virgin islands and puerto rico both still recovering from a hard hit from hurricane irma. members of virginia task force to search and rescue team will head to puerto rico. meantime today people on the island are boarding up and preparing for the worst. >> and hurricane jose is off the east coast, moving north, kicking up big waves along the way. this is what it looks like in virginia beach a little earlier today. creating rip currents off the shore. jose could impact our weather here at home tomorrow. >> storm team 4 steve kammerer has been tracking the path of bows these storms. doug, walk us through they are and where they might be going next. >> that's a very good question, doreen, where they're going next. we know where jose is going the next few days. right up toward the boston area. where it goes from there, all bets are off. it's going to meander towards the atlantic and that will have a big impact on where maria may go as it makes its way closer to the u.s. coast. here's where jose is currently. just off the coast line here up

of 75 miles per hour, not a very well defined hurricane. more of a tropical cyclone. what that means is we'll see winds along the coast. tropical storm watches and warnings have been dropped in our area but they are still ongoing around the boston region. ocean city a wind advisory. beach ee recognition will be a big issue the next couple days from jose. now, maria obviously the bigger of the two. jose at one point was a category 4 off the coast of the island. jose made its way just to the north of the island. irma hit the northern islands. jose moved to the north of the island and now it got maria moving in toward the central portions of the leeward islands here. this is dominica. this is guadalupe. very, very populated island of guadalupe. upwards of 500,000 people there, and they will take a direct hit tonight. puerto rico in its sights next. puerto rico may see a direct hit, too. some of the latest observations

category 4 as of 5:00 with 130 mile an hour winds, guys, but they're going to send hurricane hunters in there. this could already be a category 5. much more on this, see you back here in a minute. >> this is quite a season we've had already. >> maria the monster on her way. >> thank you, doug. what witnesses call a barrage of bullets. >> a 16-year-old boy shot and killed over the weekend, the teen had been visiting with friends and we're told he had just gotten something to eat from an ice cream truck when one of the bullets struck him. >> news 4 pat collins is in southeast with more on this. pat? >> reporter: doreen, special police out in force tonight. this after a 16-year-old was shot and killed here last night. you see, he used to live here. he came back yesterday to visit some friends and that visit cost him his life. look at the signs of gun violence. bullet holes in the

the door, in the posts. bullets shattering the brick wall in three places. killed in this barrage of gun fire, 16-year-old myange myangelo starnes. his mother said he was a sophomore at blue high school. he used to live in this apartment building. a couple years ago his family moved away. last night he was back visiting some friends. he was in the parking lot at an ice cream truck trying to get something to eat. he went back to the apartment building, and that's when he was gunned down. he staggered into the building and went to a friend's apartment for help. i talked to the woman today. she asked not to be identified. did he stumble into your apartment? >> yes. >> reporter: what did he say? >> i've been shot. >> reporter: what did you do? >> told him to hold on. i've going to call the ambulance for him some help. >> reporter: tell me about him. >> he

i hate that he lost his life. >> reporter: mayor bowser on a community walk in northeast today, but she took time-out to talk about the murder of this 16-year-old. >> our message is always the same, that we don't want to see any violence in our neighborhoods. and even though we've been driving down violent crime more than 30%, homicides 17%, robberies 30%, that's no consolation to a family who has a 16-year-old that they have to bury. >> reporter: police say myangelo was hit a number of times. so far they say no motive, no suspect, no arrest. leon, back to you. >> terrible, terrible situation. thank you, pat. pat collins reporting live. doreen? >> growing unrest in several communities over another set of deadly shootings at the hands of police. first in st. louis where police are concerned about another night of vio

police officer was acquitted last week for shooting a black man. police say most of the protests during the day have been peaceful and that was the case today. but over the weekend, nighttime protests became violent. police arrested more than 80 people who smashed store windows and sprayed officers with an unknown chemical. and today the parents of a georgia tech student say campus police didn't have to kill their son on saturday night. police say 21-year-old scout schultz walked toward officers with a knife and one of the officers fired. but the family attorney argued the knife was actually a common pocket tool. today scout's father had one question for police. >> why did you have to shoot? that's the question. i mean, that's 9 onthe only quen that matters right now. why did you kill my son? >> the family's attorney said most officers on the scene acted

