Shenandoah valley and eastern panhandle of west virginia. Any showers we seeefore noon look to stay westf the district. 80 degrees is our temperatureri t now. If you have not walked outside yet, its really humid. That humidity hits you like a ton of bricks. I think its more steamy today because of the rain we got overnight last night. Wever, thats going to translate into heavy rain later on today. Lets talk about that flooding threat today. More storms coming your weay. Ill time them out in just a little bit. Thank you very much. Meantime, i want to tell you about a deadly crash. It has shut down traffic on the enter loop inaranham. C are getting by on the shoulder. Traffic is backed up because of this two car crash. One person was killed. Another rushed to the hospital. We have a crew on the way to the scene and we will have more on n this situatiater in the morning. But stay up to da on that. And backo the storms. Video and pictures of the damage have been rolling in since the storm hit last night. So take a look at this. This is on Reservoir Road in northwest. A huge tree came crashing down clipping the side of a house in the foxhall area. It landed on wires. It didnt appear as though anyone was home at the time and there is n reports of injuries. Meantime, this tree brought more wires down on 38th street in northwest in the glover park area of washington. That tree landed on a car. Luckily, no one was hurt. But the per was knocked out in that area. And check this out. Lightning struck a howson to north Nelson Street in that started a fire. No one home was injured here. But the fire marshal was there investigate. You can see more damage from around the area last night and t ep an eye on the forecasth our nbc washington app. Yeah, we had some tense moments as a igfarr group and counterprotesters converged in downtown d. C. The two faced off blocks from the white house yesterday on om sidebyside mts of one htanother. Rig wing activists and white suprem ists. The other side f antiascists and black lives matter. How police tried to keep the peace. Get behind the line. Youre breaking the law. Reporter police tried to keep the two sides apart. But that wasnt always possible. In Freedom Plaza farright activists rallied under the banner demand free speech, upset some of their more outspoken royces were banned by some social media outlets. Providing security a group known as the proud boys, a known white supremacist group. Fake news out there. Thats ay. Reporter 200 to 300 supporters showed up for the farright rally. Some whoppose the far right showed up and that sparked heated exchanges. Police kept a watchful eye on theseed men call them 70s antse antifa when they showed up wearing masks. A much larger crowd ganized by black lives matter gathered to voi voice their opposition. A Police Officer fell as police were trying to escort a pporter of president trumps out of the counterprotesters area. Even after the rally ended supporters on both sides ngered in the area as police tried to keep them apart. After nearly three hours of hoeeches on both sides and some more suting in the Streets Police reopened most of the streets and most of the demonstrators left. D. C. Police say theyde no arrests at either protest. In the district, mark segraves, news4. Well, some protesters who attended the farright rally earlier in the day at Freedom Plaza planned to meet at trump to a ational hotel and Vice President dinner. Our crew saw folks getting on a charter bus but counrprotesters were waiting as well. T officers had separate the two groups who hurled insults across a polic barrier. At least one perso was detained. Investigato back on the scene after a massive explosion at a Shopping Center in south florida. Look at this damage. Prettyintenseere. People were scrambling as chunks of concrte rained down on them. Offirals say natu gas exploded at a vacant pizza shop. The blast and debris damaged other stores. Youre looking at th damage. Its just like wow, look at that. But more than 20 people are injured. Miraculously, no one died. Witnesses recall the chaotic moments after the explosion. We heard a big like boom and the ceilings just started caving in. We were trying to get out. To be honest ihought the avengers came or Something Like that. It was a lot of smoke. It was just something to it was t umatizing. It was traumatizing. Can only imagine. Firefighters foud ruptugas lines in the rubble, but are still trying to determine exactly the cause of theast. Residents in Southern California ill edge after two powerful earthquakes rocked that region. Take a look. You can see this Grocery Store shaking as the ground is rumbling beneath it. The 7. 1 quake, that is strong, struck friday night jt outside the town of ridgecrest making the most powerful earthquake to hit that region in 20 years. It comes a day after a powerful earthquake struck the same area on the fourth of july. Thousands are without power and clean water. Californias governor Gavin Newsome has declared a state of emergency. He is stressing residentsciand offials need to be prepared for an even bigger earthquake in the coming days or weeks. We all, think i, have a unique role and responsibility to pivpare iually to be prepared for the nxt earthquake, a magnitude even greater than 7. 