supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. she tells more of her story to the washington post. >> good morning, everyone. thanks for joining us as we start a busy morning. >> florencend look at rain for the day ahead. >> still more rain across the region this afternoon. what's left of florence is still spinning away out here acrossth far sestern west virginia and out ahead of it is another band of heavy rn now. moved through parts of central vir virgia and these thunderstorms down here. and it's not doing to be

down here. the rain just about ready to start in fredericksburg and stafford. it's all coming toward the d.c. metro area. grab the umbrellas today. you'll need them for sure. flash floodtoatches y. that will continue on into tomorrow. rainfall amount maybe a inch or two. but there could be as much as 3 or l we're in th 70s this morning. that's the one good thing about tropical air masses. at least it's not cold and nyiny. it's just r but the daily grade on a monday with rain drops is a big fat f for today.

right now they're splitting two left lanes and right lanes to get past that center it's going to take some time. right side blocked disabled vehicle and inbound five.e left s blocked by a crash there. right nownn loop and looking good eastbound and southbound and we do have a crash there.ro >> melissa, thank you. it's 6:02 right now. breaking news in montgomery county this morning. an overnight shooting turned deadly in silversprings. five people shot and two people dead now. police are calling this a murder-suicide. >> two of the victims are young children. justin finch is live in sowver springith the latest.

justin. they are all now in critical condition. all found upstairs in this home tf the 100 block off amberly drive inside tha home as well. and a 911 call from someone insi h of thee just after midnight and shortly after the investigation began and we have been on s thene here ever since. >> we don't believe there's any to the public or the neighborhood. >> and as you hea there, police do not believe there was a danger to the public at this time. if you look live at this house, esu will see every light is on

and authorities igate inside. i can tell you from being outside they looked at four cars in the driveway as well as on the street here trying to glean more about who these people are and why this may have happened. i'm justin finch. news 4, back in to you. >> thank you. and here on nbc 4 we're committedngo hel you stay safe at home. we're helping those in nee find hope and a way out of situations involving domestic violence. we have several resources in the nbc washington app. just searchafe at home. >> florence has wreaked havoc since making landfall on frid l. take ak at this video that gives you an idea of the incredible damage lefhi . >> flooded roads, downed trees, no power. that's thero reality much of north carolina this morning. 17 people have died across thec linas. the latest victim is a 3 month old that died when a tree fell on his home in dallas, north carolina. 34 inches of rain fell between thursday and sunday.

in some areas there's already more than 2.5 feetf water rushing into homes and businesses. more than half a milon people don't have power this morning and 15,000 people are staying in shelters. >> with rain still falling, residents fear the situation is going to get worse before it gets better. >> rivers are still rising andd erous flooding is expected to continue throughout the week. neis 4 c lawrence is in kingson t kinston with more. >> good morning, aaro we're seeing a lot of flooding. we're on the other side of the abneuse river and the thint this is that river is not expected to crest until the end of the week. take a look behind me and give you an idea of what we're talking about here. imagine a lot ofs famil coming here and taking the kids out to play and you can sf h that play yard just completely submerged in water. the slides, the climbing structures, just dropped right down into the water.

he was getting this boat together and putting it in the water for the first time. his goal was to get back to his house and see if anything at all could be salvaged. so he got his boat. got it in the water and cell pho -- and as you can see, the street, the hehome,eighborhood completely submerged. that was his house he was ilooking at there that video. water up to the secon window. so no way he wdas getting in there. but he told us,look, he was going to keep at it as much as he could to try to help the folks that lived there. out.et them

here we are back now live again with that rising water and the thing about thi area, we're told the water here is not expected to crest until about friday or saturday and at that point it will be about 25 feet. which is 2 to 3 feet lower than the all time record. live in kinston chris lawrence, news 4. back to you guys. >> we heard fromsohat one p you spoke to about neighbors helping neighbors. what else are people saying about the prospect of all of the clean up as the rain to come in that area. >> basically what they're trying to do is to see if they can get back in. to see if they can pull anything there. they're just anxious to see how much has been damaged. the extent of the damage. at least here, they can tak the boat and get into there and at least take a look at the id ou but boy you're talking about parts of this state, wilmington coly cutoff. it's been turned into an

