visibly sparse over the chicago area. this map shows a number of planes in the air just a few hours ago. and people here in our area are still feeling the impacts of this hour with hundreds of delays at reagan national, dulles and vwi marshal airport. >> we have team coverage tonight. adam tuss has more on the fallout for local flyers. but let's start with nbc's wendy wo woolfolk in chicago. >> reporter: a terrible day at the busiest airport, despite the gorgeous weather in the chicago area. it's had a domino effect across the country. >> lines are terribly long. just crazy. >> reporter: air traveler's nightmare as more than 1,000 flights in and out of chicago's o'hare airport are grounded on a busy friday morning. >> i'm afraid it's going to be an all-day. we don't know what's going on. >> reporter: a fire at the faa center that controls radar for flights at midway and o'hare

airport brought air traffic to a halt. according to investigators, the fire was intentionally set. but they stress, it was not an act of terrorism. >> this is a local issue with a contract employee and nothing else. >> reporter: but it is a national issue as travelers across the country wait. >> i'm really tired. i want to go home. i want to sleep. i get to get to my destination. i want to lay my baby down. >> reporter: understandable frustration as passengers navigate long lines and huge crowds to get to their final destination. right now they are operating under what's called a reduced rate operating system. that means they're letting a few flights in and a few flights out. so you can bet that a lot of flights are still cancelled this evening and most of them are delayed. definitely all passengers are going to have to pack their patience. live in chicago, i'm wendy woolfolk. now back to you.

travelers here in the washington area are frustrated too. here is a live look at reagan national. tonight, news4 caught up with several passengers who are not happy about having to change their travel planes, because of the chicago incident. our team coverage it continues now with transportation reporter adam tuss, live at national with more on the local impact. adam? >> reporter: yeah, well, if you're going to chicago or expecting someone coming from chicago, better double-check things. i just checked the board here at reagan national, and even at this hour, there are still delays and cancellations. and for the airports and the airlines, it's really not much they could have done. up and down the board, delays and cancellations to chicago's o'hare and midway. >> many folks came to the airport, their flight was cancelled and they're making other arrangements to fly to chicago later or reroute themselves through the airlines through other cities. >> reporter: jana miller from potomac supposed to make a bar mitzvah tomorrow morning in chicago, but the flight

cancelled. the earliest they can get on another one, tomorrow. so now a bit of improvising. they're headed to tampa. >> to stay in a hotel and go to the pool. girls weekend. >> reporter: what are you going to have? >> girls weekend. >> reporter: girls weekend in tampa. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: airport leaders telling us this was a hard situation to deal with, because it hit so suddenly. planes literally stuck on the ground as cancellations grew throughout the day. the longer the ground stop, the longer it takes to get the system back up to speed. aside from that, there is the question about safety and security at facilities. the airport's authority here took notice of it all. >> we pay attention to any incident that involves an issue with the aviation system to ensure that the measures that we're taking here at our local airports are appropriate to deal with that. >> reporter: some headed to chicago didn't know what happened until we told them. >> been in meetings all morning and isolated i guess. this is the first i've heard of it. >> reporter: now the word is out. and the system is trying to recover.

and back here live at reagan national airport, again, just checked the board. still delays and cancellations to and from the chicago area. even at this hour. reporting live at reagan national airport, adam tuss, news4. before you head out of town, head to our website. we posted a link where you can check to see if your flight is impacted by the mess in chicago. just search flight delays on nbcwashington.com. well, his flight is booked, and tonight jesse matthew is headed back to virginia from texas. he didn't fight extradition and will be back here a little bit later tonight. this as the search for hannah graham, the university of virginia student that matthew is accused of abducting, expands. also today, matthew's attorney issued a strong warning to the media. northern virginia bureau reporter david culver is covering all these angles live from charlottesville. david? >> reporter: chris, right now a commercial airliner are is bringing jesse matthew back to virginia. we're hearing tonight he's going to be brought to the richmond

airport. from there, officers will escort him back here to charlottesville and then take him straight to jail. in one of these suvs sits jesse matthew, leaving the galveston county jail, headed to a texas airport. after leading police on a multiday manhunt that ended wednesday, more than 1,000 miles away from charlottesville, matthew is now headed back to virginia. but it will likely be a few days before he faces a judge for his bond hearing. >> it's as if there is a legal holiday, no court monday, tuesday, wednesday, which means this individual would sit until thursday. >> reporter: there some exceptions. >> they could schedule court if there is a good enough reason. there are substitute judges that could be called in. >> reporter: this is one of the few people who will likely speak with matthew, his attorney, who demanded the media keep away from matthew's family. >> his family is a very nice family. hard-working, god-fearing family here in central virginia.

