care in the next couple of weeks. but why go so fast is a big issue and in short of -- sure to prompt questions at the news conference tonight. president obama will aim his answers at concerned amerins. >> i think it is a travesty more than 40 million people in our country are uninsured. >> i'm looking forward to learning more and hearing what he has to say. >> reporter: mr. obama will say congress should start voting. and democratic senator leading the search for ways to pay for the obama plan feels the push from the president. >> it is important that there be pressure. otherwise sometimes things tend to drift. >> reporter: on the house side, speaker pelosi is eager for a vote. >> we are pleased that the progress that's being made, we believe that the american people have waited long enough. >> reporter: the two biggest issues remainunresolved. one, how to control costs. limit pricing medical tests. reimburse doctors and hospitals at lower rates. issue two. how to pay to insure our 40

million uninsured. hike tax owes the wealthy. republicans say get it right. don't hurry. >> most americans don't even like this health care bill. they don't want it. it will raise taxes. so what's the rush? >> reporter: is it personal? a republican senator who said if we beat barack obama on health care, we can break him. today said break, b-r-a-k-e. >> he has been on a spending spree since he took office. >> reporter: even a rock solid democrat, house ways and means committee chairman charlie rangel of new york, was overheard by reporters, say nothing one wants to tell the speaker that she is moving too fast and they damned sure don't want to tell the president. tonight mr. obama will be forced to explain while he is still -- why he is still demanding congress vote on health care reform next month. live at the white house, steve handelsman, news4. >> thank you, steve. >> > you can see president

oba's neob conference on "news4 at ar00st" ts at8:00st. you can see it streaming live on our website. that's nbcwashington.com. cooperation between the u.s. and iraq was the focus of today's meeting between president obama and prime minister al maliki. the two leaders held a press conference today applauding last month's withdrawal from the iraqi cities. al maliki says it is a clear sign that the u.s. wants to keep its promises. president obama said he expects violence to continue and said the transfer of control to iraqi forces will be tough if iraq citizens don't cooperate. >> iraq will be more secure and more successful if there is a place for all iraqi citizens to thrive. including all of iraq's ethnic and religious groups. >> reporter: pledge to withdraw all troops by the end of 2011. this evening we are hearing from a montgomery county doctor who was found guiltypossessing sspongsi cocaine. the e the the man to

sthf probation. tonight the doctor talked exclusively to news4. pat collins has more from silver spring. pat? >> reporter: because of an appending appeal dr. greenberg would not talk about the specifics of the criminal case. but he still had a lot to say. >> if you could look right out there, talk to your patients, patients that you have seen over the years, what would you like to tell you patients? >> tell them that i miss him. very much. i love my patients. i hope they are in good hands now. i also hope -- i hope in the mere future i will take care of them again. i'm very saddened by what happened. >> reporter: a message that dr. greenberg to his patients. dr. greenberg, convicted yesterday of three misdemeanor drug charges, including possession of cocaine.

it was last april that dr. greenberg's office was raided by police. his license to practice medicine has been suspended. he says that he's now in great distress. >> professionally, it destroyed me. personally, it is -- hurt me personally and saddens me. it saddens me and it is -- it is -- put a lot of stress on me. it changed my life. i can't do what i can do best. i can't do what i have been doing the last 25 yrs of my life. >> reporter: dr. greenberg's attorney, james papermeister, says there are a lot more issues to be argued before all of this is resolved. >> legally, he is going to appeal hiss drug conviction fro

yesterday. >> correct. >> two pending assault charges out there as well. >> yes. >> reporter: and then after that, you go back and try to get his license restored? >> yes. >> reporter: it is a long road. >> yes. >> reporter: dr. greenberg sentenced to 18 months probation on that. >> we had technical problems. that was pat collins reporting from silver spring. one month to the day of the deadliest accident in metro's history. transit system is still trying to assure riders about safety. june 22 when nine people were killed in the crash on the red line. since then, metro has been trying to find out how widespread this problem is. it is believed to have caused that crash. chris gordon joins us from the grovener metro station in bethesda. >> reporter: good evening. metro is using a computer generated system to check on its track circuits twice a day after the morning and evening rush hours. before the june 22nd accident

