right now at 6:00, i.c.e. launches nationwide immigration raids. what we know about the operation. plus nbc and telemundo 44 are working for you to answer questions about the crackdown. in an explosive tweetstorm, president trump tells minority congresswomen to leave the country. why many are calling the attack racist and how the lawmakers are firing back. and new video shows the coast guard rescuing several people and a dog from high waters in louisiana. barry has weakened but it still poses a threat. >> news 4 at 6:00 starts now. good evening.

i'm eri. gonzalez the white house says immigration raids in major u.s. cities have begun. so far, the pace is slow with only a handful of detentions. nbc's jennifer johnso is tracking developments from pitol hill. >> reporter: immigration advocates rallying against i.c.e. deportation raids sunday. i.c.e. agents targeting2,000 undocumented immigrants already ordered by the courts to leave the country. >> we got compassionate, loyal, i.c.e. agents who are just doing their job and it shows you how far we've fallen in that it's become news that they would actually go deport people who have removal orders. >> reporter: democ the president's claim they're rounding up criminals is not true. >>ache simple f of crossing the border and, perhaps, having a technical, legal, violation at that point is being used as a basis for deportation of people who otherwise have nothing in eir ckground. >> reporter: this as president trump ignited a firestorm after tweeting that a group of democrat congresswomen, freqcrnt tics of his immigration

policies, who he says were foreign-born, should go back to theirbroken and crime-infested places from which they came. in fact, all but one was born in the u.s. >> that's acist tweet. telling people to go back where they came from, these are american citizens elected by voters in the united states of t amerserve in one of the most distinguished bodies in the u.s. house of representatives. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi fired back on twier saying that president wants to "make america white again." immigration still dividing lawmakers. >> no wall! reporter: and americans. the white house is defending the ras saying i.c.e. has deported fewer people under president trump than it did under president obama. jennifer johnson, nbc news, washington. >> it's unclear how many people have been detained in today's raids. the president tweets about the minority lawmakers, those are still causing quite a stir. we're going to have much more on that story a little later in this broadcast. meanwhile, we know that there have been a lot of concern

and a lot of confusion when it comes to the immigration raids. so we are working 4 you. nbc 4 and our steter station emundo 44 are going to hold a phone bank tomorrow, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. experts will help answer any estions that you may have about the operation and connect you to resources and services tht may be available to you. all rightto we're going switch gears. our other big story we've beenwa tching. levees overtopped and extensive flooding across parts of louisiana and mississippi. d tropicalression barry, once a tropical storm and category 1 hurricane, is now causing widespread flveding this eng. ns w c's jay gray is in neorleans with a closer look at the situation. >> reporter: barry continues to dump rain as the storm slowly tracks to the northeast now. lashing plaquemines parish and baton rouge along the way. evidence of the intensity of the storms scattered all along the

gulf coast.an mississippi d alabama ravaged by winds and drivingra s. louisiana where the storm made landfall asa category 1 hurricane, battered. >> we got a losing battle. we got wind and we got water. >> reporter: communities swallowed by storm surge, water spilling over the top of levees in some areas. but the pumps worked and the barricadese held in thg easy. a full day after landfall the the s are open again, so are flood gates that surround this city. it's still raining. new orleans soaked but still standing. >> we absolutely made it.gh throu the storm. beyond lucky. we were spared. it seemed as though bands moved closer to new orleans, it seemed to just go around us. >> reporter: forecasters say the stormto will continue cause problems for the next several days. jay gray, nbc news, new some restaurants in new orleans closed yesterday but re-opened today as did the new orleans airport first responders here in our area are ready to head south if

needed to respond t tropical depression barry. montgomery county fire tweeting out these pictures this weekend. the teamcalled maryland task force one has its bags packed and gear assembled. team leaders are monitoring the storm and then they'll determine whether local first responders hat needed to head over in area. we're going to continue tracking the storm from the storm team 4 weather center. and stay with news 4 and our nbc washington app for continuing coverage on barry. the fairfax county sheriff's office wants to know how an 18-year-old inmate died. medics took cha kez ami green from the fairfax county adult detention center. he was found unconscious in his cell. green died at the hospital this morning. authorities say they found no foul play. green had been serving time since last december. an autopsy will be performed. all right. let's take a turn to our weather now. lot of folks enjoying such a beautiful afternoon.

