they say he collected a, quote, cache of child pornography videos. the elementary school where he worked and later volunteered, also in the homes of some of the victims, and at a local community center where he directed a children's inquire. >> mr. carraway's access to the children in this case was -- it really does represent a miserable failure on our part that we really cannot afford to ever see happen again. >> reporter: before his sentencing, carraway apologized saying, i wish i could go back to stop myself from doing it. i hope the families can move on. >> the injury is a lifelong injury. we recognize that and that is why we are just so very, very devastated and so sorry that this happened multiplied by 23. it's not just the 23 kids, but their family members who are here still crying. >> reporter: the families did stand up and start to cry after carraway apologized. still a lot of emotions for these folks. now, this

75 year sentence after he pled guilty in federal court. reporting live in glenarden, i'm tracee wilkins, back to you all. >> certainly a sense of closure for the faemmilies. where do things stand in civil lawsuits being brought against the school system or anyone else? >> reporter: now that the criminal part of this is all done for the county and the feds, those civil suits are going to start rolling in. i was talking with one attorney today who is representing a number of these parents and he is planning to file almost immediately saying they had to get this criminal part done, but the civil suits are coming for the prince george's county school system. >> stay tuned. it's not over yet. tracee wilkins, thank you so much. we'll see you at 6:00. >> right now family and friends of that young woman from our area who has been missing for more than a week, they are launching their own search. no one has seen or heard from ashanti billie since last monday. she's 19 years old, she's f

she disappeared in norfolk where she worked at a sandwich shop at a military base there. authorities have recovered her abandon the vehicle and they found her cell phone in a dumpster. so far no signs of ashanti. there is a $20,000 reward in this case. >> it's hard to believe. 3 1/2 months since the eyes of the nation were here on alexandria, virginia, the congressman calls himself a living miracle after the shooting during baseball practice, scalise returned to work today. it's been a long road back go with surgery and rehabilitation. erika gonzalez is here with a look at the truly emotional day on capitol hill. >> it was one of those moments when you could feel the emotion in the room, i

i want now listen, i want you to watch again as congressman steve scalise walks into the house chamber this morning for the first time since being shot. [ applause ] >> it has been a grueling recovery lasting nearly four months. scalise had multiple surgeries from that shooting in june. he was in and out of the icu. here's just some of what he had to say to his colleagues on the floor of the house. >> you have no idea how great this feels to be back here at work in the people's house. [ applause ] >> when i was laying out on that ball field, the first thing i did once i was down and i couldn't move any more, is i just started to pray. i'm definitely a living example that miracles really do happen. i want to specifically mention crystal griner and david bailey. crystal couldn't be with us today, but david bailey is with us.

thank you so much. [ applause ] >> a lot of people ask, did this event change you. it's only strengthened my faith in god and it's really crystallized what shows up as the goodness in people. i got to see that goodness in people. >> such a personal moment, you just felt like you were being brought into. many lawmakers have used today to once again sound a bipartisan tone on capitol hill. so at least for today, a very poignant, powerful and positive moment on the floor of the house. back to you guys. >> you know, he mentioned heroes, erika. there were so many heroes that day. not just alexandria police, but the park police. so many people made a difference in how much worse it could have been. >> also, i think we need to appreciate this was just 3 1/2 months ago and look

shape he was in at the time, and how many surgeries he had to go through. and that he is standing and walking with some assistance, but he is standing and walking and he looks good. that's pretty amazing considering what he went through 3 1/2 months ago. so, good for him. well, now to the worsening situation down in puerto rico where the trump administration is fielding some tough questions today about its response to the devastation on that island. administration officials saying that the lack of food and water in puerto rico is the fault of the hurricane, not the fault of relief efforts. they've lift heed restrictions foreign ships bringing aid to the islands. but 10,000 containers are sitting on a port in san juan, unable to get to the people who need them. a shortage of truckers is making it difficult to move those supplies around. >> first responders from our area are on the ground in puerto rico right now. d.c. police tweeted out this video as their team arrivedn

