>> we begin our coverage this evening with nbc's marc barger. >> the queen of soul. a disc jockeyestowed that nickname on aretha franklin, and it stuck ♪ feels like a natural woman >> reporter: through a musical reign that has few rivals. ♪ >> reporter: in a career spanning more than 50 years franklin recorded 40 albums, and she put 45 songs on the top 40 charts, more than any other female artist ever. one song became her signature. ♪ r-e-s-p-e-c-t find out what it means to me ♪ >> that t chartper was not only her first number one hit but the recording association of america named it one of the top five songs of the 20th century. >> that's incredible. >> out of all of this music, i could have fallen over on the floor, pushed me over with a

threat fer. >> reporter: franklin was born in memphis in 1942 but the musical journey began in detroit singing gospel in her father's baptist church. >> i had no real formal training. moy formal training was my ear. >> reporter: she recorded her first gospel album at the age of 14 and early motherhood interrupted her career until the '60s and then in monster success in '67 ignited her career. "natural woman" and "chain of fools" kept it soaring through the '70s. yet another classic earned franklin a memorable turn alongside john belushi, the 1987 comedy "the blues brothers." >> the rock 'n' roll hall of fame made franklin his first female inductee in 1987 punctuating musical impact? >> thed uniates honors aretha franklin. >> reporter: the presidential

medal of freedom followed and fourea later franklin wearing her much talked about hat was the featured singer at president obama'sin guration. aretha franklin had a style all her own and so many career mi stones, including 18 grammys, she had trouble singling one eout. rything, remember everything, everything. >> reporter: theueen of soul's regal musical legacy will take care of that. ♪ darling, you make m feel >> reporter: mark barger, nbc news. ou make me feel like a natural woman ♪ aretha franklinas adored by legions of fans of all ages. news 4's meagan fitzgerald continues our coverage with the singer's ties to d.c., including one man whose father helped her rise toom sta

>> reporter: her voice was like nother. ♪ >> reporter: aretha franklin earned her title as the queen of soul, her music transce s race and generation and her songs are timeless. two of her biggest hits "see-saw" and "chain of fools." n, once you hear chain, ch chain. she wanted it right away. >> reporter: were written by tony's father don, an r & b song writer who grew up in d.c. and worked with legendary artists like jimi hendrix, smokey robinson and aretha franklin. >> aretha was looking for songs. eshe was a lit frustrated because she wasn't getting the right materials so my father happened to be walking by and said, hey, i've got a song for you. -e-s-p-e-c-t ♪ >> reporter: it was the color in the voice. it was the way she kne how to improvise with the voice. it was the wailing on the high notes that she did. >> joyce garrett was the choir director at eastern high school

in d.c. for nearly 30 years. her students have played with and for several celebrities and dig tis, but aretha franklinff s ent. >> the first time i met aretha frklin was at a christmas in washington performance. >> reporter: that was in the early '90s. ever since then wheneveran frklin would come to time she would call garrett asking her choir to join her on stage. >> she would say this is aretha, and would you sa oh, mm-hmm, and while i was talking i'd be like this is aretha franklin. >> reporter: it was unimaginable, but garrett's group of kids wasth are franklin's choir of choice. it's an honor that means even more today because just after sock this morning garrett saw the news. >> my heart stopped. even knowing that she was as sick as she was. >> reporter: the queenou of is gone, but her music and her legacy will always live on.>>

there will never be another aretha. she's going to go down in thebo history s. >> reporter: meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >> former president obama paid tribute to aretha franklin today in a tweet that reads inart aretha helped define the ican experience. in her voice we could feel our history. he also posted pictures from h some of memories of her, including her performance at his first inauguration in began and some of her visits to the white house. you have to go all the way back to 1993 to put this picture in context. jim vance and producerargie ruttenberg and i were at the lincoln memorial to cover aretha franklin's performance at president clinton's pre-inaugural concert at the lincoln memorial. margie doesn't work in washington anymore, but she will always be a part of our news 4 family, an this is a favorite memory. jim? >> doreen, thank you. fans around the world are remembering the music icon.

