thousands of cars. you're probably already familiar with the recall involving takata air bags this is for arc automotive. different company, similar problems. they're concerned that the air bags could explode and spew metal fragments to passengers and drivers. you can take a look at the entire list of cars. >> there is new reaction pouring in. the deal reached overnight and severely limits the nuclearability. the international ability will lift oil and fine issue sanctions. right now it's looking like a tough sell. >> i will veto any legislation that prevents the successful implementation of this deal. >> if it's as bad a deal as i think it is at this moment, we will do everything we can to stop it. >> john kerry talked to andrea mitchell right after the deal was signed and he has strong words. you can see the plan on the nbc washington app. >> we're getting a look at a testy confrontation between a metro station manager and a father. the dad says this all started when he asked if his daughter could use the bathroom inside a station. >> i'm megan fitzgerald where a metro employee is now facing disciplinary action for a dispute between a rider that was captured on cell phone video. >> a rider who did not want to be identified shot video of the tense moments. he was asked if his 4-year-old daughter could use the retroom. words were exchanged and things started to escalate. after ten minutes of argument. >> come here. >> what's your name? >> come on out of here. >> don't touch me. >> it's not been confirmed that the metro confirmed that the employee put his hands on the passenger. we spoke with the rider about why he decided to come forward now. >> i'm in northwest d.c. many neighborhoods are terrified by atvs mopeds and dirt bikes speeding down the streets and on the sidewalks and dc police are not allowed to chase them. now new legislation could give police more power to confront them. >> i'm going to have to register with the department of motor vehicles. we want all law-abiding dirt bike owners to ride but we don't want them on our streets. >> reporter: just how this new legislation could stop these illegal drivers in their tracks. we'll take a look and break down the penalty. much of our area under a flash flood watch until 2:00 a.m. in the morning. we are expecting heavy rain during the overnight. avoid the high fast moving waters. it will cover the roads very quickly. attempt to drive through any covered roads. 90 there and a much, much stronger line. this is one we are tracking for late coming into ohio with a severe thunderstorm watch with your planner forecast for your evening coming up. and questions during testimony of a key witness. prosecutors are convinced they will win another con vision and the defense attorneys say all of the evidence is substantial. >> second degree murder. and the uncle tied him to a chair police say he lied to athletics. tom sherwood asked about the death with dignity bill. council members talked about the legislation last friday. >> there is a bout and thoughts like this. they are the person. >> personally i'm uncomfortable with us. but personally i think to myself. >> during that interview this morning, says she is hoping the council will take its time to fully refew the issue. coming up what the mayor had to say about violent crime on metro. >> it runs to the road. we'll let you know as soon as the water is safe. >> we are working to find out details about a meeting this afternoon with top lawmakers from dc maryland and virginia. the discussion is about metro. metro needs a new general manager right away. she met with virginia governor and maryland lieutenant governor. along with the u.s. transportation secretary. they're discussing metro's financial problems and safety. officials may redevelop some parkland just off of the road. developers could add a playground and outdoor fitness station trails and an area for food trucks. >> and we have new information about the work that it took to build an escape trouble. >> and escape at the national zoo. how an animal got loose and where workers tracked it down. >> and we're live streaming this newscast. a hot one today. 86 is the temperature but look at the heat index. way up there. 91 degrees yesterday the warmest day out of the workweek. we're going to see some high temperatures tomorrow but not quite as sticky as today as been. we're tracking storms now. you can see them starting to pop here outside of kiaser around western maryland. >> they've had it, lost him, now they want him back. mexican authorities are offering nearly $4 million to help capture an escaped drug lord. they fired the director of the supper max prison from which he escaped. experts tell nbc news that it would take four men working day and night for a year to build the underground tunnel that he used. it stretched from a shower in his prison cell to a house a mile away. we will have a live report coming up. >> right now a detention hearing is underway for the boston police captain's son linked to an isis type plot to set off bombs on college campuses. the 23-year-old is reportedly mentally ill and defect with islam. his father tipped authorities off according to boston police official rrs speeding through the outer edges of space. >> escape. ♪ >> she rocked dc last night. now we're hearing taylor swift has another ace up her sleeve for tonight's show. we just got in some incredible video of a plane making an emergency landing. this is on a median of a new jersey street. the plane was carrying sky divers and the