let's get back to jim handly now. >> jim, we're getting reports of major floing and power outages from this storm and we're just at the beginning. >> reporter: you said it. just gettingstarted. as you guys have mentioned, the power is a big concern. we're at right here in the outer banks, so far so good here, but ound north carolina, along the people have 0,000 lost power tonight. that number is likely just to take off and it could take days for it to be restored. speaking of days, for days, people have been hearing they warnings, mave heeded them, but some have not, to leave their homes. last minute, tonight, and this afternoon, a lot of people are heading for the shelters. last check, we have 12,400 people in shelters here tonight. and in new bern, north carolina, some incredible video we're going to show you later of a river surge there tonight of about six wset. our c are on the ground there, we'll show you that in justs, about ten minuut first, jay gray has the latest from carolina beach, north carolina. >> reporter: the early calling card from florence, driving rain. wind and wav

jim handly showing us the impact of the storm. it's such ao contrastee what happened where jim is versus other parts of nor carolina. peaks of sunshine and driving rain. conditions can change minute to . that's why you want to stay with us all morning. we'll have a lot more from jim and t entire team coming up here on news 4 today and throughout the morning. it's now 6:36. now to the other top stories we're following on this friday morning. one man has died and ten others hurt in a series of home explosions in ato b suburb. as many as 80 homes are damaged. entireoo neighbo had to be evacuated. too much pressure in the gas line sparked the explosions. >> a high school graduate tha was shot and killed in the district. taquan pinkney was killed. >> the d.c. mansion murder trials had chilling new details. he said she seemed nervous and ared. minutes later, 911 dispatchersh receivall that the mansion was on fire. >> 6:37, we're watching the test on hurricane florence. look at a live picture here of wilmington, north carolina. the winds

our jim handly is on the ground in washington, north carolina this morning. he's near the town of new burn which is inaccessible. >> we knowhis is a deadly storm. what are you seeing and what do we know? >> reporter: well, you mentioned that breaking news. the death toll has claimed to 7. the two latest victims inland in north carolina. we are inland in north carolina,

you can see, jim handly is out there getting battered. tell us h it is. >> hey, buddy, i think i am in the wrong washington tonight. this is little washington, north carolina. you've got to climb trees here stay dry, folks. take a look at the his downtown. this is the river walk.go you get in a decent swim. when the winds were kick up about a half-hour ago, there was actually surf on this river. dj has bee heeres yayterd ndher. there were hundreds of boat slips. they are submerged. the bridge there will take to you new bern. south to myrtle beach as well. that's about a half-hour from newrn. the road has beenor closed f some time now, 17. and we've seen debris all over this town. it is an historic town. it is the first washington to be named after the president. it goes back to17 . i want to to let you know, this up to my waist. i am six feet tall and bim to go where everybody goes on that sidewalk right there. this is where people park their cars, where they picnic and have festivals. this is pamlico river. it is a tributary that comes u

more coverage comingup. >> jim handly reporting. this is the coach of virginia beach which despite the threat of a storm surge seems to be drawing people to the shore sther than sending them away. >> theong winds and rough water are drawing spectators. reporter: we're starting to feel stronger gusts of wind. we'reti exp in this area, the feel of the tropical storm type windsrooming h. not nearly what we'll see when jim handly is. aney're expecting up to three feet. be mindful of flooding. that's a real issue in the hampton roads area. it gets even worse. hat didas we point out, not keep folks away from the water. >> tonight, the locals becoming tourists on virginia beach's ocean front. florence' early wind and rough surf drawing a crowd. some snapping photos. a little too close t crashing waves. >> we saw some people trying to go into the tewa so we're keeping an eye on them. >> reporter: the life guards restricting swimmers to ankle deep waters. >> putting a restriction on it. not just for their safthy but life guards. it is extrem

coming up, news 4's justin finch will have more on the equipme they're taking. >>> meanwhile, jim handlys leaving our team of reporters urcoveringcane florence. he's starting his day in north carolina's outer banks. >> there are people who plan to ride out the sstorm, but jim reports, many people have already boarded up and left town. >> reporter: we're along the outer banks where the windand the waves are starting to amp up. florence still hours and hours away, but anxiety is running high. the big concern here is the flooding that may fo bow. will thepower outages? will the hundreds of residents who evacuated be able to get back in, and howong will that take?e some peove decided to ride it out, but for businesses, they are all but a handful shut down they harded up. boats have moved to higher ground. some have been boarded. we'll be following along in the urs to come and have live coverage this evening and tomorrow too on news 4. in nags head, jim handly, news 4. >> and remember, storm team 4 is tracking this hurricane aroundo the you can learn when the storm will hit, how it affects ou

