robert griffin iii said he was the best quarterback in football, the coach said he was not the best on the team. kirk cousins named the starter for the season. while rg3 worked hard in training camp, cousins gives the team its best chance to win and the new starter welcomes the challenge. >> there's something powerful about feeling believed in and there's something powerful about knowing where you stand. and i feel like, um, jay has done that today. and, um, you know, we will go from there. >> the redskins open the season just under two weeks from now at home against the dolphins. we will have more coverage of gruden's decision coming up in 30 minutes when we talk with our own jason pugh. at the live deck i'm scott macfarlane. another lifeline for governor bob mcdonnell. the u.s. supreme court ruled the former governor can remain free from federal prison indefinitely as it considers whether to take his final appeal of his 2014 corruption conviction. the supreme court has not

guaranteed it will hear his appeal but ruled today a few minutes ago he can remain free from prison while they consider it how long will that be? could be months. the supreme court of the united states is not supposed to reconvene formally at the high court until october. it could take some time after that as well. at the live desk, i'm scott mcfarlaacfarlane. extreme recklessness, now a loudoun county judge describes a deadly stunt that killed a 17-year-old kid. his friend pleaded guilty in a case of car suffering. news's david culver is live outside the house in leesburg. what are you hearing? >> reporter: defendant 19 years old signed that guilty plea in court today admitting to driving recklessly in august of last year. i want to show where you this happened, it was in a shopping center not too far from dulles town center. now, the suspect in this case, the defendant, was driving the car at the time as his friend was sitting on the trunk. the stunt then took a tragic and

deadly turn. >> he was going approximately five miles an hour and the car shifted into neutral or he shift it had into neutral. that jolted momentum was enough to cause his friend to slide off. >> reporter: so, kareem will spend one month in jail. he has got to pay a fine and also got a suspended license. we did talk to him outside of court here. he has a message to the parents of his friend and he is going to share that ahead at 5:00. he also had some pretty tough words from the judge. the judge was very blunt in what toad say to him i will share that in our next hour as well. barbara? >> thank you, david. a george washington university student is missing in south africa. nick upton was swimming near cape town yesterday and was pulled from shore by a rip current. upton is a junior and he is from connecticut. he was studying in south africa. he belongs to the kappa alpha order and is a member of the

men's rowing team. i'm mark segraves in the district, where over the weekend, police put just about every available officer on the street to deter violent crime. and yet, there were two murders and several shootings. we spoke to local leaders who called the all hands on deck initiative a success. but neighbors are calling it something else. and they say putting more police on the streets does more harm than good. coming up at 5:00, you will hear from both sides and you will hear what's next in the mayor's plan to fight violence. right now, thousands of students in our area are making their way home from the first day of school. among those starting the new year, montgomery and charles counties in maryland and prince william county and loudoun in virginia. our back-to-school coverage starts in virginia. >> reporter: i'm julie carey in loudoun county where this year, there are more full-day consistenter garteners than ever before in the district even though it is not offered to all

students. last year, just 11% of loudoun county's kindergarten-aged kids attended full-day class. this year with added funding, it has been bumped up to more than 30%. preference is given to children that might face learning challenges. >> with that expansion, ber targeting students who will benefit the most from kindergarten that includes students from low-income families, special needs students and also english language learners. >> reporter: other end of the school spectrum there, is a big change in louden county. you think all mild and high schoolers would be celebrating no more mandatory midterms or finals but coming up on news4 at 5:00, you will hear from students who are sceptical about that. a record number of students went back to school in montgomery county today as well. more than 156,000 students are enrolled there this year. they can look forward to a little more sleep. middle school and high school students are starting 20 minutes later this year. elementary schools are beginning ten minutes later. students also went back to class in charles county today. the school district built more

