good shape. most people will be home before it gets going except for the northern folks. high impact of flooding after 8 p.m. we have a flash flood watch in the area. if you are in or near this area you could see flooding tonight. atmosphere is a bowlful of moisture as we say. the storms are about to cross i- 81. couple of storms now ahead of it. and we have seen some storms toward frederick and hagerstown all afternoon. around the beltway get home the next 30 minutes you're fine. notice the lightning strikes out toward winchester. that's one indication of an intense storm. this is a good storm, too, around perceville towards brunswick and meyerville. everything is moving off to the east-southeast so frederick, you have already had one storm. probably going to get hit again. headed towards you at about 7:37. there is not at this moment a severe thunderstorm watch out but still some of these could be hefty. 8:00 there's your line suburbs through the metro area by 9 to 10:30. again see the reds and darker colors that's heavy rain. the good news is we think by 11, midnight, they will be gone. we'll come back and talk about what this will do to our temperatures and the weekend. we're here to help you keep an eye on the sky as you're on the go. if you haven't already downloaded the 3 wusa9 apps. get weather alerts and live radar when you want it. from our prince george's county bureau tonight, a troubling report about the head start program. federal investigators cited three head start schools for everything from forcing a preschooler to mop up urine to abusing 4-year-olds to letting a 5-year-old wander home alone from school. 5 years old. officials from at least one school failed to take corrective action and refused to provide documentation on their policies. the federal agency in charge of head start will hold back part of the county's funds for this school leaders say the actions uncovered in the report are unacceptable and a betrayal of the trust parents have in the system. delia goncalves reports. >> reporter: despite losing $6.4 million in federal funds, the county's head start classes will resume as scheduled next monday. the school ceo assures parents tonight they can still feel safe sending their children to head start because he says the staff has all been retrained and the teachers in question are gone. >> you will treat children at least as well if not better than you treat your own children and grandchildren. >> reporter: compassion, that's what dr. kenneth maxwell said was missing when his teachers allegedly abused and humiliated their preschool head start students. >> i will tell you that were appalled -- as appalled as i am. there were people in tears. how could our colleagues do this? >> reporter: teachers are now being retrained and fairly warned. >> i expect our employees to behave appropriately. and when they don't, i'm going to deal with them appropriately. >> reporter: the school system has 30 days to appeal this decision and try to restore federal funding but they tell us right now they don't have a plan to appeal. right now they tell us they are, quote, weighing their options. in upper marlboro, delia goncalves. >> here are numbers on who those federal funds help. there are 932 low income children, that's ages 3 and 4, who are enrolled in the county's head start program. a follow-up to a story we have been watching for you. the aftermath of that explosion at a silver spring apartment complex. we should hear from atf agents by the end what caused that blast. exactly one week ago at the flower branch apartments. so far crews have recovered 7 bodies from the rubble. the kids who call that complex home are supposed to go back to school in less than two weeks. that has the community coming together. pta members are volunteering and checking school supplies. the pta president for two silver spring elementaries tells us they have identified 19 families who are affected by the fatal explosion and fire. >> it's hear. -- it's hard to lose everything you have and everything that these people work hard for. that's affected me. [ crying ] >> um, i can't imagine losing my child. i -- i -- i can't even fathom that. [ crying ] >> one of the missing victims was a rising second grader at a new hampshire estates elementary school. a local restaurant is checking school surprise until friday. there's also a donation page set up for students affected by the explosion. a local restaurant is checking another follow-up this one from fairfax county where police still haven't released the name of a man shot and killed by a fairfax deputy monday night outside in nola fairfax hospital. the 29-year-old had just been released and was escorted to a bus stop by hospital security guards. that's when get to violent and according to police charged at a deputy with a metal sign post. now it's not the first time inova health has put a troubled potentially dangerous person back on the streets. last year, natasha mckenna was released or turned away from inova several times before she was arrested and jailed. she died after fairfax deputies stunned her with a taser four times. >> it's frightening because it sounds very similar to things that happened too mckenna who went repeatedly to inova hospitals, was turned away without getting help, and ended up getting arrested and dying. so we have another