if the united states senate says no to the request for $2 billion for this program, it may stall. steve handelsman has our report. >> hey, wendy. thanks. they've already burned through a billion, but a lot of senate critics question the environmental value of this cash for clunkersplan. a lot of senators see it as a big government giveaway that is helping a single industry. but to thousands of car buyers and car sellers, this is a program that's got to keep going. with the u.s. senate considering letting the cash for clunkers program run out of cash, in chicago this family is rushed to replace their cadillac with a new chrysler. it's 3 r$3,500 at least. >> chrysler sent us more cars to get as many people in here, move more units. >> reporter: ford reported corporate sales up for the first

time in two years. >> cash for clunkers put us over the top. >> reporter: and the white house says the program's meeting its other goals. less pollution, less fuel used, comparing the trade-ins to their replacements. >> the transactions we're generating a 61% increase in fuel economy. >> reporter: but the sales and mileage figures come from dealers making a profit on the program. critics want proof. without the verified data, we don't know that there's a benefit. without those things, then we're justanding people $4,500 to buy a new car. >> reporter: many in the senate agree. they're skeptical. but team obama is lobbying hard. >> to make sure that all senators understand how wildly popular this is, how good it is if the economy, how good it is for the environment. >> reporter: last week, the house agreed and voted to boost the $1 billion program to 3 billion. and president obama now has invited senators down to the white house to personally lobby for more cash for clunkers.

live from the hill, i'm steve handelsman, news4. wendy, back to you. >> thanks, steve. another strong day on wall street. big gains brought the s&p above 1,000 for the first time in nine months. the s&p gained 15 points to close at 1,003. it's up 50% since march. the nasdaq gained 20 points to close below 2,000 and the dow finished strong up 115 points on the day. the surge came with the release of positive reports on the manufacturing, housing and banking sectors. sales reports indicate july could yield its first positive sales report in two years. thousands of veterans will better be able to afford college thanks to a new gi bill that went into effect on august 1st. president obama talked about that bill today during a celebration rally at george mason university in fairfax county. the new law is called the post-9/11 gi bill. it is the most comprehensive education benefit offered to veterans since the original gi bill was signed back in 1944.

>> by 1947, half of all americans enrolled in college were veterans. ultimately this would lead to three presidents, three supreme court justices, 14 nobel prize winners and two dozen pulitzer prize winner. >> the original gi bill created the largest middle class in history. that bill provides tuition assistance for troops who have served as little as three months since the terrorist attacks of 2001. the benefits are larger for longer periods of service. prince georges county firefighters had to a a bthaz o aattirhe t own hestiohinat s tinmoatg. firefighters are r urhe thore s to hehehoren wehen they thick,irla bck thick, black smoke s billowing from the truck and flames had spread to the station's roof. darcy spencer has our report. darcy? >> wendy, the volunteers here at the station say that the staffing changes actually hurt the response to this fire here

this morning. county officials say that that's not the case and that some pocies were violated and at least one firefighter is facing suspension. >> these are just basic policy issues that were violated. >> reporter: the top public safety official says it wasn't staffing issues that hurt the response to a fire truck fire at he boulevard heights stationinn morning. he says stafferster a the stati not only canceled an initial fire alarm. they drove the engine into the bay even though it was smoking. >> the person could be suspended, terminated. >> reporter: just before 2:00 a.m., members of the station noticed a fire in the truck's engine area after returning from a call. they attempted to put the blaze out, but when they turned the truck on to pull it out of the bay, the fire escalated, filling the station with thick, black smoke. >> it was kind of ironic that a piece of fire apparatus inside a fire station would have a fire. but that did occur this morning and we had to dispatch

additional firefighters. >> reporter: the closest fire station did not respond. officials say the station did not have any volunteers or career personnel on duty at the time. the career members had been pulled as part of the staffing redeployment plan. the next closest station responded in eight minutes. some argue a slower response than from capitol heights. >> it does bring attention to the need that the community has to know that they are secure and we would just like the county and the fire department chief to take a closer look at it. >> reporter: while station volunteers defend their efforts and say staffing changes are jeopardizing public safety, missteps made by those at the station made the situation even worse. >> we were just fortunate this time that it didn't get really out of control and burn the station down. >> an investigation has been launched io the handling of this accident. but as we mentioned, i'm being told that at least one

