>> boy,s this some nasty, s crazy,ry stuff that we hadre he today. new video for you today as we come on the air.ra and dangerous flash flooding out here. >> take a look at this. >> scary situation. frightening situation ang four-mile run creek earlier. cars mostly under water. a river raging around them. >> neighborhoods now reeling from similar scenes. flooding pushed nearly a dozen families out of their homes this morning in maryland. >> and rising waters forced this man to grab his young daughters out of the back seat a carry them to safety. >> poor little things. >> we'ff kicking three hours of live team coverage for you this evening. doug and amelia will talk about what actually happened outside. >> and mark has look at conditions in virginia, but we start now with news 4's aimee cho in montgomery county. hey, aimee, tell us how things are there right now. >> yeah, hey, pat and leon. we're at the river falls swimte and is club.

take a look at this pool behind me. it's full of dirty, brown water. now, the water has actually gone down since this morning, but, still, no one is going to be swimming in that any time soon. weave seen several members of the swim team here taking a look at the place where they normally practice. s a discouraging sight to say the least and we've been seeing floodingan situations damage like this throughout montgomery county. >> i think that's just water rushing through. rter: whatever plans these neighbors have for the day. well, those plans will have to t n't even walk on the sidewalk. off of mcarthur boulevard, belfast road, not a road anymore. all the rain washed it away and unfortunately it's the only road into this neighborhooo >> i feely for thee guy on the other side. >> reporter: cindy has lived around here for 20 years and says she's never seen anything like this. >> i'mhe worried about poor people that live in this neighborhood.

i have a feeling they will be parking by us to get to their neighborhood. >> i guess we'll wait it out. >> reporter: and doug lives on the other side of the split. >> there's a passageway that's narrow, but you can get through it down that way. >> reporter: but you can no longer get there. he had to cross the creek to get out. >> i'll be working from home and doing calls, and i got two dogs so hanging o with the and, you know, just waiting until it gets fixed. >> reporter: and over on the klara barton parkway, that road now a river. crews working to get the cars out, cars that are nve cored in thick mud. >> i should haveme stayed ho until it's done raining. >> reporter: back on belfast road, crews hope toad get the ro fixed by the end of the day. for the neighbors that fix can't come soon enough. until then wendy says he is driveway is open for whoev needs it. >> we'll be good neighbors, absolutely. >> reporter: back here at the wim clurk the swim team tells me they can't practices here fo at least a week. they were supposed to have a

meet tomorrow night here at the school. obviously that has been cancelled. however, the swim team tells me they are hoping they can have their meet at another pool. pat, leon in. >> nasty. some aftermath. >> goodness. that is just ugly. thanks, aimee. >> reporter: thank goodness for good neighbors. >> exactly. folks will need neighbors for .he next few days for su the fast moving rainfall created a big mess for all the people across the area. >> reporter: chk out just one of the situations metro had to contend with today at the virginia square station. it looked like someone turned on a giant faucet right above the track. we're told it was likely an issue with drainage above the station. trains on the orange and silver line had single tracks and metro had to temporarily shut down some elevators that had walk aking in and arcing insulators led to delays on the red line. it's a mess. >> alsck a tri situation along canal road here in the district.

the morning traffic was only flowing into the city meaning some drivers became trapped once they reached the flooded out portion that have roadway.r we'll hearom wtop's dave gildine who captured picturesndf folks stag on top of their cars. >> meanwhile, just outsidee of thltway it was a bumpy ride for drivers along bradley boulevard between seven locks and river road in bethesda. you can see the watered wash rocks and chunks from the side of the road into the middle of the road and also appeared to wash away some of the side support causing part of that road touc be. >> back inside the beltway an example of what can go wrong when you can't tell how deep the water is. >> reporter: a man forced to carry his kids through waist-high deep water on flooded out little falls parkway. news 4's mollet green has the rescues you'l seenly here on news 4. >> reporter: it took a few minutes with a bad decision to