san juan yesterday. the ten-member team is working the phones, talking to people on the ground who may need help. they are also distributing food, water, medical supplies, too, that they brought with them. they are also doing welfare checks. most of this team, by the way, has ties to puerto rico. most have family there or used to work on the island. along with puerto rico, the u.s. virgin islands also in dire need of help and you can donate to a number of charities. we have compiled in our nbc washington app, just search ways to help. >> turning to our storm team 4, hurricane maria is now still in the atlantic and churning up in surf and big breakers in virginia beach today. lets apartmen let's check in with doug in the storm center. >> maria is well off the coast line and continues to move farther east out to sea. let's look at the satellite picture showing the storm is moving away. the latist advisoest advisory o,

miles an hour, no longer a threat to land. the other storm, that is hurricane lee, and lee has been out here for a long time, too. was a category 4 at one time, now beginning to weaken down to a category 1, 90 mile an hour hurricane. but we are watching both of these that are going to continue to move to the east. for us, our weather, a beautiful day. we have plenty of sunshine out there. look at these numbers. current temperatures, 84 dot sougts, but 70 up around state college. that's the air that very cool air that is going to start making its way our way. it is going to feel much more like fall. i'll take you through the cool weather as we head towards the weekend. some of the cool est numbers we've seen in quite sometime. see you back here in just a minute. >> i'm erika gonzalez here at the live desk. want to show you some live pictures. chopper 4 in route to a very bad accident in prince george's county. aquasco road. one person has been flown to a trauma center. this is again chopper 4 on its way to this scene of a very

crash. should be there in the next couple of minutes. as soon as we get better vantage point of that area we'll try to get you more details from the live desk. back to you guys. >> thanks, erica. and soon it is going to start feeling like football season. before the games this season, we have people have been talking, of course, about the protests by the players, the coaches and the owners. on monday the dallas cowboys took a nia head of the national anthem. the action part of this ongoing protest that's turned into something more. and now some local schools want to make sure that the students know their rights. news 4's darcy spencer joins us from kennedy high school in silver spring with that story. darcy? >> reporter: wendy, we are here at kennedy high school. take a look here at the football field. you see the lines have been drawn. they're going to take to the field in just a couple of hours to take on quince orchard high school. and this memo was put out earlier today by montgomery county schools making it very clear to students, to coaches, to everyone that the students do have a right to protest.

it's a big night for high school football in montgomery county. with the jewish holiday falling on friday, several teams will be taking the field tonight instead, and all eyes will be on the side lines before the game to see if players will take a knee while the national anthem is played. montgomery county school officials sent a memo to principals and athletic directors reminding them of the policy when it comes to what they call patriotic exercises like standing for the national anthem. the memo says students have the right to stand and to protest. it's their choice. derek butler is a school spokesman. >> it's not just about standing or kneeling, but what is behind it and having students have that conversation with one another. because this is really a learning opportunity and a teaching moment for students, not just a moment of proprotest or not protest. >> this is video from last year when players from watkins mill did not stand for the anthem, taking a knee during the anthem could become even

widespread after the president called doing so a disgrace and insult to the flag last sunday. those words only drew even more protests with players across the country kneeling or locking arms in solidarity. >> we hope to have a thoughtful dialogue and conversation with other students when they do this protest so that people understand the background, that it is not just about whether you stand or kneel, but about what motivates you to take these actions. >> reporter: so, they're hoping there are going to be a lot of conversations. the memo also makes it very clear if a student decides to go ahead and participate to protest, they cannot be asked why they are taking a knee. back to you, jim. >> all right, darcy, thank you. it's one of the biggest data breaches ever, 143 million people potentially compromised when equifax was hacked. how the company's new ceo is making sure you are safe. >> a new development tonight in the fight over that confederate