pilot put it down right there in the median. five people including the pilot were on board. the instructor suffered a cut on his arm and everybody else is okay. the faa is investigating right now. and the spacecraft snapped pictures and took measurements of the planet. wagner talked about what nasa hoech hopes to learn from this historic accomplishment. >> cheers for a first of a kind, three billion miles away. the closest ever fly by of pluto. the anticipation continues. >> i am feeling a little bit nervous but i have confidence that it will do what it needs to do to collect that science and it's going to turn around and send us that burst of data and tell us that it's okay. >> it's an all day wait for that confirmation a signal that the spacecraft survived its close encounter with pluto. >> it was the fastest rocket of any kind launched off of the earth. it only took nine hours to get to the distance of the moon. our astronauts spent days. >> nine years to pluto traveling speeds in excess of 30,000 miles an hour. >> this is the equivalent of standing on the tee box somewhere near the capital striking the one and making a hole in one on the west coast. >> there's a little bit of drama because there is true explanation. >> scientists and the world wait to learn more. >> we learn more about our own planet earth. >> exploration to the outer reaches of our solar system. dave wagner, nbc news. >> and you can learn more about this extraordinary journey from earth that spanned an incredible 3 billion miles on the nbc washington app. just search pluto close up. >> new york city has decided to set al wrongful death lawsuit. carter died last summer on staten island. he was suspected of selling untagged single cigarettes. his last words on a video were i can't breathe. protesters spoke out against the tactic used in minority communities. >> people be walking up and down the street saying congratulations. don't congratulate us. this is not a victory. the victory will come when we get justice. >> a grand jury cleared the arresting officer of wrong dur but other investigations are already underway. drones are able to capture some pretty remarkable images like this bird's eye view of a tornado touching down in kansas. it happened last night and from this angle you can see the sun and blue sky in the distance. the storm damaged at least one home and there are reports of downed trees and power lines. >> this evening we are expecting thunderstorms to roll on through the area. af you're going to be out and about and have plans to go to that taylor swift concert. you can get live radar like this. and you can track it and zoom in just like this. we've got some storms just south of kaiser flowing right along 50 headed towards winchester. storms headed here right now. yes there will be some lightning with these storms but more importantly there will be heavy rain. we've got one line just about ready to get into our area. and another line is coming through ohio right now. that is going to be moving into our area. stormy night, heavy rain. he's out at six flags for more on your forecast. >> beautiful weather. we finally have it. we have cancelled the last three backyard weathers because we have had weather this is the brand new mardi gras area right here. gator king right here. i have been trying to get that. and of course i will be riding that in a little bit. >> we have got a lot going on around our area. the taylor swift concert going on downtown. if you're going to be downtown out and about this is what you will need to know. you will need to see the numbers on the mild side. temperatures into the 80s. i still think 7:00 is dry for most of us especially around the i-95 corridor. we think around 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00 will be the best chance of the storms. once again, any could be strong. temperatures will be on the mild side. 83 on thursday. then that's when the heat really comes in. 91 on saturday. 95 on sunday. temperatures still in the 90s as you look towards nextmont. it could be warmer than that on sunday. six flags is a great place to be over the next couple of days. i think it's going to be perfect for guys ss like the gator king here. can i borrow that hat? is it one sized fits all? i got a really big head. don't worry. we'll come back to you. oh, i can try it on? thanks. back to you. this is a nice fit. >> who can it be? 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people are grabbing from wherever to see taylor. >> i'm from fredericksburg. anyone from really far away? we had a person from alaska earlier. unbelievable. there are tickets still available. if you want to check it out you can go online and see taylor and a special kbguest who may make an appearance? maybe jason derulo. this is going to be a good show. >> did you just drop a bomb shell there? i think you just gave us a hint. did it sound like it? >> what do you mean i gave you a hint? i totally told you. >> you dropped a bomb shell. >> you want me to make a sign? i will hold it up. >> oh great. >> i can do that. >> we lost the element of surprise. just a little of it to stretch into the evening. so now we know. thanks. >> now you know. you're welcome. >> there you have it. >> nicotine won't make you happy if you're a smoker. >> surviveing a plane crash? how a teenager walked out of the woods alive. >> plus plot twist and publishing controversy. remember to download the nbc washington app for breaking news alerts and you can use the storm te a maryland hospital is taking its