start a complexcess to remove the president. >> at the white house a few minutes ago, nbc news asked the president for a response. >> so, if the failing "new york nymes" has an aus editorial, can you believe it? anonymous. meaning gutless. a gutless editorial. we're doing a great job. the poll numbers a through the roof. our poll numbers are great. guess what? nobody is going coe close to beating me in 2020 because of what we've done. >> keep in mind this is the backdrop now as the senate considers the suspect nomination of jud brett kavanaugh. >> this is his first full day of testimony benore thee judiciary committee. the questioning expected to last another three hours. blayne alexander is here to break it all down for us. hi, blayne. >> guys, president trump's name has come up several times during today's questioning. now, of course, the big question, will this article specifically be mentioned during tomorrow's round of questioning?

now, as for day two on capitol hill withan the kgh hearings, certainly less drama than we saw yesterday and more direct as senators took tesir ons directly to jud ge nakaetva >> reporter: today, more protests. as judge brett kavanaugh answers direct questions for the first time. >> i base my decisions on the law but i do so with an awareness of the and an awareness of the real world consequences. >> reporter: the jge repeatedly grilled on presidential power, promising -- >> no one is above the law. >> reporter: -- but not giving a definitive answer to this question about the president. >> trump claims he has a absolute right to pardon himself, does he? >> that's a hypottical question that i can't begin to answer in this context. >> reporter: a point drilled by democrats who fear president trump appointed kavanaugh to protect himself against special counsel robert mueller's investigation.

the presint today praising his nominee's performance. >> i've watched his statements and honestly they've been totally brilliant. i think that the other side is grasping at straws. >> reporter: kavanaugh also pressed on abotion. >> w would you say your position today is on a woman's right to choose? >> as ajudge, it is an important precedent of the supreme court. by it i mea roe v. wade. >> reporter: and on gun control -- >> handguns and semiautomatic rifles are weapons used for hunting and self-defense but they're used in a lot of violent crime and cause a lot of deaths. that's what makes this issue difficult. >> reporter: a marathon day of questioning and it's only round one. as for round two, senators will have less time for theirti quing, 20 minutes each as opposed to 30 minutes as we saw today. leon, that's expected to get under way tomorrow. back to you. day.at a we get to do the same thing all

over again. thank you, blayne. blayne alexander reporting live. doreen, over to you. it's a terrible crime territory that hasti cted our region for more than three years. the d.c. mansion murders. three family members and their housekeeper found murdered, their upscale home set on fire. now the lone man charged with their death is set to face trial. today marks the start of jury selection in that case. meagan fitzgeraled has cov this from the start. she joins us now at d.c. superior court with an update. hi, meagan. >> reporter: hi, doreen. yeah, this is verritical part of the entire process. legal experts will tell you. the opportunity for the prosecution and the defense to kind of weed through the potential jurors here to try tu rstand the biases and what sways one pern to one side or for to the other. this entire day started with a series of questions from the judge. acked the ors who courtroom soon learned they could be part of a two-month

ial. several jurors gasped when they heard the judge explain that's how long it could take to get through the evidence in the case. then the 12 jurors who were selected will have time to deliberate and decide if daron wint is guilty. it's been more than three years since wint was charge with alling and torturing a family of three their housekeeper before setting the house on fire. it's a story that was widely i reported, whi why the judge asked the jurors a series of questions. on was, if they heard or read anything about the case commonly referredso the mansion murders and will that impact your ability to be fair? we also got insight into who will be testifying inth court. family's survivingee housekper of 20 years nelly gutierrez and the assistant jordan wallace were among the many names mentioned. another question from orprosecutors, if j would trust the testimony of a witness felon.also a convicted

this witness would receive a reduced sentence in exchange for his testimony. it's one of several questions that will b used to try to ensure that daron wint gets a fair trial. now, the judge originally thought this entire jury selection process could last into next bweek, we're now told that it should wrap up by friday, which t meanss trial will begin on tuesday morning. back to you. >> okay. meagan fitzgerald reporting. thank you, meagan. a tragic crash in northwest d.c. left a man pinned by his own car against a building. he died there. that happened behind the victim's house in an alley on tonlaw road not far away from 37th seet. a relative discovered the man's body this morning after he phone.answer his police are calling this an ac dent. news4's chris gordon will have more on this story tonight at 6:30. a another h steamy day for all of us .

