4:00. >> and we start frst at 4:00 with a live look at storm team 4 radar. it's already been a busy weather day, folks. i'm leon harris. >> and i'm wendy rieger. tornado warnings in the last hour. severe thunderstorm warnings and more to come tonig. >> stor already wreaking havoc out there, so let's take you to some live pictures here. this is i-270 at clarksburg road. a complete stop there because of downed wire. >> wre going to get an update from the live desk on thissi tuation in just a moment, but, first, let's head to the storm team for our coverage. doug? >> amelia and i have been watching the storms over the past couple of hours and watchingthat move ough, that storm there, you saw the damage there that has caused 270 to be completely shut down now. we saw a lot of damage coming in from that storm as it made its way through parts of frederick county, west virginia and all he way up towards the pennsylvania border now. >> we think we're just getting started. this is round one. we'll have more storms moving in

tonight and these storms could also be strong to severe. >> if you did not see the storms, you have a chance of seeing the stronger severe weather. >> you can see what's going on. we've got everybodyere in pink. that's a severe hunderstorm watch until 10:00 tonight for the entire region. now the areas that have already seen it. look at the line, boom. l thatne still has tornado warnings to the north of galtimore, and our region right now, not dealinith a lot. we've got some very heavy rain right now up along 270. that's where everybody is shut down right now, and then back to the west. we've been watching some very heavy rai back towards clark county and you may see minor areas of flash flooding so watch ere.t a thunderstorm warning in effect 4or anne arundel county continuing until :15 and look at the rest of the area. severe thunderstorm watch effect from richmond all the way up to new york and parts of new england. look at all the rain to come,gu . not done just yet. a flash flood watch also in effect until 6:00 a.m. mlot going on.

we'll talk muche about it. up, ew warnings will come we'll be the first to bring it r to youht from the storm center. >> scott macfarlane at the live desk. maryland state police say they do have i-270 closed in both directions in northern ntgomery county as approaches frederi county. downed tree limbs and downed wires necessitated the closure. here's a look at the tower camera, northbound i270 on the light. just brake lights andvery little movement in the southbound lanes, closed off by maryland state police. montgoery county also responding. closed indefinitely at the start of rush hour. at the live desk, i'm scott macfarlane. leon, back to you. >> all right. thank you, scott. >> new at 4:00 now, we now know the name of the woman who died from a heat-related emergency saturday on the billy goat trail of the potomac river. u.s. park police say that she was just 32ldyears her name, rachel parkerson.

she was from severn, maryland. the heat index saturday afternoon was 106 degrees. >> if you find yourself in a storm watch or warning right now, get your phones and your tablets chargedow because you can follow the weather on the nbc washington app and stay connected with storm team 4 even if yose power. >> a violent and deadly week across the district, and the mayor is fed up. >> seven people have bee shot to death just since thursday, and that includes an 11-year-old boy, and today the mayor and the police ch pleaded with the public. turn in these people who have illegal guns. >> we have team corage tonight starting with mark segraves outside of d.c. superior court where the man accused of killing that 11-year-old boy is in court now. mark? >> reporter: yeah, goodn. aftern the most high profile of all of those killings is the killing of 11-year-old karon brown, and the man charged with that murder just appeared before a judge, and despite his pleas of

self-defense, the judge ordered him held without bond, and this is just one of the incidents that wrapped up into an extremely violent weekend. four o days violence, four days of since thursday seven people have been murdered in the district including 11-year-old karon. bro saturday police charged 29-year-old tony mclamb with killing the boy. according to charging documents mclamb told police he was trying to settle disputes between neighborhood kids, including hif girriend's children and the victim and that he had had t gun because his brother had recently been h can't recall such a violent four days. >> in recent memory i don't, so this is particularly disturbing to ha this many homicides over the course of the weekend. >> reporter: today newsham and mayor muriel bowrleaded with residents to turn in anyone who has an illegal gun, even if it means sending a loved one to jail.