and, you know, i've said this every day i've talked to you guys. really would wish people would leave them alone. >> reporter: all this, while the search for hannah graham spreads wider tonight. six k-9 units just like this one walking for hours in the open fields and the woods. the search now stretches into the far reaches of albemarle county. >> there may be a lot of information to process as we come up on a very busy nice weekend, when people are outdoors. but that's a good problem for us to have. we'll sort through that information. we'll send the teams out and accomplish those areas and just means we have to bring more resources in. >> reporter: and we can tell you that those searches will continue through the weekend. meantime, police are hopeful that since matthew will be brought back to charlottesville and will be behind bars here, that others may come forward with more information. others who may have been intimidated or scared in the past. ultimately, they're hoping to find hannah graham. we're live in charlottesville tonight.

i'm david culver, news4. >> thanks david. he leaves a jail in which he was kept away from other inmates. police in galveston say matthew was kept in a secluded part of the jail for his protection. a woman first spotted him in texas when his car pulled up along a beach wednesday. >> his windows were down. and he leaned over his console and stuck his head like really close to the passenger seat window. and looked right at me for a long time. it kind of creeped me out. >> reporter: matthew was questioned by virginia investigators who flew there to talk to him. still not clear why he was in texas or if he knew anyone there. a police officer accused of sexually assaulting one of his wife's teenage relatives has been found dead in maryland. officers found the body of former prince george's county lieutenant john warhurst. he was in a park in anne arundel county. they say it appears he took his

own life. warhurst was arrested last fall and charged with rape and sexual assault of a minor. he had been with the police department for more than two decades. we're getting some new information tonight about a local woman who was killed by a bus at a metro station in fairfax county. her name is lore evena jimenez and she lived in alexandria. last night she was walking through the passenger drop-off area at the huntington metro station and that's when a fairfax metro bus hit her. officials shut down the station for several hours while they investigated the accident. so far, it doesn't look as if alcohol or speeding had had anything to do with it, and no charges have been filed against the driver. it's a capitol hill institution that is set to make a comeback. more than a year after going up in flames. frager's hardware will be rebuilt in its original home along pennsylvania avenue southeast. you may recall the images of that massive fire that destroyed the store last summer. investigators said a discarded cigarette was the likely cause.

they had been doing business at that same place since 1920. the real estate company roadside development is heading up construction of the new store and plans to hold community meetings about the new development. pretty? it was not. but the redskins didn't just lose to the giants on prime time tv. they lost a couple of their players, as well. dianna russini is here with an update on the injuries and more on what went wrong here. >> yeah, it was not a pretty one out there, guys. lots of redskins hurt, too, like niles paul who suffered a concussion. but some good news for the , starting offensive lineman trent williams. had an injured knee yesterday, but they said he's going to be okay. it was not pretty last night, guys. kirk cousins starting for the sixth time in his career threw four interceptions. the offense scoring 14 points. the defense, even uglier, making

ely manning look like a star. the team playing with lots of rookies and the giants did nothing but pick on the young guys. but coach gruden has a theory about this blowout. >> sometimes a good slap in the face, wake-up call is what you need. and hopefully our guys respond. i know the coaches will and i will. we have just got to make sure we get our players to respond. >> i don't know if i would use the word slap, you know. it was more like a knockout, you know. but a lot of times when you get beat like this, and, you know, you get beat in every phase of the game, you wake up. and everybody starts coming to life. >> well, the redskins will now have to wait over a week to play their next game. the next opponent, the defending super bowl champs, seattle seahawks. we'll talk about that game in 30 minutes. >> not an easy one. some scary moments for a washington player off the field. tonight he is sharing his side of the story after a run-in with a suspended drunk driver. a dog's day in court. how this small family pet helped deliver a powerful message.

