brunch. >> it has lun at so:20 in the morning. breakfast. k you, >> making sure they can get through the day without getting hangry. >> oh, ahis heat humidity we're dealing with this week across the region is no joke. hello, i'm put lawson muse. >> and i'm leon harris. there's the heat advisory for thou next three which is why we're in weather alert mode. >> things will take a dramatic turn, doug? i guess weeed to get through the next couple of days first. > the heat index is well over 100. high today so far is 94 degrees, and as we told you yesterday we ve a chance for few showers and storms. now you look at this map. not much happening out there, but where the storms have been firing they have been strong, right around the d.c. metro area and looking at this storm right he, jus south and making its way towards the oxen

hill area and into southwest d.c. this storm though, a severe thunderstorm warning now in effect for charles county aroun waldorf and laplata. a ton of lightning for this ayy making itsowards laplata. if you live in laplata stay because this use brings you a lot of lightning and very heavy rainfall assoated with thi those are the only two players in town as far as the storms are concerned. the big deal is the heat. look at the high temperatures right now. 94 d.c. it's 87 in d.c. because of the fact that t we've seense showers. 94 in hagerstown and hot agai tomorrow, i think another heat advisory and i'm tracking the latest ondo tropical storm g about to make landfall in the next few hours. we'll talk aboutlhat and t you where this storm goes after it makes landfall in parts of the southeast. got te covered. >> pretty much. >> >>thanks, doug. we're going to be in weather alert mode for the next few days, folks, as the heat and humidity holds its grip on it. download the nbc washington app and get the latest on the heat

and humidity and when it will finally let up. pat? >> a local man says a day at six flags left him with bruises to his head and b and now he's suing. this video shows guards holding him to the ground. news 4's darcy spencers live outside of six flags right now in's prince georcounty, and explain what he says happened and how the amusement park is responding. >> reporter: well, pat, this man says that he was beaten by those security guardst here six flags on father's day in front of his wife and children. like you said. he's filed suit. this is a copy that have $10 million lawsuit that he's filed against the amusement park. now w want to show you photos that nicholas mims shared with news 4 with injuries to his head and back. he says he suffered a concussion when he was slammed on the pavement. he was searching the park for his missing son wit no shirt

on. he explained he was trying to connect with his wife. she had the clothing. he admits he used a curse w td andt's when the guards told him you've got to get out of the park. he said he was being escorted out and went- that's when he said the guards claimed he was resisting slammed him to the ground and handcuffed him. >> now that just smashed my head. it's just like -- like we don't even have to be here. all they hado do was let me walk out. it makes no sense. >> now six flags issued a statement to us saying that the amusement park does not comment on pending litigation, but they say that this lawsuitas no merit. pat, back to you. >> darcy spencer, we'll be watc hng to see this plays out in court. thanks, darcy. a quickook now at some of the other top stories this afternoon. >> here in the district a judge ed bond for a woman charged in a road rage incident. the defenseue argd that mariana

hlver suffers from schizophrenia andad an episode when cell v phoneideo shows her smashing in a greyhoundde bus vi and later on in the video we see her drive off afterbu th driver jumped on top of her car. nearly a year after a pregnant teacher was found dead in a shallow grave her boyfriend is oner trial for murder. tyler tessier faces life in prison for allegedly killing the howard county elementary schoolteacher who was pregnant with tessier's baby when she died. >> usa gymnastics ceo carrie perry made an abrupt exit an months of criticism from former olympians andat currentnal team members. she replaced the former ceo who relined last year in the wake of the larry nassar sexual abuse scandal. perry has been heavily criticized for not taking enough

action for hping make things better. >> the book "feared, trump in the white house" details how top players and aid routinely went behind the president's back to thwart him. in one account woodward says the president orderedam mattis to assassinate syrian dictator bashar al assad. mattis reportedly told the president he would proceed with the plan and then chose a much more measuredro ah instead. the president's former personal lawyer up a mock q and a to simulate a sit-down withpecial unsel robert mueller and woodward recorded the conversation with his president when he told him he was doing the book. >> i do, i do, and kelly ann went to somebody but she didn't come to me and she should have come to me. >> she doess have acc to me,

