the floodwaters make us nervous. is this b going toe a repeat of handay? >> no, that's w we've been saying the whole time, definitely not a repeat from monday. so far, guys, we're getting out of thisetone pr good here. numerous flash flood warnings from baltimore all theup way towards philadelphia. we saw these storms actually form, the same ones that brought the flooding around baltimore actually helped our area, specially fairfax, the d.c. metro area and points to the north not see the incredibly heavy rain after those storms were through. you saw the first bout of heavy rain and it helped to stabilize the atmosphere. where wengare seei the very heavy rain, down to the south of washington, in and around mount 0ernon, a severe thunderstorm warning into 6:0. it will be allowed to expire. you may see that box actually disappear here. we're looking at this area righ here. this is a very strong storm. waiting to see. this may be a new warning in this region. numeus storms here. this one moving north in towards the beltway. this one moving to the south and this one moving to e east. heads up in and around the area

around mount vernon, wood bridge, over towards waldorf. if there was any heavy flooding it would be in this area over the next half hour to an hour. watch out. it could come up very, very quickly. the line extending all the way down i-95. really just a mess out there night on i-95. going to be a mess of a night for sure, but we are drying ando startinsee that threat, that flash flood threat diminishing. that is some veryllood news. w talk much more about this over the next couple of minutes. >> doug, thanku. we could use some good news tonight. people headed out of the district this afternoon have not been able to use canal road. it remains shut down in both directions between reservoir and fox hole road. so the crews can repair asi hole. it was caused by monday's heavy rain and tonight's rain probably not making their job anya eer. the repairs were extented pecte take at least through torrow morning's rush. we'll let you know asoon as

the road opens on our nbc washington app. a reminder from potomac, maryland, that massive sinkhole on lfast road cutting off the neighborhood there. crews shut down the road to make the repairs and shuttle service is available in that arerk paat the bethesda metro and the potomac shopping center or thet across from old anglers inn. we want to see what's going on in your nghborhood as tonight's storms roll through. ph you have otos, videos, you tosend them to us safely, just email them icthatsee. that's the letters "i" and s-e-e. any time, anywhere. just ope t nbc washington app. we're also tracking tropical storm barry. a hurricane warning just issued for parts of the louisiana coast. a tropical storm warning in effect for other areas,

including new orleans. people spent the day getting groceries and sandbags ready. isuisiana under a state of emergency as thtorm approaches. the outer bands of the storm already have flooded parts of new orleans earlier this week. barry is expected to make landfall some time on saturday. i'm erika gonzalez. back here at the live desk, we continue to monitor the situation, a shooting on north capitol and m streets in northwest. this is nowir a confd homicide. we have live pictures coming there from the ground. uh believe it is a commander with the metropolitan police department providing any up the to crews there on the scene. this happened about 4:00nohis aftern. one person, a man, was shot and killed on northapitol and m streets on the 1,100 block i should say of north capitol and m streets. ain, detectives there on the scene investigating how this happened, who all is involved

here. as soon as we get a better understanding of that, we'll be back with you from the live desk, i'm erika gonzalez. doreen? >> erika, thank you. more breaking news. president trump is taking another step in his battle over tnt citizenship question the 2020 census but it's not the step many expected. just a few minutes ago in a soggy white house rse garden he announced he is backing off from his effort to include the citizenship question on the census. instead he will direct the commerce department to acquire the data by other means. jennifer johnson is overing this story for us tonig . jennifer, what do we know? doreen, as : well, you said, it just happened in se the ro garden just a few minutes ago. the presidentwas announcing all day he w going make this announcement. so what he h done,he's going to bypass the u.s. supreme cou on this question. he wanted to have ati nship question on the 2020 census, which starts next april. the u.s. ed to bypass supreme court after it temporarily ruled th he could not do this. as you said, he's going to

