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this is what it looks like the top of the bethesda escalators.t can be dizzying, about ten stories down. the are some of the longest escalators in fact in the western hemisphere. no w the details aboutat l a tly happened are st little bit sketchy, but montgomery county fire and rescue sanys the womay have been bumped. that's when she fell backward and went all the way down to the platform, all the way down the escalator. >> metro says it dsn't have video of the actual fall, but in rois video you can see a rider alerting a met official and another man oneis cell ph quickly calls for help as a crowd gathers near the top of the escalators. eventually montgomery fire and e rescue ar with the stretcher and carefully they cay the woman up the escalator and then away to the hospital. >> it's always problemac for us to extract people away from a situation like that because of the eletion or the location whe they are. >> reporter: metro gm said couldn't say why the escalator was stopped that day but says new safety announcements are being made at certain

lord stanley's cup will be here on bethesda lane later on this morning.y form of childhood brain cancer. it's called dipg, and john carlson who has family a treieat the from 11:3 11:30 till 3:00 this afternoonn here bethesda row. and joining us is jenny and mark mozier. they're six-year-old son michael diedf dipg some three years ago. you've been on a tear since igud money for research. tell me abo that, jenny. for people like myself who never heard of dipg. >> well i also hadever heard of dipg until the time when our son was diagnosed. it is the deaiest form of childhood brain cancer and mostly impacts school aged kids ars old and unfortunately the survival right now is n 0%. which is just devastatingnd the median survival from diagnosis is n months. >> reporter: it affects roughly two to 400 kids in theus that correct. >> rghly two to 400 just in the united states. the world across we're talking, you know, in the thousands eh year and unfortunately even though the number is small because the prognosis is so grim, it really childhoodth a large number of

moving into bethesda right now, the district right after 50 p.m.t's good news because that means it will be out of here for the home run derby. moving towards waldorf around 6:20 and buoy at 6:40 and annapolis just before 8:00 p.m. the other story is the heat. home run derby getting underway and feeling like 15 degrees out there. pat? >> thanks, amelia. >>> and now at:3 we're just a few hours away from the home run derby down at nats park. >> and one of the big stars of that event will be the nationals own bryce harpereto get out to the ballpark and leon with more on the big show. leon?ah >> reporter: path, bryce harper is no doubt the biggest star performing tonight, and his performance tonight is anticipated so much not just by the fans but by himself as well. he's notte partici in the eome run derby since 2013. controversy when did that time aron. now the question is why did he decide to do it now? our sherree burruss went to go find out. the brightest ineb bl here in d.c. for all-star week. tomorrow is the all-star game and tonight the home run

bethesda lane at bethesda bethesda row and it works to raise no fnd a cure forad deest form of pediatric cancer calledipg. >> i had never heard of dipg until the time our son was diagnosed. it is deadliest form of childhood brain cancer and most impac school-aged kids between roughly 4 and 11 yearelold and up forty the survival right now is nr door owe percent which is devastating and median survival fromiagnosis is line in months. >> it's tough setting up for an event like this you know mike we'll have been happiest to b here. out of all the fans micha would have had as much fun to meet john and see the cup. >> today's event raised 1 100,000 for dipg research. >> still ahead a fourth ever july celebration that brought tem too tears. july celebration that brought tem too tears. >> heart-warming smp next. passs' passs' (birds chirping, a running brook,) h. the new deer park sparkling is made with real spring water.♪ ♪ it's so refreshing and delicious, you don't need slo-mo models to selit. real spring water, real fruit flavorsan d refreshing bubbles. just what's refreshingly real. with sa

. >>> a high-end heist from a home in bethesda. a couple of burglars stole tens of thousands worth of jewelry. pat collins joins us leave downtown bethesda where it seems homework.s did their pat? >> reporter: leon, so here's what we got here. we eitomr have very, very lucky crooks or someone, someone really did their homework.th happened in edgemore. a residential section of bethesda. now we have surveillance pictures of the suspects. two women. but the pictures aren't very good. what these women did here makes the story worth telling anyway. you see, during broad daylight a man and woman who live here go out to run an errand, andhile they're gon those two women, those two women you see in the surveillanceideo walk into the couple's h rse. they goht to the place where the woman keeps her jewelry and they make off with a lot of expeive stuff. >> how much jewelry was taken? >> there are some estimates of approximately over $40,000. >> $40,000 worth of jewelry? yes, sir. >> reporter: while this is going on, a suspect car drives back