1. The amazing thing here, no one has beenilled in any of these quakes. Officials are n warning drivers to go slowly because the region there is still experiencing aftershocks. Billionaire hedgeund manager Jeffery Epstein is under arrest on sex trafficking charges. The daily beast fireported that authorities took him into custody in new york yesterday. Nbc news confirms he is facing federal charges for incidents occurring between 2002 and 2005. According to crt documents, it shows dozens of underaged girls were brought to his palm beach mansion for what turn out to be sexualou eers. Epstein avoided a len think jail sentence years agori registeng as a sex offender and paying financial settlements to his victims. Alexei cost a, former u. S. Attorney, who is nla trumps oversaw that deal. A big heads up for drivers in virginia. A stretch of route 29 is going to close tomorrow at noon for weeks. Tis going to impact the northbound lanes from riley road to vint hill road. P vdot crewsan to flatten the row bid removing hills that make it heart ard to s the traffic lights. The southbound lanes will not be affected. The proct is expected to last through early august. The news4 iteam working yo safe on the streets. Local public busesitting nearly 20 people every year. Ahead we will take you to Virginia Tech where researchers are doing work to prevent those kinds of accidents. Back. Elcome the news this morning, actually the news for iteam investigates bus blind spots. More people are walking local streets this time of year with sidents and tourists crowd the crossweks. It can b dangerous. So now government officials and transportation researchinrs are wiyg to make those crosswalks safer starting the biggest vehicles on the roadway. Thats right. Our Scott Macfarlane looked into whatstenderway to betr protect you. A warning here. You might see a couple of images i disturbing. That are reporter few work harder to move faster than tina glen any, a personal trainer who used to beat the traffic on foot in arlington. Until one night in march 2016 i didnt usually go that way home. Reporter when she crossed 15th street withhe right of way. I was 22 feet into the crosswalk. Reporter and was suck by a metro bus and trapped underneath. I didnt even scream i didnt have time to scream. Reporter the bus dragged her 50 feet. Me and estrian sav stopped the bus. That was pretty amazing. Reporter tell me about that. Another pedestrian intervened to stop the bus . Mmhmm. He ran to the bus and stopped. Banged the door. Reporter she was rescued by gh firefiters, suffered traumatic injuries to her legs that required eight surgeries and years of physical rehabilitation. She sued the Transit Agency and settled for a confidential amount. Seems like the bus didnt see you . I dont think he did. Areeporter some collisions deadly. Last december a tour bus struck and killed a woman and her mother in downtown d. C. The natures capital is catch rated wi saturated with touruses. We reviewed 15 years of record and found 20 people get hit by transit buses in a year. Thats not counting the school or b commerciales. It precipitati. Its rough being a pedestrian here. Reporter Montgomery CountyCouncilmember Evan glass worries the risk to c pedestrianould grow as hitorically people are choosing to walk and choosing to take bicycles and other forms of transportation, and so we need to modernize and update our akles and regulations. Reporter ming the roads safer is just part of the solution. Transportation researche andrew croom is working on technology. Up to 20 f pedestrians dont look unbefore thp before cross traffic. Reporter ey are Testing Possible Solutions here in blacksburg at Virginia Tech, trying to find a way to make the streets safer forthe destrians and the drivers and passengers of the buses and cars. Using a dummy in place of a pedestrian, crooms team shows us why p so manyple on foot are at risk. They take turns at a speed at five miles per hour. The same speed walkers or , joggers move creating a moving blind spot. The bus may be matching the speed ofpedestrians. Reporter they are Testing New Technology that would alert bus drivers to a person just out of view. The system automatically triggers the brakes when theis s too low to tclose to the pedes it gives an audible tone and a red light goes off. Reporter local transit agencies tell us they are already trying eliminate these types of metro bus added strobe lights to catch the eyes of pedestrians. Omni ride in prince harry county uses mirrors and video. Loudoun county has internal and external cameras so bus s operatorn better see their counties. Montgomery county says warning devices aring installed on bus toss warn pedestrians. Back in arlington, tina says she is focused on putting the bus trauma that narly cost her her life in the rearview. You have find a new happy and a new goal. Reporter a goal she is determined to achieve one step at a time. Scott macfarlane, news4 iteam. We have got much mo on this story in our nbc washington app. Ransit uding how local agencies are training bus drivers to better position their bodies to i avoid crashingnto pedestrians. You can also send the iteam any tips you think they should be a lot to get into this there for sure. Lets open up the window, take a look outside. You see the National Cathedral right there. It is 80 degrees already at 9 15. Kind of tells you wherer headed today. Lauryn will have your complete forecast wh we come back. En we are sist rs. And we jved in together. Why alissa and aleah chose fios. We stream sooo much. A lot of times alissa is watching tv on her laptop, using her phone, also using her. I am really good at multitasking cause im awesome. A little the best internet is even better at our best price. Switch now and get ourabastest speeds availle. Pl , a free Samsung Chromebook on us. Switch nothats fios. Rabastest speeds availle. Pl welcome back. 9 18 am a group of high school girlsea from the d. C. Choosing to spend summer break in the classroom. Aimee cho takes us to georgetown campus and introduces us to a Computer Science camp. Reporter