news4 at 110 starts now. night, there is still no suspect identified in the murders of three missing d.c. women. >> tonight, their families want to know if their loved ones could have been alive if their

cases received more attention. jackie bensen spoke to a relative and she joins us now live. >> reporter: jim, that is a very tough question to answer because we don't know a lot about the circumstances of these women's deaths. we do know that before in the years befe her death in 2012, the mother of verdell jefferson, one of the victims, used to walk the streets around wayne place at night looking for her daughter. >> it's hard when you can't, you know, wheno one hears your voice basically. i don't think that the family was really her. see her face but there's a tear running down the cheek of a woman so frightened by the circumstances of the three 12-year-old murders on wayne place southeast she asked we identify her only as a female relative of verdell jefferson. she remembers there was not muca

activity aft missing persons report was filed in 2006. >> i think they just filed a missing report and that was it. >> reporter: verdell jefferson lived on wayne place. jewel king and doorny bus lived nearby, all reported missing in 2006. yet, their disappeara es went mostly unremarked upon outside of their own families. >> look at thesefaces. the are people say their names. look into their eyes. >> reporter: derica who founded the black and missing foundation in 2008 dedicates herself to helping familiesfissing persons of color. she worries that jefferson, king and buttsot may n be the only victims of the person who heir red them and hid bodies in the 100 block of wayne place southeast. >> somebody knows something. we need themak to s you. . these families deserve answers. >> reporter: there is a potential $75,000 rard for information leading to an arrest

and conviction in all three of these murders. we're live outside the d.c. medical examiner's office in southwest washington. back to you. >> jackie, thank you. growing ials are tonight around the country and across the globe. >> people are honoring the queen ofsoul. aretha franklin passed away this morning after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. jay gray t has latest from detroit. ♪ queen.orter: the >> what a life, what a legacy. i love her. >> reporter: aretha franklin's long struggle with pancreatic cancer ended thursday morning. flower balloons and fans lined the sidewalk outside new bethel baptist church. inside -- a vigil.

>> we come. thank you for the queen of soul, aretha franklin. >> reporter: her father was a pastor here. it's the first place she ever sang publicly. her voice forever changing american music and echoing around t world. ♪ you make me feel ♪ >> she's being r embered from harlem. >> she represented someone so strong and so determined. >> reporter: through los angeles and around the world. honored notnly for her powerful voice but also her strong commitment to civil and women's rights. >> just the fact she was a black woman who could stand up in that time and ask for respect. >> reporter: r-e-s-p-e-c-tner anthem one of 20 number one hits during a career that continued more than 50 years. music that move.to tears.

like her memory does now. jay gray, nbc news, detroit. >> the smithsonian's national portrait gallery plans to honor her tomorrow. the museum is adding franklin's portrait to the inmemoriam space on the first floor. her portrait is a color poster by the designer milton glazer who created the poster in 196, the same year the national portrait gallery opened its doors to the public ♪ >> the queen of soul's music dominated the charts after her death today. tonight, she has the top five songs on itunes which includes the hit song "rpect." her greatest hits collection is number one on itunes tonight. to learn more about her music and career, open up our nbc app.ngt we've put together a photo gallery with some of her

memorable performances. redskins are back in town and tonight, they were back at fedexfield. >> it all came down to a field goal in the final seconds. dave johnson, this was dramatic stuff tonight. >> it was. i know it's only wepreseason. e fired up. that's how we roll around here. the coaches will take a look at everyone playing. there's always an extra spotlight on who, the quarterback. there's no quarterback controversy. week one of the preseason against tpatriots, alex smith warmed up to stay on the sidelines. gruden head coach jay left the decision to play up to smith. fans excited to finally see smith take the field. he didn't let them down. first quarter, h takes the snap. draps back and connects with his teammate in san francisco. a 16-yard gain. you smith went 48 yards. rookie sam darnold in the headlines for the jets on a third wn, the second overall

pick. 's the redskins rookieder ron payne gets his first sack. nice play by the big guy out of alabama. redskins go on a dramatic 15-13 win over the jets. coming up, we'll check in with sherree burress live at fedexfield. we'll send it back to you. >> thank u, dave. leon harris here at the live desk with newevelopments in one of today's big breaking stories. the man suspected of killing his pregnant wife and two young dogs may haveone sonside their colorado home. this is a stunning reversal for christopher watts who from worried husbando accus killer. the world watched earlier this week as he f pleaded help finding his wife and daughters celeste andll be tonight he's being held without bail. a source tells nbc's denver

affiliate watts confessed to the crime. osecutors say they believe that watts killed his wife and daughters inside that family home but they did not give a motive. >> it makes us angry that she wasn't able to get help because that's what i think she -- there was somhing going on, and no one knew about it. >> this evening investigatorsod found thes of the 3 and 4-year-old girls near where their mother wasiscovered earlier today. all three of them were dumped on the property of e oilompany where christopher watts worked. atts ompany fired wednesday but haven't said exactly why. he'll be back in court tuesday to be formally charged. back to you. >> thank you. policte arr a local mantied to a controversial church on child sex abuse charges. 62-yr-old kevin o'connor was taken into custody today. a loudoun county grand jury indicted him earlier this week

