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book is earning her international attention. and we dodge the strongest storms today, but i don't think we'll get so lucky tomorrow. i'm trackind another rou of severe weather. i'll show you when it moves in. >> news4 at 11 star now. >> good evening. we begin tonight with a woman attackedy two pit bulldogs earlier in d.c. this surveillance video shows the same dogs cornering the teenager earlier in the day. >> neighbors say the animals have en terrorizing the neighborhood for months. the dogs attacked the woman in and around minnesota avenue in southeast. >> news4's jackie bensen joins us now with what police uncovered as they went inside the home. >> reporter: news4 has learned that the dog mauling incident where a woman was severely injured to her face and hands was not the first today. the earlier one was caught on videotape. this home security camera video shows the pit bulls ambushing a

teenager.ng we're concealhis identity, who was walking the 6-month-old family dog. he injured his hand in the struggle to save his pet. not long afterward, aki woman ta the trash out at a home a couple of doors down was attacked by the dogs. she tried to protect herself with a trash can as a shield. >> i was in the house.he and w i came out, it was the end of the dogs mauling her and the police had pulled up. and when i was walking out to talk to the police, the dogs came towards the officers, and that's when the officers shot them. ll>> reporter: sources te news4 police called to investigate at the home the dogs escaped from obtained a search warrant after they found evidence of a significant commercial marijuana operation inside.c. a d fire department hazmat unit was called and removed several large butane tanks. police took boxes of other items into evidence. >> but squatter, they've been there forever. >> reporter: residents in the 26 home banneker ridge development

say the house ha beenempty for months when the current occupants moved in a year or s ago. sonya marquee sa the homeowner's association had been trying to get the occupants evicted for months with no success. >> they leave the front door open soat the dogs can jump over a childproof gate. >> reporter: news4 learned police were called to this same location last october after a person was attacked by a pit bull. that dog was shot by police. as southeast wngton, jackie news4., new tonight, a former government official is accused of sexual abusg a child at a restaurant in tenleytown. the incident allegedly happened at the chick-l-a on wisconsin avenue yesterday evening. police say 39-year-old scott madajob made unwanted sexual contact with the chile and then ran away. he used to work atu. the s. department of homeland security advance.uty director of we reached out to the agency and a spokesperson replied, quote, scott matejovresigned his

position on may 6th, 2019. dhs is unaware of any allegations that occurred during his employment at dhs and is currently conducting an internal review. police are trying to prevent more smash and grab robberies overnight. early this morning, several restaurants in palisades were hit. thieves targeting macarthur boulevard. they made their way down the street, hitting at least fourss busi just after 3:00 a.m. in each one, the front door was smashed in. cash was stolen from the registers. police are trying to figure out if a simila burglary on wisconsin avenue is related. >> well, certainly upset any time people feel they canco it crimes like this that are so brazen. we're going to be responding with heavy patrols in the area. >> tonight police are looking for who's behind it. they released surveillance video of a suspe wring a gray hoodie there. if you know this man or have any information about this morning's robberies, give d.c. police a

call. severe weather is hitting the south and parts of the northeast tonight. so of the weather has producedd tornas and caused flooding. news4's leon harris tracking the latest for us. leon? some pretty wild video coming in tonight. >> take a look at this. that is definitely wild. this is new video that we're just getting in here of coming out of texas, a tornado there slamming intohe town of canton, which is just east of edllas. this tornado cross the highway, barreling into buildings and business ms. the region, downing trees a making roads impassible in the area. winds were so strong, they bent traffic lights sideways. the power in that tornado sheared off the sides of gas roations and ripped up trees, tossing them aund like twigs. nearby counties reported tornadoes hit them. closer to our area, up in philadelphia, storms ost acr the metro region there this evening. here is some new video coming into the newsroom in the past hour. you can see the storms there causing some big damage around the city, knocking overtr s,

snapping tree limbs in half. numerous tornado warnings across pennsylvania. one woman told us she couldn't believe the damage it caused to her home. >> the tv came out. the door came out. actually, even clothes that were on hooks. everything just -- i have stuffl in a pover here that was in the bedroom. >> and look at this video here. this is vid showing what some storm victims are resorting to. this is fort worth, texas. a person there sleeping in a tent right next to where the storm destroyed their home. crews from the national weather service say that they're going to be out in both texas and pennsylvania torrow to evaluate the damage, and of course we'll let you know what they learn from afte their ti examinas there. jim, back to you. >> leon, thanks a lot. a little closer to home, trees came down aoss roads and people's yards are covered in branches tonight. this is video from white marsh, just nobah of ltimore. >> we haven't seen anything this severe in the d.c. area, but we aren't in thelear just t.

