. >> it is a postcard from doug kammerer. temperature-wise sitting at 73 degrees. 10 s out of the west at miles an hour. it really is quite nice. 72, leesburg, 72, baltimore, 72, huntington, a high of 76 earlier veday. a little above age. how about that after cooler than average days. all inll we will see nicer a weathernd warmer weather. nothing on the radar any time soon. cloudy weather courtesy of the same storm that brought us the rain on friday,ay satu sunday. they all came togetherto spinni rds the north and east. this is a tiny storm bringing us a chance for rain andloud cover and frontal boundary early tomorrow morning, a chance for isolated thunderstor. look at the temperatures. cool in the east, warm out to the west. that warm air,0s are poised to make their way to the weekend. not quite tomorrow. 77 early a.m. shower. a possible aernoon shower possible. 84 on friday. 85 on saturday. look at the warmth, 89 sunday. 30% chance of afternoon shower or thunderstorm. your typical summer-like storms and including warmer we

>doug kammerer will throw out the first pitch for the game against the mets this afternoon. then you'll want to tune in at 4:00. doug will reveal the official storm team 4 summer forecast. how stormy will it be, how hot might i get? doug has the answers on news4. coming up in the next half hour, chuck bell will join us live from nats park to kick off the day. >> lauren's doing double duty. right? >> yeah. >> working this rning. she'll be down for a weather day at nats park. >> i'm all overac the ple working 4 you. absolutely. yeah. chuck's down there now. i join him at 00. clay anderson comes in. team effort. it's a great day outhere already. it's mild. we've got clear skies aund here. we have rain showers just to the north. but i do believe it is goi to be a beautiful day today. the morning showers mainly stay north of d.c. just some light stuff. a lot of them will be or by daybreak. i'll tell you one thing, it is getting hot as wto head in the weekend. temperatures are going to go up as we head into the weekend. that's a good sign considering that we had very chilly condit

storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer with the chay.es on the hi, doug. what do you think?i think you can get there on the it's going to be cool. a slight chance of a shower but most of the day looks d and even though it's cooler, i'm still calling for a high temperature near 70 degrees. a lot of cloud cover. it will feooler but if i was telling you a month and a half ago it would be 70,k i thin it would be just fine. tracking a cold front. the showers associated with the cold front in through the area through parts of warren county arere a flood warning remains in effect down tow that region. the whole system, look at how unsettled we are back to the wlt. we get eqly as unsettled, right on through the weekend and which days are the worst and where you need thela umbrel back in about ten minutes. >> see youthen, doug. thank you. >>> a man with a gun is stopped ate trump international hotel in dc.to >> night, we're learning about the other stuff a man had with him. our cameras with you this afternoon as detectives swarmed the building with search dogs. new's jackie bensen is

. > chief meteorologist doug kammerer got a jump on the traffic. ke's joining us live from ocean city to kic off backyard weather at the beach. i can't think of a better ace, doug. >> definitely not. down here in ocean city, can't think of a better place on a better day. memorial day weekend and the weather simply fantastic across the region. you guys mentioned those tor hdoes. we the ef-1 in columbia. they did the site survey down along the mall. they did not see evidence of a tornado. just straight line winds that came through that area. yesterday it was under a tornadr wang, but no evident tornadoes, just those very strong winds. 60, potentially 70 miles per hour coming through the mall.at th why we saw all that damage. down here i just spoke to the mayor. he said those storms yesterday di tnot have nearly effect here that they did on our area. take a look at the board walk. a beautiful day. a lot of people down here. you would think thuld be june or july with how many people we've got down here. a great day here. a great day on the water as well

storm team 4 meteorologist doug kammerer is set to throw out the first pitch when the nats take on thep.m. and of course we'll talk to doug down on the field inust a few minutes. >> i can't wait to see that -- throw that pitch. >> it is not easy. get it straight down the center. >> that is true. >> i don't think they'll have any weather to contend with.v we haa great group of folks checking in with live shots with folksre down the. >> no rain. >> how warm will. we get >> temperatures in the mid to upper 70snd also we're going to be looking at again a home run weather t wise becau rain showers move out of the area to be replaced with sunshine. take a look outside and show you what we're seeing and what you ar seeing. temperatures now in the mid-60s. they're going to rise another 10 degrees or so before this day is done. picking up winds out of the southwest, out of the south at 5 ieles per hour which is always a fine ingred or great ingredient to pick up warm air around our area. here we are showing you satellitemagery and it shows that we continue to show that the rain showers have mov

. >> chief meteorologist doug kammer is in the storm center. doug, what's the good word? >> the good word is it does get xttter as we make our way through the neouple days. we had the shower out there today. we had rain steady at times and cool temperatures all day. now you canee what's been happening the last couple of hours. the rain really starting to get out of here. one area of rain came through at 4:00. some shower activity here down towards winchester. the bulk of the region on the dry side. that's going to be the case for most of the night tonight. however you could see one or two of these showers move on through. you may not want to put away the umbrella yet. that's when this line will try to make its way over the mountains. we could still see a couple shower, especially in the northern zone.ge our averaigh temperature is 75. we're at 59 right now. 46 at state college and we're going to be srting off on very cold note. we'll talk about that. i've got your school bus forecast coming up in about 15, 2 minutes. >>ank you, doug. >>> trade tensions between china and t

