We are on storm watch and keep an eye on everything to let you know if the warnings come our way in the next few minutes. Back to you. Leon thank you, doug. Friends, family and colleagues remember a d. C. Firefighter who died after battling a fire. 44yearold kevin mcrae collapsed after putting out an apartment on seventh street and now condolences are pouring in from across the community for the husband and father of three. Sam ford is in northwest washington with a look at how he is being remembered. Sam . Sam leon, as you can see people have been coming here from around the city today. With condolences for the fire lieutenant who lost his life today at a fire a few blocks away from here. Firefighters and e. M. T. s lined up as his body was removed from met star Washington Hospital center. Doctors said they tried to revive him, but they could not. He was in charge of engine six. The first unit to arrive at a highrise fire at 7th and northwest and flames jumped out of a ninth story window. Officials said as he left the building, he collapsed. And his team left and they had actually put out the fire. Here at the firehouse, his colleagues put out bunting and also according to a union representative, they had people here to relieve them of stress. Particularly, the members who werent in this fire house and might be close to him. We heard from joe chisholm. Joe this is his home station so everybody is coming back to sit with the guys who fought the fire. Also all members of the engine six and truck four would be debriefed by a stress debriefing team, just to see if anybody needs to talk. Sam the mayor called him a hero. There were a number of young people from Dunbar High School that is right across the street who came over here to express their condolences. Because as it turns out, he has a son that is a senior at Dunbar High School who learned about that as he was at school today. Some of the students and the principal game over here. We will have more on that coming up on abc7 news at 5 00. Reporting live from northwest washington, sam ford, abc7 news. Leon thank you, sam. What a story there. Stay with abc7 and wjla. Com as the Community Remembers this fallen firefighter. Our coverage continues on abc7 news at 5 00. Alison . Alison meanwhile, leon, more progress in baltimore. Earlier today, governor larry hogan announced the state of emergency has been lifted, a little more than a week after the riots that rocked the city. Maryland bureau chief brad bell has more from the governor and from the mayor today. Brad . Brad yeah alison, and visual proof of a return to normal. We are at city hall. This has been a major media camp. A gathering point for protesters and a place that has looked like an armed fortress. Today it looks like city hall. Almost everybody in the National Media has left town. Now we can show, you mentioned that the governor lifted the state of emergency. We can show you some video of what the governor was up to today to try to show the town is back to normal. He visited lexington market. One of the great city landmarks here. Talked to people, said thanks for coming in and spending your money. Thanks for being here. And working and getting the city turned back to normal. The governor did lift that state of emergency, announcing that all of the National Guard troops that had come to town, 3,000 nearly had pulled out. All of state police, the extra forces that were brought to town have also left. So you are not going to see them around town anymore. Now the focus turns to the Police Department. The mayor asking the federal department of justice to do a pattern and practice investigation of the Police Department. So that they can move ahead and convince the public that they are no longer the enemy they are perceived to be. Mayor im asking the department of justice to ask if the Police Department engaged in a pattern of practice of stop, searches or arrest that violate the fourth amendment. Brad when we come back at 5 00 to talk more about the story, you will hear about a number of people who live in town. They offer their opinions on what the governor is saying, and what the mayor is saying. They say it is peaceful here now. They want it to stay that way. But they say lasting change is required. In baltimore, brad bell, abc7 news. Leon all right, thanks brad. Tickets to see prince in baltimore go on sale in less than an hour from now. The artist is holding a rally for peace concert on sunday at the royal farms arena. Attendees are encouraged to wear the color gray as a tribute to those recently lost in violence. He recently recorded a song about the death of freddie gray and the arrests in baltimore. Alison chilling new details in the germanwings crash investigation. From a black box that wasnt even on that plane. French officials now say a different flight recording shows Andreas Lubitz practiced crashing that airbus a320. He was copilotting a morning flight from germany to spain and he appears to have put that plane into a controlled descent but didnt crash it. Later he took the same plane and he crashed it on the return flight the same afternoon. Leon a teacher goes from a classroom to a jail cell. Alison he has been charged with sexually assaulting a student. Kellye lynn has the story. Kellye the person we are talk about is a teacher in landover. Prince georges county police say the 39yearold sexually abused one of his student at the school. The 9yearold boys mother alerted police in february. The son says the teacher inappropriately touched him on several occasions. Starting in september of 2014. The boy said that the teacher had asked if he wanted to come into a classroom with the teacher and help him clean up some stuff in the classroom. As a reward for helping the teacher, the teacher said