our bureau chief julie carey has been in the courtroom all week and joins us now to tell us what happened. jules? >> reporter: hi, there, the jury got this case around 2:00 thisa afternoo in closing arguments both the defense and prosecution agreed on one thing. this jury's decision is going to come down to whether they believed the word of a now 18-year-old young woman or that of her former teacher. th scene of the alleged crime, a storage closet inside shop classroom at langston hughes middle schoolhere a teaching girl says her teacher timothy threlkeld molested her as her eighth grade year came to a close. said the prosecutor, this defendant grouped a young girl to meet hiserverted sexual desires. their improper relationship came to light in the summer of 2014. threlkeld lost his job and later his teaching license, but it wasn't until last year that the girl revealed the new graphic details. but his defense attorney says the girl is making it all up,sa ng, quote, her facts keepmovingt the vince in c e. she urged jurors to think hard about that storage closet asking the bottom line is w

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in stafford, i'm julie carey, news 4. >> now d.c.perates a similar kind of camera program that was launched two years ago and then expanded all over the citich the incentive program offers rebates to district residents and businesses w purchase security cameras. the city has approved more than 4,200 rebates so far for more than10,500 cameras. >> new tfallout for fixer for president trump. >> and how one local man put his stamp on a powerhouse radio station and what he plans to do next after decades at >>> we have new reaction for michael cohen's federal plea deal. cohen pled guilty on eight criminal counts including t that involved campaign finance violations. he admitted that payment were made before the election towo women who claimed to have sexual encounters with mr. trump. cohen said the payments were made at the direction of the candidate but did not name the presidentic specally. >> tonight president trump's attorney rudy giuliani called cohen dishonest. president trump says he feels bador his former manager paul mafort, now a

. >> buru chief julie carey joins us live as prosecutors roduced physical casence to back up their >>ulie, well, doreen, it's physical evidence that wil help them speak volumes. alack binder filled with pages of text messages. inside the shop classroom at langston hughes middle school ande insid its storage closet, that's where the sexual activity took place near the end oeathe school back in 2014. on the witness stand today the alleged victim now 18. says at the time she viewed her relationship with her former shop teacher at boyfriend/girlfriend. timothy threlkeld was once a voertional tea of the year. visibly uncomfortable the teen answered questions about how the intimate contan, be first with kiss and did he ever touch any of your private areas? yes, she respond, my breasts, vagina and butt, and in that shop room closet she testified threlkeld also made her touch him, and she tol jurors threlkeld once remarked about what would happen when she was older. he said that as a graduation gift he would tak my virginity away. the improper relationship was discovered tn june of 14 when th

our julie carey is working the story and a live report coming up in minutes. >> thank you, scott. >>president trump escg his attacks on special counsel robert mueller. >> a also speaking against john brennan and another ex-investigation member. >> blayne alexander is here to break it all dn for us. >> reporter: let's start with the attacks from president trump. they came via twitter which set up a rathe interesting and unlikely split screen. muile he was using that platform to insultler and former cia chief john brennan his wife,ir lady melania trump, was speaking at aonference against cyber bullying. president trump intensifying his tack on the russia investigation and special counsel robert mueller calling him disgraced and discredited leading a teamf angry dems looking to impact the election. it comes as the "new york times" reports white house attorney done mcgahn spent 30 hours speaking to them voluntarily but not talking about it today. meanwhile, suort continues to grow for former cia chief john brennan, a vocal critic of the president whose security clearance he revoked more

our bureau chief julie carey is at the fairfax county courthouse with details you'll hear only on news 4. julie? >> reporter: this young woman, she should be attending her first year of classes at a virginia university. instead, show's in a fairfax county courtroom telling jurors what she heard before her and herme f teacher in 2014 and evidencers entered new that they hope will back up the claim. this is the storage closet inside the middle school where the teenager said the teacher inappropriately touch her. timothy threlkeld was once the etch teacher of the year. visibly uncomfortable the teen answered prosecutor's questions about how intimate contact began, first with kissing. did he ever touch your private areas, y,, she sa my breast, my butt and vagina and in the sh rm closet she testified threlkeld made her tou him. introduced as evidence a thick black binder containing 600 pages of texts between the two exchanged in just a few weeks time. the improp relationship was discovered in june of 2014 when the alleged victim's older system caught her with threlkeld on a planned movie da