some placed flowers and balloons on her star at the hollywood walk of fame today. others posted tributes onocl media. take a look. diana today called her the golden, wonderful spirit. carole king who co-wrote one of the singer's biggest hit "natural life" writing what a life, when a legacy. ohn legend calling her the greatest vocalist, and adele saying she can't remember a day thout aretha's voice in music filling her heart with joy and sadness. for more celebrity tributes, just open up our nbc washington app. we've put together a photo gallery with some of aretha's memorable performances. in other news now. tonight we're hearing from theb vatican this week's scathing grand jury report sexual abuse and cover-ups within the catholic church in a special -- a spokesman for pope francis calls the abuses

morally reprehensible, but since most of the alleged crimes took place prior to 2002, the reforms in theatholic church are working. g thnd jury report details hundreds of acts of sexual abus over seven decades and alleged cover-ups by church leaders. new backlash tonight fromp' president tr decision to strip a security clearance from former cia director john brennan. hours after the white house gav one reason for the president's action, the president revealed he was motivated by the russia investigation. blayne axander is athe white house with more on all of this. blayne? >>eporter: and,oreen, we're hearing from not just john brennan but from former white house aide omarosa manigault wonewman. there the president's loudest critics, and they are both renewing their promise they will not be silenced. presidentrump connecting his decision to revoke the security clearance of former cia director and outspokenritic john brennan to the russia

investigation. the president ignoring questions today but telling "the wall i think it'sl something that had to be done and that he holds brennan among those responsible for the, quote, russia witch hunt. gat in contrast to this explanationen yesterday. >> mr. brennan has a history that calls into question his objectivity and credibility. reporter: brennan punching back writing in the "new york times" the president has become moreesperate to protect himself. >> there are 13 reasons why you can revoke aclearance, and the president has cited none of them in his action on johnn. bren >> reporter: none of this drowning out another critical voice, former white hou aide omarosa manigault newman releasing a n secret recording claiming the president's daughter-in-law laura trump offered her $15,000 a month to work the trump campaign after she was fired from the white house. t >> does t sound like a fair deal for you? >> reporter: laura trump reonding in a statement saying she feels personally betrayed by

the recording manigault newman calling the offer hush money. >> i saw this as an attempt to buy my silence, to censor me. >> reporter: a growing war of words between the white house and two ot its m outspoken critics. blayne alexander, nbc news, washington. >> and one further note on former cia director john brennanch his career included major counterterrorism operations, and he was in the situation room during the s.e.a.l. raid that killed osama 011.laden back in brennan strongly urged president obama to approve that raid when other cabinet members thought it was too risk. tonight the add miller who oversaw the raid is coming to brenn's defense. in a new op-ed in the "the washington post" the retired admiral writes in his wordsamew icans have done more to protect this country than brennan and hee writesuld consider it an honor if the president revoked his security clearance a well.

>> three women around the same age disappear from th same neighborhood in the same year. police now call this a homicide investigation, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions. the women's remains were foundh earlier year in southeast washington, and tonight we're hearing from a man who knew one. victims. news 1's nicole jacobs has the story. >> reporter: new attention today on a murder mystery more than a decaden the making. three african-american women found buried here under this southeast apartment building. 12 years ago their families reported them missing jill king was 47 at the time, a mother of three, last seen in april of 2006. dorothy butts was 43 and christmas ssing o day of that same year, leaving behind a son. the medical examiner determined she and king were shot to death. 41-year-old verdell jefferson died of blunt force trauma and was last seen in may of 2006 and the mother of a son.