he said it was just one officer who shot and killed schultz. and a family in prince william county is asking the same question after an officer shot and killed their 15-year-old son last week. >> this photo you see here, this is the boy and we are just getting this photo here in our newsroom. the family gave us this picture. but they haven't released his name just yet. >> our darcy spencer spoke with neighbors and family members who say there had to be another way. >> reporter: the father of a 15-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a prince william county police officer leaves his home with other family members. they are grieving. a relative told me the family has serious questions about how police handled the incident, that there were other ways the confrontation could have been resolved. now, police were called to the home on hartzell lane after they received a call from inside the house. the caller said the teen had a bomb strapped to his chest and wasdi

hostage. the shooting happened in front of the home. >> the officers gave them several commands to stop and to put down the crow bar, at which point he did not obey them. >> reporter: some neighbors question the officers' decision to shoot the teen instead of using another tool such as a taser to stop him. a police spokesman told me that a crow bar can be used to inflict deadly force. prince william county commonwealth attorney paul ebert said the shooting appears to be justified, but that the investigation is not over. news 4 has learned that the teen attended pace west. it is described as an alternative school in gainsville. grief counselors were there today. the teen's neighbors say they feel for his family. >> you just never know what people are going through and it just makes you think, you know, reach out and, i don't know, care for people more. >> reporter: ebert says he plans to release the findings of his investigation on tuesday morning. family members and police have

in haymarket, virginia, darcy spencer, news 4. >> now, that was the moment when house minority leader nancy pelosi lost control of the news conference in california. she was calling on congress to pass the dream act, a bill that would turn temporary protections for young daca recipients into law. pelosi was confronted by activists who demanded protection for all undocumented immigrants. she listened for more than 30 minutes and then asked them to listen to her. they called her a liar and then she left. >> president trump has some big plans for d.c.'s 4th of july celebration during a meeting with the french president at the united nations. mr. trump spoke in glowing terms about the military parade he attended in paris on bastille day. mr. trump said he hopes to top it with a similar parade here in washington on the 4th of july. the president wants to have the parade in his words, to show our

military strength. all this as he prepares to dress the u.n. general assembly tomorrow. blayne alexander is covering this story for us. blayne? >> reporter: doreen, no question that this will be a very big week for president trump. we can expect to see a lot of news coming out of new york over the next few days. but no question that the main event will really be his speech tomorrow. this will be his first major address to other world leaders and what's important about this is this will likely set the tone for his relationships with those countries going forward. for president trump, new territory in his home city, back in new york today for his very first united nations general assembly meeting. >> reform is what we're talking about. >> reporter: the president addressing the very organization he once slammed as ineffective. today praising it, but urging reform. >> the united nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement. >> reporter: the president, who promised to put america

slogan, saying he wants to make the united nations great. [ applause ] >> reporter: this afternoon the president sat down with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> today a friend of mine for many years. >> reporter: their goal, middle east peace. >> we are giving it an absolute go. i think there is a good chance that it could happen. >> reporter: and later a one on one meeting with french president emmanuel macron. >> he is doing a terrific job in france. he's doing what has to be done. >> reporter: the meeting not just meet and greet. president trump working to build new alliances as he looks to turn up the pressure on north korea and iran. >> the global community is paying less attention to the tweets and actually looking at what the policy actions are of the united states. >> reporter: this week a high stakes test for a relatively new president now taking his place on the world stage. and a little bit more about president trump's expected message this ek

telling united nations they should be able to work together while still looking out for themselves and maintaining a sense of accountability. doreen? >> okay, blayne alexander reporting. thank you. and as we look ahead to the president's address to the general assembly at the u.n. tomorrow, we thought it was worth a look back at president obama's eighth and final speech to the u.n. last september. during the run up to the presidential election, he never mentioned donald trump by name that day, but he sent a clear message about the candidate's call for a border wall. >> and the world is too small for us to simply be able to build a wall and prevent it from affecting our own societies. today a nation ringed by walls would only i am prison itself. >> donald trump for his part was campaigning before a college crowd in north carolina on that day. >> the quiet and calm of a massage spa interrupted by a woman screaming that she was violated on a massage table. what we are learning about the man policees

