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Broken line of showers up here in pennsylvania and the p panhandle of West Virginia, this could bring more showers this evening. Right now, police are keeping guard at a leesburg home. Crime scene investigators going in and out piecing together what is likely to become a massive investigation. Our Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter david culver has been speaking with police and neighbors. Reporter 12 hours after that raid started, just look over my shoulder here. You can see crime scene investigators are still on scene. That truck full of evidence that they have taken from inside that home all day long. Meantime, neighbors here, they want to know what was going on inside that home. The heavily Armed Police Presence now surrounding this leesburg home nothing compared to what played out early this morning here. Big loud crash. Reporter neighbors describe that loud crash like a gunshot. Those are spotlights making sure no one escapes. It was like straight out of compton. It is just like the movie. Reporter you could see one person after another walk out of the house, hands up. Some of them just children. Police had the adults lift their shirts as they checked for weapons. Notice the snipers red laser focused on that mans body. Soon after police go in, then cuff and question some of those detained. There were several subjects located inside the residence that were conducting interviews with at this time. It was extremely scary only because we were not expecting such a thing. This is a very friendly, familyoriented neighborhood. Reporter she and her family live right across the street. Theyve been here for ten years. Have you ever had problems with the folks that live there . No, no. Never. Reporter she didnt recognize all the faces of those who walked out, but said the mom who lives here is a sweet person. The children have played on our lawn. They run after the rait raid police wont say, but theyve been vigilant here all day. Some stopping cars and asking questions. We do know several agencies are helping out with this, including the atf and the fbi. The Leesburg Police are taking the lead here. As of night, he can still not confirm if any charges have been placed. It begins seven hours from now. A massive project to make repairs to metro rail. Its going to mean big delays on metro and on the road for the next year. A lot of you say youre making changes to your commute. We have Team Coverage from maryland to virginia throughout the hour. First, Mark Segraves is live at the East Falls Church metro where the first phase of the work begins. Reporter thats right. This is where it all begins here at East Falls Church metro. We found out today the price t plan about 60 million, plus whatever metro will lose in revenue from riders who opt not to take the rail service over the next 12 months. Its also going to cost riders a lot of their time. I am planning to actually go ahead and get up early, half an hour early. Reporter shes not only going to start her commute a half hour early every day. She says she wont be riding metro. Its not going to work out. What will you do differently now . Im going to drive to work. Reporter this man says it will change how he gets home at night. Ill have to take a taxi. Reporter as the region braces itself, a group of virginia lawmakers have told metro they wont support giving additional money to the transit agency. A letter signed by 11 members of the house of delegates representing Northern Virginia warns they wont support any tax increases or additional funding to pay for metro we cannot in good conscious ask virginia taxpayers to bail out years of mismanagement and wasteful spending. The Board Chairman calls the letter ludicrous. Metro has a 300 million operating shortfall and a 18 billion capital shortfall. We have to address it some way. Reporter the letter comes days after virginias governor threatened to withhold funding from metro if safety doesnt improve. My advice would be to get on board and be supportive. Threats are idle. They mean nothing to me. Reporter a Ripple Effect will impact commuters across our region. The hardest impacted will be here in Northern Virginia between the East Falls Church station and boston where theyll be single tracking and where trains will only be running about every 18 minutes. Coming up at 6 00, well tell think should have to pay for these improvements. Pat, back to you. All right. Thank you, mark. If you are a federal worker, we know a lot of you will be among a large portion of those impacted by the safetrack program. The office of personal management says it will provide guidance on workplace flexibilities. Opm says individual agencies will know what adjustments should be made and ultimately it should be their call. They are working with labor unions and employee groups as it works to develop safetrack guidelines. A 20yearold Fairfax High School senior is facing child pornography charges tonight. He used his cell phone to secretly record a male student into the bathroom. Meagan fitzgerald is live with what the school and other students