i'm chris lawrence. let's get to meteorologist, chuck bell, with what everyone wants to know. how is that weekend weather shaping up? >> it is not going to be a total loss. not much rain out there to get your friday morning started. rain chances will continue to increases. a couple of lonesome showers. cloudy, rather humid start. upper 60s to 70 degrees. a prett afternoon and evening. keep in mind, increasing chance, a 60% chance you are going to get rained on for your friday evening. the baseball game also may have a chance for a shower. today's high, low 80s. >>> police officers are praying their boss makes a full recovery. chopper 4 was over the scene just after the motorcycle crash that injured chief devon martin. it happened on martin luther king highway. we are working to learn the ex pent of chief martin's injuries. members of the community rushed to help him and that may have saved his life. >> reporter: saint pleasant's police chief, devon martin, is recovering after a motorcycle crash. or origi

at the live desk, i'm chris lawrence. >> thank you, chris. >>> we've got this word just coming in, we're learning a congressman was one of at least 15 people arrested in a protest at the white house. earlier today, hundreds of people blocked the sidewalk along pennsylvania avenue. illinois representative luis was among the crowd of protesting the immigration policies and demanding that it protect daca, he was arrested, along about ben, who by the way is running for governor of maryland. our crew at the protest that park police gave three warnings before making any arrests there. >>> a follow up now to a story effecting medical care for some of our city's poorest residents. the washington post just learned about more of what caused the health department to stop delivering all babies at the united medical center. the post detailed a letter that detailed mistakes made at the hospital. in one case staff members didn't take steps to prevent transmission of hiv from an infected mother to her infant. in another case, a pregnant and obese woman was not treated properly for breathing problems. th

i'm chris lawrence. thank you for starting your day with us. you know, for the last couple days, we have needed the umbrella as you headed out the door. let's check in with chuck to find out if we're going to need it this morning. >> you won't need it for today. probably won't need it for tomorrow. couple of nice, dry days coming our way. the summer muggies remain on vacation. satellite review, the last couple of hours, there go all the clouds. no chance for rain around here radar this morning. man oh man, is it comfort outside. 68 at national airport. west of the beltway, temperatures well down into the 50s this morning. 54 in winchester, 55 front royal, dulles even down to 60 degrees this morning. so a very comfortable start. it is going to be a near perfect august day today. sunshine, mild, low humidity, today's high up near 85 degrees. we'll take a peek at the weekend in a few more minutes. >> thank you, chuck. >>> developing this morning, a major update on the rising tensions between the united states and north korea. kim jong-un's regime

chris lawrence is at the live desk with more out of paris. >> this is happening in france, angie. someone drove a car into a group of soldiers in paris. right now, there is a search on take a look. we're showing a live picture from paris. you can see the police presence there. all of this happened in the last hour or so. police say six soldiers were heard, two of them seriously. paris is on maximum alert after a series of terrorist-inspired attacks in the last two years. >> chris, thank you. >>> it's 4:31 now. developing now, news no expecting mother wants to hear. d.c.'s health department has ordered d.c.'s united medical center to stop delivering babies for 90 days. officials aren't saying why services are suspended. but a spokesman said this restriction applies solely to obstetric and nursery services and will remain in place for 90 days or until the hospital implements its plan for obstetrics and nursery service. the nearest hospitals are more than 20 minutes away. for a list of them, washington app. >>> drivers, an alert for you today. if you use i-395, you may be hitting the

chris lawrence is at the live desk. what are you finding out, chris. >> doreen, witnesses say he shot and killed the chef and told everyone else to leave. and officials now say, this is attack was personal. >> we're do know already at this point the shooter was a disgruntle employee. this is not an act of terrorism. this is not a hate crime. >> some of the local stations the man was a dishwasher at the restaurant. the shooting happened and about 30 people were eating at the time. witnesses say he walked the gun and said something to the effect of, boss in town and told everyone to leave, after more than two hours the s.w.a.t. team broke in and shot him. and we're told he's been rushed to the hospital with critical injuries, again, all of this wint down a few blocks away from emanuel ame the church where white supremacist killed parishione parishioners. >>> a maryland grandmother says tonight she's proud of her sailor, he's one of two young men from maryland, presumed dead after that navy destroyer collision this week, b