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clean, safe space for women to unwind. now that woman's massage therapist is in jail. >> news 4's mark segraves broke this story first on social media today. tonight he's live outside the spa where the woman says she was attacked. >> mark says customers at other locations should be concerned. what's that about? >> reporter: well, that is because the person who, the suspect in this case who worked at the massage envy on wisconsin avenue in northwest, also worked at one other massage envy location in maryland. today he stood before a d.c. superior court judge and the lawyer told the judge the suspect has no criminal history. in fact, told police that he did nothing wrong, but the judge decided to hold him without bail. the victim told police she was sexually assaulted yesterday afternoon inside this massage envy location on wisconsin avenue in tenleytown. she told police she was assaulted by her massage

24-year-old habtamu gebreselassie was charged with first degree sexual abuse of a patient after he assaulted her during her massage. massage envy is a national chain. this location where the incident occurred just recently opened. according to the suspect's facebook page, he also worked at the massage envy location in bowie, maryland. a spokesperson for massage envy's corporate headquarters tells news 4, massage envy requires franchisees to complete extensive background screenings and reference checks and strictly enforce our code of conduct and zero tolerance policy. the therapist at issue is no longer employed by the franchisee. this customer told us incidents like this are part of the reason she only sees female massage therapists. >> that's awful and shocking. i'd have to know more about it. i'd have to know he had a prior history they overlooked. i don't necessarily blame mage

>> reporter: now, the victim in this case was taken to a local hospital after talking to police. that was yesterday afternoon. and police did put out a press released to saying if there are any other possible victims, either here in the district or in maryland where he also worked in bowie, they want to hear from you. leon, doreen, back to you guys in the studio he. >> all right. thank you, mark. >> troubling story. now we want to get another check on all that stormy weather out in the atlantic. >> yeah, the islands kind of got lucky last time around, not so much this time around. lauren, doug? >> yeah, guys, that's exactly right. puerto rico really kind of dodged a bullet with irma. even though they have three quarters of a million of people without power, now they have marie which can most likely hit dead on. >> last time they had a category 4, category 5 was 1932. it's been quite sometime. like you said, they don't have electricity, areas in san juan,

>> we're going to continue to watch these storms. lauren will be back with me in a minute to talk about jose which is just off our shoreline here. it is going to have i am palkts on us. right now here is the latest on maria and maria a very strong category 4 hurricane. there's a lot of indications this may be a category 5 already. hurricane hunters are getting ready to head into the storm over the next couple of hours. it's also about to make land fall in the next couple of hours. maybe around dominica and guadalupe. these two islands are going to see the brunt of this hurricane as it moves to the north of martinique. this is a situation, a dire situation for these regions. and once it moves through here it goes up towards the virgin islands and towards puerto rico. let's look at the latest track here. latest advisory came out 5:00 with winds of 130 miles per hour making this a category 4 hurricane. moving west, northwest at 9 miles per hour, hitting those islands in the central leewards. notice, notice this. this is right over st. croix. st. croix was an island not hit directly by irma, but this one goes right ove

4. 155 miles an hour. category 5 is 157 miles an hour. so, extremely close to that category 5 hurricane. look where we go next, right on into puerto rico. even if it's just south, remember, this is the cone of uncertainty here. it may go just north. it may go just south. if it goes just south, they may get hit harder with storm surge, storm surge can be a big issue in the south part of the island there in puerto rico. 150 miles per hour, that's wednesday at 2:00. and then moving very close to the turks and caicos, which also got hit by irma and then up into the atlantic where it may intersect with jose, and that may play out on the way that both of those storms could impact the u.s. next week with more on jose. >> jose just kind of wobbling off the east coast right now. the closest it's going to get at its closest point in the mid-atlantic will be about 200, 250 miles offshore. so, the impacts here minimal, but this thing is a big storm.