are saying about these allegations. Reporter wendy, a lot of students say theyre shocked and a letter from the School District today telling them what happened. This is the time of year most students look forward to. Were all really excited that it is going to be over. Summer is just a wonderful time. Reporter but students say lately the talk around Fairfax High School has had little to do with summer plans. He just kind of tweeted it out. People are blowing up about it. I actually heard it on the internet and through twitter. Reporter students heard about an incident that happened during school hours on thursday. Fairfax police say a 20yearold senior at the high school was arrested and charged with the possession of child pornography. There was a complaint from a student that had believed he was filmed while he was using the restroom or attempting to change in the restroom stall. He just saw like a phone reach into the stall. Then he was about to fight that kid, but the security people that. Reporter a School Resource officer investigated and found enough evidence to make an arrest. The students say theyre relieved the suspect is no longer in their school. Cases like this are prevalent throughout the county, which is why coming up at 6 00 they have advice and a warning for students. Wendy . Thank you, meagan. Someone may have illegally put a sign on a sidewalk and that may have led to the death of a teenager who was riding his bike in leesburg. He was skillkilled in a crash yesterday on frederick avenue. He hit that commercial sign on the sidewalk while he was on his bike and then fell into the street. Thats when he was hit and killed by a car. The City Attorney says the business could face up 1,000 fine for placing a sign on the sidewalk. The teenager was a freshman a Gaithersburg High School and worked as a dishwasher. The restaurant has set up a donation site to help send the teens body back to el salvador, his homeland, for burial. Police have just identified a woman killed in a Chain Reaction crash on a major roadway in Prince Georges County. It happened along route 50 in the area of kennel worth avenue last night. Were told a car traveling eastbound hit the median and went airborne hitting Irene Cornelius who was driving in the opposite direction. Her vehicle then got tboned by another car. Investigators say the first driver may have been impaired. Well, he wanted to shoot people. Thats what a man told a secret Service Officer just before a shooting near the white house. Today federal authorities charged Jesse Olivieri with resisting officers and with having a dangerous weapon. The agent shot olivieri two weeks ago after he allegedly approached a we investigators say it may have been attempt at suicide by cop. The suspect survived, still in the hospital. He could spend up to 20 years in prison if he is convicted. Prince William County police are searching for a 14yearold boy who hasnt been seen in more than 48 hours now. He left his house in woodbridge for school on wednesday morning. No one has seen him or talked with him since then. Police say he may be in danger. He has a scar on his upper left arm. A dramatic arrest played out in front of drivers who were stuck in traffic in the district, but it wasnt just the police who helped catch a suspect on the run. Its the powerful drug that ended the life of prince. How his performances for fans may have helped lead to his untimely death. This is chris gordon at the dickerson, maryland, whitewater course. Ahead, a sendoff for the u. S. Olympic canoe, stroand restoring aing a newbfathers faith. Its standing tall after one surgery. Not six. Stronger is being a typical kid. Despite a rare disorder. Stronger is finding it earlier. And coming home sooner. Stronger is seeking answers. And not giving up, until you find them. Because we dont just want your kids to grow up, we want them to grow up stronger. A wild and dramatic scene in southwest d. C. Today. A man crashed his car on the kutz bridge. Thats when construction workers in the area Darcy Spencer is live now along the bridge with the rest of this story and it was a wild one. Darcy . Reporter thats right. It was a pretty incredible scene. The kutz bridge has been under construction for the last several weeks. It has pretty much died off right now because of all this rain. Now the construction workers saw the suspect run by with no shoes on. They jumped into action. The suspect wheeled to an ambulance after a takedown on the kutz bridge. Workers doing bridge construction tackled and held the man until police arrived. They did a good job by detaining him because he put everybody at risk. Reporter the suspect told witnesses he wanted to die. Police say he continued to resist as they cuffed him and loaded him into the ambulance. Police say the suspect first crashed his car into a bus by the lincoln memorial. Then when we sidewalk by the bridge, the car broke down. He allegedly then tried to carjack several cars. Thats when the construction workers held him for police. When police did arrive on the scene, he continued to be combative. One of our officers did deploy a