7News First Alert Meteorologist Mark Peña said the chance for continued storms wraps up around midnight, but not before a half-inch of rain accumulates. He warned that a “low end flash flooding threat” continues for low-water crossings “that tend to swell after heavy rainfall.”

The latest comes after Northern Virginia was placed under a flood warning alert by the National ӣ����Ƶ Service. At the time, WTOP Meteorologist said rain was falling at rates of 2 to 3 inches an hour on Interstate 66 near Oakton, Fairfax and Vienna.

The District and surrounding areas were also placed under a flood watch. Both weather notices were lifted by 2 p.m. Sunday.

By Monday morning, however, commuters will be met with partly cloudy and patchy fog conditions and temperatures in the mid-60s, according to Peña. The day’s highest temperatures will peak around 90 degrees.

Heat and humidity increase Tuesday as winds turn southerly, with highs returning to the lower 90s under mostly sunny skies.

Dangerous heat builds Wednesday and continues into the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Highs reach the upper 90s and could approach 100, with heat index values between 102 and 107.

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Anna Vocino said she was shocked when she heard she landed the animated role in Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5.”

“I read on it, and then my agent called me,” Vocino said, detailing how the studio was looking for her availability to record for the role.

Vocino said she thought Disney and Pixar were asking her to do “scratch tracking,” where producers have someone come in to read, and then have another actor record the final version for the movie. But that wasn’t the case here.

“They’re like, ‘no, no,��to do the actual part,’ and I was��just in disbelief,” she said. “I was in disbelief up until I think after I even recorded it.”

Producers gave Vocino the option to either record at home or at the Pixar campus.

“I was like, ‘duh,��go to the Pixar campus,'” she said.

Taking on the role

Vocino said she felt a lot of pressure taking on the role because she was replacing Estelle Harris, who voiced the iconic role in the first four films.

Harris died in 2022 at the age of 93.

“I wanted to make sure that I did it well and did her justice and made her family proud and made her memory proud,” Vocino said.

She said she even got to meet Mr. Potato Head, her animated “husband” in the movie that’s voiced by Jeff Bergman in “Toy Story 5.”

Bergman took over the role after the 2017 death of actor Don Rickles, who voiced Mr. Potato Head since the first film in 1995. Rickles died at the age of 90.

“I recorded my session, and as I was walking out, Jeff was coming in to do his session. So we got to meet each other, give each other a hug, and then have since been in touch …��and talking about what it’s like to be the Potato Heads,” she said.

Vocino is hopeful that maybe the viewers will get a little more backstory about the vegetable couple in the future.��“We’re trying to convince Pixar to do a Potato Head origin story, so that we can find out how the Potato Heads met. That’s what we want to do,” she said.

Northern Virginia roots

Vocino grew up in Northern Virginia and traveled around the area with her mom who was a United Methodist minister.

She grew up singing and said she believes it really helped her develop her skills as a voice actor.

“I was in church choir, trained as a singer, played the piano, and I have noticed that people who I now meet in voice-over, a lot of them have a musical background, I think that the music ear helped with the voice matching with the rhythm in the case,” she said.

Vocino does stand up and always like doing “funny voices” and realized it just fit.

“We need actors, we need entertainment, and��yet we think that it’s all the Tom Hanks and the Tim Allens … we need those guys, but we also need the little journeyman actors who fill in the other roles, like myself, and I’ve been lucky to be one of those guys,” she said.

But Vocino’s life isn’t all behind the microphone. She also deals with food for her other gig.

She’s the founder and CEO of Eat Happy Kitchen, a brand known for clean-ingredient pasta sauces, spices, and snacks.

The company, she said, started out of her own struggles after being diagnosed with celiac disease in 2002.

“I was upset to find out that gluten was in pretty much everything that I like to eat, being half southern and half Italian, with all the good foods, you name it —��pasta, red velvet cake, key lime pie, fried chicken. Like, you name it, I couldn’t have it,” she said. “So I was like, let me figure out how to make this stuff, and I started blogging about it.”

