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a mother hit and killed with her 3-year-old. what witnesses saw before it happened. >> a weekend murder on a popular trail. how family members are remembering edrick brown. >> my family has never suffered a tragedy like this. >> the september slow down happens tomorrowment one thing that could ease traffic on the day after labor day. >> news 4 at 11:00 starts now. >> a mother killed while trying to save her 3-year-old daughter. good evening. >> new tonight, witnesses tell news 4 the woman was in a crosswalk when she and her toddler were struck by a car around 4:30 this afternoon. it happened on riverdale road between kennel worth avenue and t bw parkway.

derek ward has the latest for us. >> reporter: two and a half miles from here you would be at the university of maryland. route one. a will the of attention because of safety enhancements. folks say it's for this intersection. a woman died here aew hours ago trying to get across the street with her child. it's a busy crossing on a main road, a challenge for motorists and pedestrians. today they converged with deadly consequences. a woman and a young girl trying to cross. they had come from a nearby store the. they almost made it to the median. >> the woman screamed, grabbed her child to protect her. after that, i saw her, you know, fly way over there. >> jonathan escobar was behind another car that stropedded to let the woman cross in the crosswalk. they were hit. the woman was dead on the scene. the child, a 3-year-old girl, was taken to a hospital in critical condition. >> the striking vehicle s rivere

road. now the driver remained on scene and remains cooperative. >> as the reconstruction team began their investigation some were angry that the driver was a lowed to leave the scene after talking to police. >> why did they let them go. >> reporter: this is a bustling commercial corridor. the crosswalk and signs are here. this man says they are obviously not enough. >> this area needs more cross ing facilities because of the big shopping center. there was another accident. >> testament to the grieving loved ones of the victims. a second miscalculation. >> the guy was going fast. >> that little girl remains in critical condition. this remains under investigation.

derek ward, news 4. >> breaking news now. police tell us they have made an arrest in the murder of a woman inside a county popeyes. she was found dead in a back room are of the restaurant. she was a night manager. it appears she was killed after closing on sunday. police plan to release more information tomorrow morning. >> now the last few labor day travellers are headed back from are the eastern shore on the bay bridge. tomorrow morning's commute will be longer than it's been all summer. the first day of school will add to the gridlock in virginia. jackie ben son has more. >> commuters throughout the d.c. area cringed at the thought of getting in cars and heading out tomorrow morning. streets near shopping centers in fairfax county remained busy into the evening as the last minutes for back to school shopping ticked down. for many parent it is busy

schedule of getting the kids up, feeding them breakfast and packing lunches is made hectic by the need for extra commute time. >> i'm concerned about traffic. i work downtown. the buses will be out and everything. >> reporter: a steady line of cars rolled across the bay bridge. the last minutes of the last vacation of the summer. northern virginia commuters will have an option that was not here this time last year. the silver line. the area's nationally ranked road congestion means almost everybody has a ready answer when you ask how they handle traffic. >> the worst stretch is across the american legion bridge. people always slow down. i don't know why. i i take advantage of the hov and ex-a arpress lanes now. >> fortunately i go westbound. i'm a lucky one. hopefully i will not be stuck in traffic. i know my husband is going into maryland from virginia.

it will be interesting. >> reporter: you'll want to set your alarm earlier for tomorrow. bring your patience. jackie ben son, news 4. >> thank you. if you drive connecticut a on your commute tomorrow you won't have have to worry about a repeat of last week's commuter nightmare. the emergency paging project there was completed over the weekend. the lanes north and southbound should be much smoother on your ride to work. for help getting around any other trouble spots tomorrow, tune into news 4 today. melissa and adam will track your commute back to work and school. news 4 today starts at 4:26 a.m. >> will we have to battle the sun during the morning commute? >> storm team 4 meteorologist veronica jons has a look at the tuesday forecast on a hot stretch of weather. hey there. >> the temperatures, already even early tomorrow morning.

look at where we were today. got up to 95 degrees. there were only five other days this whole summer that have been 95 or higher. 90 degrees the high h. temple hills, too, coming in at 90. tomorrow we are talking about comparable heat across the area. today, day two. we are just a third of the way through this long, hot stretch that we've got before. it looks like the longest, hottest stretch all summer long. tomorrow morning, glad to say roads will be dry. partly sunny skies. 77 the temperature. nice and humid. wait until you see how the temperatures will be throughout the area. the heat index will get us and the threat of storms again. >> thanks. the jury is expected to begin deliberations tomorrow in the trial of bob and maureen mcdodge. they will have five weeks of testimony and evidence to weigh.