put a family danger from the high water and dramatic rain that fell during the height of the morning rush. watch here as this d had to carry his two little girls. they were around 7 years ofge in, each arm to get them out of their stalled car, trapped in high water here at the intersection of little falls pkway and massachusetts avenue. luckily the dad was able to carry them away sely, and a good samaritan rolled up who watched all of this play out and actually gave them a ride home. >> he was unable to open the car door, so that's why he grabbed them and out through the window. i was just going to go near by him, and then i -- i saw that it was okay that he grabbed the kids, so then they were walkin on the grass area. >> reporter: and you took them home. >> i took them homes, yes. the kids were a bit afraid and they were like oh, dad, what's

going to happen to the car and what's going to happen to our backpack, and a good samaritan was nice enough to bring the dad back so he could getthe little girls' backpacks out of the stalled car, and as quickly as that water came up. it receded here at this intersection, and things got back to normal, but the dad's stalled out car remains here on the side of t road here at little falls parkway. that is the latest from bethesda. mollet green, news 4. >> classic case ofei timing bng everything and that kind of water, anything can happen. >> car under way and four mile run turning into ar raging rive here. news 4's mark segraves has been surveying the damage all day and the continues our te coverage live and mark, how does it look out there? >> reporter: n, i have some

very good news in this area. leesburg pike just secods ago reopened to traffic and this scratch has been closed sincey earlis morning. it has been a mess traffic-wise. ca you see the backup all the way as far as you can see, but want to tell you this morning. this area was much worse. this entire area was flooded.re over thehat bridge completely covered with water stranding hundreds of residents in that neighborhood. >> it was it a different kind of rush hour this morning as water rushed over the only access road to the neighborhood stnding hundreds of people as this is the only road in and out. >> it was high. water probably, well, it was up above this guardrail. >> the scene was the same at four mile run inng arliton where the racing water was so high it flooded this parking lot. rts of the gw parkway had to be closed at times because of

the rising water this. man was happy that the water didn't get insid his car. >> driving to work,ai rng, and -- and the water was coming down so i stopped. just picked the wrong spot to stop. >> reporter: smaller roads in the great falls area also were closed because of the flooding. this was the xenon chimney road near wolf trap where a car is nearly covered by rising water. the flooding hit roads hard across nort the heavy rain was a factor in this accident on 495. now a spokesperson from the virginia department of transportation just got off the phone hth him and told me there are about 20 roads in the northern virginia area still impacted by the flooding even though the water has basically receded everywhere, including some bridges. she tells me that engineers are out inspecting those areas, and particularly those bridges to make shower that they are okay to reopen. in someases the water was so high it caused the asphalt on top of the bridges to buckle,

and that's why the bridges are unable to reopen. that's the very latrt in noern virginia. pat, leon, back for you. >> thanks, mark. folks may not like the delay but at least they are home in one piece. >> amazing video there. mark, thanks so much. well, you've heard it repeatedly from everyone, including us. turn around. don't drown. but sometimes that's not possible. and this morning the situation put drivers in a tough spot.mo from our news partner wtop explains the problem. >> we have a unique problem here in washington when heavy traffic and flooding combine, often it's not as straightforward andrn tug around. in the case of this morning, it was one way, inbound so a lot of drivers closest to the deeper awater couldn't turnon. they were blocked by drivers behind them. a walk and a hard place, water rising in front of themrs and ca behind them and essentially those dryers were stuck. they didn't have any other options. >> and as we've been tellg you

lots, lots of roads in our area are still closed. we have the latest list on the nbc washington app. search road closures. what day. >> let's get to the storm center right now. doug and amelia are standing by with a look at what exactly happened this morning. >> hey, doug. we hear about flash flood watches all the time, but a flash flood emergency is rare. what's the >> a flash flood warning happens when you have rain in a certain area, and you're seeing floodwaters coming up very quickly across parts of the area. an emergency occu when that same water is now life-threatening. that's exactly what we saw across the entire metro area earlier today. the water rising so fast that people had nowhere to go. saw what happened there. that's why they say turn around, don't drown and do not leave your hofee. your ay in danger, and it certainly was. >> we reached out to the national weather ndservice, a they just started issuing the flash flood emergencies in 2011, ane there's never ben one issued for the district. >> we had a couple of them last