absolute island because you have all the interstates closed. the secdary ads, the airports closed so there aren't rces that major res can get in there to help those people so it has kind of fallen on a lot of these neighbors toy o pitch in and help their neighbors anyway that theycan. >> chris lawrence, live for us in kinston north carolina. thank you so much. >> all of that lead to a thousand water rescues. l take ak here where a man had to wait in an abandoned pick up truck for rescuersoarrive. he's in the back of the truck there. the man was attempting to escapo theing when his truck took on too much water. >> a dam in eastern north t carolina couldold back the large amount of water brought on by the storm. take look atll the rushing water here. the dam failed saturday night because three lakes in that area drned so quickly. boiling spring lakes is also

dealing with several washed out roads. the national guard is helping we vak youg with evacuations. fema leaders say their ocus is on search and rescue. >> they're coming upnd to us we'll get through this. it will be ugly but we'll get through it. recovery is a very frustrati process for people when they lost their livelihood. >> it's fair to s t inms of economic m pact aimpact and reb that we're talking in the millions of dollars. >> he wants to see the destruction firsthand and plans to visit the carolina once he gets the okay from fema. called o what's being the biggest storm in the world, hurricane makhut is wreaking havoc inng china after devasta the philippines. the storm roared ashore packing powerful winds and drenching

rains. inland heavy rain caused some flooding and win toppled buildings. >> democrats on capitol hill are fighting to postpone theote on judge brett kavanaugh's confirmation. this after the woman that accused him of sexual miscon duck talksc -- duct talked for the first time to the washington post. the accuser told the postug kava was stumbling drunk when he pinned hero e bed. she says i thought he might inadvertently k he was trying to attack me and remove my clothing. kavanaugh has denied the allegations. repuicans say kavanaugh's committee vote will still happen later this week. ome're following breaking news in prince george's county now. what's happening? >> yeah we have a few more details on this bicyclist thate fter colliding with a car. this happened at the

intersection of annapolis road and morley road around 10:00 last night. the driver stayed on the scene. here's what we know about the victim, an adult male. he was pronoun od dead the scene there. annapolis road had to be close foawhile. that's the latest now. back to you guys. >> thank you. it's6:11 right now. controversial initiative is making headlines again because it could be overturned by the dc. council. the hearing is scheduled today about initiative 77. back in june, the voters approved that initiative. it would boost hourly pay from $3.33 an hour to minimum wage which wld be $15 an hour by some say this would be great for them while others question whether thateglation would actually help. >> i think it would make my life easier that i won feel like i have to live paychecko paycheck. >> i still feel that it's going to hurt the workers. it's going totrurt the ind and more importantly i also feel that it's going to hurt the

community. these prices in restaurants are going to goup. >> hundreds of people have signed up to testify for and against initiative 77 in front of d.c. council day. >> sti ahead this morning, law enforcement officials arrest one of their own forer as of murders across the texas border. what finally lead police to asu spected serial >>killer. n old notion about heart medicine is being bedunked by a study. why an aspirin a day isn't helping as much as you think. >> flash floodee watches have issued. tropical rains are coming. locally 1 to 4 inches but your commute today if it isn't raining on your way in it's goingo be raining on the way home.es rain chanc lingering into

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your time is 6:16. a border patrol agent is behind bars this morning accused of kiing four women in texas. 35-year-old juan david ortiz is be dgcribed as a serial killer. he was arrested on saturday after a woman he allegedly tried to kidnap managed to escape. authorities say the four wom killed were prostitutes picked up by ortiz. it's notlear whether he was on duty at the time of the alleged killing. tt a deadlyk by a phon phony riachi band in mexico city is gang related. they opened fire in a busy restaurant killing five people. police are questioning two people now. it could be lked to a turf war between t rival gangs. >> massachusetts residents are finally going back to what's left of their homes.er

one pn was killed. 20 others injured, and three h communitie to be evacuated. too much pressure in the natural gas lines are to blame. utility crews worked through the weekend to complete checks of homes and buildings in the effected areas. >> an aspirin a day may do more harm than good when it comes to protecting older adults heart disease. australian researchers found there's no benefit for healthy seniors. aspirin users didn't have a lower risk of heart disease or live longer. researchs actually found it increased the risk of death in healthy adults, mostly from cancer. >> this morning the emmyre nominees waking up excited for tv's biggest night. crews are workingeard before celebrities had it the stage. this yea a lot of eyes are going to be on which show will be crowned outstanding drama