the boy could get on the internet and play computer games. Well, during that game time, the student says the teacher leaned over and kissed the boy on the lips. Tuesday they arrested macnaye. He is in the custody of department of corrections. If anyone has information, call the Prince Georges police. Leon . Leon thank you. Alison lets check back in with doug hill. New weather alert to tell us about . Doug new Severe Thunderstorm Warning. This is in effect until 4 45 for a portion of Fairfax County and Montgomery County. Look at the live super Doppler Radar. You can see an area that we will zoom in on. Gray and black squiggly area called a hail core. A pretty good size hailstones here, perhaps the size of quarters. Its centered over the portion of Fairfax County. It is going to move slowly, drifting slowly 34 Miles Per Hour to north northeast to hit the ajis sant section of adjacent section to Montgomery County. I will move with lightning and thunder and rain and hail. Until 4 45. We have numerous other clusters of storms across the area at this hour. But this is the only severe area close to metro washington. We have those in frederick in effect. Well update you with new warnings. But electric active afternoon. Lightning and rain and hail across the viewing area. Back in a couple of minutes with more for you. Alison well see you then, doug. Thank you. So the nfl is breathing some new life now into the scandal we all were talking about a while ago. Known as deflategate. Leon the league released details on the investigation surrounding the deflated footballs used by the new England Patriots. Sports director tim brant is here with the new info that came out. Tim there has been a lot of hot air throughout the whole thing. The investigation has been ongoing and the nfl found its probable the new England Patriots employees deliberatery deflated footballs in the a. F. C. Championship game in january. Hello the report goes on to say that Quarterback Tom Brady was at least generally aware of the rules violation. The findings were released today in a 243page report by ted wells. He is the leagueappointed attorney in charge of the investigation. The report says it is more probable than not that new england locker room assistant jim mcnally and John Jastremski participated in a deliberate effort to release air from the patriots game balls after the balls had been checked by the game officials and approved by the referee. The report included Text Messages where tom brady indicated he preferred softer footballs and that he had previously not been happy with the game balls. The report found no evidence that head coach Bill Belichick knew anything about it. Now the nfl will decide what steps will be taken if any in light of this report. Leon will any . Tim i dont think they will. Dont forget the capsrangers play in the phone booth tonight in game four in the best of seven series. I will take you there live. And in baseball, monster game by bryce harper this afternoon. Three home runs. Monster shots. That is all coming up later in sports. Do i think there will be done anything done here . Yes, minimally. It will not be a big deal. Did it make any difference in the game . 457 game . Absolutely not. Alison okay tim. Thank you. But we know a certain raiders fan tim i know. You and i discussed it. Leon coming up on abc7 news at 4 00 a magazine cover featuring the Material Girl striking the wrong cord with two local women and why they want the magazine removed from stores here. Alison it is the video that has outraged parents. School bus driver refusing to let children off the bus. Look at what led to the tense moments. Leon as we enter the warm weather months. Many families will take part in yard sales. How do you know if what you are planning to sell is worth a lot more . Lets say this is your tv and these are the channels you pay for with cable but these are the types of channels you actually want to watch what if you could pay for what you want, and not for what you dontould get kids channels sports. Or entertainment mix and match, or get them all. Now fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv starting at 74. 99 including internet and phone. Cable just gives you channels. Fios gives you choice. Leon a lot of big action out there weather wise tonight. Alison very active weather day, doug. Another alert now . Doug another Severe Thunderstorm Warning that brings the count to three in effect until 4 45 for another half hour. Go to the live Doppler Radar. The three areas, number one is the win chester area winchester area. That is the warning area. Hail gusty winds. Move closer to the metro area for areas two and three. First is the area across great falls, and across Potomac River to bethesda. Large hail and gusty winds. The newest warning issued has been issued over portion of Prince William county. Severe thunderstorm indication on doppler that it could be hailstones to the size of half dollars. Those are big hailstones. Here is the deal. These things are only moving at 5 Miles Per Hour. They are drifting so they are going to have to rain themselves out. Literally hail themselves out from the hail and the rain. Will there be more . Possibly. We will keep you up to date. That is the latest. Three Severe Thunderstorm Warning in effect for the next 30 minutes. Leon all right. You got it. Well get back to you in a bit. The 50th anniversary issue of popular magazine raising eyebrows tonight. Alison a sexy photograph of madonna and it has some wondering if the magazine has gone too far and whether it should be pulled from store shelves. Suzanne kennedy joins us with why two local women are on a mission against the cover. Suzanne under my hand is the controversial cover that some say shouldnt be seen. But were going