we have flooding in northern virginia. we are tweeting all of it. >> thanks for joining us.t to follow these guys on twittea all morning. ot of updates coming down the pike. >> on wtop radio and our washington app. >>> we'll be back inth5 minutes ll of your weather, traffic and local news. >> thanks for joining us. just bause we're wrapping the show doesn't mean we stop >>> good morning, wicked weather coast-to-coast, some storms trigger dangerous flooding in the east. >>> emergency declared. a popular theme park shuts down 34 million people from the carolinas to new england bracing for even more heavy rain while out west another 40 milli facing yet another day of record breaking heat.ol >>> out of con more than 60 people killed coernight as wildfires rage along the greek t. tourists trapped by flames forced to flee into the ocean.ge emy evacuations near athens creating a traffic nightmare during the peak summer season. we're live with the ve latest.

pride of t was the northern virginia. they very much earned their and that's remembered to this day. some of you have heard me talk about the texas brigade before about you don't know much the unit, the core regiments are the first, fourth and fifth regiments.try at the beginning of the war they are organized into a brigade in 1862.ring of also in the brigade, 18th as well as eight companies of wade, hampton, south carolina legion the south ns and carolinians will leave the unit antigua and ttle of transferred in will be the third arkansas infantry. on the e going with me tour tomorrow we'll be look agent the first, fourth, fifth exan and the third arkansas as part of the texas brigade and we'll be focused more on the fight that fourth and fifth had. the first texas is a slightly regiment within this brigade. these are the guys who as early as they possibly could. they actually left texas and virginia before jefferson davis had decided that e would allow texans to be recruited for the fighting, because at the time, they t

the supplier would send a woman to philadelphia, northern virginia one by e. they'd have the woman for a week, drive her around to clients' homes. on sundays, they would switch out the so-called inventory. again, basically sending that wambach and another woman would come down on the bus.t that const shuffle of different women in different towns gives you an idea of how difficult it would be for any of these won to t to break free. >> walks out the front door, she doesn't even know where she is. where is the closest police station, where is the closest phone? si reporter: now, the men would advertise with bss cards that have the word on it that as a code word for $30. stn other words, cers would know they could get a sexual act for $30. now, these men facing some very, very serious charges. live in loudoun county, chris lawrence, news 4. ris, thank you. >>> a family in new jersey says they feel ed. a woman allegedly tricked them into thinking she was dying of brain cancer. kylie white stayed with the ans family for five straight weeks. the family met her throu

parkway in parts of northern virginia. drivers tell me that they were trying to get to the airport. missed their flights after this happened. now, you know how we say turn around and, d'trown. that's quite frankly irrelevant here because these drivers say it was completely dry and all of a sudden that rain started pounding and they had nothing to do. tthey didn't know w to do. it's also worth pointing out that around 4 people were rescued from 25 cars. the good news it is that no one was injured. the badhe news, t cars, a lot of these drivers are telling me it's a total d loss. th't want to drive them. they are flooded out and it's also worth mentioning that some of the drivers were uber drivers and insult t injury now they can't even help people and with their jobs with uber because their cars a destroyed. we're going to bring you another live report about this tonight at 11:00 on nbc news washington news 4. thanks for watching. back to you. >> all right. shomari stone, that's a mess glad the water has gone down. theck out the scene at nats park. skies are darkening as rain slammed

parts of northern virginia, really under the gun.ounty, fairfax county, montgomery county. look at the line that developed all the way down t fredericksburg. back to the west, stey rainfall around winchester. in and around the d.c. metro area in through d.c., those showers and thunderstorms. i want to show you what's been happening. this is the area i've been zooming into. coming down in places like ng ster right over dulles, centerville, herndon, great fall now moving in towards portions of theac pot and bethesda. storm team 4, our photographer right now driving in and around this reg right here. this area is under a flood warning. not a flash flood warning but a flood warning until 10:45 tonight. heads up around creeks ands. stream this is going to be the case, driving one of these back roads right here, not a nice night fon driv at all. i want to zoom into this area, the heaviest rain. we could fee ash flood watch at any time here because we've seen a couple of inches of rain -- startingup to see a of inches fall. look at middleto

parkway and parts of northern virginia.e airport access road atea rn national airport. again, firefighters rescues 40 people. the good news, however, is that no one wasio serly injured, but there are backups on the g.w. parkway on the othere. sid let's roll some -- come back out here live so you all can say. just to let you know.ou if ylanned on take jefferson davis hohway t the airport, it's very backed up and took us a while to get to this point to bring you this live report that you're seeg right now. >> hey, hows itoing. thanks for watching. all right. th pks. there aple who right now who planned on taking their flights outaif the ort, and one guy told me his flight is delayed. he plans on cancelling. the gentleman who owns this car no showing his face on camera because he's a l tle embarrassed after what happened and this car has to be towed out ot here. it's a loss. back to you in the studio. >> what a mess down there. shomari, t wnk you. >> want to take a closer look now at president trump's evolvingomments surroundi

