especially from dc on north. they're widely scattered. they won't amount to much more than a 10th of an inch places but we'll keep them around in the evening, do we go it again tomorrow? i'll be answering that question just ahead on fox 5 local news at 6:00, come on back. ♪ ♪. >>> here in dc, the justice department civil rights investigative unit is centered on events they say strike at the heart of america. tonight as the attorney general promises justice will be done, pcivil rights groups are urging him to widen the probe. fox 5 tom fitzgerald is at the justice department, tom, just how broad is this investigation at this point? >> reporter: we're getting an outline about how big this will be. consider this, you have the justice department civil rights division. you have the fbi and you also have the us attorney's office for the western district of virginia. now, the attorney general himself, jeff sessions went on every single morning newscast this morning and what he said in his opinion, the victim, the injured in sessions's opinion ha

there's a lightning strike right around the dc area.heads up if you're on georgia avenue, 16th street. if you're over towards wisconsin or back over towards the articling tond and claire den area, coming down right here. good idea, maybe stay in doors and think about getting home and need to take the dog out for a walk. you might want to give yourself a little bit of time before this passes. it's not moving all that fast. it's really not moving all that fast. we'll continue to see that throughout the next houror now, tomorrow, i think a better chance of some showers and storms, same area, though. i-95. baltimore right on down dc, watch what happens during the afternoon. virginia starts to get in on the action. we have a better chance of storms during the day tomorrow, going for about 30% chance of the storms. look at the city camera, to the east, not much, but to the west a lot more of that rain coming through, tomorrow, 91 degrees, warm a little bit more humid a few storms, and that humidity is only going to be creeping up as we move o

but it has to come from annapolis, richmond and dc. dc is on board. but we're running out of time.n would have to be prepared, filed so when the can come up with potentially a one cent increase to a regional sales tax. it's not looking good >> even though one cent it's going to add up. martin decar ro contribute tore >> i miss you at the metro board meetings >> i don't think they miss me. you might be the only one. >> up next, you're going to love this, heart warming story, reunion for a father and daughter >> you're watching fox 5 on the hill. stay with us. . >>> leaving you with a story about a young girl from chicago a big surprise from her military father >> christy and her mom april went to the zoo chosen as volunteers but christy didn't know what was coming next. >> please put your hands together for christy's father captain joshua. >> i love that. >> military family reunions, i can't get enough of these and when they do them like this, it's heart warming to see those families get back together. that's great. >> it will be an interesting week in washington >> fox news with ch

in northwest dc, shamrai stone, nbc4. >>> deadly drug overdoses in mad. the state health department released new numbers from january to march of this year, maryland had 550 overdose related deaths. that's just in three months. that's a 37% increase compared to the same time period last year. fentanyl is linked to 372 of those deaths. the powerful painkiller is 50 times more potent than heroin and when the two are mixed, often a deadly combination. >>> to see how severe the epidemic is, look at stafford hospital in virginia. it's been forced to change procedures for handling got sick. a stafford county deputy saw a couple passed out. the woman still had a needle in her arm. the deputy took her to get medical help and he ended up needing a dose of narcan, the overdose antidote because he suffered from exposure to the drugs. during that process, a nurse got sick too. >> for a number of hours, we had rooms we had to close down because we didn't know what the room contamination was. >> the deputies give the emergency room a heads up if the heroin or fentanyl

. >>> a dc firefighter beat up responding to a 911 call. but witnesses say he showed up to the scene drunk. >>> a woman attacked on a trail in virginia. the search continues for the no. >>> tonight, we begin with the violent protests in charlottesville. i'm sarah simmons >> and i'm tony perkins, calm returned after the city became a battle ground after white supremacists and protesters over the weekend. >> when the path was open it floored on the gas directly in the panel of the protesters. >> calling me the n word, and telling me i don't belong here. i was getting beat by stakes by sign, people were kicking me. i wasn't out here trying to cause hate. i was violation my should not be something hard for anyone to say, this was an act of domestic terrorism period. >> we're saddened by this, we lost a young woman. a person who lived and worked here. she didn't ask for this to happen. she was demonstrating for what she believed in. she wasn't hurting anybody. >> i loved her and i miss her so, so much. but i'm going to make her death worth somet

today, dc mayor mayor bowser officially welcomed teachers back for the new school year, 13 dc schoolsed class while the remaining schools in the district will start class next monday. of mayor bowser also announced a pay raise for teachers in the district. >> this is what it includes. 4% increase in fy2017 retroactive. 3% increae fy 2018, 2% in 2019, over the course of the deal, 9% increase for teachers in the district of columbia, which we're very excited about. >> the mayor said they've been working on the agreement over last five years and the money will come directly from dc taxpayers. >>> the probe into what happened in charlottesville is taking shape right here in dc, we have a live report next. >> heather was my darling child taken from me. i miss her very much, especially this morning. i woke up and i thought my baby is gone. >> the the car crash in charlottesville that deliberate attack explains what she'll miss most about her daughter who died for what she believes in. >>> we hear from a former teacher of the man accused of crashing his car into a crowd in charlottesville. t