a man was sentenced in a disturbing case of abuse. and more u.s. air strikes are launched as the coalition grows to target the terror group isis. what to expect over the next couple days? well, we've got some beautiful weather. a chance for showers on monday. we'll talk about that. and watching late next week. could be an interesting scenario setting up. i've got it all for you coming up in just a minute.

there is new video of what's been happening in the u.s. led charge to stop isis extremists overseas. the pentagon released this footage of an air strike on an isis controlled refinery in eastern syria on wednesday. and in a new development today, the british parliament decided to help the u.s. coalition, joining the air strikes in iraq. here in washington, some members of congress say lawmakers should also be on the job. nbc's jennifer johnson has our report. >> reporter: for a second day, u.s. war planes bombed oil installations in eastern syria. those controlled by isis militants and used to fund their war of terror. secretary chuck hagel says the u.s. will not let up. >> this will not be an easy or brief effort. we are at the beginning. >> reporter: officials won't commit to u.s. combat troops on the ground but will provide support for other country soldiers. >> there is no air power alone

solution to isil, either in iraq or in syria. and so the answer is yes, there has to be a ground component to the campaign against isil and syria. and we believe that the path to develop that is the syrian moderate opposition. >> reporter: as the u.s.-led coalition grows, denmark and belgium are the latest to sign on. british politicians finally decided to commit their own war planes for strikes in iraq. >> this is about psychopathic terrorists that are trying to kill us. and we do have to realize that whether we like it or not, they have already declared war on us. >> reporter: action in london as congress is away. lawmakers are off until after the november elections. unable to vote on further military action. >> many of us are demanding we go back into session. many of us opposed going out of session for the elections at a time when another war is beginning. >> reporter: secy is tighter at new york's penn station. one day after iraq's new prime minister suggested that captured isis soldiers said the group planned to attack somewhere in the u.s.

a claim u.s. intelligence has not confirmed. jennifer johnson, nbc news. washington. police say a man was so angry about losing his job, he went back to the plant where he worked and killed someone. but the way he did it has the fbi involved. witnesses say alton nolen had just been fired from a food processing plant when he drove back to the building and walked inside. police say he grabbed a knife, stabbed a co worker and then cut her head off. he stabbed another woman, wounded her, and that's when an off-duty sheriff's deputy grabbed his rifle and shot him. it's so similar to the way the militant group isis has executed its hostages, the fbi is now stepping in. >> information was obtained that he recently tried -- started trying to convert some of his co-workers to the muslim religion. >> police tell nbc news they have no reason to believe nolen was in contact with isis, but whether he was inspired by the recent murders overseas, it's

too soon to tell. nolen and the woman who survived the attack are both in stable condition tonight. let's turn to the weather now. doug, a lot of folks are wondering what the evening is going to be like. it's been nice so far today. >> you want to go out to dinner? >> i would love to. >> it's going to be a beautiful night to go out to dinner. >> are you formally asking her out? >> well, it's the three of us. >> but you're picking up the check, since you asked. >> of course. you ask, you have to pay. so let's go to -- we're heading to mcdonald's. let's go out there right now and show you what's going on across our region. it is a very nice night. it's going to continue to be. take a look at our reston camera. again, just plenty of sunshine today, out there towards reston. starting to see a little color in some of the trees. we're not going to see peak color for another couple weeks here. but at least starting to see that tinge of fall. 76 degrees currently at the airport. winds out of the northeast at about 10 miles per hour. that northeasterly wind has kept us cooler along the bay. 71 in annapolis.

