Effect until 430 with this were also seeing a little bit of hail as well. Farther south things are pretty quiet. Im watchng this little isolated shower to the sth of leesburg. Its going to continue to pull to the northeast clipping far western Montgomery County there and i think a little bit more activity going on to the south. Heavy rain. We had a few lightning strikes there. In the washington, d. C. Metro core we do have the threat for some showers and storms as we ug head thro the next couple of hours. Right now, though, temperatures are in the mid 70s with lots of suns. That sunshine is actually going to give us some fuel to see some storms spark off in the next hour or two. Ill keep you updated. Thank you. And we invite you to download our nbc washington app if you havent done so already. You see somaras forecast the ere, anytime, right in palm of your hand. Let turn now to some breaking news just coming in. Moments ago a jury reached asi deci in a case geagainst a former University Basketball player player was accused of raping a student. Reporter we did speak with dodt. s been a long two years for him with this accusation. He said hanging over his head. He believes it has impacted h professional career. He was playing overseas in mexico and then poland. Now he is in between contracts. He is hoping that since this case has been resolved that he can probably move on with his professional career, buta jury did decide that he was not guilty on all charges. He was looking at four charges associated with an alleged rape that happened back in 2015 near the univeity of maryland campus. According to the prosecutors, dodd was accused of helping to r get a g drunk in a bar and then taking that young woman back to a nearby Apartment Building off campusap and rg her. What was revealed in court by the alleged victim was that she had taken a lot of shots before getting to that bar and continued to drink once at the r, actually snorted some cocain before spotting dodd and according to the defense attorney she was okay with makingout with dodd but wanted stop before sex. And the defens attorney was saying that was not the case. That, in fact, this was consensual sex. Hear now from dodd. Its been rough. I just tried to keep a positive outlook on things. Keep god first always. Ats always been what ive done. Reporter now i only took the jury about two hours to come back with their decision. At the end of the day, again, dodd found not guilty on all charges. We are still waiting to hear from the Prince Georges CountyStates Attorneys Office on this case. Reporting lve from upper marlboro, im tracee wilkins, back to you in the studio. Thank you, tracee. Lets go to some more breaking news. Actor cuba gooding jr. Arrested in new york city. Thhe breaking in t last few minutes. The 51yearold oscar winner is accused of groping a woman in midtown in a bar or the weekend. Odings attorney told the Associated Press the video from the bar will prove he is isnt. Gooding met with investigators in new york today. The actor won an a academyward back in 1997 for his role in jerry maguire. Now to some breaking news from Montgomery County where a worker has died at the solid waste transfer station in derwood. The work was trap under a large pile of brush including tree stumps and yard debris. Rescuers were able to locate him when theyeard his twoway radio, but it was too late. Authorities say the worker died there at the scene. A d. C. Police officer is charged withsex abuse. He is accused of sexually ng assaultihe victim monday during a therapeutic treatment. He has een withe d. C. Police the past seven years. He works in 4d. His Police Powers have been voked and hes been assigned duties where he has no contact with the public. Piece chief Peter Newsham says his actions are a disgrace to anyone who wears a badge. Two oil tankers were attacked fff the coast and the u. S. Is causing iran o doing i. The cargo is reported to be intact. The ships dont appear to be in threat of sinking. Secretary of state mike pompeo says u. S. Officials believe iran did this based on intelligence and the weapons used. Irans foreign minister says its suspicious these attacked happened on the same day irans Supreme Leader was meeting with the japanese prime minister. Na the two women who accused virginias lieute governor Justin Fairfax of Sexual Assault are responding after the Lieutenant Governor himself called for a criminal investigation into the matter. Thika gonzalez is at our live desk with what are saying. We first brought you this story yesterday. Attorneys forhe Lieutenant Governor sent letters to the d. A. s office in both boston and North Carolina asking t prosecuto investigate the claim saying if they were true, fairfax should be criminally prosecuted, but if not, the matter should be closed. He through t attorneys, both women are now respondingo that letter. Attorneys fordr. Tyson writes, quote, his suggestion th women are liars unless they press criminal chargesainst their assailants places an unfair demand on survivors