>> al: you know, the cowboys lehave a great kicker, baiy. dallas is not evenemotely, they haven't sniffed the end zone. so a week from thursday be with us. it starts at 7:30 eastern. 4:30 pacific. we open up the season with atlanta going into philadelphia. so, you know, a lot of things to think about in regard to that game. one of them, of course, is going to be one of the big stories was in the offseason, who is going to be the starting quarterback for the eagles? will wentz be ready? f whes got hurt, i thought that was serious, but he is already back. >> cris: yeah, he waback. but he wasn't that effective in at next game. so you just wonder how healthy he was in the game. and so ion't know. what would you do? i mean, obviously we don't know the exact status of carson

wentz, but here is your frs chise for the next 15 ye possibly. are you sending him out there for opening day? >> al: cap capi is hurt on that play. you know, the one thing that's happening in philadelphia, obviously, that wentz hasn't been cleared f contact yet. you've lost the opportunitto let wentz fully heal if foles isn't ready. as you sd, foles got hurt, did come back even though he wasn't very effective. >> cris: yeah. a we saw wenittle bit during the broadcast the other night moving around. he looked pretty good. that's a far cryrom playing in a game and trusting your knee. we have seen people come back from knee injuries, and it's hard to stand in that pocket and step into your throws. the minute somebody stts e lling around your knees, right, you spent nnths in rehab, you are going to have some reaction to that. >> al: oh, yeah. >> ris: it's never an easy process. there is no way to make it an easyrocess.

hi's a tough decision, i tnk, for do entire organization. >> al: we will find out a week from thursday night.tt we know yan ready to lead atlanta. pressure put on here, and white is going to be taken down. that's dora. i tell you, he's really, ri vontarous dora out of louisiana tech, his third team m in three yearsay have found a home. >> cris: chaz green is going a little bit the other way. >> al: and white fires, and that one is taken in by rico gathers. this is a guy, a bastball player who had very little football expernce, trying to make the team. out of baylor. >> cris: didn't play high hool for college, but he has made some uelievable catches. people think because he was a basketball player he is antonio gates and all these routes and all the different things he can do.

he is not that athletic of a route runner, and he has blown a lot of blocking assignments, ic whmakes this coaching staff very nervous. but he's a fan favorite. r one of teasons is he makes some catches that are off the charts. going up over -- it looks like a rebounder playing tight end. and so that's going to be a tough decision. >> al: bottom line he is one much those bubble guys right new. >> cris:f those bubble guys. >> al: fourth down and two. near the short green zone they go. 46 seconds. a low snap. white is hanging in. on the money. rs has looked good tonight. caught there by anon. that's flipper anderson's son. >> reporter: really? >> al: yes, it is. makes the catch. >> cris: i tell you what. i saw the arm talent they have been talking about witmike white on that one. that looked a lull like josh

rosen last week. he got over the top of this thing and just hum-babied it right in there. >> al: so daas takes a timeout. >> cris: i think hassan reddick couldn't believe it. he was in perfect position and h ite drilled it past him.l: >> ahite is 16 out of 19. >> cris: now what do you? >> al: yeah. you have cooper rush. do you keep three quarterbacks? >> cris: you know -- >> al: i mean, they drafted him. do you expose him? >> cris: i'm not releasing that young man. i have seen enough already today. the nfl is about throwing from the pocket. and we have a he -- there is all kinds of different ways to win in the game of football. but when somebody has the ability to stand in the middle of the field, that's a lot of field.

what, 53 1/3 yards wide and maybe 60 yards down the field?f sou can make throws to all of those different areas, it is tough to defend. >> al: this is his 21st attempt of the night. throws underneath tohe 27 yard line. lley williams. and the cowboys wi take another timeout with 28 seconds. they are trying to get something on the board. anybody but a zero. >> cris: i don't blame them. and you are in heavy evaluation atpoint because we're in seeing scott lan and jason garrett, they're tnking what we're thinking. are we seeing enough out of mike white? obviously, you want tout him an the practice squad. if you take a ch and release him and try to put him there, anybody can take him. so now let's see what he can do. can he take them on in the rest of the way in 28 secthds and put