see us in bethesda we're zip tripping this morning down bethesda row.ernoon hours -- 23 o'clock w 2, 3metor. concert time with beyoncÉ six, 78 o'clock could be when that cold front tries to make a pass and that could be our best chance of storms all day. there youo, o'clock tonight showing you some thunderstorms. today is your good news. next three days your weekend today is the best cha of storms. saturday or sunday there could be one or two but most stay dry. 87 fory, sat 86 for sunday. for storms,ek w turnehanc thursday all of which could feature storms each afternoon. erin is back with. traffic >> right now we have big problems, a crash involving atr r-acto rockvill.ltway before it blocking those cenr lanes right now. it looks like they've shut down all lesan but just part of the right shoulder right lane getting by right now. this is causing some very big slowdowns as y make your way out. outer loop yellow zone right now. 25 minute trip from 95 to the spur. but tends to get into a pass georgia avenue so watchou out forelhose days. the 14th streetdg

moving tort bethesda and the district, 6:20o 6:30. baltimore getting hit again about 6:40. now, here is the latest. you can see all the areasin her pink under a severe thunderstorm watch until 10:00 p.m. tonight. however, the national weather service is starting to drom somn counties, doah and frederick in virginia. that's the sign that as that mainline is moving throu or anymore storms is really dropping off. lauren, most of us looking to dry by about 8:00, maybe 9:00 p.m. tonight if you're east of 95. we'll see the flash flood watch come down as well. >> that's good news. we head into the weekend and looking a lot better throughout the weekend. firs's lalk about hour-by-hour for tonight. by 7:00 p.m.,one'll see s storms to the east. s amelia said, the timeline between 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. we'll be dry by 9:00. areas to the west, shenandoah valley, already starting to dry. you're done with the rain rit now. we'll continue to see the line move through, drying out from the west to the east and everybody clearing ase get through tonight. and less humity later tonight. patchy fo

this happened in edgemoor, a tony residential section of bethesda. e surveillance pictures of the suspects, two women, but the pictures aren't very good. what these women did here makes the story worth telling anyway you see, durin broad daylight, a man and woman who live here go out to run an errand and while they're gone those two women, those two women you see in the surveillance video w into the couple's house. th go right tohe place where the woman keeps her jewelry and they make off with a lot of expensive stuff. >> how much jewelry was taken? >> there are some estimates of approximately over $40,000. >> $40,000 worth of jewelry? >> yessir. >> reporter: while this is going on, a suspect car drives back and forth and up and down the reet. police believe this car is somehow connected to the heist.t just before couple gets home, the two women leave the house carrying the jewelry. now, there are a lot of questions here, and today at the connie morella library, a mystery book club meeting. we took the case to them. >> it sounds like one of they myst

right around bethesda through northwest -- right outside our station here. extremely heavy rainfall there. right on through arlington, down through parts of fairfaxty co burk and woodbridge, just west of i-95. i-95 going to be a mess when it moves over this area. a bit of a closer view here. this i arlington right in here. right across the key bridge, connecticut towards wisconsin avenue. extremely heavy rain in this entire area, under a flash floot watch u 9:30 tonight. some of the floodg ongoing. this is an area not in the flash flood warning, out towardshe poolesville area. closer to the poolesville golf co wse. somethinre seeing, amelia, time and time again as this rain continues tonight. >> absolutely. if you can stay home tonight, you'll want to do that as wco inue to track very heavy rain. the line doug was showing you o, rat's moving so slowly and ave very heavy rainfall within it. ta look at storm team 4 radar where i'm trackatg rainfall. this is one of the higher amounts i've seen. as we is moderate, red start to see the orange coloring, moderate t

this iskehat it looks li from the top of the bethesda escalators. it can be diying, about ten stories down. these are are some of the longest escalators in fact in theesternemisphere. now the details about what exactly happened are still a little bit etchy, but hentgomery county fire and rescue says t woman may have been bumped. that's when she fell backward and went all the down to the platform, all the way down the metro says it doesn't have video of the actual fall, but in this video you c see a rider alerting a metro official. another man on his cell phone quickly calls for help as a crowd gathers near the top of the escalators and eventually montgomery fire and rescue arrive with a stretcher and carry the woman up the escalator and then to the hospital. >> it's problematic for us to extract people away from the situation like that because of the elevation or location where rtthey are. >>er: the metro gm couldn't say why thescalator he stopped that day, but does say escalators have safety mechanisms that will shut them n >> it's not that the esc