. >> good morning, i'm chris lawrence.day, pregnant women turned away while a hospital in our area was forced to stop delivering babies. >>> and good morning, i'm storm team4 meteorologist chuck bell. skies have cleared out overnight, we're going to have to wait a couple days befe rainor c this is the moment. the moment you could put yourself in the driver's seat of a new mercedes-benz. come to mgm national harbor and enter the choose your ride giveaway. the more you play, the more chances you earn to win your share of $350,000 in prizes including a new mercedes-benz convertible, sedan or suv. so get a move on. join m life rewards and enter the $350,000 in prizes and freeplay®. this is monumental. >> they will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before. >> tough words after north korea threatens to strike guam. just hours after the latest threat. >>> pregnant and now in a pinch. the area hospital forced to stop delivering babies. n a >>> and it's the construction a lot of d

jim, back to you. >> chris lawrence.nk you. >> the first day back to school always brings a range of promotions for kids, parents, teachers, too. louden county just wrapped up the first. they went to ash burn today where she found a teacher with a special connection to her school. >> the idea here at elementary is to make school a memorable experience starting from day one. >> the first day of school. >> and how do you feel about that. >> really good. >> it's a good feeling and something school principal bob marphle and his staff take seriously. >> third grade teacher erica spencer knows a thing about feeling special here at cedar lane. >> i actually open the school back in 1999 whenever the doors first opened. it was nice and brand new. >> ms. spencer said she was so inspired by her teachers when she was a young girl. she knew she wanted to come back and pay it forward. >> my love of teacher was probably built in this school. and all the excellent teachers i had and wanting to make a difference in a kid's life. >> now s

chris lawrence here with reaction from both sides on this story, chris. >> well, leon, we've been on top of this story every step of the way pat collins initially reporting on the death rejecting those conspiracy theories, rod wheeler filed this lawsuit. he's the investigators who looked into seth rich's murder last year and i frequently on fox news, the network that reported the conspiracy theory, suggesting that rich took e-mails from the democratic national committee and leaked them to wiki leaks. they say fox intentionally misquoted him in a story that suggested he discovered a leak between rich and wiki leaks. they're saying president had a copy of that and pushed fox to cover it, as is. it's an effort to overt the ongoing investigation into russia. white house denied any article and fox pulled it a week after it was published. the dnc issued a statement saying, if these allegations are true, it is beyond vile that the white house and possibly even trump himself would use the murder of a young man to distract the public's attention from the chaotic administration in trump's ties

time to send things over to the goff and chris lawrence filling in this morning.our big story, this rain, of course. not the pink dress memo, angie. >> we're doing our best to try to brighten the day, right? >> that's right. >> somebody on the phone bright and early this morning. >> because we had nothing better to do. >>> now on news4 today, gunfire erupts inside a metro train. what the agency is telling passengers ahead of this morning's commute. >>> tough talk from rex tillerson. the sound just coming in from the secretary of state about north korea. >>> and a heads up for some of you beltway drivers. the ticketing that begins this morning. >>> hi, everyone. good morning. i'm angie goff in for yang. >> and i'm chris lawrence filling in for aaron this morning. >> a look at the commute with jack taylor. he's filling in for melissa. we'll have that coming but first we want to look at what you face as you get ready to head out the door with chuck and gina. chuck, i know you talked earlier about flash flood warnings already. >> flash flood watches for sure. we're ke

go to fiosgigabit.com >>> it is 4:15, i'm chris lawrence.let's get a look at some of the top stories outside our area this morning. this is a story that frightened parents with kids in or headed to college. parents continue today in timot timothy pea timothy piazza's death who died after a night of te fraternity were charged because they did not came for help. ♪ >>> honoring a fallen officer. the community in clinton, missouri came together to remember officer gary michael last night. he was killed he week. and after being on the run for two days, the suspect was captured yesterday. >>> hurricane franklin made landfall along the coast of mexico overnight. these are pictures before the hurricane made landfall. people were preparing for the worst which is always a good move. the hurricane had maximum winds of 85 miles per hour. this is the second landfall on mexican territory in three days. and as we head further through the months of august and september, i'm sure, chuck, we'll see a lot more stories like that. >> unfortunately the peak of hu

chris lawrence at the live desk. >> yes, we've been digging into it all morning. nbc news prosecutors in paris have opened an official terror investigation into this morning's attack on french soldiers. they're considering it an assassination attempt. a car slammed into six soldiers just outside the barracks in the suburb upon pariof paris. paris has been on maximum alert and right now, police are working to track down that driver. >> chris lawrence, thank you. >>> a look at some of our other top stories this morning. a new threat from that country says it is reviewing a plan to strike the u.s. territory of guam. this comes hours after president trump said any threats to the u.s. would be met with, quote, fire and fury. guam's governor says there is no threat to the island. >> soon to be moms will need to find a new place to give birth. i'm justin finch at united medical center in southeast d.c., where doctors have been ordered to stop delivering babies and offering prenatal care. how long that suspension will last and what that means for expectant moms coming up

