>> announcer: news 4 at 6:00 starts now. >> we begin with the effort to try and curb the violence that's been plaguing the district for much of 2019. >> the weekend marked by a series of shootings andab stngs that spilled into the new week.u a mrder along bernie place in >>southeast. the city's top cop says this is not the start of a new norm. let's get right to news 4's cory smith live outside police hea headquarters. >> reporter: erika and, chief newsham said the police want will continue to pour additional resources into the high crime rammunities. the attorney genes office, their violence interruption program will be on the streets as well. it just goes to sow when it comes to the summer months it will take an all hands on deck approach. >> after nearly two dozen

shootings over the course of w days, district residents are worried these will become the signs of summer. >> the summer is coming. >> mildred king apman knows what it's like to have violence at home. when she's not at work, that's usually where you'll find her, rolling through some of d.c.'s toughest neighborhoods. as summer approaches, the group is fine-tuning their approach to keep violence to a minimum. >> my strategy is to stay out here ll summer long driving throughout the city, getting out of my car talkingo them. >> reporter: it's that one-on-one engagement with community members and at risk youth she hopes will keep people safe. pointing toward activities and job opportunities. but she can it alone. and is calling on community and church leaders to step up in the coming months. >> eating time is over. it's time to put foot time in place. it's going to takeoung people, some young males and young females and myself and the community to truly get involved.

>> reporter: for those who can't be reached, robert patterson is there to offer a cautionary tale. he just got out of prison and stop thekilling lands him a job. he believes that will keep him out of trouble and it can work other communities touched by violence too. >> a lot of young kids have idle time on their hands and no guidance. when it'shot, things can happen. all i can say is you've got to find something t do with yo idle time. >> reporter: earlier today i spoke one-on-one with a.g. racine. he made an impassioned plea to everyone acrossd.c. if you have a community organization or a church that offers kids something to do in a afe environment during the summer, the a.g.'s office wants to hear from you. he said that will make a big impact in keeping kids offhe streets and ultimately safe this summer. back to you. >> here's where theommunity has to do its part. cory, thank you so very much. we go to storm team 4.

ck the vere weather str midwest and plains with storms, flooding and tornadoes. >> and the millions of americans who were rain-soaked, wind blown and just plain sick of severe weather. they unfortunately are in store for more. >> that includes us, folks. doug's declared a weather alert for tomorrow as we track storms and serious heat heading into our our regiore. >> you saw those storms in parts of pennsylvania. now a tornado watch in effect for the eastern shore and parts of del mar all the way through later this evening. no watches in our area. but you notice our area on the dry side. we're not expecting any showers or thunderstorms here. we will continue to see though as we move on throughout the day. here's where the severe weather is. notice we're starting to see a line forming here. pittsburghwnight on owards philadelphia. that line drafting to the south. we could see some of those in our northern areas throughout the night tonight. that's something we're going to be trackiou for y right now we are high and dry. the big factor today has been

the heat. t we saw a highperature of 90. we get even warmer tomorrow. tomorrow is a combination of the heat, the humidity, and the thunderstorms. that's why we're calling for a weather alert day on wednesday. i'll talk you hour by hour coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you, doug. in the meantime, crews jst suspended the search for a possible missing person in the potomac river. chopper 4 flew over the area just north of the american legion bridge. police say someone called police a person t they saw who appeared to be there in the water clinging to the rocks. montgomery and fairf coun rescue crews went there andar thched for over an hour but didn't find anying. there are definitely somel we'llhem kinks to be worked out with the massive metro shutdown. their shuttle bus drivers have t been gng lost while moving them from the six closed metro stations. transportation reporter adam tuss has been monitoring this commute. he's live at the franconia