but if you look at the lighter green, anne undel county into the district and down int northern virginia,a spotsylva and stafford county, all under a flood warning. the times v a bit, 11:00 p.m. east of 95, farther south tomorrow morning. looking at theno radar you can see why. check this out. it's looming through time here. its progression is moving nanth west. so where rain was lighter, it's getting heavier. we are sing some of this start to fizzle out the farther south you go. but it's been coming down and be for a n of hours. that's prompted the flood warnings. as you can see, where we're looking ahe orange, the yellow, and the deep reds, that heavier rain has now shifted west of 95. down towarm. prince will they are picking up some very heavy rain. i'm going to check on the accumulations thereust a moment. but areas like spotsyeeania, have five-plus inches of rain. as we move through the couple days, we're not seeing any reprieve. that chance for showers and storms, all the way through st top of next week, and it's going to be widespread. everyone's going to get a shot at more rain.

>> eyyes, are. > that was hernandez talking with our northern virginia bureau chief annual julie carey. they say heom took women philadelphia, maryland and virginia. lice say hend another man would get a new woman from a greyhound bus station every week. both men have now bonded out of jail. >>> the time is 4:36. re's a look at the other top stories. the fbi working to find a 9-year-old who is missing. this is crystal moore who disappeared. she was seen wearing white andn brheckered pants and a brown shirt. the ex employ takes and human trafficking task force is helping with the search. >>> working to avoid atrike with the largest worker union. the twoides metaphor talks yesterday, which they say werec nstructive and frank. both sides set to meet again today. >>> record setting night. american league won 8-6 in ten innings. fans saw a record ten home runs during the game. national sluggere brarper didn't get lonely in the outfield during the all-star game. >> spoke with the game announcers live. it was early in the game when joe buck was talking to bryce about the winning season and th

police say one man leftle two peinjured in northern virginia. a secret service officer says he tried to pull a man over going the wrong way early this morning but the man kept going. he then jumped on to i-66 also going the wrong direction. a viewer capturedhis picture. the driver bailed out of the car apparently but not before hitting another car. both the driver of that car and the passenger in the suspect vehicle suffered minor injuries. police aested the passenger. the drivers have not been fod. >>> new tonight we sent you an alert. the nats will be well respected. shry burri joins us with the familiar faces you can expect to see here in town. >> there will be three familiar taking r national fans the field in the mlb all-star game. the nats threeat represees posing for a photo after being announced. second career all star selectioo sean dolittle. price harper also with his sixth career selection while getting the nod is nice, playing in front of your home fans is even better. >> superexcited to do it here in d.c. i'm very excited to go to r

. >> tragedy in northern virginia reling todd all the raxin county woman dead a her auge tree fell one. dre in and the woman's husband ts inomhe h eefis warned mcietrheore ground is saturated and more omaybi.din is expected t downtown annapol morning. oferfif ceem ok at thiestheoli n y belncieve wat levgeem tl w the as aterk v>>al lin.estsio ofi wegner is it a who it'ffot on in ois. deadly storms possible. with the risk given all the rain we have flash flooding pose up.then more of warm, sthuky, mi adnd 7erstormtd storms and scatteredwn i hs eav. ie stormsyou through northernyo form there pushing its way north and to east. and then, yeah, if this is not going to make your morning mmute fun.he let's zoom in district and look at south western portion of beltway fairfax coun stretches to portions tr ntryntofomtgon hercoy e wiinerth e and expect some of this raito bc annorm. heavy downpours be prepared again for some slthe roadways a. across bad timing with the morning mmcoute about to start. satellite and radar bigger picture here showing you moisture train continues like yesterday and i

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. >>> tonight a community in northern virginia is working through its grief supporting the family of a murdered gas station clerk. resham bajgain was killed while working at the franklin farmssu co. this evening strangers and friends are helping to provide for his family and burea report david culver is live in herndon now to explain. david? >> reporter: pat, reporting on on this story you have to reflect and think how often do we go into store and run past a clerk, not even remembering thyer face? it seemed the victim in this case resham bajgain connect, with peoproof that have is a growing memorial. flowers of remembrance contin ng to line the curb i front of the sunoco gas station and perhaps even more telling, the fact that more than 500 of you have donated thousands of dollars to an online fund-raiser. the franklin farmsas sunoco station is back open, business as usual, so it bseems,ut nearby residents familiar with what happened here wednesday morning are struggling to see past the disturbing crime. >> it's ver sad for the family and our area. >> reporter: lorraine hancock, ike

