have been four flash flood emergencies in the bloomingdale neighborhoods in just the last two months. fox 5 s karen gray houston is live with more. reporter: the streets here along rhode island avenue northwest are bone dry now which may seem deceiving to some members of this community, but there are some trucks and bulldozers out here just in case we get bad weather tonight. for now the flooding may be gone, but there are still some wet basements. the hard work for now, disinfecting and cleaning up the mess. the level of water was up to here. it was close to 4 feet of water. reporter: michael thomas has lived on two floors at his house on u street for four years. he tookous a tour of his basement and says took us on a tour of his basement and said this is the worst he s ever seen. this is actually the third time it flooded in the last six weeks. reporter: he says just about everything that was not bolted to the floor was floating around. d. the pressure was so,
i m brian bolter. i m shawn yancy. we begin with a virginia man accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. police arrested him after the girl s family saw her in the car with the man. what investigators found when they searched the car is chilling. fox 5 s matt ackland is working this one now. police say they found what some refer to as a rape kit inside his car, a loaded handgun, ammunition, handcuffs, zip ties, a black ski mask and several boxes of condoms. montgomery county police want you to get a good look at nathan portnoy s picture. they say he was involved in the three month online relationship with a 12-year-old who apparently told him she was an adult. police want to know if had he any contact with other children. there s always that potential and that s why we re releasing this story, his picture and many details of this investigation. authorities say the online relationship turned into a face to face meeting last friday. the two met in bethesda
the train just derailed in front of the train station down here on main street. we are hearing the calls for help after a deadly train derailment. romney and ryan back on the campaign trail and now it s the president s turn to make his case for re-election. i m jim vance. and i m wendy rieger. we the aftermath of hurricane isaac. tens of thousands of people in the gulf coast are still without power and communities are under water. but the clean up is under way. storm relief in mississippi as well. a rain-weakened dam threatened to fail and swamp thousands of homes. but the water level in the lakes have eased the pressure on the dam. some families were able to go home for the first time in several days. mitt romney visited a town foll flooded by the hurricane. bobby jindal was calling for expansion of the flood protection systems. president obama plans to visit on monday. what does isaac mean for your labor day weekend? veronica johnson tracking the conditions. how
we didn t really have a cloud in the sky and temperatures made it well into the mid- to upper 90s for just about everybody, but lurking back to the west of us this big storm system formerly known isaac, a tropical storm, then became a hurricane, then back to tropical storm. earlier this afternoon it was just a depression, but now it s just basically being called the remnants of isaac. a lot of heavy rain out there, trust me. for this part of the country this is welcome. they just say bring it on because they are so dry out there. droughts of epic proportions are going on now. so this is helping those that are getting the rain. they re wishing for this to come up into iowa, too. it doesn t seem as though it s getting that far north, but it s going to all move our direction. tonight a few clouds, but generally speaking, we re under clear skies. we ll have an increase as we start going through the weekend because it definitely looks like it will be unsettled. showers and storms
got some issues to deal with. clouds and rain, you know. just a bit of a challenge that they re flowing in there. the clouds will be sticking around. the rain will be he and there in the course of the day. 78 at reagan national airport. 76 at dulles. and 76 at bwi thurgood marshall. the clouds and the showers were kind of responsible for us not getting much warmer than that. it is currently 69 at reagan. 66 at dulles. 6 # degrees at bwi sure good marshall. the humidity is up there, however. we started out this morning at 4:25:00 a.m. with humidity at 90%. it is now at 84%. i know it doesn t really change that much in terms of how it actually feels outside. it will be a little bit on the sticky side so be prepared. here is a look at your satellite-radar composite. clouds will be pretty much everywhere throughout the course of the day. areas to the west probably seeing a little bit of patchy fog right now so certainly affecting visibility. we do anticipate seeing the showers