fschool names to security es measur our bureau reporter, david culver, explains. >> reporter:g walkin through an aisle lined by school spirit, these fairfax county students embarking on a new school year in a familiar building with a different name. >> we started here. >> what does ito feel like tbe walking into justice high school? >> it feels great, i like it. it feels new. >> this trio of seniors will be the first to graduate from justice high school. >> i'm the first to graduate with justice. >> how's that going to be? >> i don't know. it's it's weird. >> reporter: after several seetings and passionate debate from both es, the school board voted last fall to change the name toustice high school, replacing jeb stewart, cutting ties with a confederate past. >> this is a highly diver school, and so to have it have a name that's inclusive is important. >> reporter: some say it's going to take some time to get used to and adjust. >> we've just got to live with the change now. >> reporter: what do you think now that it i stice, do people embrace it? >> yeah, i'll embrace it. the change,

going to be riding out the storm tonight in nags head. 65 miles to the north of them is news 4's david i culver virginia beach. >> david reports tonight, you don't have to be in the bulls ey to feel the powerful effects of florence. >> reporter:e are slefrl bevera blocks away from the oceanfront here in virginia beach, and we are here with the storm ranger. itill allow us to tap into the localized portion of the outer bands, get better detail as to what florence is doing, especially when it comes to this region. a lot of folks will have seen that trajectory push florence south. people who live here are seeing that, in some cases, they're saying, oh, we're in the clear, everything's safe. officials are saying that is n the case. there are still storm surge concerns and floing. >> check on these people down here over at 31st street. >> reporter: virginia beach lifeguards restrictg swimmers to ankle-deep waters. >> stressful. being a new mom her by ourselves without any family. >> reporter: nicole o walkerut here with her father-in-law and her baby. she, like many militarypouses in hampton roads,

only on news4, david culver -- team culver. >> yeah, i know. >> he explains what you need to look out f when sharing your home with a winged colony. >> you can seet so well a it's so awful. it's so awful. >> oh,. go >> reporter: if you're like me, a warn this story may make you cringe a bit. before we show you the video up close, let's introduce you to kristin baca. back in may, she and her husband and young son moved from pittsburgh to fredericksburg, closer to kristin's bought a h settled, ready to belcomey number two. >> i gave birth on june 4nd the bats arrived the week i brought my baby sthome. >> k seemed to be not the only one welcoming the new arrival with ts home. >> our walls were alive with activity, learning later they were giving birth so adult females were having babies in our wall. >> reporter: kriin began documenting the growing infestation, capturing the baby bats danglingrom behind her siding. >> that is a baby, without hair. >> reporter: adults around her porch or napping behind her blinds. >> again, i went into, like, denial. we had no idea how many we had. >> repo

david culver, news 4. >> got me with the ping-pong table. p you could interview somebody with theg-pong table. >> doug could. >> thank you for that. so kind. >> takes away somef the credibility of your forecast though. >> let's take a look and show what you we areth dealing it was hot and humid today, but the heat and humidity really starting tcome to an end. let's take a look outside. starting to see the clouds off in the distance. but still sunshine downtown. 91 degrees at the airport. 87 next hour.s humidity not really going anywhere over the next day or so. still going to be wm and humid tomorrow too. but much cooler. still not cool at all, 92 baltimore, 90 leesburg. but you can see the cooler air here. we have a boundary in loudoun county. look at pretty stonk strong storm here in win chester. look at cooler air.an that is look around millville, two separate storms re. this is in clarke county moving toward parts of loudoun county. most likelyoing to be falling apart as it moves through. allart of the front trying to make its way throug

