texas officials say at least six people are dead as a ultimate are of the storm. at least 30,000 are expected in houston area shelters. crews have rescued as many as 2,000 people from flooded areas. and things are only getting worse. the national weather service is now expecting another 15 to 25 inches of rain over the coming days with some areas see ing as much as 50 inches. just moments ago the governor of texas talked about the federal and local response to the storm there is a reality that we have to come to grips with and that is we are just beginning the process of responding to the storm. we are still involved in the search and rescue process. our number one goal from corpus christie all the way to east of houston is still protecting and preserving live and rescuing every person that we can find. right now t

disaster declarations for 18 counties in texas. president trump and the first lady are expected to travel to the area tomorrow. really the photos we've seen say it all and the video here, the rescuers trying to navigate their way through flooded streets to help those who are still trapped. people are still being told to stay home and stay off flooded roadways. the catastrophic flooding is expected to only get worse in the coming days. caitlyn roth joining us with the latest on tropical storm have i i and it's still wreaking half can on. it's going to take until the end of the workweek until we see the system move out of the golf coast. the damage continues not just for houston and southeast texas but our attention is also shifting towards our communities along the gulf coast including new orleans and much of southern louisiana. let's get straight to radar and i'll show you you where the heavy rape is right now which does include houston. they're on the southern edge at

now but they are still getting very heavy, very consistent rain . that's from houston down southwest ward towards bay city, communities that have already seen to 35-plus inches of rain. along the gulf coast we have a tornado coast that's out from belt lake charles all the way through new orleans. the severe weather threat is there as well as the intense heavy rain bands that feed off of the golf of mexico. look at lake charles, new orleans. they're getting inundated with some of the feeder bappedz that we saw. now , over the past 72 hours the rainfall is stag terring in parts of texas. dayton, texas has seen just shy of 40 inches of rain. including south texas with 32.3 inches of rain. both of the airports, have seen over 20 inches of rain, but harvey not going anywhere any time soon . still a tropical storm, winds sustained a

hour, barely moving east southeast the at 3 miles an hour and a the path of harvey is expected to kind of me and der across the gulf coast and then move a little bit southeast ward or northeast ward excuse me and probably make what with be a third landfall for it somewhere along the texas/louisiana border and that would be sometime wednesday into thursday. as we go through the next 24 through 48 hours the rainfall will continue. the motion of the storm is expected to make that landfall along some along the texas/louisiana border until finally thursday pfg pushing into southern parts of arkansas over the next four to 30 hours could exceed 12 to 30 inches across loose san and and extreme south eastern texas could still see another 20-plus inches tuesday into early

thursday. we are going to keep track the rainfall as we go through the rest of the week including places like new orleans which i think tomorrow morning we'll be talking about the heavy i am impacts and rain in much of south eastern lieu. i'll have a check of our local forecast for tomorrow. >> back over to you. in the meantime surveillance video from a store robbed in houston just a day after harvey made landfall. dozens of leut ers went into the store. the shop owner posted the video on facebook p. he said he was unable to get to the store sunday because of the weather, roads, he called police many times but they told him they couldn't respond because of the overwhelming amount of emergency calls. thousands of people are still trying to get out of houston finding any dry place to rest. some are even sleeping at gas stations. harvey has forced at least 40,000 people in the area to

seek shelter. rescue yorpgs are well underway in houston. more video of rescues, these ones are carried out by the coast guard much they had to use baskets stranded by the flooding. other s were air lifted to from rooftops. others have traveled to houston assist with rescue efforts. one man told reporters he was following the advice of an app that opinion pointed those who need help. he and a group of people from al toe, texas brought four boats with them to travel into different neighbors hoods. several people need to be rescued and we just come down here to help. we were coming down yesterday and it got too late so we left out six this morning and here we are. we're just unloading the boats right here where the water is high. this is a rally point was everybody was putting in. although harvey is now a tropical storm, the rain, of course still falling. earlier today the army

water from at least two reservoirs in the area. officials say the move could cost street flooding that could spill into homes nearby. the american red cross sending one of its emergency response mobile kitchens to the region. this morning fox5 melanie alnwick was in fairfax county as volunteers started to pack up their gear. this is one of their emergency response vehicles with a kroo you that is going to be down. one of the things the red cross is doing they're staffing up shelters rgs providing polices for people and families to go and stay and they are also giving them all of those relief supplies. what the emergency vehicle here is getting ready to do is they're going to go and start feeding in the neighborhoods, people who have decided to settler in place as we know is so important for many people to do but they also perhaps don't have power, don't have any healthy food or clean food in their homes. so that's what this perfectly mobile kitchen is doing and lee falcon is o