inspected tracks and circuits just once a month. the new intensive scrutiny has led metro to discover problems on every metro line. we rode the red line between medical center and grovener at one point the train slowed to 15 miles an hour over a stretch of track. a work zone where metro discovered anomalies in the track's circuits. the sensors failed for a second or more. to recognize a train on that section of track. there are similar work zones and slowdowns from foggy bottom to rosslyn. courthouse to clarendon and fort totten to takoma park. the general manager john catoe talked about what is being done to address the problem. >> we have identified circuits that are not within the parameters we think they should be. we either adjust those or because of the heightened condition we are under we will go and remove those circuits and

replace them with new equipment. >> reporter: catoe takes issue with "the washington post" report which says that the technical failure at the heart of last month's fatal crash might be widespread. >> there's no comparison between the two whatsoever. what occurred in fort totten was that we had a circuit. what we know today, that would not attack the train. what we are finding today is that -- one belief over, let's say, three-hour, three-day period of time. for less than a second. >> reporter: slowdowns in these new reports of track circuit failures have some metro riders concerned. >> everybody is afraid. no one is comfortable anymore on metro. not at all. not at all. >> reporter: metro reports ridership has returned to normal and, in fact, last week, metro had the 11th busiest day in its history. >> seems like they -- done a lot of work to try to prevent any further accidents. sounds like they are looking

into whatever is wrong now and holding the trains until they figure out what the problem is. >> reporter: metro says it will continue to operate every train and every day manually until the ntsb determines the cause of last month's crash and until metro feels that it can return to its automated train operating system safely. we are live tonight at the grovener station in bethesda, back to you. >> chris gordon, thanks, chris. there is a twist tonight in the mystery over the missing mental health records of virginia tech gunman cho. those records were missing from the university's counseling center and their absence left a gap i t i the investigation. ilpr 16, 2007, cho killed 32 people at virginia tech before killing himself. last week, his mental health records were recovered from the home of the former director of the counseling center. the governor office says the records were removed from the university more than a year before the shooting.

>> obviously the panel that did the review at my direction of the circumstances did not have that file. family members of those who were injured or killed have not had access to be able to see that information. and his parents have not been able to see the information. and so it is important that that information be shared with all. >> reporter: the records are protected by privacy laws but governor kaine says they will be released as soon as possible. virginia state police are investigating their removal from the university. the records gained light in connection with a civil lawsuit filed by two families of cho's victims. >> the hunt for evidence in michael jackson' death continues today with the search of a zok's office more than a d. dilhestpoiearp li astp ie d police and medical recordsnd a l recocas and am f trohe honousw torct who j sacawks jackson at l.a. home. jay gray with the latest. >> the investigation into michael jackson's death has now stretched all the way to texas. >> search warrant. armstrong medical clinic this

morning. >> federal drug enforcement agents along wonith the detectis from the los angeles police department searched dr. conrad murray's north houston clinic this afternoon. murray was jackson's personal physician and was reportedly with the pop star when he died. >> searching for drugs or records? >> no drugs. this is just records. >> reporter: the search for evidence in houston comes just a day after investigators in california pushed dr. murray for additional medical records and talked about interviewing him for a third time. respondingo that request, murray's attorney released this statement which said in part, the coroner wants to clear up the cause of death. we share that goal. based on consider murray's minute-by-minute and item-by-item description of michael jackson's last days, he should not be a target of criminal charges. police and federal agents have yet to classify their work as a criminal investigation. and if there are any charges in the case they wouldn't likely

come until toxicology results and a full autopsy are released. those reports aren't expected for at least another week. jay gray, news4. dr. murray was not at the decline nick houston today. he was at another office in vegas. law enforcement officers say that he is fully cooperating with the investigation. we are just getting started here on news4 at 6:00. a problem with an astronaut suit. cut the space walk short. >> former vice president dick changey's secret service protection has been extended. find out what prompted this role among lawmakers in one country. how would you like to get money for your old car? a government program called cash for clunkers that starts tomorrow. >> bob, what have you got for us? >> we have warm, humid conditions. july. good baseball weather. i will show you great pictures of that eclipse yesterday, too. dan, what do you have? >> sounds good. john lannan proves that he is the ace of the nationals pitching staff. the orioles try to avoid the sweep in the bronx.