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ended it with a plea for universal health care to help others going through similar battles. the star said she got her diagnosis a few weeks ago, just a day after winning her 6th consecutive emmy for her role in veep on hbo. >> a new wrinkle in that flag fight going down in stafford county, virginia, for months we've been telling you about the effort to remove a giant confederate flag which flies near 95 in fal mouth. they say it has no power to take the flag down because it is on private property. a nearby homeowner got a permit to build her own big flag which will say, black lives matter. she has six months to build the 30 by 50 foot flag. she says she wants to send a message that there's no hate in her community. d.c. congresswoman eleanore holmes norton said she'll seek legislation to remove the only statue in the district that honors someone associated with the confederate side of the civil

around for more than a century now. it honors his role as a leader of the free masons and does not mention the civil war. but as news 4's tom sherwood reports, it remains controversial. >> reporter: albert pike, his statue erected back in 1901, poet, author, philanthropist, but he also served as a segregationist general in the civil war for the confederacy. washington post columnist john kelly has written about him. >> he's the only confederate general honored with a statue in washington, not for his role in the confederacy, but really for his role with the free masons. >> reporter: the statue sits on park service land near the d.c. police headquarters and was authorized by congress decades ago. >> i will be introducing a bill because the statue cannot be removed from federal property without an act of congress. >> reporter: delegate norton met today with representatives of the scottish right free may sons who she said would not

she said where it might go would be decided later. >> i do not believe that any part of american history should be erased, not slavery, not the civil war, and this is what this statute is about. >> reporter: people near the statue today mostly suggested it be removed. >> if it has anything to do with the confederacy, i think it should be in a museum because that's where the confederacy belongs. >> a lot of people when they walk by the statue wonder who he was, why is it there, what's the big fuss. >> reporter: norton said she was unsure how long to would take congress to act. in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. >> it is still not clear why the man opened fire in the fairfax office. you saw the police response unfolding live on news 4. 52-year-old john francis wood shot himself in a 4th floor law office. this is in merrifield.

shoot someone else. there was a preschool in the building and they were bussed to a nearby school where their frantic parents as you can imagine rushed to pick them up. a new law is taking effect in maryland this sunday. is it intended to protect victims of domestic violence? it is known as amber's law. it's named after a local woman who was killed in 2012 by her boyfriend. victims of domestic violence will be able to ask the judge to implement a gps tracking system to monitor the offenders. that device will warn victims and tell the police when the person they fear is getting too close. >> inspections are upped way now at the national institute of standards and technology after a worker was potentially exposed to radioactive material. our sal macfarlane and the news team have reported on problems over the year. scott joins us now with the latest on this incident. scott? >> yeah, a team

regulatory commission is at nist this week to figure out what happened last month there in montgomery county. the incident occurred inside a nist lab in gaithersburg august 18. the agency says at least one radiation staff member might have been exposed to a glass capsule shattered inside the storage box. that employee received medical treatment. a nist spokeswoman said the safety of staff is of highest priority and access to the room was immediately restricted after the incident. unexpecters are expected to release findings to staff within 45 days. scott macfarlane, news 4 i-team. >> the district is rolling out a new service. it will send you alerts when your car is towed or it gets booted. right now you have to call someone to figure out where your car is. but if you register your vehicle in this system, the city will notify you if it has been towed, relocated, or if it has had a boot placed on it or removed from it.

more than 50,000 vehicles are towed and booted in the district a year. >> i've done my part. you will remember this crazy story. the woman caught on camera throwing urine on that bus driver in d.c. back in the news today. this time there is a warrant for her arrest. news 4's meagan fitzgerald explains what she did. >> reporter: a spokesperson for metro and the president of the union say they are upset tonight and bus drivers are worried now that opal brown is on the run. they tell us they feel that she could board another bus and then possibly assault another driver again. it was august 26 when brown admitted to urinating in a cup while on the metro bus. just as she was leaving, cameras were rolling when she turned around and threw the urine all over the bus operator before taking off. four days later she turns herself in to police and our pat collins was there when it happened. brown said she apologized to the community, but she said