72 towards patuxent river, 75 in manassas and martinsburg also at 75 degrees. if you are dining out tonight, pat, this is probably what you had more in mind, wine glasses set up, good stuff. nice, early, cooler late. temperatures 67 to 72 degrees this evening. sun goes down at 6:59 tonight. so it's before 7:00 for the first time this season, and take a look at this graphic. so sunset before 7:00, yeah, uh-huh between now and march 8th. so our days getting shorter for sure and will continue to do so all the way until christmastime. storm team 4 radar is all clear. going to stay that way tonight. going to stay that way tomorrow, too. the only real cloud cover we have is well down to the south and just off towards the east. but we're not dealing with much. washington back towards chicago, and really all the way back towards denver, there is no real significant weather making its way our way. future weather shows you that point very well. plenty of sunshine. here we are, 4:15, looking good. nice and warm on our saturday. sunday, still nice and warm. few more clouds. but another very nice day.

it's monday that we have to watch out for. now we're not talking about a big storm here. but we are talking about some moisture trying to move in. this could be in the form of rain. most likely in the morning between 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, noon. future weather around noon showing the shower activity starting to move in. so we could see some showers on monday. and that could actually set the stage for what we see later in the week. and that's something else we're watching. 81 degrees tomorrow for a high temperature. 81 in manassas, 82 in fredericksburg. plenty of sunshine. highs in the upper 70s. whether you're out in the monts or bay, tomorrow a great day for that. >> 83 degrees on your sunday. and chance of showers on monday. right now only a 30% chance. that may be going up. chuck bell will have the latest for you coming up this weekend as well as amelia segal tomorrow night. 77 degrees on your monday. 77 on tuesday. and next week right now looks really good, right? take a look at what we're actually watching. this is something we continue to watch. an area of high pressure sets up in the northeast. that could give us more of that northeasterly flow, just like we saw during the day wednesday and

during the day yesterday. what does that bring us? well, cool, moist ocean air. and we could be watchg out for clouds and drizzle. as i mentioned, right now we're on the optimistic side. why not? it's friday. next, a good samaritan in the right place at the right time. how one man's quick thinking and disregard for his own car saved the life of a local woman and possibly many others. drunk driving at sporting events takts on a new meaning today after a redskins starter is hit by a drunk drive. now we're asking how police will protect everyone at fedexfield next week. and firing fallout. new at 6:00, accusations of discrimination a local school district after eight african-american workers are let go from the same office. next.

you're watching news4 at 6:00. in an otherwise ugly game for the redskins, keenan robinson was one of the few bright spots. but its scariest moment didn't come in last night's loss. it happened as he was leaving the stadium. another driver ran into robinson's chevy suburban and now that man has been cited for dui. >> he had his family in the car and is thankful everyone is okay. mark segraves spoke with both men involved and joins us live in landover with more on the story. mark? >> reporter: pat, those family members were keenan robinson's parents here for the game.

he didn't want to go on camera, but in a phone conversation, keenan says he was leaving the game about 1:00 in the morning when an suv sideswiped his car. he says the driver of that suv was wearing a sean taylor pro bowl jersey. but everyone else in that car was wearing giants jerseys. keenan robinson was going down arena drive, to the on ramp for 495. robinson tells news4 a chevy suv swerved into his suv. he tweeted about the accident. i thank you, father god, for protecting me and my family and keeping us safe tonight. a drunk driver hit us and almost wiped us out. state police charged leon robinson, no relation to keenan, with dui. >> do you want to talk to us about your fender-bender last night with keenan robinson? >> no, i don't. no, i don't. >> reporter: anything you can it tell us about what happened or -- >> no, sir. >> reporter: when we spoke with him today, he was still wearing the sean taylor pro bowl jersey

he was arrested in. he denied being drunk. were you drinking last night? >> no. >> reporter: you weren't drinking? >> no. >> reporter: okay. because the police say they charged you with dui. >> yeah, we're going to court for that. >> reporter: you were. >> yeah. thank you. >> reporter: police say drunk driving can be a problem after games at fedex. how often does this kind of thing happen? >> more often than we want it to happen. definitely happens more often than we want it to. duis is always a problem. you know, people sometimes think they're more able to drive than they actually are. so we're just asking them, again, if you're going to go to the game, enjoy the game, have a great time. but if you're going to drink, designate a driver and make sure that drive gets you home safely. >> reporter: neither the man charged in the accident or the state trooper who responded knew at the time that keenan robinson's victim in the case was an nfl player. reporting live from fedexfield, mark segraves, news4. pretty unusual day in court. how this small dog made a big

impact as one woman demands justice following a disturbing crime at the hands of her ex. step up security amid rumors of a flight club at a local school. the warning today that kept some students home, refusing to go to class. i'm tracee wilkins. a mass reorganization within the prince george's county school system left a number of employees out of work. why one civil rights organization is saying they have a problem with that.