what i was commenting on was living in northern virginia -- >> what does that mean? >> what i meant by that was, living in northern virginia traveling in hundred or 150 miles south within the same state, i was struck by the difference in belief and opinion there. >> that was a choice of a quick choice of words. >> so earlier you had texted ms. paige that another part of virginia, loudoun county which i think is in northern virginia is "still hate parent hillbillies " >> smelly hillbillies that like walmart. you follow that exchange and once again, peter strzok asked all of us, the american people to suspend logic and believe he didn't really mean to say what he was caught texting. watch more unbelievable, insane denial. >> were both rooting for hillary clinton to win and you both detested donald trump, did you not? >> i think that's fair to say. >> and you found donald trump supporters detestable to come up like those in virginia we have already heard were called ignorant blank and that you had visited a southern virginia walmart and you could smell the trump support

technically speaking, during the war, the square pattern was the battle flag of the army of northern virginia another thing to comment about that, sometimes that is called the stars and bars. that is not correct in terms of the terminology the confederates used. the confederates called this the stars and bars. the next room is the west parlor which looks a lot like this room actually. this is the west parlor, also known as the ladies parlor or mrs. davis' parlor or the drawing room. as you can tell, deck rat tifl, -- tell, decoratively, it is quite similar as the center parlor. the two rooms were often used together as one big room with the pocket doors open and they could shut those for more privacy typically when a group of people split by gender. during one of the receptions, most of the guests would file through and go on outside. mrs. davis and the female vip guests, you might say, would withdraw into this room where as mr. davis and the men would stay in the center parlor or perhaps go back into the dining room for cigars and brandy and that sort of thing. behind me is another image of

es like this are playing out all across northern virginia right here on georgetown pike in great fallsntly just came down right here on thisin l. it's blocking a lane of traffic, and can you see the fairfax county police doing what the drivers makeure to be safe. you can see another tree recently cwne do and this is what you're deal with as the i ground super saturated. we shot some video today of rivers and streams that had beew g at a pretty rapid pace, an all the raven has really done a numbek take a l this picture tweeted out by fairfax county police of a car submerged in water. that driver had to be rescued and is okay, but this is what we're talking about. when we're dealing with situations. the rains comet in f and furious. heard us talk about all safe in these situations, and you can really get yourself i danger if you're not being safe. make sure you're being as safe as possible. headlights on. windshield wipers coming out hee, and mor coming up on news 4 at 5:00 and 6:00. back t>>you. hese rains also brought sporadic high winds, and a lot of eeach-goers have to the beach, see

it was an ef-0 tornado that came through parts of northern virginia. ale winds twisted up and messed up some bas folds at thomas jefferson high school in alexandria. >> yeah. a lot of damage. take a long. more rain is rolling in. showers are scattered across our radar right now. doug says the rape wiin will pi again doug?. >> some areas not seeing any rain. some showers a while ago a not seeing much. d.c. seeing some of that rain coming through. you can see heavier showers back through the west and heavier showers in a line in parts ofou montgomeryy and the district. i'll zoom into this area right here inside the beltway around the bethesda region moving right up wiscons avenue. that's coming through. down at the airport and that was the one that jus about 15 minutes ago we couldn't see through ourer to cam at all because the rain was coming dowv rain through the rest of the area and more of that come up to dhe south. this promp a lot of flooding around the area including some in fairfax county. overnight last night. in the only did we have the in that

what i was commenting on living in northern virginia -- what i mean by that living in northern virginia, having traveled 100, 150 miles within the same state i was struck by the extraordinary difference in the expression of political opinion and belief amongst the community there from where i live. >> you described that as smell in capital letters. >> that was a quick choice of words. >> earlier you texted miss page that another part of virginia, loudoun county, which is, i think in northern virginia, is quote, still ignorant hillbillies, unquote, is that what you mean. >> no, sir. >> you do trump support toers be ignorant ignorantant. >> there's a healthy competition between fairfax and loudoun. in no way do i believe any resident of loudoun county or southern virginia or anywhere else in the nation is, are any of those things. that was a flippant -- >> do you understand the implications of this text when my constituents in virginia read it? >> i do, sir. i would ask you to tell them that that was a, in some cases, unfortunate use of words that in no way do i believe that those things