she said the driver told her to have a nice day, but brown thought she was being sarcastic and that's when she threw the urine. we spoke with the president of the bus operator's union. >> right now, you know, there is no fear of those that have an intent to do criminal harm or, or physical harm to an operator. they don't believe that there is anything going to happen to them. that's why i'm sure ms. brown didn't show up at court today. >> reporter: both metro and the president of the union are calling for increased penalties for assaults against these bus operators because they say right now it is a misdemeanor and they tell us these attacks are on the rise. reporting outside d.c. superior court, meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >> meagan, thank you. cooler temperatures, folks, are coming and so is the flu season. ahead on news 4 at 5:00, were health officials are predicting an especially rough year and how you can protect yourself. >> it's been dry these past couple of weeks. is there any relief ahead for your law

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yesterday's high temperature 91, felt more like 96 at times yesterday. everybody saying, when is the cooler weather coming in, when is fall going to arrive? well, mother nature says how about today? take a look out there right now. this is a very pretty shot now as you look out across our region. look at that blue sky right now. the potomac looking great. national harbor off in the distance. all looking good this afternoon. let's take a different vantage point. this is the camera right here in the station looking to the north. looking pretty good as we look to the north and east towards parts of northern portions of d.c. and northern prince george's county. 80 at the grizzlies, winds out of the north at 20 miles an hour. it's been rather breezy. we had a cold front come through. that produced kooter air. winds gusting at 30 miles per hour today. another very dry days baugh of the dry air and the winds a little bit of an enhanced fire risk in some of our areas. so, watch out for that. 76 degrees in gaithersburg, 79 leesburg and manassas, 80 patuxent river. this is average,

75. we're still above average but nowhere near we've been the past few days. it feels about 15 degrees cooler than it did yesterday at this time. right now nothing on the radar either. we're going to see very dry conditions. we need the rain but we're not going to see any any time soon. that means a good night for the nationals game, taking on the pirates tonight at nats park. 64 degrees, the homestretch town to 65 by the time you leave the game. you may need a sweatshirt or jacket. still a bit of a breeze. once the sun dgoes down, the su going down 7:00 now, just after 7:00, not looking good either. here's satellite radar, plenty of sunshine not much in the way of cloud cover at all. you see maria moving away. this is tropical storm maria now moving away and out to sea. notice this, notice where our clouds are up toward the north. notice how they're coming straight a dross the great lakes. this is what you see during the winter months. this is wring bringibringing th. the next come of days, 75 on fr,

saturday. many will stay in the 60s. 53 sunday morning. some of you will be in the 40s. it is going to be a very cool start. let's talk about the weekend. saturday if you're out and about, let me tell you a few good places to go. shirling ton oktoberfest, sounds like a good time doesn't it? 70 degrees by 5:00. really nice day there. october 1st, starting on sunday, and the first week of october really looking absolutely gorgeous. temperatures a little ballistit average. sunshine, we'll take it. >> we will. doug, thank you. one of the biggest data hacks ever puts your personal information at risk. >> there are new steps being taken to help you protect yourself for life. >> i'm erika gonzalez at the live desk with an update for you on the very bad crash in prince george's county. chopper 4 now over the scene showing you some very vivid

two-car crash that you see there. three people involved in this. we knew from authorities that at least one person was trapped inside one of those vehicles. and if you look really closely, it looks like one of those cars has had the hood quite possibly even the doors sawed off. one person flown to a trauma center, but we know that three people were involved. again, these are live pictures from chopper 4 over the scene at