an unusual scene in court. the four-legged survivor who is helping his owner get justice in a terrible abuse case. eight school employees fired from the same office. why those involved say it had nothing to do with their performance and everything to do with discrimination. plus, meet the humble hero who risked his life to save a woman who was slumped over the wheel and heading toward oncoming traffic. it's an unusual case being played out inside a prince william county courtroom. the case involves a man who took his ex-girlfriend's dogs. >> yeah, he kid one of them, but the second one survived. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey was at the sentencing where the surviving met made an appearance just as the suspect learned his fate. >> reporter: it's an unusual sight. a dog headed into the prince william county courthouse. but ozzy is a crime victim. he and his owner, sharon betts,

came to take the witness stand against the man who tried to kill the little west hyland terrier and succeeded in killing his mate, piper. >> she remembers animal control officers calling her in april 2013 after piper was found dead on the side of the road in a trash bag. >> i literally raced out of my house and got to the shelter in five minutes and was so disturbed. >> reporter: t investigation showed that sharon betts' boyfriend had broken into her home, kidnapped her dogs, bound, gagged them and drove them into the country. they were tossed out of the car, but ozzy managed to break free and survive, though he has a broken leg that now has four metal rods in it. he pled guilty. today with ozzy on her lap in the courtroom, sharon betts asked the judge to impose a stiff sentence to send a message. >> in prince william county, it's not okay for people to

break into your house and kidnap and torture and murder your pet. who are a part of your family. >> reporter: even though sentencing guidelines don't necessarily call for jail time for animal cruelty, the judge gave hong 18 months in prison. because the ordeal left both betts and her pet traumatized. >> she had ozzy certified as a therapy dog so the two are never apart. >> words can't express what ozzy and i have suffered in the past year. we have been through a lot. but we are going to try to move forward with our life. >> reporter: sylvester says she'll continue to vigorously prosecute animal cruelty cases. >> this is a strong link between domestic violence, animal cruelty and child abuse. all three are very inherently linked and we are seeing that animals can be used in a way to control a victim of domestic violence. >> reporte and a final condition imposed by the judge today, when kahne hong gets out

of prison he must stay away from betts and ozzy forever. police are still searching for two missing children who haven't been seen in weeks. they checked out a tip today but didn't find any sign of sarah and jacob hoggle. a woman walking at black hill regional park found a pile of dirt and rocks. while the it tip didn't help solve the case, police say they remain focused on finding sarah and jacob hoggle. >> we're going to go out and search again if we can't find jacob and sarah in the worst-case scenario, in the areas we're looking for. we're going to go out again as the leaves -- as the leaves come down and the terrain changes to take another look. >> the hoggle children's mother, catherine, was taken into custody after their disappearance. she has been diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia, and hasn't told police where the children may be. one virginia high school had a much bigger security presence today, all because of worries

students planned a fight day. a fauquier high school student created a twitter account that claimed there is a fight club at school. that got a lot of parents worried. and about 400 students staying home from school today. school officials say there was no fight club. the students just wanted attention. but just in case, they had extra security today. parents point to the fact there have been four fights at fauquier over the last week alone. over in the district, the search is on for the thieves accused of stealing from a school in northeast. today d.c. police released this video, and it shows two persons of interest. they were seen roaming around options public charter school a week ago and carrying monitors out of the building between 4:00 and 8:00 in the morning. police aren't saying if they took anything else. new at 6:00, firing fallout. some former prince george's school employees say they were fired unfairly, despite good performance reviews and years on the job. now a civil rights group says they are the victims of