Vocino’s brand is now in about 1,300 retailers nationwide.

WTOP’s Andrew Alsbrooks contributed to this report.

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A single-engine plane crashed near a residential neighborhood late Saturday in Bowie, Maryland, leaving three people dead, according to police.

The single-engine Piper Cherokee crashed around 11:30 p.m. with a pilot and two passengers on board, according to Maryland State Police spokesperson Elena Russo. All three people on board were men. Identification is being withheld pending next of kin notification, police said.

The plane was en route from Ocean City, New Jersey, to Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg, Russo said.

Prince George’s County Public Safety Communications received information at 11:53 p.m. about an “iPhone crash alert” that indicated “a crash in the area of Rt. 50 and 301,” Russo said.

The search for the plane

Multiple local agencies responded and began a ground and aerial search immediately, including members of the Prince George’s County Fire Department, Maryland State Police College Park Barrack, Anne Arundel County Police and Aviation, Bowie City Police and the Prince George’s County Police Department.��

The aircraft was located around 3:45 a.m., “in a wooden area in close proximity to a residential area” off of Scarlet Oak Terrace, Russo said, noting a public park was in the nearby area.

“We don’t have any other information at this point from any eye witnesses or anybody that heard anything. The only thing we have is that iPhone crash alert,” she said.

The debris covers about 100 feet in a wooded area behind a fence that is “very close to a townhome community behind a playground,” she said.

Police said they believe the plane belongs to an area flight school in Montgomery County and “was possibly participating in a training flight.”

“It’s absolutely a tragic incident that we are here investigating today. It could have been even worse because of the proximity of the crash was literally right next to a town home community in Bowie,” Russo said.

The plane that crashed is mostly ‘very safe’

WTOP’s Dan Ronan, who is a licensed pilot, said the Piper Cherokee is commonly used in training because it is relatively easy to operate.

“It is frequently flown, very safe,” Ronan said. “It is a relatively simple airplane to fly because it does not have retractable landing gear. The gear is fixed. The engine is relatively simple in terms of aviation parlance. Managing the engine and the power settings is relatively simple, as compared to other complex, more complicated airplanes,” he said.��

When it comes to visibility, Ronan said Saturday night was very clear and conditions were favorable for flying.

“As far as nights to fly, last night was a gorgeous night,” he said.

“The temperature was cool, it was in the 70s, the visibility was wide open, very good visibility in terms of flying. If you’re going to pick a night to fly general aviation and do a cross country from Ocean City, New Jersey, to our area, very, very good night to fly in terms of just overall conditions.”

NTSB investigation

The investigation will be led by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration. The NTSB dispatched an official from its area field office who is expected to arrive Sunday.��

The NTSB said in a statement to WTOP that additional information is expected Monday.

“Once on scene, the investigator will begin documenting the site and examining the aircraft,” the NTSB said. “They will request air traffic communications, radar data, and weather reports, and attempt to contact any witnesses. Additionally, the investigator will obtain the aircraft’s maintenance records, as well as the pilot’s medical records and flight history.”

Ronan said that the NTSB will be looking at the pilot, passengers, aircraft and all elements before and during flight.

“They’re going to be looking at the airplane, the condition of the airplane, all of the mechanical records, and then, of course, they will deconstruct the lives of those poor people who passed away,” Ronan said.

“Sadly, they will be deconstructing the last week of their lives to try and figure out what, if any, human factors might have been a contributing factor that caused this accident late last night, early this morning.”��

A map of the area where the plane crashed is below:

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“Father’s Day is that one time that’s really highlighted when we really think about what that means to be a child’s father,” said N. Jeremi Duru, a professor at American University’s Washington College of Law.

Duru, who grew up in the D.C. area and has three sons, co-wrote “” with his longtime friend and fellow law school housemate Shani M. King.

He said the book is about sharing stories and giving his children guidance as they grow eventually become fathers.

“The time when you encourage your child to go swimming for the first time, picking them up for school. How much fun it is to do your work with them while they’re doing their homework next to you,” Duru said.

