Village by 4 30. Yes there is a lot of lightning with it and potential for isolated hail and high winds from some of the storms. Once it makes its way eastward it will be hitting areas like Howard County and more storms off to the west that could come sliding in. All of this with the high heat today. I will show you when the heat could break a little for us. Dont forget to download the free nbc 4 weather app for the most trusted information whenever and wherever you want it. You will get real time forecasts and Severe Weather alerts. We are tracking reports that isis terrorists have beheaded a second american journalist. Steven sotloff. The intelligence group. Nbc news has not confirmed its authen tisity. We can tell you the video appears to show the execution of sotloff. Steve handelsman will join us live. Should congress authorize president obama to take military action . That is our nbc 4 washington survey of the day. Weigh in on twitter or facebook. Text us or call us. And we will bring you results shortly throughout news 4 at 4 00 and 5 00. A report just released. Within the last hour the d. C. Government released a report outlining the citys environment with her family before she went missing and the report concludes there was nothing the city could have done differently to prevent her disappearance. It has been six months since anyone has seen rud. She was spotted with a janitor at the homeless shelter where the family was staying. There are still no clues as to where she might be. Among finding of the report multiple city agencies were involved but did not share information. The city recommended more than two dozen policy reforms. We are combing through them and will have more coming up on news 4 at 5 00. For now back to you. Thank you. We are standing by outside the courthouse where jurors are deliberating the Corruption Case against former Virginia GovernorBob Mcdonnell and his wife, maureen. The seven man, five man jury began considering the hundreds of exhibits and testimony from dozens of witnesses. The mcdonnells are charged for doing special favors for Jonnie Williams in exchange for gifts and loans. Bob mcdonnell testified he did nothing than extend routine political courtesies. Julie carey and david culver are in richmond tonight. We will have live reports tonight at 5 00. An apology from Singer Chris Brown as his assault case in the district comes to a close. Brown pleaded guilty to a charge of misdemeanor assault for punching a fan in the face. He spent two days in the d. C. Jail for the assault and almost another month in jail in california for violating probation. Brown was on probation for the 2009 attack on his former girlfriend. Today brown told the judge he was sorry. The judge sentenced him to the time already served in the district. His Attorney Says brown is looking forward to moving on. Mr. Brown is pleased with the outcome. It helps him get on with his wife. As you know mr. Brown is a recording artist. He wants to focus on his career. Brown still faces a civil lawsuit in this case. The victim is suing him for 3 million. A new arrest this afternoon for justin bieber. The singer was charged with dangerous driving and assault after his atv crashed into a minivan friday. Investigators say he got into a fight with an occupant of the minivan. It is not clear whether that person was a photographer. Bieber tweeted about the incident last week. He was released after promising to appear in Court Earlier this month. Bieber pleaded guilty to an illegal street drag race. Bieber is being sued by a photographer who accuses him for roughing him up and charged in toronto with assaulting a limo driver. A 3yearold girl was supposed to start preschool instead she is recovering from being struck by a car. Her mother was hit and sadly did not survive. Reporter Prince Georges County police are investigating after fernandez was hit and killed in this intersection, crossing while holding her 3yearold baby girl. Family and fends tell us she was on her way to the mega mart to pick up a couple of things and go home but she did not make it. Her 3yearold daughter is in Critical Condition but family members tell us she is expected to be okay. They have no words for the tremendous loss. She had a lot of dreams but the first one is to have a better life for her daughter. Reporter Prince Georges County police are investigating and say it will be some time before they know whether the driver will be charged with the incident. We will have more coming up on news 4 at 5 00. An outburst over a reclining seat causes another flight to be diverted. A fellow passenger describes the entire blowup. And joan rivers is on life support. Her daughter is asking fans to pray for a miracle. New warning out for areas shaded in yellow. How long will the storms fire i will tell you coming up. Youre watching news 4 at 4 00. Would you believe it has happened again . Another flight diverted because of an argument over a reclining seat. This time it was headed from la guardia from palm beach. A woman tried to take a nap on her tray table and flew into a rage when the woman in front of her reclined the seat. This woman who is sitting next to me knitting just tried reclining her seat back. The woman behind her started screaming and swearing. The Flight Attendant came over and that exacerbated what was going on. She demanded that the flight land. The Flight Attendant spoke with the captain while someone was blocking her path to the cabin. A few minutes later an announcement came on that we were diverting. Police escorted the passenger off the plane. She said she was just a little emotional over the death of her two dogs. It is the third time in the past few weeks that a commercial flight has been diverted because of a dispute over a reclining seat. Traffic throughout our region is running heavier. The