fireworks taking place with brad keselowksi, his name at the top of the list of the unofficial results. kyle busch. how about trevor bayne and his teammate, ricky stenhouse jr. in the top five. >> clint bowyer rounding out the top ten. great run there by casey mears even though he had that trouble. >> aj allmendinger in the top 13. again, the big one happening taking out almost 19 cars. dale earnhardt was able to continue on finishing 21st. bobby labonte in that late accident relegated him back to 24th. >> chris buescher, he had a good run early. >> a lot of these cars involved in the big one. as we look forward, just nine races to go until we get to the race. after 17 races, 11 drivers have won. >> what a summer it is going to be. look with

11 spot how tight that made it. all the way down to aj allmendinger in 20th, only out by 16 points. >> the small things make a big difference. ryan newman, even though his car was wrecked was able to get a decent finish keeping him in the top 15. he was one of the many cars involved there in that wreck. >> brad keselowksi just bringing the 2 into victory lane. hallowed ground at this racetrack if you can get into victory lane here. that is a huge accomplishment. brad keselowksi, you can tell in his voice, he is a sprint cup champion. winning the highest possible thing you can win in racing, stock car racing. he felt great about the fact that he won at daytona. >> he is just unbuckling now getting ready to get out of the race car.

confetti flies as he is getting showered by his sponsor. the winner for the first time at daytona, brad keselowksi. he has had so much success at restrictor plate racing all at talladega and finally now his first daytona victory. he is being celebrated now by his team, the 100th win for team penske. brad is enjoying it. how did you hold off the busch brothers and your teammates? >> those guys were doing a heck of a job, kyle and kurt worked together really well. my teammates were a huge part of this. we worked together really well. joey won here. he is really a pro, especially on the restart. he gave me the push i needed to get to the front. i don't care. it is daytona. this is huge. i love this place. here we are in victory lane with the detroit

god, it is crazy. >> what has it been like being so successful at talladega but up until now not being able to get here? >> it has been a kick in the you know what. i doubted myself here. we came here for the 500 and we ran like dog crap. my team worked on it. i did not give up on them. i believed in them. they believed in me. it really showed today with a great effort. i am really proud. >> we saw it in the closing laps, you had a decision to make which line to pick. we know how critical the restart was. what was going through your mind? >> my teammates, joey logano. i knew he worked with me. i knew he was really good with this. having a great teammate is an awesome thing. >> congratulations. >> thank you guys. happy independence day everybody. >> brad keselowksi celebrating the fourth of july in a big way, his 20th win of his career and the 100th for team penske. >> all smiles for brad keselowksi and team.

between 13 drivers. more live coverage from daytona coming up on nbcsn, over an hour of coverage. the nascar america post race show followed by nascar victory lap. coming up next on nbc, your late local news except on the west coast and later tonight saturday night live with tina fey and amy poehler and bruce springsteen and the e street band. brad keselowksi finally gets the win at daytona. congratulations.

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snuls 4 at 11 starts now. >> just two days from the fourth, a saturday night celebrate. emelia is tracking some rain. >> right now some rain down around the charlottesville area and then further south as we head into the overnight and morning hours. we will look to see the rain develop further north into our area. here we are 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, notice rain in parts of prince william charles, into charles county, 7:00 a.m. some rain impacting the district. best chance of rain in d.c. tomorrow is between 7 and 11:00 a.m. that's the entire d.c. metro area. and this continues through the late morning and midday. here you see at 11:00 a.m. generally light in nature. some heavier rain to the south. as we me

time. in fact, most of your day will be completely dry, but notice mostly cloudy skies and then some showers potentially around late tomorrow night. i have new information in about the chance of rain on the fourth of july and i'll have that coming up. >> fireworks lighting up the sky tonight in laurel. that's where we find darcy spencer. >> it looks like everyone has made their way home by now. thousands of people turned out from the fireworks to get an early start to their fourth of july. >> it's a spectacular fireworks display on this saturday before the fourth of july in laurel. >> i came down to advice at this time my son and i watch channel 4 morning, noon and night. and i'm here to see the beautiful fireworks. >> the weather, beautiful, clear skies and cool area. it may have been the best

rain is in the forecast on independence day. >> it feels great out here, not too hot, not too cold and it's not raining. >> i think it's supposed to rain on the fourth of july, so i think we are going to get this one in just in time. >> d.c. police are monitoring events around the world and have made tweaks to their security plan. >> it's nothing significant and nothing that should change the ability for people to come here and feel safe. >> people felt safe as they lined the straets eets to celeb the nation's birthday a couple of days early. >> i like when my family comes down and we get to spend a lot of time together. i hope we can do it every time. >> that's a great idea. if you are planning to go to the national mall, you can find a list of the road closures and what is not okay to bring to the national mall. you can search july fourth under the