series. >> rooting for thi is us. sht only nbc but a really spectacular . >> the show is on -- >> emmy awards. >> i'm ready. h >> i'llave to start watching. >> we're ready for this weather to be out of here. >> another day today and tomorrow. no sunshine for you today. cloudy over washington and rain across a big chunk of the common wealth this mo temperatures are on the mild side for the middle part of september. already in the upper 60s. low and mid 70s. that's thel tropi air mass in place. what was hurricane florence is now no longer any kd of tropical disturbance but you can see all the tropical rainsh

associated w it here and two last really heavy bands of rain now in central and eastern parts of north carolina. they are being lifted northbound toward us. so we have our chances f heavy rain coming later on this afternoon. already some pretty steady rains now down toward charlottesville, moving in toward fredericksburg already. this is all coming on in. grab the umbrellas. you'll need it today for sure. probably need itgain morrow. flash flood watches from i-95 westbound to the blue ridge and rainfall amounts close to the city, an inch, maybe two in a few locations but west of the blue beridge, shoulwo as much as 4 inches. so there's your forecast planner today. all clouds. all day long. rain chances increasing during the course of the day. rain could be heavy at times. later this afternoon and this evening. afternoon highs in the upper 70s to near 80. eaere's futureer that shows the rain moving on in. any of these yellows and reds could be potentially over an inch per hour of rain.

that effects all of us around here for the late morning and afternoon and anoth batch of heavier rain likely to be here ust in time for the ride home this rain will be with us today and off and on tomorrow as well. if youeed sunshine to feel better you don have to wait forever. wednesday, thursday, and friday mounny and incredibly warm. upper 80s to near 90 by friday. we'll give you the ten day in the next half rnur. >> good g. take a look at this eastbound 66 after nutley street. this one just happened. we're really seeing the delays back up there pretty quickly. allow some extra time. inbound 5 after brandy wine road. two left lanes and two right lanes getting by that bridge

work. >> the third street tunnel and a crash there and a new problem here.le disabled veh on the right side of the road. travel times okay on 270. top of the belt way is slow on the outer loop. inbound on and inbound on the 95 in virginia. pretty normal now. expect tha 66 number to really, really increase. remember to liste to wtop when you hop in your car. >> thank you. you'll find them in all states. a quicko way make room in one classroom but it can turn deadly. at closer look a these partitions and the dangers that ome with them next on news 4 today. >> this afternoon catch emmy nominee with ellen. she talks about her hit show and what to expect befors tonigh primetime emmy awards. primetime emmy awards. len startels

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there are new concerns surrounding those large motorizeti pons found in many of our schools. >> we're taking a closer the mechanical wall following the death of a third grader last spring. susan hogan has details. wespent mon digging up information on these partitions for every school district in our region. he wants to know how many are there out there and what rules are in place to protect our children. you may remember hearing a story last may. a 9-year-older boy died a moving caught between a

partition and the wall in his school gym. how it happened is still unclear. fairfax county police tell us their investigation is on gog. >> that's still a question i have. how could that have happened? >> retired fairfax county teacherarol bailey wants to make sure it doesn't happen again. so tonight we'll tell you what she's doing to try to protect stud ots and find what our investigation uncovers that prompted thisre tion from her. >> it's just mind boggling. you can't imagine. and particularly after this? >> plus we're working with you for easy way to find out if yoch child'sl has one of the motorized walls continue at 5: >> your time is 6:25. coming up a fire sparked by a blast inside a bethesda

apartment. and now we know which electroni device caused this explosion. >> storm team 4 weather alert flash flood watches are posted as what's left of florence brings us the chance for heavier rain local today. the school day forecast, rain chances climbing to 80%. so what to wear for the kids today, jeans, the umbrella and their rain boot. there's sunny days ahead. the extended forecast is coming >> could initiative 77 be scrapped all?togeth d.c. council members mee today twi

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news 4 begins with a weather alert. >> it is 6: right now. here's a look at what is left of florence. that storm still causing a weather ale in our area as it makes it's way north. it could dump up to 3 inches of rain in our area. that is not much compared to the rain totals they have seen across the carolinas. we'll take you for a live report in a few minutes, but a bit closer to home, virginia schools will be closed today due to the fear of flooding. k athuck is here with a l the forecast before melissa

fills us in on theco ute. so chuck, up through the mountain range there, they're all getting a lot of rain. >> yeah. one thing you don't want to do with tropical moisture is push it uphill. al lit rings the moisture out and heavy rain is a result down acrosses southrn virginia and the westerns carolinas. here locally on a monday morning it's full cloud cover this morning. boorm team 4 radar shows the steady march nord moving through frederickburg and soon it will be in prince william and they're already getting rained on. heavier rain moving through the charlottesville area now. along and to the west of the i-95 corridor. loudoun county and points west of there. only places left out,rince george's county and southern maryland because rainfall amounts will be higher the further west you go.