ember electi >>> bethesda is not a neighborhood that sees a lot of crime. police are searching for burglars who stole tens of thousands ofollars worth of jewels from a home. news 4's pat collins is live in the neighborhood this evening with details on this high-end heist. pat? >> reporter: wendy, it was quite a jewelry theft. the suspects, not one but two women. police don't have much to go ont here, jome grainy surveillance video. so we went to some mystery experts for some help. >> sounds like one of the mystery books that i just read. >> reporter: today at the connie morella library, a mystery book club meeting. we took the case to them. >> how did the women know that the couple wasn't home? >> they saw them leave. >> how would they know where t jewelry was? >> because most women keep their jewelry in the bedroom. >>oes it seem like an inside job? >> it doesm that way. >> reporter: this happened in edgemoor, tony residential section of b hhesda. now we surveillance pictures of the suspects, two women, but the pictures aren't very good. what the women did

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bethesda, a crash with an overturned vehicle. that's good.nd springfield, the ramp to franconia road. we'll talk abo flooding do town. >>> a few minutes away from the 5:00 hour. a historic win in the championship. francesco molina. >> yesterday's final round left it open for others. tiger woods was disappointed in his loss. >> serena and i are good friends. i'm sure she will call me and you have to put it in pe pecti perspective. she just had a baby and lost the same thing with me. it will sting for a little bit he. >> okay. i guess they're a xarpscomparis. woods says a victory would be great for his kids to see. >>> you g membership should soon become tax breaks. if passed, that would qualify as a medical extension on your taxes. it would be $500 for individuals and $1,000 for couples. >> hollywood may be thousands of miles away. >> "missn impossible" was in town for the latest installment, "mission impossible: fallout." packed screen last night. he talked about this is not his first mov premiere in our area. >> i did a top gun premiere here

bethesda, outer op. two left lanes getting by. and eastbound 7, to southbound 28, bloping the ram there. 270, down to maryland. on time, going to take you 28 minutes. >> thank you. >>> we're following a developing story in montgomery county,le where two peere killed on the train tracks. >> this happened in germannnwn, between 's lake and gunner's frank park. the train tracksd are h to release and they're tryin oto fi why they were there. >>> new details in the murder of her 10-year-old. she went out for ice cream and never came back. she described the moment she heard the gunshot. >> you hear shots all the time. but these were notal norm. they were something i. hasn't ever in my life scene. >> she ran outside and saw both her daughters had been shot. er baby had been hit in the chest. she was struggling to breath and clutching her money for the truck. as she laywas laying, he tried comfort her mother.er >> funeral will be next week. d.c. police are aggressively .earching for the four gunm yesterday, they located the car believed t

mcnamara grew up in bethesda. one of five employees shot and killed at the annapolis newspaper june 28th. >>> this morning one person is hospitalized after bit by a car. chopper 4 was over the scene ar columbia pike and scallens b roore 5:30. it cause some traffic delays but everything is cleared out now. we're told the person suffered severe injuries. but we don't know their condition. thor authorities say the driver stayed at the scrie. >>> autes need your help finding a missing teenage girl. anna mara hernandez rodriquez. last seen thursday at her home on stafford streetn e wood bridge area. she's 15. her physical safety, authorities believe is at risk. call police if you know anything. >> the district council is days away from entering summer recessni and this m they are looking at two big issues that could impact how you live, work and enjoy your team. here in the nation's capital. news4 chris lawrence is at the wilson building down down wit details. good morning, orchris. >> rr: hey pat. the voters have spok

caps fans were able to see the stanley cup up close and personal bethesda lane bethesda row all proceedshael moeser foundation that workso rai money to find a cure for pediatric brained cancer call dipg. i never heard dipg until the time our son was diagnose diagnosed. and it is deadliest form of brian cancer and impact schl page kids between 4 and 11 years old and unfortunately survival right n is nea zero percent which is devastating and median isvival from diagnos nine months. >> it's tough setting up for an event like this you knowwh michoa have been the happiest to behe here of all t thousand fans out todayl. mi would have been -- had as much time as anyone to seat cup and meet john.ol >> today's eved out quickly and raised $100,000pg reseveral. if you want to make a donation make one on the defeat dixt pg b site. >> an 86 of-year-old woman is winning over fans at the world she's one of oldest volunteers of the game. she spends her days chatting with fans and agsin questions when she learned russia would host the game she want to be part of excitement. she admits a she's big soccer