The idea for the book came from King, who had been working on a message to his own children.

“Shani was working on kind of a piece of writing — a poem, a love letter to his children — and he shared it with me, and I was like, that’s incredible. And he said, ‘What do you think about us turning this into a book together?’” Duru said.

Duru said the book is also meant to help fathers express love in ways that may not come naturally.

“Our hope with the book is to allow fathers who may not have that instinct to express love in that way to do so through the book,” he said. “We want this book to be a tool for fathers who may not be as comfortable expressing their emotions to their child, telling their child, ‘I love you.’”

For Duru, one of the book’s most meaningful moments focuses on a father comforting a child who has fallen off a bike.

“A father is holding his child and comforting the child and explaining that the child’s pain is the father’s pain. The father feels it as well, and the father wants to do everything he can to alleviate that pain for the child. To me, that’s the most touching page of the book,” Duru said.

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Research is finding that they have an impact on infertility in men.

“No dad can fix toxic pollution with a toolbox,” said Marc Boom, senior director of public affairs at the Environmental Protection Network.

He said they’ve recently to bring awareness to how harmful certain pollutants are, and how they could cause infertility in men.

The EPN said in the report that about 172 million Americans have PFAS chemicals, known as “forever chemicals” in their drinking water, and nearly everyone in the U.S., including newborn babies, has PFAS in their blood from multiple sources, such as water, food, consumer products and indoor dust.

“Things like PFAS, which are also known as forever chemicals, phthalates and even some pesticides, can interfere with hormones and fertility and reproductive health,” he said.

So how do you protect yourself? He said there are some simple steps to take.

“Don’t heat up your food in plastic, don’t store it in plastic, that can leach out and can increase your exposure. If you’re concerned about PFAs, you can, you can look at your water utility, see what they’re doing about it. You can buy a certified filter,” Boom said.

Another thing is looking at what’s in your cookware. Non-stick cookware often includes PFAS in the coating. You could be cooking harmful toxins into your healthy food.

“There’s this whole class of emerging pollutants, like PFAS, forever chemicals that we are just starting to understand,” Boom said. “You might come across them in your water, in your air and the food you eat at work, or in your home, the products that you buy.”

“Father’s Day is a time when a lot of us think about the people we love and what it means to protect them.”

Find more about the connection between PFAS and infertility in men at the EPN .

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The that large sections of the Potomac River and the Anacostia River will be closed to recreational boaters during the holiday celebration.

The closures include all waters of the Potomac River from the Francis Scott Key Bridge to 200 yards south of the 14th Street Bridge from 8 a.m. on July 2 through 6 a.m. on July 5.

All areas of the Anacostia River from the 11th Street Bridge to 200 yards south of the Frederick Douglass Bridge will be closed from 6 p.m. to midnight on July 4. The closing on the Anacostia River applies to all vessels.

While recreational boaters will not be allowed on the Potomac from July 2 through July 5, commercial ferries and dinner cruises will be allowed to travel on the Potomac on July 2, but not from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on July 3 or noon to midnight on July 4.

Flights to and from Reagan National Airport will also be impacted on July 4 as the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said Tuesday that no planes will take off or land at the airport on July 4 after noon until flights resume July 5.

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The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 2.4-magnitude earthquake in Harford County shortly after 10 a.m.

The epicenter of the quake was a little less than 5 miles from Bel Air.

A map on the USGS website showed that from the epicenter.

WTOP’s Sarah Jacobs felt it at her home Monday morning.

“We heard what we thought was an explosion,” Jacobs said. “Because we live close enough to Aberdeen Proving Ground, we thought they might have been testing some explosives.”

But she said this felt different from the explosions they’re used to.

“There was a little bit of rumbling that trailed off, which is not what you usually hear,” she said. “It was strong enough to rattle the house and makes me wonder if I should probably check my foundation for some new cracks.”

In October, USGS reported that a 2.5-magnitude earthquake shook Howard County, Maryland.

