dust just settling following the upset in the travers stakes. hardware being presented to the winn winners. javier castellano, five-time travers winner. keen ice in the travers. and next year, those colors you'll see of the canoe here at saratoga will be in green and yell yellow. some of the biggest upsets we've seen over the year, going back to man o war. secretariat defeated here. rachel alexandra. and today american pharoah. the next to join that dubious list. bob baffert told us that he didn't think pharoah brought his a game. as we look at some of the possibilities of american pharoah moving forward. remember, the long-term goal is the breeders' cup classic for

the first time at keeneland october 31. those are some of the options, pennsylvania derby, awesome again in california, gold cup, finally halloween, breeders' cup classic here on nbc. so yeah, how does bob baffert know that pharoah wasn't at his best this afternoon? >> it's very hard. the better the horse, the harder to note. the good horses meet you at the front of the stall every morning, eager to train. and there's no way to simulate the strain on a horse in a morning exercise. the answer is, you don't know, you can't know. >> first of all, let's hope that american pharoah is okay and his failure to bring his a-game here wasn't a result of some sort of injury that they'll find when they get him back to the barn. we would like to see him run in the breeders' cup classic. second point, this was a very strenuous race for american pharoah. and it makes the spacing of races leading up to the breeders' cup classic very difficult. it's going to be tempting for baffert to use none of the above and train him up to the breeders' cup classic, knowing that only one winner has not

raced in september or october. that was in 2006 because he got sick. >> you still have to tip a cap to baffert and zayat for bringing him here in the first place. it's what the fans wanted to see. maybe not the result the 50,000 wanted to see here at saratoga. a special chanks to equibase, the official database for thoroughbred information. saturday, the breeders' cup challenge series continues at saratoga with the spinaway stakes. and the winward handicap saturday at 5:00 eastern. coming up next except on the west coast, your local news. tonight starting at 8:00, 7:00 central, america ninja warrior, followed by an all new "hannibal." american pharoah late defeated in the traf traf by keen ice.

we begin with a violent night in the district. three people shot, two of them killed late last night. the city's 104th and 105th

homicide. it happened just before midnight on b street in southeast. and they happened during an all out effort by d.c. police to get the gun violence under control. news4 derrick ward talked to neighbors who new the victim. >> reporter: the adults warned the children not to ride their bikes across those puddles on the sidewalk. they don't tell them why. they don't tell them they are blood stained or three men were shot last night at 11:44. they found the victims and two would be the 104th and 105th murders. they were more than numbers. >> they called me mr. johnson. >> reporter: police identified the victims as 26-year-old amani johnson of northeast and 21-year-old sha heed james of clinton. >> reporter: there's a bit of outrage amidst the highly

publicized all hands on deck. >> reporter: six overses were close enough to respond on b street in short order. not quickly enough. they can't be everywhere at once. >> i'm kind of appalled this has happened. >> reporter: there was another weekend spade of shootings across the city six different scenes including a man shot at 4400 block of 6th place and man wounded at 18th street around 2:45. a total of nine victims at six scenes kept fire and ems crews busy. witnesses to the b street scene said principles george's ambulance was there and often helps the city when the crews are stretched thin. mark johnson helps to keep them out of this kind of trouble says resources and help are spread th thinly, too. >> the educational system and support system and programs don't have nowhere to go. they hang in the because there's nothing here and nowhere for them to go. >> reporter: derrick ward, news4. >> we're getting new information from d.c. police about the

progress they say they've been making against gun violence. each police district in the city has a crime suppression team. since june, officers on those teams have made 788 arrests, recovered 79 guns and 23 all-terrain vehicles which have been linked to crime in the district. officers on the suppression teams have also seized hundreds of pounds of drugs since june. police want to remind that you can bring up concerns about crime in your neighborhood at monthly citizens advisory council meetings. breaking news out of texas tonight. a man is under arrest for killing a sheriff's deputy at a gas station near houston last night. the harris county sheriff's office just made that announcement. they hsuehshan non miles you saw there walked -- they shsuehshan nhsuehshan -- they say shannon myles wa walked up to officer go forfort

