>> he needed help to put that cross up. >> mark segraves has been sifting through fbi records, and they tell a dark tale of attacks and threats. he has new details for us. >> that's right, the firestorm was started when father william atchison wrote an article for diocese of article link ton web be sight admitting to be a member of the kkk before he was a priest. and while he mentioned a cross burning and threatening letter in that article, it turns out his actions back in the 1970s went far beyond just being a member of the ku klux klan. today one of the couples he targeted spoke out about learning the man convicted of burning a cross on their front yard is now a priest. >> to have that much hate in your heart that you could do something like that you don't know he me. >> reporter: they spent the last 40 years trying to put the ugly memory behind them. todahe

extended an invitation for the burtl butlers to meet with father atchison, but the couple now in their seventh say until he names the other ku klux klan members who helped him to burn that cross on their front yard, they are not interested in talking to the priest. >> he was a ku klux klan. >> reporter: fbi records reveal that father atchison was actually a leader of a ku klux klan group based in prince george's county. and he was convicted of sending letters to coretta scott king threatening to lynch her. father atchison was sentenced to 90 days in jail to undergo psychiatric treatment. and he was also sentenced to 60 days for the threats to coretta scott king. at a court hearing in 1977, a fire marshal who infiltrated atchison's ku klux klan group said atchison was unstable and extremely dangerous and that he was planning, quote, guerrilla warfare against blacks.

making bombs. >> he had said he was coming back to put our pipe bomb at our door. so he was -- he was a mean burn. he was a mean burn. >> as for father atchison, he is still refusing to speak publicly and has stepped down from his duties at saint leo the great church in fairfax. the church has said they will work with the priest to help him repay the butlers the $23,000 he was ordered to pay them decades ago. the butlers say they will ask the kucourt the order him to pa it back with interest. and the more disturbing it gets. mark, thank you. now to breaking news in charlottesville where there is a dispute over the tarp just 34r5ised over t ed placed over the statue of robert e. lee. our producers in our newsroom tell us an older man approached the monument there, confronted a group there and argued why the

the city council decided to cover to honor heather heyer who was killed earlier this month during that white nationalist rally. some in the crowd cheered and clapp clapped the monument was covered. a statue of stonewall jackson was also shrouded. and news 4 has learned that the deadly protest over in a civil war statue in charlottesville is prompting a major change here in the district. the washington national cathedral saying that it has decided to speed up a decision on what it will do about two confederate stained glassshrine. they memorialize lee and jackson. tom sherwood will have more on this report coming up at 5:45. a young woman who says she was nearly dragged to her death is talking this evening about the mohorrific or deal. she was hit by a dump truck while walking on a busy road in our region. and for now the driver has only been cited for,

to yield. pat collins is along south dakota avenue with a story you will see only on news 4. >> reporter: police say that the dump truck driver failed to yield for the pedestrian. and then dragged her 67 feet. dire consequences for bianca butler. 3, 6, 9, 12, she was run over by a big dump truck and dragged 67 feet way over there until the driver said he heard her screams and brought the truck to a stop. new information about this horrific crash in a police report obtained today by news 4. the victim, 23-year-old bianca butler, today for the first time, she talked by phone about what happened. she's still

she's still recovering. >> dragged me almost to my death. i don't know what to do. i was praying for my life. almost about to die. now i can't move my legs because they were crushed. >> reporter: according to the police report, the dump truck was trying to make a right turn and bianca was trying to cross the street when the front wheel of the truck rolled over her legs. did he talk to you after this happened? >> all he said is i'm so sorry about what happened. i said that's all got to say, look i can't even walk because of you. >> reporter: bianca has been in the hospital now for weeks. she's gone through eight operations. she says she have still can't walk. now according to the police report, the driver of the truck failed to yield the right-of-way. that driver identified as 62-year-old ismael al

accident, he was awaiting trial for a hit and run in another crash. in that case, it's alleged his dump truck ran over a gallaudet student and left the scene. ethan zimmerman, 22-year-old victim there. he suffered brain injuries, a number of broken bones. he's still recovering. now, the actual charge is in the south dakota avenue case will be determined by the attorney general's office. that hasn't happened yet. alvarez drove for ft. myer construction, but the company says he no longer drives dump trucks for them. angie, back to you. >> pat collins for us this evening. thanks so much. jake jackson got in his car to do something many of us might take for granted. drive to work. but he never made it. he pulled over to make way for a congressional motorcade on