and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of law, end quote the attorney for Meredith Watson writes he says he wants due process, but a hearing is due press. Hell refuses to answer questions as both accusers have done, end quote. If youl remember, it was back in february when it looked like Justin Fairfax might ascend to the governorship in the mdst of the ralporth ha black face scandal. They came forward with claims of sexual abuse t dating back 2000 and 2004. Both women have said they would be willing to testify publicly before the virginia legislature. Fairfax has said this is not a legislative issue and maintains the encounters were consensual. From the live desk, im erika gonzalez. The white house is fighting back after a federal Watchdog Agency called for Kellyanne Conway to be removed from office. Saying conway violated the hatch act. It begans Government Employees from engaging in political activities. It found that the president s Senior Adviser advocated for and against political candidates during her tv appearances and on social media. Conway toldto reporters day she has no reaction. A white house spokesperson called the agencys recommendation, quote, deeply flawed. Of course this is a diffent season, but a fight over a new ice rink. Getting heated up because Bowie City Council froze, if you will, a project for a new facility. They wanit ft ft whe thor means for the local skating community. If this goes to a referendum or we even look to do any type of other option with privatelyowned companies, our ilding here is not going to last much longer. Reporter Abigail Snyder has been coaching figure skating at the bowie ice arena for a decade. She says the equipment that makes the ice could die at any moment. The roof leaks and s thend system is out of date. A new arena would solve all those problems as well as allow hockey and skating programs to expand. Ockey and figure skating going on on one side but other programs for the community on the other side, you cant put a price on at. So on city council dont see it that way and want the fate put in the hands of voters come november. Theres not aug h appetite among bowie residents at large to fund major pjects that are d disproportionately used by residents. Reporter tonight members of the skating commity will me with City Council Members here in bow toe try to get them to reconsider pushing this issue to a referendum. Cory smith, news 4. Sand the kids are the ones caught in the middle. About sumer alert now those inclined baby sleepers. Consumer reporter susan hogan is here next to explain why the popular sleepers may be outlawed all together. Plus the growing battle for your business. The perks target is now offering to keep you shopping with them. And weather alert. Storm team 4 is tracking potentially strng sto this afrnoon. Somatera were back with a live look at storm team 4 radar. Showers all over and somara tracking the strong storms in just a bit. Her hour by hour forecast in just two minutes. In the meantime, police in Montgomery County are searching r four people after a smash and grab that turned deadly. Police say a group of burglars drove a car through the front of awe gun shop as they tried to make their escape in a second vehicle. An officer fired their gue one prson died. The rest of the burglars bailut nd ran away. News 4s chris gordon has the latest. This stolen suv that thieves use to crash the front of the unitm gun shop was pulled fro the store and towed away. Police released this picture showing it inside next to a wall. Guns. We are working on the assumption that is a high possibility they mayed be arm a Police Officer responding to anke alarm bl the parking lot entrance, the thieves riding in a second stolen vehicle crashed into the police cruiser. The officer fired. You can see the damage to the rear of the police cruiser. Was hieves stolen vehicle so damage today broke down j t a few blocks away on randolph road. One of the suspects was found dead inside. It is not known if he decide from eightu ghot woun d or from the crash. The other suspects ran interest a neighborhood. Police found this bag andns thr guitch. To hear guns were found four houses down from me in their back yard is very creepy. A doorbell camera on a front of a residence recorded video of ur men on red fox road gettingot into anher car just after 4 00 a. M. Canine units searched for the suspects. Police are trying to determine the number of weapons stolen from the gun shop. We need to determine based upon the number of weapons that weve recovered what ma still be outstanding. This Surveillance Video is from two years ago. In march ofn 2017 the ued gun shop was burglarized. This video from inside the store shows suspes stealing approximately 24 handguns and seven long guns. Police have Surveillance Video from todays breakin at united gun shop, but have not released it to the news media. That was chris gorn reporting. On another note here under an eseeblished agreement betwn prosecutors offices, the mobile app sometime before the holidays. A consumer alert about