this is set to con to impact parts of southern maryland through the evening hours and then this line backo heree west likely impacting parts of northern virginia and western maryland during the evening hours. we might see that famous d.c. split happen here in the metro area tonight withhese thunderstorms. but everybody in pink is under r severe thunder watch. this is going to go until sock this eke. ere's only frederick and loudoun and fauquiers count and panhandle of west virginia and winroester andthe heavier rain earlier today and still tracking flood warnings for the metro area a parts of southern maryland back into parts of northern virginia and e in fau county through at least the evening hours. at least 8:00 p.m. if not later. 6:00 p.m. still noticing that line generally back to the west. south.coming into the by 7:00 p.m. though we could really see those storms to the westo start intensify and heavy rain and gusty winds could concerniggest here we are at can the p.m. the istential for stronger storms around theict and especially into prince george's county. as we move towards

howeve still tracking some impressive storms right now down in parts of southern maryland he around leonardtown area. around calvert beach, and then just north of manassas. an area of rain. now, as i widen out theti image this line of thunderstorms back in western maryland. this is moving towards i-81. this will continue to move north and east over the next couple of hours. we really think this will be our next weather-maker. we're keeping a close eye on how it's evolving. still with very heavy rainfall and a lot ofhtightning r now. so much lightning and serious enough that the national weather service h issued a severe thunderstorm warning for that li a parts of the line for parts of frederick county and virginia. anrts of thendle of west virginia. that will go until 5:15. everyone here in pink and fauquier county and parts of maryland are underevere thunderstorm watch until 10:00 tonight. from the heavy rainfall from earlier today, we do have flood warnings in effect through the eveningto hours. arli alexandra yeah, the districts all of prince george's county and down through parts of st. mar

it's all down to the south,n towards parts of southern maryland, towards the eastern shore. all the areas in red under flash flood warnings, and that includes parts of calvert county right now. you can see this area right here, right around prince frederk under a flash flood warning. we have seen flash flooding and we are dealing with flood warnings in that area, too. i want to show you thing here. we're look at this area, but so this area around fredericksburg, we could see more develop. much more on this, what to expect the rest of the night and into tomorrow, and something else happening in the sky above us rig now. >> all right, doug, thank you. speaking of the rain, new police, maryland state say heavy rain contributed to a deadly accident this evening. a morcyclist was driving along pennsylvania avenue in upper marlboro and hit the front of another car. the cyclist was thrown from the bike and later died at the hospital. nobody in the car was injured. >>> a new york congressman defiant after getting slapped with insider trading charges. 180. he's doing a >>> and an air

a couple of sinkles in king george county and southern maryland. sohern charles courey and st. st.ary's county. flash flood watch extended until 8:00 a.m. on friday morning. everybody has been saturated with rain the last couple of days. any rain that comes down can cause concerns for fla flooding. temperatures in the sticky 70s this americaning. mid to upper your rain chance stands at 70%. >>> getting wet. all right. start off in upper marlboro, where we had ourovernight issue. we had a structureer fire. a nuf structures were involved, main at e street. in the district, southbound 19th. you ride towards street and you'll find a work zone in place. you haverafficiverting around this issue. old dheinion drive, early morning, a downed tree. auorities are on-scene. hopefully we'll have lanes open quickly. aaron, eun, back to you. >>> following breaking news. want to show you images from a fire that has destroyed a well-known diner in upper marlboro. this fire started around 1:30 this morning. and as you can see, the flames were intense. >> news 4's justin finch is live at thescene, no

the only parts i'm concerned about is extreme southern maryland because you take a look at the wider picture here. we're really srting to los the chance for severe weather around the d.c. metro area and points west. doesn't mean that we're done for the nig for right now most of the area starting to get a little bit of a reprieve. that's good news b we'll be hearing much more about this breaking news with the trees down in parts of our area. >> all right, doug, thank y. >>> now to the other breaking news that we've been following in fairfax county. a child has died after out of a high rise window. >> yeah. this is the iskyline tower falls church. our jackie benson joins us live with the latest. jackie? >> well, we believe that the child fell from the same area that a little boyell from and died in may. take a lock behind me. you can see fairfax county police here on the scene at the spre the child fell. there are a number of women out here in the parking lot talking to police. they have their own children in their arms. it's not clear whether they are residentsr whether they were insi