in frederick county, that's when a dump truck crashed into the back of his car. now iteam reporter scott mcfar land h mcfarland has learned that that driver won't face charges. the crash is also raising new questions about motorcades. it was a chain reaction crash and a ball of fire near a hectic interchange where i-70 meets i-270. police had just blocked traffic along 70 to help escort a motorcade of buses shuttling u.s. senators to a retreat. >> there is a fire and explosion. >> reporter: but state police reports say that the driver of a dump truck failed to stop, slamming into an suv in front of it and smashing it into another truck. the suv exploded in a ball of fire. >> one car is fully engulfed. >> reporter: it killed the driver, 46-year-old jacob

jackson of gait. t gaithersburg. there is evidence that the dump truck driver was on the phone at the time of impact.there is evi truck driver was on the phone at the time of impact. the truck driver also from gaithersburg had been under investigation for seven months. he hung up on news 4 saying he wants to move on with his life. but the state attorney's office says that there is insufficient evidence to file charges. witnesses have raised questions about the execution of that motorcade. we obtained witness statements from nearby drivers under the freedom of information act. one man said the way they shut down the roadway with rolling stops seemed inappropriate. caused a lot of people to slam brakes. a woman from south carolina who saw the crash wrote motorcycle police may have been having traffic move over too quickly for all cars coming up to slow down. u.s. capitol police say they will not comment on their procedures. in a written same from a special agent given to police, state police investigators said one of the buses in the mca

struck in this chain reaction crash, too. >> that video is impressive. was anyone else hurt in this? what about our local senators? >> so all the u.s. senators were safe. in fact local senators including when cardin were driving separate from the motorcade because they live so close. but there were two other injuries including the dump truck driver. according to the police investigation, it was a nurse at the hospital who heard the dump truck driver say he was on the phone with his wife at the time of impact. but again, the frederick county state's attorney's office tells us there will be no charges in this case. >> all right. scott, thanks. well, emotions are running high at a condo complex deemed unsafe in prince george's county. reads yesterday were are given 24 hours to pack up and leave. families were supposed to be out by noon today. but tonight five hours later, some are still moving. others still haven't left because they have nowhere to

bureau chief twras citracee wil and workers have started wo boarding up the building. >> reporter: yeah, this has been boarded up in the last 20, 30 minutes. and as you can see, the chain link fence that wasn't here this morning is almost fully constructed. but you look at the other end of it, there are still people here. what do you take when you only have hours. >> whatever fits in my car. >> reporter: police are going door to door telling you time is up. what are you looking at losing here? >> my investments, you know. what i spent to buy this place. >> reporter: work has begun to secure the property. >> this is home to me. >> reporter: it's well past the deadline for people would live here to leave. for the families -- >> my daughter and my granddaughter, she has a 2-year-old daughter and she's

pregnant, so it's hard. >> reporter: a new home means new schools, new transportation plans and a new renters and owners can't ask for because many can't afford it. >> you're robbing us of a place to stay. there is a reason why these people chose to stay here. you get what i'm saying? because it's affordable to us. >> reporter: a lot of fear for the residents here of what is going to lie for them in the future. but u-haul trucks all throughout the parking lot. prince george's county police are saying that this lot has to be cleared by 7:00 p.m. in temple hills, tracee wilkins. back to you. facing deportation because they were in the wrong place at the wrong final coming utime. coming up next, the two who say they were detained illegally. and plus hillary clinton talking about an awkward moment during one of thoefs presidential debates. how she now says she wished she would have rct

and thousands of you lined up last year to get a whiff as one of the blossoms. the smelly corpse flowers are back. doug. >> i was super excited about the eclipse, but not too excited about that bug smebig smell dow there. most of us seeing a beautiful day. north and wednesday, we're gorgeous, but still showers in southern maryland. i'llhow you how s

imagine living each day in fear of being dragged from your home, your family, your life all because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. that is the life for some residents of an apartment building in annandale after ace raids back in february. kristin wright reports on a lawsuit that could help ease some of their fears. >> reporter: many people living at fairmont gardens are constantly afraid. immigration agents will come back. the director says that deep anxiety in the latino communities is getting worse. >> the fear is immense. people are afraid to go to work, afraid to go to school. even grocery shopping. >> reporter: on february 17, i.c.e. arrested several people at fairmont gardens. someone recorded this video of agents and the van they took people away in. news 4 has learned that two men arrested that day are suing

