4:00." i'm pat lawson muse. >> i'm jim handly. the eagles' job comes just weeks after michael vick was released from federal pris. he served 18 months for his role in running a dogfighting ring. >> a news conference today, vick expressed remorse for his actions and he acknowledged that some people will never forgive him. kristen dahlgren has the story. >> just months after walking out of the federal prison, michael vick sat before the cameras as a philadelphia eagle. >> i made poor judgment. ions in my ad life, you know. and i had to reach a turning point. and prison finitely did it for me. >> reporter: the name convicted in a dogfighting role was apologetic. >> to this day i can't understand why i was involved in such pointless activity. >> reporter: while his new team and recent mentor, tony dungy, explained their decisions. >> feel like mike is going to help their football team and be a weapon for them. but they also stepped out to

give a manning a second chance. >> vick! >> reporter: will fans be as forgiving? so far reactions are mixed. >> i definitely think he can add to an offense and a hybrid offense and andy reid offense that i think is going to be unheard of in the nfl. >> if they set him on the bench and make us look bad for having somebody like michael vick in town that doesn't do anything for us, it was a stupid signing. >> reporter: the signing left peta outraged. the animal rights group saying they were, quote, disappointed the philadelphia eagles have chosen to sign a man who hanged dogs from trees. vick, who was once the nfl's highest paid player with the atlanta falcons, acknowledged he has a lot of work to do on and off the field. >> playing in the nfl is a privilege and not a right. >> reporter: as the season gets under r under way the, the debate is sure to rage whether it was right to let him play again. kristen dahlgren, nbc news.

ff while many are soundin o on this story, o it e, e onbswee, one person writes in day -- na --llfipehiy, trss s nkon a north carolina tv station is reporting former senator john edwards will admit that he's the father of a former campaign worker's child. last august, edwards admitted to having an affair with rooel

hunter, a woman that served as a videographer with his 2008 presidential campaign. edwards has denied fathering hunter's now 18-month-old daughter. but according to wral, edwards will admit that he is the father. as early as today. this comes as a federal grand jury is investigating whether campaign funds were used illegally to pay hunter to be quiet about the affair. a driver who ran ei blais b ingmedn is being blamed in a head-on sicaermich michaeltni t.gh las night. this is a picture snapped at the ene in b balance more while ps elph was talking with police fiofce passengers in hisses can a laid with him at the time. they were not injured. the woman in the other car was taken to the hospital as a precaution. it is not clear whether she got a ticket. baltimore police say alcohol was not a factor in the crash. it has been a beautiful day outside today. but will this nice weather stick around for our weekend? chuck bell has the fast forecast from the storm center. what about it, chuck? >> i'm optimistic if you have

plans to do something fun in the great outdoors this weekend, i'm optimistic you will have dry weather to accompany you on your outings. it is going to be a beautiful day today. the rest of the evening anyway. both tomorrow and sunday are looking far nicer than we have had the last couple of weekends. 85 in washington now. 78 degrees down in richmond with a few showers south of the richmond area, norfolk and virginia beach. if your beach-going plans take you below the chesapeake bay, virginia beach, you may want to think twice about that because it is going to be a stormy weekend down in far southeastern virginia and as well as into the outer banks of north carolina. ocean city, rehoboth, dewey beach, annapolis, looking better than normal forad weekends this time of year. temperatures as we go through the rest of the evening hours, back down to the mid to upper 70s by 11:00. wakeup temperatures, low 70s in town. nice warm dry evening on the way. plenty of weekend sunshine coming our way. and that's definitely going to be good news. the tropics starting to get a little more active. i will show you where the newest

tropical concern is brewing. coming up in a couple more minutes. we also have friday grilling on the lawn segment, it will smell and look good before it is all said and done. >> chuck, thank you. d.c. police are looking for the hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a pedestrian in southeast this morning. that man was killed as he crossed along a busy suitland parkway here at the intersection of stanton road around 2:30 this morning. police tell us they are having trouble identifying the victim because he was not carrying i.d. witnesses describe the carl,blof small, possibly bl sm oda ue. fr.onenfren crackendd wi ldsh cracked windshield. nolice are trygac ttrowo dk the person that threw ensidsive device i explose devivice ie x ma .c. in northst d. the blue sidewalk mailbox exploded last night in the 4800 block of mean street northeast. the explosion sent debris about 60 feet, damaging street lights, no one was hurt. but residents in the neighborhood were temporarily evacuated from their homes.