>> it's better to be arrested for having a gun thanr child.ng a call us. >> reporter: newsham took aim at d.c.'s gun laws and prosecutors today pointing out that most of the suspects arrested for murder had previously bee aested for gun possession. >> collectively we need to do a better job as a criminal justice stem in holding those folks accountae the first time. once somebody is killed they are dead forever. > newsham and bowser pointed to the public'shelp in arresting the suspect in the killing of 11-year-old karon brown. >> it shouldn't take tth d of an 11-year-old for people to come forward. >> reporter: according to courtm docents, the suspect admitted to police that he fired his gun into the car, but he said it was self-defense and that he didn't know the boy was inside of the car. prosecutors also said t that defendant voluntarily confessed to the shooting, but, again, he said that he wasn't trying to shoot the young boy, that in self-defense.

he thought the driver of the car had a gun, but when police asked him to produce his gun he refused. they said he had a 14-year-old boy try to sell the gun on the street the day after the murder. police have now recovered that gun. that's the very latest here at avc. superior court. mark segr, news 4. >> thank you, mark. let's continue our team coverage now with news 4's derrick ward live at d.c. police headquarters. >> derrick, we understand that you have some new information on a quadruple shooting over the weekend. eell us about it. >> reporter: w, indeed, we do have some new video that i don't think has been seen before, and this all gets at this violent weekend that we had and how police officials tried to deal with what happened this weekend. take a look and take a listen. [ gunfire ] reporter: now that's a barrage of gunfire. you can actually hear it. a few seconds later you see on o that videwo people running through an alley. now, this was all captured on a

ome surveillance system in the area of the brentwood recreation center. four people we uerot otse id cameras, too, but they didn't serve as a deterrence to this violence, and there are some fears as we hear from thetmayor t this violence could flare up again. take a look. >> we have four young people shot at and they are in my view in danger of being shot at again or doing smeshooting, okay? and so we have asked for them to be targeted for intensive services, and if they are willing, we thinkthat wean get them out of the cycle of violence that they are involved in. >> reporter: now all of the victims, all of those people who were shot, are expected to recover, but, again, it is a deadly seikaly or a violent cycle where officials are worried about. they want to get in there and intervene with someto services stop that cycle of violence before it gets any worse. we'll have more on these stories coming up later on news 4.t

righow we're live outside police headquarters. derrick ward, news 4. back for you. >> thank you, derrick. those cameras may not be a deterrent,ut perhaps they will help solve these cases. wendy? >> president trump continuing his attacks today on the four congresswomen. he calledthem racist and, quote, not very smart. this comes after more than a week when he told them to go home if they don't like this country, evenhough all four are u.s. citizens. soon attention is going to turn to another presidential nsntroversy. former special c robert mueller is going to be testifying before congress this wednesday. republicans are promisingnsough questor the former fbi director. democrats hoping his testimony will sway public opinion when it comes to hold being the president accountable. nbc's craig boswell will be joining us to get us caught up on this at 4:30. don't miss c's coverage of mueller's testimony. it is hesd again wedne morning starting at 8:15.

>> meantime, let's go over right now and get some live pictures prrom the u.s. sue court. you're seeing that scene right there. that's where former supreme court justice john paul steviss ying in repose there. a number of politicians and dignitaries have come there to pay their respects today. some fellow supreme court justices joined a ceremony to remember stevens along with president trump and the first lad c the publican pay their respects to stevens until 8:00 tonight. he'll be buried in a private ceremony tomorrow.e justicevens died last week at the age of 99. breaking news out of puerto rico and our sister station telemundo. more on a massive protest against the governor that have u.s. territory. alern? >> report wendy, tens of thousands of people are marching in san juan today demanding that n.the governor resig just take a look at the size of the crowd.

