Utvirginias lieenant governor back in the spotlight amidst Sexual Assault allegations. The push from his legal team to clear the air. Plus a sense of unity stolen. A pride flag snatched from a church lawn,and its not the first time. Now we know that this is a hate crime. New details in the shooting of david ortiz. More on the six suspectsst arre and the alleged murder for hire plot to kill bostons big poppy. First tonight to that storm t 4 weather alert. Heavy rains moving in. Youll be hearing it all night as youre trying to sleep. Not onlyitill leave our roads soaked, this rain will still be coming down as you head out on your morning commute tomorrow. Lets get to chief meteorologist doug kammerer. Doug, that sounds like an allnighter. It will be, guys. We saw that rain come in around 9 00 and its been going on ever since. Heavier showers are beginning to move our way, and that means rain in the oranges and reds. Just to the north of culpeper county, thats moving this way to the north. Frederick and leesburg and righo e th upper marlboro. There is a lot more going down hereas an area of low pressure moves our way. Back to the wes we have a chance for a good couple thunderstorms all morning long. Ill show you what to expect for ur thursday andhe weekend coming up in just a few minutes. Doug, thank you. Now to breaking news on our roads tonight. If youre waiting on someone to come home and theyre using the beltway, it may take them awhile. All lanes in the outer loop are shut down in part of montgomeun co. This is a tractortrailer that jackknifed at the big curve near i270 near spurrier road and river road. Theyve sent a hazmat crew to clean up a fuel spill. Its not clear if anyone was hurt in this, but it will take a while to clean it up. Melissa malay will have updates in first morning traffic. Thats start at 4 00 a. M. Alsoin bretonight, virginia Lieutenant Governor justij Justin Fairfax is going all out to fighthe Sexual Assault allegations against him. His lawyer is determined to clear his name. The letters attorneys fired off today. Leon . Reporter thats right, jim. The legal team sent these letters to the d. A. s offices in sussex, massachusetts and durham, north carolina. Ms. Tyson aofedus ccforcing her to perfo sex on him. She says he raped her while they ere students at duke university. The letter said, if an investigation were to determine that the allegation is true, it should be criminally prosecuted. But theygo on to say this. Quote jur quote, just as no serious crime should go unprosecute odd, s n shouldone be accused of a false allegation. Fairfaxs Attorney Says the case shoulbe closed. Fairfax says hes prepared to be interviewed and testify under oath. His accusers have called for a General Assembly to hold bipartisan hearingshe on investigation instead, but they said Law Enforcement is better equipped to deal with these taims. Fairfax said encounters were consensual. B k to you. Leon, thank you. Well, we remember that feeling this time last year. A live look ate the new hom of the stanley cup, the celebrations in the streets. Fans jumping on cars and doing a big dance. Le st. Louis bs just winning their first championship in franchise history. Yeah, we remember how that feels, dont we . The party is going strong tonight in the gateway city. Before tonight, therelues we the oldest nhl franchise without a stanley cup win. But now their fans are going crazy. The win tonight also means our capitals championship reign is over. He t parade we all remember s well on constitution avenue was one year ago today. The team tweeted out video of that celebration earlier with a thank you to fans earlier today, quote, for all the memories along the way. We want some new one yeah, we do. New tonight were learning some disturbing details in the plot to kill baseball legend david ortiz in the dominican republic. As nbcs morgan cheskey reported tonight from santa domingo, the suspected wouldbe assassins were offered about 8,000 for the hitn big poppy. Tonight, shocng details about cd he ortiz. Police showing off the gun used during the ambush, ptured on camera at a popular restaurant targeted bing the attack that included a 400,000peso on ortiz head, just under 8,000. Police identified this man as the one who fire point blank range into ortiz back. Tonight he and five others are in Police Custody facing charges of attempted murder. The first suspect was taken last night at the scene. The player sti attacker still bruised. The interview giving information about t other suspects. In boston,d resox star showing signs of recovering. David was able to take some steps, but he will remain in the icu for several days. The suspects wouldnt tell about any attempted motive and wouldnt answer about who gave that order to kill david ortiz. A repeat theft at a local church. Leaders of a Northern Virginia congregation said their rainbow pride flag was snatched off their property. Not only did this happen ring pride month, its also the third time somebody has taken off with it. News4 shamari stone is in reston tonight with the exclusive story. I felt sick. I feltdiscouraged. Dr. Reverend hafner is upset at the Unitarian Church in reston, virginia. I felt sorry thatin a Community Like reston, someone would steal. Someone stole the pride flag, a symbol ofr support the lgbtq community. All people of sexl orientati orientation, gender identity or gender expression, everyone is welcome here. The flag has been here two years, but someone took it the week after the church cosponsored pride. I thought atst faybe it was the wind. Even the second time i thought it was weather. I want to sit down and look at those people or that person in the eye and talk to them abo how every person has dignity and worth. Reporter reverend hafner says the church will continue to fly the flag on church operty and she will continue replacing it if she needs to. A man facing charges for