absolutely, she has direct access but she didn'tome to me. you know, what that's okay. i'll end with another bad book, what can i tell you. >> and t call woodward said he desperately tried to get in touch with the president for the ok many times talking to six different people about ttt. the presids heard saying that he never got the message. t> late this afternoon the white house calle book, quote, nothing more than fabricated stories, many byrm disgruntled employees. >> it was a kate being start to the senate confirmation hearing for the supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. the hearing is still underway ght now. the session has been full of objections andnterruptions. scott macfarlane is following the developments from our live scott? >> pat, good afternoon. remarkable may be an understatement. there were fireworks fe beginning with intercorruptions and protests as soon as chairman chuck grassle gaveled the hearing into session.

[ shouting ] ♪ >> judge kavanaugh himself didn't get much of a cnce to give his opening statement democrats arguing the hearing should be delayed because the white house is withholding 100,000 pages of documents and in addition they receive 45,000 documents last night classified as confidential and could not be released to the public. republican chairman grassley denied that request for a delay. >> we don't even know what is being hidden. >> our duty to the american public is to evaluate a candidate on their body of work. >> if my colleagues truly believed that other cmittee confidential documents should have been made public, they never told me about them to request tnes they wanted. >> dozens of protesters were escorted out of hearing during the morning session. at times the senators had to shout over the screaming demonstrators. the hearing continues this afternoon. more sparring between senators, but so far fewer interrupgsz. back to you. >> good deal, thanks, scott. let's get some insight on the

hearing. chuck todd is nbc news political director and moderator of "meet the press" as everyone knows. chuck, we know you werehi wa. give us the top takeaways from the kavanaugh hearing. >> today was more of a sers of eechg and the action was at the beginning where democrats wanted to make a point, but it's very interesting here and it will really be in the eye of the beholder. democrats are upset about thes procf how this hearing has come about. there's not enough papers and were elt as if the jammed, especially last night. another 40,000 papers released at the last minute. can you read all those in time to be prepared to ask actual questions, which by the way the questions don't beginun l tomorrow. today has been six hours of and so i think the question is were democrats doing that as show for their base? was it about the mid terms, or were they serious about trying to gum up the works here? and i think a lot ooo people at what the democrats did today and it looked like it was

more -- something that was orchestrated for people's own personal political issues, running for 2020 or throwing something to the base. i have to tell you this, leon. what do you think mitch mcconnell would have done in a similar situation, under mcconnell's leadership e republicanher would have never shown up at the hearing or walked out today. >> very ieresting. let's take a closer look to the mid terms. about eight weeks out. let's drill down on virginia's tenth district. republican barbara come stack running against jennifer with exton, a district that leans left and republican leaders may be ready to abandon comstock in fa or ofer people who have chances of winning the race. >>arbara comstock, not the first time she heard this. a lot of people tthught she was first one they would throw overboard when it looked like

president trump was causing i problethe suburbs for republican candidates during the presidential, andhe somehow survived. her opponent this time is much stronger than heremratic opponent was last time. there was been a -- she's trailed consistently. the republicans, leon, are staring at 65 districts that they have to defend. advertising on wrc is very ex nsive, so i've been told, and in all of our -- >> don't scare them of chuck, come on. >> to advertise in the washington, d. market section pensive. they have to make tough decisions but here's the good news for d.c. politic junkies. the state of virginia has four seats in play that will tell us if democrats w two of them, they have a good night. if they win three of them, it's a pretty big wave, and if they win all fr of em, it's a tsunami. you only have to watch the results of the state of virginia to actually know how good or bad of a night either parid. there are that many house seats in play just in the state of virginr alone, f of them.

>> okay. we have to wait eight weeks for that night. meantime, tell them they can still spend their money here at wrc. we'll te it. that's right. >> thanks, chuck. >> chuck todd of nbc news will have more in-depth coverage of the 2018 mid terms including an investigation into election meddling. that comes yr wayonight on "nbc nightly news." pat? >> a familiar face is returningt to the senat replace the late senator john mccain. arizona govnor dougucey announced john kyl will take the sleep. he's curre shepherding brett kavanaugh, served as an arizona senator from 1997 to 2013 before announcing he would not seek re-election. kyl says he's only doing this temporarily and he doesn't plan toeek re-election in 2020. mccain's widow cindy called the choice a great tribute to john mccain. >> so how was yourommute this morning? the september slowdown begins.