carry, you live in northern virginia where the trial is happening where the jury pool comes from.he prosecutor went into detail about many of the's action traffic gant spending today. $60 million they say he didn't report to the irs. 30 bank accounts in three foreign countries that they used to buy that custom ostrich jacket, is it feathered? does it have bumps on it? how does all of this play to this jury, now that we know the gender and the general racial component of it? >> it is i agree with ann that the racial component is less relevant are. northern virginia and the eastern district of virginia where the case is taking place is highly educated. it is a diverse area but it's highly educated and we pay a lot of taxes in virginia and northern virginia. this is a community that pays its fair share, and more. i think the opulence that will be on display in the trial will definitely be something that resonates with this potential jury pool because this is an area where in virginia we have a car tax. we pay high property taxes federal taxes of course. so the lying and the tax evasi

dades old tn northern virginias get manassas eliminates a civil war what's replaci it coming up next.♪ >> welcome back. northern viry eliminatitinggini a can annual i one year after the deadly outcomen charlottesville. >> the city of manassas will noeekend. >> cancele lastivlilh wit include civsilneomntpo the civi reenactment. >> we aew to the aova. we n jused here everybody is new. >> reporter: manassas is known for its controversial ciil warese are weekendtsps the sna assas d ideas, theen let's go ahead and let's see whaotheve thry't t i,u and we're very eorited. >> repr: the civil war weekend attracts about 200 people eachr yea mary ellen dilr hopes the new history weekend will have the same success. >> we chose to focus on a new event manassas through the ages and focusing onore about more modern stories. we're not ignoring that part our history we're embracing it. it's part of a larger story we're telling this time. feature som civil warwill components including livinger to interpreters children's acvities spy games a scavenger hunt and cannon demonstrations. manassas history wee

. >>> plus, a home northern virginia. we'll introduce you to the new superintendent of the alexandria ci school system. >>> welcome to "news 4 this week." >>> hello, i everyone, leon harris. we're going to begin with a name that most people probably didn't know before this week, brett is president trump's pick to be the next supreme court justice. before he made his way up in the ranks, he was a boy playing basketball in our neck of the woods. mega s fitzgeraldke with people that remember kavanaugh as an excellent student and star athlete. >> 1983. and now most prominent member. >> reporte brett kavanaugh i a hometown guy, growing up in bethesda and graduating from georgetown prep where he was captain of his basketball team. oe when he something, he throws himself into it.or >> repter: dr. stephen oaks was his junior year history teacher. kavanaugh was a good otudent. of his great qualities has been in a tie game, when he is in a class debate. >> reporter: now he's being remembered for beingt of his school's history. kava

he was a popular la crosse player in northern virginia. e not her teenagers w hurt. speed was a ctor. >>> d.c. water is changing the way it notifiesstomers. the utility lifted the advisory malfuncti malfunction. le that watter is now safe. but it is recommend that anyone run their cold water for tenmi tes. >>> millions of sacker fans are celebrating after the country's world cup n. while the team celebrated on the field,f tens thousands of people struggled to get to paris. >>> this is a look at the first all-star game in d.c. now, nearly 60 years ago. he major league baseball game is back in d.c. tomorrow is the actual all-star me. the nat will be represented by harp earp, scherzer and doolitt doolittle. in c isausing a lot of closures. even if you're not going, you have to pay attention. >> keeping with all of the all-star action. the nats' bryce harper will be featured in his second home run derby tonight. harp is the sixth all-star collection. this is his seventh season with the nats. he received the national mostva able player award. he's so young. >> and still s

page that another part of virginia, louden county, which is i think in northern virginia, is, quote, still ignorant hillbillies, end quote. is that what you meant? >> not at all. >> trump supporters are ignorant hillbillies in. >> not at all. >> what did you mean by that? >> i'm a proud fairfax resident. there's a competition between fairfax and louden. the second thing i would tell you is in no way did i or do i believe any resident of louden county or southern virginia or anywhere else in the nation is/are any of those things. that was a flippant -- >> you understand the implications of this text when my constituents in virginia read it? >> i do, sir. and i would ask you to tell them that that was, in some cases, certainly unfortunate use of words that in no way do i believe those things. >> you and ms. page used personal phones and accounts to communicate. have you turned over those communications to the inspector general? >> no, sir. >> why not? >> working with my attorney, the inspector general and i arranged an agreement where i would go through my personal accounts and identif