bureau c julie carey joins us live from dulles. sheor has on the new screening that already identified its first imster. tell us about it. >> reporter: the thousands of travelers arriving from abroad probably had no idea they were being screened by this new cutting edge technology. yesterday a man flying in brazil found out the hard way hen he was busted an an imposter. >>> the late afternoon crush of ar roofs inside customs. this weekllt , a new high-tech step in the process bolsteri our nation's security. here is a look of how it works. a traveler presents their passport. that photo is scanned in. then a new photo is taken and compared to the one on the passport. on wednesday the system's first bust. a man arriving from brazil presen but the facial comparison software revealed the picture on it did not match the one taken by the screener.>> hat meant we had an imposter. >> reporter: his real passport was fou iide his shoe, showing he was from the republi of congo. unsure if he posed a threat, he was september back to brazil. >> w

a>> veronic youngblood is behind bars facing a murder northern virginia bureau chief julie carey joins us live with the new details? >> reporter: julie? >> reporter: leon and pat, theo apartmentex where the shooting took place right through the trees there, blocks away from tyson's galleria. police were called there at so:25 last night and found two children have been shot inside an apartment. one was pronounced dead at the scene. this is the woman now accused of firing theho fatal that claimed her own daughter's life, 33-year-old veronica youngblood. court records reveal she's a mother of two and a few years ago in the midst of a contentious divorce her ex-husband got this protective sder against her. police sayte law prevents them from identifying the two victims, but the dispatch call suggests both are youngblood'ss daughter news 4 confirmed her youngest daughter 5-year-old brooklyn lo youn died from a gunshot wound to the head. the other girl, an older child, is in a life-threatening condition. afr the shooting youngblood fled toun louounty and knocked on an acquaintance's door and

julie carey talks about how this newrogram in stafford county could lead to faster arrests. >> reporter: outside thisaf rd business security cameras clear to see. ns that n array of scr travis harris can pull up on his cell phone if he wants. now the sheriff's office is hoping harris and hundreds of otherusiness and homeowners will consider registering their cameras. that way if a crime occurs in a certain area deputies will immediately know where to find camera video that might quicklyt identify a sus or getaway vehicle. >> the goal is we'll actually see some of these crimes on tape and be able t get to get the lookout quickly and get the suspects in custody. >> rorter: the new program is called scope. signup is called interested ae thnterested enter their name, address and e-mail and phone number on the sheriff' office website. another important part of bargain, it's up to the business owner or homeowner to decide i they want to turn their video over to the sheriff's department. travis harris says he's planning to sign up. >> i like it. i feel that is going toelp police and there's an

. >>> i'm julie carey at dulles airport where customs and border protection is using n technology to make sure travelers are who they say they are. th you wanted to save on prescriptions... so you went online... and got t in a mumbo-jumbo of co-pays, coupons and codes that your brain went offline. next time ask your cvs pharmacist. our pryzrietary search tool an ways to help lower your prescription costs. just drop in.... before you nk out... see what you might save at cvs pharmacy. >>> metro isg cra down on crime. it announced today it made its seventh ar rft this month after reports ofcein exposure on the rails. a woman who took a picture of a man in the act led police to the latest arrest. investigators tell us l atst three more men are wanted for similar crimes. >>> a dubiousor milestone the district. the city is dealing with its 10th homicide. last year at this time there were just70 over . the city says it's working hard to crackown on violent crimes and it's making some progress. >> all lanesne have reo after a single car accident on the bw parkway near the maryland 410 exit.

in northern virginia, i'm julie carey, news 4. e. the a.ampaign kicks off with a series of movie screings across virgini this weekend where they'll look for the next generation of volunteers for the work ahead. >> for more information go to our app and search e.r.a. >>> a prince george's county firefighter who was used to saving others is now in a serious fight for his own life and he's not alone. firefighter mccullough is battling sage 4 c coloncer developed due to the dangerous toxins he's exsedo as a firefighter. his fellow firefighters are holding a fund-raiser this weekend to raise money for alternative treatments for him. >> currently undergoing chemo and looking for other options because hisancer has progressed. >> for more information on sunday's fund-raiser or to learn morebout the go fund me page, go to our nbc washington app and search firefighter help. >>> now,ou ye heard it said over the years no a glass of red wine a day could be good for your heart or a beer a day wouldn't hurt you at all. some new information that may or may

as our northern virginia bureau chief julie carey reports, it's already identified someone trying tonter the country with somebody else's passport. >> reporter: i'm at the international arrivals area. customs and border protection started usingia the f recognition software on monday. by wednesday they snagged their first imposter here is a look at how it works. a traveler presents their passport. in.t photo is scanned then a new photo is taken and compared to the one on the passport. on wednesday the system's first bust. a mang arriv from brazil presented a french passport. but the facialn compariso software revealed the picture on it did match the one taken by the screener. when the man was pulled aside for more intee screening, he reportedly grew nervous. his real passport was found inside his shoe, showing he was from the replic ofcongo, the man not allowed to enter this country. travelers arriving at dullesay they welcome the new technology. >> sounds like it's good to. if it worked the other day, it's extra security and doesn't affect the te we're getting rough the airport, i'd