there is some relief on the way. but we're going to have to g through tomorrow first. >> i think tomorrow even warmer than today. couple of really hot days. high temperature of 93 in the city. heat index well over 100. look at the high tempehetures across region. 95d.c., 93, hagerstown, degrees was the high temperature up around the philadelphia area, 92 in richmond. most areas in the mid-atlantic into the 90s. the heat index, you look at these numbers. this is current. 103 leesburg, 102 in d.c., 103 in annapolis and 101 in quantico. the extreme heat behind an enre school system closing earlier today. prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins is live outside laurel high school. they closed today but they're open tomorrow. tomorrow may even be hotter. >> reporter: i know they're opening tomorw. what we believed happened here

some of the schools that had minor w repairs theye able to get to and take care of some of those issues but there a going to be problems for some of the schools tomorrow. this has shown us there isr a ma issue with the infrastructure at af lot o prince george's county schools. thousands of parents had to make alternative plans to pick up their kids after it was nounced schools would be closing two hours early due to excessive heat. >> it is what it is. it's reallynd hot a their health comes first. >> reporter: in laurel where parents say the ac is working just fine, some were frustrated. >> for you, they're out of school but their air >> yeah, it's fine so i didn't think it was a need for all schools. >> reporter: according to a rs spokes, there are 209 school building ten schools with major hvac probles. ths a backlog of more than $2 billion in overall repairs,i uding hvac. with baltimore city and county

closing a number of ils sch due to air conditioning problems, the closures became political. maryland governor larry hogan tweeted concerns about school closures, saying he's provided enough money to fix the problem. in a statement, a spokesperson for hogan saide prigeorge's county receiving more education funding from the state than any other jurisdiction and has received record funding under theogan administration. >> would it be a bad idea if they cut off the air conditioning in hffe? i'm sure his air conditioning is working just fine. >> ben jealous, hogan's competitor in the upcoming election, challenging the governor's commiooent to s infrastructure needs. one laurel high schoolteacher said the temperature in her school depends when you are standing. >> if you head to the back where my classroom is located, youwi immediately feel like you're walking into a sauna. >> we used to just have to worry about snow days. now we have to worry about sunny days. we can do much better. >> reporter: laurel high school is one of thehe schools

students may be feeling hot in some parts of the building, cooler in other parts. the bottom line is they need more money from the state and the county to deal withr fixing thnfrastructure issues, including what's going on with the hvac. reporting live i, laur i'm tracee wilkins, back to you all in the studio. >> thank rau,e. this is not just a summertime issue, this is a year-round thing. you can expect more school disruptions when the freezing temperatures arrive this winter. >> a grows list of schools without outdated heating and air conditioning systems. scott joinss from the newsroom with that part of the story. hi, scott. >> hey, doreen. tens of millions of dollars of repairs needed locally. a reviewf memos and school records. as tracee alluded to, dozens of buildings more than 40 years old. if you own a k home, yw tu forei furnaces and air conditioners

don't last 40 years. in the words of one official, they're using a band-aid approach in choosing which hvac systems to replace and when to do so. completed 13 hvac repairs in 2013, we found, but they say they want and need more funding to tackle the to-do list that remains. prince george's county school report shows the number of schools still need window unit air conditioners to keep dtemperatures controlecause the larger hvac systems are simply not sufficient. a review found prince george's county schoolsre far from alone. millions of dollars in air conditioning and heating repairs slated for their districts. even more still needed, loudoun about $1 million planned for this year alone. in the newsroom, scott macfarlane, news 4 iteam. a temporary successor for at the senator john mccain sworn in on the senate floor this afternoon. >> do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united

states against all enemies, foreign and domestic? >> jon kyl is a republican who represented arizona in the senate from 1995 to 2013. he agreed to come out of retirement to fill john mccain's seat, at least until january. arizona's other republican senatoroo jeff flake at his side as vice president mike pence administered the oath of office. speaking of filling seats, amazon's chief jeff bezos i making hefty contribution to a super pac focused onin elect veterans to public offe. he's given10 million to a group called with honor. this super pac works with candidates across political parties to help veterans win elected office across the country. this gif first reported by "the wall street journal" is the largest political contribution yet from zos. when you send your children to school, you expect them to be safe. >> coming next only on news 4, the changes that could be coming to your child's school after the death of a ld9-year-o huge construction site right