discrimination. bureau chief tracee wilkins has details. >> i would was fired from the current position i was in. >> if there was an issue, i wish i would have known about it. >> reporter: these are some of the employees let go from the prince george's county school human resources department. they say the department's restructuring this past march unfacial displaced a fourth of the department, all african-american, and they don't know why. >> now we're trying to figure out why is it that we don't have a job. >> reporter: the prince george's chapter of the naacp is taking on their case, and say they believe these workers were discriminated against. >> they had policies and procedures and is possibly the procedures never trump civil rights. >> reporter: the director for hr says the reorganization process and firings were fair and necessary. >> while i understand the complaints of the naacp, we also understand that our division was not effective as it was. and that change had to occur. >> reporter: the former

employees, some of whom have advanced degrees in hr, questioned that, since three of the workers who replaced them aren't hr specialists, but former school principals. school officials say they are still qualified. >> they literally are the strategic hr person in their building. i would say that they also have human resources experience. >> reporter: there are also allegations that some of the new workers came from ceo kevin maxwell's former school district of anne arundel. school officials say that doesn't mean that there is cronyism. so there is no feeling that people are coming in because they're friends of the ceo. >> not to my knowledge. >> reporter: folks here at the administration building say they're open to having conversations with these former employees, but there is no guarantee that they are going to be replaced in their former jobs. in upper marlboro, i'm tracee wilkins, news4. 24 hours after attorney general eric holder's resignation and speculation is swirling about his possible replacement. but given the bitter partisan

divided congress, the confirmation process is expected to be bruising. that may be one reason massachusetts governor deval patrick insists he does not want holder's job. >> i'm not going to do it now because i'm not -- i'm not going to be the next attorney general. listen, if it were true, i would have to call my wife to say i'm in big, big trouble. >> governor patrick did acknowledge he has talked with president obama over the years about a role in his administration. but he insists, he will not be the next attorney general. saved by a stranger. how one man used his vehicle to shield a woman from danger after finding her slumped over the wheel and heading towards traffic. plus some more details behind the accident that forced officials to shut down the national zoo for hours. first, here's doug with your forecast. >> i'll tell you, guys, a pretty good day out there on your saturday. take a look at the numbers across our region. waking up around 59 degrees at 7:00 a.m. 72 by noon.

81 by 4:00. a great saturday. but will the weekend stay great? i've got the forecast, which does include some rain, coming up next.

tonight traffic is back to normal around the smithsonian national zoo after a gas line are you positive it toured and foed employees to evacuate a building. officials closed the zoo for an hour this morning, and blocked some of its entrances while repair crews were securing the gas line. a little over a year ago, there was another gas leak that closed the zoo. in that case, a construction crew accidentally hit a line. as for today's leak, there is still no word on what caused it, but we know it started inside the main administration building and did not affect any of the animals. the next phase of a makeover of the national mall is now under way. and it's going to have a huge impact on visitors. the section you see on this map in green now has new grass seed on it. the section in red between 7th

and 12th streets was fenced off so crews could start restoring the turf there. the work will continue over the next 18 months so no one will be allowed on the grass. in the meantime, the national park service says this will help sustain the mall. some 25 million people visit the mall every year. that number is expected to jump to 42 million over the next two decades. as for the parks in fairfax county, officials are asking smokers, don't light up. a smoking ban officially goes into effect tomorrow. and officials will kick off the new no-smoking policy by hanging the first signs at a park in annandale. soon all see the same signs at playgrounds, skate parks and athletic fields. the county made the move after a survey found a lot of support for smoking bans in areas where kids play. here's the kicker. it's voluntary. so it's not against the law to smoke there. an incredible rescue on the streets of northern virginia. how one man risked his life to

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now to an act of bravery we just don't see every day. a man jumps out of his truck to save a woman slumped behind the wheel of her car. kristin wright is in reston with more. >> reporter: fred pickering says his truck, old green faithful, is the real hero. pickering, who is deaf,

explained why. his daughter interpreted. he says he only did what he had to do. >>translator: i felt like i had to act. i just had this instinct, like i need to help. i need to do something. >> reporter: pickering's story starts on wheeling avenue in reston. he just pulled out of the metro station. >>translator: i noticed off to the right there was a vehicle traveling slow, a cadillac , b suv, hopping up on the curb and back on to the street. traffic behind us had all stopped, because she cut across into the lane behind me and then continued off the road. >> reporter: it was rush hour. >>translator: i jumped out of my truck and ran toward the vehicle. it was just coasting along, but the door was locked. i looked and saw that the driver was slumped over at the wheel. >> reporter: her car kept moving, approaching a downward hill in the road. pickering's truck is the only thing that stopped it. >>translator: i actually pulled a tire iron out of my truck.