. >>> judge brett kavanaugh was born in washington and raised bethesda and graduated from georgetown prep in 1983, two years fahead supreme court justice neal gorsuch. cavanaugh graduated from yale college and yale law school. he clerked for supreme court justice anthony kennedy. he serveden inr positions in president george w. bush's white house, and in 2006e was sworn in as a judge on the d.c. circuit of the u.s. court o appeals. the chief judge on that court is rrick garlandho was denied a hearing when president obama nominated him and at the time cavanaugh call garland supremely competent for the supreme court. much more coming upt in the n half hour. >>> this appears to be a tragic accident in the district. a man wasidg his bike in a designated bike lane. he was struck and kild this weekend by a delivery truck. all of this unfolding at an unusual intersection. this was just a few blocks south of dupont circle. news 4's pat collins is there with the details on that this evening. pa t >> reporter:he place where it happened, a friend of the victim brought some flowers and used a ye

one of those areas right now around bethesda and down towards southern fairfax county and down towardsfortionse waldorf area and you can see this area right here. right to the south right around mt. vernon here and farther south as i move the map to the north. ahok atren and king george's county. these will move into parts of charles county and eventually back into fairfax and the district over the next one to two hours a this is what we're tracking for you. flash flood watch in efftit 2:00 a.m. on wednesday. we've seen it on saturday and yesterday and saw it today, tomorrow and yesterday and five days in a row with a flash flood watch. that's really amazing, and this is agot ana of low pressure that's driving areas down to the south and driving some of the moistund to the south then picking it all up around the bahamas, and bringing it in toward our area. that's why we have more chances of rain over the next couple of days and why, amelia, this is sticking towards us. >> we're not worriedbout hail or tornadoes with any thunderstorms that deelop and weeally keeping a close eye on it. he

president trump's supreme court pick grew up in maryland and play high school sports in bethesda. >> meagan ftazgerald is ing to some of the locals who new brett kavanaugh well. >> go back to the first classn here w this campus whias the class of 1922 is. h >> thels of georgetown prep are lined with thousands of pictures of graduates but the spotlight is on one particular cclass. >> tss of 1983, and -- and it's now most pminent member judge cavanaugh. >> reporter: brett kavanaugh grew up in bethesda and plays football here. he was als captain of the basketball team. >> not very big. he's not very big. fierce competitor. >> reporter: his junr year history professor dr. stephen oak says cavanaugh was known for much more than athletics. >> one of hisreat qualities has always been composure. in a tightgame, when he's in a class debate. >> reporter: now he's being remembered for being part of his school'sto h. cavanaugh could join his fellow classmate neaorch as the next supreme court justice. >> it's amazing to think that, you know,ne day they walked these halls as students together. >>

. >> lots of burgers, dogs and ice cream at the 60th annual independence day parade in bethesda.sic and a bounce house. lots of other activities for the ki. the parad itself was led by grand marshall alan goodwin who just retired as the principal of walt whitman high school. >> do all your eating after the bounce house. >> please. >> if your still trying to decide where to go to enjoy the fireworks. go to our nbc washington app you'll fin information about more than a dozen fireworks shows around on reg tonight. open the app and search "fireworks finder." >>> last week, the news from thailand was so bexciting, now anxiety is beginning to overtake a wave of relief there. two days after a soccer team and their coach were found alive inside a flooded cave, the need to get them out is getting more and more urgent. >> so much time has passed. this rescue effort is complicated and far fm over. nbc's janis mackey frayer has ourory. >> reporter: it's a race against the clock for rescuers with this new urgency, the threat of monsoon rains expected to hit here by the end of the week. it wo