in the middle of downtownda beth this is the purple line. i'm adam tuss. i'm going to take you inside the work and all the impact it's having all aoss our region. reporting problems a school, even threats of violence. now there is an app for that. a familiar way that students can ep each other

another hot and humidt day there. if you like it, good for you. you can expect th same,aybe hotter tomorrow. if you don't like it, big time changes are coming. doug's going to be here to explain when and what coming up. now to a story you're seeing first on news 4. a local school district considering additional safety measures after the death of a third grader.ld 9-year wesley died last may after getting caught between aa meal door and the wall in the gymnasium of his school. consum iestigative reporter susan hogan's in our newsroom with details about the actions taken after his death. susan? >> doreen, this is such a heartbreaking story. the year-old was just helping a teacher operate the motorized part when he somehow got caught between it and the wall. it happed at franconia elementary school may 18th. we've learned that not long after that tragic accident, fairfax county public schools started asking for more

information about anl add safety device that can be installed with huge partitions. it's called safe ph and it has motion sensors that will actually sound an alarm and stop it from moving if someone gets to close to the moving partition. the school district tells us it has no currentns p to purchase the safety device and, quote, opportunities s to improve safety practices and procedures. we do know that fairfax county has 127 motorized partitions in its schools. theeaker of device tells us it costs between $5,000 and $6,000 to install each one. fairfax county did revise its policy regarding thepetion of these partitions right after wesley's death. you can read more about that in our nbc washingto app just search "partitions." back to you. >> all right. susan, hogank you. facebook and twitter under

the microscope today on capitol hill. executives from both companies explained to senators what they're doing to secure yr social media from influence from foreign governments. twitter is considering labelling bot accounts. facebook says social media companies are in, quote, an arms race to protect democracy. >> i think facebook and twitter upped their game. i think they are much more aware of the thrt thatrussians, iranians, other foreign actors may play, but i also thinkur that adversaries, for example, the russians have upped their game as well. >> there is a name you didn't hear mentionedhere. an open seat at the hearing today because google refused to send a representative. the company coming under fire after a watdog group pretending to be russian trolls were ableo y fake ads on google. the regional rental program testing out new electric bikes. "the washington post" says there will be 80 e-bikes spread throughout the system as part of a system program that will run

through november. they hope these bikes could be an option for commuters with longer rides or people who might need a little help going up the hills. you can see where the electric bikes are located using the same capital bike share app that you use now. >> i le that idea. help up the hills. >> so do i. if youver work along the path of the purple line, you're very aware of a the construction that's under way at the moment. >> the line is going to run from bethesda to new carrollton. tonight, transportation reporter adam tussakes us along for an inside look atndhe project a look at how you can gett alert abouis disruptive project. >> reporter: it's loud, disruptive and intense. the purple line work is now changing the landscape. right now it's especially apparent in montgomery county. take a listen to this controlled explosion schedule coming to beesda. >> we' trying to blast around 5:00, 6:00 in the morning.

>> reporter: to give you an idea ju how close all this work is happening to aily life, take a look. that is bustling right here next to buildings and all the traffic and pedestrians, thisve mas hole. this will actually be the shaft that mets t metro way down underground. it will be a tram-like train system that connects to metro. it will run from bethesda to new carrollton. a large tunnel being dug out four feet at a time along the path of the train in east silver springs right under arla street. all this work is, of course, disruptive >> all day long i wear ear plugs. all day long i wear the bosen countdow cancelling headphones and i stillea hit. >> donna is in a tough spot, literally. she's battling breas cancer, works from home and her apartment is right next to a lot ofco this truction. >> this is not just a month or two. this is three years of dealing with this. >> reporter: she says at least she'd like to see more h

noise walls p cut down on all that construction. carla julian with the construction team says a new website has been created to send new information about this alert. it's purplelinemd.com. >> we know we're loud. aggravate. we have major infrastructure to build. >> reporter: she says a lot of the heavy work will be ending this fall. along the purple line, adam tuss, news 4. >> the handy work may be ending this fall, the purple line itself isn't scheduled to be completed until 2022. >> hopefully it will be worth it. >> here's hoping. we'll see. can you practically smell the coffee beans? if you live near a starbucks, new information about the value of your home. and another september sizzler out there. tracking the heat, the humidity and when we can expect a break from theseur soaring temperes. a local teacher so surprised today it brought him to tears. >> this is not possible without