those inclined sleepers you may be using for your baby. Millions have been recalled in recent months. Now they may betl oued all together. Consumer reporter susan hogan is working for you with the new details about this. Pat, were talking about products like the p fisherice rock and play sleeper. More than 4 million of them were recalled in april after Consumer Reports leked 32 dhs to their use. Bills introduced in both the week ouse and senate this would ban all infant sleeping products with an incline of more than 10 degrees. The American Academy of the incline ys sleepers violate its safe sleep guidelines to avoid suffocation deaths. They recommend babies slp on their desk on flat surfaces. An arling continton family file lawsuit against fisher price for the 2017 death of their 5 month old baby. Ezra iverton d while sleeping in a rock and play next to his dad. A Company Called kids 2 has also relled about 700,000 of its incline sleepers. Lse Consumer ProductSafety Commission tel news 4 that its currently working on a new more comprehensive safety standard for these products. They say they now know of in ro sleepers. The cdc also told us more investigations are under way and more recalls are likely. Bottom line, if you have one of these in your home and it is on the recall list, we are asking you to stop using it immediately. Back to you. Important information. Thank you, susan. Trt lets get to some impoan i somara is here. Your radar has been popping for the last couple hours. Its really starting to brew now. We had that sun come out. We got the energy we need in place and far west is where were startseg to see tho storm goes severe. Lets get straight to it. We are seeing some severe thunderstorms farther north and west of the district. As far as the d. C. Metro area is concerned, im thinking we could see an isolated storm or two pop in the next coming hours, but ill dissect that in just a moment. For now i want to take you north and west up into Washington County and hagerstown area. You see that line of showers a storms. Theyre going to continue to push through hagerstown probably clipping the northern part of hrederick county. This severe tderstorm brings with it 60 mile per hour wind gust, lightning andlinding rain in the deep red there. Its getting ready to pick up. Thats until 4 30 p. M. We head south in to leesburg, this one becoming more healthy. Isolated shower probably going to turn into a storm pretty soon here and thats going to continue t move into Montgomery County to the northeast. Ill keep an eye on that one. Not severe just heavy rain. Then we head farther south. Northern fauquier down towards culpeper where were seeing lots of lighrsing. Showeand storms on the periphery are going to stick with us for at least the next two to three hours. 5 00 p. M. , notice as that cold front pushes this line of showers and storms through the d. C. Metro area, not very healthy line of storms here, so i anticipate that any storms that do pop, they could go rong to severe,but not everyone will see this. This is not a widespread event. We do have a new Severe Thunderstorm Warning. Frederick until 5 00. Probably that northern part of frederick i was just talking about. That same storm that is impacting washingtonocounty. Now, by tomorrow or late tonight, were dry and were clear on the back end of this front. We move into your friday. 11 00 a. M. , its going to be a Beautiful Day out there t little on breezy side. But absolutely gorgeous. Then i fast forwarded into saturday morning just to show you that its also gng to be a quiet start to the weekend. Will it be a quiet finish . Stick around for the 10day. For now take a look at the impacts today between now and dinner time. Were going to be sing heavy rains with any storms that go severe, very strong gusting winds and that potential for hail is there as rrll. Cut temperatures right now as that sun peeked out really starting to see those numbers pop. 79 in manassas. 77 in washington. Near 80 degrees in gaithersburg. Your weekend forecast does show a threat for showers and storms on sunday. So lets get ready for that, folks. It will be late sunday, but also take a look at those numbers. 92 degrees by sunday. We are going to see that heat make a comeback. Storm team 4 10day outlook, we do have a threat for showers and storms on sunday special monday. Look at this. We have a chance for showers ans rms every day next week. White House Press SecretarySarah Huckabee sanders is resigning. After 3 1 2 years our, quote, wonderfra wonderful sah Huckabee Sanders will be leaving the white house and goingrome to the gt state of arkansas. That reads hisr tweet fom the president just moments ago. Arkansas is where she was born and raised. Her father a former governor of arkansas. This press secrary followed in the foot steps of sea spicer hen he leftt that pos as press secretary. Her reign has not been wiout controversy. She hasnt held a press ime. Erence in quite some shes been the target of many leftwing experts. 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