it's starting to lose some of that tropical character. you can see right off the coast of the carolinas right now. it will continue to move into this area. winds at 75 miles an hour, category 1, winds at 75 miles an hour. just at the hurricane status right now. do expect it to slightly weaken a little bit, but again, winds are going to be at 75 miles an hour, and then it will start to weaken. and look how it does this little loop right here. we have a little area of low pressure out of canada that is going to move it down to this way. so, it will start to loop and then it runs into dry air. we do have some tropical storm warning, tropical storm watches from the outer banks up. they have now been taken away from our area beaches mid-atlantic and going up through delaware and jersey. however, they are going to see some impacts, rough surf, obviously large swells, some rip currents. minor flooding taking place. the only place i'm worried about is the cape cod area and that is where they could see a good dose of rain in that region. so, again,

with maybe 4 to 8 inches, but that will be it. doug? >> yeah, take the ten-day forecast here. you notice how jose moves back to the south. the interesting thing about it, that storm could actually move down, intersect with maria and those two could do a little bit of a dance and one of them could be punched into the u.s. we're going to be watching this very, very closely, guys. we honestly have about 7 to 10 days to watch this play out. we're going to be talking about it throughout that entire time. but while we're talking about it, our weather looks great. 82 tomorrow on your tuesday with showers to the east. and that is because of jose. we will see some showers. i-95 toward the chesapeake bay. wednesday all the way through monday, looking like some phenomenal weather and actually extremely warm weather here. temperatures will be well above average by nearly 10 degrees by wednesday and thursday. and then we watch out for the interaction between jose and maria, what kind of interaction do they have? does maria help jose to move into our

so many questions, so far away, we're going to continue to watch this for you. we'll do it right here from the storm center. >> all right. you get to dust off one of your favorite terms, the fujiwara. >> that's right. >> i'd rather hear about that than the cone of uncertainty. >> there you go. all right, only ton news 4, a bribery scandal getting bigger and bigger in prince george's county. who is accused of trying to stir up a deal with a lawmaker? >> a woman attacked in her home near a local college campus. now we are learning how a guy got in in the first place.

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the historic ashburn colored school is open to the public again, looking much like it did 124 years ago. the one-room school was used to educate black students in loudoun county before dee segregation. loudoun school for the gift brought bought the property and will turn the historic building into a living museum. last october the school was vandalized drawing community support that accelerated the renovations here. >> a bribery scandal inside the maryland state house is expanding. news 4 has learned a state lobbyist is charged with trying to bribe a former delegate from prince george's county county. you have the exclusive. >> reporter: a lobbyist from hyattsville. the feds say gore man tried to bribe

campos. they didn't say what gore man is accused of wanting in return, but they specified gor man was registered to lobby the legislature and represented clients before the prince george's county liquor board. earlier this year the feds charged former delegate campos and former delegate michael vaughn both with taking bribes. campos allegedly did so to steer grant money. vaughn selling votes on liquor bills. you may remember the feds raiding the liquor board last winter. part of their investigation into corruption of the board. in their court filings, the feds indicated the bribe gor man is accused of offering was $1,000. campos pleaded guilty to bribery sentencing not yet scheduled in that case. michael vaughn has pleaded not guilty. no response from matthew gor man's attorney. we can tell you he's scheduled to appear in court in greenbelt friday morning. back to you, leon. >> all right, thank you, scott. all eyes on virginia. what to look for from the men who want to be governor there and what their strategies are as the race heats up in the final stretch.

