9:00 hour on this sun morning. good morning. thank you for starting it with us. >> comfortably warm is what they're calling it. >> but later today. >> yes. >> it's going up. going up. >> a little sticky. >> turn humidity, temperature, lauren track summer in september. >> we get this sometime. 0 into october as well but a lot of people are getting tired of the heat because we didn't have a lot of it this summer. good news is i have a cool down. let's talk about today. 74 degrees at 9:00. before noon temperatures in the 80s and we're in the mid 80s so it's going to be a warm day. 90 for the daytime high today. we were 89 yesterdayment you knew it felt l

it will start to build through the day today and then hot and human tomorrow. so we do have that fall weather returning and we'll be talk about maria and her latest track change-up in about 2 minutes, guys. >> all right. we following break news in just the last hour. someone was shot and killed in college park. prince george's county police are actively looking for leads. they say two men were not inside an apartment building. one of them died. police are asking for tips. >> president trump is up and he is tweeth again about the nfl. he said quote if nfl fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting their flag and country you will see change take place fast. fire or suspend. >> yeah and that new tweet

yesterday. players and politicians criticizing what the president said. >> this all started when he uninvited steph curry from coming to the white house. he talked about it last night. >> just beneath the leader of our country to go that route. it's not what leaders do. >> curry also implied that the president was racest. we'll talk more in just a moment. >> ux expect to see a locality of football lairs kne, ling today. he grew up in a military family. he's the first player. >> the president uninvited steph curry to the white house. now the whole team says it's not going. the d.c. mayor reached out and in a statement she said we happy to identify ways for you

celebrate. >> we'll be keeping an eye on all the stories the redskins game tonight and we'll see people have a hard time getting home and that's because metro is closing at 11:00 which means it's probably going to stop running before the game fwins. so sports teams r event organizers pay but heard from the redskins. the game tonight is here on nbc. our coverage will begin at 7:00. that's football night in america. kick off at 8:30. stay tuned for after the game. we have the latest edition to set you up for the week. >> today your favorite singers and musicians are performing in virginia. there's a charity concert going

justin timberlake, ariana grande. they're all performing. you can watch it tonight at 5:55. we now turn to another disaster zone in mexico. the country felt the earth shake again yesterday healing back raw fears following two powerful earthquakes this month. questioned's 6. 1 tremble followed the massive earthquake on the. the current death toll now more than 400. >> breaking news out of puerto rico. the dam is posing a serious threat to those that live downstream. engineers spotted that crack in the dam friday and now they're doing everything they can to

evacuate residents that live downstream but this has been daf cut task because as you know communications pretty much paralyzed. crippled on this island. >> we're getting a rare look at that damage in puerto rico. look at this here. residents are waking up to what looks like a war zone following hurricane maria. homes detroyed. m migsz walls and roofs. it's responsible for killing ten people on the island and a dozen others among it's pooth. >> the people whose lives were turned upside down by hurricane irma are starting to put things back together. it's been two weeks and donations continue to flow into the state but the county school district realize they're not getting everything they needed. northern virginia reporter shows us now how she stepped in to help. >> positive news this week out of florida.

on. donations come pouring in from across the country and schools are back in session. fairfax county school bus driver says a lot of groups are collecting things like food, water, clothing, even cleaning supplies. but no one is collecting school supplies. many of the flood homes for low income families, she wondered would they be able to buy new pens, rulers, notebooks? >> i thought about it and i said well who is helping the kids? a lot of these families are having problems with water damage and what have you in their houses. can they really honestly afford school supplies? it's something that we started as a small project within transportation and when it started to take off it just ballooned and it's grown. i mean it's grown so big. it's kind of

support is still appreciated. >> the collected supplies will be driven to florida early next month. >> the blunt scissors, the pencils, the pens, the rulers, the one inch notebooks, the single subject wide bound notebooks that they use. >> great effort there. the first lady is flying solo. a look at her first stop on her first foreign trip overseas without the mr. >> and mall mayhem. face-off with police. why a shopping trip quickly turnedo t