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>> you know, it's been on the hot and humid side for a couple ofays here. a heatwave last week. a heatwave this week. coming to an end, though, tomorrow. we will see it friday things starting to finally calm down as fartus the tempe goes. outside right now. look at that guy. yeah, he's got a boa what's his name and number? that would be a perfect place to be out there on a boat this afternoon. you need to be near some water to help cool things off. 91 degrees right now. 87 by 7:00. it's going to be warm and anothery throughout the rest of the night tonight. areas of fog, we saw some earlier. 92, gaithersburg, 92 d.c. andco ege park. look at the heat index, 102 in leesburg. another very hot day. most are t in upper 90s. that's why national weathere serv did not put a heat advisory out. i expect one for tomorrow. nothing on the radar picture. the only exception way over towards the eastern shore.

most of us on the dry side because of an area ofes high re. not much in the way of cloud cover here. we are, however, watching a front to the west and the remnants of gordon down to the south. we're tracking this storm. this front moves our way and fwornd could move our way, too, this weekend. that could give us a chance for showers. most of the activity moves to the north but it is going to be something we're going to watch. tracking florence, now a tegory 4 hurricane. talking about this coming up 130 miles per hour. moving northwest at 13 on this track. it's moving close bermuda but then this is five tiys out, where does it go from there? al hurricane center track open goes out five days. from here, hurricane models, they are all over the place.or way up to the. way to the south. back towards the eastern a lot of time to watch this. do not think that we're done yet.asting this one 85 on your friday. 78 on saturday. 74 on sunday. there is tha huge change this

weekend. temperatures 20 degrees cooler than where they will b tomorrow. much more on that and the rain chances. see you at 6:45. >> you talk about the cone of uncertainty. that's like the blob of uncertainty. >> thank you, dour. tog our schools, how students can get involved in keeping each other saf by using their phones at school. plus, only on news 4, mayor bowser's bundl of joy. our first introduction to t our first introduction to t mayor's hepr

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you're watching news 4 at 6:00. it's something we do every day and think nothing of it, park your carn your driveway, rit? >> but gruesome discovery this i morningn northwest d.c. a man found dead. he was pinned by hiswn carn the driveway behind his home. it happened in the alley where he parks on tunlaw road. a driveway with a bit of an incline. that's where weind chris gordon tonight. chris, what a sad story. >> reporter: doreen, it is. that c behind me is the only evidence that this trac accident occurred here today. the victim's body has been removed and police are investigating, trying to deteine how this car rolled homeownerkilling the in his own driveway. neighbors sayea they a commotion last night but didn't know what to make of it. this olmorning,e and fire rescuers filled the alleyway

behind their homes in the 2300 block of tunlaw road in northwest washington. a man was pinned by his car against the back wall of his home. >> i'm shocked. i'm shocked, you know? we park behind in our driveway every day, a least one our two cars. veryop same sl >> reporter: a relative came to check on the man when he didn't answer his phone. she screamed when she saw what happened. her screams caused a neighbor ta 911. fire rescuers arrived just before 10:00 a.m. they saye had been dead for some time, possibly overnight. his apparently rolled backwards down his steep driveway, i crashino him and the wall. >> members of our major crash team will be in inpport of the stigation. the death investigation. so they're the mechacal specialists that would help with that investigation. >> reporter: neighbors say the victim lived here on tunlaw road for more than 20 years. he worked for theti interal monetary fund. they say his son had just left

for college and the man was living alone in the house. >> i think he backed into the driveway, which he typically does, and he must have gone to his trunk -- it a little bit of an older car. my suspicion is maybe the parking brake or something slipped up, but, again, just to -enforce, i think youave to be careful at this point. it is unfortunate. >> reporter: now,nhe rea we are not using the man's name in our reporting at this point is because d.c. police have not yet released the man's name publicly out of consideration for his family. that's the latest live in northwest washington. doreen and kleon, b to you. >> just awful. chris gordo thank you. >> thanks, chris. two possible hate crimes on the campus of the university of maryland in college park. one incident, police say somebody wrote comments against the lgbtq community on a white board. they say it happened at queen ann's hall some time between sunday.rsday and police say someone drew a swastika on a white board in a

