questions. and we begin at 6:00 with the deadly shooting in the district. two people killed and a third wounded. >> tonight we're hearing from the family of a young man who died in what they are calling a robbery. >> shots rang out around midnight around eighth street in the city's brightwood neighborhood. >> and that's where we find pat collins live near the scene. pat? >> reporter: wendy, 33. that's the number of shots witnesses counted here. 33. wait until you see what happened here. wait until you hear from this man. he witnessed death here. >> i watched my nephew die in front of my face. >> that had to be hard. >> i watched the blood coming out of him. >> reporter: that's alfonso russell, the uncle of the murder victim. he was asleep. he heard gunshots

going on. >> the next thing i recognized him and i heard his last voice. i heard my nephew's last breath. and it was pain breathe. it wasn't no -- >> reporter: nine bullet holes in the front door, five bullet holes in the siding of the house, one in a car and shell casings up and down the street. a robbery turns into a gunfight. two men end up dead. one seriously wounded. lead ringing in the air in the brightwood section of our city. shot and killed, 25-year-old renard marsh ambushed by a robbery attempt as he was entering his house on eighth street northwest. seriously wounded his younger brother. witnesses say marsh got off a shot and hit one of the suspects who fell dead to the ground in

the gunman ran away but a few minutes later, they returned in a car in an apparent effort to retrieve the fallen accomplice. the headlights are pointed right at the front door of the house and then they opened fire again. harry lane was there for that. what was it like for you when you were on the porch and saw that car come back and the lights were aimed at you? police have a lot of evidence to work with here. leon and wendy? >> thank you, pat. pat collins reporting live. taking a look at our weather, the rain is coming. a dreary evening with more rain on the way. >> doug kammerer is in the storm

it's raining out there but seeing the drizzle. it's tough to make it out on the radar. we have rain and pretty moderate rain down to the south, down in luray. showers towards frederick county and montgomery county. the rest of the region is seeing that drizzle and we're seeing light to moderate rain back to the west as we watch the storm system move on through. we've got the rain here. they need it out to the west. and we're talking about areas in california, red flag warning once again out towards santa rosa, right around the napa area as winds are gusting upwards of 30 miles per hour. that's going to be the case as we move on through the rest of the night tonight and extremely dry. the wind increasing later today. 15 to 30-mile-per-hour winds gusting upwards of 50 miles per hour. that's something we'll continue to watch. i expected that these fires will increase and they will actually continue to grow over the next 24 to 48 hours unless

to somehow get them contained. mother nature is not helping the scenario at all. >> thank you, doug. those conditions are forcing officials to evacuate highly populated parts of california. nbc's jay gray is standing by in napa. first, let's look at some of the numbers. >> at least 21 dead, making this the deadliest outbreak in california's history. hundreds more are missing tonight. one county created a registry asking people to come and check in and confirm that they are alive because so many family members are looking for each other. >> right. >> more fires are developing. now 21 wildfires are burning across the state. >> and they are saying because so many people are not checking in, they've evacuated and they are not letting them know that they are fine. that's why the numbers are so high. jay gray will report from the scene in a minute. the boy scouts make an historic change. the scouting board of directors voted unanimously today to allow

starting next year. each will be single gender. a separate program for older girls will begin in 2019 and may become an eagle scout for the first time in history. this story is gaining a lot of attention. erika gonzalez has that part of the story. erika? >> reaction is mixed. tom sherwood talked to a scout leader who has been with the organization since he was a child. he didn't seem too bothered by the move. >> i think they're going to be the die hard hard liners who say, eagle scout badges should only be for the boys but if we remember why scouting was started, leadership, better citizenship, for making better youth and for the youth to become better adults, if we look at that, he then there's no reason that boys and girls can't be involved in the same program. >> so the respoe