going to be do that. i know you said you responded to matthew before when you you got here, how did you mentally prepare for all of that? >> you you just kind of know it's coming and start packing. of you've already got your packing list and ready and been through it before. so just grab it and go. what's inside here? >> right now we're loaded pretty light. we'll get most of what we need when we get down here. but the red crosses are cam broa s when we get on site, whoever is doing the cooking we can load it with hot or cold food. we take it out to the neighborhoods or to a service site and get them the fresh food and then also water and we can also take what we call bulk delivery, cleaning supplies and stuff to people who need it. >> melanie alnwick from this morning. many people in our region still want to help. the red cross prefers people make financials donations instead because it takes a lot of time to pack

supplies. the number is on the screen. if you you want some other ways to help out check out the list we posted at fox5dc.com . new tonight, another community targeted with hateful mess jerks this time the at a church in dumfries, virginia. church members there say sunday they found some racist and antisemetic signs posted in front of the entrance on top of that police did not come out to investigate right away. >>reporter: kristin. >>reporter: sarah, we're told it took police two hours for them to even respond and this is the first time something like this has happened at this location. now, keep in mind here this is a predominantly african-american church, but really quickly i do want to show you something, as you are about to walk up those stairs there, you can see there is a welcome mat, a welcome mat for that community indicating welcoming all people regardless of race o

welcome mat right there at that door is where those signs were found, as you're about to see. the church may look small from the outside, but inside graiter praise temple ministries is a love so big some say it phils up the entire room. that's what people say when they come here they can feel the love of god here. sister gwen has been coming to this church in dumfries for about a year and a half now. she described to fox5 how even though there were only about 30 to 40 members here it's a family she's blessed to be a part of. we love people when they come in the door. so to find these signs postedded supplanted on their church door. >> it also had a hooded, a hood ed man with a suit on. sign s showing what looks like a member of the kkk with the words now that's white power. day of the rope is

with this sign with a bunch of swaths particular as. sister gwen was horrified. it's very disturbing. there's a the lot of churches in this area, but for the people of color, you know, that we have to crediting you through this. it's like taking us back to the 50s. and 60s. until the police catch whoever is responsible for such rate sister says all she can do now together with her church group is pray and help educate. we're praying for the perpetrat ors. we're praying for love in the community and not hate. we're praying for togetherness and we are praying that they will catch them. now, according to police we spoke with them today and that police report was filed both online and over the phone and at the time they say there was no indication of anyone being in fear for their lives. now t

come back out here today to confiscate those signs as you just saw and collect them as a part of evidence and they say as of right now they are investigating this incident as a possible hate crime. live in disum fridays this evening, kristin leone, fox a local news and another arrest related to this violent white sue prem tis rally in charlottesville two weeks ago. police arrested richard preston over the weekend in m smed he is he is from maryland. he was caught on camera firing a gun during the charlottesville recall yich he's now facing weapons charges. he's being held at the baltimore county detention center. if you've been to a university of maryland football game you may have heard the maryland my maryland, but will not hear it this year. the university has suspended playing the song. the

some of the lyrics refer to abe raised tonight ram lincoln as a december pot. the university issued a statement today as part of the university's eforts z to reaffirm our efforts as a campus community we are assessing the songs that are played at inter collegiate events. we are supplying the playing of maryland my maryland to see if it is consistent with our in much institution at this time. there is a paragraph, there is a one rester in that song which is pretty egregious but it's never song before and i've never heard it before. it came up in the legislature last year and they chose not to do anything about it, but i'm sure they'll be discussion it more this year. the song is more than 1350 years ago. they determined the song doesn't reflect the feelings of the people of maryland. >> coming up, a big summit today for the governors of maryland and virginia and also the mayor of d.c

discussion? >>reporter: we're talking about metro much that's what we're talk about. there's a very big billion coming due for d.c., maryland and virginia. coming up we're going to tell you you what we found out and what we still don't know about how they're going to pay that billion. speaking of transportation, today kicks off the official start to the multi \build\billion dollar\billed transportation project in maryland. the new purple line and you who it could impact your commute. and religious leaders from around the country are impacter barking on the national mall. the the mission behind what they're calling the thousand ministers march. we're back after this.