second incident sunday. this time it was at la plata hall. police are reviewing footage at both locations. the naval academy announced it will follow the navy's new rules regarding hair styles. now allowed to wear ponytails and braids that extend as low as 3 inches below the collar. buns can be larger and locks are allowe but the capitalre gazett ports academy officials have not decided what to do about the pleads. on induction day, required to get a short chin-length haircut. stafford county public schools are rling out an approach to school safety, relying on tech-savvy stents. >> new 4's david culver explains this program encourages kids to take out their phones. >> reporter: outside brooke point high school, stafford county sheriff's cruiser the first thing you see. inside,he focus is where is should be, on classroom discussions.

>> that's our courtyard. >> reporter: as the county's new superintendent, dr. scott kisner isf reminded what is top of mind for students. >> make sure that it's a place where they will be safe, okay? and indstand that. >> reporter: dr. kisner believes there needs to be a balance between security and school freedoms. he doesn't want students going through a tsa-like checkpoint. >> you a go through buzzer, get pat down, through gates, that's not howchool shouldbe. >> reporter: instead, they want students and staff using technology. the school system here is ea encouragingers in some cases students to be downloading the app on theirhone. use it, pretty simple. click on the tip linen and t type your message. you can choose a range of subjects fromuling to drugs to weapons. you can specify the school and most importantly you can send anonymously. it goes to several school administrators and depending on the type of threat, the

sheriff's office is notified. >> we're hoping this one here since it's an an app we can get more because kids like to use apps. >> reporter: dr. kisner warned it will only use if the students and school staff trust the administration. >> if you don't feele you're in a trusting environment where people will actually follow up, that app will have no use. >> reporter: that's why the new school leader believes the new line of defense is -- >> getting to know youran childn families. and that's relationships. >> reporter: using those relationships to build trust, foster a safe school zone. in stafford county, david culver, news 4. and staying in stafford county, virginia's governor ralph northam surised dan reichert as the region's pick for teaerf the year. >> celebrated the fifth grade teacher's victory and then he sptle dir to the children. >> you can do anything, it doesn' matter where you live or what the color of your skin is

or how much money you have. you can do anything. >> mr. reichard goes up against virginia's other regional winners to be considered for virginia's teacher of the year. also being considered fm our area, arlington county tim cotman, a minority achievement coordinator at jefferson middle school. >> good luck to both of them. >> yeah. hey, when you have the flu, you want to feel better fast, don't you? well, a new experimental drug may be the st to fighting the flu. plus, they're a cultural icon. the iconic ry red slippers from "the wizard of oz," lost and then found. the special connection to our hot and humid today but aea. this weekend a big change. part of it has to do with the remnants of gordon making its way up here. what does that mean for you?

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a year. the study used yelpol toct this data. the researchers say it's not clear whether higher housing prices are because of the starbucks itself or because more opulent or richer people who like starbucks move into that area. now you can learn more about the study, just get on our nbc washinon app and search "starbucks." >> well, theres no pla like home. a pair of dorothy's iconic ruby red slippers a now back in the right happened. until this week, that pair has been missing for a decade. the slippers were stolen from the judy garland museum in minnesota back in 2005. the fbi finallyracked them down. now after some scientific amaze they've concluded that the recovered shoes are authentic. they certainly still hold their magic. heyother people see them, just sort of feel that in their heart, sort of the magic that they produce. each after two years of working on this project, i still sort of

smile every single time i see f e shoes when they come out the box. >> the best part about this discovery, the smithsonian already had one of th four remaining pairs of both left feet. the recovered shoes are both the t foot. so now the pairs ofre shoes a back together again with their appropriate match. who knew? >> isn't that amazing? i have actually seen those shoes. >> me, too. smithsonian. could you tell they were both left shoes? >> i don't think i was looking for tha i think they were probably trying to conceal that from us >> that's amazing. >> glad they got it together. >> allast took w csi oz to get it going. >> mayor turned mother. for the first time, we're hearing about d.c.'s mayor about her n addition. in an interview you'll only see on news 4. >> the feeling was that it was going to be the two of us and we would make it in the world. dgerous heat again this afternoon. the blistering temperatures are

goin to continuefolks, but not for long.

