming out of this right now. throughbowie, once again, some very heavy rain, a lot of lightning with this. heavy rain extheding all way to the west. do we have that camera shot? this is route 50 out there towar bowie. notice the wind and the very, very heavy rain. this will definitely slow things down tonight. i'll uate you on what to expect the rest of the evening. we're not done yet with these strong storms and with this heavy rain. what this meansor tomorrow and your weekend. see you back here in ten minutes. >> you've got it. you don't have to go out, stay

where you are. let's turn to the bar fight and questions aout where it may take augull of us. this was supposed to be day two of testimony for william barr. disagreement of house democrats over the format. blayne alexander joining us with the potest. >> reer: there was already t we lood brewing, but w saw today, the no show from baro alng with no unredacted muellerm report frothe doj is just taking it to a wh newle l. and so that's w a lot of democrats are saying they are thinking about possibly holding thettorney general in contempt. the chairman of that house judiciary committee jerry nadler says essentially that ty are going to first work with good will, go by good will, good faith rather, if they can get that. but if not they pn to hold the attorney general in contempt.

>> eainside today's house judiciary committee a seat was reserved for william barr anding empty. >> he failed the men and women of the department of justice by placing the needs of the president over the fair administration of justice.po >> reer: barr did not attend after democrats insisted he answer questions from committee lawyers, not just lawmakers. >> we'reot getting that opportunity today because of the stunt and" s the c >> reporter: itas comes the justice department refuses to comply with a subpoena from the committee to turnover the full unredacted mueller report. democrats threatening to hold barr in contempt. >> it was painful and disgraceful to see the nation's t con aband his responsibility. >> reporter: today speaker nancy pelosi slamming barr for what hg told coress last month about concerns from some members of special counsel robert mueller's team over the attorney general's four-page summary.

>> he lied to congress. er anybody else did that, it would be consid a crime. >> reporter: the justice department firing back calling her reckless, irresponsible and false. white houseawyer emmet flood in an april"l&iñ letter to barr blasting mueller's reportin say it includes political statements. today from president trumpdu ng a service for national day of prayer. >> how do you gohrough those witch hunts and everything else? you know what we do? we just do it, right? and we think about god. eporter: taking a famili swipe at the investigation. and leon, lets get back quickly to the house judiciaryco mmittee. there is one area where the to d a democrat and the top republican can actually agree and that's h that theyant to see mueller come testify.et it's somhing they're working 15th. edule for ma >> there's always s a way me kind of wrinkle or some road bump, as you know.

>> reporter: never. >> thanks, blayne. blayne alexander live. tiger woods is going to be visiting the white hose on monday. president trump is going to be awarding him the presidential metal of freedom. woods won his fifth masters golf tournament last month. the president said he is awarding woods the metal because of his success in golf and in life. he two played a round of gfl earlier this year. a local foamily is grappling with a slur and a threat hurled atad a first grer by a classmate. they're planning more training for stafrs, but as meagan fitzgerald explains, the student's well known grandfather says the fight w stop here. >> reporter: playing outside and being a kid ishat most first graders are focused on. and school work, of c>>rse, too. ou have to do a lot of homework and then you get a break. >> reporter: but lately 6-year-old max dyson has been thinking about something else. >> in my class he was saying bad

words at me. he pushed me around. >> after he and a coupleof school mates raced to the cafeteria because it was pizza day. >> reporteth his grandfar, prominent scholar and commentator michael dyson says h max was call "n" word by a fellow classmate and the ki threatened his life. >> threatened to go home and retrieve his father's gun and come back to school and shsot my grand >> a police report was file by the school and this letter was sent home telling parents about the incident and reassuring them the school is a safe and nurturing environmentn but dyso says this wasn't the first time a racially charged incident has happened at the school. his oldest grandson was targeted last year by another student. >> i felt very scared and didn'a to kndo. ow>> reporter: so higdyson say not only fighting for his

grandson's safety, but he wants meaningful changes made at the dhool. >> what do you about this? what are the institutional mechanisms that can be put in place address this kind of situation and raise the consciousness so that young people and staff membs are aware. >> meagan fitzgerald, news 4. a helpf alert your family likes diet drinks, we'll break down drinks. why locale re drinks may do ittle to keep the weight off. if you're anne arundel county, you still have a severe thunderstorm warning until 4:45, but the severe threat is coming down. not concern for heavy rain. that exists until about 9:00 tonight. tonight. plus the chance for more storms

