whammy. working its way up the coast. >> all eyes right now on the radar and it is not just joaquin, but a nor'easter that will arrive first. >> doug kammerer and veronica johnson kicking off our coverage in the storm center. we mentioned that state of america and we are watching the latest track of joaquin does move closer to the region, but we first have to deal with friday and saturday and that's when we get the heavy rain. >> that's the second one and the third whammy potentially and it's a track that can change and i'll show that track in just a moment. >> we're taking a look at the radar across the region and it's seeing the rain toward the south and what will happen over the next few days. notice nothing going on around our region and this moisture just off the coast will be brought right back in with a very strong northeasterly flow and that's what we've been talking about for days now and we'll get the nor'easter first and it's on friday. we see a strong northeasterly wind and that brings in the rain

and that brings in those winds upward of 30 to 40 piles per hour and coastal flooding along the potomac and flooding around the rest of the region and we saw a lot last night and tonight's headlines, heavy rain and wind likely on friday and saturday. not joaquin, just the nor'easter. flooding rain will be likely and again, this is on friday and saturday, if joaquin was to hit, veronica, that's coming sunday into monday. >> that's right. here you are four days out. when you're four days out a lot could change and that's the one thing we want to stress is this is still a track that could very much so change. here's the very latest from the national hurricane center on hurricane joaquin up to a category 3 hurricane just east of jacksonville, florida. this is late friday night. by the time we get into saturday and sunday, it makes more of a north to northwesterly turn and it starts hooking it very close to the bay. that for sunday night and monday, even on sunday with a storm system intensifying.

on sunday, we still could see a lot of storm surge coming up, folks from areas of virginia beach right on up the bay and we've got more of the impacts coming up later on news 4 at 6:00. guys? >> this is how a lot of the residents in our area spent the day cleaning up the damage from last month's storm. water flooded basements leaving items a soggy mess and news 4's darcy spencer will join us live with a look at what emergency officials are doing with the possibility of even more flooding. >> the

made. metro needs better safety oversight. now how does that happen? for starters, an amendment has to go into a congressional transportation bill to give the u.s. department of transportation the ability to take control of that oversight. >> and i think that's a welcome change because the culture of safety has broken down, and frankly, still has competence. >> northern virginia democratic congressman saying he wants the federal railroad administration to step in and help. >> they can be the robust and vigorous presence i think we need, and i hope they'll play that role. >> this urgent safety recommendation tells you what the ntsb thinks of the current group that overcease metro safety and they're known as the tri-state oversight committee and bluntly, the ntsb says that group is not up to the challenge. they say it would take that group years to address safety issue that the government could

get done in just a few months. >> it's a long way from solving with all of the components. >> dave snyder is head of the transportation commission and he was briefed by the ntsb. other issues like metro's board and financial structure also have to be looked at and not just more oversight. >> it's like a new vulture just feasting on the corpse, but i'm more interested in bringing a corpse back to life. >> whatever happens is metro is still the focus. >> the ntsb has told the united states department of transportation it wants to hear back from them in 30 days to get this done. jim, back to you. >> inept is an awfully strong word and why did the ntsb feel it was so necessary to go that hard? >> well, jim, the current oversight group. the tri-state oversight committee is comprised of three people. one, two, three, from our region and they say they don't have the power to go in and enforce safety changes. they don't say, they say that

they don't even have the set of regulations and rules to put in place, so really, the group that's supposed to hold metro's feet to the fire and it's supposed to say you're not doing the right things when it comes to safety doesn't have any teeth, that's why they were so strong with their recommendations. >> all right. thank you, adam. he has already admitted to trying to cook meth inside a secured government building. now there are new allegations of misconduct against a high-ranking former federal police official in maryland. the i-team's scott mack mac farland. >> revealed in a letter just sent in a house science committee to agency management. the committee has been investigating the agency and this man, former police lieutenant chris bartly. last month, bartly attempted to

make methamphetamine, an attempt that exploded in july. in the letter today the committee alleges bartly also had sex in government cars on the grounds while on duty and the committee says it suspects time sheet fraud by bartly inflating his overtime hours and they said police equipment, thousands of dollars in it is missing. though the committee didn't name employees suspected of being responsible. what's more, the committee says this misconduct and allows bartly as saying missed the police chief. it's enormous and bartly's attorney didn't immediately respond to the request for comment and it will provide informati information requested by the house science committee. scott macfarland. these air strikes came after moscow's true target and

