we have breaking news at midday. college basketball coaches accused of fraud. it's a case that could disrupt college programs across the country. you know what, this would be bad enough, but before the morning rush was over we saw five more crashes on the bw parkway. how the mess started and a look at whether everything is finally okay. and we're watching hurricane maria still spinning off the carolina coast, but here it's going to feel a lot more like summer for again the start of fall. coming up, i'll show you when the fall feel will be back and a look at maria's track. news 4 midday starts now. hey, everybody. hope your morning is off to a great start. i'm

>> i'm pat lawson. someone was seriously injured in a crash that made a lot of you late to work. the southbound bw parkway at maryland 197 was shut down for hours after a car drove off the road. you can take a look at this now. you see it on its side in that group of trees we just saw there. a person was so badly injured park police had to take that victim to the hospital and the traffic just kept getting worse. take a listen to news 4's brad freedus in chopper 4. >> 295 not where you want to be this morning. let's start off north of 197 the southbound lanes on the right side. a multi-vehicle crash there that police are on the scene still. as we move southbound we've got one vehicle still disabled just at the exit for 197. that was a two-vehicle crash that the police and ems have moved on from. that was minor. after 197 we had a four-vehicle crash.

mentioned happened in the backup behind the original crash. everything was finally back to normal around 9:00. meanwhile, some d.c. parents are worried their children just aren't safe on their way to school. >> you won't believe what some of these drivers are doing. some of them are flying up 14th street and the construction at the rock creek park is only making matters worst. justin finch is near powell elementary school. what are you hearing from parents? >> reporter: chris, good morning. if only this crossing were this calm, parents say it's far from that. during the morning and evening commutes they are seeing additional traffic out here, traffic they're not used to seeing. more cars, more gridlock, more unknowns around their children. you can understand why they are so concerned. the traffic flow at 14th and upshur streets gets tight in the morning. slow going as

work and parents take their children to nearby powell elementary where more than 500 students learn each school day. >> i wish the department of transportation would do a study and try to potentially come up with some solutions because the amount of traffic that goes through this area is incredible. >> reporter: and perhaps worsening after road construction closed off a cut through at rock creek park. some say it's made the morning commute hastier for drivers and riskier crossing the street. >> just her and i going through, you have to be careful. >> they do not wait when we cross. >> reporter: does that get dangerous? >> yes, it is. >> reporter: that's why crossing guards and police are staying on alert. if the crossing guards were not out here, how much different do you think it makes a difference? >> the crossing guard makes a difference. >> reporter: parents seem to agree this type of

want is a long-term traffic solution. we also spoke with the crossing guard who tells us that she was actually -- that she felt threatened by a car she tried to slow down out here not too long ago. parents tell us luckily they're not seeing much of that in this area and they credit the police away from it. still what they want to see is a long-term solution to keep their kids safe going to and from school each and every school day. live here in pet worth. i'm justin finch. news 4 back in the studio. >> i walk my daughter to school every morning. i can tell you, we love those crossing guards. if you were on i-66 overnight you may have seen the smoke or flames. they were pouring out of this large truck around 12:30 this morning. we're hearing a street sweeper may have caught fire. police had to shut down some lanes. everything was reopened in time for the

carolina are bracing for storm -- strong winds and storm surge from hurricane maria. the storm is already affecting the outer banks and is going to get stronger today. folks staying on hatteras islands had to evac due wavacue. maria should get weaker and become a tropical storm in the next day or so. the question is is this just the storm that won't go away? >> sheena, what do you think? are we going to feel anything here? >> if you look behind you guys, we have kwlouclouds around now. we're getting clouds from maria, same thing tomorrow and then it will get breezy. here is the hurricane. centered off shore. you can see the cloud cover with the satellite images coming in. some of the rain bands moving into the outer banks. the tropical storm warning is for the outer banks. they'll be seein

