You can see on storm team 4 radar flash Flood Warnings for parts of prince georges, charles, Flood Warning for fairfax and Prince William county. Inunidation of rain route 31 getting hit very hard. These showers lifting to the northeast. Severe thunderstorms are starting to fire in the mountains of west virginia. The pace they are gng martinsburg by 5 41. Water rescues all too frequent. Montgomery county firefighters n two hours. News 4s Kristin Wright joins us live from laurel where lots of vehicles are getting wet, as well. Reporter the fir thing i want to show you is the sign over my shoulder. It says parking area closed due to flooding. It is a lowlying area. The ground you can see slopes down. We are very close to the river. Here is what is going to happen this afternoon when commuters who park here come back to get their cars, some of them wont find them where they left them. We want to show you video of cars getting towed this afternoon. We watched as the tow truck hitched up a honda parked in high water. They towed it out of the flooded part of the commuter lot and on to drier ground next door at the lot of the american legion. After that they got to a nissan that was also parked in rising water. The driver is in for an awful surprise when they get back to their car. Tonight the water got in several inches. Probably got about six inches of water in it. All of them that we pulled out so far have a little bit of water in them. Folks are definitely going to have to get to the Insurance Company and have them looked at. Reporter he is right about that unfortunately. Here is how this works. The city contacted to let them know this lot was flooding. Then an alert was put out to anyone who signed up for alerts to let them know we have moved some of your cars so when you get back you might need to look around. They are not far. Just a bit of an inconvenience especially for those people who have water in their cars tonight. More at 5 00 and 6 00 tonight on flooding in laurel. Kristin wright, news 4. Get the latest weather conditions on the go from the storm team 4 weather app. Just search nbc washington weather in the app store or google play. First at 4 00, tributes are pouring in following the death of Robin Williams. It is now confirmed the actor and comedian took his own life yesterday. Nbcs jay gray has more on the life and death of an entertainment legend. Reporter a day later the shock of Robin Williams death is starting to give way to the realization that the man who made the world smile could not escape the dark sadness he felt inside. He was so giving, so amazing and we are all shocked. You never know the depth of depression. Reporter today investits confirmed that williams death was a suicide. The preliminary results of the forensic examination reveal supporting physical signs that mr. Williams life ended due to asphyxia due to hanging. Reporter authorities wont know if drugs played a role until toxicology results are complete. Officers wont say if the was a suicide note. It is what williams did leave behind that so many are clinging to right now. Good morning vietnam reporter a legacy of iconic films, Television Shows and outrageous standup routines. Someone who touched so many different people over so many decades in so many different kinds of projects. Reporter his unique sense of humor and timing and compassion revealing a piece of williams soul and touching the souls of millions around the world now drawn to the places he made special to honor and remember a legendary entertainer neoo soon. He had a beautiful soul, brilliant mind. He could make us double over with laughter. A sadness that lingers now that the man who made so many laugh has suddenly left the stage. The Coroners Office announced they have released williams body to his family. There has been no word on when or if there will be a memorial or funeral service. Williams had been struggling with severe depression according to his spokesperson. This is a topic we have been trying to raise awareness about. If you know anyone who is struggling with depression or with other Mental Health problems crisis link is one of the local places you can go for help. They have a 24hour hotline 7035274077. You can find resources on the changing minds page at nbcwashington. Com. Our Team Coverage of the death of Robin Williams continues. In a few minutes we go live to hollywood and speak with John Robinson about the legacy he leaves behind. More drama in the courtroom today at the mcdonnell corruption trial. Testimony was delayed when a juror was dismissed. We are working to figure out why that happened. Julie carey reports on what happened once testimony got underway. Reporter Bob Mcdonnell has seen plenty of friends and colleagues called by the prosecution to testify. That was the case as jerry killbortook the stand. Ready to get this over with. Reporter his thoughts as he headed into the courthouse. He was a former Virginia Attorney general and gubernatorial candidate is now a richmond lobbyist. Jonnie williams hired him in 2011 to try to raise money for research. He proposed he had a plan to add a request for Research Funds to a state budget proposal. This was a key question. What did Jonnie Williams tell you . He believed he had support of first lady and governor. Reporter upon examination it was shown he was never able to deliver on the plan for state help. Nothing happened did it . Killgore, no. A vcu doctor who jonnie was trying to get interested in doing research. Ill tell you about how a lure of having cookies at the Governors Mansion put the doctor facetoface with one of the biggest names in show business. Im julie carey, news 4. A third victim has died following the tornado in virginia. The twister tore through a camp ground last month killing a mother and father. Four firefighters rushed to the hospital after their truck overturns while responding to a youre watching news 4 at 4 00. A sad good bye is set for