>> transportation reporter adam tuss is working for you and when he expects then congesto be at the worse as summer draws to a close. >> and howhey are dealing with the oppressive heat. >> and three clicks of her heels got dorothy home to kans, but it took 13 years to find julie it took 13 years to find julie garland's famous ruby red

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labor day is the unofficial end to summe but that sure doesn't mean the end to extreme temperatures and humidity. right nowt 4:00 we are in weather alert. we have team coverage of this unrelenting weather. >> plus, why you may be noticing heavier traffic now that summer vacations ereing. adam tuss explains what you can expect in the weeks to come. id you notice the extra time it took you to get to or from work today? a little longer than normal. yes, the september slowdown as we've now started t call it is going to start taking effect. you can see here on route 50 alresy loaded up thi afternoon as people start to come and go and really as we start to get it back into a pattern where school is in session. summer vacations are over, maybe

congress comes back in session. we'll start to see a slowdown more and more over the comingek doesn't hit all at once. not one day when we get this cotlete shock but i does start to gradually phase itself in and drivershay t alrdy noticing. >> it doesn't lessen the frustrations, you know, when you're sitting for that turn of light two or three times becau the traffic is backed up so much, for sure. >> back herelo ang route 50 as we start to see more and more of the traffic build, stay with us all this month as wetart to document how long it starts too take f all of us to get around. back to you. sglip i'm derrick ward in college park where some students at the university of maryland are still having to deal with some of that summer heat. now, we're here on the part of the campus that's newer, but there are se older parts of campus, especially some of the older dorm buildings.

there's several of them that don't have air conditioning thughout the buildings. there are some parts of the buildings that do have window units. students are being told they can sleep there at the night and can study during the day where there is air conditioning and the university is proving some fans, but we talked to some a students freshmen students like iris who says this is not the introduction to campus life that she expected. >> tease awful,ontly. we sleep on towels on the floor because it's so hot and we sweat in our sheets so we don't want that. we lay towels out and sleep on floor. >> the university says they will be making accommodations for those students who want to find co spaces to sleep in through the end of the week. it's only 16% of the student body that' housed in parts of the campus like that. now the university also says that their strategic housing plan calls for renovations to these buildings, and when they

can add airtioning they will. if they can't, they will take those buildings offline.iv we're in college park, derrick ward, news 4. back to u guysn the studio. wo, but that brings back some memories forhis guy. >> too hot to study or sleep. >> that's when we had the windoc fans in the day when i was in school. >> and realizing how important sleep is, you know, when you're a college student trying to get as much as you can between all ine studying you're t to do. think about the kids in the elementary schools, even some of ac units. >> they will have a hard time this week. that's why we're in weather alert mode and we'll stay there tomorrow and into the day on thursday, too. serious his is real heat this time of the year. take a look at the high temperature today. 95 degreese in city. 97 in frederick and 94 dullesan 95 warton and 96 in warrenton. yeah, some of the hottest air that we've seen in a while. big-time heat wave and another one and nowhe current

temperature is down to 87. the reason we saw storms come on through in the way of shower activity, the winds have shifted northeast at 18 and we're seeing the showers and thunderorms ound. however, most of us are still on the dry side. we're still at 94. 97 still in frederick and 94 in town and that heat index is well over 100 to 104. that's why the heat advisory is in effect until i 7:00 andhink we'll see another heat advisory tonight and into the day on thursday as well. now, not much going on in our area. we saw storms around the metro. nowtine storm is going on. still a couple just to the west of manas yags here along 66.av still one right here north of oxen hill making its way south andis thi the big one. we have a severe thunderstorm warning until 5:00. go ahead and zoom on into this area a little bit closer. king george countyndlong the bridge here. extremely heavy rainfall around laplata and a ton of lightning