ask any of these girls and theyll tell you if some condition do this. Reporter the first key to success is simply knowing how to press forward. Its not going to run because i did not initialize x. Report when she was learning computeroding she says the boys in her class said shed never make it. N not only is she a Successful Software developer take a couple of minutes to talk with a partner. Reporter she is teaching other young women how to write computer code. I have never seen so many girlsall coding in one space at once. Reporter the girls who code ummer camp is put on by a nonprofit called soware. Org. Two basic reporter it wanted to encourage girls to go into Computer Science. Believe in yourself. Ouke dont care like if like any males are dominating that field. Reporter every day for seven weeks the girls spend their summer breaksg hittine books. The teachers are fun. The activities we do are fun. So, yeah, its fun. Even though its like school, i enjoyt. I wanted to keep practicing over the summer ncd maybe advae even more. Reporter the goal is forto them program their own projects building websites and a sisterhood of computer scientists. Its just really like partnering to see so many its heartening to see so many women coding together. Reporter in the district, aimee cho, news4. All right. So lets talk about this weather. Yesterday torrential downpours. We have the hot and steamy weather going on. Im saying that now just for you. We havent had any hot and steamy days lately. I know, really dry. Sarcasm. Agan will get with the sarcasm eventually. Im not even its 80 degrees and its 9 20. Es. Yeah. So i think ieally think the tperature today is going to be if t in the mid80s. Yesterday we topped out in the low 90s. Nde humidity makes it feel worse than it is a that humidity yesterday made it feel like 100 degrees. Today feel like the low 90s, bua ag it is so thick out there and steamy. Lots of cloud cover. Thats the today. Going to be if you are like, hey, lets go to the pool right now, go do it because its going to be dry for the most part. You will not see much sunshine peday as we continue throughout the afternoon,ally as we get into the afternoon. So green out there. We have gotten rain almost every day last week. Tnumerous showers outre today. So today is no exception out there. And there could be a few storms that pop up. I tnk we are going to see some heavy downpours out there. Some of these storms could be a little on stronger side if we do see any storms, damaging winds, and of course we could have additional power uutages because the gro is saturated out there. Good to know. The relief is coming tomorrow tomorrow night and into tuesday. Now, nothin happening out there right now. I have been tracking this over the last now im wondering ie i i dont see. I thought there was a Flash Flood Warning up there. This is kind o an indication of how slowly these storms are going to move. They are just going to drop a lot of rain in one area. Believe we could have some flooding. This could continue to float down to our friends in western maryland,estchester, hagerstown. Anywhere wesof d. C. Could have a shower or two after noon. Widespread scattered showers and a few thunderstorms. Curren temperatures right now, yep, in the low 80s along the i95 corridor. 70s to the north and west. Over the next 12 hours temperatures mid80s. Scattered showers after lunchtime. Rain going to be heavy at times. Again we will have to watch for that flooding and even some storms. Listen, guys, this will continue to the overnight. Looking at 3 00, the reds and yellows are indicating some heavier rain across the area. So we could have some heavy rain late tonight into the overnight. A f showers possible tomorrow mornings commute. Leave yourself extra time as you get off of this vacation and go back to work onda mon oh, yeah, were got rain for your monday, but it will move out of here late tomorrow afternoon through tomorrow evening. In fact, the humidity will drop just a little bit. Tuesday and wednesday gorgeous. Plenty of sunshine tuesday and wednesday. But not until then. Heavy rain. Secondary to that aone winds. I d think the hail or tornadic threat will be high today. Fog tomorrow morning, rain showers around. We will keep the rain showe aroundrough noon and then we dry out during that evening commute. Could be a little earlier for some portions of our area, orpecially n. Now, tuesday, wednesday beautiful. Its going to be hot. Humidity will be there. It wont be quite as steamy as today. Thursday night into friday some scattered showers and stos. Look how hot we stay all the way into next weekend. We have welcome back. For years this is what you saw along main street inev pursle on the way into old town. That view is changing. An artist is transforming the drab wall into apostcard with town scenes. People seem to like it. Everyone is super, super nice. Noing but positive energy and comments all day that im here. Feels really good. I am not out here just for nothing. People really enjoy it and seemm to want to finish. Got to love art. More fashion om this barrel design she painted in the owns summer art project a few years ago. She expected to be finished the end of the month. More changes are planned forc publi art in purcellville. Another artist will transform this wall in the heart of old town. Very cool. An Obstacle Course like no other. Ri the winning pzes just as unique. Chee this out. Thnnual world wifecarrying championship. It includes a pool and wooden barrier. This years champion was held in the rain. Wow. Of you can see some competitors had a sense of humor. They wore costumes. 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