sog on the board? they want to see more. >> al: third and five. >> cris: i wouldn't be surprised t all if they threw it to rico gathers to see whe had at this point, too. >> al: over the middle. juggled.om it's iplete. >> cris: there is rico he tried.me , that wasn't a bad throw. that's just that seam throw a little bit behind, and i'm not so sure he wasn't trying to back shoulder that ball to put him in a little better position and gathers just didn't look quite soon enough. that really was -- i would have to put that in the catory, that was a dargood throw. tight ends have to make that catch in traffic. now they are going to evaluate the kicker. >> al: this is brent mar. again, as was the case with ther other kickmcgrain, a little

audition here. 45 yard line field goal. and the dallas cowboys off the hneid. >> cris: what do you call that? >> al: you call that whatever the crowd number is right now. well, of -- we have shown you every package expect this one. network analysts. michele, by the way, stand by. you have troy aikman and fox. many, many years. tony romo did a tremendous job in his rookie season. monday night you have jason witten making hidebate. and then michele, what is that song you sing to your daughter now? ♪ one of these things is not like the others ♪ ♪ one of these things just doesn't belong ♪ >> michele: wasn't that from sesame street? >> cris: they lead in money earned and i lead in laugh lines. oh, gosh.

>> al: do you want us to throw a charity ball for you? i >> crieed more makeup. i'll start doing that. come on. three good looking guys. >> al: man oh man. the dallas cowboys, i tell you what, i see where demarcmurray for fox, another cowboy. demarco just retiring.so ne more kneel down should end this one it will go into the books, or it should be booked. ezekiel elliott, the he is. they said he wasn't going to play in preseason and he hasn't. and we will now see him on opening day against the carolina panthers. quite a difference from last year when it was all about, you know, was he going to get suspended. w if sn? it turned out to be six games arafter the middle of the >> cris: we saw that shot of

sean lee, too. when sean lee plays for this ea footballm a season ago they were number one in yards per play allowed, which is the best of all barometers. he has a tremendous impact, as did that guy right there. secould not be more impres arth what steve lks has done with the arizona cdinals this preseason. >> al: wilks is 3-0 in preseason. his team has taken the ball away me times in three games. garrett's team, while, is 0-3. and that's goingfro wrap it up om here. the final score was 27-3. your local news coming up next. so al michaels, cris collinsworth, michele tafoya, our entire crewmaning the buttons and the replays and all arlington, texas. we will see you a week from thursday from philadelphia.

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right now at 11, the search for a mote i have at a gunman opens fire at a video game tournament killing two anddi wo nearly a dozen more before turning the weapon on himself. leaving another community to deal with the scars of yet another mass shooting. >> this evening, tonight, jacksonville is mourning. pray j forksonville as we deal

with this tragedy. and, from arizona to annapolis, services and tributes lasting five days. what we are now learning about the plans to honor senator john mccain. >> announcer: news 4 at 11 starts now. horror for dozens inside jacksonville, florida. a man goes on a shooting rampage during a live video game tournament. good evening. we leaed the shooter is 24-year-old david cass. tonight federal agentslu ing the fbi and atf searched a home in baltimore whee he may h been living. he committ suicide but not before killing two other people and wounding nearly a dozen others. >> reporter: competitors flockes to jville to play an nfl video game. livee middle of the streaming competition the shooting started.

[ gunfire ] >> the first shot everybody just turned around and looked. after the second, third, fourth shots, everyone just took off he exit. or >> reporter: authorities converged on the scene. an entertainment complex along the city's river front. witnesses ran f cover. >> i seen somebody on the ground. i seen a body on the ground. i seen a kidith blood all over him. >> reporter: police say w three peope killed, including the shooter. >> three deceased individuals at the scene. one of those being the suspect who took his ownli . there were nine victims transported to area hospitals. ven of those had gunshot wounds. in addition, there were two additional gunshot victims that self transported themselves to local hospitals. >> reporter: authorities released few details about a possible motive, but they believe they identified the gunman. >> we believe the suspect being 24-year-old david katz from baltimore, maryland. >> authorities continue their investigation, a community must now cope with tragedy. >> i couldn't believe it.

i thought i was still dreaming because i never in my life thought that thisapouldn in jacksonville. >> reporter: jacksonville, now the latest american city to be touched by mass violence. and late tonight, a statement from e.a. sports which makes the madden game. the situation in jacksonville was a senseless act of violence that we strongly condemn. the company goes on to offer sympathy to the victims in today's shooting. team coverage continues tonight with o of the victims shot today. this boy was shot in thehumb and was tweeting about what happened moments after the first bullets flew. tonight we have new reaction from his brother and what he thinks needs to happen at future ming events. darcy spencer is live with more. darcy? >> reporter: we are here at the dull es expo center.