>> after a mother of three was killed at this intersection, her three children badly wounded, vdot says they made changes trying to make this area safer. coming up we'll show y what'sou ralph northam: i'm ralph northam, candidate for governor and i sponsored this ad narrator: ed gillespie says dr. ralph northam doesn't show up? dr. ralph northam was an army doctor and a volunteer medical director at a children's hospice. he passed the virginia law

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steps away from a local college campus. >> police say the man who did it is still out there. they say he likely got into the home on guilford road in college park through an open window. news 4's derrick ward is live in the neighborhood right now. >> derrick, this happened so close to the university of maryland. how are the students nearby and the school reacting to this? >> reporter: well, an alert went out system wide here on the campus. their alerts go out to cell phones and any hand held devices and computers. that is standard procedure so they're aware of it. but especially the people who live on this street, the students who live on the street are particularly concerned. we learned the house with the woman inside that had been burglarized wasn't the only one. there is a mix hereof students and other residents in close proximity to the university of maryland's college park campus. this weekend word went out over the campus alert system and the neighborhood list serve about an assault at a home here in the 4500 block of guilford

open window. >> once inside the residence, that is when the suspect inappropriately touched the victim. >> reporter: neighbors here on the block are worried and on alert. >> i mean, just a couple weeks ago, attacking somebody moving in, the mom is like, is this a safe neighborhood? and i was like, yes, but, i mean, this has happened before. >> reporter: he can attest to that. he said his home was burglarized the same time as the burglary and assault on saturday and his windows weren't opened. >> he kicked in our porch door.. that's how he got into the house. >> reporter: they have an alarm system. other residents are security conscious, even more so now. >> yeah, i definitely am making sure all our doors and windows are locked, not being careless about leaving something open accidentally. >> i've never not felt safe like around campus or even walking on campus, so now that it has happened we are all taking precaution s, all like the kids arnd

needed to do to feel more safe together. >> reporter: police don't have a description of the suspect. nor do they know which way he went after the crime. they are asking for the public's help with that. if anyone has seen anything suspicious they'd like to hear from them and at the very least they want speep people to take steps to make themselves and their homes as uninviting to criminals as possible. and another reason that police want to hear from the public is because often things like this happen and aren't reported and often sexual assault of the degree that was happening here, they can escalate so they really want to get this person off the streets as soon as possible. live in college park, derrick ward, news 4. back to you. >> all right, thank you, der irk. now to the november election and virginia state lawmaker who refuses to debate his opponent. he is serving his 13th term in prince william county. his challenger is danica rome. she is the

running. she out raised 5-1. they refer to him as bigot bob in part because he supports president trump's ban on trangs gender people in the military. he 20e8d the washington post he won't take part in the debates with rome because he believes the political climate has become less civil. >> both parties in the race for virginia governor have something to be happy about in two new polls out tonight. a university of mary washington poll gives democrat ralph northam a five-point lead over republican ed gillespie. but that edge, it's within the margin of error in this poll and a suffolk university poll shows a dead heap with both candidates at 42%. the closeness of this race elevates the stakes for tomorrow night's debate between these two. bureau chief julie carey looks at what you want to watch for. >> reporter: his name is not on the ballot but we're likely to

hear plenty about donald trump in the debate. advisors to democrat ralph northam made it clear their campaign will continue to try to tie republican ed gillespie to a president who is not popular in the commonwealth. gillespie supporters predict that will backfire. >> it's more of the same, the democrats have decided that their message is we don't like donald trump. and it's not a winning message. >> reporter: this political analyst agrees. there is danger for democrat northam if he spends too much time in the debate talking about trump. >> i think it would be a mistake if northam basically answered every question with donald trump in the senate. i think it's going to be something that he's going to talk about, but a little of that i think goes a long way. >> reporter: steven farnz worth says the goal for both candidates in the debate, connect with independent and undecided voters. he said to do that, the focus needs to be on local issues. >> they're going to look at the quality of their schools, transportation, they're going to look at the future economically of their communities and whichever candidate has the ability to connect with

