by the tornado. tom and karen keller lost ten trees and have no electricity. >> problem with the power out here is we're on wells, so you don't have water, which means you don't have anything. >> yet you can still laugh because -- >> because nobody's hurt. >> reporter: glenwood high school has no water either. howard county parked a truck in front of the school with emergency water for residents. >> it serves to provide water for individuals who have wells. they can get potable water. we have available showering and things for charging your devices. >> reporter: a tree tore through the roof of this home as the tornado hit. two people were inside at the time. >> you could just hear the glass, you know, shattering and the breaking of the just every bit of it you could hear in full detail. >> reporter: ahead, she tells us what a close call it was for her and her brother when the tornado hit and that tree tore through their home. that's the latest live from howard county. pat, back to you. we're still assessing the damage from what happened in cleaning up after yesterday, but, doug, it sounds as if we don't have a whole lot of time to get that clean up going? >> we're watching a potential storm system in the early morning hours of tomorrow and the early afternoon. we are looking at a couple of showers down to the south. most of this just very, very light. most of it not reaching the ground in the winchester area. back to the west, look at this boundary that has set up back to the west. what we're going to be watching later this evening is the potential for a thunderstorm complex to develop. it's a line of thunderstorms -- watch it around chicago -- that form around our region. notice by 7:30 a.m. it is moving towards our area. we could see very strong winds. we could be under a severe thunderstorm watch tomorrow morning. this is something we're going to be paying very close attention to. a chance for strong to severe storms early and then again late in the day. winds will be a factor as well as some hail. weather alert day tomorrow for sure. chuck and tom will be here early. they'll be walking you through it. i'll have much more on this throughout the afternoon and today. yesterday's wild weather certainly left a mark on the cleveland park metro station. water was sent gushing down the steps and the escalator there at e station. adam tuss is live right now to tell us more about what happened. adam, these pictures are unbelievable. >> reporter: some of them don't even look real, but it happened here at this entrance to the cleveland park metro station. you take a look today it looks like everything is business as usual, but yesterday a much different story. take a look at some of the video that we actually got about all of this and the water raging down the steps and the escalator here. this water just came fast and it came strong. now, should the drains on the street have been able to handle all that water? d.c. water came out today to look at things. they say they believe everything was running properly. >> these right here, these are catch basins. if you look in them, you can see there's no water in them. there's no debris in them. they're clean. it is just too much water too fast and take it. >> reporter: too much rain too fast. that's what d.c. water says happened here. metro knows this station is prone to flooding. you take a look across the street. you see the sandbags there. they're out there pretty much all the time. metro's actually going to post some new video about what happened here in the next hour. >> in light of what happened there yesterday, we know we have some more severe storms headed our way scheduled to come through tomorrow. are they taking any extra precautions or are they worried about this happening tomorrow? >> reporter: one thing that d.c. water did do when they came out here is they checked the storm drains to make sure everything was clear. they took a look all the way down to the bottom. they said everything is looking good, but they're going to flush the system again. this might have been a case of too much water all at once. it spilled over here cleveland park metro station. developing, house democrats are staging a sit-down protest right now. they want a vote on gun control measures following the orlando nightclub shooting. a group of 40 democrats demanded a vote on gun control measures before sitting down and occupying the house floor. >> so today we come to the well of the house to dramatize the need for action. not next month. not next year, but now, today. >> the house was not in session when the democrats began their demonstration and republican leaders ordered c-span cameras turned off. lewis and his colleagues say they won't end the sit-in until there is action on gun control. d.c. residents have been dealing with summer heat and no water for the past two days. the management company that runs the condominium in southeast didn'tay but thanks in part to our investigation there's an encouraging new development. mark segraves has the story you'll only see on news4. >> reporter: the water was turned off yesterday without any notice to the 15 families who call this building home here in southeast washington. most of them rent their units. many of them are elderly couples. it turns out they rent their apartments from the condo owners, and many of those condo owners haven't been paying their condo fees and that means the utilities haven't been paid. $18,000 in water bills have gone unpaid for months. that's why d.c. water has to turn the water off here. after news4 started making calls, the property management company reached a deal with d.c. water to get the water turned back on. about an hour ago, the water started flowing here at to hear from residents here who say they're still worried that this isn't the end of this problem. in southeast, mark segrave. news4. first at 4, keeping local water safe to drink. the new concerns about whether water here has high levels of lead. it's the time of the year for bug bites. how you can avoid th woman: i have a masurprise for you.are you? 