high-ranking firefighter here is facing suspension. that fire caused $100,000 in damage. reporting live, darcy spencer, news4. back to you, wendy. >> thank you. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is calling on inmi to help asure tref rnsse h g am rean ornerrethicsss.ing mi americans. those ameri acans aose ameri rr adcateeso arrested -- wereesesrr ad rr after strayi b a n ndee aq an ira w between irannd outf o rtor out thayg the g three americans are cia agents. richard engel has our report. t t >> reporter: it was in these mountains in kurdistan wihere three americans strayed over the border into iran and were arrested. kurdish officials confird their identities at shane bauer, sha sarah shord and josh fatal. bauer is a freelance journalist

and photographer living in and specializing on the arab world. his website describes him as affluent arabic speaker, a graduate of uc berkeley in 2007 withc abind arabic and peace and conflict studies. bauer's facebook page says he is in a relationship with sarah shord, thenl a oy woman in the group, also an aspiring na ur.jostli o journalist. shord describes herself as a teacher, writer and activist living in the middle east. josh fatal said he was also looking forward to traveling to iraq and kurdistan. the u.s. state department this weekend said we have been in touch with and are assisting family members of the missing three americans. the americans' detention comes at a highly sensitive time in iran following weeks of protests against president mahmoud ahamadinejad's reelection. today iran's supreme leader formally endorsed president ahamadinejad. it's the start of his inauguration process. richard engel, nbc news, istanbul.

as richard just mentioned, the supreme leader endorsed formally ahamadinejad today. the action clears the way for ahamadinejad to take the oath of office on wednesday. the ceremony today was meant to be a show of unity among iran's leadership, but it was boycotted by prominent critics of the disputed presidential election. there was evidence of some stress according to some after the ayatollah gave his seal of approval. he allowed ahamadinejad to kiss his rope on his shoulder. that gesture was far more restrained than four years ago when ahamadinejad kissed the ayatollah's hand and cheeks in a sign of intimacy and loyalty. the family of navy captain scott spiker says it is relieved that his remains have been found, but they're still looking for answers about what happened to him. his plane crashed on the first night of the persian gulf war in 1991. e was originally classified as dead, but evidence was found that pmpisted h case to be d reclassified as missing or

captured. spiker's remains were found in a grave in iraq last week and then officially confirmed by the department of defense this weekend. his family has hired its own investigators to look into what happened. >> there are remains. the remains can be tested for what happened to them. so a lot of information even in old remains. and we'll get all of that. we do have our only sources on the ground in addition to the considerable ones, of course, of the u.s. government and we've come thisfar. we'll get those answers. >> spiker's family has not determined how they'll honor him once they have his remains home. coming up tonight, dozens of people injured because of turbulence on a flight headed to the u.s. we'll tell you who's been named the guardian of michael jackson's children. henry lewis gates able to have a laugh about his controversial arrest. there are right ways and wrong ways to blow up a building. this is not the right way. try the new subway big chipotle cheesesteak.

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that wasn't supposed to happen. that was supposed to have been a demolition project over the weeke weekend, but instead of collapsing, the building rolled over on its side and ended up on its roof. it's an old factory. workers spent two weeks weakening the main structure. they were hoping the building would go straight down. fortunately, nobody got hurt. some moments of terror this morning for passengers aboard a continental airlines flight that was supposed to be on its way from brazil to houston. the pilot was forced to make a emergency landing in miami because of what he called extreme turbulence. when that plane touched down, more than two dozen people were injured. michelle franzen has our report. >> reporter: flight 128 made the emergency landing at miami

international after the pilot reported the plane hit severe turbulence. more than two suzen passengers were injured. 13 were taken to local hospits. some with reported head, jec, and back injuries. >> i didn't have my seat belt on. i hit my head on the roof of the ceiling and then i hit it on the monitor in front of me. >> reporter: these photos taken by a passenger show the cabin aftermath, deployed oxygen masks inhangg down and medics cleaning up. in a sthaatement, continental airlines says the fasten seat belt sign was aluminated during the incident. the majority of the 168 passengers on board had them on. >> it was quite bad, but i was wearing the seat belt so it was okay. but behind me, there was this girl. she was bleeding. quite bad. >> reporter: the overnight flight orageig orig greainated

was headed for houston. passengers didn't know what would happen next. >> i've never seen like a turbulence like that. i really thought we wouldn't make it. >> reporter: once on the ground, relieved passengers hugged and waited until they could board other flights heading to houston. the faa says it is investigating the cause and severity of the turbulence. michelle franzen, news4. >> initial reports indicate there were no significant weather systems in that area during that incident. officials also say there were no reports from any other pilots of turbulence at that altitude. a judge in los angeles today decided the mother of michael jackson would be the permanent guardian of his three children. katherine jackson and jackson's ex-wife, debbie rowe, struck a deal that calls for jackson to receive full custody of the children. rowe will retain her parental rights and will get visitation.