>> yeah, hold on, folks. it could be worse tomorrow. chief meteorologist doug kammerer iseyeeping an on more storms heading our way. >> we had all the instability that needed for big storms today. we just didn't have the trigger around our area. it was all up towards pennlvania, all down into parts of southern virginia. tomorrow we have that trigger as the cold front is going to be making its way our way. ihink we have a much better chance to see area wide severe thunderstorms. the last six hours, those storms in pennsylvania and north northeastern portions of maryland. some big-time storms in that area. you can see storms to the south. look right here, we were high and dry. a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings in our region, but that was aiut now tomorrow, warm and humid tonight. it's 83 degrees currently. row, nd humid again tom and then severe storm chances tomorrow, yes. but that it. we've got another change towards the weekend. i'll show you what i mea by that. i'm back in ten minutes. >> thank you. top democrats and some republics say it's time to

take actionsphere the ecial counsel could not. they want the house to begin apeachment proceedingsinst president trump. >> dping his surrise appearance today, robert mueller suggested that only congress cou formally accuse the president of wrongdoing while he's in office.so he al refused to exonerate mr. trump. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. >> now president trump suggested he was innocent and the case is closedon democrats d think so. they're turning up the heat tonight on speaker nancy pelosi, and that includes candidates running for the white house. >> bob mueller wasll e referring impeachment to the united states congress. >> the message really is over to you, congress. >> it calls for congress to respond to the crimes, lies, and other wrongdoing of president trump. we ll do so. >> many constituents want to impeach the presiut we want to do what is right and

what gets results. o mueller madeit clear he doesn't want t testify publicly, but democrats are leaving open the possibility of a subpoena. n> a quick check at some of tostay's other to be ries. a man is in critical condition after lighting himself on fire near the white house ellipse today. around lunchtime, witnesses saw the man covered in flames from head to toe. ome reported that he wasn't screaming, just walking around like that. secret service and other federas office ran to help him. they used a fire extinguisher to ouse the flames. we're work to learn the cause and manner of death for a local 14-year-ol and two ts adul sheriff's deputies found their bodies here in a rural home near fredericksburg. neighbors told the family that lived in the house had moved inw just a fe months ago. there is no threat to the community. they're calling the death suspicious. take a look at these pictures. this individual is a person of interest in an assault.

it happened may 9th during the evenino rush on the lower level of gallery place's metro station. if you recognize th person, metro police would like to hear from you. the police chief called him an example of the finest our country has. prince george's police officer devon mckenzie w off-duty this morning riding a motorcycle on the beltway when another vehicle ran into him. the impact sent him over the median and into oncoming traffic. officerckenzie was just 24 years old. e there ar new safety precautions inside a local psychtric ward weeks after a patient escaped and held a woman against her will. >> this was the case th had a lot of folks shaking their heads, and tonight scott macfarlanehe updates ttory first reported by the news4 i-team. >> the patient not only escapes, but convinces a staff member at the hospital to call him a cab. it happenedntearlier this m at the washington, d.c. v.a. medical center on irving street.

virginia records obtained by tht m show the patient was a 29-year-old man who escaped through the ceiling by removing tiles in the shower. he took a taxi to a home in manassas, where he held the woman there against her will. a relative who asked we not show her face describes how it all happened. >> he went through the emergency room and asked someone in the emergency room, the staff at the hospital to ll a taxi cab. >> and they called him a cab? >> they called him a cab. >> he was wearing his hospital clothes? >> he was wearing his scrub bottoms and a pink top. >> reporter: a new internal memo deviewed by the i-team says the hospital has ad tamper resistant tiles and will inslocks for coverings too. tonight they have retrained staff and completed an inspection of the psych ward. st for thatma he has been released from cudy. he was at a hospital briefly in virginia after his arrest. scott mcfarland, news4 i-team.