year. thewettest year all last year and ellicott city was a flash flood emergency. ok at the extremely heavy rain making its way on down and moving slowly. this is where it was at 6:00 this morning. in three hours through 9:00, it only moved through montgomery county. that's why we saw such incredible rinfall around the area, and right around 9:00, right at the heart of the morning rush. look at the incredible amount of rain falling dow through the city and how much rain did wey. >> these are radar estimates. 4.6 inches into frederick county. 5 inches of rain, and that's now confirmed with ground troops as well into month gomery and parts of frfax county, 3.4 in prince george's and just an incredible amount of rain that came on through the area, guys. the good news is this is all moving down to the south. now we're left with a few howers and even some sunshine is making its way out now. >> doug, here's the thing.

we see this pattern we always get into in the summertime where it builds up during the day and then happens hat night. this this happened in thearly hours of the morning. why did that happen? >> area of low pressure sitting right to the north and west. the l area of low pressure sat down across our area and move on. down. today was theixth wettest day ever in the month of july. one hour, one shower all it took to get that amount of rain. >> that's stupendous, amazing. don't want to see any more of that. thanks, doug. make sure you have the nbc washington app on your phone. the fastest way to get breaking news alerts to you when we'rt no the air. download that as soon as you can. >> it was really helpful to get the flash flood emergency alert on my phone this morning. i took note because it was so loud and i said that's really different what's going on, and i

was just about to leave t house. >> that's what it's supposed to do. >> it stopped me. >> our coverage of today's torrential rain is just getting started. new research shows these kinds of heavy downpours are on the rise. how our changing climate is part to blame. >> grocery chains are changing their business to get your business today. today consumer reporter hogan is putting their curbside service to the test. >> i'm tommy mcfly. we'll bring you in fo a first

back now with with a look at storm team 4 radar. a w lingering showers out there after this morning's deluge. ug is back with a look at our next few days coming in less than two minutes. meanwhile, amazon is offering a new way to return those online purchases that you don't want without having to do any of the repacking. w cole'sill now accept amazon returns acss the nation. the company tested this out in the midwest and on the west coast and has now expanded to more than 100 locations. in order to do it, you have to ill out an online return with amazon and then you take your item and qr code to cole's where the store will do thep king, labeling andin shippg for you, free of charge.

cole's has more than two dozen locations here in our region. as amazon gearsp for its annual prime days next week, target is hoping to take a slice of the retail pilot. the company will he its own target deal days on monday and tuesday, same day as amaz deals. they will be offering discounts on hundreds of thousand of items with no membership required. shoppers can find the deals online, and they will have options for pickup and delivery. if you're looking to get outdoors and do something pretty thrilling, tommy mcfly has found just the place. >> checked out scene at the new multi-level go cart track in fredericksburg. just have to see it to believe how cool itis. check this out. >> all right, guys. welcome to thunder speedway. you guys ready? >> reporter: just down 5 in fredericksburg, there's a brand-new racing experience like nothing else in the .region >> and i'm leader of the pack. >> wanted to do something very unique and special for the city of fredericksburg and sething that would attract people from

all over the place. >> reporter: the multi-level go fredericksburg is the only one of its kind. the closest one is four hours from here. ng >> how am i g to pass my brother without hitting him, and then i wait behind him, dropped a little bit and see if they go high or low, i usually go the opposite way that they do. y> when we started building it's like what are building, a roller coaster? like kind of. >> reporter: be ready to wait your turn onat sdays and friday nights if you visit this track but mid-week and morning trip you'll be behindhe wheel much more and have less time to smack talk with friends. >> i have a foot on her. how does make you taller makes you fast as go carting. >> i think when i get down herep i will love the trip.