chris lawrence is at the live desk. >> my colleague megan fitzgerald sat down privately with one sailor's grandparents. this new information really brings this loss home. the family gave us these photos of petty kols. his grandmother told us they're all proud and that he wanted to deploy on a ship out to see. yet his wish selling through and vietnam and japan. the others say petty officer kevin, he grew up in montgomery county and graduated from gaithersburg high school. he was working as electronics technician both were on board when it collided near singapore. the birthing -- and nearly two dozen navy and marine corps divers have only been able to recover the remains of that one sailor. they're re -- the commander of the seven fleet has been relieved of duty. after four accidents this year alone. the navy has ordered a pause for one day to resume and resolve its safety procedures, leon. >> thank you. chris. >>> a major development tonight and maryland transportation project that has had running high for years. news 4 adam tuss tweeted the news earlier today. montgomery county council me

chris lawrence, news 4. >>> 4:11. time to turn things over to this guy who i think is still excited about everything that he saw on monday. >> first time we've seen him without those glasses. >> that's right. don't recognize you. >> you know, it's really a shame because we wochbts see that again anytime soon. it's seven y the coolest thing watching that eclipse in south carolina. but coming back to some phenomenal weather across our region today, it really is quite nice at least for most of us. still some shower activity. the frontal boundary is making its way through. very light showers charles county, st. mary's, northern neck. this front is making it's way south and east. even some big storms down around the norfolk area. behind this, though, boy do things change. beautiful weather, a cooler week ech end and then we're tracking harvey. this could make it's way into the states. see you in ten minutes. >>> a young woman hit and dragged by a dump truck. as we hear from her for the first time, now we've learned the tru

news4's chris lawrence is now at the live desk with the very latest. >> north korea could target a u.s. territory. just hours ago, the north said it is seriously reviewing plans to fire missiles at guam. so things are escalating president trump warned north korea in a way that few if any american presidents have. he said more threats would result in, quote, fire and fury, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before. intelligence experts think north korea has the capability to mount a nuclear warhead, although it has not demonstrated it can successfully launch an accurate long-range missile. aaron? >> so we know what the president has said about taking action. so what happens now? >> well, a lot of that is up for grabs. everyone is trying to, i think, at this point, say, let's have calm heads about it. maryland senator ben cardin said president trump's comments were not helpful, it shows he lacks the temperament and judgment for this kind of crisis. it isn't clear what the u.s. is going to do senator john mccain said this could result in a serious confrontation. and take

chris lawrence, thank you, chris.acial tension and controversy leading to threats inside a local fire house. >> wendy here now with new developments of this story tonight. >> well, you know, we're talking about this last night, pat collins had this story last night. he's continuing it tonight. the firefighters accused of making threats after spotting a confederate flag license plate. now the firefighter at the center is telling his side of the story to pat collins, yet, again. also tonight a family filing a lawsuit claiming a school district did not do enough to cyber bullying that eventually caused her to commit suicide. tonight we're going the hear from her mother about that lawsuit and the pain she says her daughter experienced. >>> also, the new restaurants in dc that are challenging each other for the title of being the best. we'll see you with those stories coming up in a few minutes. >> you've got it. >> who is anchoring at 5:00 with you. >> pat muse. >> it's going to be the lady's hour. >> is pat sick? >> pat

chris lawrence will tell us >>> now, to the end zone, it is tim white. >> this is kind of how it feelso be a redskins fan this morning. the team was crushed by the ravens last night, 23-3. they still have three more pre-season games to go. the regular season is one month away. >> i think it is a wakeup call. it showed us as much as we may have been making plays in training camp and feeling good about what we were doing, it is a realization we have a long ways to go. i think that could be a good thing in the long run, the best thing we need right now. >> get some time on the real field. there are some redskins next preseason game is a week from tomorrow. they will play the packers at fedex field and you can watch that on nbc 4. >> there are also two more days of training camp this weekend. >> if you turned the game off early, you missed out. after the "saturday night live's" weekend update. we will show you the best moments from the premier coming up in a little bit. >>> families in our area are getting ready to enjoy an annual tradition, the montgomery county fair. >> willett green wor