direct the commerce department to start collecting data on who exactly are u.s. citizens, legal u.s. citizens and collect that data from every fedal agency, from homeland security to the department ofit social secury. every agency is going to be required to collect that data cend give it to the commer department. this just one of two steps the president is tg in his fight against illegal immigration today. >> open the door, please. >> reporter: this as president trump plans to go ahead sunday with mass deportation raids in major u.s. cities. advocates speaking out in chicago, a targeted city. >> today we're seeingrue fear mongering white supremacist tactics coming together. >> reporter: republicans support > the raid. >ese are individuals who crossed the border in recent years and rthereceived a deportation order from a judge or failed to appear before court. >> reporter: but democrats are furious. > kids being left, it means moms, dads, families being torn apart. it is absolutely disgusting. >> shame, shame, shame on this

awful administration. >> reporter: critics say president trump is trying to rally hi anti-immigration base with both of these actions. >> now, president trump es postponed the raids last month. they are expected to target about 2,000 families in ten major cities in the united states. we'regearing baltimore is amon them. live on capitol hill, i'm jennifer johnson. dark i doreen, back to you. >> all right. jennifer, thank you. arifying its immigration policy after officers wrongly refer people to immigraton officials. >> this move comes just ahead of the trump administration's plannedmass deportation. while prince george's county is not one of the regions being targeted for sunday's sweep, thh police cief has taken an unarual step to cle up any confusion. >> reporter: in roll call and throughout the department, e prince geo county police chief is making sure his officers understand where the department stands when comes to

federal immigration law enforcement. >> there will not be any consionration of immigrati status with respect to the investigation of crimes in county. orge's >> reporter: prince george's county police have a new training video and have written new policy regarding federal theiration orders and how police should respond to federal civil warrants for undocumented immigrants. >> and if there's a criminal matter to be addressed, we'll address the criminal matter only, and then beyond that, agents of our federal government have authorities that are laid out through the federal law. they'll pursue their responsibilities. >> reporter: the clarification of the department's policy comes as president donald trump promises to serve thousands of deportation orders of undocumented people in several cities across the country this weekend. it's something advocates at casa de maryland are preparing for. >> it's something that people are kenned about. any time y hear the president

say they're going to do mass raids throughout the country, that just puts fear into our community. >> i have not been contacted. no member of my agency as i take the dais today to speak to you has beenh contacted wit respect to any of these supposed immigration sweeps this weekend. >> reporter: the chief went on to say that the prince george's county police department enforces county law, they do not create it. he said tt it was the fourth circuit court that decided that federal law enforcement handles immigration issues not local poli departments. tracee 4.wilkins, news police are trying to figure ouwhat led to a bizarre crash here in the district.a iver going off the street, careening into a park. it claimed thlives of two ople in monroe park at 21st and pennsylvania downtown. news 4's mark seagraves has details. >> reporter: for more than 30 years the barbers here at this shut have beenng hair across from the small park oav pennsylvaniue.

this morning they say was unlike any morning they can member. >> i just can't believe that, how that suv just lost control and wt on to the park and took these poor people out. unfortunately. it's a shame. it's a shame that this happened. >> it's terrible, you know? any human being. doesn't matter if he's homele a regular guy, that's term. human being can't be lost like that. innocent people sleeping in the park. >> reporter: work crews remove what was left of the park benches this morning. it appears the two men who were killed were either sitting orsl hrping on those benches when the suv plowed tgh this small park. it happened late last night around 11:30. u.s. park police say this large suv was traveling westbound on pennsylvania avenue when it crossed several lanes of traff, jumped the curb and drove through this park. killing two men. leaving their belongings unscattered across the grod.

the driver of the suv was taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries. district officials familiar with the investigation tell news 4 they have confirmed one of the men killed was a homeless resident known to frequent this area. news 4 spoke mto a who said he used to sleep in this park and knew the victim. he did not want tedbe identifi. >> you take your life into your own hands every time you go to sleep. homelesssafe way to be and to sleep is to hide. this -- it breaksmy heart. >> reporter: park police tell us they're waiting on fingerprints from the victims to help identify them so their families can be notified. asor the driver, park police sayishe investigation ongoing and they're waiting on blood tests before deciding if any charges will be filed. in the district, mark seagraves, news 4. and we're following more breaking news. dozens of people sick at a local retirement community. >> two residents are dead and we're asking health officials about thiadly outbreak there.