allegedly sexually abusing a 13yearold student at capitol Hill Montessori student at logan. Its impacting other programs at d. C. Schools. The abuse happened from january to may of this year at the schoo Justin Hickman was a contract employee working for springboard education in america. E company runs afterschool programs at several d. C. Schools. Now dps is suspending its relationship during io investigatn. Ilckman has been charged with seconddegree chd abuse. Tomorrow univsity of maryland Football Players are expected to com together and share memories of a fallen teammate one year ago after his death. Jordan mcnair died of heatstroke two weeks after collapsing during a workout. Players and coachesho will ld a health and wellness sports event in his honor. They are organizin it in olan mills. A mayorin Prince Georges County wants to set the record straight tonight about why shes resigning. Upper marlboro mayor tonga turner said her decision to step down doesnt have anything to do with racism or bigotry. She says she wants to spend mor me with her two young children. Monday she explained at a town hall meeting that shes been the victim of multiple incidents of racm, including threatening e h emails and slashed tires. It was nevery m impressiono intention to give the impression that p i wasshed out. That simply is not true. Reporter her lasty, by the way, will be june 30. Interim mayor will be appointed until a special election can be held to replace her. Jholie had to listen to how the teen was killed. He admitted to choking musa to death when she tried to end their relationship. S disappearedrom their fairfax home in 2018. Her body was found nearly two weeks later. Think he needs to learn a lesson. I just dont want any other young woman to fall to the fate that jholiedid. This was an abuser who felt he was going to lose the person he was used to controlling. The admitted killer hadio prevusly been convicted of assaulting jholie musa. Hes now facing sentencing in september. Too close for comfort . A sight in the y that had many of you calling us for an explanation today. Up next, why fighter jets were spotted flying so low above the district. And stubbing out smoking ntside local restaurants. Details on th crackdown that changes where people can light up this summer. And its raining now, but wet weather alert. Look at all the heavy rain down to the south making its way our way. Its going to be here during our moning commute as well. Well talk about ho long lasts tomorrow and the threat of thunderstorms, too. See you back here in just a minute. And another check right now of that breaking news on the beltway. A slow ride tonight in montgomerycounty. A tractortrailer near old georgetown road. All lanes of the outer loop are shut down here and the backups aralpretty long ady. We hope this will clear up by the morning commute, but be sure to watch well, did you catch a glimpse of this rare sight today . A flyover by two f35 fighter jets directly above downtown d. C. Th includes the white house. It got a lot of youta lking on social media and calli news4 wondering what was going on in whats usually restricted air space. Was not an emergency, folks. This was a demonstration for the polish president who was visiting President Trump. Pola is set to buy 32 of these jets, so President Trump wanted to show them off. Flyovers, of course, have been extremely limited since the terrorist attacks of september 11. A bill to safeguard the 9 11 Victims Compensation fund passed a key hurdle today. The House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved it and sent to the full house. Congress established the fund back in 2010, but the money is only authorized i fiveyear increments. Benefits were cut this year, and if congress doesnt step in, the funding runs out altogether next year. The money oelps thousands First Responders and other survivors who have developed cancer or other Health Problems from breathing in toxic air at ground zero. If thbill passes the full house, then it would move on to the senate. Tomorrow actor cuba gooding jr. Will surrender the nypd ex crimes precinct. His Attorney Says the actor is turniin himself in connection with an alleged groping incident at a manhattan rooftop bar over e weekend. Ts not clear yet even if hes facing charges. Nultiple ny officials told our sister statio in new york that a womanclaimed the Jerry Mcguire star inappropriately touched her. She said she filed a police report. Gooding denies the allegations. Starting tomorrow, there will be tougherfo enement for smoking outside bars and restaurants in montgomery county. Thats because those establishments cld get slapped with fines. News4s derrick ward takes a close look at the repercussionsh and what mean for you. Reporter smoking inside bars and restaurants has been illegal since 2003 in montgomerycounty. As of thursday, the flame is fine but the smoking diners last refuge, the open patio, will also be off limits. Its the best idea because moking is injurious to our health. Reporter it made it official for the entire county. Gaithersburg was already under the ban. Some folks we spoke to said i goes too far. Others werent even aware of the ban. We did come across diners, however, who werent too crazy about it. Honest opinion, im not a smoker, but i think its somewhat of a discrimination against smokers. Re rter the ban will also apply to vape users. There is one area thats exempt, and that is if you have rooftop patio dining. Restaurant and bar owners can designate smoking areas on a roof or a balcony. Theyre trying but its still smoking. Reporter enrcement of the ban will be complaint based and fin will be set at 50 levied on the establishment, not the offending smoeker. Derrick ward, news4. Its raining out ere. Going to get worse overnight, huh . Well see some more rain coming in. Right now its on the moderate side. Ly it was real hard driving because its so