>> 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 road that leads into that neighborhood over there on the

other side. neighbors who live on the other side were having to trek through the forest around the road if they wanted to get out. certainly very dangerous and convenient, and it is also the type of travel that a lot of people around the region have been forced to do today. >> i want to see how deep it is. >> reporter: wading through dirty water. this morning that was the only way tot around a lot of streets in potomac. the tennis court practically under water. here you can barelyl, tel but this is a swimming pool at the river fall swim and tennis club and over on horseshoe lane rushing water turned this street into a raging river. now be neighbors are left toic about up the pieces. >> there was just brown water just pouring out. >> this is what's left of laura gwynn's basement potomac. her home gymequipment, her toys, prized possessions all covered in soggew se water. she took this video deoutsi her house this morning. her husband braving the downpour

to go move their trk to safety. he and the truckth are bo fine now, but through potomac a lot of neighbors say ey are l too familiar with the site of flooded streets. this video tak on stable lanes. can you see a arstuck in the mud. neighbors around here tell us their street floods all thee. tim they say their street has drainage problems and they wish workers would do something to fix it. >> this is all wet. the bottom there is all wet. can you see all that water. >> andy tucker's car was filled up with dirty water in the process, but he's on of the lucky ones. some cars were completely destroyed like these riders flooded out on the klara barton parkway this morning. >> shouldn't be out here. should have stayed home until it was done raining. >> reporter: throughout maryland even though the rainthç swallow up countless cars and did bl unbelievadamage, neighbors say they are just glad everyone is okay. >> back here onbelfast road crews tell me nixing the street

eack here has been a top priority becaust's the only road that lead into the ighborhood. they are telling me they are hoping to have this street back up an running by later in the day. jim, wendy. >> so many drivers want the insurance system to write off the cars as a total los >> you don't know what water does to it over time. you just don't know. >> aim, thanks so much. up live in potomac. the water came suddenly on route is 23 this morning in virginia, to >> driver captured how bad it was headed towards the gw parkway but his suv was high enough from the road to get through, but he passed several drivers who are not as lucky. >> this was just one of theou tre spots all over northern virginia today. >> news 4's mark segraves continues our team coverage. f he knowsrfax county. mark? >> reporter: yeah, good evening, wendy. we're just off leesburg pike this was one. trouble sbots that jim was you can it aing about. take a look. this is colvin run.he tater has receded here and earlier this morning the warroa

it shows you the force of the power and water that raged here today. it left an entire neighborhood stranded. it was a fferent kindof rush hour this morning as water rushed over the only access roan to theghborhood stranding hundreds of people as this is their only road ainnd out. >> it was high water probably -- well, it was up above this guardrail. >> the scene was the same at four mile run in arlington was the racing water was so high it flooded this working lot in mcclain seve cars were washed away by the force of the rushing water. parts of the gw parkwayhad to closed at because of the rushing hour and this man is happy the t water didn't get inside his car. >> driving to work, raining, and the water was coming down so i stopped and picked the wrong

spot to stop. smaller roads in the great falls area also were csed because of the flooding. this was the scene on chimney road near w trap where a car is nearly coveredy the rising water. ite flooding h roads hard ross northern virginia. the heavy rain is a factor in this accident on 495. >> now while most of the water has receded inof most he roads in northern virginia have been reopened a spokesperson for the virginia department of rt transpoion tell me they do have structural engineers out checking some smaller bridges that were flooded this morning to make surehat they are sound enough to allow traffic to resume back over them. >> right now parts of district are still under water and that's closing road cl>>ures there. take a look at your screen right now. we want to bring up part of canal road. i-395, south capital street.

