and then i heard a series of gunshots. >> on quiet route 522 in culpepper. the gunshot sounded louder than you would imagine. >> it sounded like popcorn, five or six right after each other. >> according to state police, deputies chased assault suspect eric clark, few details have been released about the encounter. the sheriff presented a deadly threat so deputies fired. >> and i just heard a pop, pop, pop, pop, and i knew that that was a handgun. i've heard somebody saying several gunshot wounds. i heard what sounded like a person in distress. >> state police say deputies recovered clark's shotgun. but no information so far saying he threatened deputies with that gun. people around here say law enforcement is a tough job but they would like to know more. >> of course, i know and get to the bottom of what actually happened because it concerns me because it's my community and i, you know, it makes me nervous. >> sheriff scott jenkins posted on facebook saying in part, i'm deeply saddened by what they were forced to do and pray for comfort for everyone effected

moving towards culpepper. heads up in these areas.culpepper under severe thunderstorm warning until 6:15, parts of madison county, including madison continued to be under tornado warning. the shape of the st,

out towards culpepper, 100 in the city. chance of storm saturday, sunday and on monday, that could help a little bit with temperatures, but the heat index could be between 105 and 110. i do expect to see a heat advisory just about each of these days here. this is something we'll watch very close. it does look much better, though as we head towards next week. >> next week. >> yeah. we survive it. thank you, doug. >>> he's a rising star on the tennis car, all over the world and thousand he's back at home >> francis is joining us live to talk about, what's next for him. >> i'm darcy spencer along carver road in prince william county where there are plans to erect 100-foot tall powerlines along the road. coming up why this african-american community is so upset what they're doing to fight back. >>> now at 5:30, a powerline power struggle, historic virginia neighborhood takes on dominion energy. concerned about where those powerlines are going to go. the carver road neighborhood in northern virginia has an interesting past. some

deputy saw the suspect near the town of culpepper and tried to stop him. deputies chased him for several minutes on till clarks vehicle was stopped at griffinsburg road. here is the story, they tell us, that their deputies tried to make a traffic stop and that the driver presented a dangerous threat and that their deputies responded by that driver. so still a lot of questions about what exactly that dangerous threat was. state police say clarks shotgun was recovered at the scene. neighbors around here who heard the gunshots and saw all of the police activity all night want to know what happened. >> of course i'd like to know and get to the bottom of what actually happened because it concerns me because it's my community and it makes me nervous. >> the deputies who were involved are still on the job. their duties are what the department calls modified, what those responsibilities will be in the days going forward has yet to be determined. in culpepper virginia, kristin wright, news 4. >>> well, it's been another busy afternoon and storm center 4, one minute

moving towards culpepper. heads up in these areas. culpepper under severe thunderstorm warning until 6:15, parts of madison county, including madison continued to be under tornado warning. the shape of the st, has lost the classic tornado look. i think there was a tornado there for a little bit on the weak side. but i want to show you the latest timing, as this continues to move toward our north and east, moving in to happy creek, right around 6:15. at about 6:58. the leesburg and gaitersburg right around 8:00 this evening. more rain after that. we're not talking about the heavy rain just yet, everybody about the flash flood watch until 2:00 a.m. you continue to be under flood warning until 7:00 this evening and we'll continue to get more information in culpepper county and thunderstorm warning until 6 clan 45. again, that heavy rain moving towards the metro area, i'll have the latest timing and updates coming up. >> we'll check back in a few minutes. thanks. >>> now, to a close call for two kids in prince william county. they lost co

take a look at the temperatures now. 77 in leesburg. 73 in culpepper 68 towards la ray. and a couple of thunderstorms out there earlier. the thunderstorms making their way on through. nothing left on the radar. most of the storms were here. now watch it move across loudoun county and it moves to the west. i saw lightning towards national harbor. people taking pictures of lightning going on. the area of rain just north of hagerstown. that is it. but even that is dying off. waking up tomorrow morning, getting the kids off to the school or whatever they're going to be doing tomorrow. maybe 78 degrees at 7:00 a.m. 84 degrees at 9:00 a.m. daycare is what i was thinking of. remember that? you know what i'm talking about. next few days as far as the heat goes, the heat index. i'm thinking betwe100 to 105, t heat index climbing over 105 degrees. that's heat advisories each of the four days and especially saturday and sunday, when i think the heat index could approach 110. between 105 and 110 degrees, that's very warm. get out to the pool. a great place to take the kids in the af