taser to subdue the subject. Hes in our custody right now being transported to the hospital for evaluation. He will be charged with assault on a police officer, attempted carjacking, and the hitandrun accident. Reporter now one of the construction workers who was out here earlier today is a navy veteran from afghanistan. Were going to hear from him and how he says his training in kandahar helped him tackle and hold that suspect here on the bridge today. Were live in southwest. Darcy spencer, news4. The zika virus still isnt a big concern as far as mosquito borne transmission goes here into the continental u. S. Local officials will be for the pest over the weekend. Theyll start spraying in laurel on sunday. Loudoun county officials are ramping up efforts to educate residents about mosquito prevention. 18 virginians have the virus. 17 have it in maryland. 4 have it in d. C. Again, none of them contracted the virus here in the u. S. Of course, zika is on the minds of a lot of the olympic athletes who will be traveling to rio in august, but so is winning. Chris gordon has our report from the whitewater slalom course in dickerson, maryland. Reporter theyre getting ready for rio and theyre not letting the zika virus stop them. Were an outdoor sport being in whitewater slalom. Were not unfamiliar with things like mosquitos. Were taking the same precautions, bringing the bug spray, bringing the long sleeves. I dont end to pull out. Everything in their power to make the olympics a safe environment for the athletes as well as the spectators. Reporter if youre like me, you probably didnt know even there was a whitewater course here at the dickerson generating plant. It was built in 1991 in preparation for the 92 olympics in barcelona where the team won a gold and a bronze and has since enjoyed great success. It is really unusual. It is a warm water course. It is like a giant gentlemjacuz. I started thinking about qualifying for the games. Now that i have, it is just an incredible fi reporter ahead at 6 00, what they say about reports that much of the water in rio is contaminated. Expect to see a lot more police on the roads this weekend in fairfax county. Theyre stepping up their patrols to curb underage drinking because of all the proms and graduations that are unfolding. Parents, make sure your students dont have access to alcohol. We want to prevent everybody from drinking and driving. It is something that effects not only those involved in it, but their families as well. Michelle obama traveled to harlem today. She spoke to graduates at the City University of new york. She told a crowd with 150 different nationalities they represent just about every possible background and walk of life. While she didnt mention him by subtle swipes at donald trump. The first lady say the leaders who rule by intimidation often do so because they have nothing else to offer. You are in america. We dont let our differences tear us apart. Not here. We dont give into our fears. We dont build up walls to keep people out because we know that our greatness has always depended on contributions from people who were born elsewhere. Our greatness has never, ever come from sitting back and feeling entitled to what we have. Its never come from folks who climbed the ladder of success or happen to be born near the top and then pull the ladder up after themselves. No, huhuh. Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted. Just before her speech, the school gave mrs. Obama an dedication to public service. Donald trump escalates his attacks on a federal judge. Why he claims the judges mexican heritage is a conflict. Deadly flooding in texas. We continue to monitor the dangerous situation where even a maximum security prison had to evacuate inmates. Did a parrot witness a mans murder and can a parrot witness a mans murder . Did you hear that . A live look outside with our tower camera where you can see rain falling over the National Cathedral and the Washington Monument there in the background, but it is leading to some reduced visibilities as we track heavy rain continuing to impact the area. Heavy rain back in parts of fairfax county. Lots of lightning out here in reston right now. Some more heavy rain down around charles county, the Northern Neck, just south of fredericksburg. Notice some skacattered showersn winchester and hagerstown. Once this thing is out of the area, only the chance of a shower or two, but looking in on notice some thunderstorms approaching the fairfax area. Tracking areas of heavy rain in the district, traveling along the beltway right now. The traffic a nightmare because of the weather. Heres a broken line of showers back around hagerstown and then up into pennsylvania. As we move on into the overnight hours, lows will dip into the mid 60s to around 70 degrees. Right now were at 75. Mid 70s through 9 00 p. M. The potential for some water collecting on area roads. A heads up there. After 9 00, we should be mainly quiet in the weather department. Doug will be in at 11 00 updating the weekend forecast. Your weather headlines as we look to the weekend. Tomorrow looking like the better of the two weekend days. Its mainly dry. Theres the threat for some strong to severe thunderstorms impacting the area on sunday. Thats why it is a storm the weekend not a good pool weekend. Not the case for the most part monday through next friday. Tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. 