on those key street level issues is going to be the candidate who can win most of those independent voters. >> i'm ralph northam. >> reporter: both candidates will also continue to reach voters through tv ads and there new york times ham may have a big advantage in the final seven weeks. new campaign fund-raising reports show northam has twice the cash on hand compared to gillespie. >> virginia is working good paying jobs. >> reporter: they promised they will have enough money to stay on the air, too. that fund-raising report represents a huge shift in the campaign at the start of the summer, gillespie had a 2-1 cash advantage. but with a strong summer, northam has now flipped the financial picture. i think we're going to see a lot more ads from him as a result. >> that's a huge difference. julie, we know how important northern virginia is for anybody who wants to run for statewide office in virginia. what are we seeing in the polls from there? >> that's where robb northam finds real encouragement. the poll f i

20 points. gillespie has an edge in other parts of the commonwealth, as you might guess, western and northwestern virginia. the real toss up right now is the tide water area. that is an important place to win if you're going to win statewide. >> and undecideds, how many, are they going to be the factor here? >> more than usual. and political analysts say today whoever captures those undecideds will probably win the race. >> we can all see these two candidates side by side for ourselves tomorrow evening. julie and aaron will be panelists at tomorrow night's debate. moderated by nbc's chuck todd. you can watch it live here at 7:00 p.m. on nbc 4 or on the nbc washington app. and because of the debate our programming will change slightly tomorrow. news 4 at 6:00 will run a half hour followed by the nbc nightly news at 6:30, then the debate live at 7:00 p.m. >> tomorrow you think you can spend the evening with julie and aaron. all right. heads up, redskins fans, because news 4 will give you a chance to win two tickets to this sunday's redskins

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now i'm going to read this teleprompter. please forgive me. shout out to d.c. public schools. here we go. >> a shout out for d.c. public schools during last night's emmy rewards leads to a trending hashtag today. but was the message positive? that's the debate around town today. >> dave chappelle graduated from duke ellington school of the arts in d.c. in 1981. they ran with it, tweeted the excitement. so did a lot of other people. some think chappelle was calling out the school system because he couldn't read the teleprompter. a long-time friend of chappelle says, no way. >> he's extremely supportive of duke ellington and the entire dcps system. it was awesome. >> the students at duke ellington saw it the same way. it was great to have the support of adu

do great things. >> folks, did you see it? how did you take chappelle's remarks about public schools? was he commeplimenting or throwg shade? some think it wasn't a compliment at all. wow, let us know what you thought. weigh in on the nbc washington facebook page. i saw it and thought -- >> so did i. i thought it was great. john oliver's comment, wanting to make it a trending topic. i don't think there was any shade involved. >> if he had flubbed it and screwed the whole thing up, then whole different story, whole different story then, right? >> yes. but it was, i thought it was meant in good spirits. >> very good. let us know what you think, folks. >> still ahead, a community shaken to the core by a dangerous road. how neighbors are showing their support for three children who just lost their mother. >> plus, deja vu for millions still reeling from hurricane irma, we'll take you there as ople get readype

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the goal is to keep this from happening again. vdot has made changes to a dangerous intersection in loudoun county after a mother was killed and her three children were injured. a food truck hit the family's car at the corner of evergreen mill and watson roads earlier this month. since then crews have cleared away tree branches so the stop sign is more visible, and they have installed another larger sign warning drivers that a stop sign is coming up. as news 4's megan fitzgerald reports, neighbors are doing what they can to help the family. >> reporter: neighbors in this community are really coming together. just take a look at this driveway here. they've created this sign

welcoming home sophia and emma coming home from the hospital recovering from broken bones. neighbors have gone in and out of the house trying to make sure that this family has everything they need. this intersection brings back painful reminders of how dangerous watson and evergreen mills road can be. >> very scary every day they're going on that road. >> reporter: neighbors want to see more changes after the latest crash which killed their friend erin caplan and injured her three children and their grandmother. >> my heart breaks for them. >> reporter: vdot says their engineers are studying the area to determine if they need to put up a traffic signal a. he i'm going to head in there. >> reporter: meanwhile, all throughout the day neighbors have been in and out of the caplan's home. >> but we've all come together within the community to help them out in a time of need and i feel like we've had the support from our community, up in bramelton, everywhere to help support the kids, therron and d

