Flood watch. Most of us are under that un severe thrstorm watch until 9 00. Where were seeing the rain, its coming down heavily. So al Severe Thunderstorm Warnings down around this area. Ill take you to the north. This severe thundstorm area is through West Virginia. Look at the line thats formed right now. Its going to make its way through frederick county, virginia, over the next hour or so. More rain to the south and even farther down tothe south. Were looking at page county, madison county, Severe Thunderstorm Warning and flooding concerns toward the charlevoix area and toward st. Marys county looking at strong storms along the Northern Neck and the potomac as it enters out into theak chesapebay. A severe thunderstorm watch in effect forhe areas in t pink all the way up the east coast as a result of this front thats kind of meandering around our region. Its g next couple of days. A good chance for strong thunderstorms and strong flood watch as well. Fairfax, parts of montgomery, d.
Devep over the next couple of hours. Ill take you hour by hour. See you back here in a minute. Thank you, doug. Follow the weather on the nbc washington app, and can you stay connected with storam 4 even if you lose power. Well, a desperate plea from d. C. Leaders after a deadly we end. Seven people have been shot to death since thursday, and that includes 11yearold karon brown. A suspect was arrested this weekend in that case and made his First Court Appearance today. News 4s Mark Segraves is outside the courthouse with the latest on that case and the message from the mayor this evening. Mark . Reporter thats right. You know, he just appeared before a judge an hour ago and was ordered held without bond despite his insistence that he only fired into that car in selfdefense and had no idea that the 11yearold boy was in the back seat. But thathuncident on tday all led up to what turned out to be an extremely violent weekend. Four days of violence, four days nfire. Nobody want to live in
Down around st. Marys county and the northern neck. No o a lot going we do have stronger storms to the south. I want to show you this. Severe storms and most of new jersey under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning right now and then youve got storms bendeen our area roanoke. These are trying to move up north towards our region, so in our southern zone, talking about areas like culpepper and fredericks burks you folks have better chance of seeing storms. Were not seeing a lot here. We actually got a pretty good break. Im going to wait and see if we can get m somere development here over the next one to two hours. This will be this area right ere that comes in overnig tonight and really gives us a lot of rain. Because of that we have a Flash Flood Watch in effect and still a lot gng on. T out of the woods just yet, but i think as far as the rush goes, the evening rush, weatherwise, were looking good two hours. One to good to know. Thank you, doug. Even as we have more storms approaching, local
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
Warning until 5 15, for another 14 miutes, princegeorges and parts of charles and fairfax counties as well. This storm was producing prolific amounts of lightning. Starting to see some of that lightning fall out of thunderstorm which is a good sign. It means that the thunderstorm is starting t calm down a little bit and fizzle out somewhere, but, still some very heavy rainfall and that will ber the main tt out there tonight, hervey rain. Ill have the fireworks forecast coming up in about 15 minutes. All right. Thanks, amelia. People havehe been gatng down on the mall well before this rain hit. And even after is started our crews have seen many folks headed down to get a good look. Crowds continue torow as we check in with W Corey Smith the live near the Lincoln Memorial where the president is the set to speak. Reporter yeah,gu , the crowds do continue to fill in. But this rain is kind of forcing people to make that executive decision, are we going to stay or go . We see more people fil