car and shot him. he is a 10 year veteran of the force and leaves behind a wife and two children. the suspect is charged with capital murder. fire officials say a 13-year-old got his foot stuck in an escalator today at the wheaton metro station. crews came out and they were able to get him unstuck pretty quickly. he was taken to the hospital as a precaution but he is expected to be just fine. all right. big night tonight. the redskins versus ravens in baltimore. carol maloney and jason pugh are in baltimore live this evening. hi, guys. how's it going out there? >> pretty good. a lot of drama surrounding this preseason game. have you ever seen this much drama? >> i have. >> they called the third preseason game the dress rehearsal. starters will play a full half before the redskins and ravens. we will see kirk cousins undfore

first time under offense. >> robert griffin iii was cleared by a neurologist and just 24 hours later he reversed his decision on the test result. what we don't know is what prompted the review and we do know robert griffin iii is out and cousins is in. arriving just a couple hours ago knowing a big big test is ahead. cousins has been sharp all preseason in camp. this will be the first time since mid-outloctober last sease will be going against the defense. we should mention griffin is also here and spent some time warming up on the field. i guess since he took all the first team snaps all week kind of expected but not playing tonight. >> one guy playing, trent williams signed a monster contract today. we will tell you about that

coming up in sports. >> you're right. lots of drama. >> tonight's game is at 7:30 and all the highlights and reaction during the postgame report at 11:00. never before seen video of katrina's destruction shot by a local rescue team that rushed to new orleans to help survivors. it's almost back to school for many students in our region. today, they enjoyed one last taste of summer. while temperatures on the warm side today, plus, you can probably feel that humidity. you will feel it even more as we continue through this work wee

this is the last weekend of freedom for some kids in our area. students head back to area schools on monday. ♪ >> so they got in one last bit of fun at a back to school fair in rockville today. it wasn't all fun and games. students also got free health screenings and immunizations to make sure 7th and 8th graders are up to date on school requirements and to ask questions. >> we have partners here giving out resources and we have a lot of parents coming and celebra

celebrating what is the beginning of a great school year. >> students of montgomery county, prince louden and charles counties all go back to school on monday. we wish them luck. it is the first unofficial

10 years ago the country looked on in horror at the devastating pictures coming from new orleans. entire neighborhoods wiped off the map by hurricane katrina. the montgomery county fire department witnessed the devastation first hand when they went down to help in the recovery effort. today, they sent us this home video taken on vhs tape 10 years ago. some of the footage has never been seen. firefighters had trouble describing what they were seeing. >> there's so many of these a a areas like this. we drive around and find strip mall s burned to the ground we didn't even know were on fire and were inaccessible. >> we are working to get more of this video into the nbc washington app. we should have it up later tonight, just search "katrina." we are so fortunate we have never -- we haven't had any sort of devastating hurricane such as

that one and now we're just looking at erika, nothing to worry about. >> nothing to worry about. we may get a little rain into the weekend. it's labor day weekend. we may be watching that as we go into the weekend and share what our thoughts are. erika has dissipated and now a remnant low. let's go to our going out forecast. if you're headed out on this beautiful evening, the sun coming down at 7:43, not too bad. mild and very pleasant outside. you may have noticed a little bit of humidity. we will have humidity as we get into the -- really, as we get into the week. it's not going to be oppressive tomorrow. you will definitely feel it by the time we get to tuesday and wednesday. temperatures right now, 85 in washington, 84 in manassas, and in leesburg. we had a few sprinkles out there as well but they were short-lived and most likely dissipa