it will come through parts of culpepper county.storminess, pretty strong storm right now. this is moving right towards winchester. if you look at frederick county virginia, get ready. no warning with this just yet. we might see one or two warnings. you can see what's happening, this is part of a bigger system that's making its way on through. right now back towards the west to actually come down our way during the way tomorrow, too. that leaves us a good chance of strong to severe thunderstorms. we'll take you hour by hour, most of the activity to the west should die out. at 8:00, i think a pretty nice night. it's going to be very warm if you're eating outdoors, you might be sweating a little bit. most of us should be dry. can't rule out a shower, here comes 2:00. a couple of showers hot and humid again. and then potential line of storms and we do have this line. this could be a very strong line of storms with a potential for some very hot winds. let's take a look at the storm impact potential. i think one of the bigger threats. he

island, you get much warmer in the cities, you're able to cool in the suburbs. 75 in culpepper. look at the heat index. at this hour, 100 in d.c., 100 if annapolis, 89 in quantico. an incredibly mott night and another very hot day tomorrow, too. we did see one area of storminess come over montgomery county, prince georges county. most of us remaining dry tonight. the pink area is a severe thunderstorm watch in effect. it's going to make its way our way. i'm going to time this out for you here. here it is around chicago. this is tonight. watch what happens by early tomorrow. it starts making its way through the ohio valley, through pennsylvania. you say not much happening around 2:00. watch what happens around 3, 4, 6:00, we are severe weather. if you have plans in the morning and early afternoon, i think you're fine. it's tomorrow later afternoon you want to watch out for. we are right smack in the middle of severe thunderstorms and take a look at sunday, right smack in the middle again with a slight risk here. we could even see some stronger storms during the day on sunday. so

you can see the temperatures dropping just now the culpepper and fredericksburg.istrict holding on to 80. leesburg at 77. it will be a comfortable night relatively speaking in the suburbs tonight, and even not so bad here in washington. tomorrow morning 7:00 a.m., 74 degrees in the district but the suburbs will start out in the mid 60s. folks saying on twitter it sounds like tomorrow is the day to get the run in earlier or the yard work done. with low humidity sunshine, a nice day outdoors. we will hit 90 once again around 4:00. even tomorrow evening fire up the grill. 87 around 7:00, but pretty comfortable for this time of year. that's not going to be the case as we look to our monday and later in the week as well. outdoor exercise looking nice again, perfect for the pool, brunch, definitely outdoors. yard work, well, it is looking good for that. a lot of people will be out tomorrow, have the tee time or going for a nice hike, the weather is cooperating. i want to show you the thunderstorm risk on monday. 8:00 a.m. future weather has chance for showers in parts o

tomorrow night late, it still legals like it's 96 downtown. 90 in culpepper, even cumberland, and bromeny will still feel like it's in the upper 80s. 80s tonight. 92 by 1:00. yellow weather alert through the weekend, 98 on sunday. we talked about that being our hottest day. still 96 on monday. nats come back into town just in time for some cooler weather. although we sneak up to 91 on tuesday. >>> why these police officers ended up doing the cha-cha slide when they got there. cat going viral again. this time, she officially gets ♪[ music ] >>> a noise complaint turned into a dance party in shaker heights, ohio. and they were shaking l turn down the music, the police officers welcomed the chance to master, or attempt to master the moves of the cha-cha slide. one of the officers said with all the negative press police have been getting lately, it's important for police to connect with the people they served. said what's going on here, and they said, we're just trying to learn the cha-cha slide. i said let's go, who's going to teach me? >> a community bonding moment outside cleveland. office

