washinon, derek ward, news 4. >>> so, did you see the full moon out there tonight? kind of a little bonus. and letting us know that severe weather threat has moved on.e buttill have some rain in the forecast. >> lots of weather to talk about. tomorr's showers will com with a big temperature swing. how much we talking? >> well, jim, our high today end degrees. today feeling like summer, tomorrow, back to feelingke mor fall. 76 degrees right now. really going to see temperaturet tumble overni tonight. tomorrow morning, patchy fog is possible, but have the umbrella for t morning hours with some scattered showers and drizzle. temperatures in the low to mid 60s tomorrowwemorning. ave a flood warning in effect for parts of frederick and montgomery counties until just after midnight tonightrom the rain we had earlier. you can see that's all pushed avf to the east. i'm going to more on tomorrow's rain and updates to the weekend coming up in my full forecast. >>> an leunimagin tragedy for a fairfax county police officer. >> over 70 miles to get home to even find out if his k

derek ward has how dorothy shoes made their way home. >> reporter: probly the most identifiable pair of shoes around. >> they've beenanced in and loved. >> reporter: and they've been missing since ab smash and g robbery at the judy garland museumn 2005. while there are four surviving pairs, donla w says these were worked in by a then 16-year- jdy garland. >> we can see the cracks in the paint, and that because as we wear shoes and they're being danced in and flexed, that paint that was applied to the bottom is going to start to crack. >> reporter: the casein surrou the shoes began to crack. the fbi got involved. >> lots of interviews. several searches. only to later lead this summer to the recovery -- >> reporter: and they had to verify the shoes. they got the forensic treatment at the lab in the smithsonian. >> we're able to look at the competition of the beads and the prongs and the threads and reallyll the materials that make up this shoe. >> reporter: the smithsonian had a mismatched pair. the stolen pair were also mi atched. this put things right. the right right with the right

found news 4's derek ward explains how the smithsonian helped crack the ca t. >> reportehey're probably the most identical pair of shoes around. >> they've been danced in. they've been loved. >> reporter: they've been missing since that late-night smash and grab robbery at the judy garland museum in minnesota in 2005. smithsonian conservator dawn wallace says they were then worked inhe by 16-year-old judy garland. >> we can see the cracks in the paint. that's because as we wear shoes and they're being danced in and flexed, that paint that was applied to the bottom is going to start to crack. >> reporter: the case surrounding these shoes began to crack. a man approached the insurers of the shoes and said he kneweyhere were. the fbi got involved. >> lots of interviews, several searches. only to lead later this summer to the recovery. >> reporter: they had t verify esese were those ruby slippers. the s got the forensic treatment here in a lab at the smithsonian. >> we are able to look at the composition of the beads, of the prongs, of the threads and really aat of theials that make up the

t> reporter: derek ward, news 4. >>> good t they are back home, finally. >> at one point theyffered $1n to try to find those ruby slippers. >> we're t toldy'll be on display at the american history museum starting october 19th. t s weekend might be a good weekend. or live in washington and often we take it granted that there are so many great museums we can go insend see. great day to check it out. >> definitelf today, you can get downtown. a lot of races. it's greatacing weather out there. i'd love to run in this right now. fog, clouds, temperatures in the 60s and 70s. quite a change seen over the last couple of weeks with the heat in place. 60s and 70ss what you'reoing to get throughout the day today. your planner for today, we've got someatchy fog as we continue through the morning. some drzle. maybe a breeze from time to time. but again, the temperatures staying in the 60 and 70s. pretty much all the way through the day today. it's not going to be a plenty of the day is going to be dry, but we also have that chance for light passing showers. again, a l h ofvier rain to the north ri