stopped, interrogated and ultimately arrested based solely on the color of their skin. >> reporter: this legal aid, assign son, filed the civil rights lawsuit today claiming i.c.e. detained the men only because they appeared to be of latino race or ethnicity. the suit goes on to say i.c.e. is encouraged to stop people without reasonable suspicion. >> i.c.e. agents gee oo out loo for a person and they don't find him, so they basically arrest other people that they do find instea instead. we call it racial profiling. >> reporter: i.c.e. does not comment on pending lawsuits, but told us in part i.c.e. conducts targeted immigration enforcement in compliance with federal law and agency policy. i.c.e. does not conduct sweeps or raids that target aliens indiscriminate indiscriminately. the who men want a judge to

declare their rights were violated. and they are seeking monetary damages, the amount to be left up to the court. kristin wright, news 4. now the two men are awaiting a deportation hearing, that is set for january. some drinked oig, nfl spoofed it and hillary clinton is opening up about a moment that she says made her skin crawl. in her upcoming memoir "what happened," she said the second debate made heard incredibly uncomfortable when donald trump appeared to hover behind her. in audio clips obtained by "morning joe," clinton talks about what she wished sohe had said. >> do you turn and say loudly and clearly back up you creep, get away from me. i know you love to in-tim date women, but you can't intimidate me. >> in a separate clip, clinton called the campaign, quote,

rating and plane baffling. what happen what happened oig comes out next month. extra security precautions ahead of the state fair. inspectors examined the ride today whuing tincluding the fir. >> our communications started two weeks ago about what we were going to come to make sure nothing like that could happen here. and the start is looking at the design of his ride which is very different. >> the fireball ride in ohio was 18 years old and the owner of the maryland state fair ride says that his is only five months old and much easier to inspect. rides are inspected each time they are moved and daily pre-opening. it won't just be the maryland state fair drawing crowds. people will be following their noses to get to see and smell one of the big people pleasers on display on capitol hill. barbara harrison checked it out today and sheoi

whiff of what folks are literally sniffing at. and you're drought some props with you and we're kind of backing up from you. >> it's one place here in washington where everyone seems to take a deep breath before giving their opinion on something getting a lot of media attention on capitol hill. >> reporter: shakespeare wrote there is something rotten in the state of denmark. well, right now at the u.s. botanical garden, folks are coming here to get a whiff of what is said to smell like something rotting here. there are lots of fragrances in the aired here. there are hundreds of thousands of species of plants, flowers, trees, inside the urs bwrote b garden, but nothing draws a crowd like this. it's this that brings them in aez this plant biologist. >> people really go crazy for these. >> reporter: people are

apparently drawn not so much to see the beauty, but for the arousal of one's sense of smell. >> they are quite beautiful and quite stinky as well. >> reporter: so what really makes these plants such a curiosity? >> three things are important. one is that the flowers only last 24 to 48 hours. they smell like a rotting corpse. and they are the largest unbranched in-fluorescence in the world. r >> reporter: and a whole lot of flowers in one. you can't see unless you peek behind these giant leaves. it has both male and female organs. >> it's actually the common state for flowers to have both female and male parts. >> reporter: but with all to learn, people are drawn by word of the smell. is it really that bad? >> it's pretty bad. we've actually recreated it synthetically. i'll waft to you. >> reporter: smells like garlic. >> smells garlicy to

that is kind of the range. >> what do you think it smells like? [ laughter [. >> lie toy lke toilets. >> like bread and garlic. >> that was my first thought, too. >> yeah, crazy. >> but he says the first thing he would tell people was just how beautiful it is. and it is beautiful. but they let me bring this out for a couple of hours. >> you're so krooul about much. >> what do you say? >> oh, yeah, i smem tll the gar and a touch of corpse. >> what do you think? >> oh! you have to get your nose all the way in that. >> yeah, you get a hint of diaper. >> i'm not changing that. >> b