springfield station to explain on.'s going hello, my friend. >> reporter: hey, erika. sometimes you've just got togh lau about all this. metro contracted out some of these bus operators who came in from places p like texas,ces like florida, atlanta. they didn't know the bus routes. and yes, some of them got lost today. riders are sounding off about it. >> reporter: and on the first day there were some issues to iron out. shuttle buses apparently getting lost along the way. >> he didn't know how toet here. is that a problem? >> reporter: it sure is. metro has contracted out a lot of the shuttle bus positions. places like texas and florida are behind the wheel. michael ford on his experience. then took a wrong turn and he tried to make a u-turn. couldn't make a u-turn. so then he finally went around and around and he we are. it's all good. > for some it was quite the

adventure. this rider on an express bus weeted can someone explain why the huntington shuttle to the pentagon is going through maryland instead of using the 395 hov or any route that doesn't involve driving past my work in d.c.? >> why couldn't we hire our own people here? people already work for metro. i didn't know that part. they need to know where they're going because i can't be late. >> that is a little bit irresponsible to not have -- to get all these drivers in but not give them their routes and not train them a little bit ahead of time. >> these drivers did tell us they received some training and the issue wasn't widespread. many said their ride was just fine. >> they're organized, smooth, on time. no a problemt all. >> reporter: roads did see higher traffic than normal, but on the first real commuting day as we get ready to fix all these platforms, it's clear not everything is running completel

smoothly. and back here live tonight, everyone is trying to make their way. right now everything looks okay for the evening commute. metro got backo us about the bus operator condition today. they said that basically they have so many shuttles runng, guys, that they had to call in contractors to help. they expect this issue to get better as the week goes on, but first commuting day you kn g there wereng to be some problems. back to you. >> yeah. you know, this town can be a little difficult to navigate if you' not familiar with the area. adam, thank you. we've dedicated a skz of our ebsit -- section of our t websihf yy -- help ou navigate. plug it into your sartphone and you'll get a complete breakdown of what line to take and where to transfer to. search summer shutdown on nbc washington.com. let's turn to politics. a supreme courtsidehe step on t matter of abortion. today the court turned down an appeal to reinstate a strict

bortion law in indiana. but the court upheld part of the same law, a provision requiring abortion t providero dispose of fetal remains by o burial creamimation. they also skipped the bathroom battle and declined to hear a challenge to let transgenderu stdents use their bathroom of choice. joe biden just issued a statement about being attacked by president trump. mr. biden held his statement until e president returned to washington. this is seen as a pointed rebuke to establi the norm leaving politics at the water's edge. susan mcginnis joins us to break it all down. >> to many it was no surprise es that the prident broke that norm. he clrly had one 2020 rival on his mind whilee was overseas and his comments there are coming under fire here.

presidentn washington trump facing sharp criticism for cs overseas attacks against the man whoould be his main 2020 rival, former vice presidt joe biden. >> kim jong-un made a statement that joe biden is a lowiq individual. i think i agree with him on that. >> it even comes from the president's own party. gop congressman calling the president wrong for siding with a murderous dictator over a fellow americhe. guests on typically trump friendly fox news network took aim at the president. you don't attack your political opponnts from fore soil. you're supposed to be out there as america's chief diplomat. that was a shameful thing for the president to do. >> political strategists say it's trump being trump. >> going after biden on foreign soil while thee r of us are oh my god, that's inappropriate, don't do hat, trump is, like, that's just the morning. wait until lunchtime. mp >> president tlso bashed biden over legislation he

supported 25 years ago. the 1994 crime bill which is criticized for sparking mass incarceration, especially among minorities. the president tweeting african-americans won't vote for any candidates who supported the bill. bua recent poll shows biden with 71% favorability among black voters to the president's 8%.it biden wang until the president returned to u.s. soil to respond issuing a campaign statement that called the si prnt's words beneath the dignity of the office and part of a pattern of embracing autocrats. we're listening for any comments jobiden might make. the president came out with a nd tweet aaid he was actually sticking up for e biden while he was there in tokyo because ha ys chairman kim actually called him a low iq idiot and that the presidt was doing him a favor by calling him just a low iq individualng sayi who can be upset with that? >> boy. all right. go.e we thank you, susan.