storm team 4 meteorogist somara theodore joins us fromhe the weatr center to talk about whether or not this beautiful weather is going to stick around. somara? >> yeah, you know, a lot of folks may be headed out this ev evening, going to do dinn's if. if thathe case, i made the forecast just for you. tonight not a bad one at all. temperatures falling into the low 70s. your forecast for tonight, mostly clear. stray shower. here's wh looking at the radar. we do have some activity on the board now. this is not in our area, but i how wanted to show you close it's going to be nicking us, to the south down toward virginia.nty they are seeing a severe thunderstorm. but look back toward the north here, the d.c. metro area pretty dry. maybe a spotty shower like it's been passing through fauquier, that's why i left the stray shower chance in through this evening but for most of us in the d.c. metro area, northward, you're looking at a quiet evening. ow, stick around and i have so much to talk to you guys about. how it's going to be impacting us and major heat on the way, erika. >> somara, thank you.

so somebody torched some vehicles operated by the city of buoy. authorities caught their man. tonight we're learning how he's going to pay for the arson attack. and it's a story that has the political word buld buzzing. president trump, the president of the united states of america elling minority congresswomen to go back to their countries even though they are american. even though they are american.

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swift backlash after he fired off a series of tweets today. many are calling the tweetstorm downright racist. mr. trump tweeting that progressive democratic women should, "go back to the broken and crime-infested places from which they came." he seemed to bereferring to newly elected swcongresen of color. all of the congresswomen strongly condemning his tweets today and saying they are fighting his hate-filled agenda. alexandria ocasio-cortez is of puerto rican descent. she was born in the bronx. and ilhan omar was born in somalia and emigrated to the united states when she was 12. rashida tlaib born in detroit f and is o palestinian descent. palestinian-american. ayanna pressley was born in incinnati and becamehe first black woman elected to the house from massachusetts. msnbc's the reverend all sharpton addressed the

controversy today on his show. >> they judge on the basis of skin clorks tolor. basis of et necessa ethnicity -- >> that is the -- f >> republicans immediately weighed in on president trump's tweets. michigan congressman justin amash who recently left the gop called thtweets racist and disgusting and meghan mccain, a vocal criticof the president, tweeted that we don't tell people we've welcomed into this country to go back. de. >nearly a week after historc flash floods, neighbors in one community are finally getting some good news. tonight, we've got an update on of savings and service.

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you're watching news 4 at 6:00. >> relief for some families in potomac after a huge sinkhole opened up in the only road leading to their neighborhood. rwoair crews ed around the clock to try to get a belfast road fixed. flooding on monday is what caused that giant sink hole. now as derrick ward report, traffic is flowing once again. but the fix is only temporary. >> reporter: monday's heavy rain led to flooding and that flooding took out aig chunk of belfast road in potomac creating a chasm that took away access to about 75 families who unfortunately lived on the wrong side o the washout. >> they had a shuttle service

out there for us. and everything's worked out pretty well so far. >> rrnorter: by early mog sunday, a single lane had been re-opened and shortly after that, a parade of grateful residents returned from the veritable exile to retrieve cars leftt.in a nearby lo on the way, they passed crews from montgomery county fire and rescue. they wanted to check out the roadway, too, making sure it was stable enough for their equipment. had there been a fire or another emergency, they worked out a back route to get to it. luxury, that contingency wasn't needed. >> we were really happy with what they've done so far: >> reporterboth repairs are temporary. there's lots of permanent work yet to be done on the roadway and on either side of the roadway. no timetable on how long that process will take. in montgomery county, derrick ward, news 4. a buoy man will spend more than a decade in a prison cell after setting multiple vehicles on fire at the city ofy buo public works facility. joseph clark accepted a plea deal for causing $6,000 in damages to the vehicles in june