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>> the first lady invited them here to visit d.c. >> i know somebody. >> yeah. >> he's a cool guy actually. >> yeah. >> well, some republicans are chastising members of their own party. >> that's right. speakers are just tired of excuses. they want lawmakers to get something done. >> i don't know about you but i am just so tired of working so hard to help get republicans elected and give the

senate and then watching them fail time after time after time to keep their promises. >> well, a lot of criticism focused on the failure to repeal the affordable care act and senator john mccain. mccain said he would vote against the graham/cassidy bill and wants more bipartisan efforts in congress. the time is 9:11 on this sunday morning. another day of summer-like weather is upon us. what about the rest of your work week? >> first historic year. we have you covered. find out what you can do the

roughly 2 dozen people are facing charges this morning following this wild scene inside popular st. louis missouri mall. chaos here broke out saturday after protestors clashed with police. the protest which started out peaceful was in response to last week's jason stockily ruling which acquitted a former officer in the 2011 shooting death of a black man. two protestors were injured in that protest. >> a little boy, his father and a group

>> every little boy's dream is to be a firefighter and it's no different for this 6-year-old. just a few months ago, it almost ended and on july 8th his dad jumped into the role of a first responder. >> i ran in and he was like hanging halfway out of the bathtub, his top half hanging out the tub. his feet was in the tub. his arms were slung over. >> wisdom didn't have a pulse so he immediately did cpr until first responders arrived. >> they were inside and they found young wisdom on the floor,

lifeless. the troop placbegan cpr. >> i was at the doctor first and then i turned six. >> he was with doctors and at the hospital for a few weeks but he was alive to see his 6th birthday. >> i feel happy. >> wisdom is a happy 6-year-old again thanks to his father and the first responder that saved him. >> i was picking him up as they were moving. so like i said they went above and beyond. they really did. they did an exemplary job. >> megan fitzgerald, news 4. >> washington's taste of georgetown event kicks off at 11:00 this morning. if

wines from more than 90 sellers. >> well, this is the time for everybody to get out. outside and we love it when you go out and we're working for you and we'd like to give everyone a big thank you for coming to the nbc 4 allstate community shred. by the way, breaking records here, biggest event ever. oh my goodness. pat on the back. >> you set a new attendance record with 4,000 cars that came to fed ex field. take a look here. pat lawson muse. >> that's the reason. they all wanted to see

you can get your personal documents shredded. >> oh, yeah. my kind of competitions. you guys like the beer gardens. the final day of the d.c. coffee fest, the preliminary for the u.s. coffee champs cup and the folks you see are competing in the same competition in denver but they decided to do something special. they held a contest this week to raise money for hurricane victims so all going toward a great cause all while getting really caffeinated. it does sound up my ally. >> look at that. love all the designs. have you ever tried to do a design yourself? it never works. >> i don't even know how to make coffee. >> there's more truth to that than people know. we had a coffee experience. >> out at the farm yesay

coffee but i couldn't bring myself to drink it because we were sweating bullets. >> it was so hot yesterday. it was so hot on that pavement. 89 degrees yesterday. >> 89. >> yeah. >> that's what we will be looking forward to and then we have fall-like temperatures. this is how it's going to be all day. make sure that you pack up that unscreen. another hot day. we're going to be dry. a lot of rain in this forecast. we're going to talk about maria and she could bring some

in parts of our forecast. we'll be talking about that as well. we're already in the mid 70s. 74 here in d.c. make sure that you have that bug repellant but humidity building. make sure that you hydrate. it's going to be a little hot out there and hot on the pavement at fed ex field. you're going to possibly go there and tailgate early. if you're not headed to the game it's going to be a great night for it. >> it's going to be nice and muggy in the morning but through the day tomorrow we're taking the temperatures back into the upper 80s so it's going to be a warm recess, a little muggy through the day tomorrow b