with that storm. that severe thunderstorm warning until 5:00. that's really the only game in up to. not much happening. high pressure dominating. once again you can see the high essure sending the storms way up into canada and way offshore. we just get aouple of isolated storms off the potomac here and off the chesapeake bay around our region. now theest area, yeah, high and dry. hot for sure and we're watching right now what's happening with gordon. rdon right here, and i think it's strengthening now and cnld comehore as a-hour cable. expected to. isly has a couple more hours to go. s tropical storm gordon. winds at 65 miles per hour and moving to the northwest at 15 miles per hour. it's expected to come in towards parts of alabama or mississippi as a pretty strong tropical storm or hurricane. now by tomorrow morning, 7:00 a.m. central time. that's 8:00 our time, alreado to 40 miles per hour, so already a very weak tropical storm. over the next few hours that this area of the country, florida panhandle, alabama,

mississippi and parts of louisiana are under the gun.re hurricane fe with winds of 80 miles per hour into central portions of the atlantic and this storm, however, expected to go in towards the atlantic and turn. not a threat to land but it's still something we'll be watching very closely over the next couple of days. 94 tomorrow. the heat index well over 100 degrees and the next four days a hot tomorro hot on wednesday and then a major pattern change. we'veot 78 o saturday and sunday even cooler. that forecast, i've got it at 4:45. >> all right. we'll be looking for that. thank you, doug. >> nike tak a side on the nfl national anthem controversy. >> outrage and celebration over kaepernick n >> and keeping your youngsters fueled at school. fueled at school. all starts with a gooder hogan your school supplies today...us fueled at school. all starts with a gooder hogan school. grade. done. done.

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>> t stillcking a severe thunderstorm warning. trees down in the waldorf area and towards laplata, too. ffect rstorm warning in until 5:00. right around 301 and towards la pla plata. watch out for this storm.

a few other storms out there as well. we're tracking a few of those. we'll keep you posted on the heat and humidity and how long it will last and what to expect the next couple of days. >> all right. doug, i'm scott macfarlane. break now, the p d.c.lic school system announcing a potential security break. a letter was sent to parents saying a spreadsheet was posted that revealed the names of students, tir birthdays and id numbers and their school and grade levels, among otheral ite. the information exposed from february 2018 until last month. the school chancellor says the spreadsheet in link been destroyed. no word on how many students have been impacted. shomari stone will have an update as soon as he learns more. for now, back to you. >> thank you, scott. >> we're continuing to monitor day one of the confirmation heing for the supreme court

nominee brett kavanaugh, and it's beenust as bitter and contentious a hearing as the debate over any issuen american political life today. >> protesters interrupted the hearing more than two dozen times before we lost time. democrats argued that the hearing should have been delayed because they haven't had time to go over mor than 100,000 pages of documentation. moments ago lindsey graham pointed out democrat hypocrisy. > where do you think republicans are going to go find a judge in the whole argument is you can be aonrvative republican president but you've got to nominate a liberal to be fair to the country? that's absurd. >> folks,his is just the beginning. senators will begin their questioning of judge kavanaught rrow. abortion and whether a president can be forced to answer a subpoena are expected to dominate that questioning. > now to that explosive tell-all book by veteran journalist bob wadward. it paints a disturbing picture of the truus white one where aides went behind the

president's back t multiples fearful of the actions he was taking. news 1's susan mcginnis has a a lo some of the book's most eye-opening claims. >> reporter: from stealing papers from the president's desk to questioning his mental competence, a forthcoming bob wierdward book "fear, trump in the white house" portraysran adminion in disarray. robert costa wrote about the book "the washington pt." >> the book is full of vivid scenes of top advisers to president trump plucking pers off of his desk, trade agreements, foreign policy decisions to try to keep the president away from making decisions they find alarming. >> reporter: in the book white house chief of staff johnelly quoted as calling the president an idiot and that he's gone off theto rails. y kelly denies making the comment. also in the book, defense secretary james mattis is said to describe the president as having the understandingf a fifth or sixth grader. >> you have the president telling mattis and other defense officials go after assad in

syria, kill him, an assassination order in a sense and mattis saying we're not going to do that. >> reporter: in a recorded call with woodward after the book's manuscript was finished president trump denies being aware that wdward requested a interview. >> i never got a call. message. a who did you ask about speaking to me? >> well, about six people. >> well, t don't tell me. >> the coming days, brian, will be very reveali h about this administration will handle the book. >> reporter: so far the white house calls the book nothing more than fabricated stories, many by former disgruntled employees told to make the president looksu bad. n mcginnis, nbc news. >> the mansion murders captured national attention three years ago, and now as the sole suspect prepares to go on trial news 4 taking in-depth look at the case, so join us tonight at 6:30 as we dig keeper into daron