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[ explosion ] nothing should get in the way of the things you love. ♪ get america's fastest internet. only from xfinity. on the campaign trail, donald trump today attacked the character and career of hillary clinton in a major speech that he made. >> clinton dismissed his critique. democrats are still staging that sit-in over gun control. any chance at all anything gets passed? >> i don't think so. they're just trying to get a vote, chris. what they're trying to do is get publicity. they're trying to focus on their message. donald trump showed today that he, too, can have message discipline and not talk all as republicans have been dema demanding, donald trump focused on hillary clinton. >> she's a world-class liar. >> reporter: passion from trump. as secretary of state clinton was wrong on syria, trump said. on libya and iran and trump charged clinton supported chinese trade for chinese checks. >> hillary clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the united states. >> reporter: clinton was on capitol hill with democrats upbeat about her organization, fundraising, and polling. they supported clinton's call for tougher gun laws by a sit-in on the house floor and she >> he's going after me personally because he has no answers on the substance. >> reporter: trump earlier was raising much-needed campaign funds, promising donors he will stay disciplined, telling voters america's problems can be fixed. >> but not by hillary clinton. only by me. >> reporter: trump still trumpcentric. donald trump showed today that he can be focused. they're urging him not to backslide. i'm steve handelsman. news4. looks like we're in for another round of stormy weather. >> a little bit different guys in the fact that this one is coming from areas like chicago. what's going to happen here is we're going to see this potential for storms not tomorrow afternoon, but tomorrow morning. that could mean as you wake up and step out the front door we could have a watch overnigh tonight. right now no problems. we're dealing with pretty nice conditions. a lot of cloud cover. 83 right now. winds out of the north at 16 miles an hour. a nice afternoon for sure. temperatures into the 80s everywhere. 84 manassas. 77 gaithersburg. frederick at 77. not much to show you on our radar. a few showers to the south. the wider view here, take a look. here's the high clouds moving across our region. we have some mid level clouds. that's giving us the shower activity. we have this boundary. i've been showing it to you for weeks. a big trough of low pressure in the east, a big ridge of high pressure to the west. then we get this train of moisture. we're expecting a very large storm system to develop up around the chicago area and move down towards our region. because of that, storm prediction center as chicago and parts of ohio in a moderate risk of severe weather. a moderate risk is very high risk. you know we're going to see severe weather. that system moves down across the region and we are even in the slight risk early tomorrow morning. tomorrow afternoon that risk once again comes down and changes across our area. we're in the slight risk all day tomorrow. let's show you on future weather. overnight tonight no problems. cloud cover. nice and warm. nice and mild. look at tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. d.c. we think okay, although this could move a little faster. notice what's happening. strong to severe storms in here by 7:00 in the morning. as you wake up, we could see storms coming across. 8:30 around the d.c. metro area and everywhere. this could be a line of very strong storms with very strong winds moving through at this time and a lot of rain. that's what we're watchi here. we could see more storms develop during the day. some of those could be strong to severe as well. we could have a very stormy day tomorrow, but this could begin early tomorrow morning when you're waking up, when you're stepping out the front door, when you're trying to head out to work. make sure you're ready for that. i'll be here at 11:00 to refine the timing on this. a weather alert day tomorrow. 87 degrees. especially if we see some sunshine. 82 on your friday. the rest of the weekend really looking great. we have to get through the next 24 hours, but after that the weather really starts to get nice. much more on this right on into the evening. uber, lift, taxi drivers, they're all in high demand now that metro trains call it a early night on weekends. the additional steps police are taking to keep you safe starting tonight. it's the time of year that bugs just love. what you need to know about at subway, you'll love the greek flavors of our mediterranean collection. your choice of delicious chicken or hearty steak. with crumbled feta and cool, creamy tzatziki sauce. try our mediterranean collection today. subway. fresh is what we do. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. so we wired the wagner's house with 100 meg internet. which means 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we're worried you're going to get the more significant form of lyme disease. >> lone star tick is different. >> it's a tick that is actuallyiactually i coming man you get bitten by that tick and it introduces a chemical that makes us humans allergic to the sh sugar in meat. you won't see that for six hours after you ate the meat. if you've got some symptoms six hours after the barbecue and you know you were bitten by a tick, come to an allergist. you may have gotten this alpha-gal allergy that is introduced only by the lone star tick. be careful of the bugs out there. >> thank you. after the storms, the day after yesterday, we're getting an upclose look at the damage. plus, a plan that could have kept harriet tubman now at 4:30, lawmakers stage a demonstration inside the capitol. house democrats have engaged in a sit-in over gun control on the floor of the house. it's being led by the georgia congressman john lewis. the drains were working properly when water started gushing into the cleveland park metro station yesterday. this cell phone video made video from metro. the national weather service confirmed a tornado did indeed touch down yesterday afternoon in howard county. it had wind speeds reaching 80 miles an hour and traveled nearly 13 miles, leaving a wide path of debris. as omar jimenez found out, there were a few close calls. >> reporter: there will be a lot of trees downed for families to clean up for this tornado in woodbine. some of the trees snapped in half. others were pulled from the roots. the chimney from their house was on the ground. one of the teens was riding a horse nearby when the rain, thunder, and lightning started. just south of there, a tree ripped through a family's home. the family has been there for 25 years and they saw the tree go through there. the tree sliced through where an at one point of the storm. they were on opposite ends of the house thankfully at the time. each escaped unscratched. the family car also looks to be totalled. >> two kids were inside. one was right underneath where the tree is, so none of this means anything to me, the damage. that could have been something, a whole different interview you're doing right now. i take that into consideration and i don't