for a boy killed when a tornado touched down. The boy and his parents were in tents when the tornado blew through. The family was visiting from prince georges. Both parentse killed. The boy initially survived but passed away on saturday. A funeral will be held in his hometown this thursday. Four firefighters are out of the hospital after a truck crashed while on a call this morning. There was heavy rain wh the truck lost control in fairfax county. The truck flipped over and slammed into power lines. The accident knocked out power to about 100 homes. Incredibly there were no serious injuries. Millions of federal dollars will help low income students pay for advanced placement tests. In our maryland comes out with the most money, more than 635,000. Virginia will get more than 350,000. And d. C. Comes away with 141,000. The dollar amounts are based on the number of students expected to take the test. Students who qualify will only have to pay about 18 out of the 89 cost. Battling ebola. The son of an american missionary who contracted the virus sits down exclusively with matt lauer. President obama picked to take part as the Ebola Outbreak demands global attention we are hearing from the son of a missionary. Nancy writebol is in an atlanta hospital. Just a few days earlier kent brantly walked in and a few days later he walked out. Then your mom came in and carried her in in a stretcher. I thought that has to be deflating. To see her wheeled out of the ambulance and in and i was on the floor sobbing. It is an emotionally brenching moment. Jeremy is able to visit his mother twice a day in a special isolation unit. That must be odd to see. Its your mom in there. Anybody who approaches her they are all suited up. What is it like to see that . When they are in a suit there is still a human compassion face there with them. And that has been making it all the easier. Did you have to go through special procedures at all . We had to learn how to put on gloves. You are in no way exposed to her. Not at all. I see mom through a window. Big window . Big enough for me to see her. Did she immediately see you . There was a crease of a smile that came up. We were both in tears. I was able to say mom i love you. It was very emotional to see your mom there in that way fr the first time after thinking you might not see her again. He says doctors expect his mother to recover and he says he wouldnt be surprised if she wants to go back to continue her work. Our rain for most of the day is starting to move out. It is still coming down cats and dogs in spots. If you are traveling route 50 towards the bay bridge it is coming down in buckets in that par of Prince Georges County. Breaks of sunshine are making their way through. The Jefferson Memorial and washington monument. The national shrine, the basilica has a ray of sunshine. Peeks of sunshine are getting through now. Temperature is 76 degrees in washington. Winds southeast at 15 miles per hour. And do expect another chance for thunderstorms, some of which could be strong to severe coming our way into the evening hours, mid to late evening hours at that. Mid 70s to low 80s around much of the area for now. We do still have flash flood watches for all of the metro area and Flood Warning for fairfax county. A flash Flood Warning f. We have seen water rescues today. Remember the number one rule, turn around, dont drown. Look at the heavy, heavy rain lifting right up on to root 50. There is the Chesapeake Bay bridge. Southeastern Prince Georges County. That is lifting out. That is the last of the flooding heavy rains but just out to the west where the sunshine has been coming out. Heavy rain for you for about the next 30 to 45 minutes. To the west sunshine broken out and thunderstorms firing up in the mountains of west virginia. Had a severe thunderstorm for ha hampshire county. These thunderstorms near petersburg will be making progress towards martinsburg, west virginia, winchester into about 5 40. There is a second line of storms back to the west. Somewhere around midnight to 1 00 before we are done with our risk for severe thunderstorms. Overnight lows once the rain comes to an end lows back into the 60s and highs low to mid 80s. Only a 30 chance of a passing shower tomorrow. Once that is gone we are setting the stage for a flawless finish to the work week. Thursday, friday, saturday beautiful weather. Below average temperatures. 50s in the suburbs. Seven day forecast and another radar update minutes away. From celebrities to your facebook friends it seems nearly everyone is talking about the ice bucket challenge. You wont see president obama dumping a bucket of ice. The white house responded saying the president will participate by donating money to als research. The ice bucket challenge was started by a former Boston College baseball star who has battled a. L. S. Since 2012. Since the challenge began two weeks ago the association has raised about 1. 3million. Caught in the act, a black bear in tennessee thought it would help itself to goodies in the back of this van. The family pulled out their cell phones when they saw the bear approach and actually opened the van door and shooed the bear off before it could make off with their food. The bear was going back for seconds we hear. We are told the bear had crawled inside the suv once. Remembering Robin Williams. Access Hollywood Sean williams knew him. Why the police chief has decided not to release the name of the officer youre watching news 4 at 4 00. Authorities confirmed this afternoon that Robin Williams died after hanging himself. Sean robinson joins us from access hollywood. You have a lot of personal experience with Robin Williams. How is he different from big names you come across every day in hollywood . Good afternoon, guys. Thank you so much for having me here to talk about one of our favorite stars here at access hollywood. We have been talking over this last day ever since we heard the