see is what you're about to in san juan. people marching in the heaand waving flags, channing and holdingigns. dozens of streets and businesses are closed. protests have been going on for ten days. the transcript of online chats since the governor and his advisers leaked.l they were ful of obscenities and insults to women and even mocked victims of hurricane the administration is also facing federal corruption charges, but he said last night that he would not resign. there is a protest scheduled for tonight here in washington as ppll. it's sued to start around 6:00 near the washington monument and continue to the white house. wendy and leon, back to you now. >> thank you, alvin. >> that was some crowd. >> amazing. >> it was amazing. >> coming up here, crreit b equifax agrees to pay up to $700 million over a 2017 data breach hat exposed private information fornearly 150 million people.

consumer reporter susan hogan explains what this means for you. >> and and colns reveals his final four. see who made the cut for best trick and pat's prized pets. >> and we have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect until sock across the area. heaviest rain right around frederick and parts of montgomery county.e heavy rain dloping there and right on back to the west. areas that have not seen it, still very hot and humid, but all of that is about to change. we'll also talk about a flash moflood watch through toow morning. lots to talk about, guys. e you back here inse a

all right. we are still watching breaking news on i270. both directions bldke becauecse downed power lines due to storms t tt blew through inhe last hour. news 4'sho aimee is on her way you updates as they come in. we br'lth lanes ol fing 270, both directions shut down. >> just outside frederick. >> not good. not good as you're starting rush hour. >> now, some of you could get a big pay day in the wake of that eauifax data breach. you probably hrd about the country reaching a $700 million settlement with the government. susan hogan explains how some of those people who were impacted p to $20,000. that's a nice piece of change, susan. >> totally, it's crazy.

enequifax agreed to sp up to $420 million to help those of you impacted by the data breach. 're talking about 147 million people, but i'm sure you're all wondering how do i know if i was impacted and how can i make sure ur thingsething out of this. you need to know right now so you don't miss out. the question is how do i know if i was affected by the data breach? well, you will know once the claims process begins, and this is going to hapn after the court approval which is a short time away. now, the claims site will have a tool to let you check. you can sign up for email updates from the federal trade commission. we have a link for you right now onc our nb washington a. search equifax breach. next question. if i was affected by the breach, what do i actually get? well, you're going to get ten years of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection, or you can get $125 in cash if you're already enrolled.

cash payments capped at $20,000 per person for expenses you paid as a result of the breach asl. wel now, what should i do now? get together any documents you have relatedth to impact the breach has had owin and your finances and watch out for sca. beware of phony links asking you for personal information to file your clai only use the links provided to you by the ftc. now, again, we have all of this information foryou, including those important links right now in our nbc washington app. al you want to do is search equifax breach. wendy. >> thank you, susan. >> sure. >> so as we get ready to clear the shelters next month, we wanted to get you into the spirit and remind you just how great it is to have an animal in your family and life. >> so our pat collins issued a summertime challenge to out there to show us your bet's best trick, and today a broad

field t entries arrowed down. ♪ >> it's. >> pat's. >> prized. >> pets. >> reporter: i've beenufpzu(ráig all week for this. who has trick? who is going to get the official limited edition pat's prized p > ico. >> reporter: we got dozens of entries, dogs and cats, even some birds.d we assemble an ard-winning panel of judges, anchor wendy rieger, meteorologi chuck bell and reporter corey smith. they did their due diligence, and using an olympic scoring method they worked their way to a winner. >> is urit? >> oudges impressed by what they say. >> i think it shows that people realove their animals and

that the animals are a part of the family. >> any time you can teach a pet to do something that's great, but when you can teach a pet toi do somet practical that helps you, even better. >> there are a lot of people much like myself that may spend one or two hours too many with just them and their dog every day, and this contest is proof that that's happening not just at house. >> here now in no particular order the final four. buddy. long day, tired feet, no worries, sock it to me, buddy. >> good boy. >> have a cold, runny nose? here comes magie with the a-choo trick. scout the cat does dog-like high five. >> high five, up top, yeah. >> reporter: and what about onard, a medley of moves. he gets water out of the refrigerator, does a downward

