Florida. It has extremely heavy rainfall. There have been tornado warnings out there earlier today. The wider view showing how wide this is. The latest advisory winds is 75 miles an hour moving to the east at 14 Miles Per Hour and moving our way but farther to the east. This is continuing to track to the east and its good news westward. Well talk about the impact at the beaches coming up later on. Right now, we have storms out there across our area and amelia is tracking those. Its still muggy out there. Grab the umbrella. Youll be dealing with heavy rain. Temperatures during the midevening hours, generally in the 70s, midto upper 70s, rain will be over by 9 00. Heres the 4 radar. Parts of Montgomery County, fairfax traveling along 270 and into the beltway and district as well. Bethesda at 6 40 here in the district, just after 7 00, annapolis at 7 10, i think once it moves through we are dry and it clears out. Were talking about the Tropical Storm watch over the weekend and theres always friday. Friday looking great. Even saturday now looking pretty good. This storm is moving in late saturday into sunday. Much more about the impact in yaur ar your area coming up in a bit. Thank you, doug. Hermine is taking aim at florida as the governor there warns of a potential danger ahead. Nbcs Sarah Rosario is joining us from cedar key with more o measures being taken to keep people safe. Sarah . Reporter doreen, as this storm continues to strengthen, conditions here are increasingly deteriorating. The biggest concern for people not in the path of the storm is the storm surge and the possibility of tornadoes. And for people already dealing with flooding, they are prepared for things to get much worse. With rough surf, gray skies, residents are bracing for hurricane hermine barrelling towards floridas shoreline. This hurricane is strengthening. Were going to see landfall about 2 00 a. M. Weve done everything we can to prepare. Their town is at the center of the cone while they plan to ride it the same preparation gathering sandbags to keep the water out but in some parts it wasnt enough. This storm is life threatening. Reporter state offices were closed to give people more time to prepare as they warn of potential storms. The danger of lifethreatening storm surge, this is a dangerous situation. Reporter others are bearing down, prepared for whats to come. And for people who arent heeding that evacuation order, if they have to call 911, there will be no one there to save them. Local Officials Say they will not send out First Responders for their own safety saying that they dont want to put those First Responders in danger to save those not heeding the warning that they told them about. Reporting live, Sarah Rosario, back to you. Thank you, sarah. Well update the Facebook Page with video and posts all night long. We turn to politics now. Donald trump campaigning in the battleground state of ohio. This is one day after delivering a hardline speech on immigration. Trump is vowing that america comes first and that means that people that are here illegally will be deported. Steve handelsman with reaction to the speech. It could be tough to figure out. Just yesterday morning in mexico, donald trump was sounding a softer line on deportation but its clear that trump believes an America First hard line can save his bid for the white house. Hoping he is staging a comeback, donald trump in ohio today summed up his new push in two it will be, from now on, America First. Reporter his meeting in mexico was great, he says. Trump reassured u. S. Voters. Our greatest compassion will be for the american citizen. Reporter cheers of usa, usa and the crowd loved his wall. Mexicos going to pay for the wall. Reporter he said it to day. Clinton running mate tim kaine jabbed trump. It was like he choked, he caved, lost his confidence. Reporter back from mexico last night, trump doubled down on deportations. Day one, my first hour in office, those people are gone. Reporter undocumented criminals deported, 2 million. 10 million in line to be deported. He looked like a president. Reporter but to get to the white house, trump is choosing a hard line. Which means, again, hes ignoring or undercutting his top advisers for week who is have broadly hinted that donald trump would turn away from across the board deportation. Steve handelsman, news4. Thank you, steve. A verdict late this afternoon in the trial of a man charged with killing his girlfriends toddler. His name is osman sesay. A jury found him guilty of child abuse and assault in the death of the 23monthold baby last summer. His mother left sesay with the child while she wasat t he said that the boy wandered away and he found him unconscious. Hes facing 965 years in prison. He admitted to strangling the mother of his unborn child and nearly stabbing her to death. Tonight, hes in custody. And were learning what may have stopped him from finishing the job in wheaton. Darcy spencer is live in rockville where the teen appeared today. Darcy . Reporter he had a very brief Court Appearance in district court. This afternoon, a judge ordered him held on a 5 million bond. According to charging documents, he confessed to the crime and said he only stopped the attack because he saw some gang members. Police say dakota brothers was attacking the teen pregnant with his child. It happened off a path in a wooded area of kensington. A vicious assault that could have been deadly, according to court documents, brothers told teen and the baby but he stopped. There was some indication that the defendant gave up on the attack because he thought he saw what were gang members coming in to the area. Reporter hes never been in trouble before but now at age 18, he could spend the rest of his life in prison. Aid cording to charges documents, brothers stabbed the 19yearold multiple times in her upper body and neck because he was not ready to be a father. He doesnt have a prior record. He doesnt have a juvenile record, any other criminal record. Hes only an adult for five days. Reporter on wednesday afternoon, the 19yearold victim