flash flood fallout. a bookstope wi out. how monday's flooding is now impacting local children. and it is still july, but some local ki are already back in school. y some of them are only a few schools -- a few schools are already trading in summer break for books and homework.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ a storm team 4 weather alert for the second time this week. we're at risk for flash ooding. you're looking live at storm team 4 radar on the left and at live pictures of the rain coming down in old town alexandrit.on the righ's

let go straight to doug for an update in what's happeningut there right now. doug, what are the latest warnings and watches? >> 9:15, so there is aed in flo warning. this is not a flash flood warning, this is a flood warning. we're tracking this right now making its way in towards prince william county and fairfax county. very heavy rain. this is what we justta ed about over the last hour. severe thunderstorm warning into 6:45.uth, going to this does include the city of fredericksburg. strong storm. heads up here. wind, vy heavy rainfall. look at all the lightning here. over cords king george county and carole county again until 6:45. this storm riwet here told you we may see flooding in this area. that's exactly what we are seeing right there. a lotof lightning in waldorf and clinton, maryland. very, very heavy rain.

aerial flood warning, meaning creeks and streams will rise over their banks. so you got to watch out for that as you move on through this area. that goes until 9:30 tonight. heads up in that region. as we widen, this is all coming to an end. the good news is the national weather service has cancelled the flash flood warnings for areas west of the blue ridge. now, think we're going to see that cancel early for us too in a couple of hours but it's still ongoing now for the d.c. metro area in points to the south and east. we'll continue to watch out for that as we move on through. another one right now, amelia. what are we dealing with right now? have that new flood warning for fairfax county and prince george's. what are we looking at now? >> that's exactly what the national weather service is saying, aerial flood warning until 9:15. >> okay. great. we're talking about this lasting right on throug the rest of the evening. >> absolutely. we're going to see rain until about 8:00, 9:00 p.m. tonight. i think i it'sortant to remind

everybody what exactly these weather alerts because i know it can be confusing. i want to startitou off wh what exactly a watch means.ot a of us including the d.c. metro area are under a flash flood watch until 2:00 a.m., ou although dg and i think that will be cancelled a lile earlier. a watch means it could happen so you want to be prepared. we go to an advisory, this means the event is happening but it's a pretty low-risk situation. a flood warning means we're seeing flooding out there. the risk is moderate to high. and an emergency is the highest level that can b issued. this is what we saw on monday morning, that flash flood emergency. when you hear an emergency issued, that's means that lives are at risk. and also the difference between a flash flood warning and a flood warning, the flash means that rain is happening in a flash, cflsing ding issues out there, whereas a flood warning mtrns we'reking rivers, creeks and streams from kind of slowly rising. here's how you can prepare tonight, avoid travel until

about 8:00 p.m. if at all possible. have the mean washington app downloaded. you're going to get alerts on pe what's hapning in your neighborhood. if u park in a parking garage or your neighborhood floods often, park your car on higher ground. egrees. we're at 78 we stay in the 70s through the evening hours. doug, it's humid out there bumorrow morning, the humidity levels fall throughout the day. we see the sunshine coming out. then we have the backstreet boys tomorrow night. >> that's right, baby. pretty good forecast for the weekend, too. again, this is very good news. we need to dryr out aftewhat we've seen so far this week. another very heavy day of rainfalloday. friday, saturday and sunday all look dry for the most part. can't rule out an isolated shower friday, tomorrow or sunday. most of the day dry. high temperature of 93 degrees on sunday. 89 monday and as we head into next week, 94 on tuesday, 96 on wednesday. we haven't even talked about tropical storm barryom cg in to louisiana on saturday, guys, it could come our way next wednesday into thursday and al

potentily dump some rain on us then. e'll be watching it very, very closely. right now, though, we're watching what's happening the next couple of hours. starting to look better in mo areas west of i-95. >> translator: good to hear. now to some breaking news. an outbreak of an illness as a a nosh virginienior living facility. it has sickened more than 50 red zone dents a residents. at the greenspring retirement facility in. springfield our northern virginia bureau chief julie carey has been speaking to the health department about what's being done to try t to stop spread of this illness. >> reporter: the fairfax county health officials say what's so striksg about this outbreak i the sheer number of residents impacted and the fact that it's hitting in the summer instead of winter months. the residents impacted are in the skied and assisted living section of greenspring, something they call continuing