for allegedly sexually abusing a child in may of 2003. he is connected to the sterling cavalry chvech under igation for abuse. >> montgomery county policein investiga deadly pedestrian accident that happened this afternoon at the intersection of norbeck road and east goodie drive. police tl us a jeep hit eight 34-year-old pedestrian trying to crosssthe et. the victim later died at the hospital from his injuries. his identity has not been released yet. th driver, 6-year-old george meninaunior of rockville was not injured. it won't happen inovember after all. the pentagon announced today president trump's military parade is postponed. a defense departmentmaspok saying the pentagon originally targeted november 10th but have now agreed to explore

opportunities in 2019. before the announcement, news4 spoke with mayor muriel bowser about the potential parade and its growing costs. >> as a tax p rather see those investments in jobs.tructure, schools, >> it's looking like the event to honor america's veteransd coulost more than $90 million. that's $80 million more than initially estimated. now, the last military parade was back in 1991 to celebrate the victory in the first gulf war. to our weather. hot and hid across ouregion today. it's going to be muggy again tomorrowg >> yeah, doins us from are the storm center where he's tracking the possibility ofor stormsour friday. doug? >> yeah, those storms for tomorrow could come during the ening hours. friday night, everybody wants to get out. we'll track the storms during the day tomorrow. temperature wise, today 90 degrees in the city. ae lot of 90 degree range and

around our region. tomorrow we get iwarmer. think we're going to be in the low 90s. heat index hotter. 97 today for the index. around 100 degrees. a couple of showers and storms back around the hagerstown area. tomorrow just about everyboe gets a chaf that tomorrow evening. i'm going to break down the timing for you and showou when the best chance for rain is this weekend. see you back here in a couple minutes. >> thanks, doug. >> new at 11:00, a fire tornado inalifornia spins at more than 16 miles hour. tonight, we're learning this weather phenomenon has turned deadly. >> remember their hair raising ordeal at a montgomery county wig shop in the suspect violently attacked employees violently attacked employees during a robber

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fire tornado. this is northern california. take look from the sky. aerial views of those deadly forces combined. 165-mile-an-hour winds and a temperature of 2700 degrees. a firefighter died after gettin. caught in the carr fire as it's known destroyedy nea 1100 homes and killed at least eight people. >> loved ones come together to remember a man shot and killed by prince george's countyce po the police chief says the man was a menace in the community and his officer was forced to shoot. >> but peoplee talked to tonight are painting a far different pictur

shomari stone is in landover with the story new at 11:00. >> prince george's county police tell u the suspected drug dealer terrorized this community and may be involved in several robberies. his sister insists that's not true. >> tonight they had a candlelight vinl to pay tribute junior.ory canfield police tell us he was suspected of selling drugs in this landover neighborhood near fedexfield. they say officers is shot and killedimfter he allegedly reached for a gun in his waist during a confrontation last thursdli night. released this photo of a gun they say belonged to canfield junior and they allegedly recovered it from the scene. his sister alicia thomasisses him. >> he was an amazing person. he didn't need to be killed the way h >> reporter: but in all fairness, police say theyre reco narcotics, cash, and a e.ndgun that belonged to him at the sc >> that's funny because none of

the neighbors con pes to any of >> reporter: the police chief on the scene last thursday. >> a member of the community provided information abo an individual who they knew to be armed, knew to be selling drugs o and knew terrorizing a particular part of the temmunity. >> reporter: his s tell us he leaves behind seven kids. in landover, maryla, shomari stone, news4. >> a dream home is not so d for a single mother, an army veteran in stafford unty. habitat for humanity volunteers built the house last year. shortly after the move-in, thede foundation n repairs and the water turned brown. tests show the water is safe but it smells and stains the tile. >> it felt like you were getting in the shower or brushing your teeth with water sitting in - ve old, nasty coins. >> in a statement, the great area frederickburg habitat for humanita say they by their

work and point out homeowners are responsible for mai haining theies and attending classes to help prepare them for the swork. >> t from the public led to two arrests in a robbery at a montgomery county wig store. 19-year-old curtis pegues of temple hills faces first degree assault and armedobbery charges. he's being held without bond. charges are pending against a 14-year-old from d.c.> surveillance video captured thisobbery last month at esther's buse salon in silver spring. police are still searching for a third suspect. if you have info, police would like to hear from you. >> back to school is sneaking up on us. arlington county police want to make sure kids are prepad and stuffed a cruiser from people across the community. they clected something everybody can use. everything inside the cruiser will be given to arlington county teachers and students. good for them.