>> thank you so much. and darcy, we want to see the pictures from your celebrations. share them with us on our instagram pages and face great many and at which timer. president obama is calling wiesel the conscience of the world. he then became a fearless champion of peace and humanity at this. nbc's peter alexander with his life and enduring legacy. >> reporter: he was called a messenger of the man kind, a survivor of the nazi extermination camps. he later dedicated himself to making the memory of the holocaust eternal. efforts in 1986 earned him the nobel peace prize. >> we must speak, we must take

oppresson, never the victim. >> he was just a teenager in 1944 when he and his family were deported. his mother and younger sister were sent to the gas chambers and killed. among the 6 million jews to die in the holocaust. he was taken to buk kchenwald we he watched his father starve to death. he returned to auschwitz nearly 35 years later to confront his memory. >> i was literally taken from my books which speak of humanism and beauty and truth into the kingdom of hell. >> reporter: until his he death, a passionate supporter of israel, he wrote more than 50

haunting chronicle of his haunting experiences. >> often felt abandoned by god and betrayed by man kind. and yet, i believe that one must n not estrange oneself from god or man. >> reporter: peter alexander. hillary clinton spoke exclusively to nbc after speaking privately to the fbi. the controversy over clinton's use of private e-mail goes to the heart of what americans say they don't like about her. >> reporter: outside hillary clinton's washing to be dc home a small motor cade pulled away. the destination, fbi headquarters. she answered investigators questions for 3 1/2

up more than a year ago over her use of a home-based private server. secretary clinton spoke exclusively to nbc's chuck todd. >> i will continue to, you know, be as forthcoming as i can, and my answer that i first gave more than a year ago, i stand by. >> just three weeks before her party's convention -- >> i am so grateful to you. >> clinton is eager to put the controversy behind her. but political damage has already been done inflaming existing voter doubts about her trustworthiness. >> there is questions about her honesty, her character, her judgment. this will continue to be her great weakness. democrats ignore that, but for republicans, that's a big deal. >> ready to exploit it.

donald trump took to twitter, boldly predicting criminal charges and adding what bill did was stupid. that refers to the private meeting bill clinton had with attorney general loretta lynch this week. >> hindsight is 20/20. both the attorney general and my husband said that they wouldn't do it again. >> that wmeanwhile, republican presidential candidate donald trump spent the day meeting with indian na governor mike pence, new jersey governor chris christie and newt gingrich are on trump's short list. police in our region working several homicides. somebody shot and killed amanda dure early this morning. a man was shot and killed in the 200 block of 50th street northeast early this morning, and a man died at the hospital after shooting on

block of 18th street in south east just after midnight. no arrests in any of these homicide cases. a local teen got stuck in waist deep mud. see how he was finally able to get out. 226 years after his death, find out how benjamin

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all words used to describe a soccer coach that died this week in a freak accident in mexico. he was on vacation with his girlfriend. they were snorkling and she got caught in a rip current. he drowned saving her. family members and friends say he was part of this team and he was the kind of guy that everybody wanted to be like. >> he was our little brother. he was -- but he was the one that took care of us. >> he was my best friend. he was a very loving man. >> he always put people before him. he would always look out for people. >> franco coached the boys team. just search jose franco. firefighters in maryland coming to the rescue of a teen that got stuck in the mud.

deep in the murky and muddy water. firefighters got a hope out to him. he tied it on and then they use add ladder in order for him to be able to crawl out. your storm team 4 forecast. >> thankfully he was okay. here are your weather headlines. some scattered showers in the forecast tomorrow, especially south of the district. here in the dc metro area best chance of light rain between 7 and 11:00 a.m. for the afternoon and evening hours for all the cookouts you have planned it is looking mainly dry. we will be tracking rain at times for the fourth of july and this could impact fireworks display. after that our first heat wave of the year. tomorrow around 7:00 a.m. a temperature of 67 degrees with mostly cloudy skies and scattered showers again. by noon everybody looks to be mostly cloudy and dry

8:00 p.m. in the evening, still mild, temperature around 73. good news hum. here is the timing on the rain. 7:00 a.m., showers moving into the area from west to east. mostly cloudy skies. by the mid-day hours we are already tracking rain and notice the bright colors here on future weather in the early day and afternoon hours. that's some heavier rain, maybe some rumbles of thunder. we will have some dry time. when it's dry we will stay mostly cloudy. 7:00 p.m. showers i mpacting a good portion of the area. we are still tracking areas of rain. however, there could be enough break in activity when we do get the displays off if they delay thosedi sp those

fourth. we are waking up to a temperature around 66 degrees. mainly dry at that point. rain is likely in the mid-day and afternoon hours. as we head into the evening hours at 9:00 p.m., scattered showers about a 50% chance that you are dealing with rain around 9:00. notice how high the threat is, 60 to 80% in the afternoon hours. a high of 78 degrees. and four things you need to know about fireworks this year. mild temperatures in the 70s. this is still an evolving forecast. lauren is in tomorrow morning with the latest information. currently temperatures coloradoing in the 60s and 75s. as we look to tuesday, it looks like we will have some rain and pottially storms around for the morning hours and then some late-day sun shine. we are back in the 80s, and it's extremely humid.

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this the xfinity sports desk. there is a lot of roads to rio for pairs swimmers for maryland it is a dip in the pool that put them en route. michael phelps. katie ledecky ledeccontinue the quests. phelps looked to qualify for his third individual event in tonight's 100 meter butterfly finals. ledecky ledecky 800 meter final. michael phelps made sure he didn't go home with a loss. phelps qualified for his third individual event for the summer olympics, finishing in first with a time of 51 seconds flat. he will look to become the first and only swimmer to win four consecutive gold medals in the same

katie ledecky successful in aiding a third race. she dominated tonight's 800 meter free style. it looks like she is swimming in a pool by herself. she finished nearly 10 seconds before anybody else. her eight minutes 10.32 seconds is the third fastest ever in the event. that is actually not her best time. ledecky owns the top 11 spots for the women's 800 meter free style. nin free agency, the wizard were left standing at the alter. holford chose the boston celtics. a four-year $64 million deal. the 29-year-old is a late bloomer. he started 71 games last season after only having 21 starts in the first seven years of his