>> announcer: you're watching news 4 at 5:00. >> former prince george's county school aide deonte carraway will spend the rest of his life in prison. today a judge sentenced him for 100 years for sexually assaulting 23 students. he worked as an aide, carraway did, at judge sylvania elementary. he's already been sentenced in federal prison to 75 years. >> right now family and friends of ashanti billie is conducting their own search. no one has seen the young woman from prince george's county for about ten days now. she worked at a sub shop on a military base in norfolk. investigators found her phone in a dumpster and her abandoned car several days later. [ applause ] >> a big welcome back for congressman steve scalise, returning to the capital for

at the congressional baseball practice in june. scalise calls his recovery a miracle from god. dozens of volunteers are taking time away from their families and their day jobs to help puerto rico. >> there is a grassroots effort now underway to ship thousands of boxes of materials to the struggling island nation after hurricane maria. our bureau reporter david culver is live for us in chantilly to show us just how personal the mission has become for two sheriffs deputies. david? >> reporter: it is incredible, jim and wendy. in fact, you look around here from this warehouse where we're in, and you can see for all the bad and the devastation that has come from maria there is a lot of good coming together here in northern virginia. this is a grassroots effort as you mentioned. people who didn't know each other before this past week, now doing things like this. gathering as you can see here all these pallets of water, of food. we're talking tens of thousands of dollars worth of canned goods that have been brought together here, filling this warehouse. they've got everythingro

diapers to clothing for the police down in puerto rico. so let me show you as we walk outside, you can see all these volunteers have come together. they're filling up one of the many trucks that they'll have to load over the next several days. this one is actually going to be filled up and it is going to be taken to andrews air force base where tomorrow the puerto rico air national guard is going to fly down and then begin distribution. you see all these people coming together. you realize this is not their job. they have full-time jobs. in fact, we caught up with the due deputies you mentioned. they were out here throughout this past week. they are going to be back here tonight. and this for them has become, well, a second full-time job. >> i mean, everybody really pitched in the effort and that's what we need at this time. we need an effort to send water over, send food over. and just try to solve this humanitarian crisis we're having. >> it's nonstop right now at this point. we're just opening up the gates to getting those resources out

deck. >> reporter: those two deputies have family down in puerto rico. they have recently been able to be in touch with them. one of them learned his uncle has passed away. it is deeply personal and emotional for them, jim and wendy. >> i'm sure it is. jim culver. one of our renowned chefs is taking his talents to the people of puerto rico. he has launched an effort with others called chefs for puerto rico. he has posted a number of photos of the volunteers who have been cooking up meals for hurricane victims. he does have a restaurant in san juan. he says most of the meals are going to hospitals and to shelters. he says they've been able to launch two kitchens and they plan to cook 5,000 meals just today. we know there are people in our area who would like to help with these relief efforts. you can learn more about that. go to our nbc washington app and search puerto rico. >> nobody more generous than

we know how important it is to plan for retirement, but what about long-term care even further down the road? insurance can help with those costs, but it's getting more expensive. and our consumer reporter susan hogan is working for you tonight and has what you need to know. >> well, here's something to think about. a recent survey found the median cost for a year in a nursing home is about $82,000. consumer reports has some solutions on how to pay for long-term care. mickey fernandez takes care of her mother in her home, but wonders what would happen if she wasn't able to. she said there is no way she or her mom could pay for long-term care. >> i'm concerned about it. the more i think about it the more it scares me. it's a scary feeling. >> reporter: mickey has no children. she is worried about her care down the road. she is considering

long-term care. >> long term can help with assistance you may need like bathing or a preparing meals in nursing and assisted living facilities and even in your home. >> reporter: the average cost is $2,700 a year. however, the older you are, the more you'll pay. you'll also pay more depending on your health. with some serious conditions like alzheimer's and cancer, an insurer might refuse to offer a policy at all. >> a short term policy is generally the third the cost of a traditional long-term care policy. it can be less than a thousand dollars a year. but it covers a lot less. >> reporter: you'll only get about a year in a nursing home. it may not cover an assisted living facility or home health aide. hybrid insurance combines life and long-term care in one policy. it allows you to tap into the death benefit if you need it for care, but that type of insurance requires a significant up-front payment, average $89,000. so they have a couple caveats for you when it comes to these hybrid policies. the big up front premium, that is not tax deductible and the growth you get on

they actually be pretty low. you might be better off investing the money wisely yourself and then saving it for when you actually need it. back to you. >> susan hogan, thanks so much. we have an update tonight on the equifax breach that has impacted 143 "mad moneymillion . in a mea copa in today's "wall street journal," the ceo says equifax is launching a new service. it will let customers control access to their credit data and it will be free for life. the company is also promising to upgrade its website. next, curt cousins with some big news today. doesn't have to do with anything on the football field. >> and roll up your sleeves. it is flu shot season, folks. and health officials have a warning for us tonight. why they say this year could be especially tough.