they are all still shut down right now. >> here's why.hy this is w-- this is that area of south capital near malcolmx avenue. that's the roof of a car under several feet of water. d.c. crews had to rescue at least three cars that became trapped earlier today. >> this is why twe alwaysl you to turn around. more rescues at 15th street and multiple cars left completely randed as thear quickly rose up here. we spoke with a woman who was trapped in her car.re >> the was no water and then there was just a ton of water and then myar flooded. someone from an ambulance came and now i -- now just want my car back. >> we've got a fu list of which streets are closed. you'll find it on the nbc washington app. just search road closures. >> now, all these scenes caused by what turned into a flash

flood emergency. >> also, doug, this is because that storm moved show slowly, correct? >> yeah. it was not moving very fast at all making its way across our area, and it had just incredible rainfall. most of the rain we saw, guys, happened in one hour. 3.3 inches of rain in one hour all told today at the airport. 3.44 inchhe. that's t sixth wettest jppened . that's why we saw the flooding. these storm moving incredibly slow. you can see it's really just this one storm that made its way downeaacross the a you can see what i'm talking about from frederick through montgomery county and the d.c. area and towards southern maryland. it took seven hours to go from frederick down towards leordtown. just amazing. rainfall currently. nothing out there. cn't see anything out there over the nextple of days even. this whole system moving down to te south and much nicer conditions over next couple of days. we'll talk about how much rain

we saw and what's coming in next and what this alles as we head the rest of the weekend.yo show u storm chances. >> a on days like this an important reminder make sure you have our nbc washington app.he it's t fastest way to get breaking weather alerts to you when we're not on the air. and you can monitor the latest conditions in your neighborhood. we have some breaking ne. eric swalwell called for joe biden to pass the torch to the neth generation in first democratic presidential debate, but swalwell has apparently decided that he will not be the one to carryth it. congressman from california is now the first democrat to drop out of the 2020 race. speaking this afternoon swalwell admitted that a lack of fund-raising andsuport in the polls made it unlikely for him o qualify for the debates co up this fall. >> so now there are what 22, 23? >> 125. >> yeah, right. noto the crisis at our southern border. the white house is on the

defensive after the reports that migrants a being held at border detention centers that are overcrowded and unsanitary. critics have described the compani conditions asrrific and inhumane. how the president plans to correct those reports. susan? >> jirnlg the presidem, the preg the reports calling them fake news but he will allow reporters, at least some, and we don't know, when into the detention facities to have a look. >> close the camps. >> as outrage grows around the ntuntry over the treatment of undocumented migra at federal detention centers, president trump calls reports of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions phony and exaggerated and says he'll prove it. >> i'm going to start showing some of these detention centers because -- to the press. >> still no word on when the media will be welcome, but those who have been inside describe ing conditions. >> 15 women, tears coming down

their faces, as they talked about being separated from their children, about hog no running water. >> a government watc describes severe overcrowding, essexively long holding of migrants and dirty conditions this, as the prident promises mass roundups of umundted migrants for deportation fairly soon. meanwhile the administration continues its fight to add a citizenship question to the u.s. eensus, something immigrant advocates argu would lead to severe undercounting of minorities and immigrants. >> you're asking everything are you a citizen of the united states. howery dicklous is that? >> the white house moving forward despite a supreme court ruling blocking it. >> polling shows that about two-thirds of americans think it's rea anable to have citizenship question on the census, so that way it's good for not only his base but beyond his base. >> today president trump touting his environmental record in a white house speech despite critics who accuse the administration of reversing many environmental gains.

now on wednesday there willea ba hring here on capitol hill. the inhumane treatmench kids at the border. they are going to be taking a look at the trump policies and how they are affecting the crisis after reports of neglect, possible abuse at theor br. jim? >> susan, thank. the stories of the migrant children held in those detention centers have yet to be fully told, but they will be woven into the fabric of american history, and we may some day see it through their eyes in the national museum of american history. the smithsonian is interested in taining these disturbing drawings which showed you last week. they are the work of children who are so and 11 years old. they have just been released from a migrantdetention center down in texas. the american academyf pediatrics shared the drawings with nbc news and other media outlets. when we come right back at 6:00 tonight, continuing coverage of our flash flood emergency. >> a local father clutching hisr two daught as they escape the