dog and frisbee movesor wyth wringly brothers. well, if we had a wringringling brothers. who do you think the winner should be? we'll find out tomorrow who gets this puppy. see you then. >> i was stunned to see a cat do something other than sleep an eat. >> i'm with you on that. cats don't do anything so to do a high five, that's pretty good. up high, and i do know the winner, and i'm not saying who it is. >> okay. >> are you bribable since you judged this? >> this is all part of our cleah the sters effort. that's the important thing. >> that's the important thing, folks. this has a purpose. you can read more about our initiative tlp shelter and rescue animals find permanent homes in our nb washington app. >> it's just next month. and you're not bribable? >> not for that.

>> i'm seimpres >> neither is doug and amelia, and they have plenty on their plates this evening. >> are the storms passed? y> yeah. round one is pre much out of here. we still have a couple of showers and thunderstorms out there, but therm strongest sto are now well up to the north and east, up around the baltimore area towards philadelphia. we probably have another round come through later this evening. >> and this round could be strong to severe. here's the thing. the humidity tomorrow going to beice. he temperatures unheard of basically. >> this is going to be a huge change, and it's already happening in some areas. >> show you where the storms are. you can see a severe thunderstorm watch in the pink here. that shows you the areas wt of the blue ridge. this is the same stormthat came through our area. up aroundhealtimore, all t way up towards philadelphia now. a severe thunderstorm warningit that same system that prompted a tornado warning in our area, and look what we've still got back to the west. this storm, by the y, that came through numerous severe thunderstorm reports. numerous downed trees and power

lines. 270 still shut down right now in both directions right along 270 and the clarksburg area.s it'ing to be a messl very heaar. mt. airy when we saw damage and other storms developing in montgomery county here. this was the area hit the o hardest out trds frederick and leesburg and bluemont. there's the one storm movingut o more severe storms down around roanoke and this whole line has to move our way. that's why we're pecting more storms. that's why the severe thunderstorm watching goes until sock tonight. now, where we did see the rain, lo at these numbers. 93 right now in norton. 77 in leesburg and 73 in artinsburg and 94 in quantico and 94 over towards anndpolis. hot aumid where you haven't seen the storms. we could see more storms tonight. that's why odere's a flash flo in effect until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow.

for much the region,a lot of rain over the past couple of weeks. that's another reason why there's more trees down this afternoon. amelia, it will ir a wet and rough night as we move on through. tomorrow though aly complete different story. >> absolutely tomorrow. it's cloudy. we have rain especially during the first half of the day and our temperatures. they only stay in the 70s, yes. we're going for a high temperature tomorro of 78 degrees. here's what you need to know for tonight. as doug was showing you there on the radar, round one is exiting off to the east. evening,o moves in this as early as 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. this could also bring with it some havy rain and maybe even some strong stormsnd especially that heavy rain. rain is still possible for that morning commute. it couldodbe mate in spots and something you do want to keep in mind as you head out the door tomorrow morning.ve chuck will hahe latest on "news 4 today." road conditions in just a nightmare getting home and o,ncela you cgeturrk insbto county, likely wet roads still up there. tomorrow morning, a better

chance for widespread wet roads with showers in the forecast for that morning commute. do i think it will be dry out there. we arealready seeing some storm damage out there tonight, especially north of the district. flooding is still possible a ea wide for the most part until 6:00 a.m. es, we're looking at rain out there tomorrow morning but lower humidity as well. as you step out the door on your tuesday, what do you need to iab? well, think you can leave like everything like the umbrella, the boots and rain jacket, all that stuff at home, butyou definitely want to have that umbrella, especially heading off to work during the morning hours and, do you go, that yfour-da forecast is looking fantastic. >> quite amazing what we'll be seeing outothere tmorrow. high temperature in the 70s with the good chance of rain early in the day, a few showers in the afternoon. take a look. 86 on wednesday and 86 on thursdayand 87 on friday. by the way, we've got a backyard weather this week, and the weather is looking perfect for that coming ups later thiek as well. the weekend also looking good into the 80s, but notice we start to heat up. by the end of the ekend and

