sport kicks off its new season tonight on nbc 4. >> how wille the nfl man the naongoing nat anthem controversy as nike doubles down. last of the hot days today, but a big change moving our way. >> we're tracking rain and much cooler temperatures. first at 4:00, some sad breaking news coming from hollywd within the last hour. >> movie icon burt reynolds has died. erika gonzalez is working this storthe live desk. >> you you know, when you think of burt reynolds you think of his charm, the signature grin. sadly burt reynolds has passed at the age of 82. his agent not saying much other than it being heartbreaking, but he did confirm that ren nynolds died of cardiac arrest. he was known for movies like differ deliverance and boogie

nights. again, he was 82. >> he left an indelible mark. thank you so much. now to a snning twist in a murder trial. a local family says they feel robbed of justice. >> there after the man of killing their daughter killed himself early this morning atnt mery county jail. >> tyler testsier was supposed o go on trial today. chris gordon was at a news conference where prosecutors prentsz presented the case they would have argued in court. >> reporter: prosecutors say at they believe tyler tessier committed suicide because his day of reckoning had come. omey say if he had stood trial here at the mony county courthouse, he would have been buried under an avalanche of his own lies. so they say he took the coward's way out. prosecutors didn't get to pening statement in court, but they laid out

their case for the media against 33-year-old tyler t ssier. th he admitted to police that he shot his pregnant girlfriend laura wallen in the head and buried her in a field, butenis app suicide today in clarksburg ended the very day it was supposed to begin. >> r we werebed this morning f the opportunity to allow the public to know the true nature and details of this crime. >> reporter: prosecutors showed evidence to prove tessier lied to laura wallen throughout their entire ten yearla onship. tessier was engaged to and living with w anotheran who complained to him about laura. tessier texted s hering i could kill her. >> we were robbed of the trial, but we were also robbed of not having a trial for our grandson who was also murdered. >> reporter: prosecute are tors say laura was pregnant with testier's baby boy.

the family named him reed. he died when laura was killed. >> until the day i die, i will have had two daughters and three grandsons. reed being our third grandson. >> reporter: tyler tessier was found hanging from a sheet from the top berth of a bed about 5:00 this morning at the detention center. i askedoh prosecutor mccarthyo visited the cell how tessier could have committed suicide there. >> only thing that i can tell you is there is not information that i am aware of that would have indicated that mr. tessite was clating doing this. >> reporter: nows mccarthy s that in the jail cell today, they found notesritten by tessier that were not the sent to family and friends indicating that he had been thinking about taking his life forome time. that is the latest live from the montgomery county courthouse, pat, back to you. >> chris, stunning twist in that case.

an investigation by the news 4 iteam found that today's death was at least the 43rd suicide in local jails and prisons since 2001 montgomery county has tried to get a glip on the issue, but it hasn't been easy. they use a process called direct supervision where guards w continuousk the halls. nck 2017, theyratopped seve suicides in a matter of hours. there have been 80 suicide sattemptsce 2014. you can watch the iteam piece in the nap washington p. changing gears now, finally, finally the heat is moving out. but we are o tracking someer things including a change in temperatures and a chance for showers. let's go to doug kammerer in the storm center. o this weekend won't be a sh definitely expect to see some rain during the weekend and much .oler numbe if you are talking about it, and a lot of you you are asking me for fall-like,temperaturhey

are coming this weekend. not out there right now though. 92 the current temperatun d.c., 94 in hagerstown. up towardsphiladelphia, heat index close to 100. so another very hot day. tomorrow still holt and hut and but we're tracking this fron back to t west. we'll track it as it moves through our region during the night tonight io the day tomorrow. and then watching a major pattern change setting up f saturday and sunday. all of that coming up in a couple minutes. plus i havehe latest on hurricane florence. this is what we really need to . watc that is coming up in about ten minutes. and in the meantime, another precedented day of heat on capitol hill as the confirmation r brett kavanaugh. democrats made a bold move dodging senate rules. let's go back to aierica gonzal keeping an eye on today's hearing for us. senateemrats went rogue today led by cory booker, they