rising floodwaters. more on this video just ahead. i'm julie carey in spotsylvania county where this orange paint marks the site of a accident.eadly three people killed. two of them children.o twothers left fighting for their lives. coming up, we'll hear from a good samaritan who rushed to the scene. plus, an emotional ft homecoming a a maryland man spends more than two dedes in prison. >> i'm going to spe every single day remembering everythi that you guys didng f

back now at 6:15 with this f new video roads turned into

river other in arlington. this is near ninth road and walter reid even metro buses having some trouble and taking a live look now at the radar. you can see the rain is gone. h doug wie plenty more on he drying out in just a few minutes. >> this was a deadly holiday eekend in our area. at least nineople were killed in crashes. one person in centerville. one in gaithersburg and one in frederick. a young woman was killed in a deadly wrong-way crash on the beltway in lanham. five people killed in spotsylvania. northern virginia bureau chief ulie carey reports on a crash there. it took three lives and two of them children. >> orange painunning from the shoulder of courthouse road across the center line to thent poif deadly impact. the honda accord carrying two adults and three children almost unrecognizable when it was towed away. kim snelling lived nearby and she heard it and came running. >> it sounded le an explosion

went off, and i ran up to the accident. one.- and it's most horrific things i've ever seen. really bad. >> virginia state police say the accident happened when a honda accord ran off the right side of the road and overcorrected driving right into the path of an oncoming acura m. inside that accord two women and three children, one just a baby. this was one of the dispatchwi calls emergency crews. >> six patients. working cpr on an infant. >> reporter: snelling says she could hear one child crying ou from inside the vehicle. >> momma, i'm alive. and repeatedly over and over and over again. >> reporter: a 32-year-old passenger identified as anna pascual was killed along with a 12-year-old girl and a nt 10-h-old boy. the driver and another child were taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. snelling help the fairfax

county couple in the suv which had flipped into the ditch after impact. the man and woman both suffering serious injuries. >> he broke the wind out with his arm trying to get out of the car and trying to get to his wife. p> reporter: residents say some safety imrovements have been added here. ithe rumble strithe middle of the road, but they would like to see more changes. snelling thinks a flashing yellow light here could help slow traffic. >> they think they are in the rural part of the county and they can drive however fast they want. >> ate police have not yet determined if speed was aactor in this fatal crash n.spotsylvania county, julie carey, news 4. >> amid all the cheers, the jubilation and fireworks on the fieldthe crowd at the 2019 world cup had a message for the world about equal pay. when team usa hoiste the trophy, the crowd chanted equal pay. these women are set to get $30 million prize money this year. contrast that with the prize for the men's world cup last year,

$400 million. soccer's governing body plans to double the women's prizeor the next world cup, but critics argue there's no reason to way. the omen's team is already suing thce u.s. socr federation. the lawsuit alleging genderim discration that affects pay and working. conditio we chefnlgtd tcked. there's laws that prohibit age discrimination based on sex here in the d.c. area. >> doug kammerer shows us what a busy day it's been from the get go on storm team 4. >> most of the storms in the afternoon and chuck bell here in the morning deal with something he doesn't get to see very often hanthat's not just incredible amounts of rainfall but flooding, flash flooding early in the morning and that affects the morning rush. we see that a lot with the afternoon rush but not for the morning rush. take a look at these pictures out of frederick maryland. you know, these are homes, these are streets an flood roadways in through people's neighborhoods. parts of frederick county saw 3

this nches of rain early morning look at water rescues going on there. there were dozens and dozens and dozens of waterescues in just about every county that this made its way through. i got an email from a viewer down in fridaysburg that said what rain? we saw nothing here. nothing around fredericksburg. it was really this swath right in here that saw the incredible amounts of rain with that storm as it just progressed down to the south and east very slowly. right now nothing on the radar maps. we won't see any rain tonight. we'll be able to dry out. look at this. record rainfall. north potom i. this amazing. 5.55 inches of rain. arlington coming in at 4.5 inches. bucky'stown in frederick county. martinsburg, west virginia, coming in at 3.1 inches, and just an incredible amount of rain. 7 out of 12 months, don't even see 4 inches of rain, and most of these areas saw this in about an hour. just amazing how much rain we saw. this was the setup here.