board chief julie carey went to loudoun county to see how they're ping. >> reporter: to look at these near-perfect grapes ripening on the vine, it might be hard to believe growers and winemakers have had a very uneasy summer. the problem -- way too much ra. >> the spring rains during flowering can sometimes hurt your yield. >> reporter: it's the head wine master's third season. >> typically it's easier to see it on pee underside. he personal vineyard has mostly avoided disease that could hurt the grapes. buiain other parts of virgin some vineyards have lost part of their crop. with harvest a few weeks away, the focus is growing the grapes. not the vines. that's why they're chopping some of them back. >> with the rainvit tricks the into thinking, oh, i can keep growing. craighill is still optimistic. >> i think that you can still make good wine this year, and -- and that's the beauty of being in virginia is that every year so fferent. >> reporter: still, one frustrated vineyard owner is calling this year 20-hate-teen. at theet potomac vable farm, there might be some agreement. in youri

news 4's julie carey broke this story on twitter just in the last half hour. >> joel evleen musa went in january and her bodies were found a couple of weeks later. julie careytaas s on who police charged. julie? >> reporter: well, this 18-year-old murruspect will be appearing tomorrow afternoon in fairfax county jenile court because the victim, joleen musa, was just 16 whenhe was killed. the case will start in juvenile court before it is later moved over and he's tried a ne a isn ll be charged with his former girlfriend's murder. you probably remember this fi high-pro case. musa was reported h missing by family in mid-january. they were fearful from the very beg that something terrible had happened when she left their house after receiving a text and never came back. their worst fears confirmed two weeks later when her body was found in fairfax's coun wood laun park not far fromri home. du the investigation into her disappearance though, police had discovered that she had been assaulted by her ex-boyfriend in the months before her death. he was mentioned at the time her body was found

where julie carey was down other in stafford county, getting nice little cells down here that way. in the washington area, we're mainly dry. a few storms just towards west wrginia inchester in the northern shenandoah valley and more storms coming up through leigh and central north carolina. those will continue to lift to the north, but you can see we've got -- we've got aittle sturbance over here on the western side, and eventually it's going t push to th northeast. behind it, nothing happening in nicincinnati, nothing hap in kentucky. high pressure in place. so we'll see a gradual drying-out period. it's not going to happenmontil ow morning and then through the weekend. severe weather today. here's the weather questiold there ce a few isolated showers and storms that become strong to severe, and floodingo is to be the main concern. it's not going to take much to get some flooding across the gion, but, again, for the ayvere weather, nothing like we saw yesterday but a storm or two heading into the evening. now, we're drying out for the weekend. thank goodness. if you're headed to t

bureau chief julie carey spoke to witnesses who witnessed the drama. >> reporter: these cell phone photose to an end when officers and canine units found their suspect hiding in the attic insulation at friend's house. it all started hours earlier when a patroler off saw kyle sunday driving down one of the ldin streets with his 2-year son in his lap. she tried to pull him over. instead of pulling over, sunday took off on foot carrying his son, and when he got t this creek, he tossedhe little boy down the embankment and into the water. luckily an officer w close behind. >> he discontinue pursuing mr. sunday and then pulled the child from the water. >> reporter: to make matters more confusing, not long after that in an apparenem att to cover for sunday his girlfriend called police to say her car had been serlen with child inepde. police k their focus on finding sunday and eventually learned he had fled to this house. they went into the attic, sending up a warren county sheriff's office canine that happened to live across the sunday was arrested. by that time, his girlfriend and the toddler w

i'm julie carey in historic falmouth park. we'll show you the big mess here and tell you what they are doing >>> and it is yet another weather alert day. storm team 4 tracking t chances of some storms and what we can expt for our weekend. ec >>> waves of rain moving our region. it's getting quite family. the storm tea has issued a weather alert and lauryn ricketts will be joining us with an update in just a couple of minutes. >>> but first we want to get back to that story we told but moments ago, the disappearance of that 12-year-old chinese girl from reagan national airport. she made her way out of the city.z erika gonzas now in the newsroom and erika hashe new details. >> reporter: jin jing ma was nund with her parents queens. that the news breaking late this afternoon and that accding to th metropolitan airport authority. the 12-year-old wasnd f today after an amber alert wasue i tuesday. the there were photos of her and a woman changing clothes at the airport and late this afternoon we got late word from the attorney's fa