to show it to you. Its a provocative picture that has some people uncomfortable. The may issue of cosmopolitan magazine feature madonna. Some covers look like this and others show the pop superstar in a highly suggestive pose. There she is. Right next to jesus on the newsstand. This resident was shocked. They started a twoperson crusade to remove the magazine from local retailers. I think its clearly being suggestively provocative so that people will wonder and stop and it will be detrimental to kids and teens. Suzanne the magazine has been fulled from this cvs and a giant grocery store. They are lodging complaint with safeway and target. There are four versions of the magazine. Harris says the more racy one should be taken off the shelves or put behind the register. We showed the cover to shoppers outside cvs to get their take. Provocative . Im not bothered by it. Its outstanding. Its just the way to grab peoples opinion. Suzanne we reached out to coz mow and they didnt have a comment. Several of them had this photo but had this one in the back. Suzanne kennedy. Leon she has done World Health Organization than that. Alison i think so. Leon well, we posted the madonna cover on the facebook page. We asked if you folks out there thought it was too provocative. This is what we got from kathy. She needs to stop. How embarrassing for her kids. Alison natalie posted, if you have to ask, you know the answer. Leon freida wrote this. Please, 30 years ago we wouldnt have batted an eye. She is right about that. You can join in on the conversation going to the facebook page. Let us know what you think about it. Alison meanwhile, Prince William and the duchess of cambridge are taking their first trip as a family of four. The royal couple packed up their newborn Princess Charlotte and the 21yearold son Prince George for a stay at their country home. They are expected to stay there for several weeks as they get used to taking care of a toddler and an infant. Hopefully they will share their instructions with me after they figure it out. Leon good luck. Dont hold your breath. You may have noticed more children on bicycles outside this morning because today is the Fourth AnnualNational Bike to school day. There were several bicycle events today to bring attention to safety and to promote physical activity and build a sense of neighborhood. Time for a check of the traffic situation this evening. For a cyclist and drivers as well. Jamie sullivan is here now. Jamie its a wet one on 66. Thats where i want to begin. Giving you a gad idea of what you will get out there and working your way through fairfax and closer to gainesville. Lets move to show you spots on average. 35 Miles Per Hour inside the beltway. So you are okay. As we move a little bit closer to head outbound, well, 66 will take you 35 minutes now at this point just to get a little bit closer to the Fairfax County parkway. We are very congested. As we talk about the beltway so we will move closer to the top side. Averaging about 13 never. On the interloop approaching connecticut avenue. We dont have accidents. We had an earlier car fire. That was quickly put out and that was on 66 near fairfax drive. Moving now again to give you an idea of what you will see visibility lower in some spots. This is 66 working your way through gainesville. Make sure you turn the headlines on this afternoon. Especially in virginia. Look at traffic. Back to you. Leon it is getting worse. And there is a temporary ground stop for dulles and reagan airport. Alison doesnt surprise you probably. Doug no. Torrential rain and the local cross winds because of the winds and the storms. We will get you updated. Get you to the map to tell you what to expect. A lot of time on Doppler Radar. This is what the action is all about. The clusters, very slow moving heavy thunderstorms with torrential downpour. Large hailstones and strong and gusty winds. Severe thunderstorm warning until 4 45 in all the areas im going to describe. First, along the Potomac River. Fairfax, Montgomery County side. That potential of hail. Also heavy rain. It looks weaker now than it was ten minutes ago. Next area, to the south and west of metro washington through portions of Prince William county portion of northeast county from hay market farther south. We see heavy rain. Gray and the darker areas are the possible hail cores where there could be quartersize hailstones. The storm is drifting at 5 Miles Per Hour. The third area is more north and west in the winchester area. Once more to the areas of storms that are slowly drifting to the south. So we will keep an eye on that. A very busy day. Electrically in the atmosphere with all the lightning. There is a second line coming in here. A little farther north and west through pennsylvania. I think for the next few hours they will continue to generate and then slowly drop through the area. So dont be surprised if we dont have more warnings. One of the features of this has been the hailstones. We got this one sent in from on twitter a while ago for some hailstones in chantilly. This is what were looking at and the afternoon well wind up with. Areas that are warm and humid. We feel the humidity levels rise. All the conditions are right with a cold front acting as the trigger in the atmosphere to pull up the locally heavy downpours with hail, lightning and torrential rain. The temperatures will cool off a bit this evening. But it will stay warm and muggy. But later tonight after we clear out some and get the storms out of the picture by 10 00 tonight we will see the temperatures of 5560 degrees with nothing as well. Now check out the next seven days for you. It will stay warm but dry out tomorrow and friday with more, no worries about storms but warm may weather. We get over the weeke