with time, slightly better rain ch will be fredz deliberationburg and into marts of southern maryland. this particula forecast will keep rain out of the d.c. metro area. for dtomorrow, a much like today with an even lower chance for rain tomorrow. as a result, maybe one degre warmer. 90 today, 91 tomorrow. the next couple of days as we head into the weekend, yikes. 50% chance of rain osa rday. 50% on sunday. as i've alwaysoked it's either 90 degrees or raining around here in summertime. melissa, we're trading rain drops for the rain. >> earlier work on on the beltway cleared out of the way. durwood westbound, shady grove, just aft metro access. shady grove metro, left lane getting by. alexandria, southbound 395, after king street, left lane blocked. we zoom outsidef fredericksburg, southbound, 95, right lane. eun. >> melissa, thank you. >>> your time is .4: the va medical center is loosing its cool, literally. news4 is shed sething light on the growing problems keeping the building cool enough fornd patients a >> announcer: you're watching "news4 today." no> most of us that exercise c

metro-year and into southern maryland.rain we're talking about a lot of lightning. we've had so much rain that ooding is going to be pretty easy out there. take a look. here's what i'm tracking storm team 4 radar. you can see very heavy rain moving across the bay area right now. bay bridge likely a mess. clinton, maryland, just north and east of the area, seeing very heavy rain. bowie seeing some of this and also tracking some light showers on the top of the beltway, and you can see the beltwayn prince george's county likely a mess for the evening commute tonight and seeing some activity develop up around the wheatonnd arearound the spur and down through waldorf. heading down into parts of st.'sma county, for the most part it's just showers there and mainly to the north. leonardtown seeing a few light sprinkleards calvert beach into cole vermont county. bigger picture right now, you can seett's not j this one line. we have more rain back to the west. in between petersburg and forming alongi-81. tracking this heavy rape rig

the only places not in the flash flood watch is southern maryland. there's the planner for today. afternoon temperatures getting up in the upper 80 rain chances remain high today. a look at tomorrow and the weekend coming up. >>> good morning, jack taylrn. >> good g. on the outer loop, down virginia into marynd, we had issues overnight. and unfortunately, there was a closure of couple of right lanes on the beltway to go north on 295. everything is being pulled out of the roadway as we speak.r there's a mislowdown. 395 headed south after seminary road, we have a work truck in place. also in virginia, 95 going southbound, before the centerport park crews are blocking the left lane but not causing much of a sl slowdown. >> jack, thank yo >>> it's 4:03. we expect to lose details about a shooting in oxon hill. police will release the name of the off-duty officer. he heard gunshots cing from a liquor store. as he was running towards the store,e noticed a man with a gun running in his thdirection. e officer yelled for the man d p his weapon. when he didn't, the officer shot him. witnesse

down towards southern maryland there. out towards the eastern shore.hat we are looking at is a very similar setup tomorrow as far as our rain chances tonight, like i said, a few showers. temperatures drop to the low 70s tonigh it's going to be really muggy. it is a muggyhe out now. and it's going to be muggy through tonight and through your sunday. i do want to mention we are goin to be seeing patchy fog tomorrow morning. keep that in mind fur going on a morning run or on a trail. tomorrow morning, 2:00 a.m., spotty showers. we push through much of your sunday. they had throu the afternoon. notice how light the greens are. to tells us it's not going be coming down too heavy. maybe a few pockets of heavier showers. the threat for thunderstorms is there but it's very low. tomorrow is more of a rain chance as opposed to a stormy day. by the night, lingering showers. lots of fog sunday into monday morning. monday, anotherhance at more spotty scattered showers. the forecast for tomorrow overall, highs i will the low 80s. so that is going to be different fro

showers in southern maryland towards anne arundel. rumble of thunder and heavy rain farther west.si just o of loudoun county, we head over to clark and areas south of winchester, we see lightning start to pick up. these thunderstorms not out of theio equ through tonight. these showers continue to push towards the st. loudoun county along 15 here get ready, rain headed your way. tonight, we are expecting the showers to be possible. about 50 chance scattered. temperatures will dropo ie low 70s. and my, is it going to be a muggy night out there. for your future weurher, i this had on so you can see what happens. we're waking up tomorrow to pretty dry conditions can. 10:00 p.m. sunday, lots of clouds. a f breaks give us sunshine breaking in there. towards sundayafternoon, very similar situation to today where we start to see the showers popping up. very sparse and some of the heavy rain staying down into central virginia. we'll see those showers continue into monday morning. very spotty again. some ofay this end up being some fog. it's go