as we close out the workweek and you're heading out the door tomorrow and getting the kids to the bus stop, take a look, here's what you need to grab. definitely need the sunglasses once again tomorrow. you need the long sleeve, maybe a light jacket during the early morning hours. but by the afternoon it will be t-shirt weather. a beautiful day overall. but early in the morning a big difference from how mild it was this morning. take a look. 58 degrees at 6:00 a.m., bright sunshine at 8:00 a.m. at that point we've only warmed up

59. more what you can expect throughout the day tomorrow and also how our lack of rain is impacting the area coming up. >> mel, thank you. health officials are bracing for a potentially miserable fall and winter flu season. they say the flu has hit hard other parts of the world, and that could make things bad for us here. small clusters of the flu are already popping up here in the u.s.. the centers for disease control and prevention recommends that you get vaccinated before the flu spreads in your community. >> more and more that pink skirt and the orange platform shoes, never quite recovered. there she goes. that hurts. that was uncool. that's embarrassing. this is at least the second time -- [ laughter ] >> you know the video, you know the laughs. but what's the story behind that famous model v?

see vance and george michael in stitches during the story, which shows the model falling twice on that runway. well, now we're hearing from the other two people involved in this viral video, the model and former news 4 anchor susan kent. >> i just remember them kcacklig like children. look at her. if she had just fallen once, that would have been horrible. but then she goes down again and i feel bad for her. i feel like sprobably had bruiss after that. >> it's nice of her she said sorry for me. it's nothing to be sorry about. it happens, bad day at work. >> you can hear more from both women on the nbc washington app from susan as she tried to be the voice of reza ason on the anchor desk. watch doreen

fall and what she thinks about the video with vance and george michael. >> she's a good sport. she calls it a bad day at work. nobody gets 19 million views. >> 11:00 tonight, you can hear from both of them. always good to see susan kent. >> yeah, it is. >> today at school for a second grader and he's not likely to forget it. >> only on 4 tonight, the special moment as the dad returns from the battle field. look at that hug. >> i'm tom sherwood along the georgetown waterfront. the historic key bridge. it is under reconstruction, but now there is a big dispute. this is washington, after all. what kind of lighting should light up the bridge at night. colored lhts or plain whigit

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awe! >> isn't he sweet? not an ordinary day for this little boy in montgomery county. he was reunited with his navy dad who was deployed and missed his first day of school as news 4 chris gordon reports. he made it up to his son today with that surprise visit. >> daddy! >> hey, buddy! >> reporter: a heart warming home coming for 5-year-old cameron and his dad. u.s. navy corpsman matthew foreman missed his son's birthday and his first day of school. he was serving overseas aboard the uss baton. >> hi, daddy. >> reporter: teachers told the kindergartners at the elementary school a guest reader was coming

shows complete surprise. >> i'm excited, super excited to see my son. haven't seen him in close to eight months now. i was more nervous walking in here than i was on the deployment, definitely, definitely, any day of the week. i'm just excited. super excited. super excited. >> reporter: cameron's mom predicted her husband would be more emotional than their son. >> well, he definitely owes me $5 because i told him he was going to cry and he said he wasn't but i'm very happy for both of them. i'm happy for our family that he's back. >> i didn't think i was going to cry. >> reporter: school teachers and the pta president made it happen. >> we just worked together because we wanted this to be a special moment for cameron. >> if feels like a long time. >> reporter: every night while his dad was deployed, cameron spent the time watching videos of him and his dad doing sports and other activities. well, tonight his dad will be home, and they will be able to make new memories together.