furious on social media. one person wrote, do i really have to explain why a boy shouldn't be allowed in the girl scouts? and somebody else said, i have two sons in the boy scouts. the big question that everybody is asking online, does this mean boy scouts will allow boys and do they get a discount on cookies? seriously, questions asked on twitter. so we asked you to weigh in on our facebook peaj. shou take a look at the results. a great majority of people say no. back over to you guys in the studio. >> thank you, erika. >> no shortage of debate, that's for sure. >> no shortage of opinions in our world, is there? >> maybe it's a way to get more cookies. who knows. president trump taking aim at nbc news now. >> he tweeted a threat. he says he's going to try to pull the broadcasting license for nbc but it doesn't work that way. the federal communications commission does

networks. instead, it issues licenses to individual television stations, such as ours. >> as for what made president trump so angry in the first place, nbc has learned exclusive new information about a pentagon meeting in july and some say they heard rex tillerson describe his boss as a moron. blayne alexander at the white house. >> reporter: nbc news shedding new light on a pentagon meeting last july that ended with secretary of state rex tillerson calling president trump a moron. in an exclusive report, nbc news revealing the president received a briefing on the nation's nuclear arsenal and its history and said he wanted an expansion of the arsenal to nearly ten times its current size. the president today slamming the story. >> no, i never discussed increasing it. i want it in perfect shape. that was just fake news by nbc. >> the president threatening

take the loons icense of nbc an other networks. defense secretary james mattis also called the report untrue but three officials inside that meeting tell nbc some, including secretary tillerson, were surprised by the president's comments. courtney kube was one of the reporters who broke the story. >> the fact that he brought it up in a meeting with senior military leaders elevates it to a new level. >> reporter: supporters say that he simply offered a suggestion that was quickly dismissed. >> he has great belief in those leaders and he was being advised and listened to that advice. >> reporter: the comments are being reviewed at a time when the president is facing off against north korea and iran. and right now president trump is 15 minutes into his tax reform speech before a trucking group today. he ret t

tonight. meanwhile, he's strongly suggested that he will end the iran nuclear deal and a decision is expected to be announced sometime later this week. leon, wendy, back to you. >> blayne alexander, thank you. the wharf's grand opening is almost upon us. and you don't have to drive. traffic in this part of the southwest will be worst than usual. transportation reporter adam tuss tells you how to get around it. he's at the wharf and he's working for you. >> that's right, wendy. big grand opening tomorrow for the huge project. it's really impressive. traffic tonight not so bad. people are coming and going. come tomorrow, tens and thousands will be down here. we've got you covered as far as the transportation game plan. if you're coming down here and break the rules, prepare to pay the price. >>

the area, main street in particular. >> reporter: 20,000-plus people a day expected over this opening weekend. so here's some transportation tips for you to consider. if you want street parking, check out the nearby promenade. two-hour parking available at meters and you can walk to the wharf. consider the parking garage at the anacostia station which connects to the train. and if you're taking uber or lyft, have them drop you off a block or two away. a street like g-street southwest would work well for a dropoff and then you have to walk a block. traffic control is out and signals retimed or you can be like rich who just pulled his boat into a slip for two years. >> we joined the

is pretty amazing. >> reporter: for now, a new destination that will require a transportation game plan. guys, one of the interesting things here are leaders in virginia are actually keeping a close eye on how everything operates here to see if they have to adjust anything on their side of the river from a transportation perspective to make sure that everybody keeps moving. big happenings. >> yes, indeed. opening ceremony started at 11:00 in the morning. at noon, you can see daytime fireworks. noon until 9:00, there's live music and entertainment but the big event is at 9:00 with the bacon brothers. stick around until 6:30 because then we have fireworks called sunset fireworks. news4 will bring you live coverage all day. come down and see us and you can watch it here on news4 and the nbc washington app and i understand that doug is

you because it might be a bit rainy. >> we'll see how it turns out. coming up here next at 6:00, slipping through the cracks. >> local teachers who admit to crimes against children but still managed to find work in other classrooms. and who stole a pitbull puppy and gunpoint? news4 talks with the gun's owner about the confrontation frightening local pet owners. i awoke in my apartment in my bed to a man assaulting me. >> that woman was sexually assaulted on this street in college park last year but last month, a number of sex assaults and break-ins happened right here. i'm tracee wilkins. that woman's

alex: when i was 11 years old, a man broke into the house and he sexually assaulted me. thankfully, in my case, the police caught him, but there are so many survivors that live knowing that their attacker is still out there. ♪ thank you mark herring, for taking this seriously, and for making this a priority, for all of the victims out there. mark: i'm mark herring, candidate for attorney general, and i sponsored this ad.

