Im eri. Gonzalez the white house says immigration raids in major u. S. Cities have begun. So far, the pace is slow with only a handful of detentions. Nbcs Jennifer Johnso is tracking developments from pitol hill. Reporter immigration advocates rallying against i. C. E. Deportation raids sunday. I. C. E. Agents targeting2,000 undocumented immigrants already ordered by the courts to leave the country. We got compassionate, loyal, i. C. E. Agents who are just doing their job and it shows you how far weve fallen in that its become news that they would actually go deport people who have removal orders. Reporter democ the president s claim theyre rounding up criminals is not true. Ache simple f of crossing the border and, perhaps, having a technical, legal, violation at that point is being used as a basis for deportation of people who otherwise have nothing in eir ckground. Reporter this as President Trump ignited a firestorm after tweeting that a group of democrat congresswomen, freqcrnt tics of his immigration policies, who he says were foreignborn, should go back to theirbroken and crimeinfested places from which they came. In fact, all but one was born in the u. S. Thats acist tweet. Telling people to go back where they came from, these are american citizens elected by voters in the United States of t amerserve in one of the most distinguished bodies in the u. S. House of representatives. Reporter House Speaker nancy pelosi fired back on twier saying that president wants to make America White again. Immigration still dividing lawmakers. No wall reporter and americans. The white house is defending the ras saying i. C. E. Has deported fewer people under President Trump than it did under president obama. Jennifer johnson, nbc news, washington. Its unclear how many people have been detained in todays raids. The president tweets about the minority lawmakers, those are still causing quite a stir. Were going to have much more on that story a little later in this broadcast. Meanwhile, we know that there have been a lot of concern and a lot of confusion when it comes to the immigration raids. So we are working 4 you. Nbc 4 and our steter station emundo 44 are going to hold a phone bank tomorrow, from 5 00 p. M. To 7 00 p. M. Experts will help answer any estions that you may have about the operation and connect you to resources and services tht may be available to you. All rightto were going switch gears. Our other big story weve beenwa tching. Levees overtopped and extensive flooding across parts of louisiana and mississippi. D tropicalression barry, once a Tropical Storm and category 1 hurricane, is now causing widespread flveding this eng. Ns w cs jay gray is in neorleans with a closer look at the situation. Reporter barry continues to dump rain as the storm slowly tracks to the northeast now. Lashing Plaquemines Parish and baton rouge along the way. Evidence of the intensity of the storms scattered all along the gulf coast. An mississippi d alabama ravaged by winds and drivingra s. Louisiana where the storm made landfall asa category 1 hurricane, battered. We got a losing battle. We got wind and we got water. Reporter communities swallowed by storm surge, water spilling over the top of levees in some areas. But the pumps worked and the barricadese held in thg easy. A full day after landfall the the s are open again, so are flood gates that surround this city. Its still raining. New orleans soaked but still standing. We absolutely made it. Gh throu the storm. Beyond lucky. We were spared. It seemed as though bands moved closer to new orleans, it seemed to just go around us. Reporter forecasters say the stormto will continue cause problems for the next several days. Jay gray, nbc news, new some restaurants in new orleans closed yesterday but reopened today as did the new Orleans AirportFirst Responders here in our area are ready to head south if needed to respond t tropical depression barry. Montgomery county fire tweeting out these pictures this weekend. The teamcalled Maryland Task force one has its bags packed and gear assembled. Team leaders are monitoring the storm and then theyll determine whether local First Responders hat needed to head over in area. Were going to continue tracking the storm from the storm team 4 weather center. And stay with news 4 and our nbc washington app for continuing coverage on barry. The Fairfax CountySheriffs Office wants to know how an 18yearold inmate died. Medics took cha kez ami green from the Fairfax County adult detention center. He was found unconscious in his cell. Green died at the hospital this morning. Authorities say they found no foul play. Green had been serving time since last december. An autopsy will be performed. All right. Lets take a turn to our weather now. Lot of folks enjoying such a beautiful afternoon. Storm team 4 meteorogist Somara Theodore joins us fromhe the weatr center to talk about