>> could we soon be slapped with a new sales tax to help pay for metro. that is one of the options facing d.c., maryland and virginia as all three governments zeal with the question of how to get the trans it system running smoothly again. it was a big question hanging over a summit today between the governorses of virginia, maryland and the mayor of d.c. fox5's tom fitzgerald joined talked to them all today i'm assuming they didn't walk out with the agreement in hand? >>reporter: no, jim. get a load of this, $500 million, folks, that's how much metro say that together zc, maryland, and virginia are going to have on come up with for this system. how are they going

are they going to have a sales tax? are they going to have some kind of gas tax or are they going to cut a check altogether and be done it with. we did hear some things today. we heard that they're in agreement about having a smaller metro board. the other one is too insufficient. what we did not hear today is any agreement on how three of these injuries disiks are going to come up with that money. the number that we've heard is it's going to take $500 million over the next ten years to be an in a state of good repair. that doesn't even account for the growth of this region. i will work with my legislature before they come into session. we're already having meetingses to come up with planlt i'm not going to answer your question today, i would be foolish to do that. we're all in an agreement to finalize secretary look hood's report. take a look at it and look at paul

where the shortfall is and coming up with some solutions. they're all in agreement but there was necessity agreement today. this summit was held down in mount vernon, virginia governor terry maw cullive was the host. you see larry hogan and then soon followed by d.c. mayor muriel bowser. also in attendance today was the gm of metro paul wiedefeld, also the former us sengt of transportation lay la hood. la hood has been brought in to do a report of what metro is going to be needing fog going forward. we brought in martin decar a today. what was your take on this? they said a lot but they didn't announce a the lot. >>reporter: there were no breakthroughs and i thought it was somewhat disis pointing that the preliminary report was not release to the public. he was hired months ago by virginia on come in and get a consentses us for this divided region,

consensus on how to fix metro. there is a split here because we know mayor bowser has expressed support for metro. do they have to resolve it because white feld left it up to them how to come up with the municipal. apparent ly so has ray large audience hood. he didn't want to take a position on what they should do like sales tax or gas tax. this is according to certain studies that 1 percent regional sales tax would provide the revenue. it might be up to each of the three jurisdictions to decide on what to do. rare l a hood today says he's finished that are the ro. didn't issue it today. he says they're actually still t writing all the findings. that could could objection to the form out in just about five weeks in the beginning of october. tom fits jerl, fox5 local news. >> coming up, the fallout from hurricane h

contacted this huge fire to break out in downtown houston, a mid the massive floods. then and president trump clears the way for local police to get military gear. more on the controversial new plan coming up . first, caitlyn over to you. >>reporter: among long with monitoring tropical storm harvey we have tropical storm number ten impacting the carolinas. i'll have your first check of the local forecast coming up on the the other side of the break. .

>> this was a pretty nice day i have to say compared to what we've been having with all the heat and humidity. >> yesterday, too, because we had the nice kind of cool breeze throughout the day. i went to the ballpark last night. it was a nice night for the ball

we've been talking about the weather in texas, but we have weather right outside our door. we we've got a rainy day in store for us tomorrow. thanks in part from some tropical moisture. so far today, though, has been pretty okay. we've had a lot of cloud cover, but it stayed nice and cool, comfortable out there and dry. 76-degreeseses on an eastward. thattest wind is going to help deliver some rainfall but also keep us on the cool side so tropical moisture on our way. it's not go to feel very tropical. seventy-five in baltimore, 76 in washington, 73 out at dulles, 73 in martinsburg . these temperatures not hot, well blow normal for our daytime you highs at the end of august. cloud cover all over the washington, baltimore melt rose. nothing to worry about for this evening if you have any outdoor plans. it's not close to dawn that the showers will arrive. here's what we're con tending with. y

of moisture. this stretches just south of virginia beach down through charleston, south carolina. that is some heavy rain that's pushing on shore. tropical storm conditions not expected anywhere near us for any of our local beaches, but we will be seeing some rain as that system makes more of a north easterly turn out to see over the next 24 hours. for tonight no rain on board. p 19 p.m. and falling back into the 60s overnight. it will be nice and cool. mostly cloudy starting off tomorrow in the upper 50s to the mid 630s. showers are possible by dawn and then yes some of that tropical rainfall is in the forecast for us. like i said it's not going to feel very warm. wree will have rain, some breezy conditions tomorrow we'll have a look at the seven day forecast. will the re palestinian of harvey finally reach us later on this week into the weekend. it's possible and