nux next, if youade the trip up to baltime, you have o doubt visited the inner harbor. >> tonight a terrifying scene at that familiar toist spot. >> when we come back, the chaos boils over and the aclu calls out police. stone. shomari >> and i'm sasha.to >ght i'm going to talk

we've got some new video tonight of a chaotic and frightening sce out here just north of here in baltimore over the memorial day

weekend. >> saturday, hundreds of teenagers were seen runng round the inner harbor, starting fights, attacking people, even jumping on cars. >> news4's leon harris live at the news desk with that video and just what happened. leon? >> reporter: guys, as you aknow ot of folks visit the inner harbor when going to baltimore, and that has got t city and business leader there's very concerned tonight. this happened as a lot of families were out strolling around about dinnertime saturday evening during the memorial day weekend. now check out this video. police body cam video showing an officer breaking up a fight. >> put your hands up. >> put your hands up. >> all right. you can see the victim crouchine down tre as police pull the attackers off him. surveillance video shows fights by other parts of the inner harbor and nearstreets as well. teenagers, you can see them jumping on the top of hoods of rs. baltimore's mayor this week blamed bad parenting for all of

this, asking where were the teens' parents. officers arrested six teenagers and they are now facing chargesn this incid boiled over even more when the police department's union called some of the teens criminalsh the aclu s back saying the comments encourages racial profiling tactics. back to you. >> thank you, leon. hey, if you're going through tsa, there is an unspoken rule. move quickly, right? because of that, we've all been guilty of emptying our pockets and tossing cash in thebin. but make sure to double-check them afterwards. a lot of us are forgetting money, and it is adding up in a big way. last year more than $60,000 was left behind at our local a ports. the biggest change collector dulles, with $30ve00. oll, nearly a million bucks in change was forgotten at u.s. airports. he tsa plans to put the unclaimed money towardsck int training requirements, like reminding us don't forget your change.

ll us. a young author from the district is going global with her book. >> she's working to encouragels gir to learn to love to code. s wants them to feel goodab out exploring careers in s.t.e.m. fields. our shomari stone spoke with her to ght about inspiring girls around the world. >> good evening. sash ra alston dreamed about writing a book about her passion, s.t.e.m.,, science engineering technology and math. her book is selling internationally. >> okay, great. let's do it. we can start a business. i reporter: sasha austin feels like she isn top of the world inside her d.c. home. >> it's been a really great journey. >> the 21-year-old was recently on the cover of role model magazine. >> once upon a summer break. >> her self-published book, "sasha savvy loves to code" has sold more than 7,000 copies in the u.s. >> it's reached a lot of myet

targ audience, which were girls and people of color. >>nd it's now selling in japan. >> sasha leans in and squints her eyes. >> reporter: the book is about a 10-year-old girl from d.c. who falls in love with computer coding at summer camp. >> the fact that i was able to produce a product and be able to sell it and actually have a lot of people wanting toasuy it h been great. >> reporter: she realized her passion for s.t.e.m., science, technology, engineering and math, when she did an internship at microsoft when she was in the 11th grade a fewyears ago. >> the microsoft internship provided me with the real worldr expience of how you can apply coding to the tech industry. >> yes. >> reporter: 11-year-old bria stanley likes it. >> when i read the book, it inspired me. ask t never give up, and for help when you need it. >> reporter: and that's what sasha likes to hear. old.a, you're only 21 years what's next for you? >> so i plan on working on the d book to publish within the series.

>> so it's a greatstory. sasha graduates from pace university idecember. she plans on working for a fortune 500 coany after graduation. now if youre interested in getting her book, you can buy it on amazon. in northeast d.c., i'm shomari stone, news4. >> wow. impressive young woman. >> that's great. pretty cool. >> multitalented. >> so more chances of sketchy weather tomorroh, >> yea i think a better chance tomorrow because h weave an actual front coming through.da tos front came in pennsylvania. you saw what happene there. that was just a monster of a sto up there towards the pennsylvania area. for us, i think we get into the hevere weather chances tomorrow. yeah, we had tm today. they just did not materialize. they were all north of the pennsylvania border, over towards baltimore, down to the south. we literally had them all around us. that's okay. we don't want storms all the time. what we did have, though, because the storms the day so far this year at reagan national airport. 93 degrees the high temperature there. quantico at 94.

indianapolis, coming in 94. into the mid- to upper 90s. right now, here we are at 11:00 at night. we're supped to be cooling down. sun is down. 83 degrees. wind out of the west at 5 miles per hour that is an incredibly warm temperatu e. the average high right now is 79. so we're not even close to that. and we could be setting a record low -- or record high-low temperature. i always hate that one. exactly right. could be the warmest night ever on this night. how about that? is that better? there you go. 73 degrees in martinburg. 76 gaithersburg. 78 over towards gaithersburg. no rain right now, but we are watching this little area right here. the only area in the bookmaking its way down. it should die off before it gets here, but that was not the case ea lier. we sawese storms move through. they're off the coast. more storminess back towards the middle part of the country where they doiot need flooding continues to be ongoing. the second highest crest ever along the mississippi river in st. louis coming the next