into next week we're predicting another heat wave. he peratures go back into mid-90s by next week as the pattern gets a little more like we've seen over the past couple of days, but for we're watching the chances of storms. any new warnings for the next one to two hours, probably the 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 hour. that's what we're watching, and if you're out and about, make re you get indoors and keep it right here. download nbc washington app andr keep lves ahead of it. >> boy, will we look for that island that will be out there for a couple of days. >> can't wait. doug. nks, >> and coming up next, new york firefighters begin yet another trek to washington to lobby yet again for the 9/11 fvictim'sund because a final vote is expected in the senate. >> and new netting in place at >> and new netting in place at nats park forsthe game a i switched from do

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hit by a ball thati lor hit. he was agonizing aboul it. the chiwas hospitalizedt nats park will debut its protective netting all the way down the first and third basel es to the foul poles. the team is trying to make sure the park is safer for all the fans this. decision was made after a young fan was struck by a ball last /cubs during an astr game. >> that's what this is all about. we nt to protect the fans, the chirp, the adults. everybody that comes to the game and make sure that they have a good time without worrying about being hurt. >> not being mandated by the teams ut several other including the white sox and anrsrrengge a the nettingat their ballpark. >> aamily from herndon that we introduced to on news 4, mattie hartman, the little girl battling a rare type of cancer has died. the 6-year-old was diagnosed with dipg in january. that's an aggressive tumor, an

it progressed quickly attacking her brainstem. it impacted her speech, her vision and her mobility. maddie died at home seven months after her diaweosis. e told her family was able to bring her home from the hospital for hire final hours. the hartman family has been working to raise awareness about tipg since treatment has not really advanced in the 35 years since it was first named. the first wave of bad weather brought ado torna warning tore frederick county maryland this afternoon, and we could have more strong winds and even sme flash folo

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now at 4:30, if you're just joining us, storm team 4 issuing a weather alert. >> already had one blast of severe weath hit us. doug kammerer is leading our coverage in the storm center. >> a nastyde storm that ma its way from frederick county virginia all the way to frederick county maryland and now there's numerous trees down across that area now. that was round one. you can see what's ppening with storm team 4 radar that. storm is now out of the region now making its way up towards the philadelphia area. very stron storm right there. had a ton of lightning earlier. now we're starting to see things

calm a little bit and heavy rain in through frederick county, maryland, some areas saw some wind damage around that area. we're watching a little bit of lightningight around the airport site here. right around dulles, some of that storminess and more stormsd expect through the night. severe thunderstorm watching actually goes until 10:00. much more on any new warnings that we don't expect for thext neour or two and anything that pops up will be right here on the storm center. >> i'm jim handley. if you're just joining us at 4:33, let's get you caught up on the four things you need to know. as doug mentioned,he four storms causing a mess on i'd 270. take a look. these are live pictures. the highway is shut down now in bothirections at clarksburg road because of downed powers. line no reports of injuries here but patience is being tested for thousands of drivers at the height of rush hour now. d.c.'s mayor and police chief

turn ng for people to others in if they have an illegal weapon. it comes after that deadly weekend. seven people were murdered in the last four days including 1-year-old karon brown. the suspect in that case made his first court appearance today. equifax has agreed to spend up to $425 million to help people impacted by that massive data breach. the companywill provide free credit monitoring and even issue cash payments of up to $20,000 ser person. we have some tip on what you should do and start doing right now if you think you are impacted by this breach. it's alln our nbc washington app. just search equifax breach. and former u.s. supreme court justice jhn paul stevens is lying in repose at the supreme court. he died last week at the age of 99. mo than 80 of his former line clerks line the marble steps today as his casket was brought

