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>> 224 to the front left. >> you think he's going to play a big high cut? >> that's exactly what he's going to try to do. not impossible for him. let's put it that way. >> over clubbing is not all bad with the back bord up there. >> if you don't get it all -- >> roger remember the par five eight out of the way. had had it on the green. >> you're good now if you want to go. >> wind blowing left to right. should ride that fade. >> almost a half s
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>> if you want to go yeah, i want to go. >> the contact starts at the left side of the green. solid. not the easiest bit shot but very gutsy. >> a little up and down to take over the top five spot. >> it's a good finishing hole. a lot of things can happen. >> it's a good golf course. >> guys shot it up pretty good. but still got to hit the ball well to do it. >> was talking to fowler last night and you don't have to be in the top five spot to win it all. he knows exactly where rory mcilroy was last year. how about one more look at rickie's driver off the de
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he's off the ground at impact almost. >> joe, who wuz talking to him before. >> and there is matthew kelly, good buddy. and it's all good vibes. all good sportsmanship. we see more sportsmanship in this sport than ever before right now. a little different from your days, i know that. >> that is very true. guys know, pretty chummy. there's mathau kelly who's been with this guy right when he turned pro. he has been with him through the thick and thin. he said mark was a little better than i was. always has been. so this is a great moment for these two. >> aiming a little .
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sand bag. >> nothing he has to baby. he can make an aggressive swing. little left of it. pretty good. putsz the brakes on. that's excellent. he's one happy aussie. >> yeah. this is a much different feel than two weeks ago when he was limping in with the back nine 40. and was hitting it between our cameraman's legs at last. and you mentioned about jimmy roberts did a story earlier about what his wife, audrey has been through and there's three kids, harvey, oliver and the newest one, little ava was born on july 6th of this year. they mean everything to him and gave him an even greater perspective after what she went through. this is a great day for the leishman family and d
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done yet. he's going to take the trip to east lake also in that top five position and a chance to put the big exclamation mark on the greatest golfing week of his life here. we started out the broadcast talking about how he shot that 62 and he put himself in position after the second round and third round. by far the best 36 holes he's ever had and when it looked like he might be going the other way at four and five, heturned it around and said not this time. just a couple weeks removed frump what happened at tp boston. >> riltsz eit's going to make i right. it's almost waking up to about right now . >> again a birdie will secur
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standings. as they reset the points after they get to east lake. give you everybody a chance at the cup. get on the green fairly quickly. >> that was kind of dump there. he didn't get good contact, john. >> i knew it wasn't an easy pitch shot. was a pitch shot you would average eight feet if he hit it right. oh, hit way behind it. when you get that grass behind the ball and the club face. you ever see the grass stuck on the face of your club, it means you had had that cushioned strike and it comes up
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fowler or rahm. if fowler misses his putt shot, john rahm gets the next spot. >> an emotional win for leishman. there will be some tears involved. and there's no greater feeling, no going down the 18th hole knowing no matter how bad you played, you're still going to win. >> you do it in wire to wire fashion. sleeping on that lead every night and coming back to the course and delivering every day like leishman has. 62, 64, 68. a three-under round right now. rare indeed to go wire to wire. as we look at the champions that have done it since 1985 in this event.
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kerplank, tiger woods and jason day. pretty good company to join. fowler for the fifth spot on the fedex cups point list. it's slower than it looks. and that's not a very good up and in try. >> doesn't usually say much but that's a head shake. tied for second at 18 under. still another good championship for fowler. be in the mix next week. he's going to close it out with another one. and the man from down under goes wire to wire at the bmw championship with the biggest victory of his career. what a performance. he played well. the putting was
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world. he says i think my good stuff is good, i just have to do it more often. fowler taps in for par, settles for a tie for second. and leishman has a 72 tournament score at 271 and he's enveloped by his family. you got harvey and oliver hugging dad. >> beautiful family. >> and audrey and the baby. >> that's nice. >> and everything they have been through well deserved and safe. marc leishman wins it going away by five. fowler matches that final round as well. tied for second justin rose also with a great week and in good position in the eight spot. he jumps nine spots up into that top 10 and how
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spieth, thomas, johnson, and rahm as we set the table for east lake. >> dan, thank you. it's the biggest win of your career. go back to the early part of the season at bay hill. you told us that was a big stepping stone. what kind of step did you take today? >> probably a few from two weeks ago. i was really, really determined just to not let that happen again and give myself a big enough buffer that i could get it done. i got it done. >> congratulations. >> it was great to have family there and thanks as well to all the players for wearing the ribbons as well. that's an awesome feeling. >> well said. >> we'll see it the leishman's in atlanta for sure. if you missed any of today's action, catch up on golf