investigators described the device as a mortar type of firework. a former police chief pleads guilty to drinking and drive. >> a firstdin kng goi kind goin green graduation. >> here are some other stories making headlines in the washingtonin area today. the former police chief of alexandria pleaded guilty to dui charge this morning. dave bakeler serve five days in jail, pay a $300 fine, and have his virginia driving privileges suspended. baker was arrested last month after a crash in arlington. he resigned a few days later and police say his blood alcohol level was .19%. well above virginia's legal limit. bakeler surrender to the arlington county sheriff's office by 6:00 tonight. more fallout after that judge in charles county, maryland, admits to deflating a woman's car tire near the courthouse. robert nalley resigned as chief administrator of the circuit court. judge nalley will not step down

from the bench, however. the woman says nalley let the air out of her tire because she parked in his restrictive park. you can expect more delays on metro due to track repairs. fort totten station on the red line will be out of commission starting tonight at 10:00. buses will run between the brooklyn, fort totten and takoma stations. the orange line will single track between the vienna and westphals station. starting at 8:00 tonight until sunday evening. riders should add at least 30 minutes to their travel time. d.c. held its first evergreen graduation today. graduates of the green job corps training class got their degree this morning. it uses federal stimulus money to train students to weatherwise homes and businesses, install solar panels and perform energy audits. the services are expected to save millions of dollars in energy costs in the d.c. metro area. good for them. >> coming up on "news4 at 4:00," the president of the philippines made a visit to our area

recently but somethinghe did during her visit here got her in big trouble with her own government. roxanne roberts from the reliable source has the story. >> and a medical breakthrough. researchers say they might have found a way to conduct stem cell research that doesn't involve humans. things are heating up outdoors on our front lawn. we chef a chef

there's the sound of the close bell on wall street this friday. stocks took a tumble today. the dow closed 76 points lower. the nasdaq lost ne e .thrkw yo the new york stock exchange was off 72 points. welcome, everybody. it is friday, grilling on the front lawn at channel 4. we are joined by corey alexander of the rock creek restaurant. welcome. thanks so much for coming here and bringing what looks to be a very promising start to a grilling segment. we have carbs and fat. everything for good grilling. what are we making in the first half? >> today we are doing a grilled pizza. it is a roasted garlic and herb crust. >> zbounds. >> topped with goat cheese, caramelized onions, chives,

local -- >> you say you made the crust here yourself. if people want to try this at home, what is a good substitute unless they can't make their own? >> pita bread. >> now the first thing you do is put the flat bread down and what do you layer on their first? >> we have goat cheese. when you are doing grilled pizza, you don't want to stack it up with a lot of heavy ingredients, heavy wet sauces. grilled pizza cooks quickly. and so you -- flash on the grill. cook all the way through. keep your ingredients light and fresh. good for summertime. lot of in-season ingredients here. >> that's a little -- >> little bit of the garlic herb. >> okay. smells good. brown it up first? >> yes. brown one side. brown the one side. >> while that's cooking -- >> what's this? >> xwoet cheese spread. >>ny type of cheese? goat cheese do better than some? >> well, you can use mozzarella

a you can use parmesan eese. whatever is going to cook up. make sure it is shredded cheese. >> those are -- >> caramelized onions. sweetness. >> very good. >> little cherry tomatoes. >> very nice. about how long and once these things are on the grill, how long do you need to leave them on there? >> two, three minutes. just to heat it through. make that easier take these over. >> okay. >> move them over here. i don't want to get in the way of progress. i don't want food to be spilled on my account. >> put a top on. so it cooks tin ingredients on the top. >> okay. two to three minutes and that's about it. what do you recommend serving with that, favorite soft drinks? good iced tea? >> nice cold beer. >> okay. beer is good. >> iced tea, water. something cool. green salad. >> sounds easy enough. of course, they can always come to the rock creek restaurant and you will make them one fresh with the goat cheese. >> everything is made to order. >> what do we grill in the next

segment when we come back? >> next segment, we are going to do a little fish. a brazilian ribs. people think of ribs, they think of pork. >> it is a fish. i thought it was a pack animal. i had to learn. these look great. we are going to put all the recipes on our website. nbcwashington.com. we will be back for the grilled paku coming up in just a little bit. enjoy, ery.ybevod mells good. in the control room, i can tell they are already drooling. back to the news. secretary of state stands her ground. a world leader in hot water for dining out. and another obama relative settles in. just a few of the stories sparking chat in the "washington post" reliable source column. let's check in with roxanne roberts. roxanne, one top take had a lot of folks talking, all over town, all over the world, in fact, on your web chat, was hillary clinton in africa declaring a town hall she's secretary of state and not her husband.