we'll be following that one closely. thank you, caitlyn. meantime school bells are ringing in fairfax county. students were back at school today. it's a bit unusual you because the school year started after labor day. the county got a waiver from the start to start early. this pre-labor day opening i think is going to be an exciting development for fairfax county public schools. the school district i led in virginia as superintendent in lynchburg had had the before labor day schedule for several years and parents and students loved it. the very first year when your summer is a little shorter it's a bit of transition but we're going to have more trabs is time for kids to be more success tell on their ap tests, sol tests. he was really enthusiasmic about it. fairfax county is one of the biggest school district in our region with 189 now steuns students. coming up,

tragedy at a d.c. metro station we're going to tell you you how the trains are moving tonight after a fatal incident on the rails. first here's ronica cleary. hey, jim, we speak with a red cross employee on the ground in houston about president trump's visit to the area tomorrow. is it really going to help coming up after the break.

z2fwdz z16fz y2fwdy y16fy >> more headlines at five. thirty, a driver still at large after a fatal hit and run in virginia. this happened at 11 near the northbound lanes in dumfries. the person in the second car died. right now the description from police, a dark colored car with damage to the draifer's side. the orange, blue and silver lines are now back up to speed. one person was hit by a

plaza earlier today and it created delays on both lines between smithsonian station and federal center. all lines were back to normal around 3:00. the remains of all ten missing salor s have now been recovered two of them from maryland. navy drivers found the two bodies last week before the search was officially called off. the sal ors were killed after a clietion between a war ship and a tanker near singapore. the navy is investigating what led to the crash. politicians are expected to play an important role in the disaster response. vice-president mike pence visit ed fema headquarters to get an update on rescue efforts in houston. president trump will head to texas tomorrow in the wake of the storm. ronica cleary live the at the red cross , reaction from politicians getting involved in disaster response. ronica. >>reporter: hey, jim and sarah, president trump, he spoke

his trip for tomorrow from inside the oval office today. here he is addressing his plans for tomorrow's visit. i'll be going to texas tomorrow. i look very much forward to it. things are being handled really well. the spirit is incredible of the people. the queered nation between all of the different services as you you you know has respect for the governor. he's done an incredible job. i look forward to the trip. well, during those remarks he noted at this time they still don't know exactly where he will be when he is on the ground in texasment he also said he might be going back to texas on saturday nation to making a stop in lieu sans a. ers ' a question you might be asking. when l politicians visit these national disaster areas, is it really helpful aureus a photo op in. >> l politicians, we definitely need them because they can

going on than a let the american public know that this is a very serious operation. >> that was art shaw. he's on the ground in houston at the greater houston chapter of the american red cross. they're about three to five miles outside of downtown houston. he works for the american red cross in the national capital region that's in fairfax, virginia. he was sent down this past thursday in anticipation of harvey to assist with fundraising teams. now, he showed us the national guard trucks that will bring volunteers to the shelters at the american red cross has set up. he also showed us other trucks that will bring supplies and explained to us the difficulty of harvey not just in and of itself, but the fact that there are people in this region that are still recovering from other weather-related incidents at this time and then being hit by harvey in addition to it. take a listen. it's very serious and these people

going to be struggling for a long time. i talked to some local people who said they still lad nt quite recovered from the april 15 tax day storm and flood last year and now their house is flooded again. it's a very serious situation. reporting live at the merp red american red cross flt headquarters. ron ronica cleary. >> the trump administration is unveiling a new controversial plan to arm police officerses with military gear. the executive order reverses an obama era policy. officers will now be armed with high calendar beer weapons, grenade launchers and armored vehicles. attorney general jeff sessions announced a change today in a speech to the fraternal order of police. they called the move exceptional dangerous and irresponsible. more transgender troops are fighting president trump's plan to ban them from service. a washington sta

others are among those challeng ing the president's proposed poly s. all three joined a gay rights group in su ing the us district court in seattle. it. the american civil liberties union filed a separate case in maryland. transgender people have been allow to serve openly in the military gins sun of 2016. more than a faith leaders joined in protest this morning \march\marching from the mlk memorial to the department of justice. today marks the 534th anniversary of doctor martin luther king's march on washington where he gave his famous i have a dream speech. activists say the recent racial violence in charlottesville gave the march some new energy. reverend al sharpton gave a speech to fox news today to give the mission account allocable. i don't want them to give us the stat you yewsnd