mugginess will break by the time we get into thursday. there's a frontal system that will be cooling through the region. that will eventually take maria out to sea. let me show you this track real quick. of course now maria at a category 2 hurricane. it will track parallel to the east coast before it jets out to sea. so here it is right here. outer banks are right here and then it comes out to sea because of the frontal system. we could still have clouds around here. especially as we get into tuesday through thursday and east of i-95 maybe a few showers on wednesday and thursday. look at this friday, saturday sunday. >> the republican parties divide it is. according today at a from our latest wal

themselves mostly a supporter of president trump. >> call it the trump party versus the republican party and there's fascinating differences between the two. >> for example party supporters back mitch mcconnell and paul ryan while trump supporters are much more negative about those two. >> on matters of race and immigration trump supporters give us thumbs up of the presidents handling of charlottesville while party supporters take the opposite view. >> interestingly enough when it comes to alabama's election he is actually for luther strange over roy moore. >> is it a bird? is it a plane? no. so what was everyone tweeting about in the sky overnight. a mystery to tell

>> it is actually a spy

an air force base launched it around 2:00 this morning our time. they said the satellite will deliver essential recognizance for the nation. >> love was in the air for one california couple following their romantic engagement. >> take a look at this. so much so that the balloon they were in made a crash landing. don't worry though, they are all okay. the winds shifted and they went off course and they landed here in a nearby neighborhood. both agreed that it did not take away from what was a very special night. >> very memorable. once in a lifetime experience. >> it made a fantastic. >> it did. thank you. >> all right. well, the newly

birds and their pilot all walked away. they didn't have any injuries. if you have a crazy engagement story or something that went wrong we'd love to hear about it. >> absolutely. we'll share it on the air. >> we hope the marriage is still going strong. >> at least she said yes. >> absolutely. >> if you imagine if it was the other way around. >> the first weekend of fall feels like summer. we'll tell you what you can expect next plus a look at the track of hurricane maria is still ahead. >> oh and you all tried. you tried so hard to win this, a chance for a date with our very own pat collins to the redskins game tonight. in the end though it all came down to one person. the lucky

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excited the winner or pat. he has been talking about it all week. >> that's right. >> so you know you're short some change, just let pat take care of it curtesy of the boss. >> good morning, i'm angie goff. >> i'm adam tuss. we have a hot and sticky forecast to let you know about. >> that just didn't sound right when we're talking about rounding out september. >> it's going to be -- these temperatures are what we usually have in july and august. our average temperature for this time of year 177 degrees. yesterday we made it up to 89. today we could do 90. that's going to be the daytime high right this hour. clear skies. make sure that you have that sunscreen because we have no clouds out there thanks to high pressure and that's the way it's going to be today. we'll have a little increase through that tomorrow. 74 degrees. you know it's going to be a hot day but again we won't really have that

on this afternoon through tonight and then you'll feel that humidity tomorrow. it will be building throughout the day. temperatures topping out around 90 by this afternoon. we'll be talking about fall-like weather. that's coming up on the ten day forecast. there is a break. >> new developments in today's top stories, president trump criticizing athletes in the nfl and he learned the entire oakland raiders defensive line will take a knee during the national anthem tonight. the raiders are playing the redskins the driver stayed at the scene and no other details released at this accident. >> the dam

that live downstream. they're now trying to evacuate everyone that lives in that part of the area. the storm is responsible for killing at least ten people in the u.s. territory. >> an autopsy is being performed on a body discovered along a busy local interstate. a driver made the disturbing discovery after he pulled off to the side of the road. he found the dead body along the ramp off 695 to group 10 late friday afternoon. police are investigating this as a potential homicide. if you know anything about this you're asked to call the maryland state police. >> they're spending their weekend remembering a 16-year-old college bound teenager. he was gunned down in an attempted robbery. this happened on wednesday night in southwest d.c. police say he was a good