snow days into the calendar by shortening spring break. to celebrate the growth of its free breakfast program over the past five years, charles county will serve up breakfast for all students next week. and george mason university started classes today as well for 34,000 students. there are students from all over the 50 states and 130 countries. more than 6,000 of them live on campus. some in the new taylor hall, which opened its doors to students for the first time this year. doug's been warning us about the muggy weather that was moving back in our area. and now we are looking at maybeí a few showers. >> a couple showers, but the real thing that we are going to be dealing with the next couple of days is going to be the heat and that's, of course, something we will be watching the next couple of days. >> looking at the kell lan dar, too the last 90 we had around here was last monday, now we are talking about getting back to a streak of back-to-back 90s. it's been a while. >> it has been a while we were supposed to get there this week. yesterday, a high of 89 held down by some of the cloud cover today. even more cloud cover, but we

have seen those clouds move out and now starting to see sunshine and the temperatures are responding. near 90 in fredericksburg it is 90 in winchester, toward frederick, 88, leesburg, 86 in manassas. a very warm, humid day today, what we expect. we mention the shower chances, nothing around the d.c. metro area but just back to the west, up around the martinsburg area, hagerstown, back into portions of west virginia, we are watching some showers making their way down to the south. if you live out this way, winchester, blue mount or frederick, you may see showers this evening. the rest of us, sunset tonight, sun going down at 7:40, days continue to get shorter and shorter. 86 degrees at 7:00. by 11:00 tonight, around 79. a very warm night, a very humid night, the heat comes back. veronica has more on that in a minute. >> thanks, doug. right now the family and friends of adam ward are remembering the photo journalist in virginia. they are gathering at salem high school where he grant waited. ward and fellow journalist, allson parker, were shot to death during a live tv broadcast last week and his funeral is set

for tomorrow. the only survivor of that on-air shooting is doing well. friends and family of vicki gardner are posting regular updates on her recovery on facebook. one post from sunday said she did a couple of laps around the hospital icu. and has shown great endurance and strength. gardner had several surgeries since being shot during that interview. a deputy gunned down in cold blood. prosecutors lay out the evidence in a murder that leaves a family without a dad. the pope is coming to the u.s. in about three weeks. we have got new word on how it's goin

for sure, a warm and sticky start to our week. we didn't have a few clouds around the area today, a shower coming to our area. between 7 and 9 p.m., any chance of showers will be ending. temperature 82 between 7 and 9

p.m. then between 9 and 11, i think very late, we could see some fog start to form around here. we will stay warm with temperatures in the upper 70s, so while it's been sticky today, gets uncomfortable for most of this week. then as we start to get into the upcoming weekend, i think we are back down here to pleasant conditions and let's see, you know what this weekend is, right? labor day weekend. here's a look at your headline forecast for this evening. some fog overnight, a hot and sticky week for us. just a couple of minutes, meteorologist doug kammerer has your rain chances for the workweek, coming up. >> thanks, vj. we are learning new details about a deadly ambush in texas, including that the suspect unloaded his entire pistol on the sheriff's deputy. the man charged with killing deputy darren goforth went to court in houston. the district attorney says he shot the deputy 15 times for no apparent reason. goforth was in uniform friday night filling up his patrol car at a gas station. coming up, nbc's jay gray will have a full report from texas,

including new information about the handgun police found in miles' home. president obama is making an historic trip to alaska right now to talk about climate change. the president left this morning and is expected to land in alaska within the next two hours. this is the first time a sitting president has visited the alaskan arctic. he plans to visit a receding glacier and talk to coastal villagers whose homes and livelihoods are threatened by eroding shore lines much the trip is the latest in his high-profile push to highlight the impact of climate change. thousands of people are expected to travel here to get a glimpse of the pope. we have an early look what the that means for your commute to work. why is kim kardashian

we are just about three weeks away from pope francis' first visit to the united states and d.c. and a lot of people are starting to get excited. >> even if you don't plan to catch a glimpse of the pope, the visit could have a huge impact on your daily routine. news4's transportation reporter, adam tuss, join us from the bat silica of the shrine of the immaculate conception. >> any idea of the scale of these road closures? >> reporter: chris, i think it's safe to say that this is going to be a challenge for everybody involved. look, the pope lands september 22nd. it's a tuesday. lands in the afternoon. and he is going to be moving around the area for the next three days. so, the national parks service