here in dc, about 68. i'll call that kind of a cool night. no doubt about it. and quick look at your futurecast we'll be back to sunshine tomorrow. as we look toward the mountain there's a little disturbance re enforcing the cooler air. what about the weekend and have you heard about harvey? a new depression headed for texas and it may be an epic we'll talk about that in your seven-day forecast just head. back to jim and sarah. >>> we're staying on top of a developing story involving a virginia priest who admitted he was indeed a former member of the ku klux klan >> he's asking for front of ness. but on a tonight a maryland couple is waiting for a personal apology from the priest >> krysten leon is live, and we heard from this couple today. >> reporter: jim and sarah, yes, we did, we're standing in front of their home where they say that back 40 years ago, in 1977, they found a burning cross right there on the 9100 block of drake place in front of their lawn, a memory they told me not only they will never forget, but now they have to relive again 40 years later

in and around the dc metro area.ce the back edge sliding east, very very slowly, but right now, louden county on the dry side. frederick county dry. exception of southern zone, still raining along the i-90 corridor going to be sort of a mess and southern maryland over the next couple of hours as this whole thing moves on us. so think about that if you're heading on down there, the nats being delayed. closer look here, this radar, this is storm ranger that is down along the coast right now, down around lewis, delaware, helping us -- helping to fill in our radar that's most areas are not able to see down towards delaware, down towards the maryland beaches. so we're able to see that with storm ranger today bringing in that high surf and winds gusts to 30, to 40 miles an hour. down to the south. this is harvey, you see what's happening around harvey, winds are now up to 50 miles an hour. it's bringing a lot of rain towards new orleans. i know this is the anniversary of katrina. here is some good news, they've seen about

the dc council suggested mr. obama and former first lady michelle register to vote here now they live in the district as private citizens. >>> a local church destroyed by a fire tries to rebuild, still ahead how the member's faith is being tested by setbacks months after the blaze. >> bank service that can cost you $5 a year.00 whatwhat made them believeace carthat a two-ton behemothhop? could compete in a track race? or that they could take on the elite in world motor racing, and win? we may never truly understand what drives mercedes-amg. mercedes-amg. half a century of driving performance. >>> for those of you who use a debit card, you sign up for over draft protection and potential embarrassment of having your purchase denied. a government study released today decides even if you opt in for over draft protection, some of you are still getting hit with high fees susan hogan is working for you and having what you need to know

a motorcyclist shot and killed by dc police. but merely 11 month later we will be the officer be indict in the and a story you saw first on fox5. the obstetric unit at united medical center forced to shut its doors. now, a mother is speaking out about her terrible treatment, and medication, that got her hi, when she was nine months pregnant. >>> and controversial ads on the metro. why the aclu is firing back with a lawsuit. the news at 6:00 starts right now. >> we begin tonight with breaking news, the dc police officer who shot and killed an unarmed motorist will not face criminal charges, thanks for joining us tonight, i'm sean yan. >> i i'm tony perkins, grand jury declined to indict the office here shot terrence sterling last september in northwest >> injured in a accident. >> vehicle strike the cyclist. >> yes, yes, yes. >> heard someone revving their engine four, five times. and then, you know, almost right thereafter i heard the gunshots. >> to hear the story that they put out was totally a shock to me. because it is not t

around the dc metro area. i'm expecting rain, likely now tomorrow. heaviest at times east of i-95 over towards the chesapeake bay. wind could gusts up towards -- temperatures may not reach the 70 degree mark. i've got that coming up for you in about ten minutes. >> we want to hear the majority of people who answered our survey, are saying, no, he's not. >> in the meantime, first lady melania trump will join when they visit texas. >> this is the first major natural disaster to hit. blayne alexander joins us with specifics on what the president is doing to help. blayne. >> doreen, earlier today, you heard president trump make a very strong pledge. he said that any resource that is at his disposal will be made available for his relief efforts. he said that he doesn't want tomorrow's visit to be a distraction, or take away from those relief efforts. that's why the president and the first lady are flying into corpus christi, rather than houston because that area is still bracing for more rain and more flooding. >> today, for the first time since hurricane

we're in dc, but it doesn't feel like you're in the city. we have these beautiful water front views. the haasen da river. >> this is the last areas people haven't seen and this is your tasting bar. >> we're happy to have a tasting bar and a district winery. people can come in and get different wines and maybe try something they've never tried before. >> i want to take a taste that's okay. >> please, absolutely. >> are you perform nothing the dc winery, michael -- wusa9. >> i bet he's like boy, this is a tough assignment. i'm not sure how i'm going to make this work. >> you can take a flight after a flight of wine. >> the staff says that wine has become more popular with millennials over the last few years. >> that view was fantastic. >> gorgeous. >> wow! >> another thing popping up in the city's southwest water front. >> you want to check that out. >> what are we going to be checking out? >> normally it feels insignificant because of what's going on in houston. we're going to -- we have a little streak. low pressure on us, okay. >> pressure