we saw an area of low pressure develop across our region and move across thens mountai and once it's moved across the area. very moist air and we saw the air start to rise and it really took a life its own as the winds a lot of allowed these storms to grow even bigger and taller and bring all that moisture in and then it just dumped on us all morning long right on through the early afternoon here in parts of the area. now as we're looking aross our region over towards the potomac down towards the airport, temperatures 77 degrees winds out of the northeast at 9 miles per hour. now, that being said, some of our areas down along the chesapeake and mouth poet marks you might see a little bit of minor tidal floodin and the areas around the metro region won't have that problem. this whole system getting out of here and behd it not much going upon in the middle part of the country. we'll see some pretty nights weather. we're watching one thing kind of toug ttoli sttee. spin here. this is expected to move into the gulf of mexico.

that could be a tropical storm or possibly a hurricane to make its way back onshore in texas o louisiana the next couple of days. that's something we're tracking very closely as well. it would be our second named tropical system of the year. for us though it's about dry weather and more heat making its way in. 88 degrees and 91 on d dnesday an on thursday. good chance of showers and thunderstorms on thursday. about a 60% chance, and i think some of this could beon str possibly severe. that's something that we'll be tracking for you as well and friday coming in at 93 but that 93, not the hottest day in my ten-day forecast. i've got that coming for you at 6:45. >> all right. thank, doug. >> news 4, working with you with a scam aert. coming up at 6:45, the warni about government imposters. >> plus, new details tonight about how amazon plans to fit about how amazon plans to fit into the neigorhood whhben

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when he was 15 years old, curtis brooks was charged with a murder he did not commit. >> and he spent the last 24 yearsn i prison because of mandatory sentencing. baday he came home to maryland. his case helped change some mandatory juvenile sentencing laws around our uncoy. >> and it may make an impact here in maryland. prince george's county bureau chief tracey wilkins has h story. >> when maryland state senator joanne benson first met the man she's standing next to, he could fit the tiny t-shirt she's holding. benson was curtis brooks' prince pam at capital heights. the little boy who read well above grade level and eventually moved to colorado where life took a drastic turnd at 15 he ended up in prison for a murder he did not commit. >> he didn't kill anybody.

but was carged with felo murder. but it doesn't stop there, ladies and gentlemen. he was put in solitary confinement foren years. >> reporter: without a stable home environment brooks became homeless, hung out with the young crowd. he and a group of friends carjacked christopher ramos. one of the friends shot and killed ramos, but mandatory sentencing got brooks a felony murder conviction and life in prison without the possibility of parole even though he didn't pull the trigger. >> sitting in prison for all of those years, you know, you build a certainmentality, a over the last few years i had tole arn to change that mentality. >> reporter:enson formed a coalition. brooks' case helped the u.s. supreme court to ban automatic ntences for life without parole for juvenil with help from u.s. senatorhr cis van hole len. the governor of colorado granted him clemency and he was released

july 1st. >> welcome home, curtis brooks. >> reporter:fter 24 years in prison, brooks has a fresh art. >> i'm going to do everything that ist can to live a life thas worthy of all of you and that's worthy of the forgiveness that i would hope that i can one day attain. >> reporter: there's been work in maryland to prevent swruf nile cases to endup the way curtis' did but legislation hasn't gotten anywhere. senator benson plans on ro reicing legislation to try to change juvenile prison laws in maryland. in capital heights, i'm tracey . wilkins, ne >> now, as part of his release, brooks has five years of pale. he says he plans on speaking in suport of legislation in o help protect juveniles, and he wants to revisit the colorado prison system to help implement reform. >> next at 6:30, a dramatic exampleof what cano wrong in these flash floods as we hear from this father forced to carry his two girls through waist deep