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one in three children in this country is over yaweight or obe and diet sodas remain a very popular choice. >> news 4 is committed to reporting on our changing climate. we're hiiring thedv highest levs of carbon dioxide in the air in millions of ar. the green house goes contributes tee most to human-caused cli change. >> we produce it by burning fossil fuels like coal. amelia is here with artling new numbers. >> this is a graph showing carbon dioxide going back 800,000 years. over time, look at where we right now. the current numbers, we are at the highest co 2'v levels we had on planet earth in millions, millions of years. over time clevels have varied. they've gone up and9own. since 110, those levels have shot up as we burn fossil fuels to operate as a society.

now, levels have been this high, but that was millions and millions of years ago a then trees were growing near the south pole. sea levels were 50 feet to 65 feet higher than they are right now. the levels are this high because of us.d his is leading to the warmer temperatures. there isope by using renewable energy and looking into cleaner transportion, leon. >> all right. thanks, amelia. let's get do to thebig weather story of tonight. we are tracking a line of big storms. >> downpours and lightning strikes with this system. strikes with this system. doug is back when was the last time you felt...

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doug and amelia are back to update us i less than two minutes. a different picture in america's heartland. tornadoes killed two people in oklahoma and texas. >> flooding was in pts of illinois and iowa. dan sheneman takes a closer look at the damage across the country. >> reporter: severe weather on the move. slamming the mid section of the country andst pushing ea days of heavy rain causing widespread flooding and storm damage. over the last two days, dozens of reported tornadoes have left a trail of destruction across several states. debris litters the landscape at ozark, missouri, where three people were injured after a twister damaged nearly 100 homes. in iowa flooding remains a persistent problem with the a recent heavy making a bad situation even worse. >> the water turns like a river. i waited for the rescue boats to come. it would have been up to my waist to try to get out of there. >> parts ofowntown davenport

remain under water after a temporary barrier holding back the river gave way on tuesday. it's a similar scene downstream where sandbags at the last line of defense against rising water pushing into buffalo, iowa. to the north, detroit area residents are bracing for more rain as they clean up from flash flooding that submerged homes and roads. >> everything needs to be thrown away, especially the stuff that's touched the water. >> l part of a volatile slow-moving storm system moving across the nation's heartland. dan eneman, nbc news. >> anin we're gett a taste of that here now. >> amelia and doug are standing by. where are theg storms riht now, guys? >> still rght around the metro area, right over toward the hesapeake and teextending in a line throughd.c., out 66. >> parts of anne arundel county are now under a severe thunderstorm warning until15 5: for most of us the concern is shifting to very heavy rainfall. >> we have seen a lot of trees

down into parts of ldon county, around montgomery county, parts of prince george's county. seeing some damage around that area as well. the only warning left is right here with this storm in the eastern anne arundel county. this includes crownsville, the annapolis area as well. you can see the line as i stop this from around annapolis, right around the bay bridge right there. look at all theni light there coming right through prince george's county. another big storm. a lot of lightning with this one right along the 495. right around oxon hill. it follows 66 back to the west and you can see sometorms around warrenton as well. i want to zoom in and show you this storm right inhere. i want to zoom in to that consumer. it you can do that for me right aboveinton, maryland. this storm here a really strong storm coming right along. this is 495 right here. u see it about to cross the bell way. once again, you think traffic is dad at 5:00 on a normal day, a in a big-time thunderstorm and you're talking about even worse. this is 50 over towards bowie,

over towards anlpolis. k at all the lightning strikes with this one as this one pushes offtowards the east. now, this is all partth of ano system that's going to continue to move through. unsettled weather over theext uple of days. another area here. another back to the west. amelia, we've got a little bit of this going on over the next couple of days. a chance of rain, a chance of storms just about each day right on through the weekend. >> with that being said, we're also looking at plenty of dry time out there, especially during the daytime. throuenout the day we had pl of sunshine. we warmed into the upper 80s. ec had near rd warmth into the forecast. tracking this rain moving through and impacting a good tortion of the area as we look to tomorrow, mos of your day is going to be dry out there. but we are going to have some scattered s thunderstorms, potentially during the late afternoon, but especially during the evening hours. n saturday, maybe a stray shower or thunderstorm, we'll htll it spotty at best. on sunday you mig want to

start thinking about indoor plans versus outdoor plans based on the latest forecast out there on your sunday. here's a look atour friday planner. 7:00 a.m., it's mile at 67 degrees. around lunchtime we're at a humid sfefb o77. another warm day with a high temperature of 85. at 4:00 if you're north and west of washington tomorrow, frederick, loudon, fauquier county, maybe you're dealing with a thunderstorm. i think the d.c. area is dry as we move toward 7:00 p.m. there ithe chance for showers and thunderstorms area widet about 30 to 40%. here is a look at the weekend forecast. 81 on saturday. much cooler on sunday. we're wn into theow 70s. maybe a stray shower or thunderstorm on saturday. rain at times, though, on su ay, especially during the morning hours where it could be heavy in spotsn, and agaiuch cooler. we lose any hint of humidity on sunday. we have apple blossom festival. lauren is going to be there frb the event on saturday. that's looking good.

