black talk with wendy rieger about how the message from the movie is still applicable today. >> thisether to fight back against the backlash as we see some rights being rolled back. you don't do it alone. you join arms. that was the message of mi"milk so when i heard they want to screen it here, i said i want to come and do that. >> the discussion of milk take place tonight at the e street cinema between 10th and 11th streets. for more on the weekend event, search capital pride in the nbc washington app. >> a lot of eyes expected to be on the testimony of former fbi director james comey tomorrow and some local bars are trying to cash in on the anticipation. jim and wendy are in the newsroom to tell us about that and more in our next hour. >> what do you drink when you're watching that? or will you be watching or will you be working? decisions. decisions. some bar owners in the area think it's going to be the former and they're planning to hold comey watch party. >> our tom sherwood went out to a few of them today to partake of crowds they're expecting and deals they're offering tomor

. >> and i'm wendy rieger. we have been watching the testimony of attorney general jeff sessions. >> and we'll keep an eye on it for you, but we begin now with storm team4 first at 4:00, we have extreme heat in this area, got us close to a record this afternoon. >> it's a weather alert day, temperatures are in the 90s as you know, and you know it feels a lot hotter than that, we have you covered all afternoon. >> doug and lauryn are going to start things off, and we're looking ahead to some changes. >> yeah, within the next 24 hours, much cooler weather towards the end of the week, but today a hot one for sure. and it's the heat and the heat index. >> and you can feel the humidity, definitely more and we saw triple-digit heat indices out there. >> right now, currently, 92 in washington, con, coming down fr last hour. still 94 hagerstown, 95, philadelphia, ocean city. wouldn't that be nice? cooler to the west, where we have some storms in west virginia. most of these are dying as they move over the mountains, bu

. >> and i'm erika gonzalez in for wendy rieger. doug?r alert night because we're expecting heavy rain. it's not going to be severe weather. we're not expecting a ton of lightning with these storms or hail or even high winds. this is just going to be a rain event. we have a flash flood watch in effect for northern virginia. the rain is all to the west of i-95. we don't even expect it here until about 8/9:00. toward the shenandoah and around the blue ridge, this area already seeing flash-flood warnings to the south. can you see where the rain is trying to make its way to the east. this is what i'm watching, these storms right here. this is moving right up the boundary toward our region and the heavy rain moves in during the evening. fauquier and rappahannock, shenandoah valley, flash-flood warning in effect until 8:00. much more on the timing of the rain, amelia draper and i are in throughout the rest of the evening. >>> he was at imminent risk of death, that's how doctors described the condition of house majority whip steve scalise, as he

. >>> and good afternoon, i'm wendy rieger, but first at 5:00, a woman thought she was safe asleep inshe was suddenly startled awake, loud noises when she walked out of her bedroom to check, she found two men in the middle of her home going through her things. >> it was such a terrifying moment to wake up and find someone in your house that you had never seen before. >> things escalated from there. this happened over the au park neighborhood where pat collins is this evening. he talked with the victim. pat? >> reporter: so, wendy, what did you do saturday morning? go shopping? do some yard work? wash the car? i'll bet you it was nothing like what happened to nicole boozer. did you think you might die? >> i thought it was possible. but i thought i was going to give myself a fighting chance. i wasn't going to try and die in here, that's for sure. >> reporter: that's nicole boozer, a retired er nurse. he's a quick thinker and she has seen a lot of troubling things, but nothing quite like what she went through last saturday at her home in au park. >> it was such a terrifying moment to wak

i'm wendy rieger. >> and i'm chris lawrence. years in prison for kenneth kelley, the sentence handed down just this afternoon. as he appeared in court, finally answering for the deaths of three women and two children during this crash in oxon hill three years ago. >> county bureau chief tracee wilkins joins us from reaction for the realize of the victims tonight. tracee? >> reporter: family members who spoke in court and also prosecutors used words like monster to describe kenneth kelley. he was charged with five counts of involuntary vehicular manslaughter. he's got ten years per death. that's the maximum sentence he could receive in kenneth kelley, who was caught by a police officer as he drove toward oxon hill road. police believe he was going anywhere from 50 to 70 miles per hour before he crashed into a vehicle, throwing some people from both cars, killing five. >> this is difficult to really describe the devastation involved in this case. >> reporter: natasha was driving the vehicle that was struck. she lost her two childr

. >> i'm wendy rieger sitting in for pat lawson muse. alexandria police say recovering all of this evidence could take several days. the fbi recovered two weapons that belonged to the shooter, they are processing a creell phe and computer that were taken from hodgkinson's van. tleefrnlg >> three shooting victims are still in the hospital. matt mika remains in the icu. his family said he suffered massive trauma after bei multiple times in the chest and arm. >> and mike pence visited crystal griner. she was shot in the ank. >> they also visited steve scalise who is in critical condition and will need more surgery. president trump called him a fighter. >> i visited steve and his family at the hospital last night. i reassured them the country is pulling for them, praying for them and that we are here for them every single step of the way. >> on this thursday afternoon, jul julie carey has an update on the investigation. >> and chris lawrence is at nats park where they are about to play ball. a game they can't wait to play and we can't wait t