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can you imagine this, a young woman says someone breaks into her apartment in college park. this happened last year. and attacked her while she was sleeping. tonight she is speaking out and sharing her concerns. >> he's hurting people and not just the victims but, you know, victims' families and friends. >> that man was never caught. and tonight that woman is wondering if he's the same guy behind these other similar assaults near the university of maryland. our prince george's cy

this story. >> i realize i can't live in fear anymore. >> reporter: we're calling this woman mandy. in march of last year, she was sexually assaulted in an apartment near the university of maryland. she shared the place with a university of maryland student. police say her attacker entered through an unlocked door and began assaulting her. >> i awoke in my apartment in my bed to a man assaulting me. i thought it might have been my boyfriend at first and quickly realized it wasn't and i started to scream and he fled. >> reporter: the next day the prince george's police went door to door asking for information in the case but her attacker was never caught. it's been a nightmare for mandy. >> it was tough. i had to move immediately out of my building. i quit my job. you know, i was very fearful for a while. >> reporter: and then a year and a half later -- >> i saw somebody with fingers through my window and i sat up and i said, what are you

ran away. >> reporter: a string of break-ins and sex assaults reported a block away from where mandy lived. >> i still get community alerts and look it up online and it happened a block away from where i happened to be living and i felt anger because i knew it was the same guy. >> reporter: you think it's the same guy? >> yes. yes, without a doubt. >> reporter: prince george's county police tell me they are investigating all of the attacks and have not found evidence connecting the more recent cases to what happened to mandy but she's hopeful an arrest is coming soon. >> i believe one day he will be held to justice regardless if the police do it or karma does it. >> reporter: when i spoke with the police, they again said that they do not have any evidence definitively connecting these cases. they want people who have information that can help to lead to an arrest and all of these cases to give them a call as they are investigating everything that's unfo h

reporting live, tracee wilkins, back to you in the studio. how does a teacher admit to crimes against students yet not have their licensed revoked? a news4 i-team is looking into that. the teacher's name is added to a national database to red flag school districts nationwide but the i-team found that's not happening in d.c. >> we're putting someone else's child at risk of being put in a situation where they shouldn't be. >> somebody over the district line in maryland or virginia? >> exactly. >> investigative reporter scott macfarlane has a story you'll only see on news4. why is this not happening in d.c.? >> it's happening for years in other states. in fact, it's happened for decades in other states but it's still not happening in

officials tell us they are a year or two away from this. when those teachers admit misconduct and when it comes to keeping our kids safe, license revocation is important. you're added to a national database that flags the nation that you've admitted to misconduct. you'll see some recent notorious cases in misconduct in the district and those teachers are, in fact, eligible to return to the classroom. what's more, they may be an indication, wendy and leon, that there are many more teachers who engaged in lower levels of misconduct who are already there, already back teaching our kids. >> so what are they going to do about this? >> d.c.'s office department of education, the regulators who oversee d.c. public schools, they say they are trying to finalize this situation and they are still a year or two away from finishing it up but it's

other states stood up the system and experts will tell you, when it comes to a safety net and one weak link sets the shane. >> i don't believe many people have looked into this before. we started picking up rock on this investigation and found out nobody had picked up those rocks before. we'll see what comes of this. you'll get a good sense of what is going on on news4 at 11:00. >> thanks, scott. happening tonight, a high-profile football game, members of congress and former redskins will take on the congressional football game raising money for military and law enforcement

this is to raise money for those hurt in the congressional baseball practice shooting. to see that tribute, be sure to watch tonight on news4 at 11:00. >> still ahead, barack obama getting off the golf course and getting back into campaign mode but he's not vying for a new job for himself. we'll tell you why he's taking time to talk to voters in virginia. and a sign of the times as a local community tak