69 degrees. Maybe some limited sunshine tomorrow. The best chance looks to be around the midday and early afternoon hours. As we see that sun break out, that could help fire up some thunderstorms starting around 4 00 p. M. 84 degrees. Its muggy once again tomorrow. Because of the mugginess, any storms or rain were tracking could contain some very heavy rainfall. The pool forecast for the next few days. If you want to go tomorrow, not looking too bad. Rain and storms especially later in the day. Monday a perfect pool day. Just what you want to hear as youre thinking about heading back to work. The Severe Weather risks on sunday mainly heavy rain and some high winds that could produce some isolated wind damage. Cant maybe an isolated tornado. The main focus on sunday heavy rain and some strong gusty winds. Monday 84. Mostly sunny. What youre not seeing here are the humidity levels. They go from uncomfortable to pleasant. Metros plan to fix its ageing rail system is kicking into high gear tonight. So we asked Prince Georges County leaders whats their plan to help their people get around. Well tell you what we learned next. Hillary clinton may have the wind at her back following yesterdays powerful Foreign Policy speech, but in the next few minutes Bernie Sanders gets ready to rally voters in california. Well take you there. Plus, painful performances. The downfall of prince. A look at what led up to what now at 5 30, walmart upping the ante in the Grocery Store wars. More controversy for donald trump as republicans weigh in on his attack against a federal judge. And in Northern Virginia, could be some changes for those of you like to catch a ride in the slug lines come monday morning. Preparing for metros safetrack plan in a county that some of you say the county isnt prepared and is telling you to fend for yourself. Prince george Tracee Wilkins has more on these concerns. Reporter it appears prince georges kouncounty is slowly b surely getting their plan together. We talked with a county Department Spokesman for transportation today. Im one of those people who relies on Public Transportation. Reporter bradley heard works for the federal government. A large percentage of those folks use metro to get into the job. I catch at addison road. Reporter starting june 18th, for 16 days Eastern Market to minnesota avenue and benning road will also experience line segment shut downs, blocking prince georges riderho depend on the orange, blue, and silver lines for getting into d. C. This will completely cut off the rail Service Across the river. Reporter herd, who is an attorney, writes a blog. He focusing on county transportation issues and is concerned that the county doesnt have a safetrack plan. They dont have to shuttle them all into downtown. Its providing a lifeline, a link, that is going to be enough to let people actually still rely on Public Transportation and not flood the roads. Reporter county reps have told metro they have little r resources to supplement the coun countys transportation. What buses will you be using . A combination of what we have in our existing fleet and were looking at contracting options as well. Reporter the county has not yet contract eed charter buses. Folks will be able toee very robust and wellcoordinated plan for safetrack. Reporter theyre going to have three teams out here. Prince georges county officials reminding folks of what they need to do. What theyre really hoping people will do is telecommute and find other ways to take care of the work they need to get done. Charter buses, that is a lot of transportation to try to get folks from a station like this one into d. C. And past the area thats going to be shut down. Prince georges county is actually going to have some single tracking and a real impact within the county. Well tell you what county Officials Say theyre going to do when that happens. Because of the safetrack plan, you can see some new slug lines starting monday morning. A man in woodbridge is trying to start some new slug line pick up sites. The first one at the vienna metro station. Over at the foggy bottom ro in the afternoon. Theres an app that lets you know in realtime whether the slug lines or drivers are available. We always have the unpredictability about how do you know if people are there waiting in the line or there are drivers waiting. What if i dont have it right there . The app gives you the realtime status of how many people are waiting there in line. To get that app, go to nbc washington and search slugs. Hillary clinton is hoping to use a little star power to drum up support in california ahead of tuesdays primary. Elizabeth banks, sally field, and deborra messing appeared at rally this afternoon. She also took more swipes at donald trump saying he engages in rants, personal feuds, and outright lies. A Bernie Sanders