smoke free policy to a bhoel new level. >> it just announced that it will screen job applicants for nicotine just like it screens for illegal drugs. we are looking at how this will work from annapolis. >> a new policy of disqualifying smokers for jobs here and already two job applicants have been rejected. >> we get them help to help them quit. six months later they will be eligible to reapply assuming that the nicotine testing works out okay then they will be hired. >> this is one of three maryland hospitals who are rejecting job applicants because they aregh smokers. located in harford county. this is chris gordon news 4. president obama's historic nuclear deal with iran is being met with cheers and fear. n republicans say they will do everything they can to scuttle it. president obama says he will veto anything that stands in the way. we will bring you details as soon as they happen. >> the man accused of executing a church massacre will be in court. we could hear whether documents will be released to the media. the judge has temporarily blocked their release. he is charged with nine counts of murder during a prayer service. í ngjtere no concerns right now about exploding air bags. investigators are looking at air bag inflators made by arc automotive. they went into hundreds of thousands of late model vehicles. we have the whole list on the nbc washington app. they opened the investigation after two people were injured. and watching a line of storms stretching closer to the area. the flash flood watch is already in effect for tonight. meteorologist has a new look at the radar. >> we have got a very nearly saturated ground. we have a ten inch surplus in june. there we go again. this time it really is two lines of storms that we are tracking. plenty more rain to come. they just issued a severe thunderstorm warning on this one. you may see a little thunder. that's out west. much of west virginia goes into 8:00 p.m. about five hours or z5o. it is late tonight.2! for folks leaving tonight 82 the temperature. heavy rain. >> óeit's a wish come true for book lovers. harper lee's second book, go set a watchman is now on sale. it's the sequel to the 1960 classic "to kill a mocking bird." amid all of the excitement today, there is a lot of disappointment. >> the first question that i have for you is would you is is it the book or how it was released. >> the big take away is the change to atticus finch. he is the hero of "to kill a mocking bird".ñ he's the yjsrmykvónation's moral'v conscious on racism and he's a actually the american film institute voted gregory peck's role as the nation's greatest estest cinematic hero and in this book he is a big gotted racist. >> what do you think the impact would be on literature? we read it as children and watched the movie. we worshipped atticus finch many people did. he's been voted con since tently a literary hero. what happens to his legacy? >> as you mention this book is still taught in schools. harper lee still makes about $3 million a year. most of those are to high schools. it wasn't accepted. there was no idea that it would be published. to rework this story to-x%eaóñ[hbq0gs3«5!t'i ♪ ♪ know you can keep your financial big picture under control. know you can see how much you have to spend 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. ♪ ♪ we're live from six flags. right now plenty of sunshine in our area but we are watching storms. showing the storms and tracking them for you. one of the storms is a severe thunderstorm warning. but that line of storms is making its way towards frederick county and virginia. that line will make its way through here. and a man is accused of stealing damaged headstones and lining the floor of his garage with them. investigators founld hundreds of stones on kevin maynard's property. he took the stones because they were going to be destroyed anyway. some of them were found with the inscriptions face-down. >> to have any part of their memory used in a way that is not appropriate is terrible. >> the maximum penalty? ten years. >> with a little luck and a lot of courage a teenager not only survived a small plane crash, she spent days alone in the mountains looking for help. yesterday she hiked out of the wilderness and flagged down a passing car. >> i will tell you this. >> not for an adult. >> it's so remote. recovery teams have not been able to get to the wreckage of that plane. >> the mexican government makes a startling admission. >> this doesn't happen every day. how an animal the tunnel el chapo used to get out of prison took more than a year to make and his cell was out of sight of cameras. >> we are taking a look at how the tunnel got right to his shower stall and discovered that the prison blueprints were compromised. >> the mexican interior minister said that chapo had to have help when he tunnelled out of this prison. now officials here and in the u.s. and others are saying this was such a complex operation, this tunnel operation that it had to involve many people outside the prison and inside the prison. and they point to the prosigs that was required to dig a tunnel a mile away and coming up exactly in the cell. in the shower stall of his cell which was out of camera range. the interior minister suggested that the people involved in that actually had blueprints from the prison. now of course this raises the question of corruption, massive corruption is an issue in mexico and it's being talked about widely here in connection to this case and this has been major embarrassment for