pulling out of the paris climate agreement. >> chris lawrence, thank you. >>> there is a need for more teachers in prince george's county. school starts next month so the district is gearing up to try to fill some empty spots. there was a job fair today. they need bus drivers, a new fleet of 100 buses just arrived to help mobilize students. class begins september 5. for a list of school start dates just head to our nbc washington app. >>> tonight new principal will lead information session for parents. this comes after carlos bell, a former teacher's aid was charged with child sex abuse. bell is accused of creating child porn and abusing kids inside the school. he told police he is hiv positive. tonight's meeting gets underway in about 45 minutes at the school. >>> we have been telling you about brown water at houses in our area. if you have had a close encounter with it you know how i felt when i found brown stains all over a load of white laundry at my house. i shared my frustration in a tweet to the sanitary commission asking why they can text me about every little repair in my neig

i'm chris lawrence. aaron and eun have the day off today. we're tracking the rain and the impact conditions could be on your commute. >> that's right, we want to get up to the minute forecast on this rainy day with chuck bell and sheena parveen. good morning, guys. >> good morning. a half hour ago it was her umbrella up and mine not, and now we both have umbrellas >> mine started pouring water on him. sorry about that, chuck. >> if it was up to her, i would end up with water all over my suit. >> these are big umbrellas and my hand is starting to hurt. >> now you're getting wet. >> now i'm getting wet. >> it's not as easy as it appears. >> it's not easy. just know we have flash flood watches in maryland and the eastern shore. we have rain around the district right now and several parts of montgomery county, prince georges county along the beltway. if you look farther out, there is quite a bit of rain headed our way, so yes, you definitely don't want to forget the umbrella today. we have wet roads out there already, jack taylor. let's get a ch

doreen, back to you. >> all right, chris lawrence, thank you. >>> the violence in charlottesville is also forcing a new debate over confederate statutes across the country. >> that debate came to our area today when the governor of maryland called for statute of supreme court justice to be removed from the ground of the state house. tracee wilkins have >> reporter: the statute of thurgood marshall, the first african-american supreme court justice stands at the back to balance the legacy of maryland's first supreme court justice, roger btaney his statute sits at the front of the state house. >> i can't sleep at night knowing that that statute that symbolizes everything i'm against is on a pedestal. >> reporter: former maryland delegate who represents the county has fought to have taney's statute removed since 2007. >> i got a lot of push back from people in leadership who kept trying to tell me about history and how we couldn't erase history. >> but today there's been a change. maryland governor larry hogan released a statement that reads, i believe removing the justice roger b.tane y

i'm chris lawrence. >> and i'm angie goff in for eun. first we want to check in with meteorologist sheena parveen and chuck bell. >> they're outside, umbrellas in hand, and that pretty much tells the story, guys. >> i'm holding the umbrella, chuck is not. that tells the story. this is my good deed for the day. >> it's baerely sprinkling. she had it up and when i came out i didn't see the need. i'm piggybacking off her umbrella. >> i will lock this in too. >> very light rain out there. pockets of heavier rain in northeast washington s, also do toward alexandria, virginia. rain chances for us for the remainder of the day. fairfax, arlington, prince georges county, down in southern maryland as well as the district all under a flash flood watch until 10:00 p.m. this evening. if you're planning out the day today, 60s to around 70 now. we won't see a rise in temperature today. most places staying mid to upper 70s at most with heaviest rain likely a little later on in the day. that means the afternoon commute could also have some issues. for no

. >>> good morning, i am chris lawrence and welcome to "reporter's notebook." this is a show where we take you behind the scenes of some of the stories you are watching onair. welcome to you both >> tracy, i have to start with you with the story that we and you especially have been following for months on the lynnhill condos. >> how we got to this point is mismanagement of the complex. we have been following what has been the first time. the first story i did was a management, they were hoping tenants and owners would do what they were supposed to do when it came to paying condo fees and they were concerned about a backlog of money missing and not being able to pay their utilities years ago, and then it got worse and worse and they had more absentee owners, and then sub renting to those not paying rent, and then they owed more than $1 million to both pepco and washington gas. they were able to work out a deal with that and then it came down to the fire code violations and that was a continuous problem, fire code violations, and every tim came in they had issues

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i'm chris lawrence. thank you for starting your day with us here on news 4 today at 4:00 a.m.weather, you're going to love what is in stoin store today. >> good morning, everybody. yes indeed, our stretch of beautiful weather here really started in earnest on tuesday afternoon. it will continue through most of today. i wish i could tell you that the nice weather was going to last all the way into the weekend, but i can't quite do that. we have dry air on top of us for today and that offers us sunshine and production from

i'm chris lawrence. let's get to meteorologist, chuck bell, with what everyone wants to know.er shaping up? >> it is not going to be a total loss. not much rain out there to get your friday morning started. rain chances will continue to increases. a couple of lonesome showers. cloudy, rather humid start. upper 60s to 70 degrees. a prett