>> that's great. >> backpacks there. >> checking something on your phone there? >> yeah, i'm looki at that -- >> the firenado >> that was incredible. >> you know, so much of those fires the carr fire still going on. so many of those fires continuing to get smoke. you're canceling a vacatio that way because of all fires. that smoke was here today around our area. it's going across the country. i read onehe article about smoke going across the atlantic into europe. that's how man t ofm are burning parts of british columbia. hundreds ofires this last weekend due to lightning strikes in that area. out there today for us, nothing like that. but w do have some of that. they brought some air quality down in the baltimore area because of that fire smoke. w,ght warm and humid conditions. 81. winds seven miles per hour. it was hot. high of 90. heat indexit 97 today.

that was in d.c. 100 inannapolis. right now, the actual temperature still very warm. 80 inba imore, 77 towards leesburg. that's going to lead to a warm start to our day tomorrow. no rain. h seen a couple showers and thunderstormsir in westnia and they made their way up eventually into pennsylvan. you canee that right here here's the line. you can see showers and storms through here. they form and then move right through martinsburg in towards hagerstown and they're out of back to the west, you can see the spin in the atmosphere. the spin is going to help to spawn showers storms tomorrow afternoon. i'm not expecting a lot. tomorrow morning, no problem. 8:00 a.m., fine walking out the fronmo door clouds than today. notice at 1:00, there's a shower around t baltimore area. still cloud cover. we'll break out into some sunshine to help u warm quickly. it's going to be humid.

6:00 tomorrow night, whee have the best chance for some of these to come through. there's not a lot of activity here. at least on this model. they're coming through around 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00. if you're headed out to dinner, keep an eye to thesky. have dessert if there's a storm over your way. get an extra drink. 8:00 a.m. surday morning starting off dry. i think we see a widespread area of showers an thatderstorms. s a day to bring the umbrella if you're out on saturday. >> highs tomorrow 94. hot and humid. index around 100. storm chances late in the day after 5:00. next couple days, 87 on saturday. again, 60% of storms on saturday. 40% torrow and 40% on sunday. sunday the storm systemll that wiroduce these may stay south of us. we may not see a lot of shower

activity on sunday. 84 on monday. another chance on tuesday with temperatures into mid 80s. next week looking okay. hopefully it's on nice side. that's the way it'lo ing. we'll have to wait and see about that one. still aways oer th >> coming up, some redskins stars get to shine in their

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fedexfield, charge for parking, admission, hot dogs and beer. hire referees. we'll call it preseason. apparently iabworked. a s crowd showed up. they were able to witness the debut of the redskins new quarterback. jay gruden getting his first look at alex smith in game action. he didn't disappoint. on second down why not go to something familiar, play action, dropsback. vernon davis he finds. they played together for sevenan seasons in sfrancisco. no rust here. 16-yard gain for davis.ns reds on the move. later in the drive, third and eight. smith finds josh doctson. gets the first down. his second ceer preseason catch. smith went 4 for 6. 48 yards. the number two overall pick sam darnold got his start for the ts daron payne flies and comes up with the sack on darnold. things notetng much better.

second quarter, intercepted. the third round pick out of penn state comes up with the int. the interception. redskins go on to win it, 15-13e so get the win in son. alex smith makes his debut. sherree burress was there to witness it all. we got to see smith, as well. >> reporter: not the most dramatic win. something that sto out to me in the second pre-season game was daron skpayne. i jay gruden, will we see him play tonight. he said it depends on how he's feeling. o re's what payne hady about playing in the first nfl game. >> i feel good to be back out there. ain't practiced the whole month. but yes, it felt good. something i've been working for my whole life. i'm blessed and happy for the opportunity. >> he missed a little bit of time with his injury. the little bit we saw in otas andohat we've seen sfe far, we

very confident payne will be a force in this division for a lot of years. >> reporter: and so we do have another week of practice except back. we're back here for third pre-season game against the broncos. >> good stuff. daron payne got on the field which was good le segue to the nates and cardinals. resegway. you'ot dealing with your average jerk. bases loaded bryce harper r of the game. he adds a two-run single. he was 3 for 5 with three rbis. the nats hold on to win, 5-4 over the cardinals. >>inally. >> hallelujah. >> i knew we were in good shape when doug wasn't yelling in thei weather of. >> tt's true. ha

there's a triple threat at georgetown university. identical triplette brothers h taken every step together. now, they're going for another degree at georgetown. a masters in economics at the er unty. the osborne triplets nicholas, zachary and benjamin don't just dress like. they appeao think alike, as well. although they spend a lot of time together, they tell us their bond is something they would ner trade. >> it's a very interesting experience. >> even though we're in a crowd, we stand out.

>> we're tl we're triplets because that sets us apart. >> theynl aren't the oy triplets in the family. their great grand forewas a triplett, as well. the bthers are from rocky mountain, north carolina. they all went to college tooth too and graduated from chapel hill. >> gooluckeing theird (sound of footsteps) (sound of car door opening) (car door closes) (sound of engine starting) ♪ ♪

(sound of footsteps) (sound of car door opening) (car door closes) (sound of engine starting) ♪ ♪ >> jimmy: here with a tribute to the queen of soul, aretha franklin, please welcome the roots and ariana grande. [ cheers and applause ]