i'm jim handly. we learn more about the shooting at the jacksonville gaming event. onehe gamers shot is from d.c. aimee cho spoke to his brother this week who also knew thed suspecgunman. >> david katz keeps to himself, he's a manbu of ness. >> reporter: chuting suspect david katz seen at this tournament lastyear, announcers noticed he said very little. >> not here to make friends. >> i remember him bng awkward. >> reporter: abbie franklin went to middle school with david katz in howar county. she said she never expected this kind of viol from him. >> it was chilling. i've been honestly in shock. >> reporter: she says she and her classmates tried to be nice to katz, but that he never opened up. >> they would make money playing games is justwild. >> reporter: over at american university, gamers like shawn riley shocked by news of the shooting. riley is a president of the gaming club. like d, growing up, kids him made most of their friends online. >> it is a safe space where peopleeel like they can com

f>> news 4's jim handly is leading our team reporters covering hurricane florence. he's starting his day in north carolina's outer banks.re >> thereeople who plan to ride out the storm, but as jim saw firsthand, a lot of folks have already boarded up and left town. >> reporter: outer banks where the winds and the waves are starting to amp up. flortill hours and hours away, but anxiety is running high. the big concern here is the flooding that may follow. will there be power outages? sll the hundrf residents who evacuated be able to get back in, and how long will that take? some people have decided to ride it out, but for businesses, they are all but a handful shu down. they have boarded up. boats have moved to higher ground. some have been boarded. we'll be following along in the hours to come and have live coverage this evening and tomorrow too onews 4. in nags head, jim handly, news 4. >> and be sure to count on jim and his photographer to bring you updates from north carolina for the rest of the week.u n find their continuing coverage right here on news 4. storo t

right towant to get jim handly. he's seen that powerfultorm surge firsthand. so you have been there now for a few whdays. are you seeing? >> i'm telling you. chris mentioned saturation. you mentioned the rains. mieright last night a we got off the air at 11:00 we saw rizontal rain just pelting us. now we are getting our first look in ourm storm t 4 by 4 of what it did to the roads here. we're headingow south toward kitty hawk because one of the concerns they had and one of the issues tha we saw late yesterday in kitty hawk was overwash on the roads. this is the first car we have seen on this road. it's been a complete ghost town but we s do some street lights on so that's a good sign. we haven't lost power here. but you can see we are riding through some high water right now. the sidewalk is completely covered and the grass because this area has been saturated since last weekend. they got a lot of rain before this struck overnight. we're seeing some really heavyp ling and wash over up here as we get closer and i will probably be up there in about 20 minutes. t

. >> i'm leon harrior in jim handly. this is a monster now. florence grew from a tropical storm to a category 4 hurricane in 25 hours. >> states of emergency infr efft is being up to maryland. start in tio virginia at 8:00 in the morning. >> let's get things started with chief meteorologist doug kammerer. the storm track that came in a few minutes ago, dg? >> a couple changes we've been seeing with the hurricane in the last hour or two hours oro. takeook at what's going on right here. you notice a fairly well dined eye. you notice some greens, some yellows. 's air that got into the system and weakened it a little bit when the hurricane hunter was going in there. the storm slihatly weaker it was, although the last couple of frames i can telyou it's starting to strengthen again. here's the latest from the national hurricane center. first off current stats still at 140 mile per hour storm. the pressure is up by 5 millibars. weakened slightly, but i do think it is going to get that strength right back. moving to theest northwest at 13 miles per ho

. >> our jim handly is in the outer of north carolina where people could start feeling the impact as early as thursday. >> reporter: we're just two days out her in nags head. some are heading out, some are hold after all, it is stuff to say good-bye to a scene like this, but to a person, peopleill tell you there is something yifferent about florence, perhaps a force taven't seen here since the 1980s, even 1950s. >> thinking, what the hell am i going to do? right now, i'll sitng 50/50. >> reporter: he's from washington. a former coach at the sidwell friend's school. foryears, john and his family have called the outer banks home. he's boarding up his business today, but is still once the f about leaving his beach house. >> irene was the big one. and as a matter of fact,bee wouln about three feet of water right now at the peak of irene when it flooded the town he. and both times i came back and everything was fine and i wondered, you know, why did i do that? total waste of time. >> reporter: didn't lose power, no damage? >> no nothorg. >> rr: you think this is going to be different? >>