stole the hearts of dc? we'll have the update still ahead. >>> if you have a story idea, call the fox 5 tip line, that nu or you can e-mail your tips to fox5tips@wttg.com. we'll be right back. . >>> a viewing will begin at 9:00 a.m. followed by a public funeral service at 11:00 a.m. nadira and her two young cousins were found dead last friday. investigators say her brother, 25-year-old antonio williams confessed to their killing. he's being held without bond murder charges. >>> meantime a search underway for a man who went canoeing this afternoon in burke virginia. skyfox flew over the scene as rescuers searched the water. three people were in the canoe when it tipped over. two of the people were rescued by workers in the area, but the third person, a missing. it's unclear right now how long rescuers will can't to search. >>> do you remember kaheem, a very special little boy, a 5-year-old from maryland, he was battling leukemia >> with the help of a make a wish midatlantic foundation, turned into a super her

dc firefighters shut off the pumps as a precaution. a passenger in the car was found dead inside and police found the driver a short distance away. investigators are trying to determine what caused all of this. >>> police dash cam video capturing a group of by standards as they rescue a man who is stuck under a vehicle. the man was trapped after a drive-by shooting in atlanta that left two others shot. the victim stopped under the car but the driver of the car got out of the car before putting it in park. the car rolled over the man trapping him there until those by standards came over and lifted it. he is hospitalized in critical condition. the shooting victims are both hospitalized in stable condition. >>> let's turn to the weather. it was a near-perfect day. i think it was perfect do we have a repeat tomorrow? >> tomorrow will be different because the wind will be lighter. we will have the great sunshine but we will finish with more clouds. another very good day but not quite the same. with the front yesterday we had big storms last

of he was hospitalized earlier for an undisclosed illness and died here in dc. began his career as a comedian while serving in the military in the 1950's. >> st. louis native performed stand-up for decades, his talent was not the only thing that gregory was known for, he was active during the civil rights and out spoken on many issues, including women's rights. he often took controversial stands and was often seen here in dc participating in county less protests, gregory was 84 years old >> i would see him at the district headquarters all the time, lots of protests throughout the city. he was a common fixture here in dc, and recent years and there's so much on social media, i want to read a couple of things. we all know donnie simpson, i'm so sad to report dick gregory died, details are scars now >> yvette alexander. i'm sad ended to hear he has passed away, thank you for being speaker >> and reverend jesse jackson, taught us how to laugh, fight and live. he was committed to justice >> he was great american, so many people >> so many people across the country, e

there is a lavish lifestyle in dc. i understand i do think it's a little stupid for the a littl republicans that are like barack obama wants to take your guns but he has a bunch of guns protecting him. he's the dates. shut up. i understand armored plated suvs and how the leadership get these kind of things. i get that and support that. >> why? >> there are leadership people i wouldn't have expected -- >> as we get to darker parts of not just washington but my own life, there are definite and to go to the lavish lifestyle, i mean, while part of the subtitle of the book is finger food and what makes it so utterly ridiculous about the way washington, d.c. operates is this. money t the parties put money towards them but one of the stories incz the book is being invited to one of my first purchase from florida to dc. in the united states districts these days support hard-core left or right so i went my primary that's it, i'm done. that also is a conundrum and a problem our country has with things like putting george bush in

it happened a couple of nights ago in northwest dc. once a few of them realized what he had done, they left to get drinks together at a bar across the street. and now guess what, they're all friends. the entire thing got documented on twitter and you know what happened next, >> it always does. >> tonight, one of the women will be here going off street with bruce johnson. i will be watching that and you can see the interview at 7:00 on wusa9. >> can't wait to see that. >> don't do that, guys. >> learn from his lesson. staying in dc, there's a strange site near the white house. >> we're talking about a giant inflatable chicken. you can see it's in the middle of that circle on your screen. it's called chicken don and meant to protest the president. there's a close up. look at the hair on it. the chicken debuts back in april for tax day marchs and those were marches that trump releases his tax return. trump is -- >>> this puzzles me. let's not go here. a restaurant opening up in new york for chitt -- it has a shi toe can't make this up. ce

now, these flyers are also being investigated by dc police. of course, if you happen to see or hear anything suspicious in your area, you're asked to call 911. for now, live in takoma, krysten leon, fox 5 local news >>> we have breaking news we need to tell you about, this is skyfox live over the scene right now, a search is on for a man who went canoeing this afternoon in burke virginia. rescuers are searching the water at this point. you can see other folks on you there as well. police are telling us three people were in the canoe when it tipped over. two of the people in that canoe were rescued by workers in the area, a third man is still missing. unclear right now how long this search will continue. but we will keep you updated as again we have a missing canoeist in burke virginia. >>> fox 5 prince george's county funeral plans for a 6-year-old girl murdered in her home. nadira will be remembered on wednesday, a viewing at 9:00, public funeral service at 11:00. nadira and her two young cousinses were found dead last friday in their bed. 25