legal statues and legislation that would really represent the spirit of what those statues represented so let's take the statues dun as a lead in to dealing with the legislation and the policies that continue in these present days and time. martin luther king, the thir was in attendance today along with more than 200 jewish faith leaders who felt their presence at the rally was critical. a ten-march in d.c. just got underway in charlottesville. 112-mile march to confront white supremacy, faith leaders are calling upon president trump to be removed from office. they believe the president aligned himself with hate in the wake of the deadly violence in charlottesville. protestors from around the country are expected to join in the fight against racism. the statue of american's most civil rights leader dr. martin luther king jr. was unvailed today in his hometown of atlanta. it marks the 354th anniversary

have a dream speech. the principles of civil rights icon dr. martin luther king jr. oh oanches he stood for freedom. he stood for he dwalt, for justice. love and piece. recognized around the world and now celebrated through skull tup ped bronze clay in the area the national conscious, a statue honoring the referred is covered waiting for its unveiling. he risk ared so much for us, not only black people, but for the world and so i'm really thankful that they're honoring him this way. the statue stands at the intersection sf capital avenue and martin luther king drive facing the king center and ebb kneeser baptist church it's been years in the making, the project delayed after the death of the original scup tour in 2015 that led to sculpture martin toed took over. with recent violence in virginia and con

confederate monuments coming down some say this is a breath of fresh air. all the hatred that we've been experiencing and the need for some remembrance of love and caring and how to get a long, it could not have come at a better time. it's time for us to not be remembering how grave ly the confederate soldiers fought and they did and they believed in that cause. but that was a greater cause and the cause was to bring people together. that was nationally pose oh reporting. coming up on fox5, a teen dies after a police pursuit while on board an atv. tonight the trooper has been suspended, what ftion ons say he did to the teen during that chase that turned deadly. and in texas, a huge fire breaks out in downtown houston amid the massive floods. caitlyn. we continue to follow the massive flooding in southeast texas as well as many other communities a long the golf coast so fm

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>> back now in houston, texas where cellphone individual yes cap durd the moment an office building went up in flames following an explosion. this comes amidst severe flootding and damage brought on by trump administration harvey. still no word what caused the fire or if anyone was hurt. to michigan when a take it

suspended. a trooper used a tazer. the teens pride -- excuse me, the troopers tried to pull the teen over saturday. he was driving recklessly on an atv . grimes later died after crashing into a pickup truck. so in times of national disaster , it does help when you have celebrities at least step up and offer some supports. >> a houston nate is bee say and rol and and today comedian kevin heart anouned his denation of $25,000. i think we participat ed in a lot of challenges on the internet, some meaningful, some meaningless but we've all done them. at this point i'm going to start a real challenge. at this point this is a serious matter. i think the people are in bad shape and they need help. companies out there have also announced

for those affected. a.m. done will match donations made through their website up to a million bucks. you going to fox 35 d.c..com to see how you can help in other what is. a number of people and organization are stepping up to help texas, count among the houston texans. they are pledging a million dollars. jj what the is also launching a financed raiser to help deal with relief efforts. this is one of the times when you you want these people -- it's nice for them to put their money where their mouth is. it's important. you have an important platform to do it. it's good to see the houston texans do it. they are going to need help for a long time. it's an unprecedented length of time with flooding rin to one concentrated area of the country . weesh ' still only in the the mid of it. i think we'll quite a bit about this. tomorrow, if i'm not

12 years since katrina a maid landfall. >> yes, august 29. tomorrow is the 12-year anniversary of katrina and new orleans, by the way is getting inundated with some of the heavy rain bands today. and overnight tonight is going to be a big test for new or loans and the levy system that's in place because i don't believe they've had anything like this since katrina, at least the level of rainfall expected. through tomorrow night, new orleans could see over a foot to a foot and a half of rainfall in certain spots. i'm going to show you that with harvey in just a minute. first a live look outside. let's begin back home in washington where overall it was a fairly nice day. high temperatures only in the 730s, 78 at railing and, p 77 at bwi. temperatures right now very comfortable, 76 in d.c. seventy-six in annapolis and 75 in frederick and we're going to remain rain free. cloud

be on the way for tomorrow. first up, trump administration storm harvey, heavy rain continues to pound houston, all of houston and most of its surrounding suburbs and then you you you see through galveston, beaumont, texas and then all a long the southern coast of louisiana a, heavy rain pushing in from the golf of mexico. one tornado report in the southeast corner of texas, the tornado threat continues into tonight due to the large rotation of the large cyst temperature the heavy rain that's pushing into whose tofnlt i continues, places like lake charles, loose saab a continue to see this torrential rainfall hour after hour. that's why i said new orleans will be a big question mark as we head into tomorrow morning how they fair with this heavy rain. showers of lesser intensity, along the carolina coastline all the way up through just shy of virginia beach.