whether or not this beautiful weather is going to stick around. Somara . Yeah, you know, a lot of folks may be headed out this ev evening, going to do dinns if. If thathe case, i made the forecast just for you. Tonight not a bad one at all. Temperatures falling into the low 70s. Your forecast for tonight, mostly clear. Stray shower. Heres wh looking at the radar. We do have some activity on the board now. This is not in our area, but i how wanted to show you close its going to be nicking us, to the south down toward virginia. Nty they are seeing a severe thunderstorm. But look back toward the north here, the d. C. Metro area pretty dry. Maybe a spotty shower like its been passing through fauquier, thats why i left the stray shower chance in through this evening but for most of us in the d. C. Metro area, northward, youre looking at a quiet evening. Ow, stick around and i have so much to talk to you guys about. How its going to be impacting us and major heat on the way, erika. Somara, thank you. So somebody torched some vehicles operated by the city of buoy. Authorities caught their man. Tonight were learning how hes going to pay for the arson attack. And its a story that has the political word buld buzzing. President trump, the president of the United States of America Elling minority congresswomen to go back to their countries even though they are american. Even though they are american. Z3a5wz z16fz y3a5wy y16fy President Trump drawing swift backlash after he fired off a series of tweets today. Many are calling the tweetstorm downright racist. Mr. Trump tweeting that Progressive Democratic women should, go back to the broken and crimeinfested places from which they came. He seemed to bereferring to newly elected swcongresen of color. All of the congresswomen strongly condemning his tweets today and saying they are fighting his hatefilled agenda. Alexandria ocasiocortez is of puerto rican descent. She was born in the bronx. And ilhan omar was born in somalia and emigrated to the United States when she was 12. Rashida tlaib born in detroit f and is o palestinian descent. Palestinianamerican. Ayanna pressley was born in incinnati and becamehe first black woman elected to the house from massachusetts. Msnbcs the reverend all sharpton addressed the controversy today on his show. They judge on the basis of skin clorks tolor. Basis of et necessa ethnicity that is the f republicans immediately weighed in on President Trumps tweets. Michigan congressman justin amash who recently left the gop called thtweets racist and disgusting and meghan mccain, a vocal criticof the president , tweeted that we dont tell people weve welcomed into this country to go back. De. Nearly a week after historc flash floods, neighbors in one community are finally getting some good news. Tonight, weve got an update on of savings and service. Whoa. Travis in it made it. Its amazing. Ohs that traviss app . Its pretty cool, isnt it . Theres two of them. Theyre multiplying. No, guys, its me. See, im real. Im real he thinks hes real. Geico. Over 75 years of savings and service. Youre watching news 4 at 6 00. Relief for some families in potomac after a huge sinkhole opened up in the only road leading to their neighborhood. Rwoair crews ed around the clock to try to get a belfast road fixed. Flooding on monday is what caused that giant sink hole. Now as derrick ward report, traffic is flowing once again. But the fix is only temporary. Reporter mondays heavy rain led to flooding and that flooding took out aig chunk of belfast road in potomac creating a chasm that took away access to about 75 families who unfortunately lived on the wrong side o the washout. They had a Shuttle Service out there for us. And everythings worked out pretty well so far. Rrnorter by early mog sunday, a single lane had been reopened and shortly after that, a parade of grateful residents returned from the veritable exile to retrieve cars leftt. In a nearby lo on the way, they passed crews from Montgomery County fire and rescue. They wanted to check out the roadway, too, making sure it was stable enough for their equipment. Had there been a fire or another emergency, they worked out a back route to get to it. Luxury, that contingency wasnt needed. We were really happy with what theyve done so far reporterboth repairs are temporary. Theres lots of permanent work yet to be done on the roadway and on either side of the roadway. No timetable on how long that process will take. In Montgomery County, derrick ward, news 4. A buoy man will spend more than a decade in a prison cell after setting multiple vehicles on fire at the city ofy buo public works facility. Joseph clark accepted a plea deal for causing 6,000 in damages to the vehicles in june of last year. Some of the pictures released by the Prince Georges CountyPolice Department show the he damage that caused. Clark will be locked up for more than 13 years and