miscommunication that could put u.s. forces in harm's way. steve handelsman join us with the late details and reaction to what may have been one of the strangest starts to a military engagement in u.s. history. steve? >> that's right. or certainly in russian history. the big question in washington is what are vladimir putin's motives in suddenly getting into the syrian civil war? u.s. officials today got one hour's notice, a russian general approached u.s. officials in baghdad iraq to warn that u.s. warplanes needed to stay out of the skies and incidentally, the u.s.-led coalition did not ground warplanes and the pentagon confirmed what the russians say for the first time today, russian warplanes were up over syria and they were bombing isis targets. the pentagon saids they also bombed in the western part of sir why why u.s.-backed rebels operate. they are opposing syrian president assad who is a

vladimir putin ally. john mccain today is blaming president obama for not being engaged soon enough or big enough in syria and leaving a vacuum, he says, that putin is filling. and u.s. secretary of defense ash carter says what putin did today pours gasoline on the fire of war-torn syria. >> i want to be careful about confirming information, but it does appear that they were in areas where there probably were not isil forces and that is precisely one of the problems with this whole approach. >> it's a sign of the contempt to with which putin holds us and what we should be saying to the russians is we will be flying anywhere, any time, anyhow we want to in order to stem this flow of isis and we also are going to stop bashar assad's bombing and you stay out of the

way. >> now it's putin warning the u.s. air force to stay out of the way as he gets more involved in syria and says he's going after isis and says openly, he wants bashir al arc sssad to stn power in syria. donald trump is the presidential front-runner, but most latin americans or american latinos do not intend to vote for him. a new nbc news wall street journal/telemundo survey suggests that 67% of american latinos have a having negative view of trump. only 3% of latino-americans surveyed had a very positive view of him. trump has called for mass dep t deportation of undocumented immigrants and has criticized his opponent jeb bush for speaking spanish at campaign events. he joined the marines to serve others and took that practice into everyday life and

when corporal william ferrell got out of his car to help a stranded driver in maryland last night he had no way of knowing it would be his last good deed. corporal ferrell was hit and killed on the side of route 15 near thur montt on a rainy night. news 4's meagan fitzgerald has his story. >> reporter: for marine corporal william ferrell, a selfless decision to help someone else cost him his life. his friends who called him kyle say he always chose to serve others. >> he was down to earth. he was a great guy that would do anything for you and that's why people want to join the fire department, to help people. brian tyner is the fire chief in brian's hometown of carthage, north carolina. he joined the department at 16 and left after high school. >> he joined the marine corps and we waited to see him go. >> reporter: kyle's journey led him to maryland where he was promoted to corporal and was stationed at camp david.

it's when a maryland state trooper, daniel rochelle believed kyle was headed tuesday night and he stopped on the shoulder of northbound lane 15 to help a driver who was stalled. >> the suspect vehicle went off the side of the road and struck corporal ferrell's pickup truck as well as striking corporal ferrell. >> ferrell died on the scene, but his life's journey to help and provide service to others won't be forgotten in carthage. the fire chief says the town will figure out how they can preserve the legacy of a young man who did so much in just 21 years. >> that was kyle, he was always helping somebody to lend a helping hand. >> they're considering ideas like a memorial or scholarship in his memory. in the meantime, maryland state police want anyone with information about that accident last night or anyone who may know where the suspect in that vehicle is located to contact the department right away.

jim? thanks, meagan. >> six decades later, the first direct flight from baltimore to cuba is cleared for takeoff. re-creating hurricane krt. i'm mark segraves and i'll tell you why this exercise is designed not only to how to rescue survivors, but how to keep first responders safe. >> it will move in here tomorrow night and into friday and saturday and that brings us what could be another torrential round including more flooding and then we look toward the possibility of joaquin and i've got the latest track in just a few minutes.