september slow down has begun. More school buses, cars, trucks on the streets. People whose work schedule mimices the School Schedules are adding to congestion. Metro sees more people riding rails. Many commuters are adjusting their schedules. Depends on the day you are coming in and what hour and minute you leave. So i try to plan accordingly. For me my commute can be from a half an hour to an hour and a half. The new silver line could help with commutes but other Road Construction projects such as the 16th street bridge over military road could slow things down a bit. Science, math and fantasy football . How the nfl is marketing itself to your Elementary School children. And five days after going into cardiac arrest new information on comedian joan rivers. Developing right now, home depot could be the latest victim in what is being called a massive security breach. Security blog krebs says the breach involves Customer Credit cards. Says the breach may have extended as far back as this past spring which he says could make the fallout larger than the target data breach that occurred over a threeweek period. Joan rivers family says he remains on life support after suffering cardiac arrest. Rivers daughter melissa released a statement saying her mother would be overwhelmed by the outpouring of kindness. On thursday the comedian was undergoing a minor procedure on her throat when her heart stopped. Fans have been gathering to show their support. Rivers is the host of Fashion Police on the e network. The show has postponed taping. First at 4 00 the Washington Post has a new publisher. Fredrick ryan is taking reins on september 1. Ryan will replace a member of the legendary grand family. The change follows the sale of the paper to amazon founder. Former House Majority leader eric cantor is trading capitol hill for wall street. He has a new job as an investment banker. The former virginia congressman will serve as vice chair and managing director. His new base salary is 400,000 a year along with a signing bonus of 400,000 and a Million Dollars in stock. His annual salary as majority leader, 193,000. He Left Congress in august after an upset primary loss in june. Well, we are counting down the days. Meredith vieras show debuts next monday. Here is a peek behind the scenes. Welcome to the Meredith Viera show. Meredith says she wants her show to be authentic. One way she is insuring it will happen she brought in a chair from her family room to use on the set, cat scratches and a little urine and all she says. You can get a dose of meredith before that appearing on the tonight show with jimmy fallon this evening at 11 30. We are excited about that. She is a lot of fun. Well, we have been hearing about tracking Severe Thunderstorm Warnings. How long will those last this evening . I think we could see warnings here and there until 6 30 or 7 00. We have some and had them for about the last 45 minutes to an hour. This area right here western Montgomery County, eastern portions of Montgomery County until 5 p. M. This cluster moving east at 30 Miles Per Hour. That is a lot of lightning that you are seeing. Areas just west of gaithersburg, maryland just about ready to move over 270. Stormy for the evening rush. It will be impacting areas like gaithersburg, damascus. On towards areas like silver rock by 4 31. There could be a good bit of wind with this as it comes through as well as the potential for isolated hail. Another Severe Thunderstorm Warning in western maryland. This is eastbound to areas like goose nest and areas like martinsburg by 4 29, wilson by 4 37. Storms could last until 7 00. What kind of umbrella . A good size umbrella but not the golf umbrella. Just stay weather ready with a watchful eye in the sky. 95 degrees. Any locations that get hit with the storms will see temperatures cool fast and then come up a couple of degrees before cooling down late. 85 degrees by 9 00. Most of us stay plenty warm. Let me show you what you can expect over the next 24 hours. There are the storms. By 6 00 into frederick. By 8 00 things should be fairly quiet and we might see a touch of clearing taking place late in the evening around 11 00 to midnight. Early tomorrow morning a fair amount of clouds and maybe patchy fogs well west of the area. Tomorrows storms will stay well south and west. Tomorrow is looking like a fairly quiet day. As a matter of fact tomorrow we could see less heat and a little less humidity your High Temperature for tomorrow is 89 degrees in d. C. 91 degrees around culpeper. 90 degrees on thursday. We will bring the heat back a little bit here at the end of the week and a touch of humidity, too. Your weekend 94 degrees on saturday. The storms we have on saturday could be severe. So storm team 4 will be keeping you updated throughout the next couple of days. Just how saturday is looking and even sunday we have the chance for wet weather but that looks like it will come in the form of rain showers. The latest still Severe Thunderstorm Warnings out there now. Includes Montgomery County until 5 p. M. I will be back on in the next couple of minutes. Do you let your kids play outside alone . Why some say that could be a crime. Forget chugging coffee and trying to finish all of your work. How you can improve your brain alertness with something called a coffee nap. Hackers expose hollywoods most private pictures. What this celebrity cloud hack can teach us al tradingin or selling your car, truck or suv . Webuyanycar. Com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. One, get your free online valuation. Two, book an appointment. And three, pick up a check at your nearest buying center. Find out how much your car is worth at webuyanycar. Com why parents dread kids going back to school after summer but why fantasy football is good for them. Is it okay if your 9 year old is playing alone at a park . He is back. Hot 99. 