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. >> little patches here and there. .et's get to doug kammerer in our storm center doug, how is it going to affect us tonight? >> you mentioned those little patches of rain. they're to the north of us and to t south ofus, but not around us right now. that's good news if you've got dinner plans this friday night. right now we've got storms, big time storms down in west virginia. e thunderstorm watches back towards the west as well. also some strong storms up around the fiphiladelphia area, but nothing in our region. we do have one swer south and west of fredericksburg. this moves into parts of spotsylvania county. t storms back to the west, these are actually going to make their way south of our area so that's some good newsoo t we may get out of this without any rain. that's a good thing. we've seen rain the last six fridays. we're due for a dry one. i've got more on what to expect the aest of tonightnd your weekend coming up. > we'll see you in a bit. >>> breaking right now in the district, d.c. police are investigating the double n shooting here the columbia heights neighborhood. this

. >> storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer is tracking all thatll that for us storm center.>> very heavy rain right now falling into parts of the metro region. one thing to note ore, we d not have any severe thunderstorms just yet. we have 30, 40 mile an hour winds g you need to over 50 to get severe weather. we have not had that. that's good news. but it is going to be rainy across parts of the area tonight. we've already seen it in parts of loudon county. we're watching very heavy rain come through montgomery county and prince ntorge's cou we're going to +hut&édñ to watch as this moves off to the south and east. you can see this coming right througníjñw downtown, right t arlington and5o,> alexandria. vxáát)ing spring fa very heavy rain"1úd!jç atsocie m we've tot another line the west. and another farther back to theÑ west. all of these are going to coth another couple''pk'viuát)r'gs as that is concerd?3y and then e get to the weekend. this all weekend'r long. we talking about a chance of w rain tomorro and sunday. byóg;9x to take you hour hour coming up in my full fore

doug kammerer is joining us from ocean city. >> i've got to give it to you. you're kicking off your back yard weather in style today. how does it feel out there? >> it feels fantastic. we've got pretty good winds, upwards of 20, 30 mile an hour winds, but really nice. we left around 11:00.nd i was kif surprised at the traffic because last year we didn't have a whole lot of traffic at that time. getting across the bay bridge definitely a backup. i'm sure that's going to build s we move on today. out here rightnow, plenty of sunshine. i found some friends. we've got leaesburg right here, gagters be gaithersburg over here. i know you're s arated and you don't cross the river, but say hi and meet some friends. we're going to be down here all afternoon. it is our first installmentf backyard weather. and you know what it is for me all afternoon. it's food. i'll see yo back heren a couple minutes. >> what's on the menu today? >> what's not on the menu, are you joking? >> funnel cakes, thrashers, frys. >> don't let us down. we'll see you in a bit. >> you got it. >> t

sell with a redfin agent. >>> hello, everybod i'm doug kammerer. we're tracking a chance of a couple of storms moving across ur area. nothing out there right now, but we're watching this area back to the west. you can see numerous storms up around pittsburgh. now as far as our region is concerned, nothing just yet, but just watching the first little shower pop up into west virvenia. this moowards the winchester area. that's where we expect it to fire up over the next one to two hours and then move our way. we'll let you know what we're expecting the rest of tonight and the weekend. i'll see you back here in about five minutes. >> doug, thank you. >>> so how would you like to save money on yo ocery bill and at the same time save the world >> sounds like a no brainer. it is possible, folks. tonight we are showing you how as part of our o series climate change. within there a very sertous c. >> and you brought props. >> i did. if you went to the grocery store andyou saw those two oranges, which one would you pick? >> this one has warts on it. >> i wou

>> chief meteorologist doug kammerer joins us now with his backyard weather. doug is at wolf trap tonight and doug, we understand it's almost showtime? >> yeah, 's almost showtime. before everybody comes in, they come over here to ovation. this is the chef's place. they're here for every single concert. i've already got peel and ea shrimp and ribeye roast. yes, some salmon. a littleit of salmon goes a long way, everybody. yes, almost all of this stuff is kn the diet, but i'll tell you what, take a l at the food here. this is the kind of stuff you get out here at wolf trap and then you gon and watch the sammy hagarrtcon concert. weather wise, it could not be better. you've got great food and the weather. we're looking at temperatures currently in the 80s. 83 degrees in d.c. 75 in ocean city maryland. a beautiful afternoon across our region. the one area we're watching down to the south, look around paige county just to the south. we do havestsomems in that area. that's what we're watching. those are going to move off toward the east. heads up around fredericksbu

thursday doug kammerer bobbleheads. what? >> yeah, dozens. 25,000 trea turner and dozens of these guys. hey, buddy. how you doing? >> we need a close-up look of that. >> we need a close-up look of the kammerer bobblehead. >> the forecast looks awesome. >> i don't see any gray in his hair. >> and second prize, two doug kammerer bobbleheads. >> all right.do ug, thank you. ug, thank you. >>> coming up, e natsth the big carriers are talking about their current 5g roll outs, but their efforts are limited to a few pockets in select citiesto or trying convince consumers that 4g is actually 5g. they're neglecting small towns and rural communities, leaving them on the wrong side of the digital divide. if approved, only the combined availableresources of t-mobile and sprint can deliver on all the spectrum bands y needed to quing unprecedented 5g connectivity across the nation. >>> this is the xfinity sports desk. >> all right. is the home cooking going to help the nats? that's the question. >> it couldn't hurt, right? despite t nationa