at the waldorf area and other parts of southern maryland. this could be anywhere. that's the strong to severe thunderstorm threat we'll be tracking 7:00 p.m., though, i'm seeing a bit of a better chance for heavr activity to be moving through at that point versus earlier. i think the severe thunderstorm threat is looking like as we are getting home from work or even after that into the later evening hours. so 7:00 p.m., there's the thunderstorms out there. here ware at mid knit night. we still have rain, thunderng rumbhrough the area. patchy fog, recess potentially indoors with scattered showers and pickup will be tracking scattered thund temperature tomorrow around 83 degrees. again, it's not a wash out but we are goi clouds and scattered showers and thunderstorms during the day. now, thelen report i'm showing you this because it's all over the place. treesant an issue. but grasses and weeds coming in moderate, mold spores coming in high. if your allergies are bothering you, there's a lot of stuff out there. the pollen level doesn't help much wit mold. humidity is

and most of us are dry because t we'recking isolated showers down around the northern neck and southern marylandt but for tomorrow take a look at yourain outlook. we have widespread rain and storms in the forecast. showersre possible during the morning hours and then we will have sttered showers and thunderstorms around for thern afn and evening hours. there's the chance for some showers out there on wednesday afternoon, but only a chance right now and then we keep thursday, friday and saturday completely dry and not just completely dry but take a look at this. . humidity levels this should be a little bit higher in that oppressive area. as we look to wednesday they come down from oppressive and still a littlut bit humid there. especially during the morning. humidity falls throughout the day on wednesday andrs by ty it is completely comfortable. feeling a little bit like fall out there on thursday and friday, but talking about the severe weather threats tomorrow. it's going to be heavy rain and gusty winds and for the biggest concerns i can't rule out hail and ansoted weak tornado, too. notice s

annapolis, 80 degrees in southern maryland. lowo6k 70s in the shenando valley.s 105 we've been seeing.to  come back later onxd this afternoon and ts evening. if you're going to the redskins and the ravens gamein baltimor this evening, you could have a stray shower duringe1 the game.a no huge impact. the area?h1 of high pressure ths been cooking us the last few days is finally giving way. it will leave the." humidity i place. butlp that approaching cold frop that has rain chances rossq kentucky, thatz(e1 will bringq- rain chances into the d.c. metro area here, starting this afternoon and higher rain chances we get into friday and 'saturday. he1 future weather for today. w quiu through the morning . by 4:00, thunderstorms bubblinge up toward d.c. metro area. we'll see if they live long enough to get here. l those stormte tonight, will be around for your fiday e1 morning. high temperatures today, upper 80s and low 90s. a hot and humid day tolp be e1 outside. fuweather for tomorrow, a the morning.e1 a lot of instability in the atmosphere tomorrow. temperatures wn.

we could have a few owers by fredricksburg and even into southern maryland. then we d out. by!t plans outdoors, don't cance them. we will have peeks of sunshine. i had someone e-mail me about a birthday party from 10:00 to ce00 p.m. don't c your outdoor plans. keep an eye on the sky. maybe download the nbc washington app. again, a scattered storms.and we'll keep that chance through the evening, through the overnight as well for some thunderstorms. temperatures right now in the 60s and 70s. grab that umbrella on the way out the door. you may need your sunglasses. i think you'll need your umbrella evenmore. chances will increase by later this afternoon to about a 50% chance t tt you're going see it. so half and half, depending on where your location is, whether re going to see some showers and thunderstorms this is the vineyard forecast, one of the last surdays left in summer. temperatures in the mid to upper 80s today with waves of rain and even a few storms. we have the perseid meteor showers. it's a new moon which means it's slightly dark. we have cloud cover and you can see i

right on down into parts of southern maryland. the entire part of the eastern shore. hagerstown, martinsburg and winchester, as well. does not inclu frederick or loudon. don't worry about that. still on the hot side. doesn't matterf you're in it or not. heat index close to 100 through most locations. tomorrow into thursday, we'll continue to see that chance of that heat index over 100 degrees and right on through thursday. storms possible thursday and more showers on friday. that will bring down the temperatures considerably. we'll talk about that as we head into the labor day weekend because we're tracking that for you, saturday, sunday and mondto. have some chances in there and i'll let you know how you can be affect. >> doug, thank you. >>> unplanned stuff for passengers today. riders thothht they were o blue line and quickly realized they were but they were going the wrong way. >> adam shaking our head transportation reporter adam tus inside. you learned of a second incident? >> that's right. this w the second time in two days that a problem happened at the rosali

