we are here at the louden elks lodge in sterling. i'm joined by dean snyder who is a past president here. we something wonderful is happening on sunday based on a story that we did last week. and that is, there will be a furniture and household goods collection drive. tell us more about what our drew viewers can do -- what our viewers can do to help. saturday is the day noon to 5:00. what are you collecting for these veterans? >> i would say right now we are collecting everything that you can hi of. basically what these gentlemen and ladies have is a roof over their head. we go into these homes that have nothing. we came in and completely funnished this house for them. we go through these different places and see what we need to see and look at the what is the welcome home project that the elks are doing. tell us what they use the most. and i want to mention two items they cannot use. mattresses and box springs because both of those have to be brand new. so tell us what you really need. how we can all help our veterans. who doesn't h

louden's small business development center is sponsoring the event. speaker is elaine espinoza. successful business owner and mom. i think we need to see more women in business. there's something really special. you find a lot of women who family and then they find themselves highly educated with a lot of skills with a lot of experience. >> this conference really focuses on any aspects of growing a small business that someone might need to know. >> for more information about monday's small business conference, search small business in the nbc washington app. >> talk about a reputation for telling it like it is. radio and tv personality known for not holding back, talks to barbara harrison about his new book, race relations and it bringing controversy in our area. on if you d >>> here are four things to know this afternoon. a lot of new developments after president trump fired fbi director james comey. nbc news is learned comey had requested more staff and more money to investigate russian interference in the election. meantime, virginia senator mark w

fairfax county, we can take louden out.s fairfax county and portions of montgomery county and look at the line extending farther down to the south even down towards fredericksbu fredericksburg. you see a lot of lightning associated with this. more storms forming right in to the d.c./metro area right through reston, we just saw this come through -- take a look at some video. she just shot this video and we have it right now. pea size hail coming down and coming down hard around the area. this is the severe thunderstorm warning. it continues until 6:00 tonight. now pretty good stuff. out there right now, just down to the south and east of warrenton. this is in fauquier county a got hit hard yesterday. this storm is not as strong as yesterday's for sure but we do expect it to continue off to the east. i-95 will continue to be a mess. as we widen out here, you have one boundary here, one little finger of moisture moving on through, another one back to the west. we're going to watch this so even when this one's through, we're no

this sunday the louden elk will host a collection drive. andrew mckaren will also be there accepting your donations of new or gently used household items or furniture. but they say no used mattresses. all other donations will be accepted from noon the address is 401 west holly avenue in sterling. again that is this sunday may 21st. >>> trending now how tweets from bill gates sent a book to the top of the charts on amazon. >> david letterman received an award from the kennedy center. and maybe jimmy kimmel will help get the oscars right the second time around. how about this forecast topper? >> it's a great looking evening. even late tonight if you are out still 71 at 10:00. 68 in gaithersburg. 71 in hagerstown. we'll come back and talk about the threat of record highs tomorrow and also thursday. looking ahead to the weekend we have narrator:to do time is what is right. ralph northam. army doctor during the gulf war. volunteer director of a pediatric hospice. progressive democrat. in the senate, stopped the transvaginal ultrasound anti-choic

. >>> a family in louden county finally has the chance to memorialize an american hero lost during thenam war. first lieutenant william ryan was buried today with full military honors at arlington national cemetery. news4 kristin wright talks to his family what this means to them all these years later. >> reporter: celebrating an american hero who gave everything to his country. first lieutenant william ryan and for his sacrifice a burial with full military honors at arlington national cemetery. the marine aviator was shot down in 1969, leaving behind his young wife and son the day before his first birthday. >> being almost five decades since we lost him. >> reporter: all these years later mike ryan has his own family by his side on an unforgettable day. >> for him to be memorialized this way and honored this way here by the marines and arlington national cemetery was amazing. >> reporter: the defense department recentlyou and identify them using dna. >> final le found him and brought him home. >> reporter: the day after lieutenant ryan's family found out that his remains had finally b

jena louden and adrian elrod. adrian, did he win you over? >> absolutely not. there's more questions than answers. even before this hearing today, the bottom line is director comey showed bias throughout the campaign and we still have questions that need to be answered. >> gina, hillary clinton said as much yesterday, that had it not been for his disruption a couple weeks before election day, she would be president now. what do you think? >> not a chance, neil. hillary forgets this all started because she chose to put an illegal server in her basement. you look beyond that at things like the meeting with lois learner on the tarmac, the now -- we discovered all of this about abedin forwarding classified information. the clintons are scandal-ridden and it has nothing to do with trump. >> neil: and the russians or any of the stuff that came up here advised or stopped hillary clinton from campaigning in states like wisconsin. david axlerod said as much. she was a lousy candidate and that's what did her in. >> look, she's certainly admitted like she did yesterday th