water. >> i'm adam tuss. the rain causing huge issues for metroiders today. take a look at some of this video from around the region, but will your rideonight be impacted? i'll let youknow coming up. >> and two young brothers become innocent victims of gun violence. only on news 4, how the little boys are helping each other eeal. >> i know i'll b able to welcome that. i believe in my

now at 6:30, flooding above ground and below ground today. water gushing into one northern virginia metro station. >> it was a mess this morning

for you commuter but things have calmed down now this afternoon. >> they sure have. news 4 transportation reporter adamss tu is live for us outside virginia square metro station where riders got quite the surprise this mornin adam? >> i don't think anybody wants to go through that again, jim. that was quite the ride this morning. you know, you couldn'teven go underground into the me flow system to catch a break. anyone who did go into this particular metro station, they could have got pretty wet. take a look. >> metro leaders think of their system as the d frenchain of the entire region and, well, today, a lot of water was draining into the metro system. lots and lots of water. take a look again in slow motion as this metro train is showered with a waterfl that sprung at .he virginia square stati metro riders recording it all as this was unfolding. spokesperson dan cecil joining us while it nis all hap by phone. >> it's been a very challenging morning as a result of this

heavy rainfall that we've been seeing. >> this isn'te first time that water has ghed from metro ceilings. >> above the vault structure that you see there, there' l almostike an attack above it, and if water pools in that area there and it's not properly raining, then you can see tha kind of infiltration occur. >> lots of water left on the metro track, and it wasn't just the stations. take a look at the video of this elevator at the pentagon. metro sending out this tweet k saying wenow it was a difficult a.m. commutt as rential rainfall impacteder is vicious especially on red orange silver. if your trip was delayed ten-plus minutes using a metro card expect a rush hour credit and the roads were challenging. ome facing pools of water in parking garages and one captured a raging river developed along 66. tonight thankfully the code is much on.

>> yeah, what a mess. metro crews were out here at the virginia square station all day today. they were clearing debris from up here on the surface because they think that could have actually caused all that gushing and the waterfall down there in the station. they don't want to see that happen gain, guys. >> adam i'm curious. did it create any danger, any electrical issues down there? i mean, saw the train going through it like it was -- like it was a car wash. wasn't dangerous? >> so metro is used to lot of water coming into the system. you might have heard the beginning of the piece there. they think of themselves as the french drain of our regio a th used to it, but if it gets to a point where it rised up to the third level right there, then they will cut the power if gets too high, but at that point everything is still fine. >> okay. but wouldn't want to use that elevator that was friday with water. >> you could have replaced your morning shower by using that

elevator. >> exactly. >> thanks, adam. >> well, here in bethesda, a man forced to carry his two children in waist-deep water after he drove into a flooded out little falls parkway, and his vehicle gotstranded there. our mollette green talked to a woman who saw this trio and gave them a ride >>home. i saw that it was okay that he wrapped thesoids and then he -- he -- they were walking on the grass area, and you took them hem. >> i took them home, yes, but his girls were a little bit afraid and they were like oh, dad, what's going to happenhe t t car and what's going to happen to our backpacks? well, as quickly as the watei came it flowed out. we're not sure how the car told out, but the woman told our mollette that she did drivehe man back to the spot in bethesda and said they could fetch the backpacks. >> absolutely. can't leave e backpacks. right, guys? >> that's right.