the morning sports potentially canceled sunday morning. sunday brine mayo, brg the urella. bringo tdhe umbrellanc fcior especially on sunday. right now i want to go back to the radar and show you this warning.re thunderstorm it's across the bay, but if you are toward the eastern shore or know something crossing the bay restrictionsl have on the bay bridge as this storm is moving on through across the area. as far as the next couple of days, we have the storm chances tomorrow into saturday. they're on the lower side. again, tomorrow afternoon into the evening. about a 40% chance. best chanceof rain will be on sunday. especially early in the day with a high of 73. 77 on mnd. look at onday, tuesday, and wednesday. some really nice weather here for the early start of next week. then we move io another fairly unselgt unse unsettled pattern next thursday, friday, even saturday and sunday. we kept the rain out of next saturday, but we'll have to wait and se. we do have it, however o friday.

tomorrow, on friday, we've had four fridays in a row wn.th rai tomorrow we may get out of it. maybe not everybody is seeing the rain outhere on friday. there will be a lot of dry time as well. better news formo torrow i guess. >> shaking up the calendar. >> break the pattern. thank you, a beloved member of our news 4 team is helping metro weekly celebrate a milestone birthday. our own wendy rieger is featured onhe 25th anniversary cover. >> with o onef her best drinks right there with her. champisne. wendy getting an award fer her dedicationor to advocating d.c.'s lgbtq community. you go, girl. >> that was my date. that big bottle of booze. lw we see. >> somebody that'sys there for me. that was wonderful. i'm really honored. i really tthasure . >> nice picture, wendy. >> thank you very ch. >> she will autograph it for a price.

>> truly, i'm really honored. >> way to go. let's go foom booze t bud. d.c. mayor gets ready to take on congress over recreational marijuana. >> the plan to make it legal in the city despitehe congressional ban. two military mother whose lost their children to war are finding a way to honor that sacrifice through their own edrvice. and their don't go unnoticed. we're going to find out more about the special gift for these gold star moms. this is a big gift. we love this story. did you hear all that thunder? it's going to be -- could be a wild afternoon. so doug will keep you posted on that. we'll see you in just a few nutes. we are counting on it being a wild afternoon and evening. keep it tuned right here. we've got a lot to cover coming

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get your choice of dvr or speed upgrade free for a 1 year. click, call, or visit a store today. a weather alert from storm team 4. if you're just joining us, and you look out the window, doug and amelia are tracking a line of thunderstorms that will trigger severe thunderstorm warnings in the area. the threat of heavy rain continues into tonight as well. upey're back with an date for us in less than two minutes. a somber goodbye today for a college student who jumped in harm's way to save others. >> a full police escort took riley howell's body fromrl chate back to his hometown in north carolina. howell was killed by a gunman at

unctt charloon tuesday. >> jay gray reports those who knew him aren't at all surprised by his heroic actions. >> reporter: tristan terrell, the s tpect in university of north carolina charlotte attack was not in the co ttroom. >> counts of first degree murder, four counts of attempted first gree murder. >> reporter: as prosecutors laid out charges against him during the first hearing in the case. students have returned to the uncc campus but two won't be coming back. ellis read parleer and riley howell died. four classmates were injured. investigators say the carnage could have been much worse. >> absolutely. mr. howell saved lives. >> witnesses say the 21-year-old student rushed toward the sound of the gunfire tackling the ooter allowing police to moveeu in. >> all the people are calling him a hero and stuff, but he always been my hero.

>> wrecked by heartbreak. >> a beautiful soul. a beautiful soul. >> his family and long-time girlfriend say they aren't at all sprised by the way he reacted during the attack. >> i knew that that would beonhe ly course of action for him, for who he was and how he was. >> reporter: described as qui and unassuming, howell probably wouldn't have cared much about all of the attenti now. but heroes have to be honored on their final ride home. jay gray, nbc news. >> that does it for us this hour. >> news 4 at 5:00 starts now with jim and wendy and storm team 4 out there tracking storms. we are in weather alert mode. if you're me about to head out or waiting for someone to head home, be patient. we've got severe storms sweeping thrgh the dmv. >> most of our earlier thunderstorm warnings have expired, but some of us could

see some protest heavy rain. >> a live picture from storm deem 4x4 checking for the troubled spots remaining. >> let's get started with doug kammerer who is in the storm str center. >> if you're north of wa loudon county, frederick county, howard county, you are done. you're not going to see anymore. we have activiti are you done? yes. if you are d.c., along and south of 50inue to get some storms. strong. we have a severe thunderstormth warning continuing for anne