Shot. Theyre working right now to see if the residents will be able to move back into the building this morning. Good morning. Welcome in. I hope youre having a gun one. Im adam tuss. And i like the weather but i need a warmup. Were dressed for the weather. Were all dressed in gray. It matches the mood. Were suffering from solar deprivation. Wed like to see some sunshine, but starting off with another rainy morning. Right now storm team 4 radar really not showing a lot of rain. Just some sprinkles bags south of the metro area. A closeup view showing a few sprinkles in calvert county, st. Marys, charles county, then from the beltway to fredericksburg and west of there. This is all tracking off to the west, by the way. A few of those sprinkles into Prince William, southern fauquier, and culpeper. Just a little bit of drizzle around the metro area right now. Another cool morning. Not quite as chilly as it was yesterday morning. Low 50s. Western suburbs. Eastern suburbs. Upper 50s in washington. Upper 50s around the bay now. Its in the upper 40s in Shenandoah Valley. Out in the mountains its in the chilly morning. A look at when well finally see that sun. Thats coming up in just a few minutes. Thank you. New this morning neighbors are finally able to go back into their homes after a gas leak in bethesda. This happened on fairfax. Several cars and residents had to be evacuates. Neighbors were taken to a 24hour safeway. This one on bradley boulevard. They used it as a shelter. Folks were let back into their homes around two hours later. Theres a state of emergency right now in South Carolina. Take a look at this. Cars stuck in floodwaters in charleston. Officials have shut down peninsula to all traffic. No cars in or out because of the flooding there. This Weekend Storms have dumped 11 inches of rain on the carolinas. At least five people have been killed. As nbcs dave wagner reports, the rain isnt over yet. Reporter suvs up along americas east coast as strong winds and heavy rain pound the shoreline. The carolinas brace for even more rain. Police dont underestimate the power of water. 122 inch inches alone can float an suv. Reporter meteorologists describe this as a 100year rain event between South Carolina and North Carolina. Our goal is to constantly be overprepare and understood welled. Some parts of the carolinas are already overwhelmed with a foot of rain and power outages. Weve got outages in both states, so, yes, this is going to affect the carolinas. This mans grand daughter was outside when trees toppled his home. I heard it fall and i thought it hit her. This stuff here can be replaced, but she cant. Reporter in new jersey both surfing and suffering. The high tides and Rushing Water too much for this home near wildwood, lifted off its foundation. For fans at clemson, wind and rain would not come between them and their saturday tailgating. After a brutally dry summer, an abrupt aboutface with more rain and more problems still to come. Dave wagner, nbc news. New details this morning on what led up to a triple shooting on h street. We now know the name of the man who died early saturday morning. 32yearold jerome wrielght. D. C. Police say it was the result of a botched robbery. They tried to rob two other men. All three ended up being shot. Theres a 25,000 reward for helping solve this case. Were learning more about the deadly shooting at the Oregon Community college. Police confirm the man committed suicide moments after the shooting. He was also enrolled in the class there where the shooting happened. Nine peer were killed. They range in ages from 18 to 67 years old. Nine more were hurt from this. Two of them are still in the hospital. Theyre expected to make a full recovery. U. S. Military opening an investigation into the deadly bombing of a Doctors Without Borders facility in kunduz and just this morning the charity has left the afghan city following the air strikes that killed 19. Among the dead, three usaid workers. 13 others have serious injuries. The attacks continued even after military officials were notified the hospital was being attacked. In decision 2016 republican president ial candidate donald trump now defending the Second Amendment. The real estatedjcp mogul says shooting at the Oregon Community college would not have happened if the students and teachers had been carrying guns. And, by the way, it was a gunfree zone. I will tell you, if you had a couple of the teacher os or somebody with guns in that room, you would have been a helluva lot better off. You would have been a helluva lot better off. Trump also said that he has a permit to carry a handgun in new york. He compared himself to Charles Bronson in the 1974 movie death wish. Coming up on meet the press, Moderator Chuck Todd will discuss the Second Amendment with trump including his former stance on gun control, which called for assault weapons to be banned. And on the democratic side, Hillary Clinton spent her time here in washington discussing human rights. Clinton vowed to make gay and lesbian right as top priority if she becomes president. She criticized some republican candidates for their stance on samesex marriage. Ben carson said Marriage Equality is what caused the fall of the roman empire. And ted cruz slammed a political opponent for marching in a p. R. I. D. E. Parade. He clearly has no idea what hes missing. Well, and a big win for clinton. She was just endorsed by the National Education association. After a tough week, it was a good night for the nationals. Max scherzer pitches his second nohitter of the season. The magical moment happening during last nights game against the new york mets. There we go. Scherzer also set a team record for strikeouts at 17. He threw 109 pitches, and at the end of the guam, he struck out nine batters straight. The nats defeated the division, clinching mets, 20, to complete a doubleheader sweep. That guy is awesome. It looks like the weather is going to hold up for the redskins and eagles. They got a chance