>> again, again, again. i want to go again. >> that looked liken. it was fu >> it did. >> oh, boy. we've got so many more cool new places to see and things to do for you. if you want to check them all out, head to thebc washington app and search for "the scene." should be kind of fun. jealous of tommy to get out and do things like that. >> you'll have to do it yourself. >> he'll have a hard time taking -- >> moms would love this, too. i love go-carted. >> you just go-carted in here. glad you joined us. >> the big thing is just amazing. i'm driving in this morning driving down 495, just ch incredible wating the radar. >> yeah. >> how slow is storm is moving, and that's why the rainfall rates were so enormous. 3 to 4 ines perour. we don't get that here very often. like i said, sixth wettest july

day ever. >> it's ridiculous. >> the tropical air sitting around is just amazing. it is a completely different scenar and oh, yes, we have that this the video. >> this the chopper 4 and this is live. this is that area where people were stranded right now and we'll tuck to tim this. this is the rest of the good news. seen some temperatureise kiting at 10:00 miles per hour and temperatures in the 90s the last couple of days and today ly in the 70s as a result of the rain. there's the extreme heavy

rainfall we saw earlier and gnaw all is try. we've got some pretty gooddays out there. first of a, restraining order rainfall 5.55 inches. 5.55 inches. arlington come in at 4.93 inches at reagan national at 3.44. it was all because of an area of cloche setting. >> you have a gold would the and moving across the region. at the same time, winds moving pretty fast above us and what that allows for is the aunderstorms to very m to move way up into the atmosphere and that tapped into the moisture giving us an incredible amount of rain. we continue to see the ttals over the last couple of hours here into the three and four-inch mark. look now. it's almost gone. ru can actually see the area of low pressureht there. see that spin right there? that's the area of low pressure making its way towards richmond

and away from our area. as far as our weather is concerned, the next couple of days, guess back, into the 90s. ot bad tomorrow. 91 on wednesday and 92 or thursday we'll beng prakk these see you back here in a few minutes. >> the tributes are boring in after the shacking death of young disney star cameron boyce. we'll be back with a look back at the many accomplishments in life. ort >> our wimbledon wonder out of >> our wimbledon wonder out of the tournament, but she

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. a real shock to theta enterment word over the weekend. >> yeah. we learned actor cameron boyce passed away. yhe actor known for his roles in several disne channel shows. >> here to talk about boyce's impact both on and off chmera kit ver from "access." kit, this was truly a remarkable young actor with a lot to his credit in his young life. what are we learning abou his death?

>> reporter: well, pat and leon, you said it. so shocking to wake up to hear the news of husband passing. he was just 20 years old when he paised away in sleep on saturday from a seizure that was related to an ongoing medical condition. he was found eresponsive in paramedics arrived. thinking about his family. now we look back in our vault. "access" has spent quite a bit of time over the years. look at this from jesse. >>he y, i'm cameron boyce. on the set of "jesse" and we're kicking it and talking and talking having fun. >> reporter: isn't that hard to see. >> oh, wow. >> reporter: here he is on our livew so neat with our grandmother. this was back in 2016. you m t bepretty proud of this guy right here. >> extremely proud of this guy right here. >> stop we have our de conversations. i tell him just like my parents told me you did do anything. you canbe anything. >> reporter: pat and leon, they

were so cute together. the grandmother was on, part of the clinton 12 therst group of a can american schools to integrate into public school back in 1956. there was a whole show on it ant watching themether and waking up to that news, i think our hearts broke. so much at all tent and for so many great roles, hollywood, all this support pouring in for them and waiting to hear that, so devastating. >> working on a new hbo movie. we tonight know what's going to happen t withat now. >> reporter: news i don't like to hear but certainly great to look back. >> warm thoughts being sent to his family, that's for sure. >> thank you, kit. >> thanks, pat and leon. new video just ahead of the dangerous floatingditions outside today and the damage all that water left behind. plus how our changing climate is partly to flame, and it could be the key for preventing more unintended pregnancies. we'll explain this new research.

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>> back now at 430, an historic dave flash flooding in the dmv. three and a half inches of rain

in just two hours. d.c. just announced several road closures will remain in effect through the evening rush hour. road talking about canal in northwest. part of kalorama road in northwest and arizona avenue in northwest and parts of south capitol street in southeast, and i-3959 north at the seventh street ramp. let's go to the storm center now with leon and doug. it's amazingthhat all stuff has cleared out. the impact will linger. >> we saw flooding inreas that we don't see flooding. we know four mile run is going to flood and rock creek has an issue and we tend to stay away from areas like this. this is downtown in people's neighborhoods that don't flood. >> you saw that scene on constitution. i don't think i've ever seen water like that there. >> that was upwards of two feet at time and those cars were getting stuck and we had all of this extremely heavy rain coming