if you're just joiningus, we take a quick look now at some of our top stories. president trula ising an op-ed published by "the new york times" this afternoon." "the tim confirms the writer is a senior administration official who remains in the job rustrate what the writer calls the president's worstin inions. "the times" did not identify the official who ty say they and others have gone to great lengths to contain bad in the west king. this op-ed comes as the

president's supreme court nominee has been getting grill all day. brett kavanaugh faced questions about a range of topics including separation of powers, judicial independent to abortion and cn finance. kavanaugh declined to answer several questions about the paissue of presidential ons. prince george's county public schoolsack on a normal schedule tomorrow. every school in the county claued early today b of the extreme heat and problems with air conditioning. the county says 209 of their school buildings have hvac problems. tonit, the transportation security administration or the tsa is defending the controversial program known as quiet skies. that program allows air marshals to follow travellers based on travel patterns for unusual behavior. critics question the program's effect on privacy and civil rights. tot, nbc's tom costello has an exclusive interview with an undercover marshal.

>> if somebody is under the quiet skiesprogram, whao you do? >> so if somebody is enrolled in the program and it's a flight that i'm staffed and schedulrk to i'm going to do what i do on every flight anyway, which is observe behavior. i'm just going t have a little bit more information regarding this traveller. >> tom costello's exc report just ahead here on "nbc nightly news" with lester holt after news 4 at 6:00. youay alreadye know that yor is a new adoptive mom. she'll introduce the world to her bundle of joy baby miranda tomorrow on the "today" show. segraves why mark this is the right time to tell her story. you'll only see it on new4. >> i think d.c. was eager to have a first daughter. >> reporter: this is the first time mayor muriel bowser has allowed news cameras to see baby miranda elizabeth. the mayor admits to being caught off guard by all the interest in he and her new baby.

>> i didn't think that peopled woeel personally touched. people have shared with me that they're adoptedr they're adoptive parent. >> reporter: bowser invited the "today" show's hoda kotb to meet miranda and talk about being a new mom. >> there is a moment where that child is put in your arms. deribe that moment for me. >> i think the moment that really sticks out to me was literally looking down at miranda and those just eyes looking back at me and knowing that i was her entire world. >> reporter: bowser has a nanny who helps to care for baby miranda while she's aut work also gets a lost of help from her family,er including parents. >> miranda spends one day a week with them. she's with them right now. they're very excited. >> reporter: the mayor has been working o a limited schedule this summer while the council is on recess but sheays that's about to end. > i've been criticized for not

taking, you know, a full eight weeks of paid family leave, but i have -- i have a schedule tt i can manage and i've managed it over the summer to spend as much time wither as i can. and run a big city. this fall we'llo back to a regular schedule. >> reporter: you can catch ewhoda's inter with mayor bowser tomorrow morning on "today." in the district, mark segraves, news 4. >> it's going to be a special moment whe those two adoptive mothers talk about the experience they share. >> it's a side of the mayor we don't get s to often. >> no, we don't. >> the "today" show starts at 7:00 right after news 4 today. softest hearted guy in the newsroom, you think? >> he's wsparent. he khat it's like. so what's it going to be like tomorrow? >> just like today only i think a little bit -- >> only more of it. >> yeah.

definitely. tomo how's going to be a and humid day ahead of a front that is going to change everything as we head int the end of the week friday and the weekend, too. out there right now, hotll and humid day. that's exactly what we've got. not much in the way of clouds is th at all. a few clouds off towar -- well off towards the east. winds out of the south at 8 miles an hour. 92 gaithersburg, 93 i frederick. the heat index is what we'reboll worried because that's the way it feels. 103 in annapoli02 in d.c. 101 in quantico. we didn't see a heat advisory today but may see one during the day tomorrow. muggy day forecast very to start. 91 at recess around noon. if your kid hast recess 10:30, a little cooler than that but still on the hot side. 94 degrees by the time we're icking up the kids at the bus stop. dangerous heat again tomorrow. nothing on the radar. i showed you the clouds off to

the east. they're from these storms right along the delaware-maryland border. that's aut it. at we're seeing area-wide here ndross the entire mid-atlantic, still high dry as a result of that high pressure. high pressure sending the storms all the way up to the north and keeping us on the hot and mild side here. what else it's doing, tugh, is keeping gordon south and west of our area. eventually this front moves down and gordon will start to up. still a tropical depression but the remnants of gordon making its way in here. 3 to 6 inches of rain possible in this area. effect.ood watches in part of this could affect our area for the weekend. that's something we'll be watching. our friends from the garden center talking about gardening tomorrow. watch out for fog early tomorroo ing. 95 at 5:00 in the afternoon. refresh your garden with shade perennials like the turtle head. i don't know what those are but

