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what it means for our weekend. we've got changes moving in just in time. and unanswered questions at a horrifying scene in prince george's county. three girls under the age of ten found murdered. police determined to get justice for their families. >> i wear a uniform, but i am a father. we all feel this loss. a new focus tonight in the battle over confederate monuments in our area. this one might not be easy to remove. >> the statue of general albert pike sits on federal land, and tonight during a protest rally, someone splattered it with red paint. news4's meagan fitzgerald is live for us along 3rd and d streets in northwest with details. >> reporter: jim, organizers of the protest say their purpose here was to speak out against racism and for the removal of these confederate statues. but before that protest had a chance to end, you'll notice behind me

bottle of red paint at the foot of the statue. it's one of the latest protests around the country. >> no trump, no kkk, no fascist usa. >> reporter: residents rising up against racism, speaking out against president trump and demanding the removal of confederate statues. >> hey hey, ho ho, albert pike has got to go. >> reporter: d.c. residents are calling for the removal of confederate general albert pike. >> today we were out here in response to white supremacy and ending white supremacy, raising our voices around the racist statues that are in our cities all over this country. >> hey hey, ho ho, white supremacy has got to go. >> reporter: the protest was peaceful, but just as it was about to end -- >> it flew right past my head. i was like that's just dangerous. >> reporter: someone threw this bottle of red paint, which splattered across the statue. u.s. park

started investigating, but organizers insist it wasn't thrown by anyone in their group. >> i understand people's passion. i understand people's rage, you know. but that is not what we came here to do. >> reporter: now, many d.c. councilmembers along with delegate eleanor holmes norton are calling for the removal of the statue. delegate norton says that she will be speaking with the national park service as soon as congress comes back from recess in september. jim. >> thanks so much. it was just a week ago tonight when we were showing you some of the first disturbing images from charlottesville. hundreds of white supremacists held a rally lit by tiki torches chanting anti-semitic phrases. >> it was reminiscent of ku klux klan rallies from generations ago, and the first confrontation in what would become a deadly weekend. news4's leon harris joins us now. leon, so much has

week. >> i know, what a week that town has lived through. they started out on a simmer, went to seething and tonight everything is solemn. so much has happened and yet there's still so much we don't know about what happens next. still up in the air tonight is the future of that robert e. lee statue in emancipation park that was such a draw for so many. charlottesville mayor says today that he wants a special session of the state legislature to debate its removal. but governor terry mcauliffe is saying that won't help out because the issue is so tied up in court because after a city vote to remove the statue earlier this year. another statue getting attention in richmond, this will not be the sight of any demonstrations any time soon. this video -- governor mcauliffe issued an executive order that temporarily bans rallies and protests there. meanwhile more charges were issued for the man police say rammed a car in counterprotesters saturday. james fields is already accused of murdering heather

now he's facing malicious wounding charges because some of the people injured were hurt seriously and permanently. and one of the troopers killed while monitoring that violence in a helicopter last week was laid to rest today. he was buried in richmond. lieutenant jay cullen's funeral is set for tomorrow. cullen was also in the chopper. the cause of the crash still unknown at this hour. we showed you the video of those torches from last friday earlier, but what we saw wednesday night this week gave such a more heartfelt feeling about what's happening. see this, a crowd of hundreds on the uva campus holding candles instead of torchers there singing songs and really showing the power of love over hate. you're struck by how one thing can send two completely conflicting messages. a flame just depends on the size. >> quite a contrast. >> absolutely, absolutely. >> thanks so much. wizards star john wall spoke about the events of the past week at

back-to-school giveaway. here was his message today for the children at rosedale community center in northeast. >> i want the kids to understand no matter what goes on, you can't use that to try to target anybody else. we're all one whole family, even though we're different races, we're still one big family. it's kind of amazing to understand that in 2017 going into 2018 we're still dealing with the same type of things that our great great grandparents dealt with and we thought we was going in a positive direction. all we can do is not use it as retaliation and try to stay positive. >> of this the fourth year for the john wall foundation's back-to-school event. we'll hear more from him coming up in sports. the strong storms that brought us lots of rain this afternoon led to a familiar problem at the cleveland park metro station this evening. check it out, flooding forced trains to bypass the station for about half an hour. and check out this picture. this guy apparently doesn't mind getting wet. it gives you an idea of just how much water was rushing down into thatta

our studios right here in northwest d.c. the video from nbc photographer caesar gonzalez, lightning striking our tower there. >> doug, we got a lot of rain and a lot of lightning tonight, but it sounds like there was some great weather right behind it. >> we talk about this all the time. as hot as things were today, you need those storms to bust up the heat and they're doing their job today. take a look at what we saw earlier today. those storms rumbling on through the area about six hours ago, coming on through parts of loudoun county, fairfax county, right through the district with a flash flood warning that was issued. we did see some flooding around broad ranch creek, rock creek park all saw flooding today. now, that's all out of here. we still have a little area of showers that's making its way back in. that's ahead of the cold front that will come through. tomorrow a big change in the forecast. much less humid tomorrow. that's some great news. trackingr

i've got the latest eclipse forecast on monday. see you back here in a minimum. >> all right, thank you, doug. police are being tight-lipped tonight about a horrific crime that has everyone in a prince george's county community talking. >> three little girls with their whole lives ahead of them were found beaten to death inside a home. news4's jackie benson picks up our story now in clinton, maryland. >> reporter: the investigation into this horrific crime is very active at this point. police tell us it is, quote, confined to the home at this point. it was an unimaginably awful scene. three little girls, all under age 10, found murdered inside this home on quiet brook jane drive in clinton, maryland. police describe them as victims of blunt force trauma. the children were beaten to death. neighbors tell news4 about 7:30 a.m. it became clear something terrible had happened. >> i just feel very disturbed.