force conditions tonight and into tomorrow. closer to home we have a high surf advisory for parts of the eastern shore. nine to 14 foot waves. maria is a category 1. barely a category 1. pretty soon it will be weakening. head north, quickly pushed out to sea. not making landfall. a cold front will push it out to sea. then we see things here really start to cool down. i'll show you when the fall weather arrives coming up. thanks, sheena. >> we've been talking about and covering hurricanes for more than a month now. >> boy oh, boy. >> imagine what it's been like for the first responders from our area and their families as well. >> virginia task force 1 has been on call the entire time. some team members deploying hours after they get home. lots of hugs, tears from husbands, wives and the kids. the team from fairfax county fire deployed after hurricane

louisiana. then they had to go to florida, help people recover from irma. a few days after that some members flew down to puerto rico. they were supposed to help prepare the area for hurricane maria but got caught in the eye of the storm. >> so 4:00 in the morning the hotel, the structural engineers were up with us and we pulled our team out of the rooms about 6:00 and went to the safe zones and were in those areas until about 7:00 that night as it went over. >> members of maryland task force 1 are there in puerto rico right now doing what they can to help that huge humanitarian crisis. >> there is a warning if you plan to bay a used car. you still want to make sure it was not damaged in recent floods. many storm-damaged cars could be passed off as good cars to insuspecting buyers. it turns out some are worse

others. that's because the flood waters from irma were full of salt which is corrosive to cars and can destroy the vehicle's electronics. however, aaa said any noods to a vehicle is bad and could be a risky purchase. >> i was watching monday night football. the dallas cowboys decided the best way to show unity was to kneel and stand. right before the anthem played you can see the coaches, players, even owner jerry jones all took a knee. that did not go over well in arizona. maybe you can hear the crowd booing in the background. but then as the anthem played the cowboys stood up together and locked arms. what's interesting here is jones has been an outspoken supporter of president trump. after the game he said the message of unity and equality was being pushed aside by the controversy. the president tweeted about the cowboys demonstration last night. he called the booing by the fans in arizona when the

knee real anger. it was prog fwres that the team stood up. >> from the nfl to the nba. washington wizards begin training camp today. they're still talking about the press's remarks. >> to me you're a clown. like that's -- that's unacceptable. like that's not what a leader does. like your job is supposed to bring everybody together. i feel like you can't control what people want to do, we have bigger issues in this world, that you need to be focusing on instead of focusing on other people taking a knee. >> head coach scott brooks said as a team they haven't yet made a decision about whether they will hold an on court protest. to see more interviews with the players about this issue and the season check out the nbc washington app. we also have some

ten people have been charged with fraud and corruption including four coaches. now they all work at oklahoma, auburn, arizona and the university of southern california. you're going to hear a lot more on this story throughout the day. we are expecting officials to hold a news conference in the next hour. take a look quickly. this candidate that you're about to see for u.s. senate pulls out a gun at a campaign rally. the point he was trying to make and who he is facing in today's competitive race. >> i don't know if you've heard of it. a lot of my friends binge watched t. stls an up

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getting breaking news into the news rom. potomac high school in oxen hills has been put into lockdown. this was just before 10:00 in the morning. right now police are actively searching for that person. obviously we'll be following this through the newscast. we have a reporter headed to the scene right now. meanwhile, back to the drawing boards. it looks like the gop's latest plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act is in deep trouble. republican senator susan cns

support the latest version of the health care bill. she's the third senator to give the thumbs down in essence killing the bill. news 4's tracie potts tells us what's next. >> reporter: maine senator susan collins is the third republican to say no to her party's replacement for the affordable care act. >> i have to do what i think is right for the people of maine and the people of this country. >> reporter: she joins rand paul and john mccain. with three republicans against it, the last-ditch effort to repeal obamacare goes nowhere. it's unclear now if republicans will even bring it up for a vote. lindsey graham, one of the senators who wrote the bill, said in a cnn debate last night, it's not over. >> we're going to press on. and it's okay to vote. it's okay to fall short. >> reporter: vice president pence not giving up at an alabama political rally last night. >> president trump and i are undeterred. >> reporter: overnight president trump