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two people. what the mother of three saw is having a very powerful effect. developing tonight, boston college is reacting to several of their students' injured in an acid attack in france. up date on the condition of the women and whether this was terrorism. and president trump taking a swing at hillary clinton. the commander in chief causing controversy tonight after retweeting this mock video. news4 at 6 starts now. we are getting new reaction and new video of the deadly crash that killed two adults and critically injured a girl in fairfax county. good evening. the story of those who ran to help. darcy. >> reporter: there's no other way to describe this crash besides just to say it was horrific. i want to show you the tree that this car smashed into last night. you can see the damage just below that
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have been dropping off here today in memory of those two victims and if you take a look around the tree, you can see a debris field. we begin that story tonight with that neighbor who called 911. >> horrific. loud. immediately jumped up and came to the ends of the driveway and saw it was a car accident and just ran down there. >> reporter: this was what she found, a car had struck a tree just down the street from her home in beach mill road. three victims inside. she called 911. >> when they say, you know, a car was wrapped around a tree, the car was wrapped around the tree, like literally. >> reporter: the 911 operator asked if anyone was breathing, the driver in front seat passenger were not. they were later pronounced dead. the 15-year-old girl in the back was conscious. she was breathing and she was talking. >> asking her, her name. she was very responsive and knew her name and birthday, her parents' names. so we just -- where do you go
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school? just keeping her talking about everyday things. >> reporter: police say benjamin wranger was behind the wheel. he was 26 and lived in annandale. she was 23 year, the passenger who died, their car left the roadway for unknown reasons crossed back over the road and struck a tree. the impact so severe we could see car parts scattered in the area and the nearby pond. she has three children of her own and what she saw effected her emotionally. >> i came back up here and hugged them tight because i can't fathom or even imagine what those families are going through, so -- >> reporter: and you can imagine just what she's dealing with herself today having witnessed that just yesterday. we want to show you a little bit of the road where this happened. it is quite curvy. at this point police say they don't know what caused this driver to lose control here on the roadway. that continues to be part of this investigation and quite frankly, it m
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erica back to you. >> thank you. >> announcer: and now your storm team 4 forecast. it seems like we're a little bit of the twilight zone, very similar weather conditions to yesterday, pretty fair for most of us but we are tracking some isolated showers. take a look at your radar right now. this is super spotty. just to the south of warrenton and fauquier county, spotty shower. our rain chances go down as we head throughout the evening. we're talking about that rain hans starting to diminish. it's muggy tonight but quiet and we have got a close eye on the tropics. i'll let you know how hurricane jose could be impacting us at the top of your workweek. for now erica over to you. >> thank you. we are working to learn the name of the person killed in this crash in southeast d.c., the impact of the crash made a mangled mess of one of the cars. the two car accident happened early this morning.
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alta mont place. three people were pinned inside their cars and they suffered critical injuries. rergz are still trying to figure out what caused that crash. right now president trump is back at trump tower in new york city. he has got a big week ahead of him as he gets ready to address the united nations general assembly for the first time. the world is waiting to hear what he has to say about north korea. nbc's jennifer johnson has the latest from capitol hill. >> reporter: president trump in new york city ahead of his first address before the u.n. tuesday. north korea's missile launches will be a major topic of his speech. >> this regime is so close now to threatening the united states and others with a nuclear weapon, that we really have to move with a great deal of urgency on sanctions, on diplomacy and on preparing, if necessary, a military option. >> reporter: the president says he and south korean president moon spoke about
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this weekend, tweeting asked him how rocket man is doing. long gas lines forming in north korea. too bad. and now this warning from the white house. >> we wanted to be responsible and go through all diplomatic means to get their attention first. if that doesn't work, general mattis will take care of it. >> reporter: the white house is also hoping with a deal from democrats on immigration soon. what to do with children brought illegally into the u.s. >> we can work with the white house to come up with an agreement that includes daca, that includes citizenship for those who are protected under the d.r.e.a.m. act and also has a substantial commitment to increased border protection. >> reporter: but republicans deny there's a deal. >> if you pass the so-called d.r.e.a.m. act it'll be the single biggest amnesty in the united states even bigger than the 1986 amnesty which ronald reagan says was his biggest mistake. some
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are calling a retweet today by president trump sexist and another example of what they are calling an attack on women. the heavily doctored and ed itsed video shows him hitting a golf ball and then hits hillary clinton. that video of mrs. clinton is from 2011 when she tripped while boarding a plane as secretary of state. we are tracking a developing story in france four american college students recovering tonight after being sprayed in the face with acid. the attack happened at a train station this morning in marseille. the female students are from boston college. three of them are studying abroad. french police say a woman with a history of mental illness through the acid at the students. they say this is not terrorism. two of them suffered some very serious burns, boston college released a statement saying the students are out of the hospital and appear to be okay given