erika. a shortchange is coming to the smithsonian institution for the first time in 175 years. an african-american has been named to head the museum system. as news 4 mark segraves reports, the man taking or is somebody who you're probably very familiar with. lonnie bunch has a big smile and a big personality. he's best known for overseeing the creation of the national museum of african-american istory and culture. but today he got a standing ovation in the smithsonian announced bunch has been elected as the new director of the entire signatumuseum overseeingr and space to the national zoo. >> lonnie is eight great scholar. he was the leader and so what he did for the smithsonian there ig

sometwe hope he will do throughout the entire institution. >> bunch started his creer at the air and space museum in 1978. since 2005 bunch has served as the founding director of the nationaluseum of african-american history and culture. he becomes the 14th director of the smithsonian, the first to be ahe historian, t first to be an african-american, and the first to be promoted from within the smithsonian in nearly 75 years. >> as somebody who is african-american, i recognize the symbolism of this. >> bunch says leaving behind the museum he built will be hard. >> that to me is the greatest sacrifice. to leave the best view in washington. >> bunch is confident the national museum of african-american history and culture will be in goodans whoever takes his job. >> one of the great benefits of being secretary i get to choose my own success or. >> bunch takes over his new job in about two ekwe

at the signature sewni e' >> jim vancs final interview was with bunch. he interviewed him after he ham been n the director of the museum of the african-american history and culture.ho just s jim vance's final story. >> how good is that to see jim again? >> it was a beautiful piece too. tonight new action after a news 4 i-team report. >> we talked to a virginia lawmaker vowing change after we revealed ways that cbd users could land in legal trouble. what he plans to do to help state law. and record breaking an deadly and it's not over yet, folks. an update on the devastationin the midwest and then we're going to see more severe weather of our own tre. fi night out becomes a nightmare. the alarming new details about the man police think drugged women atocal bars and tn toohek

new charges against the man accused of drugging and then sexually assaulting women he met at a bar in chevy chase. >>cary mome unfolding inside.b fr 47-year-old phillip cantor slipped the date rape drug into her drink, carrying her to a nearby aparent before raping her. the woman told investigators she wou woke up and was naked and felt paralyzed. this happened in january. since then more women have come

forward. >> there are three other victims coming forward. this spans a several year way of operating. >> one victim says she was raped back in 2007 when cantor lived in garret park. another victim says she was raped in 2010 and the latest woman to come forward says she became his victim in 2011. the montgomery county state's attorney office says tchs t was same m.o. >> meeting women in bars and taking them out for drinks and suddenly they wake up according to the charging documents not knowing where they are, having blackouts and him essentially raping them. >> now they're asking the public to take a good look at cantor's mug shot. police want anyone who may have been a victim to come forward. in montgomery county, mig eagan fitzgerald, news 4. a an electric scooter in fender bender with an ambulance today. the man riding the scooter admits the crash was his fault.

he was riding along constitution avenue when he hea sirens and knew he had to pullover but didn't realize how close the ambulance was and hit it. the man was not hurt. police have released n details about a deadly shooting we brought you as breaking news yesterday morning. the man who was killed inside a car that was riddled with bullet is a 26-year-old. detectives say that they think he and others were in that car around 5:00 monday morning when another car pulled up beside them and opened fire. no one else inside that car was struck. police still need your help in ming an arrest in this case. today michael avenatti pleaded not guilty to charges that he defrauded his most stmous client the adult film starmy daniels. avenatti appeared in court in new york on federal charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. prosecutors say he pochated money tdaniels was supposed to receive from a book deal. the once high-flying lawyer was

