Youll need all three today. Good morning, im angie goff. And im david vculver. Lauryn ricketts is live in the weather center. What are we thinking here . Were thinking a lot of rain coming our way. Were so muggy out there right now, similar are to yesterday. So we will have some torrential downpours as we head into the afternoon. Timing for this, between 2 00 and 8 00. We did have a round of thunderstorms that went through the area earlier this morning. Were looking dry right now with the exception of maybe a few showers out there. But this is what im watching as we continue into the morning. This will continue to slide up right around i81 and the blue ridge mountains. So a few showers this morning, but again, more this afternoon. The biggest impact will be between 2 00 and 8 00, thats when we will be watching the radar for Severe Weather. Well time it out for you and what you can expect in terms of severity coming up on 6 02. In temple hills, a man found shot to death in the street just before 1 30 this morning. As you can see, homicide investigators were on crescene hours, they were gathering evidence trying to establish a motive. No word yet on any suspect information. Now to will developing story, a map fighting for his life after a shooting in Prince William county. This happened on Potomac Heights in woodbridge. No word on any suspects or motive. The bw parkway closed for hours after a three car crash last night. One woman suffered very serious injuries. She had to be extricated from one of the cars. Youre looking at pictures from the scene. The accident happened just after the powder mill road exit. One daughters is describing her fathers last moments. Hannah says his heart would not stop beating for 30 minutes after all of his other organs failed. She wrote, quote, no one has ever seen anything like it. This comes as a people spokesman 1ez the boxing legend died of septic shock. Chris pollone has the latest. Reporter tributes and memorials to muhammad ali are growing in louisville, kentucky where the champ grew up and learned to box. He showed that you can come from gutter and rise yourself above any obstacle. Reporter flags lauered to halfstaff as people mourn his death. Its like he reached his hands out to everybody. Didnt matter race, creed or color. He belonged to the world, but hes our guy. Reporter the outpouring of support stretches across the country. In flowers at alis star on the walk of fame. Among his fans there, lakers legend kareem abdul gentlemjaba. Very much his open man. Reporter president obama says he shook up the world and were all better for it. Next week bill clinton will eulogize ali at his funeral. Who he was as a person was greater than his legend. Reporter michael j. Tox grew up as an admirer, but their lives crossed when fox was also diagnosed with parkinsons. To actually have met him will and join with him in a common fight. Reporter many of the fighters ali beat in his career are paying their respects today. What a phenomenon. Something we wont see again, i can tell you that. We lost the greatest. That name, that word fit a t. He was the greatest. Reporter muhammad ali will be buried friday in louisville. Chris pollone, nbc news, new york. The three time champ was perhaps one of the most recognizable people in the world. Touching the lives of everyone he met, including right here this our region. Local photographer fred watkins says muhammad ali was one his most interesting subjects and he was amazed at having the chance to be around the champ. He spoke about his last shoot with ali as his battle with parkinsons disease was taking hold. His hands were in the shape where he had to work and manipulate them. He didnt want you to feel sorry for him. He would always throw something funny into make you laugh. Watkins went on to say that ali always had time to shake hands and sign autographs. Were heading in to day two of metros safetrack og right now with single tracking on the orange and silver lines\ way right now with single tracking on the orange and silver lines. \said way right now with single tracking on the orange and silver lines. Right now with single tracking on the orange and silver lines. Many riders are worried about tomorrows rush hour commute. P. It takes me like two hours to get to work thousand. So thats a really long commute. But as long as theyre fixing it, im for it. No question that ride will be even longer once you add in that rush hour into that mix of a mess there. Another reality of the Safetrack Program is no more late night metrorail service. D. C. Police will now set up new pick up zones for cabs, uber and lyft drivers as many are looking for other ways to get home after a night on the town. According to our News Partners at wtop, be cabs will begin offering shared rides anywhere within one mile of the metro station or at a cab stand while and beginning tomorrow morning, another option to help folks. A woodbridge man inside ta instigating new slug lines. At vienna and foggy bottom. There is an app that lets you know in real time whether slugs or drivers are available. We always have the unpredictability about how do i know if people are there waiting in the line or drivers are waiting. The app gives you the real time status of home people are wait in line. Go to our nbc washington app and search slugs to get the app. Heavy rain and strong winds headed our way. Thats why its a storm team 4 weather alert day. Lauren is tracking the and wildfires are ripping through california. Incredibly emotional out there. The danger as First Responders do anything they can to fight back those poor mouth breather. Allergies . Stuffy nose . Cant sleep . Take that. 