. >> bureau chief julie carey shows us the damage done. >> reporter: it's a home so stately it has a name, spring glade, but now it looks more like a house of horrors. this is what a group of partyins renteft behind, lots and lots and lots of damage. >> blood, broken windows, broken doors. it looked like there was a mass murderer from his perspective there. >> reporter: these photos showed blood everywhere from some kind of fight that broke out. e propertymployee discovered the damage saturday morni g and thup that had rented the home on airbnb still on site. 911 was called and the owner jack andrews rushed over. his attorney says because of the uncertain scenee entered with his gun drawn. >> we didn't know what was there. we just knew that it was like a crime scen a >> reporterews attorney says the 77-year-old told the much younger crowd to stay and that the sheriff's office was on theay w instead they fled. he managed to block one carload trth his k, but when deputies arrived much to andrew's surprise he was handcuffed and charged with five counts of an ducks andirearms charges. th

in strasburg, julie carey, news 1. >>> tomorrow t university of maryland board of regents could shake football progm amideports of coaches bullying players and ignoring warning signs before one player died of heat stroke earlier this summer. the board will hold a conference call tomorroworning andhen decide whether to meet in a closed session to discuss personnel changes. today on "good morning america" the parents of jordan mcnair, the football player who died, arde it c where they stand. >> and the strength aco itioning coach has resigned, rick kort he edresi the head coach d.j. durkin is on tive leave. do you think he should resign as well? >> yes, absolutely. he shouldn't be t able work with anybody else's kid. you don't see any -- you don't send your way away to college, michael. you send away to college for them to be developed into young people and physically, emotionay, spiritually and just teach our children kids, our p youngple that rework so hard to get there to pay. i'm giving my child to you. keep him safe, and they did anything but, that so, of cohose, hed be fired. >> u

in strasrg, julie carey, news 4. >> just awful.ice used reverse 911 to get the word out when they were looking for the suspect and information that came into them helped locate him. >> still ahead a paddleboard and a strange feeling and encounter neither chesapeake bay has a local man thinking he wn bit by a shark. >> i don't know if wendy is buying that story though. she knows that terrain there. we'll see. -t>> backschool preps aren't just about the books and classrooms. we know the changes that somere students a making to protect students fm serious food allergies. >> it was supposed to be a dreamh hse built byitat for humanity for a single mom and military veteran. on the tside it looks nice. step inside, that's a whole other story. i'm david culver in stford county. just ahead, we take you ouin. >> andnd familiar? hotter i temperatures and rain the days ahead. >> here we go. houg is in the studio with the latest. warm are we talking, doug? >> temperatures into the mid-90s and heat index closer to 100 and tracking storms off to

julie carey, tnk you >>> a school bus driver in montgomery county faces felony charges includi rape. now they want to know if they have other questionbout him. he's accused of sexually assaulting two students on a special needs bus late last month. the attack was captured on the school bus camera. officials have xaegathered information about the routes kabongo has driven. the we've posted the number in our nbc washington app. >>> a baby is in the room as a man opens fire on his girlfr the child is okay, and the young woman made a desperate escape running down two flights of tairs to a neighbor who could help. news 4's meagan fitzgerald is in waldorf and she spoke to neighbors about what happened and didn't want to go on camera. >> so she came in the room and r gasping ir whatever, holding her chest saying kennyh shot her. >> reporter: a young mother desperate for help after police say her boyfriend was trying to kill er. it happened just after 12:30 inside this waldorf artment building. charles county deputies arrived on scene an spent hours investigating while the woman was airlifte

bureau chief julie carey reports this tragedy has left first responders so shaken they areec attending a l debriefing this evening. >> reporter: it's a sight that brings tears to the eyes of neighbors, a little girl's blue bedroom crushed by a fallen tree. it happened not long after 10-year-old lydia gergos was cked into bed. the 911 call came in around 10:25 p.m. in the midst of a un rstorm, a tree had fallen trapping a child. emergency crews arrived quickly. >> the tree fallen through the roof, through the ceiling on to the bed and pinned her and - and they tried frantically everything that they could to try to free the victim and couldn't. >> reporter: lydia was pronounced dead at the scene. first responders shaken by the pay but taking time to their respects as the child's body was removed and drivenay >> that there was a tribute after the victim was moved from the house, that the first responders lined the driveway as she was brought out. >> the victim'sinamily is a for privacy right now, but friends are remembering lydia gergos as a girl who loved softball, a team mom who ceated