also in court on separate charges that he tried to extort money from nike. he denies those charges as well. a rockville man charged with assaulting a passenger on the orange line is now facing some more trouble. federal investigators tell the news 4 i-team they discovered child porn nography on the home kt o computer of timothy day. his lawyer declined comment on this. dayhas a court date on the new federal charges set for tomorrow. spring storms claiming toother life ght. one man was killed when multiple tornadoes touched down in ohio overnight. the new video showing just some of the damage in dayton. at least seven people have died in the last two weeks during what's been a record-breaking string of severe weather in the midwest and the pla right now there are more dangerous rothconditions in e forecast. jay gray reports. >> reporter: panic overnight in

the heartland. >> i thought i was going to die. >> reporter: tearing apart western ohio, daylight revealing the extent of the dage, homes r ravaged, trees and power lines lefin ruins. zone. ooks like a war >> reporter: the attack from mother nature has been overwhelms and relentless. the national weather service has confirmed at leas 500 tornadoes over the last 30 days. 22 states have been affected by the string of severe weather. there have been 12 straight days of twister. the last ten featuring between 8 and 51 tornadoes each day. >>ev i've ner experienced anything like this from a na natural disaster standpoint. >> the water causing more problems rivers spilling over their banks into neighborhoods. >> i was scared thinking i was

>ing to drown. fear growing along with the floodwaters. >> this is a very catastrophic, not over yet scenario that we're dealing with. >> report : a scenario that battered region continues to deal with with more severe weather in the forecast. jay gray, nbc news. itlooks like for the next couple of days, especially for tomorrow and thursday, the severe weather across theat nn. for us it will be tomorrow and thursday. today it's all into pennsylvania. you ca see the severe thunderstorms and the tornado watch and thee warnings that ar out there as well. once again, severe weather for thursday.ow and that's why we're calling tomorrow a weatheralert day. i'll have much more on that coming up in just a minute. plus check this out. she vanish intohe wilderness without a trace. now the maryland woman wse survival story has stunned the country shares her story for the first time. and rocked by scandal. the stunning new fallo

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doug's here to talk about more hot weather. roasty toasty the next couple days and some severe -- you like that? roasty toasty? >> i have been in this business for 25 years and i've never heard that. that's one i would use. >> then take it. i'll let you borrow that. y a little roast toasty out there the next couple days. we hit 91 today. >> there you go. >> also coming with that, a chance of storms. not ouoday, th. take a look outside. hazy, hot and humid. we've got the three hs. temperature sitting atft 89 a high of 91.

wind out of the south at 13 miles an hour. thater puts evody in the upper 80s to around 90. no our area has been dry all day and it's going to stay that way. not a single storm in our area. just to the north and east of , up around philadelphia, up around wilmington, not just severe thunderstorms, but tornado warnings are in effect in parts of pennsylvania. we have another area back towards pittsburgh. this area will y to move down in towards our northern zone tonight. however, they're going to be dying out. watch what happens here. these strong storms can die out. the wider picture showing the severe weather we just talked about. this severe weather into parts of the country. again, tornado watches into missouri, dkansas,n towards oklahoma. severe thunderstorm watches all the way across parts of the ohio valley in towards tomorrow that boundary shifts to the south. here is that boundary. once again, 89 in st. louis. 54 in chicago. 89 in d.c. 54 in buffalo. so the cool air and the warm air

fighting right now and where the cool air and warm air meet, that's the battle. that's the frontal boundary.an moderate chce of severe weather any missouri and kansas. that means you've got the big time storms there. tomorrow hatenhanced risk shifts to the south. everybody else with a slight risk. northern virginia, southern it s a good chance for mearyland. strong and severe weather during the day ptomorrow. tracking it for you as we move on through the overnight hours. othing tonight. tomorrow waking up at 8:00 a.m., you're fine. temperatures really start to increase. here mes the chancef thunderstorms around 5:00, 6:00. by around 7:00, notice the line in the big strong storms into our area tomorrow evening. we do think it's tomorrow evening that has the best chancf of some those storms. 93 is where i'm going tomorrow. scattered strong storms probably tomorrow evening. some will be severe. that's why we have that weather alert right there.