while thee go through this. >> reporter: neighbors say the two young girls have been released from the hospital and are home recovering, signs and love and support welcoming them home were already in place. >> i know both of the girls are healing mainly from broken bones. >> reporter: we're told the oldest boy is also healing, but he's still in the icu. >> it's crazy how quickly these kids are coming back. >> reporter: no doubt it will be a long road ahead, but these neighbors say they'll be here to help out in any way they can. reporting in loudoun county, megan fitzgerald, news 4. >> neighbors have created a gofundme page to help with the family's medical expenses. we have all the information on our nbc washington app. >> turn now to the frightening situation developing in the caribbean. hurricane maria strengthening now into a monster storm. >> yes, she is now a category 4, barrelling toward puerto rico with winds of 135 miles an hour. nbc news's gabe gutierrez is live tonight i

they're still reeling from hurricane irma. >> reporter: that's right, doreen and leon. good evening. hurricane irma grazed puerto rico, still damaging in some areas, knocking out power to 75% of the island. some 60,000 people are still without power from irma and now they are bracing for yet another monster hurricane, as you mentioned, maria intensified quite a bit in the last few hours. monster category 4 storm is expected to make land fall here in puerto rico on wednesday. and they fear that it could be catastrophic. the governor here says he's urging people in wooden structures and flood-prone areas to get out. they are also preparing hundreds of shelters to hold more than 100,000 people if possible. guys, back to you. >> all right, that's gabe gutierrez reporting from puerto rico. doug, how bad are they going to be hit? >> they could be hit extremely bad. dominica is up now and they are going to get it in the next couple hours. they are moefrt likely g

this is a strengthening hurricane. this right now, winds of 130 miles per hour making its way very close to the island of dominica. as it moves across there thought it was going to hit guadalupe which is a populated island, too. this is going to be a devastating situation. right now in our area, this is jose. jose right now just off our coast line, good news for jose is it's moving far enough away that our tropical storm watches in warning down in the ocean city area, down along del mar, portions of new jersey have been canceled as this is just offshore and well offshore by about 200, 250 miles. we did see some impacts from it. we saw cloudiness a little bit earlier today from the storm and we are seeing the outer bands from this storm very close. and they're going to be moving back towards our region during the day tomorrow. so, let's show you that hour by hour forecast for you. tonight you can see a few more clouds coming in from that storm. notice how they are coming in from the ocean here. that's the influence of jose. you can see the showers right there over towards portions of the del mar, towards

ocean city. here's noon tomorrow. notice all the cloud cover in our region. also notice this. back to the west we see a lot more sunshine tomorrow. i-95 eastward, we have the best chance of clouds and rain showers during the afternoon. so, this is what we'll be watching just about all day tomorrow as the storm continues to move up and around our area. so, much cooler, 79 in annapolis. not cool, still quite mild. 79 in annapolis, 75 in easton. best chance of rain in those areas, 82 in d.c. look to the west, 85s back here towards the shenandoah valley, back towards i-81 as we see more sunshine here. you can see that jose influence in our region. but not a huge impact in our area. we mentioned the huge impact, it's maria. there it is right there and there is the eye. you see the eye of this storm really open up here and that shows you this is really intensifying as it makes its way towards dominica. if this was to take a little wobble to the north that would help dominica but not

guadalupe has half a million people. it moves up to the virgin islands, could hit puerto rico. could hit islands irma did not hit such as st. croix right here. this is something we'll be tracking for not just the next couple of days. look what i've got in the ten-day forecast. this is next week and i've got tracking jose and maria all the way into next week. we'll be doing that for you, but until then, a few showers tomorrow, but then wednesday all the way through next week looking really, really nice. temperatures well above average, guys. >> it's already seems like the longest hurricane season we're having. >> sure is. >> we're not even halfway through. >> there you go. what was that house guest after three days? get out of here, jose. >> thank you, doug. >> coming up in sports, redskins shut down one of their young stars the entire season. he's healthy, no injury. sherri is up next with more on this strange situation. >> first here's lester holt with a look at

>> thousands still in the dark from irma. puerto rico braces for a direct hilt from hurricane maria. we'll have a live report from san juan. also new details about the four american women attacked with acid in france. and our special report on college hazing in america.