decided to release several documents classified committee confidential. that means that committee members can see them but the public cannot. booker says he is knowingly violating a committeele. the document he released has to do with racial profilin booker had a testy exchange with john cornyn. take a look. >> i'm going to release the e-mal about rac profiling and i understand that the penalty comes where ousting from the senate. no senator deserves to sit on this committee or serve in the senate in my view if they decide to be a law unto themselves and willing flounlylaunt the rules enatsnsh >> then bring the charges. >> one by one senate democrats backed u booker and said they stood behind his decision. shtly after the exchange, committee chair chuck grassley said the document in question was no longer marked committee

confidential. democrats also released an e-mail from 2003 where kavanaugh seemed to question whether all justices agree that roe v. wade was settled law. back to you. re like w watching a movie being filmed. thanks. > judge kavanaughs also raising eyebrows in our area because of comments that he made yesterday about restricting assault weapons. kavanaugh tried to say that he is sensitive about the issue because he grew up around here when d.c. was called the murder capita of the world. >> from urban area where it was plagued by gang violence and drug vionce. >> as it turns out, many pointed graduate up naugh in bethesda. one woman wrote i rewinded just to see everyone's faces when kavanaughaihe grew up in a city plagued by gun violence. no one is buying that description of bethesda.

another person wrte i remem bethesda, maryland more being plagued by enormous amounts of soccer practice. now to the finger pointing inside white house in turmoil. the blame game involves the hunt for the person who wrote the "new york times" op-ed attacking president trump and questioning s fitness for office. blayne alexander is at the white house now where many are acting otst to clear their names. there were a wholef statements of denial today. >> reporter: yeah, all day long in facte've been seeing that steady stream of statements from officials within theni adration saying, look, it wasn't me. in fact right now at last check we're up to3 denials and counting. the white house meantime is fighting back and possibly against one of their own. it ishe frantic white house guessing game. which insider wrote the scathing "new york tis" op-ed slamming president trump? >> anonymous means gutless, a gutless editorial. >> reporter: a senior admi stration official culli out the president's and i morality and claiming to be part

of a quiet resistance worng from within to frustrate parts of the president's agenda and his worst inclinations. >> this is something that we haven't seen before. d i'd use the words national emergency. if this is not a national emergency, i don't know what it is. >> reporter: the white house attacking the anonymous writer and the newspaper that published it. president trump suggesting treason, s his pressretary slamming the, quote, gutless loser tweeting if you want to know who wrote it, call the "new york times." and from the president's team, a growing chorus of it wasn't me. today from the secretaries of state, homeland security, defense, treasury and mo, a flood of denials. >> if you are not in position to execute the coander's intent you have a sink ggular that is to leave. >> reporter: the vice president's office writing are above such amateur askts. even the first lady warning you are sabotaging the country with your cowardly action.

from capitol hill, for t mystery writer, some criticism. >> it is a person wholy obvio is living in dishonesty. >> reporter: and some cheers. will comethat more out publicly. >> reporter: and others degree saying if you do speak out,yo p name on it. published anonymously, the opinion editor today is saying that there is a very small group of people who know the author's identity and that there is no scenario where they would make that information public. >> all right. blayne alexander. now to a developing story. frightening moments in dncntown ciinnati after a gunman opened fire inside a bank. people scram belled for cover. it happened at the 30s thifirt bank on the loading dock. police confronted him and he died, but not before killing

three innocent people and wounding two others. the motive for the shooting is still unclear. back nowo our ea, a deadly discovery inside a home in herndon. a man coming homein to fd his two young sons st to death. now police are providing some new information about what they think happened inside that house. news 4's mark mark sethaves has details. >> reporter: jus 24 hours since the call first came in, police tape still surrounds this is house here in herndon and polici are t us that they believe what happened inside this ho, murder/suicide. police would not identify any of the victims because of privacy laws regarding children. but basedn what neighbors tell us and what recordings from police dispatches, it appears the 42 jld mothho-year-old mothd here shot her two young sons and then went up stairs and took her own life. >> shot in cold blood. >> reporter: while the father only found his two young sons when he came home, when police

arrived, they found the mother. >> the homeowner went into the wohouse, saw the juveniles and that is when he backed out and called t911. the woman was upstairs. ourt officers win, discovered the two juveniles also and the woman upstairs. >> reporter: the family was known to worship at this mosque not far from their home. this woman attends that mosque and came by the house today to pay her rpects. >> it is so sad, you know. i have my own children. and you feel really sad this is happening to a family, children and the mother their lives. so it is really sad. >> reporter: while police are certain this is a murder-suicide, they are still investigating what went on inside thi home yesterday. meanwhile outside, a grim reminder as the young boys' play area is draped in crime tape.