through. this, guys, this is what'sng amazi about this. this storm went from up around frederick county all the way down towards paw tux youth riverive river. ly takes normal two to three hours to get across you're region but thi tookeven hours. the good news is it's over right now. it's out of here. we're not going to see that again. we'tart to dry out and, boy, will we dry out over the next ten days or so. we're tracking another chance of storms and i'lll you where the storms are. we've seen the torrential rains like we've seen today becoming far moreon comm and climate change is partly to blame. pat? >> as temperatures get warmer the atmosphere can hold and release mo moisture leading to heavy downpours, not just here and across the untry and scientists warn that trendould

intensify. rai is an essential part of the world's weatherst syem, but a lot of rain in a short amount of time like we saw today can overwhelm storm drainsleading to accidents on the roads damaging homes andf instructure. a new study in the "journal water resources research" shows heavy wnpours are on th rise. it's a trend we've witnessed over the last three to five decades when global warming started to tensify. >> the earth goes through srming and cooling processes, and what we'reing right now is that humans are real contributing to the amount of greenhouse gases that we're putting into theatmosphere, greenhouse gases like kory ali muhammad carbon dioxide and methane will trap the heat on earth rather than allowg it to escape out to space and when you trap the heat that leads to warmer temperatures. >> reporter: it's not just here. it's happening across the country. over e past few weeks rising rivers have flooded fields, inundated homes and threatened aging levees from iowa to

mississippi and a sopping wet winter led to mudslides in dss nornia, damagi t thouan ti onital climate ncsessment shows heavy downpours have ireased by 74% in the northeast, but we're not just talking about more rain. the conditions are also moreer s from hurricane florence's record-setting rain last summer in the carolinas to hurricane harvey which dumped more th 60 inches of rain on texas in20 17, the most ever recorded for a storm in the u.s., and meteorologists say the situation will likely get worse in our warming world.re what we'seeing with events like this, maybe go back a few decades and have a heavy rainfall event, but when yout fac in our change climates and the fact there's more watere vaporer, th water psych s&l super charged, i what that leading to is our extremes are getting more extreme. >> the washington region made hiory in 2018 with the wettest year on record.

it's just another example of o changing climate, and it doesn't end there. we invite you to search changing climattoin the nbc washing app to see how our warming world can affect your family, your health and evmu your comte which a lot of us found out in a very severe way this morning. >> mm-hmm. if you're just joining us at 4:35, let's get you caught up with four things to know. a family tragedy on courthouse road spotsylvania county this morning. three peoplere dead, and that includes a baby and a 12-year-old girl. this was a two-car crash. coming up at 5:00, we're going to hear from the people who tried to help them. financier jeff reepstein pleading not guilty to sex crimesnside a federal courtroom this afternoon. the 66-year-old is accused of creating and maintaining a network that allowed him to sexiamly exploit dozens of underage girls. procutors say they found a trove of illicit photos during a

search of his manhattan mansion on saturday. epstein will remain in jail until his bail hearing this thursday. the twist and turns continue in the kevin spacey sex assault case. today the man who accused spacef roping him in 2015 asserted his fifth amendment right not to testify. that moment came after spacey's lawyer questioned hibout a cell phone that was used the night of the alleged assault. last we t accuser dropped a civil case against spacey. and with outrage growing over the treatment of migrants at the fedal detention centers, president trump is now saying that reports of overcrowding andunsanitary conditions are overblown and he's going to prove it by allowing the press inside those facilities. thais welcome news to reporters who have been clamoring to document exactly what is going on, but there's no word yet on a time, a date, a location or the restrictions for these promised visits.