will also be placedn fiveyears probation when he is released. A rare sight at the Lincoln Memorial today as baptisms took igace. The church, the of the world, held this religious ceremony ash thousands of churc members from multiple states looked on. The church has a following about 5 Million People worldwide and is located in got la headquartmexico. In the last month, the church has held baptism ceremonies across the world. Es riding on escooters may be all the rage thdays but you got to be careful. Thats why a Safety Program was held today. Folks in fairfax attended a fret esc safety and instruction demo in the upper parking lot ot wn square. People learning the basics of balancing, starting, stopping, how to use the app. The oneyear pilin trag program will run through next summer. As other kids enjoy summerk breahere is a warning for parents. Too much relaxing and not enough learning can lead to brain drain. E sing months of progress in the classroom. All this week on news 4 at 4 00, door reen gentzler is going to show us simple and fun things parents can do with their kids to keep them mentally sharp to make sure students are ppared when school returns in the falll can youve we are approaching august . Wow. Lets not get ahead of ourselves. All eight. Letsjoy what we mains of july. We had a nice weekend to dry out. Temperatures in thu 90s. Uh folks enjoying the nice sunshine weve had. Yeah, we are in the thick of it right now. As far as summer goes becauseho its out there, folks. Wait until you see the heat indices and also got some major heat on the way. It is summer, after all. Lets get to it. Current temps right now, in the district, 91 degrees. We are at 90in culpeper. 91 in manassas. County. S in montgomery 91 in frederick, maryland. A very, very hot evening. Heres a look at the current heat index. That means you factor in the moisture in the air, thisis hat it feels like out there. Feels like 95 in the district. Not too long ago inquantico, feeling like 101. Still feeling like 100 degrees out toward annapolis. It definitely feeal , really hot out there. Were dry in the d. C. Metro area. Just showing you where th tivity is on the board. Right now its situated well south of us. Down toward orange county, virginia. They have a sever thunderstorm warning. For our area, anything that bubbled up has been too stable of an atmosphere, nothing can reallytually grow, thrive and become a major storm system. Im expecting maybe a stray shower well south of d. C. Or a fewes rum for the most part really quiet. Now whats going on with barry, now a depression. You can see here that circulation well north of louisiana at this point. Still seeing swaths of heavy rain moving through that were going to see this impact us this week. Take a look at this timing. So im pushing through. O im gg to pause it on tuesday. This is tuesday evening. This is kind of it here. Not as well defined. Looking more le a blob of rain. That is going to be farther west. We might see development ahead of it tuesday afternoon. The greater threat for seeing moisture from the remnants of barry is actually going to be wednesday. Thats wednesday at 1 30. Es by wedny night into thursday, when were going to start to see that rain moving to the area. Day what on the ten that looks like. Your monday morning run, i know a lot of us are stiopeful about our summer bodies, i know i am, okay, so for those of you who are going to be waking up early toruo the morning heres a look at what you got. Temperatures dipping down to the low 70s, upper 60s for some. Low 80s by 9 00 a. M. The earlier the better because that h cat is going toome in with a quicknessmo toow. Now it will be a tad bit lower humidity. Highs will only be in the upper 80s tomorrow. The 90s do return and boy do they return. Look at this ten day. Were talking 90s from tuesday all the way through next weekend and its only getting hotter. Upper 90s by saturday. Now, theres that chance for rain on wednesday night and fhursday. Thats because o barry. Friday, we should start to see things really tracking much better and drying out in time for the weekend. Again. I know. You know, one day at a time, but next weekend, that is looking roasty toasty near 100 degrees. Wow. Definitely jump in the pool. All right, somara, thank you. The nationals get their bel rung inphilly. Plus, two legends p on aut you got your homework . Yeah. Yeah . Hey, give me a kiss. [ kisses ] announcer whats the role of a car company . Go announcer to take your kids to and from school . Dont forget your science project. Announcer we think it can be something bigger. Announcer this summer, announcer volkswagen is supporting americas teachers. Anannouncer joi,ummer, announcer and drive something bigger than yourself. Z3d2uz z16fz y3d2uy y16fy this is thefinity sports desk. Ns dave j joining us this evening. Redhot nats working it today, battling as you said. Came