rally is just getting under way in bay area. Going to show you live shots of the rally. An la times poll released just yesterday shows sanders trailing clinton by ten points with just four days to go until voters head to the polls. The Presumptive Republican nominee attacking a federal judge who is presiding over the lawsuit against trump university. The university is accused of fraud. He said the judge has an absolute conflict because he is of mexican heritage. Trump is trying to build a wall on the mexican border. Today the white house is making a push to get congress to act on the opioid epidemic. In the first half of 2015, we lost 140 americans every day to an opioid overdose. We know that many more people have significant addiction issues. This is an issue that geographic boundaries, it knows no racial boundaries, it knows no economic boundaries. The death of prince demonstrates that last point. For six weeks his death was an mystery, but an overdose of the opioid fentanyl killed the star. Today many are wondering is it possible live shows like this one that prince loved so much ultimately played a role in the 57yearolds untimely death. Privately friends say the athletic performances and the high heeled shoes left him with chronic hip problems and eventually led to an addiction to pain medication that was supposed to help. Prince, who stood at 53 and weighed just 112 pounds when he died, was found dressed almost entirely in black, unresponsive in an elevator in paisley park. The medical accidentally overdosed on fentanyl. Fentanyl is typically prescribed in hospitals for extreme pain, but its turning up on the streets for sale illegally. Fentanyl is the most potent opioid painkiller in medicine. It is stronger than morphine and street heroin. It has to be handled very carefully. Opioids have a very strong potential for addiction. Reporter the coroners report doesnt say where prince got the fentanyl. Police have questioned at least two doctors. A search warrant reveals a local doctor was treating prince, but a source familiar with a treatment said that the doctor never prescribed opioids. Prince called an addiction specialist in california the day before his death. According to his attorney, cornfeld never directly treated the pop star. Neither doctor has been accused of any wrongdoing. An ashburn ceo is now an accused killer and the mans 8yearold son is back at the center of his trial, a trial that could convict the father of murder. Swept away. The flooding in texas claims the lives of soldiers. The latest on the search for survivors. Heavy rain in the forecast tonight and sunday as well, leading to some water logged roads. Ill have the latest on storm team 4 radar. A developing story in texas where the view from above shows just how dire the situation is here. Half the state is under a flood watch or warning. The governor has declared disasters in 31 counties. Theres more rain coming over the weekend. South of houston hundreds of inmates had to be evacuated because of concerns over floods. A few hours north of houston, the search is on for four soldiers whose transport truck got swept away. Five soldiers died when the truck flipped over in a creek that winds through ft. Hood. Another three are recovering today. Military officials are calling this a tragic accident, saying the soldiers had been taking part in a trainin the same unit had just returned from a ninemonth deployment to south korea. This same system moving into our area right now led to some severe flooding in western pennsylvania. Rescue crews using rafts to rescue people who became stranded in their homes. Some bridges and roads have been threatened by the rising creek water. Nbc 4 responds to your complaints. Were getting your money back. Our susan hogan has the tally next. The testimony of an 8yearold boy once again Takes Center Stage at the murder trial of an ashburn ceo accused of killing his wife. Now the couples son has a witness to his words that he saw his d witness to his words that he saw his d great time for a shiny floor wax, no . Not if you just put the finishing touches on your latest masterpiece. Timings important. Comcast business knows that. Thats why you can schedule an installation at a time that works for you. Ekend, if thats what you need. Because you have enough to worry about. I did not see that coming. Dont deal with disruptions. Get Better Internet installed on your schedule. Comcast business. Built for business. Vo for dominion, part of delivering Affordable Energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. Our Energyshare Program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energysaving upgrades. Its more than helping customers, its helping neighbors. Stand by me the prosecution is winding down its case in the murder trial of a wealthy ashburn ceo. Today the testimony of the defendant and his 8yearold son was again in the spotlight. Julie carey live at the courthouse with a new witness who backs the little boys testimony. Jules . Reporter well, Zach Castillo was only 6 years old when his mom died. The Family Service worker who interviewed him three times of