is why people go there. >> and it's enormous to look at. >> yeah, there are three blooming at this time. there this only on bloomed five different times over the last 20 years and it's not the same plant. they have 13 plants. they have still one to bloom and just after it blooms, that's when it has the smell because it is trying to attract the pollinators. >> i can feel it in my eyes now. >> i should have told you not to put your nose in there. >> i can't read the prompter. >> be glad you're at home. thank you, barbara. well, there could be heavy rainfall and flooding. tropical storm harvey bearing down on the gulf of coast. >> it will be huge. dulg w

there here everything -- wow. science rules. we got it! wow. >> oh, my god. that is the coolest thing i've ever seen. oh, that is the coolest thing i've ever seen. amazing. >> was he in his element or what? doug kammerer, we got him back from south carolina. how do you top

in another seven years it will be coming up. the blizzard king, you get all worked up when that happened and the day after, isaiah over and now what do you look forward to. >> a little humidity out there. >> yeah, and not a lot going on today and getting rid of all my. maybe here it didn't come up to expectations, but down there with totality, it was other worldly for sure. i captured it right ear. and you see the video, too. my photographer was down there doing a great job.hear. and you see the video, too. my photographer was down there doing a great job.rear. and you see the video, too. my photographer was down there doing a great job.ear. and you see the video, too. my photographer was down there doing a great job.ar. and you see the video, too. my photographer was down there doing a great job.r. and you see the video, too. my photographer was down there doing a great job.. and you see the video, too. my photographer was down there doing a great job. i can't wait for 2024. let's talk about the weather. beautiful conditions across our region. at least i get to come back to great weather. temperature right now at 85. temperature droppin

70s. we will be down to 75 by 11:00. 80s to the north and west, 70s to the south. ment reason? we had some rain showers down around parts of southern maryland. st. mary's county, northern neck, that is the front still pushing through the region very slowly, but still doing so. and it will continue to do so tonight. here it is by around the 11:00 hour, still clouds down to the south, maybe a shower or two, but most of the area dry. tomorrow abundant sunshine, the sunshine is with us all day. and now back to our north and west, maybe around martinsburg, hagersto hagerstown, frederick, you xoo see an isolated shower. but most of us really see a f fantastic afternoon. a high temperature of only 82. sun, clouds and a great afternoon. now, something else going on. here is our frontal boundary. not much behind it, so nice weather the next couple days. down to the south, all eyes are focused on what will become

tropical storm harvey. right now it's a tropical depression, but starting to get its act together. and the latest advisory came out about 30 minutes ago. 35-mile-per-hour winds. that is a tropical depression. normally they don't have a name, but this was already named in the caribbean and then became a depression again and now it's making its way up to the north and west and will become a tropical storm tonight most likely. expected to come on shore around corpus christi. hurricane watch now around the houston area. and look what it does, saturday, sunday and monday, it just stays here. the rainfall forecasts are for 10 to 20 inches of rain. the last storm that was down around houston area, tropical storm allison, cost $9 billion worth of damage all because of rain, all because of flooding. we'll be watching this. and of course we'll keep you posted. for us, it's beautiful weather. right on through the weekend. look at that beautiful forecast. 79 on your saturday, 76, cool on

cool at the beaches, too. next week though, take a look at next thursday/friday, tracking harvey in our area as we head toward the labor day weekend. much more on that coming up at 6:00. a panel of stained glass honoring the confederacy has a place inside the national cathedral. when we come back, the decision taking on new urgency in the wake of the deadly protests in charlottesville. a community radio station knocked off the air. the unwelcome surprise deejays found when they showed up for work today. and retail giants wall mart and google team up today to take on amazon. ho

. a selfish crime silencing voices for good. now at 5:30, someone broke into a radio station and took all the technology that helps local deejay s share stories. a crime that hurts beyond what has been lost. station employees spoke only with news 4's derrick ward today. >> reporter: ask anyone at we act radio what they do and they will tell you the mission of speaking truth to power. >> the plan of we act radio is to raise up the voices and stories of people who are excluded from the mainstream media. >> reporter: but it wasn't just the streaming or youtube videos or podcasts. >> swe

bookstore to address crime and violence and this is preventing us from doing that. >> reporter: the this is a burglary. sometime overnight, someone broke in and took the back door and then took about everything of value. microphone, computer, hard drives, cameras. >> takes us off the air, decreases the chance of bringing the only bookstore east of the river. >> reporter: they didn't steal the book, but they did rip at the fabric of this anacostia community. local businesses bringing up where others have failed. >> and it's been hard, hasn't been easy. and you know, we need the community to support us in a positive way. but when things like this happen, this is why a lot of people haven't come here. >> reporter: robert henry runs a program just up the block, bringing materials to we act to get the word out when we got the news. >> this is ground zero. this is where we have the work. it's a setback, but that is tim