The quake happened in Columbia at a depth of nearly 5 miles and was reportedly felt in D.C. and Arlington, Virginia.

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The Coffee Connexion Co. that were sold in 41 states, including Maryland and Virginia. The products are printed with UPC number 0039954921963.

Additionally, for requesón, soft ricotta cheese made by the Clover Hill Dairy in Mechanicsville. The health department previously suspended the dairy’s operating license on May 30 after the facility issued its own voluntary recall for a possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.

The dairy is tied to a listeria outbreak strain that sickened eight people and killed at least one person in Maryland. Officials said the fatality was recorded in 2023. The ricotta cheese most recently flagged by investigators is labeled with the manufacturer number “24-128.”

Consumers, retailers and restaurants are urged against eating, selling or serving cheese products from Clover Hill Dairy and should dispose of any product containing them.

See a full list of the newly flagged Clover Hill Dairy .

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The charges stem from an incident in the summer of 2023, when William Christopher Callaway, 36, of Manassas, was seen retrieving a package from an apartment complex in Loudoun County and then entering a vehicle driven by Ann Sue Hyun Lee, 39, of Sterling.

Callaway was sentenced last week to 10 years in the Virginia Department of Corrections for convictions of one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, one count of attempted possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and two counts of conspiracy to transport methamphetamine into the Commonwealth, according to a news release.

Hyun Lee was sentenced in 2024 to��serve 14 years in prison for similar drug charges related to
Callaway’s arrest, according to the news release. She received a higher sentence due to an aggravating criminal history, according to the court.

Deputies stopped the vehicle and conducted a K9 scan, which alerted to the presence of narcotics.

Approximately two pounds of methamphetamine, 1,000 pills containing fentanyl, and $16,000 in cash were recovered by law enforcement from Callaway and Lee, according to the release.

“We hope that these sentences send a strong message that dealing fentanyl and other lethal drugs will not be tolerated in Loudoun County. We are grateful to our law enforcement partner, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, for their diligence in bringing these criminals to justice,” said Commonwealth’s Attorney Bob Anderson.

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D.C. Fire and EMS responded to a single car crash early Saturday on Suitland Parkway near Sheridan Road Southeast. First responders were called to the scene shortly before 1:30 a.m.

The crash ended with the car rolled onto its roof.

One of the women in critical condition when EMS arrived was transported by helicopter to a hospital. The three other women were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

Single Motor Vehicle Rollover: Inbound Suitland Parkway closest to Sheridan Rd SE.

One vehicle rolled over on its roof.

three adult females transported with non-serious/non-life threatening injuries.

One adult female in critical condition transported via helicopter.

— DC Fire and EMS Department (@dcfireems)

An investigation to determine the cause of the crash remains active.

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The WNO announced in January that it was moving performances away from the Kennedy Center, terminating a 15-year relationship to produce operas there. In a statement, the WNO said that the separation was “at the Kennedy Center’s own suggestion.”

Over the years, the Kennedy Center managed donations made through the center to the opera company.

When it separated from the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera said that the Kennedy Center has since refused to turn over the donations made to them.

The lawsuit filed Thursday claims that during their affiliation, the Washington National Opera and the Kennedy Center “always remained separate legal entities.” It also states that the funds being managed by the Kennedy Center for them, belonged to the Washington National Opera and not to the Kennedy Center.

“These funds represent years of gifts from loyal supporters who gave specifically to
advance WNO’s mission, its performances, its artists, and its education and community programs,” the company said in a statement. “WNO has a fiduciary responsibility to its donors to ensure their contributions are honored and used as intended to support the work of WNO’s artists and its programs.”

The company said that it “spent months attempting to resolve this matter privately.” Attempts included “repeated meetings and a formal request for mediation” before filing the lawsuit.

In a statement the Kennedy Center denied the allegations in the lawsuit, arguing that its longstanding agreement with the opera company created a significant financial strain on the institution.