>> i'm really sad. >> reporter: to some near palmer jefferson'sutheast, picture stood out. >> rshocked,l shocked. couldn't take my eyes off of f. >> reporteends reflecting back when she disappeared. >> when she becamem. a. i thought she was out of state or something. >> reporter: the neart wrenching though a small sense of closure as the community and policeonsider if this was the work -- consider that this was the work of a serial killer. we would always consider that to be a potential in this case. >> reporter: d.c. police say that there is still a lot to uncover in this investigation. they are hoping part of that will include determining if there was a link between the three women. the in southeast d.c., nicole jacobs, news 4. up next mystery on the water. >> i saw something flipping around, didn't even k was at the time, and i walked out i saw the tth marks.

>> did a shark bite that guy while he was paddleboaing on a local river? decide for yourself when you hear his story. plus, n clu about what caused reagan national airport to go dark for hours. >> amanda hobbs says her dream home built by habitat for humanity has become a nightmare. i'm david cver in stafford county. i'll show you what she's dealing with, everything from foundation to water iueues. her qst for answers and to get just ahead right here on news 4. >> hot andda humid even more so for tomorrow. i'm tracking a chance of storms tomorrow, butor more intly for your weekend. see you back here in just a minute.

there are some new answers into the power outage that briefly paralyzed reagan national airport last night. dominion airline says lights in the terminals were flickering off. the airport's generators kicked in providi light for emergency services until power was fully restored just after 11:00 last night. the outage lasted all together about an hour and a half. tonight a dream home turned nightmare for a single mom and army veteran from stafford county. known forhe group giving thousands of people a

place to call home hasr abandond n a flawed house. our northern virginia reporter david culver is working for you tonight with h habitat for humanity plans to live up to its commitment. >> that one right there is me. >> reporter: remembering her time in boot camp and early years serving in the army, amanda hobbs says main teague her new stafford home has become a battle sheever anticipated. >> they kind of put us in these homes and then they dump us. there's no real partnership. >> reporter: it started last year as a dream offer. amanda could move from her $dated mobile he into a house built by habitat for humanity. hundreds of volunteers built the structure in three days, a so-called blitz build. november of last year she got thkeys. >> thedoor, as you can see, has come apart. >> reporter: shortly after moving in amanda noticed several issues with the foundation and reached oit to h for humanity. w they fixed a major code violation probablhin a month or two. >> reporter: but more problems

arted flowing. >> and this tells exactly what's wrong with my water right here. >> reporter: the water, while not contaminated, turns brown and has an odor and stains the new tile. amanda still has to bathe in this water, but she's avoided drinking it for now. wh does she drink? take a look at this. she's stocked up on all these containers of water. when they goem y, they are too expensive to buy new ones, so she takes the emptyerontainers o a friend's house and fills them up in a statement mailed to news 4, the greater fredericksburg habitat for heir work,tand by adding that the water has been certified as safe and promisi to continu working with the homeowner. >> my concern is still my house, is it sinking? >> reporter: amanda frustrated and hopeful she can once again call this her dam home n.stafford county, david culver, news 4. >> now habitat f humanity says homeowners purchase their homes with affordable mortgages and

have the same responsibilities to maintain their homes as any other homeowner. adding that they prepare them for the journey of homeownership, including training in home maintenance. new information tonight in that arab boweorror story. a home owner in loudoun county found his rental property trashed on saturday with broken glass and bod all over his $4 million property. tonight airbnb tells news 4 that the people whoented that house vee now banned from their site. they say they zero tolerance for vandalism and that they have reachedo out t police to better understand just what happened. a mother desperate for healthier skin care options for her little girl started toe m her own products. reau chief tracee wilkin explains how the retired navy veteran has gone from creating products in her kitchense to ing them in other own store. >> you okay?