i'm david culver. there's a shutdown on i-95 in urel. all northbound lanes are shut down and two second base les closed stretching 3rom exit1 up to 33.oo some gd traffic news, the arlington memorial bridge is going to stay hope. planned construction in all six plane lanes has been postponed. you can sample the seven breweries of fairfax county in one place. ck up a field guide and a brew at mustang sally. >>> a check on the forec ot on ther side of the bre. i put criminals in prison during the day i'm jennifer wexton, and as a prosecutor, and changed diapers at night. later, when i had a law practice, i volunteered to help moms collect child support. then, as state senator, i worked across party lines to target sexual offenders and take guns away from domestic abusers. in congress, i'll stand up to president trump. i approve this message because, like every working mom, what's ahead is as important as what's in the rearview mirror. you're and support that.asing what matters, at innovation heth, a partnership between inova and aetna, weo

i'm david culver. ane goff has theorning off. thank you for being with us.ist. all lanes of i-95 north are back open. itpened after a crash that sent two people to the hospital. one is a young woman with life threatening injuries. as we get more details, we'll pass them along. we want to start off with a check of your recast. lauryn rickets is track it from the weather center. this is the last day of summer. >> yes. last day of summer. fall begins at 9:54in this ev we have a few more hours left of summer. not geng to feel l summer and not looking like it. plenty of clouds and rain showers o there. just isolated stuff. what we're seeing out there right now is ratherlight. again, we are looking at isolated showers coming through. we'll keep thatsolated chance through the morning. but right now we're seeg a few out into the shenandoah valley to the eastern side of i-81. again, a few showers out there. you may have a dock a few if you're headed out. a frontal system stalled through the region that's going to continue to bring us increasing chances of rain. 75 de

david culver, news 4. >>> well,elme back, everybody, we do have some new information, we have floodrn gs that have been issued so let's talk about those after we talk about the rain because this is what the radar looks like right now and i suspe this is pretty much what the radar looks like all throughout day. we have some areas of some heavy rain out there. that's in the yellows and oranges and then we've got some of the green, that is jt that steady rain. but widening out this view, we are getting this moisture from all sorts of angles. we've got a frontal system that's stalled through central virginia, moisture coming off the atlantic, we have remnants of what was tropical storm gordon and then all the way down through the gulf of mexico we're happening into moisture leading to flooding concerns. flood watch for everybody until 6:00 tomorrow morning. we have flood warnings just issued this goes north to portions of montgomery county inuding clarksberg to damascus, frederick andwa i-70 s martinsburg. so we are seeing some very heavt rainough maryland. this is the area we thought fir

reporting in arlington, david culver, news 4. >>> police say there have been no recent cases similar to this one adding they do not believe there is a greater public threat. >>> you want to stay alert living around the green belt metro station. police say t thatre have been a rash of armed robberies all around the franklin par apartments there, at least 12 robberies over the last 2 months an police s that they have been happening in the early ween 9:00ours or b and 11:00 p.m. they believe that the same person is responsible because the pattern has been the same. >> the robberies are almost always taking place either someonentering an apartment building or getting in or out of a vehicle. the suspectpill come to the victim produce a handgun and now it's a >>robbery. police say another common denominatore is that all of th victims have been hispanic. > good news to cross the arlington memorial bridge, planned constructs postponed. crews have planned on closing and second traffic time the work is rescheduled. the repairs are part of a $227 million overhaul. >>> all right. so it's been ye

in stafford unty, david culver, news 4. >> pretty awesom pretty awesome. okay. we got a lot to get to with we have all our people here. they're tuning. the numbers go up on facebook live when lauren shows up. people have persona questions. this is asking about upper marlboro and -- >> we have rain. will they see rain showers? better chances north of.c. as opposed to south. it's not going to be a washout today. this gs for everybody. our weather questions, heavy rain today. no. g definitely nng to have a repeat of what we saw last night. we will have plenty of dry times today. but you see this picture out here right now? this graphic underneathis picture? that's what it's going to look like throughout the day today. eanow, the rain returns overnight and then periods of heavy rai through your sunday. today looks a lot dryer than tomorrow but both days are going to feature some rain. will florence impact us? it i definitely possible that we will see some of florence move into our area as we head into next weekend. current temperatures right now, 60s and0s. they're