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well, get used to this. we have rainy days for a while now. a little bit. >> yeah. and that coming after what we saw extreme summer-like weather and record high temperatures yesterday. 87 in dulles. sunshine and warm and humid. but today, it is dreary and just plain yuck out there right now. we've got the shower activity and the drizzle that's going on down there towards national airport temperaturewise. 72 degrees and winds out of the east and the flow will keep things cooler and drizzle in here, too. 63 in winchester. 69 right now in huntingtown. notice the radar, it does not pick up drizzle very well at all but we're seeing reduced visibility as well and shower activity in through parts

month gom re montgomery. the wider view shows that we've got cloud cover but just a scattering of showers. that's what we're going to see tonight. most areas will continue to see the drizzle but the heavier showers will be right on through the rest of the overnight hours and right on through 10:00, 11:00. this is part of a storm system, the same one that postponed the national game in chicago. the game around chicago moving off. you can see the storm and warmer air back to our west but we are what is called cold air damming which creates the cooler and stable air, cloud cover and rain that we have out there right now. a good chance for shower activity and maybe moderate showers in places. so if you're heading out, make sure you take the umbrella. now, watch tomorrow. the rain is coming in from the ocean as the winds are coming off the ocean so we'll see rain just about all day long at times. show o

it's going to be light but it's going to be a mess. make sure you bundle up for that and i'm thinking about what jim handly and i need to be wearing. i'm thinking raincoat and even rain pants tomorrow with the boots 66 degrees at noon. drizzle at 3:00 and that's going to be the case through the evening tomorrow. not a terrible day but rather dreary out there for sure. temperaturewise, only in the 60s tomorrow. same deal on friday. and then we see another change and this change is another good one. we're back to summer. 77 on saturday. 83 degrees on sunday. a little more humid on sunday and watch another front that moves through on monday morning. that brings through much cooler air and breezy conditions monday into tuesday. look at tuesday. 66 for a high. 50 for a low

d.c. for a low, many in the suburbs, upper 30s to low 40s. >> great. a race against a killer and the clock. up next, new details in the las vegas massacre. why it is raising more questions about the investigation. >> how they are taking matters into their own hands in the wake of high-profile attacks. and we showed you this video earlier in the week. there's our guy clinging to the hood of that moving school bus in maryland. tonight,e is h

now at 6:30, a puzzling new timeline in the police response to the las vegas rampage. >> nbc news has audio recordings that capture the moment a hotel security guard was shot. he was responding to an alarm about a problem door. 200 rounds through his door and into the hallway. steven schuck was outside the door and warned to take cover. >> make sure you're out of the way. >> copy. [ gunfire ] >> call the police. someone is firing a rifle up here on the

>> that was at 9:59 and then he started firing at the crowd below at 10:05 and fired until 10:15. a police s.w.a.t. team got to the floor at 10:17 and a minute later they learned that the guard was shot and in which room the room was barricaded. >> that took 19 minutes to find out what the guard and engineer already knew, the exact location of the gunman. pete williams has been tracking this investigation from the very beginning. he's going to have new details coming up on "nightly news" with lester holt right after news4 at 6:00. hope you stay with us for that. now, the vegas gunman used a bump stock to use a semiautomatic rifle and now there's a new process under

to start a ban on those bump stocks. we're often uplifted by the stories of heroism but would you know what to do to save someone's life? i midst the panic and chaos, people helping people, saving lives. >> every time there's one of these awful events. >> demand for this week's trauma training soared. the class quickly filling up this course is to get people comfortable with addressing life-threatening bleeding and stopping it so that prior to ems getting there the bleeding is already