. >> and i'm wendy rieger.ood transformed into a crime scene overnight after a shooting takes the lives of two high school students and this evening police still trying to piece this together. we are hearing from those who knew these two young men. >> we have team coverage for you this evening, including the graduation. but we begin with news4's pat collins who is live at the scene in montgomery village. pat? >> reporter: jim, this is the scene, this cul-de-sac in montgomery village. you can see here still shards of glass from that shooting here last night. two young men, two teenagers, they lived in germantown, they were murdered here in montgomery village, miles from their home. what why did they take that trip, that trip that cost them their lives? here at the scene today, shell casings that appeared to be left over from that murder last night. they appear to be different calibers, indicating more than one gun was used. there's no security camera video of the shooting, but gordon gips' video camera inside hi

good afternoon i'm wendy rieger.dria at that ballpark where we start our coverage. >> reporter: you and i know that this del ray section of alexandria is a quiet, very close-knit community. a sought after neighborhood. everybody knows your name in this neighborhood. popular coffee shops, bars, restaurants too. people congregated and sit on their porches and backyard decks. they know each other. they know nothing like what they saw and heard today. we have video that we've obtained from a man that was just out walking his dog this morning. picked up his cell phone and he shot the video of allth

good afternoon i'm wendy rieger. jim handly is in alexandria at that ballpark where we start our coverage. >> reporter: you and i know that this del ray section of alexandria is a quiet, very close-knit community. a sought after neighborhood. everybody knows your name in this neighborhood. popular coffee shops, bars, restaurants too. people congregated and sit on their porches and backyard decks. they know each other. they know nothing like what they saw and heard today. we have video that we've obtained from a man that was just out walking his dog this morning. picked up his cell phone and he shot the video of allth it is tough to watch at times, but here it is. listen and watch closely. [ gunfire ] [ gunfire ] >> reporter: as you can see parts of it are disturbing, people ducking for air. this video goes on for six minutes. silent at times, very loud at others. right now we are waiting on an update from investigators expected sometime in the next half hour. two of the victims you should know remain in critical cond

. >> and i'm wendy rieger. this time bryan moles appeared before a federal judge.man is charged with bringing an assault rifle to the hotel earlier this

good evening, i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm jim handly.harges are expected to be handed down any moment now. brian moles is accused of having 90 rounds of ammunition inside his car, an assault rifle, and a handgun too. he was only facing local weapons charges. news4's mark segraves is live for us outside d.c. superior court to explain this change. mark? >> reporter: good evening, it's been a confusing day for anyone following this story. he was originally charged with local charges. then federal prosecutors said he would be arraigned in federal court. but then because of a problem with transportation, they are arraigning him at this very moment inside d.c. superior court, which is a local courthouse, but they are arraigning him to federal charges. we know he's being illegal possession of a williea. and transporting a gun across state line. that all began yesterday morning at the trump hotel. >> reporter: 43-year-old brian moles was arrested 1:00 a.m. wednesday after d.c. police and secret service knocked on his hotel room door in the trump

. >> and i'm wendy rieger. this time bryan moles appeared before a federal judge. the pennsylvania man is charged with bringing an assault rifle to the hotel earlier this prosecutors today struck a different tone than yesterday's hearing. news4's mark seeg rifes is at u.s. district court this afternoon. mark? >> reporter: good evening, wendy. a very different day in court than yesterday, but it was the exact same federal prosecutor who yesterday argued that bryan moles was a risk of flight and shouldn't be released and that he posed, in his words, a grave danger to the public if he were to be released. but today that same prosecutor never mentioned any of that. and in fact, didn't object when the judge decided to release mols on his own recognizance until his next court date. but moles and not going home to pennsylvania. 43-year-old bryan moles made his first appearance before a judge yesterday evening. moles is now facing one federal charge of illegally possessing a gun and one local charge of illegally transporting a gun. the d.c. judge released moles late thursd

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thanks, again, wendy rieger, appreciate that. wear your sunscreen. limit outdoor exercise. or exercise in the morning or evening. cooler there. and wear the cool shades if you're out there, because we're talking about a heat wave of six and you notice, next saturday, 88, this saturday, 89, we could even hit it then too. that would be a whole week of temperatures at 90 or better. >> and i gotta tell you, i just found out, they turned it into a nine-hole golf course this weekend. so you can take all these different shots, you know, iconic shots at fedexfield all weekend. >> that's awesome. >> they're taking tee times. who knew. >> thank you. >>> a hazard at one of the more popular places on the national mall. how it's affecting humans, but more importantly, what it's doing to baby wildlife. >>> and controversy in the vase for virginia's lieutenant governor, one of the candidates is accused of gay bashing. >> this is chris gordon at the scene of a double shooting in southeast washington. as police search for clues, this self-styled cowboy rode in on his horse. ahead, how he's