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 away.

>> reporter: yeah. good evening. just off laceberg pick which just shows you a goodish issial of -- this is carver's farm way and you can see the water running under here. it res over r thisoad this morning forces the closure of bridge. it was a difference kind of rush hour this morning as water rushed over the only access road to the neighborhood stranding hundreds of people as this is o theiry road in and out. >> it was high water are probably -- well, it was up above this guardrail. the scene was the same at four mile run in arlington where the racing water was so high it ooded this parking lot. in mcclain, several cars were washed away by the force of the flooding water.

parts of the gw parkway had to be closed because of the rising ter this. man wasappy the water didn't get inside his car. >> driving to work, water comini down and stopped. picked the wrong spot to stop. this was the sne on chimney hood near portfolio trap war car -- heavy rain was a factor in this accident on 49 >> and you canee behind mr rcengoonr eecoveri the roads but a spokesperson for the virginia department of transportation says there's still a few dozen roads impacted by this mning's flooding including some bridges and they say that's because while the water has recede, structural eineers still need to go out and check those roads to make sure they are safe for vehicles to go across. many of the roads had so much on

water hem they tell me that the asphalt actually was peeled up off of the bridges so that's making some of the bridges still impassable so that's the latest out here in northern virginia. jim, back to you. >> want to make sure that they are still not a risk for the evening and tomorrow morning commute. it's been a while since we've seen pictures like that. wepd? >> dozens of people had to be fr rescued their flooded vehicles throughout the area. this is the picture from one of hem. this is tuckerman lane in potomac. montgomery county had more than 50eues and so did fairfax. arlington had more than three dozen, and the d.c. fire department had more than a ozen. >> would you look at this. frederick has seen more than 5 inches of raing today durin the morning deluge. that area has seen extensive damage in past flooding, we know, but extensive damage seems to have been avoided this time. >> back to montgomery county but

the floods washed away parts of the avement, and that's the situation for one neighborhood in potomac. news 4's aimee cho joinss live just off of mcarthur boulevard. crews have been business out be there ind you, haven't they, aimee? >> wendy, absolutely. we're on belfast road. crews are having to fill this road in with rocks and gravel. that's becaus earlier today that road was completely washing away and this is the only read had to trek through the forest arnd the road if they wanted to go anywhere. a look at some of e unbelievable damage tonight todays is this is a type of scene that played out all throughout montgomery county this morning. a neighbor along stable lyne lane in potomac took this video showing this car completely stuck in the mud and whatever plans these neighbors in

bethlehem have, they will have to wait. >> they can't even wait. >> on to mcarthur before, they will fast through. not a -- it's the only road into this neighbor. she says she's never seen anything like this. >> i'm worry about the poor people. >> doug worries abt the other side of the split. >> it's narrow but you can get down there. >> reporter: he had to cross the creek to get out. i'll be working from home and doi calls and got two dogs so hanging out for them and just waiting until this gets fixed. >> and back over on the klara barton rkway, that road now a river. crews working to get the cars out, drs now cove in thick

mud. >> i need t stay home until it's done raining. >> back onny bevel fat road. for the end. day that fix can't come soon enough. this has been a very complicated repair out here. as you can see, lots of damaged pipes and uprooted pipes down ere in that creek. just generally one big mid mess and coming back up here to belfast road it looks like they are on track to get the repairs done quickly by the end of the day. jim? >> and then tomorrow get ready for all the mosquitos out there. all right. imee cho, thank you. well, i have to dodge the waters quickly riding an -- >> reporter: reservoir road certainly became a waterfall and a lot ended up on can fall road

and some of them got on to theo ro of their cars and others actually dove into the water and dove for cover. i mean, this was a true flash flood emergency. the water rose so quickly and drivers had an extremely limited time to react, and we have a unique challenge here in washington. when heavy weather, flooding and heavy traffic combined, it's often not as turning around and drowning and a lot of drivers who were closest. they were bothered by a yok and a haar- it was a one-which road with no good drivers. >> david dildine from wtop. from upper northwest to the southeast where the rains is shutt down capitol streets at malcolm x avenue. you can see the roof of some

kind of car that was in the high waters there. we're woing to find out if that area is okay. >> even the white house not spared from the flooding. water gushed into theen basem work spaces for the press. that's near the white house's west swing. workers are still watching for theource of this league. what a mess there. all right. the question is now when do we get to dry out? >> that's the question for doug and amelia. the timing of all of this. how long is it going to take, guys? >> well, the rain isout of here and that's the good news, and we're going to see not just the dry on the interior, but we're dry for the next ten days. >> we were actually issued a flash flood emergency, something that wasat in -- for many

