aw s heavy rains this afternoon. prince george's county got a good soaking in southern maryland. the storms are not done with us yet. >> for the up-to-the minimum details we head straight to bob in the storm center. what are we going to be getting? >> depends where you are. as we saw today, there was some spots but not much rain. boy, if you were underom oefaw those torrential rains, it was like being under a water fall and you can see how thick the air is. we still have a lot of moisture. here is the area that's still under a flood watch. ed into watch until 2:00 in the morning. there are some flood warnings over there in the eastern shore. for some of those heavy rains. there is a batch and it is not only rain but also thunder once again. moving into southern maryland and moving right through charles county and coming up northern st. mary's county. l of these rains do contain some very, very heavy -- storms do not contain very, very heavy rains. they will be movin through prince george's county. we will keep an eye on things. look at how much rain fell in

silver spring. that was just a matter of minutes. over two minutes. over two inches. so when that comes through, it does have the potential, especially small streams, causing localized flash flooding. again, under a watch. so far no warnings. probably we -- we will be warnings as we go through the evening. next batch of heavy rains coming in. >> we will continue to keep an eye on the weather this evening. severe weather hits, we are going to bring you and -- we will bring it to you and we can -- you can always monitor the weather on our website at nbcwashington.com. thousands of people have been filing through the john f. kennedy presidential library today in boston to view the closed casket of senator edward kennedy. >> a live look outside the jfk library. jean kennedy smith is the last survivoring sibling and she says it has been a hard time for her. her son, william, says the crowds are a wonderful tribute

to senator kennedy. and the lives that he touched. they are among the family members greeting visitors today while over in arlington national cemetery, they are preparing there for kennedy's service tomorrow. julie carey joins us live with the latest. julie? >> reporter: by this time tomorrow night, memorial drive is expected to be lined with spectators and people that want to pay tribute and to witness history as a last of three famous kennedy brothers is laid to rest. the location, arlington cemetery, is a place kennedy family has come to know well. two ladder-like structures have come the spot of senator kennedy's final resting place on a grassy hill below the arlington house. the kennedy family will gather here for a private service. for them the location is very familiar. to the right, 100 feet away, senator robert f. kennedy's grave with its simple quite wooden cross. 100 feet beyond that, the eternal flame. marking the resting place of president john f. kennedy. the superintendent here says that saturday's services are

quite rare. >> because of the magnitude of this service and the dignity and the respect that we want to show and all the people that have interest in this service, we are conducting a service tomorrow which is very unusual for arlington national cemetery to have a weekend service. >> crews put up special fencing to help accommodate the thousands of spectators expected to line memorial bridge and memorial drive as the motorcade passes. and it will reach the gravesite around 5:30 p.m. the kennedy family and a few invited guests will be joined by vice president joseph biden. retired washington cardinal theodore mccarrick will be the only speaker. superintendent john metsler says is fitting senator kennedy returns to a place he held dear and frequently visited. >> oftentimes he would just be here. we would not know about it. other times he would call and schedule. i would say at least six times a year he would appear vising his brother's graves to my left on their anniversaries. and then, of course, have other visits here just by himself or with a special friend.

>> reporter: the gravesite will be prepared overnight. a cross and marker just like that of kennedy's brother bobby will be put in place for now. >> when the visitors come here sunday, after the burial, there will be a modest walkway where i'm standing right now so that they will be able to come and pay their respects and then exit. i'm sure at a future date we will build something more substantial. >> reporter: for this family vacationing from minnesota visiting the kennedy gravesite the day before the burial took on added significance. >> to be on the heels of everything that's going to be happening today and tomorrow is pretty moving. >> reporter: an important note for those planning to vis arlington tomorrow. the cemetery will be open. however, the kennedy gravesite will be off-limits to the public all day long. coming up on "news4 at 6:00," you will hear from some of the members of the old guard who n rr mo sto'sceow vier. reporting live rocemetery, juli >> thanks, tcku.yo >> thanks, lijue.julie. ivd err b akyg indii llwi a be arriving atorce toornhe the procd to the u.s. d to the u.s.