>> yes, good. >> reporter: when you enter the doors of brookyio girl at nl harbor, prepare to be wowed by popsicles, mac reasons and cupcakes with whipped icing, all made of soap. >> i was making some the other day and i was a hungry i thought for a second, that looks so delicious to eat. >> right. >> reporter: body butter, candles, soap, i make it all. >> reporter: she says her daughter was the inspiration. >> as my daughtertarted to get older, she started to use things off my dresser more and more, and irn became conceed with the chicals and ingredients with things on my dresser. >> reporter: show started to make her own natural and body bath line in her kitchen and soon she was selling it at specialvents and eventually the national harbor's farmer's market. >> we came down here with the tent and the neighborhood welcomed us and community welcomed us. >> we know they didob a great and had a great customer satisfaction and people really came and enjoyed it and we had an opening recently, that's was e peoplee called, brooky's

gold. >> reporter: that is the second career for this mom who is a retired investment after 24 years in the navy where she met her husband. >> it has a lot to do with why the way we do things here, dedication, integrity, commitment. >> reporter: brooky girl is named for her daughter brooklyn, now ata teenagering high school this year. she's soaking up all of her mom's lessons. >> knowing my mother if she puts her mind to something, she's going to do it and going to do it to her best ability and s did. i mean, look at us. >> reporter: in addition to the store, brooky girl also makes its products available online. for more informationstbout the e and its mission, go to nbc washington and searchro boky girl. at national harbor, i'm traces, wilk news 4. >> good for them, go mom. growings controversy the price tag for president trump's military parade just skyrocketing. wait until you hear how much it ll cost to put his plan into action. >> doug says there'sn r and some storms in the forecast saturday and sunday, but the

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warm, sunshiny weather today, but we've got a in our future, don't we?

>> yeah, we do, especially on saturday, i think. at's the one day i'm really watching. watching the weekend obviously. tomorrow we've got hot and hum weather, but the chance of storms not until late in the day and really only about a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms. one other two of them move over and c sld be on theong side. outside right now. you in the haze in the atmosphere, soe've gothe three hs going on. typical of summertime in washington. hazy, hot and. hum now we're at 88 degrees and winds out of the south at 12 miles per hour. that heat ind has been up into the mid-90s, even the upper 90s. 11 last night in whington. 90 towards culpepper and 90 along the eastern s as people are taking the day off and leaving early on theastern shore. saturday and sunday a little bit different. out there right now no rain to speak of. there's been showers out to the west.n they have beerying to move in towards parts of the shenandoah valley but now they are pretty much out of here. you can see on the wider pictu this is the storm system.

a little bit of a spin in thesp atre here. line of storms that developed and moved into parts of west virginia and parts of the shenandoah valley earlier. they are all out ofwe here. l see the whole system move a little closer to us tomorrow, and that's why we have a chance of showers hand thunderstorms morrow afternoon. tomorrow a high of 14. we hit 21 today. hot and humid. storm chances hate in the day, so really most of the day f ye. 're going to the pool on friday no problem. tomorrow evening around 5: 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 and a best chance of some of the storms and the big deal is the heat index. upwards of 100 degrees tomorrow. definitely on the hot not quite as hot on saturday, but more storms likely. 60% chance of storms around the area and sday a40% chance of storms and really more showers than storms on sunday th a high of 84, 84 on monday and as we look towards the next ten days, a chance of showers and storms again tuesday and wednesday. right now we're still looking pretty good lat next week, although the latest computer model isrying to give us more

rain. right now you know me, staying optimistic. >> the glass is half full. thanks, doug. >> one of the music world's most powerful voices has lef us. arota franklin died today at the age of 76. coming up, a closer look at her life and legacy and the impact she had here in washington. >> it is one of the strangest crime stories we've heard about in northern virginia. a man being pursued by police threw his 2-year-old son into this creek and then took off. i'll tell you how it all came to an end with a canine insid an attic. unbelievable, and a maryland man shares his cautionary tale after what he believes was a close

now at 6:30, it's a story that may make you shake you head in disbelief. >> this is hard to believe. aor nthern virginia father is behind bars t accused ofhrowing his toddler into a creek as he ran from polices but tha just part of this wild story that played out in strasburg over the weekend. >> a little boy's mother was also locked up. julie carey has some reaction from neighbors who watch thee whhing go down. >> reporter: cell phone photos capturing the drama monday night when police surrounded this strasburg home. >> as i'm looking out the ndow, there's a cop running