“The exclusive WNO contract financially burdened the Center for more than a decade,” said Roma Daravi, the Kennedy Center’s vice president of public relations. Daravi said an analysis by accounting group BDO calculated that the opera company accumulated a $72 million deficit to the Center between 2011 through 2026, after accounting for WNO’s endowment.

Daravi said the Kennedy Center made multiple proposals to address the issue but accused WNO of failing to participate in “good-faith discussions” and that its former artistic director Francesca Zambello undermined coordination between the two organizations.

She said the Center will countersue the opera company.

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The store is coming into the former Dulles Expo space in Chantilly, and it’s opening on June 18. But it’s giving the community a sneak peek with a special event on Tuesday.

The event on Tuesday features activities and giveaways for their opening.

The Chantilly store will be the third Ikea location in Virginia and will be 110,000-square-feet.

Those wanting to check out the space need to register online for a free spot to enter. As of Friday, there were two time slots for entry into the store. The first is 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and the second is 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Ikea said that space is limited and on a first-come-first-served basis.

Find information on how to register . Scroll down the Chantilly page to the “come say hei” section.

The Dulles Expo closed in December.

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around 9:30 p.m. Saturday for a “domestic situation.”

Officers said that after an “altercation” in the house, the 25-year-old Herndon man��left before police arrived, allegedly kidnapping someone that he knew, taking that person’s car and fleeing the area.

Police from several agencies chased the car from Virginia through the District and into Maryland, they say. The car and the alleged kidnapping victim were both left in Prince George’s County, .

Police said the alleged victim is safe and the man is still on the run. Multiple charges have been filed against him, according to police, including robbery, assault and reckless driving.

See where the incident started below:

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Police said it happened around 3:30 a.m. near 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, near the National Mall.

The driver of one of the cars ran from the scene.

That person was quickly picked up by uniformed Secret Service officers, who turned him over to U.S. Park Police.

A passenger in the other car was ejected pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of that car was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

U.S. Park Police are investigating the crash. The driver who ran from the scene of the crash is in custody and “charges are being coordinated” with the U.S. State’s Attorney’s Office.

The crash happened less than two weeks after a��Dundalk, Maryland, man was shot and killed near a U.S. Secret Service checkpoint on May 25. He had previously been arrested for trespassing on White House grounds.

A map of the area is below.

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Fourteen students have been named semifinalists, including 13 from public schools and one from a private school.

The list includes one student each from Anne Arundel County and Calvert County public schools, four from Howard County public schools, six from Montgomery County Public Schools, one from Washington County Public Schools and one from a private school in North Bethesda.

“We are unbelievably proud by the national recognition for our students’ academic, artistic and career and technical education accomplishments,” said State Superintendent of Schools Carey M. Wright. “These students are among the best and the brightest and we wish them well during the final round of the selection process.”

The program started in 1964 and honors top high school seniors in the U.S., with up to��161 students nationwide being named U.S. Presidential Scholars by the U.S. Department of Education.

Scholars are selected based on their accomplishments across many areas, including academic and artistic achievement, career and technical education (CTE) success, leadership and school and community involvement.

The finalists will be announced later this year.

The semifinalists are:

• Anne Arundel County Public Schools: Nora B. Devine from Severna Park High School (CTE)
• Calvert County Public Schools: Kayla Rae Jones from Patuxent High School (CTE)
• Howard County Public School System: Nikhil R. Maddirala from Marriott Ridge High School, Advik Rai from River Hill High School, Chelsea I. Sun from Atholton High School (CTE) and Jayen A. Tolia from Reservoir High School.
• Montgomery County Public Schools: Mayme Rose Killeen from Walt Whitman High School, Anya Frances Kleinman from Richard Montgomery High School, Cooper Liu Li from Montgomery Blair High School, Grace E. Li from Richard Montgomery High School, Sherry Lin from Richard Montgomery High School and Aditya Purohit from Richard Montgomery High School.
• Washington County Public Schools: Ella Bryn Rechtorovic from Williamsport High School (Arts)
• Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda: Joseph Michael Doherty

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