Over the past week to two weeks, and, boy, do we need it. This is whats happening right nowhe you can see rain just down to our south. This is the last 12 hours. A lot of shower activity and not a lot of real heavy rain. We did not see a lot of rain from the system last night. A lot of rain in the southern zones, and even up to the north cant rule out a couple of showers coming down from the north. All down to the south. Were talking about areas south of washington. , lvert county, northern ne fairly heavy rain at that, while the rest of us for the most part are remaining on the dry side. Heres the big thing. We hit a High Temperature teye rds ay76 in d. C. Look at the pawtuxet river, 69 degrees and 71 in fredericksburg and 78 back towards martinsburg. Big time cooler weather moving on in here. Thats some welcome relief after 12traight days at 90plus. Leon . Didnt want to hit that twoweek mark with the heat wave, so now that the change has come here, whats behind it . What exactly happened . The amazing thing about this we were so warm for so long jet stream was way up to the north. Take a look at the latest trend. What weve seen is this jet stream has dropped all the way to he tmoh. St of the country well be average. That includes all the way down towards the south. Theres only a few 90s left along the coast because of this pattern change that weve seen come in here. It is going to last for a couple of days. Ye tomorrow, we get back into the 80s and eventually we get back into the 90is and tracking yet another heat wave and we get a couple of nice days over the next few to kind of dry out and kind of get a little reprieve from all that heat and storminess. Yeah. Letsust chill and savor this for a little tile. Ts right. Thanks, man. A reminder that you can find the forecast for your neighborhood any time anywhere in ourtobc washing app. Its free and also the fastest way that we can get our alerts to you when were not on ther. Ai wendy . We have some breaking news now. That bill to permanently fund the 9 11 Victims Compensation fund has just passed the senate. It compensates vicms who were injured andtve on after the attacks on nis. Comedian jon stewart and the late luiz alvarez, a first nd respo, helped get National Attention for this bill pushing lawmakers to vote on permanent funding. President trump is expected to signhis bill in a ceremony this friday. A professional boxer who was severely injured during during t harbor hatas died. Maxim dadashevs death is making international news. Its rock the sports world. Rg prince gs countyu bur chief Tracey Wilkins spoke with the fighters trainer about the loss of up of his best fighters. Im going to stop the fight. You could see and feel the intense concern buddy mcgirt has for his fighter Maxim Dadashev he tells him its time to stop fridays fight. 139. 2 for dadashev. Reporter after all his preparation, subrie matias was getting the best of the 28yearold fighter in the ring at Mgm National Harbor. Mcgirt stopped the fight in the 11th round. If i dont, they are going to do if. Reporter but it was too la r. Dadashev wshed from Mgm National Harbor to print georges Medical Center where he had surgery for bleeding on his brain. This morning he died from those injuries. Today we spoke with his trainer, former boxer and hall of famer buddy mcgirt by phone. You know, my heart and soul and prayer go out to maxs family. Reporter dadashe wife released a statement that reads in part saying he was a very kind person who fought until the very end. Our son will continue to be raised to be a great man like his father. According to a spokesperson with prince georges Medical Center, dadashevs fa tly was able make it from russia other to the hospital. His wife has declined oncamera comment. His trainer, mcgirt, sayshat he was fighting here in the u. S. To provide a better life for his family in russia, and now hes concerned about who will take care of them now. Tracey wilkins, news 4. D. C. Fire is looking for a man who ignited a car in flames. A surveillance camera captured this fire outside the homes on sixth and f street in northwest on saturday. The arsonist doused boxes in some kind of lighter fluid and s them on fire. They are asking you to call police if you have any tips on him. Bernard bettskings job was to care for disabledlt adu but today he pleaded guilty to raining two women at a Northern Virginia facility where he worked. Bettsking was a behavioral technician at a place called mvle community center, a nonprofit that helps the disabled, but last year two interintel ctually disabled women in that program there gave birth, and dna from the babies identified bettsking as the father. He was charged with rape. Prosecutors say that neither woman was capable of even giving concept. Today in a Fairfax County courtroom bettskingded guilty to both rape charges and is facing up life in prison when hes sentenced in november. Were leaing more about the fatal crash on the beltway that backed up traffic for six miles. This is what it lood like around 4 00 this morning. This is Near University boulevard and New Hampshire avenue in white oak. Maryland state police say a passenger was killed after a vehicle rolled over. Three other people were hurt and taken to the hospital. No word on what caused this crash. Montgomery county police are trying to rebuild public trust after several controversialc inents. Officers seen on video using racial slurs, violent force, and there was onely de policeinvolved shooting. News 4 owes derrick ward explains what the department is doing now to turn things around. Reporter montgocory tys acting police chief didnt leave ything to the imagination when the council asked him today about how he felt about some incidents involving county o ricers lately. Lly aggravation and disappointment on our performance. Reporter this past mao an icer in an exchange with several man outside a white oak mcdonalds caught using the n word and he and several others remain under investigat these investigations take time. Reporter