care. there are about 250residents in that unit, one in five have fallen ill. the two people who died, they were alsom suffering fro other complicated medical conditions. they were both elderly. so far 18 residents have had to be hospitalized. although seven of them have now returned to their homes at greenspring and 54a people become ill suffering from respiratory issues. greenspring working closely with the faioax cty health department to try to stop the spread of illness. >> keeping residents who are ill inheir rooms, increasing cleaning and hand washing at the facility,nd they'realso continuing to work with us to report new cases and to keep following and identifying new residents who may become ill. >> reporter: greenring issued a statement which reads in part, "begreen ring's highest priority is those who live and work on campus.

greenspring has taken all necessary measures to fully im iement provenection prevention and control strategies." fairfax county and state health officials still doing lab tests to try to pinpoint what is causing thisrespiratory illness. they are hopeful they may be turning a corner. there have not been any new hospitalizations in t past few days. in springfield, virginia, i'm lie carey, news 4. a fairfax county man who just finished his prison sentence for kidnapping a girl could be headed back behind bars. the latest twist in a decades' long case. plus, flash flood fallout. how monday's storm just added o insult tnjury for a i

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i'm erika gonzalez back witg breaews from the live desk. metro transit police say a woman was se platform at a station this morning. police say there were no other riders on the platform at the time the suspect board a train, got off at dean wood and officers were able to take him into custody a short time later. we're working the story. stay tuned for updates. doreen? >> all right. erika, thank you. an investigation has found that former virginia governor douglas wilder kissed a university student witho her consent. the student is 66 years younger than wilder. the young woman filed a formal complaint with virginia commonwealth university in december of last year. wilderwas the first elected african-american governor in this country and he currently teaches at vcu. wilder has until next week to contest the investigation's findings. "the washington post" reports the investigationalso cleared wilder of three othehe allegationstudent made.

>> the former movie mogul harvey weinstein is reshuffling his legal team again. woman. attorney is a at a hearing today, the judge blowed lawyer josez to leave the case. baez previously told the judge hey crashed over legal strategy. harvard law professor ronald sullivan left the team in may after considerable acklash from harvard students and his first lawyer with drew from the case about six months ago. today's shuffle comes just two months before weinstein is due to stand trial for sex sexual assault charges. a fairfax county man who just finished his prison sentence for kidnapping a girl could be headed back behind bars because it's the latest twist in this decades' long saga of scott tyree. scott reports tyree has found new trouble. in served about 16 years in

prison for kidna a young pittsburgh girl and holding her and sexual abusing her for days in his townhouse in herndon. the victim was rescued after a nationwide manhunt in 2002 and has sce become a national child safe advocate. they transferred tyree to a halfway house in pittsburgh earlier this hear and was potentially days away from his full release from custody, but new court filings we have obtained tyree admitted to breaking the rules while in the halfway house by acessing a website with pornographic images. a violation. prosecutors tell news 4 the violation could send tyree back to jail forour more years. alicia told us his looming release near her fame has been haunting her. >> a ro coaster of emotions. every emotion you can possibly feel i have pretty much felt over the last few monthly i real figured at first that someone would think, oh, gosh,

we made a mistake. let's fix it >> we reached out to tyree's attorney for comment but did not hear anything. pe hearing could hap as early as tomorrow in pittsburgh. we'll keep you posted. right. scott, thank you. it's only the second week of july, but some local children are already back in school. >> we asked why they're off to such an early start and how chese kids and their parents feel about su short break. >> easy come, easy go. why metro is ending a new feature just a week after it started. and mandatory evacuations to our south. aras tropical storm forms ine th gulf where is it heading and how strong could it be? this is fred.