home from a college bound program when it ended. >> it's sad but, you know, we're all doing this for him. so we're going to go on and push for him. >> we continue to follow up on the investigation and this is what we know this time right now. the moments leading up to that encounter according to the washington post, his twin brother was approached by the same would be robber that night and he had a knife and he would be okay. he was just 16 years old. >> time right now is 9:34. they fought for their neighborhood and they got their wish. do minute ju scrapping a plan to build a high tension power line in the community in prince william

county. >> well, can you believe it, it has been one year since the opening of the national museum of african american history and culture and the museum plans to celebrate all weekend long. yesterday it kicked off it's second, or two day celebration full of music and also dancing and you know that the festivities continue today and 8,000 people a day. that's what the museum averaged since it opened a year ago. >> unbelievable. we're working for you by narrowing down what you need to know if you do want to go today. it starts at 11:30 this morning. it's going to go through 7:00 tonight. you have plenty of time to get down to the national mall. performances include all of the outdoor events that are free. >> check

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it is a summer song of the year. >> absolutely. >> during the closing ceremony of a youth soccer competition in harrison new jersey is when they'll get to do this performan performance. >> never too late. >> exactly. >> okay so as if it's not cool enough the students are going to perform a flash mob and they are actually going to be

performers. they're going to perform at the same time. this is going to be quite the sight to see. i hope you follow up. >> yeah. >> well, listen it's hard to know what you might do when something surprises you. >> yeah like this. an officer didn't miss a beat. take a look at what landed on his windshield. it's a raccoon. he hictched a ride on the polic van today. he would not get off. there's nothing he could do to get him off. this happened in colorado. colorado springs police department said that the officer was safely able to pull the car over and then the raccoon took off. he was on his way to a crash when this happened. >> the department said he was positively surprised. >> well. >> raccoons are, you know, they are interesting little creatures. >> they are. i would have pulled over and just waited for him to run

i would not have gotten out of the car. >> windshield wipers. >> beautiful start to your sunday morning but we're still tracking maria. she is still swirling. we'll take a look at the updated track ahead. >> plus from the hospital to a homecoming dance. this weekend was extra special for a northern virginia couple. we shared their story of struggle and triumph and

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a good-looking day out there right now. humidity will continue to build through the day and hot and humid through the day tomorrow. temperatures will be in the upper 80s to lower 90s for daytime highs today. we'll talk about maria and also return fall weather. >> thanks. now to my favorite story of the morning. >> it's a great story. >> they have a special bond. not only because they're twins. >> that's right. two world war ii veterans just turned 99 years old and they're twins. nbc's mike anderson shows us how they helped each other through some of the most difficult times. >> no many people make it to 99. even fewer along side their identical twin. but boyd. >> i think when something

>> and ralph henderson are seemingly inseparable. >> boyd has always been a good, good companion. >> even if they now live far apa apa apart. at a combined birthday party dozens of family members paid tribute to the two soldiers. their military service started shortly after marriage both leaving behind their young wives. >> i was drafted. >> ralph didn't have a choice and boyd. >> my mother asked me to go along with him. >> went out of love. while at first they trained together they were soon separated. >> i was worried to death until i finally found him. >> boyd was the commander of an m-10 tank. >> we were pushing the germans out of rome. >> what he didn't know is ralph was not far away at a nearby camp.

>> i lost nine men and i'll never get over it. but they were victorious. >> they held that flag together seen in newspapers around the country. it's also where boyd earned the purple heart. >> i'm honored to be american. >> but now surrounded by family holding that same flag. ♪ from sea to shining sea >> these twin patriots. >> ralph's alive and i'm alive. and we had the best toward each other. >> we'll do the best we can. >> the years ahead may not be many. they credit the way they lived. >> love your life, love your family,