ou would go back to get the backpacks. >> that guy right there, you know, we saw earlier today. amany people were note to turn aron. we say turn around, don't drown. many people weren't able to do that. this is a situation fo that gentleman. he actually went right into the flooded waters and actually put himself and kids this danger and th's why we tell you always to turn around, don't drown. this has been a little bit of a -- that's the rain moving fro frederick to waldorf in six hours. incredibly slow moving and not justha t incredibly heavy amounts of rain, too. this is the way it looked right around 9:00 when extremely heavy rn was coming right on through the d.c. metro area. upwards of 4 to 5 inches of rain along this swath right here. 3.4 around waldorf but nearly 5 inches in and around potomac. this is something that we've seen a lot of ately. a little bit of a trend, amelia. we're talking about climate

change and though we can't say this storm itself because of climate change, we're seeing this more often. >> absolely. we can see the temperatures and the moisture in the atmosphere that is due to our change climate would help to make this intense rainstorm more intense than maybe a few decade ago. i mean, look at t imagery coming in, so what happens with climate change aswe use greenhouse gases to fuel our life-style. carbon dioxide, methane isea reld. they trap heat in the atmosphere, and we see warmer temperatures overall. warmer temperatures can hold more moisture so what that means when we have rainfall events like this, sure, we have downpours an we talk about 1 in 100 year, 1 in 500 year floodsre but we' starting to see these types of events occur more frequently, and with that we cat stao see the potential link to some of our changing climate out there. guys, the odds of this eventni hap in a given year, under 1% to give you an idea how unusual this was out there

today. >> okay, thanks, amelia. >> again, some unbelievable images from today'sr sto. we've got more of these dramatic photos. the vids, find them all in our nbc washington app. only on news 4, two young brothers, innocent victims suffering permanent damage from gun violencen their neighborhood. >> tonight, they are talking about the two separate shootings that left one wounded and one paralyzed. >> news 4's meagan fitzgerald reports their lives have changed forever, but their devotion to one another has not. >> oh, mgod. >> playing video games and goine outsi to play is what 13-year-old like renal hill should be doing. ♪ >> along with dreaming about who grow antto be when they up. >> a famous writer or a rapper, famous rapper, poprar per. >> but on may 1th his life changed forever. >> renal was shot, the bullet striking his spine. he spent weeks in the hospital

hoping for a full rovery but it was his mother ebony who told him the prognosis. >> she to y me'll be all right but you're going to be paralyzed, i said i'm going to still live, and she said, yes, and i said that's the only thing that ttmaers. >> reporter: renal understood how precious life was because three months earlier on valentine's day his younger brother royal was shot steps away from their home near kenilworth avenue in northeast. >> and i was running, and then i pushed a girl out of the way. >> reporter: at 12 years old royale says he saved a girl's life while almost losing his own and now he's too scared to go outside so royale helps his brother to get around. >> oh, it's hrtbreaking. that this is what we've got to go through. >> the trauma and the wounds still linger, but their faith and love is still strong. >> i know i'll be able to walk again. >> reporter: renal won't give up hope that he'll beat the odd

while his mother tries to accept that their family life won't be the same. >> he's scared to go outside. so, yes, they were robbed of their childhood. >> repter: ebony hillsons, two young boys caught in a wave of violence that too often eaves innocent kids with permanent scars. meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >> you see the last shot of the boy -- the child going down the stairs. that hme is not handicapped accessible, and we did reach out to the d.c. housing authori which tells us that their mother is at thetop of the waiting list to receive one as soon as available. also no one has been arrested in either child's shooting. next on "news 4 at 6:00," computers, desks and showers. what ae're learningbout what ae're learningbout amazon'slans for p

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>> it has one potential victim who nearly got taken and lost lot of money. >> yeah, and the trouble is p s manyeople have been taken. >> yeah. i >> because sounds legitimate, right. here's wh we're talking about. listen to this. probably sounds familiar. >> from the department of social security administration. he reasonu have received this phone call from our department is to inform you thau we jst suspended your social security number becse we found some suspicious activity. >> okay. here's the deal. you might think, yeah, tt's a computer, i wouldn't fall for that exce that the scammers are spoofing one real number from sury aisatio yougle stheiaocl it, you check the phone number sd it comes up social security administration,o people then call that number back and sure enough it is this time a real life person, a scammer, and thek actualw your social already or at least the last four digits and they have youra ess and dob. this issing like, oh, my gosh, maybe i'm really talking --