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convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping 11-year-oldwi jaye dugard is taking to the airwaves trying to explain himself. >> in a phone interview from prison philip garrido says there is more to be revealed about his life with the now 29-year-old victim. he say cuesed of fathering her two children. >> reporter: back in 1991, jaycee's steather watched helplessly as she was grabbed from a neighborhood bus stop. >> you are pretty sick. especially when he gives a radio interview that proves his life and -- improved his life and feels better now having two kids. he destroyed our lives. >> reporter: >> none of the children have ever gone to school. never been to a doctor. they were kept in complete isolation in this compound, if

you will, at the rear of the house. >> reporter: jaycee dugard was in the system here at the national center for missing and exploited children. they did an age progression on her, what she might have looked like as she grew up. >> these stereotypical stranger kidnappings make up about 1% of the cases we take in here. less than 1%. >> reporter: forensic experts have done more than 4,000 age prioogssinre, nscluding agonizing local , mysteries. junior burdinski missing since 1993. lion sisters missing since 1975. >> something really high profile like this would be -- is going to get everybody looking harder, i believe. >> joining us now is nbc's chief justice correspondent pete williams. pete, how often are abducted children really returned to their families? they make interest sound extremely rare. >> in fact, it is not rare at all. if you look at the roughly

58,000 kidnappings by nonfamily members -- this isn't necessarily strangers, it can be neighbors, people the children know, 99% of the time the children are returned to their parents. so of those, say, roughly 58,000 cases a year, about 115 of them the child is held for some period of time. but in two-thirds of those cases, the child is returned. not necessarily returned unharmed but the point is that in almost all of these kidnapping cases, the motive is not murder. the children are not murdered. that is one othe messages that people like the national -- national center for missing and exploited children want to get out today, they tell parents when their children are abducted, don't give up hope. clearly 14 years is an extraordinarily long amount of time. but there have been cases of children kept for nine years, seven years. elizabeth smart was nine months. that's the point. in most cases, the child does eventually come home. >> in this case, there were some missed opportunities. >> you know, the authorities out there are saying there were

missed opportunities. the sheriff say now that there was a 911 call recently. it was a couple of years ago, the sheriff's office, say thing man that's now accused of holding jaycee dugard was psychotic, the neighbors said. had tents in the backyard. of course, he was visited by the parole officer, child welfare authorities. so they are all saying, did we ever drop the ball on this. >> what do child advocates say needs to be done to prevent and restrict sexual predators out there? >> well, i think you are hearing two things today. one is many people believing that there should be tougher sentences for child sexual predators who have a history of violence in their past. child rape, holding kidnapping, holding children against their will, in those cases the sentences should be tougher because they say in predator cases, so often the people repeat the crimes. they just don't stop. the second queion is do the authorities have all it takes to keep track of -- of registered child sexual predators. the answer is clearly no.

there are half a million of them in the streets in america now and just overwhelming the local authorities to keep tabs on them. >> incredible story. all right. nbc's pete williams. thank you and we will look forward to your report tonight on "nightly news." here at home, federal and local police are trying to find out the identity of a man who was found dead in rock creek park today. park police a jogger saw the man's body floating in the water off of a path near beech drive. park police and d.c. homicide detectives are on the scene. investigators say the body is believed to be that of an adult male. michael's vick comeback from prison to the nfl came to a head last nature during his debut with the philadelphia eagles. vick entered the preseason game on the second play against the jacksonville jaguars. in all, he was on the field for six plays and went 4 for 4 passing for 19 yards. vick last played for the atlanta falcons in 2006 before being convicted for his role in leading a dogfighting ring.

last night the eagles came from behind to beat the jaguars 33-32. >> let's hope the redskins can also come up with a win tonight. >> it is not going to be an easy taking on the patriots. a big team out there, dan hellie. >> you are right. the final dress rehearsal before the regular season starts. any time you play the patriots, a team that's won three super bowls in the last eight years, you know, it is going to be a tough game. the third game always -- closest to a real regular season game. so you can count on the fact that the starters will be in there for at least a half and maybe even a little more. offensively, the redskins searching important some consistency. and the end zone. they would love to score in this game any. something they have not done in terms much finding the end zone. wh the skins scored a point the whole gal. the second preseason game was better with the first team offense putting together a nice 15-play drive on the steelers. but the skins weren't able to punch it in. they had ttl sooreet a f field

goal. now in preseason game number three, jim zorn would like to see his starters at least have the opportunity to do a touchdown dance. >> we controlled the ball a little bit last week. which was -- i think a real plus. i was -- disappointed that we didn't put that ball in the end zone for six. yet, we did get points. and, you know, i would like to continue to do that and score touchdowns and not feel the -- i will take the points. because we have to take the points. but we are -- we are down there to score in the end zone. >> tonight we will provide with just maybe a little sneak peek at what we can actually expect this season. starters played so little. it has been hard to pass judgment on how good or how bad this redskins team is going to be. plenty more coming up from fedex field in a few minutes. >> big one. thank you, dan. "news4 at 5:00" is just getting started tonight. coming up, crying over zoe. the man that admitted to throwing a chihuahua over a

bridge. he offers a tearful apology. you decide if it is enough. death of michael jackson. how the king of pop died. >> it is almost four years since the devastating hurricane katrina hit the gulf coast. we will take a look back. >> continuing to lkoo forward ak

the dow breaks an eight-dayne day winning streak.