. >> new 4's david culver explains this program encourages kids to take out their phones. >> reporter: outside brooke point high school, stafford county sheriff's cruiser the first thing you see. inside,he focus is where is should be, on classroom discussions. >> that's our courtyard. >> reporter: as the county's new superintendent, dr. scott kisner isf reminded what is top of mind for students. >> make sure that it's a place where they will be safe, okay? and indstand that. >> reporter: dr. kisner believes there needs to be a balance between security and school freedoms. he doesn't want students going through a tsa-like checkpoint. >> you a go through buzzer, get pat down, through gates, that's not howchool shouldbe. >> reporter: instead, they want students and staff using technology. the school system here is ea encouragingers in some cases students to be downloading the app on theirhone. use it, pretty simple. click on the tip linen and t type your message. you can choose a range of subjects fromuling to drugs to weapons. you can specify the school and most importantly you can send

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i'm david culver. angie goffs s off tmorning. we want to start off with aaffi. all lanes of i-95 are back open after an earlyorning crash shut down multiple lanes. two people were sent to the hospital. one is a young woman with life threatening injuries.as alcohol a factor in the crash. >>> we want to also get you a check on the forecast lauryn rickets. expecting showers toda>> lauryn? yeah. a few passing showers through the day. most of us are going to be dry today. few isolated showers can't be ruled out. then we head into the evening and overnight. that's then we get a chance for rain. and rain chances continue rough early next week. foggily conditions in some spots. some areas getting sunshine. clouds.seeing clearing skies and back to cloud cover. mostly cloudy today. especial as our winds start to shift. a frontal system is passing through the area and that's bringing us showers. the winds are shifting. we'll start to see this north easterly wind filtering in clouds. 77 degrees right now. staying in the 70s day. the north wind has already shifted. re's a lo

. >> northern virginia david culver was among those at that debate, as he reports now, the con ttions areing some strong stances on several controversial issues. >> reporter: tonight, on the eve of the highly anticiped senate hearings involving judge brett kavanaugh, f tim kaine pushi a full investigation into any and all allegations.ea >> let's from everybody, do the fbi investigation that should beone and do it in a respectful manner. that's whad the senate sho do. >> but the senate treated each other and other members the way that they're treating judge kavanaugh, they'd all b in jail or getting -- >> reporter: prince williamun board of supervisors chairman corey stewart pressing the senator on sexual harassment claims made against those serving in the u.s. senate. >> tmeanwhile, you to talk to us about focusing on sexual harassment that is going on with a judge 36 years ago, potentially. meanwhile, you're not willing to clean your own fhouse. >> there's additional facts that need to be disclosed, let's have it all out there, but you cannot stand here after you've been accusing dr.

i'm david culver. angie goff has the morning off.re keeping close watch on the procession hon thorring john mccain. we'll continue to bring you the nal farewell, a nation bidding good-bye to a man beloved by in. we'll have a special report in 25 minutes from now. ofore we get to that, we want to start youff with a check of your forast on this saturday. it is a storm team 4 weather alert day. lauren rickets, heavy rain out there at times? >> at times. especially into the afternoon and into the evening. had a few pretty heavy downpours overnight last nig as you may have heard. especially after about 9 p.m. and then we had a few overnight early this morning, i should

good morning to you, i'm david culver.rested a 20-year-old in connection with a violent oad rage incident that was caught oa mera. they say she crashed with a greyhound bus then what you're looking at, they say that's her smashing the wsbus's windo with a tire iron. police say she then hit the bus car.r with her >>> happening today to honor the late senator john mccain in washington. this morning in about 30 minutes there will be a procession from the capitol to the vietnam memorial. the procession continues for a private service. tomorrow there a will be private funeral and burial at the u.s. naval academy. >>>oday is a weather alert day. we have laun ricketla [music png] at havertys we know it's hard to get a good night's sleep. havertys mattress sale is here to help. with our wide selection of top brands and r price match guarantee you can find the perfect mattress for everyone in the family. and right now save $550 on select tempur-pedic mattresses. it's time everyone got a good night's sleep. havertys life looks good