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exhausted by the chanism. ford says it is aware of 23 reports of smoke or even fire in the u.s. and canada, but it does not know of any accidents or injuries from the issue. now, if you own one of these impactedtrucks, you will receive a recall notice in the mail. and of course the dealer will repair it for free. back to you. mercury announced that it will stop destroying products. earlier it was revealed that they torched unsold designs. they say it was a common practice to protect its image and keep its crothing fm being sold cheaply. after outrage, the company says that it will now effort reusing in eirnd anve don't sell. also they are dropping real fur om its lines. recently it only made limited use of fur, and nhose are being eliminated.

the latest line will debut next week during london fashion week. and this one might have you wondering if b you shouldng your burberry with you to the airport. whatst is the most germ in spot there? well, if you guessed the bath room, you're wrong. nothing in t stalls, it is actually right there in line with you at the security. >> oh, come on. >> main culprit there, the plastic bins. a new decided found tha half of those trays have some kind of virus all over them. earlier thisear adam tuss cited other research which said that the self-service kiosks where you xwrounch numbers in for your flight, that they are e dirtiest spots. one area less common t were airport toilets. researches say that is probably because they get cleanedore often. >> that makes sense. >> i've never seen anyone ean a bin. you just stack them up and keep them moving. >> and just keep shrunning.

s go everywhere. >> those stories about germs freak me out. >> and we're hearing about stories about rain. umbrellaly think the is a necessity. saturday, sunday, monday most likely as well before we get of the weekend, but a big change coming. take a look out right now, nothing but sunshine currently. we he hot and humid conditions again. current temperatures 92, 93 last hour. and we have sunshine. current heat index over ma100 i locations. actual temperatures, 95 9 frederichunting town, 93 manassas, lease buresburg at 9 . but look back to the west, look at garrett county, maryland. 66. only 73 in cumberland. yeah, you think cooler air is trying to come in?

definitely is. nothing around our area you now, but notice some storms back towardthhe west. e are the storms helping to cool things off around frostburg, pretty big strm riere in western portions of maryland. this is all because of a front that is muring its wayway. behind it, we are dealing with cooler air behind the system. w as it moves to our way tonight, it won't bring a lot, but we'll have a lot of moistur include moisture from the remnants of gordon which is still spinning around the little rock area but eventually this ill move our way during the weekend. so let's time it out for you. around 6:00 this evening, maybee an iso shower or two. especially in our northern zones. but the front stalls around our area overnight and into the day tomorrow. so more clouds tomorrow and that tuwill keep tempes down. at 9:00 a.m., most of the area dry urks maybe dry, maybe a couple showers to our north. during the afternoon, we have s e showers and thundersto tomorrow. thunderstorms could be a little bit on the docket too with some of the storms that do come on

through. e could have some heavy downpours and then we stay in a stormy pattern and much cooler, too. something els well have to watch. hurricane florence. we've been talking about this the last couple days. yesterday it was a category 4 hurricane. it haseay weakened now, you can no longer see the eye. but it is expected to reintensify. currently a category 2 with winds of is 105, expected to turn more to the west. it will come close to bermuda next tuesday. after that, the computer misel starting to get it better together here as far as an impact along the east coast possibly for the mid-atlantic coast. we'll have to watch this extremy closely as we make our way toward next week, but we still have a week before it would move in. next couple day, 76 on your saturday, oy 74 and breezy on sunday. that coming with showers. not a very nice weekend at all. more fall-like though for sure. high of 83 on monday. much more on the next ten days,

