meteorologist amelia draper is here taking a closer look at this firenado and how this thing formed. first you had a firedo, and that's what you're looking at right here. that happens when you have the dry brush which is perfect fuel and you have very intense heat. that creates these whirling eddies. it has cooledir over it and that's where you get the spin. it has a core and outer parat ou're seeing on the outside is actually supplying oxygen to tha fire and then this travel oefrd the water and spout a water now, firenados can bextremely hot with temperatures up to 2,000 degrees farenheit. interestingly enough, these cannot be putut by firefighters. you can't exting risch these and boats there are traveling very close to thatad fir that then became a water spout. pat and wendy. >> that's amazing. pretty incredible. >> nature. children dream big and for one dad it was time to make his childhood dream aty rea for his own kids. a client treehouse that you can see from the prince william coun parkway. he came to the u.s. from peru and says he designed a tree house himself with his assoc

meteorologist amelia draper is center.torm how are we looking now? >> we have a sev warning until 5:30 for parts of frederick county, washington county, parts of the panhandle and west virginia. then in maryland parts of st. mary's county continue to be under flash flood warning. in effect until 6:45. here is a look on storm team 4 radar,his mainline o thunderstorms that i'm keeping a very close eye on. you c see excessive amounts of rain to frederick and loudoun countys. these started to pick upsteam. we're thinking the impact times will be earlier in the d. metro area, probably between 5:30 and 7:30. if you know somody heading down to the jay-z and beyonce concert or the zac brown concert, make sure they staiwe her ready. i think as the concerts get going, in bothue v the weather should be okay. everyone under a severers thunrm watch until 11:00 p.m. the biggest concerns will be heavy rainfallhat could lead to flooding concerns, downed trees and hail as well, especially because of the rain you've recently had, doreen, flooding ccerns and downed tre

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amelia draper is back in freeman with how long the rain is g lng t.hat's the cloud cover and what it looks like out there right now. wel tell you how to plan for the weekend and evening. >> we'll continue to work the te-breaking news comin from the white house this evening. >> epa administrator scott pruitt i out the president tweeting a short time ago that the scandal-plagued chief submitted his resignation today. publichas faced mounting outcries over multiple ethic scandals. we're gathering new information right now. we'll have breaking reaction from capitol hill coming up shortly. >>> now let's get toha race against time underway in thailand where rescuers are s trying tve 12 boys and their soccer coach and have such a small window to get them out before it starts to rain. they have manag to pump out millions of gallons of water from the flooded underground cave. nbc is in thailand with newan >>o bring them all t outo safety. illions of gallons of rainwater are being pumped out of thatomplex every day, and the governor, the commander of this opera

he's goingnt f door to front door asking for he i. >> amelia draper.our by hour and let you know whoois to seat most rain. >> upping the ante in the search for killers. >> we need desperately for the public to come forward. the newward in the murder of 10-year-old makiyah wilso >> plus,here's one more reason to drink water. a new look at what dehydration does to your mind. >>> first to the forecast. we're in for another rny week. storm team 4 calling for showers every day. i'm pat lawson meuse. >> and i'm erika gonzalez. amelia draper standing by when rain will hit your neighborhood. >> the best chance already afternoon and evening hours and we'll have pnty of dry time and take a look at storm team 4 radar. this is what we're dealing with potentially each day through friday. rounds of rain moving through the area and yellows and oranges here on the radar. some moderate to heavy rain, and you can see t rain in parts of loudoun and fairfax county parts of prince william county, arlington and alexandria. towards bow around 6:30. >> otherwise we're at 75 d

amelia draper is in the storm at howlith a look they'll impact your night. we're going to be all right for fireworksr not. take a look at what i'm tracking right now on storm team 4 radar. back to the north and west of washington very, very heavy rainfall and lots of lightning with thunderstorms tt are having difficulty moving past i-81, moving past the blue rge mountains. these are kind of moving south with a little bit of westerly movement as well. moving south, southwest, ang i-81. tracking this thunderstorm up here up around frederius. this developing and this is starting to move again down to the south as well. i've drawn a line here on the map. i think ifou're inside of this line, ultimately the beltway and just pushing north and most of fairfax, at least southern and central montgomery county, all southern maryland looking fine for fireworks b tonigh if you're outside of this line, i can't rule out some showers. here is the thing, i think the lightning is going to start to drop out of these storms but i n't rule outain at fireworks times. well, firewor