. >> right now, we're less than a year from a professional soccer seem that will call northern virginia home. thunvealed the low xwoe. they will play it is expected to hold 5,000 fans and inc de a training facility. wehall see that debut next spring. >>> happening today i san diego, comic book fans from all over the world will kick off comic-con. that convention runs through sunday. >> people don't just come to see the celebrities. they come to see the celebrities all dressed up. >> i want to go. >> you have to go. >> you have your star trek costume ready to go. >> that's a uniform. >> sorry. >> still ahead, another reasonl to t your teens to put the phone down. >> thewe link b screen time and attention span. >>> plus, shocking video. a popular vacation destination, overcome by waves of trash. >> you forgot to put the air quotes around your uniform. it's not a uniform, aaron. dress-up.aying not an actual military. rain chances for the weekend are rain chances for the weekend are on the th2iks to move free ultr... i run after this guy... and take long walks with this guy. unlike glucosam

northern virginia, northern maryland, and then continuing to move away. so, by the afternoon it looks like we're going to be drying up now. so, the timing of this rain, which is a coldfr t, is moving faster, so that has made our rain chances a little bit earlier now. if you are grillin today, by 2:00 p.m., still expect some showers and storms, but look at ose temperatures, mid-80s. we're not going to be continuing the heat wave today. we're finally breaking out of it. by 4:00 p.m., che rainaring and by 7:00 p.m., looking nice and dry. look at tomorrow's pool forecast. if you're heading to the pool morrow, just gorgeous weather. you'll want the spf-30 or higher because it's going to be vy sunny, even though we have low humidity in the forecast and it would feel comfortable. you're still going to get sun burnt in about 15 minutes. by 2:00 p.m., temperatures 80 degrees, 5:00 p.m., low 80s. the tire weekend looks fantastic. low humidity saturday and sunday,un plenty ofand that continues into the start of next week, but the 90s return and so does the humidity.

today a big effort to get more people to donate blood a. 24 hour blitz is underway right now in northern virginiafairfax county yesterday people rolled up their sleeves to donate.ea novah care system is behind the push. it's responsible for supplying blood for 24 hospitals in thema district,land, and virginia. keeping the supply up and ready is always important. those on the frontlines sayehey the need firsthand. >> we need 200 units of blood every day to fulfill o hospital needs. >> we are out there running these 911ge emies, especially during the summer, we see a lot of accidents, thing of that natu. >> innova health care is set up today at the facility across from the dulls town center. >> turning lemons life gives you and turning them into lemonade. >> on satday the d.c. community rallied for hope for ana baudell and ope up a lemonade stand. it had been delayed because of the rain. anna belle turns 3 this fall but is already in the fight for her life. she has a rare and definite rate issing neurological disease for which there is n treatment and no treatment. the stand raised more than $1,000

. >> reporter: mary talking about the recent deluge especially in northern virginia. >> oh, my gosh, it's crazy. i was watering my grass a week ago. >> yeah, all have you to do is take a look at great falls here on the virginia side to see just how much rain has fallen. normally this river flowing pretty well, but right now it's absolutely ging, and all of this water is sat rate the ground and causing some problems all over. take aook at this photo tweeted out by fairfax county politician o the weekend. this driver in the great falls area had to be rescued after this car was submerged and n there's b plenty of closed roads and long waits to get through some areas, and more rain is in the forecast. guys, i just vekd vdot's information website for travel. there's still plenty of roads that are closed, either flooded or have other weather-related issues across northern virginia so beareful. back to you. >>> lots of reasons to drive more slowly when the weather is like this. ank you, adam. >> our team coverage continues now with doug and amelia. >> they are tracking the conditions from st

we'll tell yut more a that at 6:00. >>> in northern virginia, julie carey, news 4. >>> nor virginia ther toan pet ownership for up to four years after someone has been convicted but animal right advocates a would like to see that done mor ofte >> tomorrow night the community will gather to remember who ar-old makiyah wilson died in her mother's arms monday nightfter four gunmen opened fire in her northeast neighborhood. at the time wilson was get a treat from the ice cream truck. d.c. police are still looking for t killers. the vigil starts at 7:00 saturday night at 53ee strt near cloud place in northeast d.c. >>> just about half an hour from now cyclis will gather in old town alexandria and ride together in memory of a murder victim. brad jackson was found dead in o hisice late last week. bicyclists are planning to ride from big wheel bikes on the waterfrontver to the murder scene on king street. in're told the victim's son will be r his dad's bike. a new jersey man is facing charges in the case. >> so many of you snt the week by clicking buy and now some of the purchases should be beg

the national weather service confirmed a small tornado touched down in northern virginia. >> we tracked it live on the air yesterday on news you can see the damage it left behind on the athletic fields ae thomas jefferson high school forcience and technology. all mangled and twisted there. the tornado was an -0 with winds around 70 miles per hour. nobody was hurt. >>> we've se o a lot flooding all over the area this week because of all that rain. >> more flooding could be coming todays another round rain is expected. oads n finch is on the this morning check being things out. on?'s going >> reporter: angie, aaron, just got off of 270 here and made our way into frederick. as you can see on the roads, light in has fallen out here as we make our way around here. not heavy at this point. the roads are getting slick out here because of that rain. seeing sheen on the blacktop. but nowhere near the heavy rain we saw this time yesterday. as you mentioned, we rain is coming later on today. a heavier rain at that. th many areas across our region have seen that heavy rain. we've seenonding and flo