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circumstances. great britain today lowered the terror level threat from critical which is the very highest level to severe following friday's subway attack. the uk lowered the threat level after police arrested a 21-year-old man overnight outside of london in connection with the attack. it follows yesterday's arrest of an 18-year-old man. friday's explosion injured 30 people. sky rocketing noise complaints at a couple of our regions busiest airports. one of our most talked about stories right now in
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a new report by "the washington post" shows people across the washington area filed a record number of noise kplints from flights from reagan national and dulles international airport last year. they took more than 42,000 complaints about flights at reagan national and dulles in 2016 compare that to just under 10,000 in 2015. politicians and residents blame the increase in noise due to the federal aviation administration's change to flight paths. this story is blowing up the nbc washington facebook page. you can log on right now and weigh in on that. we are two days away from debate night right here on ne
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democrat ralph nor that many has raised more than $7 million which is double the amount the republican raised. political director chuck todd will moderate the debate. and a quick programming note for you, news4 at 6:00 will only air for 30 minutes followed by "nbc nightly news" with lester holt at 6:30 and then you can catch the debate at 7:00 on our air in the washington app as well. breaking tonight at 6:00. we'll take you to st. louis where protests continue for a third day after the acquittal of a white police officer in the shooting death of an african-american man. >> reporter: a long good-bye to a local icon. d.c. finishes saying
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breaking news in st. louis, missouri. these are live pictures of hundreds of protesters after a white police officer was acquitted in the shooting death of a black man. they observed six minutes of silence in front of the st. louis police department. the six minutes symbolizes the six years since anthony lamar smith was killed. on friday a judge found the former police officer not guilty for first degree murder. and these protests in st. louis were a topic of conversation during a sitting trut
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in d.c. today. a parade full of music and come did i as loved ones said good-bye to the civil rights activist and comedian. we have the sights and sounds through the streets of d.c. >> reporter: the second line stepped off from d.c.'s howard theater a sendoff that dick gregory would've loved. his adopted hometown. >> i feel like they're the thief of baghdad. they have stole my brother in d.c. from st. louis. >> reporter: he went along willingly. gregory family humored carried on by dick's younger brother ron. all for a man from the midwest who at one point had the nation's top selling come did i album. >> even being at the top, even with all of the millions he made, he did not lose it, he willfully chose to give it up. >> reporter: and he did it for the causes he
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the african-american civil war museum frank smith recalls the voting effort in 1962. >> he brought an airplane full of food and clothing down there to feed people who had been put off those plantations because they tried to register to vote. >> reporter: he died on august 19th. today represented his last stroll on u. street fitting with a line of musicians and supporters. ♪ >> reporter: those who took to the streets recently in his birthplace of st. louis were doing it in protest of police brutality there. a point not lost who said their good-byes here. >> you know, if dick was alive, you know guys would be, we'd be in st. louis, that's right. >> reporter: in northwest, derrick ward, news4. and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> good evening. i'm meteorologist is a mara theodore. temperatures at
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outside. i mean we have really been on a roll with this great weather. as expected, a little bit of moisture out there, isolated showers pop-up south of fauquier county. shower as we head towards areas like reston, overall dry evening tomorrow and as we head into the overnight hours we'll stay quiet. let's fast-forward here. still clouds and chance for spotty showers too but i say we stay dry tonight. we move into monday afternoon. very similar setup where we are waking up to a good amount of sunshine and then we have that potential for about 20% chance for isolated shower tuesday, lot more clouds move in and you know why that is because of hurricane jose. i think the outer most bands of this system will actually stretch impacting and areas towards east of i-95. let's switch gears a little bit. you're heading out tonight. things q
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temperatures dropping into the low 70s. still muggy out there but dry so you don't have much to worry about that on that front. what i want to transition too is the tropics. take a look, jose just won't go away. here's a look at hurricane jose right now. it's a cat one storm. the expected trajectory right now is to loop back in again and then start to weaken as we head through the coming days. notice how close it gets toward the mid-atlantic and eastern seaboard and that's why we're going to actually see jose's farthest rain bands extending in and bringing us rain as we head through tuesday evening. not just jose we're watching, folks. also maria. a tropical debregs right now. maria expected to become a hurricane as we head through the coming hours. i want to go ahead and show you the trajectoried path of maria. it's a cat one storm right now. 75-miles-per-hour. really impacting areas in the lesser antilles, areas like
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