he throws it over the middle. completes it to the end zone to jordy nelson. touchdown green bay. >> al: those are the teams we'll see. atlanta against green bay. we go down to atlanta. they built a new stadium. it's spectacular. it will be the first nfl game played there. last year they met in the nfc championship game. atlanta won 44-21. matt ryan had a big day with four touchdowns. jones nine catches for 180. >> cris: i was impressed last year with the growth of atlanta on the defensive side of the ball. in the super bowl they came out. they were good in the first half. worn down at the end of the game. the match-up against a good young defense and aaron rodgers. it will be fun. >> al: green bay with a good defense, too. squeaked one out at lambeau. >> cris: you know you will be tested by seattle's defense. i'm sure they were happy with the win.

what i'm sure will be a rainy early week in atlanta if weather permits they will open the roof. it will be spectacular. more scoring than we saw tonight as well probably. one touchdown of the game. dallas wins over the new york giants by a score of 19-3. coming up next except on the west coast your local news. now it's al michaels, cris collinsworth, michelle tafoya, our whole gang saying good night from arlington, texas. you've been watching "sunday night football" on nbc. >> announcer: nbc sports, home of super bowl lii, thanks you for watching this presentation of the national football league.

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right now on news 4, irma's powerful winds literally blowing the roofs off homes and buildings, the hurricane tearing through these homes in miami and sarasota. >> reporter: tonight the sights and sounds of irma. we want you to experience this storm just as we did. we'll take you there. >> let's talk about the rain. on florida's east coast more than a hour of west palm beach, setting a record. >> and setting people prized possessions scattered all along u.s. 1, the main road in and out of the

news 4 begins now with storm team 4. >> irma has knocked out power to more than 3 million people. the storm being blamed for several deaths including two palm beach county sheriff deputies. >> we've got live team coverage of the storm. david cobert. good evening, everyone. >> in the last hour we got the new advisory on irma. >> that's right. so let's get straight to it. they've got the latest track. how's it look, ladies? >> no longer a major hurricane, but still producing a lot of damage, and we've already seen a lot of damage. >> absolutely. we've gotten in lots of reports

upwards of 140 mile per hour wind gusts. >> take a look. here's the current radar tracking irma right now. you can see there's the eye right there. and i want to zoom in and show what we're seeing. it was heading north toward orlando, but now we're seeing that movement back towards the northwest. just getting pelted with heavy rainfall. winds close to 100 if not 1 miles an hour. the yellow here is going to be a tornado watch. and these are also flash flood warnings in effect as well. max winds at 100 miles an hour moving toords the north at about 114 miles an hour. it's going to turn towards the rt

throughout the day tomorrow it leaves florida and takes aim towards georgia. but then it's downgraded tomorrow evening to a tropical storm. it then becomes a tropical depression and starts to fizzle out by tuesday. but irma, going to bring some rain to our area. the timing and impact coming up. >> saung so much. the frightening torse of irma carving a frightening path of destruction on both coasts of florida. and in the keys it's a slow march up florida. >> and now tampa's turn to brace for impact. >> reporter: with winds topping 130 miles per hour, hurricane irma is roaring up the florida coast. a lengthy assault with no area seemingly safe. >> there's nowhere safe. >> a couple tried to ride out the worst aboard the

>> it's my home. so i was doing everything i could to save it, and it just got out of hand. >> the monster storm crashed the florida keys. bridges and homes inundated by water, and then ripping away to the mainland. topping cranes and tearing off roofs in sarasota. the area hasn't taken a direct hit from a hurricane in nearly a century. >> even though we haven't had a direct hit in 90 years, we know our number is coming. this is that day. we think we have a good plan, but you never know until you get in the middle of it. >> reporter: nowhere in the sunshine state spared with millions still in its path. with mandatory curfews and evacuations in place in still much of the state, many have no idea of the condition of their home this evening. still some

ride out the storm in shelters. >> team coverage continues now with news 4 david cobert. we hear you're getting new video of the damage to give us a real sense of how powerful those winds have been. >> we sure have. and tonight we can say that florida has met irma. we wanted to give you a sense and experience of this storm. without my voice i want you to experience the sights and the sounds starting from inside this hotel.

of this was grass and beautiful and serene and calm. now you can see one of trees that we were actually standing under 48 hours ago has tipped over. that same intensity ripping apart old glory, leaving the flag tattered. bringing down traffic lights, and massive trees. you can see this is one tree that is entirely up rooted, turned on its side. look at this. some of the piping. these are pipes just snapped and pulled up with it. irma getting under south florida's skin. peeling off bill boards, ripping off roofs. driving the streets, you've got to dodge debris. many roads flooded.