n.politicians and dignitaries paid their respects including president trump and first lady melaniarump. wendy, back to you in the studio. >> thank yo jim. former special counsel robert mueller set to testify on capitol hill this wednesday, and ahead of that hearing the prident is once again singing a familiar tune about the russia report as he ratchets up his attacks on fourma fele lawmakers onceagain. craig boswell is on capitol hill with the latest. craig? >> reporter: yeah, wendy, on the mueller hearing, you know, robert mueller has testified dozens and dozens of times pring hisrofessional life, but this time it's different. the expectations are higher ev though the president today is dismissing this week's testimony from robert mueller. >> president trump on the highly anticipated testimony from ecial counsel robert mueller. >> no, i'm not going to be watching, probably, maybe i'll see a little bitter: the presid attacking democrats for bringing mueller to the hill. >> all they care about is a phony investigation. >> reporter: mueller would e quioned for the first time wednesday sensory leasing his report on russian interference in the 2016 election. >> and theres an awful lot of

material within the report that the american people are not familiar with which they really need to be. >> reporter: democrats want to ask mueller whether the president obstructed justice but know from the spuecial counsel' statement in may that he's a reluctant witness.ca republins consider the russia report one-sided andqure eally anxious to question mueller. president's view of congress womeof calling calling the lawmakers known as the squad a racists group of trouble-makers. >> yeah, i'm not going nowhere! >> reporter: representative rashanda tlaib pushed back against the president. >> you are all the squad. if you support justice, you are one of us. >> reporter: attacks on the lawmakers and mueller's testimony, topics both sides otpe will help win thems in the 2020 election cycle, and on the muellerg hearin both democrats and republicans aware it cou a make or break

moment and possibly shift public opinion. leon, back to you. >> thanks, craig. craig boswell reporting. >> a bill to fund the september th victims' is expected to pass senate but not without controversy. it compensates victims and families of lov ones affected in the september 11 attack. rand paul said the debt should spending by cutting some place else. today new york city firefighters blasted paul's move. >> if he w so fiscally responsible he would have announce it had before then instead of keeping it secrets until the momentsbefore senator gillibrand brought the bill up for unanimous consent. >> congress replenished that fund in 2011 and 2015 and without authorization that fund

will expire next year. once the bill passes, president trump is expected to sign it ext week. just aboute year away from the 2020 summer olympics in tokyo, and coming up, we're going to take a look at how the host city is preparing it, and we'll look at a local athlete with a little extra motivation. and packing for a trip and packing dozens of people arrested in our local airport for having guns in their carry-ons. the news 4 i-team investigates why so many of them were allowed to walk free. >> and how this for a refreshing change of pace. check this out. the ice tea meter tomorrow, all u're going to need out there is a small, maybe even some hot tea earlier in the morning. as we head throughout the workweek, it's going back up to a large, but no extra large in the forecast. we're not tracking any extreme heat thankfully. but what about the humidity levels? i'll be breaking that down will have and doug the latest check of storm team 4 radar. is

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>> reporter: but tis frequent flyer from loudoun county has a warning. >> recheck your bags before leav g your hom >> reporter: what went through your mind when the tsa officer said over here. a giant freeze and everything stops in the assembly line of security. red light siren over the x-ray unit. >> reporter: a different kind ki pac, for him and dozens of others in our area when he accidentally brought his carry-on bag with his gun inside. >> i didn't think about it.ey once thpulled out the bag, i obviously identified it as my bag and it hit me like a ton of bricks. >> reporter: he said tsa immediately stopped the line and airport security took his gun and filed charges. he's far from alone. an increasing number. more thaneo 160 pe arrested at dulles reagan and b wiin international since 20 i. >> you would think that you in cannot brg a firearm on a