>> what i meant by that was, living in northern virginia, having traveled 150 miles south within the same state i was struck by the extraordinary difference in the expression of comm political -- >> that was a quick choice of words. >> so earlier -- >> okay. so earlier you had texted ms. page that another part of virginia, loudoun county, which is i think in northern virginia, is, quote, still ignorant hillbillies, end quote. is that what you meant? >> no, sir, not at all. >> you consider trump supporters to be ignorant hillbillies. >> sean: once again, he asked all of us to think he didn't really believe what he was caught texting. watch one more unbelievable, insane denial. >> you were both rooting for hillary clinton to win and both detested dump du detested donald trump, did you not? >> i think that's fair to say. >> and as we learned you found donald trump supporters, detestable too who you called ignorant blanks. i'm not going to say that here. and that you had visited a southern virginia walmart and could smell the trump support. don't you think that the american people, when

and northern virginia and storm team 4's amelia draper is joining us from the storm center. a bad time. >> we've had over two and a half inches of rainfall reported at the airport at reagan national so we've been dry for the lastr weeks around here, but this rain changes that. mainly now i parts of prince george's county. this severe thunderstorm is moving towards the east at about 30 miles an hour, so moving towards dunkirk at about 4:13 and owings at 4:20. if you're in prince george's county right now you are getting clobbered with lots of lightning and very heavy rainfall and you'll continue to see that for another 20 to 30 minutes, so much so that parts of prince george's county including clinton, maryland under a sere thunderstorm warning that will go for another 15 minutes until 4:15, a severe thunderstorm warning, and then we havefl a d warning for that two and a half inch rainfall amount for rts of the district. this includes nats park, parts of arlington, alexandria and parts of fairfax. this flood warning is going to be in effect until 6:3 tonight. we are hearing t

from army in northern virginia to army in tennessee to trans-mississippi department , from the navy, blockade runners. he will say -- i can't say what name of the boat it s they're that one, but this is what they brought into savanna. so you get a lot of that information. if you are not familiar with the battles and all of that, we footnoted those. there is one battle again, in my the woods, it is called the battle of leesburg. we have that in the footnotes. so, you can follow that. if you're a person that knows these things, this book shows what civilians are going through at home and how they're processing these news. leroy got this from his father , and when the man from the local paper would come to the house, the editor, he would write letters, and heat realized wasy on, that fake news something that you had to deal with, it is not a new concept. the local paper editor coming in and saying -- the battle of gettysburg was no big deal. a little later they realize, as news comes in, how massive it was. and he starts to question the news. now, we haven't heard anything from general

back in northern virginia they are tracking rain in northern fauquier county along 66 and down intok rappahann or culpepper j countyt north. here's a look at the bigger picture, and as were continue to widen out you'll notice heavy rain in far western maryland and virginia and showers down in southern virginia. all of this moisture is movin towards o area, and will be moving in between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. again, until 7:00 or 8:00, most of us staying mainly dry. i'll have more on tomorrow's rain chances coming up around 5:15. >> inninga, amelia. >>> it appears according to u.s. park policehat the animal that caused the shutdown of green belt park was most likely a coyote. this occurred earlier today when chopper 4 captured video of officers. unsy were carrying the long inside the park because a hiker reported seeing what was described at the time as a lion.in that report was unfounded, we are now told. the nationald park service clo off the entrances to that park as a precaution. this was along goodluck road and greeng belt road and they beliee that animal w a coyote. >>> the lives o

a teen from northern virginia is in the hospital with serious burns. he was working as a landscaper. he thought he wasn cutting another bush. it wasn't until he got home and showered that he realized something was wrong. his mom took one look and noticed the serious burns. >> it felt like i had sunburn. i didn't pay. attenti and my face started peeling. mom came home and i thought it was sunburn. i had third degree burns. >> all from a plant. he's worried he'll miss college orientation next month. he maybe able to postponehe start of school. >> when we come back. the major change coming to guardrails after the area. ter an consumer investigation. plus. a look at why it's so important to track downni elect devices with enlisted images. a look at the new a look at the new sniffing them out. ♪ a look at the new sniffing them out. ♪ start the day with the chicken you love. get the feeling of chick-fil-a, for breakfast. ♪ know what? no, what? i just switched to geico... ...and got more. more? got a company i can trust. that's a heck of a lot more. over 75 y