>> well, david, we're also hearing word of some human caused drama down there. what is the word of this looting we're hearing about? what are you hearing about down there the. >> reporter: it is really disappointing to hear about leon. in the midst of people having to evacuate their homes. we hear in broward county there were at least six homes broken into. we have heard sheriffs deputies have made arrests. but it's dint pointing to hear about those in troubling times. >> many say they hunkered down through storms like this because they don't want looters coming through. >> reporter: they want to protect their property, you're right. >> stay tuned to news 4 and the nbc washington app for more reports from david in florida. we'll have continuing coverage on irma right after

final right up until 4:00 a.m. and then of course look for news 4 correspondence. >> one of the hardest hit areas is the vacation hot spot of st. martin. american citizens are being evacuated off the island on military planes. in fact, dars ay spencer is live at reagan international airport with a chilling first-hand account from a virginia couple who just got home. darcy. >> reporter: that's right. we've been sharing the stories of the death and devastation caused by hurricane irma. we could use a little bit of good news, and that's what we have here tonight at reagan international airport. and couple has been through so much over the last week, and they're just happy to be back home. an emotional reunion at reagan international airport. a woman who went with her husband to st. martin for a tropical paradise vacation got stranded there because of hurricane irma. you see a little

and being home. >> i am. i really am. i'm just really glad to be home. it's the strongest storm i've ever endured. >> reporter: it took her a week to get home. her sister was waiting at the airport with balloons, flowers and posters. >> i'm just glad she's here and alive and safe. >> reporter: and jackson's say they weatherered irma at the resort. >> we saw cars flying by, the winds about 200 miles per hour. it was pretty wild. >> you could just hear cars bouncing off buildings. you could hear the building shake. >> reporter: they finally got a military flight out of puerto rico saturday. and then sunday they were both back home. >> it was a beautiful country before it started and then after it was totally destroyed. >> reporter: that couple has trip planned later this y

their wedding anniversary. as you can imagine, they're not quite sure they're going to do it. they're not in a big hurry to jump on a plane and travel anytime soon. back to you. >> they're happy to be together. >> yeah, vacation from vacation. >> irma has been a storm for the history book. straight ahead, a closer look at some of had hurricane's most memorable pictures. in other news tonight, a local woman given the gift of life and she met the family of the person who made that happen. it is a heartwarming story you're not going to want to miss. an ugly start to the season for the redskins against the

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just some devastating images that have been coming into the newsroom on the damage caused by hurricane irma from the caribbean to florida, cities look like a bomb went off. parts of cuba are in ruins and places that people once called home are barely standing. a stark reminder of the power of a hurricane. >> and irma is still battering florida tonight with heavy winds, rain, and some storm surge flooding as well. but the good news is the storm is starting to weaken. as it continues to weaken. i'm going to let you know how it'll impact our weather here throughout the workweek. in other news, police in

charged with second degree murder. police found his girlfriend shot to death in her car on palmer street last night. he's now being held without bond. we want to switch gears and take your hearts and minds in a completely different direction. a little over a year ago a struck struck a car on the beltway killing a woman. >> samantha was 20 years old, she was a donor. and her organ helped save nine lives. >> i got the phone call about 4:30 in the morning from the maryland state police. >> reporter: it's the phone call no parent ever wants. >> the words out my mouth was was she was going to make

no. >> reporter: even after she was gone, samantha wasn't done giving. >> she was a donor. i prayed that a young girl would get my daughter's heart. >> reporter: she got a letter from a stranger named jackie. >> samantha saved my life on june 21st. i know every day i have here is because of samantha. >> reporter: and it's because of samantha that they and jackie are coming together. jackie's battled lung disease her whole life. she spent a month in a coma and she came within one day of dying. >> i know there's a part of my daughter in there. and you've got to be a beautiful soul. >> i'm appreciative. it's not even close to -- i brought a stethoscoit

i felt my daughter, something i haven't been able to feel. >> reporter: it's samantha's final gift. a a amy cho, news 4. >> it's the washington regional trance plant community that helped organize the transplant. >> as a parent, i'm just imagining what that would have been like for her to listen to those lungs. a kind of story we needed to make. >> yeah, we needed something up lifting this evening. all right, let's change gears. we've got to get back to irma. >> exactly, keeping a very close on eye on what's now category 2 irma. so longer considered a major mur cane, but still