there it is right there. 92 degrees on thursday. 84 on friday. 85 on saturday. friday and saturday really looking good. i'll be at wolf trap on friday. looking forward to that. smy hagarc concert. i'm not taking off for the day.e i'm going t for backyard weather. >> doing it on a stage? that's not a backyard. >> it's everyone's kybacd. >> all right. if you can work that out,t. go r i you've heard the phrase where's the beef? w about where's the crabs? ahead on news 4, why you may nom see asuch of it as your local supermarket and why the crabs do you see may not be coming from where youom think it's fr. canada's confusion. changes could be coming after a news 4 i-team investigation revealed limits in drug testing and the legal .headaches that could cause users of the popular cbd. >> in her own words, the >> in her own words, the maryland woman geico makes it easy to get help when you need it.

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in> how do we fix this without putting people behd bars? >> now at 6:30, just days after a news 4 i-team investigation ol found pice field tests can't distinguish between a popular health supplement and marijuana, a v legislator says the law has got to be fixed. >> investigative reporter jodie fleischer is here with what she uncovered that's already changing how a state lab handles marijuana cases. >> our invesgation found virginia's evidence lab cannot positively identify some

marijuana products because ere's currently no test to measure the amount of thc. one delegate acknowledged no one checked make sure that was possible before enacting a law that made it essential. in a criminal justice system that relies on scientific ftesting, department ofensic science director linda jackson says the results at her state lab must be accurate. >> the new law has complicated all of this. before virginia law changed the definition of marijuana in march, tests only had to determine whether products contained thc.t' thathe component that gets users high. now that it allows for hemp products to have trace amounts of cbd, the labs must be able to determine the exact amount. >> sometimes the law runsahead of technology. >> delegate mark keen to-sponsored e marijuana bill which took effec as emergency legislation so agriculture production could begin. left iminal justice h

people like kyle in legal limbo. fredericksburg police arrested the store owner for selling marijuana. he told the news 4 i-team it was all cbd. >> one thing we never wanted to do was put innocent people in legal jeopardy. >>ot's tough for pce and prosecutors to be aware of every new law immediately and whte the sta lab initially tested some of kyle'sts produc, they did have thc. we just don't know how much. to complicate things even further, the field tests police use to identify marijuana also come back positive for cbd. they can't tell the difference because they're only designedo detect cannabinoids which cbd and marijuana both are. virginia law currently allows officers to use those field tests as evidence in court. >> until we fik tx the law, the only thing we can do is to urge our partners that this is not a case they should be prosecuting. >> take a look at what police

seized at kyle's store. it says cbd hemp flowers on the packaging and that is under .3% thc. is it a plant or a product? delegate keen says the laws could use some clarification. you think that b there wille a criminal justice loo at these marijuana and-r cbdelated laws for next year? >>no doubt. i believe that will happen. thanks to your work and the investigation that your team has done, it's really ed light on those testing and the policies we have in place. >> the lab director told menc evide that requires the more advanced testing will now be on hold until those tests are up and running. hopefully in the next couple months. in the meantime she's warned police and prosecutors about the testing and limitations so they can make appropriate decisions about criminal cases. sad and disturbing news tonight for residents in the front royal ea. a former public official is facing indictment. accused of embezzling taxpayer

dollars, news 4 has learned one subject of the investigation, the former sheriff, has died by bicide. julie carey hasen following this case since it first became public earlier this year. >> as her linked in page shows, jennifer mcdonald was t executive director of the economic development authority. tonight she's under arrest.di the ment the first in a virginia state police investigation targeting former county officials and others. this was t scene chopper 4 captured back in april when investigators executed a search warrant at the offices, office seizing dou seizing documents needed to determine where $17 million had been diversed intorsonal use. a grand jury has been at work hearing evidence and late last we returned that first indictment against mcdonald. state police say the probe s continueut so far no other