in the elements. Take a look here. Kickoff at 1 00 p. M. Well have the highlights this evening coming up on news4 at 6. Coming up, an openly gay d. C. Man got to meet pope francis. Tom kierein is welcome back. This morning were hearing from the openly gay d. C. Resident who had a special meeting with the vatican. He sat down and asked him what the moment meant to him. Reporter he has known the man we know as francis for more than half a century beginning as a jesuit student. He was my professor in high school. He taught us argentine literature and psychology. Reporter he says now the popes message holes a special resonance. When i hear his speeches today, all i have to do is close my eyes and its like he is im still in the classroom. Reporter he called upon his old professor when he learned he ease be in washington. Although he thought he wouldnt fit boo h fit into his scheduled meeting. But he did. He wanted to talk with him about another meeting. It was a meeting with kim davis, famous to some, infamous to others for refusing to issue marriage licenses to samesex couples. Davis claims her attorney told her to stay strong. Grasi says daviss account doesnt jive with what the pope francis hes noun for years. He says, i can guarantee you in my service theres no place for homophobia. He said daviss meeting with the pope should not be considered a form of support. Davis was just one of dozens who met with francis. Grasi says he sees his old teacher as head of the Catholic Church and more. And icon a beakcon of light, im sorry. In the world. Overall its been light. Starting off this morning a little scattered drizzle. The storm team 4 radar showing a few sprinkles. Those sprinkles are tracking off to the west. We still have persistent eastnortheasterly wind bringling in this tropical moisture but its scattered light showers and closer to washington. A few of these sprinkles in calvert county, st. Marys, charles, southern prince georges and quantico to near fredericksburg. Scattered there. As well as into culpeper, rappahannock, the Shenandoah Valley. Temperatures right now in the 40s. Were in the low 50s. Its in the upper 50s as well right around the bay where theres going to be coastal flooding in all these counties in green. Watch for abnormally high tides today. 2 to 3 feet average tide the rest of the day. There are those low clouds. A live view from the tower camera. A cloudy afternoon after a bit of a morning drizzle. A light chance of sprinkles during the afternoon as we reach the low 60s. And for the game at fedex field, kickoff at 1 00, there might be a few sprinkles. Otherwise the rest of the game looking dry. Only a slight chance of a drizzle. Breezy, winds gusting at 20, 25 miles an hour. Well be in the low 60s throughout the rest of the game. Then cloudy overnight. Beautiful day tomorrow. Finally getting some sunshine back. Afternoon highs climbing to near 70 degrees. May see that sun right around dawn tomorrow and partly cloudy and mostly sunny Late Afternoon monday. Beautiful pattern. Warmer weather moves in for tuesday, wednesday, sunshine both days. Morning lows 50s. May get to upper 70s on wednesday. Still beautiful with sunshine. Might get some showers friday afternoon into friday evening. Right now next weekend looking dry with sunshine and highs into the 70s. So a beautiful pattern coming up for much of the week ahead. Thats the way it looks. Bring it on. Thanks. Next up we have reporters notebook for you. Were back in 15 minutes with more of the top stories. Good morning. Welcome to reporters notebook. Im pat lawson hues. The ntsbs strong classification to reclassify the railroad as a Commuter Railroad so they can handle safety oversight. The ntsb cites repeated deficiency and lots of problems. They say Transit Administration is not enough. Dave mcconnell, the fre oversees heavy Commuter Rail lines. Would this mean much greater scrutiny of metro, of the metro system . Undoubtedly it would. But its interesting the reaction from the delegation as well. Were going to look at that. Isnt this a great idea. Congressman norton did say this. There are all kinds of rails going through town. Were a railwood city. She seemed to light but she said they never help metro. She seemed based on the information i got that shes waiting and watching too. You have to remember this has been a long running battle with the local delegation. They dont like the way its run, the way the moneys being spent. They dont think theres a culture of productivity. Theyve got a lot of things they want to see done now and i dont think they want to wait around for a reshuffling of a federal bureaucracy to get another agency involved. Im not sure they vote against it, but they want to get action. Joe do, you think this is a way to get metro back on track . I believe a lot of people believe the more eye use have on it, the better you would be. If you ask most people who use many trow, what theyll tell you is they couldnt do any worse than whats being done. The biggest problem you also have is once again infrastructure in this country is not properly funded as dave will tell you. Theres always this underfunding. Here you have one underfunded agency overseeing another underfunded agency and when it comes to Eleanor Holmes norton, rb, this is washington, d. C. Citizens of washington, d. C. Do not like federal oversight. Vermonte, do you think this will impact it . They didnt push back. They said lets wait and see. This will be the first and this is not a situation where you want to be the first. I would say the counterpart would be if the ntsb takes over, will this thin things out and put more on their plate. We may say theyll have more oversight but they already have enough now. Will they still be able to give metro the attention they have to. D. C. Calls on private ambulances. Theyre calling on the idea of using thirdparty ambulances to handle 911 calls. Under this proposal the mayor and fire chief gregory dean people with minor services would get shifted