somara is standing storm center.'re tracking some strong storms in southern maryland right now, right? >> right here. take a look at this radar. this stormn southernmaryland getting ready to push through charles county and into calvert. it's headed to southern calvert. that's a severe thunderstorm. lots of heavy rain with this. wind gusts up to 60 mures per ho and even some lightning with this. severe thunderstorm warning is in effect until 5: ltle00 farth north. this one just went severe. this is in bethesda right now. lots of lightning with this hand very heavy rain. even got a phone call aboutis particular storm. it's going to continue this trajectory into northern prince george's county. so if you live inside the beltway in prince george's county along route 1, heads up. got a lot of lightning. our lightning data finally coming in making its way into 's prince georgnd it will clip the northern part of the district and farther north, keeping my eye on this storm that just leftou montgomeryy and headed to howard no

somara is tracking it all from the storm center.l have a live upte for us in just a moment. >>> first nearly two dozen schools in .c. and maryland have suspended a private company in charge of operating after-school programs. >> this move comes after one of the companies' employees of charged with sexually abusingol 13-yeastudent inside one of the schools. >> now at 5:30, mark segraves reports on how this oneal incidt re a major problem that could impact schools across the country. >> reporter: the alleged sexual abuse occurred here inside the capital hill mont sor re school not far from union station. according to court documents, a 21-year-old emplee of bri springboard education had as many as ten encou13ers with a ear-old girl inside the school stairwell. the after-school employee was charged with second degree sexual abuse and was fired. but the investigation into the incident which was first reported by wame road that springboard was unable to inovide the required criminal background check rmation for many of its employees. acc

trt let's get to some impoan i somara is here. your radar has been popping for the last couple hours. >> it's really starting to brew now. we had that sun come out. we got the energy we need in place and far west is where we're startseg to see tho storm goes severe. let's get straight to it. we are seeing some severe thunderstorms farther north and west of the district. as far as the d.c. metro area is concerned, i'm thinking we could see an isolated storm or two pop in the next coming hours, but i'll dissect that in just a moment. for now i want to take you north and west up into washington county and hagerstown area. you see that line of showers a storms. they're going to continue to push through hagerstown probably clipping the northern part of hrederick county. this severe tderstorm brings with it 60 mile per hour wind gust, lightning andlinding rain in the deep red there. it's getting ready to pick up. that's until 4:30 p.m. we head south in to leesburg, this one becoming more healthy. isolated shower probably going to turn i

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somara. >> reporter: that's right. it's going to be a soaker through monday and pts of tuesday. as far as tonight goes, rain hasn't been too heavy. take a look at the radar right now. you can sht that lig green. we're not seeing orange, yellow, red. that's the rdownpous. not the case right now but light showers toward loudoun county pulling towards the northwest. big disthrbance to south and will continue t impact as we go through evening.er patchy fog e as well. i'll have the timing coming up in just a moment. backo you, erika. >> thank you so much. we'll see you then. >>> president trump says the mueller report exonerated him, but house democrats want to dig into the special counsel's findings. tomo hrow they will holdarings on possible presidential obstruction. nbc's jennifer johnson is on capitol hill where the impeachment debate rages on. >> no obstruction, no crime. >> reporter: president trump has declared theussia investigation case closed, but democrats haven't closed the books. on monday theuse judiciary committee will hold a hearing on possible presidential obstructio

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but unfortunately storm team4 meteorologist somara theodore says a weather changeup is on tap for the start of your stols g i think this was a nicetoit thi m uray, the normal around this . keeping a close eye on storms. re we have a threat rim going toime it out. a disturbing discover witnesses reporte tis morningza body on trail. police are as a suspicious death. they have not identifiedhe ody .

somara theodore is joining us now from the weather center to talk more about timing. let's talk about the heaviest rain, whe we'll see that. >> the heaviest rain will amuse in tomorrow, erika. tonight, maybey a few pat showers here and there, even some patchy fog. but the heaviest rain hitting during crucial times on your monday commute. for now, let's take a look at the radar you can see where all the rain is far west along i-81 there. big picture shows the disturbance to our west, south, and really just starting to honr into the . tomorrow we're expecting highs to make it to the low 80s. but the scattered showers are going to be very heavy. if you want an hour-by-hour breakdown of when we'll see the heaviest rain, stick. around >> well, somara, thank you very much. >>> new tonight, people inside a germantown townhouse escaped after a fire quickly spread this evening. i want to give you a look at the situation on station street. you can s the thick black smoke just sort of barreling from the second floor there. firefighters were focused on the upstairs balcony. the h