plane. >> reporter: 86% of the seized guns nationwide were loaded. >> so what we're hearing people say is iorgot i had a loaded gun with me, incredible. >> reporter: acrding to tsa two of t most common excuses, their spouse packed their luggage, or they travel with the same bag they use a the gun range. >> you had the bags ued at the firing range. >> a bacack that had stuff in it and didn't think about it. >> the reason for the ban on guns for air passengers is clear. > never want a firearm in the cabin of a plane. >> reporter: the penalty for those who break the law is not clear. though the tsa announces each passenger's arrest they don't publicly relee the name. the i-team goes through all 100 cases of this happening recently an these people simply do not go to jail. those arrested at dulles facede finof $100 and those arrested at bwi had unsaipe advised release and those at reagan

eventually got the charge dismissed. >> i never looked at jail astha time a person is found guilty of a crime. that's just not how we operate. >> the commonwealth attorney says those arrested are advised to appeal their cases to circuit court, a legal step that leadsh to cases ultimately being dismissed if they have no prior report and complete community service. >> reporter: this is a fair disposition for you? >> these folks are all law-abiding s.service when they uncover the gun mosti indiduals are horrified and completely beside themselves. >> reporter: and something else we found in court records. many dyrested are alr familiar faces at the airport. getting stopped at the tsa pre-check line used by trusted travelers who had background checks that can lead to suspension from the program for months. >> it was a very honest mistake. >> reporter: that's what happened to this flyer, plus he paid a fun and had his gun seized and got his case dismissed. >> i didn't look through my bag and i'm an idiot.

>> reporter: best advice, stop with an empty bag when packing so yore not causing the line at the tsa. >> f punishmentor this can vary stte to state. tsa says those stopped at laguardia or jsfk can face jail because of new york's strict gun laws and there's a legal and safe way to pack a gun for a flight. we have a dmonstrate from tsa in our nbc washington app. >> all right. let's get back to doug and amelia the in the storm center. they are watching the storm center blazing through the region, but we have good news to report. i'd270 is back open near clarksburg. a lot more to come our way, right? >> a lot of damage from the first round of storms th t came through mostly to the north and west of the d.c. area and south and east. it's still extremely hot, and that's why w still have another round to go. >> and with that humidity and the temperatures still in place to our south. storms later tonight could still have strong gusty winds. downpours are still possible. it's not going to be until

tomorrow where we feel some relief out tere area-wide. >> and that's going to be big-time relief. we've seen damage from the storms. take a look at the video that we got out of the mt. airy wind. this is when a tornado warning wa in effect for mt. airy and you seat video taken. i'm not sure exactly where this camera is, but it's looking at a house it's in theckyard of a house on some kind of atructure, and at the end of this, you actually see part of that structure pal apart and, of course, that cara then falls as well, and all you can say at the end is the ground out in front of it. bigtime damage up around the mt. airy area. louun county, let's take a look right here. up towards portions of marynd and the i-95 corridor. 40 to 50-mile-per-hour winds with these storms that are all moving out. look at the wind damage. all of those reports aree a tre

down across the area. winds gusting upwards of 50 to 60 miles per hour, butlo at the trees down in northern airy area.nty and the trees yeah, a afternoon earlier for sure. now we're seeing straight rain. frederick to mt. airy and over towards bluemont, a shower and thunderstorm around the herndon area so watch out there, but nothing severe. now the wider picture, however, showing whate've got to go back to our west a be seeing here. wend've got w another round of storms to come through later thiseving. most likely around 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 tonight these could be strong and when see that is when we see a break, not from ro the storms butthe heat we've seen. >> we were putting together the forecast this afternoon saying is this really going to be tomorrow? temperatures in the 70s. we have some rain around. we have kind of cloudy skies throughout the day so certainly a break for you as well as your air conditioner from the heat and humidity. you do want to ha your umbrella handy throughout the day tomorrow, especially during the first half of your tuesday.