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nasa ended today's space walk an hour early because of concerns about an astronaut's space suit. astronauts david wolf and christopher cassidy floated out of the international space station around 10:30 this

morning. their biggest task was replacing four batteries and a solar panel. the batteries weigh about 370 pounds apiece. the astronauts changed two of them. mission control decided to end the space walk because of rising levels of carbon dioxide in the space suit. nasa says the canister that removes carbon dioxide from the suit may not be working properly. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke ran into cuff questions on capitol hill today. he was appearing before the senate banking committee and senators raised concerns about president obama's proposal to expand the fed's duties. senator chris dodd asking why the fed deserved more authority when it failed to spot the current financial crisis before it hit. we were not quick enough. we were not aggressive enough to address consumer issues earlier in the decade. i agree with that. >> chairman bernanke insisted the central bank's role would not be radically different under president obama's proposal. bernanke also warned about a

problem that may be on the horizon to claim real estate prices are now affecting the commercial real estate market and said the fed's program in place to help residential borrowers and extended to the commercial real estate market. tomorrow the federal government program known as cash for clunkers is set to begin. it is an incentive program aimed at getting older cars off the road and stimulating new car sales. but not everybody thinks this program is headed down the right road. >> reporter: the so-called cash for clunkers incentive program is receiving up. >> original intent was to get the car or truck on the street. >> reporter: by providing consumers extra cash the buyer leased a new vehicle. here is now it works. your trade-in can't be older than 25 years old and gets less than 18 miles a gallon to qualify. you will get a $3500 if the new car you buy gets nine miles per gallon more than what you trade in. 4500 p the difference is ten

miles per gallon or better. >> people are really excited about it because it seems like money to the consumer. >> reporter: it could be a bigger bonus for the struggling auto industry. >> in the environment we are in now, a program like this is heaven sent. >> reporter: chrysler announced today it will match the government incentive taking an additional $4500 off most of its 2009 chrysler, dodge or jeep models. across the board many dealers believe the program could mean many as 20 additional sales a month. >> almost every case with somebody who was not in the market, it is somebody that this program is bringing to the market. so because of that, this program is selling cars. >> reporter: still not everyone is sold on the plan. critics say it is too costly and taken a huge detour from the original intent. >> what began as a reasonable idea to get clunkers off the road and try to move some more efficient vehicles in their stead has been hijacked by the

auto industry a some of its friends in congress. >> reporter: the federal program would run through november 1 or until $1 billion in rebate credits are reported, whichever comes first.ld like more or m you w rmrm inrmatioion on tinra s d pritm,ra nd its are the a t link to theours. ours. just go t nbcwashington.com. search as seen on nbc 4. former vice president dick cheney is going to receive secret service protection longer. normally vice presidents receive protection for six months after they leave office. however, cheney requested an extension. the protective detail will be extended for at least six months at taxpayer expense. according to "the new york daily news" the former vice president's friends say he has become more concerned about his privacy and his personal safety. if president obama had refused the request cheney would have been forced to high hire his own security agents or go without. a session of south korea's parliament turned into an all-out on brawl today.

take a look. hundreds of screaming lawmakers shouted abuse at each other. the battle centered on media reform bills that would make it's easier for newspapers and large businesses to own stakes in major television networks. law makers from the ruling party occupied the speaker's podium and a bid for quick passage. the opposition respond bid stacking a furniture to block their rivals from entering the main hall of the national assembly. at least one lawmakers who was injured seriously enough to be taken to a hospital. the scene was not unusual in south korea where rival parties sometimes resort to violence to get their way. >> looks like king of the hill. >> it does. >> we are going t shove people off and we were -- we were 8. coming up in our broadcast, we are going to tell you about a guy that rescued his dog from an alligator attack. >> plusar syldtatean police tae looking into a traffic tiet issued to a driver. believed to be going too slowly. >> bob will be back with another

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call or clk toda sticky out there. >> it was. >> also a little bit of breeze. >> felt like july. >> 90 degrees. one of the rare times. we haven't had many. here is how it looks. outside right mao we have buildups but unfortunately none of the rain here in washington we could use. our high temperature -- 90 degrees. only the sixth time we had 90 degrees this year. by now on an average summer, average, 18. 90 degree days. here is how we looked the other way. sky watcher looking down the

river. not pretty clouds. squeeze it and get out little raindrops. our temperature now is 88 degrees. dew point 63. not too bad. thheat index about the same, 89 degrees. morning low temperatures. friends out in nebraska. it was into the 50s, lincoln nebraska. 50 degrees, record low temperature. they love it. this pattern down in georgia, columbus, georgia, 64 degrees. current temperature is where it is. raining around cincinnati, still only in the 60s. so over the last 12 hours, here we are in washington. look at this a. this is a little area of low pressure developing off the coast which is going to be coming up the coast which will be sort of robbing some of that moisture out to our west. right now in and around us, heading out for this evening for the ball game. certainly no problem. there is the area that has been getting some nice rain. out towards the blue ridge and the only other area has been up to the north parts of pen pep. you can see western maryland. folks up around hagerstown, one or two scattered showers there. and there's this other area of