>> well, there was a lot of chat because she asserted in -- she was asked a question and there's some dispute about whether or not the translation was correct. but right after bill clinton swooped down and brought the hostages back, they asked her kind of what she thought of that and she basically said i am secretary of state, not my husband. and some people said that she had a mini meltdown and got kind of, you know, cranky about this. and that it was pure sexism that got asked. and so going back and forth on this. i said, you know, guys have bad days, too. so it could b a misunderstanding or maybe she just got tired of people saying we like you but your husband is really the cool guy. >> who would like to hear that? ran up a couple of huge restaurant bills that have her in hot water back home.

one of the bills was here in town. right? >> absolutely. you know, we probably wouldn't have heard about this because no one paid any attention. she was here on july 30th and met with the president. and then she andpleo pe wtenev to bobby van steakhous for dinner. we didn't pay any attention to it. three days later she went to new york and had a dinner where they had champagne and caviar, spent $20,000. this became a scandal back home. then we found out that she had paid $15,000, lobster, steak, fine wines at bobby van's. the bill aasanom w by a woman that opened up her purse and pulled out $15,000 in cash. which is -- you know, the kind of thing that tends to catch one's eye. the name bobby van's steakhouse is all over the philippines right now. which i think is probably a good thing for tourism. >> exactly. helping our local economy but who carries that wad in their purse? that's amazing. >> not me. >> president obama's half sister

is also in town. tell us about that. >> well, this is -- his baby sis, after his mother split from his father, shearried an indonesian businessman. so it is his younger -- maybe -- didn't spend a lot of time living together. few years as children and then he lived with his grandparents. well, she campaigned for him and now she's coming to washington until december. her husband is becoming an associate resident at the smithsonian, a specialist in asian affairs. and she is writing a children's book. they have two little kids, two little daughters. she is not moving into the white house. but she wants to spend more time with family and that family just happens to be living in the white house. >> just happens to be. all right. have a great weekend, roxanne roberts. we appreciate it. >> bye-bye. >> let's get into the fast lane and check out the rush hour ride home. ashley linder is in the news4 traffic network. >> hey, pat. more like the slow lane today. look at this. this is the capital beltway and this is what it looks like while

pretty much all around the area. the outer loop, coming down and headed towards the bottom of your screen, the delays begin just before this and don't get better until tysons, as you get towards gallows road. inner loop begins at the dulles toll road and continues as you can see through bethesda and silver spring, college park. it doesn't get better until greenbelt. lot of people getting out of town today. taking the 95 corridor. as you can see. certainly a lot of people there. the move doing fine there. and the center of your screen. as you continue southbound you will pick up more volume. main lines are very much overwhelmed with volume. leaving the capital beltway on the braek solidly to fredericksburg, pretty messy day. pretty messy time to commit to the roadways. back to you. >> thanks, ash. when "news4 at 4:00" continues, wildfires out west are now threatening a thousand homes as hundreds of refirsgh ae

doctors may soon have a new drug to treat osteoporosis.

80% of ericans with it are women. the drug that's an injection given twice a year and it could help those who can't tolerate daily medication. but while the fda advisory committee recommended the drug as twice a year treatment, it didn't fully recommend it for preventi ien iat e el pthanwon. the panel voted against also approving the drug for patients with breast or prostate cancer whose treatment reduces bone mass. new experiments with mice could lead to rakethrough disease treatments for people. scientists are creating replacement cell that may eventually help to treat those suffering spinal cord injuries, parkinson's disease, diabetes, other problems. by inserting a single skin cell into a mouse embryo and into a living mouse. researchers were able to reprogram normal cells so they worked just like embree on theic stem cells. those are no embryos used. animal rights groups oppose the research. additional crews have been