dark. It makes it much more difficult when its raining because it doesnt allow any reflection to come off the paivement chere. So w out, its going to be a mess. It going to be a mess in the early morning, too. We are in storm 4 weath alert mode as a result of the rain coming in, and just how bad i think the morning commute is going to be. Ou can see the rain through baltimore, down through fredricksburg, but e heaviest rain, frederick, leesburg, portions of maricopa county, this is from really heavy rain right up against the mountains shere. We coue flooding areas, too. You see where the heaviest rain is down to the south . Ore heavy rain in parts of prin georges county, frederick county. You see one storm t here,ts the one bringing us the rain. Then you see the spin of the atmosphere back toward the west of cincinnati. T thats goingo move through tomorrow afternoon. That will enhance the chance of some thunderstorm rrtivity tomoow afternoon as well, and right now, what are we dealing with . Were dealing with temperatures in the 60s. Were ithe 60s everywhere. Were not going down too much tonight. 62ga hersburg, 62 culpeper, but thats about it. Note 71 over toward annapolis. I want to show you the wider picture here because i w ted to show you that swirl making its way back to the west. This is an upper area of low pressure. Colder air aloft allows storms to develop and i think thats what well see tomorrow. Heres the rain tonight, around 11 00. Heavier rain moving through the area right around 7 00 a. M. This is th morning commute. This is when the kids get on the school bus, the kids that still have school out there. Maybe around 12 00,1 00 we get a break. This is 3 00, though. Notice a couple storms developing, and at 5 00, theyre in a around thed. C. Metro area. We could have a couple strong storms tomorrow with strong winds and the potential of large ha ve. Closely. If, in fact, we do have strongee storms that elop, well be tracking it for you on news4. Some nicer conditions behind it, but tomorrow, kind of a mess. A wet morning rush, msty ning rush, really. Temperatures back in the 70s. High of 78, rather breezy conditions with sunshine. 86 on saturday. Friday and saturday are great. Again, a little breezy if not windy on friday. 90 degrees on sunday. Of course, thats fathers day. A storm chance on fathers day andreally, rather unsettled all next week. Hot and humid. Chance of showers and thunderstms all next week. Guys, thats a typical floridatype forecast when were talking about 30 to c40 nce of storms just about each and every day, but thats what weve got next week. Well pretend like were on vacation. Good job. Coming up, the party is on in st. Louis. Still gog strong. Here are live pictures again of the celebration after the blues win their fir ever stanley cup over boston. The party is raging outside with nsunch parties. Dave joh is up next to show us how the blues did it, but first, heres jimmy fallon. But first, heres jimmy fallon. Hey,guys, Chris Hemsworth the big carriers are talking about their curren5g roll outs, but their efforts are limited to a few pockets in select cities or trying to convince consumers that 4g is actually 5g. They e neglecting small townsand rur leaving them on the wrong idde of the digital dive. If approved, only the combined availableresources of tmobile and sprint can deliver on all the spectrum bands needed to quickly bring unprecedented 5g connectivity across the nation. It was a little more fun for us lastyear. You can feel their joy. First time in 50 years, first time ever, r tlly. Hats why im jealous. We should ben the street artying right now just like we were last year this time. Oh, my odgoness. From all caps to all ors to all out of time. Ea the yr of the capitols as stanley p champions are over. B thelues and n bruied to ed to go to a game 7 tonight in boston. Ic as e game not as drama the buildup. Grere it is. We spent so many eat memories with that, the best trophy in all the sports, the stanley cup, and the keeper of the cup like family. 10. Ames stork will leave it for alex and he scores. The blues are out to a 20 lead, the most dangerous lead in hockey. That was enough, though, for jordan bennington. He saves the first and bennington coming up with some huge saves for the blues, but thats the biggest. He keeps the shutoutgoi going. A few minutes later, its in the corner. He puts it in the backf othe net. Shen really icing o this for the blues and the fans at thi point in st. Louis, they can sense it. After 52years, the blues wai isover. They beat the bruins 41 and hoist their first stanley cup in franchise history. Oh, yes, we know that feeling. To the pitch, united hosting the Philadelphia Union. Just tied itat 1. He gets tripped. That is going to be a penalty, and if its a penalty, why not give it to you know what to o take your shirt off and give it to wayne rooney. Hes n going to missthis. He comes through for the black and red. Two goals in the final three minutes. They beat the Philadelphia Union 21 and move on to 16 in the u. S. World cup. The nats are off tonight but the orioles hosting the bluejays. Mancini going deep. This is the tecen mancini gives a 10 lead. In the fifth, bases loaded for row row rowd rowdy torres. The orioles did stage a routing but lose to the bluejays 36. Were confirming again what happened. Kevin durant did it on instagram. He had surgery to repair a ptured achilles. He said he knows its going to be a journey but hes built for that journey. He returned to the warriors game 5 before suffering that achilles tendon. Its a similar injury like john wall has. Were expecting the same for john wall and we wish him thet bes because he clearly is one of the best players in basketball and we need him back in the game. And so active in his cmmunity in Prince Georges County. Ti that should connue. Ti that should connue. 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