to minor accidents. Were talking sprained ankle, cold symptoms, for example. It would ease the strain on the Fire Department, improve response time, get the ambulances back on the streets more timely and give the city time to make much needed repairs. B bremante, do you think this would be a good idea . This, it seems to many, would be a shortterm solution and then down the road maybe a longterm solution. Gregory dean, the chief, has done this in seattle and says it works. Obviously any time o you privatize and outsource a government function, thats when you might have problems and how much control would the city have in privatizing. Then you have the two unions, the Fire Department and the specialized ems who say, were for it. Im not sure if were for the particulars. Dave, does this address the problems of how to reduce the number of 911 calls for things like colds and twisted ankles . One has to ask oneself, would the outsourced folks be union or private people . I wonder about that. I dont know. As a shortterm fix to a desperate problem, i think its certainly, from what my reporting is telling me, worth a look at it. But the question is youve got another entity in there. Its not directly under the city. As bremante pointed out, how much control would there be. Are they hiring the right people . How do we know theyre hiring the right people. The Police Department doesnt hire like this. The Fire Department doesnt hire like this. Is it a sign of the demand . Its also a sign they havent dealt with the problems of vehicles not working keeping up with tree pairs of it. The other factor you have is the abuse. Lets be honest. People look for a free ride to the emergency room or hospital for minor problems or illnesses that they have. I doubt, dave, that they will be union because it will be priv e private. My problem is you have to educate the system. Quit abusing the system. Until you do, that youll never catch up with the system because people will always abuse it. Do people feel like theyre abusing the system or do they have emergencies, they have issues, problems, they need attention. They may not be able to drive themselves to the hospital or go to a primary care facility. Or they dont have transportation. Yeah. That ctainly is an issue. But lets be honest. People do abuse it. I think thats when it gets very subjective. What is abuse and what is i feel like if my ankle is broken, its an emergency and i need to get to the hospital. I think thats what the yubion and the ems, what theyre saying in contradiction to the Fire Department. The ems is saying, listen, every emergency is an emergency, but i also think theyre thinking about jobs. And if you privatize this ill also point out another thing. This wasnt a new idea. This was proposed before, and it was rejected, so im glad theyre revisiting it. We should point out for each call, they will respond, but then they will determine to call the private ambulance. It will be tried for a year then. Well see what happens. Well be right back after this. Tougher penalties for drunk drivers involved in deadly crashes in maryland. There are new mandatory minimum penalties. If youre drunk and involved in a deadly crash in maryland, if youre a first offender with a blood alcohol content higher than. 08, youll lose your license for six months rather than 45 days, a whole year for a second offense. If your blood alcohol content is above. 15, you lose your license for a year. For a first offense. You loose it for life for a second offense. Do you think its fair . This is tough. This is mothers against drunk driving. I dont know if theyre moving fast enough. You want the stipulations and punishment to be much tougher. Maryland and d. C. Has some of the weakest drunk driving laws in the nation. So they might be moving in the right direction but some could argue if youre swerving down the road and youre drunk and you dont kill someone, shouldnt there be tougher laws, and thats where i think mothers against drunk driving and other alcohol awareness advocates say maryland needs to have much stricter guidelines across the board other than just fatalities. What do you think, dave . Yeah. Maryland has been accused of having too weak laws and there have been kuhn flikts in dealing with this. These certainly are tough laws. Maybe it should be tougher. If this is a sea change to put maryland on par with other states, maryland would say thats a key thing. I think the key word is its mandatory. It keeps it mandatory. You in. The judge says, look, im sorry, youre not going to be able to drive for six months, or the next offense, you lose it forever. I like that its mandatory. Thousands of Prince Georges County students with no immunizations. After the discovery of more than 3,000 kids hadnt gotten their shots as of the beginning of last week. Thats 3,000 out of 129,000. The health chief says many of the students are immigrants whose families didnt benefit from proper outreach. Dr. Waka way ya said she tried to get students in over the summer and her advocacy and concern created fallout for her. A School Spokesperson said limited budget limited the outreach. Whos at fault does it sound like here . Is it an issue of discrimination . Is it a tight budget, or is it poor management or all three . All three. All three. And the buck stops with the directors. Someone has to fall on the sword. s really the bottom line. That would be my its all three. And when youre the head of the organization, thats the person that has to fall on the sword. My first guess would be budgeting. But when she makes the point about, you know, the immigrant students and sort of getting the message out and trying to make sure this can be kmup indicated, you know, montgomery county, maryland, they have the largest immigration in terms of student population. They got the message out. I think whats unfortunate with Prince Georges County, again, it feeds into that narrative, can the county sort of get it together, why are we just finding out about th