i'm chris lawrence in for aaron this morning. >> and i'm angie goff in for that radar again and thateather forecast. it is busy. chuck bell and sheena parveen are outside. but before we check in with them, chuck taylor has your traffic and chuck is going to start things off. >> what's going on out there, guys? >> we have a cloudy sky. it's already rained a little bit. there are puddles to be jumped over early this morning. we have our umbrellas, we are prepared like good boys and girl scouts. however, we don't need them currently. >> when i drove in earlier, it was raining but those were just some passing showers. here's what we can expect for the rest of the day today. through this evening, all the counties shade nd gred in green. this includes the metro area and a lot of maryland. montgomery county, if you're in rockville, you're waking up to some rainfall there. we're seeing it move into parts of the district near arlington. manassas, woodbridge, near 95 we have light rain there lo

. >>> i'm chris lawrence here at the live desk. we are keeping an eye on alabama. heavy rains causing problems in that area. flash flooding. you are looking at new video from huntsville. the water made streets nearly impossible to drive through. several homes have been damaged. some creaks and rivers nearly overflowed. they are expecting even more rain this weekend. this could be a problem for a while. aaron? >>> it is 4:47 now. only on news 4, d.c.'s police chief is speaking out about the decision not to charge an officer that shot and killed an unarmed black man. federal prosecutors say there is not enough evidence to convict officer brian trainer of any crime. terrence sterling, seen here, was drunk when he crashed his motorcycle into the police fire killing sterling. d.c. police chief told news 4 that the department has talked to trainer's lawyer about having him re-sign. >> the two things i can control right now is to make sure we do a very complete and thorough investigation, that we get the sterling family the answers to the questions they have. >> the offic

. >>> i'm chris e lawrence here with new information ahead of the president's rally tonight in arizona. just moments ago, we're told you president trump will not pardon former sheriff joe apaho. he was found guilty last month for defying a judge's order to keep from racially profiling during some of his immigration patrols. take a look at this air force one landed at air station just about 15 minutes ago. you saw it happen here live if you had been watching. the president is going to host a 9:00. before then he's going to meet with u.s. marines and tour a border protection station right along the border trying to highlight some of his efforts to cut the number of illegal crossings. again, the president says he will not pardon sheriff joe arpaho we'll keep on the story as tonight's rally gets closer. back to you. >> now even if the president had pardoned the sheriff, it would not have been the first controversial pardon issued by a president. president clinton received backlash for several of his pardons, among them former illinois congressman mel reynolds who was can vikted of corrupti

. >>> i'm chris lawrence here at the live desk. want to take you to california where an overnight standoff between police and a crowd of people has just ended. take a look at all the police officers, this is in los angeles. officers swarmed the scene after one officer said he couldn't get the crowd under control. lapd says people were throwing rocks and bottles at officers. two people have been arrested. fortunately no one was seriously hurt. >>> it's 15 before the hour now. another day and a new threat from north korea. >> the country says that it will complete a plan by the middle of this month to fire missiles toward the u.s. territory of guam. of this developing story. and is this a direct threat in response to what we've heard from president trump? >> reporter: well, it certainly seems to be. north korea is now making the threat more specific saying they will fire four missiles into the waters surrounding guam, guam's governor and the u.s. government still saying that there is no reason to worry. they are essentially calling n

chris lawrence shows us how a congregation is being called to help. >> if you want to help some of thevulnerable people on the planet in a time of great distress, this would be one of those opportunities. >> the number of deaths are in the hundreds and dozens of still missing. the mudslide struck outside the capital of the town while many of the residents were sleeping. the church has a relationship with sierra leone that goes back two decades. >> we have a child rescue center, and a hospital called mercy hospital. it's small but very effective and treats people even if they can't pay. because of that we have the relationships in sierra leone. i was in freetown j moments ago, and i saw the homes and had a conversation with a driver about the danger of people living in a flood basin. we were able to send money quickly because we didn't have to take a vote. >> it remains one of the poorest countries in the world and it just recently came through the ebola crisis. >> we have two links in the nbc washington app if you want to help. just search sierra leone. >>> the time is 9:56. right now,

live desk, chris lawrence, news 4. >> thanks, chris. right now, well wishes, prayers and support on social media for dc firefighters who was critically injured on the job. >> comes from a family of firefighters and he'd only been on the job a few months. late last night a fire truck hit him as he was working a row house fire in northeast. >> news 4 megan fitzgerald is in that neighborhood now and he's got more on how he's doing this evening. megan, what's the latest. >> reporter: f us that he's suffering from severe tro ma. investigators also say because of the injuries he sustained right over here at this corner, they tell us, he had the potential of ending his career. >> when we came in this morning, it was kind of a somber environment. >> there's no doubt about it, things aren't the same here at engine company three. crews are standing by and helping -- ready to help the community at any moment, but many say it's hard to stop thinking about 28-year-old dean smother. >> it makes everyone closer when you experience a traumatic event li