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fastest way to get breaking weather alerts to you when you're not on the arthur. >> three people including the child and the baby were killed. the car they were riding in crossed the center line here and was struck along the courthouse road in spotsylvania county near lake ana yesterday. as northern virginia jeachulie mayor eports, the go tans who helped to rush them are also dealing with difficult memories from their life-saving efforts. >> reporter: the orange paint flashing across kuyt house ro and the debris on the roadside, all that's left to market terrible crash sunday afternoon ardente 3:00. kim snelling lives nearby. she her the it and game running. >> sounded li an explosion went off, and it's one.

most pore isk things i've ever seen. really bad. >> these were the two vehicles. left an hour later. a on thea correct ran off the right side of the roadd overcorrected and drove right into the path of an ongoi acura. an children and one lady. pashlgts.total of six infant the cpr on the and a few other actions. >> reporter: snelling said he could hear one child crying out from inside. the rookie >> momma, i'm alive, and repeated over and over and over again. >> reporter: a 32-year-old passenger identified as anna pascual was killed along with a 12-year-old gill and a so-month-old boy. the child wasen tak to the hospital for life-threatening.

today snellings is praising all the good samaritans and the third responders who first arrived but she's seen too many bad accidents on this havily traveled area. >> coming up, a look at a man who was charged with a urd per he did not come um. come up next, a commuted sentence and what's next now that he's been given his freedom baci >> i'm go to spend every single day remembering everything that you guys did for me. > plus a billionaire financier charged with sex trafficking and abusing nderage girls. the case against jeffr epstein as he goes before a judge in federal court. i'm adam tuss. the rain is causing huge issues

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and chopper 4 is over white's i ferry which docked for the evening for now becausew of the highater. it is not running. when he was 15 years old curtis brooks was charged with a murdery he did notcommit, and he spent the last 24 years in prison because of mandatory sentencing. his case has helped change some mandory juvenile sentenci laws around our country, and it could have an impact he in maryland. our prince george's county bureau chief tracey wilkins has his story. >> reporter: when maryland state senator first met brooks she was

his principal and the little boy who read well above grade level would eventually move to colorado where life took a drastic turn, and at 15 he ded up in prison for a murder he did not commit. >> he didn't kill anybody and was charged with felony murder. but it doesn't stop there, ladies and gentlemen. he was put in cole tr confinement for ten years in a room about the said of the bat.d >> he a a group of friends shot and killed ramos but mandator sentencing got brooks a mandatory prison sentence. i would be foolish if i knew this babe was in trouble and i didn't do zig about?

>>. with help of from.s. senator van hollen brooks was granted clemency. he was released july is contract. >> welcome home, curtis roy. >> after 24 years in rison, crux has a hey. i'm going to -- hopefully a foregive that i can recommend. they arerying to change juvenile prison laws in maryland with new legislation n.capital heights, tracey wilkins, news 4. >> as part of his release he does have five years of p and says he wants to speak out on this subject and he wants to reach the colorado prison system to help implement reforeign there.

>> all right. guys. all the years that we have called this place home, i can't remember people standing on their cars like that. >> no turning around. >> you can -- you've got the side of e hill right here, and then you've got the barriers on the side and all it takes is for a couple of barriers to have sticks or stuff in them or it comes up so fast tha that's -- we don't get it very often but h got it today. that's why wead a lot of flash flood warnings arou area, but it was the first time at we ever implemented the flash flood emergency from the ertional weather service a little bit earli today. we'll show you some of this video as it made its way through parts of the roamingon. parts of fairfax and parts of montgomery county and d.c.