a historic snapshot in this tweet from vwi marshall airport today as the first flight to havana out of that airport took off just a short while ago. customs and border protection now allowing flights from cuba to the u.s. out of baltimore making bwi marshall the only way to provide charter flights to cuba and one of them was costing quite a lot of money. the company that operates these flights already offers trips to havana from miami. a lot of social media reaction tonight to the secret meeting between pope francis and kim davis. >> davis is the kentucky clerk

we've been hearing so much about which refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples because she opposes gay marriage on religious grounds. the meeting happened last thursday in the vatican embassy and he told her to stay strong and gave rosery beads to her and her husband. >> a vatican spokesman did not deny the report, but offered no comment. >> we've been asking if that changed any minds about pope francis. so far the majority of people responding says, their opinion has changed for the worse. you can weigh in by visiting nbc washington on facebook or on twitter. former maryland delegate don dwyer will be going to jail for six months. he has been ordered to abstain from drinking alcohol after a drunk boating accident two years ago near pasadena. according to the capital newspaper dwyer was sentenced today for violating his parole.

he admitteto having six beers one night in may. the special prosecutor says an interlock device on dwyer's vehicle detected the alcohol and prevented him from driving. it was 2013 when he crashed his boat injuring six people. final training that could help keep you alive during an emergency. >> search and rescue teams from our area are down in georgia right now learning how to respond to everything from a terrorist attack to a natural disaster. >> mark segraves, the only local reporter to go with them. he's getting an inside look now at the training. it's taking place near macon, georgia. mark? >> reporter: jim, we remember those pictures from kfrt request victims stranded on the roofs. that's the exact scenario they recreated here, maryland task force one and out of the fire and rescue department are on the scene right here training how to rescue victims in this flood

situation. if you look over to our right, you can see one of the members here already on the scene assessing the situation. now what we learned from katrina is that first responders weren't prepared for these types of rescues and that, in fact, many of the injuries to victims and first responders and eaven fatalities occurred when they were trying to take victims off of the roofs and putting them on the flat-bottom boats and many capsized and that's one of the reasons they do this drill here so first responders can learn how to safely take victims from situations like this, get them on to boats and then get them back to land. maryland task force 1 which is made up primarily of government rescue and they'll be here for five days training as if this is a real-life scenario, around the clock and they're living in tents and they're working around the clock as if this is a natural earthquake disaster that has broken a dam in this case and flooded this neighborhood.

now, this is all, again, part of an extensive training scenario that 20 teams from across the country are taking place in. jim, back to you. >> thanks, mark. here in our area a soggy mess out there. rains flooded basements all over the area and even caused the roof on a lumber company in frederick to collapse and tonight some of the roads in loudoun county are still closed because of storm damage. darcy spencer in waterford, virginia, now with a look at how emergency officials are planning for the possibility of even more flooding. darcy? >> reporter: well, jim, we are live along hamilton station road in loudoun county. take a look at this hole. this road started flooding right around 9:00 last night and you can see the result and the road collapsed and the emergency officials are preparing for even more rain. a four-foot wall of water

slammed into home in leesburg tuesday night, flooding basements and stranding residences in their homes. >> the house right there was just a puddle. it looked like an island. the house was on its own island. >> the homeowner did not want to go on camera, but let us i havediot damage. the force of the water ripped the basement door off its hinges. children's toys and christmas ornaments among the items destroy destroyed. a restoration crew now trying to dry it all out. >> how hard is that going to be to get this done? >> kind of hard. yeah. i had to take a lot of mud out of the basement and move the furniture that got wet and dry it out. >> reporter: adam forrester issa i neighbor who is helping remove debris from the street and out of the storm drains. he says this area behind the homes is supposed to be a dry pond. >> it came out of nowhere, and it was pretty severe. it just -- it's rained hard before, but it's never flooded like that. >> reporter: flooding forced several streets in the county to

close including hamilton station road where rushing water caused a bridge to collapse. a nearby stream overflowed its banks. >> we know that if we start seeing additional roads will start closing. >> reporter: and with more heavy rain in the forecast, emergency officials met today to plan for more flooding. >> be aware of what's going on and understand the weather that's coming in and understand what your schedule is and how the weather might impact that schedule. >> i just spoke to residents who live on this street and the good news is they are able to get around the mess here up the road so they can get to their homes. no word on when the road will be repaired and chances are they're going to wait because again, more rain is in the forecast. let's go to doug kammerer and it looks like we'll get hit again and again and again. >> that area saw 3 to 6 inches of rain and that's what we're forecasting on friday into saturday and once again, that's the nor'easter and sunday into monday is joaquin if it did make