earer this month during the arrest of a drug suspect at another county mcdonalds, an officer is seene knng the suspect in the head and cuffing him on the ground. The suspect is facing drug charges, and the officer is facing assault charges. There wilntbe no iernal review started until the criminal case has been adjudicated. Reporter it would seem that this would be a department in turmoil, but thats not the case, according to the chief as well as members of the county council. The chief testified today. They riskheir lives to make certain that our lives are safe, and for that i dont think that should get lost at all in any of our discussions. Reporter it doesnt come without screw any and requests forlarity. In Montgomery County hear more and expect to get it written dowe everyonas a slightly different idea as to what Community Policing means. Reporter the search for a permanent chief continues, the acting chief has eme tos among those not being considered. It would be my honor and pleasure to be the leadin but some people understand that we should go in a different way. Derstand that. Reporter in Montgomery County, news 4. The recent outbreak of violence in the district has residents get up. News 4s shomari stone attended a rally attended by community activists. They are asking localsi rents to help investigate in the shootings. Reporter they walk against gunfire in the district. And four days of fatal shootings. Seven people murded including 11yearold karon brown. When i heard about the last one with the little kid, i was disturbed. Reporter Antoine Jones is a community activist. Its hurting me that were hurting each other. In the story seen on four, people who live in southeast pray for peas. Its about all of us standing together in unity so that we can stop the violence in our communities and we can reclaim our communities, and thats going to take ace ced effort from each and every person surrounded in this circle right here . E circle, or cycle of violence is seemingly endless. E ief Peter Newsham says cant recall such a violent four days. I think in recent memory i dont so this is particularly disturbing to have this many r homicides ovehe course of the weekend. A vigil will be held tonight for 11yearold karon brown. It starts at 6 00at staten elementary in southeast. Organizers are asking the entire community to come out tonight to show suppo for the family and to standgainst gun violence tomorrow, former special Counsel Robert Mueller will be in the hot seat before two house committees, judiciary and intelligence, and you can expect lawmakers there to ask questions about whether President Trump obstructed the president has rereceipted that the report found, quote, no obstruction or no collusion. The department of justice has trned mueller to stic whats in his public report. Well have Team Coverage of whats expected coming up and tune into news 4 before coverage of the live testimonyom trow. Our coverage will start at 8 15 tomorrow morning. Still ahead, Michelle Obama viits Howard University. Well share the former first ladys message to local students. Hey,hey, you got a minute . Youve heard of pats prized pets,ck gets a special bowl. Well,eve got a winner. They are going to get the bowl coming up on news 4. Hes is not the snow stick in the winter and the bowl in summertime, and weve got the fein making its way through. Doesnt really like the summer. Feels a little bit more like late september around our region. And that is going to change thoug the rain down in our southern zones today. Ill show you whats coming in next. I think youre going like this, at least for the next few this, at least for the next few days before the heat returns. I switched from dodge. We switched from ford. Ched from ram. I switched to chevy. We switched to chevy. We switched to chevy. For dependability. For technology. For the muscle. And just look at it. Adios, lexus. Bye, bye, ford. We switched to chevy. And i couldnt be happier. See for yourself why people are switching at the chevy allstar open house. Or add another chevy to your driveway. Current gm owners can get over 5,100 below msrp on this equinox. Find new roat your local chevy dealer. Showers are moving out of the area t on stormeam 4 radar. Doug is back in three minutes to tell you whats coming next. We had somfun coming to the studio today. I heard. The question that was going to appear on the new nbc show bring the funny. Comedians battling to become the countrys nextbig comedy star. Andrea lopez stopped by our studio today and gave her impression of sarah palin for adam tuss. Check it out. Were waving to the russians on the Foreign Policy so i love that we can get in touch with what was the question again . I dont know. Can you see russia from your house. Lets get back to that point. I can, indeed, see russia from the house. Pretty good there. It give to her. Watch bring the funny right here on nbc 4 at sock and root on the home girl here. Born and raised here in d. C. There you go buried the lead. They may not have done impressions. Maybe they had some other skills to show off, bu there were plenty of talented pets here in the dmv t who haveir own skill to show off. All so very cute, and we get red for clear the shelters next month, pat collins asked all of you to show us your pets best trick, and yesterday we narrowed the field to the final four and to meet winner of his challenge pat traveled for an hour and a half to boyce, virg. Its. Pats. Pets. Congratulations, kathy and maggie, winner of pats prized pet bowl. Its all yours now. Thank you so much. Thank you. You get the bowl. Yay achoo. It wasma ggies achoo tissue trick that put her in the winners circle. Maggies an 8yearold golden lab mix. She lives with kathy hall in boyce, vginia. Now to make sure everything was okeydokey. Achoo. Maggie did the tissue trick again for our cameras. Kathy can do all sorts of things with maggie. In fact, they are so good maggie has become an akc certified trick dog. These two. Why these two are real close. How