underwater. yeah. t a terribngs to do. turnaround don't pont. >> you can see what's happe with some of the roads. that's why this evening and watch for. now we've seen the rain diminish the last couple of hours. yer a, 6, 7 and level out here: we're not expecting. >> record rainfall. 3.44 inches ateagan national al. the secti this-year had 5.5.y

that's wh it was so prolific as far as the flooding was concerned. we had an area of low pressure. here's 6:00 a.m. right over our ngregion this morni but you don't normally get thunderstorms in the morning hours, so what happened? you have that are of low pressure, but then you also had a nce little system aloft, and what that did is create those thunderstorms and it allowed hose storms to grow in intensity and grab a lot of moisture out of the atmosphere and just rain down on us in ar vequick fashion. that's why we saw the flooding across our area today. it's now out of here and we saw some clearing skies. some sunshine. temperatures 78 degrees and well below average.s wind out of northeast at 12 miles per hour. everybody alongth mid-atlanticor and ntheast below average as a result of this tomorrow system. showers and thunderstorms down to the south, but, for us. there's also a system around

atlanta that could becomeur next trepp call serve or harriet, maefg down to the without a nice day. that's the next best chance for a thunderstorm. won't do a lot for us as we're still rather hot on the day on friday. we'll talk much more about the weekend forecast and more about the heat makingay its >> good to see you g >> butch -- ahead at 5:00, the father forced to carry chis. >> news 4 is working for your money hoping to make

we say it all the time, turn around, don't drown and this is an example of just how wrong things can go if you drive into water. even if the water doesn't seem that deep? this man was forced to carry his kids, as you can see, through waist-deep wwter. this as the flooded out little falls parkway in montgomery county. mollette green has the rescue ngthat you're only goi to see here on news 4. >> reporter: it only took a few minutes for a bad decision to put a family in danger in the

high waterom this the dramatic rain that fell during the height of the morning rush. watch here as this dad had to carr hiswo little girls. they were around 7 years of age in each arm to get them out of their stalled tr,pped in high water here at the intersection of little falls parkway and massachusetts avenue. luckily the dad was able to carry them awayel saf and a good american 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 -- why he grabbed that out of the window. >> i was going to just go near by him and then i -- i saw that it was okay that he grabbed the kids and so then he -- he -- they were walking one grass area, and you took them home. >> i took them home, yes. the kids were a little bit

afaid, and they were like oh, dad, what's going to happen to the car and what's going to happen to our backpack, and the good samaritan was enough enough to bring the damage's back so he would -- until the water receded and things botk to normal, the dad's stalled-out car emains here the site at. >> got to see what happenswhen the wife sees this video. >> what were you doing with the kids in the flooding water? >> and shows us why -- and sonny you'll see on our can't.

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pavement buckled, even wash away. that's the kay for one neighborhood in potomac. crews areorking to repair this massive sink home in the only road in or out. >> look halt the size ofthose craters. the flashlooding csed many roads including -- check this out. this is the view from an apartment in arlington where the flash floods turned the outside into a giant pool, and not too far away an unbelievable site here along four mile run in arlington. these are the top of vehicles parked along the stream where the water rose about 7 feet in just about 30 minutes. >> wow. >> unreal. >> all of this flooding led to a waterfall in metro this morning. >> yeah. it looked like an inverted geiser. heavy water gushed into the virginia metro station in lington for about 20 minutes. >> news 4's transportation reporter adam tuss is live.

have things improved since then? >> reporter: absolutely, wendy, ou know.to it's good report that tonight the metro system is. the inverted geyser, i'm not sure but it's hard to believe this is today comp to the same day and take a look at what all the water did to the metro system. water, water everywhere. take a look again in slow motion as the metro train is shattered with wallfall when spring. >> it's been a very challenging morning as a result of heavy rainfall we've been seeing. >> reporter: this isn't the fired time water has gush from the metro ceiling. >> atop the vault structure that you see there there's almost like an addict above it and if

water pools in that area and it's not properlyh draining ten you can see that kind of infiltration occur. >> lots of water left on the metro track, and it wasn't just the city. metro is sending as -- sending warnings as torrential rainfall impacted service. roads were also challenging. some facing pools of water in the parking garages and one driver capturing a raging rivere that develop along 66. tonight, thankfully, the ride is much calmer. and back here at the virginia square and metro station. metro has actually had crews out here all day trying to clear debris from around the metroti staon to make sure that there isn't another blockage and that water rell doesn't develop next

time. >> it was pretty in its own freakish way. eah. next time you can come with mow. >> okay. >> whether it a as the inverted iser. >> now we're goik dry out, but how did we get here in the first place? >> the slow moving storm, is that it? >> a slow moving storm with a ton of moisture associated with t.know how warm and humid we've been and the flash flood flied -- it was mentioned at no for the day at the national weather service. we had the moisture in place and needed the trigger and look at what happened, traurl on down towards of suits. goes from rhett lick or le