puttger woods with a great at the quicken loans national in bethesda he finished the tournament at 11 under. a it t an italian francesco molinari wot. this was woods' second-best finish on the pga to this season. good for him. >>> the universal circus is in town. we featured their special show on news 4 today. >> last night's show benefited the kids lives matter campaign. the proceeds go to help children in a nonprofit. i had an opportunitygu to bst ring master. and irene johnson's daughter a chance to shine on the stage during the preshow. the universe soul circus. a lot of fub for aod cause. there's my hubby and kids. they're still sleeping, though. >>> police say a lyft driver decided to stab the driver -- a lyft rider decided to stab the driver. >>> as peop hit the water, firefighters had to peveral from the potomac after something wt terribly wrong on a boat. more of that in our 5:00 hour. >>> the first of five people gunned down at "the capital gazette" will be laid to rest today. and the parent company plans a tribute to the victims. >>> a knife-wielding man attacked a 3-year-o

there was a water rescue and two people actually had to be taken tf a car there, bradley blevard in bethesda this is a reminder, when it is this dark it's hard to see just how deep the water s. rescuers say turn around don'te. dron it's a perfect reminder, ifid y can being out tonight you probably should. if you areout, you will run into some of the road blocks. don't try to make it through if you can't tell i how deet is.ly that ist dyou in a dangerous situio wn.at hasag not right now it appear it is has stopped raing. so hopefully this is good news moving forward. live here in fairfax county, evan lambert, "fox5" local news >> and despite that torrential downpour tonight dozens of people turned out for a vigil in northeast dc to remember a teyear-old girl shot and killed just daying ago. family and friends as well as community mbers gathered to honor makiyah she was a bright and engaging little girl anshe was be terrib miss. >> at this moment, everyone, not only the family, you have the community, you have her friends just devastated, we just all want kai i can't. long live goi to l oyou,e

he grew up in bethesda, attended high schoo atgeorgetown prep and lives with his family in chevy chased hs aive with catholic charities. coming up at 4:30, news s meagan fitzgerald talks with father john ensler who has known cavanaugh since t jung was an altar boy. >>> now we turn to the crisis at e border. today is the court-order dead line for the trump adnistration to reunite 100 children upped the age of 5 with their migrant parentson this afterno roughly half of them are still separated. the justice department says that 54 children are back with their families. five others are undergoing final background checks. reunions will be a bit more difficult for the rest some of the parents have already been deported. president trump blamed the parents for that earlier today. >> ewell, i h a solution. tell people not to come to our untry illegally. that's the solution. don't come to our country illegally. the department of justice has until july 26th to reunite all famiates sep at the border by president trump's zero tolerance policy. >>> right now an urgent search is underway in prince wi

this one around bethesda right around the kensington area.ight up to georgia avenue and you might see some moving on in here. a lot more where that came from. moisre out of the uth, but not a lot of yellows an oranges. not talking heavy rain for the next few hours though weo anticipate it picking up. much more on this, and the dryer tt

this one around bethesda right around the kensington area. right up to georgia avenue and you might see some moving on in here. a lot more where that came from. moisre out of the uth, but not a lot of yellows an oranges. not talking heavy rain for the next few hours though weo anticipate it picking up. much more on this, and the dryer pattern setting up for it the end of the week. i'll have that for you a little bit later. >> thank you, doug. we invite you to download our nbc washington app if yout don' have already. that's where you'll find doug's hour-by-houru'orecast. find a live interactive radar which really comes in ndy these days. do have a favor to ask you. if you do have heavy flooding oe y rain near your home, please send us your pictures or your video if you can do so safely. we appre tate it. ed of dodging all the raindrops, but this weather is more than from us straight. >> it's quite dangerous. it can even be deadly. we just learned the name of the woman who was killed by a flen tree in burke, virginia. she was in the house last

a coup until the edgemore part of bethesda are missing $40,000 worth of jewelry. >> they were saying it was stolen when the company went to run an errand. take a good look at the surveillance video here it shows the two women who police think may haveff pulled the job. a car kept circling the home during the robbery. you can see the h care at one point. the break-in happened a few blocks from a busy downtown area. and police say the door to the home was left ckun. >> you can't do that, especially if you have that much jewelry laying around the house. >> what strikes me is they knew where to gon o getd get out. it was a quick errand. >>> this morning, a local man is in critical condition after aer roand shooting in atlanta. relatives of christian brodeur contacted news 4 and saide somehot him saturday night. he thought his attackers were his uber ride. they are offering a reward for information thato leads an arrested brodeur is the general manager of millie's spring valley restaurant here in northwest d.c. >>> good morning. 4:42 on a thursday. if you're thinking of spending ool today