harvey, again not make change at a all, expected is to slowly move eastward into back of the warm waters up through the texas /louisiana border and final lie thursday somewhere in the arc electric area. out for the coast coastal caroline as it should take a hard north eern turn and move right out to see gracing new finland as we go through thest of rest of the week. fox futurecast by tomorrow morning, this is heavy rain for norfolk, virginia. this is just showers in southern md and d.c. seems to be the northern fringe ever it but with cooler air coming in on the north, northeast side of this storm system that you can see is on the north store we're going to have a breezy day. that moves out by early wednesday morning. your planning forecast tomorrow, umbrellas needed if your

virginia schools, fairfax went back today. temperatures are very cool, hovering around the 70-degree mark all day. the seven day forecast, showers possible as we dry out wednesday but still an over all nice day, 78-degrees. a few showers thursday, friday is behind a cool front and it's go to be again another very comfortable afternoon, just 74 for the high temperature. into the weekend, a question marks want to push the remains of tropical storm harvey into our area, but that is still a question mark. we'll keep you you posted on that much that's your nfl player. fox5 will be right back.

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verify security. i do want to let you you know we've never lost anybody's baggage, ever. ready when you are. we're on the ramp here. in the eighth air force alone in two and a half years 26 air crew killed just in two and a half years, 100,000 wounded. ul all clear. it was much more dangerous to be in the skies over europe in a bomber. a lot of karn naij in a relatively short period. look ing good on your side. >> clear ride. nothing over here at all a. b17s alone we lost 4100. some of those have become pows. we lost another 609 airplanes just in training or formation

have mid-air collisions as they were trying to fly formations and it would take them literally an hour to an hour and a half to form up over england before they all startedded going over towards france and germany. for all the battles that happened on the surface of the earth, civil war, world war one, world war ii you can go and visit those battlefields and see monuments, visit gravesites but you can never return to the battle field in the scievment it's not there just a piece of sky. in the air there are no sequence to make those decisions as tactically things evolved. he had a bunch of 21, 22 year old pilots making these decisions on what we should do. not only did they have to battle the energy at alt dued these are unpressure riced air plaibs. they were freezing a horrible ebb environment to exist

that you'd survive the missing. 77 percent chance you you you would not return from your mission. you're required initially to fly 25 missions and then you you can rotate home. they eventually bumped that to 30 missions and then 35 missions . after that if you you wished to stay it was voluntary and there are some famously that flew the 50 missions. you experience all five senses. you you can't do that with an airplane that's poise odd a floor somewhere in some museum. the flights with the public is what sports the airplane and and allows to continue living history around the country and hopefully honor your veterans and that's the foundation, the educational outreach is to make people aware of not only what was accomplished during world war ii, but also what continues today that provides us the freedoms that

wen yoi as a nation. people have to make sacrifices for that to happen. so we're greatful for that. we hope inspires people.

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i know we've all had this dream at one point or another. if you ever wanted to see larry hogan hin the wheel of an excavator, here's your chance. governor larry hogan there behind the wheel helping tear down a building to begin construction on the new purple line at a ceremonial ground breaker, and elaine chow signed a grant achievement giving the purple line a green light after years of debate of course. the more than 16-mile line new light line will run from new carlson

bethesda. it will help ease congestion. the plan also faces some backlash. if all goes well , it could open as early as 2022. you you know he enjoyed every moment of tearing into that mpleg as a kiddie would have loved to be able to do that . maybe i have to run for governor to get the right to do. >> that's it for us. tony and shawn are here for the news at six and it begins right now. right now at six, the historic cast contact stas if i in texas in all likelihood, the worst is yet to come. harvey has paralyzed the whose on area with ranging flood waters, the latest on the rescues, the evacuations and the political response to the disaster. plus, hate messages at a local church and tonight the congregation is not happy with how police handled the investigation. and keeping metro up and running.

plair meets with the governors of maryland and virginia to figure out how to fund the troubled transit agency. how it could affect you you. your news starts now. april we do begin with harvey and the ever expanding disaster in texas, the rain just will not stop falling in the houston area. the historic downpour paralyzed the region and flooding is only expected to get worse. at least three people are dead but there are reports that three framly members may have died when flood waters have swept away their van . crews have rescued at least 2,000 people from flooded areas. at least 30,000 are expected in houston area shelters and more is on the way lauren blanchard has more from galveston. >>reporter: at this point the houston/galveston area remains paralyzed by flooding as what was trump administration harvey dropping a years' worth of rain in just a matter of