katherine jackson is looking for mo input into business decisions involving the estate. but so far, the court has sided with the two men named as executors in jackson's will. >> the will is where it's at. the will trumps the desires of all the other business people, all the suggestions that other folks ought to be involved. >> everyone sought the same objective, doing what was best for the children. >> the judge approved a monthly financial allowance for both the children and katherine jackson, which will be paid out by the pop star's estate. it's been more than two weeks since henry lewis gates was arrested in his own home by a police sergeant, a white police sergeant, in cambridge. the resulting controversy led to the beer summit at the white house last thursday. yesterday, professor gates spoke at a book festival on martha's vineyard. he said issues of race and class remain profoundly deep in

america. but his tone was also light. he spoke of future plans with sergeant crowley. >> i asked him maybe to go to the red sox game together, maybe go to a celtic gauge together. you know, maybe we could have dinner with our families. you know, why not? you know, i offer to get his kids into harvard. you know what i mean? if he doesn't arrest me ever again. >> on a far more serious note, professor gates says that he has not been home since he was released from jail because he's received a number of death threats. there is growing concern about the outbreak of pneumonic plague in china. a second man has died from this lung disease. an entire town has been locked down because of the outbreak. about a dozen people are thought to be infected. the world health organization says it's in close contact with chinese health officials to make sure the appropriate measures are taken to treat the sick. the outbreak has been caused by a rare but very severe form of

pneumonic plague that is capable of causing death within 24 hours of infection. coming up tonight, we'll tell you about a man who got a jaywalking ticket helping some geese cross a busy road. and a man is facing charges after what was supposed to be a friendly game of monopoly. there's something big happening at pizza hut. - woooh, nice! - that's a lot of food! now get big meals like our stuffed pizza rolls, pizza mia, the p'zone... and our personal pormous pizza starting at just $5. the big eat tiny price menu. only at pizza hut.

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more than 4,000 times, an astronaut's lost tool bag was expected to reenter the earth's atmosphere today. the astronaut dropped the tool bag last november when she and other astronauts were performing routine space walk. it's the size of a backpack. it was supposed to fall to earth over an uninhabited section of the pacific ocean. be more fun if it came down some place and they said, where did that pair of pliers come from? >> you might need it. >> you never know. >> that was a nice, refreshing rain yesterday. a nice, breezy morning. >> putting the -- after that very, very dry july, outside today, nice day. we've had a few clouds building up. fear not. no thunderstorms. none of the wild weather we had on friday and some of those pop-up variety showers here and there over the weekend.

82 degrees. that's now just about our arg as we're heading in. by the end of august, our average high back into the lower 80s. 6 of the last 9 years we've had an august hotter than july, even though july is our hottest month on average. on average, average july is two degrees hotter than august. maybe this will be one of those hot augusts again. we've got a few clouds. our temperature -- the humidity is not too bad. look at the temperatures around the east right now. boy, what a summer they've had up in spots like detroit and buffalo. that's the current temperature again. 76 degrees. they've had to have the heat on, parts of northern maine and up around the great lakes. we on the other hand have had this little bubble behind the thunder showers. a little bubble of high pressure. winds are light. but it also means if you -- you go to the shore. 5:00, there's a breeze, convergence over the shore.