news 4's jim handly is leading our team coverage of hurricane florence.e is starting his day i north rolina's outer banks. >> there are people who plan to ride out that storm, but as jim reports, a lot of them have already boarded up and left town. >> reporter: we're along the banks where the winds an the waves are starting to amp up. florence still hours and hours ay, but anxiety is runni high. the big concern here is the flooding that may follow will there be power outages? will the hundreds of residents ho evacuated be able to g back in, and how long will that take? some people have decided to ridu it out, but fonesses, they are all but a handful shut down. they have boarded up. boats have moved to higher ground some have been boarded. we'll be following along in the hours to come and have live coverage this evening and tomorr too on news 4. in nags head, jim handly, news 4. >> you can see t wind starting to whip up there. >> changing. while we won't get a direct hit from hurricane florence, odi area is s resources down south to help the impacted commu

jim handly has made it to the outer banks trns aften. hi reporter: we're here in nags head and tis literally the m.calm before the st we've got some rip currents. and we saw some surfers. they love this stuff. if you look at the homes, very few are boarding up. a lot of people taidy are waiting until tomorrow to make the call as to whether they get out of town or not. the governor says to residents here, if they are thinking about ring out this monster, they are really taking a deadly risk. because they haven't see anything like florence since th 1950shere. this is our home for the next four or five or six days. because storm team 4 will be getting a workout. it is not the winds so much that we'll be watching after the first day. it is the rising water. ey're measuring rain in feet. not inches. we'll hav r aort coming up at 11:00 and throughout the rest of theee back to you. >>> another news, the former mgm card dealer pled guilty to stealing more than million dollars from the casino. this could be more people charged in this game. >> re

jim handly is covering it from the outer banks. >> he's been all over that islands. he filed this report from kl devil hills. >> reporter: we're othe line here at kill devil hills and kitty hawk. we've already got overwash at noon. high tide is about to be upon us. what you're seeing is ocean water. s salt water, folks, and residents are boarding up. if anyars get through, they wash the ocean water right into the house. e guy we talked on said he got six to ten inches on the last hurricane. so it is happening earlier they thought here. but this is the scene and this is farther north than capehe hatteras we were before. >> and we are working for you day and night as thisonster storm slams the east coast. we'll have more coverage. >>> so we've grownm to hate t but to accept themswell. lighttalking with the red and speed cameras. but for some, it could be a reac ng to their system when they get the ticket in the mail when they get but now one state is fighting back for its residents. why some drivers from new jersey may not have to pay those >>fin. love them or hate the

. >> and plenty of water rescues, like the one here in washington, nort that's where we find jim handly. >> reporter: this is it. water as far as theye e can see. you are better off climbing the tree o get around. this is a bike rack. hundred of boat slips. they were scrambling yesterday. lots of debris piling up from the damage. if you can pan over, this will pan over. the problem is the other side of that bridge, route 17 islod because roads have high water and dirt. w t to show you the four by four. the biggest challenge monday, tuesday, wednesday, are getting around the streets. they a blocked off because they are like rivers. the rescues have had to be done on pontoon boat people are going door to door. we've got high tide at 11:00 p.m. and serve banks that. back to you in big washington. >> and closing route 17 is no small deal. >> our team coverage continues with ndy. >> reporter: she's in north carolina showing us t damage. nor them, the worst is yet to come. >> i can definitely attest top. good evening. these are the worst wd gusts we've experienced all day long. florence even

jim handly and wendwendy? >> this isn unusual case. >> it is.s teenager was paving a driveway when somebody hit him and it was 2:00 in the morning which is not unusual.hi father explains why he was out there so late. plus we have the description of the car. if you're holding up ngupda your home because of the cost, wave good reason why it may be beneficial to do it sooner rather than later. >> insurance companies are offering big discounts on some home improvements. soos an hoganill be here. it is a big news day. >>> a south carolina community that has never seenlooding before is still under water. conway, southwest of where florence made landfall. now the homes are nearly underwater. resis need boats or kayaks to get around. the officials can't even survey the damage because the water is too high. >> how much wat will they have to deal with it? >> anothereek or so. they were hardest hit. itooes south i parts of south carolina. i've seen so many videos in conway. ten feet of water. this cannot get out of oureads any time soon. they'll be dealing