daytime tseperatures up c to 80 degrees. dog walking forecast and the ten day forecast. good morning, melissa. >> good morning. taking look at eastbound 66 here. riow getting by just that left lane here. take a look at what it's doing 6 to6 right now. that back up is just building for us so we're going toeep our fingers crossed and tell you to allow some extra time if you can. in t district or heading into the district, inbound 14t street bridge. disabled vehicle on the right side of theoadways and you can see the delays. the ramp to 3rd street tuel, beltway up top. other stuff that could get slow on the beltway, camp spefngs. two lanes and the right sort of splitting around the work zoneer bridge work you have to stay right before it's too late. >> all right. thank you. we continue to follow breaking

neon inomery county. five people are shot and two are dead inrehat police calling a murder-suicide. here's what we know. inside the home on amberleigh drive on silver springs, someone inside the house called 911 to report the shooting. he's a live look. justin finch will have a live report coming up in 15 minutes. >> back now to our coverage of florence. we want to show you live piures from kinston, north carolina where the neuse river overflowed and flooded entire the rain continues to fall today. the river is not expected to crest until later this week. this is what it looks like from above. water as far as the eye can see. arolina national guard captured this video during a search and rescue mission this weekend. the guardsmen aresing infrared

cameras to locate people that may be stranded. there can be more than 1,000 rescues since florence made landfall. 17 peopleied and morehan half a million people don't have power. >> a lot of people are relying generators since there is no power. that requires a lot of gas. that line ended more than a mile from the entrance one man killed up gas cans for all of his s neighborce they weren't able to leave their home. other drivers ran out andad to be pushed the rest of the way by a good samarin. >> 6:33 our time right now. the fight for a fair wage continues today in the district. hundreds of tipped workers will ask the d.c. council not to overturn initiative 77.

>> this has been a highly debated issue for several months now. thoser fo initiative 77 said it puts minimum wage workers on level playing field but those against it argue it takes money out of the pockets of service workers because they're less likely to get dequatetips. either way, the majority of d.c. voters approved of initiative 77 in june boosting wages from $3.33 an hour to $15 an hour by 2025 and by d.c. council members meet today they could consider overturning the initiative but they'll hear from a former d.c. service worker that now lives in california and says a similar bill worked just fine there. >> in california all service staff get paid full minimum wage in addition to tips and that's what i make. full minimum wage and i still

t standard tip and if i give really good service, maybe 22%.m >> councilbers are expected to meet at 11:00 today. they'll hear from more than 100 people on both sides of the issue having their voicesba hea. to you. >> nicole, thank you. it's now 6:35 and here's the other top stories this morning. the d.c. mansion murders trial resumes this morning. last week in court we heard fron a hat worked with a bank to get the $40,000 ransom money.r anotan testified when he talked to amy on the phone she sounded scared andne ous. stay with news 4 for complete coverage on this high profile case. >> opening statements begin in the first-degree murder trial of a chicago police officer in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old mcdonald. officer van dyke pleaded not guilty. his attorney said he feared for life when he shot mcdonald 16 times in14 .

a the redskins no longer have winning record. they fell in the home opener 21-9. we at the you about some attendance issues the team is facing for the first time in 50 seasons. >> a hoverboard burst into flames causing a b fire. you can make out the charred remains. it was charging when it caught fire yesterday. nobody washurt. that fire did cause about $75,000 in damage. coming up a scare at the circus. children injured when an animal act goes wrong. >> plus shopping small with one of the biggestn companies earth. how amazon is making it

terrifying video this morning. and six children and one adult were sent after a performance in piensburgh. chilere riding the camel on the main floor of the arena when suddenly it was spooked and started to buck. one child has a fractured arm. after about ten secon staff regained control of the animal. it happened so quickly. >>nvestigators are still trying to figure out why exactly the camel reacted the way that it d. let's check your morning business headlines from cnbc. >> good monday rnmog. amazon has a new section on its site today calle store front that only lists items sold by small or mid sized businesses. aller companies can get lost among the millions of goods it sells and it wants a way for shoppers to find them more easily.