somara theodore with a lo wk. >>e are still seeing plenty of activity on the radar tonight. >> yeah, we've got a second squall line and it's pretty flois oth iryhas windto s adamage. right now the severe thunderstorm warngs have expired early. that's a good sign. starting to lose lightning we were seeing in leesburg wells montgomery county, sa starting to lose zeal. back west though, we are starting to see a flash flood warnings prompted in far western maryland. let's zoom in here. this is the line of storms that was sparking that severe thunderstorm warning. even though it'sxpired early, a good amount of lightning.li heavy rain f in good faithering -- good faiaithersbu. it should be arriving in the next half ihour. l have storms as well as a look at your sunday coming up in just a moment. back to you. >> somara, thank you so much. >>> the countdown to the big fourth of july fireworks under way, and even though we still have a few more days before the fourth,crews are setting up all the different launch points for

so let's check in with "storm team 4" meteorologist somara theodore. >> we do have the threat of severe weather as we head through the evening.en we're se seeing some storms it there right now, but for now we should see improvements. ngt's see what's goi on out there. thatmaig ssive storm impacting anne arundel county has crossed over the bay. we haven a areao flod warning. that warning you had has expired but this storm is packing with it lots of rain and lightning as well headed toward spotsylvania. moving through to maryland, still, se story, lots of heavy rain and a good amount of heavy rain. this is gett rngdy to push through loudoun and westmont gonery county. hnotice how t severe thunderstorm weather threat we've been seeing is starting t. die dow but we still have this watch for everyone in pink until 7:00 p.m. i'll have more on tonight's forecast and sunday coming up. erika? >> thank you. >>> that heavy rain we had last night may have played a role in the crash that k toddler. we learn today the2- year-old of oxenhill died. her father hit a car in front of him. medics took the

>> all right, somara, thank you very much. > a deadly weekend on d.c. streets as police investigate two separate homicides. yesterday afternoon police found a man by the name of george hendricks shot to death on kay street in southeast. last n ht on morton street northwest, officers discovered melton grant dead after he'd been gunned down. officers found the second man shot nearby on georgia avenue who survived. nobody haseen arrested in either case. >>> right now, president trump is tightening his grip on iran. promising more sanctions to further cripple the country's mr. trump sat down with "meet the press" moderator chuck todd for an excsive interview. the president saying he doesn't want war, but he will not allow iran to build a nuclear weapo nbc's jennifer johnson now on the rising tensions. >> reporter: president trump tightening the gripn iran tweeting, "we are putting major addional sanctions owen iran on monday." the u.s. trying to further cripple iran's struggling economy to stop its nuclear buildup. >> i'm not looking for war. and if in is,

somara will join me at 5:50 with the ten-day forecast.a real nice weekend and a great weekend for the pool or heading to our local beaches. maybe an isolated thunderstorm in southwest virginia later on sunday, but most of us stay completely dry. monday the heat and humidity are and with highs around 90 about a 40% chance for some storms later in the day. jim? >> but oh, what a weekend. >> it's looking nice. >>> coming up, from washers and dryers and ovens and refrigerators, we're working for you to save you money. ahead at 5:00, susan hogan reports on the top rated home appliances. >>> also, there's a warning about the e-cigarettes. doreen will report on a teen who had his jaw shattered when one of em exploded in his mouth. we'll be right bac k.ha >>> we got an urgent warning tonight about the dangers of the e-cigadettes. the ce exploded in a teenager's mouth shattering his jaw. >> news 4's dore eveen againste joins us with more. >> reporter: everyone who a uses vaping device, take a look at this, an image of the teenager's c.tscan. an el

team coverage from the storm team 4 weather center let's get right to eteorologist amelia draper and somara theodore for what we're in for this evening. >> do have good news. not like we'll have widespread storms out there during the afternoon and evening hours. most of the activity will be to our south >> exactly, but where it does a punch. l pop with >> strong winds and hail and very heavy rainfall, but look at storm team 4 radar right now. it's basically dry across the area. we had a few thunderstorms popping uph earlier afternoon, including one in the district. those have since pushed off towas the east. one lone area of rainin out parts of rappahannock county, and here's a look at the bigger picture when we say a better chance to the south. ook at all the areas here in pink down around spotsylvania county and south of fred icksburg and continuing into parts of north carolina. we really think this activity will be concentrated south of this area today, so here's what you ca expect. about a 30% chance that you're dealing with a thunderstorm out there tonight, so that means it's really lo

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. >>> and now, taking a turn here to look at our weather, somara, a o picture perfect day there, hoping for more of the me. >> i know, especially after all the rain cnces we had last week. i can promise you, i can ashoor youhat we're going to get round two of this awesome weather tomorrow. put your money on that.s let' out and take a look right now at your saturday night forecast, showed this earlier, iut just wanted to let you know if you're steppng out tonight, it's looking good.ll all you'ave to worry about is maybe a light jacket, 60s, it s going to be cool, might feel good to some now. right now, 82 degrees, winds out of the northwest at 12 miles per hour, plenty of sunshine out ou there for y saturday. current temperatures elsewhere also in the low 80s, upper 70s up into central montgomery county, back along i-81 and 80 down towards culpeper so low 80s today, littlbit warmer tomorrow. here's a look at the radar, showing you this radar, look how the closest rain to right now is in southern virginia so we are dry and we're going to stay dry all the way through tomorrow. so the temp

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