jim handly standing by at nags head. we begin with storm team 4. >> people are asking, just a category 2 now, it has really come down. a it w category 4140-mile-per-hour hurricane. h one, ye the winds come down but they also expand. it is now a much bigge storm and the threat has not diminished. >> you were saying ito well in our meeting. yeah, it is a category 2 but a category 4 with thet rain t we'll get out of this. especially all the way through the carolina coast. this is a monster storm of the 400 miles end to end. we'll feel the impact here as well. >> down toward the carolina coastline, you see how close i is. less than 100 miles off the coast of north carolina and it is continuing to make its way on a very slow track. you can see the center of circulation. no well defined eye. n this i longer a major hurricane where you have the well defined eye in the middle but still a monster storm.ur 105-mile-an-winds. only at five miles an hour. this is an update. this just cameout. moving at only five miles per hour. thhy'

we'll have another update on that from jim handly. he's in wagton, north carolina, a little bit away from that area. >> right now, the marines didn't evacuate and they are ready to help. >> the key thing here, the marine, the navy, none of the tidal ten companies, the department of defense, army, air force, navy and marines, none them can do anything unt t whyat they do to get ready, the pre stage a lot of vehicles close to the water so these amphibious assault vehicles, they call them tracks. they look like big alligators, they can go in the water, out of e water, that gives them ability to help across the carolinas. theye behind the hurricane. they're staying a safe distance. as soon they getny sort of tasking order, they're ready to go and they have on ne ofthem, 800 marines. helicopter, surgical, they're ready to go as soon as the those orders. as of yet, nothing. >> all right. are they anticipating that they will be put into play once the storm moves out in couple days and they can assess how bad it is? >> they are. they need to

our jim handly is on the ground in washington, north carolina this morning.he's near the town of new burn which is inaccessible. >> we knowhis is a deadly storm. what are you seeing and what do we know? >> reporter: well, you mentioned that breaking news. the death toll has claimed to 7. the two latest victims inland in north carolina. we are inland in north carolina, too. this is calwad ington. it goes back to 1776. little wasngton as the locals refer to it as. this is the heart of the downtown. king lot, a river walk. this is the river we've been telling you about since last night. there is salt water comin in because about 20 miless up i the sound and then the atlantic ocean. florence brought a lot of this e wa i've been walkabg around. crs crawling around me. this is all .brackish storm surge early yesterday was about 12 feet. tide. in low the next high tide is at 2:. they have a lot weighing against them. 60% of this town without power. 950,000 people in both carolinas are without power right now. most t ofse about 750,000 are in the state of north carol

news 4's jim handly shows us the role georgetown university students played in his asrele >> it's homecomingeek at georgetown university but one class is celebrating another homecoming, in new york. he's a freeman after spending 27 years in prison wrongfully convicted of murder. >> it's unbelievable. >> the real killer confessed. i thought that seems so crazy that that has gone unnoticed ani that man was still in jail for something he clearly didn't do. >> elle and two other students worked on his case as part of a prison reform project this pastg sp during the students research they interviewed witnesses, valentino's daughter and mom and valentino himself. andhe lead prosecutor and discovered a valuable clue. >> the gunshot residue came back negative and that was something we hadn't had before. it was a break through for us in the case. >> his lawyer used the students research to file a motion in case. elle got word valentino would be released two weeksago. >> it was everything we ever wanted. it felt so my rac-- miraculous. in prison, he drew iges even though he never played golf. he will

nk you and jim handly is on his way toar northina to cover hurricane florence. he'll start filing reports on evacuations tonight and bring us live coverage later this week. >> nd4:05 florence is still a few days away from impacting the east coast but days of rainy weather have already taken a toll on the region. yesterday in old town exandria high tides brought foding back. but people were out there walking their dog and taking pictnes. >> it'spportunity to be out in the middle of kings street. >> we thought we'd see how far it came up today. >> many business owners protected their shops and restaurants with sandbags as you see here. >> today the cauntry will to remember those killed on 9/11. thou ands of people expected to gather to pay their re pects. resident mike pence will take part in a ceremony at the pentagon. this morning crews plan to put a giant flag on the side of the building and you may remember the iconic moment after the attack seen as a sign of resilience in our country's darkest moments. tributes are already taking shape. drivers may have sn fl