rdstown. really quite amazing to see how clowe the snowstorms were going. extremely heavy rainfall at sack this morning and right around 395, 495 on the beltway, just incredible amountf rain. rainfall rates of 3 to 4 inches per hour hand look what that left behind. these are radar estimates and look at ground troops now. it looks like many of these are correct. 4.6 inches around frederick and 5 inches around the potomac area. the official there, 5.55 officiallyhere. 3.4 down towards waldorf and 4.1 down towards southern calvert county. an amazing day as far as rain is concerned. the good news is the whole sysm is pushing south. what comes next? see you back here in ten minutes. >> thank you, doug. thiss a story you'll seal only on news 4. ha a local mother's two boys ended in a shooting paralyzed. theth oer dealing with other --

>> rr: on may 4 this boyfe hanged forever. >> i was standing on the steps. >> reporter: he was shot a the bullet striking his spine. he spent weeks in the hospital hoping for a full recovery, but it was mother ebony who told him the prognosis. >> she told me you'll be all rht, but you're going to be i paralyzed. said i'm going to still live, and she said yeah, and i saidat th's all that matters. >> reporter: renal knows how p icious live because three months earlier his brother royal

was sho steps away from their home. >> and i was running and i pushed a girl out of the way. >> reporter: at 12 years old royal says he saved a girl's life while almost losing his own and now he's too scared t go outside. >> sometimes i go outside, and i'm like you go outside, and it's my last time seeing him. >> reporter: royal helps his brother get around and do the things he can't do for himself because their mother always taught them that family s together. >> oh, it's heartbreaking that this is what we've got to go through. >> the traum rarks and the wound still linger, but their fast and lo is still strong. renal won't give up hope he'll beat the odds and his mom says her family live ll neverbe the same. >> he canha do thingst he normally did. my first son was shot, he's

scared to go outside, and, so, yes, they were robbed of their childhood. >> reporter: ebony's son,ow tuning choice caught in waves of violence that too often leave innocent kids with fermenent scars. >> you'll likely notice in the story that eby's home is not handicap accessible and they eyll us that her family is approved and th are at top of the list to receiv e, but someone would need to move out so that her familcan moven, and jim and wendy, they just don't know when that will be. >> what a hardship. did they ever find the people who shot the two kids, especially the one that was paralyzed? >> we asked the family and they have been checking in with police and that so far no arrests have been made in either of those cases. >> it's so great that they have got each other. >> i know. >> but what a horribl t way form that close bond. my goodness.

>> and we still have shootings almost every day and the numbers e just adding up since these two were hit. >> they are hoping that their story will convince at least o person to put the cars down because it's innocent>>

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to the nationals success over the last seven year, as you know, but finally folks outside d.c. are recognizing his value. he's been named to his first all-star team, and even though he's not playingn the game choosing to rest some nagging injuries, he opens up to news 4's johnny holiday about thegn recoion and the hot topic of his pending free agency. ♪ >> reporter: you made the all-star team for the first time in the seven years in the major leagues. who did you call first, your mom or dad? >> we were in detroit. my mother grew up in detroit and they actually have family there and i saw tem afterhe game and broke the news to them in person. >> first time. >> vaunbelieble. >> reporter: how many times did you hear from your high school team that i got a weller from. a good gore group of friends

that hold me accountable. >> thel al-star game is time-consuming, and no secret you would like to be with your family and get the time off because of knicks and bruises. she's going realig real fast. growing more one and chomping on everything. coming up, this is the optionor in the. . i want to give you my opinion because y're not going to give me your opinion. i guarantee it. >> i can't let it all out there. an>> i under >> what you've done for this ball club is incredible off the charts, and like you've said before, it's out of your hands. let the other people negotiate and whatever will be will be. >> yeah, definitely. >> like i said. i like to try to control things that i can control and hopefully my play on the field speaks louder. >> rendon's future in d.c. very

much in the hands of his superagent scottoras. we'll hear from boras on rendon coming up on "news 4 at 6:00" tonight so you'll want to stick ound for that. >> wendy. >> back home and feeling the love. the u.s. women's national soccer team arriv about anour ago in newark after winning the world cup in france. we love the shots, the salute of water cannons who deveeded them 2-0. the u. living up to all of its pre-tournament hype winning its fourth title. a ticker tape parade will be held for these champions on thursday. >> weather makng a celebratory freezing or good smoothie. ahead at 5:00, susan hogan reports onwhich is the bestfor your needs. >> and a youth leader at a local church is sentenced to prison forat an illegal relnship with a teenage girl and what he said to h victims and own familisy