culpepper nice. 71. temperatures will continue to fall down through the 70s maybe 80s and middle 60s with fair skies overnight tonight. dulles 64. frederick 61. and so i was talking about it, it might feel cool to you if you are up early, early tomorrow morning. hagerstown sprapz cuts down is 57 or so and close to the 50s up and down the i 81 corridor and really, really nice for everybody else. even if you're to the south and southwest. big thunderstorms all the rain really south of us. we had one little weak trough through and that kept activity bundled up to the south. we had had a couple of thunderstorms renting south of us and few more showers trying to lineup along the front. they died off as it got further south and south iingt. really pleasant for us and again you can see where all the moisture is living. high pressure builds in now him the frontal system overnight tonight. really for the day tomorrow super comfortable back here. dewpoint really drop off and humidity drops off. temperatures are a

down to 66 out towards culpepper so a nice start. 9:00 only in the low 70s and by 6:00 i think back into the low to mid 80s. temperature 80 in frederick by 6:00, 78 in winchester. cumberland and romney have a hard time hitting 80 tomorrow so a nice break, a nice late july day. day planner low 70s to start and pretty uniform. 78 at 11: 00, 81 by 1:00. no big jumps in temperatures. 86 on wednesday a few more clouds. still a good day. storms on thursday monitor that for yellow weather alert day. friday back in the 80s, mid 80s on saturday, mid 80s on sunday. storms on sunday and the nats on 9 again and back into the mid 80s with sunshine next monday. >>> so the nats are back in town this week. the team finished up a three game series against the diamondbacks 2-0 star player bryce harper having a better year than last year so is he in the midst of another season. frank has the look. >> safe to say bryce harper is having more than a bounce back season. the mvp from two years ago had a 2016 not up to his standards but back in the mix for mvp again this season. harper so far 25 homers and right

so culpepper getting in on some rain. also pushing into the larae area. i don't expect this to hold together all the way to the dc area. the next couple of minutes, we will see rain spreading further east toward midland by 12:15 p.m. the set up, a stalled out front leaves us soggy for the next three days. then we will see on and off periods of showers and on and off periods of rain and even thunderstorms. keep the umbrella handy. the rest of the afternoon is not a washout. rain will be the most prevalent where it is now, south and west of town. can't rule out a couple spotty showers. temperatures in the 80s. it is cloudy and humid outside. we will see temperatures falling into the low 80s at 7:00 as a nationals game is going on. we will talk about the forecast for tomorrow. we have a yellow weather alert. you can always download the wusa9 app. >>> and dc police are looking for the driver that struck a woman early this morning and sped her right -- sped away around 4:00 a.m. near fourth street. the victim was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening

they should we've got 70s, still 80s in town, 70 in culpepper. let's talk about what's happening for the rest of your holiday weekend. we're sandwiched in between two weather systems, the front that brought the storms yesterday and here is the next cold front that we'll be tracking in by your 4th of july. so when this arrives, we'll see storm chances up a little bit, but before it gets here tomorrow, storm chances stay very low. we're looking at temperatures tomorrow morning, partly to mostly sunny skies climbing quickly from the 70s to the 80s and 90s in the afternoon. so that will make day five of our heatwave. what about your 4th of july? i'm going to walk you through the 4th of july forecast, talk about parades and fireworks and everything like that coming up in a few minutes. >> thanks, melissa. >>> well, talk about a close call, you've got to see how this small plane landed, in a volcano in mexico. -- landed. >> and a volcano in mexico shows its power >> also ahead frightening moments for passengers aboard a train that goes off the rails. >

leesburg, culpepper, fredericksburg, and by evening, about 24 hours from now. 102 downtown. 101 in leesburgd still in by 10:00 tomorrow night, it will be dry. pretty toasty to have dinner outside. we did not get below 80 tonight downtown. 90 at 11:00. 92 at 1:00. yellow weather alert tomorrow, saturday, sunday. sunday is going to be the hot day, i think 98. a couple of isolated storms possible. monday, still hot. a better chance for storms, and pretty good shape, tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. i took the drop off on tuesday morning. the nats back in town. we hold in the 80s, that will be quite pleasant. >>> it could be the next big thing in u.s. men's tennis. this country needs somebody to break through. this week, tiafo is tennis. i had a chance to catch up with him, and he said there's no place he'd rather be. >> it's an honor to be a part of it. see my name, you know on the banner walk in. especially growing up around this area, i'm definitely really excited about everything. >> it was a no-brainer, you're going to play for the kastles. you can't play anywhere else. >> yeah, it wouldn