in new bern, north carolina, jim handly, news 4. >>> as b s as therm has been for many communities, the worst is yet to come. and wng are get a clearer sense of the human toll florence is take on families in the carolinas. nbc's jay gray is in hard-hit it carolina beachthe latest on conditions there. >> reporter: a day later, the effects of florence are no longer measured by wind or water. the storm has lost a bit of the power, but none of its bunch. >> we faced walls of water, at our coast, along our rivers, across farmland, in our cities and in our towns. >> reporter: stalled over the carolinas, the massive weather system continues, dumping recrdd re amount of rain, in many areas of feet, notch . >> we'll see areas flood that have note. flooded bef >> reporter: rivers and tributaries are spilling over theirnk bas, pushing into places water has never been before. and more is on the way. rescues continue in new bern, ave cityed by a ten-foot storm surge. >> it was horrifyi. wondering what's going on and where the watter is going to go and how high it's goingo go and how we're going to g

coming up at 5:00, jim handly will be live as hurricane florence prepares toake landfall. >> tributes cetinue to com in for a high school graduate that was shot dead in the district. family and friends gather near the spot taquan pinkney was killed. he was shot while walking to a corn store on sunday. al the non-profit helps with after school homework and tutoring had plans and he was working to pay for tuition. >>> it's now 4:36 and here's some of the other top stories we're working for you this morning. ing toigators are h learn about a series of home explosions in the bostonbu s. one man has died and at least ten others are hurt. thesi exps are gas fires in as many as 80 homes. look at the scene here. entire neighborhoods had to be evacuated. emergency manag says the gas lines were over pressurized. >> new allegationsgainst supreme court nominee kavanaug areual in nature and date back to his high school days. the senator from california said she received a letter from someone that didn't want to come forward and she turned tha information over to the fbi. coming up in 15 minutes a

jim handly is on his way to north carolina to cover hurricane florence for us. he'll start filing reports on evacuations tonight and bring us live coverage as florence comes ashore later thi week. >> florence is still a few days away from impacting the east coast buts of rainy weather have already taken a toll on our region. things should be back to normal but yesterday high tide brought flood water back. happensre in that aa pretty freque frequently. it still drew a crowd though. people were out walking their dogs. >> i'm out here because can. it's like an opportunity to be out in the middle of kings street. how thought we would see far it came up today. >> many business owners protected their shops and restaurants with sandbags. 6 minutes now after 5:00 and today the country will pausere mber those killed on 9/11. it'seen 17 years since the attacks in new york, pennsylvania, and at the ntagon. >> justin is live in arlington now with details on what we can expect to see later this ormorning. goodng to you. >>> good morning. 17 years later the september 11th att

in washington,li north caro, jim handly, news 4. >> it is just amazing. >>> a man familiar to many of us in the d.c. area is behind a masse effort to feed the victims of the disaster. andr and his team at world central kitchen have delivered feed to first responders and people in shelters in north carolina and chef andre says he's happy the federal government learned lessons from the aftermath of hurricane maria in puerto rico last year. barbra asked him about presiejnt trump's rection of maria's original death toll of nearly 3,000 people. >> why? nobodys going to make a president responsible like he did it, killedvery one of those people. but the lack of empathy,he lack of recognizinghat the higher, and the death toll that didn't happen through t hurricane ripping the island but happened in theth weeks and m later. that actually tells you how little effort the federal government h in makingure that we will be fixing the issues. >> chef says he hopes to provide 150,000 meals for victims of we will have com from north carolina. >> now to an incredibly emotional mass at st. matthew's ca

i'm jim handly. we saw flash flood warnings for hours, downpours, even a delay to the nats game tonight. live team coverage for yout tonigh on this mess. we want to o kick with chief meteorologist doug cammer. what is the situati right now? >> well, right now still tracking showers and thsderstorms out there acr the area. we still have a couple flood warnings. first off though, take look at radar. the big storm over calve county moving in towards the chesapeake bay and towards the eastern shore. ill rain, pretty good rainh throug parts of montgomery county, prince george's coty, towards anne arundel county. there one for parts of d.c., arlington and alexandria, over inches fell in that area. the wider picture showing ourms st moving through. not a lot going on behind this. we will see showers and a few thunderstorms this evening into the day tomorrow. but a little les rain tomorrow. that's not the case for sunday. we'll talk about that, too. theatest on tropical storm florence, it's weakened but we w