repeal obamacare. my owe my has he changed. what hasn't changed, fierce opposition from people who fear losing coverage. nearly 200 arrested at the capital monday. >> it's a death sentence. >> people across the country are saying resoundingly not just no but hell no. >> reporter: the congressional budget office predicts millions would lose coverage. >> all we're doing is shifting coverage and keeping the system, i don't know that we've fundamentally changed anything. >> reporter: changing health care still up in the air with a deadline in four days. saturday, that's september 30th, is the end of the month and the end of the fiscal year, which means after saturday the rules change. republicans would need 60 votes, not a simple majority, to change obamacare. that means all of their members plus eight democrats. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. all right. down in alabama this morning, voters are going to the polls to select a

thatt ejeb sessions vacated whe he became attorney general. ryancuesed his opposition of distorting the events. >> i don't believe in the second amendment. i believe in the second amendment. >> president trump has been campaigning on behalf of roy moore's opponent, luther strange. we're learning more about the scare at the white house where someone showed up with a massive arsenal. >> a former police officer from tennessee caused the scare. secret service officers arrested timothy dade on sunday outside of the renwick gallery. they found a machine gun, eight other guns and knives and ammunition. he aea

according to court documents he told officers he was headed to the white house to speak with officials about missing paychecks and to have a chip removed from his head. he was a police officer in memphis for 13 years but was medically discharged in 2013. he was only a teenager when his life ended way too soon. hundreds of people converged on an area of d.c. to think of what might have been. zaier kelly was about 16 years old about to go into his senior year in high school. a lot of his friends and family came to the park to celebrate him. his classmates are having a tough time coping with that loss. >> he had the opportunity and the intelligence to be whatever he wanted and all of us know that and all of us love him and we all going to remember himg. >> we're also learning new details of the night of th

zaier's father said the same teenager who shot zaier said they tried to rob his twin brother zion. >> montgomery county police trying to figure out what happened to a man found dead inside his car and we're working to get the man's identity now. police found his body in the parking lot at white's plaza yesterday. the body was in this car in the middle of that triangle of crime scene tape. police say the body was badly decomposed. they also say it's too early to tell if there was some kind of foul play involved. right now we're waiting to learn if one of the central characters in netflix's making a murder series will go free. an appeals court

conviction last year. they said detectives coerced his confession. he has remained in prison during the appeals as prosecutors appeal that ruling for a second time. this next story caught my eye. i shared it on my facebook page because it, boy, speaks to you as a parent. a teenage girl goes missing. her distraught parents say something happened to her on a military base in virginia. >> 19-year-old shawn tee billings has been missing for more than a week now. she's a graduate of henry wise high school here in upper marlboro. going to show you a look at her picture, a look at the picture. she was last seen entering joint expeditionary base little creek in norfolk last monday. her car and cell phone turned up over the weekend. her parents believe someone took her from the base and did something to her. the fbi is now

for any information about her. you ever come out of a store and see a person banged and scratched her car? one woman in colorado got a good laugh when it happened to her. someone scratched the car. in addition to the apology they left her 40 bucks and a joint. she said the cash could help buff out the scratch. as for the marijuana, she's apparently not a smoker and says she's not sure what to do with it. everybody's got a friend. i'm sure there's a friend who would appreciate that. >> big temperature drop coming our way, folks. how long we're going to have to wait for it. talk about sounding the alarm. pousands ofuerto ricans and ralph no rtham: i'm ralph northam, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. they're studying for 21st century jobs. but ed gillespie supports donald trump's plan to take money out of virginia public schools

as a washington dc lobbyist, ed gillespie worked for lenders trying to keep student loan rates high. and ed gillespie's plan to cut taxes for the wealthy could cut virginia school funding, too. ed doesn't stand for education.