its way on land and i have much more on that including the latest path where

a lot of rain coming over the next couple of day, but it's not tonight and it is not tomorrow. still plenty of time to prepare and a good idea to start preparing potential for flooding rains and make sure you get everything out of your basement if you have a basement that does flood, make sure you check your

sump pump and that type of thing and make sure you clear storm drains and that's always a good idea to do before we get heavy rain and look at the winds out of the north at 18 miles per hour and we're still dealing with some shower activity and mostly in and around portions of southern maryland and some light, isolated showers and that's about it. satellite and radar showing this system off the coast and this is the same system that came through yesterday and look at the moisture continuing to stream up and eventually all of this moisture will work back to the northeasterly wind and we've been showing you that over the last couple of days and the nor'easter that will develop and watch our rainfall. most of the area is dry, but by tomorrow afternoon we'll start to see this area back to the west on your thursday, but friday is the day that we really see the northeasterly flow and watch the rain come in early or rather late in the day on friday. friday afternoon into the evening. that's when we're starting to see the concerns for more flooding and i'm not just talking about street flooding and stream flooding, but maybe

river flooding and maybe the major rivers friday into saturday and we know we'll see coastal flooding out of the potomac and the chesapeake and even is saturday we still have more rain coming out of that nor'easter? we have an area of high pressure well to the north and east. the area of low pressure to the south and the combination of it, too, the pressure gradient gives us the strong northeasterly wind and that's what it takes to be a nor easter and it's just that northeast wind, but what it does for us is build water up to the coast and you will see coastal flooding for sure and we're also going to see coastal flooding along the potomac and winds to 40 miles per hour and three to six inches of rain area wide on top of what we've seen the last couple of days and that's the nor'east nor'easter. that's friday and saturday. hurricane joaquin is coming toward the bahamas and hurricane warning for the bahamas. winds currently at 85 miles an hour and we do expect it to become a category 3 hurricane with winds of 115 miles per hour on friday and saturday and look

what it does on sunday and 100 mile an hour winds coming onshore very close to cape hatteras, but notice the cone of uncertainty. yes, it brings it right over washington and 65 mile an hour storm on monday, but the cone goes farther off toward the east. so this is not set in stone yet. do not look at this crowd and think we're definitely getting the storm. the forecast is going to be changing and that's why you have to stay with us on nbc 4. 59 for a high on your friday and very chilly and rain owe friday, and that's the storm we know that's going to happen and then we'll see what joaquin does on sunday and into monday. the rest of the seven day coming up in a few minutes. jill harrington exchanges words with the mother of the man accused of killing her daughter. i'm david culver.

now at 6:30, a virginia man in court accused of killing two college coeds. what one victim's mother said to his family just outside. a chef in hot water arrested for exposure on a metro train. we'll report how police used his smart card to track him down. and a nor'easter, a hurricane, storm team 4 busy forecasting the impact of a one-two punch on your weekend.

>> for the first time today jill harrington spoke with the mother of the man accused of murdering her daughter morgan. >> news 4's david culver reports on what was said. as a trial date was set for jesse matthew, the man accused of killing two virginia college students. >> reporter: always sitting on opposite sides of the aisle in the courtroom, today morgan's mom decided to cross over and acknowledge another mother who was suffering, jesse matthews' mom. >> as i was leaving the courtroom. i walked across the aisle, and i understood this is very difficult on their family, as well. i gave her my condolences and i shook her hand. it was the right thing to do. >> jill says it's jesse matthew who is on trial. his family, including his mom, dad and sister didn't do anything wrong, she says. >> pain and suffering.