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right now at 6:30, for the second time this week we're dealing with aat flooding thre here at home. strong storms aremo ving through our area. >> and to our south, the gulf coast is getting ready for what could be the first hurricane tod make lll in the u.s. this year. there's a lot of weather to talk about thi evening. welcome back. i'm wendy rieger. >> and i'm doreen gentzler. we're working with you wth team major e of both of these weather stories. amelia draper joins us with an update on tropical storm barry in moments. but first, doug i kammerer in our storm center tracking tonight's strong storms right here at home. hi, doug. >> you see it right behind me, ladies, it is really coming down again in the d.c. metro area. very have rain coming through the d.c. metro area. this time of night, rush hour,

just a mess out ere. prince george's county, charles county, right along 30 a nasty situation there. down to the south around fredericksburg. over towards carroll county. severe thunderstorm warning in effect. no longer for fredericksburg, only for caeroll now and ov towards parts of southern stafford as wellas overowards king george until 6:30, 6:45, ut rather, b this storm starting to weaken a little bit so that's good news. charles county, prince george's county getting hit very, very hard here. even inside the district getting hit hard. so a rough go of things tonight for sure. you can see where some of the heaviest rain is in brandy wine, all of these areas now under a flood warning. that's aerial flood warning meaning creeks and streams coming out of their banks until 9:15. you might just want to stay away from that on until that time. the best news here is we're inarting to see this pull out to the east, mean back to the

shenandoah valley. you're dry. the rest of us dry the next one to two hours. much more on this comintup over next half hour or so right here on news 4. we're also tracking to the south tropical storm -- itould come on shore on saturday. amelia with the latest. >> and, doug, we know the biggest concern with this storm is going to be the rainfall that it's producing not so much the d and i think the most notable thing coming out of the latest track is that the national hurricane center does not think this will reach hurricane strength, but that doesn't necessarily matter. it's still set to produce the same amountll of rainfa in louisiana, potentially up 20 inches in some locations. that's top what's already fallen there. this includes the new orleans area. right now its max winds are at 40 miles an hour and creeping to the west around 5 miles an hour. here is the latest track expected to come onshore as a tropical storm saturday early,

midday hours, weakening in on to sunday, but louisiana is really under the t gun wis storm system. here you s barry on storm team 4 radar. again, the biggest impact wit the storm is heavy rain. were already dealing with flooding issues in new orleans. and we could see an additional 10 to 20 inches fall in parts of louisiana, including new orleans, from barry. addition to that, there is a concern for storm surge flooding just south to the city of new orleans along the louisiana coastline. in addition to that, we're watching the mississippi river. to the levees in new orleans could be tested from the mississippi river, and then a different system of levees could be tested from the storm surge. so a lot going on in louisiana and we're going toye keep an on it, guys.l >> alght, amelia, thank you. whether it is tropical storm barry or storms here at home, don't forget you can gethe up t t minute forecasts from storm team 4 any time and anywhere with thenbc washington app. we want to seeoi what is gng on in your neighborhood as

tonight's storms roll through. if you have any photos or videos,n you casend them to us, email them to us at ise that's the letter "i" and then s-e-e, get it? @nbcwashington.com. a look at a ton of our other top stories. the fairfax health department is trying tn stop a outbreak of respiratory illness that has ha sickened mores 50 resident at the greenspring fcility in springfield. two people have died after suffering from symptoms. health officials say they're surprised byea the outbr and that it's coming in the summer instead of winter. two men aree dad after the driver of an suv crashed into and e park looked at 21st pennsylvania downtown last night. police say it appears the victims were sleeping or sitting onh benching w they were hit. inveigators say the driver is expected to survive. they're waitingon blood tests to determine if he's going to

face any ch tges. senior homeland security officials tell nbc news that president trump has ordered mass immigration raids that are set to start sunday. roughly 2,000 families in ten cities will be targeted. the same raids were postponed three weeks ago, in part becausn of resist within president trump's administration. most students are settling into the long days of summer vacation, but one group of montgomery county students is headed back to school today. >> it's all prt of a new program to make the school year longer. students at arcola and roscoe nix el meantalementary schools in class for 210 days instead of the normal 180 days. >> reporter: you heard right, this is not summer hool, these students are being welcomed back after a short summer break. >> good morning, friends. welcome back. how are we today?