he also brought the cup to bethesda row this week for a charity fund-raiser. >>> when we come back, they're meant to slow down traffic but they can also be really anakying. we'lle you through a fairfax county neighborhood trying to remove some speed bumps. >>> plus not just fad. we talk with the sisters behind georgetown cupcake still g >>> fss question speed bumps slow traffic down, but they can also be annoying. now, people in one fairfax edunty neighborhood are trying to have their s bumps taken out. as northern bureau chieful j carey points out, that is a steep hill to climb. >> reporter: speed bumps, depending on your perspective, you either love them or hate them. here on fry road back in 2015, residents who wanted to slow traffic on this wide straight stretch of asphalt won a vote to put them in and this resident fys they've helped. >> people used t down this road and, you know, there's a lot of kids that live around here. sure, they' annoying with your car and everything, but safety trst, right? >> reporter: butodd usher and gary scottoted against the bumps and humps. scott restores

now we're seeing a little bit just north out towards bethesda. but for the most part, today is really been situated east of 95. as a sult, we have a lot of watches and warnings in effect. dark green for everyone shows the flash flood watch. that's in effect through midnight now alood warning in the lighter green here is for an arundel, calvert, charle southern prince george's and frederic. that is extended from 8:30 to midnight. as we're expecting more rounds of showers to move through for frederic county. still about 6:30 p.m. now take a look at some of the accumulation we have seen. this is in the past 12 hours. yesterday we had the record breaking rainfall. and now we're seeing more rai on top of that. within the last 12 hours, in parts of cvert county, four inches of rain. ow i highlighted this for the district. you can really see that contrast there. only half an inch of rain for us. farther south near three inches and counting. as we head throughout the evenin time stamp there.our 8:00 p.m. we're starting to see things improve a bit in sout

. >>> the metro stati in bethesda has some of the longest escalators in the world. and this is security video from march. the woman in the purple jacket started to walk down the escalator that wa tnot working time. somewhere that woman may have been bumped. since that fall, metro's chairman says new safety announcements are b made at stations to remind people to hold on to the escalator railing. >> we looked at stations that had particular issues. that's why we put them there we're rolling that out throughout the system. >> cameras in the metro station did nch the woman's fall. but hope sharing this story will help people pay more attention when they're using metro. ame woman'sy says she needed extensive physical therapy after the fall. if you're holding on to the railing, it's really steep to go up and down the stairs. >> i can imagine that recery was n easy. >>> nearly 12 years is how long a food truck driver is being sentenced to prison. tony dang ran into a mother in virginia. he asked for mercy but the judge with the recommended sentence. nd blew through a stop

. >> reporter: the woman seep here in a purple sweater helped to the bethesda escalator which wasn't operating at the time. it was functioning as stairs more or less. she carefully starts to walk down. this is what it looks like from the top of the betts did a escalators. it can be dizzying from den stories down. these are the longest escalators in fact in the western hemisphere. the details about what happed are sketchy. montgomery county a fired rescue says the woman may have been bumped. that's when she fell bad wards went all the way down to the platform all the way down the escalator. metro says it doesn't hav video of the actual fall but in this case y can see video of anic ofl being alerted. a crowd gathered near the top of the montgomery county fire and rescue carefully carried the woman up the escalator on a stretcher and to the hospital. they can't say why theto esca was stopped that day but reminds riders to be extra careful. >> always hold on to the railing. >> new safety announcements at certain stations are being made to remind passengers to hold railing. >> we had look

bethesda southbound 270 disabled vehicle on the right shoulder. 66est at 50 there, right side blocked by the crash. we're going to try to get more ton t one. alexandria, duke tstreet, l lane blocked by the work zone there. beltway when you take a big look at things looking good inner loop and outer loop no big problems. >> thank you. >>> we're staying on top of the breaking news. families and businesses in ia will be trying to clean up after a line of storms. >> the syste produced a or reported 32 tornadoes in just one day. you can see damage left behind. severe weather system left multiple injured and flattened buildings in three cities. >> chris lawrence is at the live desk. >> we've been following this story in missouri. about the duck boat crash. you can see some of the scenets e table rock lake there just outside in missouri. severe thunderstorms rolled through last night and rocked that lake a duck boat carrying overle 30 peapsized in the water. we're told at least 11 people have drowned. some children. some witnesses say that stocrm has hitting so hard you could see waves as mu