just along the west side o 95, northern virginia, up through dc, western suburbs in maryland, then n up into baltimore. see the progression of these thunderstorms that fired, andll then rea as quickly as they formed fell apart. maybe were you under downpur, yoaw the lightning, maybe you sawothing at all.right now e some s uwelirsp ig said, every cleared the belt way. now you can resumectivities, not looking like we should see any more thunder storms going through tonight. temperatures cooled off just slightly after incredibly hot day. i 97, which would tie ourerotetest they did, still very hot up in northern maryland. for tomtrow, we will be jus as warm, humid, in the morning. because that colds front comes in midwe afternoon. won't be as hot, but once thes colds front approach, showers,or thunderst are likely. and we will time out for you. beginning toorrrow mng, just got just cloud cover. thunderstorms will start to fire along our western ang i80, by about or 81, excuse 2:00 p.m, three to 4:00 p.m., lein itself. ldus b, acteual front is back h. so even though the strong storms will

he also had taught history at three colleges and is currently associate professor at northern virginia community college. one thing of the kennedy of the kennedy administration, the legendary kingdom of king author and the knights of the round table, indeed, kennedy's administration, a thousand brief days in office are remembered for the style and elegance that kennedy brought to modern presidency. the dinner on april 29th, 1962 for the best and the brightest, dubbed the egg-head roll from the white house lawn and allegation president kennedy vigorously disputed. this dinner brought together nobel, authors, statesmen and scientists for one glorious night. robert and more than 100 luminaries. that day a week after easter when the becon on the hill showed brightly in washington, you had a nuclear nonproliferation protestor, you had a scientist super star falling from grace on the roads of redemption. we do not serve brains, the main course is beef welling tennessee. it is my pleasure to welcome to the stage joseph esposito, author. [applause] >> thank you, thank you very much and thank y

maybe a thunderstorm firing up in parts of northern virginia back into the panhandle of west virginiait's 6t till0 p.m. when we start to see thunderstorms move rorough the area. look what happensnd p.m. we're noticing bright colors here on future weath around 10:00 p.m. that's heavy rainfall and notice how it doesn't really move. it kind ofits in the same location. that could lead to some flooding concerns and that's why we determined that tomorrow evening is going to be a storm team 4 weather alert based on how much rave we've rec and even a little bit tomorrow night. some heavy downpours could lead to flooding. i'll it be here monitoring the ss uation. herturday at 7:00 a.m. we're waking up to a really nice morning wh low humidity. a lot of concerts going on friday,including the zac brown band concert, jay-z and beyonce. you want to be weathe ready. get alerts at ourpp and check out the local radar. w humidity temperatures in the 70s and 80s on saturday. >> your ten-day forecast, aturday a high of 86. sunday a high 85. as we look to monday, most of the day looks dry. maybe a late da

the pilot killed is believed to be a war veteran from northern virginia. our nbc affiliate in the virginia beach area reports shah wart was a u.s. army helicopter pilot who served in the vieam war. the cause of that crash is still under investigation. a 91-year-old woman living in a town home where thehe chopper cr also died. >>> police in florida had to chase down a robbery suspect who escaped a standoff. the man driving that white suv you see in front of the police car barricaded in a home afte an attempted robbery. you can see police trying to stop him a few timesn that di road. but think couldn't stop him. he continued to elude police. the car went off that road into the field there. there was nowhere to hide in that open space and police surrounded the suspect. >>> the nfl players union has filed ar grievance o the league's new rule requiring ayers to stand for the national anthem. >> the union says the new policy was imposed without consulting the union. many players are ary about the rule saying players must stand for the anthem or sy in the locker r

thunderstorms back in northern virginia. thundershowers all moving into our area. we'll have some rain out there h over tonight, and we're waiting on this warm front to lift north of our area toring not just the chance for showers tomorrow but some thunderstorms later in the day, and, lauryn, some storms tomorrow that could be on the stenger to sev side, but, again, plenty of dry time on wednesday tomorrow. >> yeah, definitely some dry time. ae bit of sunshine, and also as amelia said we'll see the rain pick up in the overtime. everyone asking when the humidity is going to follow. we'll see the humidity outre t yesterday and that will continue to stay with us and thursday and friday it's really going to feel sticky and humid and muggy out there. now, we do have some rain this weekend, but tnds wee won't be a washout. in fact, amelia will show you maybe some rain on saturday, but by sunday we may be a-okay and ading to the beaches, once again a small chance of rain on saturday and that's about it. we've had a lot of rain this month. we're in fourth place so far over

he had an older brother named thomas who served in the army in northern virginia, and a younger sister nicknamed minnie because her name was also mary. kind of a mini me. they were very close, and he writes a lot about their challenges and about their successes. he goes to the theological -- not the the logical, the wesleyan female academy in macon, and is incredibly proud of her academic achievements. he is beside himself when thomas goes off it -- goes off to war, until he hears the thomas has arrived where he is supposed to be, and is safe. so, why the diary? why did he write it? this tells you a little bit more about the back story, and things he did not know he was telling us. which is, again, one of the very layered things about this work. this is a the first page, opening up volume one, out of seven, there are seven almost complete volumes. in 1856, when he was eight years old, boys being boys, they found out that one of the buildings in town had burned, so they went to investigate and find what was going on. we found an account of what happened. the washington post article did