indictment. former sheriff also a subject of the invtion. he recently decided to retire s early a the controversy surrounding him grew.t buhe told news 4 he did nothing wrong and would work to clear his name. but today his attorney confirms the former sheriff died by suicide at his warren county home. the attorney for the former sheriff told me today he had not been notified that he was facing an imminent indictment. state police spokesman declined say whether or not he believed he would soon be arrested. in northerna, virgini'm julie carey, news 4. virginia senator tim kaine visited a fairfax county middle sool expecting to talk about gun safety but it turned out to cover a whole lot more than that. the senator fielding questions from "eighth grade"eeighth grad. the questions ran a much broader gamut. >> middle schoolers are very

tough and informed, so i got questions about gun violence but al s campusxual assault, climate change, immigration, trade issues. a i goted questions about all kinds of subjects and it was really good to have a chance to dialogue with the students. >> could be your kids that age actually having interest. new det tls about miracle rescue in maui. the maryland woman who spent 17 days in t hawaiian jungle telling her story of survival. amanda eller had gone on a hike without her phone when she got disoriented. speaking this afternoon, eller described herrk dat moments. >> as the day went on and the onlicopters were passing over and i'm standing ocks and waving them down and they're not seeing me,you lose hope. i had, you know, in a moment i was likee mrcy.

i just say mercy. i'm looking at the sky likee pleaspick me up. >>eller says at that moment she had a decision to make. stay on the rocks and die or fight for her life. >> i choose life. i saw my sister. i choose life. i saw benjamin, so on and so further. every singleootep was i ch life. that was the only thing that kept me going. >> for more than two weeks eller slept in the mud to stay warm. she drank river water and lived off berries she found in the jungle. leg, uffered a fractured severe sunburn and a skin infection, but doctors say she'll make a full recovery. >> she's got a heck of a story to tell. >> yes, she does. the competition heating at national harbor. >> there's no spell check allowed. take you to the national spelling bee competition and some really impressve spelling that has the country spellbound. i'm tracking severe

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business a politics are colliding in georgia. the state's abortion ban threatens to hurt tv and movie inproduction bs. netflix executives say they will rethink shooting in the state if georgia's recently passedrt abon law goes into effect. in recentha years atlanta become a major hub of tv and n. film productio some tough hollywood stars are canceling their shoots in georgia. others are donating money to fight the abortion bill in court. a an updateut the sale of local shoppers food stores. the location on adchillum ro is now wining winding down its bus.

it plans to completely close in less than month. ll other shoppers locations will remain open while it o continues t explore a sale of the other stores as well. week. is bee the brightest and bestpellers sounding it out at national harbor. 562 spellers from all 50 states andew other countries spelling words some of us have never even heard before, let alone tried to pronounce. 23 competitors are from here in our alarea. l of them have the goal of laayding in thursd final round. one of the spellers a seventh grader from farmwell station hill told us how he could spell. >> my mom told me the list. she asked me three times today already. >> this ithe second year of a program called rsbb which allows

spellers who were knocked out of the regional competition to apply for a wild card entry. > wildrd in a spelling bee. this stuff istense. did you notice something missing from the grocery store this holiday weekend? >> yes. pplies of one summertime favorite appears to be running thin. i'm darcy spencer at the wharf. if you want to get some crabs, make sure you call ahead. i'll tell you why some are in short supply. >> and we're tracking a one two punch of summer weather.at serious hend the

now some of our top stories this evening. crews have suspended the search for a possible person in thema poto river. police say that someone called them saying that they saw a person who appeared to be clinging to the rock in the water there. montgomery and fairfax county rescue crewsent out and searched for over an hour but they did not find anything. history made today in d.c. lonnie bunch the third was named head of the smithsonian institution museum system. he becos the first african-american to hold that position. the first historian to hold that position and the first to be promoted from within the museum system in 75 years. bunch is the founding director of the national museum of african-american histor and culture severe storms claimi another life. one man was killed in ohio when multiple tornadoes tore trough overnight. seven people haveied in the last two weeks during a recordb eaking streak of severe weather.