deployed across the state of california to help gain control on a series of wildfires that continue to grow. in the stan cruz mountains flames forced more than 2,000 people to leave their homes now. the blaze began wednesday evening. and has grown now to more than six-square miles. so far it only damaged two small structures but threatening 1,000 others. no injuries have been reported. the cause of the fire is still under investigation. back here at home, the wind was perfect. >> relatively nice summer days people can get outside. we could use a little more rain. we don't want it to rain necessarily on the weekend. we have five other days of the week. monday through friday we can pick up on the needed rainfall. not so much on your saturdays and sundays. a live picture over downtown washington. the temperature is 85 degrees. our dew point is65 degrees. a light east wind at only about 5 to 6 miles per hour. and since june 21, look at that,

only 2.25 inches of rain. almost 50 days. so it has been a very dry stretch around here indeed. temperatures around the rest of the east are mostly in the 80s. 86 in buffalo. 78 in boston, one of the cool spots. 83 degrees in raleigh. ra showers in and around much of eastern north carolina. satellite review, old weather front just sort of hanging out across the carolinas. focusing mechanism for a lot of showers and thunderstorms down there. high pressure to our northeast. that's the reason we have the east to northeasterly wind and will keep us out of the 90s today and oucht 90s tomorrow as well. gradually that air of high pressure will move away and allow warming trend in here as we get towards sunday and monday. all right. out we go into the tropics. things starting to get a little bit more active. labor day weekend is statistically the most active time of the tropics. this tropical wave out here, the hurricane center keeping a very ose eye on that. and as that has the best likelihood to develop into a tropical system. it is over 3,000 miles away from the u.s. we are not going to have to worry about that a while.

a few more areas of disturbed weather over the bahamas and another one in the eastern gulf of mexico that will need to be watched over the next couple of days. nonetheless, nothing brewing in the short term. so if you are headed out to rehoboth or ocean city weekend, you are going to have good weather for that. futurecast shows a few dying showers. mainly in southern and southeastern virginia. fading away during the overnight hours tonight. tomorrow nice mix of clouds and sunshine. and temperatures fairly typical for this time of the year. mid to upper 80s tomorrow. again, better rain chances the further south you go. st. mary's county, lower parts of the eastern shore. might pick up a sprinkle over the weekend. steady rain showers are not in the for anywhere in the mid atlantic until you get all the way from virginia beach southward to the outer banks of south carolina. 88 degrees for a hh temperature around here tomorrow. plans for your friday evening, partly cloudy and warm. temperatures will stay in the low to mid 80s for the rest of your evening plans. then by tomorrow morning, just a few fair weather clouds drifting on by. wakeup temperatures in the 60s in the suburbs to low 70s in town and by the bay. tomorrow lots of sunshine.

high temperatures between about 85 and 90 degrees. another check of beach and boating plus the 7-day and more goodhings to grill on the lawn coming up in a few more minutes. let's go back to pat and jim. >> all right. thanks. >> when we come back, much more in our next half hour. lively crowd turned out for president obama's health care meeting today. a live report from the man man town hall meeting. investigators now have a firsthand look at last weekend's mid air collision above the hudson river and learning more about what led to the crash. >> also ahead, kelly clarkson's magazine cover girl this month but some say cha

welcome back, everybody. i'm jim hand. >> i i'm pat lawson muse. here's some of the top stories at this hour. a remorseful michael vick says he knows he has done some

terrible things but all he wants is a second chance. vick spoke at a news conference this morning. one day after signing a deal with the philadelphia eagles. he served 18 months in federal prison for his role in running a dogfighting ring. there are reports tonight former senator john edwards of north carolina will soon admit to fathering a child with this campaign worker. last year, edwards admitted to having an affair with rielle hunter. according to a north carolina tv station, edwards will now admit to being the father of hunter's 18-m th-old daughter. chief of alexandria pleaded guilty to dui charge this morning. dave baker will serve five days in jail, pay a $300 fine, and have his virginia driving privileges suspended. baker was arrested last month after a crash in arlington and then resigned from his position. baker will surrender to the arlington county sheriff's department by 6:00. a pledge to fix the health care system by changing how