. >> and doug kammerer is throwing out the first pitch. he asked for the mound to be moved ten feet closer to home plate. is there any truth to that? only ten feet? >> oh. let's hope that one hot kammerer has has arm warmed up properly. if not, he he drops -- if he drops the ball, he'll never live itdown. >> game being thrown over therei i it. all right. we'll see how doug does later on. i love. it i love . 're going to give doug a hard tim i saw itast year. he did an incrediblege job tting that -- that first pitchout to batts batter'vernor -- catcher's glove. i know a little abo. baseball i know more about the weather, though. looking at nice conditions out there this morning. temperatures today, 78 drees. e were asking for warm temperatures. they are coming. look at this as we head into the weekend, we're mo right on up. upper 80s by the time we get to sunday. e normal temperature is75. we've been well below average for a couple of days. so now we're taking the temperatures onup. 50s now, 40s down to the south and west at this point. but

. >> let's start with storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer. >> numerous warnings, counties all along the i-95 corridor ince george's county. anne arundel county. montgomery county, and southern as ions of howard county well. you can see how this line has progressed across or region. we're going to continue to see the strong thunderstorm threat right in through the 66. look at 66. a lot of very heavy rain associated with this and right upugh bethesda. this is a big storm that's about to come right into the d.c. metro area. this will come right through downtown. this storm here, let me go baf bere i get back to it, this he right here, one's right aro d laurel. i want to take a live shotun aro the laurel area. this one really coming down now around that area. this y some nast weather. ouis is i-95. you see i-95 s on the left sides just a mesout there as you make your way through.f a lot o people have their flashers on as they're moving on through. a mess out there tonight. severe thunderstorm warning. this one until 4:30. this one through 4:15. i do think it will be extended.

our chief meteorologist doug kammerer is tracking rain and more rain. >> a chance or rain tomorrow. be tracking that very closely. right now no rain, a really nice night. radar all clear at this time. but you don't have to move foo far back to the west. you can see where the rains. this whole system is sliding our way. a few of ose could be on the stronger side. think about this. scattered showers tomorrow, stronger storms possible and then tracking heavier rain for the weekend. that does include mother's day a. >>> new at 11:00 tonight, you expect your child's teacher to instruct and help them learn and grow but at the very at least you want them somer. loudoun county says one teacher iled that. he showed up to school drunk this morning and had booze in his car. on dwin teaches gym at hori elementary in sterling. he's also the boy's varsity soccer coach at loudoun county high school. >>> scary video of a robbery in d.c.'s west end just after midnight today. you can see that man walk by a person, turn around, then point a gun near 25 kth and streets. the man snatched items out of th

our storm-team 4 meteorologist doug kammerer saidhis appeared to be the work of a tornado and he was exactly right. >> the national mall didn't escape. a big tree came down near thers jeffe memorial. walkers, joggers and bicyclists having to navigate around the damage. >> and an ominous cloud picture a.gh above the potomac yard in northern virgini the more the camera zoomed in, the worse the situation looked. guess what, folks, we have more severe weather. >> this was a violent tornado. lookow these trees were snapped off. >> and now we've got ather warning. >> as doug shows us, there is a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of maryland. where are we talking about in. >> washington county and frederick county. just now, this was supposed to go until 11:15. i was about to come on and tell you, i wouldn't be surprised if the national weather service hae canceit. that's what they did. they've canceled it. this is not the d.c.r metro a or points to the south but notice areas in pink are under a severe thunderstorm watch untili midnight t. here's the storm that has really weakened. it w

storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer says that system is headed our way. doug? >> we also know, doreen, that tornado was in fact on the ground and actually went through gtown calledden city. and there is massive damage around the golden city area, which ises about 40 milorth and east of joplin. joplin an area that was hit extremely hard by ef-5 torn do i2011. this area definitely has seen some tornadoes in the past. just take a look. th tornado watch extends south of chicago all the way back towards oklahoma. numerous tornado warnings continue. this trend is going to make its way towards st. louis overnight fors, it will eventually move our way, and we have a chance as well to see some strong storms. this is where we expect them, around the d.c. area. the enhanced risk, which means a better chance of severe storms just to the north of washington, including areas like fredick, northern montgomerie towards baltimore and pennsylvania. we'll talk more about this. i'll give you the timing ofas ts ell coming up in just about ten minutes. >> all right. we'll see you th

chief meteorologist doug kammerer is standing by in the weather center. doug, what should we prepare for in the morning? >> i think you need to prepare for a lot of different thing morrow. one is going to be take the umbrella early on. and two, get ready for the heat coming in tomorrow. r.day was spectacu beautiful weather, sunshine, high temperatures in the mid-80s. high temperature of 85 in d.c. 87 in richmond. 84 if you're down in virginia beach. ool on saturday but rebounded nicely. 80 degrees today. what i'm watching now is not in our area, it's right here over portions of ohio. and this has been tornadic throughout the day, producing numerous tornadoes, and now numerous tornado warnings in ohio. and this systemoving our way for the morning rush. and i really think we're going have some problems with this early tomorrow mong. tonight tracking your morning storms. i'm going to take you hour by hour.ho we'll you thou get through this. going to be a hot one tomorrow, absolutely. i'm going for highs in the lowa 90 more heat and more storms through the wee