produce heavy rain. when this is all said and done, parts of the peninsula and especially the keys we'll see about 10 to 20 inches of rain. moderate storm surge still in effect. in addition to that damaging winds and tornadoes as well. tropical force winds extend outwards as far as 415 miles. here's the center, this is how far-out they extend. winds that strong will likely produce and still produce power outages. >> they saw some really amazing wind gusts out there. 142 mile per hour wind gusts in naples was reported at the airport. not only that, they have to deal with the storm surge. and 10 foot storm surge. as we head throughout the night, let's go ahead and take a look at what they can expect. windows right now are

miles per hour in tampa. they're actually going to see these winds start to increase just a bit. orlando 65 mile per hour winds. it's even bad out towards areas like central florida. let's go ahead and push towards the forecast. going to early morning. this is when the st. petersburg, tampa region is going to start to see things rev up. they're looking at posly 94 mile per hour wind gusts. even keeping tropical storm force winds in there as we head through late wednesday. of course, one of the components is that deadly storm surge. what we have is this north flow. and then we start to see that back ended flow. so areas experiencing heavy rain, damaging winds earlier, things have quieted down. but we're going to start to see that storm surge really moving in on the back of that storm surge flow. we have s i

but areas are still in danger. naples right now in the red. greater than 9 foot storm surge possible. and then you head up the coastline. this was an area of primary concern for me earlier. the bay expecting more than they've got right now. so that's gone down just a bit. but still dangerous. 3 to 4 foot storm surge expected in that tampa bay area. back to you. >> when we got the 9:00 p.m. advisory, it was good news. they were bringing down those storm surge warnings anywhere from 9 to 10 feet now down to about 3 to 5 feet. i want to talk about irma is going to impact us. here we are 1:00 a.m. here's irma, and here's washington. you can see still clear skies out there. but clouds do increase. by afternoon and evening hour

but those clouds tomorrow when you're noticing them, know they are from irma. tuesday morning 8:00 a.m., we keep it dry but notice parts towards southern virginia, that's the remnants of irma. maybe on tuesday evening on into wednesday morning we finally get some rain showers from what's left of irma at that point. nothing to be concerned about. certainly something we can handle. but, again, rain may be from irma in our area tuesday into wednesday. it was a gorgeous weekend here at home. 61 right now here enwauks. we start off tomorrow with light jacket weather for the kids at the bus stop. and a high of 77 degrees. we stay in the 70s for the workweek. have an umbrella handy, but most of the time you won't need to use it. right now i'm ng

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still smell like champagne. >> do i still smell like that? the nationals are the first team this season to clinch a spotn

meanwhile in atlanta the braves had to beat the marlins. the nationals still had to win. stephen strasberg up to the task. gets him swinging to end the inning. ten strike outs and eight shutout innings for strasberg. turner destroys this baseball. ninth homer for turner. nats beat the fillies 3-2. so the nationals had to wait to tee the braves walk it off. and that is the moment there when the walk off homer is good. so it's a party. and then they come out. the fans, they are watching the braves actually in the ballpark. here is the champagne you were talking about. it was so sweet. i heard the champagne really burns the eyes.

and edwin jackson. he really helped me out, thanks. >> that's history you're looking at here. but history we might want to forget. redskins season -- excuse me, i'm sorry. this team is confident this won't be their last celebration. >> hope not. >> i think we want to do it few more times. we want to get better as a team and get stronger and get healthy. >> i've been saying since spring training this is dusty's year. this is the year we give dusty his ring. i want to be the man that gives it to him. >> redskins kicking off the season at home against the eagles. second quarter, red squinz down 13-0. his pass tipped and intercepted. nothing but end zone in front of

him. third career intercept for kerrigan. he's returned them all for touch downs. under two minutes to play, redskins down 5. kirk cousins, hit, loses the football. fletcher cox picks it up and scores. it's reviewed, up held, and that's it. eagles beat the redskins 30-17. here's carolyn maloney with a look at what's coming ahead with "redskins final." >> it just hurt. and many others who feel fans deserve better. plus, our one-on-one with ryan kerrigan, and what he saw on one of the days right spots. all that and more just minutes away on redskins final. we'll see you then. >> and mystics, we have that fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection...

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the winter haven and daytona beach areas in florida absolutely getting pounded right now with heavy rains and wind by erma. but by tomorrow evening no longer likely a hurricane. downgraded to a tropical storm. good news there, but we continue with very heavy rainfall and strong damaging winds. >> thanks, ameala.