through my yard with his gun drawn. >> reporter: hidingde, a man from haymarket on the run from police. it allou started earlier when a patrol officer saw kyle sunday driving down one of the main streets with his 2-year-o son in his lap. she tried to pull him over, but took off on foot carrying his son. and when he got to this creek he tossed the little boy down the embankment and into the water. luckily an officer was clo by hind and rescued the child >> you know, no one has seen the child in the water. the worst casecenario the child could have drowned. >> reporter: to make matters more confusing no longth after in an apparent attempt to callor sunday his girlfriend called police to say her car had been stolen with her child inside. police kept the focus on finding sunday andua evey learned he had fled to this house. >> they gave him a couple of warnings, you know, banged on the dr. said kyle, come out, come out. nothing happened.r: >> reportehey went into the

attic sending ua warren county sheriff's office canine that just happened to live t across street. sunday was arrested. by that time the girlfriend and toddler were on the scene she, too, was taken into custody for making a false police reert. the lit boy who suffered only scratch eds -- scratches was turned over to social services. a tough ment forhis mom to witness. >> i stood out here with tears in my eyes to make it happen. it makes you wonder what's ghng throug people's heads and what's going on in their lives to make them do things like that? >> reporter: tonight the little boy in the care of his grandmother. in strasburg, julie carey, news 1. tomorrow t university of maryland board of regents could shake up the school's football progm amideports of coaches bullying players and ignoring warning signs before one player died of heat stroke earlier this summer. the board will hold a conference call tomorroworning andhen decide whether to meet in a closed session to discuss personnel changes.

today on "good morning america" the parents of jordan mcnair, the football player who died, arde it c where they stand. >> and the strength aco itioning coach has resigned, rick kort he edresi the head coach d.j. durkin is on tive leave. do you think he should resign as well? >> yes, absolutely. he shouldn't be t able work with anybody else's kid. you don't see any -- you don't send your way away to college, michael. you send away to college for them to be developed into young people and physically, emotionay, spiritually and just teach our children kids, our p youngple that rework so hard to get there to pay. i'm giving my child to you. keep him safe, and they did anything but, that so, of cohose, hed be fired. >> umd president wallace lowe said on tuesday the univeacity pts legal and moral responsibility for mcnair's death. another high school in

northern virginia won't be playing under the friday night lights this fall. manassas park says there are not enough healthy students f told a football team. last week we told you that parkview hig school in sterling didn't have enough players to make up a team either. while juniors and seniors at parkview can transfer to nearby dominion to play, manassas park's junior and seniors have to play on the junior varsity team because there are ngh othe schools in that district. the military parade that president trump ordered to coincide with veterans day comes with an eye-popping price tag. the parade is now estimated to cost $92 million according to defense officials who smokeo cnbc. the initial estimate was $12 million. the parade is set for november 10tumh. president ordered it after attending a bastille day celebratio in parisast year and wanted his parade to be bigger. georgetown university students typically have similar

goals, but one set s oflings is taking duplication to a whole new level. thesborn triplets nicholas, zachary and benjamin don't just dress alike, they think alike, too. they are all beginning the pursuit of a masters in economics this semester. we caught up with the trio on campus today, and they tell uson they have a they wouldn't trade for anything. >> you always have two people at home,ou, in class, whenever you want to share anything. >> we're not probably just brothers but eachs other' best friends. >> boy, they are -- it's impossible to tell them apart. >> it is. >> they were together through undergrad as well graduating fromun chapel hill, and this is pretty cool. their atgreat-granr was also a triplet. >> wow. you thinkhey ever get i fights? >> you've got to wonder. >> they must. >> all right. a local paddleboarder went out on the water and then moments later he saw blood, his own.>> felt something hit my leg

and i didn't even know it was a buy. i saw a little splash and walked out of water and saw the blood running down my leg. >> the tencountert's got him asking was he just bitten by a shark? but first here's doug. >> we saw n temperaturer 90 across the area today but even warmer as you make your way into friday and i'm tracking that all important weekend for you, too ch more. o