conference, and i was shaking. i'm still shaking because of the fact that there are three children dead in my neighborhood. >> reporter: neighbors say at least three adults lived in the home and they saw two men being led away in handcuffs. police would not confirm that. >> we continue to investigate this case. we do want to make sure the community understands that, again, this was an incident that was specific to this residence. >> reporter: prince george's county state's attorney came to the scene. her office has prosecuted a troubling number of child murders in recent years. >> we woke up again this morning, as hard as it is to yet another nightmare is what it felt like. these three beautiful, beautiful young children. >> reporter: neighbors tell us the occupants of the home have only lived here for about six months. in clinton, maryland, jackie benson, news4. developing tonight, intelligence sources tell nbc news the attackers in

butane cylinders to build a large truck bomb. it's not clear why they abandoned that plan and instead used a van to mow people down in one of the city's biggest tourist areas. american jared tucker was among the 14 killed in spain. he was celebrating his first wedding anniversary with his wife. his father says everybody loved him. another part of europe dealing with its own tragedy tonight. police in finland believe the man who launched a stabbing spree today acted alone. but officers are not ruling out the involvement of other people, and they're trying to track down potential suspects. the attacker killed two people and injured six more before police shot him in the leg and detained him. the stabbings were in the western city of turku. people will notice stepped-up security. the former prince george's county teacher's aide accused of sexually exploiting students to

create child pornography will serve whatever sentence he gets in federal prison. federal prosecutors and authorities reached an agreement. they say the federal prison system has a more complete and effective program for monitoring and managing sex offenders. his sentencing on federal charges is scheduled for monday morning. more than 100 local and state charges are still pending. leon harris here back at the live desk where we're following a breaking news story coming out of orlando, florida. that's where our sister station is reporting that two officers have been shot. we want to show you video just coming into the newsroom. this is out of the town of kissimmee and you can see that police presence there is massive. the shooting occurred about 90 minutes ago. authorities are not saying how badly the officers are hurt or what they were investigating just before they were shot. but we're following this story here on the air as well as t he

he's no longer working in the white house, but steve bannon says he's ready to go to war for president trump. >> the president's former chief strategist already back at work tonight for the conservative breitbart news website. and listen to what he told bloomberg this evening. quote, if there's any confusion out there, let me clear it up. i'm leaving the white house and going to war for trump against his opponents on capitol hill, in the media and in corporate america. nbc's

bannon's departure. >> reporter: promising war, steve bannon's bracing for battle, now becoming one of the last west wing originals to leave the picture, one year and one day after joining team trump. the self-styled protector of the president's nationalist pledges mutually agreeing with chief of staff john kelly that he should leave, according to the white house. the news applauded today literally when it was announced at the stock exchange. >> i'm telling you that bannon is said to have submitted his resignation. >> reporter: cheered by civil rights groups, democrats, even some republicans. >> the president did absolutely the right thing in firing steve bannon. steve bannon was undermining the administration. >> reporter: the chief strategist had been telling people close to him he thought he'd survive, but nbc news has learned bannon talked with kelly about resigning two weeks ago, according to multiple sources familiar with the decision. a white house official tells nbc

removal after a staff review this month at bedminster, getting a sign-off from the president. bannon, often seen, rarely heard, but influential with far right conservatives, delivering this message to them earlier this year. >> have our back but hold us accountable. >> reporter: bannon now able to freely swipe at the so-called globalists in the west wing. >> conservatives trusted steve bannon as the backbone of the trump administration. >> this was another fix to the staff side of the equation, but really i don't think will have much effect on the donald trump side of the equation. we're just hours away from a campaign that we are passionate about here at nbc4. tomorrow animal shelters here and across the country are waiving adoption fees to get pets into permanent homes. two of our favorite pet lovers are leading our coverage of this annual event. wendy rieger will be live at the ou

center in waterford, virginia, tomorrow morning on "news4 today." and sheena parveen will be in northwest d.c. this is video of some of the pets from last year's campaign. we have answers to all of your questions about the campaign on our nbc washington app. feel free to share photos of you and your pet with the #cleartheshelters. >> you just shared murphy tonight. >> i did. yes, i did. highways and cities are packed in parts of the u.s. as millions of tourists make their way to the path of totality before monday's solar eclipse. people living in places like salem, oregon, and nashville, tennessee, have seen a huge increase in traffic and hotel bookings. and we're still seeing those long lines to buy the special eclipse glasses you need to protect your eyes. if you still need yours, check our nbc washington app for more on where to find them. doreen and i just tested o