the mexican government. one local newspaper headlined here yesterday asked 3,000 tons of dirt no one saw anything. one more question being asked here as the manhunt continues. >> all tickets for new york events are free. if you want to see the pope your best bet is to head to the national mall on september 24. >> as a national zoo they are affecting an outdoor encloe sure. this is an aguti a furry rodent about the size of a large house cat. zoo keepers believe he chewed through the mesh of an encloe sure around 7:00 last night. they were able to lure him back into the pen about 30 minutes later unharmed. they call this little guy macadamia. we are told that he will soon be introduced to his mate, hazelnut. >> some amazing new video shows just how powerful water can be. that's a house floating in floodwater s floodwaters. right now the flooding has already killed one person and several people are still unaccounted for. people are high winds toppled trees and knocked out power for tens of thousands of people. crews have been scrambling to fix power lines. dj you're in the storm center. what are our thunderstorms looking like for later tonight? >> we could have a few storms and high wind. a chance for hail. seeing some of the storms possibly producing a bit of hail this is your drivering impact forecast. and around 9:00, 10:00, some heavy thunderstorms will come through the area. the road will be covered pretty good in some area ss there sit. mountain falls area. meanwhile, much of our area is here. we have got another more powerful one. around 9:00 10:00, 11:00 p.m. you can see that line there it's just now getting into areas of west virginia. here is a look at future weather. 86 the high this weekend. thursday friday, with lower humidity. look at this. it's a heat wave for us. it starts this weekend. 90 to 95 degrees. each day a chance of storms saturday, sunday, monday. we have got a lot more with new data coming in. just what you can expect with those thunderstorms and more too from six flags. >> he recorded the ins tent with his phone at the metro station last month. he said his little girl needed to use the bathroom and that the station manager wouldn't let them. you will hear his story coming up in the next hour. >> judgment day is almost here for the man accused in the colorado theater massacre. >> and body cameras range in size from larger ones, smaller ones and sunglasses this project has been in the plap planning stages for 15 years. organizers are trying to figure out if they can raise $20 million in private donations. >> the colorado movie massacre trial is now wrapping up. attorneys are making their final case on whether gunman james holmes is a cold calculating killer or if he had a psychotic episode when he killed 17 people in that theater.py÷ and close to three years to the day after holmes opened fire in the theater, the closing arguments were heard. after thousands of pieces of evidence, today one last chance for attorneys to make their cases during closing arguments. >> this guy walked into that theeter and tried to murder everyone in it. >> holmes was claimed to be legally sane, assembling weapons and body armor, rigging his apartment with explosions hoping to create a diversion and a notebook he filled with details of the movie theater's lieout. but defense testified that he was insane in the days leading up to the shooting, unable to know right from wrong or stop himself from carrying out what holmes described as a mission. >> the case comes down to a battle of experts and how the jury perceives the preparations that holmes took and the precautions he underwent to prevent being detected. >> holmes did not take the stand but evidence included chilling comments he made during video taped interviews since the shooting. >> the prosecution has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that that monster was sane at the time of the shooting. >> soon the jury will decide holmes' mental state when he killed 12 people and injured several others. >> we don't know what the verdict is going be and we don't know what that will lead us to next. >> another agonizing step for more towards closure. >> hey, hey, hey. don't touch me. >> right now at 5:00, melt down on metro. new reaction to the altercation between a rider and a station manager. >> a war on dirt bikes and atvs. the crack down getting underway to the rides linked to one high provile murder in our area. >> and talk about a mess. >> the flames are out but tempers may be flaring for drivers sitting in back up for miles. >> we begin with storm team 4 and a weather alert. there is a potential for severe weather and flash flooding event just a few hours from now. >> it looks like it's going to be a busy night from our weather app and now's the time to charge the phones. >> we're going to be posting some of the latest information and data as it comes in on nbc washington. a lot of lightning through wind. . out in western maryland, this area is all the way into areas of west virginia. most of our storms will be between 7:00 p.m. and midnight. with them high winds and for sure some downpours. as a matter of fact, much of our viewing area shaded in green is under a flash flood watch until 2:00 a.m. so, the storms come through and they will be slow moving and some could produce as much as one to two inches of rain. we have got the severe thunderstorm for areas. they are eastbound to areas of winchester ask just north of i-81. in the springs you can get another look at that line of storms once again.