big brush fire is burning right next to a highway right now in southern california. in anaheim the canyon fire is filling the air with thick smoke. some of these cars probably belong to folks who had to leave their homes as the fire spread yesterday. hundreds were forced to evacuate. firefighters say the temperatures are lower today but it's not clear if that means people will soon be able to go back home. meanwhile, the suffering continues for so many people suffering in puerto rico where that recovery is underway, but it's just

hurricane maria. there are new fears today. >> a lot of officials are concerned that the dire conditions there could trigger a mass exowe -- exodus. this morning, growing signs of another crisis. they could soon face a huge migration. puerto ricans leaving what's left of their home and coming to the u.s. main land. the governor sounding the alarm. >> reporter: are you expecting mass exodus of puerto ricans to the main lands? >> if the conditions are inhospitable, yes. this will cause a problem for puerto rico but it will cause a problem for the main land as well. >> reporter: all over the u.s. territory, these american citizens are struggling to survive. no running water, gas is scarce and they could be without power for months.

with the national guard flying into san juan with desperately needed supplies. overnight president trump tweeting because of its broken infrastructure and massive debt, puerto rico is in deep trouble. billions of dollars are owed to wall street and the banks which sadly must be dealt with. puerto rico's ballooning debt crisis has already forced many people to leave this island. about half a million people over the last decade, but now there are concerns but the widespread devastation of maria could speed up that process. the governor is urging people to step in to help stop the bleeding. back to you. >> it's so hard to watch, you know, the devastation there and see how people are suffering trying to just survive. >> yeah. we're still not done with hurricane season. it's not like this was the last one just because it was so bad. >> yeah. >> so we're still keeping our

atlantic. the gulf of mexico. this is the time of year where we see more activity in the atlantic. >> yeah. meanwhile, we're dealing with summer still. >> we are deeg with summer. i think a lot of us wanted it to feel like fall. it is 10 degrees above normal. tomorrow believe it or not close to 90 grease for a high temperature. normally we should be around 76 this time of the year. yes, feeling like summer again. fall weather though will arrive before the weekend gets here. i think you're going to like the weekend forecast. wait until you see it. we are still watching hurricane maria. it is not going to be moving on to land in the u.s. it's going to stay out to sea. it will be affecting areas mainly to our south. 75 is the temperature in washington. already 80 in warring ton. 81 already in fred rake. p you're walking the dog, you

give him a home. by the afternoon temperatures will be in the mid 8 os. cloudy skies. even warm as we go later into this evening in the low 80s by 7:00 p.m. here is a look at hurricane maria spinning. beautiful cloud image here from the satellite picture. there you see the cloud cover just from the edge of maria locally. this is future weather. we go through tonight and tomorrow. it gets closer but then it moves off shore because of this cold front. this will help push it off shore and block it from entering the umpt s. we are talking about finally some fall-like temperatures. not today, tomorrow or thursday. we really stay in the 80s. then we get a normal high close to 76. 74 for friday. going into the weekend will be cooler than that. her's your forecast today. 85. tomorrow 88 degrees. it will be a hot one tomorrow. thursday, breezy, more sunshi

the weekend. 76 friday and low 70s as we go into saturday. finally feeling like fall. we'll take a look at the ten day coming up. >> that's more like what we expect heading into october. >> a lot more seasonal. thank you. still a lot more to get to on news 4 midday including new developments from equifax and that massive data breech. >> and pretty cruel video of when looks like a woman being forced into a car. metro wants amazon here. it has this to offer.