. >> chris lawrence, thank you more breaking news right now in the fall out from that weekend violence in charlottesville, maryland governor larry hogan is pointing the crowd to call for the removal of justice roger taney from the grounds of maryland state capitol. he was the chief justice and called african-americans inferior and not worthy of u.s. sin ship, meanwhile the family of the mother killed in saturday's violence in virginia is preparing tonight for her memorial service. and some of the victims who survivored injuries are filing first lawsuits now. we have team coverage, we begin with bureau chief, she's live where hundreds gathered tomorrow to pay their respects. >> hi, jim, well there is a special tonight on the mark key of the paramount theater. it reads heather heyer gone but not forgotten. as this town tries to move on and heal from those violent clashes over the weekend. there is still also some tension here tonight that the confrontations might not, yet, be over. the robert e. lee statute marked the site of violence clashes saturday. still the scene of tension there to

chris lawrence is here tonight to walk us through the events that brought us to this point, chris. >>h, doreen, i mean civil groups soothed the council and protested the decision to remove that statute. just last month the area honoring general lee was renamed emancipation park. it's why these demonstrators came to charlottesville friday, saying, you will not replace us. the torches chanting, hundreds of white nationalists converge on campus, confronting by counter protesters and the university of virginia. by saturday morning, the anchor is boiling over. >> you will -- virginia's governor declares a state of emergency and where president trump tweets, there's no place for this kind of violence, he has no idea what's about to happen. not plows through a crowd of people. >> right now. >> 19 are injured and the impact kills. heather heyer, a paralegal to protest racism. >> and i have a message to all the white supremacist and the nazis who came into charlottesville today. shame on you. you pretend that you are patriots but you are anything but a patriot. >> when president trump speaks t

this is all jennifer lawrence's fault, and watch chris pratt and jennifer lawrence be a thing. here's the thing, people. j-law actually has a man, and now for the first time she is talking all about him. >> i would be so bad at getting interrogated. i would look immediately guilty. anyway, what kind of journalist questions do you have? >> the topic is j-law's almost one-year boyfriend, darren a aronofsky she's 26. he's 48. j-law says simply, "we had energy," but quickly adds, "i had energy for him. i don't know how he felt about me." she describes dampb as brilliant and an amazing father. he has a son from his previous marriage. >> are you happy? >> the couple started dating after the movie "mother," and jennifer went to a dark place with the role, and shooting got so intense jennifer hyperventilated and dislocated a r rib. she said, i had an oxygen tube in my nose, and he was, like, it's out of focus, and she was, like, go bleep yourself. that's the relationship they have. and the harvard grad doesn't have j-law's obsession with reality tv like the kardashians. she laughs and

i'm chris lawrence. >> i'm angie goff. we want to begin with your forecast, it's waert alert today. and sheena parny, you have been very busy this morning. >> and we have a flash flood watch, this is heavy rain. these are lightning strikes here in parts of charles county. it rained over two inches an hour down in quantico coe and all this thunderstorm activity is continuing to slide up 95. so we're nearing the district in about 30 minutes or and annapolis 20 minutes after this. it's continuing to move in from the south. the radar image is showing us heavy rain, but very quickly closing in on the beltway. expect anywhere from about one to two inches possible. here's a flash flood watch through this evening. the county shaded in green, so a lot of maryland involved as well as the district. but really in much of northern virginia we could be seeing higher rainfall totals. we go into the early afternoon. we still have the rain around for the evening commute. coming up in a bit, i'll show when you this will come to an end and how much rain we may be seeing by the time it's all over. we c

chris lawrence has a look back at that historic day. we don't get many of these. >> sure don't. this one caught everybody by surprise. my family included. we just don't get a 5.8 magnitude quake. and this one hit just before 2:00 in the afternoon on a workday. >> i just felt the building starting to shake. >> my desk started shaking. >> we felt the walls moving. >> at the time like a train. >> this happening here? it happened when i was in california, but not in maryland. >> ran out after my captain. sglefsh ran o >> everyone ran outside. first one out the door. >> first before the women and children. yeah. no one died. hardly anyone was injured. but to this day, we're still feeling the aftershocks of that earthquake. at the national cathedral, and they are still trying to finish the repairs. it opened cracks in the washington monument and compromised the elevator. national park officials had to close the monument for three years. and it's never truly recovered from all that shaking. and remember that was only the beginning. four days later, eye reairene e as a category 1 hurric