. >> i may call it the -- >>> the department of health stopped a dc hospital from delivering babies. they shut down its nurseries. wusa9 janice park told us the shut down is going to last for 90 days at a hospital known for serving the district's poorest residents. >> give me a kiss. >> whether it's a young mother. >> my finger snapped over here. >> to those who frequent the hospital, the concern is mounting when it comes to southeast dc's united medical center. ghetto like described. when i say ghetto, it's unprofessional. >> it's, like, it's a terrible experience especially for new parents. they don't know what's going on. >> many mothers will be out of luck until november because the hospital isn't allowed to deliver babies or continue its nursery until then. the hospital and health department isn't saying much about why. the hospital is only saying it's trying to fix problems. when it comes to screening, treating patients and how they deliver. >> it's probably some mishaps that happened in the facility, like, bad things probably happened during the baby deliveries and stuff so i

dc under the gun. we're getting hit here in northwest. we've seen a lot of lightning and thunder still has a lot of rain associated with that. just follow this line right over towards northern portions of prince georges county. i'll show you where the heaviest storm is, right now with lightning right over college park, around college park, this is moving towards green belt. very heavy rain. right along the beltway, of course, along 50. here is chevrolet, road and out 50. you're going to continue to see that heavy rain fall. we're had that rain down to the south, look at huesville, mechanicsville, severe thunderstorm warning still in effect until 6:45. this is a very big storm. we've been watching this one move all the way across from west to east and going to make its way toward cal bert county. and then -- another line, this line now forming and i expect to see more storms develop around fredericksburg, more around the area and wider view showing that we're still have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect in the pink that i do expect mos

dc police released these up close images of the suspect. if you think you know who he is, investigators want to hear from you. >>> where were you six years ago today? that's when an earthquake shook the dc area damaging the washin monuments, the national cathedral and other buildings. the washington monument was closed and covered with scaffolding for some time as crews made repairs. the work is being done on the cathedral. today, crews placed several carving, not usually an easy sight for all of us in the center of the church. those works of art filled the faces of old testament profits. they're being moved to repair work can begin that was bad -- the interior repair work was completed in 2015, but it needs (2) 000-0000 work of work for an earthquake that was -- $20 million of work for an earthquake that was drawn out. >> it was -- for us, that's crazy and i think 5.8 on a richter scale. >> 22 million in a minute. >> it's not done. first i ran into a door jam you're supposed to do, but i realized my niece was downstairs so i checked on her

breast meat was donated to the dc kitchen last week. that organization prepares daily meals for homeless shelters, after school programs and other nonprofit. the geese were caught and euthanized as apart of a park size effort to restore the health of the annie dos tee y'all. >>> our special assignment unit talked to a vietnam veteran who -- john dixon served our country in 1969. he left vietnam but the war never left him. he says he has been worried about his battle buddy, porto. dixon is the right. porto was 22. dixon was 21. andrea made it her mission to fd out what happened to porto and she pulled off an advise later today. >> he understands your pain more so than anyone else in the world because he was standing next to you. >> knowing how he's doing would give you closure. >> really, it would be great to, like, go wow, you know, we did it and we did it together, you know. >> john. >> pardon me. >> i found porto. >> i'm here with your battle buddy. great. i'm here with your bud battle attle -- your battle buddy. >> she showed me the

going to take a step out of the way so you can see what's going on behind us, a pretty big area that dc police have roped off here. this is interior fort davis recreation center and there are tennis courts and basketball court. we've been told by the police that there was a cook-out in this area, neighbors have said that as well. and right now, police looking for some kind of suspect at this point. we're going to toss it back to you at this time. we'll give you an update little bit >>> now to a developing story we've been following, a p25-yea maryland is behind bars tonight. charged in the murder of a his 6-year-old sister and two young cousins. investigators say antonio williams has confessed to the killings. the body of the three children were found yesterday morning at a home on brook jane drive, police say the victims were stabbed to death. >> at this point, we do not have a motive. we don't know exactly why he stabbed these three young beautiful girls. >> police say williams was home alone overnight caring for the girls wise his mother worked an overnight shift as a nurse, williams

again, dc mayor, bowser is going to be here at 7:00. we expect to get more answers then. >>> we have in depth reporting on this case. an effort led by -- we want to bring you the conversation she had of the parents of sterling. a raw emotional interview. the first since his death of september of last year. >> we spoke at the doorway and you said my priority is my wife and my daughter. >> right. >> [indiscernible] and being able to stay sane. because of what happened and the strain and the stress we were under as a family. we needed time. >> has some of that lift? >> some of that has lifted. not all of it. probably never be the same again and for the rest of our because apart of us is missing. [ crying ] >> i said i wasn't going to do this. but my son was a viable part of this family. he stayed in this house with us. i saw him everyday, morning and evening. we want to be able to move forward and move on, but we can't because we're stuck here wanting to know. what actually happened with him and what are the authorizes doing because we're