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breaking news. we told you about 10, 15 minutes ago the lockdown at potomac high school. we now know a school resource officer recovered a gun on a student that was being questioned. that student may have met with a former student before the gun was found so it means the school is still on lockdown. they're trying to sort it out there. keep an eye on the nbc washington app for updates. there is a major update this morning in connection with the huge data break at equifax. richard smith is out as ceo. the news comes after equifax disclosedt

a software flaw that the company did not fix. they exposed highly sensitive personal information for about 143 million americans. equifax's chief security officer and chief information officer have also left the company. metro is joining the regional push to tempt amazon to bring the second headquarters here to the d.c. area. >> cities all over the country are hoping to attract the massive online retailer in the thousands of high paying jobs. i retweeted adam tuss with a look at what adam is bringing to the table. adam? >> reporter: chris, metro has plenty of this. take a look at this. plenty of land. this is the greenbelt station and this is one of the things that metro says puts it in a good position to actually land amazon's headquarters. they say they have plenty of assets. metro wants in on

says it has plenty of land and development opportunities around stations that it absolutely could accommodate a small new headquarters for amazon. potentially 50,000 new employees would work. >> great idea. it will bring jobs to our area. if we have land, why not? >> reporter: they could build in vienna, greenbelt and shady grove. >> people need jobs because so many places are closing and another door opens. people need jobs. >> reporter: here on the platform, amanda murray and alley debating the issue. alley says it might not be wise to build around metro which she considers expensivexpensive. >> impact people's ability to afford it and pay the commute to work. >> reporter: on social media, many others talking about the ongoing issues. if metro wants to give away land to amazon,

least it will go to efficient hands. metro can't handle 50 k more riders. metro says it provides access to trains, bus, ultimately the 50,000 new employees would boost a revenue in ridership. >> reporter: amazon will make a final selection on a new headquarter location next year. back to you. >> i've got to tell you guys. check out adam's twitter feed. the response has been pretty amazing. adam, how much space are we talking about here? >> reporter: my goodness, chris. 50,000 employees, right? amazon wants 100 acres of land that could be developed. now that is a ton of space. out here in greenbelt there are sites you could build this up. other sites you could go into joint development opportunities that could present that much land. we are tal a

campus if that is to come to our area. >> could be maryland versus virginia all over again. >> reporter: yeah. well, you may not want to hear this. the good news first. international coffee day on friday. the bad news, you might want to think again before pouring your next cup because a los angeles nonprofit group wants the coffee industry to post warnings on packaging about a cancer-causing chemical in coffee. the supposedly harmful chemical is only detectible after beans are roasted. the lawsuit claims that more than 90 companies have failed to follow state law when it comes to hazardous chemical warning. starbucks isn't commenting about this. other companies have agreed to post those warnings. thought coffee was supposed to be good for you. >> i drink it every day, two cups. we're learning about the ads facebook is handing over to congress about part of the investigation of russia's attempts to medal in the

election. >> we looked at a new report to show that those ads were designed to exploit race and religion. nbc's joe fryer explains. >> reporter: black lives matter was among the groups both promoted and criticized in russian bought facebook ads. they say it was part of a sophisticated effort to minimum miss discourse while heightening racial and social divides. other ads highlighted support for hillary clinton among muslim women. >> they test out divisive themes. once they find there's success, they repeat that theme and inflate those divisions inside the states. >> reporter: it's a tactic that relates back to the cold war. now the internet is

more potent. >> the russians are taking an old tactic and finding a new playbook. >> they found $100,000 in ads likely tied to russia. >> we will continue working with the government to understand the full scope of the interference. >> it didn't reference the u.s. presidential election or a particular candidate. they focused on amedy coulibaly plying divisive social and political messages touching on lgbt and race and gun rights. in an interview with msnbc's chris hayes, hillary clinton talked about the election saying she didn't blame voters. >> if it's on your facebook feed, if it looks like a real news story and you get it over and over again, who's to say that you're supposed to immediately disbelieve it? >> right. >> facebook

copies of those ads. some of the company reps are going to meet with congressional representatives on thursday. we're go to show you some video that looks like a possible kidnapping in california. police there are looking for a woman who was snatched off the sidewalk on sunday night. this happened in los angeles. this is moments after a car pulls up, driver gets out and grabs the woman. he carries her to the car and appears to put her in the passenger's seat. when she tried to get out of the car he pulled her right back in. witnesses say the car has texas license tags and there may have been a second person inside. well, if you missed "the voice" last night, you missed a local educator who can really sing. stick around to hear him and hear his story. it is another warm morning as we continue to keep an eye on hurricane maria. updates on the heat and the storm after the break.