. >> david culver joins us live. this weather is drawing a crowd there, huh? >> reporter: it really is. that's kind of the concern for a lot of officials. this is state a state of emergency, a mandatory evacuation zone. yet some people decided to leave. when they saw the track shift farther south, they said in some cases, we'll go back. officials saying it is not necessarily safe here. nonethels, peopletill seem to be tempted by florence. tonight locals becoming tourists on virginia beach's ocean fron >> we've got a hotel. >> yeah. and rk. >> reporter: you are leaving your home? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: orence' early wind and rough surf drang the crowd. >> we saw some pple tryin to go in the water. trying to keep an eye on these people. >> reporter: virginia beach life guards restricting swimmers to ankle deep waters. >> put some sort of restriction on it fors everybody' safety. not just theirs but the life guards' safety. >> reporter: the strong wind attracting kite surfers like eric. i had to chase him down to keep up. aren't you nervous in a potential hurric

i'm david culver. angie goff has the morning off. >>> a crash has i-95 shut down in laurel. all northbound lanes are shut down and two second base lanes ie closed. not clear anyone was hurt. as weo to lauryn for the start of saturday and thisweekend, mild. >> yeah. mild. rolled d some rain that through the area that is creating some traffic woes out there, en on this early saturday morning just was talking to o friends at wtop, wet pavement out there. be careful as you make your way out the door, fog, especially rain all the way upi-95, route 1. and 29 through maryland. rain showers are scooting off toward thehesapeake bay. we're still seeing a few out there. it's heavy in some spots. you can see around maryland city and then even dow here in northwest d.c. we're getting some moderate rain at this point. and it's a little on the foggy said. temperatures in the seths. i don't think we're going to budge too far in terms of temperatures. we'll talk a rain chances through the weekend. we got them. today is the first day of fall. we'll alsha talk about and lookshe rest of this we

we don't want to put david culver or storm ranger in danger. montgomery county, frederick county, we're sing some rain. not like last night but we are seeing showers. martins burg, back toward leesburg and frederick. a little in the way of sunshine and blue skies. not much the next couple days. 79 tomorrow. the bt chancef showers from florence come during the day and then only a 30% chance of showers on saturday and sunday. the redskins game is a-okay. rmnday, 83 degrees with a chance of s and the remnants of florence making their way. so not expecting too much in the way of heavy rain.hi florence, boy, do we get nice. some of the nicest ather we've seen in long time and do we need it or what? >> w need to dry out, doug. all right. oue hurricane cover is just getting underway. stay with news4 as florence gets toward make landfall. >> us, the pope investigates after another resignation. >>> michelle obama is going on tour. i have your celebri60. first, how do you get ryan gosling into your coffee shop well, you get ryan gosling photos and place

i'm david culver.have lauren rickets with us tracking what is a pretty severe weather out there on what is the first day of september. we made it. >> yeah, we did. guys., sorry, here i am. i wanted to get that ten-day off of there and change my maps l aroundtle bit. i've been watching showe. we have blaine alexander coming on if n few minutes with rain headed her way. we hone ing flood warning out there right now. this is the rain we're seeing, and it was s heavy last night. and again, really weakened over the last couplehours. but moving out of fauquier county into prince william county and now just south beltway at this moment. again, zeroing in on this, a few showers around the alexandria area. this is weakenguite a bit. a few in reston. those are moving through the district. re lot of people headed into the district possibly to say good-bye to the late senator mccain as they make their way to the nationall. cathed if you're headed that way, have an umbrella with you. we're to continue seeing shower