before you get to louden county and also in southern prince george's county. we'll come back and talk about how much rain could fall and if that will mean flooding by tomorrow morning and if we will stronger is blasting without risking her bones. it's training her good cells... to fight the bad guys. stronger is less pain... new hope... more fight. it's doing everything in your power... and everything in ours. stronger, is changing even faster than they do. because we don't just want your kids to grow up. we want them to grow up stronger. >>> stephen colbert is declaring himself a winner. >> the peck spoke to time mag sheen southbound traffic add most important issue to him. this show. >> you see a no talent guy like colbert. there is nothing funny about what he says. the president of the united states has personally come after me and my show. and there is only one thing to say. [ laughter ] >> you hear him talking about you; right? >> he's have great time

. >> and you can now find love along the w and od trails in louden's count.it will be unveiled officially on harrison street across from the park in leesburg. the word love is made from recycled bicycle parts. they assembled the work this morning. >> the love sculpture that you see around the state of virginia all have specific themes to the area, that they're located in and this one being in proximity to the wod trail reflected cyclist and the community that uses this path. >> the structure's seven feet high. it took the skup >> we all had to deal with the hot and humid weather today but several hundreds folks in south d.c. braved all that heat for a good giveway. hour tom sherwood visited the program as we showed you those who are working for you in our community. >> reporter: about 800 families from around metro walking were selected to take part in the food giveaway. parks loaded up with all kinds of household products too. quickly being hauled away and empty carts going back to help someone else. >> you're standing out here in all this heat. >> i got to

here to discuss with us, we're going to bring back gina louden and kirsten hag lund, but first, senatorairman of the senate select committee on intelligence and senator mark warner, vice chairman of the senate select committee on intelligence, today announced former federal bureau of invest director james comey has committed to testifying in open session before the committee. the committee was scheduled to open the hearing after memorial day. major, major news, kirsten. what do you make of it? >> it's obvious that jim comey wants to tell his own story, right? there's been so much talk from friends, people that claim to have been in the room with him, that know him, that have access to his notes. he wants to share his own story, and i think it's, obviously, very beneficial for our congress to have that as well pause they're out there -- because their out there trying to get their opinion on this, and they want to be seen as credible to their constituents as well. transparency's good for all. charles: it seems like james comey has been setting this up for himself, getting his narrative ou

coming into northern montgomery county, frederick, western louden get ago few sprinkles.ying up and getting closer to us. by 10:00, partly sunny again, breezy, chilly in the low 50s. near 60 during the afternoon. a chance of a few passing showers back down into the low 50s later evening. and a cold start montd morning. we'll look at that ask where the coldest spots are going to be tomorrow morning. that's in just a few minutes. >> thank you, tom. >>> we continue to follow developments in this deadly stabbing in green belt. police are asking people to help them track down a suspect this morning. ocha was found stabbed to death outside an apartment complex on south ora court on tri morning. shefgs killed sometime we know midnight and 6:00 in the morning. if you have any information, please contact green belt his. >>> the world is remembering team usa gold medalest steven holcomb found dead yesterday in his training room. he was expected to be at the 2018 winter games. he made history in the 2010 vancouver games when he led the bob sled team to gold. he was the first u.s. go

louden a conservative columnist joining conversation thanks so much for joining us i want to ask aboutms of kathy griffin apology here this morning. >> the democrats keep talking about how looking for the face of their party and i just want them to understand, that middle america is looking at this, and waiting for condemnation from party officials those who say they are leading the party, that this is not okay that this is not acceptable this is not the face of the democrat party recertainly all hope not but something like this so offensive tells you they literally a, a literally a there are whole segments of the left who have -- have uards reality. >> can you believe with if somebody did to president obama or dog or baby seal doesn't even the list goes on. >> anything. >> -- this -- he would be up in arms left going crazy saying this is a result of the -- you know, of trump, and -- nato -- the list goes on so not funny. >> we so loft he civility they have themselves to thanks senator. >> tiger woods in news according to police report interpret golfer found at wheel of mercedes passed