meteorologist amelia draper is here now with howuch more we can expect today. hi, amheia. >> angie. here's the latest on storm team 4 radar where i'mai tracking in chester county. i'm not picking up rainasid from this one area of rain. scattered shers are outthere. otherwise it is cloudy and muggy. more clouds are moving into the orea. we'll continueeal with rain at times, not just this afternoon, but throughout the day tedorrow and onsday as well, potentially getting a break on thursday. because of all the rain seen and how much more we could see and likely will see, everybody is under a flash flood watch. this is goi to go until at least 4:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. but i do expect that the national weather service will likely extend the flash flood watch through the middle of thek ek. not including this morning's rain. so far, we have seen about inches of rainfall. and we could see another 2 to 5, even more.hrough sund so we're going to continue to track flooding concerns with flood warnings in effect forsi e ka creek and anne arundel counties that will go through seneca until fur

let's start with storm team 4it meteorologist amelia draper with a check of conditions out there right now.r that was somety heavy rain for just a few minutes there, amelia. >> while the sun wasshing all the time, we're seen those storms move inrts of montgomery county and parts of loudon count not only am i tracking storms in the weather center with lauren, we're also tracking the hottest day so far this year with high of 97 and earlier we had a heat index of 1 so. you can seeght now we're looking at a ra cooled 75 in gaithersburg. that won't last long though. the heat andumity will shoot right back up from any brief relief that thetorms provide if you even get one. 105 in washington and 100 degrees in manassas and11 in culpepper. the heat is so serious that the national weather service has actually issued an excessive heat warning for the areas here in pith. this i d.c. and baltimore metro areas. this is going to go until 8:00 tonight. the areas here in orange are under a heat advisory that runs until 8:00 p.m. the excessive heat with first one so far this year and will be under that

let's start with storm team 4it meteorologist amelia draper with a check of conditions out there righthat was somety heavy rain for just a few minutes there, amelia. >> while the sun wasshing all the time, we'ree

all kind o moving this way, and as you just came on, i was texting amelia draper. thing that we get here. called the d.c. spl. thes things come through and they kind ofent right around. that's what this stuff is looking and therm strongest s is bethesda and north and south. >> that wouldn't be bad. >> great for the evening for the events tonight. >> and even for tomorrow. >> they willomeg on through here. and tracking thetorms as she moved on right now and we think the home run derby will be fine. 95 degrees right now. cooler around b here 5, 6:00 tonight and back by 95, 96 degrees. dropped down to 90 now at theh airport what cooler air and making a way for the storm and the numbe will be coming on down. how about the radar pictures and let's show you the radar r now. storm team 4 radar tracking the storms and the strongest of which stilln our southern zones. we're talking about areas like down around culpeer and in towards manassas and the prince william and fairfaxouy loon. let's zoom on into that one and they are kinnd of forming dissipating and you see more sto

l >>'s go straight to amelia draper with what to check out for. >> the national weather service has issued a flash flood watchful here you see it on th screen for the counties in solid green. up through frederick. this will go until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. some showers well back to the west still in west virginia. and barely even in the pan handle of west virginia. i'm not convince that had we'll e heavy rain and it won't be widespread if it does materialize. v ay isolated risk for some flash flooding. the natiol weather service issuing the flash flood watch in abundance of caution. right now we're currently at 84 degrees. 7:00 a.m., the chance forscome tered showers north and west of washington. otherwise we start off friday mostly cloudy. 81 degrees by 9:00 a.m. by 11:00 a.m., wre tracking the showers north and west washington. but closing in. at that point the temperature is 85. and then some stormfor the midday and afternoon hours. i'll walk you through hour that iour and finally, when the humidity breaks, i'll have more on that. >> we can't wai to hear that. >>> this is why police

amelia draper joins us from the weather center. amelia, what exactly can we expect ts week? >> this week rain is in the forecast pretty much every day. we're not looking atwashouts, but it's a week where you need to keep the umbrella handy. take a look. here's the latest on storm team4 radar. you can see rain down in the carolinas trying to push into parts of virginia. this will continue to be the case overnight tonight. rain pushing in from south to north. we'll have some rain out there tomorrow morning. take a look. here'sour planner. 77 degrees. now, during the early morning hours, we'redry. just some patchy fog out there. 71 direction. still dry but cloudy by 9:00 a.m. with a temperature at 75 the late morning and midday hours we start to track rain in spotstu with a tempe at that point of 77. take a look at the rain outlook through friday. againe have rain in the forecast pretty much every day. i'm going to have more on the timing of tomorrow's rain and also what this does to our humidity levels coming up in my full forecast right around 11:15. mp thanks, amelia. >>> pr