. >> david culver u takes to stafford heights for a story only on news4. >> when you called me you told me 8,000 people already viewed it, i was like no, way. r: watching the number of views and retweets spike. >> 31,000 views rht now. just keeps changing. >> just keeps changing. that's insane, r:n. >> reporheir friendship started two years ago, right here at stafford high school. the conversation was based on shoes. >>or was waiting f my dad to come pick me up, and he was sweeping in the gym. >> he noticed the pair of sneakers i had on at the time. he was like, i like your kicks. showing each other kicks. he was showing me what he had. just started from there. >> chris was astudent. angel was a part of the custodian staff. life's not been easy for angel, once homeless. >> yeah, homeless. met my wife. she took me out of the lifestyle. >> reporter: after that, friendship. this week, tristan wanted to surprise angel. tristan asked him what type of shoes he should get for himself. he said, you should by the jordan 8s. i said, do you have a pair? he said, no, i have fourkids. i can't shop f

the project was a big succes david culver has the update. >> it looks great down there. >> reporter:course of the past few saturdays, a up dedicated gro of volunteers turning woods that looked like this into this. life scout from troop 159 is leading the effort. it's focused on clearing the invasive species. more than 150 volunteers joined in. from 5 years old to over years old. including three different scout districts. together, clearing 120 bags of stilt grlys. >> it res providing us with a nice area for us to make it needs to b so the impact has been really great. t one thing david discovered the project is goihelp life scout john thune earn his eagle award and a hornada award. he earned that by making a significant contribution. o conservati >> a place that's great for the family. one of my favorites. >>> look outside, this angelic view of the skylinehere. hard to believe that yesterday, gosh, we were dealing with of thunderstorms, heavy rain. flooding, high water. what does the week ahead have i store for us? [music playing]it at havertys we kno hard to get a good night's sleep

our david culver has their or st >> angel is used to passing himy but in the mid-of a high school hustle, one person made ffort to get to know angel, senior, tristan mcallister. >> he was always smiling. sang god ess, have a good day. >> their friendship started two years ago here in the high ho . can was based on shoes. >> he started talking about sports. onnection eally good there. >> when i saw him, i was like, man, this d is pretty cool. >> angel's positive exterior makes his past hard to believe. >> yeah, homeless four years. mend my wife and she took out of that lifestyle. >> this week, tristan wanted to surprise angel. tristan asked him what type of shoes he should get for himself. >> he said you should byjohe an 8s. i said, really? do you have a pair? id. he no, i have four kid. i can't shop for myself. >> reporter: withs another c mate rolling tristan walked up with a surprise. >> we weren't going video tape i wantt my mom was like too see the reaction and stuff. >> jus to know he's willing to bless me touched my heart. >> reporter: tristan's generosity is spreading throughout t

david culver, news 4. >> david got a tough assignment. out with the keg-o-rater and hanging out on the roof top. >> it's incentive -- >> sorry, did i sound upset? >> and he wasn't wearing a tie. >> he had no tie on. david. >> it's also -- you know, they're known for trying to poach diffelont ees and stuff so it's like the more incentives they give them to eay there the m fun it is. >> listen, we have three places on the short list and if amazon comes here it will be a game changer. >> traffic, too, get ready. >> plentyo talk about there. also plenty to talk about in the weather department. have gordonight here right now. >> it's cool out there. >> it's cool. it is chillys out there t morning. temperatures in the 60s today? football weather. >> that's what i was saying but e thing is tomorro the 80s, back to that humidity. >> i'm going to get sick. this is howeople getsick. >> this is what's going to happen all this week because we have this chilly raintoday, not only do we have the rain, we've got winds, winds will be gusting up to il20,

thanks to who saw the story and olunteered, the project was big succes david culver has the update. > great down there. >> reporter: over tth course of past few saturdays a dedicated group of volunteersod turning that looked like this into this. a life scout from herndon isad g the effort. more than 150 volunteers joined in, spanning generations from 5 years old to over 80 years old. including students from more than ten different schools and three different scout districts. together, clearing 120 bags of the grass. >> it really is provid where a nice area for us to make it be what it needs to be. so the impact has been really great. >> all right. well, let's hope he gets his eagle award for that hard work. >>> who wins, the tortoise or the hare walking or running? well, it's not about a foot race, but really staying healthy. we'll break down the benefits and draw backs before yo morning urwo it's time for the 'biggest sale of the year' on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses tiur movement and automally adjusts to keep you both comfortable. and now, all beds are on sale. it's

