when i was young, i watched steve reeves. steve reeves pulled down the tower, which is very symbolic and very reminiscent of what the museum looks like, the pillars and the columns. and i thought, wouldn't it be great to kind of do an homage or run up these steps, and that's sort of what influenced you to get you in the films anyway, was this look. and i was going to carry my dog up to show how strong rocky was. but once i lifted that bull mastiff at 130 pounds, i got three -- i got three steps, i started to hear my discs compress. i said, sorry, honey, i love you, but sit, fetch, go. i'll do this one. i visited your beautiful city, by the way. that view from that moment when he's putting his hands up, what an amazing view. and you -- you can see the skyline of philly from there. yeah. everything looks beautiful on the rocky steps, come on. you working in philadelphia, you got to see some of the movie being shot, which i'm so jealous about. and you have a really cool story about that. i keep saying over and over, in philly ro

when i was young, i watched steve reeves. steve reeves pulled down the tower, which is very symbolic and very reminiscent of what the museum looks like, the pillars and the columns. and i thought, wouldn't it be great to kind of do an homage or run up these steps, and that's sort of what influenced you to get you in the films anyway, was this look. and i was going to carry my dog up to show how strong rocky was. but once i lifted that bull mastiff at 130 pounds, i got three -- i got three steps, i started to hear my discs compress. i said, sorry, honey, i love you, but sit, fetch, go. i'll do this one. i visited your beautiful city, by the way. that view from that moment when he's putting his hands up, what an amazing view. and you -- you can see the skyline of philly from there. yeah. everything looks beautiful on the rocky steps, come on. you working in philadelphia, you got to see some of the jealous about. and you have a really cool story about that. i keep saying over and over, in philly rocky is a religion, and that's b

when i was young, i watched steve reeves. steve reeves pulled down the tower, which is very symbolic and very reminiscent of what the museum looks like, the pillars and the columns. and i thought, wouldn't it be great to kind of do an homage or run up these steps, and that's sort of what influenced you to get you in the films anyway, was this look. and i was going to carry my dog up to show how strong rocky was. but once i lifted that bull mastiff at 130 pounds, i got three -- i got three steps, i started to hear my discs compress. i said, sorry, honey, i love you, but sit, fetch, go. i'll do this one. i visited your beautiful city, by the way. that view from that moment when he's putting his hands up, what an amazing view. and you -- you can see the skyline of philly from there. yeah. everything looks beautiful on the rocky steps, come on. you working in philadelphia, you got to see some of the movie being shot, which i'm so jealous about. and you have a really cool story about that. i keep saying over and over, in philly ro

steve: richard reeve reporting live from rockville, maryland. the rain continues to fall at a heavy rate. we should note we talk about the severe thunderstorm warning in the last couple of hours now. now we look at the flood warning. flood warning has been posted for the district. montgomery county through the everything hours. look at the weather bug network. germantown at 53 degrees. more impressive is a wind gust of miles per hour. this is german town on the weather bug network. 50 miles per hour manassas, rockville and clarke. -- and clarksburg. the temperatures are falling. rain and lightning falls around the potomac yard around alexandria. there is where abc7's jeff goldberg is live. jeff: we have not experienced wind but the rain has fallen. started 15, 20 minutes ago. it has come down and it continues to come down hard. it's lightened up a tad in the last minute or two. i don't know if we track it that closely but it feels that way. taking a look at traffic. southbound on jefferson davis highway. look at the sky. we can see flashing of t