Ere starts right now. Ws 4 begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. And good afternoon. F happy fourthuly to you. Thanks for spending part of your holiday with us, and if you have plans for the rest of the holiday ight, strong storms could affect those plans. Thats right. And thats why were starting things off at this hour hereth storm center with amelia draper. Weve seen some sprinkles with rain out there on the mall right now. Lo what are you king at in. Im tracking very heavy rain down at the mall right now, and youre hearing the dinging going off. A new Severe Thunderstorm Warning out there. We talked about the high likelihood for storms and heavy rain yesterday, leon. Right. And here it is. First, lets take you to some video at the Lincoln Memorial where the president is set to give his speech at 6 30 tonight, and check it out. Just an absolute downpour down there. Our camert checking the right now. No Severe Thunderstorm Warnings t there, but very heavy aspl speech at 30eng rig
A few more showers we could see later tonight, but all eyes on next happening over the two to three hours. Stay ahead of this weather with forecast on air and in our nbc washington app. We invite you to download that app. If you havent done so already, youll find forecast for your neighborhood right in the palm of your hand. Leon . Wendy, weve gotur eye on the white house this evening because were still waiting for the president to come out and make some remarks about the sunsus question is as were waiting for that, we understand i. C. E. Is moving forward with plansfor deportation raids this weekend. Plans that had been set to happen last month. Well keep our eye on that. In the meantime, two Homeland Security officials are telling nbc news that the postponed raids are expected to start sunday and planning to target thousands of undocumented people in majorities around e country. Things, though, could change before the weekend, but here are the ten cities previously mentioned. Now, wh
Everything related to the School System canceled for today and Loudoun County schools are also closed. Weve got lots of delays and closings to tell you about. Well show you whats on the screen here now. Its scrolling on the bottom of your screen as well. Well start with other delays. D. C. Public schools open two hours late today. In virginia, warren, fauquier, page, culpepper, frederick and clark county schools opening two hours late. Alexandria and falls church, city schools are on a twohour delay as well today. In maryland, prince georges, calvert, charles, anne arundel and allegheny and Frederick County schools on a twohour delay. Now to the closures in spotsylvania, westmoreland, rappahannock and Stafford County schools all closed. Fairfax county changed to closed. All offices are closed in fairfax as well. St. Marys county schools in maryland are also closed today. Montgy county schools are now closed. The federal government is also on a twohour delay with the option for unschedu
Congratulate President Trump on his first 100 days in office. We are keeping one promise after another and frankly, the people are really happy about it. Reporter the enthusiastic crowd cheered familiar themes. Media outlets like cnn and msnbc are fake news. Reporter and celebrated a new direction in politics. From now on, it is going to be america first. Reporter mr. Trumps ambushes agenda has been met with resistance . Washington. The plan to repeal and replace obama care has stalled and the president still needs to secure funding to build a wall along the u. S. Mexico border. The president has a historically low Approval Rating if ever this stage of his presidency, but his core remains extremely supportive. I would give him an a plus. He promised a lot. And, he has we will hear more from the president tomorrow on face the nation. He speaks to host John Dickerson about the future of his administration. When asked about north koreas failed Missile Launch attempt, he says he is not hap
Reporting that a Current White House official is a significant person of interest in the investigation. Up until now, most of the focus had been on former officials, like mike flynn and paul manafort. Minutes before that story broke, this headline from the New York Times. Trump told russians that firing nut job comey eased pressure from investigation. The president reportedly made the comments during his meeting in the oval office earlier this month. Press Secretary Sean Spicer did not refute the times report. He said comey politicized the investigation and put unnecessary pressure on the ability to negotiate with russia. Now in terms of the Washington Post report, spicer would only say an investigation would only prove there was no collusion. All of this as the president is on his way to saudi arabia. Wendy . Thanks, chris. Now, we have new information about a string of unusual events that caused such a scene in the middle of the morning rush rims. The tires were shot. On the streets