. >> storm team 4's amelia draper says he can expect more hot and sticky weather tomorrow. >> hey, doreenexactly. one more day. t it.s j one more day of our heatwave, and then we'll start to see a transion to more comfortable weather around here. take a look right now. we're at 85 degrees, and it's humid out there, with the temperature at 7:00 m. of . so it's already a mild start with more clouds than sun there tomorrow morning. peeks of sunshine at times. but overall, mostly cloudy skies. and by 11 a.m., that 82 degrees is feeling more like 90. right now on storm team 4 radar, not tracking any rain. only a few sprinkles fling in parts of northern fredrk county. shenandoah county and a parts of fredrick county are under a flood warning. that's going to last about another 20 minutes. i'll have m on tomorrow's storm outlook coming up in ten mites. >>> a muted apology from a woman who sent off a security scare at one of the most iconic symbols of america, the statue of liberty. at the live desk, we first started telling you at 4:00, a woman scaling the statue, even hiding from police under l

. >> let's go to storm team 4ol meteist amelia draper for what this means o for weekend. >> reporter: that means lower humiinties min for the weekend. most of us economy dry. we have beenry for some time. however, i'm tracking isolated showers on storm team 4da mainly down in parts of southern maryland and back into parts of madison a culpeper counties. the most extreme southern parts of calvert county, some hvy rainfall. even lightning coming out of these. parts of sry county still under a flood warning till 3:45 in the morning. this includes the leonardtown area from some heavy rain you saw during the evening hours. you can see, there's another orm out there i parts of madison and culpeper counties. this not moving into t a districtall. it might make it into parts of southern stafford keen before it sizzles out. most of us dry over night. patchy fog tomorrow morning. more importantly, look where we start off. 7:00 a.m., we're a a comfortable 68. plenty of sunshine will warm into the mid-70s by 9:00 a.m. by 11:00 a.m., around 80. overall it's a nice day. can't ru out a shower, o thun

meteorologist amelia draper joins us now. >> we are tracking changes for the weekend but right now in the upper 70s, lower 80s. 82 in washington. 77 in frederick and the best thing about today's weather, the humidity levels are low once again. take a look. eventomorrow, the humidity levels remain comfortable but as we look at saturday, the humidity does start to creep up. and by sunday, well, it'sg feelore tropical around here. feeling extremely muggy on sunday aon wenue to track high humidity levels all of next week. so with the increase in humidity, w h alsoe storm chances in the forecast on saturday and sunday. i'm going to have me on that timing coming up in my full fore. st, ladi >> thanks, amelia. >>> new details in the murder of 10-year-old makaia wilson. her mother describes for us the ment she heard the first gunshots. >> you hear sho all the time. these shots was not normal shots. they were like something i had never in my life seen. ot wilson said she ran outside and saw her daughters had been shot. her baby had been hitn the shot. makiya was struggling to breat and was clu

let's go straight to meteorologist amelia draper with the latest. what's happening amelia?> based on the latest, this is very concentrated. it looks like most of the area stays dry and where it is raining it's raining heavily and the rain isn'thaoving all fast. take a look at storm team 4 radar n.montmery or frederick county you know exactly what i'm talking b.poolsville through barnesville anwathrough the ersville area seeing very heavy rainfall and lots of lightning right now. you can seehis on ourer to cameras. somarra is manningameras and panning across the area you can see the bottom of the clouds ang the rain falff of our clouds and outside of our studios in nor wwesthington looking north. this is what we're seeing. very heavy rainfall. potentially some thunderstorms and also the stronger thunderstorm up around the walkersville area. h these storme produced half an inch to an inch of rain, and this is what i'm concentrad on rightw, but a better chance that everybody's tomorrow sees some rain andhunderstorms. ll have more on that coming up. >> leon harris here in the n