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an the cup party continued in bethesda at a charity fundraiser.ans buying tickets to help raise money to help defeat a fo of childhood brain cancer. the caps defense bringing a lot of joy to the area today. >>> history made today at the nathan's famous hot dog eating contest. joeyt chest wing his 11th eatingmustard belt after 74 hot dogs in ten minutes, folks. over 22,000 calories, 54,000 grams of soum. but not without controversy. originally judges said he only ate 64. it's a light day know. after reviewing chestnut did eat 74, and he enjoyed every minute ee it. >> i wasng good today. i was happy. i think happy. i love to eat. and so try to have fun and i was enjoying the food and beating the heck out of the guys nexto me. >> beating up the guy next to me. you got to love it. w do you lose track of 10? >> that's why i have people holding up the signs. >> do you want to be one of the guys counting that thi >> no, no. i don't even like to watch. i don't even like to watch. t ll, on tha ♪ ♪whoaaa-oooaaaa ♪as long as the suns up... ♪there's no holdin

tomo, coste nbc news, bethesda, maryland. >> it was another career milestone for future hall of famer albert. he hit his 631st career home run last night passing the great ken griffey, jr. on the all time home runs list. it was his 17th year. 11-3 over the white sox. he sits in 5th place for all time in home runs between willie maze, barry bonds, huge nachmes there. >> states up and down the east coast continue to get slammed by torrential rain. in fairfax, virginia, violent flash floods swallow roads and nearly covered cars.n rescuers i hershey, pennsylvania going door to door taking residents out by inflatable boats. and flood waters causing hershey park to remain closed for a third day this week. in florida, many beaches are at risk for treacherous rip kurnlts. >> on the west coast 35 million people from washington state to arizona are battling a sweltering ht wave. temperatures reached record highs in california's death valley hitting a scorching 127 degrees. the heat is fueling the massive wildfires that are ripping through the regions and burning through hundreds ofands of acres

bethesda's katie ladecky finished first.end of the race, she swam over to hug schmidt and posted pictures of them together on twitter. we first talked to schmidt in 2015. ushe opened about her bat with depression and how michael phelps encouraged her to get some help. for some me, she thought she was done with swimming but now want to use her gift to inspire others. initely have two passions now swimming and mental health. soca if use this platfor to let everyone know, thank you, to let everyone know it's okay to not be okay, that's exactly what i want to do. >> schmidt now qualifies for an international competition in tokyo. nbc4 is committed to raising awar mess abouttal health challenges for education and information aboutesrces available in your community. open our nbc washington app and search changing minds. >>> sky watcher around the world get a treat tonight. the longest complete lunar eclipse of the century. this video is the best view anybody here is going to get tonight. visible in won't b north america and parts

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he was born in d.c., grew up bethesda, andis family is active within the communities here. >> we action we must doop t esverything nomi. several ore democratic senators are promising to vote no more reaction to this nomination and what's next as the confirmation battle begins. >>> giant chesse pieces w used in a an odd case of vandalism in d.c. >> the chess pieces were getting tossed off of a roof o a bildzing. i urge you to look at your screen. want to show you video from after 00 last night. that's when d.c. police got the call. somebody tossing something off ofrohe . it's one of the apartment buildings that has a lot of amenities. one of themg being this xhes set on the roof. last night, someone started to toss the pieces off of the roof. you see some of the damage,as d windows of cars and actually did quite a bit of damage hereu see the chess pieces laying there in the road. i want to show you a shot from our cam to give you a shot of theoof of the building. this is an 11-story building. you think about the pieces thin come f over the side, this could have been worse and more seriou

it won't make it to bethesda here. idle wood again. no one hasee sn a tornulo. there shod be a tornado in this storm. the greatest danger with this storm is the blinding rain. no point in trying to drive through all this. i-66rom came fairfax county to bailey's cross roads. that's not a y place where want to be driving right now. hang tight with us here over the next couple of minutes w andch this storm develop over the next little while our tornado threat is realtively low. but sometimes you can get a little spin going around wit it. and if you can maximize the winds on it, that's not on issue. i've been trying to interrogate theay bar and see if we can get a better bead on how strong the winds are. the storm is going north. ifou are in fairfax county here, and root 7th there, befu care out there. best to stay put, stay in, stay safe. >> the little notch is going to go to the west. that's a ball of red on the radar, right over falls mlean. that's where it cease going to be. and this storm will continue northbound, up to the potomac river. if you're forth of tha