5s cane is back. Allowing kids to play outside unsupervised, what are folks saying about this . Should there be a law . This was big on the show this morning. A South Carolina mother got in a lot of trouble who left her kid to play at a public playground. I seem to remember when i was growing up as long as we didnt pass my neighbors mailbox we were good to go. 68 of adults think those that are 9 and younger it should be a law that you are not allowed to play at a public playground by yourself and gets a little more lenient as you get older. Times have changed. A lot of parents are very happy that summer is over. Not every parent is. What is the problem . It is more about the anxiety of the kids homework that they are worried about. The parents have concerns about their kids making friends in the new school, in the new classes but 9 actually worry that they wouldnt be able to help kids with homework. As long as my kids dont ask me for math we should be good to go. Its that new math. It gets newer and newer. Right . So true. Lets talk fantasy football. Some parents might think kids waste too much time playing it. This is from the nf they found that if kids really get into the fantasy football math they may actually like math in general. Their chief marketing officer, mark waller, said fantasy football should be part of a schools curriculum starting as young as kids are interested in it saying there is math involved. A new study says coffee isnt the best way to wake up your brain. You drink coffee before you take a nap. Believe it or not your brain has receptors that are cleared out by sleep that caffeine binds to the receptors. If you do caffeine and a 20 minute power nap they say that is your best combination. I cant sleep on coffee. You have to do it quickly. Cant nap. Thats my cat nip. Offices around d. C. Might be a lot of interesting science in this. When it comes down to it plants clean the air in your office but also result in a 15 reduction for sick days. They have to be real plants, though. You cant go and buy a fake plastic tree and expect that to work. There is a direct link to Employee Happiness and the number of plants in the office. There is a direct correlation between the two. They give off oxygen. It also improves the environment and they assume because there is more light for the plants to grow that is happier for the employees. You have hot tickets to give out . Tickets to las vegas and 1,000 cash at 7 25. All you have to do is listen to hot 99. 5. After the cup of coffee. Thank you. Great to see you as always. A storm chaser is hurt after he is struck by lightning. It is all caught on camera. We are tracking a sickening development out of syria right now. A second american journalist a second amehow can i avoidt maintenance fees . Why would you want to avoid them . Because i dont want to. You know what . Im gonna bring my maintenance guy in here to tell you all about it. Roddy so, uh, without your fee, your checking chamber cant run smoothly. Every time you put money in, it causes, uh. Deposit friction. Gotta get some fiscal lube on there. [ male announcer ] its time to bank human again. [ defeated] okay. [ male announcer ] avoid monthly maintenance fees at td bank with a minimum checking balance of just 100. Td bank. Americas most convenient bank. Youre watching news 4 at 4 00. Good afternoon. Im pat lawson muse. Keep an eye on this video here. It is tornado touching down last night in kansas. It is illuminated by a lot of lightning strikes that also hit the region. This is in dexter, kansas. It is east of arkansas city. The twister was part of a storm system that also brought heavy rain and hail to the midwest over the labor day weekend. A storm chaser in iowa has quite the story to tell after he was struck by lightning. That was also caught on video. Whoa here it is again in slow motion. It happened sunday night in the city of denson. Storm chaser denny murphy said he got out of his car to take pictures of a storm developing a mile away. That is when the lightning bolt hit him and knocked him out. His son shot the video. Murphy is recovering in the hospital and says he is pretty sore from the ordeal and otherwise is okay. He is also pretty lucky. We are under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning extended again. How long . Until 5 p. M. It really is for Montgomery County, guys. We could see some more Severe Thunderstorm Warnings issued for the threat of high winds. Even with the storms we are seeing quite a bit of lightning come through and the chance of isolated hail. Here is Montgomery County. You can see the box shaded in yellow until 5 00 p. M. With a lot of lightning there. We watch this area that extends down to the south through fairfax and Prince William county because the line could start to form and come together and intensify. Areas like wheaten, clarksville, you have a lot of lightning and high winds. A new warning, too, now that just may be issued. Jefferson county and Frederick County just up to our north. These storms again lasting for just a couple more hours at least until about 7 p. M. I will be back on should any new warnings be issued. We return to the breaking news we are tracking this hour. It appears that isis terrorists have beheaded american journalist steven sotloff. The militants claim it is retaliation for president obamas limited air strikes. Steve handelsman is live on capitol hill with the latest on the news. As u. S. Experts tonight get to work on this video to try to use it against isis to figure out where it was shot and who the executioner is they assume this video is genuine like the one two weeks ago. Spokes men at the pentagon, state department and white house say they are appalled. The isis video is called a second message to america. The u. S. Reporter who wrote f