before we get to parades and fireworks, letn check i with amelia draper and the storms to our west. amelia, how is the timing gng to work? >> well, it looks like where the storms are right now a the areas of rain will stay in these similar locations and fizzle out as we move towards that 9:00 p.m.ta hour. a look. here is what i'm tracking right now on storm team 4 radar. if you've been watching over the last couple of hours, this has diminished. now we're justng about generally light to moderate rain and only two isolated thunderstorms out there right now. one just north of frederick city and one down here out around the lou ray area. also, a loan iressiveell in leaseberg. here is what you can expect, 89 degrees right now. areas of light rain, generally north and west of washington. most of us look to be dry at 9:00 p.m. all new models coming in indicating this activity is going to ctinue tofizzle. the clouds thankfully won't be low enough to impact the fireworks displays. feeling like 90 at fireworks time for most of us. i'm going to have much me on what you can expect tonight and t

. >> what a difference a day makes and 24 hours and amelia draper is here now with a first look at the weekend. looking good, amelia. >> looking real nice. n within thet couple of hours it's going to feel fantastic outdoors. ooking at the humidity levels, and they are still pretty high for most of us. i'm alreadyracking more comfortable areas to the north, areas like frederick and hagerstown. you know what you'll talking about. one isolated shower on team radar. south of sutherland and moving towards prince fred ring. maybe a rumblef thunder or two and everywhere else it's dry and north and rest stays dry tonight. you did see the cold front pretty much right through our area right n and this comfortable air is moving in as we speak. early tomorrow morning it's going to be fantastic. 86 degrees though right now. by 9:00 p.m. f it'sling less humid here in washington and everywhere to the north and by 11:00 p.m. it's feeling comfortable everywhere. 79 degrees at 9:00 p.m. and 74 anddoreen, going s totart off in the 60s. i'll let you know coming up at 6:25. >> c wait. thanks, amelia. >> he

storm team 4 amelia draper in the weather center. what is it looking like now, amelia? >> here's the latest flash flood watches. they have beenish rude for parts of marylanaw de and up through new jersey and part of the area including phidodelphia. t have any weather alerts yet for our area. doug and i looking at the latest information really do think that the flash flood watches are going to be extended into at least parts of our area with some heavy rain in spots here, d especially arohe d.c. metro area so that's fairfax, montgomery county, rince george's county and districts off to the east like southern maryland and fredericksburg. this flash flood watch will likely be expanded, and you can see with the planner showers move in around 7:00 a.m. and after this a rny day for most us with near temperatures on sunday and more on our sunday hour-by-hour path coming up in a bit. >> thank you. >>> it was a question that rang out from here to manhattan when the fbi first searched michael cohen and his office, are there tapes? we now know the answer thanks to a bombshell repo

amelia draper is in the storm center. amelia? >> to get 2.8 inches of rain is edible. we shattered the old rainfall record of .8 inches oft rain. his though. set all the way back in 1899 so some flash flooding out thereto that was very serious in part of the city of alexandria and the g.w. parkway. thankfully we're starting to see the floodwaters come down as the thunderstorms push a the bay out of ouril area. though tracking rain around st. mare's county and up around the annapolis area. looking farther back to the well. only some widely scattered showers and thunderstorms out there in parts of culpepper county and just north of the area. the main weather erent is overg to could still see scattered showers and thunderstorms until about 7:00 p.m., but for the most partine're stato dry out. in southern maryland, dealing with heavy rain. there was a severe thunderstorm warning that has expired in sohern maryland but take look. these are the latest rainfall amounts. 2.8 inches in washington. that's crazy. gout 3 inches up in baltimore so doug thed news is for the all-star

>> storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper has the answer. amelia, good flower watching weather for us the next couple of days? >> it is,in lo for low humidity to stick around tomorrow and saturday and mainla dry conditio well. on storm team 4 radar i'm tracking an isolated shower and this shower unable to cross the bay. notice it overren your in cambridge and slowly starting to sink south and everywhere else is completely dry and everybody is going to stay dry tonight, a really nice evening because thee humidityls are so low. currently we're at 90 degrees but as the sunostartso down with dry air in place we're real going to see our temperatures cool off nicely by 7:00 p.m., temperatures in the low 80s and tmperatures warm and hot by july standards here in washington and a comfortable 76 at0 p.m. as we look to the weekend there's an isolated shower possible on sunday. i'll have more on that, pat, coming up in my full forecast right around 4:15. >> we'll e you then. thanks amelia. >>> president trump's pick for the supreme court introduces hims

relia draper is tracking that rain for thet of the night. >> okay, amelia, how is it looking out there right now? >> ll, right now most of us seeing a mix of cloud and sunshine, and it's actually pret nice outside. we had ominous skies at times today but not a lot of rain was lling out of them. a few showers across the area, and that's what i'm continuing to track on storm team 4 radar. loyalty showers right now mainly in northern virginia and part of rappahannock and fauquier county and loudoun county as well. these are moving toward the north right now, so they will be pushing into parts andreas like winchester and leesburg as we head on into the evening hour. a look at the bigger picshre s rain moving in from parts of southern virginia and aaiatch of pushing in from west virginia. here's what we're expecting tnight. right3 degrees, a few isolated showers until about 7:00 p.m. and if you want to get something done outdoors you'll be fine over the next few hours. by 90 more clo and by 11:00 p.m. that scattered rain to our south and west srts to move in. i'll have more on the timing, l

tomorrow steam 4's amelia draper justassing along with the latest from the national weather service on this. this tornado, doreen, got up tou 70 miles per and went about 100 yards. the good gnews, nobody hurt. just a lot to clean up. >> such a random oopathway, surprising what was ripped upha and wt was left behind. david culver, thank you. >> right. >> the weather turned deadly in another pt of virginia last night. beverly krizanovic was killed last night inside burke, virginia when a tree came crashing through. days of rain loosened the ground aroundldhe big tree's roots causing it to fall. >>> to prince georgee county whthere's been trouble spots like queen anne's bridge road in bowie but no major flooding so far. coming up in the next half hour, ws 4's cratracee wilkins hasre >> this case appears to be a case of self-defense and there's more from our pat collins who is there. >> reporter:n angry passengers goes into the station manager's kiosk. the station manager, she had a ife. it gets ugly. it gets violent. they say he hitsth her iarm. she stabs him in the chest, and now that pa

. >> s team 4 meteorologist amelia draper joins us in just a few minutes to tell uhen the muggies return. first a traffic alert for the weekend. >> reporter: i'm here with a look at your traffic and road closures for the weekend. outer loop, connecticut bridge, three lanes closed for resurfacing friday night until saturday afternoon around 5:00 p.m. as far as anlternate here it's going to get busy. ehe icc university boulevard or connecticut aveould work for you. westbound 66 between 7 and the beltwayernating left and right single-lane closures there. overnight friday and saturday and here this weekend westbound 66, the ramp to the beltway. temporaryen closures bet 11:00 and 5:00 a.m. both friday and saturday. have a great weekend. i'll see you monday morning for "news 4 today." >>>onsumer alert to tell you about. the popular breakfast cereal honey smacks, very popular but it's making people sick across the cntry. the cdc says people should not eat this kell yogs cereal. 100 people in 33 states have become ill with salmonella. last month a million cases were recalled. it'sve belied still

. >> let check in wh amelia draper in storm center 4. who is still affected? >> still seeing a flood warning in effect for parts of the district down theat at park, parts of arlington, alexandria and fairfcounty. it will run for another 25 minutes or so. again, it lex pier at 6:30. here's the late on storm team 4 radar. like doug was saying, most of this activity is oe of h and heavy thunderstorm activity over towards the eastern shore and isolated showers down around fredericksburg and there areis ated showers and thunderstorms up in pennsylvania so i can't rule out a o shower thunderstorm until 7:00 or 8:00 of. and i really think most us are completely dry but not just for the rest of the week but take a look at this flood ecrning. in e until 6:30. we'll be in the 0s during the game. still humid and more on when thw humidity levell drop. an error was made earlier by myself. weroke a recor that was set back in 1945, not 189 thatas yesterday's record, doreen, so want to put that out there. >> still a record though. >> yes. >> all right. thank you, amelia. toni