martin, live now in northwest dc with more on this story. martin. >> hello. what do the people f for the ethical treatment of animals and my low have in common? they're suing metro with helping the american civil liberties union. this lawsuit filed today also naming as one of the plaintiffs women's health collective, carafemme had an abortion ad rejected as well as the lcu, had ads about the first amendment rejected by metro. all of this goes back to 2015 decision metro made to banish ooh ads, we'll get to that in a first we hear from the aclu legal director why they filed this lawsuit today. >> they thought they were controversial. or they might make people think about issues. and we think that's a wrong reason for rejecting advertisements by a government agency, which is covered by the first amount: first amendment protect freedom of speech. and metro is sensoring the speech of these organizations by refusing to post their advertisements. >> metro usually does not comment on litigation. but did issue a statement today saying in short it intends to vigorousl

rockville, william of dc and andrew fendi of the district.hat last name sounds was mayor of dc. >> these years andrews making a name for himself on courts around the country and adding the juniors and -- and since the age of 7, andrew and his twin brother matthew have trained here at the junior tennis champion center. >> whoa, killing it. >> he may be soft spoken, but he's confident and determined. >> i think i've become a better person. i know when i came here, i was -- that was my first like two years i was kind of crazy. we're see them grow up as a person. they're all gentleman. they're well rounded young guys. >> at 17 years old and 6'4" today he can clock serves at 128 miles an hour. when he was just starting out, his father was only in politics but triathlons. >> we'll run miles he wants to know the mile time. >> he's -- what's his support meant to you, he's been there everywhere for you. >> it meant a lot, you know, that i can -- i was talking about tenants. he always tells me to work hard, give me the best. it doesn't matter about the

and really not dc metro area at all tonight.look at the rain fall, friday and saturday, that means the tracking scattered showers and thunderstorms. sunday looking dry. the shower later in the day. tomorrow, a high temperature of 80 and scattered showers and thunderstorms mainly during the afternoon, especially the late afternoon and evening hours, the morning midday and afternoon hours for most of us completely dry. about 50 to 60% chance that you're dealing with some rain later in the day tomorrow. exercise in the morning, going to be just fine. but later in the day might be dealing with rain. download the nbc washington app, check out the radar, if you're taking the kids to the pool, if you're taking them during the afternoon. have the backup plan, because of the thunderstorm and then definitely want. >> showers most likely during the evening hours, as we look to the next ten days. high temperature around 85 degrees put some showers around, saturday day is not a wash out. we could have a rainy period, heads up for that, cloud

she's the head of dc's communication center. she said this is an issue that doesn't just effect dc.aid the problem is with the towers that direct calls to 911 centers and if you're in a border area like along the dc line. it can happen. >> we do have a voice in it which is great. we're partners with. we have a relationship with them. they're all very open to getting this rectified. >> she says the fcc is also pushing to have the problem corrected, but it's been a slow process. while those who were at the there was a delay in the response, holmes says medics arrived within seven minutes. that answer does not sit well with robinson who is concerned that life could be lost when a call goes to the wrong place. >> i am worried about children, children who learn to dial 911 and god for bid they're in an emergency and they dial 911 and there's confusion about who can help them. what do you do if you're in the district, you have to place a 911 call and it goes to montgomery county. i just talked to montgomery county police, they say this happens a lot. they have a button that they can press

. >>> and documenting dc's hidden history. the news at 11:00 starts now. >>> we begin with breaking news in the district. the spike in violent we've been reporting on series of shootings around the district last week. tonight we can add four more to the list all in one place in northeast. marcell -- markette sheppard -- marcella robertson with more. what do you know? >> reporter: police describe a scary situation at 18th and monroe in northeast. i want you to focus back where those cars are in the bay. basically where the auto shop, where the people who work on those cars. a group of men were standing back there when another group of men pulled up about 7:40 broad daylight. three armed men got out of a car and started firing into that group. we know four people total were shot as you mentioned. one person did die from that shooting. three other people shot were breathing. they are expected to be okay. neighbors are pretty shaken up that it happened right here. they say for the past few years this area hasn't been that bad, hea

dc police say they're investigating the assault. live tonight in northwest, marina marraco fox 5 local news. >>> still to come. taylor swift reacts to the jury's verdict in her groping allegation lawsuit. . >>> we're one week away from the historic solar eclipse. what amazon is saying about certain eclipse glasses that are out there. plus who's going to tell us about the last time she covered one on the cruise ship in the caribbean. sounds like a good way to do it. >>> coming up on the final five, another ceo stepping down from the president's manufacturing council, kevin plank is one of several to back out. of how will president trump respond? catch the final five tonight at 11:30. t 11:30. for years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is different. ♪ ♪ ♪ we deliver super-fast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than fios. we do bus

we will stream the service on fox 5 dc facebook page. the suspect 20-year-old james james faces multiple charges including second degree murder, currently being held without bond. >>> 05 had 5504 05. >>> you'll notice fog is worse in low lying or rural area, all of our camera shots are picking up on it. be careful as you head out use low beams it's still dark as we approach sunrise, that fog will start to burn off but it's really tough to see in many spots right now, thanks to all the rain yesterday, we still got a lot of moisture in place, it is warm, humid, 73 at reagan national, 67 at dulles, 70 at bwi, in fact, it was oppressively humid all day yesterday. still feels that way outside, and that fog just kind of envelopes you when you walk outdoors. satellite and radar not showing rain, and you can't really pick up on the fog but it is thick. high temperatures later, very warm, we'll break out into sunshine by mid morning, plenty of sunshine later, no thunderstorms but the humidity is still in place, it is very warm with high temperatu