up short. We expe them to win every time because it seems like th do win every time. Theyve been doing well. Very well. At the risk of being redundant, we will be redundant because the nationals have been. Over and over again. Win, win, win. You heard the one about the nats being Major League Baseballs best team since may 24th. They reminded us why with wins on friday and saturday. Nats clinch their fifth straight series n. They had achance this afternoon at a sweet. Look at this. Our friend with a big problem. The phillie phanatic not a fan of her question. What . Lets her know it. She remained the phanatic about saturday nights comeback win against the nats. N seve inning down 31. Kendrick lines it past her. Two on. Trt suzuki. Come on ino score. A pinch hit rbi single. Like erka said,this team battles. Nationals within a run. Very next batter, trea turner gets the job done. Thats going to shalloright. Victor robeless, why dont you come on in . Hes going to place a tieing run. Rbi single forrea turner. Nats come back to tie the g me at three. Uhoh. But why cdoes there always have to be a but . Ninth inning. Trying to get this to extra innings. Not going to happen. Crushes the ball left. Yeah. Thats gone. Ru solo walkoff home phillies avoid the sweep. Walkoff winners, 43, against the nationals. Again, natstill win the series. They dont quit. You know, thats one thing i said before. They dont quit. They keep battling. Just, day was just, you know, youre playing a good team over there. Good players. You know . Like i said, just unfortunate. You know, the game ended that way. I love the way were playing. Like i said, hdave a off. You know, come back strong against baltimore. Orioles hosting the rays. Araking his second career in the majors. Top of the sixth. Problem with michael. The rookie had two mers yesterday. Hammers this to right field. Oat is gone. Only had career home run before this weekend. The rays up 40. Bottom of the ninth. Fys on the brink of history. Three outs awayrom the first combined perfect game in Major League Baseball history until alberto dribblesne into right field. To break up the perfect game. Alberto comng through with a single. The orioles dugout loving that. History is going to have to wait for the future. Orioles get the tieing n to the plate. Paganets him to chase strike threeo win the game. Oraves win 41. Orioles off tomrow. Theyre going to host the nationals on tuesday night. Hey, you know, tennis fans got what they wanted this year. Roger federer, rafael nadal continued their rivalry atwi mbledon in the semifinals. Mention nadal and federer at wimbledon, we think 2008, he c. At federer in 4 hour 48 minute classi a mens final for the ages. At least until today. Two of tennis best, Novak Djokovic this time and roger federer, 12 Wimbledon Championships between them, federer close to his ninth serving championship point. Federers forehd goes out. Roger, another championship point. Federer in the near court. A little rally going on here then djokovic wth aeautiful forehand to keep this one going. Novak staying alive in this. We goo the first ever tiebreak in mens final history. Djokovic, he falls down. These two just exhausted. Over four hours so far in the match. Djokovic gets up, moved on. In the near cot he is w. Check out this backhand from novak. No chance for federer. There it is. Djokovic inches close tor to hi fifth title. Federer skies this one. Thats it. After 4 hours andmi 5utes. The longest mens final ever in wimbledon. Novak djokovic wins for the second sgaight year. Ahead, eat some grass. Its good for you. I think is protein, right . Djokovic, he earns it and at wimbledon. Absolute clasic between twoof the best alltime. I never stopped believing, although i was very close to losing. I thought i thought he playee on a high lel. I thought i went up and down, but i managed to find my best and swing wn it mattered most. Played in such a magnificent final, one that well remember forever. I guess its hard to take. Ill try to rget. But, no, it was a great match. 4 hours and 55 minutes, theyre barely sweating. Id be in a hospital right now. I mean, just elite, elite players. Just amazing. Theyre probably in shape. Thats probably yeah, there you go. All right. That is the news for now. Thank you for joining us. Nightly news is next. See you at 11 00. Ni toght, the rain keeping coming. Escoastal communi as barry lingers over the south, new fears tonight of tornadoes and millions under the threat of flash flooding. Blackout. Major parts of new york city plunged into darkness, the lights go out on broadway. Times square is like half the entire billboards are completely off. Peopl trapped in elevators. Our heroes. Now the investigation into what went wrong. The uproar over a tweet from the president saying progressive hocongresswoman sd go back and help fix the countries they came from. Murder mystery, a civilht