of last year. some of the pictures released by the prince george's county police department show the he damage that caused. clark will be locked up for more than 13 years and will also be placedn fiveyears' probation when he is released. a rare sight at the lincoln memorial today as baptisms took igace. the church, the of the world, held this religious ceremony ash thousands of churc members from multiple states looked on. the church has a following about 5 million people worldwide and is located in got la headquartmexico. in the last month, the church has held baptism ceremonies across the world. es> riding on e-scooters may be all the rage thdays but you got to be careful. that's why a safety program was held today. folks in fairfax attended a fret e-sc safety and instruction demo in the upper parking lot ot wn square. people learning the basics of

balancing, starting, stopping, how to use the app. the one-year pilin trag program will run through next summer. as other kids enjoy summerk breahere is a warning for parents. too much relaxing and not enough learning can lead to brain drain.e sing months of progress in the classroom. all this week on news 4 at 4:00, door reen gentzler is going to show us simple and fun things parents can do with their kids to keep them mentally sharp to make sure students are ppared when school returns in the falll can youve we are approaching august? >> wow. >> let's not get ahead of ourselves. all eight. let'sjoy what we mains of july. we had a nice weekend to dry out. temperatures in thu 90s. >> uh- >> folks enjoying the nice sunshine we've had. >> yeah, we are in the thick of it right now. as far as summer goes becauseho it's out there, folks. wait until you see the heat indices and also got some major heat on the way. it is summer, after all.

let's get to it. current temps right now, in the district, 91 degrees. we are at 90in culpeper. 91 in manassas. county.s in montgomery 91 in frederick, maryland. a very, very hot evening. here's a look at the current heat index. that means you factor in the moisture in the air, thisis hat it feels like out there. feels like 95 in the district. not too long ago inquantico, feeling like 101. still feeling like 100 degrees out toward annapolis. it definitely feeal , really hot out there. we're dry in the d.c. metro area. just showing you where th tivity is on the board. right now it's situated well south of us. down toward orange county, virginia. they have a sever thunderstorm warning. for our area, anything that bubbled up has been too stable of an atmosphere, nothing can reallytually grow, thrive and become a major storm system. i'm expecting maybe a stray shower well south of d.c. or a fewes rum for the most part really quiet. now what's going on with barry, now a depression. you can see here that circulation well north of louisiana at this point.

still seeing swaths of heavy rain moving through that we're going to see this impact us this week. take a look at this timing. so i'm pushing through.o i'm gg to pause it on tuesday. this is tuesday evening. this is kind of it here. not as well defined. looking more le a blob of rain. that is going to be farther west. we might see development ahead of it tuesday afternoon. the greater threat for seeing moisture from the remnants of barry is actually going to be wednesday. that's wednesday at 1:30.es by wedny night into thursday, when we're going to start to see that rain moving to the area. day what on the ten that looks like. your monday morning run, i know a lot of us are stiopeful about our summer bodies, i know i am, okay, so for those of you who are going to be waking up early toruo the morning here's a look at what you got. temperatures dipping down to the low 70s, upper 60s for some. low 80s by 9:00 a.m. the earlier the better because that h cat is going toome in with a quicknessmo toow. now it will be a tad bit lower humidity. highs will only be in the upper 80s tomorrow. the 90s do return and boy do

they return. look at this ten day. we're talking 90s from tuesday all the way through next weekend and it's only getting hotter. upper 90s by saturday. now, there's that chance for rain on wednesday night and fhursday. that's because o barry. friday, we should start to see things really tracking much better and drying out in time for the weekend. again. >> i know. you know, one day at a time, but next weekend, that is looking roasty toasty near 100 degrees. wow. >> definitely jump in the pool. >> all right, somara, thank you. the nationals get their bel rung inphilly. plus, two legends p on aut