i in springfiel julie carey, news 4. >>> get a look at our forecast.have seae lovelyer heading our way giving us a nice break from this excruciatingly hot and humid summer. >> ,ye and the nice weather will be moving in on thursday and friday. tomorrow weit defy want to have the umbrella handy. it's a weather alert day with some showers and thuorms out there. some storms during the afternoon and evening hours and the stronger and maybe even severe side especially about 3:00 and sock p.m. that -- 3:00 and so10:00 p.m. we actually have a cold lifting through the area and we'll pool rainhances from the warm and cold front. what does that mean for you? s anrms tomorrow could have heavy rain and strong gusty ndnds. isolated flooding potential for wind damage, and i also can't rule out some hail and a weak tornado tomorrow. the winds are right in the atmosphere where we could get some rotation out there, so someing will be keeping a close eye on. i'll be here once again tomorrow during the afternoon and eveni hours, so at the bus stop some patchy fog with a c

julie. carey, news >> leon harris here with late-break news coming to the live desk. we're working on a story, a very tragic story in fairfax police say that a child has died after falling out of a window on seminary road in falls church, and we believe that this happened at the skyline towers building which happens to be the same building where a 3-year-old died back in maye afterll out of a window. we've go the our jackie benson headed there to the scene, and as soon as show checks in with us we'll have a live report coming up. >> thank you, leon. >>> privas concern surrounding one of the world's biggest internet. ahead, the infortion you're giving to google even though you think you stopped track your physical whereabouts. >> months after announcing her retirement, the green of soul aretha franklin is said to be seriously ill. right now we've got an update on her condition from someone who saw her today. >>> andtorm team 4 is tracking the chance of severe weather and flash floods. liug and amea are backin the >>> storms out there right now bringing sure hail to reg

you said it, julie carey. counterprotesters have been ridrowning out fat activists so far today. news 4's darcy spencer h been speaking with demonstrators who have been denouncing hate. she joins us live at lafayette square with reaction. >> reporter: that's right. i've been with the counterdemonstrators for the last several hoursan today. iell you many of them felt very good, very proud of the fact that so many turnedor out the counterdemonstration today. their numbers far outnumber the people who were he forhe unite the right rally. i'm right here at lafayette . squa you can see there are still some people milling around, but the rally is over, like you said basically before it was even set to begin. they arene, but the counterdemonstrators s hanging around here even though it's raining. i want to show you some video that we shot before the rall took place right over on 15th street, not far from the white house. people took t the streets for a demonstration. black lives matter and other organizations came together to protest in the street, saying that hate is not welcome here i

jim, back to you. >> julie carey, julie, thank you. ng there.eartbrea >> reporter: we have breaking news tonight, a new sexual abuse scandal within the catholicnd church, this one could have implications right here in ceshington. the d of pittsburgh says it plans to release the names of clergy members accused of child sexual abuse. in a letter to parishioners or the weekend the bishop promised names will be releas once the grand jury report investigating the abuse is released. now thes letter s nearly 90% of the reported cases in the diocese happened before 1990. that the couldnc coie with the time that cardinal worrell was the archbishop there. worrell was there from 1998 to 2006. at this point there's no link between worrell and the investigation. >>> dev aoping right no school bus driver charged with sexual assaulting a young girl with i special needs montgomery county. police arrested etienne kabongo. they say he a assaulted 12-year-old last week. news 4's nicole jacobs is in rockville with reaction from the school district. nicole

carey,in county, julie news 4. >> sheriff's investigators tell us that a fight did break out. they have confirmed that at the home when another group crashed the party. >> now to the maryland governor's race and a new poll that shows the incumbent with a sizable lead. hogan can governor larry is polling at 52% with hismo atic challenger ben jealous at 36%. 11% remain undecid in the recent survey registered vers from the gonzalez research and marketing strategy company. take a look at how the vote breaks down by region. hogan leads on the eastern shore and in western maryland. in baltimore county and in anne arundel county. jealous leads in prince george's county, baltimore city. >> an historic day for mayor muriel bowser during her visit to el salvador. today she visited the hometown of thousands of sal live here in d.c. she was greeted by the mor there. mayor bowser watched performances and was awarded the keys to the city >> i hope it sends the message that we -- we care about our salvadoran community. hey are to learn where from, their history and culture. itelps us better

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julie carey was in court as the teen toldsi her v what have happened. >> it was inside this shop classroomlangston hughes middle school, storage closet there, where the alleged sexual activity took place neither end of the school year back in 201 on the witness stand the alleged victim now 18 describing her past relationship with her former shop teacher. he was once a vational ed teacher of the year. in sometimes halting testimony and visibly uncoortable, the teen answered prosecutor's questions about how the intimate contact began, first kissing and asked the prosecutor sked, can you describe how she kissed you? >> like a peck on the lips. >> can you describe how it sn't a peck on the lip. >> french kissing. >> did he ever touch anypr of t ate areas? >> yes, my breast, myagina and bu and she testified he also made her touch him. the improperelationship w discovered in june of 2014d hen the allectim's older ister caught her with the teacher on a planned movie date at the reston town center. police and school oicials were alerted but the girl said the two had only kissed. asked the prosecut