this is northwest dc. this is right near the intersection of nebraska avenues. >> a similar scene in friendship heights, the heaviest rain, though, has moved out of our region. we're still tracking some showers on the storm team 4 weather radar. let's check in with doug and find out what's happening next. >> well, guys, i'll tell you, it was tough this morning. you know, many areas saw one to two inches of rain in parts of northwest dc and that did produce flash flooding. we didn't need that much rain to get that flash flooding as we've seen so much rain in the time period. the rain has moved out. we did see heavier rain early this morning. that rain moving to the south and east. it's tracking a couple of showers, that's really about it, now the biggest area moving out over the bay over towards the eastern shore, couple. we'll watch out for those. now, a couple of light showers south of the district through the evening hours, the rest drying out, humidity is not only sticking around, i think it will be on

and, the case of the rider throwing urine on to a dc metro bus driver. police made an arrest, but that's not enough for some of those. >> for those stories and dc's most accurate forecast, that's just two minutes away. you're >>> some breaking news on the aftermath of hurricane harvey into our newsroom. and it is sobering. the death toll has climbed now to 31. this is according to officials in houston and flood waters have knocked over two oil storage tanks in south texas spilling nearly 30,000 gallons of crude oil, adding to that toxic stew of water all around. >> let's four legged survivors. the spca is taking care of pets separated from owners and getting help for more owners, evacuating houston with their owners. this is happening in dallas, we find mike on assignment helping our texas sister stations with their storm coverage. >> reporter: dave only asks for love, and they found it here in dallas. >> here we have some of our pets. >> reporter: this is inside the spca where 65 dogs are being sheltered right now. >> we are here to provide them with gr

what we're seeing here is going to end upcoming to dc.it all moves to the east, upper level storm system gets a little closer to us, it could still kick up a little bit of a fuss as it moves on through. our modeling is showing at least a chance of a shower, maybe a thunderstorm around here by 9:00. that's what future cast is showing us. you see a couple of little things going on. we have the pink is the thunderstorm watch all up into pennsylvania here. it looks like it's been extended a little bit to the east now. all the yellow active thunderstorm warnings in place out ahead of that line of showers and thunderstorms. temperatures right now 89 in the city, a lot of 80s out so still some fuel for these thunderstorms as they come on through. this is futurecast. the forecast of what could potentially happen with these showers and thunderstorms. moving along, maybe by 8:00 or 9:00 we could have a couple little showers or thunderstorm possible firing up along i-95 and maybe as far south as the city. it's not guaranteed. there's just a slight c

dc police tell us they are aware of the photo. it was posted on a member's personal account and there's now an internal investigation. today members of black lives matter and the officers who have been seen displaying the logos to be fired. >> they had the white supremacy symbol in it, obviously, this is meant as a form of intimidation for the community. it's meant to establish a reputation amongst this unit. >> this comes just days after a controversy involving another dc police officer who was seen at dc superior court wearing a t-shirt that the civil rights group considers to be racist. that officer was set to testify in court that day. the judge ended up dismissing that case. after the shirt was brought to his attention, that officer is now on desk duty pending an investigation. >>> montgomery county has settled with a family of a man who died after police used stun guns on him. the baltimore sun report, the settlement was made to the family of anthony howard without any admission of liability. 2013 after they say he was actin

thunderstorms approaching dc metro, of course whatever else you have planned for your friday night, check out radar, we've got one severe thunderstorm off toward the west. there is broken line of showers, storms, along the 81 corridor moving east of the mountains and they should be approaching the metro within the next couple of hours. but, here is a severe thunderstorm warning, the yellow box, showing you where it is, for portions of -- extreme sean endo a warren counties, a lot of rain, see plenty of lightning. so damaging winds possible with some trees and large branches to come down, also, large hail is possible within this storm too. we are concerned about the potential with the very heavy rain, had a lot of rain lately, could see localized flashflooding with the storm. if you are headed west on 66 this evening, you will be encountering this thunderstorm. looks like it will east across 66, impacting places like the planes within the next ten minute or so, around 5:20, should arrive in gainesville, fairfax count if i it holds together as such. so this is just one severe thunderstorm.