in gaithersburg, chris gordon, news 4. >> boy, he's rocking that hat proudly. >> lovely. >> what a moment. well, it's the picture that brings hope to people on both sides of the national anthem kneeling debate. seattle seahawks player michael bennett shared an improve two conversation with some military veterans outside the team's headquarters today. a military wife shot this picture that shows bennett shaking hands with a veteran. she says the moment gives her hope that it can start a conversation. >> for me, i felt like i was being heard and i think he felt like he was being heard. and i think that's where it starts. >> bennett has been one of the players who has protested all season during the anthem. president trump has called the nfl to force players to stand. he has also called on fans to boycott the games until the protests stop. >> it's already been a banne

they've won two in a row and now quarterback curt cousins is in the hospital with his wife. the baby is on the way. news 4 sherri burruss live in ashburn on his early exit from the park today. >> reporter: wendy, it was about 15 minutes before curt cousins was actually supposed to take the podium and talk to the media. we told he left the facilities here, he got a text saying his wife is in labor. so, we wish the cousins all the best. but as for the rest of the team, they're focusing their attention on kansas city. the chiefs are one of two undefeated teams left in the nfl. it was last weekend when the redskins handed the raiders their first loss of the season. the team looking to do the same in kansas city on monday night. >> redskins all day. what up, d.c., what up ashburn? >> any time you can do into another opponent's stadium and try to win a game and

for your team. it gives you a level of confidence you can't be stopped no matter where you play and that's what we're going to try to do. we just have to continue to take it one day at a time. handle monday when it gets here. >> just put on a good show monday night. we get primetime again. so, we once again get another opportunity where everybody is watching and we need to be able to go there and get a win. i mean, they're the number one team in the nfl right now. >> reporter: but still, the team isn't relishing in the idea of spoiling the chief's perfect record. >> 0-3, we go up there and take a l, it's gonna suck. so, i know they're 3-0. we take an l, it's still going to suck. it's no moral victory or losses in these games. it's either you win or you lose. >> reporter: and the redskins players will also have to battle those chief fans a little bit. arrow head is known

so, they'll also have to handle the noise out there. live from redskins park, sherri burruss, news 4 sports. >> thank you, sherri. >> we got a tunnel -- >> quick. >> are you ready to open the windows? >> yeah. >> ready to turn the a.c. off? that's the kind of weather we're talking. >> perfect. >> it may be saturday night we're turning the heat on. that's the kind of cool air we have out there especially in some of our suburbs. many of you sunday could be in the mid 40s out there, yeah, it's going to get kind of chilly out there. it's gorgeous, bright sunshine, blue skies, 80 degrees. i think i told you before my perfect day, 80, low humidity, abundant sunshine, perfect day. i've been off all week and come in today. okay. 76 degrees, 7:00. 73 degrees at 9:00 and down to 68 degrees by 11:00. take a look at our weather underground numbers. 77 es

county coming in at 77. no rain, we're not seeing any rain and we have been very dry. you see what's happening on the radar here. not just dry, but well below average as far as rainfall goes for the last month or so. amelia draper outside right now with a little bit more on what we're expecting there. oh, we have some friends. >> make sure everyone gets in. you guys see yourselves? this is doug's tour group. i met them in the lobby and we said, hey, let's all do the weather together. what do you think about the weather? it's awesome out here. what we haven't had lately is a lot of rain. it's been pretty dry out here. in fact we haven't had any rain in d.c. which is where these wonderful young men are from. we haven't had any rain in d.c. in the last two weeks. this is impacting our yards, our gardens. what it leads to is elevated virus. that is going to continue over the next ten days. as we continue to look at how the weather, the lack of rain is impacting our weather here, if you plan to grass seed, it's not just the lack of rain, but the temperatures.

