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News4’s Mauricio Casillas spoke to the victim’s father and heard from his employer.

A couple killed when lightning struck Thursday near the White House were in town celebrating their 56th anniversary. News4’s Walter Morris spoke to their niece.

A tree was hit by lightning in Lafayette Square during Thursday’s storm, injuring four people and resulting in three deaths. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Two people have died after they and two others were apparently struck by lightning last night near the White House, police said.

Two of the four people who were apparently struck by lightning Thursday near the White House have died, Washington D.C. police said.

Four people have life-threatening injuries after they were apparently struck by lightning near the White House in Washington, D.C., Thursday evening, fire officials said.

Two of the victims have died, police said in an update Friday morning. Go here for updates. Four people have life-threatening injuries after they were apparently struck by lightning near the White House in Washington, D.C., Thursday evening, fire officials said. U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Park Police officers rushed to help the two women and two men when...

Storm Team4 Chief Meteorologist Doug Kammerer is tracking severe weather.

A massive lightning strike in Northern Virginia startled residents and rumbled homes. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

Firefighters are working to quash new fires ignited by lightning after thunderstorms with mostly small but welcome amounts of rain rumbled across drought-stricken Northern California, where forests have been burning for weeks.

The Washington Monument reopened Sunday after a lightning strike earlier this month damaged electrical systems inside. News4’s Derrick Ward reports live from the foot of the monument.

The Washington Monument was closed after a dramatic lightning strike during Aug. 15’s thunderstorms, video from Viralhog shows.

Repairs to the monument’s electronic access system were ongoing on Tuesday after the obelisk was hit by lightning Sunday, the National Park Service said.

The Washington Monument will be closed Monday after it was struck by lightning a day earlier, officials say.  The National Park Service shared stunning video posted to Twitter showing a bolt of lightning connecting with the point of the monument.  The yellowish night sky turns blue as lightning flashes around the National Mall, the 12-second video shows. Then a...

A camera inside a Florida man’s truck captured a bolt of lightning striking a nearby palm tree – and it wasn’t even raining. Jonathan Moore was working Monday afternoon in Lutz, a suburb of Tampa, when the lightning bolt struck a tree about 75-feet away. A loud boom can be heard in the video moments before the strike, which...