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 for almost

exace tly one year and they feel robbed for the opportunity to provide justice for the family of the mder victim, teacher laura wallen. an officer in montgomery county hanging fromessier a sheet in his ll. a juror says the judge told them the news. >> he said there is no easy way to say this, and he told us aboutef thedant and so it seemed like half the people were in shock. rsh . >> reporter: prosecurs joined the family of laura wallen. prosecutors say he was double timing her, living with another woman and dating still others. and when laura went missing last senth, tessier participated in a news conference with her family seeking her return. ten he was questioned for hours

by police. there was a statement made by mr. tessier on september 13th the day that he was arrested where he admitted he shot miss wall in the back of the head with a .22 caliber weapon. >> reporter: prosecutors who were denied thehance to make their opening statement showed the news media their evidence.la a wallen's evidence says it is grateful to finally hear all evidence against tessier. >> laura was a wonderful remarkable woman. and i don't believe that there is such a thing as closure. >> reporte ura's sister spoke through tears. >> laura, i love you and miss you every day. i was so looking forward to experiencing t incredible journey of motherhood with you and for me finally becoming an aunt. >> reporter: so the familys not only remembering laura, but

wthe baby who died when s killed. they have named him reed. and they say he will always be part of their family. that is the latest live at the montgory county courthouse. back to you. >> thank you, chris. suicide attempts playing jails nationwide. and an investigation bytt s macfarlane and the news 4 iteam shows this deatht was least the 43rd suicide in local jails and prisons since 2014. scott macfarlane has more on how officials have been try reduce the risk. >> it was just a few weeks ago director of theontgomery county department of corrections told us when an inmate is tent on harming themselves, it takes it.t a brief second do >> reporter: inside the montgomery county jail, officers use a syste calledirect supervision. rather than sit near monitors, they continuously walk the corridors checking the holding

cells. in a matter of weeks in late 2017, they spotted and stopped a series of inmates from committing suicide. these officers sat with the iteam earlier this hosummer. many of you have responded to a suicide attempt? how many of you possibly have ved a life on the job? i fe there have been 80 suicide attempts since 2014. and in at least two of the cases, it ended in their death. in ju, county director of corrects acknowledged that they could only reduce the risk, not eliminate it. >> america's jails and prisons have become mental health treatment facility. >> reporter: w nounfound simila numbers in other jails. montgomery county requires mental health raining andcpr training for its correctional officers. but a former d d.c. and virginia inmate says all correctional

agencies face a huge hurdle. >> they put me in a coldm r with a milgts buetal bunk, no m. >> reporter: she says ty hide it for fear of being targeted own inmates and risk of losing things which could be used in a suicide attempt. >> in aree world, you have all these numbers to call and all these services. butn,n pri all you have are those officers. >> reporter: the p countyice department conducts investigations of jail suicides in montgomery county and they completed one just a few months ago when a convicted killer committed suicide just before his transfer to a life sentence in state prison. scott macfarlane, news 4 iteam. and to watch the original report, and that includesin lo at how local corrections officials ve responded to recent suicide attempts, you can visit our nbc washington app. e-mails were front and second in the final day of questioning for brett kavanaugh.

the hearing are were held up at the start as lawmakers on both sides argued over what documents should be made public. this is the last chance for members of the judiciary committee to question brett kavanaugh once they did start,r lawmakersed him once again on the issue of abortion and also brought up time in the bush white house. we'll have a closer look at that minutes. a few and with kavanaugh's hearings under way, there hbe a growing fire at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. offici ts within administration rushing to say it wasn't me after the "new york times" published that blistering op-ed. the piece written byn anonymous senior official discusses an effort within the administration to stop the president from carrying out what they callhis, quote, worst inclinations let's get t latest from kristen welker. wow, what is the white house

like today?aw they people are scrambling to say it wasn't me. >> reporter: that is the line here. that is the line of the it wasn't me. 24 top officials so far issuing firm denials saying they did not author that op-ed in the "new york times." but there is certainly a lot of finger pointing behind the scenes. and unofficially, the adminiration trying to get to the bottom of who exactly did write that op-ed.to accordin sources that we've been speaking with, the president reacted with volcanic ger when he first read this op-ed. and reallybooncerned a who he can trust and whether there is in fact a group of people trying to undercut him. if you talko his allies, those close to him, they say that heir chief concern, how can effectively carry out his legislati legislation, his policies, when he has people here working against him. and i think the broader point here, remember this comes on the

heels of that book by bob woodward, and we all some of it and they poi to thathey swiped papers off of the paper's desk to protect the country from his policies. on there is certainly a lot concern. top official says there is a feeling of closing ranks here behind the scenes. th know that they have a very serious job to carry out so they are focused on doing rthat. anember the midterms right around the corner. president trump just left today for ntana, he is on his way there right now. he will hold a rally later tonight. i think we'll hear from him about this. he didn't respond to our questions. >> does the inner circle believe that this will weaken him in the eyes ope his le, if you will, his base out there across the country?