the national weather service has confirmed at least 500 torpedos in the last month. all the rain and flooding we've been seeing could be impacting your dinner. >> darcy spencer explains why crabs are in short supply. >> reporter: at the k.c. crab eompany in laurel, they're steaming up som crabs from texas. about how many crabs are in this cooker? >> when it's afull,und five bushels. >> reporter: for now they're in low supply. in fact, like many other restaurants, they ran out on memorial day afternoon. >> we even had people sleep here just to wait for the crabs for us to go through just to make sure we had crabs all through it is whole holiday. >> reporter: multiple crabes old me weather conditions in the midwest have drastically reduced thepp su. maryland crabs are in season they say, but it's early and many of them are small. so for some the big crabs from louisiana and texas are the bulk of their rusiness. >>ht now it has all thesk bas from the weekend.

we went through all these in the last two days. >> the walk-in would typically be filled with bushels of live crabs, but the baskets are empty as they wait for a shipment later today. how is the supply for you guys? >> it's been tighry day. we don't have much to end the day with. we start all over again the next day. >> reporter: for now they're trying to meet customer demands and replenis their supply as they plan for their next biggest holiday, faeer's day in th next few weeks. >> a lot of praying they come back, but we always find a way to stay open the longest, keep everyone happy as wecan. >> reporter: here at the wharf they say the crabs are in plentiful supply, but it's always a greaidea to call ahead and make sure your estaurant or carry out has them instock. at the wharf, darcy spencer, news 4. >> learn something new every day. >> the wharf is great to get crabs. i love getting crabs down there. not that far of a dri for most of us and they have better

prices than most places you see out there. > it's a beautiful day to be out on the wharf that we've hado in the last le of days. can night is the night you get dinner outside. tomorrow night it's going to be a completely different story. a chance of strong to severe storms. out there right now,y, haz hot and humid. that's the way it is across our area. that's the way it will continue to be. now.ght dropping through the 80s by around 10:00. ry nice night tonight. it is warm and humid. very much more like july than may. but again we tend to get hot this time of year. 90 degrees in dulles. 89 in ft. be-- right now we've t a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings going on around the philadelphia area down into srts of southern maryland -- rather the easternre of maryland now under a tornado

watch. that's for this area right here. that's going to continue to make its way down across parts of our rea around baltimore and then right over towards del mar. heads up there. tornado warningsro ad scranton, pennsylvania. look at this line. this line right here, this is theline between cold air to north and very arm air to the south. when those two are fighting each other, that's when you get the good chance for strong storms and that's why we've got them again all across the midd part of the country right over towards our area. the hot air to the south. the cool air to the north. fighting alois line and that line continuing right over our area. tomorrow actually dropping in towards our region and that's whwe have a chance o strong storms tomorrow. tomorrow morning at the bus stop, no problem. a littleon the warm side and rather humid. humid for recess for sure. then possibly stormy by the time we're picking up the kids. i do think we should be fine picking up the kids at normal time. if your kids are playings game tomorrow afternoon, around 5:00,

6:00, that's the best chance for some stos. we're going weather alert because of the chance for severe weather. we could have severe weather thursdayse too becauf the heat and then look at the nice weather. 84 friday. 85 on saturday. sunday another chance of show rs andthunderstorms. that is a front that really cools us for monday, tuesday, and wednesday. me fantastic weatherr the first full weekend of june until we get to next thursday. another chance of showers and storms. right now all eye for me on tomorrow evening. once again, between about 4:00 and about 8:00 where we could see a good chance of some strong severe storms here. >> here we go into that pattern. thanks, doug. up coming a strange season for maxrz scheer. sherree's got some eye popping numbers. but first here's savannah w guthrieth a look at what's ahead on "nbc nightly news". >> ahead for us the american who is now the 11th person killed on