mary tomorrow sons joins us from cnbc headquarters in new jersey. this is good. >> the good news is we were up another week in a row. markets right now are on track for the best six-moraley since 1933. you have to have a down day once in a while. dropping 30 points, 36 points. this as investors sold telecom and drug stocks. instead they were putting money into techs. that boosted the nasdaq which ended to the plus side today. even though the dow and s&p lost ground. we saw weak consumer sentiment numbers, too. cast a bit after paul over the markets. >> why is time running out for first-time home buyers to get the tax credit? >> that ends in november. it is actually a data point a number of people are watching very closely because we have seen slow improvement in home sales both on the new and existing levels. there's concern that once that tax credit runs out you are going to see a littl less demand and keep in mind a lot of people feel that a recession or recovery in the economy is tied

very closely to any kind of a recovery and a continued one in the housing market. >> there's also current speculation about the rise in the dow as president obama's stock is sinking. that raises questions about the history of presidential approval and stock performance. people really tracking that? >> you know, it is something that people keep watch on. i think that more importantly, they took a look at history, you know, in first year of the presidential term as to whether or not the president stock market tends to do better in first year because have you all these programs and all this spending. that's what happens. really right now what you are seeing is a summer rally on a lot of people with money on the sidelines want to participate because basically they don't t to be caught not participating at this point. we have seen a strong move off the march lows with the dow up. this saturday marks four years since hurricane katrina devastated the gulf coast. after forming in the atlantic on august 23rd, 2005, katrina

crossed southern florida as a cat 1 hurricane. by the time katrina made land fall in louisiana it was category 3 storm. more than 1800 lives were lost. most died in the storm's aftermath. when the levees broke. 80% of new orleans flooded. katrina is one of the costliest storms on record. and the fifth deadliest in u.s. history. >> folks down there in many areas still have not recovered. utoave - -t ighise. you have to -- it is unbelievable. fortunately nothing like that over the weekend with danny. it is off the coast. our temperature outside now. boy, this -- you could almost feelhen youe because when you talk about the relative humidity, humidity, all the way up to the top of the atmosphere. almost 100%. all it needs is a bit after lift and dumps it on us. our temperature here is 78 degrees. believe it or not, folks, officially in washington, less than a tents of an inch of rain. same time rockville and spots like mclean. more than t inches and only a

matter of minutes. that's the reason that it is possible to see more flooding, i'm afraid, as we go through the evening. temperature contrast now. there's that boundary. there is that weather front. we have very humid air in and around us. talk about that weather front yesterday. and it is still right over us. humidity comes in and a little area of low pressure, ripple in the atmosphere. lifting to our north. but as it does, there's still another batch of rain to be coming in. you folks in culpeper, fauquier county, not seeing much. but look at the next batch down here around fredericksburg and on into southern maryland and moving into charles and up through charles county and into prince george's county. all of these areas like chesapeake beach and on into shady side where there are orange and reds. that's a torrential area of rain. moderate to heavy rains. and another batch. you can see down into the northern neck and heading into across the bay. all of this continues to move from the south to the north. future scan over the next couple of hours. that means it will be moving

more for you folks out in the eastern suburbs. prince george's county, southeast washington. we will keep an eye on it. then there's danny. there's danny. still a minimal -- minimal tropical storm. right now winds are only 40 miles an hour. there you can see the circulation and it is really not -- has a lot of characteristics, more like a nor'easter. 330 miles south of cape hatteras. tropical storm watch out from cape lookout to duck. here's the latest track. once again. well off the coast with some gale-force winds. by sunday morning to the outer areas of cape cod. up there. there will be quite a go of it. late tomorrow and tomorrow night. off the coast of spots like chatham, massachusetts. seize up to ten feet. but for us, you can watch danny as it moves to the north. area of circulation behind it. we may see a little cool front with more scattered showers tomorrow. but not anything like we may see