>> we've dealt with lots of things. this is another thing. but again, it won't so that us. >> reporter: police are asking anyone who may have seen something to contact them and we act is asking you act to get them back on the air. now, talking about the community library, it will be named after a journalist killed on her way home from work back in 2015 just up good hope road a bit. and that is how close they are to the community. they think that they will be back up especially with some support from the community. they have a gofundme page up already. and they don't want to put the metal doors up because that is against the image that they want to project of openness and being part of anacostia. derrick ward, news 4. an unlikely partnership in the battle for your online shopping dollars. google and walmart are now joining forces to take on amazon. walmart tells us it's working with

thousands of items through google assistant. joe fryer joins us live from l.a. to explain how this will change our online shopping experience. so joe, explain exactly how this works for us. >> reporter: yeah, this is something that is really starting to kooch in a lot catc of analysts think it will be a part of the future. you have amazon which sort of owns this field right now. you've probably seen this thing before, the echo. you have seen the commercials where you can talk to alexa, you say buy me paperer towels and it gives you some suggestions and without ever touching a keyboard, you can order something through your amazon prime account. well, walmart is trying hard to compete in the online space. it's made a lot of gains in online sales in recent months. but it doesn't have hardware like this to try to do it and walmart's probably not the type of company that will make

kind of hardware. enter google, partnering with google which has already created a similar device, this is called the google home. again something that you can talk to to ask about the weather and play music and also and online small called google exchan exchange. about 40 retailers are on it.\s exchange. about 40 retailers are on it.sm exchange. about 40 retailers are on it.ma exchange. about 40 retailers are on it. and now walmart has joined that virtual mall, but it's gone a step further. walmart is saying you can take your walmart account and length it with google so when you try to order things through this guys, it knows your history, knows what you might like and might also make some recommendations. >> wow, makes everything a bit easier, but right now as we know, amazon is really leading this race. do you think this partnership will be a game changer? >> reporter: it's hard to know. analysts say it certainly could be a way for both google and walmart to try and at least compete in this field. keep in mind when it comes to

online sales, a him smazon is f ahead. but when it comes to overall retail sales, walmart still does a good job. and here is one thing where walmarts sees it may have an advantage. when you order something through this system, you can also eventually down the road possibly say hey, i'd like to pick it up at a store. think about it, walmart has 4700 stores, some people like to say it's like having 4700 different distribution centers, something google might not be able to compete with. so that is an area where walmart can try to equalize itself. but it will have to do a lot of work to take away the market share from amazon. >> all right. competition could be good for all of us. joe fryer, thanks so much. and stay with n"nbc nightly news" for continuing coverage of the changes under way in the voice activated online shopping experience. i just welcomed alexa into my house, so this is something new to

the kids go crazy. they chk itthink it's their fri. >> yeah, their own personal robot. you probably remember where you were. it's been six years since the earthquake that caused millions of damage locally. when we come back, how much longer it will be before repairs are made to a landmark here. and you may have heard recently about the link between sleep and did i mention ks ya esl this is the moment. the moment you could put yourself

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in news 4 your health tonight, there is new information about the connection between how much sleep we get and did and did i menti dementia. >> and it's what we all want to avoid. and there is new research that identifies a link between lack of sleep and dementia and even alzheimer's. now a study out today goes in to more detail about what kind of sleep is most important when it comes to keeping our brains healthy. turnshe rem stage is the key. it's when we dream. it's also the last stage of our sleep. in each 90 minute sleep cycle, there are five stages. stage one is light sleep, in stage two the body prepares for deeper slumber. stage three, our brain starts settling into

is deep sleep. and stage four is exclusively delta waves. that is our deepest sleep. stage five is the rapid eye movement or rem. the people who developed dementia eventually spent an average of 17% in the rem stage, people who spent 20% or more in that rem stage did not develop dementia. researches will try to federal government out where rem sleep is so important and what we can do about it. so it is important to protect your sleep in any way you can. >> fascinating how you broke down those stages. i definitely think i'm on the short end of rem. >> i think we all are. >> for sure. we always worry about eating right and exercising, but sleep is a big factor, too. thank you. a cry for help from one of the poorest countries in the world in the wake of ddl

