barbara harris, news4 for wednesday's child. >> and if you have ram room in your home or heart for another child waiting, call our special hotline. 1888-2 adopt me. or search wednesday's child on nbcwashington.com. >> one thing this fire hero did we can all learn from. >>> for the second time in less than a week someone is caught bringing an . >>> for you folks in northern virginia we have a severe thunderstorm warning. >> it includes loudoun county, virginia. we're seeing the warnings from frederick county maryland over to frederick county virginia. you can see the boxes highlighted in yellow. let's zoom in. and look at the tremendous amount of lightning firing off with these storms too. this one area we're watching as it approaches frederik county maryland, that warning goes until 6:15 and it's northern loudon it includes. and we'll track in tighter and track it for you as it is heads east at 20 to 25 miles per hour. hamilton by 6:31 and leesburg by 6:44. heavy rain and potential high winds too. up to 50 or 60 miles per hour. if you are around any of those locations, best thing is stay p

. >> barbara harris, news4 for wednesday's child. >> if you have room in your call me. go to nbc washington.com and search wednesday's child. >>> find out whose in >>> developing now the fda says hundreds of vials of the potentially deadly germ were found at the nih campus. >> more than 300 vials were found right next to those forgotten smallpox samples found earlier this month. 12 boxes with a total of 327 vials label with names like ding gee fever and others. they are now being tested. the investigators say the fact they were not discovered until now is unacceptable. as for the smallpox samples have already been tested and they were in fact alive and viable. >>> it was a bold crime and the surveillance camera was rolling. two men steal from work trucks as a maryland company. they take their time grabbing expensive equipment and set it all on fire. prince george's county bureau chief tracie wiee wilkins is li where the investigation is under way to find the man. >> reporter: two trucks similar to this were here. they were torched. here's what's left. police are looking

harry reid and senate to act, martha. martha: that brings us to the senate. what do we expect over there? >> reporter: the senate has a plan of its own. barbaraappropriations chair, has $2.7 billion funding plan. she calls it strictly a funding bill. it does not change the 2008 law. it does not do much in terms of changing enforcement at the border and so critdicks are calling it a blank check. it won't likely get 60 votes in the united states senate. so the question is then, what is harry reid's next play? we'll expect to get speeches on senate floor today in favor of the mikulski plan, against the mikulski plan and critics note president obama is not weighing in. not playing active role what he wants. he is traveling to kansas city later today to talk about something else, martha. martha: very interesting. mike, we'll see where it goes. thank you. >> reporter: thank you. bill: meanwhile the middle east crisis continues today. this as there is new friction between the white house and israel today. the administration defending secretary of state john kerry after harsh criticism in the israeli media of his efforts to broker a cease-fire with h

barbara sent in this tweet -- republicans think it is their job to foil the president and hold this administration hostage. if republicans would do their jobs, executive orders would be less. harryeid sent out this tweet -- the president is doing something to solve problems and republicans are suing you because they want to do nothing. that is just sad. matt lewis, who is a contributing editor for the "week" magazine, he is also a conservative blogger, says the president's promise of executive action is bad news even for supporters of immigration reform, and that includes me. even though i support immigration reform, i support the separation of powers even more, and this president has gone too far inflicting his executive order muscles. that is why matt lewis says i'm a plodding speaker baiters decision to sue over obama's executive orders, and you should, too, no matter which party you are in. the principle behind the push is dead on apple's app can read the full essay online at thee week.com. here's more from the president .ho was on the road [video clip] >> the truth is with all the actions taken this year, i am issuing executive orders at the lowest rate of more than 100 yea