and this model, actually keeps dc completely dry. now can't rule out showers and thunderstorms tonight around dc, around that 10, 11, 12:00 hour over night. it is something we'll continue to watch. tomorrow this clears out quickly, you see sunshine tomorrow and, really, a beautiful weekend. look at your forecast for the saturday. 84 degrees, gorgeous, low humidity, sunshine looks great. a little bit on the breezy side. let me get out of the way for you. let's talk about the whole weekend. you've got weekend plans, nice and comfortable but just beautiful. 84 saturday. 85 on sunday. fantastic weekend, whether it's getting out hiking and doing little biking, looking good there, put away the bikes on monday. the rape comiin coming in. we're only in the low to mid-80s next week, little bit below averag average. >> looks great, thank you, doug. >>> excitement and anxiety tolling ahead. it's got small towns worried about big towns. >> new vertical in place forced to close down part of its emergency room after police officer came in to be tr

the rookie was hit by a fire truck last week on the job at a fire in northeast dc.ntly graduated from the training academy. even though he's new to the job, doesn't make him any less important to his fire fighting family. >> certain ones become it's a part of your family, no matter how long he's been on the job. >> when i go to work, there's a chance that something may happen to you and may not go come to my family. >> there's biological family and his work family say they are overwhelmed by the community's love and prayers. yesterday firefighters held a fund-raiser to help pay for smothers increasing medical expenses. >> one year later there are still reminders of this deadly apartment building explosion in silver spring. i went back out there last week and saw this fence that locks off an empty lot now. that's where buildings once stood at the flower branch apartments. for the people who survived, the memories are tattooed in their brain, even the sound of door slamming brings them back. news 4 erica gonzalez talks to one of the survivors there and explains how a

dc loves politics. >> the two go hands in handy guess, in a way.o you guys are offering up now, of course, a politically themed hamburger. you have how many on the men knew. >> bunch of them. so this golden showers burger, which happened before the inaugural. we'll let that one -- >> okay. >> showers burger. >> that's not political. >> it came it, went. worlds wide news. then we topped it cory sue will tell you. >> yes. >> just few weeks ago. >> so, mark makes the burgers at community restaurant in bethesda, and the latest one is the donald trump junior burger. >> okay. >> and so it is covered in russian dressing. >> okay. >> a lot of russian dressing. >> yes. >> and then it has eight pickles. >> why eight pick else? >> because everyone in the room. it is topped with a little pickle for good measure. >> okay. >> then has a bunch of napkins for cleaning up after you through your dad under the bus. >> wow. well thought out. >> and, last but not least. >> go for it. >> a shot of vodka. >> of course, of course. do you think sometime,he you worried abou

concerns, if it gets rained out there you are so it has moved to the convention center in washington dc so you don't have to worry about rain. it is bigger. there are all kinds of venues. it still has that mall feel. you walk around and there are all types of things, you can buy the books and have your books autographed by the authors and that is a thrill. >> host: when does planning for the start? >> guest: it starts as soon as one festival is over, literally within a week, we are assessing what happened, what worked, what didn't work, what we are going to do and improve and start working on it right away. >> host: you have direct involvement? do you get updated? >> i have to tell you, i have more involvement probably than you might think, because this is the essence of what we are about at the library of congress and so being involved, making sure we have a balance, types of authors and programming, i get my hand in there. >> host: booktv will be live at the main stage and the history and biography 10 doing call ins. >> that is what is so wonderful, to have a call ins people can parti

there's a rich history inside the halls of this dc school. a dramatic renovation change the face of duke ellington school of the arts, tom sherwood takes us inside and of the famous alumni. >> the chair, you know you're at dc's duke ellington school for the hearts. but inside, this modern -- of the arts. but inside, this shocked denise graves who graduated from the old school in 1981. and, two, orchestra rehearsal halls wired to play and record with any musician around the world would surprise famous comedian dave chappelle. this make over, it has steps at making the keys opens next week for nearly 600 students. they've shuffled temporary space for several years during construction. ap government teacher nicholas says the new school makes a strong statement. >> it shows that we're belong here. we're belong in the world class facility and it's just so wonderful that, hopefully, walking in this inspire them to become better artists, scholars, humanitarians. >> from music to arts to drama, the school finally matches the intensity of the training

not a lot, look at the numbers, current temperature 78 dc. many of you in the low to mid-70s, cool afternoon, now still feels mild for this time of year. tracking shower activity. back into portions of clark county, and into towards louden county, the heaviest showers in morgan county in towards parts of west virginia and some shower activity in and around the beltway we'll continue to see the showers moving on through here, producing sprinkles at that's really about it. not expecting a bhoel lot as far as that is concerned. if you take a look, what we'll be dealing with the next couple of days, the '90s, we haven't seen a whole lot. we're talking about this earlier. it's been a cool august when you consider how hot it was in the month of july. >> exactly, doug. this is our tenth day in a row where we've been below 90 degrees. not just that, we haven't warmed out of the mid-80s official high today right around 80 degrees. we're going to be on the cool side for the remainder of the work week. on average, last 90-degree day is around september

this is well west of dc. i'm going to back it up so we can give you an idea if you're just tuning in. a tornado warning was issued until 7 p.m. for prince william county. dc is here, so this is way west of dc, but everything is moving east at about 20 miles an hour. if you're headed out tonight, watch out for showers and storms. but obviously the immediate concern is going to be this doppler indicated tornado until 6:30. we've got the rotation. we can see the wind on the doppler radar. before doppler, precipitation. i'm looking at the winds and they're going easterly toward the radar site here. the red, that's going away, so you've got this spin west of hay mark and this is why the weather service issued the tornado warning until 6:30. these areas west of hay market and east of 66, you have to watch those. we don't think there's a tornado on the ground, but let's treat it like it is. get in your basement if you have one or get into an interior room, a bathroom on the lowest level. don't go to the window to se