judge spencer is expected to read a long list of instructions, 90 in all, before turning them loose to decide the fate of virginia's former first couple. they are accused of accepting $177,000 in gifts and loans from jhonnie williams in exchange for promoting his diet supplement. they face millions in fines and decades in prison if convicteded. news 4 will be in the courtroom. follow nbc washington on twitter and fab for updates and news about the verdict. >> we are expecting a big day in court in d.c. tomorrow. sources say chris brown has reached a plea agreement. he and his body guard were charged with punching a fan outside a d.c. hotel last year. the body guard was found guilty. brown's plea deal is expected to him him out of jail. the hearing is set for tomorrow morning. >> a local mother wants to know why anybody would want to kill

her youngest child. 20-year-old everett brown was shot and killed over the weekend in cottage city. one man thinks he heard the gunshots. darcy spencer spoke to him and brown where's family. >> he was my omega, my helper. he was the world to me. >> he was the youngest son and is now gone. he was shot to death on a popular trail. >> he was a good-hearteded child. >> relatives gather at their home, not for a family barbecue, but to support each other and try to figure out why brown's life was taken. >> is there anything else you want to say? >> i hope whoever did it gets arrested and does the time they need to serve for the murder of my son. someone on the river trail found brown's body a couple hundred yards down the path.

that was about #:45 saturday morning. he'd been shot. >> i didn't want to believe it. >> he was andrea arnold's cousin. she babysat him as a boy. >> it's just something you never want to hear. that your baby cousin was killed. the way he was killed, the way he was found, you hear it happen with other families. our family never suffer add tragedy like this. >> bowen heard the shots. >> i called my friends and family to make sure they were okay. at the end of the day, come to find out everett is shn i know. wow. >> reporter: brown had gotten into trouble a couple of years ago, but he was turning things around, working every day, pursuing his goal to become an electrician. darcy spencer, news 4. >> tonight fairfax county police are trying to determine how a man wound up dead in an apartment complex parking lot here. he was found around 2:00 this

morning on bell view drive. police will only say he had upper body trauma. his name has not yet been released. investigators believe the victim and suspects knew each other and say there is no threat to the public. >> america deserves a raise. that's the labor day message from proeb, just ahead of midterm elections. the president returned to washington after a trip to wisconsin where he spoke to union members. meanwhile with bipartisan pressure to take action the president will attend a nato summit to address the growing threat from eye sis. they will persuade others. germany and australia have promised to send weapons to troops fighting militants in iraq. britain announced new rules from

militants headed to syria or iraq. >> it was surprising video that went viral over the weekend. rebels storm an embassy and then throw a pool p party. >> no staff members were there because they were all evacuated last month due to heavy fighting in the region. >> less than a week until the rinz start the real football season. >> we respect everyone's opinions. >> next dan snyder talks about the controversy over the team te name. what he learned visiting reservations. >> hacking scandal and the fbi addressing the leak of oh private photographs from celebrities like jennifer lawrence.

hikers on the billy goat trail thought they heard an explosion when a boulder fell and crushed a man. ryan calder was climbing near old angler's inn when the rocks came crashing down. rescue crews tried to reach him but had trouble because of the storms. even if the weather cooperated it is unlikely he could have been saved. >> lengthy comments from dan snyder on the team name controversy. he says there are bigger issues to worry about. snyder says he's traveled to two

dozen reservations and heard only positive things. he cited the team culture and history as a reason to keep the name. >> we o, all of us, a great gratitude to what built this franchise. it's john riggins, sammy ball, bobby mitchum. the name of the franchise, it's the washington rinz. >> he said native americans would rather talk about ways to solve issues on the reservation like high unemployment or access to health care and quality education. >> the fbi is on the case after hackers broke into apple's i cloud service an posted revealing photos of celebrities all over the internet. the images of stars including jennifer lawrence were leaked over the weekend. the fbi is aware and is addressing the matter. it didn't reveal what action the agency was taking.

apple is commenting for the first time tonight and says it is investigating whether other i cloud accounts were compromised. gamblers got more than they counted for at the opening weekend at the horseshoe casino in baltimore. a brawl broke out in a line to get pizza around 3:00 a.m. saturdayment one woman sprayed mace before security guards stepped in. 15,000 people visiteded the casino on opening night last tuesday. >> must be good pizza. it is the last night of gambling for the rebel. it will close at 6:00 tomorrow. it comes two years after the complex opened. it is one of three casinos shuttering over the next two weeks. >> disappointed to see the casinos closing down. >> would you come back? >> it's sad to see it fade away.