dylon wint's past. wen act now from clint van zandt, a former fbi profiler, who takes us inside the mind of an accusedkiller. i think some people are born bad. you come into this world. there may be a bad d something that we have. when you see someone who is willing to commit, as you suggest, the type of actio torturing that child, it's one thing if i'm angry at you because you're my boss. i wanted a raise, you didn't your wife me, this but a 10-year-old kid we all identify with a 10-year-old kid. for me to go in there and torture trt child and p gas on him and set him ive, that to me is the ultimate insult that i could do to that faly. >> so many questions still swirling around this case. if wint is guilty, was someone else involved and what was them ve. >> reporter: tonight exclusive

reporting "the mansion murders, inside the investigation. "coming up kids george's county are going back to school and kids across the region are dealing with extreme eratures out there. >> of course they are. the goodhe news is heat advisory has been cancelled because we're seeing this rain out there,leon, but it's still a weather alertl but it's st so darn hot out there and a esvere thunderstorm warning continues for cha county and king george county until 5:00. lots of heavy rain and lightning along 30 is. we'll talk abouts storm and talk about when this heat breaks. that

today, of course, was the first day of school inge prince ge county. the school here is kicking off with new leadership hand new excitement, but there's still a lot of work to be done. bureau chief tracee wilkins spoke with the school system's interim ceo about plans for the upcoming year. >> there were lots of

hugs and tears for the school am and think she going to do good. >> replaced former ceo kevin maxwell who became a political lightning rod after a number of highlyci pubd scandals, including a pay raise for his cabinet and grade fixing fo seniors. grading practices areoweing supervised by state you had aiors. >> it was to make sure we took the recommendations seriously. if there's things we need it continue to work on, we will do that. students at tulip grove elementary are walking into a completely renovated building. >> i'm very excited. >> reporter: students at district heigh elementary have been learned to a vacant high school after attempts to fix the

school were failed. >> we have a failing and we need to make sure that changes. >> reporter: u.s. senator chris van hollen and the winner of the democratic nomination forouy executive toured the schools. >> this has allowed our hatmunity members to see we're working together to have an amazing school year. >> while the focus is on students for this school year, it's also on raising teacher salaries. the interim ceo dismissed some people from her sff in order to help pay for increased salaries. in prince george's county, i'm trac tracee wilkins, news 4. >> we want to set our kids up for success in school now that school is back in session. >> how to keep t dm full. >> aling with more extreme heat andumidity this week.

were eve g four things for you to know so let's get you caught up. >> pretty remarkable and chaotic time in the hearings of supreme court nominee brett kavaugh. [ shouting from gallery ] >> those were just a few of the dozens of protesters who interrupted the hearing today and questioning begins tomorrow. >> a man is suing six $10 million. he says he suffered a concussioy as securuards were escorting him out of the park. he says this video sguws the ds slamming him to the ground. six flags tells news 4 it does not believe this lawsuit has any merit. >> take a look at route 50 in the seven corners area of northern virginia this afternoon as the september slowdown rolls on congestion around the region will only grow with the start school and with congress back in

session. >> and we are in weather alert foronight as our region deals with major heat and humidity, but when it's expected to break. we'll get the word on that from doug and lauren and back here. >> first this. >> aay in court for the woman captured on video attacking a greyhound bus with a carjack. >> not just the bus. also attacked the driverha when d the man jumped on the hood ha her car. you can see scene as she drove off there. jim and wendy in the newsroom with a look at what's coming up hi 5:00. >> that was som to see. it was a case of road rage that went viral, but the suspect's family says there is more going on than what you saw in that 00deo. >> ahead at her family and her attorneys say this is mental illness we were looking at, and they want her to sent to a treatment facility. comi up, we'll tell you why the judge wants her behind bars. >> many of a your kids wrapping up their first day of school of course in frontf brand-new teachers, but what do you really know about cthem? ing at 5:00, the i-team is