>> reporter: another driver busted a window>>translator: i went around to the driver side, and she came to but she was very disoriented and looking around. we made pretty solid eye contact and i asked her, "are you okay? are you all right?" >> reporter: police say the 24-year-old woman had a seizure. they commend pickering for what he did. >> he really wants to know if she is okay and he has talked about it every day. >> reporter: we're told the young woman is fine. pickering hopes to meet her one day. in reston, kristin wright, news4. a local community is gathering to help a pregnant wife of a fallen marine. sergeant charles strong was killed in afghanistan last week just months before his wife taylor is due to give birth to their baby girl. his body arrived in stafford county, virginia, earlier this week. the ymca in stafford is asking for donations and purchases for the strongs' baby registry. we have a link with details on how to contribute on our

website, nbcwashington.com. > and as we continue our changing minds campaign, we want to invite you to join the effort to discuss suicide and how to prevent it. this weekend, there will be two out of the darkness community walks this weekend. one tomorrow in hagerstown, maryland, and one on sunday in manassas, virginia. thousands have already taken part in walks in our area this month. shedding light on the fact that a person dies by suicide every 13 minutes in this country. i'll get a chance to see you hopefully on sunday at the walk in manassas. well, you might have seen a notification on your cell phone today. apple just released a fix to that software glitch that fouled up a lot of iphones. the tech giant released its ios 8.02 update this morning. it comes a few days after version one, a failure that caused iphone users to lose their cellular service and a lot of them couldn't unlock their phones because the update disabled the fingerprint feature. 8.02 is supposed to fix that, as

well as some other bugs in the original ios8 which came out last week. breaking news in the case of the missing university of virginia student, hannah graham. let's go to david culver, who joins us with news on the phone. david. >> reporter: pat and chris, we're hearing from our sources here in charlottesville that jesse matthew, the suspect in this case, has landed in charlottesville at the charlottesville albemarle airport. now, that would mean that he took a private plane to get here. as you heard me earlier in the show, police were telling us he would be arriving via commercial airliner. however, now we're hearing from our sources on the ground and we're here headed back into charlottesville central to see where exactly he may be at this time. but he has landed in charlottesville. i can tell you, though, about 30 minutes ago outside the police department in charlottesville, we saw his attorney walking into the police station. so it is possible that jesse

matthew and his attorney are meeting at this hour. we're going to continue to follow and bring you updates. i'll be tweeting as well. for now, back to you. >> all right, david culver. thanks. take a look outside, and it's li it's like what a way to start fall. i mean, this is just absolutely beautiful. >> yeah, the first fall weekend really is going to be a very nice weekend. and you've got your walk coming up on sunday. it's going to be a great morning, sunday morning, 9:00 a.m., manassas. >> it's 1:00. >> well, 9:00, 1:00, they're all good, no matter what o'clock you're watching. >> hagerstown on sunday too. >> hagerstown. i've got everything wrong. trust me, i'll get it to you. i'll show you national harbor, a beautiful, beautiful evening if you're thinking about heading out towards national harbor this weekend, looking good for you. as i mentioned, no matter where you're going or what o'clock you're going to be there, it's going to be nice. evening planner tonight, sun going down at 6:59, a couple minutes away. temperatures dropping through the 70s to about 70 by 9:00.