>> the show boat shut its doors yesterday. the trump plaza will close september 16. 12 casinos would have closed this year, putting 8,000 people out of work. >> all the people coming back from the beach the last weekend of the summer, just as it's starting to feel like a real summer. >> we are going to have more heat, more storms firing. tomorrow the storms during the afternoon. what happens when you get rain, light, all hitting at the right angle. you get that. you're right. if you have caught that, it was andrews as the president landed. we even had a rain shaft or two around the area. cool with the fact we only had a few scattered storms between 3:30 and 4:30 this afternoon. school bus forecast, first thing

at the bus stop, no issues whatsoever. it will be warm and dry. by recess, use caution. it will be hot. the heat index around recess time 95 to 100. higher by dismissal time. caution for recess and dismissal on tuesday. let's see what's going on here. get it moving for you. storm team 4 radar is a quiet commuter impact. dry roads and 736789 storms and wet roads possible by the afternoon. 94 the temperature. keep an eye on the sky. exercising tomorrow morning, the best time of day is early on. air quality. we'll hit 90 easily before noon tomorrow. with that, again, the heat index, high humidity. 3:00 tomorrow, 99 to 100. many neighborhoods tomorrow.

culpepper, stafrd, alexandra, wall dofl getting to around 100 tomorrow. that's 5:00. still feeling hot. quite oppressive tomorrow. comes into the 90, 95 range by the early evening tomorrow. storms will start firing across the area. here we are at 4:00 tomorrow. our best chance between 3:00 and 8:00. if i had to put it into a tighter window for you, any of the storms could bring downpours and good rain in a short period of time. 90 to 95. storms after 2:00, 3:00 tomorrow afternoon. here's a look at the storm team 4-day forecast. a long stretch of heat for us. the longest we have seen all summer long. right now wednesday and thursday are dry. bring in h the storm threat for friday afternoon and saturday afternoon. the weekend is split. hot on saturday.

81 for the high on sunday. sunday, no storm threat. we do have the chance for rainshowers as we go into the first part of next week. that was a 76 degree high for next tuesday. >> okay. this could be more 90-degree days than all summer from the looks of it. >> ironic, but yes. >> thanks. >> still ahead, an unlikely hero >> still ahead, an unlikely hero

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>> we have breaking baseball news just in from the west coast. >> i like that. >> we know fall is approaching. we could be seeing a preview of the playoffs the next few days. the two best teams of the n.l., the nationals and dodgers, based on record, begin their three-game series in l.a. naths not wasting time on this one tonight. the third batter in the game, jason worth at the plate launches this one. solo shot to left center. third hoern in his last four games. that's taken an early lead. bottom frame of the inning. gonzales on the mound. ramirez catches him looking.

four strikeouts and three runs allowed tonight. top of the five. man on first for span and the center fielder hammers this one to right. second career multi homer game. that's with four home runs on the night. they hold on for the win, 6-4. orioles. finishing the series with the twins. adam jones bobblehead day. brought his friends the nuns. 3-0. two on, two out. conley, the catcher crushes this one to left. top eight now. one run comes in easy. throwing him out at home. just doesn't get there in time. two-run double.

the orioles lose 6-4. remember a few weeks ago the redskins practice with the patriots for three days. there's logic to it. reason to it. the patriots run the same offense and defense as the texans. the redskins first opponent this sunday. now they are watching tape from are the practices. rgiii and the redskins back on the field today, getting ready. putting in a full week of work gearing up for the tough texans defense. rgiii and the offense hope to improve in a poor preseason where the starters didn't score a touchdown. they sent just 58 yards. griffin ready to get the show on the road. >> we had two solid games. we put together a bad one. that's fine. we'll get that taste out of their mouth with houston.

we'll fix it at practice. we hope you guys find out about it. >> when people asked, why are they practicing with the patriots. >> oh, yeah. >> tom brady had a part of that. just the fact that they are practicing against a premier team. the technical saxans from the b tree with the patriots. they have similar offense and defense. it would be god to prep for week one. a good test to see how the offense has come together under the new coach. >> makes sense. >> we'll be down there.

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rgiii's alma mater has a new game day precision called sail gating. mclean stadium has a new opportunity for partying before the games. today for home opener plenty of fans brought boats sending a new dimension to the experience. the new stadium is the first to be built on campus at baylor in 80 years. that looks fun. >> i'll say. >> they do it at university of washi