we start off at 70e dees. so that's okay. it's not refreshing just yet, but as we move throughout the day it does not get stifling at all out there. by lunchtime, some scattered showers around. otherwise cloudy skies. 75 and 78 for a high temperature tomorrow. we're running step degrees below normal. 20 degoes cer than when we were yesterday out there. scattered showers still possible even during the late afternoon hours, but by 7:00 p.m. on your tuesday, maybe some late-day sunshine. it's feeling researching. k.ke the dog for a long wa the kids can lay outdoors with no worries of heat issues. it's just going to be awesome, but mae not a great pool day out there with rain in the forecast, especially during thei morng hours and wednesday and thursday are just perfection out there. look at this, doby the way, welcome back. >> thank you. >> and we have smiley faces for the humidity and towelcomeou back wednesday, thursday and riday. humidity quite nice out there. >> i had a lot of smiley faces

on my vacation. >> today a lot of weather and severe flash flood continuing until 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning and do expect rain during the morning commute. could be areas of flooding. that's something we'll be tracking for you. amhrein and some of that heavy in the morning hours. wednesday, thursday and y,frida gorgeous weather. i've got backyard weather coming up in the middle of the week. we'll have a great one out there wednesday and thursday. friday look great. saturday looking pretty good though a little bit more on the humid side. we do not get back into the 90s until next week, and once again we're expecting a pretty good heat wave making its way in for next week as well. any more storms that develop, we'll the first to bring it to you. we're in a little it of all and have that lull for the next hour to two hours. >> hey, listen, you and amelia have want to see if you are a smiley face for this next story. this is about men's underwear turning intouter wear. new boxers are now coming with

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well, as much as your kids are probablytdreading, it's time to start thinking about back-to-school shopping. that means sales tax holidays. tax-free items including clothing and shoes under $100 andbackpacks under $40. the tax-free holiday is august 2nd through 4th. we've got a full listing of the tax-free items in our nbc washington app. just go to the siteea and sch tax-free. now before you go out and buy everything on those back-to-school lists, we've got someips to save you time and money. nbc's chris clackum rports. reporter: only a few weeks away from the sounds of summer are giving way to the sounds of shopping.

>> don't need to get everything on yourchild's school supply list. >> reporter: retail remembers wall-to-wall with back-to-school sales whichrohould be appached with patience. >> ask the teach what's might be needed. >> clothing and accessories, even computers. >> reporter: gadgets are upso popping on back-to-school wish lists. >> gadgets include anything from tech the apple watch. >> reporter: retail may not says those gadgets might add more to the $500 per child parents are already spending on back-to-scckol. chris cl, nbc news. >> right now the weather alert has powerful storms are making their way through our area.

this was the scene in mt. airy earlier today. the camera was knocked out of the tree and down to the ground w. we're kicking off this week with some wild wet we are, folks. hello, everybody. i'm jim >>handley. nd i'm wendy rieger. this is round one of what we can expect. this storm is knocking down wires on i-270 which led to a complete shutdown. both directions between clarksburg and n.hyattstow the lanes have now reopened, but the traffic, it's still a mess out there at the height of rush hour. now we are bracing for a round two. more with doug andaamelia and the very latest. guys? > the amount of storms that came around at 3:00, 4:00, came through and produced a lot of damage. still have some rain going on in e're same areas, but waiting for another line and that's why there's a severe

thunderstorm watch until 10:00 tonight. torms move through, the humidity has lowered and the temperatures have lowered and a lot of the area is still baking and still very humid and ill severe weather in the forecast. >> a flash flood watch is in effect until tomorrow morning. g a lotng on. take a look at the radar right now. show you a little bit of a break here from severe weather in our area. there's the storm t caused all the damage into parts of montgomery county and frederick county. loudoun county around luckettsville. nothing to southern st. mary's county. have seen storms in that area. these are all trees down.of every onehese circles is trees down around the area so we saw a lot of damage a little b earlier. right now it's just rain across the region from d.c. south and east. it's still hot and humid, but relief bombs tomorrow as this system makes its way through. ou