almost the entire state of maryland with the extension of extreme southern maryland and esback towardsirginia and back towards romney and the agerstown allards towards the flash flood watch until 10:00 tonight. definitely mea business and we'll continue to watch these the rest of the evening. more stohs and a h temperature of 87 degrees. a little less humid and we'll see af chance an afternoon thunderstorm again. 91 degrees on wednesday. thuray coming in at 92. the humidity starts to increase here as well, so lots of sunshine wednesday and thursday, but then the srm chances return on friday and into the weekend. we've got a chance of sto friday. a high of 94 degrees. rather humid and look at all of next week. the storm chances return. once again there could be more flooding potential as we make our way into next week because with all the rain we've seen in the next month and a half it does not take much to get flooding. we'll be right back with you throughout the evening hours and right now we're tracking all of this from the storm center. >> all right. >> thank you, doug. >> thank you

metro area dn through southern maryland, stafford, king george counties. i really think you stay dry tonight. you can see parts of frederick, loudoun and fauquier counties could deal with flooding issues. remember, you never drive through a flooded road, especially at night when it's dark and you don't know howeep that water is. the evening hours, storms really stay around and wt of i-81. most of us are dry tonight. everybody is mild and humid with a temperature of 80egrees at 11:00 p.m. as we look to tomorrow and friday,caered showers and thunderstorms for the afternoon and especially the evenings. ho some heavy rain is possible here in the d.c. metro area later in the day tomorrow. that's the latest on flooding issues. i'll be here tracking th tomorrow. tracking the latest on saturday d sunday. only an isolated chance for a shower and thunderstorm. monday, we're gng to keep it completely dry. i'll have the ten-day forecast coming up at 6:50. tomorrow and friday, 60% cha re fon and thunderstorms. mainly the afternoon and evening hours. unshine out ud and

right on down into parts of southern maryland. the entire part of the eastern shore.erstown, martinsburg and winchester, as well. does not inclu frederick or loudon. don't worry about that. still on the hot side. doesn't matterf you're in it or not. heat index close to 100 through most locations. tomorrow into thursday, we'll continue to see that chance of that heat index over 100 degrees and right on through thursday. storms possible thursday and more showers on friday. that will bring down the temperatures considerably. we'll talk about that as we head into the labor day weekend because we're tracking that for you, saturday, sunday and mondto. have some chances in there and i'll let you know how you can be affect. >> doug, thank you. >>> unplanned stuff for passengers today. riders thothht they were o blue line and quickly realized they were but they were going the wrong way.

storm team 4 radar, shors holding on in parts of southern maryland, but as we look back to the west, we've also added the ouds on the radar. here we're starting to see a lot of sunshine, still feeling a little humid out here at wolf trap. we're going to see the humidity levels coming down over the next four hours. currently our temperature and 84 degree and we're going to be in the 70s by the time the concert gets under way. tonight is the night you can open up your wingow. we are go let you know, though, when the heat and humidity does return to the area. twe've got to have ate of fall but not done with the 90s just yet, o guys. >>e is going to enjoy the cooler temperatures more than the guy in the wolf suit behind you. >> no kidding. he's stillg,smilthough. >> i know. i feel bad for wolfy but he's loving it. >> thanks amelia. >> all right, thanks. >> see you. >>> a local landmark is 6 celebratin years in business. >> that's right. you know it for the classic -- then chili bowl now servinghem for more than six decades. the restaurant stayed open through some of the city's toughest t

that rai chance moving into parts of southern maryland.his should be out of here no later than about 5:00r 6:00 this afternoon. so that will be good news for your outdooan grilling this evening. again, avoid any high water that you see out there. some of the creeks and streams still rising as all the runoff from yesterday comes io play. always have all the latest severe weather watches, warnings tod radar feature on the interactive washi app. there's your grilling forecast for this evening. nothing to worryth about e. check out this ten-day forecast. it's going to be beautiful for the next couple o days. temperatures in the 50s in the suburbs the next coue of mornings. even 40s in the mountains on friday morning. the weekend will be sunny and dry, not too humid. heat, haze a humidity in abundance. arrives on monday and stays all next week. >>> chuck, thank you. it is 6:52 n right. one of d.c.'s most beloved residents is celebrating ato birthdayy. bei bei the giant panda is 3 years old. bei bei is the youngest of the giant pandas. they plan

this is southern maryland, dinnertime.for by the time you make your way out, 10:00, 11:00 tomorrow, if you're out and about, yeah, i think you'll be okay by that time. another chance of showers on sunday but only a 30% chance 84 who sunday and monday. 85 on tuesday. and then right now, thinking someeaiful weather as we make our way to next week. sunshine, lower humidity, temperatures in the0s when y wake up. the birds chirping. >> yeah. we can't e hearugh of that. thank you, doug. >>> we're gearing up in case you haven't heard for a ver b event. starting tomorrow,ha ts -- d diego there -- described as the sweetest and calmest dog. he's crossing his paws hoping to find his forever home. >> he's one of many pets wanting to be adopted during the clear the shelter event. lots of local slters are offering free or discounted adoptions. for more informati the locations across the area, search clear the shelters in our nbc shington app. >> i want that dog. >> cute. >> no cleanup, eithws. >> good nethat. right. >>> coming up, the firstbr albe f list at new quarterback alex smith. how he fared a