really almost perfect. nice and cool. open up the windows tonight. it's going to be that kind of a night. low humidity for the most part. still dealing with ground clutter. don't look at this. not raining. if you're thinking of heading to the games which normally start the next half hour or so, a perfect night for that. could get a little cool, especially in some of the cooler suburbs as the sun continues to go down. you may want to take the jacket, just in case. future weather taking us through the day on saturday. nothing but sunshine. nothing to worry about saturday. how about sunday? anything to worry about there? no. sunday looks great too. and monday, that's where things start to get a little bit different here. a fly in the ointment could be the rain early monday. this is the system we're going to be watching, mostly south. we could get showers coming through monday and they could stick around. part of the week next week could be problematic too. mostly sunny, about perfect tomorrow. 78 to about 83 degrees. and here's the next four days. 83 on sunday. so if you are thinking 81, might

get warmer. 77 on monday. 77 on tuesday. and then most of next week really looking good for the most part with highs in the mid 70s. but watching another system that could give us that easterly flow. could give us a little bit cooler, but for right now, we're going optimistic. >> weather looking good. redskins? not so much. how long is it going to take them to get over that blowout, dianna? >> well, chris, they really have no choice. they have to move on here. kirk cousins answers some tough questions. plus, the nationals keep it going and have now secured home field advantage. that's not the only special thing that happened out at nats park. stay here. we'll fell you in. [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman,

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this is the xfinity sports desk, brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. well, definitely came down to the very last weekend, the last series of the year. but -- >> and they won earlier. >> they did it. >> yes. how could you guys even complain about anything.

>> yeah. >> a theory. >> we'll get there. for the second time in three years, no time in the national league will finish with a better record than the nats. the nats now own a 94-65 record. that sounds nice. a big milestone for this team and a big milestone for doug fister, tossing his only second career shutout today. the 6'8" pitcher leads the nationals in wins and e.r.a.s. gets saltalamacchia swinging, one of nine strikeouts in the game for fister. ryan zimmerman working his way back from that hamstring injury having no problems today. takes it to center. that's going to bring in a run in rbi singles for him. he's hitting over .300 since his return. everybody hoping he can stay hot and healthy. fister looking for the complete game shutout. casey mcgahee toward second and

cabrera makes a great catch. that's it. fister throws a complete game shutout for the nats. they take it 4-0 and wrap-up the best record in the national league. our jason pugh is at nationals park with more. >> reporter: thanks, diana. there is nothing left in the regular season for the nationals to accomplish anymore. division title, check. home field advantage, check. now it's just a matter of staying completely healthy and getting focused for this postseason run. good or bad, all season long, this team has remained the same. >> even though we have clinched, we still have been playing just as hard as if we were fighting to get into the playoffs. and i think that's been even more impressive, because you see, you know, a lot of guys take deep breaths once you clinch. >> that's kind of the precedent, skip, set. you know, and we've got to come in here and play hard and it doesn't matter if it's game 1 or game 162 or if we're in first or last. it doesn't matter. we've got to go in there ready to play. >> reporter: the nationals have three more games left on the

schedule this weekend. so they can still improve upon that 94-win mark they have set this season. from nationals park, jason pugh, news4 sports. all right. so from a team cruising on all cylinders to a team trying to keep it together, the redskins and the last 13 months washington is 0-8 against nfc east teams. washington turned the ball over six times against the giants. last night kirk cousins threw four interceptions and now this team can barely field enough guys for practice. a little break, though, for jay gruden and company. linemen trent williams who injured his knee yesterday was limping around the locker room last night, didn't even need an mri today so should be good to go when the team gets back to practice on tuesday. have a few days off. four of them, actually, copying up here. now kirk cousins, last night not exactly his best performance. four interceptions, three picks in just the third quarter. jay gruden went light on cousins, saying he would not put the loss on his quarterback,

saying his team was sure in every phase of the game. >> coming off this performance, i think, you know, part of you wants to get back in there and learn from it as much as possible and try to make sure it never happens again. at the same time, you want to be well-rested mentally and physically for the next week. so a little balance, but i don't really have a great answer for you. >> all right. so the ryder cup is back. 25 hours of golf over the next two days. you may recall, the europeans have won five of the past six. jimmy walker for the u.s. in the bunker on the 9. tips in. the eagle. he they tied today. the europeans, too strong today. sergio garcia from the bunker on a in our four team with rory mcilroy. they're going to be tough to beat. the european team leads 5-3 after day one of competition. >> wow.

>> lots this weekend. >> keeping an eye on it. >> thanks, dianna. >> that's going to do it for us.

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