several days. they're still seeing rains.i seeing tornado watches through the south. this boundary has been here for weeks, and we've seen storms ride right up over this boundary. tomorrow we're going to see it again, and we'll see the storms in the midwest come our way.or 8:00 tomow morning, no problem. stepping out the front door is just going to be on the warm and mild side. humid too. 1:00, we'll see a couple of showers and more cloudiness here. watch what happens during the afternoon. here is 2:30. some showers and thunderstorms developing. and more developing around 4:30, 6:00. some of the strongest storms coming in with that front. look how they just race through here. this computer model giving us what's called a bow i tack about that a lot with strong winds. we can see that anywhere in our area tomorrow afternoon and early evening. so i want you to keep a watchful eye to the sky there. 90 degrees tomorrow afternoon. some more clouds. that could keep us below 90. but if we do hit 90, it would be our first official heatwave of the season. more muggy for sure. and after that, the front moves through. we see some beautiful weatntr.

a fatic friday. yeah, high of 84 degrees. 86 on saturday. 83 sunday with a good chance ofh a few sers and thunderstorms as well during the afternoon. beautiful monday and tuesday as we head into the first week of n ju we got 70s monday and tuesday,a d a few storms next week. remember friday, i'll be live out there at wolf trap. and youe mntioned earlier, i'm not performing. you mentioned i have no talent. you're right about that. i >>t's never too late to come up with tone. >>re is still time. not much, though. thanks, doug. coming up, the nats. of they bring their bats fire. fire. they were hot in not all water is created eal.

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>> e's only the of may, and you've been waiti for this. >> oh, yeah, still plenty of time. after 13 games with the mets and eight with the phillies, facing for the es this week first time all year. after this brief two-game series, they're asking what took so long. davy martiz has been saying his team plays hard every night, and this thing will turn around. that is still to be determined, but definite a good start this week. braves mascot blooper tryingspo ray matt adams with some nat be gop. adams not having it. top two, already up 4-0. anthony rendon. the ball goes hard off the wall and away from nick markakis. adam eaton joins him. a two-r tple for rendon. 8-0 na onals. juan soto extended his hitting streak to 13 games earlier. icing on the cake smacks his ninth home run of the year. he had two rbi in the game.

nats up big in this one, 9-0. in the fifth, howie kendrick not letting the party in.s taket to right center. this one clears the bases. three-run double for howie. he had eight rbis. not too shabby. anibal sanchez back from the injured list n thesixth. is an chesz has a perfect game goi going. breaks up the perfect game and no-hitter. sanchez went six innis, however, allowing just one hit, striking out seven. nats gave up grand slam once doug walked in the office. that's true. >> but they hold on for the 14-4 win. it is true. to t pitch. d.c. united hosting the chicago fire. united trailed 2- in this. in the 81 minute, black and red back in it. tied at 2, ball sent in. acosta comes through wh the header. fourth goal of the season gives d.c. united a 3-2 lead late.

but in extra time, chicago not going away. deflection gets sebastian and he sends it to francisco kava, who scores. takes the contact from bi hamid. d.c. and chicago fire play to a 3-3 draw. stanley cup final game two. patriots head coach bill belichick waving the flag for the bruins. but the blues not giving in. tied atin 2 overtime. carl gunnarsson with theuck gives it away and getsckt ba he scores. gunnarsson making history wins this one for the blues. they win it 3-2 in overtime, tying the series at one. but moreimportantly, first ever stanley p win in the 52-year th history st. louis blues. game three on saturday. everyone happy to be on the field at redskins park. that includes landon collins. the safety signed a six-year,

$84 million contract in the off-season, joining the team on the field for otas for the first time comier off shou industry. jay ground den has to love seeing that. he also loves watching jimmy moreland, the rook has been turning heads. three interceptions today. the seventh round pick making an impact. the team back on the field tomorrow. >> thank you, georgat

doug, wh time are we looking for the storm to hit? >> they could be early in the afternoon, 1:00,2:00,3:00. the best chance tomorrow evening around 5:00, 6:00, 7:00. hot tomorrow, 90 degrees. and then som really nice weather.

i like it -- i call them fantastic fridays. we haven't had many. >> we haven't. no. i can't even remember the last one. >> neither can i. >> all right. good news. thanks. >> thank you,tdoug. hat's going to do it for us. we thank y for staying up with we thank y for staying up with not all water is created equal.

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