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I walked out, i could see the smoke and fire coming by. The exnt officials believe it may have been ignited after a car crashed into power poles downing lines in three different places. 6 12. A man is facing Assault Charges this morning and could face arson charges after a fire at an apartment in langley park. The police and Fire Departments were called to the building on 15th avenue this is friday night. Police say that they received a call from a woman who says her fiance was assaulting her. She managed to get aways but poli Police Believe the man set the building on fire. The suspect was detained nearby. So right now we are closely watching all this heavy rain and the strong winds that are moving our way. Not too bad of a start right now, but it is a storm team 4 weather alert day for what were expecting later on. Lauryn ricketts joining us thousand. What are you thinking . Im thinking the worst of it will come this afternoon. And we will really have to watch for heavy down pours and strong winds which means outages. So we already have saturated grounds. We got some rain last night. We got the rain yesterday and so well have to watch for flash flooding. So lets let you know what you need to know for today. Weather alert day for today. Thats why everything is in red because we will have some pretty strong storms again this afternoon. Timing between 2 00 and 8 00. The humidity thank goodness dropping by the time we get into your mop, tuesday, wednesday looking so much better. And nice. Next week pretty quiet the. Temperatures right now low 70s. Its heavy off the Eastern Shore. That came through richmond. So were good right now, but what im watching is down here in southwestern virginia, this will continue to move to the north and east as we go into the morning. So a few more showers. But again the main event coming this afternoon between 2 00 and 8 00 p. M. So thats when well be watching more storms moving in from the west and shifting to the east. And what we will be watching for, high flooding and a small chance of hail. So 9 00 there is those showers that we were looking at in southwestern virginia. Maybe a few isolated showers in the early afternoon. But then here comes a line of storms with that frontal system at 3 45, that will continue to travel to the east. Heavy at times dropping a lot of rain, but then rapid clearing after that. Well go over exactly what you can expect once again for next week coming up in just a few minutes. Lauren oig, thanks so much. Next up we have reporters notebook. And well be back in 15 minutes. Good morning. Im pat lawson muse. Let the single tracking begin. 13 Straight Days for starters followed by close to a year of disruptions. Safetrack is up and running and a lot of folks are bracing for the impact. Crowded stations, extra long wait times and more. Mark segraves and Scott Macfarlane are joining us this morning. Are youpr d. C. s hair asking metro to reconsider midnight closings on weekends . Sounds like theyre not ready. Ready or not, here it comes. And what mayor bowser is concerned about is nightlife. You have all these clubs, restaurants, bars, even baseball games that can go beyond midnight and they depend on metro to get not just their client tell ho clientele home, but their employees homes. Youve seen bars and theet clubs saying they will reschedule events, they will start them earlier. So i think that is mayor bowsers concern. And then you saw governor mcauliffe just the other day live on channel 4 at 11 00 in the morning threatening to withhold funding if metro doesnt meet his standards, virginias standards. And so this is again ready or not, here it comes, but its going to be painful, people i think are trying to set expect pain and then hope for the best that maybe it wont be as bad as we were thinking its going to be. Were all talking about the impact on riders and retail, but there is a lot more at stake. This comes at an important time politically for metro. A few weeks ago will this front of the House Oversight committee, metro told youre not getting the bailout from us. Two weeks ago, House Transportation Committee said you have a lot of federal money, youre not spending it, spend that first and then come to us for more money. So right now metro is making this pitch saying with need dedicated funding, we need robust funding. Theyre making that pitch as theyre about to undertake this huge maintenance project. If it doesnt go well, doesnt that pitch get so much heard. But were all calling it the Safetrack Program. Were using that phrase almost as common terminology to describe what theyre doing. That is metros branding for this program. But it really is, its a Maintenance Program to stop death from happening or huge crippling disruptions. Were all calling it safetrack, so are government leaders. So in some part metro is already off on a good start putting a public face on an ambitious program. And dedicated funding touchy topic, but now theyre saying maybe they will revisit it. Theyre saying that now, but when it comes time to raise your taxes in d. C. , maryland and virginia, and thats what jack evans chairman of the board of metro said, he doesnt care where the money comes from, but he knows that there will have to be a tax. Thats when the debate will come in. A gas tax, sales tax, how will you distribute it equitably. Thaend as scott said, its the federal government. Half of the riders are federal employ years. T employees. The federal government has a stake in this. Its the only major rail system in the country that doesnt ve but then youve got mcauliffe and even Bowser AdministrationOfficials Saying they dont want to have anything do with rate hikes or taxes until they know that its fixed, but you cant fix it until