that tragedy told jurors today what he confided in her. During their first two meetings, she could hardly get him to say a word. It was in that third meeting that he gave her that information that really boosts the prosecution case. 8yearold Zach Castillo testified last week that he saw his dad inside his mothers home the night she died. The couple was estranged going through a bitter divorce. Braulio castillo was barred from going to the house. Her body was found hanging in the basement bathroom. Prosecutors allege braulio killed her and made it look like a suicide. Ashley baker says during a videotaped session with zach five months after his moms death he told her he had been sleeping in his moms bed. She asked how did your mother look. Scared, said zach. The boy left his special blanket gigi behind. He received that his father brought gigi from his mothers room to his brothers room. Zach claims seeing his dad because he had been influenced mothers good friends. They also implied baker herself could have biassed the boy when she told him police thought his dad hurt his mother. They called marylands chief medical examiner to the stand, which is completely different from the virginia medical examin examiners ruling. 17 additional rideon buses. The rideon bus service will be free. The county also plans to retime stoplights and restrict Street Parking on some roads in order to keep traffic moving. That same thing is happening in northwest d. C. Today ddot crews started retiming the traffic nearly 400 intersections. The signals use updated traffic and pedestrian data to reduce the wait time. All of the district signals are expected to change by next year. Heres amelia with a check on the forecast. Hows it looking . Youre not changing your ideas or your thoughts about what were going to get, are you . No. The weekend still looking like a 50 50 split. Mainly dry tomorrow during the day. Sunday well be tracking rain and some thunderstorms, maybe some strong to severe thunderstorms, especially during the afternoon and evening hours. Right now, theres rain out there. Theres some very heavy rain out there. Were also getting some peeks of sunshine. It all depends on where you are. For tomorrow, the weather is going to have a low to moderate impact on your day. Well have plenty of clouds once again with a chance of some late day showers and thunderstorms. Then i think we will be tracking some rain tomorrow night. Heres the latest right now on storm team 4 radar. Two main areas ive been tracking all afternoon and now on into the evening hours. Th marys county on into the Northern Neck just south of fredericksburg. The second area is this line of rain thats in annapolis now south of baltimore, moving through washington, prince william, and fairfax counties. Some very heavy rain there. This moving toward the southsoutheast at about 15 miles an hour. Notice further back to the north were mainly dry. So this is the main weather event. This moving south out of the area. After this, not too bad of an evening actually, if you can believe that. Traveling along 66, you know somebody coming home dealing with very heavy rainfall right now. Around the beltway, were getting a lot of oranges and reds. The weather certainly not helping the evening commute. Right now 70s and 80s. 74 in washington. A rain cooled 74. Where the rain has already exited, youre back to around 80s. 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow mostly cloudy. Maybe some peeks of sunshine early afternoon showers. Theres a chance for scattered rain and thunderstorms, especially once we get back 8 00 p. M. That activity slowly moves toward the east. 1 00 a. M. , some batches of rain impacting the area. Then on sunday a storm team 4 weather alert day. A high of 85. Rain and a rumble of thunder possible during the morning hours. It is especially during the afternoon when well be tracking pockets of heavy rain again. On sunday, the chance for some gusty winds that could produce some isolated wind damage. Maybe some hail as well. Sunday spectacular humidity. A high of 84. On tuesday, mostly to partly sunny skies with a chance of a late day shower or thunderstorm. The humidity levels though still really low on tuesday. Not a bad day at all. High of 86. After that, look at the temperatures. Wednesday, thursday, and friday, highs only around 80 degrees. Normal for this tif mostly sunny skies and more importantly the humidity levels stay low wednesday, thursday, and friday. Just not picture perfect weather for the weekend. Now nbc 4 responds. Hundreds of viewers called us this week. And our team recovered thousands of dollars for them. Susan hogan is a here with a few of their stories. Thats right. Our Consumer Investigative Center got answers. Michelle lewis thought her nonexistent electric bills had something to do with her new solar panels. Id been telling all my friends you need to do solar. Its great. I havent been getting bills from pepco. Reporter what michelle didnt realize is those bills were piling up despite pepco telling her for months she owed them nothing until she was hit with 1200 electric bill. The company