at times, and, of cose, so much reinvolves around president trump who we heard a lot from, and jim handly is where the candidates take the stage tonight,handly? >> reporter: this is their largest audience so far face to face. this is the statewide televised live debate at 7:00. you should know corey stewart has a 19-point deficit and trails in fund raising. i talked to tim caine, senator caine, just moments ago, about an hour ago, asking if he thought brett kavanaugh should step down, withdraw hisname. he said the hearings should go forth tomorrow. likely we'll hear kavanaugh's name tonight. mo assuredly, president trump's name will come up, corey stewart called himself trump before trump. you can bet the w presidentl be topic one in this debate tonight at 7:00. you can watch it on our nbc washington app. we're live atap theal one headquarters, news 4. y. o reminder because of the debate, there's a change in programming and nbc nightly news with lester ho start you wanted to save on prescriptions... so you went online... and got so lost in a mumbo-jumbo of co-pays, coupons and codes that

in the outer banks, north carolina, jim handly, news 4. >> here now is a live picture from wilmington, north carolinay this c could get battered for hours starting tomorrow. we'll have more coverage of the preparations in the carolinas coming up here at 11:15. >>> sever w days now,ve been talking about coastal flooding during high tide along the potomac river. tonight, we can tell you water isn't the only problem. georgetown residents say the rising water is forcing more rats out into the open. ne4's shomari stone is along the waterfront with more. hi, shomari. >> reporter: good evening. i have seen ss many r tonight, it is just absolutely disgusting on some parts of the georgewaterfront. the high tide, coastal flooding righthe potomac, which is behind me, that's caused serious problems, the water just last night around this time was all the way up to here on this column. the rats, the high tide, thet wall t is separating the potomac and the floodwaters from restaurants, are bad fo business. as the sun sets over the georgetown waterfront and ducks gently swim in the potomac, the scene

. >> jim handly is there. doug kammerer has the story. that's been happening over the next six to 12 hours, it is underrequesting an eye replacement cycle, meaning it has to fluctuate in intensity a little bitful it has come down a little bit. take a look at the latest satellite picture. one thing you do notice toward thethnd o satellite loop, it was looking very ragged. not anymore. look at th. the eye really coming into its own again. i think this isen strengg. the 5:00 advisory coming out in 45 minutes to an hour. dvthe latestory at 2:00 had it at 130 mil an hour. moving to the west northwest at 17 miles per ho the pressure at 950 millibars. yesterday it s939. so it is a little weaker storm than this time yesterday. the latest track making its way toward the carolinas here. tiis is new. okay? right here. this is category 3. winds of 120 miles per hour. no longer expected to be a 4. a category 3 on thursday nighta into fr that's when we expect landfall and then it just sits in our area. one other thing. look at the cone of uncertainty.

at the live desk, i'm jim handly. back to you. >> thank you. >>> for the past several weeks, parents kept their children a bit closer in one hernandezho neighb. >> they feared a suspiciou man exposed himself to them. now a suspect in custody. our reporter is there live.d, dahat have you learned? >> reporter: i can tell that you this isne determined community refusing to allow one foreigner tarnish what i a safe family-friendly environment here. that's their reputation and they want to keep that it leway. me take it back to where is started. neighbors say they began to see a man acting suspiciously, talking to children in small talk. that escalated quick will. investigators began to get several calls over the several days that followed and they said th man approached as many as three children and exposed himself. >> parents weren't sleeping at night over and i nonef the children were going outside and playing. >> we've had variousts rep for the same individual matching that same description. being on the same fralsdus

. >>> teaag cov continues with jim handly in greenville, north carolina, at the tar river. >> take us through the devastation you have seen up close. >> molet, and ad these rains here are relentless. they have been going for 24 hours non-stop. we are here on the tar river. this river stretches for 215 miles and thi water, which is picking up speed, goes into the pamlicnd and doesn't crest until tomorrow night. we've got no letup in the rain until wednesday here. it is unbelievable for folks here, especially on the roads.we ant to show you video because the road closures around tthe eastern p of north carolina are the story and we're not talking neighborhood streets, isfolks. th coming up is-9 closed in both directions near fayetteville, north carolina, for 16 miles. a huge chunk so you can imagine anybody going north t south, they're doing detours coming up from georgia, coming down from virginia. it's a nightmare along i-95 right now. we told you about the cresting, tide.ve another high this is low tide behind me. coming up, we'll show you water red ues, people stran cars, a lot happ