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to return to the team for the rest of the 2017 season. the redskins placing the second year safety on the reserve left squad list. it is different than the exempt left squad list which gave him a must to figure out his next move. cravens dealing with personal issues and reportedly considering retirement. the statement from the team reads su'a in part su'a in accordance with the nfl constitution and bylaws su'a su'a will not be permitted to return to the club for the remainder of the 2017 nfl season su'a including the postseason. we sincerely hope that su'a uses this time away from the club to reflect upon whether or not he'd like to resume his career in the national football league in 2018. this is kind of a confusing sort of situation. over the weekend we saw him talking to doug williams down on the side line at the usc game. there's been conflicting reports if he's actually going to show up for practice su'a even with this

>> interesting. >> what su'a do we know what changed between giving him a month to work this out and you're out of here? >> we're not sure. he would have had a week left in that original month to decide what he wanted to do. not sure if the team and him made a mutual decision. this is just coming out today su'a practice on wednesday. we will certainly be there and bring you the latest. >> su'a su'a see you. >> this is over shadowing the fact that the redskins won yesterday. the burgundy and gold avoided the dread the 0-2 start. only 12% of teams with 0-2 have made the playoffs since 1990. on the victory monday time for the guys of 106.7 to give us the good, the bad and the junkies. >> boys, the redskins travel across the country for a must-win game and they beat the sean mcvay lads. >> i told you the rams are going

they're just the rams. everyone was hyping them up. sean mcvay is going to be a great bright young head coach. i don't have any doubt about it. they were sleeping on the fact jay gruden knew sean mcvay knew jay gruden as well. >> the pounding of the coates in week one su'a i thought they would handle the redskins. give them credit. they looked at the rams defensive line especially and said su'a look su'a we can run the ball against this team and at the second highest rushing output in the jay gruden era. >> props to them for the defensive line. they took a lot of pressure off curt by dolg that. the robb kelly injury could be concerning for them going forward but man, he came in and gave them runs on the final drive. >> thank god curt led them on the game winning drive otherwise the whole week would have turned into another referendum on the quarterback. this week the story is the running game and the defense. >> one thing i see on the team that may be concerning is you don't see the wide

the mix. >> dachshund has been a complete joke. >> you can put anybody out there to run patterns. but he is going inside. he's using chris thompson a lot more than he did last year. and they're running the ball. >> thompson finds the end zone twice. an impressive performance by him. he's been a spark plug for the offense. it just shows the failure to develop that chemistry with guys like dachshund and prior so far you're going to have to see more out of thompson, more out of reid. >> i think they'll use thompson more. there's no one faster on the team. if you can get him use him. >> they're going to be under dogs against oakland. it will take some sort of a-performance on all sides there for them to win that football game. but it's winnable. >> again, robb kelly with a rib injury. redskins playing sunday night. big game against 2-0 raiders. came kicks off at 7:30. we also have to be on baby watch.

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and we need to provide access to affordable healthcare for all virginians, not take it away. tonight, not again. another monster hurricane is taking aim at caribbean islands left devastated by irma. the storm now an extremely dangerous category 4. it could hit as a category 5. a major storm emergency. and eyes also on another tropical system, this one threatening the northeast. al roker is here. high drama as an unpredictable president prepares to address the world at the u.n. what will he say about north korea and iran? acid attack. american students burned in a bizarre incident at a train station in france. hazing in america. our special look at a growing concern on college campuses. tonight an anguished dad who says hazing pushed his son to suicide. and the marathon bombing survivor and a