you can see what's happened here, this storm came through dc.en kind of has been weakening around the montgomery county area and striking a little bit in parts, let's take a little bit of a tour here. we've had heavy rain and flooding in that area, some trees down in parts of northwest around the kensington, seeing some of that heavy rain fall. i'll zoom in a little bit more, you can see what i'm talking about along the parkway, north chevy chase, seeing the rain, to the east, in through parts heavy rain. this is moving to the north, so heads up around green belt. if you're not seeing it yet, you'll see it soon, farther to the south and right along route 50 out to buoy. heavy rain that continues in that area, also seeing some lightning. as i mentioned some flooding and flood warning now in effect through parts of the district as well as parts of prince georges county and southeastern montgomery county as we see upwards of an inch and could see another inch or so. never drive through flooded roadways. again, we can't express that enough. now, nex

so we will see a very good show in the dc area.exciting time between 2:20 and 3:00, we have 82% at around 2:42 in the afternoon on monday. what's the weather going to be like, mostly sunny, this hot and humid. it will be hot and humid for all the activities. a lot of activities in the air and space museum. amelia draper will be live tomorrow afternoon during the show. she's going to tell you where you can get your own sunglasses, there's still a ton of places that will be giving them out the day of the event again. she'll be on with us. out there right now, hey, we have some sunshine. we haven't seen much of it today. 80 degrees i expect to go up over the next hour or so with that sunshine in here. finally seeing some sun after all the clouds and rain but south and east, tracking a shower or thunderstorm just to the east of the suck lant area, down towards mckennonsville. just some showers moving in. we'll call it a little heat wave on saturday. saturday chance of storms most of those s there's that 91 on monday for the eclipse. >>

dc fire and ems say two cars collided and slammed no a his gas station.he impact damaged the station and forced it to close as a precaution >> we have one victim at the hospital and one victim is deceased on the scene. neither victim has been the public anybody that was in and around this area 3:00. if they saw anything, a vehicle traveling, obviously, a dark colored acura. please give us a call. >>> investigators say speed may have been a factor. >>> prince george's county a homicide investigation is underway after man was found dead on the sidewalk. the victim was spotted in the 3400 block of rhode island avenue. police say he had trauma to his face and chest and that the victim looks to be in his 20's. we don't know his name. investigators still trying to figure out who killed him and why. >> to arlington now, a fire earlier today has left some people looking for other places to slope tonight. it happened at an apartment building on columbia fight. arlington firefighters were able to put the fire out in about 20 minutes, the building was evacuated. som

it will be a big change from db2 dc -- db to dc. there is evidence that debt levels are rising among older households. maybe we're overstating things somewhat. finally, we examined the retirement transition for an abrupt changes run social security claiming that cannot use ou analysis to ask the question what happens 20 years after retirement? say thank youe to and re is our contact and pass it on. andrew biggs: thank you very much for our first discsant will be kevin moore othe federal reserve board. : thank you. a very interting session. there we go. started, i will say the analysis are mine and not those of the federal reserve or the staff or ybody else of the deral resee bank. i will give some bef comments on today's papers. off the to there are interestg things as a practitioner in somebody who in my day job runs of the survey for finances ande are terested i there is a proem with collecting data from people and especially josh and ad's paper ere could be problems with people reporting income. and is somebody who uses the tax d

news 4 tom sherwood spoke to dc mayor about what's next for tourism here and what that means for dc residents. >> hundreds of tour buses rumbling through washington, all sorts of tour guis sites. >> the best city in the world. >> that's right, mayor mural recently reprizing her high school job as a tour guide. >> there really -- we're have a big city feel. it's been great going down memory lane for me. >> so it was fun. and learned a lot of dc history. learned how to present the people about the city. kind of what i do now. >> at arena stage, mayor spoke to a packed annual conference on dc tourism. a full fall in 2018 ahead. from the annual spring cherry blossom festival with this million visitors to major league baseball all star week. >> we're excited that hamilton will come to washington next year. >> to a massive hit play at the kennedy center. destination dc executive elliott ferguson said, the array of attractions and entertainment also mean good jobs and tax revenues. >> $7.5 billion generated because of this industry, nearly 75,000 jobs and we're talking about jobs at all >> it opens

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here is our tower cam from northwest dc.here it is, right down towards -- look at that really a cool looking storm right here. we've seen some lightning out of here now. let's go to the resting camera and you see what's happening, very heavy rain fall, right now down along the dulles toll road. it's just north of the toll road now. th's and west of our camera is located and here is what's happening. it's up around the baltimore area, no warning for us this is the one storm i've been watching over the last half hour or so, it's developing a lot of lightning associated with this, right on down through fairfax county parkway, just to the west of fairfax. we've seen some developing closer to the city of fairfax, shan tilly, some very heavy rain there, too and that will continue as we move on here. this is great falls to the north and towards herndon, already in, you'll see this move towards as you move on in. a lot of lightning and also dulles toll road, maybe some of the latest there, around our region because of the storms, du