cooler rains. western parts of pennsylvania. look at st. mary's city. down in st. mary's county. hasn't been bad. some rains down there. couple of days ago. fredericksburg, too. certainly a bit more wet weather, stafford, spotsylvania county for folks down there. right around washington. also, on the shenandoah, look at over three inches out in the fort valley. with the pattern we have, it has been the hit and miss variety showers. little wave in the atmosphere down around texas. but still the drought, terrible drought continues in west texas. as this little area ofeather front comes through tomorrow, there it is. it is the -- chance of some afternoon showers and thundershowers. but at the same time, watch an area of storminess move up the coast. bringing more rain into new england. and so on n a way i'm afraid it will be robbing us of our own chance here in washington. especially some of the eastern suburbs of seeing rain showers. this is the way it looked yesterday for the longest

eclipse of the century. this is around iwo jima. the tote total eclipse of the sun. wide area from china, india, i dare say more people saw a total eclipse of the sun yesterday than any other time in history. because it carried over india and china. this is the iwo jima around the time of totality. almost 6 1/2 minutes of totality. temperatures into the 80s. evening hours, also, temperatures will be in the 80s. our eclipse here around the washington area, 2017. few years. tomorrow we will wake up with clouds around. it will be a bit on the muggy dei temperatures in and around town into the low 07s. showers or thundershowers, i think, really won't be coming until we getate tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow evening. most of tomorrow, just partlye sunny to mostly cloudy. little on the muggyside. only in the low 80s. another chance important 90 for

the weekend. right now after those needed showers we get some late tomorrow, another chance, sunday afternoon. overall the weekend looks summery. temperatures in the high 80s to about 90. still no sign of a general rain that will break this. >> played tennis in the heat. kastles playing tonight in the steam. they can handle it. good tennis. >> cape handle it but they can handle it. thank you, bob. coming up on "news4 at 6:00," we are going to tell you about a maryland man who got a traffic ticket for driving too slowly. >> we will tell why you this massive plane had to be hauled to the streets last night. >> we will have the latest on the investigation into why a six-foot shark was found lying in the streets of one american city. coming up in sports, the video of lebron and nike didn't want you to see. a yankees pitcher absolutely -- the orioles. nationals pitcher getting better and better every game. tls.

we are back now with a look at some of the stories making headlines tonight. >> president obama answering questions about his health care reform plan during a televised news conference tonight.

lawmakers criticizing the president for pushing to hard for a vote. nbc news will bring you live coverage of the news conference tonight at 8:00. >> a missing mental health records of virginia tech seung-hui cho have been found. according to a statement the records were recovered at the home of the former head of the school's counseling center. they have been removed a year before the shooting. it has been one month since the metro crash that killed nine people. daily tests of track circuits still show some irregularities on every metro line. metro has found some sensors failed to recognize the train is on a section of track for a second or more. this evening, a maryland man is facing a fine. after he got a traffic ticket for going too slowly. it happened yesterday as the man was on route 50 in prince george's county. jane watrel has our story. >> reporter: eric considers himself a safe driver. so imagine the maryland man's surprise when he was stopped along route 50 tuesday evening

for going too slow. >> coming back on route 50, the speed limit is 55. and i was pulled over by a maryland state trooper and when i asked him why i was pulled over, he said that i was going too slow. he issued me an $80 ticket for going 58 in a 65. >> reporter: erik said he tried to reason with the straight trooper as passing cars whizzed by. >> to me, you are punishing a safe driver that, you know, there were many cars speed big me. i guess it was easier for him to pull me over than some of the cars speeding. >> reporter: aed maryland state spokesman says they are looking into the matter and plan to have a response to the ticket within 24 hours. erik says the traffic stop was more puzzling because it came just yards before the 65-mile-an-hour speed limit sign. erik believes he was pulled over in the 5-mile-an-hour zone. in the meantime, the crossing man says he plans to fight his ticket in court. >> if i was wrong, if i was