out tonight. >> yes, they're dark. very dark. you can't see anything through them. so we know we need the glasses. now we want to know are the clouds going to interfere? >> i think we're going to be okay, i really do. we're going to see clouds like we normally do on a summer afternoon, but it's not going to be obscuring the sun all that much out there. today, the big story was really the thunderstorms and the heat across our region. we have not seen a whole lot of 90s in the month of august. look at today, 91 d.c., 93 dulles, 96 in warrenton, but the heat index hit 109 in d.c., 110 in leesburg, 110 down around the fredericksburg area too. it was extremely hot and that added to the fuel for the thunderstorm activity. you see the storms rumbling on through the region during the afternoon today and then really firing up southern portions of maryland. numerous thunderstorm warnings, a couple of flash flood warnings as well. now really starting to calm down. we've got a lot more rain still going on down around ocean city,

back to the west we're tracking these -- whoa. i don't know, let's do something -- it's the eclipse. it does this to the computer systems apparently. i don't know what that is. any way -- let me get rid of them. there it is right there, there's some rain down there that's coming this way. you've never seen that before, have you? they're laughing at me now. all right, what's happening around the rest of the region? well, you see that storm system moving on through and behind it nothing here. that means we're in for what i think is going to be a great weekend. now, it's still going to be warm. high temperatures tomorrow still in the upper 80s. right now we're still at 78 degrees. it's still very warm for this time of year. very muggy conditions out there too. tomorrow better. we'll see the humidity start to come down. not nearly as humid. 89, a little bit less of a heat index. it will be maybe around 90, that's about it. good day for a bike ride for the kids. 83 at 11:00 a.m., 89 by 3:00, going down to 85

a really nice night, whether you're barbecuing, eating dinner outside, looking pretty good. i had a call, can i eat crabs tomorrow afternoon? yeah, you can definitely do that. sunday looking good, 89. there's solar eclipse day, 88 degrees with partly cloudy skies. back to 91 on tuesday. there will be more humidity on monday and tuesday into wednesday before more storms rumble through, and that gives us what i think will be a fantastic end to next week, and next weekend looking fabulous. do you want to talk about the eclipse? let's do. 88, looking good. the peak of the eclipse is around 2:42 as we've been telling you all week. the best time is between 2:20 and 3:00 is when you'll really be able to see it. >> and tune into our eclipse special. 1:00 on monday. >> yeah, who's hosting that? >> you'll be in south carolina. here's a sharpie and paper to practice your drawing. >> i did what my little 2-year-old would have done. it was like this. >> at least your drawing was g-rated. >> exactly.

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the nats lost a star player tonight. that was before the start of the game. >> yeah, chris miles is here from the csn studios. not a good start to the night for our nats. >> no. bryce harper, trai turner already bit by the injury bug. now max scherzer was placed on the ten-day dl tonight with left neck inflammation. this is the second time in his last four starts that

the last time was back on august 1st right after he hit his first career home run. however, that injury was on the right side of his neck. tonight scherzer attempted to give it a go in san diego, showing up to the ballpark an hour and a half early. instead, it was determined he would miss tonight's start. the stint on the disabled list is retroactive to august 15th so he can return as early as saturday, august 26th. currently scherzer leads the national league in strikeouts and is second in earned runs allowed. matt grace on the bump for his first career major league baseball start in place of mad max. came two against the padres, but it's howie kendrick starting the game off with a bang. nats take the 1-0 lead. bottom of the second, jarvis also looking to go yard but he missed the memo on michael a.

the top of the fifth. baltimore hosting a team from the left coast as well, los angeles. hit five home runs but that was no match for manny machado. a two-run shot in the third inning and he's just getting warmed up. in the fifth machado added a solo flight to bring the birds within two. so it's still a 7 l-5 game in t bottom of the ninth. you've got to be kidding me. machado for a third time. his 26th of the year, seventh rbi in the game and the birds needed every single one of them. baltimore wins in walk-off fashion 9-7. with a minimum tonight the mystics could clinch a playoff spot. this one gives d.c. the lead in the first half. fourth quarter, mystics trail by

christey tolliver drops two of her team-high 21. d.c. back on top. but notice i said team high. diana taurasi had a game-high 25. that was too much for washington. mystics fall 89-79. if the redskins have issues at quarterback later this season, they know who to call. wizards star point guard john wall showing off the skills on a deep throw. that's a 40-yard spiral with very little effort. he did this at his annual back-to-school event at the rosedale community center in northeast. wall also gave the kids who attended book bags full of book supplies. jim, doreen, doug, it's amazing how easy that wall made that long pass look. of course we see him do that on the basketball court. >> we have. >> you remember the pitch he did at nats park? >> yes. this was a lot better. > that was a lot better, i

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we have some breaking news just in. an arrest tonight in the tragic murder of those three little girls in prince george's county. just minutes ago police told us they have arrested 24-year-old antonio williams of clinton, maryland, for that triple homicide. now, he lives on the same street as the home where the girls were killed, but police are not telling us if he lived in that same house. officers are holdings a news conference tomorrow morning and we'll learn much more then, 11:00 a

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