. >> chief meteorologist doug kammerer here in the storm center. doug, do we need to keep that umbrella handy this>> week? on't put it too far away. you won't need it tomorrow. tomorrow another beautiful day. by wednesday, the chances of rai really start to go up, especially thursday into friday. out there today, just gorgeous. a gorgeous night around our ea, too, with the beautiful crescent moon going on in our western sky. oemperatures tonight up t 78. on the maphe warm est today right there in d.c. a beautiful afternoon there. tracking a couple ofsystems, though. nothing around our region now. but tracking some systems back to the west, we're talking abous stormin in the middle part of the country. that's going to bring us one big thing tomorrow and something completely different we may not like on wednesday.u we'll talk mch more about it. see you back here in a few minutes. >> all right. you've got our attention, doug. thank you. >>> several weeks ago tiger woods won his fifth masters. well, today he found himself at the white house. president t

chief meteorologist doug kammerer will be there.ed ball in his day. >> his day has passed. >> you know what i mean. news 4 later that day. of course our chuck bell will be at the ballpark to preview all of the fun tomorrow on "news 4 today." >>i was out a couple of days ago. i was out at harmony hills elementary school momery county. lots of excited kids. take a check of this. >>'m here at army hills elementary school where about 10 kids found out that they're going to be joining us at pepco park for storm team 4 weather day! >> we had a ton of fun. >> how fun. >> such a great group of kids. couldn't be happier to give them free tickets. most of those kids have never been to a pro baseball game. >> that's awesome. >> teaming up with pepco and telemundo 44 and more than half these kids, i would say 3/4 are fully bilingual. spanish and english. couple other languages. job well done. we lookeiorward to seng you at the many other hundreds of kids will be joining us as well. it's a 1:00 game tomorrow. you have to maybe leave work a littl

storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer says don't be surprised if you see weather officials on the mall today checking to see if a tornado touchede.own the >>> the weather also shut down roads in arlington overnight. this is glebe road. power outages knocked out traffic lights in parts of this area. closures are also expected into this morning's commute between route 50 and henderson road. and on several spots throlehout e highway, including between john marshall drive and no ingham. be sure to give yourself plenty of time onhe way into work this morndg. >>> an that system already did some serious damage to other parts of the country before it hit us. billion two dozen people were hurt when a tornado hit jeffersocity, missour it was about this time yesterday when we were seeing our first glimpses of the devastation there. three peoe were killed in golden city, missouri. we'll have much more on the severe weather later thos here on "news4 today." >>> this reminder, any time there is bad weathr in our area, have your nbc washington app -- i know i pulled mine out soon as my phone

chief meteorologist doug kammerer iseyeeping an on more storms heading our way. >> we had all the instability that needed for big storms today. we just didn't have the trigger around our area. it was all up towards pennlvania, all down into parts of southern virginia. tomorrow we have that trigger as the cold front is going to be making its way our way. ihink we have a much better chance to see area wide severe thunderstorms. the last six hours, those storms in pennsylvania and north northeastern portions of maryland. some big-time storms in that area. you can see storms to the south. look right here, we were high and dry. a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings in our region, but that was aiut now tomorrow, warm and humid tonight. it's 83 degrees currently. row, nd humid again tom and then severe storm chances tomorrow, yes. but that it. we've got another change towards the weekend. i'll show you what i mea by that. i'm back in ten minutes. >> thank you. >>> top democrats and some republics say it's time to take actionsphere the ecial counsel could not. they want the house to begin apeachme

. >> let's kick things off with doug kammerer, getting you ready for that wet morning commute. >> we're not talking a ton of rain. we're talking about areas of drizzle and showers. kea good idea to ta the umbrella with you just in case you're going to need it. we are expecting showers off and on thursday. we have a 40% chance of that. we have showers out there right now. storm team 4 radar tracking the shower activity, down to the northern neck, just east of ic frederburg, king georgetownty, st. mary's county, tu're seeing showers there. but we're starti see them more widespread as a storm system begins to move to e north. you can seit to the south right now. and look what comes in on friday. a bigger storm system mes in, that increases the chance for showers and storms friday, and then another storm for mother's day. that one, you need the big ' umbrella. maybe the ark, too. >> turn off the faucet. a right, we'll see you in big, doug, thank you. >>> respect the drivers. that's the rallying cr tonight from some of the people who get you from point a to point b. uber and lyft employees s