speeding, then you got me. and i'm wrong. but the fact that i don't believe i'm wrong and that i wasn't breaking any laws, that's why i'm fighting it. >> reporter: jane watrel, news4. now erik says he will know in just a couple of weeks when he will be appearing in core. the u.s. senate today defeat ad plan to allow gun owners with concealed weapons permits to cross into other states with similar laws. gun control advocates are calling it a major victory. michelle franzen reports. a measure allowing a citizen with a concealed weapon permit in one state to cross state lines was shot down in a vote on the senate floor. >> on had vote, the yeas are 58. >> reporter: the vote fell two votes shy of the 60 needed to pass. it followed a heated debate on the senate floor. >> criminals kill people and we are trying to do is allow law abiding people to protect themselveses from criminals when they travel across state lines. >> would you listen to the group

endorsed the amendment? you know what's missing? not a single law enforcement group supports john thune's -- >> reporter: opponents including 450 mayors nationwide signed an open letter featured in a full-page ad in "usa today" argued it would allow the state with the weakest permit requirement to is he the bar. >> what you are really doing is starting down a very slippery slope here. where every state is going to have to follow whatever another state does. >> reporter: the national rifle association has successfully argued in the past state rights should prevail when it comes to gun laws and preserving the second amendment. the right to keep and bear arms. during this gun bill battle, the nra reversed its argument calling for a national law for concealed weapons. >> tell you the american people agree with it and we are going to be back and we will win this. >> reporter: until then, gun

control groups will savor this rare victory. michelle franzen, news4. 48 states have concealed weapons permit laws. illinois, wisconsin are the only two states that do not allow them. evidence of crime fighting success was on display at iverson mall in maryland today. prince george's county police showed off about $75,000 worth of merchandi recovered from pawn shops. it is the result of three summer crime fighting initiatives. one involves putting officers with desk jobs on the street a day a week. >> our main goal in prince george's county, we have a very professional police department. again, accountability and integrity. that's something i'm going to promote and con to promote. >> although burglary ares are up 3% in prince george's county, police tell us crime is down 14% overall. maryland governor mark o'malin is making big cuts to the state budget. the state is facing a mi fiociinan million financial hole.mi

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being summoned to court. the department has about 160 employees that handled 160 thousand cases last year. many people think of children when it comes to vaccines. we are going to hear from health experts who say adults need to take precautions, too. looks like a big silk worm but it is a massive military plane moved through the streets last night. we will tell you why. >> how did they do that? police are investiga sha wound middle of a busy city street. ell us about someone you think is special. it doesn't have to be me or jim handly. e-mail us that person's>ry and a clear close-up picture or o to day@nbcwashington.com. ou are special. >> i think i am. the pontiac summer closeout is here; hurry to get the pontiac you want before there gone. the price on the tag is the price you pay. get a 2009 pontiac vibe for $13,708 after all offers.

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good evening. bob ryan. storm center 4. we have a few clouds and some lonesome showers. they have been -- has been this month. principally through the blue ridge, shenandoah valley for you folks out there. lucky enoug to get raindrops. great sunsets, too. great picture sent in from rappahannock county. sunset over the blue ridge. not pretty spots in the whole wide world. koum of lonesome ones at 9:00. by and large, i think we will have to wait until late tomorrow afternoon to see better chance right here in washington of seeing afternoon showers and thundershowers. the weekend looks fine. lot of sunshine. late sunday. late sunday. could be another scattering of showers or thundershowers. but it is july. humidity remains until next week.

back to you. >> thank you, bob. military officials moved a heavy load through the streets of southern california last night. take a good long look. needed to get the fuselage of a giant c-17 cargo plane from the boeing factory in long beach to a ship waiting in seal beach. it was a slow process and the new plane weighs, get this, 50 tons. even without its wings. the fuselage was eventually along the pacific coast highway of seal beach. the eight-mile journey took about five hours. the c-17 shell is on its way to fort lee near petersburg, virginia. the army plans to use it to train soldier to load the massive plane. meanwhile, the navy is trying to decide what to do with the world war ii relic found by a fisherman. the watermen was in a reservoir in san diego back in february. using a device called a fish finder when he noticed the shadowy image of a plane in the