. >> stafford county, david culver, news 4. >> pawtty ome. >> love that one. >> last night, that wastense. that was intense. >> it was crazy. >> it was a lot of back to school cookouts and people all over saying theirs got cancelled. wes moved o in and once the rain cleared krshs we got a break and moved it out. there's a lot of that going on. >> that's a hard game to play. it was about 5:00 storms rolled through. there was a break h andvier rain came through at 9:00. it was rough last night. three inches of rain collectivity across the area. i think we could tack on another innd or two before this wee is over. that's not including next week where we're watching tropical storm florence that is expected to intensify ase gover the next couple of days. and really i wensify as head through next week. live capital camera. right now there is fog in areas. be careful out and about. we have some races this morning that people a waking up to. he big one, susan g komen out there. i've got some good news for that. we'll talk about that in a minute. i don't think today is going to be a washout. yes,

david culver, news 4. >>> arlington police say there's o recent cases similar to this one adding that they do not believe there's a greater public threat. >>> now to the forecast. it's been cloudy for most of us. amele draper in storm center with a look at what is coming next for theeekend. hi. >> hey. fall officially starts tomorrow and this weekend feeling like sunday.pecially on your might want to grab the sweater heading out on sunday. i will have more on that at 6:25. currently, 78 degrees. we had sunshine bren oute district and helped to bump the temperatures up and for the most part, tracking the clouds right now. that is the case for the evening. most of us completely dry tonight. no worries of rain. 76 degrees by 9:00 p.m. 75 at 11:00. tomorrow mainly dry and rain is in the forecast on sunday and will have more on the timing coming up with future weather at 6:25. >> all right. thank you. >>> fire investigators say it's stillooo dangerous get inside the senior housing complex in southeast d.c. they still don't know what sparked the flames. the dramatic scene unfolded on live t

here is a previewf david culver's story you'll see on news 4 tonight.or >> rr: a fredericksburg couple bought this home for their growing family, not a realizinther family already lived here. inside the walls, a colony with hundreds of bats. >> high hundreds to thousands. yeah, a lot. >> our walls were alive with activi t, learning latt they were giving birth, as well. so the adult females were having babies in our walls. >> i mean, we could heawh them we were working. you could hear them climoffit, t was pretty crazy. >> rorter: they chronicled their journey to get the bats out of their home and later they have a warning for other homeowners. >> i can't even imagine wt at would be like. i don't like the bats. >> but they're cute. >> no, with ing angie. >> you can see david's full story tonight at 5:00. >>> so two daype later, and le are still talking about the controversial u.s. open. and you said people are going to be doing this for days. the champion herself elaborated on what she saw happening between serena williams and the chai umpire. williams was fined $17,000 on saturday duri

only on news 4, david culver explains what you need to look out for to avoid sharing your home with ainged colony. >> you can see it so well and it's so awful. it's so awful. >> oh, gosh. >> reporter: if you're like me, a rning, this story may make you cringe a bit. before we show you the video up close, let's introduce you to kristin. back in may she and her husband and their young son moved from pittsburgh to fredericksburg, closer to kristin's mom. they got a house, got settled, ready to welcome baby n two. >> i gave birth on june 4 and the bats arrived the week brought my baby home. >> reporter: kristin was not the >>ly one welcoming this new arrival. our walls were alive with activity, learning later they were ging births well so adult females were having babies. >> repor kristin began documenting the growing infestation, capturing baby bats dangling. >> that baby. >> the adults napping behind her blinds. >> i went into denial. we had no idea how m y wehad.te >>r: paul had an i >> high hundreds to thousands. >> reporte sorry? >> high hundreds to thousand a lot. >> reporter: paul