breaking down what you need to know and what you can cndnot find out about your child's teacher, when their license expires and what they specialize in, a whole host of topics. plus, why you won'te able to figure out which teachers have had their licenses revok in one of the major school districts. >> all that and much more. tom sherwood is back talking about the big political races as we hidd into the terms and things start to heat up. >> they are heating up. >> absolutely. >> great to see them. >> okay. thank you, both. >> so, doug,he tell us we're going to have this cold front coming through. >> coud front comes t during the day late thursday into friday and it's going to change things lg-time. it w go from your favorite type of weather to what w today and much cooler weather waiting in the 70s. >> i'm ready for tthat. >> ore right now, tracking a couple of storms and still on the hot side andt the h advisory has been cancelled because of the fact that we're seeing rain across the area.

still some cloudhe cover at area and 83 degrees is the current temperature there and back up to 87 and we'll warm again. 84 by 9:00 and extremely warm night last night and maybe even a record-breaking night as far as temperatures go. could see another one tonit. this iur vantage point from here in northwest d.c. looking out to the wes look at this. here's the big thunderstorm. look at thenvle cloud way down from southeat maryland. th how far south. there's the storm. well south of laplata. in the dahlgren area until around 5:00. >> you can see not nearly as much lightning as there was before. extremely heavy rain along 301. another storm which has prompt had little bit of lightning right parayng a herelo

just e t ofi-95. that's moving south and another shower here in the gainesville area and another rumble of thunder. a couple of those. shower activit along 66. that's not it. we're not done yet. heat index, 88 d.c. because of that cool rhen. look, all way around the area so 5. right now in manassas and that's why we did have the heat advisory. you and i were just talking, we fully expect to see another heat advisory tomorrow andbably thursday, too. >> because the temperatures will go right on up. let's talk tboutm for your wednesday. the temperatures in yellow. 94 degrees i where we top out. in the mid-90s and once again sweltering heat as we coninnue the avenue with with the factor around 105. around soel. things start to break down on friday as the frontal system pushes through the area. still going to feel a little on the steamy side out there so we'll have af little bit

heat index. again, it's not going to be all that bad. we've got the rain on friday. again, as youid get the ready for the bus stop. make sure they are hydrated, nespecially out there for extended period of time and have the umbrella for friday with those chances of showers, but just take a look.rr to morning once again, i the, by the time we g aet into dangerous heat comes our way as we get into the afternoon, so once the ds possibly get off the bus it's still going to feel about 103 degrees tomorrow, but as i said, doug, that heat starts to break down as we head into the friday and then, of course, the weekend feeling nice. >> talk about breaking down. we go from 949 degrees on wednesday to 95 thursday and then we drop by 20 degrees as we head into th weekend. not just cooler, but rather breezy on sunday. we're going to talk about this setup coming up at the 5:00 hour. now we do break out of tha we're on t warm side again towards the middle of next week but notice, a pretty good chance showers right on through next week. not all day wayne and don't

think we'll see any washouts and something we're tracking for you. the now it's all about heat. >> yes, it is and all about school. >> whether today was the first day of school or the second or third week there's a good chance they came home hungr >> a god breakfast and lunch are not only good for the stomach but the brain, too. consumer reporter susan hogan is norking with the best way to fuel your child for success. >> well, that's right. so when my son jack 14 years old, when he came home and told me he has lunch at 10:20 inm he morning ke i just fed you breakfast, i'm like what is sustaining you for the rest of theay and he's exhausted? dr. taylor wallace is joining t, because icient think there's a lot of parents in my situation who have kids who eke breakfast early and lunch so early at school,that's the b way to start them off? >> luckily we've prepared a couple of options for you so number one protein. protein helps kids maintain focus throughout the day. the other thing is goingo be

fiber. so here we've got soment ins oatmeal. remember plain oatmeal, not the one with a lot of sugar i it, and we've sweetened it with a little blueberries and some honey. also things. remember how bggs were for you. >> yes. >> that was fake news. eggs are really, really good for kids. they have vitamin called coline in the yolk ander it's important for brain development. here we have some little egg cups and snuck some vegetables in the egg cuts. always important to sneak in the vegetables. >> these things you can prepare on a sunday and have them pick at them throughout the cweek. >> y put them in a freezer bag and stick them right in the refrigerator and pop and go. >> great. what's the best thing to maintain some good energy for them? >> well, sove here in the lunch options we have some whole wheat wraps or whole wheat sandwiches, again, focused on the whole grarngs again for t fiber.