how is this going to play out ere? >> reporter: i think that it is less about weakening him with his core. supporte his core supporters have always been unmoved by these typesf controversies. and so i think that it is a great question and what you will see tonight is the president use this latest controversy to try to really whip up his supporters to say, look, the "new york times" who shouldn't have printed this. he will probably remind them o s election victory, that is part of what we saw yesterday when he spoke a w part oft we saw when the press secretary released her statement. but it could weaken him in terms of his ability to carry out his legislative policy. and that is really where the big question marks remain. >> and for pieople in his inner circle, now this person has outed this strategy of theirs if you will, is trump going to change the way he does business wi win the white house and he does business with within the white house? is he going to be more curio about what is on his desk and

more tdemanding about -- you knw a papers missing. >> reporter: that is a good question. one top official said this esident has been accused of being paranoid and yet this underscores some o his deepest concerns. so i think it is impossible to deny that this is going toak this president that much more are of people he is talking to and the papers that wind up on his desk. k>>sten welker, thanks so much. be sure to keep here for all the latest from the white house, from capitol hill all ahead on nightly news. let's turn now to the forecast and folks, we may finally be getting some heat halief. biges are on the way? >> starting right now. temperatures currently still at 92 in d.c., but notice just to the north and wt, hagerstown was 94 last hour now down to 82. 71 in morgantown. the front is right on our

doorstep and we will see a dramatic shift in the temperatures next couple days. here is the area of storms right now coming through the hagerstown area. also pretty good showers in through parts of west virginia. along i-81 corridor, you will see it first this evening and then the rest of us get in over the actio the couple days. and we are watching hurricane florence. it is a category 1 storm, only 80-mile-an-hou hurricane now after being a category 4 yesterday. what is happening wanh this stor where is it going next? that is coming up. a major construction is beginning on the memorial bridge. ahead, adam tusst explains how i thed impact your commute in weeks and months to come. and a tragic discovery inside a home inherndon. a man finds his two young sons

shot to death. what police saying about what happened in that house.nd doreen kinsler on a new option that could help people with asthma avoid a trip to the with asthma avoid a trip to the e.r.

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>> you you hahave embarrassed m courtroom. >> back to thead news. movie icon burt reynolds died today. he was 82 years old. >> his act said he died of cardiac arrest. but let us appreciate burt reynolds. from deliver residence to smoky and the bandit, longest yard and so many more, he earned an oscar for his roleoo ine nights. of course reaction is coming in. arnold schwarzenegger saying he was my hero. d reba mcentire says rest in peace my friend. yeah, we saw sally field, dinah shore.e ands the first man to pose as a nude center field in

cosmopolitan. re really pushing the envelope. of course he was strategically covered. >> he said it may have cost him an oscar nomination. >> but it helped him gaint. a so it has been wonderful remembering him and remembering -- because we grew up with him. >> good weekend to watch some of his movies. >> and he was a really good actor. you see deliverance and longest yard. if you haven't seen the original longest yard, go rent it. rent it? this is how old i am. st>> block, yeah. >> ni mean download it, sorry. a we havereaking news in the newsroom. what are you hearing? >> sadly there is a death inveigation going on in fairfax county. apparently a young boy has died afteing some sort of a

medical emergency on a school bu we are jus getting this information from fairfax county police who say that they respond to 2300 block of dulles station boulevard. and that aire and rescue responded and performed life adving measures as they put it, but the boy was pronounced dead at the hospital. we are not hearing that any other children were on the bus, but how thistappened or w this is in relation to, we just don't know at this time. so a developing storyight now. we'll get back with you as soon as we learn more. and a heartbreaking discovery for a father in northern vir who came home yesterday to find his two sons shot to death. police later found a woman's as wellthe home this is unfolding in a herndon neighborhood. mark segraves reports this police areli cal it a murder-suici murder-suicide. >> reporter: police are still on