you see all of the beach areas. that's where the wind comes in, an easterly breeze. and also the same around the bay. but that's where the clouds have been forming. look at ocean city. 78 degrees. nice day to be at the beach with that sunshine. that breeze keeps you cool. on the other hand, boy, it's been warm and humid down into florida with the temperatures up into the 80s. pensacola has had over seven inches of rain today. here's where the heat is on. i think we'll really begin building as we go through the week. because here's the pattern that we had so much of this summer. that is seasonable where we see the jet stream near us. it hasn't allowed things to build. as we get later into the week, the weekend and next week, it looks like the ridge, that is the overall pattern, will be building, allowing the heat to build up in the midpart of the country. as a matter of fact, for next week -- for the folks that prediction center, the outlook is for temperatures very likely to be above average. that would be into the 90s in

the mid-part of the country and also for us. if that builds, we may be looking at a hot week, a very hot, humid week next week. not this week until late in the week. look how much of the country is cloud-free. there's a ripple in the atmosphere with showers and also those showers down into florida. but as we go through tonight, i think we'll see skies clear out. clouds will dissipate. that area of high pressure we've had moves off. today we get into southwesterly winds. can't rule out that there might be a pop-up variety shower or thunder showers, especially where we get a little bit of that convergence out toward the eastern shore. and then as we get into wednesday, a little weak weather front will begin coming our way. that will set the stage for wednesday being the day late on wednesday of some showers, thunder showers. tomorrow there's a slight risk of some severe thunderstorms well to our west. and i think there's a risk of seeing 90s tomorrow for the first time in august. low 90s tomorrow. in the meantime, this evening, very pleasant.

80 to 85 degrees. clouds throughout will grad well dissipate. got an almost full moon. it's going to be a nice evening later on as it will be tomorrow morning with temperatures, 64 to 70 degrees. humidity comes back. southwesterly winds, there's that risk of thunderstorms on wednesday afternoon. then temperatures near average. our average high now 88 to 87. but i think with the heat building, we have to look right rnofow fo temperatures over the weekend to be in the 90s a once that starts, it could be an oppressive period heading into the weekend and then next week, maybe a string of more than just one or two 90s in a row. >> all right. >> okay. coming up, two new studies are out that show american children putting their health at risk by not getting enough of an important vitamin. a vote on a controversial issue involving the islamic academy school. and at was given a jaywalking ticket for helping some geese cross the road.

a fire inside a prince georges county station is raising questions about staffing issues among the firefighters. there was a blaze early this morning in capitol heights. only two firefighters were on duty at the time, and it took eight minutes for other firefighters to get there to help. by that time, the fire engine had been destroyed. the county's public safety director believes missteps by the firefighters, not staffing issues, led to problems. the obama administration wants to put more money into the clunkers program. the $1 billion program is almost out of money. the administration wants congress to allot another $2 billion for the program. the white house insists the program is good for the auto industry and for the environment. but those claims are disputed by some critics.

a continental airliner jet carrying 200 people from brazil to texas hit severe turbulence early this morning and had to make an emergency landing in miami. 26 people on board were injured. four of them seriously. coming up in this half hour of "news4 at 6," we'll explain why students in northern virginia are already heading back to school. we'll hear from a man who was given a jaywking ticket when he tried to help some geese across the dulles toll road. and we'll tell you about a game of monoly that ended up in a charge of assault. the board of supervisors in fairfax county will vote on the islamic academy's expansion plan. >> reporter: the islamic saudi academy sought a special exception to allow them to build a new school and mauque on this 34-acre property in a ralur corner of fairfax county, but some opponents of the plan allege that the islamic saudi academy is a school for

terrorism. >> we don't think it should exist, let alone expand. it teaches sharia law, it teaches terrorism. they're raising the next generation of homicide bombers here in virginia. >> reporter: some of the fairfax county board of supervisors ty rejected the political argument and defended the islamic saudi academy as a good neighbor. >> a lot of the charges directed at your school were -- were displaced. >> reporter: supervisor patrick hairdy moved to deny the essential exception to the school based on traffic safety concerns, but the motion didn't pass. then the supervisor moved to approve the planned school expansion, which did pass 6-4. the community groups who oppose the plan and neighbors who live along pope head road left the meeting upset. >> they really will have this on their conscious. it will be on their conscious where there is an accident on that road. >> i have seen three fatalities within the half mile from my

home to the school. and that is totally overwritten by other people's agenda. >> reporter: one group says this fight is not over. they will mobilize to try to defeat the six supervisors who voted in favor of the school's plan. >> we are actively going to solicit candidates to run against them. and we are going to work to defeat them. >> reporter: while oonents may organize against the politicians theyeerel a responsible, the islamic saudi academy a is now clear tobegin building its new school and expanding its programs. chris gordon, news4 in fairfax county. >> the islamic academy is located inlexandria, virginia. it was founded back in 1984. peggy cooper is now talking about the fire that completely burned her mansion to the ground. her house and the art collection it contained both recently