as our bureau chief julie carey reports, it was an 84-year-old man who went for help. >> teri jo hilbrand and dale wolfe knew each other for some time. yibland was adviceig the home when the two stabled to argue. nd's step-father heard the argument and wenatout to see as happening. >> he found out am fay lem member on top of a person assaulting h with a blunt object. when he couldn't stop wolf he an to the house next door and by the time police arrived hilbrandas death lying inside the front door. her attacker still inside. >> he was located in another part of the scene. >> reporter: he was taken to the hospital with a treatment for minor cut on his wife. whether it it was -- to the was ed killer's mother a out of town an doesn't really know what's happening. her son dale wolfe is not coming homeon any time he's facing murder charges and will be held without bond. juliecarey, news 4. >>> for most students in d.c. school doesn't start for a week but in 13 city schools their first day was today. those schools have an an extended year andimee cho went to kook elementary to see how everyone f

one of the victims from last year in charlottesville is telling her story to julie carey. >>> the womd two broken legs, a broken arm and a long, challenging year of recovery. omshe talks about thet a car plowed into her. >> when i was hit, i had no tea what was going on. i had heard screaming that sounded different from the rest of the day and i was just beginning to think, should i run? and then i heard - that was hit hitting bodies. >> much more from this powerful interview coming up at 5:00, including this woman's determination to get better and what is next for her. >> it's an inspiring story not to be missed on a busy wednesday. heion and pat, back to you for no f >> lookingward to it. see you in just a bit. >>> what new research tells about your chances of surviving a heart turns out your gender may matter. >>> and the first congressman to endorse president trump now under arrest. we'll go live to capitol hl we'll go live to capitol hl and get ilth welcome guys! hi! you are gonna love the neighborhood! it's tally wired for fios. is that a good thing? good? fiber-optics can move

in loudoun county, i'm julie carey, news 4. wow.ou don't want that to happenou when y went your house. >> you never do. boy, there's so many triggers out there. it's not easy right nowt represing property. for airbnb you take a risk sometimes.te >> abso. >> but easy to enjoy a day like today. >> nice to stepoutside without an umbrella, stepping outside and say it's raining on me or it's raining over there. >> can we get one day without thunderstorms. >> tomorrow,hat's the day. you know what annie said. the sun will come out tllorrow. >> r no chance of rain tomorrow or into today on thursday, but, yeah, we're seeing the chance outside right now. take a lookcross our region and you notice the blue skies and skies starting to build arou the d.c. metro area. 86 degrees right now and droppingnto the 80-degree range and shower activity through 7:00 in the districand then really nice weather this evening and dropping to 76 degrees by 11:00. ing to be a really nice night tonight. here are the correct numbers. look at 75 in esburg, why? rain

julie carey visited a loudoun county veyard to see what steps they're doing it weather this difficult season. >> reporter: this time of you're, you'd love to have -- >> every day like this. yes. we want sunshine. >> reporter: but instead, virginia vineyards have seen rain. far too much rain. it's created such a challenge that one vineyard owners calling this year 20-hate-teen at sunset hills, the head winemaker says they're still hopeful thedjustments will pay off with quality grapes. e trouble started when heavy rainfall impacted the flowering plants, reducing theumber of grapes. then the worry wasfungusrom all the moisture. >> typically it's easier to see it on theunderside. ripe the personal vineyard has mostly avoided disease that could hurt the grapes. but in other parts of virginia, some vineyards he lost part of their crop. witharvest a few weeks away, the focus is growing the grapes. not the vines. at's why they're chopping some of them>> back. ith the rain it tricks the vine into thinking, oh, i can keepgr ing. hestead of ripening the fruit. >> reporter: and grapes are going

bureau chief julie carey has a look at the cleap efforts. >>> falmouth park has beencl osed since june 23rd when the worst floodwaters in decades coated much of the parke and b trail and road in mud, but that's just part of the pblem. the other part degree. >> hartge of trees. >> since now muddied or knocked ant to nd you wouldn't grill on this anymore. stafford county's challenge is how now to clean it up. last weekend the first one dry enough to attack the mess, they used county workers and lots of trucks. >> we had 75 dump truckloads of debris taken out of here, about 340ons of debris, and that was the first effort. >> the trees too big to remove are getting stacked up along the fire planned big b for fall, but even as progress is being made floodwaters swept through againar eer this week. >> behind us was a bike trail and it was sort of cleared off and now it's not because of the severe flooding we had two days ago. one step forward and two accepts back kind of -- and two steps back. >> we get a lot of visitors here at the river and when people come and go and after the parm closes