agreed to meet brothers here. Documents show they had consensual sex and then he strangled her unconscious. He told detectives that he wanted the victim and the baby to die. The child is alive. The child is in a dire situation in a local hospital. Reporter the victim was about six months pregnant. She was rushed to the hospital in delivered by caesarean section had to be revived. Shes still clinging to life. The babys father just turned 18 days before the crime and started back in high school in wheaton where hes a sophomore on monday. The victim is a senior there. So again, the victim and the defendant attend einstein high school. Im told that there were counselors there to help students who needed to talk about it. Back to you, jim. Thanks, darcy. Coming up tonight, a family torn apart by tragedy. Some changes are being considered after a mother and baby were hit by a car in a crosswalk. From the Nations Capital to the nfl, cathy lanier reflects on her time as d. C. Police chief and the most challenging part about her job in new york. Coming up on luann bennett. After losing her husband to cancer, and grew the family business. A single working mom who helped create over 1,000 local jobs, bringing people together to solve problems. Im luann bennett. In business, you bring everyone to the table and work to get results. Congress just doesnt get that theres too much partisanship. I approve this message because washington needs more commonsense problem solvers. Not only am i tracking a hurricane but what is happening across our region. First off, the hurricane is making its way on shore right now and you can see the yellow box there, its a tornado watch in effect for the state of florida. Weve already seen a couple of warnings down there and heavy rain is moving on shore. The storm itself is just off shore. In our area, im tracking the rain moving through parts of Fairfax County and Montgomery County. Right now, area. Pretty good wind gusts, in will move over the American Legion bridge. Heads up if you live around tyson, bethesda, vienna and oakton, that storm is moving your way. Much more on hermine and what it means for your weekend coming up in just a second. Developing now in prince georges county, three employees with the embattled Head Start Program have been fired and three others have been recommended to be fire. They were under investigation for months. It revealed allegations of abuse against students. A student was forced to mop up his own urine and the investigation led to the county losing more than 6 million in federal funding. 200 years ago, Georgetown University sold slaves to pay off school debts. Today, the president of the university apologized. His address began with an emotional moment as the crowd acknowledged that the descendents of the slaves. Some have joined us here in person. Some have joined online. Its with the gratitude and hume mi hume milt that i recognize your presence. Georgetown will give those students preferred admission as they recognize those slaves. To be able to walk this ground, which was once walked by some of the 272 who were sold in 183a experience this place, its part of for me trying to understand how best to bring the immediame into our reality. The 272 slaves were sold by georgetown nearly 200 years ago. Most of the slaves were sold to a plantation in louisiana. Today, hawkins great, great granddaughter lives in the area where he was sold. They didnt know last year until they were descendent of a slave owned by Georgetown University. Just knowing that now, i feel that in a personal way. Reporter on campus today, students were reaktdicting to t apology. As long as they put the real those descendents so they can take sole advantage of that, that will be a lot more productive than just paying a service. By apologizing, thats a good step and maybe they can go ahead and try to track down those that are displaced and let them go to college for free. Now, reporters were not allowed inside for todays announcement and our request to talk to the president to get specifics on this plan was denied. What we can tell you is that some steps that have been taken already, they have renamed two buildings. Doreen, back to you. Mark segraves reporting, thank you. D. C. Police chief cathy lanier is getting ready to leave the department after 26 years and almost ten years as chief. Shell take over as head of squu security for the nfl. Shell talk to me about what she is leaving behind and what makes her most proud during her time as chief. Shes the most popular public official in the district and thats because shes out in the community all the time. At crime scenes and also at neighborhood gathers. She meets with crime victims and their families. Compassion is part of her Mission Statement and laniers own personal story is inspiring to many. Growing up in this area, she got pregnant and dropped out of high school at age 14. She went on to earn a g. E. D. , then college and two masters degrees while raising her son full time. A young woman said to me, well, im not that smart. I wont go to college. I said, i wasnt that smart either. As evidenced by my dropping out of school and having my son so young. Even though i wasnt so smart, i can outwork everybody. And everything i accomplished, i accomplished not because i was smart butau for it. And so you can do that. And she said, oh, i never thought of it that way. Reporter lanier says the nfls job offer came out of nowhere and shes excited about facing new challenges. I really have compassion about what im doing and ive been so passionate about policing but at the same time i didnt feel the passion for doing it somewhere other than here because this is my city. So i was afraid that there was going to be nothing that came along that struck that passion for me to want to do it. And this job really does. Reporter but first, she has to deal with some big lifestyle changes. Thats the biggest challenge, you know. I have a real short turnaround and ive got to move to new york. So i think whats most stressful about this transition is the clothes. Ive