later this week on friday, one of these bigve gamings is scheduled to start. the brother of that young shooting victim told me hets wan to make sure these events are olfe. wilson high sc graduate was wounded in the mass shooting in florida. he was there for the m gaming tournament when the shooting happened. he plays for the professional gaming team called complexity. a bullet appears to have grazed his thumb. he was otherwise okay. his brother told news 4 someone sitting right next to him was shot. he sent out a series of tweets after the shooting. they appear to go from hock to gratefulness that he wasn't hurt more teriously. he w the tourney just got shot up. i'm leaving and never coming back. i am literally so lucky the bullet hit my thumb. worst day ofy life. i will never take anything for granted ever again.an lifee cut short in a second. his last tweet, if i haven't said it befo, i'll say it now,

i love all you guys. drini's brother said he's concer security at these games events. there's another madden qualifying tournament scheduled for thedulles expo in northern virginia. the three day event will begin later this week. it's unclear how this shooting could affect futurern tents and a security at these big events.s drinrother told us gamers need to be protected. >> they don't have s ict gun laws in florida, but think for the tournament t need to start applying some police force within the area to make sure that this doesn't happen again. >> now, i did reach out to the organizer of that event that's going to start here on friday, he goto back me through e-mail right away. he says within 15 minutes of the announcement of the shooting they were working with this venuhe and own private security firm to review their existing procedures and to see

what, if any,hanges need to be made. they are promising a safe event enhere next we back to you. >> darcy spencer live outside the dulles expo center. thank you. meanwhile, the shooting reopening wounds for students at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. two teens w whoe at the school during february's massot sg there reacted. david hogg directed his anger at marco rubio, tweeting, quote, m how mas shootings in your state will it take for you to do something? we cannot accept this as our reality. we cannot accept violence or ha , end quote. 17 students and staff were killed in that shooting in parkland. new tonight, one man shot as d.c. police look for t person wh pulled the trigger. officers found the man shot in shoulderof the this happening earlier this evening on trinidad avenue in northeast. himselfay the man drove

or was driven where police were called. they saw a car wbuh multiple et holes being towed away from the scene. the man is expected to survive. tomorro morning we coul learn new details about the murder of 10-year-old wilson, the man charged in her murder, thomas goes before d.c. judge. police also have a warrant for an arrest for a second man, quinton michaels. both were released from jail on drug charg just three days before last month's shooting. lice say the suspect's were among the five masked men who jumped out of a car and opened fire into a crowd. killing 10-yeaold mkayah. tomorrow kicks off a week of tributes as the world prepares to say good-bye to senator mccain. d.c. and maryland will be important backdrops as we celebrate his life and in mccain's hometown, the arizona diamondbacks, holding this special tribute before last nit's game. nbc's jay gray is in arizona with details about the public

nd private services being planned. >> reporter: courage, honor, respect. >> he was one of a kind. determined, courageous, tough. >> reporter: memorie of a warrior and hero, 24 hours after his passing. >> i don't know tt we'll ever see anybody who is like john mccain. i think he's one of a kind. >> reporter: he lived a life of service and sacrifice, a navy bomber pilot, prisoner of war and the lion of the senate. >> i fell in love with myy countr when i was a prisoner in someone else's. i loved it because it was not just a place but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. i was never the same again. i wasn't my own man ymore. was my country's. >> reporter: we are now beginning to learn more about how senator john mccain will be rest.d and laid to he will lie in state in the

rotundas of both the arizona and u.s. capitals ahead of a full dress funeral at the nional cathedral in washington. sources close to the family say former presidents ait pal opponents, george w. bush and barack obama have been ask deliver eulogies, both honoring the senator online. mccain will be buried on the grounds of his beloved naval academy next to his best friend the class of 1958 admiral chuck larson. >> all of those services except for the family memorial and burial at the naval academy will be open to the public. jaygray, nbc ne ,phoenix. >> some more details now about the process to fill mccain's senate seat in arizona. the state's republican governor must decide soon who will replace him in the senate. governor doug duesy says he won'to that until after mccain's burial. he is required to pick a member of the same political party and then there's a special election