let's get the word on the weather and the weekend from doug kammerer. >> most it has moved out and as the stormsame through lookat what happened outside the studios here in northwest d.c. the lightning was really kicking for a time. wind was moving and rain coming down picking up toabout 0.5 inch of rain. it was a lot of fun to sit and watch for a good 20, 30 minutes with that thunder and lightning. right now the same area of storms weakening just a bit to the south and east. thunder and lightning earlier. now down around waldorf south of annapolis making its way down toward fredericksburg with heavy rain there alo i-95 and 301. charles county, southern prince george's co ty, still seeing the heavy rain around la plata, in toward northern calvert county. that is moving down toth the s and east. that is really it on the map. that's the last line we have moving through here. we'll get a little bit of a break. the rain comes back tomorrow but not all day. i'll show you which part of the day you can actually get out and what it means for mother's day as well. >> thank you, doug. we're hop

it is memorial day weekend and that means that we have sent doug kammerer on out to ocean city live this afternoon. >> we didn't have to send him. he will have gone anyway. we didn't have a choice here. got perfect ve weather. >> i thought i would either call in sick and be down here or work and be do re. let's work for it. that's the best part about it. down here in ocean city, yes, ee memorial day wnd kicking off backyard weather. we'll be doing it all summer long. i made some newom friends fr rockville. you can wave right now. did you get through to your people? >> no, we didn't get through. t buty'll watch anyway because we always watch nbc. >> that's exactly what i want to isar. the weather fantastic. take a look at these numbers. current temperature sitting in the upper 70s to low 80s. 78 degrees right now. actually back up to 80. 80 degrees right now in ocean city. 83 right now in wabeington. a tiful afternoon. what looks like one of the best memorial day weekends whave had in some time. as you guys know, it could be really cool memorial day weekend or really hot. this time it's o

. >> let's get right to doug kammerer and find out what is still out there and what's still ahead fortonight. doug. >> we still have some very heavy rain into parts

. >> let's get right to chief meteorologist doug kammer with the latest. >> it's been the d.c. split. storms to the northnd south. the storm prediction center actually had an enhanced risk for severe. weath normally when that happens we see an enhanced risk for severe thunderstorms. we have seen two, one in prince george's county and anl run de county. this little guy here, but i'm kind ofis amazed they put th out. i'm not even seeing lightning associated with this storm. moving out of prince george's to this area. going until 6:15. tonight look towards pennsylvania. this area is getting hammered. tornadoes yesterday and flooding yesterday, flashflood warnings, tornado warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings. a mess to our northnd south. we dodged a bullet today. a good chance of strong storms tomorrow and we will takeyou hour-by-hour in about 10 minutes. >> thank you. storm team 4 always working for you. check on your conditions any time, download thec free nb washington app. >>> today, what could prove to be a turning point in the investigation of russian interference in our e

doug kammerer joins us. doug, some areas could see stronger storms. >> absolutely.e're looking at the d.c. metro area and points to the east. no worries here at all over the next couple hours. it is all to the west. frederick county, loudon counties r councounty and points to the west. the warning we have in clark county, there are many storms out here. this is a brand new storm around west virginia moving in towards frederick county, virginia. more storms around winchester, but this has been the storm we've been watching upwards of golf ball s hail has been reported with this storm. winds gusting upwarding of 70 miles per hour. this severe thunde warning will go until 5:45. there is another chance of more storms along this line right here. we're not done yet. yes, i even think this pushes in towards the metro late tonight. we'll update you when and take you hour by hour. see you back here in about ten conutes. >>> a montgomery ty judge has sentenced a teenager to ten years in prison for his role in gang activity. cell phone video shows martinez waving a machete. an

chief meteorologist doug kammerer going to throw outhe first pitch and then on news 4 at 4:00. doug will reveal the first storm and how many storms, hurricanes, how hot is it going to get?do has the answers thursday afternoon. coverage begins here on "news 4 today." tomorrow morning with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell at the ballpark all morning long. b >> it will a great day for weather day and a ball game, right? storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. >> i've been cheating doug thinks we may be in for a sizzler of a summer. so enjoy the last little vest stijs of cool mornings out here. skies are clear over washington. it's a beauty of a way to get the day going 567891 at national airport courtesy of the heat island and the relatively warm waters of the potomac. you get away from the city waters, it's a very warm morning. 45 in fairfax and falls church. 41 in manassas and pince gorges county. 49 way down in southern maryland. school day fecast for today, sun already brightening our sky. sun's up before 6:00 a.m. plan on 40s f the kids waiting at the bus stops. either jog

