as nbc's dan schenamen reports, the execution came after several last-minute appeals to the u.s.and georgia supreme courts. >>> kelly gissendaner, the only woman on death row in the state of georgia was killed by lethal injection. the first woman to be executed in the state in 70 years. a mother of three, gissendaner was point guildy of conspiring in the 1997 murder of her husband douglas at the hands of her boyfriend greg owen. the state parole board held a last-minute hearing and denied gissendaner despite pleas from her oldest child and the catholic church. >> every life is secret and every human being is endowed with an inalienable dignity. >> just last week the pope met with prisoners in the u.s. and called for the death penalty to be abolished. others calling for gissendaner's life to be spared. >> she's not a danger to anyone and she's not leaving prison. >> gissendaner gave her husband no rights, no choices, no opportunity to live his life. his life was not hers to take. dan schenamen, nbc news. >>> now at 6:00, the state of georgia has issued a state of emergency as joaq

dan schenamen, nbc news. >>> well it was an explosive day on capitol hill with arguments over one of this country's most politically divisive programs, planned parenthood. its president went before the house oversight and government reform committee giving a big stage to high profile lawmakers on both sides of the debate. nbc's kelly o'donnell reports. >> reporter: the president of planned parenthood, cecile richards, faced five hours of tense -- >> will the gentleman yield? >> no, i won't. >> reporter: -- sometimes confrontational questioning. >> you can't tell me how much you actually make from abortions? you can't give that number? >> i can't tell you -- >> you can't tell me how much you actually make from abortions. >> reporter: planned parenthood is under political fire from the campaign trail to the capitol. republicans want to strip its federal funding, stoked by controversial undercover videos, made by an anti-abortion activist. >> if this was all untrue, then why did you apologize? >> well, congressman, first, i think everyone has agreed they will heavily edited, and that ce

dan schenamen, nbc news. >>> developing story out of oklahoma.hree inmates are dead after a disturbance at a prison. officials at the correctional facility in cushing said it happened around 4:40 yesterday afternoon and lasted 40 minutes in one of the housing pods. there five others were hurt. >>> i want to get a check of your forecast on this sunday morning because did you notice that fall-like feel in the air this morning? >> oh, yeah. i had another layer on, but tom kierein, it felt refreshing. >> yeah, the rain yesterday washed out the air and getting a few lingering sprinkles this morning. the storm team 4 radar showing a few moving across northern virginia right into the district and the nearby suburbs in virginia. dissipating over the next couple of hours. temperatures are right now in the 50s. low to mid 60s in the metro area. and by noontime we should be near 70. a bit of a blustery wind during the afternoon. but overall good weather for the game. it will be in the low 70s by late afternoon. then by dawn on monday, the 40s much of the re

dan schenamen, nbc news. >>> right now, the fight against the deadly wildfires in california continues thousands of firefighters are working 24 hours a day while 23,000 people are hoping that their homes haven't burned down. one woman has been killed in her house. 600 homes and buildings destroyed and another 9,000 are now threatened. videos like this one keep surfacing showing people escaping the flames near their homes. >> it was just something out of a science fiction movie. >> four firefighters have been injured battling this fire. so far it is only 15% contained. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist sheena parveen. >> more beautiful weather in our forecast, especially as we go into your evening, but it's also getting warmer outside. today was a little warmer than it was yesterday. we're right around 80 degrees for most of the area and it's going to keep warming up as we go into tomorrow. sunshine for several days all the way into your weekend, but over the weekend we'll see some changes. another cool down coming mostly for the second half of the weekend just