upper corner of the screen. the navy determined it was a world war ii bomber that made a water landing 64 years ago. no one was hurt when the plane went down. navy officials say that they may salvage the plane and restore it for display in a museum. a morning walk turned in a a big scare for a florida man whose dog was attacked by an alligator. it happened in west palm beach. david grounds was walking his dog when she got a little too close to the gator before he knew it the gator had mandy in its jaws. grounds pulled on the dog with one hand and punched and poked the gator in the eye with the other hand. the alligator finally let go but not before taking a chunk out much grounds' hand. the police may know now how a six-foot-long shark ended up in the middle of a city street. it was found last night in the middle of a road in the overtown section of miami. the nurse shark is a protected species. investigats atsathy they received reports of two people

trying unsuccessfully to sell it to local restaurants. they say it was likely the pair decided to just dump the shark in the middle stft when they could not get money for it. >> get that shark and alligator on the same street. fair match. coming up wooshgs we will tell you why a church is giving envelopes full of money to members of the congregation. secret or no not so secret video of lebron james getting dumped on is out. we have that for you. nationals go for two in a row. thanks to their ace john lannan. yankees have their way with the orioles. a matinee game. çñ%4d

it is still sinking in for the nats. all of us. we have been waiting. >> actually got one. >> yeah. >> good feeling for those dies. it is nice for us because we don't have to talk about another loss and nice for their pitcher. best pitcher on the worst team baseball is proving he really can't play for anybody. nats starter john lannan tossed his first career complete game shutout instead of keeping the game ball for himself, lannan gave it to jim riggleman who picked up his first win athe interim manager after five straight losses. gave it back to the young pitcher because he said he deserved it. we start with the third inning. no score. john lannan in trouble. facing david wright with two on. wright goes deep to center field but no fear. nyjer morgan is here. check out the youngster going up and getting it at the wall.

morgan has played some awesome defense in center field for the nationals. fourth inning. alberto gonzalez. bases loaded. right field. jeff francoeur drops it and right in the breadbasket and he drops it. ryan zimmerman scores. austin kearns is thrown out at second. nationals take a 1-0 lead on franncoeur's case of the dropsies. in the fifth, john lannan continues to pitch very well. nationals up 2-0. slaps one past zimmerman. guzman backhands it deep in the hole. all the way to first for the out. what a play there. a great, great play. lannan going for his first complete game shutout with two outs. grounds over to second base. nationals win the game 4-0. check out jim riggleman in the dugout saying thank you very much, guys. it was about time. lannan gets a big old hug from his catcher at home plate.

it is the mets and nationals at it again tonight. let's go downtown to nationals park where lindsay czarniak is standing by with the stopper. somebody you talked to a few minutes ago. he is not a man of many words but john lannan is proving he can be a legit big league pitcher. >> he really is. notice how humble john lannan is. as a team collectively the thing these guys are most proud of, it was a complete game, like you mentioned, nyjer morgan made great defensive plays and offense did what they needed to. john lannan was the star and said it did mean a lot for him to be able to create the spark that this team definitely needs. >> we needed that win last night. we lost six straight. i told myself we were going to win. we were going to win last night. we went out and played great defense and key hits. i'm glad i went the distance. >> are you at a point -- i know you are so humble but are you at a point you realize that the onus is on you, that this is

your role to really own. >> yes. well, i owe -- still not saying an ace. >> how can you not consider yourself an ace? >> i like being that guy that -- we need a win. i want to be that guy and get it for us. i'm a team player. as i think our whole staff is like that. hopefully i rubs off on these guys and they do the same thing. hopefully we don't have to stop. >> nyjer morgan, what is the guy with this guy? >> he's a hockey player. looks like he is on skates out there. he made great plays last might and helped me out. he said that -- i mean, if the game is going quick, better ball player. every time i go out there i will try to keep the momentum going so he is out there flying. >> why baseball over hockey? >> don't know. an athlete. good question. put me on the spot. lock me up. >> come on, nyjer. >> i don't know what to say. i have a love for the game. i guess -- you know, somebody saw my talent in baseball.