in loudoun county, julie carey, news4. >> unfortunately for the grapes, there's more rain in the forecastor the weekend. >>> you have to steer clear of the virginia wineries. we'll have a weather alert coming up. >>> and a four-day event planned to pay tribute t o >>> more breaking news. arlington county has confirmed its first case of west ni virus thi year. the health department is urging people to fight it b draining or dumping standing water near the house, dress in long pants and wear sleeves and use repellant. st people don't show symptoms, and cannot be spread by coughing, sneezing, or touching someone with the virus. fairfax and priune george's have also seen cases this year. back to you. >>> a stormy friday. friday night has begun. the radar is tracking all sorts of storms. >> yeah. once again we're in weather al at mode. do amelia standing by with look now at another severe thundetorm warning. >> what's going on? >>warren, rappahannock county until 5:30. 5:30 this evening. we're tracking the storms wdon, bure also looking at the weekend. >> it's not going to be a washout. plenty

julie carey checked in with two generations of e.r.a. warriors. >> this banner saw many different marches. >> reporter: a relic of the pa, of a dream unfulfilled. these fairfax county woman were on the line to get the equal rights amendment passed i virginia before a 1982 deadline. >> that drove everything.ou people,know, had to make sacrifices to get this work r:ne. >> reporow in their 70s emily and jean became life-long friends low their work onhe e.r.a. she took a leave from her work at ibm to run a phone bank i arlington to drum up support for legislative candidates who would back the e.r.a. >> we made a gazillion phone calls. >> reporter: failed to ratify the e.r.a. by the deadline. >> it w sad. but i think we all felt we'll come back and we'll get this done some day. but it's been many >> reporter: now, three decades later, a new generation is picking u the torch. this delegate will sponsor the bill. >> for us to really push for the equal right amendment. >> reporter: the spotlight is suddenly on virginia because it's poised to bec

reporting live from springfield, i'm julie carey, back for you. >> thanks, jewells. >>> the judge grantedreos ramos to file a plea of not crimionlly reble by reason of insanitity. ramos is charged with five counts of fir-degree murder e and is facing a total of 23 criminal charges,n all i "capital with the gazette" newsroom shooting. >> ramos has pled not guilty, and his aorneys haventil october 24th to file. >>> some people have lemonade stands or garage sales in their drivewaysut one leesburg woman has a flourishing flower stand andseas already r more than $50,000 in just six years. news 4's aimee cho introduces us to the leesburg flower lady. >> i'm cutng this pretty well. >> reporter:achel roberts is a person who never let's grass grow beneath his feet. >> have to be very quick and efficient. >> doesn't take long to get a bucket full. >> reporter: as the leesburg in lady spends hours every day in the garden and her hustle stems money fromct that these flowers go to loudoun nger relief. >> the fact that we're able to give it to the food pantry is a good, good feeling. reporter: and the

julie carey joins us live with more on this. for the first time we're hearing from a family memb t. >> reportet's right, leon. today i spoke to the paternal r great-grandmotf the victim from her home in missouri, talked to her by phone. as can you understand, family absolutely devastate bid what s happened ounday night, and she says the surviving daughter, a teenage girl, had undergone three surgeries and is still fighting forif her now as for the victim's mother, she appeared in court today and didn't mention the girls. in fact, she barely spoke at all. appearing in court on a tv monitor veronica young her head and refused to look into the camera. the judge tol her she faced a second-degree murder chargfor the shooting death of her daughter. -year-old brooklyn was found sunday night in this apartment dead from a gunshot wound to the head. when the judge asked youngblood about an attorney she said quietly i don't want counsel. you understand that is very serious charge. teyoungblood rep i don't want counsel, but the judge told h

julie carey, news 4. >> new details about last week's incident in centerville where an intruder was shot by the home a homeowner found a would-be burglar on his screen porchch the sus made a move towards the homeowner so the homeown h fire weapon. the suspect walked home and went to a hospital where he was found by police. the suspect confessed to the crime. in thee of you live suburbs for the peace and the quiet, but the fear of getti shot is a reality in one loudoun county neighborhood. bullets hit several homes over the weekend outside of leesburg on ahrens c viewrt and another development off ball hill road and here's the story. >> reporter: tonight a punctured home with bullets leaving glass shattered and the homeowners uneasy. >> we had every neighbor on our street in our house on sunday trying to figure out what was going on, and everybody is nervous about >> reporter: the residents are asking we not show their face and they shared with us the damage from yesterday's shootings, at least two bullets hitting their home. down the street, at least up other home also it's land that was