>> that impacted me more because of the guy involved with that has just refreshed our computers where i worked and then moved on to the yard. >> reporter: here together, they watched and listened. >> the reason why they don't work is because they are not tight enough. >> reporter: then we tried out our new skills. that's assuming the wound is down, right? here's my attempt at stopping the bleed. >> you're going to turn, turn, turn. >> how many times? >> until the bleeding stops. >> but you improvise. >> how did it feel to do it? >> it felt good. the more difficult thing would be the stuffing. i think that would scare me a little bit but if i was in that situation, i would do anything to help. >> that is what this is all about, helping. >> reporter: if the person sitting next to you

the idea here, if we can't stop the violence, perhaps we can at least stop the bleed and save a life. in fairfax, david culver, news4. >> now, a lot of you were shocked when we showed you video of a man clinging to the hood of a school bus in baltimore county. according to the man's attorney, he jumped on the bus for his own safety. the lawyer for lavern durant said his client stood in front of the bus to stop it but when the driver inched forward, had he no choice but to jump on top of the hood to avoid getting run over. he was angry because someone from inside that bus threw a bottle out a window and hit his car. he was arrested and charged. one maryland county is considering a school calendar that would put jewish families in a difficult situation and the governor calls it dishonest. montgomery county is considering several options to make up school days that are lost when they started classes after labor

that mandate took effect this school year and one of the ideas is to hold school on yom kippur and rosh hashanah. mr. obama is going to be campaigning with ralph northam next tuesday. former vice president joe biden will be there as well. president trump criticized the stance on immigration. two people got out as flames devoured this home in northern virginia. >> a new twist in a sex scandal involving a powerful hollywood producer. >> and two works of heart

but one woman says she's not getting the proper credit. find out what she plans to do about it. and we're seeing showers out there right now. this trend, this pattern sticks around through friday. but then what does that mean for your weekend? we'll get your forecast and see you right

there was an old woman who lived in a shoe. she had so many children she had to buy lots of groceries. while she was shopping for organic fruits and veggies, burglars broke into her shoe. they stole her kids' mountain bikes and tablets along with her new juice press. luckily the geico insurance agency had helped her with homeowners insurance. she got full replacement on the stolen goods and started a mountain bike juice delivery service. call geico and see how affordable homeowners insurance can be.

back to that developing story in northern california. drone video shows the devastation on the ground and it's not over. we now have at least 21 people dead. hundreds of homes destroyed in the wildfires. >> some of those places look like the surface of the moon. >> uh-huh. >> nbc's jay gray is in sonoma county where a new round of evacuations were ordered. >> reporter: i think it's going to intensify as the wind picks up here and actually pushes the flames in

haven't been to this point. take a look here, this was a garage, apparently. hard to tell that because you can see the skeletons of what were two golf carts here. little less that you can recognize of what was left behind here. you would think that this was a beautiful home before it started built into the hillside here and as you move through the home, you can see it was gutted by the flames that rushed through and this is a scene that's not only playing out on this street or in this neighborhood but really across the entire region right now. so many dealing with what you see here. everything lost. nothing but debris and ash left of this home and so many across the strike zone right now. there are at least 3500 structures, many of those homes like this that have been destroyed. that makes it the most destructive fire ever in northern california. it could wind up being the most deadly, unfortunately.

dead and officials have warned us that they think the number is going to climb. >> jay gray reporting from sonoma county. new information just in on a huge fire that tore through an arlington county home. the fire started on the porch and caused some $300,000 in damage. it's unclear what sparked the fire on north ivy street. arlington fire tweeted out these photos early this morning. one of the pictures they are showing firefighters as they pull a man to safety from the top floor there. the man remains in critical condition, we're told. two other men inside managed to escape and they called for help. now, while we wait to learn the cause of that fire, official officials want you and your family to have a plan. for a list of safety tips, watch news4 today or check out our nbc washington app for fire prevention week. now harvey weinstein's wife is leaving him. also new tonight, tmz reporting that weinstein's daughter told police that weinstein is suicidal and