chris lawrence is in our newsroom with a response from both sides now, chris. >> yeah, pat. rod wheeler filed this lawsuit. he's the investigator who looked into seth rich's murder last year it appeared frequently on fox news. it was there we heard a conspiracy theory that suggested rich took e-mails from the democratic national committee and leaked them to wiki leaks. they say he intentionally misquoted him in a story that suggested he discovered a link. it alleged that president trump had an advanced copy of that fox story and pushed fox to pubbish it as is with the false quotes. today at the press briefing, huckabee said the white house had nothing to do with it. >> the president had no knowledge of the story and it's white house involvement in the story and beyond that, this is on going litigation and i'd refer you to the actual parties involved which aren't the white house. >> the dnc also put out a statement saying there is no excuse for the suffering that trump's associates and conspirators at fox have caused the rich family and those closest to them. both parties sho

chris lawrence in the newsroom now. what's the latest?kim jong-un's regime says it is nearly ready to fire four missiles toward guam possibly before the end of august. and both sides are at least threatening some kind of military action. officials at the pentagon says if president trump were to order it, they have a plan for a preemptive strike on missile sites in north korea. this is some video -- new video from north korea as it stages a u.s. we're keeping an eye on president trump's twitter account this morning to see if he responds with anything new. >>> 6:06. today marks one year since the horrific apartment explosion in silver spring. two children were among the seven victims who lost their lives an tonight you will have the chance to show support at a vigil. megan mcgrath will have those details in a live report ahead. >>> he was fired for poor leadership and now the former director of d.c.'s veterans affairs hospital is back on the payroll. brian hawkens was fired after audits found mismanagement at that facility. he appealed the

chris lawrence, news 4. >>> just in at 6:00, we being a former ku klux klan leader. >> and it mass nothingto do with the rally in charlottesville. that priest admits to making bombs, to burning crosses and targeting people because of their race. tonight as we learn new clues about what prompted his confusion, we are hearing from two of his victims. >> and mark segraves is digger deepening into the skeletons. and mark, what have you learned? >> that's right, in his article on the archdiocese of arlington's website, father atchison had said that he had come forward because of the recent events in charlottesville, but now we know the diocese put out a statement saying that in fact a freelance reporter had been asking questions and mhad fount out about the priest's past and was about to publicly out him that's why he came forward. and we also know that an informant

. >> and i'm chris lawrence. we're going to start with a lk afternoon after another comfortable morning. temperatures are on the rise. >> let's go straight to storm team4 meteorologist lauren rickets. what can we expect today? >> well, you know, we can expect a little bit of a warm-up in terms of that humidity and heat. temperatures are going to be in the low 90s for daytime highs today. beautiful looking out there right now. oh, gosh, what a gorgeous view right there. 86, already up to 86 before the noon hour so it will continue to warm into the lower 90s today, some areas may make it into the mid 90s, of course feeling a little warmer with that with the increased humidity that we have out there and you certainly felt it earlier this morning. nothing showing up on the storm team4 radar right now but i was checking the forecast from this morning to right now before we went on air at 1 1:00. i think i am going to put a chance of an isolated shower or thunderstorm today. temperatures today, lower 90s, mugginess out

. >> chris lawrence, thank you. >> now to a story concerning lights that are causing a lot of stress that use i-66. >> the lights are flashing and it is making a lot of drivers think that they are getting ticketed. we are working for you to explain why you shouldn't worry if and when you see that flash like the ones that are going off behind adam tuss live out there for us. >> reporter: good morning, erika. no worries here. no worries this morning. let me show you what's going on here, guys. there is new toll technology that has been set up along 66 inside the beltway. new tolling is going to start in december. they are testing it. take a look at all the flashes that go up every time a car goes underneath the toll. this is just testing. a lot of people have been writing in to us on social media or e-mailing us asking if they are actually getting a ticket but that's not the case. take a look. we have been out here all morning shooting this video and it just keeps flashing over and over again as people in our region are so used to speed cameras and red light cameras. a lot of people ar

go to fiosgigabit.com >>> i'm chris lawrence here at the live desk, with some more breaking news we have learned that a little girl has been sexually assaulted by a stranger and she's only five years old. police tell us she was abducted and attacked last night on tow we are drive in the alexandria section of the county, a relative noticed she was mising and we're told that when the girl did reappear, she told her family what happened. detectives are asking anyone with information about a possible suspect to come forward, wendy. >>> now at 5:30, we're following the latest from charlottesville where the man accused of driving that car into the crowd of people has been denied bail. james field, jr. charged with second degree murder while a memorial, meanwhile is growing for heather heyer, the woman killed in that crash. president trump singled out white nationalist groups as h once again denounced the violence. and virginia senator mark warner on the president's new response. >> for a presidential candidate that was so obsessed about calling out barack obama for failing to use