. >> speaking of the first pih, doug kammerer did not have that problem. he got the honor today at nats park. >> is your arm better than brucw lis'? how did it go? >> i mean, he's scoff years old. but yeah, that's pretty cool, bruce willis up there at the phillies. for us it was nats park. we had a great time. >> another beautiful day out day. we had rain this morning, but the sunshine is out. it's really comfortable down here at the waterfront. >> we were talking about 1,600 kids all about the weather. to go through everything on the daily basis. >> absolutely. you threw out the first pitch.u last year ywere, like, i could have done better. clearly 365 days really got your mind running. >> i had a lot of time to practice. he was it was right here winding up. i'm bringing the heat. i told kyle bearclaw, was the catcher for me today and he also pitched in the game which was very teresting, yeah, i told kyle, i'm bringing the heat, buddy. i am bnging the heat. of course, that's exactly what t we diday. it looked pretty good. a little on the inside. >> i thin

go t doug kammerer in the storm center. tell us about it. >> plenty of cloud cover, much cooler temperatures by 15 degrees. look at the numbers. 70 in d.c. high of 81. 69 in hagerstown, to the south. we were warm, down to 80. you can see to the south a lotou of cld cover in our area. rain is on the increase making our way the next couple of days. much more what to expect tomorrow with the rain there. a very unsettled friday, saturday and mother's day. see you back here in 10 minutes. >> thank you, doug. >>> the new royal name you will probably see just about everywhere. baby archie.rr prince and meghan showed off their little bundle of boy today. >> reporter: archie harrison windsor, the name announced on instagram from buckingham palace. archie sounds very american and mountbatten-wintu batten-windsor is the last name taken by male members over time. interesting they have chosen not give their son a title. perhaps that's a clue to the kind of parentsrxxo they want t. we think back to princess diana, theway she raised willi

. >> chief meteorologist doug kammer is in the storm center. doug, what's the good word? >> the good word is it does get xttter as we make our way through the neouple days. we had the shower out there today. we had rain steady at times and cool temperatures all day. now you canee what's been happening the last couple of hours. the rain really starting to get out of here. one area of rain came through at 4:00.

doug kammerer will throw out the first pitch against the mets and then on nbc4 at 4:00 doug will revealhe official summer forecast. how many can we expect and are hurricanes going to threaten the coastline and how hot will it get and he'll answer the questions come thursday r ternoon. >> i'm ready foe heat. they could bring on the heat. this last stretch of cold air, no thanks. >> i know. >> but now that back half of the ten-day forecast is looking mighty fine. >> i whel tell you, some of t models have us going well into the 90s next week. >> really? >> my gosh. >i'm saying that because you don't follow the model guidance. you have to forecast. we that is a trend that could possibly be on.be may not mid-90s but of course maybe warmer than it actually will be especially for today. now todayez temperatures in the low 70s. that is below normal under this final of th year but we'll take it. yesterday only in the low to mid-60s so we'll take whatd e coulet and taking the sunshine. hopefully you're takg it in. it is a beautiful day out there in the d.c. area. and temperatures arepo resing. th

. >> let's get right to chief meteorologist doug kammer with the latest. >> it's been the d.c.northnd south. the storm prediction center actually had an enhanced risk for severe. weath normally when that happens we see an enhanced risk for severe thunderstorms. we have seen two, one in prince george's county and anl run de county. this little guy here, but i'm kind ofis amazed they put th out. i'm not even seeing lightning associated with this storm. moving out of

chief meteorologist doug kammerer is here with what to expect for the rest of the evening.ere thunderstorm watch. that's very goodáuj for us. 're going to seeore rain.t( right now all eyes on southern maryland. we're talking about calvert county, prince george's county, charles countyÑi and northern calvert county. this until 5:00. a severe thunderstorm warning in ffect until 5:00 for yo including mechanicsville, including the calvert beach area, thelp huntingtown area, or towards dunkirk. thunderstorm warning right now and this stormjfjf ctinuing to make its way off to theast. another couple towns in this area. here's hughesville and then over towards prince frederick. if you live in prince frderick, you've got alp little bit of ti before they come your way. i have seens numerouamage reports. a lot of trees do power outages. here's theext round right ñrr here, but you notice no severe storms right now making its way our way. we will see more rain. this stormçó means for you overnight and for your friday and yong weekend comiÑiup. >>> you've got iu]Ñi thanks, doug. >>> let'

doug kammerer joins us for weather day at na park in this two-game winning streak outside the salt line restaurant. hi, doug. >> hey, guys. this is so great. the's nats park right there. and there's the weather. i mean, how cool is this? i love getting to come down hofe. course, it is weather day at nats park. the weather could not have been better. temperatures in the mid 70s. we saw some showers this morning. ev arybody involved here, lot of people said doug, what are we doing? we've got showers. that was just a quick hittingte sythat came through, brought us a bit of rain and brought us this spectacular afternoon. take a look at the numbers around the mid atlantic. area wide we're looking at 76 degrees currently in the city. notice some of the her locations. now to 78 actually in d.c. rigerstown 77. down towards mond at 80. i think we get into the 80s starting tomorrow. we're goi t tok much more about those temperatures coming up later on. and coming up later on, i'm going to be talking summer forecast for you as well to show you exactly what we're thinking about as far as rainfall i

chief meteorologist doug kammerer traing some heat that's moving on through. >> doug standing by to start us off in the storm center. heat is the word? he >> that's t word. yesterday 92 degrees. a beautif memorial day. cookouts really looking good out there. take a look at these numbers. 84 degrees d.c., and let me tell you today that's a long drive today, but at least it's a beautiful one with sunshine across the area. not much in the way of rain chances. we've had a couple of showers mostly in the southern zone. you can see what i'm talking about. this is west of fredericksburg and will continue to make its way down to the south and east. that's one shower. the rest of us will stay dry tonight but tomorrow and tomorrow morning we're sending the kidsack to school. we're going back to work. this area of rain and storminess, this whole system moves ourway for the morning hours. i'm going to break it down for you hour by hour and yes, we're talking about that heat building just down to our south. >> again, speaking of the heat, maybe what? 72 hours or so until we were talking aboi this mayb