>> prosecutors formally charged matthew with harrington's 2009 murder and the trial date set for october 24, 2016, not soon enough for her mom and dad. >> that's a long time for us to keep this ball rolling. it would be -- >> that will be seven years. seven years after the event. >> abducted and murdered on october 17, 2009 after leaving a concert in charlottesville. today a judge unknowingly set the trial date for the anniversary and then changed it. the harringtons said they'd be open for a plea. >> matthew faces up to three life sentences for a 2005 attempted murder and sex assault in fairfax. prosecutors say they'll be watching on. >> that's a completely separate case and won't impact what happens here. >> reporter: we will be back up in fairfax for this friday's ruling to see what the judge decides. in charlottesville, virginia, i'm david culver, news 4. >> a woman attacked just steps

from an arlington high school and police are trying to figure out if it could be connected to a series of other cases. >> it happened last night along north quincy street near washington lee high school. we are told a man grabbed a woman and dragged her into the bushes and she screamed and ran off. in the past few months we've seen five similar assaults all in north arlington. police put out two separate sketches, but have not definitively connected these cases. they say each time the attacker grabs a woman as she is walking me in the evening hours. the victims have all managed to scare their attackers off by screaming or fighting them. there are still more than 2,000 students in prince george's county who have not had their required immunizations. beginning tomorrow those students will not be allowed back in school. a spokesman for the school admitted that poor record keeping is contributing to the

backlog and now it turns out the school system is in violation of state law. bureau chief tracee wilkins with the story seen only here on news 4. if they don't have their immunizations before 4:20 this afternoon they will be excluded from school starting tomorrow. >> reporter: now the scramble is on, more than 2,000 parents are still working to get their last-minute booster shots in prince george's county. >> a letter was sent home yesterday that if the children were not completed by today, tomorrow they were excluded. >> reporter: according to maryland state law, the prince george's county school system is in violation of a provision that requires students that were not immunized to be removed by the school. it could withhold to hold funding because they waited until the 30th. maryland department of education spokesman says our overriding concern is that schools are in compliance with the regulations,

back in class and learning. we are confident the school system will resolve this soon and have no plans to explore penalties. they've kept the state apprised of their immunization log every step of the way. >> there's no public health crisis in regard to immunizations in prince george's county schools and we want to make that clear. >> she mentioned it to me, but i never got any paper from the school? virginia reyes is rushing sophia who just turned 12 to the doctor before tomorrow's deadline. >> if they don't have immunizations before 4:20 this afternoon they will be excluded from school starting tomorrow. >> as it stands we have no word of any agency investigating what went wrong with these immunizations and also the record issues within the school system that will most likely be handled on a county level. in landover, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. a local man is facing reckless driving charges after police say he hit a vdot worker with his car.

musgrove is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after he was hit last night in the rain. this was not far from the ridge road overpass. we are told that vdot worker musgrove was directing traffic in an area that had been blocked off by cones and flares. police say driver charles hepburn lost control of his car on that wet road, hit the worker and a safety truck and a guardrail. metrotransit police are looking for more video of a man who exposed himself on a train to a 13-year-old girl. a man named espinoza lopez unzipped his pants while sitting next to her on a train and blocked her from leaving her seat. she was able to give a detailed description of loan edz including a chef's jacket that he was wearing. upon police have had reports of similar attacks and they arrested lopez at the greenbelt station this week. and the guy who spray

painted these violent threats against police officers in maryland is off the streets. the graffiti was discovered yesterday at the richie highway shopping center in anne arundel county. zachary shaner confessed to the vandalism, but he is already in custody on a separate charge of shoplifting. coming up tonight, stiffer than a shot of espresso, huh? we'll tell you which starbucks location wants to start selling beer and wine. tracking the nor easter and joaquin. i've got the latest track for you next.

it's been said for a long time that one thing that d.c. does for sure is aggressively enforce parking tickets. today our crew saw one driver get a $30 ticket after briefly parking illegally outside of a

mcdonald's. >> but what happens when the ticket writers break those rules? tom sherwood went looking for answers. >> reporter: a ticket writer nails this parked car and the driver had been in the mcdonald's here. >> i just went to mcdonald's to get a cup of ice. >> reporter: a minute, ice or no ice it was an illegal spot. >> how much did that cup of ice cost you? >> oh, i don't know. >> on the ticket? >> $30. >> thousands of ticket writers were off to their assignment and what about this parking control van in vicente avenue near tinnily circle. the driver parked once for this atm stop and a block away for food at this popeye's. sure, there are lots of parking violations everywhere, but do people think it's okay for ticket writers? do you think ticket writers ought to follow the same rules they enforce. >> definitely. >> because the same rules apply to everybody. >> i think they should be equal.