hasn't released an exact detail about full road closures but what we've seen with past events like this is full rolling closures as the motorcade moves around. we know the pope is going to be in places like here, the basilica, the national shrine of the emaccue late conception, the white house ant capitol building. it is going to be a challenge over those three days getting around. >> you have been talking about transportation issues when the pope is here. what about metro? how will the pope's visit impact them, the folks who ride? >> reporter: certainly, an increased focus and increased demand on the rail system. the brook land station here at catholic university, just a few blocks away from the main event. the pope is going to be holding an outdoor mass here, 25,000 people with tickets expected to attend the mass here at brook land. so that station's going to get a bit of a workout that day. metro says on that day, probably going to be running full rush hour service throughout the entire day. so you're going to be experiencing larger crowds throughout that day certain labor day over those three days.

>> adam, i mean, we know those crowds are not just going to be folks from our area. any indication our rain the going to be busier? >> reporter: you know, chris, i asked the airport authority if it had seen an uptick in any sort of private jet bookings, any of those kind of things going on in this area during those three days, they say they haven't seen anything like that yet but as the date gets closer, they will probably know more. we do know from past inaugurations that they have seen those kinds of upticks. so we will fee that happens this time. all right, thanks, adam. >> thank you, adam. well, you may have seen some extra police activity around the u.s. capitol this morning. it was just a drill. and it will start again this evening. u.s. park police, capitol police and officers about the district are conducting evacuation exercises. the drill will get back under wait 6:30 this evening. the choppers will land on both the east and west fronts of the capitol building. you may run into some street closures in the area around 8:30 tonight. the solar system's smallest planet has captured the world's attention it has been fueled by

the new horizon's mission which is sending amazing pictures and information back from the dwarf planet a local university professor, mike summers, is among about 30 people who created the mission. it sold nasa on its importance. so far, it's been in space about a decade and traveled 3 billion miles. >> we are finding whole new planets, some are earth-like, many are not, but whole new worlds and then to be a part of a project where you see something, you see a picture of a planet that has never been seen by humans before. >> sum letters share the latest from the pluto mission tonight at 7:30 at xbrornl mason's fairfax campus. if you commute in maryland, you know it can be a challenge a new study agrees with you. when it comes to grover all driving experience, maryland is the fourth worst state for drivers, accord to bankrate.com. the state made the list because of the long commute and high insurance costs for travelers. the good news is maryland has a very low rate of deadly car

crashes. louisiana is the worst state in the country for drivers. now to a heartbreaking case of animal cruelty a lot of you are talking about online a humane society in maryland charged the animal's owners with 15 counts of cruelty and we want to tell you, a lot of you are going to find this video a bit disturbing. animal welfare workers found three horses earlier this month emaciated, with hooves so overgrown, they curled. a vet put down one of the horses. the other two are in critical condition. today, they settled into a rehab facility in woodbine about halfway between frederick and baltimore. a belle fair worker says the animals likely had not seen a vet in 15 years. this video shows one of the horses running around with their newly treated feet. people, especially women, continue to sign up for the infidelity website ashley madison, even after hackers leaked personal information about millions of its clients. today, the website's parent company, avid life media, says

more than 87,000 women signed up for ashley madison in the last week. and sent more than 2.8 million messages through that site. avid life media also struck back at reports that predicted the company's demise saying "despite having our business and customers attacked, we are growing." kim kardashian got into trouble for tweeting about a morning sickness drug and ignoring the side effects. the food and drug administration scolded the drugmaker behind the social media campaign and officials say leaving out disclaimer details can mislead the public. the fda will issue new social media guidelines for drug companies and their celebrity clients to follow. six inches of rain fell in charleston, south carolina, today. check it out. all of the rain caused major flooding. drivers in downtown charleston drove through high water. the rain fell between midnight and 8 a.m., making for a rough drive to work. high tide along the south carolina coast contributed to that flooding. >> boy, oh, boy you see what