>> and the panic rises within you. oh, my gosh, this is really legit and they are now demanding money. here's the scenario that we'll explain to you on "nightly news." this woman gets one of the phone calls, calls the guy back and says listen up closely. you need to protect your entire bank account because your bank has been compromised and in fact we know there's been somete and the only way to do that, she is told, is to immediatel put money into a digital wallet, and you do b that buying google play cards, you transfer the money, that'sr where youred light should be going off. >> yeah, yeah, but she in a panic so she starts following his instructions. thank goodness she went to buy the google play and no, no, no, no, this is a scam. i'm sure it's a scam and he saved her essentially her entire bank account. that's the warning because the ow at telling us we're

record levels of these types of calls going out there. 200,000 so far this year. >> believable, and you and i just u hangp. so we don't even know the total number that's gone out. all we know is record numbers. >> great, and you'reoing to have more tonight on "nightly news" with lester holt. >> a lester iso out in l.a. because of the earthquakes and all stheismic activity out there. >> and flooding today in maryland. >> got all the bases covered. >> coast to coast. >> thank you, tom. always great to see you. >> you bet. >> all right. google. we are just still traumatized from this morning. >> it was amazing, some people probably telling their stories rigsa now. ing honey, this is what i'm going through. >> this is why i went to the meeting this morning. >> becse it was really not just nasty. something kind of up precedente

around theea. a flash flood emergency for the district of columbia. th p firstut those into existenceback in 2011 to up the ante on the flash flood warnings soot we've n had one since then. we have had them in our area. before think of ellicott city last year. emergencies as well. there's the rain coming throughur area.8: 7:00, , 9:00, 10:00 and up around martinsburg, loudoun county, seeing the rain at 1:00, 2:00 a.m., so this was an ongoing system that made its way on through the region and straight onhr downough the south. numerous rain showers. this is with a the heavy storm right there that brought in 3 to 4 inches of rain in an hour. now it's all gone. >> that's the good news. we'll be able to dry out now. still a couple of flood warnings. watch out in those areas. you could still come across some flooded roadways. not much on the radar. goinghe storminess kind of

by the wayside. showers and srms down to the south but all of this rain, all the cloud cover kept things really cool across the mid-atlantic statesy. toda the average high temperature for us is 89 degrees. average high temperature of 77 and 76 philadelphia and only 76 ocean city so well below average. by about so degrees because of the fact that we t saw allat rain, all those storms today, now the full outlook the next couple of days much better. going to the pool, didn't quite get there, looking great. mast awesome. high temperature of 91 degrees and thursday, watch out for thursday in the afternoon. go early. afternoon storms will be possible during the day and here's your tuesday planner. 73 degre andoon around 48 and looking good for noon. getting lunch outdoors, no problem. 88 at 4:00 and 85 degrees by 7:00, but plenty of sunshine during the day tomorrow so that's some good news, too. as we make ourhr way tgh the next couple of days.

91 on wednesday and 92 on thursday. 60% chance of storms on thursday. me of those could be strong and possibly severe, and i'm not expecting what we saw out there today at all, but ith is someg that we'll be watching for on thursday. thursday a high temperature of 90 degrees. is saturday an 91 on saturday and we'll see another chance of storms next tuesday and then we getnto al heat, guys, talking about the mid to upper 90s and we'll see how long this lasts and it looks like we'll a in prolonged heat wave. our heat wave is 90 degrees or better. we have heat waves every single summer. this one right here looking like it would be close to nine out of next ten days and will continue right on through that. >> july and august. >> pretty much july. >> when your average is 89. >> eyoctly. >> u're going to get there. >> doug, thank you. >> coming next on ews 4 at 6:00. the chts have come home and dave is up next wi sports. >>and first here's lester holt with a look at what's ahe.