i definitely do. definitely do. >> reporter: city rules say employees can park illegally only if their government work is urgent. they're not exempt from parking rules. after seeing nbc 4's video, the d.c. public works told us the department of public works is investigating this issue and will use this inquiry as an opportunity to remind all 237 enforcement officers to carry out their duties responsiblresp. >> ticket writing is a big issue here. and it collects about $90 million a year. keep that in mind any time you want to park illegally even for a second. tom sherwood, news 4. you may soon be able to grab a beer or some wine at a starbucks in sterling. the store on pigeon hill drive off route 7 has applied for an abc license. starbucks hasn't received details about the offerings at this specific location, but it is increasing the number of

stores with what it is calling starbucks evenings. the menu includes small plates and craft beer and wine. this would be the first store with that menu in our region. you have to learn to help prevent these. up and down the east coast right now, communities bracing for the worst as a newly formed hurricane, joaquin, barrels in. we'll tell you what the state of virginia is doing tonight to prepare for them. there stood the killer in the courtroom as the judge read out charge after charge after charge. no contest, said the killer. there's not going to be a trial, but there's more to be done here.

jamie wanted a taste of the real new orleans and we just couldn't say no to that face. then we wanted more of that local flavor so betty says... oh yeah, that's betty. you're going to want to do this alligator thing. and betty didn't lead us wrong. a little later we passed some dancing. and who doesn't like dancing? especially when it's followed by fireworks everyone's nola is different. follow yours.

a man entered a no-contest plea today in the murder of his ex-wife's second husband and the prosecutor called that a cop-out. new at 6:00, pat collins is reporting from leesburg on why this man will have two days of sentencing. >> it was a swifted case of murder that left a sea of sorrow in loudoun county. >> corey madison shot and killed by his wife's ex-husband. >> the one word i would use is tragedy. you have a man who is a loving father, loving stepfather by all

accounts who is doing nothing, but putting the kids to bed when someone busts through his door ask shoots him to death. >> denise madison, she was there when it happened. at the time she was pregnant with corey's child. in fact, a few days ago she gave birth to that little girl. upon she brought the babe toe court today to watch as her ex-husband entered a no-contest plea to the charges. >> what was it like for you in there today? >> um, i'd prefer not to say anything right now. >> the no-contest plea by nguyen carries the same consequences as a guilty plea. the sentencing is set for two days in february because newend's lawyers want to produce some mental health experts as they seek leniency here. nguyen could get life. prison here and life is what the prosecutor says he's going to ask for. in loudoun county, pat collins,

news 4. virginia's governor terry mcauliffe has declared a state of emergency in preparation for the heavy rain expected later this week and the potential arrival of hurricane joaquin. he is also encouraging families in virginia to prepare now for potential flooding by coming up with an emergency plan. it should be fair to evacuate and remember, he says, do not attempt to drive through flooded areas. >> anyone who lives along the coast here knows a nor'easter can be pretty rough. >> yeah. they really can especially if it's a long duration nor'easter as this one is going to be. we'll have winds out of the northeast for a good two to three days, at least and that's without joaquin moving in. so the nor'easter is part number one to this and that's number friday, into saturday and even

into sunday and we'll see title departures of one to two feet and that will put areas like downtown alexandria under water, places that would normally flood, those are the areas that would flood around the georgetown region, so we'll be watching this closely and if you have a place along the chesapeake, as well. i am concerned about this over the next few days and right now not much going on and dry for the most part, a few showers, light showers moving on through the region and it was moving out of the southwest and it's continuing to move out of the southwest and it's just farther down off toward the coast and down toward norfolk and virginia beach. all of that as the northeasterly winds begin to develop will be pushed right back into our region and that's what we'll be seeing and mostly cloudy tomorrow, cool with just a few showers. temperature 58 to 53 degrees and by friday we'll start to see the rain move in and by sfrn saturday look how much rain we're expecting, two to three

inches or more backed to western mountains of virginia and 3 to 6 inches or more and even the storm prediction center and parts of the government putting out ten inches of rain in parts of our region so that's not out of the question here for how much rain we could see. so action items and things to start thinking about, clean the gutters out and the downspouts and make sure those are clean and check your sump pump and move valuables off the basement floor and take the furniture if you need to and the toys, and the carpets if you're able to take them up especially if you know you're in a flood-prone area and the roads over the next few days. no problem tomorrow. rather breezy and we've got you in the green and a couple of red lights here for friday or saturday. more heavy rain and some wind as well and we are predicting winds upwards of 40 miles per hour and that's on friday and saturday and that could potentially take down some trees and then we look toward joaquin.