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this is thefinity "sports desk."ns >> dave j joining us this evening. red-hot nats working it today, battling as you said. came up short. >> we expe them to win every time because it seems like th do win every time. >> they've been doing well. >> very well. at the risk of being redundant, we will be redundant because the nationals have been. over and over again. win, win, win. you heard the one about the nats being major league baseball's best team since may 24th. they reminded us why with wins

on friday and saturday. nats clinch their fifth straight series n. they had achance this afternoon at a sweet. look at this. our friend with a big problem. the phillie phanatic not a fan of her question. >> what? >> lets her know it. she remained the phanatic about saturday night's comeback win against the nats.n seve inning down 3-1. kendrick lines it past her. two on. trt suzuki. come on ino score. a pinch hit rbi single. like erka said,this team battles. nationals within a run. very next batter, trea turner gets the job done. that's going to shalloright. victor robeless, why don't you come on in? he's going to place a tieing run. rbi single forrea turner. nats come back to tie the g me at three. uh-oh. but why cdoes there always have to be a but? ninth inning. trying to get this to extra innings. not going to happen. crushes the ball left. yeah. that's gone. ru solo walk-off home phillies avoid the sweep. walk-off winners, 4-3, against

the nationals. again, natstill win the series. >> they don't quit. you know, that's one thing i said before. they don't quit. they keep battling. just, day was just, you know, you're playing a good team over there. good players. you know? like i said, just unfortunate. you know, the game ended that way. i love the way we're playing. like i said, hdave a off. you know, come back strong against baltimore. orioles hosting the rays. araking his second career in the majors. top of the sixth. problem with michael. the rookie had two mers yesterday. hammers this to right field. oat is gone. only had career home run before this weekend. the rays up 4-0. bottom of the ninth. fys on the brink of history. three outs awayrom the first combined perfect game in major league baseball history until alberto dribblesne into right field. to break up the perfect game. alberto comng through with a single. the orioles dugout loving that. history is going to have to wait

for the future. orioles get the tieing n to the plate. paganets him to chase strike threeo win the game. oraves win 4-1. orioles off tomrow. they're going to host the nationals on tuesday night. hey, you know, tennis fans got what they wanted this year. roger federer, rafael nadal continued their rivalry atwi mbledon in the semifinals. mention nadal and federer at wimbledon, we think 2008, he c.at federer in 4 hour 48 minute classi a men's final for the ages. at least until today. two of tennis' best, novak djokovic this time and roger federer, 12 wimbledon championships between them, federer close to his ninth serving championship point. federer's forehd goes out. roger, another championship point. federer in the near court. a little rally going on here then djokovic wth aeautiful forehand to keep this one going. novak staying alive in this. we goo the first ever tiebreak

in men's final history. djokovic, he falls down. these two just exhausted. over four hours so far in the match. djokovic gets up, moved on. in the near cot he is w. check out this backhand from novak. no chance for federer. there it is. djokovic inches close tor to hi fifth title. federer skies this one. that's it. after 4 hours andmi 5utes. the longest men's final ever in wimbledon. novak djokovic wins for the second sgaight year. ahead, eat some grass. it's good for you. i think i's protein, right? djokovic, he earns it and at wimbledon. absolute clasic between twoof the best all-time. >> i never stopped believing, although i was very close to losing. i thought -- i thought he playee on a high lel. i thought i went up and down, but i managed to find my best and swing wn it mattered most. >> played in such a magnificent final, one that we'll remember forever. i guess it's hard to take.

>> i'll try to rget. but, no, it was a great match. >> 4 hours and 55 minutes, they're barely sweating. i'd be in a hospital right now. >> i mean, just elite, elite players. just amazing. >> they're probably in shape. that's probably -- >> yeah, there you go. all right. that is the news for now. thank you for joining us. "nightly news" is next. see you at 11:00.

ni toght, the rain keeping coming. escoastal communi as barry lingers over the south, new fears tonight of tornadoes and millions under the threat of flash flooding. blackout. major parts of new york city plunged into darkness, the lights go out on broadway. >> times square is like half -- the entire billboards are completely off. >> peopl trapped in elevators. >> our heroes. >> now the investigation into what went wrong. the uproar over a tweet from the president saying progressive hocongresswoman sd go back and help fix the countries they came from. murder mystery, a civilht