in 2020. the winner holds the seat for the remaining two years of mccain's term. all right. turning now to the weather. get ready because it is going to get very hot and very humid real soon. >> even though we're looking toward the end of august, we ar not done we 90s here just yet. right now we're at a temperature of 79 degrees, 7:00 a.m. tomorrow we'll be at 76. we have plenty of sunshine out there. and that in part will help us warm up very quickly during the morning by 9:00 a.m., we're already at 80 degrees, 11:00 a.m. it's humid and 86. so for prince william county, all having the first day of school tomorrow, it is going to be a mild one at the bus stop. it is going to be a hot one coming home. feeling like 100 degrees at 4:00 p.m. when you factor in th humidity. how long does this heat last? and what are we looking forward

to for labor day weekend? more on that i ten minutes. >> thank you, ma'am. we'll see you then. tonight work begins to ease gridlock on one the most congested roads in our area. overlight lane closures in fair fax county are now in effect. the eastbound lanes of 66 between the dulles connecter road and rifairfax will close overnight. the closure starts at 9:30 p.m. and go until 5:00 a.m. in the morning. work is expecd to take a couple of months. a stunning allegation against the pope. tonight by a former high-ranking vatican official what the pope had to say abouti it on h way back from a trip to ireland. and a celebraon of equality. nearly 100 years after the passage of the amendment that granted women the right to vote. > oh, sports final has a lot left in the tank on your sunday night. the nats' bats return in grand style, but hear why they're still bummed.

see how the redskins alute the troops who sent rod kelly on a mission of its own. n adr peterson on his first night back a big goals for the season. >> help the team win a championship and continue being the bestr pla in the league. >> just that? okay. all that and more on "sports final" rig after the news final" rig after the news ht welcome guys! hi! you are gonna love the neighborhood! it's totally wired for fios. is that a good thing? good? fiber-optics can move crazy amounts of data at even crazier speeds. and fios is a 100% fiber-optic network, so you can stream, game, and watch 4k shows all at once. kid's right about that! see! we are gonna have so much fun here.

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weekend implicating top vatican officials, including pe francis, of covering cphild sex abuse. retired archbishop and a former

vatican ambassador to the u.s. blasted the church in an 11-page report. he says he told pope francis in 2013 about the disgraced former arch shop ofwashington, theodore mccarrick but that the pontiff didn't do anything about it. he is calling for the pope to resign. in one section of the article, he admitted he made themistake of sleeping in the same bed with beach minary yans at his house, end quote. he offered no proof to back up his claims. earlier tonight, pope francis would neither confirm nor deny allegations made in the letter. catholics in the d.c. area are calling for d.c. arch bish shol cardinal wuerl to resign tonit. they hel a protest this morning. that's where wuerl delivered on schedule homily. earlier thismonth, a grand jury report in pennsylvania outlined sexual abuse.

that report found 300 priests preyed o1, more than 0 children over the past 70 years. wuerl was archbishop of pittsburgh at the time and is accused of not doing enough to stop the abuses. >>tivists say change needs to happen. i am not only infuriated butha convinced the institutional catholic church needs to undergo a very deep, radical reformation. >> cardinal wuerl denied all wrong doing. we have reached out several times for a sit-down interview with him sofa the archdiocese of washington has declined our request. an emotional gathering tonight to remember a transgender woman killed nine years ago in the district. every year since the murder, hey fand friends gather to comfort each other as they search fore. just mack was brutally stabbed to death on second and q streets in northwest in d.c.

it's a cold case now, but d.c. poli b say they'ven working it even when no leads are coming in. mack's mom and brother spoke about how difficult it's been. >> all i want to do is know the truth and i know my boys do, too. >> it's just sad, you know, h it's working and nobody know anything. you know? i'm. frustrat i'm really mad and frustrated about that. >> hopefully by bringing the person or persons thas did t to justice, we can start helping you mend that broken heart that you have. >> there is a$25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and convictionsen this today is women's equality day. and one d.c. woman's a cappella grp marked the day with asp ial song. ♪ dreams mountains i sinceas a mother daughter ♪ >> song rise is a social justice a cappella group in d.c. they were partf an all-day celebration at the belmont paul

museumn's equality day marks the anniversary of the 19th amendment which gives women the right to vote. however, they say thetill a lot of work to do especially the wage gap.♪ ♪ kind of makes you want to bob your head, right? great music. it is back to school time. nd we want to thank everybody who donated backpacks to our backpacks for kids drive this year. thanks to your generosity, we werebl a to provide 4,000 backpacks to kids all across the dmv this year. some of those kids picked up their new backpacks today, in fact. they also got free lunch. these are some of the kids with hope house a nprofit that helps children withfather's in prison. ♪ all right. we turn now to emelia dr