a lot of areas still reeling from this morning flash flood emergency. we check back in with doug and amelia in just a few minutes. the victim's family called it a betrayal of trust. today a judge sentenced a former youth minister who is accused prague on teenage girls in his family's church. news 4's derrick ward h the story from prince william county. jordan baird, the up-time youth andle ministry ader is going to spend the next three years in priss onlt earlin.o earlier this month he met guilty to taking liberties withouth. he was 23 at the time. he's charged with touching a girl inappropriately and texting her with sexually explicit messages and requests. today at a sentencing hearing a court-appointed clinical

psychologist testified that baird suffered from a condition that made him sexually attracted to late adolescent girls and that heacked impulse control to refrain from acting on that attraction. the victim's family said how baird had won their trust and betrayed the trust. already served five months in jail for an offense involving another underage girl from his church. he didn't take the stand in today's sentencinin heand did tearfully apologize in court to the victim and his own wife and daughter but the state's attorney called him a dekiefer,l manipor and sexual predator. meanwhile baird stressed three points to the judge before the sentence was handed down telling the judge, equote, that hook full responsibility for his action. he also said that despite what the state's attorney said he wane the man thathe was four years a ago that whatever was decided he would take it like a man. with tht, the judge gave baird a total of six years, suspending all but three, plus three years supervised probation. baird's attorney had asked for

probation, and he said he realize that the judge's hands are tied by the sentencing guidelines. he's happy that the judge stayed on the low end of the guidelines and other programs and his client may be out in three years n.manassas, derrick ward, news 4. >> a special session opens tomorroand it's expected to open tomorrow and governor ralph northium is looking at local gun ountrol measures including universal backgrnd checks and a ban on assault weapons. this comes after a municipal worker killed 12 employees last mon julie carey will be reporting ic fromond tomorrow on news 4. >> well, did you -- did you survive this morning, and are you surviving this afternoon in the commute back? yikes. what it means. weird to hear thunder at 8:00 in the morning and you're hearing hunderer. >> these storms first erupted

around 5:00, 6:00 in the morning. f the plains arts and parts of the south and not around our area. you have to have perfect conditions like the storm today and definitely had them with raiall rates of upwards of 3 to 4 inches per hour. in the month. july we avera 3.8 inches for month and in one hour wead 3.31 inches, almost a month's worth of rain in one hour and that's why we had the flooding. take a look at what's happening outside right now. we had some lightning and thunder. there was a warning posted for parts of southern maryland. that was about it. it wasn't the w windh this one. it was the rain. the incredible amounts of rain moving slowly down to the south. seven hours to go from frederick all the way down towas the leonardtown area. that's why we saw so much rain. he rain is out of here and we'll be drying out in a big way. take a look. there's a storm moving down to the south so nothing around our area now.

tomorrow actually looking like a beautiful afternoon. look at the temperatures today and held down because of the rain and cloud cover. 78 degrees and 76 in philadelphia and 82 in richmond, but look down justto farther the south. 91 in roanoke so the heat is not all that far away and as the storm exits the heat is the o going right back in. tomorrow, amelia, we're talking bout temperatures close to average. our average high temperature today 89 degrees. >> today we had only 80 for our official high at reagan national. tomorrow morning it's going to be a really nice start out there. we'll have plenty of sunshine and low humidity and comfortable. 72 degrees at 7:00 a.m. so if you're getting out in the ve den tomorrow, things dried out. it's looking quite nice and especially the earlier the better. around lunchtime we're at 84 degrees. plenty of sunshine around the day and a high tomorrow 88. those humidity levels will stay in check on your tuesday. w the experts at merryfield garden center tell us to corol mosquitos by eliminating sources of standing water if that's not possible. you can use mosquito dunks in

birdbaths and ponds. those are pet and people friendly. other impacts that the htather mie having on your day tomorrow, a pretty low impact. rk. commute to and from w no issues weather-wise so whether you're driving, walking, taking the bike to and from work, tomorrow will a nice day. exercise the earlier the better during the morning hours. if you're running a lunchtime errand around there, reach for the sunglasses. doug with the lower humidity level, not only tomorrow but wednesday as well. the ice-tea only needs to be large and come thursday and friday you obably want to upgrade to extra large. it's muggy and hot and on thursday we have some storms potentially impacting the area. >> you realize mcdonald's it's $1 for any size, right? >> i have to do something with the meter, rit? >> objection i got you. i wasn't sure. tomorrow 88 degrees and plenty of sunshine tomorrow. low humidity that amea is talking b.91 on wednesday, so, yeah, it's hot and without the humidity it won't be all thatb