insurance companies charge the sick. that's the message president barack obama brought to montana today. he's on a four-state tour to his health care reform plan. an increasingly contentious topic across the country. >> reporter: the president hielf out in montana today which is out west but as two democratic senators said the fight is fierce and you have seen all of these town halls. many in maryland and it has been kind of tough on democrats. but on president barack obama today, not surprisingly nobody got in his face. but it did get some tough questions. the president's aides say the president has been itching to deal with the toughest of questions. number one, they say he is convinced health care reform insurgent and doable. number two, he's convinced a lot of the so-called tough questions are really based on misconceptions. didn't hear any misconceptions alleged today. but the president did get the

core question which is how are we going to afford all of this and here is some of what happened in montana. >> if i'm writing a check to my local church, i don't know why uncle sam should be giving me a bigger t break than the person that makes less money than me because that donation means just as much. if we jt did that alone, just that change alone, for people making more than $250,000, that alone would pay for the health care we are talking about. >> let's clarify a little bit. because it is, frankly, for the president and a lot of the people in the audience, lot of us at home and actually in my position to talk about the real issues versus the rumors. the question was how do you pay for this upgrade in health care for everybody? and for insuring 40 million to 50 million people, a president calls it about 47 million who currently don't have insurance. the president's answer today to a question that read all we get is bull and how are you going to pay for this? you said you wouldn't raise our taxes, mr. president.

question delivered with deference and respect. the president said, look, two-thirds are going to get by cost cutting. that's what he says. it is debatable. the rest of it, he says, i'm going to raise taxes on but not in a way that violates my campaign promise. which was, the president said, noto raise taxes on people making at or under $250,000 a year. he said for people like himself who make more, he said a bit more, and for everybody else, he says he can raise taxes not breaking h promise and make that extra one-third of the amount which he says about $30 billion a year, that's over ten years, to make up the one-third we have to may more for, two-thirds in savings and he says it will all work. and nobody booed. pat and jim, back to you. >> certainly a tamer audience than many members of congress had been seeing in recent days. steve handelsman live on capitol hill. new dramatic video of that mid air crash involving a

sightseeing helicopter and a single engine plane over the hudson river is giving investigators important clues about what caused the collision. nbc news obtained this tape recorded by an italian tourist. he zooms in on the helicopter and then the plane enters the picture, appearing to hit the chopper from behind on the right side. pieces of both aircraft fall below into the river. and investigators are holding the video while and hoping lit provide crucial clues about how two experienced pilots could have crashed into oech other on a clear day. a smart, fearless leader who stood up for the voiceless. that's how family and friends remembered eunice kennedy shriver today. a funeral for the sister of former president john f. kennedy took place in hyannis port. hyannis, massachusetts, this morning. the private service took place at the st. francis xavier catholic church. family members, including daughter maria shriver, served as pallbearers. eunice shriver is probably best known for founding the special olympics.

participants in the games also took part in the funeral today. shriver's children say that their mother was an exceptional role model and their hero. >> mommy was all of our best friends. and it was an honor for all of us to be her children and a special privilege for me to be her daughter. >> oprah winfrey,teevi18 wonder, vice president joe biden were also there today. eunice kennedy shriver died on tuesday at the age of 88. it is called tmi, too much information. the kids may say it to you but that's never what you would hear from one company. they are trying to track every move on the internet. turn our actions into cash p. julia boorstin explains in our nbc news insider report. >> reporter: too much information is a good thing. the number crunching company managing a dizzying trillion

transactions each quarter. translating come xlated an littics into simple real-time information. to help companies customize websites and target ads. >> don't understand who is coming to the webses, where they are coming from. we don't actually know person i that has jia tt has been here but we know a woman who lives in los angeles area and she has been here five tiles before. >> reporter: with a billion dollar market cap, omniture stock has grown 30% this year as it helped companies anticipate web surfers' every move. >> use the services to offer a targeted experience so those people that already signed up sfruntded the account. >> reporter: mtv networks uses the insight to maximize the time consumers spend watching video and ads. >> if we find a segment that is doing particularly well, we will make sure that it is featured on the homepage and that will be increasing the am of video that's consumed which absolutely has a tie-in to the amount of

revenue generated. >> reporter: omniture's next frontier social. newest software minds comments and complaints on facebook and twitter and turn the inint orputeto crapo gold.ra julia ti brsoon, cnbcrs business wsne speaking of illd w,l michael vick bring in the bucks for the philadelphia eagles? second chance or a huge mistake? coming up on "nightly news with brian williams" at 7:00. still ahead on "news4 at 4:00," she became famous after being fired by donald trump. remember, the notorious osara.