today the dogs from the hurricane battered british islands. >> the dogs that were rescued from an animal shelter on to tortolla. show you some video of a group of dogs arriving at the greenbrier hospital in frederick. new round of dogs will arrive today. all of them will be placed up for adoption. hue many society international workers found the dogs wandering around a destroyed animal shelter. since hurricane irma hit they have aistside more than 400 animals. beyond the human cost of these storms. you forget about all of the animals and pets. >> there are a lot of stray dogs in puerto rico too. >> anyway. >> yeah. >> turning to our weather. what's the rest of the day like? >> feel like summer. we're still watching maria

maria won't make landfall in the west. it is churning up the atlantic waters. our dell will he wea delaware b. here we are seeing clouds from maria. all the cloud cover today is from hurricane maria. this is the most we're going to see from this system. 76 degrees. tomorrow, clouds around again. breezy as we go into thursday. overall the system not bringing us rainfall. 75 in lawrence, gaithersburg. 81 frederick, leesburg, quantico. 72 in clinton. if you're exercising today, it looks pretty good around lunchtime and noon. we'll continue to warm up, upper 70s. mid 80s for the high temperature. low 80s. we should be around 76 degrees this time of year. here's a look at hurricane maria. it's spinning showers into parts of the north carolina

closer to 40 miles an hour. there's the high surf advisory that extends from the eastern shore up to delaware beaches. otherwise, we're looking at cloud cover from maria. future weather heading out to sea, not moving inland. that cold front is going to push it away. finally bring us the fall weather that we've been waiting for. take a look at the forecast. 80 near thursday and near 90 tomorrow. into the weekend looks really good, guys. >> thanks so much, sheena. talk about a life changing pair of glasses. meet a little boy in virginia seeing his friends for the first time. >> on yom kippur, families fast for 24 hours. here are s

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this is a story that makes you feel good. felix hasn't been able to see much but all of that has recently changed and his life has opened up. doreen against gensler has more. >> reporter: this ten-year-old boy from reston has a whole new outlook. >> it gives him the ability to see for him what is a gray area. >> he has to be within two feet in order to recognize and di

>> he went to his class meeting with his peers and he was able to see their faces. he knew their voices. >> the sunrise elementary school fourth grader has had severely impaired vision his entire life but this past summer -- >> is it hard to see the story? >> i'll have the full story tonight on news 4 at 11:00. boy, looking forward to seeing that. what an amazing story. yom kippur starts this friday. jewish families are already making plans to break the fast here in our area. this meals marks the end be of a 24 hour fast. a lot of people eat bagels and locks to mark the occasion. here is appy abby churner. guys, first of all, tell us a little bit about yom kippur. >> yom kippur or the day of atonement is a day of deep reflection about our b

the future. we reflect on seeking forgiveness from our fellow human beings to help cure society of all those ills and we would like to take that time out to say not just atonement but at onement. how do we align our behavior with our values. during the day there is prayer, reflection, seeking forgiveness and the 25-hour fast which ends a little differently because at the end of the day we realize what a gift forgiveness is, whether divine or human. and so we enter the new year after the day with optimism and with food, family, and friends. >> i know that bagels and locks are a traditional way to break the fast, but tell me a little bit about the federation's jewish food experience. >> sure. the jewish food experience is a uniq