raindrops over the potomac into parts of southern maryland and reached as far north as about most sidesthe capital beltway. most of this rain is not making a huge run to the north. so if you live i t northern half of montgomery county into frederick, maryland, you rain chances are very low this morning, even though it's already raining down to our south. temperaturewise, 60s in northern maryland, 60s inh the shenand valley, close to 70 in and around the city. future weather carries that rain moance in and around 10:30, 11:00 this ing. a partly to mostly cloudy day. most of the rain will be overr lan the afternoon, could have a stray bubble-up shower or two. rain chances low once you get past 9:00 or 10:00 this morning. we wilstay well below average today. today's forecast high 84 degrees. download our nbc washington appm today, becauserow will be a weather alert day because of the possibility of strong thunderstorms. no more than a o passing shower wednesday. the humidity is going on, summer vacation, wednesday afternoon into the weekend, low humidity and temperatures cooler than averag

ck you live toward southern maryland, fredeurg and over the northern neck, scattered showers, but rightow the big threat is to the west of the city. that's what we'll ton watch. all because of the area of low pressure that's spinning around to the north and west. ahead of it, this is going to come through during the day tomorrow, too. let's take a lk and show you by tomorrow no big deal. we will be dealing with more cloud cover today. as we move through the afternoon, noon, looking .ok tore's 5:00 tomorrow, scattered showers, thundes, temperatures tomorrow in the upper 80s. should be rather humid. a couple of storms could have locally heavy downpours, rain. again, s aday had showers cloud cover, too. we'll be dealing with mostly cloudy skies, we think, saturday and sunday. sunday now, just how much rain we're going to see. we've got a 30% chance of rain during our saturday, 30% chance on sunday. humid. less so sunday a. mond then t next week, after tuesday, look fantastic. a great stretch of sunshine, low humidity. exactly what we need after the wet july and first part of august. >> what

there are some areas getting sunshine for us into southern maryland.ve clouds around wit occasional showers. there's a closer look at some of the showers through montgomery county toward the shenandoah valley. this frontal system takes its time passing through our area. t passing through until tomorrow. we'll have showers today. somehowers and thunderstorms around tomorrow as well. it's warm out there, though. if you're headed to clear the shelters, known temperatures the mid to upper 70s topping out in the mid to upper 80s for today. talk about the timing of rain. asaid earlier, we've got some fall-like weather on thy to our area sooner than you think. e'll talk about it in about 20 minutes. >> all right. thank you. >>> it is finally here. nbc 4 and telemundo-owned stations are teaming up with hundreds of shelters across the country to host clear the shelters. >> it's a nationwide pet adoption drive. you know who loves getting up early on a saturday morning? going in tina up and northwest d.c. >> you have background noise there. and tina and chk, you

just a few clouds southern maryland. look up to haguers town, a little area of rain t upre in pennsylvania, might clip parts of washington and frederick county in maryland. no rain here at wolf trap tonight. the evening hours, up to s degright now. so far that's the high temperature for the day. as the concert gets under way here, temperatures are going to fall ie 70s. by 11:00 p.m., a comfortable 74 degrees. we have loudoun county schools starting tomorrow. i'm going to have that forecast coming up at about 6:25. guys? >> thanks, amelia. >>> now i'mungry f olive oil, bread and some twine. >> oprah's piaka. >> i'll it. >>> always looking to shave time off your commute, especially with traffic in our area. now vdot is going to do something to try to ease some of the nightmare on i-95 north and south. they're going to add lanes to the stretch from fredericksburg from route 17ou to 13 in fredericksburg. news 4's transportation reporter adamuss has more on when this n,w relief could be coming. >> reporter: if you are one of

not a lot of rain falling from those clouds and still around the northern neck and parts of southern maryland and over the bay, seeing light rain right now, but you can see most of the area is completely dry and most us do stay dry. a small chance for an isolated shower. currently at 81 degrees and the temperpretty nice out there throughout the day. evening hours, we'll fall into the upper 70s until 9:00 p.m. and 76 at 11:00. humid out there overnight and patchy f and showers are possible tomorrow morning, but during the afternoon and evening hours,endy, we'll be tracking some storms with the biggest threats being heavy rain and gusty winds. i can't rule out an isolated weak tornado tomorrow looking at the wind profiles. i'll have much more on tomorrow's storms coming up at 5:25. >> thanks, amelia. >>> angry threats at a local mosque lead to a man's arrest, and now this man who is from virginia is facing charges for terrorizing the mbers of that arsque. julie is working that story for you and what she's learned about this suspect. >> a corontation over baby formula turns violent for a erk her