they are dealing with down south. it makes you very appreciative for what we have got here. >> dry weather. >> do we need rain? we don't need any rain, do we? >> we do barbara. dry here the past couple of weeks and really since july 1st about two and a half inches below average. yeah, with dough need to see some rain across our area and really is not that big of a chance any time soon. take a look, show what you we are dealing with outside. showers today earlier and a lot of cloud cover. those clouds have all moved to our north and now, we are dealing with plenty of sunshine. temperatures are starting to soar across our region. 87 degrees right now, dew point of 68. any time that dew point is above 65, we mention the heat and the humidity together, right now the heat index to 90 degrees. a very warm afternoon t is 90 in frederick, 89 toward fredericksburg. a lot of 88s back toward the west, winchester, leesburg, martinsburg, going to be a very warm evening but an even hotter next couple of days. we have a couple of showers and storms, nothing big though, if you look at storm team4 radar, don't see a whole lot. the only area going to be up

here toward the north. talking about areas around the martinsburg area, zoom into this shower here, around martinsburg, in through jefferson county, zoom in one more time, around the charlestown area, where we are seeing some of the showers, you can see some heavier showers just to the south of shepherds town, these are moving toward harpers ferry along 340 here toward charlestown. heads up in that region. the rest of us are going to stay dry tonight, i think. here is the cloud cover we saw come through. watch the clouds this morning, everybody in the clouds, look at the line move through, the last hour or two. there's that heavy rain down toward the carolinas. that is not coming our watch what is the heat. and look at the numbers for tomorrow. high temperature, 91, leesburg, 92, culpepper, 91, d.c., plenty of sunshine the day tomorrow, but very hot and very humid, the outlook, if you are exercise, going to be best early and then again late, but we have got nut green here, recess for the kid, lunch for you, we have got you on the moderate side, will be very hot and humid, both rush hours looking very, very good, no matter what. weather should not have an impact on the morning or evening

return. 91 tomorrow, 29 on wednesday, 94 on thursday, 90 on friday. what about that all-important labor day weekend? veronica is back with a few on that. >> thank you, sir.

wes craven is being remembered tonight as the man

who scared us all to death over and over again. the man who created freddy krueger from "the nightmare on elm street" films died sunday in los angeles after battling brain cancer. back in the '70s and '80s, craven helped popularize a new style of bloody horror movie. they were far more graphic thanner kbrer classics like alfred hitchcock's "psycho." then he turned the genre on its side with parody films like "scream." courteney cox, remember she was gail the reporter, appeared in three see questions, she said today the world lost a great man. my friend and mentor, wes craven. my heart goes out to his family. from horror to self-help, another high-profile death to report tonight, motivational speaker and author wayne dyer died saturday at the age of 75. he wrote several self-help best sellers and his first book called "your erroneous zones"

the best selling of all times with estimated 35 million copies sold. dyer's family says he was not afraid of death and couldn't wait for his next adventure to begin. russian leader vladimir putin's popularity is dipping, which may explain his latest public relations move. the kremlin just released video of putting pumping iron with russian prime minister medvedev it includes him grilling a hearty breakfast of meat for the men to share. they have done this type of campaign before, such as releasing photos of a shirtless putin riding a horse, hunting tigers and flying a supersonic jet. this particular video was shot at putin's summer home here sochi. we continue to talk with sources on the redskins following today's big announcement. rg3 will start the 2015 season on the bench. head coach jay gruden explains his decision. new positive since in the panda den. why the new cub is looking more healthy by the day. and a new cast member joining "saturday night live."

we will let you in on the hollywood secret. stay with us.