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from this morning's flash flood emergency. you can see t skies have cleared. we'll check pack in with doug and amelia on what happened still to come. tion eanwhile, compe between grocery stores. it's heating up as retailers battle for your business. >> yeah. it's a case where war is good for us. >> yeah. >> because we are the biggest winners in the grocery war is going to be you, yes. >> consumer reportn susa hogan here to tell you which stores can save you the most time and money now. >> this was such a great story. it was a working for you story r like i've done, an a lot of these big grocery store chains are turning their attention to online shopping as more and more you choose delivery and i curbsde services, so we wanted to know which ones give you the biggest bang for your buck soe' wve put them to the test. ♪ the stores make it look super easy in the end. pushing curbside service to make your life easier. no need to walk through the

aisles, order eonline, driv up and they load the stuff into your car. >> i'm at my house right now and i'm with my producers meredith and we're going to test out the curbingside ticket. they call theirs drive up. >> i'm doing walmart. there's grocery pickup and theirs is also free but they require a $30 minimum purchase. let's stop shopping. >> rep ter: wefilled our carts with all of the same items. >>cheros. >> sounds good. >> paper towels, two rules. got it. >> reporter: nure valley grbola s, 24 pack. same. i was even able to add target coupons. walmart doesn't accept coupans. meedith shared a window with your follow day and we place our

ord and about a -- i received a notification mine was ready.av i could h picked it up then but decided to wait until the next day to go and get it. now it's time to put giant and safeway. giant is called joint pickup buh ive to order it through the peapod app and i facew called drive up and go. we ordered the same items again, and chose a one-hour pickup window for the next day. safeway charges a fee of $3.95 for pickup. giant charges $2.95, not a huge price for the onvenience. also, both stores allow you to link your loyalty cards to your account so you'll actually see sale prices right in the app. i'm ready to pick up my target order. i'm going to let them know i'm on my way. the app asks me what kind of car i was driving and sugst i turn on location services so they automatically know when i pull

up. >> says park in front of the drive-up sign when i arrive. just a couple of minutes after we got there an employee appeared with a cart full of all of myitens and loaded them into my trunk, super easy. >> ten minutes before mypickup window. receive a notification from walmart so i'm going to check in and let them know i'm on the way. there were sevyeal emplo already outside. one asked for the name on the order and then went inside to grab it. a few minutes later sheas back and loaded everything into marion's trunk. next stop giant. they didn't send any instructions on where to go when i arrived,u so we j winged it. an employee was outside and within a matter of minutes he had all of our stuff loaded into the truck. >> hello. >> reporter: our last stop of theay was safeway. they let mayor death know to look for the drive up and go parkingpaces. called the number right there o thgn and they brought theoc

greries right out. after each pickup we went over the order for all of the stores that got it right. the only hiccup happened at target. they forgot to put my diet coke in the ca j theyt realized it and called me befo i even got out of parking lot so no big deal. okay. by they,wa all of the sto s where we shop say their emloyees do not accept tips for curbside pickup so there's no added cost theld. if you wou like to see a bakdown of the cost for curbside pickup services with all of the major grocery store chains in our area, open the nbc washington app.e we'v compiled the information into one situon for all of you. nocouple tomorrow, we put grocery delivery ser ce. we'll look to see if they got the orders right.

ndming up at 5:00 we'll do a facebook live aould i love to hear from you guys. we would love to hear whaveyou ha to say. >> all in for the curbside service. >> see you next hour. thanks, susan. let's get back to the weather. big story of the day. >> so, w doug, are done? >> we're done. we're actually done.st the integ thing is we talked about the flash flooding emergency and the warning. had a flash flood watch poed as early as noon. went into effect at 6:00 last night and came out at noon. the weather service knew there was a good chance of seeing the heavy rain, and weere telling you about that for the last cole of days and to get something like this real incredible. see what looks like out towards the potomac river and the potomac river is going to run high. here's the difference here.di we not have the heavy rain totals in towards the mountains. that's what comes down across our area, so we mayget a little

bit higher as far as tides go into d.c. and arlington. all the rain happened around the d.c. area and south along the poet marks so if you learn towards the norern neck and southern maryland and you live t alonghe motor mac ver there, close to the mouth of the chess see, it won't be a huge deal but for most of us down to the south hthe rain to go somewhere and it's making itsd way down the potomac river. we had all the rain coming on nd frederick ar is where it started. started around frederick at 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00. i mean, again. seven hours to go from frederick to lenered atown, that's amazing. that's how slow se storms were. that's why we saw such heavy rain associated with these. now they are out of here and no rin across ou region at all now. very good news. we'll be able to dry out as we move on through the next couple of days. wider view.t here's our storms again.