. >> julie carey, thank you, carey. >>> today the judge in the paul manafort trial told the ju to isregard some of his courtroom criticism. yesterday hely criticized the prosecutors for allowing the irs official to testify but the judge bacd down showed that the judge granted permission for the witness to remain in theom court the jury is also getting a look at the scope of manafort's dalleged tax fr during his political consulting work in ukraine.it ses testified he earned more than $30 million. he allegedly reported income of just 13 million. prosecutors say he failed to report more than $16 million that he spent on luxuries. >>> space force, the very name conjures up futuristic images of intergalactic battles with alien versaries. in truth, it's more about protecting satellites than space stations. still, president trump's plan for a new branch of the military is one step closer to reality tonight. here's blayne alexander with more. hi, blayne. >> reporter: and, you know, none of this will come to pass unless congress signs off on it, so that's certainly important to note. the administr

only on news 4 she's telling the story of recovery and renewed determination to bureau chief julie carey her identity, fearfulachite supremists might target here. >> reporter: it's a terrifying scene of violence played around the world as a white supremacist plowed through a crowd of counterprotesters in charlottesville. lisa was in the middle of that crowd. >> when i was hit, i had no idea ng on.as g i heard screaming that sounded different from the rest of the day. i was beginning to think, should i run, and then i heard -- that was him hitting bodies. >> reporter: hitng her body. inis has been her daily drill as she fights to rehat was taken from her during those violent seconds. lisa is a long-time animal rights activists who protested on that issuny times before. her decision to join those supremacists was simply shifting the fight to human rights. >> i wanted go and stand up against people who are violent and oppressive. >> reporter: once in charlottesville, she met a groud from. and marched with them. >>s felt terrified and i wa standing there as people were lining up in formation

our bureau chief julie carey reports now from fairfax county's courthouse. >> reporter: well, this wasposed to be a week of new beginnings for youngblood family. they were supposed to move to missouriar instead, the mourning a child's death. i spoke it a relative in midst midst by phone today. the victim's paternal great-grandmother says they are devastated by what happened and hoping and praying now that tha teenageister who was also shot will somehow pull through. >> the police distch call sunday night chilling. >> advising the suspect is there saying she just killed her two daughters and currently has a gone. >> reporter: a subdued veronica court ond appeared in a tv monitor hanging her head and refusing to look into the camera. the judge told her she faced a second-degree murder charge for the shooting death of her daughter, 5-year-old brooklyn found zuntuny night in this apartment dead from a gunshot wound to the head. when the judge asked youngblood about an attorney she said quietly i don't want counsel. said the judge, you understand th is a very serious judge. youngblood repea

in warrenton, julie carey, news >> friends of the family have set up a gofundme account to help that family. search memorial fund in our nbc washington app. >>> we also have breaking news. there is an amber alert this evening for a child who was kidnapped from reagan national airport. virginia state police say 12-year-old jin jing ma was taken by an asian woman possibly 40 years of age wearing a black dress. ney were last s leaving the airport. news 4's shomari stone is at reagan where we're expecting a live update from airport officials and anyone with information contact theme opolitan washington airport authority. >>> now to union station. an amtrak train derailed outside today with nearly 200 people o board. everyone is okay, but the passengers were stuck on that train for over an hour after it happened. tr asportation reporterm tuss is at union station and has had a chance to talk wit some of those passengers. i'm going to guess they were pretty freaked out, adam. >> reporter: absolutely. a scary situation, leon, as you can imagine. as far as delays are concerned, we're still se

. >> reporter: in warrenton, julie carey, news 4. >>> a security scare on capitol hill blocked streets for a time this morning. capital police discovered a vehicle with a weapon and ammunition parked along new jersey avenue. robert combs of georgia was arrested and chargedar with fi violations. police say there's no evidence linking this incident to terrorism. >>> a prince george's county icon is no more. al's country kitchen among the homes and businesses destroyed by fire ernight. the restaurant's located nextcoo the urthouse which made it a go-to spot for years. news had4 owes justin finch reports. >> reporter: the damage is bad, enough to stop people inks thei trnd enough for others to come see for themselves. >> this is the scene and it's weird that this is not be here anymore. >> reporter: above a gaping hole from this-mile-an-hour street building best known for al's countryki hen. >> just devastating. good people. they have been here for years. >> reporter: and then this. about 1:30 a.m. fire ripped from the rooftop of al's and some 10e ighters were called in. the prince george'

. >> bureau chief julia careys live outside the apartment where the children were fnd. julie?en and jim, that apartment where the shooting took r placeht through the woods there, a few blocks away from tyson's gal rest. the big qn tonight, what would cause a mother to turn a gun on her own child. w we don't know the answer to at th, but what we do knowe from th court documents there was strife within the family. the wife and ex-husband h been fighting over child custody issues for years. >> reporter: veronica youngblood charged with an thinkable crime, shooting two children.