worry about any of this. >> reporter: the family says while it won't be the same, they are okay and they plan on rebuilding the home. now's a really good time to download the nbc washington app. if you had it during the storms yesterday, you saw we send you an alert when weather is moving into your neighborhood. now to a topic a republican congressman tried to block harriet tubman from appearing on the $20 bill. representative steve king of iowa introduced legislation that would have kept president andrew jackson as the face of 20, but the house rules committee decided not to consider that bill. >> they did. while this was going on, people were very upset about this because they thought it was a done deal. president obama made the announcement earlier this year. people were excited about the prospect of not only seeing a woman, but a prominent african-american woman steeped in history on any piece of currency. when this bill came around with respective king, they were certainly upset about that. a lot of people were saying this guy is on the wrong side of history. he said comments like why would you want to change the 20. he said he's a conservative. he'd like to keep what we have already. those kinds of some people very upset. >> i don't understand why americans have a problem celebrating african americans. we are a vital part of the fabric and history of american culture and harriet tubman is a hero of the highest order. she fought a system of slavery and white supremacy. to block her face on the $20 bill in my opinion is the highest form of cowardice. >> originally, i think it was supposed to be the 10. the popularity of the musical "hamilton" saved alexander hamilton. >> this congressman had time to work on the possibility of blocking this dollar amount, but then at the same time not working on things that folks are talking a s sit-in in congress on a bill to work on gun control. they were saying some of the priorities from their opinions just not what people would like to see happening. >> it is 2016, which means everything is political. what have donald trump and hillary clinton said about honoring tubman on the 20. >> hillary supported the change. she says it's the right move for history, but she says it is not far enough. earlier this year she talked about the fact we also need equal income for women in america. then donald trump called it political correctness. he says he'd like to see mr. jackson, president jackson, stay on the 20, but that's not sitting well with kendra from greenbelt. she says he, too, is not making the right decision. >> the fact that donald trump made a suggestion she should be on the $2 bill is completely disre potentially run our country. it's disrespectful to the black community and also to women. >> obviously because i think you end up running across three to four $2 bills over the course of 10, 20 years. >> it's a denomination not being printed right now. eleanor roosevelt going to perhaps be on a bill as well as dr. king. >> right. >> those are on the way. >> thanks, troy. our city is home to one of the most popular museums in the world, but there are big concerns about how to revitalize it. why you could be footing the bill. storm is a storm team 4 weather alert day. the latest timing coming up in my updated forecast. we have some breaking news from here at the live desk. part of washington boulevard in police have called in a bomb squad to inspect a car near the intersection of 2nd street. an officer approached the car and heard two gunshots come from inside. the officer was not hurt and never fired his weapon, but at this point we don't know the condition of the person inside the car or why the car was stopped in the street or why the 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that is the same storm system that will prompt a very large area of thunderstorms later today in and around the chicago area. tornado watch could be posted for that region coming up over the next few hours. that storm may come down towards our region. the same storms could move our way and be here as early as tomorrow morning. this is something that's going to be a lot different than yesterday. this could be early in the morning. >> we will be tracking very heavy rainfall and thunderstorms during the morning hours and r more scattered and severe thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening hours. as we look to friday, we're mainly dry. a little bit humid. that sets us up for a gorgeous weekend. some scattered showers out there in parts of southern m of warrenton and north of fredericksburg. the d.c. metro area will still largely dry through the evening hours, but very late tonight toward the morning hours is when we'll track those rain and thunderstorms moving in. some thunderstorms tomorrow morning with high winds and heavy rainfall. scattered strong to severe thunderstorms looking likely in the afternoon and evening hours. then another line moves through late tomorrow night. the weather having a high to moderate impact on your thursday. very heavy rainfall, gusty winds, as well as hail. 7:00 a.m., the rain and storms are here. possibly a break around the midday hours. any sunshine we get will help fuel those late day showers and scatters storms at 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. future weather has a nice handle on the situation. notice the very bright colors between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. that is heavy rainfall, gusty winds. notice the break around the midday hours. 4:00 p.m., scattered thunderstorms impacting the area through 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. 11:00 p.m. to midnight storm threat again. flash flood watch right now for areas west of town. this includes washington county in maryland, virginia. that could expand east. tomorrow very muggy and a high temperature of 87. 82 on friday. the weekend looking nice. mostly sunny skies. mid to upper 80s. we have new information coming in a continue to update you at 5:00. if you drive on or near rolling road in fairfax county, this affects you. there are plans to improve the highway. that section is nearly two miles long. improvements include widening the highway to four lanes. there's a meeting tonight to discuss this plan. the mega millions jackpot continues to climb after no tickets matched all six numbers that were drawn last night. now it is worth $663 million, which equates to about a quarter of a million dollars in cash. last night's winning numbers were 6, 31, 21, 49, 50, and the mega ball was 10 for what it's worth. this is now the six largest history. is that enough to get you interested? 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