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like fun. >> yeah. >> got to be something to it. >> feel the beat. >> there you go. nothing wrong with that. if it makes you move, it will make you live. >> i loveit. another strong hurricane is forming. >> yeah, right now hurricane florence out there churning towards bermuda. what ail the odds it have an impact on us? storm team 4 will explain. and we'll take a look at the life and

now at 4:30, back to the breaking news of the hour, hollywood icon burt reynolds dead today at the age of 82. >> the larger than life murached megas was a staple of 1970s blockbusters. he died of cardiac arrest. here is chris clackum.orte >> repr: it was that laugh, a boyish charm, and an accomplished acting ability that helped propel burton leon reynolds to the pinnacle of hollywood movie stardom. after a foray into football that included a scholarship at florida state but was cut shorts by injury, reynolds launched in acting with recurring tv roles on shows like gun smoke

and riverboat. by 1972, the big screen beckoned with a role in deliverance. >> you don't beat it. you don't beat this >>river. eporter: showcasing reynolds' rugged good looks and persona. a string ofic uccesses followed including the longest yard. >> what makes you so tough? >> it just comes natural. >> reporter: in 1977, reynolds made smoky and the bandit, which took in over $100 million at the box office and spawned two sequels. from '78 to '82, he was the number one box office attraction in the world. and later that decade, took those versatile came immediate dick talents back to tv, winning an emmy for the sitcom evening shade. >> have you had enough?

>> apparentlyinot. still remember the game. >> reporter: however in 1997, reynolds sent hollywood a signal that he wasn't ne. s role as pornographic filmmaker jack horn eer earned m an oscar nomination and as well as a golden globe award for best supportingac r. in his personal life, from dinah shore to his five year marriage to lonnie anderson which ended in divorce. reynolds will be forever remembered though as one of d' hollyw most colorful characterss comfortable in high drama -- >> you've embarrassed my courtroom. >> reporter: -- stick comedy. chris clackum, nbc news. >> sti trying to figure out what my most memorable image of him is. has to be something either from the longest yard from smoky and the bandit. >>caeah, the >> he sold more fire bird trans

ams thananybody. >> and of course that center field picture back in 1972. he splayegretted it. >> you'll forgive me if i don't remember that one quite well. >> i just heard about . let's go back down to erika gonzalez with more breaking news for us. >> whatiladelphia international airport. 250 people from incoming flights, these are american airlines flights from paris and from munich, had to be checked out by medical staff there after numerous people reported he wfeg sick. of those 250 people that were chked out, about a dozen have been reported to have flulikems symp sound familiar? just yesterday we were talking about another fght that had come in from dubai, had to make a landing at jf when more than 100 people felt sick on that flight. nearly 20 of those individuals

found to have flu-like symptoms. the cdc all over this afternoon. back to you guys. and as children return to school, n t is a gooe to have a talk about self-defense especially if your child walks to school alone. news 4's melissa mollet is working for you with some valuable advice from a self-defense expert. >> reporter: rob fletcher is a black beltle and he teaches people thousand defehow to gend. >> it is a healthy awareness. >> reporter: walk with purpose, trel in group, take those earbmps out. mosttant to be aware. >> this is your defensive mode, this tells the person you are prepared to hit. >> reporter: four things to know. first, how to get in the zone and protect yourself. >> red zone is you are paralyzed by fear.

yellow, you are overcome with fear. gray zone, what does the attacker want. hand that over. then the green zone, that is fight. >> reporter: yell, scream, fight and run. >> one, two -- >> reporter: go for the attacker's most vulnerable areas. >> ey nose, groin, those are your primary target areas. secondary t yget areas ar ears, your throat, your ribs and top of your foot. one. and what are my weapons? fin finger, thumb, elbow, knees, foot. >> reporter: theiv most effe strikes? >> if you were grabbings person's head, you are pressing the thumbs into the eye socket. and then there is t thumb strike. the speer hand strike with the finers to the eyes. >> reporter: use your elbows, knees and kick. fletcher hasam fitness pro that can help you teach your kids.

>> i mean you just keep throwing the strikes. >> reporter: as they practice how to protect themselves. >> melissa also post theed a hv in the nbc washington app. and there is a strong hurricane forming churning toward bermuda. so what are the odds it will affect the east coast or maybe even here in our tarea? let'e a look at that. sheena parveen keeping an eye on this one for us. >> yes, keeping a close eyeaun this b as we go in to next week, we'll be watching this verylosely for potentially an east coast impact. i sayal poten because we're still far out in time. it is currently category 2 hurricane. very far away from the united states. but a lot of models are agreeing it is onar a wes path here. this is tuesday where the model ends at it gets closer to the u.s. maybe as a major hurricane. but as we go through time, now wednesdathursday, it could take a couple different tracts.

the carolinas wille watching this as well. there is a chance it could stay out to sea, it could skikocould new england coastline. at the same me, we'll have a stationery front here locally. if this it is weak enough, it could impact the coastline more. but some of e main things to could in mind, this is middle to end of next week and we still have plenty of time for this to change becausee'll update it as we move forward. we'll show you more in a bit this weekend. sorry to see your alarm cloc broke again. millions of people take probiotics to keep everything regular. >> ahead, the new study that says probiotics may not be as good your gut as previously thought. and start of football seasoh to there's more to life than the climb.