the scene this evening. investigators inside a a call came in from a man saying that he had come home to find his two young sons dead in a pool of blood. the homeowneric called p just after 6:00 in the evening after making the gruesome discovery. police would not identify a the victims because of privacy laws regbuding children. based on w t appears the 42-year-old mother who lived here shot her two young sons and then went upstairs and took her own life. >> as the homeowner went in, saw the twouveniles and that is when he backed out and called 911. e woman was upstairs, our officers went in discovered the two juveniles and also the woman upstairs. >> reporter: polree say all victims appear to have died of gunshot wounds. the mother's wound self-inflicted. the family was known to worship

at this mosque not far from their home. this woman also attends that mosque. she came by the house tod h to pay respects. >> i hope, you know, theather or the other family members are like -- i don't know how they are taking it right now, but it is really, really sad to hear this. so i just wanted to come by. >> reporter: inside the home investigators continue toiece together what happened. while outside, the boy's play avenue stands draped in crime tape. mark segraves, news four people connected to ms-13 are set to spend decades in prison. y judge in montgomery cou sentencing them today in connection to an armed robbery. e four individuals will face a combined prison sentence of more than 80 years. police have tracked them down last november after a robbery at a cash depot in wheaton. one of the members in that group also got chargedn connection to a gas station robbery.

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doug has late breakin weather details. ll his gadgets have been reconfigured. >> that's right, this just in, everybody. >> now we have a camera. >> now we'refine. i was tracking something on my computer. actually, i was watching the latest from florence. really amazing what this done.ane has went from a tropical storm to a category 4 hurricane a now back to close to tropical storm storm. >> we like that. >> yeah, it will be quite amazing. the path of this, we really have to watch it. et's just tal about what we have going on here. and that is much cooler weather finally moving in aoss our region. today though hazy, hot and humid conditions continuing. now right and heat index still close to 100.

but note this, 93 easton, 95 leesburg. yeah, it is hot, but 73 in cumberland. 82 in hagerstown. that is where the front is or at least the storms ahead of the front. and you can see those right back here. nothing around thero d.c. m area, but if you live in areas like winchester or over toward frederick or hagerstown, you are starting to see some shoiwers ad thunderstorms moving in. that's why we have lower temperatures there. so heads up tohe west. we will see the storms coming through. d.c. tonight, maybe some of these holding together. so don't rule out a shower this evening, but begin most of us on the dry side. now this front sags across our reayon during theomorrow and we have a lot of moisture out ahead of this including what is left of gordon. yeah, still spinning around little rock. that will eventually head our

way too. that is for the weekend.ro tonightd 10:00, 11:00, some cloud cover across the area, but nothing much around our region on overnight totonig. rrow however we start to see the clouds move in and showers around noon. if you have afternoon plans tomorrow, we will see a chance for rain. hurricane florence, last night at this time, we had a well defined storm, but now you can't see the eye anymore. that is good news in the short term, but its expected to become a category 3 storm again. it will reramp back up to a category 3 by next tuesday and just around the bermuda area. bermuda will have to watch this very clo tly. andn the east coast will have to watch this. computer model is kind of all over the place, but more and more of theme now he east

coast in its sights. so we will have to watch this very closely. if it hits our area, it would be next wednesday, thursday. tomorrow cooler but still wm and humid, 83. scattered storms likely. but then look at the numbers saturday and sunday, highs only in the 70s. 76 saturday. 50% chance of storms. sunday 60 chance of showers. high temperature only 74. rather breezy o sunday too. you wanted fall weatheru got it. the me tee o"me too" moveme led to major changes at hotel chains. and millions of people takeo them, but d probiotics actually benefit you? "news 4 your health" has a new option that could help people option that could help people your sool supplies today... option that could help people school. grade. done.

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live in d.c. have asthma. hardev to be medicines can control asthma, but lots of people who have it still end up i the emergency room. but now there is a new option that can make a huge di >> you can't breathe. >> reporter: 70-year-old janet slow consume be is remng what an attack felt like. she was 23 years old when she was diagnosed and she suffered for years. at would be poi one point her ao severe that she was having trouble living a n life. >> i don't think there is a month in the calendar that i have not been hospitalized a some point. >> reporter: that was until a couple years ago when she had a procedure called belo bronchial are ma'am plasity. she hasn'ted a an attack since. >> they have a problem with thickening o the smooth mussels around the airways. and during an assist making attack, thetr muscles con disict