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. >>> a hrtbreaking ory, a family in northern virginia dealing with an unimaginable loss. veir sister is thetim of a deadly hit-and-run and police say troir owner was behind the wheel. the hit-and-runappened on sully road early saturday morning. news 4's derrick ward has an emotional interview. >> reporter: this 54 died on a stretch of route 28, theictim of a hit-and-run. >> so beautiful. s an was caring. and she jusad a good heart. >> reporter: police arrested and charges a driver but provided little comfort to the family because that driver is her brother. identified as 58-year-old michael moreno. another sis iter says her brother michael was driving the si nancy to the airport. saturday morning. they got into an argument and on the way and nancy was out of the carit walking her luggage. she says police told her a motorist stopped to give her ad >> he pulled in the front. when he looked in his rearview mirror, a car had hit my sister. >> reporter: police identified that car as being driven by michael moreno. >> they found a my brotherthe casino gambling. >> that may be a

he claimed the jury pool in northern virginia is too liberal and he could not get a fair trial because media coverage. manafort is being prosecuted as part of the special counsel robert mueller's investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. manafort is accused of hiding money that he earned in the ukraine to avoid paying taxes and then lying about his debt to get new loans. >>> the one known as the manhattan madam is expected to be questioned in the special counsel investigation. robert mueller and his team want to talk to kristin davis about her close ties to longtime trump advisor roger stone. stone is a pe in the investigation but has denied any wrongdoing. the special counsel investigation is looking into russian interference in the presidential election including any potential collection to presidential campaign. >>> today, andres manuel lopez abba door released a seven-page letter that he sent to president trump. the letter lays out how the mexican president plans to improve the economy and security in his own country so that mexicans don't feel the need to leave

he's hired one of northern virginia's most high-profile defense attorneys to represent him. news 4 has learned new details about the violent incident. when the suspect fled from the building, he jumped int this silver mercedes. the shopper who owned it h just gotten out to pay for parking, her adult daughter still inside. he made his way into the driver's seat and this woman heard car owner's scream. >> we drn't h anything unusual until a woman started sleeking, and she was very upset. >> reporter: three men from norb shops came running and followed the trail oflood to the upstairs office where they made their terrible discove. brad jacksso y basod o w overturned. witnesses say the mercedes owner kept locking the car until police got there to arrest the man. >> think she probably did the right thing by creating attention, you know, drawing attention to your self. imean, she just be very brad. >> reporter: brad jackson's grieving friends left with the looming question. >> what caused the- this other individualo violently attack him and, you know, what the situation was. defin

evening, first to that breaking news, days of torrential rain claiming a woman's life tonight in northern virginia. snow the ground is absolutely soaked and that made it's easier for a tree toall on a house in burke tonit, killing someo inside. we have coverage to even more rain ahead for us. >> to shomastone, live in burke. what have you learned there? >> reporter: moments ago we spoke to the battalion chief. he said it is incredibly rare, a tree crashing throu ahome, killing a woman inside. let me move out of the way. there is a team tryingo stabilize this home before they go inside. let's roll video. this started around 8:45 tonight. the 60 foot tall tree, 2 to 3 feet in diameter, fell and the husband survived. qllie bailey said the tree has crushed arter of the home on the second firor. 45ighters responded. the woman's body is still inside the home. the tree is there. they have t stabilize the home, remove the tree, the body. the husbandol is aely devastated as i'm sure you can understand. will now here fromhe battalion chief. this is rare for us to run but with all the rain, things of that na

conner was 17 years old, a student at robinson secondary school here i northern virginia. police say he lost control of his jeep on fairfax station road st last week. he hit a tree and he passed away. two othern teense car were also hurt. now, police say that speed was a factor in this crash. anner was a popular student there at schoo a member of the lacrosse team. i read his obituary today and part of it struck me. it said that brought joy to those around him every day, and it's impossible to imagine a world without him in it. the wake will continue here at the funeral home until 8:00 this evening. his funeral will be held here ii northern virtomorrow. erika, back to you. >> our hearts go out to his family and friends. darcy, thank you. h >>> let's swi gears now. uslly the things at a bakery want to make us try everything. a warning, this video make make you a little squeamish, e in the y if you middle of dinner. cell phone video shows a rat crawling all over the cookie display, oh, my goodness. he is a very large rat. this is at the buttercup bakery in baltimore. i ththu