chief meteorologist doug kammerer will throw out the first pitch this thursday may 16th and wi giveawaysn the park. if you can't make it, tune into channel 4 and doug will be there ar t the stormeam 4 forecast and somebody else will be here is here now. >> ha lo. >> y off. >> i'm so excited. it is going to be nice. >> because the weather will be nice on thursday. >> weeed a warm-up. >> it is chilly out there. it is cold yesterday and today i have my winter jacket when i ame in. >> you did too? >> i have -- i wear auy coat. >> i still+ have it. =khq#1 o >> cold outside and in the studio. we are going to take a look at a those temres out there in second. my forecast keeps slipping -- i'm looking and it keep flipping to the ten-day but i'll show new a second. it is chilly because we have a warm-up on the ten-day forecast. let me flip and show you this rain. and my show is acting crazy. let me stop this and show you the temperatures. the temperatures are in the 50s and 60s right now. we will continue to see those temperatures go right on up. my show has a mind of its right now. let me see if

let's kick off with doug kammerer inhe storm center. it feels like march outside. >> really quite amazing. thei shower act continues. we have seen over 2 inches of rain since friday. we talked about it being a rainy weekend. mother's day not the best at all. right now we've got one area of shoeers. another one toward the blue ridge and shenandoah valley. right on down through fairfax county. we're looking at steady rain although mo of this is on the lighter side. we are looking at heavier showers out there towards the winchester area. this is all rotating around that big storm that we saw yesterday. look at all that rain to north that we saw earlier today. we are going to get out of this as far as the rain is concerned. look at these numbers, though. temperature wise, we're only at 58. 52 right now in hagerstown. only 50 towards philadelphia. the warmest on the map is 67. guy, our avhage hig today, 75 degreeme >> but tell about this cold snap. this is pretty rare for us this time of year, right? >> it really is. we can get this cl this

report on the damage the system has already done in a moment, but first to chief meteorologist doug kammerer. >> tracking this dangerous situation, we have a couple showers and thunderstorms in our area. it's this area we're watching back towards texas and oklahoma. some of the wording being used by this storm has not been used since 2011. that year in alabama, 62 tornadoes, over 2,000 people hurt and about 240 people killed that day. that's why this is such a dangerous system. this is moving into parts of texas and into parts of oklahoma. numerous tornado warnings already, but this is going to be going on throug ut they in through texas and oklahoma and then making it as way off toward the east. not going to be affecting us directly. what is is a frontal boundary. most of us on the dry side tonight. we're hot. higho temperatures far today, 90. we've reached 90 for the firs time thisear. 85 in hagerstown. but look back here behind this front. yeah, much cooler. 72 degrees righ now in pittsburgh. that's the kind of air we have tomorrow. much cooler air. big change coming in for tuesday and we

kindÑiof like our doug kammerer. >> yeah, waiting for the phone call from the president.t never got it. >> you're probably still sore from throwing that first pitch. >> yeah, that too. good news we are no longer under a vere thunderstorm watch. but we still have a warning in st. mary's. that is the on washing thly ware have look at what is going on here, thesee all the severe thunderstorm reports that we got. most of these are trees down on houses. this one right re, 68-mile-an-hour wind at the airport. 68-mile-an-hour. and i want to show you tse, check this ant to showt, you wh is happening. tree down, tree uprooted, many large branches snapped. this is 66 and 495. thunderstorm wind damage, a large tree down along summer field road blocking traffic. and then the cameras are actually at this one right here. a tree on a car, intersection of 11th road. and that is just in this area right there with one storm that came through, the same storm that promptedhe tornado warning for downtown d.c. now, this is the only storm in the game right you thousand done towardouthern st. ma

meteorologist doug kammerer has more in the storm center. >> there's a chance of showers starting tois the day to get some lunch or dinner outside. outside right now, what are we dooe dealing with? 70s in the city and much warmer in parts of that's the case in parts of the evening. look at haigersdowns. up to 80 degrees. nice temperature-wise across our region today. i'm tracking the shower down to the south. rts of stafford county and fauquier county and another in towards arun dull county. just a shower is going to move along i-95, an increas in a chance of showers and thundershowers and we'll look at mother's day weekend. i don't hve a whole lot of good news. i'll be honest with you. >> well, we're not happy about that. >> that's not my ft. >> yes. he's blaming you. >> thank you, doug. now.itching gea a husband's worst fears confirmed. his wife discovered dead inside an suv and pulled ou of the depths of the potomac. 72-year-old barbara bushkin was reing from a charity event when her vehicle plunged into the river. news 4's mar segraves spoke to her husband who is just happy for t

chief meteorologist doug kammerer in the storm ser with a look at what to expect going forward. >> right now we're tracking the there.d the storms out the storms just to our north. i'm actually tracking a tornado watch up towards portions of ptnsylvania. nong around our area right now. where this is, though, the severe thunderstorms not in our area today. i think most of this isoing to stay to the north. you notice all this yellow in our northern zone. this is all of the state of pennsylvania now under a tornado watch. we have numerous tornado warnings in the state of pennsylvania as well and these storms are trying to make their way south and east. if you just follow my hand, most likely in through north eastern marylhend, but not in t d.c. area. that's why we are not under a watch today. however, we are go weather alert tomorrow because all of this activity will be shifted to miles and by about 150 that means right into our area during the afternoon tomorrow. a much better chance of storms. look at this. it says wind chills, but this is the current heat index. 94 in gaithersburg.94 in