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twitter has banned conservative conspiracy theorist alex jones for life. the suspension came a day after jones live streamed his verbal outside a a reporter congressional hearing. twitter says that video and previous posts i violate abusive behavior policy. jones has already been banned from facebook and twitter. he gaid notoriety after claiming the sandy hook massacre was a hoax. if you go across the memorial bridge, yourself. huge changes are coming as work ramps up. adam tuss is live for us near the bridge tonightso let know what is coming our >> reporter: think about this, jim. as early as next weekend, you could be dealing withul a f closure here on the bridge. don't think it will be impactful? we, take a look at how many

vehicles use this bridge on a daily basis. we are talking about tens of thousands of commuters a s yeah is work wille really inconvdiient. from aance, the memorial bridge looks as good as it has always has. bute get up clos rkt aanand you already see signs what have is coming. orange barrels, scaffolding, barges under the bridge even pieces cut out and replaced with steelse ions. >> very bad. >> reporr: major work is coming to fix the bridge and computers especially are bracing. >> got to do what you got to do. alit down, that would be quite a sight. >> reporter: while it isn't in danger f fallingdown, but take a look inside. some of the steel support here is paper thioand needs be replaced. next weekend from september 14 to the 17th, the entire bridge will be closed to set up for a

majoro overhaul. >> it will create more traffic. >> reporter: and come october, there will be full-time lane closures an shifts and construction zones. >> there wil be a number of cranes on the bridge, there will be a staging area, a barge.or >> rr: the army 10 miler race is even being impacted. this will be i the first yearn the 34 year history of the race that runners don't cross the memorial bridge. so if you use the structure, brace for the changes that are coming. this isn't just all about cars and pedestrians and cyclists who might go across the bridge here. boaters are being told that if they are on the potomapotomac, the center portion as well.idge back to you. >> so duck when you go under there. thanks, adam. well, so you are on a flight that is going to be six and you suddenly hear that the toilets are broken. they are overflowing. you want to use the bathroom?

find a plastic bag. you couldn't hear her, but they were saying that they are overflowing and they can't take it. so stay out of the loo. the plane was headed from phoenix to hawaii wednesday night. the airline confirms there were issues. all ys someone flushed -- right, someone flushed a diaper? come on. really? >> is crazy. >> come on, people. adi er? so that happened. >> wot hope you're eating dinner. well, a recall involving a popular pickup truck. >> sus hogan is work position for you with this alert. this is crazy. >> there is one of the mos popular trucks ford has.

this is a big deal. ford is recalling 1.6 million f 150s here in the united states due to ae fir risk. but listen to this,l the recal impacts f 150 regular cap and super crewab vehicles model years 2015 through 2018 ford says there is a potential riskre of representing lating seat belt. theechanism that causes to lock up when you suddenly brake or oucrash, that actually generate excessive sparks when it deploys. so those sparks could ignite gases. and ford says it is aware of 23 reports of smoke or fire in the united states and in can in flc. ec if you own one of these trucks, you willve a recall notice in the mail and the dealer will repair it for

free. crazy how it could cause sparks. >>, it gets so complicated with all the computers. >> you yeah. let's turn to the forecast now. and doug is about to be a busy guy once again. >> yeah, coming up this week, we are looking a a major change from a heat wave to what will be the exact opposite. much cooler than average temperatures coming up saturday and sunday. and talk about busy, we will be really busy following florence. right now, hot and humid conditions. t92 the currentperature. dropping to about 87 at 7:00. 82 by 11:00. could see a couple showers and storms into parts othe area and throughout the evening, we already have some out there, 92 d.c., 92 college park, and also leesburg. heat index, 103 leesburg. 100 gaithersburg. so, yeah, it is another hot and huday. but there are some changes coming.

and they are already on the doorstep. right now nothing around d.c., but we areracking a couple storms here back toward the west and including around frederick county, vianinia. this is a pretty strong storm here in through the -- along potomacatr. if you are in shepherds town, you are hearing a lot of thunder out there. andve we ore back to the north and west. this boundary will come across our region during the day tomorrow. and with that a lot of cloud cover and showers and thunder thundersearms. and that to more changes this weekend. we're talking about some really cool weather after being on the hot side. we'll be 10 degrees below average for the weekend. >> and a lot of people will like the change if up nothe liked heat and humidity. this will be a nice break. there is te t average lhere, 83. we've been 10 degrees above