our sound zone, stafford, fredericksburg, including spots identify coming out here to southern marylandre in this area, you're going to be dry, just muggy a warm with partly sunny skies but looking good. let's go travel to t d.c. metro area. a little to the west, d.c., fairfax, montgomery county, parts of prince george's county and an roundal county. a mix of sun and clouds. once we continue to scoot to the west, now we're in our western zones, anywhere from frederick county that alrdy saw storms out there down, down through prince william cnty where they had flooding. warnington, gainesville. could see rain possible throughout the evenin after about 5:00 or 6:00. ouooding a concern, some of thoseies under a flash flood watch. the mountains, this is going to bearhe best for our area to see some stronger storms. west of that en in west virginia, strong storms through the late evening, possibly even oa little bit rain through the overnight. flooding techb flding definitely possibl along the shenandoahle v this to be west of d.c. that's why we think some of the stronger storms could stick

still tracking cloudiness down there in southern maryland but the showers are over. we're not a worriedut any rain tonight. still holding at 84 degrees across the tear yeaen the concert gets underway we'll be falling into the 70s. 11:00 p.m., a comfortle 74 degrees here in washington. temperatures in the suburbs lready in the 60s at that point. tonight is the night, wendy and jim, if you're not heading down tto wolf trap enjoy the weather, at least open up your windows and let fresh air your home overnight. we're falling into the 50s and 60s overght. >> it'een awhile since we've been able to say that.am ia, have fun out there. >> we're going to talk more about the bus stop coming up at 5:25. >> we'll loo forward to that. thank you. >>> it is one of the area's llrst bottlenecks. let's say it together now, i-95 south. it is a nightmare. any time, day or night, even at 3:00 in the morning. >>> just ahead, what's they're going to do to address that. are they adding lanes? where a theydding lanes and how long is it going to be before you can feel like you can move through

southern maryland, around stafford and kingnt george c not in the flash flood watch. that doesn't mean you won't be dealing wh heavy rai and potentially isolated flooding as well. here's the latest on storm team 4 radar. most of the area getting a break from the rain right now. more moisture is coming from the south and west as well. more scatteredhowers and areas of potentially heavy rain for the later evening and ernight hours. tomorrow morning it's mainly dry during the morning hou, but i can't rule out a few isolated showers as the day wears on. ate b chance for rain. areas of thunderstorms and heavy rain looking likely for your friday night. we start off at 7:00 a.m. and start off hith ah temperature of 83 degrees and from loudiness around start to finish. here's the four-day forecast. i'll have the ten-did i forecast coming up right around 6:45. lingering rning some showers, potentially until about t00, 10:00 a.m. after that we lo dry out with increasing sunshine and highs near 90. around 90 on sunday and maybe an isolated thunderstorm, but for the most part, mo

one named batch of rain and then the next, the second named batch is down h in parts of southern marylandnd down around fredericksburg and down through the northern neck. lated seeing a few i showers develop in between the two. first, let's head down south where we're trackingn heavy r out around the leonardtown area and down through parts of the nort prn neck andarts of charles county and seeing some of that heavy rain right now. this is all moving towards t northeast at about 30 to 40 miles an hour. kindha ofing speeds. this line back here in far western maryland is moving towards the east right now and here are some impact times for you, moving towards frederick at about 7:30. mt. airy at 8:00 and continuing off towards the east towards eldersburg at about 8:22. you can see we'reracking severe thunderstorm warnings for parts of the panhandle of west virginia and parts of washington d frederick counties. that will go until 7:00 p.m. i do think we'll see the severe thunderstorm warning for this line extended for areas off to the east, so i'll be here and updating the latest on facebook a

vernon and back to woodbridge a i stretchio portions of southern maryland. action traia with heavy s. downpo this will push north inside the beltway over the next 15 minutes or so. e heavy rainected in the district and heavy rain across the area tonight. we'll time it outor you coming up. >> thanks, lauryn. >>> a popular restaurant burns down. >> police are saying it's no accident. >> it was a former accident according to police accused of setting al's deli supreme on fire. aimee cho talked to those who knew her and are shocked to hear she's now accused of arson. >> reporter: this is the fire that broke out at al's deli supreme, the restaroant ded and burning through the night. this 26-year-old jesca poole worked at al's deli until she was recently let go. >> awful just beyond belief. >> reporter: keith smith says as soon as he heard the news about al's deli he raced to see it for himself. he's eaten there beforend had jessica poole at his server. >> you wouldn't see it in her. k i didn'tw she was capable. >> was she a good server? >> absolutely. >> when i l