you get that kind of money. Were talking about a billion dollars. They took two significant votes, one to fix homelessness and the plan to close the general shelter. The vote approves the plan. Tell us about the plan. Well, this is politics at its best in washington, d. C. Hair but s hair bowser came out with the plan to show the general shelter which is just a horrible place for families to live and unsafe. She wanted to close it by 2018. She had a plan to put smaller shelters this just about all eight wards. But when she released her plan, a lot of people didnt like the locations of the shelters in their neighborhoods. Appearance that there were some Developers Contributors to the bowser Election Campaign who seemed to be getting some pretty good deals on this that they were going to profit by. So chairman mendelson of the council came in with his plan whereby all of the land where the shelters would be located would either be owned by the district or will be owned by the strict. This caused mayor bowser to scream at the chairman in the hallway of city hall, dropped an expletive and said hes lying to the public. But now that plan has been approved, its moving forward. Its going to be years in the making. But we really still have no firm end date for d. C. General. And what weve seen in the latest census is the number of homeless families in d. C. Last year went up by 30 so it stay may not meet t they need which could mean that general would say hope. They also approved a spending plan saying d. C. s efforts to decide how to spend its own task dollars sis unconstitutional. What do republicans have to gain by digging in their heels . Congressional leaders loudly and proudly smacked back passing a law to trump passing a bill, to trump what d. C. Had done a few years ago. In 201. All you have do is read the press releases, read the floor speeches from the House Republicans who led that effort. This just a short finite amount of space referenced the constitution six or seven times, referenced the Founding Fathers with capital sfchfs, saying the defending the constitution. But they can tell their constituents wherever theyy we fought the powers in d. C. And we won. Its not so clear to constituents far from our city what that actually means. Does it mean you fought power brokers or did you really fight the d. C. Citizenry. The council has voted to approve this plan. Congress and the president have 30 days to respond to it. If they dont, then it takes effect in october. Is this a real turning point or is it really just an historic act of defiance against congress . The act of defiance will come in and when mayor bowser and the chief Financial Officer disobey congress order and go ahead and start spending their money. And thats when it will really hit the pavement. So youre talking about what republicans have to gain. They have nothing to lose. Its easy to them to beat up on the district of columbia because it plays well back ht district where they come from, but they by doing so. So its kind of a win win to republicans in this sense. But its not just the council and the mayor. The District Residents voted in a referendum overwhelming that they wanted to spend their own locally raised dollars just like every our jurisdiction in the country is able do. So this is going to be a showdown. They will square off and it will be who blinks first. And it could come to the first where the mayor defies congress, congress would then have to send marshals down to arrest the mayor and the Council Members. And, you know, weve seen our mayor in handcuffs before defying congress on similar issues. I dont know if it will get to that. To be continued. Well be right back. Give you the knowledge to adjust for the best sleep ever. Its the semiannual sale save 500 on the memorial day special Edition Mattress with Sleepiq Technology. Only at a sleep number store. Early voting started, but Hillary Clinton may have clinched the nomination by the primary. But there are hot race this is wards 4, 7 and 8. Lets talk about these races. And which one is the hottest. Well, ward 7 without a doubt is the race to watch. This is former mayor, former chairman, former Council Member vince grays comeback redemption tour. He was under investigation to many years. He believe thats why he lost his reelection bid to muriel bowser. Now that investigation has been closed, he was not charged. Not exonerated, but not charged. He feels that hes been vindicated. So hes back on the path. And by his polling, he has a big lead on Yvette Alexander who was his hand picked successor to him when he became chairman of the council. So thats the race that everybody is watching. And right now gray seems to have a lead. But i have to tell you, ive d them. Alexander is not backing down. Shes to go vedoing very well a has the backing of mayor bowser. All three incumbents have the backing of mayor bowser. Are these races in a real sense a test of the mayors strengths and will they be a bellwether for her . That will be the narrative no matter how they turn out. Each side will go to that prism and declare this is a refer ren rum on the mayor. Let me just say im dubious of polling that might be released in any of these races. The best polling or the only polling we seem to hear about is polling commissioned by the candidates themselves and im always dubious of that because those polls lack the scientific solidity that we see in other races. But that will be the narrative no matter what happens. Mark, many see the ward 8 race also as a test to see who inherits marian barrys yes, she won in a special election after the death of marian barry. She won in a crowded field. The second place candidate was white who lost by 100 votes. Now just the two