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and i bank human at td bank. right now in salem, virginia, the friends and family of adam ward are remembering the photo journalist at the high school where he graduated. ward and fellow journalist, alison parker, were shot to death during a live tv broadcast last week. and alison's father is already starting to fulfill his promise to push for gun law reforms less

than a week after his daughter was ambushed. today, the "washington post" published an emotional op ed piece from andy parker, which he calls out virginia lawmakers and says they should have done more to change gun laws. he names house judiciary chairman bob goodlatte and virginia state senators john edwards and william stanley. parker writes -- a driver attacked a woman inside a cab when they got to highland place northwest. investigators say he was driving a red and black cab on sunday morning. a montgomery county school bus driver got a ticket on the first day of school. police say the driver failed to control the speed of the bus this morning and it rear ended another school bus on falls road in potomac. students were on board at the time. more than a dozen of them were

checked out at the scene. no one was seriously hurt. both buses were on the way to winston churchill high school. right now, you have probably seen this all over social media, that huge shakeup at the quarterback spot for the redskins. jailson pugh just got back from the park. jailson, just to be clear, this has nothing to do with rg3's concussion, right? >> head coach jay gruden told me that this had nothing do with the concussion at rg3 but made the change in the quarterback position because of kirk's performance at the field. out at the park, a different look than we have seen offseason. kirk cousins taking all the reps with the first-team offense. gruden said he named robert griffin iii the starter earlier in the offseason because he didn't want to be asked questions about it at every single press conference. now, gruden says this is kirk's team. >> i think all three quarterbacks should be commended for their efforts, their willingness to get better, when it is all said and done, after

all the film we have gone through, all the offseason activity, all the training camp footage, we feel like, at this time, kirk cousins gives us the best chance to win and that's where we are going. >> that last preseason game will take place thursday night against jacksonville here on nbc4. cousins, he will not start that game, instead, colt mccoy, he will play the entire game versus the jaguars. i'm jason pugh. this just in, the funeral for former maryland governor marvin mendle will be held this thursday. the service will be beginning at 11 a.m. flags are already flying at half-staff. state lawmakers chose mandell as governor back in 1969 when spiro agnew resigned to become vice president. mandell was later elected to two full terms. he fell from grace in a corruption scandal. he served more than half of a three-year sentence before an appeals court overturned that conviction. marvin mandell died yesterday at 95. a first four traffic alert for you in prince george's county. look out for roadwork today on

mary round route 210. crews are clearing vegetation and trees along indian highway in fort washington. they are getting ready to start a road improvement project where indian head, livingston road and kirby hill road all merge together. storm team4, we have been tracking some clouds today, tracking a few showers and next we are going to be tracking some heat. i guess you can say we have been tracking the humidity today, too, because it's been sticky out there. and during the overnight, it is going to be a warm one. take a look on satellite and radar, around cumberland, oakland. we have got those showers, those have been fading and the clouds have been breaking up, especially leesburg, culpepper, down from manassas and right here that we have seen some of the higher temperatures today, upper 80s, yes, and factor in the humidity, that heat index, in the low 90s, the pollen count it has been high for weed, the rag weed still hitting us and the mold spore moderate. i think with a chance of rain coming back midweek, the end of the week, we still could see

that count fairly high. there's your heat index. 91 degrees right now in d.c. when we return, we will have your hourly planner forecast for to tell you just how uncomfortable it will feel. stick around. i'm pat comes back at the united medical center in southeast. you may recall that the united medical center in is the only hospital in our city that doesn't have a traffic light and crosswalk at its entrance. you may recall that two women leaving the hospital this year were struck and killed by hit and run drivers and you may remember that many people have been waiting for years to get some crossing help here. well today, action. crosswalk. united medical center. they have a small army of people out here trying to make it

happen. they are building the crosswalk. they are gonna put in flashing pedestrian crossing signs. and, yes, there's a plan to put in a pedestrian-activated traffic light. i will have all the details coming up at 5:00. we have another encouraging milestone to tell you about for the baby panda at the national zoo. zoo officials say they are starting to see the cub's trademark black markings. tweeted out these photos over the weekend. hard to get a glimpse of him though, because mei xiang has only put her cub down twice in the past 24 hours. we are tracking the little cub's progress on the nbc washington app. search panda cub for more pictures and videos. >> yeah, sometimes you can sit there and stare at that thing for hours. a d.c. institution but hudson trail outfitters is going out of business. the company released a statement today staying would close its remaining four stores and should shut down. hudson trail has been helping a lot of us gear up for outdoor

adventures since 1971. still ahead, booze talk. w why doctors say parents should discuss booze drinking with their kids by the age of 9. pro