have to water your lawn two times a day. if it is under 80, you need to water once. guys, this is kind of interesting. with the dry weather, we're probably going to get more acorns that will be produced this year. pretty cool, right? it is also going to lead to some dull, potentially fall color and i want to give a big shout out to lynn at johnson's this afternoon. i palomiut a call into her. she gave me that information. doug, i think you'll have a great tour group inside. >> i know one of those is a weather lover, wants to be a meteorologist. >> who is the weather lover? birthday boy, raise your hand. ah, birthday boy. >> awesome. i love it. thanks, amelia. i love when they see themselves on tv for the first time. [ laughter ] isn't it great? these guys are going to school tomorrow. take a look, 58 degrees, little built on the cool side. jacket, maybe a sweater early. recess looking good, temperature 74 degrees for the pickup for that school day

days. as i mentioned saturday and sunday. yeah, on the cool side. october starting off on a very cool note with a low of 53 in the city. many of you in the 40s. a great first week of october. yes, we need the rain, but we'll take sunshine. temperatures in the mid 70s any day of the week. >> thank you, doug. >> news 4 is working in the community with a life lesson. >> you don't have to be an adult to make a big difference in the world. we all know that. well, thousands of books collected locally will soon be headed to ghana, thanks to students at gar field high school in prince william county. the students also helped raise money to build libraries to house those books. the project began two years ago by former gar field student samantha bodek. even though she's moved on to college, her dream carries on at her alma mater. >> it's really become a passion of really trying to put books in the hands of students who really don't have access to those resources. >> for more information on the

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the key bridge is 94 years old. it's the oldest in the district. and a controversial new plan to light up that historic bridge is -- does not come without some push back. news 4's tom sherwood takes a look. >> reporter: soft blue l.e.d. lights add drama to the 14th street bridge near the new wharf. lights decorate the capital street bridge. the key bridge is due to get lighting for its five arch ways. there is disputing over how much and what kind of lighting. d.c. and vdot is exploring lighting to keep the historic character of the bridge. >> the point of the lighting is to hoe o to show off the architectural features of the bridge. it is important we don't have options that look circus like or cann val. >> reporter: joe ter

improvement district. it proposed the lighting in the first place and fought for its funding. respectful and colorful lighting he says would enliven the waterfront that used to be an impoundment lot. >> the idea was never to do something disney-esque, but enhance the qualities of the bridge to make it visible to people at night. right now it is quite dark at night. >> reporter: along the 10-year-old water park, lively color hands down. red white and blue on july 4? >> definitely. >> i think it would be beautiful. a lot of good architecture already, and i'm a fan for red, white, blue, pink, everything. >> i don't know, i like, like all the buildings and things like they are. >> i think the option would be wonderful with the cherry blossoms for the fourth of july, the red, white and blue, and also even for saint patrick's day. how about green? >> reporter: there are several more steps in the review process for the key bridge before any lights are turned

in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. >> announcer: news 4 at 6:00 starts now. >> dear friends and colleagues from louisiana, mr. steve scalise. >> just 15 weeks ago he nearly died. tonight steve scalise is back in d.c. his rye triumphant return to th capital to colleagues on their feet. >> president trump is not happy and now price will pay. what health and human services secretary tom price says about the pricey private jet trips he took on the tax payers' dime. >> safety changes to sack dances, a lot of things have spread from the nfl to high school football. and it's happening again, tonight some local players may be taking a knee. >> good evening. we begin right now with some breaking news. a bad wreck in prince george's county leaves one person in critical condition. >> news 4's erika gonzalez joins

us from the live desk with what we are learning about this crash. erika? >> hi, doreen. this is a bad crack at aquasco road and neck road. you can see this mangled mess, these two vehicles there, we understand three people were involved in this crash, but we are hearing specifically that one person was air lifted from the scene with some very critical injuries. again, this is at aquasco road and neck road there. and if you look very closely on one of those vehicles it really looks like a fire fighters went to extreme efforts to try and extract somebody from that vehicle where you're seeing quite possibly the roof and the doors cut off one of those cars. this scene in prince george's county. as soon as we get an update ton their conditions we'll have it for you here from the live desk. back to you guys. >> thank you. now to an extraordinary and up lifting moment right here in washington. >> house majority whip steve scalise returned to work today. [ applause ]