. >> reporter: this dramatic rescue in pesylvania, a boy dr trapped by raging waters pulled to safety. across the region, first responders spent the day evacuating stranded motorists and residents, somepla places hes ofng four i rain an hour. >> i eva lcnd cousin in a wheeir. >> reporter: in upper car b darby, pennsylvania, a police officer was almost swept away and at the mall the flo court flooded sending shocked shoppers to higher ground and major highways were impassable.ar in of new jersey, the water was so high it led to historic comparisons up to storm sandy. >> this is horrendous compared t sandy. >> this just came in so fast. >> reporter: fast and furious and tonight maybe far from over with flash flood watches continuing into the night. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, new york. >>> investigators have boxes from the ack commercial plane stolen and crashed near seattle on friday. mployee line who hijacked it and was killed was the only person on board but the incident raises troubling questions who has acce we fly on and the planes that fly over us. o hass tom coste the latest. i>

watch what happens when pesylvania state troopers tried to arrest a man who failed three field sobriety tests. >> i got him. keep the taser on. >> bothfficers tased the man several times but he managed to pull a gunrohis car and he began shooting. died.fficer nearly the video was played at that man's trial. a jury convicted him counts of attempted murder. >>> a relaxing trip to the beach turned into a nightmare for a man in galveston, texas. is the pictures you're about to e are graphic. police say a shark bit the guy just bob his knee this morning. you can see the i big gash left there. people in the s area they do see sharks from time to time here. th is still in the hospital but he's listed in stable condition. >>> wow. pretty scary. >> doug is here with more about ar weather and today w little better than yesterday. what can we look forward to tomorrow. >> it's weird when you say we were ea95 in the index and you go relief. thank goodness. >> but it's >> yesterday was 100 degrees with the heat index. it was 108 in places like quantico. we did see some relief today even though still

today the favorite area is going to be eastern and central pesylvania. of course we get in the mountainous areas, worry about flashlg flooding potential. all through new england is bad weatheat potential. a look at the big weather story of the day. now here's a closer look at your day ahead. >>> we're also going to watch heavy rain threat in areas of texas. i'm sure you're happy it will onlye in dallas today. you'd rather have a nice day like that in the fall. where you don't have to worry about the rain. that's where the showers and thunderstorms will be today. also in the northeastorrom richmond wards. >>> take a look at the week ahead. ll let you know. >> thank you. several women were out on a lake in minnesota when their giantat inle rambo unicorn got stuck. two officers who saw the women ickly realized that they need to be rescued. one deputy, got his phone to put on video. the other busted out his self-proclaimed rescue skills and reeled in the women. they posted the video on twitter. bere they thought the group was in trouble, they wanted to take

these areylorthern md and parts ofnn pesylvania, with northern parts ofn lou county. no rain on the capital beltway. temperatures in the 70 hse to get your day started. planning out your day, 86. it comes with a 60% chance for rain today. if you're beach-bound from ocean city to rehoboth, the showery weather will be today. rainmohances ow. but nice weather and the ocean is nice and warm, as well. good morning, melissa. >>> chopper o 4, towards the bay bridge. we're clear here this morning. something else is clearing up for us. inner loop, through connecticut, had that jackknifed tractor-trailer. now, we have outer loop delays. outer loop at colesville is going to start slowinghi ts. in mclan the ramp to the outer loop. 270 southbound, looking quite good, nice and clear on this friday morning. >> melissa, thank you. 6:31. > roads are closed on capitol hill, as hundreds prepare to say good-bye to senator john mccain. he arrived at joint base andrews. his family will accompany him to the funeral home in southwest d.c. >> the man known as the maverick will make his nal tr

he working to convince the pesylvania legislature to eliminate the statute of limitations for child sexualse. i don't know what is more shocking than this report, so if this doesn't do it, we're in real trouble as asociety, i think. >> reporter: he has an ally in state representative mark rozzi, who says he too was abused by a priest as a child. >> for too many years we have let these predators attack our children. i'm not going to allow that to happen here in pennsylvania anymore. >> reporter: that was nbc's anne thompsonreporting. the state's attorney general's office in pennsylvania says since the news broke, it has received more than 150 calls and nge-mails repor abuse. the bombshell report also alleges archbishop of washington, cardinal donald wuerl, helped cover up some of the abuse. wuerl served as archbishop in pittsburgh for years. the grand jury repor mentioned wuerl's name nearly 200 times. wuerl has publicly defended his cations. >> here's what tell you about cardinal wuerl. the public comments that he has ma directly contradict the o church documents that we found in the secre

back to presidential politics and the rally president trump attended last night in northeastern pesylvania boost republican congressman lou barletta's run for the u.s. senate. the president's free-wheeling remarks included this characterization about his summit last month with russian president vladimir putin. >> i had a great meeting with putin. we discussed everything. i had a great meeting. now, we're being hindered by the russian hoax. it's a hoax, okay? i'll tell you what: russia's very unhappy that trump won, that i can tell you.uf >> woo putin said in helsinki last month that he favored mr. trump's election. and u.s. intelligence officials have said repeatedly that russia's efforts in 2016 were intended to help mr. trump, and hurt the campaign of hillary clinton. remarks last's night also stood in contrast to this warning from his own director of national intelligence, dan coats, yesterday in the white house briefing room. >> in regards toinussian lvement in the midterm elections, we continue to see a pervasive meaging-- messaging campaign by russtria tto weaken and divide the unite