it is moving southwest at 8 miles an hour and it is expected to make this turn back to the north and also expected to become a very strong category 3 hurricane and winds of at least 115 miles per hour and somewhere around cape hatter as moving rid into the d.c. metro area and this is a compromise in the models and most have it down farther to the south and a few out to see and that's what we need to wait and see what happens, and that forecast cone will change and what will not change is friday and saturday and we still have the weather alerts friday and saturday and we'll be dealing with the heavy rain and wind friday and sunday and we have a red skins game and we'll see we'll get the game in. >> first the giants and now the eagles. the eagles love to play in the mud and find out how kirk

this is the xfinity sportsdesk brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. >> here's what some of us are asking, if there's no lightning why don't you play football. that's the way football is played, right? mud, snow, no matter what it's football. >> it's football, but if there is a hurricane -- you need fans out there. >> they cannot put the sand -- that's what tv is for. >> you had your time, doug.

there is a cone of uncertainty in sports, as well. >> i'm sorry. >> we've been in contact with greg aiello today and the nfl spokesman confirmed they're monitoring the weather like all of us and contingency plans are not new in the nfl and no details have been released and we'll keep y posted and the redskins preparing for the bad weather and the eagles. >> it reports on if this is a make or break game for kirk cousins. >> thanks, carol. in the first three games of the season for the redskins, kirk cousins has thrown four interceptions and two in each of the team's losses and this is a must-win game for the skins come sunday, but it's also a must that cousins performs well. >> you will always say what can i do differently so i don't want to sound like i'm shrugging my shoulders and not taking it seriously. on the other hand, if i don't trust those throws and let them go at times i'll probably never be able to make consistent completions in this league.

i can't put it all on one player and it's definitely a team game and you definitely have to help him make the plays and keep the quarterback and he can lead us to where we want to go to victory and i'm definitely going to keep playing hard for him. >> meanwhile, the redskins will have a new face on the starting offensive line this week and spencer long will replace injured sean lavelle and half guard and it mostly played right guard during training camp. >> it's an easy transition and i'm more comfortable and even after today i'm almost back at it, comfortable and back at left. >> one redskins player that has not seemed ready to go, wide receiver desean jackson. according to head coach jay gruden he missed practice again today due to a hamstring injury and colt mccoy was back on the practice field after missing monday due to a cut on his foot. from ashburn, i'm jason pugh,

news 4 sports. nationals meantime, limping to the finish and five games left, and what may be his last time in the nationals uniform and he's entering free agency after the season. orioles-blue jays doubleheader giving away a free t-shirt. top five, jays up with two outs and darwin barney grounds it to jason garcia, but look at the throw, one run comes in on the air and then chris davis, he's out there, you know and he doesn't have it, he throws it to the catcher and it went over his head. can you believe it? both runners come in to score and three runs on a ground out with the pitcher and toronto now up 11-1 in the ninth and they will clinch their first division title since 1993 with the victory. to college football. virginia tech taking a big hit. starting quarterback kendall fuller will miss the rest of the

season after having knee surgery to repair the torn meniscus. he is regarding by some as the top nfl prospect and he's in his junior season with virginia tech. racing, tony stewart applying the brakes in the career on the nascar cup series. stewart announced his retirement, but will have one more year and he has recovered from the tragic accident. his retirement has zero to do with those incidents he says it just feels like time. talk about a rough night for this guy. the first chance to catch a foul pop-up and right through those hands. then a grounder bounces off his chest. third time, the ball boy throws to him and he can't get that either and reached over the wall and his lady friend, wife, whoever she is looks like she's looking utterly embarrassed.

>> exactly right. >> good thing no one was watching. it was just the yankees-red sox. >> she will not go to a game with him again. that's a shame. what a shame. that's our broadcast for now and "nightly news" co

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