the numbers, 99 is the way it feels in manassas and culpepper and 101 in fredericksburg and martinsburg, our friend in west virginia, it feels like 96 degrees this hour. the heat and humidity are strong and the thunderstorms will start to fire off. you see the radar, not a lot of action. one cell in baltimore pushing over the bay and a few more deeper in west virginia but this cell in hagerstown just fired up and when we'll see a few of them pulse up and pop up and bring in heavy rains and thunder and lightning at times, coming in through lewis town and north of frederick. that's what we'll continue to watch for throughout the afternoon. here's our future cast which takes the weather now and tries to push it forward the next couple hours. what you'll notice is we head in the afternoon and a few more showers off to the north around 2:00 but a little closer to the evening rush, a few more thunder showers firing off, gaithersburg and fairfax and winchester and warrenton. 6:00 or 7:00, a line of heavier showers through the district to baltimore and along the drive a lot of the showers and s

from that line, that wind coming out of that thunderstorm, actually, hoping to cool things off. 90, culpepper. 88 right now in fredericksburg. where we've seen the rain, all coming in the 70s take a look at the heat index, 94 fredericksburg. 96, that t factor as we move on through the next couple of days. tracking these storms. we may see a few more develop now in our southern zone, parts we haven't seen rain through about 7, 8:00, most of us still remain dry. all dry and then tomorrow starting off warm and humid, scattered thunderstorms just like today, one or two of those could have very heavy rain fall, maybe isolated severe storm, most of us remaining dry. big deal tomorrow, is going to be the heat, we're back to 92 degrees. heat index close to 1 hyundai tomorr s -- 100day tomorrow. tracking saturday, right now could be a boundary that comes through and helps to cool things off, i've still got 96. look at sunday, actual high temperature of 101, the heat index sunday, if this forecast comes into fruition >> takes on the competition in the case it's got international attention. >>> ahead, w

the temperatures around the rest of the area, 90 culpepper. 71 as a result of that rain that's coming down baltimore, baltimore seeing rain in the 70s. everybody else, we'llet look out for sunday, 101 for a high temperature. but even on wednesday, that heat index over 100, tomorrow hot and humid day with an isolated storm. 97, thursday and friday, heat index around 105. there's that extremely hot day on sunday. chance of storm there sunday, too. thursday through sunday, we could have weather alerts and we could have heat advisory just about each of those days, guys. >> all right, thank you, doug. >> a deadline comes and goes, no deal for skins quarterback kurt cousins. carol maloney explains what that means. >> new crack down on speeders on our beltway, where you'll want to ease off the gas during your daily commute. >>> in this alex oan deiah neighborhood, ahead, what happened here last night >>> neighbors in one alexandria community are angry tonight and skeptical about placing more american flags outside their homes. we told you last week, flags were burned on several houses, inclu

of just extremely heavy rain in and around back towards the county, coming in towards portions of culpepper county, nearly 2 inches of rain per hour associated with this. this is moving over manasas. and if you live south of fairfax and down around the clifton area, you're getting a lot of this, too, that's where that line is and that fall line. this is national harbor camera, again, that wider view, this looked amazing a minute ago. you can see the rain associated with it as the storm now do we have that live camera, yeah, this is a tree down. this is a big tree, wow. this is a big tree that came down on a car, one thing i notice right away is the route system of that tree, probably one of those that was right on the curb there, no root system at all to that tree. if you look in there, that tree is rotten in the middle. i don't know if we can zoom out here, but that car definitely going to have a lot of issues associated with it. that is a monster tree. you can see fire and rescue out here. this is off military road in through parts of northwest dc. can we pan to the left, at all. there it