>> on "nbc nightly news." >> jim and wendy, "nightly news" from los angeles tonight with more on last week's earthquakes and how southern californians are preparing for the next one and the nwest phonee

max scherzer's baby is four days old and already out of town. some t's how you get sleep. >> i'll see you later. >> send me pictures. >> he's not going to the caribbean but cleveland. >> i'll have what max scherzer is having. summer is going okay for him so far. think about his last week on wednesday. national league pitcher of the month for june when we won all six of his starts and on thursday his wife erika gavert bih to their second daughter. you in a trip to the major league baseball all-star game. scherzer and cleveland meeting with swarms of media. mmer ill play the mid- classic and dealing with back

tightness. scherzer and the team have been riding the wave lately. a perfect 6-0 wh a 2-0 e.r.a. butho is counting. the best record in baseball since may 24th sitting with a top spot in the wild card in the national league. >> it felt like overall w started playing better baseball as a team. started playing team baseball and found a way to continue to make winninga, and when you make enough winning plays and make the other team have to beat you, we're a heck ofl a club. >> can you take us through the eighth inning situation yesterday? >> oh, man. i don't know. i really -- i saw dugal pitch and thought it was theinth and rendon, this is a walkoff win and that turned out to be the game-winning run, but everybody had a good laugh at my expense, and the more ou watch it, the more you laugh at it. > see, when you're winning with

you're laughing. they just expect to win. playing in on not the all-star game despit this being the first selection to the team. he wants to nagging, some nagging injuries because his pending free agency. a hot topic here in d.c. and the all-star game in cleveland. >> like to try t to contrngs that i can control and hopefully my play onth field. it's all good. >> i think theyow kn and anthony has said this many times, that he certainly enjoys playing in washington and the -- and the ownership. it's justsomething that is a process that i'm sure thereis wl bession when the time is appropriate. >> what coined of teammate is he? i think he -- instead of participating in this experience he wanted to do what was best for his team. stay home and get red for the second half and i think everyona knows tt anthony is all about winning. >> maybe "dancing with the stars" willl,give him a cal right? >> we checked. the united states women'son

na team used a plane to fly back from the women's world cup in france. not sure tat they needed one of the team seemed tofly at35,000 feet and they took their game and awareness and women's sports in general to new heightth e's every indication that rhis women's national team will continue to soand first they had to touch down and when they landed at new york liberty airport, oh, there were water cannons there to greet them. julie ertz led them team out of airplane with the trophy and alex morgan and megan rapinoe in ade celebration m dancing to what else, "we are the champions" by queen. go ahead sing. back-to-back championships. a parade planned for wednesday in new york andight now happy to be on >> we know it's just the beginning of a lot of celebrations to come, but, you know, we're just so happy to be on our soind a you know, sob able to celebrate with our loved ones. i feel like we're more than just a soccer team. i feel like we're america's team in a way just seeing everyone celebrate and support us through

these succses, andt's been great to ride this journey along with my teammates and we won't stop here. >> something else. finally the impressive run of is a-year-old coco gauff coming to an end in the round of 16. gauff faced the former number one simona halep who takes care of business in straight set. 29 unforced errors by gauff was too much to overcome. gauff said she was super impressed ceiving praise from the likes of michelle obama and gic johnson and now she says she will finish her high school work. >> get set for the u.s. open. >> and just wait until she's 16. >> oh, man. >> incredible. going to be burning up the courts. >> and she became america's sweet heard the last couple of anweeks. >> everybody she idolizes is now idolizing her. >> younger than 15. >> good summer for sports. >> we thank you so much for joining us. "nightly news" starts in just 60

seconds. >> and we see you back here tonight at 11:00. unt then have a good one.il

toght, the billionaire accused of sex trafficking, jeffrey epstein appears in court on charges going back yes as federal prosecutors say they seized hundreds of nude photos of underaged girls in his townhouse. tonight their plea to other potential victims who may he been abused by him to me forward. after the two biggest uakes to hit california in decades, a wake up call for what may lie ahead. >> my kids are really scared. just another after shock, just another big one. at >> as we look ow prepared california is or not for a bigger quake. a heartbreaking mix up at a californ