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chief meteorologist doug kammerer with you. looking out toward the woodrow wilson bridge a great day to be on the water after what was a fairly good weekend across our region. temperatures on the warm side, continue to warm up, we move on through the evening, the next couple of days, too. 88 in college park, 89 right now, rockville. manassas coming in at 86 degrees. warrenton very close to that 90-degree number, even along the bay. temperatures in the mid-80s as a result of a little bit of a westerly wind flow there. we will continue to see those warm numbers right on through the next couple of days and even into the low to middle 90s in some areas. tomorrow's impact, still going to be on the low side, used to the heat and humidity, but the humidity is going to be a bigger fact tort next few days than it has been. you can tell right now, you step outside, you have got that humidity factor to deal. temperatures tomorrow, 77 at 8 a.m., 88 by noon, 91 by 4:00. that's when see the heat and mum mid come in, temperatures 85678 the entire seven-day forecast, including an all-important labor

day coming up in just a minute with veronica. i got the perfect antidote for that muggy weather, you're soon going to see blue bell ice cream back on the store shelves. [ cheers and applause ] those are workers cheering for the first delivery truck leaving the bluebell creamery in texas this morning. bluebell issued a voluntary recall four months ago and shut down production after ten listeria cases were linked to the company's ice cream. production is limited. the rollout will come in phases, the first shipments headed for central texas. a tough discussion to start. doctors say you need to start talking to your kids about alcohol long before they take their first sip. the american academy of pediatrics says nearly a quarter of kids try alcohol before their 13th birthday. experts say that means you need to start talking to your kids about drinking by the age of 9. the report also encourages pediatricians to question preteens about their alcohol

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thousands of kids in maryland and northern virginia are settling in from their first day of school. >> many of them spent day in the brand-new buildings. among them, young elementary school in prince william county. >> news4's derrick ward discovered the school has big goals for the year ahead. >> reporter: this is the newest elementary school and the newest elementary school in the prince william county system and students, teachers and staff had a full day getting to know each other, starting down that path of education. >> the us if new line for first grade. >> reporter: the first of the students made their way into prince william county's

elementary. >> our daughter is starting kindergarten. going to be the first class of the school, i guess. >> reporter: she and classmates will join a principal every bit as excited a they are. >> jitters last night, jetters this morning, i'm so excited. >> reporter: newest of the 95 schools is a new staff, new facilities and new twist on science, technology, engineering and math. here, they take the s.t.e.m. curriculum and give it steam by adding an a for arts. >> i feel like the article will allow us to tap into their creative mindset and kind of make sure that we are teaching and supporting the whole child. >> reporter: and a whole lot of children and their parents queued up to enter the building through a foyer that literally welcomes them in several languages, reflecting the diversity and growth that prince william county is experience, growth that made the school necessary. >> i am state-of-the-art mike 11th year and we have grown by over 25,000 just in the time that i've been here. so we anticipate about 87,000

students coming to school today. >> reporter: this school was named after prince william county police officer chris young, who was killed in the line of duty. there's a portrait of him in the lobby and educators here think that that will serve as a fitting example and role model for students as they enter the school each and every day. in prince william county, derrick ward, news4. and we want you to show us your scholars, if you've been taking photos of your children going off to school, maybe catching a bus or trying on a new backpack, send them my twitter or e-mail or facebook. new numbers out about what cars you might want to be more protective of in our area. the national insurance crime bureau put out its list of the most stolen cars. they broke the numbers down state by state and d.c., too. the 2002 dodge caravan is the number one stolen car in the district. that's followed by the honda accord and the jeep grand cherokee. in maryland, the list actually