much does she mean to u . I dont know what id do without her, i really dont. Shes gotten me through a lot of difficult times, and when we train together, it just brings us so much closer. Shes like had a bestfriend. Are you my best friend . Are, yes. Now, we got dons of entries, dogs and cats and even some birds. Our awardwinning panel of judges used an olympic scoring method to find the winner. It was close, but that tissue trick won them over. Fetching the kleenex, thats practical skill right there. The dog was able to get one clean x, not the entire box tich some humans ca even do. Delivers the tissue without making it all slimy. To m a thats differentiator right there. I bet next year when we do that that dog is going to vacuum. Congratulations once again to kathi hall and her doggi mag winn of the best pet trick and pats prized pet bowl. In boyce, vginia, pat collins, news 4. I can go for some fun. Can do even more. Maggie can do even more tricks. You didnt see all the tricks. Just saw the tissue thing which i liked because it had a verbalcue, achoo and the dog went and would do it and i liked the dog that could pull off the observers sock. Thats the one ihought would win. Thats real cool. After a long day. The dogakomes and t them and and in with the squeaky toys. All so very cute,so thank you so much for sharing your animals. They all have one trick in common. They were good at stealing your hearts. Oh, look at you. That was good. Good for you. Mo importantly, we have a clear the shelters on august 17th, so if you dont have a wonderful pet in your house or youed another one, now thats the time to do it, august 17th. There you go. Whats the weather going to st like not then but even j the rest of the evening . Much better. I really think that everybody is really enjoying the little break in the heat t ht weve out there. I mean, after many, many days in a row, 12 in a row above 90. Dulles hit 100 and bwi heat 100 degrees and heat index of 110. Theres no heatndexoday. Still a little warm and humid, but, i mean, were ten degrees below average. Mperatures right now 76 degrees. Our average high is now 88 degrees. Ctually 12 degrees below average. Winds out of the east at five miles per hour. Can you kind of tell whats happening around our area. W youve gotmer temperatures to the north and upper 70s. 78 degrees in martinsburg and the warm spot, annapolis 78. Pawtuxet river, 79. Whats the difference . Its the rain. All down to the south. No rain to the north. Cant rule out a couple of showers. We do have one enhanced shower right here along the border of hardy county and moving in towards partsed of shenando of county. Here in st. Marys county youre going, wait, its not nice here. Weve seen rain all day and as expected rain to the south d. , most of the day, down towards the Northern Neck, thar sticks ound for the next couple of hours here, and can you see whats kii of happ. Still heaviest down to the south athe heat istill just down to our south right now. But you also notice this. Look at the flow here. See the clouds coming from the north. Thats a clling f and Something Else that happened a little bit earlier. We saw a really big storm. A little spin in the atmosphere going through our area around 1 00. Way same spin moved all the up towards boston. There it is right there. Bringing a tornado today to cape cod. The second tornado since77 in that area. Kind of amazed that well have a little video on that come up atlater. Look he rest of the country. Cleared out. This strong was such a strong dyont. Cleared everybout. Not only that. Look at the temperatures across the eastern part of the country. 78 chicago and mississippi at 84 degrees. Orlando at 77. This is some really cool air making its way on in here because of the changn the jet stream. A bigtime change. Cold front or a big dip in the jet stream bringing c inl air all across the east. Last week, this is what we had. We had the heatmi and hudity all across the country. Yeah, that pattern does return as we make our way into next week so lets take a look at that forecast for you the next couple of days. 85 on your wednesday. Dont forget a. M. Rain. Theres no rain at all tomorrow. Looking great as we make our way into thursday, friday andrd satu. All looking nice. Now, remember, thursday, backyard weather day. Take a look at this. Stone gaiwim clugate swim cl me out there. I was in swim club at that age, too, so im ready to go and take on some of the 11 and 12yeards to see how we do. Well be out there for backyard weather come up on thursday. Youll be racing them . You kn im going to do it. Definitely will get in the pool, and ill be racing some of those kids. That will be a fun thing to do so tune in and search for backyard weather. Want me to come out, a couplere mo to do this summer. That will pack the house. Doug in a pool well check for the kammerer cannonball. We look forward to that. Folks, flyer beware. All week the news 4 iteam is safety. In on travel many expect that Airlines Need to do more torotect passengers with allergies. Coming up next, celebrities on campus. Howichelle obama is celebrating the success of local students and her ifyour child uses facebook messengers kids app theres an alert you need to know abouty the companays a technical errors allowed kid to join group chats with friends of friends who had not been appred by their parents. Facebook has turned off that it a in hefect the group chats and has sent parents more information on this. Not known how long the flaw was active. Ffimer t lady Michelle Obama was at Howard University this afternoon hosting the fifth annual beating the odds summit. That event is part celebration, part frank conversation about the hardships of being a First Generation College student. News 4s corey smith shows us, mrs. Obamas method for these local students. It was simple but werful. I sat in that same seat five years ago. Reporter for darrius it was surviving the south side of chicago and michelle lost her parents. Each personh on t Howard University