>> reporter: t montgomery countial meantery schools in silver sprin are testing this extended school year pilot program. >> what do you think of the school starting in july? >> oh, it's great. save us a lot of money instead daycare.ng them in so it's really, really wonderful. >> the only bad thing is we couldn't go on family vacation, but it's good to get a head start against the other kids that haven'tte styet. >> good morning, staff and students. >> reporter: school principal is would rather ents their students not have to attend school in the summer. >> as we went through the process of planning and sharing with everye what we would be doing, i think the majority of our parents are very happy we decided to move forward. >> that's how you make the number 4. >> reporter: this is a kindergarten cls. the school got parental consent, allowing us to bring in our camera. this is a ttle one school, which means there is a high number of students from low-income families. the extended school year program

is meant to increase their performance in literacy and mathematics. >> they need a lot of growth ina that time it gives them a xt couple of days to get an understanding for all of the different concepts they learn throughout the year. >> reporter: the montgomery county public school system will serve paren and teachers here to determine if the extended school year should be introduced in other schools in the future. reporting from silver spring, chris gordon, news 4. still ahead is your fancy smart watch listening to you? >> the steps that apple is taking after some people complained their wrist was eavesdropping. and i'm tracking the very heavy rain across our area and a brand-new severe thunderstorm warning for prince george's county, calvert county, orge. a nice bow echo to it. let me ow you some of the towns associated.

all under theve s thunderstorm warning until 7:30. much more on this in just a minute.

your apple watch could be eavesdpping on you. did you know that? well, now the company says it's disabling the feature that is causing the problem. apple says a bu in the walkie-talkie feature could allow people to use the watch to listen to conversations through another person's iphone. walkie-talkie has only be around since last september. app says the feature will remain disabled until it can fix that bug. less than a week after metra startedutomatic door operations on the red line, it is suspending it indefinitely. our news partners at "w"top reporting the doors were opening ut perly at most stations they were also closing unexpectedly. the agency wanted train operators to manually closet hose doors so they cod speed up the trip. me io is lookingo why the doors are automatically closing.

the metro system w originally intended to have automatic doors but stopped after the red line crash in 2009. president trump is making what some believe is a surpri announcement. >> backing down from that controversial census question about immigration, butgeowing to t -- to get what he wants in another way. our nbc ns justice correspondent pete williams will joiningla us to e just what that might be. all of the crews bringing in drywall and drying to repair this old town alexandria book shop recovering from monday's flooding. coming up, what this bookst e lostat it says can't be replaced. and so far we have not seen ot of flash flooding out ofe this . very good news there. you can actually see back along i-81, starting to clear out. almost done in loudoun county but still coming down hard around the d.c. metro area and severe thunderstorm warning forg princerge's county and northern st. mary's until 7:30.

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well, we're tracking storms withme heavy rain as you probably will well know depending on where you are. it's going to bring the potential for flooding second time this week. doug is going join us again for an update in just a few minutes. there are new developments in the controversy over whether there will be a citizenship question on the 2020 census. president ump is now abandoning that plan. >> because within the hour he h announced is going in a new direction. nbc's justicesp correondent pete williams joins us. is he actually going in a new direction or is he going to stop? >> no, they've given up the fight. they no longer say they'll get the 2020 census form to a question about immigration.

it won't be an addition at piece of paper thao cmes in the mail with it. they're completely abandoning that. the justice department says it will advise the courts of that as well. what the president instead has said he wants the government to do a better job of collecting census data -- citizenship data by, for example, getting more data from other government agencies. this is what the government already does. so in essence the president is simply saying do what you're doing now but do a better job of it because the census bureau now, to try to get an estimate for noncitizens in the country, which by the way, it says now is about 22.5 million. it sends a questionnaire to 2%v of e households every year. this is called the american community survey asking abouted ski and then it also gets data from the social security administration, the department of homeland security and othert governm agencies, states and the military, and it puts all of that together to t to get an estimate of how many citizens there ar so that que'rion that youe

looking at right now is not going to be on the census form. >> well, how accurate is what is gathered and if that was being gathered anyway, then why all of this wrestling over trying to get this question on? >> well, there are questions about howe accurat any system would be, inclungthere were questions of simply asking are you a citizen is accurateu becase many people would simply refuse to answqu that tion. so that's one issue. the other issue is, it's atbest anestimate. even compiling all this data from government agencies. you need to be a citizen to get anmpassport, goverent benefits, in theory to get a job, is the way it's spoisupposed to work. so the government does have a lot of informationonen citizship, especially the social security administration. the government i saying you can do a better job and get more information about it. by theat way, the torney general said something kind of tantaliziai today. he sd there is a dispute anethe congressional districting, how my members of ongress each states gets,