mystery on the water. man in maryland believes he was bitten by a shark not far from the chesapeake bay. >> yeah. he wasn paddleboarding white marsh creek when he says he felt something hit l his. then he saw blood. now only on news 4, mark segraves talks to that man as biogists are trying to figure .ut just what it w >> reporter: credit bowen is no stranger to these waters in edgewater, ryland, not far from the chesapeake bay. >> the bay is actually right in

front of us, g so if you out here and make a left it goes into the road river and then stight out to th bay. >> reporter: yesterday evening feedingut dinnertime or time for some, bowen took his beeneboard out, like he's doing for years. >> i was out paddleboarding and went all the way down that way and all the way up that way and was coming back in and jumped off and that's when it happeneda >> reporter: happened left this bite mark on bowen's leg. bowen didn't actually see the culprit, but he thinks it was a shark. >> all i saw was after i grabbed myler, i saw something flipping around and didn't even know what it wasti at th and i walked out and i saw the teeth marks. >> reporter: bowen called the maryland deparent of natural resources who sent this picture to its biologist to see just what tried to take a chunk out of this paddleboarder's leg, but the biologists say the picture is inclusive. but janine long has seen enough to keep her dog out of the water for a while. >> it's almost unbelievable, but

the bite sure does say possibly a shark. i wouldn't have believed it if somebody told me they saw a shark dn here, ever. this is o sanctuary. >> reporter: while these guys won't be getting back in the water -- >> i'll come back out tonight. >> reporter: you are in. >> i'll be out here >> reporter: doesn't dissuade you at all? >> no, not at all. what's the chance it wil happe twice? >> reporter: along the banks of white marsh creek, mark segraves, news 4. >> okay. that had to be a very tiny baby shark. that was a little nibble there it looked like. i don't know, but it's your leg that got open like that. >ll right. oming up, a mixed bag of weather as we track a chance for showers ands storms t weekend. doug has had a closer look for us on theiming and impact, too. >> as fans pay tribute to the l.een of s he went back into the archives to find aretha frklin's last interviews on news 4 from her life and legacy to the hat that captured all that

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♪ ♪ let it ring ♪ oh, let it ring ♪ all the way to the allegheny line ♪ ♪ let it ring >> an iconic performance from the queen o soul at president obama's inauguration in 2009. as tributesor aretha franklin pour in, we're looking back on her musical milestones here in d.c. >> our barbara harrison interviewed the singer twice, and she joins us now in the

ostudio with mo her legacy. barbara? >> yeah, i was very lucky to have had a chanc to interview aretha franklin on a couple of t occasions, botes that she came to washington because of her longtime association with the prestigious academy of achievement. occasionally she would perform at one of the academy's summits, and even though the events were filled withamous people, aretha was the one everyone clamored to meet. i caught up with her after one of her rousing performances for the academy of achievement where as always she brought down the house with her energy on stage. ♪ r-e-s-p-e-c-t >> reporter: ifa areanklin can't get respect, nobody can. in her more than 40 years of recording hits, she's still belting them out with all the energy the queen of soul is nop. how has she kept it going? well, i don't know. i'm an ari who they say has a lot of energy. >> reporter: she was thought to be child prodigy by those

familiar with her amazing talent as a mostly self taught pianist. she began sging in her father's church after moving from memphis where she was born to detroit. >> yes, i did, iung in the junior choir, and i was one of the leadocalists for the choir. i played piano for the choir occasionally, and custom airlie on the roahe my father would go on the road and have services in major auditoriums and arenas across the country. i would precede him singing, and thene would minister from there. >> reporter: it wasn't surprising to anyone who heard her that her talt would soon be recognized as having serious commercialal ap. >> i had had the occasiono meet sam cook who came tof one our gospel presentations after church, and sam had such gat