i put it on there. sun perennials like the new engla england aster. the heat index 100 to 105 under mostly sunny skies. another hot one just like i was today. 85 on your friday. with that storms front making its way on through and just kind of staying around our region. a win shift out of the east and gets rather breezy on sunday. owers likely. maybe rain depending on how far north gordon goes. if it comes closer to our area, we're dealing with rain all day. high of 74 degrees with breezy conditions. showers likelydagain on m as the front from gordon moves on through here and just a chance forrmhowers and s as we make our way towards the middle of the next week. they're going t be on the hot and humid side there as well. >> turtleheads love hot and humid weather. >> the aster really appreciates uit. comp with the seasoner

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dryer youth why with the season opener on the road against the cardinals just days away. sherry burress has the redskins temperaturm redskins park. >> reporter: the redskins players will be putting on the am pads and uniforms as the did in the preseason but there is something special about the season opener that's got ll everyone withhe feels. >> i'm excited about it. finally get back on the field. t my firstime since november, so, youknow, i know a little nerves are gng to be going, but that's going to make it even better for me, so -- >> my running back coach jordan actually told me he's going to hit me couple of times in pregame just so i canuess get the nerves out. whic is not going help any, but gnce iet over that part, i mean, it will be smooth sailing from there. >> it's been a long time since our last game for all of us. you know, and it'sxciting. imean, i think that's part of the reason you keep playing, that feeling, the feeling of,

you know, being p live andutting yourself out there. you know the vulnerability of it and so no question we're going to go do it together. that's the great thing about the team sport element. >> reporter: the players for thb redskins wil relying on one another to try to get their first win in th season opener under head coachay gruden. sherry burress, news 4 sports.>> >. >> nothing like the excitement of cardinak. big news in the nfl steelers may be running out on sunday without their leading runner. le'veon bell has not reported to the team yet and holding out for a new contract. the steelers placed a franchise tag on bell's second straight year. he's not signedma it. teams are starting to get frustrated with the running back. "the pittsburgh post gngette" -- makiearch times more than d linemen wit for him. at center, telling reporters it's a lite selfish. that's not being a team player.

that wouldn't work around here. doug makes seven times more than i do. >> i'vad only to old out once. >> that's right. you have to have that team effort around here. hey, washington played seattle for a basketball title. sound familia after this past spring, the wizardsra celd the 40th titlersary of their nba when they were the bullets. determination still has the mystics in control of their own destiny and for the first time ever in the wnba finals. this is what elena delle donne and kristi toliver were brought here for. game one on friday in seattle. the first home game on wednesday. all home games to be played at george mason eagle bank ysarena. the mtics don't plan on slowing do anytime soon. keep the d.c. summer of championships gonsg. >> it m so much. d.c.'s become home to me. now we need the city to really

rally behind us btause we're finished yet. >> that's why i came to d.c., was to make history. so to me it's very special. it's special to do it with this group of people. e just hav a great, great locker room and it's an exciting time to be a.c. fan. i'm glad i'm on the winning side of it right no >> hey, what were you guys doing around 2:00 in the morning? forget i asked that. rafael nadal moving on to the semifinals, taking on ninth seed dominic thiem. your average 4: 49 five-set thriller. nadalill take on juan martin del potro. they might want tonight if they want to finish by friday. >> a lot of people stuck around to watch it. >> watch "the tonight show" and catch your tennis later on. >> at least awo sets. least two to three sets of it. >> thank you. thanks for joining us,

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breaking news tonight, an unprecedented alarm. a warning like we've never seen before fromni a official inside the trump administration. blasting the president saying there is a from going off the rails on a daily basis and cabinet officials even whit whispered aboutspered aboutvi re him from office and a big mystery tonight, who is the anonymous official who wrote it? the president responding moments ago. >> can you belie it? onymous meaning gutless. tonight, fireworks as the president's supreme court faces the first on slot from democrats. police and ambulances surround a plane on the runway quarantined with hundreds aboard and passengers falling ill. >> this is a medical