>> i think i want some of what nyjer morgan has. he is a very happy player. he played for the western hockey league. so it wasn't a decision he had to make, which direction he would go p he chose baseball. nationals are pretty glad that he did. it will be a really big night down here. obviously a lot more energy around the ballpark tonight p last night's win. like you said, taking the mound and trying to follow him in lannan's footstep. >> nationals park, please keep the red bull away from nyjer. he is a character. a tale of two pitchers at yankee stadium. new york star a.j. burnett continues his dominance of the orioles and from improving to 9-1 in 11 career starts against the os. baltimore starter jason started his eighth straight loss. we start in the first in. yankees already up 2-0.

nick swisher up with the bases loaded. swisher goes down and gets this one, lining it in to right center field. hideki matsui and or say posada score easily. swisher with a big day at the plate. and in the field. top three now. facing a.j. burnett. p ty goes the other way. swisher now in the field. check out this. stretches out. he has no more room left in that glove. just enough. almost to the wall. a.j. burnett likes it a lot. swisher with three very good defensive plays in the game. bottom three now. orioles down 4-0. that is gone. a solo home run. posada goes 2 for 3 and drives in two runs. the yankees downed the orioles to complete the sweep, 6-4 the final. wizards center. mcghee gets rewarded for his great play in summer league today. mcghee added to the roster for u.s. basketball to have a mini

camp coming up soon. mcghee scored 17 points agame. and a league best four blocks a game during four summer league outings. that video we have been talking about all day long, lebron james getting dumped on in his own basketball camp. if you haven't heard, nike officials con fist indicateded the video after apparently conferring with lebron. but tmz, website, and tv show, got ahold of it. the crazy thing is you can't even really see anything here. take a good look at the top of your screen here. jordan crawford from xavier. air rows for you. dunks on lebron. video from a cell phone. fuzzy. don't know if tmz paid for the tape. one website was offering $50,000. after that one came out another website came out with footage. this is a little better. we will show you one more replay. lebron going up trying to block the dunk. he gets a late jump here. really not that big of a deal. i mean, who cares?

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other critical vaccines. the people are supposed to be getting regularly. a lot of people aren't -- are not getting those vaccines and the cdc that's why thousands of americans are dying every year from diseases that are preventible. tracie potts with our report. >> reporter: health officials say many parents make sure that their children's shots are up to date but forget about themselves. >> once we cross the threshold of the 19th birthday and become adults, then the problems really arise. >> reporter: a new cdc survey finds less than half of adults say they are even familiar with the shingles and extremely painful rash, hepatitis b, that can cause liver disease, meningitis, whooping cough. adults are supposed to get vaccinated against all those plus flu especially if you are not healthy. >> younger people with underlying conditions like asthma, diabetes, and other chronic conditions, have had a harder time with the h1n1 influenza and same people are recommended to get the vaccine.

>> reporter: seniors get can get the flu vaccine free through medicare but two out of three do. rates are lower for younger adults. often because of cost. the shingles vaccine can cost several hundred dollars. >> if there are substantial out-of-pocket costs for preventative service against something that may happen to you in the future, most folks who have tight budgets are going to think twice and maybe even three times before they put out that money. >> reporter: vac pd causes 70% of cervical cancers. >> each of us would seek out a cancer vaccine if it were available. you see, it is. >> reporter: concerns about swine flu just around the corner, health officials are urging adults to make sure all your other shots are up to date. now you might be wondering are my shots up to date? check cdc.gov and have a fl schedule of recommended adult i immunizations. from capitol hill, i'm tracie potts, news4. a recent survey showed awareness ofreventible

diseases is especially low among young adults. most young people have no personal experience with such diseases. while older adults can recall the impact of polio or mumps. let's get an update on the steamy forecast. bob, how is it looking? >> it is a little steamy. our temperature now with the lonesome cloud still up well in the 80s. right now on doppler, once again, there have been showers. one now popping up in montgomery county. take a quick look at that o. as you can see, they are few and far between damascus and frederick. overnight tonight we will see those. tomorrow there is a better chance that all of this may see at least, i think, 60%, 70% chance of needed primarily late day, late day showers and thundershowers. after that, back to more sunshine as we head into the weekend and it will be hazy and humid. it will be also july. make late sunday another chance for showers and thundershowers. see you at 11:00. >> thank you, bob. a church in central florida is using some of its receipts toun

en emeur t m encourage members to pay it forward. members of the first baptist church each received envelopes that held $10, $20, $100. they were told to pass on the cash to someone that needs it. the only rules were that they couldn't keep the money or give it back to the church. a survey suggests homeless people in the service workers are often recipients. one church member gave his $10 bill to a waitress who seemed to be having a bad day. he says whene tried t explain what his church was doing, she stopped him and said she already knew. two other members of the be congregation had already given her money. >> she was actually having a good day. >> she was having a great tip day. >> that's our broadcast for now. "nightly news" is next. >> hope to see you tonight at 11:00. have a good one, everybody.