that. tomorrow we're down in the 80s. thbut look a big drop saturday and sunday. that is going to be cooler and as we g through theweekend, along with that, we are talking about someain too. so whenever we're dealing with heat and humidity and we quickly cool towdown, usually means raiy satu doesn't look like a washout. by sunday, the rain chance will higher. so if you have maybe the soccer games, lacrosse games, should still be mostly fine. baseball maybe not on some fields. gardening, the temperatures will be cooler. so maybe youill be enjoying that if you are gardening. we'll be in the mid0s for high temperatures. cloudy skies, scattered showers. and here is your gardening tip of the day, apply weed preventer now, but don't apply it if you

are re-seeding. let's see how much longer the >> and i am re-seeding. yeah, i sam tomorrow morning. i am too! >> i need photo proof. >> i will be on out there. you will see it on my twitter a fe instragram. facebook. i'll be re-seeding my lawn tomorrow btoause i think rrow morning should be okay for something like that. and then we get the rain in here this weekend, so it is a great time to seed as we do expect to see some shower activitsa on rday and sunday. and if you do seed, make sure you are watering your grass at least twice a day. so i think that we'll get a lot of showerctivity this weekend. breezy sunday, 74. 86 tuesday, 85 wednesday and then look at thursday, trackg florence. it could be along the east coast. impacts it h here? we'll wait and see. but it is something that we'll be tracking. here is something that will cool you off. how about the lineup for christmas on the potomac?

today we got a look at one of the performances coming to the national harbor. acrobats, trapeze artists, a lot of fun. >> the show is a 25 minute picture postcard that really delves into the imagination of a young child that eve cone relate to at this time of the year. >> performances start on november 16, run through january 2. andi they are looking to hire local actors and crew. >> telling you, they must be just sweating bullets on a 95 degree day. >> not in november they won't. cool air is coming around the . lock in your fantasy lineups and put in the beer to chill. football is . the new nfl season kicking off tonight in philly with the falcons taking on the reigning

per bowl champion eagles. coverage starts tonight 7:30 and you can watch all the action right here on nbc 4 followed by news 4 at 11:00. the season is launching with a bit of controversy. nike which makes the jerseys for all the teams isut dg a new commercial tonight. it features colin kaepnick, former 49ers quarterback who protesteded during the nationa anthem to call taenkts to cases of police brutal and i and racial injustice. ome have called for a boycott of niskky. t -- nike. the nfl says i believes in dial look. and arlington cemetery is project.h a major expanksion >> and today a special occasio >> and today a special occasio as twon

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they served our country during the civil war. wod now more than 150 years later,nion soldiers are being laid to rest at arlington cemetery. story.cho has their >> reporter: as two civil war soldiers reach their final resting place, it is an honor that has been a long time coming. >> we gather at in moment to honor twooldiers perhaps n unlike us, committed, loyal, selfless, dedicated. eager to protect the values of their homeland.

♪ >> reporter: the n of the two soldiers in these coffinsar still ununknown. the remains were just discovered a few months ago. >> they did n have an opportunity to give them a proper burial. these were tam remains of ican service members who their family never knew what happened to them. >> reporter: and now over a century later, the smithsonian helping piece together the remains. and though the civil war soldiers families never g to see their loved ones laid to rest today dozens of service members showing up to pay their sspects and make sure the union soldiers'rifice is never forgotten. >> lethere be no doubt that these brave men have earned their place among those remembered >> we share their stories to ensure the enduring memory of their service and sacrifice. these two american soldiers ave fo part of that history.

>> reporter: and the area where those soldiers were buried is part of a brand new section of arlington cemetery they recentlo expanded make sure they have room to bury our service members for years to come. amy imomimee news 4. no justice for a mder victim's family. >> he stood our family up forti the las today. >> a man charged with killing pregnant girlfriend found dead in his jail cell hou before he was supposed to go on trial. tonight relatives reflect onth r year long nightmare. >> laura, i love you andiss you. i was so looking forward to periencing the incredible journey of hood with you. >> reporter: a prosecutors press forward revealing evidence they planned to present in court. >> he knew the discovery. he knew the evidence. and he knew today was the reckoning. a stunning ending to the

murder of a beloved teacher from maryland >> tyler tessier found hanging in his jail cell just before his trial was set to begin. amid the shock, there are questions tonight abo it happened. >> scott macfarlane is takg a closer look the grow beining suicide attempts. but chris gordon is first. >> reporter:el prosecutorsve that tyler tessier took his own life because his day of reckoning rarrived. they say if he facedre trial they would have buried him beneath an avalanche of his own lies. so they say he took the coward's way out. prosecutors didn't get to deliver their opening statement in court, but they laid out their case for the media against 33-year-ol tyler tessier. they say he admitted to police that he shot his pregnant girl friend laura wallen in the head and