got to go shopping. Ive got to do a lot of shopping. Im 27 i have known what im going to wear to work every day for 27 years. She is the most proud, she says, of the relationship between the Police Department and the community during her term. Her last day on the job here is september 17th. Shell report for work two days later at the nfl. She didnt say much about the challenges that shell face at nfl like overseeing player misconduct and shes up for the challenge and really believes in the nfl mission or she wouldnt have taken the job. Well be sad to see her go. You can see my entire interview on the nbc washington app. Shes doing a heck of a job. A man who tried to assassinate president reagan is now just a few days away from freedom. New questions from safety after falling debris impacted riders on metro. Im adam tuss at the bay bridge. A new crossing across the bay . Does it have to be a bridge . Ill tell you about the plan [ clock titime. ] you only have so much. Thats why we wanna make sure you wont have to wait on hold. And you wont have to guess when well turn up. Because after all. We should fit into your life. [ laughing ] not the other way around. [ clock ticking ] hook hermine is causing problems down in florida and in tampa, several inches have fallen. The bridge in st. Petersburg has been closed due to heavy winds and storm surge. Hurricane hermine is expected to make landfall overnight. Threat to florida and how it will affect our weather. Its going to have an impact on our weather. Were talking about the labor day weekend. If you live in d. C. To the west, not big of an impact. To the east, there is beach erosion, strong winds and lots and lots of rain there saturday night and sundays. A Tropical Storm watch, shell talk more about that right through Montgomery County and Fairfax County, well see these storms come through the d. C. Metro area in about the next hour you can see around gaithersburg, take a look at this around herndon. This will hit mclean and down towards d. C. Within the hour but after that it should get out of here. If youre heading to the Bruce Springsteen concert, looking okay for them. You can see the eye developing. Its actually trying to redevelop and beco its supposed to make landfall tonight as a category 1 80mileperhour storm. The latest advisory at 5 00. Take a look at the track moving up across our region down to our south, farther south and east now. With more on the impact, amelia has that. 40 to 60 Miles Per Hour, rehoboth, dewey, ocean city, sea isle, everybody here in pink with winds this strong well be talking about wind damage, beach erosion and that flooding threat was 3 to 6 inches of rain in play. Look at your impact. Only minor impacts here in the d. C. Area as we go back there on the graphic inch to half an inch of rainfall here in washington. As we look to the beaches, more rain. 3 to 6 inches and maybe even ten inches in some spots. Storm team 4 by 4 and storm ranger will be out in the storm. The ranger will not be traveling around. We will put it in one location and it will send out a signal and it will tell us where its raining, where its not raining, where the heaviest rain is and well have it following hermine throughout the Holiday Weekend but again right now our focus, doug, is on the beaches. Tomorrow, its friday, right it is friday. Friday is looking very good. Love having storm ranger out there today. It will be on the nbc washington app. The weekend, again, not bad in the city but south and east, well watch that. The day of concern is saturday 90s, a recordbreaking heatwave as we head towards the end of the week and weekend. We still send our camera and this is lynn net jones, you have got one heck of a crowd and i know you throw one heck of a party. How you doing out there . Were doing good, doug. We miss you so much. Reporter thats not my name on a dallas jersey, is it . Yes, it is, doug. Reporter what do you have going on in your backyard today . I have my september babies here. Reporter i love you, i miss you, i cannot wait to see you. Im so sorry i couldnt be there myself. Give everybody big hugs for me and, again, take off that cowboys gear. Well be back. See you later. Thanks for having us there in your backyard. Miss, doyou, dougie. Next at 6 00, there are cause for change after a baby and mother were hit in a crosswalk how the state says it will address the danger. Four years, millions of dollars to explore the idea of a new crossing over the chesapeake. But some say there is an easier and faster way to do it. A piece of equipment that spacex was carrying happened. A new twist on the irs tax scam. In one day alone, they called me four times. Well tell you what you need to kn ow my son has meningitis b. But how did we end up here . His mom thought he had the flu and that he was covered by the meningococcal meningitis vaccine he had received. Until 2014 there were no vaccines for meningitis b in the u. S. Now there are. While uncommon, meningitis b can lead to death within 24 hours. Trumenba is a vaccine for 10 through 25 year olds to help prevent group b meningococcal disease. Trumenba should not be given if you had a severe allergic reaction after a previous dose. Side effects were injectionsite pain, fatigue. Headache, muscle pain, and chills. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about all the risks and benefits of trumenba and tell them if youve received any other meningitis b vaccines. Meningitis b can be spread by typical sharing like. A drink. A spoon. A kiss. It all started here. It might have been prevented with trumenba. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about trumenba. A growing memorial for a 5monthold baby child killed in Loudoun County. His mother was being hit by an suv while pushing the stroller yesterday in lansdowne. A gofund me page has collected more than 37,000 to help the family. And as the Community Mourns the loss, investigators are trying to figure out how to prevent tragedies like that in the furt. Reporter teddy bears, balloons, remembering a baby boy. Those who live here hoping t