destructive mudslides. nearly 500 people were killed in sierra leone and now they are facing significant health challenges. people need food, water and cloth clothing. and here the embassy on 19th mass become a dropoff point. while in northern virginia, the tragedy is hitting home for members of a church that has a special relationship with the country. >> we were able to send money immediately because i knew already what the church would want us to do in that moment. so we didn't have to take a vote. and our church makes a very generous christmas eve offering that allows us to be generous in this way through the year. >> and you might recall sierra leone was hit hard recently with the ebola crisis. we have two links in the nbc washington app if you want to help. the embassy and a local nonprofit helping children worldwide. new reverberations from the deadly protest over a civil war statue

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lot six years ago, but there is a good chance you remember where you were when the earthquake rattled our region. it hit around lunchtime in mineral, virginia sending shockwaves up and down the east coast. here in washington, it damaged some of our post iconic landmarks, the washington monument under way three years of repay pairs and it will are years before the cathedral is fully restored. and you will have a chance to see something that

carvings normally 15 stories up are now grounded. you can now get an up close personal look as the cathedral looks to raise money to return them to the spires. >> the scaffolding on the central tower which is the height of the washington skyline will probably be there for a decade or more unless someone wants to drop us a check for $22 million. well, interior restoration wrapped up two years ago, but i can't ka these dwral officials tell us they have still need reinforce 80% of the exterior. now only on news 4,s a the nation grapples with what do about confederate memorials, that debate is going on right now here this washington at the national cathedral. news 4 has learned that the cathedral is speeding up a decision about their stained gas windows commemorating confederate generals robert e. lee and stonewall jackson. and

decision is now more urgent after charlottesville. >> reporter: the washington national came these dwrase cath draws 275,000 visitors a year. it's 231 stained glass window mostly reflecting the sacred reverence inside. but then there are these two civil war panels commemorating general lee and stonewall jackson. they were installed back in the 1950s. they prompted controversy at waters times, last year images of the confederate battle flag blotted out after the mass murder in charleston, south carolina. >> cathedral leadership voted that the confederate battle flag was an image of hatred and oppression and had no place in the cathedral. >> reporter: now the charlottesville, virginia violence has speeded up what was to have been a two year discussion on race in the fate of the windows themselves. >> the events in charlottesville ha

urgency that wasn't there before. there is no decision yet, but we expect relatively soon we hope to have something to announce. >> reporter: the cathedral spokesman told news 4 a decision had been expected in june of next year. >> we have two choices. one is to remove the windows or the other is to somehow context you' chur al them. but one thing for sure, those windows won't remain in their current place in their current context. something is going to change. >> reporter: the came these dwral has been holding discussion groups on race relations ands church. it says those discussions will continue no matter the fate of the windows. in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. we do want to mention the came th cathedral has a special marker that represents the efforts to heal the nation after the war. there hasee

about robert e. lee recently. but if you spend time online today, the robert lee that you saw trending only has one thing in common with the confederate general. espn is swapping out a broadcaster with the same name robert lee. at uva's season opener. the network made the move after the recent events in charlottesville. espn made that move because of the name coincidence. but this has been the most talked about story on our facebook page today, the general consensus that the move didn't make much sense. well, a welcome sight at redskins park. one of the team's stars returning from injury and it's coming at just the right time. news 4's carol maloney, always so good to see you. you're in ashburn and you were actually at practice today. how did jordan reed look? >> reporter: yeah, i kept my eyes on number 86 as everyone did. and jordan reed, he

jordan reed. he's wearing a customized orthopedic in the cleat and he told me that quickeeps him paine as he recovers from a toe injury. again, all cameras watching this guy because jay gruden says that the offense runs through jordan reed. it's his first appearance with teammates on the field this week. and now the challenge is to keep him on the field. >> i'm feeling good. it felt great to be back out there with my teammates and back to work. >> any pain? how do you describe how your toe feels? >> feels pretty good, 100%. so i'm excited. >> coach, any tangible like in terms of confidence that comes from you when you see number 86 out there knowing how important he is to the offense? >> yeah, he is a critical part of our offense. we know that. and so it is a con