and then we start to work into the more humid weather. 92 on thursday and a good chance of showers and thunderstorms and some could be strong and possibly severe. 93 degrees on your friday, and as we make our way into the weekend we stay into the low 90s. 93 on sunday. that's a hot dayut that's nothing compared to where we get in the middle of next week. look at net wednesday and thursday, guys, and that's a trend that could stick around for a while. all right. sounds like we could use a frozen cocktail right now, some frozee. >> it's after 5:00. if you're serving frosti zernow drinks at your next party you need a blender. our consumer reporter susan hogahas a great deal of experience. >> she's burning through blenders. >> i don't know what you're talking about. >> this is by fare best story of the day, imean, frozee all y. whetherur go-to drink is a margarita, a frozee or a virgin strawberry damagery, you want a

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>> reporter: vitamixes professional series has held a top spot in "cr" ratings for quite some time. it's pricey. $650. for $100 consider the ninja professional. it's excellent when it comes to blending up an icy drink and udemolishes the ice test. one last tip from nick. >> go ahead. >> best thing tat you can do for at-heat frozee is use high quality iredients. you only get back from it what u put no it. >> reporter: so "consumer reports" w so evaluates howell a blender purles vegetab into a smooth consistency so when the cold weather hits you can switch from your frozen drinks to a warming up. i personally have the ninja one. >> i love those. >> and i love it. it's great for like butternut squash soup. >> smoothies. >> my vitamix could blend my former blender. i can blend my blender in my vitamix. >> so expensive. >> sooh pritive. >> but there are great ones that re cheaper.

a friend of presidents, prince andrew and other high-profile celebrities in jil sex trafficking charges. >> we're talking about billionaire jeffrey epstein who pled not guiltyuring his first court appearance. nbc's jay gray reports that the charges come from a dsturbing discovery in epstein's home.

>> reporter: the allegations are horrifying. >> children who are asked to engage in direct and indirect sex acts for money. >> reporter: by wall street billionaire jeffrey estein who pulled evidence from his new york mansion during a weekend search. >> evidence including need a photographs of what appeared to be underage girls. >> the 66 years financier pleading not guilty this afternoon to fedal charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy. prosecutorsay the abuse continued for years and included dozens of victims. reporters at "the miami herald" have interviewed hundreds of his accusers. >> all he cared about was go me new girls. wanted fresh young faces every single day. g i starteding to him when i was like 14, 15. s> reporter: no comment from epstein's lawyerince his arrest. he's already a registered sex offender pleading guilty in 2008 to state charges of soliciting a

minor. he spent 13 months in jail, part a widely criticized plea deal. lawyers for his accusers also speaking out today. >> they have gone through years and years and years ofeing attacked, of being maligned by mr. enstone and his enablers. >> reporter: many n he says, looking forward to their day in court. jay gray, nbc news. flash flood emergency. dramatic water rescued >> every started making it and we went for it. >> this will go down in historyu as one ofr worst flash flooding events intr me d.c. history. er buckled roads, flooded out cars. ust gushing into my vehicle. >> reporter: rivers run wild. an underground water fall, and a morning rush hoururned upside down. >> no, ist ju want my car back.

>> we're working with you with v live teamage to show you what happened and what to expect next. >> what a monday. now at 6:00, the dmv under water. good evening, i'm wendy rieger. >> and i'm jim han ey. folks,unbelievable scenes like this one throughout our region all morning long. >> the roads turn to rivers as sovers are forced to women to safety. the powerful storms dunchlg inches of rain in just overn our and right now the worst of it is over and the water is receding. >> from the roads to the rails d to those rescues we have cruise all across our area this evening. >> news 4's aimee cho kicks o ur coverage live from potomac. what was it like there, aimee? >> hey, jim and wendy, it's bee absolutelazy out here. we're on belfast road where crews are working to fix the street. earlier today that wase onant hole. the entire street was washed away. the crews have since filled it in with rocks and a gravel. they have been working very quickly. now this street is the only roa