welcome back to "news4 at 4:00." meteorologist chuck bell on the front lawn with corey alexander, executive chef at rock creek restaurant. two fine locations. we will get the details in a second. we are making a poku fish. i was stumped. that's the $64,000 question, what's poku fish. >> it is a fresh water fish from brazil, native to brazil. cousin to the piranha. >> you get to take a bite out of the piranha family. >> it tastes pretty good, too. it is a light fish, cooks up st on the grill. fits the concept of the restaurant.

mindful dining. use only olive oil. no cream, no butter. heart healthy but tastes very good. >> absolutely. >> local -- >> where do you find a poku fish other than the amazon? >> check the fish purveyors. buying commercially is difficult. >> what's the best way to prepare a poku sh? >> we marinate the poku fish in a chipotle rub. salt, pepper. put it on the grill. three minutes or so. >> okay. we have them on the grill there. we moved a few over. actually move over here. what is the key here to cutting? >> well, it is -- takes on the look of a spare rib. but it is actually a fish. they come packaged whole. and you just cut in between the bones. >> okay. >> cook about tree to five minutes on the grill. >> three minutes. a very light fish. >> okay. rock creek, two locations. where can you be found? >> we can be found in chevy

chase, 5300 wisconsin avenue in d.c. we also have another location off of elm street in bethesda. >> okay. sounds good. we are running out of time. this looks great. and everybody is going tone joy their poku fish whether they make it at home or come to your place. it is on our we can site, nbcwashington.com. we have one more check of the forecast. the weekend is on its way. time to stain tnkhig about what you are xweg to do over the weekend. temperatures in the midnk 80s n. planning to going to the beach or sailing, temperatures mostly in the low to mid 80s, both saturday and sunday from annapolis to cambridge and if you are going down to ocean soyshgts rehoboth, temperatures upper 70s to 80 degrees. hard lay chance of a shower this weekend to the beaches. it will be good beach and boating weekend. another check of the 7-day, another run-down on what all we have been making out here on the grill coming up before "news4 at 4:00" ends. let's go back into the cool comfy not filled with food studio. >> chuck, don't even think about coming back in here with your hands empty! all right. i wouldn't dare. look good out there. >> see you soon, chuck. still ahead -- pop singer kelly

clarkson she is is proud of her body. so why was a picture of her on a recent magazine cover retouched to make her look skinny? >> we have new video of a policr

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hollywood practice even for the most beautiful women on the magazine covers. but when kelly clarkson's fans learned about her digital makeover on the cover of a woman's magazine, some of them cried foul. here's miguel almaguer. ♪ since you have been gone >> reporter: kelly clarkson may wish her criti were gone. >> kelly clarkson. >> reporter: the pop star grabbed thspotlight in the first season of "american idol" and hasn't let go since. even though one magazine seems to think she let her weight go. the september issue of el"sf" magazine, clarkson says, quote, when people talk about my weight, i'm like, you seem to have a problem with it. y. i'm fine. but on the cover of the same issue, the singer looks dramatically and artificially slimmed down. the touch-up job transparent. especially noticeable next to these photos taken at a live performance just two weeks ago. >> it sends the message whether it intends to or not something is wrong. with the before picture.

that before and in need of an after. >> reporter: in response to questions, clarkson simply says we love the cover. but some self.com read verse not responded the same way had healthy and jay asks how can you justify drastically altering kelly's body on the cover of a stay true to you issue? it might be standard practice in the publishing industry but aggressive airbrushing painted the wrong picture through some celebrities. kate winslet took issue with her 2003 cover shot in "gq" magazine shaving so many inches off her thighs she said it sent the wrong messages to the fans. >> people that buy the publications don't realize that is what happened. it felt important to me to come out and say, look, you know, i don't look like that. i have no desire to look like that. >> i think it is terrific she said something. don't we all ultimately want to be seen for who we are? >> reporter: beauty is only skin deep but magazines send the message we would like you a little bit more if there was a

little bit less to love. miguel almaguer, news4. >> coming up next on "news4 at 4:00," tony danza has a new gig. >> hear what could be bringing him back to tv. just ahead, michael vick is now back in the nfl. and eventually he will be playing against the redskins. we are going to have team coverage and fan reaction. county judge who admits to deflating a cleaning woman's tires has now been sanctioned and there could be more to come his way. tracee wilkins. we will have that story coming up next on news4. seasonal depression, not just a we wprm.le we wwe