forward accusing the movie producer of sexual harassment, even rape. angelina jolie says that weinstein harassed her when she was younger. controversy over a mural in the district. a local artist says if she's not getting credit for the creation. aja adams told news4 that she's co-create for of the idea and the design but hasn't gotten credit for it. appears the artist who painted the mural acknowledges aja's work and her effort but hasn't given her props. >> there's a lot of artists that are like me whose stories or art is always taken and no one is ever held accountable. >> news4 reached out to the artist who painted the mural but shen'

the the commission of the arts said, we determined this is a contractual disagreement between the two parties. still ahead, an eye-opening message about a deadly drug epidemic across the country. what one community is doing to raise awareness and save lives. also, searching for heaven. we're going to hear from the dog's owners and why they are so desperate to find her.

alex: when i was 11 years old, a man broke into the house and he sexually assaulted me.

but there are so many survivors that live knowing that their attacker is still out there. ♪ thank you mark herring, for taking this seriously, and for making this a priority, for all of the victims out there. mark: i'm mark herring, candidate for attorney general, and i sponsored this ad. there is a search right now for a puppy named he

and someone pulled a gun on him and took the dog away. >> these animals have gone from uncertain fates to promising futures and now they are in the care of the washington human rescue alliance. but for this puppy, this is heaven, less than a-month-old and she was stolen at gunpoint. >> i'm glad he didn't shoot. that was the only thing going through my mind. >> reporter: police say he was out walking heaven on tuesday evening on pomeroy road. a man got out with a gun and said get up off the dog. heaven's owners say that the thieves took more than property. >> we was family. so when my brother leave out of the house, she would be sad, she would not play around. >> reporter: now with heaven lost to a robber, they are sad. >> i want my dog back. >> reporter: heaven hasn't had her shots and she's just recently been we

foods yet. and it's not just heaven's physical health. for a pitbull puppy, an abrupt change in a surrounding could mean instead of a dog with an obedient disposition, heaven's life could be anything but heavenly. >> it being stolen at this point in its life halfway through being weaned, on formula, it opens the door for a lot of health complications. >> reporter: police are asking for anyone who has seen heaven to contact them and they would gladly take her back, no questions asked. they don't want drama, they say. they just want the dog back. derrick ward, news4. a disturbing trend emerging in the number of opioid deaths in virginia. health officials say by the end of june nearly 600 people died. that's outpacing 2016 when more than 1100 people overdosed for the entire year. fentanyl has caused the death

in charles county maryland, a billboard was placed next to headquarters and the sign is designed to increase awareness and there have been 219 overdoses so far this year in that county. 27 lives have been lost and 83 have been saved. live from new york, it's saturday night, seven words that changed comedy on television. 42 years ago today when we first heard them. >> "snl" launched right here back in 1975 and started off with a sketch of a bizarre back and forth phrases and two guys keeling over from a heart attack and then chevy chase kicking things off. now the show is still on top. >> and "snl" has tackled issues big and small and has taken on celebrities and politicns

years. one of my favorites, i go all the way back to the beginning, is when killer bees were coming up from mexico and they were warning us about it and so john belushi came in as a killer bee. it was just -- they were a rough bunch. that was my favorite. >> the favorite i can talk about with evening television was -- this was it. john belushi and richard pryor showed up at a hotel, a samurai hotel. anytime john showed up on the screen, you had to laugh. "snl" had to use a delay. we couldn't believe richard pryor was going on live television. i had his records under my bed. we thought he was going to do something pretty wild and it was just ridiculous. he kept it clean. >> so

chris farley van down by the river and then this one, i'm gumby, dammit. and this is how you answer the door in my neighborhood, kids, who is it? i love it. i just think it's -- >> mine is brown celebrity hot tub. >> that brought back memories. >> and you forget it was genius back in the day and it's just continued to roll as new, young talent comes on. it continues to be sensational. all right. let's take a look at the weather. i think we've got to do this eventually. outside right now, it is not nice, it's very dreary and kind of dismal and damp. look at that shot from the rockville camera. temperaturewise, we are on the cool side for sure. it's still