and right now, jim handly is heading to the carolinas. we'll have his first report tonigh at 11:00. we'll have a loo at the behind the scenes video and pictures of his coverage. >> now across the country, it was 17 years ago that the planes crashed on september 11. today we saw ceremonies to remember the victims. the president at the field and the vice president at the pentagon, while at ground zero in new york, each of the namesh of victims was read aloud. >> and this rning, a repeat of that iconic moment the day after the attack. a giant flag unfurled on the side of the pentag. at ceremony today, mike pence shared his own memories of h family and he said this is for those who remember and thoseen other w alive yet. >> to ensure that each succeeding generation and understands why. we must learn the lessons of 95th and remain ever vigilant. >> the pentagon attack claimed the lives of 184 people. >> maybele you have red today on thosetragedies. >> reporter: as the water rushes beneath these benches, each bench honors a life lost too soon. and here to pay their respects, three m who w

we'll check in with jim handly 5:00 and watch the debate live at 7:00 right here on nbc 4. no government shutdown sunday. president trump has committed tn si a spending bill passed by congress. that bill funds the pentagon and keeps domestic agencies and includes a stopgapin spe provision to keep the rest of the government open through december 7th. president trump has a news conference planned in new york within the next 15 minutes or so, and when that happe, we'll brin it to you live. back to you in the studio. >> thank you. >>> it's been just overee a since wendy martinez was stabbed to death joggingog in circle, and today we have a better understanding about the past of the suspect. anthony crawford, news 4 learned he had a number of run-ins for skips out on fares, and transportation reporter has the latest from the shaw station. adam? >> reporr: first of l, off the bat, no one is making the correlation between someone who evades fare on metro commits a murder, but this part of the story is impor nnt for aber of reasons. number one, it paints a picture of what was going

. >> thank you, sheena, news 4's jim handly is on his way to north carolina to cover hurricane 'lflorence. start filing reports on evacuation tonight and bringli coverage as florence comes ashore later this week. >> as we wait for ayorence, of rainy weather have already taken a toll on our region. things are back to normal after high tides brought floodaters back. flooding happens in that area pretty frequently. it still draws a crowd though. people were out walking dogs and taking pictures. >> i'm out here because i can. >> we thought we would come down and see how far it came up today. >> now many business owners ndotected their shops and restaurants with gs. >> 6 minutes after the hour and today the country will pause to remember thosele k on 9/11. >> it's been 17 years since the deadly attacks in new york and pennsylvania and the pentagon. he is live wh details of what we can expect to see later this morning. justin, gd morning to you. >> good morning. as always the pentagon is the vocal point on this day. you ca a see it'seady lit up for today's ceremony. of course a nod to the day a

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in new bern, north carolina, jim handly, news 4. >> it's gooo be able to report there are so many peopleoing to help those folks out. the maryland civil air patrol in north carolina to help out storm victims, they will handout supplies. 25embers left college park yesterday. last year the patrol saved one person's life in maryland. >>> more help is needed to get people to safety. the maryland helicopter aquad i can mission will head to north carolina as well. they'll take two black hawk helicopters. search and rescue centers will also be going. >>> a somber annivsary to note today. five years ago a gunman opened fire at the washington navy yard. this was the hectic scene on september 16, 2013 in the ng.ermath of the shoo 34-year-old aaron alexis entered building 197 and shot victims randomly and killed a dozen people before d him. eight people were injured? >> so many of uha remember day like it was yesterday. >>> a big honor for a family of a uity of maryland football player who died. the mcdonough schoo outside of baltimore retired jordan mcnair's number 70 at friday night's game. mcnai

count on jim handly to bring yol updates week on new . now let's check your forecast with chuck bell. how isgo ig? >>> another cloudy day. almost no sunshinetoday, tomorrow, friday. into the weekend unfortunately. the heavy rains from florence, will have to deal with them. we will probably have it owal with tmds the middle part of next week. right now we are in the upper 60so around 70 degrees. full cloud cover overhead. take the umbrella. afternoon highs todayto and rrow much like the last few days in the upper 70s to right around 80 degrees rain chanc continue into the weekend, but again our heavy rains from florence will be week. >> all right. chuck, thank you . >>> we take a break and check your forecast next. >>> news4 today on nbc4 is brou. >>> crash investigation continues in uppersarlboro t morning. pennsylvania avenue between richie marlboro and wood bar shut down. divert to 301 water street, any of those work. northbound95 before the 11th street bridge, crash in the left lane. >> more news in 25. back to t"t show" after this sho