notuch rain just yet, few sprinkles in southern maryland. steadier rain in west virginia for now rainhances will increase with time today. flash flood watches have been extended through today and tonight into early friday morning. rain chance todaytands at 70%. 80% chance of rain and storms , tomorrnd then rain ending in the first half of your saturday. est weather. >> all right. al, thank you. coming up the boyfriend of a missing university of iowa studen breaks his silence. what he and police are now saying abouthe mysterious disappearance. >> and then would you give up a career that paid you more than a half million dollars? just ahead, an exclusive live interview with the nfl player retiring at just 24 years old. we'll tellou why. but first, this is "today" on nbc. brothers tieing the knot with identical twin sisters this weekend. and they're here ahead of the double wedding. double wedding. >>> and a netflix it's the ford summer sales event and now is the best time to buy. man: (on tablet) preparing classic campfire trout. say what? tro

forecast ne >>> rain drops have moved ino much of fairfax and montgomery counties, now moving into southern marylandst of the day. current temperatures in the mid-70s. we'll squeak our way into the upper 70s and low 80s today, but one to asuch as three inches of rain today, tonight and early saturday. clearing out tomorrow afternoon. >>> it's 8:0 on "today." coming >>> 8:00. coming up, a white house divided, while the president takes aim at the russiave stigation. >> now we're being hindered bya the rushoax. it's a hoax, okay? >> his intelligence team speaks out aboutsian interference. >> it is real it is continuing. >> we're live at the white house. >>> plus, breaking her silence. steve jobs'aughter opens u for the first time about their troubled relationship. what she's revealing about the man behind apple as the company makes financial historys thi week. >>> and fifth time's a charm. "fixer upper" star joanna gaines keeps it rea with a honest account about what it's like becoming a new mom again at the age of 40. why she says things are very different the fifth time arounda friday, august 3rd, 20

the heavy rain we had around here aouple hours ago is now pru marly in northern maryland md southern pennsylvaniing away. still a lot of high-standing water on local roadways. so stay with us here at op traffic as well. a lot of road closures across the area because of the heavyra . even though it has come to an end now, we have flood warnings out for northinst waon, southern montgomery county, parts of arlington, fairfax city and, coun down to manassas, prince william county, all those are aerial flood warnings to continue until 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. this morning. be cautious and beth o lookout for the possibility of some high-standing water for the morning commute. we get a nice break in the action for mos of the day. we'll be rain-free. a lot of daytime heating means understorms are likely again latemu on. ch later today than on average. and there is even a slight rk for severe weather, particularly out in the shenandoah valley and northern maryland. here's future weather wh rain tapering off early this morning. enoughany dry hours and sunshine to get temperatures way up into the 80s

so at the beginning of the civil war, southern sympathizers in maryland burned out railroad bridges around baltimore and that was a very important strategic thing that they did, because if any union soldiers from the north were to get to washington, d.c., they had to take the railroads through baltimore. so when they burned these things out, it made it very difficult for lincoln to get soldiers in washington, d.c. he took a very big step in suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in april of 1861. what that meant was he could use the military to arrest civilians without charges and essentially hold them indefinitely as long as public safety required that. now, the constitution in article i says the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus may be suspended when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. lincoln looked at the situation and said well, i have a case of rebellion on my hands so i can exercise this power. but the problem is that article i of the constitution has to do with the powers of congress. so most legal thinkers at that time thought l

southern democrats were in it together. abraham lincoln identified what he called the four bad guys of slavery, the four horsemen of the apocalypse you might say. one was roger 20 from maryland, lincoln southerner but the second was franklin., the former president from new hampshire, a northerner. then james buchanan, a northerner and stephen douglas, lincoln's supreme antagonist fromillinois, a northerner . the northern democrats were writing the row slavery debate in the democratic state. his story tries to pin it on the south. no, the secession today was not the south but the slavery debate was between the proslavery democratic party and the anti-slavery republican party and the . [applause] this fact is so crushing that sometimes when i speak on campus, this is a familiar thing that happens, i'm talking to students at bowdoin college or tulane and inevitably some professor of romance languages will stand up and say dinesh, you are being a passive with. you are pointing the finger of blame at the democratic party and you don't realize there's a lot of blame to go around. everybody was in. when i hear this kind of thing, this typical cloud of rhetoric plotting historical r