success in leaving gospel or certainly broadening his rizons. i wondered if i could do the same thing. >> in detroit motown was just beginning and her dad looked lito the possies there. >> he went to see barry and they met and they talked and he didn't feel that barry had a isnd ofibution that he wanted for me. he wanted me to have national and international distribution. >> reporter: in new york her career took off. with hit after hit, aretha franklin became one of the most celebrated artists in grammy history, 20, including two lifetime achievement nods. she's had 77 top 100 hits and "rolling stone" nam her number one in its list of top 100 singers. >> i don't have any favorites. i like them all. they are like your children. i enjoy them all. >> reporter: and one among her many signature songs has become knn as the feminist national

anthem. >> "respect," okay. >> reporter: and how do you feel about it? >> i love it. it's a mantra for women. oure. >> reporter: are feminist? i mean, do you feel like you're really -- >> i think that women should have the same rights as men do, yeah. i think that we should be paid equally, equal pay, yes, if we do the same job, of course. in fact, we should be paid more is whit i because we're women and we don't have the muscle and braun that men do, and if we have enough heart and enough courage to step up to the plate, we should be paid more. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: from the honors and acdays as they continue t accumulate, in 1994 sheas youngest to be honored by the kennedy center for a lifetime of achieve president. e holds theresidential medal of honor. >> it's wonderful to bekn

acowledged in that manner and on that level, it's wonderful. >> reporter: admirhag presidents invited aretha franklin to washington often. her rendition of "my country 'tisasf thee" the highlight of president obama's first inauguration. >> certainly a historical momant something that will never happen again. that is the first time, and so that will never happen again, and i wasdelighted to be asked to be a part of it. >> reporter: her fans around the ravery raise theed her for singing with so much energ on such a cold day. they also admired the way she chose to stay warm that day. >> that hat took on a life of it own,at okay. at has its own web page. >> reporter: but it's really a lot more than what she's wearing that gets her all that respect that she enjoys every time she takes the stage. ♪ american hero aretha franklin. and during one of my interviews with aretha franklin she mention

that had she was in negotiations to do a film with her life. well, i asked her who would she like to play her, and she thought about it a minute and she said beyonce would beoo a choice. >> a good choice. >> who wouldn't? >> i love hearing her ros, where it all began. >> i know, i know. she was very pud of herather and the things he had done for her career and to push her along. i was very lucky to get to be with her. eed you were. we were lucky to have her in our lives for so many years. she did mean different so many different groups of people. >> i know, incredible. >> thank you, barbara. >> oh, you're welcome doug is back with more about our weather, and some goodan ne some bad news ahead. >> oh, a little bit of both. you know, it depends on which side of the coin you fall on. do you like the hot a humid weather? >> pat loves it. >> i know. >> the rest us, we're f nots. pat, she loves it. out there the nyst couple of

t will be exactly that, hot and humid. saw that today. high temperatures at 90 degrees. at t w airport get even warmer and right now still sitting at 88 degrees and plenty of sunshine and temperatures dropping over the next couple of hours but not all that 84 degrees by 9:00, nice, but each on your thursday night looking a little bit on the humid side. 98 theurrent heat index, current heat index right now. 98 leesburg and 95 quantico and 95 d.c. and 97 annapolis. you can tell iels defin on the humid side. i think the heat index tomorrow will approach 100 in a metas tomorrow. especially downtown, and places like annapolis dhen towards quantico area and fredericksburg. no rainn our immediate area. did see showers out to the west. tracking these down towards the shenandoah valley earlier. could see a cou more towards i-8 i-81 and most of us will remain onidhe dry a system back to the west. you see a spin in the atmosphere an area of low pressure. that's going to continue to move closer our way and give us that chance of shors and