>> for making their days so plentif plentiful. >> that's a great story. >> i know and the words are so simple and they really just describe having a strong foundation is really what has kept them both going and it shows. they have beautiful big families now. >> yes. >> surrounding them now. >> wonderful. >> tonight i'm taking a knee for america. >> well, everyone still talking about this last night. stevie wonder took a knee on stage for america at the global citizen festival in new york city. now the redskins on sunday night

is going to the game as someone's very special date. >> we'll have more on that coming up but first, back to pat, pat could be all over the place. this is him surprising the big winner who gets to go with him tonight. >> you are the winner of a date with me to the redskins game on sunday. >> thank you. >> i love it. pat was more excited than she was. >> i think she was just shocked. >> but she is his date for the evening. we invited you to win earlier this month. more than 2,800 of you sent your stories in. we appreciate it. pat did too. she is the mother of 5 and also a widow. her husband passed away from a brain

said it's for him. >> he's a big redskins fan. his dad, he passed away, he wanted to take him to the game. >> she is bringing her son as well. to fulfill her husband's wish. they get club seats and field passes. they're going to ride to and from the game in a stretch limo and pat has our bosses credit card so who knows what is going to happen. drinks all around. >> find pat at the game. >> it will be in the red zone from 3:00 to 8:00 tonight. >> got to get that in right? >>

>>. >> we're going to start on the game. >> fair enough. >> of course you can watch the game right here on nbc 4. our coverage starts at 7:00 on football night in america and kick off at 8:30 after the game of course get yourself ready for the work week. we have another late edition of news 4 that will follow the game. >> only on news 4 by the way, a new chapter in the story of a high school couple that met when they were just toddlers. >> and jj jasin and grace haddad received liver transplants when they were done. their procedures were some of t the first in the world. >> they always stayed connected. they went to homecoming together. she went to be his date. >> they realized they were more than friends at transplant camp and they look great together.

at 9:49 can i get a big thank you. >> thank you to all of you. love going out and working for you in the community but you were really working for us too because allstate community shred, this was a record breaker. >> pat lawson muse and other members of our news four family radiant as ever. handing out a little bag there. if you miss this one don't worry. we have plenty of community shreds every few months

kind of weather, hard not to be excited. >> everybody was out and about yesterday. so hopefully you liked yesterday. because that's what you're going to get again. temperatures out there today actually making it to 90 degrees. we'll be a degree or two hotter than yesterday. of course we're still watching maria. i'll show you her latest track. kind of give you an idea of all the model data and what they're indicating and then the warm spell, finally on a friday. i know i had a lot of people say when is it going to break? friday. temperatures out there right now, we're already 74 degrees. 77 degrees. but nothing happening on the storm team 4 radar. high pressure in charge right

now. this is going to be responsible for dropping our temperatures. i'll show you that coming up. did you te tomorrow we're looking at nice conditions. it's going to be on the muggy side tomorrow morning but as we go through the day we keep things up into the upper 80s tomorrow. here's the satellite right now. you can see the eye on this monster of a hurricane. this is the outer banks right here. he has taken all the models and give us a good indication of what they

this is what is going to happen. i'm still a little too close to outer banks to call just yet but that shift right there is from that frontal system. look at our temperature. 83 thursday and then fall into the 70s by friday, saturday and sunday and we'll have a few clouds from it and also maybe a few light rain showers east of i-95. otherwise get ready for fall because it's coming at the end of the week. >> we do have a quick programming note in case you haven't heard megyn kelly today premieres tomorrow. monday's broadcast features the cast and creators of will and grace and also the cast of this is us and there's a few surprises they're going to announce as well. you can watch it right here on

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>> news 4 today starts now. >> oh, yeah. redskins fans getting ready for the big game today. hours away from a primetime battle on the gridiron out at fed ex field. >> taking the knee though protests erupt after president trump's comments on the anthem and steph curry now the entire nation is waking up to see what's going to happen. >> open up the windows and take a look outside. you might love the forecast. summer is sticking around for a little bit longer. >> yeah. >> it is what it is. 10:00 on this sunday morning. thank you for waking up with us. >> and you know, some of that i haven't heard in a forecast in