very shocking news of hiath about what a fantastic interview robin always was. I know that you have seen many interviews with him where he has this larger than life personality and makes everybody in the room laugh. He just goes on and starts on this adlibbing trail. You cant follow him. You have to sit back d just let him go. Here is the thing that we would like everybody to know. Robin williams was the kind of guy who would come in the room and speak to everybody, all the crew, everybody in the room, shake your hand, look you straight in the eye and introduce himself. After the camera wasnt rolling at the end of the interview when the red light went off he was still laughing and chitchatting and still just being just a wonderful guy, not being an actor but just talking to everybody. That is really rare here in hollywood to have somebody who connects with you on such a different level and wants to make sure you know that they dont consider themselves above anybody because of what they do. They are just an average regular person. And that is what he would do whenever he would com in the room. For years he spoke openly about his drug and alcohol problems. We read he was in the middle of treatment for depression and recently spent time at a rehab facility. What else do we know about that . That was what was very shocking to many of us. Because he last month was in rehab to continue his sobriety. That was information given to us by his publicist after we learned of his tragic passing. This was an ongoing battle for Robin Williams. Tonight we have a full show about his life and career and struggle where he talks about his alcohol abuse, drug abuse and a rare interview where he talks about his depression. He did not talk about that that much. We will look into what could have made him so depressed. What made Robin Williams think that there was no hope out of a certain situation. Well also hear from a lot of his fellow comedians, people who say he really influenced their careers. We will look at his family life, his three children that he was very, very close to. We have an entire show dedicated to the life and career of Robin Williams. A tough time out there for all who have come across him in their lives. We want to thank and we will be tuning in tonight. Thanks so much. Robin williams death is focusing a lot of attention on the issue of suicide. Coming up tonight at 5 00 we meet one virginia man sharing his own battle with depression. He says he tried to take his own life several times and eventually found hope and happiness. The name of an officer who shot and killed an unarmed teenager over the weekend is still a secret. Why the police chief decided not to name the officer. And a maryland mother and two Young Children found dead inside a car. Now we have learned y now we have learned y died. Sure. Hey canyou bet this . Thats our new interactive speaker wall. sup . Thinks its a speaking wall. This can even dim your lights. Your 3dprinted girlfriend will love that. Real mature. There you go. A laser drone for cats. I wish i had lasers. I dont. Pew pew pew. The new radioshack is finally here. The store of your past is now the store of your future. Come see one of our remodeled stores and get a free portable power charger with a 15 purchase. Youre watching news 4 at 4 00. Right now emotions are still running high because of the unarmed missouri teen shot and killed by police over the weekend because of the threats of violence the officers identity is being kept a secret. His name was supposed to be released today. Now there is concern about more angry crowds gathering in the streets tonight. Reporter tuesdays rallies in ferguson, missouri were more than tamed compared to the two nights before. Still there is an uproar over the Police Chiefs refusal to release the name of an officer who shot and killed 18yearold Michael Brown jr. We dont think it is safe right now. It ask a minority of op making the threats. We think some may be edle so we are going to delay that information. Reporter the chiefs decision didnt sit well with the dead teenagers family but they called for calm at a rally tuesday afternoon. I need all of us to come together and do this right, the right way so we can get something done about this. No violence. Reporter that plea followed a second saight night of unrest monday night. Officers in riot gear lobbed tear gas at crowds angered by browns shooting death. Civil rights activist al sharpton called for calm in ferguson but wants federal investigators to step in. The local authorities have put themselves in a position hide their names, not being transparent. Reporter ferg police have been vague about what exactly led the officer to open fire on brown who was unarmed except to say the shooting was preceded by a scuffle while witnesses say browns arms were up in surrender when he was hit by the officers gun fire. The outrage in fergus continues today after the death, the action in the investigation, the protestess. Our topic and troy johnson joins us in studio. I would imagine your listeners are very upset. Really sickened twice by what is going on. First the death of a young man just at the beginning of his life. A lot of listeners understanding this is just a life cut short. The reaction by a few in the crowd that are not there for peaceful protests but decided to take advantage of a painful situation while a family is trying to mourn. They were out looting and stealing. A family about to put their son to rest and they have to stop and say we need peace. Just very unconscionable. One of your radio colleagues is out in st. Louis. What is he sayingbout what he is seeing and what the community is experiencing. I actually worked with him for about five years in st. Louis. You know how it is when you are a broadcaster and youre a part of that community. He is very upset. Lets take a look at what he had to say. Im sad for mike brown. Im sad for his family. I feel terrible