understorms during the day tomorrow. one or two of those could be on the strong side, and not too worried, however, about a lot of severe weather. let take you through hour-by-hour. 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, no problem. a few more clouds that we've today and the area that's the case right on through the midday hours. midday tomorrow. if you're thinking about getting lunch outside, the only issue, not rn. it's goingo be the humidity. you can walk to the -- to the food you're going to get but you might want to move inside. air conditioning a big deal tomorrow. during the afternoon, you start to see the storms come towards the region. you notice though these and few between so i'm not talking about all day widespread storms. just o scatterin those storms right during the evening rush tomorrow night. heads up there. tice sock, at least this computer model will give us a couple along the i-95 corridor and even through 9:00, sock, now on saturday a little bitfff a ent story here. not much in the morning. a lot of cloud cover on saturday. some sun and h noon. still no rain and watch what happens during the afternoon. ter chance.h b you can see area-wide chances of

showers hand thunderstorms on saturday and some obe those coud n the strong side, though once again not severe, and that's good news there, although we don't want to see any more rain. a lot the last month hnd af. 89 dry for your noon around that time. 94 degrees and hot and humid continues persist. 84 degrees on sunday and next week a chance of showers and storms on tuesday and wednesday and then drying as we head towards the endt of nex week. >> ll right. doug, thank you. warm ming up, alex smith up, but will he play tonight? we go live to fedex field for the redskins pr the redskins pr es

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of firsts for the rookies coming in. one guy had to ask for directions to even find the field, and another couple of rookies had to ask directions to find the lker room. but one guy who has no trouble finding his way around the building head coach jay grudelk wag in. he's even rockingome snazzy red shoes if you can see those. jay gruden looking for his team's first preseason win. don't worry, josh norman's walking stick justhi a fas accessory. normanrriving with vernon davis who told us this week guys can't worry about being injured. they just have to play. >> the most important thing when it como just trying to mitigate the risk of injuries is just going hard and going fast and being smart. just play football.an you't go out there thinking, hey, what if i get hurt, blah, blah, blah, we just have to play football. >> is there any fine lineng between g full speed and going hard and keeping things safe? >> well, thi game that we play

don't exist so we're out there. it's no going half speed. when you're out there you have to play hard. injuries are a part of game, you know what i mean. that comes with it. we signed up for it. no half speed. got to go hard. >> repter: here's the four things to watch for tonight. will he or won't he go? uprterback alex smith warme in pads last week before taking them off and sitting out the game. still, n word yet if smith will play. then start me up. which starters will we see tonight? joshur dotson retned to practice earlier this wyek. he's pla in one preseason game in his career. meanwhile j.d. swearinger also missed game onen and back o the practice field and just told me he's good to go tonight. now, tease two t we saw getting into a fight, the jets and red skips. let's hop thursday night not all right for fighting, and then staying healthy. the redskins lost two players for the preseason already, including rookie runng back

derrius guice so please, please, please, these guys, the stay healthy. dave, derrius guice did just post on instagram that he is having surgery on the torn acl tomorrow. back to you. >> all right. thanks so much. t thoughts cool josh norman was in a d.c. united jersey so that was good. some good mojo. listen, like d.c. united york norman didn't have to do that with the d.c. united jersey and fly 40,0 miles in four months and chances you would qfolify elite status. now united is back on the and their play has been elevated with the arrival of an elite player in wayne rooney and upgrade to a first class stadium audi field. rooney and united coming together at the right time. after setting up e game-winner sunday against orlando rooney was scoring against portland to tie the game at 1. and then in the second half, look at that rye smile.

then he delivered big smis all around. bend it like roone that moment of brilliance puts united on their way to a 4-1 win. two goals and two s, two games. good ratio. united out of last place and games out of a playoff spot. >> we signed a new ayer, gavin smith is here to help us with our winning ways a keep us on the right track. >> nice moment today. d.c. united looking to get a bett they did that today signing 10-year-old gavinedmith. un partnered with make a wish to help make gaven's dream of becomin a soccer player come true. he was signed. gavin was suffering from and i munn system disorder and on the field with head coach ben olson who runs him through some drills. he'll be less up with d.c. united when they take on the new england revolution on sunday. w got tok for that contract. >> oh, wow. >> so he's all >> it was electric last night. >> oh. > it was buzzing, and it was

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