dissipating. no rain at mnt bank tonight. ro looki ing good for that game. temperatures in the low 70s. pretty mild tonight and temperatures in the 60s to right around 70 in d.c. a little on the muggy side overnight as well. if you feel slightly uncomfortable, you may think of turning that air-conditioning on if you haven't already and sunday and monday it will be sticky and oppressive as we get to tuesday, wednesday and thursday. you will really feel that humidity. not much rain out there. at least the chances. we're dry tonight and overnight. i want to point out super moon out there tonight. the sun will go down and huge moon come up where it is closest to the point in the earth and its orbit. take a gander at that. hard to miss. a little bit more cloud cover and chance of isolated showers

here and there and monday, we will keep those clouds around and will be a little on the humid side as well. we have that 7-day forecast coming up in a few minutes. >> all right. thank you. we head back out to baltimore live. more on the quarterbacks and all more on the quarterbacks and all that drama and one p

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in a little over an hour the redskins are going to be taking on the ravens. carol maloney and jason pugh are in baltimore live this evening. i bet you everybody is talking about the fact rg3 is not going to be playing and kirk cousins is going to be starting. >> it was a shocking twist, kristen. the pregame talk has all been about what happened and led the neurologist to that decision. we don't have the answer to just yet. we do know it's cousins and tonight all about him trying to

win a job. >> this is the biggest game for robert and now that he's not pl playing, a big game for kirk cousins. speaking of robert, he did talk to team president bruce allen before this game just a little while ago. griffin will not be under center. he did take part in warm-ups. he'll be retested in one to two weeks after a neurologist said last night griffin will not be cleared. griffin's loss and kirk cousin's gain. kirk getting the call this week against dolphins in week one is a possibility. he knows just how important this game tonight truly is for miami. >> a good rehearsal in the sense we're getting a simulation of week one preparation, which i really like because we're cha e changing up the schedule a little bit this year. i love the fact i'm getting a chance to go through the entire

week as a trial one so when week one rolls around it's not the first time doing it. we've been there before. a good way to work out kinks and fine tune it so come week one we have a really good week of preparation and a good performance. >> reporter: one of those starters considered in z spe indispensab indispensable, trent williams, the indispensable guy, will be here for a long time. brad is coming back tonight. he signed a contract extension today. a $66 million deal with 43.2$43 guaranteed making him the league's highest paid offensive tackle. that leads us to four things to watch tonight. we cotold you about cousins. since griffin could miss the rest of the preseason, is tonight an audition for the starting job. cousins through nine picks start last year and wants to prove he

can limit mistakes. in the o line, trent williams. and second year tackle, morgan moses. they're both considered building blocks. >> you want to watch out for these two guys. tight end, jordan reid and the quash being cautious with him seeing they're thin in that position and hall tore his achilles twice last year, one of the leaders in defense and looking forward to seeing him in action against the ravens. >> high school football, taking on the second ranked team in the country. we'll show you that tonight. we have a game on our air tonight on news4. it's the i-95 rivalry.

it will be a good one. >> reporter: 7:30 kick-off. be sure to watch it for us in the postgame. we'll have interviews and analysis. we send it back to you. >> thank you, guys. it will be an interesting one to watch. 7:30 on news4. >> news at 11:00. yeah. it will be nice out there. doesn't feel like fall or football. we had kind of fall weather but now we're back to summer and it will feel like summer when you wake up tomorrow morning. temperatures in the 60s to low 70s. a little sticky out there, wa warming up quickly to 90 degrees. here's a look at your pool forecast. get out there and go to the pool. i think we will have a mix of sun and clouds and cloud cover tomorrow and mix of showers and storms tomorrow and into tomorrow night. it is going to be hot and humid. i want to take you down to remnants of erika. it has dissipated as we talked about earlier.

we have to watch it as we get to the end of the weekend. for here, it will be humid. we're talking about heat and humidity temperatures in the low to mid 90s and we will watch that weekend forecast as the moisture moves up this way. >> the rain won't be all that bad and maybe cool us off a tad. >> exactly. we have to watch how much rain and moisture can move this far north from erika. it has to go somewhere because we will be watching it. it has to go somewhere. >> that's it for news for now. "nightly news" is up next.

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