featured in oprah's magazine. with everything gone, she hopes to start a new art collection but first, she has some otr priorities. >> will i continue to collect art? well, right now i have to think about getting my kids some shoes for school. but when my head is calm and -- and when i can, you know, again embrace the beauty of that, i'm sure i will attend to it. >> she did not want to address the water pressure problems that firefighters said hindered their abily to put out that fire. in fairfax county, a man got a ngywnkialkeicor tki ft some geese cross a f some geese cross a nepeap bdee back inun j bhen t ywarky nthr e daesdu toll road. n to tt man went before a judge. jane watrel has our report. >> reporter: they're a potential road hazard for torists. every day, gaggles of geese try to cross busy highways and

drivers have to choose whether to stop or not. >> some of us have our -- have morals that may be at odds with the law. >> reporter: that's what happened to joe vamosi who contested a jaywalking ticket. the hungarian man received it earlier this summer for helping geese across the highway. >> we're only humans. if we don't protect animals, who is going to protect them? >> reporter: it was june 18th when vamosi says he was driving down the fairfax county parkway during morning rush hour when he spotted 11 geese trying to cross the road. he pulled to the side and immediately stopped traffic, allowing the gaggle to go across four lanes of traffic. in court, the police officert hw ticketed vamossa id -yd 60 olr-ran into the middle of the road colngsiau15 vehicl tomsi snla o their brakes and nearly created a massive car pile-up. but vamosi said he had no time to think. >> i saw in my head the trouble ahead, the possibility if those animals walked in front of the

cars. >> reporter: the judge told vamosi i think you had good motives, but your actnsoddd other problems. i don'think i was i the best thing for you to do. but the judge then threw out the jaywalking ticket, provided vamosi stays out ofrouble for six months. animal lovers hail this as a victory. >> he's my hero and i hope he does it again and continues to do it. i would do it, too, but i think we all have to make that judgment. it's a tough call. >> reporter: vamosi says he has no plans to stop helping animals. if that means pulling over his car to help geese, he'll do it again. jane watrel, news4. >> vamosi will be back in court in january. the judge will toss out the ticket provided he stays out of trouble. a ntgomery county man is in jail tonight accused larragl aur wies ndvese a blurglaries and a home. bbery. police say eie burkes iiisevera

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reasonable humidity. dew point temperatures, 62. that's how we measure humidity. later in the week and the weak end, we'll be into the low 70s it i'm afraid for dew point. that is very humid to oppressive. great pictures sent in by bob kearns from over the weekend. rainbows, that's one of the positives of seeing showers and thunder showers around. sometimes there's a rainbow at the tail end of the day. could be a thunderstorm. i think late wednesday. after that, the heat begins to build into the weekend. next week, too. a man in michigan is in jail after a friendly game of monopoly turned violent. his name is kenneth ripk you don't want to play with him. he was playing monopoly with his neighbor. he got so angry during the game that he assaulted her. >> the male subject asked to buy boardwalk and park place. she refused. he got angry and slapped her on the side of the head, knocking her glasses off and knocking her to the ground.

>> the neighbor went home and called the cops. the cops then took -- came and took kenneth repky to jail. we will now avoid the obvious pun that would natural follow that. a new york college grad is suing her college because she can't find a job. trina thompson graduated in april. she says she has been looking for a job ever since. hasn't found anything so she's going to sue her school. he wa she says monroe college has not provided her with the leads she was promised. the college insists it helped graduates find jobs and it says the lawsuit is without merit. two long-lost brothers are back in touch because of facebook. john was contacted through the social networking site byh nt month by a man named dan. turned out dan was his brother. the 70-year-old john says he's

known for 30 years he was adopted and that he had a brother, but he didn't know how to get in touch with him. >> if it wasn't for the internet, we never would have found each other. >> john lives in washington state. dan lives in las vegas. the brothers talk every day now through skype. a florida man is distraught. he says he lost a half a million dollar lottery ticket. lewis lives near west palm. the 69-year-old purchased a scratch-off ticket on wednesday. it ended up being a big winner. after confirming he had won, he headed to the lottery office to cash in, but between the store and the lottery office, the ticket disa piappearedisappeare. he may have been pick-pocketed when he stopped at a gas station to ask for directions. >> what do you think you'll say when you look back on this? >> i'm still going to curse.