did not give her an explanation. Pepco assigned an analyst to michelles case and credited her bill 6 600. I feel like theyre taking me seriously now and i appreciate that. Reporter this boy has a disability that prevents him from speaking. When a local tax office wanted to speak with him about his tax return, this mom told hthem to speak to her instead. After we got involved, he got his tax refund. And there were many other viewer problems resolved that didnt air. Jerry from d. C. Got back 560 after a Mattress Company sold him a used mattress and passed it off as new. Evelyn got her Service Restored and her account credit mobile phone company. And if you have a Consumer Problem you just cant get resolved on your own, contact us on the nbc washington app. Just search responds. Were keeping track of the money for you. Since we launched earlier this month, look that the figure. We have hit nearly 217,000. We have some breaking news from fairfax county. The family of a mentally ill woman who died in Police Custody has filed a 15 million wrongful death lawsuit against the county. Natasha mckenna died in february after being stunned several times by a taser. Police say she was fighting officers who were trying to move her. No word from the Sheriffs Office about this lawsuit. Walmart plans to test groce of popular ridesharing companies. The retailer will work with uber and lift to deliver for fees. Online grocery deliveries are nearly 11 billion as an industry in the u. S. Wed like to take a moment to thank you, those of you who helped support our local nonprofits yesterday. You donated more than 1. 5 million as part of the united ways do more 24 fundraiser. More than 600 groups that make a difference in the dmv will be benefitted because of your kindness and generosity. Nbc 4 was a proud partner. We all know that a parrot can repeat what it hears. But could a bird also be a witness to a murder . Next, the case of bud the parrot could a bird hold the key to a murder mystery . The family of a michigan man seems to think so. Police believe his wife shot him, then turned the gun on herself. Now a parrot is reenacting what seems to have been an argument that led to the crime. That bird picks up anything and everything. Its got t around. Reporter the bird they say mimicked both durham and his wife who is list as a suspect in her husbands death. Durhams family says they took this video of bud several weeks after Martin Durham was shot. It starts with what sounds like an argument with the bird changing voices. All of a sudden this came out of the parrots mouth. Dont shoot. I personally think he was there and he remembers it and hes saying it. Reporter reports show that a witness asked police where they could use the bird as evidence, but they didnt show that the detective responded. The prosecutor said hes aware the couple has a bird that talked, but said he had not seen that video. Dont shoot. Reporter we took the video there. Its definitely an argument between a man and a woman. Reporter its not unusual for african gray parrots to mimic male and female voices. Did you hear that . Yeah. Dont effing shoot. Could he have heard it the day it happened . Yes. Reporter the wife is a suspect in a murder attempted suicide, suggesting she shot him five times before turning the gun on herself. They say she left three suicide notes and they say the gun belonged to the family. But in an interview with police after she recovered, she denied killing him, saying she remembered nothing until she was in the hospital. It is frustrating. I cry. Constantly. The worst thing for a husband to do is to look over at his wife crying and theres because theres no settlement there at all. News4 at 5 00 starts now. A Massive Police raid leaves neighbors in this Quiet Community stunned. It was frightening. Just frightening. What we noticed on scene that could be behind this investigation. Construction workers detain a carjacking suspect until police get here. Well tell you how lots of people plan to cope with safetrack. First tonight, the weather. Heavy rain and some lightning moving over parts of the area right now. Amelia is tracking the rain to let us know who is going to be impacted by this. Wendy, tracking the heaviest rain right now actually back in the nh all of this activity generally moving toward the south. As we look to the weekend, pretty quiet tomorrow, but there is a potential for strong to severe thunderstorms on sunday. More on that coming up, but heres whats happening right now. Notice some heavy rain south of fredericksbu fredericksburg. Here is that heavy rain in fairfax. Heres what we can expect this evening. Showers right now in the district. Heavy rain moving out of fairfax, out of reston, out of bethesda. This continues to move toward the south over the next couple of hours. Once this line is out of here, were going to be mainly dry from here on out. That lone shower in the panhandle in West Virginia remains a lone and isolated shower. You can see only some scattered activity up in pennsylvania, parts of western maryland and West Virginia

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