tomorrow will be cool. 71 in d.c. currently. 71 is the actual average high for this time of year now and temperatures will be dropping during the day tomorrow with that continued east wind. now, we have showers and drizzle just about everywhere but the heaviest rain down towards culpeper, i'll zoom in towards west of hagerstown and right around the martinsburg area, heads up, heavy showers moving your way and if you're watching over there, around the falls river area, yeah, you, too. we're going to see more showers tonight. if you're he had hadding out, take the umbrella. you will need it from time to time. out at the wharf, temperatures only in the 50s with drizzle. this is the way it was looking earlier today. we call these beauty shots. we'll be out there live during the day tomorrow. just amazing. we put up a

a couple city blocks. it's going to be fun. i'm heading down there right after this show. yeah. ten-day forecast, 66 degrees on your friday. 77 on saturday. 83 on sunday and next week muc ralph northam: i'm ralph northam and as a doctor, nobody ever asked if i'm a democrat or republican. they just want my help. so if donald trump is helping virginia i'll work with him. but donald trump proposed cutting virginia's school funding, rolling back our clean air and water protections,

from thousands of virginians. as a candidate for governor, i sponsored this ad because i've stood up to donald trump on all of it. ed gillespie refuses to stand up to him at all.

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>> the caps are hoping to get revenge on the stanley cup champions the penguins. >> reporter: this is their first chance as revenge. the three-time stanley cup champions, the penguins, in town for the first time this season and it's a rivalry game right here on the nbc sports networks. rivalry is an understatement. the penguins knocked off the caps in each of the last two seasons en route to back-to-back stanley cups. both teams looking different but crosby is at the center of the matchup. there is definitely no love lost for pittsburgh. >> no, just hatred. hate the guys that bumped you out and all of the credit to the penguins, they have been the standard for the last two seasons and we've had to try to get behind them and we have not.

i saw sully's focus an the white house and they are trying for three. >> you know, that's what makes for good hockey when you play a team you don't like. when you play the defending stanley cup champions, it shows you where you're at and so it will be fun and it will be interesting to see, too. >> reporter: an emotional scene in vegas last night. first ever home game for the golden knights. one of many vegas players to honor first responders for the tragic shooting there. the arena holding a 58-second moment of silence for the 58 victims. they had their names displayed on the ice. golden knights won the game 5-2 and are now 3-0 in their very first season. now switching to football, the redskins looking to come out of the bye with a win against a winless san francisco 49ers team but,

up. trent williams has a knee issue. running back kelly not suiting up as well. he's a long shot to play. a tough weekend for the redskins coming off back-to-back primetime games and hosting a 0-5 team. they say his team won't oversee the niners. >> it's not like we're defending super bowl champs. we have a lot to prove ourselves and a lot of good players. i made it known in the team meeting that they are four plays away from being 4-1, without a doubt. it's a competitive football team. >> it's going to be a tough game. a great coach. a lot of weapons. so every week is a new challenge. you've got to come to work and, you know, keep progressing. >> we're not going to let their record hinder our thoughts about what type of team we are. we'rin

and compete. >> kirk cousins spending much of his time with his young son cooper. he and julie became parents for the first time and cousins is embracing the dad swag. >> i had dad swag before i was a dad. i would wear a braided belt in high school and cargo shorts and white socks that came up halfway my ankles and probably one step away from velcro shoes and a visor and oversized pole low tucked in. so maybe even a palm pilot on my belt. >> reporter: and we are keeping an eye on a game for nats up 1-0 in the eighth in chicago. live from capital arena, news4 sports. >> you can tell kirk that all dads dress that way. all right? >> thanks for joining us. nightly news is coming up next. >> see you right here at 11:00.

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