kitps them from being hungry throughout the day. we chose deli lunch pleat and th got them fro deli counter, not the ones in the freezer aisle because we wanted low sodium a a lot of the processed meats have a lot of sodium in there. got to watch tt sodium. again, we have some avocados and sneaking fit on those sandwiches and carrots with hummus, and one. neat things i like w to doh hummus is you can replace like a ranch dress or a a mayonnais just use it as a spread on a sandwich. it's really tasty. gives a different kind of flav. kids reall like it. >> it's so funny because when i was telling jack a few of our items we would have today he ver ever would have eaten an avocado or even hummus just because of the way itut looks, i snuck it on his sandwich the other day and he loved it. had no idea what he was eating so i think it's a great idea just to sneak it on and see what happens. about the nice thing hummus and avocados is that they have good fats thatw we k are heart healthy so you shouldn't

feel guilty about giving your kid an avocado or snack of hummus. >> thank you. >> sounds good. >> tropical storm gordon bearing down on the gulf coast. >> it's prompting a state of emergency in louisiana and in parts of alabama and in mississipp i

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while school started heard in our region schools in the path of tropical storm gordon have closed and states of emergency have been dlared as the golf coast braces for what could become a hurricane tonight. nbc's jay gray explains. >> reporter: with gordonac rg towards the golf coast. >> makes me a little nervous. >> reporter: tens of thousands fromhe potential strike zone are rushing it get ready. >> we want folks to be aware and take all the necessary pr ecautions at their own property to p property as well as themselves. >> reporter: movin sandbags into place, filling gas tanks

and making sur there's plenty of food and water for what could be a rough ride for the next f days. >> we don't knowow h best and that will bee best to do what you have to do befe you get here. >> reporter: but the time to prepare is quickly running out. >> throughout the day today and into tonight continues are expected to deteriorate. >> reporter: strong winds, a growing surf and soakingrain. >> 4 to poshebly 8 i up to a foot, along the coast and also inland. >> reporter: as gordonoves in. >> reporter: along with the rain and gusting winds,eorecasters arning about what could be a strong storm surge of two to six feet that the would cause some prett significant damage here. jim and wendy? >> all right. jay gray, thank you, jay. a stay right -- >> dangerous heat around the dmv. i' storm team 4 meteorologist doug kammerer, another weather alert and anothertorm making its wayng a the golf coast. >> plus, a showdown on capitol

hill. angry outbursts and partisan fireworks mark the fir day the confirmation fight over the president's supreme courtmi e. >> this is the first confirmation hearing for a supreme court justice i've seen basically according to mob rule. >> what's being doneere is unprecedented, and i keep coming i k to the same question asked what are we trying to hide? >> reporter: a father'suit against six flags after a beating caught on camera. >> that shouldn't happen to anybody, white, black, short, tall, i don't care what are you. >> thearoment oftal panic that he says ended with him being assaulted by park securitr . >> and our top story this evening is a weather alert as our region is dealing withajajor heat and humidity. >> oh, we can feel, it folks. the heat indexdiopping triple ts in some spots this afternoon while some others are seeing storms. >> lor's get the latet

doug. how is it looking out there? >> extremely hot and humid all day todayig the in d.c. 59 degrees and the heat index 105. a little cooler in the city as we did see some shower activity and we're watching this storm down to the south. you just not that yellow box gone. that's a severe thunderstorm warning and it's now been. canc set to expire at 5:00 and has expired as of 5:00. that. good news the this storm which was extremely strong broke down trees in the waldorf and laplata area. you can see lig ning left but not a whole lot going on there. the temperatures in d.c., hot, 93 in hagerstown, a repeat of this tomorrow and yes probably weather alert tomorrow and thursday and because of the intense heat we'reic tracking tr storm gordon. very close to hurricane strength and making i c way veryse to shore as well. the latest on this storm and the other in the atlantic. i'll see you back here in is a minutes. >> doug, thank you. over the past few years we have gotten used to seeing