should besed on total population or citizenship and that the justice department is going to look at that issue. of course, every census throughout our history has always counted total population, not justen citiz >> the court fight about the census question is ending, but the effort to get this information not? >> correct. >> who doesn't love the word tantalizing? my goodness. thank you, pete, for that. >> you bet. ng>> and everythi else. decision ahead on this on "nbc nightly news" with lester holt right after this broadcast. on monday, you know powerful storms dumped inches of rain on us in a very short period of time. a children's bookstore in old town alexandria suffered a lot of damagefter those flash floods. news 4's drew wilder spoke to needs er about what she to open the bookstore's doors again. >> reporter: working our way through a cramped and disassembled s fre, wend ellen klein trying to get her op flooded sh back in order. ellen owns hooray for books in old townalandria.

she's surveying the flood damage. walking us around these noisy dehumidifiers while the oors dry. so all the carpeting in the front as well a of at least this carpeting will also have to be replaced. >> reporter: because of that she can't open the store. watch this customer puzzled by these locked doors. you can feel her aha moment when she reads the sign in the window that explains the store's closed because of the flood. >> it wasn't just the ore that as affected, it was the building. i heard that water was cascading down the elevator spoft. >> reer: she said there was about 2 inches of standing water in her store. most of her inventory was just fine except for these 338 books. >> u can seehe water daniel and how they're stuck together. and it's not even like they can be salvaged. >> reporter: she knows the exact number because these books were all donated to spport local charity, the companion center. >> they were going to beupicked n sunday the 7th of july,

and they weren't. and then it rained. >> reporter: to add insul to injury, it wasn't even two weeks ago businessowners here told us about the financial hit they took when the metro stationd clown for the summer, but despite that and this flood, ellen thinks she's going to be okay. >> i'm sure the store will surviveecause we have a very, very loving community. >> reporter: hooray for books is insured so damages should be covered. ellen hopes she can open and get h staff back to work soon. in old town, drew wilr, news 4. now doug is in the storm wecenter on this her alert day. is it still coming through? >> it's still coming through, guys. i keep getting beeps here, just trying to figure out exactly what's happening in all of the areas. wegsave a couple of warnout there, a couple of advisories. just a nasty night across our region. the line is making its way throh here. the strongest part of it is always the begin part of the line.

that's whe the thunder and lightning is and the severe weather. you are almost done in leesburg and frederick, around the warrenton area. if you've got dinner plans here tonight, you might be okay. d.c., i think we've got another hour of rain before it's all said and done. the severe thunderstorm warning here. that bow echo actually looks like a bow and arrow. it's kind of curved like that. that tells us we've got pretty windy conditions coming in towards portions of calvert county. this is right along sunderland. hughesville in parts of southern prince george's county. headsp in these areas. i think you're going to get hit pretty good here. in honey town, heads up, guys, coming your way. we've seen the storms come through. very heavy rain along 50 towards annapolis. in and around the d.c. metro area. some video of trees that came ro down in and ad the chevy

chase area, coming down on power lines, too.o we have some power out in and around chevy chase and bethesda as well. guys, take a look at ts. i'm just taking a look at some of the storm reports here. here is two.f them look at both of them now. both of them, o trees downn houses. taca park in silver spring. that's this one in tacoma park. that was with the first wave. we've got a flo warning in effect until 9:15 for creeks and rereams in this area. once again we'tarting to see this all pull out toward the east and it will continue to do ern but if you're in sou maryland, watch out, that's where the heavyain isoming through. we'll see this coming ten an over the next one to two hours. about an hour in d.c. two hours s in ourouthern zones here. so we're not out of the woods quite yet. arwhen we do to get out, i think we're going to dry off fairly nicely. so a mu better evening and

next couple of days. it's going to get on the hot side tomorrow, 91. 92 on saturday. 93 on sunday. 89ndegrees on mo. so a little cooler. less humid on monday. then watch what happens. we go right back into the mid-90s. 94 next tuesday. 96 on wednesday. a chance of storms on wednesday. we drop a lile bit thursday. right back up into the mid to upper 90s. we drop because of tropical storm barry. we cahe actually see t remnants of barry make its way up here next wednesday into thursday. that could give us some pretty good rai as well. we'll be tracking that for you as we move on through the next couple of days, but right now we got t geto ♪ ♪