there are lingering drops from the southern sides of the capital beltway along i-95. our friends in northern marylandave the lowest rain chance today. stillot af clouds around this morning and opportunity the next little bit. on the future weather, it keeps most of the rain in the southern half of our viewing area early thismorning. by 10:30, 11:00, most, if not all the rain, isompletely gone. during the afternoon, you'll get breaks of sunshine. think of it as a part li to mostly cloudy day. enough sunshine to cast a shadow or two. rainnc c are much lower later today. that is welcome news for sure. thenor tomorrow, we have a bigger chance for storms.ew temperate, 70 at dulles airport, 69 in gaithersburg, 73 in washington. looking for a high temperature of 82. for tomorrow, morning sun and afternoon storms with a high of 84. then the really, really nice weather comes in wednesday, thursday, friday. melissa mollet, most of our suburbs thursday, friday, maybe even saturday morning will be in the 50s. >> what? >> seriously. >> that doesn't seem normal to me. maybe it's normal but doesn't seem right to me

so at the beginning of the civil war, southern sympathizers in maryland burned out railroad bridges around baltimore and that was a very important strategic thing that they did, because if any union soldiers from the north were to get to washington, d.c., they had to take the railroads through baltimore. so when they burned these things out, it made it very difficult for lincoln to get soldiers in washington, d.c. he took a very big step in suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in april of 1861. what that meant was he could use the military to arrest civilians without charges and essentially hold them indefinitely as long as public safety required that. now, the constitution in article i says the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus may be suspended when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. lincoln looked at the situation and said well, i have a case of rebellion on my hands so i can exercise this power. but the problem is that article i of the constitution has to do with the powers of congress. so most legal thinkers at that time thought l

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124 reof eme weaer in with over 40 million people from maryland to maine at risk for flooding this weekend. water as far as the eye can see in southern pennsylvania. entire neighborhoods in lancaster county flooded. this is the baseball field in dushore, after four inches of rain. and in albany, new york, drivers struggling to navigate swamped streets. some forced to just abandon their cars. >> so many communities dealing with that flooding. sam champion joins us now. the flood threat is still going to linger. >> it's been a rough 12 hours. it will take some time to drain that water. tom, look at this rain in last 12 hours moving from really kind of pennsylvania all the way through to the cape. we still have a few scattered showers over the next few hours in northern new england. if you feel like new york was targeted, look at this, it was. 5 inches of rain in this line of storms that moved through. we got to get west, excessive heat warnings are out for the area. these are going to spread. look at this heat. 92 to 98 in fresno on sunday. watch these numbers go up by the time we get to monday. 96 to 100 in the same area. by tuesday,

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those clouds are leading to rain drops up near frederick, maryland, and hagerstownua those indiv showers are headed up into southernon getting some amount of activity for rainte la in the day. current temperatures are very steamy, in the upper 70s to near 80 degrees. highs today wnl be i the mid-80s, so certainly aarm and humid day. if you're headed down to nats ballpark for the game this evening against the brews, in delay possible. >> and that's your latest >> mr. ro >>> so, when is work work? when you're not at the office, rit't? well, t a question carson has been grappling with in the orange room. what's the word? >> here's the word, craig. go mo in the age of smartphones nd wi-fi, devices allow us to stay connected and on the way to and from the office. but researchers suggest that checking e-mails during your commute should possibly count as part of the workday. a new study from the university of western england analyze how ople spend commuting time, and most use it to catch up on work tasks, including e-mails. now, one of the study's co-authors says if tral time we to count as work time, there would be many

southern avenue in southeast. police are looking for a man wearing linen pants, a navy blue hat and a darl blue basebal jersey. >>> plers, parents and the university of maryland -- this stems from a player dying from a heat stroke this summer and alleged abuse by coaches. the head coach i still on paid leave. >>> the american university grad who wascced of being a russian agent has a new home. prosecutors say that maria buti is i another jail this morning. she's in the same jail as former trump campaig manager paul manafort. >>> so good to have you along with us,or and thanks being here. lauren ricketts joining us now with more on some unsettled weather that we have been dealing with over the weekend. >> it was down right hot yesterday, lauren? >> we had temperatures yesterday that were actually in the low 90s, we got a lot of sunshine yesterday, i didn't see one rain drop. i was waiting for it all day to come. but it dried out before it got to my neighborhood. i know saw some rain showers throughout the region.us the sun came up six minutes ago and it's not looking once again like the prettiest of mornings, but we will see some nshine out there this morning.