. >> let's get right to doug kammerer and find out what is still out there and what's still ahead for us tonight. doug. >> we still have some very heavy rain into parts of our area. mostly south of 50 and south of 66 right along i-95 in northern virginia. take a look where the rain is. you see it over the past two hours coming right on through the d.c. metro area bringingve heavy rainfall. we had a couple of severe xjÑ trees down lnudon county, montgomery county, prince george's county, even in the district saw a couple of trees down too. as wis watch th storm, this was the one that caused the severe thunderstorm warning. this one right here is the one i'm watching right now cing into prince george's county. southe southe southern prince george's count all of charles county. also around mt. vernon, very heavy rain associated with this. you mayee some minor flooding, especially street flooding, so watch out in those areas. right along 301 dn towards waldorf and down around here, that's big time storm with very heavy rainfall, lightning and o thunder t another one, look at all the light

. >> doug kammerer is in the storm system tracking this all. >> a beautiful day today. 84 the high temperatureoday. 86 rich mopped. the warmest spot 87. notice the red downa here trds north carolina. that's the 90s. they're going to start working their wayroour way tomor all courtesy of a frontal boundary that's going to move through with this storm. this storm back to the west around the chicagoland area giving them tornado warnings. that storm system bringing us a chance of storms tomorrow morning and then a good chance e for som really hot weather. one of the hottest days so far . this yea we'll talk about how long it sticks around. see you back here in about ten minutes. >>> we are hearing for the first me tonight from the widow of a man shot to death last friday at a chantilly strip mall. steven green is accused of killing miguel hernandez. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey spoke with the victim's widow this afternoon. she says friday's incidentst rted when the street sweeper injured her. >> reporter: you can see the fresh wounds on her face and head. the big brui on her shoulder

there are forecass now,doug kammerer is keeping an eye on weather front that can bring us some storms. >> tonight is not going to be a big ht for showers and thunderstorms. most of us will stay on the dry side. let's show you storm team 4ar rad we'll get right to it. in towards st. mary county,ca ert county, heavy rain and heavy downpours. watching this line fromlt baimore right on back towards around casterling, we see showers anywhere in this area. youcan notice some through montgomery county, we do have shower activity right on up towards columbia anmar just some lighter sprinkles and shower activity making its way towardsbethesda, all part of a cold front. cold fra t,front back to the wesut also bringing us much cooler air during the day tomorrow. also tracking that monster of a storm out towards thewe west. re talking a tornado outbreak. there are tornadoes on the ground right now. we'll have much more on this th throughout show. >> doug, we'll see you in a bit. >>> writhing in pain, tears and screams. this is not the way the redskins first team workout was supposed to go. we wer

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. >> chief meteorologist doug kammerer standing by in the storm center. i know you have now warnings up? >> yah. remember, this is not for the d.c. area today. i think tonight we have a chance for some rain, but this is all back to the western zones. frederick county,[6.róÑ loudon, fauquier county, points to the west under that severe thunderstorm watch unti0. 10:0 right now tracking two storms. this one was severe, but no longer. it's weakened moving into jefferson county, west virginia. this is the new warning. this is right around steven city. the new warningincludes parts of frederick county, virginia, as well as clark county andrr wa county. shenandoah kocounty as well. this is strasburg right here. watch out in this area. strasburg t around this area, some hail reported in this storm just south of steven city right along i-81. this one moving off to the east only at 15 miles an hour, meaning very heavy rainat associ with that. more storminess throughout the night. you see where the warnings or the watches are once this syste moves. much more on thi

chief meteorologist doug arkans kammerer will throw out the first pitch against the mets and will revealhe official summer forecast starting at 4:00 p.m. >>> and tomorrow, we introduce you to an e-commerce company in days changing the way people display their most treasured belongings. 'll find out which local sports star just visited the new retail store for a very special piece. it's a game changer. stay with us tomorrow for that story. >>> first 4 traffic alert, found 95, still mostly closed there at 198. bleeding traff right side. those are the folks there since about 3:00 in the morning. u'll want to take route 1 or 2 he bw parkway is already slowing because of this. >> of course. >> geez. a mess. thank you. >> thank you. >>> that is the "news4 today."te we appreciaou waking up with us. >> the "today" show is next. what's funexpected? a vacation with revolutionary exriences everywhere you turn. where the cannonballs keep coming and you have to be game for just about anything. it's a place that's equal parts frantic and romantic. you'll experience it all in greater williamsburg, wher