more than a million products from about 20,000 businesses were selected based on customer rtings. with y cnbc morning business report, i'm bertha coombs. >> storm team 4 weatherrt a for you today. flash flood watches are issued. if it's te to walk the dog, you can always adopt kimmy here. go on the website and find out more. may be happy to stay at home with you as well. cloudy skies and rain could be heavy at times this amp and tft and evening. rain coming to an end soon. we'll be back to sunshine by the middle of the week. ten day forecast coming up. >> several problems around town >> several problems around town including one big one heren

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th, as state senator, i worked across party lines to target sexual offenders and take guns away from domestic abusers. in congress, i'll stand up to psident trump. i approve this message because, like every working mom, what's ahead is as important as what's in the rearview mirror. breaking news right now. a family fight turns deadly. two people are dead and two children are in the hospital. we'll take you live to the scene. >> we're still trackinghat's left of florence on this storm

team weather alert. much of the carolinas under water and now it's moving north and bringing us rain. chuck will be back with us in a few minutes. first speaking outng and g public. the woman accusing brett assaultingf sexually her has come forward. >> kristen is at the white house is morning withmore. what do we know about the accuser? >> well, good morning. here's what we know. this morning there is a potential bombshelln the supreme court confirmation process of brett kavanaugh. she is ausing kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were in high school. according to theashington post she described kavanaugh as stumbling drunk as aarand house party back in the 1980s when she claims he pinned her to a bed andd gro her while another teage boy watched. the white house still stands behind kavanaugh but the question loomi over the white

house this morning is whether his controversy could derail kavanaugh's confirmation to the high court. he testified earlier this month before the senate judiciary committee but now there's bipartisan calls to delay this week's committee vote. we'll have much more on this coming up today. back to you. >> kristen welker at tte whi house. thank you. >> it's now 6:46. we're following breaking news out of montgomery county. and what police are now investigag. investigat >> justin has the latest on this. justin. >> aaron, i just saw a body being removed from this home behind us here. police do belie all five people in this shooting are a family. a 57-year-old man and his 48-year-old wif are nowdead. shot and killed. and their children, three of them injured including a

22-year-old woman and two yoger children in critical condition after an apparent murder-suicide. all victims were found upstairs in ts home off the 100 block of amberleigh drive. we are also told that inside that home, a handgun was found as well. usedun they do believe was in this shooting. we can tell you the details now are still coming in but we're hearing that just after midnight a 911 call came from inside of this home reporting some kind of event going on but we do hear from police that perhaps an argument between a husband and wife came before those shots were fired. >> we are investigating this as a murder-suicide domestic related event. it's not a random event. >> and as we mentioned here, one body now removed from the home, it appears now authorities are moving a second one from the home as well.

this investigation ongoing. police fixated on this home m throughout tning as well. we have two dead, two adults and two children injured. back in to you. >> justin thankyou. >> it's 6:48. we're committed to keepingtou safe home. we're helping those in need find hope and a wf out situations involving domestic violence. we have several resources in the nbc washington app. search safe at home. >> also breakin this morning a bicyclist is dead after colliding with a car at prips george's county. this happenedun night. the driver stayed on the scene. it was shutdown for awhile. >> this morning a 17-year-old boy was recovering from a gunshot wound. he was shot near the metro station in southwest washington last night. witnesses reported seeing three people running from the scene.

we're told the teenager was alert when medics took him to the hospital. poce don't have a motive for the shootth right now. >> rescue crews searching for a 1-year-old swept awayy flood waters fromurricane florence in north carolina. this happened sunday night. we have a picture of the baby boy that is missing. his mother tried to drive-thru an area covered by water. her car swept off the road. the mother wasescued but the child, they're still looking for. ems workers also had to be rescued when t ambulance got stuck in the water. that is the very latest from the live de t. backo you. >> thank you. cu >> r workers have condued more than 1,000 water rescues of people that became trapped by fast moving flood water since friday. those flood waters will contiee to ris today as the rain keeps falling. 17 people have died in more tn half a million people don't have

power. >> news 4's chris lawrence is live in kinston, north carolina with more on the flooding there. chris, good morning. >> hey, good rning, aaron. we have definitely seen it here and the water is continuing to rise. take a look behind me. look at thi children's park right here, you can see the play structure just halfwubmerged under the water. the slides and the climbing apparatus, just dipping right down into t water a again we have seen the neuse river continue to risest ju heartbreaking what you just heard there about the woman nd the water. we have seen that, where the road literally justpp dired. take a look at what we saw sun down last ght. >> i had to do this while i still had daylight to be safe and be ae to see where i'm going but this gives you an idea of exactly how high the water is rising here. i'm in the neuse river.