>>so in utheast, derek ward, news 4. >>> d.c. police say they have arrested a man for pretending to be a cop. they stopped a carriday afternoon at 17th and f streets in northwest. the d.c. officer says the vehicle had labels on the back that says emergency 911 response, and he had an emergency light kit in the rear window. the suspect allegedly said he used theight to get his wife to the hospital because she has a machine condition. t -- medical condition. he was charged with cepersonating a police of >>> now to the u.s. senate race in virginia. news 4 hosting a live debate with democratic incumbent tim cain and cory stewart. the candidates will face off next wednesday. a debate will be moderated byew nbc political director chuck todd with questions from news 4'saron gilchrist and julie carrie. you can download the app and owatch a live stream that deba. >> all right. storm team 4 meteorologist camelia draper joining us. it seems like we blinkednd the daysothorter. i wake up in the morning. it's dark when it used to be sunny, and

let's get you to derek ward live in southeast washington. a lot o pfeiffegfr overnight. >> yes. we're at the intersection of 51th and f street southeast. one of the signs of gunfire, there's a dent in this truck made by the bullet. the shooting happened -- this is the scene at about 9:45 last night in the section of 51th and f southeast. when police got here they found two adult males shot. died.as no information on the lookout or motive or the identities of the victims yet. now, a short time later at about 11 p.m. another shooting, a quadruple shooting in the 1700 block of benning road northeast. what we you saunderstand is thee two adult males and two adult females shot. no lookout or motive or identities of any of the victims in any of theseshootings. a busy night for the n police he theast and southeast. this shooting happened in an area that's since come up a bi it seems to be the old east gate hou housing. you can see the new houses. some of the old problemsk creeping b in the section of the southeast. we are live.ic deward, news 4. >> thank you. >>> at 9:03 on this saturd

we have derek ward joining us from waldorf with more on this mission. tell us about it, derek. >> good morning. again, we're here at station 3 in waldorf. wi me is bill smith. he's the spokesperson for the fire department. you said 11 folks are heading down theredi we're s 12 volunteers from the waldorf fire station here and the benedict fire station. there's a class a pumper and three personnel. from this station we're sending down threerush trucks, a tanker equipped with 3,000 gallons of water and atility truck for the logistics part of the mission. >> how i important is when you get this kind of assistance from this far away? >> it's great. we are very happy to do so. we had a call from fema and fema asked for assistance from our volunteers in the county. we completed all the necessary paperwork. our county fire chief was i instrument getting that portion of the mission finished. the guys are nowp gearing and they're getting ready to head south. they'll be leaving at 10:00 this >> the folks in charlottes county needn't worry aboutdi nished service. >>

derek ward, news 4. >>> a shocking road rage incident. all of this caught on camera and this morgng we are lea more about the suspect involvedc you got tock out this video right here. shocking footage. d.c. polic arresting a 21-year-old woman yesterday. they say on thursday evening silver crashed with a greyhound bus. what you're looking at is what police say she took out this tire in and smashed the bus's side window and the windows there. they say she then g into a car and tried to leave. but the bus driver in blue there tried to stop her. that'shen authorities say that silver used her car to run him over. >> somebody can't getway with this, something like this. this magnitude? it was horrendous h everything happened. >> silver is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. >>> more than three years after a quadruple murder at a d.c. mansion the case is aut to go to trial. but new court filings are raising concerns about evidee found days ago. found days ago. those details c oh! wow, you got all this s? what do you like not let your k

news 4's derek ward sat down with the couple and they talk about the terrifying ordeal. >> reporter: 9:30 on a sunday night along the busy "u" street corridor. not the place you'd expect a play accountant assault to octir, but expecs can be off. >> we just all couldn't believe what was happening. le, just er: a gay co walking home, stepped into an ordeal.to accordinhe police report, they were crossing here at new hampshire in the crosswalk and there was a c to make a right turn, as they crossed. >> the car, you know, almost h us. it wasn't anything that crazy. >> reporter: but things got crazykl quic the police report says one of the victims hit that car with an open hand and yelled a to the driver. then another car with five or six people in it, came along. >> they were yelling homophobic slurs at us. we ignored them. just, you know, it happens. >> reporter: but the people in that car wouldn't be ignored. outeporter: five people got us.he car and just attacked >> reporter: he says there were four males and a female that violeny set upon them. and amid the fuselage of punches, things