death here hospital shouldn't hide behind hipaa in this case. >> a hospital spokesman says federal privacy laws called hipaa prevents releasing any information about the incident. also in fairfax county tonight, a new mayor at least for now. [ applause ] >> he took the oath of office this morning. he is a former councilmember who will act as mayor until a special election. he replaces former mayor scott silverthorne who was arrested two weeks ago and is facing charges of possessing and distributing drugs. >> it is my hope to work with this council and our staff and concerned residents to promote and facilitate a robust discussion about the direction that our city is headed and who the right person is to meet us as our next mayor. >> that special election is set for february 7. moving into the district now, where police are looking into an early-morning shooting that happened just a couple first street southwest. two women and a man were shot around 3 a.m. all three are expected to recover. so far, no arrests. a college student and registered nurse springing into action when an 87-year-old man collapsed during a performance at the folger theater in southeast. dylan mary and michele michaels started cpr helping to save him. today they were honored and presented with the cardiac arrest save coin and the man they helped save was there to say thanks. >> i'm coming back but i have been very, very lucky and these people really are the people who deserve all the praise and credit. this did fantastic or i wouldn't be here. >> he is also a retired doctor who gave credit to the emts and his doctors for his recovery right now at the washington monument? closed to visitors again and it will be again tomorrow. any guess why? yup. it's the pesky elevator again. the latest in a series of problems with that lift. the shutdown comes less than a month after technicians did some extensive repairs there. we have some big storms headed our way tonight that could trigger some flash flooding. topper is going to time it out for us on the way. >> and we're hitting the campaign trail to explore why a shake-up inside the donald trump campaign could mean he is going back to the future. >> a hero's welcome at dulles for katie ledecky. we'll take you to the bethesda native's homecoming. that's all ahead. ♪ know you can keep your financial big picture under control. and whether you should transfer funds. know you can easily keep track of what you're putting away. and know you're budgeted for the great escape. thanks to virtual wallet by pnc. ♪ on campaign 2016. republican nominee donald trump is making some changes with 82 days to go. he has installed steven bannon as ceo of his campaign. paul manafort still holds the title of campaign chairman but bannon will lead the team. some say it's a shake-up. trump's team calls it an expansion. either way, pollsters say the pick signals trump's desire to go back to his earlier style of campaigning. >> he is one of the toughest most aggressive most negative operatives in america today! and that signals to me that trump rather than softening his approach is going to double down on being the tough in your face campaigner. >> earlier today trump got his first classified security briefing. before that, he held a security roundtable with advisers in new york. hillary clinton is trying to keep the focus off her email scandal and the congressional review of her testimony. instead, she headed for ohio cleveland. she called for a bigger emphasis and more spending on vocational training and had a message for her critics. >> people say, oh, there she goes -- [ laughter ] >> she has another plan. [ laughter ] >> well, i does. i have an infrastructure plan to create millions of jobs fixing our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our ports, our airports, our water systems, our sewer systems [ screaming ] ! >> she drove him her message by inviting cameras on her tour of a cleveland high school where she met students who demonstrated robots they had built. she easily outraced her opponents in the pool at rio but katie ledecky's speed was no match for reporters chasing her here at home. next at 7:00 a look at her homecoming celebration as she stepped off her flight at dulles. topper? >> all right. storms are now increasing in coverage. in fact, heavy activity from myersville to charlestown. we'll talk about who is covered by the flash flood watch and how long it will last coming up. from rio to dulles, katie ledecky along with her five olympics medals are home. bruce leshan was her return. >> reporter: after 13 or 14 hours in flight and five historic wins in rio, this 19- year-old new global superstar was just as gracious and modest as ever. as soon as ledecky stepped out of baggage claim a dozen classmates at stone ridge school in bethesda streamed into her arms. she grabbed a selfie with them. >> it means so much to me to have their support and i felt it the whole week in rio and to see them first thing when i get home means so much to me. >> katie ledecky is now a five time olympic gold medalist, a nine-time world champion. >> i honestly think she is better than michael. >> how cool was that? >> that was so cool. >> cool. >> i mean, she's our friend but, like, still it was really cool. >> she's still the katie that you knew? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> two we how do you get ready for that? >> we have a lot to do. >> reporter: she has nothing for her dorm room yet for stanford and the teen is still working on getting her driver's license but is already looking ahead. >> i'll start setting my goals for swimming in the next four years and hopefully i'll be in tokyo. >> what can she do better? that's up to her. i'm just sit there is with [ indiscernible ] waiting to watch. >> reporter: so here's the cover of the new sports illustrated, biles, phelps, ledecky. the greatest. at dulles, bruce leshan, wusa9. >> let's talk money. some marketing experts think ledecky to make up to $8 million a year if she agrees to endorse products. she won't be able to because she is going to be off to stanford in a couple of weeks and you can't get paid as a college athlete so time to get paid will have to wait. >> wow. that's a tough conundrum. >> got to go to school. she wi >> make the right decision. big storms now beginning to get closer to the metro area. take a live look outside. inside the beltway we are okay even here in northwest. sun is down but it's still dry. looking toward the cathedral here. and we are looking at temperatures still around 90. dew point in the low 70s. still very humid. winds picking up a little out of the south at 11. here's the radar over the last hour. here it comes. this is a good line of showers and storms now crossing over i- 81 and moving generally east. some of the individuals moving east-northeast. big-time activity just west of frederick and leesburg and notice the lightning, too. look at the lightning down toward this is northwest culpeper northeast of harrisonburg there. first, heavy rains now myersville, brownsville, one kind of clump really and that's going to move off to the east so frederick you're in the crosshairs once storm tracker. probably at around 7:29. walkersville maybe 7:43 and damascus 7:59. back down to the south and west, warnings on this. we have a severe thunderstorm warning for madison and page and rappahannock and shenandoah counties until 8:00. we also have a flash flood warning in effect for page county until 10:00. we say it over and over again don't try to cross a flooded street by car or by foot. this is headed off more to the northeast so headed toward washington about 7:48. heavy rain, hail and strong winds. that storm seems to have it automatic. so yellow weather alert tonight for flooding and the possibility of severe weather. flash flood watch until 3 a.m. severe thunderstorm watch is now over at 8:00. we still think they could issue a watch to the immediate metro area and critical times 8 p.m. to midnight. so 9:00 on our closer into loudoun county and fairfax and manassas and mclean and leesburg. 10:00s across the beltway the red very heavy rain. temperatures still around 80 but still heavy rain at 10:00 in silver spring, temperatures upper 70s. boom, by 11:30, most of the activity is out of the immediate metro which is good news. they will be intense when they roll through but i don't think they will hang around. that's what causes massive flooding when they just hang around. so day planner temperatures in the 70s to start. 83 by 11:00. and 89 by 1:00. low 90s on friday. going to be hot for the game at fedex and 90 on saturday. just isolated storms. next seven days: katie will be back with sports after this. the burgundy and gold have had to sl for the last three weeks. and although they were probably pretty nice bethesda, there's just nothing like the comfort of home and own bed to renew your spirit. the burgundy and gold returned to redskins park today in ashburn preparing for this friday's preseason game number 2 against the new york jets. after so much time away, it was pretty obvious talking to these guys that there's really no place like home. >> one thing about training camp is as monotonous as the days can be, you are never on too consistent of a schedule so it's nice to get back to a little more consistency back here in ashburn. >> gosh, it's home! coming back it just feels so good, man! i'm not hearing josh this, josh that! peace and quiet just getting my work done and don't have to worry about it, just be one of the guys. it's a month and a half left in the season and it's nice to see harper hit again. as the nats colorado the last thing was they wanted to see their star pitcher fall apart. check out this mom at the ballgame to see strassberg and the nats against the rockies. but what they got was the worst start of strasburg's career. just an inning 2/3 allowing nine runs in the 1st inning alone. the rockies batted around scoring 6 runs on 7 hits. but, of course, they are playing in denver where the air is thin so the nats were going to get at least a few runs. brice harper hits his 21st home run of the season to make it 3- 1. they are not going away. trying to cut back in the 7th pedro severino hits his first career major league home run to pull washington within four. they would get no closer than two though. good comeback try. nats lose 12-10. the nationals now shift their focus to atlanta. they open up a four-game series there tomorrow. catch sunday's game here on wusa9. >> how do you leave the guy in after, like, five runs in the first? >> he got batted around. he just thought maybe he would settle 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