welcome back. one final time from the front lawn. having a great time grilling out here. this paku fish is delicious. once you take one bile, ttli bones that comes right off the bone. nice and tender andtt delicious. chcan tell thaw. ofk eche t7-day forecast. as we get ready to move into the weekend. going to hateth greea werllea a weekend. atu. sa a ayrdnd sunday. partly to mostlayos sunny skies. high temperatures tomorrow upper 80s to near 90 as we get into the day sunday. low 90s around the area. low 90s back for the rest of the week. i love the paku fish.

i brought in -- the middle of summer, direct sun over a hot coals and you know, i cooked and prepared and i brought it in personally. how did you like the pizza? >> we are still chewing. we love the crust. >> it is good. >> i swallowed. i love it. r.umarned to love pizza onme she grill this smer.um >> excellent. they love the pizza on the grill. >> appreciate. >> it thank you. >> coming up next on "news4 at 4:00," a mother tasered as her children look on. now police are investigating why the officer involved did what he did. did. >> and one

here are some of the stories making news on the web today. >> a reality show star many people seem to love to hate is now going to seminary. remember apprentice villain omarosa? she will spend the next two years working on a doctorate of ministry degree at the united theological seminary in dayton, ohio. the ohio native has a heart for christian ministry and that this will help her reputation. remember tony danza? he may be returning to tv in his own reality show. danza would be play a tenth grade english teacher at a philadelph high school. here is the hook. if approved by the city of board of education it will be an

actual class that he would teach. and get this. a woman in california says she was being hounded by her county to register her dog. the problem, her dog is a stuffed animal. apparently the mix-up all began during a random check for unlicensed dogs after it realized its mistake the animal control office apologized and said she wouldn't have to register her stuffed animal pet after all. another taser incident has a police department under scrutiny. this time a woman in syracuse, new york, claims an officer used the device on her during a traffic stop. not once but twice. and for no good reason, she says. tamron hall has the story. >> i handed in my license and registration and as he started to walk back towards his car, i got out of my car, under the impression or hoping that he was going to show me the camera tape. he asked me to get back in the car and then he pulled out his taser and said i was under arrest.

i said, don't do this in front my kids. >> reporter: she was in the car with two of her children, ages 5 and 15 when she was pulled over and ticketed for talking on her cell phone and speeding. police officer shawn andrews also charged her with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. and tasered her twice. >> and the first shot jolted me and i was trying to get back in the car again. because i was scared. and then he yanked me away again and that's when he tasted me and i went down on the ground. >> reporter: harmon claims theins department is an example of police brutality. in a statement to nbc news, the sherf's office says they can't comment because of the lawsuit. but the department says, quote, an internal investigation of the incident involving deputy andrews is and has been under review. >> these weapons, they are weapons, they are so easy to use and easy to abuse. officers are using this weapon -- in circumstances where

live ammunition would never be allowed. and people are dying after having been tasered. >> reporter: that's what happened in 2007 when a 40-year-old man was tasered at the vancouver airport in canada. the incident caused an international uproar following his death. back in june, police in texas tasered a 72-year-old great grandmother after pulling her over for speeding. she was not seriously injured. >> don't tase me, bro. >> reporter: the infamous tasering involving a student andrew meyer in 2007. after audra harmon was tasered she was taken to the hospital. >> it felt like i it was an electrical shock going through and you i had no control over anything. >> that was tamron hall reporting. that's "news4 at 4:00." thanks for being with us. "news4 at 5:00" is next.

tonight on five, michael vick returns to the nfl. not phelps' fault. the swimming sensation's car crash aftermath. dog flu fears. local animals are getting sick and adoptions are put on hold. good evening. welcome to "news4 at 5:00." i'm wendy reer. >> i'm jim handly. toght a former local police chief finds himself on the opposite side of the law. he was alexandria's top cop. tonight he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence. the criminal charges arose from a drunk driving accident in late june after the end of a weeklong vacation. news4's julie carey joins us live from arlington with the very latest on this story. julie? >> reporter: at this hour former alexandria police chief dave baker is in the arlington county detention center to serve a five-day sentence. instead of fighting the dwi charge against him, he came to court