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in your smoothies oreo gu s or not be doing as good a you think. scientists found many healthy eopleere resistant to probiotics, so it was doing noing to improve gut health. some say that it may alsohrow of the balance of bacteria in the stomach. it is a significant problem here in the d.c. area. about one out of every ten people has asthma. coming up, a new option to help thoseeed treatment. and let's check in with jim and wendy with more. >> yeah, often time people with debilitating asthma can find themselves in the e.r. just trying to catch their ea. >> and doreen gensler has a procedure that could help some people get relief. also at 5:00, a but inconvenient repair job is about to get under way on the

memoal bridge. you know it will change your commute, but the work is going to have annual evan evenimpact. >>dam tuss has that. and we'll also be talking about rtreynolds. we grew up with him. >> i just put on my febook everybody's favorite and everybody is saying the same movies. i won't say which ones yet. >> do you want to say your? >> deliverance, smoky and the bandit. and longest yardn he was greathe longest yard. the originalne >> we all loved his movies. thanks, guys. big changes coming to us weather-wise. >> let's hear about dothem. and sheena are in the storm center. >> and so many people ha been wanting the heat to go away from the area. it is finally moving. we b have changes for the weekend. >> but we also have rain in the forecast. we'll break down t timing as

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a man who killed his pregnant girlfriend took his own life. >> prosecutors say tylerndessier was fead in his cell early in the morningy at the montgom county detention center. he is accused ofilling laura wallen's. her pat parents described the pain they feel. >> until the day i die, i would have had t grandsons.and three reed being our third grandson. >> prosecutors say they believe tessier lling wallen because he was engaged and living with t another woman. fireworks at the brett kavanaugh confirmation hearings, democratic senators releasing several documents that were marked confidential, one deals with kavanaugh's views on on

racial profiling, the other on abortion. republicans argue the democratsk were he breing the rules, but eventually appeared to let them relehose documents. nord pulford is pulling tru thes because seat bheelts could spark a fire. it covers ford f 150 regular cab and super crew cab vehicles flp are reports of about two dozen fires in the u.s. and canada ford will fix it for free. and burt reynolds as pas ad a werethe age of 82. he was known for his roles in movies like deliverance and boogie nights. hailed as a hero for standing toe to toe with a gunman last march, now theol sc research officer is talking to news 4. erika gonzalez joining us with the story you will see only on 4. it is the start of a new school year and the deputy tells

me h excited to get pack to the schools and students. in this one-on-one interviewpac the schools and students. in this one-on-one interview, he talked about that frigid more than when he encountered austin rollins in the hallway with a gun. he shot and killed his ex-girl friend and injured another student. the deputy fired a shot, but it was rolaflicted gunshot that ended the gunman's life. and now he looks forward to a w year and new chance to help students in need. do you think that there is anything to be learned fromt t day that maybe you would do differently in this new school year? >> so, s, i had a chance to watch the video of the incident. and there is a fews thi that i noticed that need to be changed.

or addressed. our school did an excellent job. >> tonight at 11:00, you will hear more from the deputy, he speaks about how the tragedy impaed his family and the o person he says was most apprehensive about himoing ck to work. back over to you. >> sounds like a lot of emotns wrapped up in that. doug, it sounds like fall will be crashing in on us all at once. >> so many people have been saying what is going on, it is t september, supposed to be cool. and we havv 90s through september normally, but fall will make itsresence felt quickly this weekend. out there right now, still hot 92. humid, heat index close to 100. 87 at 7:00. down to 3w8about 82 by 11:00. could have an isolated shower

this evening, but most of us remaining dry. 95 in bule, 93 toward baltimore. and heat index near 100 in d.c. d 10 right now for bellmore. now take a look at this, not much in the way of storms in our area, but they are north and west here. this front is trying to make its way down. showers and even strong storms back towards parts of west virgin virginia, western maryland as well. these will tie as they make their way in,ut can'tule them out back around hagerstown, winchest winchester. let's time it out for you. 6:00 tonight, not much happening. but tom system through, could see some showers during the evening hours. tomorrow not expecting much in the morning, but cloud cover and thats why we are only going for for highs in the 80s.