showers and storms developing along theasame arof low pressure. see that spinig coming rht out of our little area of low pressure and making its way down into parts oirginia, producing some storms d there, too. also producing much cooler temperatures. just take a look at the numbers. we're only in the 70s right now. 76 d.c. and 76 philadelphia. heat back to the west and we're talking about the heat moving back in across our area. humidity also going up over the last couple of days. do get a break from the -- we also have the chance s forowers and thundershowers. dry out there. not just dry on your accuse but beautiful planter. tomorrow a completely different story heading into, pretty comfortable and 73 degrees. mid-80s and seasonal highs

tomorrow 88. omorrow evening is going to be wonderful. 58 degrees at 7:00 p.m., plenty of sunshine. again, the humidity levels will be low throughout the entire day and with that the weather having a low impact on your tuesday. to and from work whether you're driving, walking or taking a bike, no issues weather-wise. now to y exercise ifu're getting out there in the morning, it's looking real comfortable, and if you have maybe an errand to run over your lunch break, definitely grab the sunglasses on your tuesday and same thing for wednesday and witthe lower humidity levels tuesday and wednesday, doug, the large ice tea, a and thursday friday we're going up to extra large. montgomery county in three hours from about 7:30 to 10:30 this morning dealt with 250 emergency lls. they typically deal with 300 in an entire day. >> wow, just incredible the amount of rain and water rescuee re across our area is as well. talking about t next couple of

days. 92 on tuesday and 139 on friday and 90s right on through the weekend. y notice here, too,ot only are we on the hot side with temperatures in the 90s. we only have a couple of chances of storms, one on thursday. yes, we could see strong to potentially severe storms on thursday and then another late next week and then younoeally ce some heat. 96 next wednesday and 97 next thursday. it looks like're really in for an incredibly warm if not hot july pattern that's setting up eially as we make our way towards the end of next week. 92, 93, 96, 97, that'some real heat. >> we're in the thick of it. >> really are. >> it's a joy. that's what we exthect. >> 's all you're going to get. >> you'll enjoy this as well because, you know, folks here hat news 4, we like to have fun. >> yeah, yeah, we do. no one knows fun like news 4's pat collins. >and pat says he has something big in t check it out.

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a dream one for queen tennis sensation came to a close today. 15-year-old coco gauff was eliminated in her frth round match at wimbledon. >> but there were other american women still live. >>nbc's blayne alexander reports from across the pond. >> really, really terrific. >> reporter: is a-year-old coco gauff, her cinderella run came to an end earlier today on the court. she was knocked out, eliminated in round four by sona halep. now, that's a playerho came in seeded number seven and has twice been ranked number one in the world.

so certainly notun a bad for the is a-year-old. her very first time at wimbledon, the youngest player ever to qualify now being knocked out in the round of 16. >> somebody told me this maybe three weeks ago i probably wouldn't believeit. i'm so excited to see if i continue to work hard to see what other success i can do in the future. >> but there is certainly a lot the tion to watch here on court still at wimbledon along th an upset today by an american. 29-year-old alison riske was able to knock out the number one seed which mens for the first time in her decade long career risque is going on to play in the quarterfinals of a grand sl tournament an faces off against serena williams tomorrow so certainly a lot of action to watch here at wimbledon. gu, back to you. >> "news 4 at 5:00" starts now. >> it is a historic and harrowing. right now at 5:00, after a morning of torrential downpours

that flooded our roads, stranded drivers and left lot of you cleaning up from a gigantic mess. >> huge, and not how anyone wanted to return to work after that lovely long weekend. now, as people are heading back home there's a new challenge on the rois. de damage. that's going to make this afternoon's commute tough. >> all over our area, tow truck drivers now trying to move cars that got stuck in those storms today. meanwhile, road cruise find themselves dealing with this mess. streets with craters that look more like the surface of the moon and check that thought. >> look at that. >> and it's not just limited to the road. riders with vre, with mark, tey uld all see delays this afternoon from the lingering impact to the rescues a dens of families forced out by this flooding, we have team coverage beginning with mark segraves and a look at the damage left behind in northern virginia. mark, take it