i'm still going to curse. >> since he hadn't signed his name on the back of the ticket, whoever ends up with it could receive that reward. coming up in the broadcast tonight, we'll tell you about new studies that show american children are not getting enough of an important vitamin. coming up in sports, we're talking about the redskins' injury concerns for the $100 million redskin. also, a joe gibbs driver takes to the track with a heavy heart. and andy roddick takes the court here in d.c.

okay. i'm looking at your script because that's what i do all the time. >> i know. why do you do that? >> because i need to know what's going on. albert haynesworth, what about him? i want to know now. >> if you just hold on, i'm going to tell you what the deal is. the fifth day of training camp for the redskins. they might have a slight concern. even if it's routine, when you pay a pretty penny for a top-of-the-line rolls-royce, you don't want to see it sitting in the garage. today, albert hanynesworth was limited, but it was just precautionary after getting an injection to cushion his left knee. haynesworth was looking out for the knee. he said he could be back, in fact, as soon as tomorrow. but haynesworth, who signed the most lucrative contract in the nfl in history, didn't want to

push it today. jim zorn says do not worry. this is precautionary. >> we're just trying to keep his knee, which is sore, just from all the work we've been doing, just make sure we don't have to shut him down completely for more than a day or two. i'm absolutely pleased with where he's at ght now. >> jim zorn expecting to see haynesworth back out there on the field soon. cornerback carlos rogers is still sidelined with a tight calf. there's no time table yet on when he'll practice. speaking of time, one redskins player who has a rare habit that you don't really see a lot of at training camp is laron landry. he wears a wrist watch, but he's not using it for telling time. first of all, if he wore a watch in the game, he'd have no chance of keeping that thing on his arm. but landry is a one-of-a-kind guy. he says since college he's used

a timepiece as motivation. >> my time to shine. it's my time all the time. every five minutes, i set an alarm. when we're on the field for five minutes, when it starts beeping, it's time to go. >> one day i noticed it. i'm like, what are you doing it? he's like, it's my time. whatever you got to do to get you going. >> what do you think about it? >> i thought -- i thought, you know, what is this guy doing? but, you know, hey, everybody has got their own little thing. >> you guys probably have things like that, right? >> yeah. but we'll never tell you what they are. >> i figure. moving on. a grand jury today indicted plaxico burress on weapons charges. burress shot himself in the thigh last year in a nightclub. he face as minimum of up to 3 1/2 years in prison if convicted. joe gibbs driver denny

hamlin hadn't won in 50 races. didn't even want to be at the racetrack this week. instead, he wanted to be with his family helping them get over the loss of his grandmother who died friday. but if there's any place where hamlin has a better chance of leaving with a smile, it's pocono where he won twice as a rookie. today the track helped ease his pain. we're back in pennsylvania. we start with 20 laps to go. chaos ensued here on this turn. david reagan taps bobby labonte on the right side. he goes hard into the outside wall. it was a big wreck that took a lot of guys out. ten laps to go. clint bowyer was leading, but denny hamlin said there was nothing that was going to keep him from getting this win. denny hamlin won twice at this track as a rookie. he plays video games that help him become better and better every time. on the final lap, it was all denny. he ends the 50-race winless skid. a very, very emotional race for

him. denny hamlin talks in victory lane. >> we came close in a lot of races this year and come up short. but definitely had some angels with us today. patrick's mom passed away several weeks ago. my grandmother, two days ago. >> it's been 50 races. i know your folks are watching at home. what do you want to tell them? >> well, you know, it's just -- i'm thinking of my mom right now. >> a very emotional denny hamlin from chesterfield, virginia. juan pablo montoya was second. to tennis. andy roddick wants to make one thing clear. his success as the runner-up finish in wimbledon has been something he's been building on. after sitting out the last few tournaments with a hip injury, he will make his first appearance since the major at the legg mason this week. this is going to be the first tournament roddick has played

since he lost the epic wimbledon match to roger federer. he lost 16-14 in the fifth and final set. roddick says since then, people from everywhere have been coming up to congratulate him. he's carried every reputation possible throughout his tennis career from that eager kid to the has-been. today andy was out there practicing. he says he's trying to build his success in the legg mason tournament this week. >> after wimbledon, you're kind of the -- you know, andy every day who, you know, people are -- are cheering for all of a sudden. and i think all the while, the meat and potatoes of who i am hasn't really changed that much. but i'll take the -- i'll take the good coverage while it's there. i know it's fleeting. i'm not going to come in expecting to pick up where i left off. a month ago. you know, one thing that i've been very conscious of this year is the fact that it's -- it's a