i'm 6 feet tall and this gives you an idea. look at thistreet sign. this stop sign. there's a kid's park right over there where the sdes are literally going right into the water. it is just incredibly incredibly high and the thing about this, thisn isn't e the high point. it's not supposed to cndst until the of the week and that's going to be at about 25 feet. >> boy that would only be about 2 feet lower than the all time take a look at some arials as yocan get looks at streets and cars and entire neighborhoods completely submerged and now live as y take a look at the water behind me and you can see there's all kinds of debris floating throughthere. even colonies. these huge colonies. a fire antg float through there so definitely from everything you have seen this

morning, not a pce you want to be driving through if at all possible. we'll stay on top of thiry s all day for you both on air and of course online as well. live in kinston chris lawrence, news 4, back to you guys. >> thank you. >> let's seeow florence will impact our area today with chuck bell. >> another cloudy, rainy day toda this will be the remnants of florence coming through today and for part ofrohe day tom as well. full cloud cover over washington re early this morning. flash flood watches are issued. tropical rains are coming. as a result some places could get as much as 1 to 4 inches of rain. the heaviest of the rain will be in the western half of the news 4 viewing area there's the center of the swirl and the spin here moving to parts of southern west virginia. one more band of intense rain coming through raleigh, north

carolina now. if you have to drive si-95th they recommend you avoid driving through the state of north carolina entirelych means taking 81 down into parts of tennessee. in now heavy into charlottesville area. rain chances go up and rainfall amounts could be a inch or more in many spots. by noon, hit and miss swers around. heavier rain possible today. it doesn't look like a lot ofe coverage hn the future weather. underneath any one of those individual spots the rain could come down at more than an inch per hour. another cloudy day tomorrow and late in the afternoo a little weather boundary pushes the last of the moisture out of here. skies will clear on tuesday night and we'll have sunshine back in the picture for wednesday, thursday, and friday but again the w ternhalf, anywhere west of i-95 under the flash flood watch for itoday. we'rthe low to mid 70s now. highs to be in the upper 70s to

ar 80. another cloudy, rainy day tomorrow. bright, sunny and very, wa wednesday, thursday, and friday. all right melissa, good news from hatraffic. >> looks like plenty of good news there. not so hot here on the roads. eastbound 66, still have the right side blocked here thisin mog so you're squeezing by to the left and we're seeing delays because of that. i circled it for you the this morning. as you look at the beltway, outer loo rp to northbound 395 crash and debris. 270 southbound. as we zoom in, inbound 14th street bridge. disabled vehicle on the right side, causing real delays there. two issues on 95 in viinia. lorton northbound. and woodbridge northbound before 123. camp sprin out loop before allentown road. two left lanes and two right lanes get b the bridge work. stay right to get to andrews

this morning. travel tim on 270 okay. top of the beltway looking typical. 66 and as y justaw 8 miles per hour. going to take you over an hour. fafax county parkway to the belt way. 95 north. >> melissa, thank you. it was a tough loss for the skins yesterday. the team lost it's home opener to the indianapolis colts 21-9 and didn't py well the sell out streak has come to an end. for the past 50 seasons the team has sold o every home game. yeerday, the team announced attendance of about 7,000 people which was about 25,000 short of the stadium' capacity. that says a lot. that the home opener didn't sell out. team now has a chance to restart the streak though. >> maybe it was the weather.

maybe there was some weather. >> right. >> i don't know. >> just trying to find a reason. the redskacs are b at home next week against the green bay packers. nday afternoon at 1:00. >> i'll be a redskins fan until death. it's now four things to know before you head out the door. tv biggest night. the emmy awards kick off to honor the best shows in entertainment. you can watch it live tonight at 8:00 right here on nbc 4. >> today the d.c. council is having a hearing on initiative 77. the law would potentially boost pay for tippeds. work hundreds of people who are for and against it will testify. voters i approve back in june but it could be overturned by the council. >> five people are shot a two are dead in what police are calling a murder-suicide in silver springs. we're told a man andoman are dead. two children, and a 22-year-old are in ctical condition after

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