tom costello, bethesda, maryland. >>> secretary of state mike pompeo defending the president's foreign policy today and getting grilled over what happened between president trump and putin in helsinki. all of it as the white house announced the president will not host putin in washington this fall, saying it should be after the mueller investigation is over. our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has details. >> reporter: today the secretary of state taking fire from democrats and the republican chairman about that two-hour private meeting between president trump and vladimir putin. >> if the president's public statements that create concern amongst senators on both sides of the aisle. >> reporter: the senators even doubting that the secretary of state knows what mr. trump promised putin, because they met without note-takers. >> did he tell you what transpired in the meeting? >> i've had a number of conversations with president trump about what transpired at the meeting. >> did you speak to the translator who was at that meeting? >> no, i haven't. i understand the game

more on this problem in bethe a bethesda, with a hit coming up. >>> we continue to bra breaking newsthe district. eight people have tone look for place to live, after this fire at a d.c. row house overnight. they were so intense, they started a fire across the alley. >> this is a look at the damage. fire officials tell us there was a working smoke detector when the fire started. no one washurt. news 4's nicole jacobs is there, as firefighters kee an eye on hot spots. she will join us for a report in 15 minutes. >>> our other top stories, a majo o update out thailand. a fifth boy has been rescued from the flooded thcave. is is according to a thai navy. offici this is a look at the ambulance leaving the cave shortly after the. announceme officials say they rescued -- the boys areungry but i good health. this morning's development leaves seven other boys and the coach trapped in the cave. >>> we'll find out tonight who president trump will tap to be the next u.s. supreme court justice. ur judges are on the short list, two appear to be front-runners. brett kavanaugh and thomas hardiman.

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a couple in edgemore part of bethesda are missing $40,000 wort of jewelr >> they were saying it was stolen when the couple went to run an errand. take a good look at the it shows the two women who police think may have pulled off e job. a car kept circling the home during the robbery. and police say the door to t home was left unlocked. >>> comfortable humidity levels as you walk outside. 73 in washington. 67 in clinton. look at frederick coming in at 61 degrees. a little cooler this morning than yesteceay morning. nd dry on radar. we're going to stay like this. look what fure weather does. there can be showers mostly east and south o d.c., trying to form here. if you're walking the dog, this is doughnut. his name is doughnut. he'st available the humane rescue alliance for adeposition. by noon today, we'll be warming up. mid-80s, it will feel the best to go for a long walk. this afternoon, w be in the upper 80s. don't forget,saturday, august 18th, coming up. big clear the sheltern adopt event. tomorrow, if you have the pool in your plans by noo tomorrow, looking at temperatures by 84 degre

. >>> the metro station in bethesda has some ofonhe lgest escalators in the world. a fewonths ago, a woman tumbled down them. this is securit video from march. the woman in the purple jacket started to walk down the escalator that was not working at the time. somewhere on the stairs, woman may have been bumped and that caused a long and hard fall down to the platform. since that fall, metro's chrman says new safety announcements are being made at some stations to remind people hold on to the escalator railing. >> we had looked at stations with particular es. that's why we put them there first. we're rolling that out throughout the system. station s in the met did not catch the woman's fall. but hopes sharing this will help people pay more attention the next time they're using metro. the woman's family says she needed extensive physical therapy aer that fall. >>> w warnings about a poisonous plant we've been telling you about, the giant g hogweed can cause serious burns and blindness if you get too close to it. a 17 yeefr-year-old from northe virginia is in the hospi

he was born just outside of bethesda, maryland. grew up in that environment. too much to say he's part of the swamp. he has conservative issues that he's voted on. you already have ted cruz saying he's not going to vote for him. the president with a 50/50 split, the president can't afford to lose many republican senators. if ted cruz is against him -- >> what is his beef with him? >> he thinks he's the kind of swing vote that kennedy was. >> not reliable. >> he's not been as straight-line conservative as somebody like antonin scalia, which is what ted cruz uses as his model. >> but similarly, the president also has to worry about the female republican senators that probably want someone more in that model, more moderate. at this point he can't count on many democrat votes unless he gets the red state democrats that want to vote for the supreme court justice because they're up for election. a lot of factions to control. but either way, the president will get his pick through. this is the whole ball of wax. >> let me say one thing about that. that brings up a gr