looks pretty similar. the '02 dodge caravan, also the most stolen car there and the honda accord takes the second spot a second time. thieves stole nearly 1500 of those cars combined last year. the ford pickup was the third most stolen car. now, in virginia we go, here again is the accord, this time in the number one spot, ford pickup a hot target land 20ther the 2014 toyota camry. the camry and honda accord were in the top five for stolen cars in all three places. we are putting the full list online for, go to nbcwashington.com and search stolen cars. i'm aaron gilchrist, news4. more kids, more counties headinging back to school, make sure you dress them in the short sleeves, plenty of water in their backpack, too, right? talk about what's going on

across the area. showers around hagerstown, frederick, maryland, making their way toward the south. i don't think this chance is going to last longer, maybe until 6:00 or so then start clearing out. rain chances for the workweek, right there on wednesday. there is a 30% chance then a little higher, 40 to 50% on try day. i think friday is your best chance for seeing rain move through our area now. it is definitely warm, 87 degrees, factor in the humidity, feels more like 90, 91 out there now. a shower or two until about 6 or 7:00, then looking dry, but then as we get into the late evening hours, some fog will start forming, upper 70s for high temperatures. here is a look at 4 a.m. all this that you see here blossoming, that's the fog and the visibility dropping down to about a mile to just under a mile in a few locations, like manassas, culpepper,

fredericksburg, by tomorrow morning. that's 6 a.m. and this is the fog. might want to get an early start to your day tuesday. here is a look at the start for your tuesday. the temperatures in the low 70s to mid-70s inside the beltway. 72, la plata, a little lower there fredericksburg, 75, a stack of 60s, winchester toward sticky once again humid as we climb to around 90 degrees by 1:00. temperatures the afternoon, low 90s, clouds around the area. is is looking like a hot week. last time we had back-to-back 90s, the third week in august. here we go, through the workweek, start cooling down a little bit for the upcoming label holiday. the beach locations looking just fine. i think upper 70s to around 80 degrees each day at the beach, at least the beach locations. for right now, labor day looking

dry. this is our labor day. after the rain on friday, 86 to 88 to 91 on labor day itself, back to you. >> thanks, vj. a surfer survived a close encounter with a great white shark off the coast of california. a board, not so much. eleanor dempsey says she was surfing north of los angeles saturday when a shark swam right underneath her. it was about 15 feet long and, well, took a huge bite out of her board. she got away and swam back to shore. authority also to close the beach for 72 hours, but dempsey says she is ready to get back out there again. >> not gonna stop me or anybody else from surf, i know people don't understand that but the love of the water. >> experts say el nino has been warming the waters and drawing sharks north and closer to shore. so, in some areas, they are using drones to keep an eye on what's underwater. an amazing story of survival in the mountains of california a 62-year-old woman became separated from her group during a hike in the sierra national

forest. she spent more than nine days alone with no food. rescuers hiked 21 miles in treacherous terrain, hampered by one of the wildfires burning in the area. they finally found her on saturday, badly injured, with some broken bones. rescuers are calling her a fighter, saying she kept her bits during the whole ordeal. >> when i talked to her, there was a time when she asked herself, well, i can either stay here andy or i can get over to the sound of water and make sure i can be hydrated every day. >> able to land a helicopter and land her to safety. the fresno county sheriff says she found her just in time, any longer she may not have survived. gas prices are falling fast. aaa says it is eight to nine cheaper compared to this time last week. in d.c., paying 2.69 in maryland and necessary maryland, 2.40 n virginia a gallon of gas costs $2.20. now, it will run $2.47 in west virginia, but it can vary

station to station. for example, we found gas for $1.97 in spotsylvania county. saturday night live returns for season 41 in october and there will be a new face in the lineup. nbc sent out this tweet today announcing that john rudd knit ski will join the long-running sketch comedy show. he's 25-year-old standup comedian from new jersey who won a college comedy contest back in 2012. he retweeted nbc's announcement and said joining the show is a lifetime dream. we are working several developing stories in the newsroom right now. there were two murders and several shootings in the district during this weekend's all hands on deck initiative. now the pressure is mounting for leaders to do something to stop the murders. now, despite this weekend's shootings, d.c. police say overall, violent crime is down when compared to this same weekend last year. mark segraves has been dig nothing these numbers a --

digging into these numbers and has more in ten minutes. more on the search for a missing george washington university student. nick upton was swimming near cape town yesterday and was pulled from shore by a rip current. upton is a junior and was in south africa studying. developing now in texas, the man accused of killing a deputy bucks in court in shackles. bucks in court in shackles.