continual process. this is the start of the process towards the u.s. open, which is very important. i'd love to get off to a great start. but i think it would be presumptuous of me to expect that, you know, in my first match in over a month. >> the one thing he kept going back to today was talking about how much he has grown as a player and how much it was not just wimbledon giving him success. for him, it was the big building of what has come to be. >> i don't think that andy roddick has ever played a game of tennis like he played at wim wimb wimbleden. >> i agree. >> if he plays anywhere close to that, he'll take this tournament. >> absolutely. he's got a tough draw. he plays wednesday. >> i'm looking for joe willy. >> yeah? >> yeah. i love that. >> today he was out there. i was watching him practice. >> he's playing tonight, right? >> yeah. when we come back, we'll

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for nine weeks and will then have a break for three weeks. we've been told for years to drink milk as a way of creating strong bones. but now two new studies have found that american kids and teenagers are not getting enough vitamin d from milk and other sources. that's putting their health at risk. tracie potts has our report. >> reporter: a study in today's journal of pediatrics finds 7 in 10 american children don't get enough vitamin d. 1 in 10 have levels so low they're deficient. milk and fish are beg sources of vitamin d, but so is sunshine. american children fall short. >> four hours a day of using computers or watching tv or playing video games, they were 60% higher risk of having vitamin d deficiency. >> reporter: this 12-year-old can't drink milk, so she looks for vitamin d elsewhere. >> i get it from yogurt,

anything that has milk in it. sometimes i go out in the sun and don't put on sunscreen. i play around with my friends. >> reporter: it's a big issue for people with dark skin because their bodies cant absorb vitamin d as easily. the study found 6 in 10 african-american girls are vitamin d deficient. later in life, that can lead to cancer and heart problems. >> two times the risk of high blood pressure, two times the risk of having high blood sugar, blood glucose concentrations, and four times higher risk of coming the metabolic syndrome. >> reporter: all of which are risk factors for heart disease but can be reduced for most people with just 10 to 15 minutes of sunshine every day. that's exposure without sunscreen, which, of course, raises questions about skin cancer. parents should let their kids play outside for a few minutes first. then apply sunscreen to protect against both conditions.

tracie potts, nbc news, washington. >> you can take vitamins. get 400 units a day for most people. 6 to 800 ubts for older adults. cing up tonight at 11:00, a shot that might be able to prevent breast cancer in some women. >> there's no history at all of breast cancer in my family. and it was a shock. >> reporter: she underwent chemotherapy, but since the cancer had already spread, doctors said her chance of recurrence was high. a frightening thought for the virginia mother and wife. >> a lot of it is that. if i could do anything, you know, to keep it from coming back, like you said, you know, you feel very young like you're not ne rar feaordynghi ttoes b do. din h f outow a vblnee a t o obl a to stop bkgac i b sneomin patients. we'll have more on that tonight at 11:00. we've had a nice august day

out there. nothing to worry about. there's our sky watch looking down the river. here's our temperature right now in washington. we're at 83. the dew point will be creeping up tonight with reasonable air temperatures into the low 60s. some of the cooler suburbs. tomorrow i think will be into the low 90s. and then there is the risk of some afternoon thunder showers on wednesday. after that, maybe not quite as hot, but humid at the tale end of the week. then we have the makings of what could be a little bit more of an extended period of heat. tell you more at 11:00. tonight, post offices on the chopping block. 13 in our area could be closed this year. vandals take aim at a speed camera letting police know they don't like the tickets they've been given. and part of a brand new high school football field is torched. the damage could cost up to 75 big ones. haggis is the national dish of scotland.

it is considered a delicacy by some. the traditional way to make haggis is combine a sheep's heart, liver, and lungs, mince the organs together with onion, oatmeal and spices and then you stuff that mixture inside the animal's stomach and you boil it in a pot for a few hours. the scottish are very proud of creating the dish. but now a food historian says scotland's national dish actually comes from england. haggis was first referenced in a book for english house wives published in 1615. at was more than 150 years before any evidence of that dish in scotland. scottish haggis makers are skeptical. one butcher there even noted that if haggis had been invented in england, william shakespeare would have written a poem about