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this is the xfinity sports desk. >> the redskins are running with the bulls. >> just one. >> one too many. >> perhaps we'll get into that in a second, guys. i'm thinking of starting a

segmen fun or dumb? and i think i've got the perftct story tt the segment off. >> you coul make a whole show out of that. >> exactly. josh norman is that perfect story. the redskins' i corner backs taking heat not just for running with the bulls in tmplona, bu jumping over a bull multiple time. norman getting ripped for animalru ty, is unprofessionalm but he's e.lling it one of the best days of his lif this is from his instagm stories. getting ready to run in the traditional white shirt and the red neckerchief, i believe is the prerer sprinting in the streets of pamplona. there he is in the actual bull ring. you can see the bulls start ton run in the bull ring. this is a traditon that began in the early 14th century. 16 people have died in then moder era. norman jumped over t bull twice. it's not seen in this individual video. he was going to do it a third time. in case you're wondering, norman is set to make $11.5 million

this year. the redskins had no comment but they did retweet t.is vid >> that's more of an nd eorsement. >> exactly, right? , i mean, would you think they would be more upset that he's putting his contract at risk there and his health in jeopardy? >> and the team's future. and perhaps the team's future. that snds like a yes from you, doreen. >> i don't see any point to it for a number of reasons. >> as you mentioned before in the 5:00, animal cruelty. >> those bulls are stressed and they'reht fred and they're -- and this crowd, they don't know what's going on. they don't understand.do >> he say he's an adrenaline junkie. as an adrenali junkie myself, i understandhe allureo it. but when you've got obligations you have to be professional. >> there is that. did anyone ask his wife? what's that situation? >> no comment.n no commet. no comment. let's talk about somethin we can all maybe agree on. serena williams already one of the greatest toever pick up a racket. now she just one win away from saying objectively there has never been anyone better.

her next win would give her grand slams singles titles to tie margaret court for the m in men's or women's history. serena eyeing her 11th wbledon final. standing in her way barba-- she dominated the first set 6-1. we go to the second set, serena serving for match point. gets a racket on it. but serena too much. she wins 6-2. advances to her fourth straight wimbledon. she finished this game in 59 minutes. finished the match, i should say, in 59 minutes. at 37 years old, she's the oldest woman to reach a grand slam final in the open era. to the pitch, d.c. united prepares to playan new engld revolution tomorrow night. the blacknd red have just 2 wins in their last1 games but still hold the second the eastern conference. a big boost today, though, the

return of paul, happy to be bacf and ditely missed playing for united while he was away. >> obviously wanting to come back. watching a fewc. games, united was tough not being le to be on the field with my buddies. but, you know, i'm so excitedto be back. obviously play here in d.c. and get a big win for us. >> it's a hard transition to come from an intense tournament for a month long in international soccer, but the good news is he's got a great mentality.ll he' be just fine. especially playing at home. he'll be excited to play with his teammates but also in front of t fans that love him. >> finally congrats to the mistics elena delle donne. she will serve as one of the top team captains and draft the other players on her squad. averaging 16 points a game.

currently listed day-to-day after suffering a broken nose on saturday. she's tough.

tonight the hurricane warning just issued as tropical or barry churns towards the gulf coast. millions now watching and worrying thetorm become a to hurricane by the weekend with more than a foot of rain in some places. mandatory evacuations unr way for thousands with warnings of life-threatening storm surge. >> i stuck around a little bit too long during katrina and don't want to make that mistake ago. >> the latest on when and where barry will hit. the terrifyifl ht over the pacific as a flight with 300 people board hit severe turbulence. >> it went bang and the people just shot up. >> dozens injured, the plane forc to make an emergency landing in hawaii. the president alters course on the