there are a lot of things that he can do that not many can do. >> reporter: reed isn't just the team's starting tight end, he's kirk cousin's favorite target. now that cousin is back on the field with all his weapon, he knows there is so much work to do. >> i don't know if i want to say i feel behind, i think that would create a headline i don't want to put out there, but would i have liked for crowder, reed and datsun to practice every day too now? yes. is it a little bit frustrating that we didn't have that? sure. but fortunately some of these guys have played a lot of football and i'd like to think that any rust that would be there is going to be gone by week one. >> it's been rough. definitely being away from the team and not getting those reps is mentally hard. but i just trust in god and understand that it's his plan and i just have faith that it will help me throughout

season. >> reporter: reed could play sunday versus the bengals. we'll have more at 6:00. in the meantime, i'll practice plenty of time i'm sure to say the word orthotic for the rest of the season. back to you. >> let's hope we don't have to say too much of that with any other player. carol, thanks. and you know that they were loving that humidity going down practicing out there. >> they have not had all the heat that normally the redskins are dealing with such heat in richmond and now that they are in loudoun county. yesterday was hot, but today felt about 20 years cooler. plenty of sunshine. current temperature at 85, winds out of the northwest at 13 miles per hour. the nice breeze keeping it cool. and suburbs in the upper 70s to low 80s. 79 quantico, 82 in martinsburg and leesburg. we

our southern zones around st. mary's, northern neck. these are all moving off toward the east and that is the frontal boundary moving through. so behind this, we'll get a little bit on the cool side. take a look at these numbers. 85 d.c., 75 in pittsburgh. 67 in buffalo. that is the cool air that is settling on in and that cool air is going to be here not only through the end of the week, but right through the weekend. some of you may think the weekend is on on the cool side. amelia has more on what that weekend may feel like. and i think a lot of us will like this, but it is a little taste of fall. >> absolutely. sunday it will feel more like late september versus late august. look at your weekend forecast, for saturday partly to mostly sunny skies. temperatures around 79. and on sunday, we're in the mid-70s. low humidity both days and a little bit more cl

sunday. so considering when you went to the pool, i would pick saturday because of that. or if you're heading to the beefr beach, nice at the beach on friday and then a little breezy on saturday, but we keep it dry. 78. and looking pretty blustery at the beach on sunday, windy conditions from start to finish, so probably have a small craft advisory on the water. so you want to keep that in mind and plan to take the boat out friday or saturday. >> that will be and on shore flow, too. so if you are at the beaches saturday and sunday, not only cool, but rather breezy. again temperatures next couple days 80 on your friday, the weekend here, 78 for a high on sunday. again, we will have some clouds, but a pretty good day on sunday. and we're in the 70s, average high is 86. we have 70s all wait through next week. and look at this, tracking harvey.wait through next week. and look at this, tracking harvey. it will hit texas and try to make its wayur o

here at the live desk, we're watching a political war of words erupt in the commonwealth. tonight the republican party of virginia is apologizing for what some call racist tweets aimed at the democratic candidate for governor. lieutenant governor ralph n northam is calling for the

removal of death how manies and the republican party tweet that had he has turn pd his back on his own family's heritage in demanding that the monuments came down. and that set off a sharp reaction from both parties and nartham himself who tweeted i feel fine about turning my back on white supremacy. republicans tweeted an apology which reads our previous tweets were interpreted in a way we never intended. we reit really our denunciation of racism in all forms. the party says that the original tweet referred to northam's great grandfather who did fight for the confederacy but that the tweet about family heritage was not talking about relatives who owned slaves. chris lawrence, news 4. just in at 6:00, we

being a former ku klux klan leader. >> and it mass nothing to do with the rally in charlottesville. that priest admits to making bombs, to burning crosses and targeting people because of their race. tonight as we learn new clues about what prompted his confusion, we are hearing from two of his victims. >> and mark segraves is digger deepening into the skeletons. and mark, what have you learned? >> that's right, in his article on the archdiocese of arlington's website, father atchison had said that he had come forward because of the recent events in charlottesville, but now we know the diocese put out a statement saying that in fact a freelance reporter had been asking questions and mhad fount out about the priest's past and was about to publicly out him that's why he came forward. and we also know that an informant