we were at 104, 106 last hour, now down to 104, 106 fredericksburg, notice culpep r culpepper, 86 degrees, the reason we had some storms come through. we have a pretty good chance. from looking at this system right here, this system has a little bit of a trailing trough, so to speak, making its way through, a little bit of boundary that's going to come through our region, but right now i'm still tracking a couple of showers. nothing strong to see veer. yo north of pennsylvania, that's actually severe thunderstorm watch and we can see some stronger storms here, as well. still hot tomorrow, this is forecast tomorrow. strong storms, likely, tomorrow some of them will be severe and yes we're targeting much nicer weekend, still hot, but less humidity. we can all get through it just fine. my updated forecast, i'll see you back here. >> we're working for you with tips on how to beat the heat. >> we love to see how creative people get as they try to stay cool out there. news 4 is joining us now on the national mall with high-tech ways to cool down. hey, amy. >> haey, amy. >> reporter: it certainl

it is a really nice humidity not a huge factor today. 84 in gaithersburg. 86 in culpepper. very comfortable. we've seen a few showers pop up, no real storms anywhere. right now not showing anything on the radar. the next couple of days we can see an isolated storm or two, that's it. here is future weather taking us in tonight. starting off tomorrow morning on a very good note and watch this, a couple of showers right close to the bay down along i-95. baltimore down towards prince william county, could see a couple of showers in that area. and then, a couple of spotty showers. most of us tomorrow will remain on the dry side. >> no one wants another monday, that's for sure. warm and not too humid during the day tomorrow. pretty nice temperature right around the 90-degree mark. the heat index is going to creep up a little bit wednesday into thursday, pretty much each day. technically heat wave. 90 degrees or over. we saw 91 today. it will be close to that number right on through the day on friday. we'll track another storm system for the weekend, that's going lower temperature

oekd next up, culpepper, virginia, hector on the republican line. caller: good morning. july.4th of host: same to you, hector. caller: i wanted to call real first-time caller. the issue in our country, we eed to look inward and evaluate, you know, our politicians, conduct, all this seems to me that we're on a very large ship that nowhere, there is so much division and so much action , but yet little and i really believe that, you now fwe have term limits for the president, why not term limits for members of congress. though too many people with vested interest in this country and, you know, our security, r national our education, you know, i can't why in the united states of america we still have eople in such poverty going to bed hungry and our children are not receiving good education and that is really all vito say. god bless america. north carolina, gaye, is on the democrats line. good morning. morning.good thank you for taking my call. host: sure. aller: i think that it's the disappearing middle class. disparityuch too much between the wealthy and the poor. and we n

a driver killed during a traffic stop in culpepper county sheriffs office deputies tried to stop car, the sheriff says the driver of the car presented a deadly threat to deputies and they opened fire killing that person. we don't know what that threat was or the identity of the driver. the deputies involved are now on what's called modified duty. >>> to the district now, fire raged through two row homes overnight leaving eight people without a leave on the 200 block of morgan street northwest. video from d.c. fire and ems shows the flames pouring from the second floor and the roof of the homes. two firefighters do have minor injuries. no word on what sparked the flames. >>> far fax county now. this morning officers are working to identify a man whose body was discovered in a lake in centreville.. around 7:30 last night. skyfox was over the scene in the 5800 block of trinity parkway. police are checking missing person's reports to help them come up with an id. >>> 8:00 sorry five right now. right on time. we don't want to miss a second of what this weather forecast is. >> no. >> becau

temps already in the 80s. 83 in washington. 81 in leonardown. 80 at dulles. 79 frederick. 78 culpepperng them with this afternoon as we'll be in the mid 90's with heat index pushing 100 later today. the hottest will be tomorrow when our actual air temperature will get awfully close to a hundred tomorrow afternoon. little bit of cloudiness early. we had storms that were raging last night back into west virginia and ohio and fell apart as they hit the mountains some of the cloud cover still with us early this morning. once that gets out of here, it should be a partly sunny day toda possibility we can fire up a storm although any storms we get are going to be very widely scattered. isolated storm risk today. very very humid air mass dew point temperatures in the upper 60s and low 70s. front to the north will get in here on friday. friday is our best chance for thunderstorms. it will also bring us a cool down this weekend but until then, unfortunately, we're stuck in the heat and humidity. again that heat index today and tomorrow 100 plus, and we'll see if we can do record high temperature