in the afternoon, storms start to develop around the area. s ybe a couple stronger sto with heavy downpours as well. that is the start of the big change which really comes in this weekd. sheena parveen, big change for us. she is never in the afternoons with buus. she is here today with all did g. news. >> leon said my alarm clock broke, it did. probably broken tomooo. eet it fixed next week. yes, we have s changes. tomorrow in the 80s with clouds. normal i high is 83. so look what will happen into the weekend. we'll be dropping way below normal for this time of the year. it will go from feeling like summer to like fall over the weekd. unre is a look at your weekend. we have showers a through the day saturday. not a waushout thouwashout thou. sunday rain chaes are a bit higher. so maybe soccer, lacrosse games should be fine. again showers across the

weekend, temperatures by the early afternoon in about the mid to low 70s. r but then chances a little bit higher sunday. as far as bas all weather, would say take a poncho for saturday night the nats game against the cubs. we'r looking at a chance for showers. i think for the most part we should be seeing thelos around with maybe a couple spotty light showers. nothing too heavy saturday. but the rain will last as we head into the early part of next week. >> yeah, and thate' is when turn our attention to the hurricane that is out there as well. tomorrow school day forecast, 7t at the bus. 84 at recess. scattered showers, maybe a couple storms during the afternoon. 83 heat index still around 90, 91. so still a hot one. scattered storms likely. 76 o your saturday, 74 on

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controversy over what happens before nfl games is threatening to overshadow the action on the field. nike's new colin kaepernick is adding fuel to the dete. chris pollone is in philadelphia with a look at the fateout. >> repor if there is one thing people in philadelphia love more than cheese stakes, it is their eagles. >> when we win this, that was the one lord blessed us with. >> reporter: they hadever won a super bowl until february, rewarding fans who waited decades. >> that was a beautiful game. >> reporter: it is why tonight's banner raising might have a lile more meaning than others. >> philadelphia always has loyal very honest fans who wanted what everybody else in the division had. to see the final line of that celebratn, championship banner going up, a little different. >> reporter: but as philly celebrates, the league is at a

cross roads. tv ratings haveo dipped years in a row and president trump often uses t players who protest the anthem as a punching bag. now nike has shoved player froes back to the forefront, debuting an ad tonight featuring colin kaepernick who became the first player not to stand for the national anthem two seasons ago. >> athletes are crazy enough. >> reporter: and some call for a nike boycott, but the league is trying tomo find c ground on player licy, aware that advocacy isn't going away. >> as long as the nfl remains popular, you will have it as a vehicle for my different causes or concerns. >> reporter: when the whistle blows, fans will focus on football and the brand new super bowl championship banner. the season is here and appropriately enough, we just wrapped up nationalhe a practice, the group performing

here. i won i won't ruin the surprise for you. and as for the reaction to thek ads, the league issued a statement earlier this week saying tha the league believes in unity, dialogue and g. understand i'm chris pollone, back to you. >> big night tonight. 2 1/2 hound they will all be packed in there. thanks so much. new 4 a 5:00 starts right now. a man suspected of killing his pregnant girlfriend fouad in his jail cell just hours before his trial. >e had been not showing up for anything important for ten year. i'd like to just say that he stood our family up for the last time today. >> tonight t emotional reaction from the victim's it wasn't me. the furious denials in the hun inside the trump white house for thenonymous author of that blistering op-ed in the "new york times".

and remembering a movie icon. >> you don't beat it. you don't beat this river. >> hollywood looking back life of leading man burt reynolds. he was a great actor and great sex symbol. >> we'llm have reaction f hollywood on the death of burt reynolds coming up. but first at 00, closure but no justice for a localwh family lost their pregnant daughter in a murder that stunned our region. >> and today the man suspected of killing her killed himself just hours before he was set to go on >> tyler tessier is accusedla o killing ura wallen last year. she was 13 months. pregna our team coverage begins with chris gordon out side theur ouse in rockville. chris. >> reporter: well, police and prosecutors have been working on this murder trial