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long-time braves fan who fell to his death during a baseball game at turner field. the team held a moment of silence for greg murray. police say he fell over the upper deck railing on saturday night. today, the medical examiner ruled his death was an accident. murray was a braving season ticketholder for 23 years. this is all that's left of a small plane that was on its way to virginia when it crashed in the everglades. first responders say it's a miracle anyone survived. the plight and his pannen xbrer were both able to walk away.from the crash injured but alive. they were flying from fort lauderdale to lynchburg when the engine fail old sunday. >> completely destroyed. the fact anybody was able to get out is simply amazing. >> he, like any good pilot, looking for a place to put the plane down. hard him. the plane burst into flames, they were both able to get out. >> the pilot and his pan passen a couple from fort lauderdale. his wife is already released from the hospital.

the suspected shooter in the execution-like ambush of a texas sheriff's deputy made his first appearance in court today. >> as nbc's jay gray shows us, prosecutors laid out their case in graphic detail as the community continues to show its support. you shalled in court under a heavy police presence and locked in shackles, shannon j. miles stood quietly, showing no emotion as prosecutors described in graphic detail his alleged attack on deputy darren goforth. >> shot him in the back of the head. deputy goforth fell to the ground and the male stood over him and fired several more times. when deputies arrived. they found deputy darren goforth face down in a pool of blood, dead from multiple gunshot wounds. >> reporter: the ambush and murder has sparked outrage and an outpouring of emotional support. huge crowds have gathered every day since the friday attack, some with flowers for a growing memorial at the spot it

happened. >> thank you. >> reporter: others the donation of two young children and wife the 47-year-old deputy leaves behind. spores have gathered more than $70,000 and tens of thousands more have been raised online. >> it breaks my heart to know that they are going to be without a father. >> reporter: a friend described the family's pain, reading a brief statement from goforth's wife. >> all the language that i know is inadequate for what i want to express. my husband was an incredibly intricate blend of toughness and general tillity. he was always loyal, fiercely so. >> reporter: loyalty shared by this community as they mourn his loss. >> i gray, nbc news. news4 at 5:00 starts with jim and wendy. the redskins name a starter at quarterback and it isn't rg3, so are his days in d.c.

numbered? the supreme court weighs in. so what is next for former virginia governor after the justices rule he doesn't have to go straight to jail? and a dangerous car stunt kills his friend. today, the teenager behind the wheel talks to news4. major progress today to making a dangerous road safer for everyone. >> a crosswalk is now taking shape outside the united medical center in washington after two women were killed in recent months by hit and run drivers. >> this comes after our pat comes asked city leaders why it's taking so long for this. pat? >> reporter: wendy, take a look at this. a crosswalk. over there the united medical center. a sign of progress. last april, a woman was struck and killed by a hit and run driver. the city says it would study the crossing problem. ten days ago, when another woman was struck and killed by another hit and run drive, the city said

it had a tentative plan to do something next year. but today, action. it appears someone put this project on the fast track. see that in front of the united medical center? it's a crosswalk. you see, up until now, this is the only hospital in our city that didn't have a crosswalk at its entrance. this year, two women have been struck and killed by hit and run drivers as they were leaving the united medical center trying to cross southern avenue. and for years, people here have been waiting for some crossing help. david thompson is with the united medical center. >> this is like a blessing and the short -- the short way to say it's a blessing because we need a traffic light here, a crosswalk, we needme