federation for greater washington. it was developed to bring people together around a mutual love for food. we have a unique website and lots of recipes and ideas for entertaining events with foodies. >> the smoked salmon pizza call the my eye. >> good for you. >> the challenge for yom kippur where you can and should spend the entire day in the kitchen is that much of the work for your break the fast celebration needs to start in advance. you're spending the day doing other things. we have a little riff on traditional bagel and cream cheese. recipes can be found on our website jewish food experience.com. >> what have we got? >> on this side we have a cinnamon raisin cream cheese. then we

cheese and brie and apple. over here we have tahini sauce that was created by one of our partners. they have a chocolate version which is similar to nutella but it has tahini. you can do a little work here. >> i can make my own? >> over here we've got the cinnamon raisin and this is the smoked salmon. >> i'm a huge fan of cinnamon raisin and so are my kids. we have to back them off from the sweets sometimes. so and the great thing about this is it's filling but it doesn't take a whole lot of time to prepare. i mean, you have your bagels already. you can, i guess, what, preslice a lot of this stuff ahead of time. >> sure. preslice it, premake your cream cheese ahead of time. if i were doing this i would include a fruit plate and a big pot of coffee. after the day, abbe can tell you after a day without food and

>> the wonderful thing about the jewish food experience.com goes past the typical. you have the locks, the smoked fish but the sesame, the sume is reminiscent of the jewish experience. jews from the arabic countries, middle east, it's sourced very responsibly from single source sesame seeds from ethiopia. that has changed the economy in ethiopia. all of these things, again, on jewish food experience talk about values, fixing the world, repairing the world as well. >> i can tell you firsthand, it is absolutely delicious. i encourage you to go on the website and look at some of these fabulous recipes. i'm sure some of these families are getting great ideas how to break the fast. >> thanks, guys. >> save me a little taste, chris. >> no.

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instructional assistant in arlington. as of last night he is a member of team adam. you can follow his journey on the show every monday and tuesday at 8:00 here on nbc 4. he sure sounds good. >> boy, his energy is amazing out there on that stage. a lot of you have been waiting all summer. now it's time to catch up with your favorite family from "this is us." >> we have what could happen when the second season returns tonight. >> there is nothing to decide the moment we saw you. >> you knew. >> you knew. >> reporter: fans had a similar reaction to "this is us" in the first season. tonight the story of the pierson family continues. i've read something that said it's going to be a little bit lighter, it's going to be a little bit darker. >> i don't know if you can believe what you read about what season 2 will be. the opening episode will hit you in the gutt. >> just getting started. >> reporter: the new season picks up after jack and rebecca's separation.

jack's passing which was teased last season. >> that's something that people worry about with jack, when we see jack's death, does that mean that mile low the actor goes away? it doesn't mean that at all. that's a chapter. >> reporter: other include an adoption story line for randall and beth. >> randall is gungho about things he sets his mind to. >> reporter: meanwhile, kate and toby have moved in together b. >> that's a very similar situation to what happened to them in the past to split them up. >> reporter: just the start of the new season's twists and turns. >> i read the scripts and i know what to expect but i'm still caught off guard by how emotionally invested i am in the characters. >> reporter: an investment. >> get ready for some tissues. >> reporter: that's bringing big returns for viewers. >> fans will be

to that tonight. >> between william, jack, randall, that show impacts so many folks. great show. >> a lot of interesting story lines there, too. >> i want to check back in with sheena parveen one more time before we get out of here to see what we've got planned for today. >> today looks good. it is going to feel more like summer. the normal high is 76 degrees. today we're going to be around 85. we'll see the clouds. that's from hurricane maria. tomorrow near 90 degrees for a high temperature. by thursday maria moves away. cold front moves through. low 80s. we get breezy and then look what it does to our weather pattern. if you're wondering what it does through the fall, that's friday. week end in the low 70s. >> thank you, sheena. a lot of people will be happy to see it cool off. that's it for news 4 midday. we're back on the air first at 4:00 this afternoon. >> news and weather

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