i'm chris lawrence. >> i'm pat lawso red line trains are now single tracking du tracking due to what metro calls a trek problem. >> the delays are going in both directions. firefighters had to be called for reports of smoke and the station had to be evacuated. train service was suspended while crews looked for the problem. it's now back open but again, red line trains now single tracking between van ness and dupont. >>> developing now, we now know a man died overnight in northeast washington. police say he was shot. we're now trying to figure out why. news4's justin finch has been asking questions in the neighborhood. he's live now near catholic university. >> reporter: hey there, pat. good morning. police now confirming with us at this time, this appears to have been a robbery last night that left this man dead. loved ones telling us the victim worked here at this 7 eleven in northeast and inside we can tell you his coworkers and friends died trying to get here last night. >> yeah, he's a hard worker. and he's a good guy. >> reporter: at this 7 eleven off 12th and otis streets north

news 4 chris lawrence is working for you to make sure you and your family members don't have a false sense of security. i know we all do. >> i mean, yeah, we let someone do the driving, we hop in the backseat and immediately -- pick up the phone. start stairing at the phone. but take a look at these crashes and pay attention to the flying everywhere. the insurance institute for highway safety surveyed drivers across the country and four out of five people say they're on a short ride taking a taxi or uber, look at that, they don't bother to buckle up and that makes them, what you just saw, human missiles. drivers are twice as likely to be killed when the person behind them isn't buckled up. the passenger flies into the front sit pushing the driver into the deploying air bag or watched it. somebody hit them and the mother went flying through the front -- remember, the front windshield and she ended up in the hospital. >>> some people say, it's tight back there. it's a little uncomfortable. you know, the number one reason people say they don't buckle up, they think it's safe. >> yeah, y

the parents or the >>> i'm chris lawrence here at the live desk. there's been another incidence of a car being used as a weapon, this time, in a small village about an hour outside paris. police say someone intentionally drove their car into a pizza place killing a 12-year-old girl. at least eight other people have been injured. we're getting some pictures in and accident from french media. police are saying the accident was intentional. right now, they have no reason to think it was terrorism. we're going to keep watching this story and bring you any new developments here and of course on the nbc washington app. >> all right. thank you, chris. you've probably noticed it's getting harder to get from point a to point b without paying a toll here in washington area. transportation reporter adam tuss makes a look at the growing cause to expand around the entire area. >> express lanes around the entire beltway. that will be very helpful. it's a polarizing issue. >> i hate 195. >> virginia governor terry mc mc mccola has put the issue. at some point we

how about this one -- quote, this is all jennifer lawrence's fault, and watch chris pratt and jennifer lawrence be a thing. here's the thing, people. j-law actually has a man, and now for the first time, she is talking all about him. >> i would be so bad at getting interrogated. i would look immediately guilty. any way, what kind of hard-hitting journalistic questions do you have? >> the topic is j-law's almost one-year relationship with her boyfriend darren aronofsky. she's 26. he's 48. j-law says simply, we had energy, but quickly adds, i had energy for him. i don't know how he felt about me. speaking openly for her new "vogue" cover story, jennifer describes darren at brilliant be an amazing father. he has a son from his previous relationship. >> are you happy? >> the couple started dating after filming wrapped in their went to a dark place with the role, and shooting got so intense jennifer hyperventilated and dislocated a rib. she said, i have oxygen tubes in osmy mt rils and darren's like, it's out of focus, we have to do it again. and it was like, go bleep yourself. that's the r

. >> that's right we're working for you, though, with more on the post eclipse symptoms chris lawrences here to show to watch out for. >> the blurry vision may not come over you for a couple of days. if you did look directly at the sun, well, hopefully you were wearing a pair of eclipse glasses like this. but sometimes i get it. the urge to peek is too great. even the president couldn't resist stealing a glance upwards in dc by now you may have seen the video looking towards the eclipse without glasses. we're could hear people screaming, don't look up. it was just a few seconds and the question is, was that long enough to do damage. >> well, one doctor put it this way. if you look at it for a second or two, nothing will happen. five seconds, i'm not sure. but ten seconds is probably too long and 20 seconds most definitely. but when should you be concerned. generally a symptoms don't show up for about 12 hours after the damage has been done. that's the point where you might start seeing some blurry vision, ev areas. so, the thing is you're not doing to feel any pain because the retina i