no word how it happened, but derek ward is headed to the scene and expect to hear from him momentarily. stl tuned. weeep you updated. >> terrible scene there. >>> hundreds of law enforcement officials are searchie the area wh6-year-old boy with special needs went missing in north carolina. it's been four days now.mo five. today, his parents spoke to the media for the first time. >> maddox is my whole world. >> reporter: breaking silence tuesday with a desperate plea for her autistic son's return. >> i just want my baby's home please. >> a missing kid, we searched everywhere. >> reporter: four days since the 911 call was made from a park west of charlotte where 6-year-old maddox disappeared. an>> we don't another hour to pass before we find him and brinhim home. >> reporter: he's nonverbal so there's recordings of his parents's voices in attempt to get his attention ifos he's in the woods. hundreds of law enforcement personnel continue the searc leaving no stone unturned. >> we've srched and researched every day with new search personnel, every piece of the property. >> we'd search land

sort of smile every single time rsee the shoes come out of the box. orter: at the smithsonian, derek ward, news 4. >>> the shoes will beay on dis at the national museum of amican history starting october 19th. >>> when weome right back, a month fromow and you may start to notice people all around you with the flu. up next, a new drug that could help shorten the sufferied ca by the virus. >>> a rash of deaths last year puts a neighborh ad on edge the simple message from police that they say resulted in a dramatic drop in crime. > 'm tracking that heat and humidity. well over 100 again for that heat'vndex. got one more hot and humid day. then a major shift. your school supplies today... school. grade. done. hit the snooze button and get low prices on school supplies w l summer long. t 50% off school backpacks at office depot officemax. where are we taking him? i have no clue. we're just tv doctors. if this was a real emergency, i'd be freaking out. but thancigna, we can do more than just look heroic. we can help save lives by getting you to a real doctor for a check-up. nurse, this thing's

. >> that brings us to derek ward. he joins us from wall of dor of where the ems is sending a team.good morning. >> good morning. waldorf folks here at station 3 just off crane highway are starting a long tour of duty ahea of them in north carolina. this is what they're going to ce fa 13-foot storm surges. waste deep water. 750,000 people without power in north carolina alone. that's what these folks are o going down there to help with. they'll be sending 11 folks and equipment to take care of whatever they can to help out the local crews and other crews from oth areas that he headed down to north carolina. of course, the departments in this immediate area have amu al assistance agreement. itex tends farther than our local areas when l stormse this hit. we hope later to be able to talk to some of the folksn headed d and find out what they expect and what they learned from these sort of tours and what they will do once they get there. again, they'll be leaving here at about 10:00. they'll be driving down. it's going to be a long road ahead. there will be folks to tak care of waldorf.

smoke rising from the ash could berd seen all day yes and as news 4's derek ward explains, it's what the family started to smell inside theayome that m have saved their lives. >> reporter: a home and everything in it reduced to a smoldering pile of rubble. it happened in woodbine, maryland, in howard county ound 11:00 friday night. miraculously, no one was injured. t a resident o home smelled the odor of natural gas. after the report, everyone got out of thehouse. and it's a good thing. just asst the fir fire crews were showing up iplwhen the exosion happen ed. >> i heard a loud boom and m room shook. >> it was the same for neighbors blocks away from the >>blast. verything felt like a tree landed on p theirsonal house. >> reporter: the explosion has not been ruled as the cause of the explosion, still evacuating the house liquly. other neighbors plan to gather to see what they can do to help e family t escape what could ha been the worst nightf their lives. in howard county, derrick ward, news 4. >>> well, check out this parking job. >> yikes! >> wow. wentrong in alexandria. the suv t