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let's talk about the skins. >> are you ready for some football? >> you went from that to that? >> they're undefeated and it's positive now. >> that's a bad joke. >> the nfl season starting in 100 days from today. before we start thinking about september 5th teams including the redskin are back to work for week two team activities. in ashburn, more familiar faces and the guys are still getting to know. jay gruden showing dwayne haskins aittle love. practicing in the bubble today. case keenum getting in work. tomorrow's workout will be open to the media ande'll have coverage for you right here on

dsc 4. next week the reins holding their mandatory mini camps. some of those veterans still enjoying time away. they will be back in ashburn. now the nationals two games against the atlanta braves is the first meeting between the two n.l. east teams and the nats are coming off one of the best series of the year and looking to stay hot in atlanta. they won three of their last four. that loss not because of t starting pitcher. the weird season for max scherzer continues. the second in major league baseball with 102 strikeouts on the season. yes, we're used to that. we're not used to scherzer tied for 121st with just two wins on the season. this time last year he was 8-1 and max has only had two losing seasons in his career. the last coming back in 2009. leon, you said it, it's not his fault. the nats bullpen has an mlb wor 11.71 e.r.a. in games that

he starts. scherzer a little frustrated but mostly focused during this tougt retch. >> i'm here to win ball games.o i want to g out there. i want to win every single time. that's every single player. it's not fun to sit hend you always reflect on things you could h e donedifferent any time the team loses the ball game, whether you tch well or not. you always go back to what could i have done to help the ball club out more. that's the world i live in. idon't live in what could be or this or that. i live in winning and lose. >> always bring the intensity. leon, you were over here looking and excited over what he was saying. >> yes. that's why he's the ultimate teammate because he does the thing every single time like a pro. he gets no run support. it would be completely different if somebody would score one extra run or that guy. >> you tell them. >> all right. cooling off, escaping a dangerous situation in the firsr ound of the french open.

a third straight grand slam title is in jeopardy after a ro rough first und. the 21-year-old is trying to become the second woman to win a three stht majors in the last 21 osaka playing in her first grand slam has top ranked player in the world and she admitted it was the most nervous she's ever been during a match and you can tell. her opponent owned the first set winning 6-0. but in the second set tiebreaker osaka turns it up. she's in the far crt. osaka sends the match to a third set. she gets it done. the 21-year-old advances in three sets completing her push for a third straight grand slam title. now to the pitch, the u.s. women's world cup starting new eek in france. meanwhile, it is m's national team in town training ahe of their match next wednesday at audi field. the team hitting a new practice

eld at the u.s. naval academy. they'll be training there all week. former terps among those. he's a defender in hisi nh year with the united states first team. is the final match before the team names the 23 player roster for the gold cub which is the first official comon since world cup qualifying and for go nnzalez to practice on this field with thional team is something special. >> i'm very proud to wear the jersey and esercially being he at such a historical place here in annapolis here at the naval academy with such histoi thi tse really puts emphasis that it means something to put on this moersey and ng forward we have to wear this jersey with pride and give it everything we have. >> sherree, thank you so very much. >> thanks for joining us. nightly news starts in 60 s. seco >> we'll see you again tonight at 11:00.

ahead ght, twin disasters. a growing path of devastation from 13 straight days of tornadoes tearing across the country. neighborhoods leveled in ohio. >> tornado on the ground. s.ait for the power flashe >> new danger tonight as violent storms rage from the midwest up through the northeast, and high alert as a major dam threatens to fail. massive flooding leaving parts of several states under water. new alarm about e thdeadly traffic jam at the top of the world as an american man becomes the 11th person to die on mt. everest this season. climbers forceto step over lifeless bodies because it's too dangerous to stop. too many people and too little time. a major abortion