still this evening. some localized very heavy rains and thundershowers, too. then after we get through about 11:00, 12:00, lot of that begins to move off. nonetheless, some morning showers, chances of showers, temperatures near 70 degrees. i think we may see a bit of afternoon sunshine. if you are heading out for the beaches, there will be heavy surf. be careful of some of the rip currents. not any major impacts. gusty winds. unfortunately, out at the beaches, lingering showers, i think, right on into sunday, too, with a fair am of clouds. not a great beach weekend. but the surf will be up, that's for sure. be careful. >> all right. thank you, bob. have a good one. coming up, well, that computer glitch in prince george's county still hasn't been fixed. we will tell you what's next for the kids still sitting around. >> swine flu. find out who is more likely to virus. virus. it is

did odds are slim but chance is worth it. people ruined the area lining up for a chance to win the mega-milons jackpot. >> time is running out. what are we doing here? payout is huge. $330 million. it is the second largest lotto prize ever. derrick ward joins us live from arlington. are they lining up there? >> reporter: they are not lining up right now but it has been a steady stream of people. i know you heard that saying if virginia is for lovers, well, virginia is also for people who play the lottery.

virginia and maryland are two of the local states participating in tonight's mega-millions jackpot. now it was supposed to be a $325 million jackpot. a high volume of ticket sales has pushed that jackpot up to $333 million. that make it the second highest jackpot in mega-millions history. now there was a drawing on tuesday, 2.4 million tickets sold in the u.s. 24 came within one number of hitting the jackpot. two of those tickets were sold in virginia. players have novel ways of picking what they hope will be their lucky numbers. >> i choose birthdays, holidays, and mostly like my children. i have four. it is a combination of a month out of one child and a day out of today child. or maybe something that happen order the job one day, i put that in. >> reporter: now the drawing is tonight at 11:00 eastern standard time. there's still time for you to go out and get a ticket and maybe get lucky. we are live in virginia.

back to you in the studio. >> it is tempting. derek, thank you. coming up next, man that ngts t admits to tossing off

welcome back to news4. i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm jim handly. coming up in this half hour, game time countdown. skins kick off just hours away. we have more live team coverage.

plus, skinny magazines. not the models. we are talking ad cash. school schedules. much more than just a computer glitch. >> we begin with an act, alleged act of retaliation that came to a tragic end. thdor was stolen endomet pom f t ir f amerot poen frocks, maryland. then tossed over a bridge >> they say it happenedft ia fnt with m a on a cell phone. the dog, a teacup chihuahua, named zoe is now gone. pat collins has been following this story all day for us. he joins in the studio with more. >> reporter: tonight we hear from the little dog's owner and man accused of tossing the dog off the bridge. s owr. with e' >> she was m io anmpcon, family companion. shnt vwecompion. she went on vacio sh avd woo otr.el se would travel to the store ts th. i often had her in my purse. >> reporter: like a member of the family. >> absolutely. .ere a .tug >> >> reporter: to lose to lose

feels le i lost a child in my family. >> reporter: she misses her dog zoe. a 1 1/2-year-old teacup chihuahua, apparently kidnapped and tossed over this bridge last june after an unusual encounter. but i'm getting way ahead of this story. friday, june 19th, she and her husband take their truck out to h eythomad they had some big weekend plans and they wanted to make sure that it was toppedoff. in their driveway, they encounter a man in a red station wagon. he's on his cell phone. they ask him to leave. he says he wants to stay and make a call. there is an exchange of words. it is not pleasant. >> i told him i was going to call the police. he laughed at me. he went like this as i was talking to him, like this. >> reporr: and then comes what you might call the coffee cup

incident. >> started in his vehicle and started down the hill towards me like he was goin to run over me. and i yelled out to him -- go ahead you -- run -- run over me in front of my family. i was thinking to myself toss the coffee. but instead he kept going. i went like this on the rear window. >> reporter: the man in the red car takes off and goes down the road this way. they tak eynth go dntrowk. they go down t road that way. tbu whenhey return home, no zoe. turns out that man in the red car went back to the house and took zoe and drove to the creek and tossed the little dog off the bridge. that man is david beards. he confessed. i talked to him today. >> i made the worst decision of my life. and i want everyone to know that

i deeply regret the pain and suffering that i caused the family. i have dealt with this stuff very heavily. and it affected my family and friends and to them, i owe them an apology as well. >> reporter: david beards has been charged with trespassing and animal cruelty. he says he's undergone anger management and seeing a psychiatrist. zoe's body has not been found. it is hoped she is still alive. jim? >> all right. pat collins. disturbing story. breaking news right now out of prince george's county where fire rescue you don't know visit just rescued a pet that fell into an old well. jackie bensen joins us now live from the scene. tell us what you learned. >> reporter: we need a happy dog story this friday afternoon and this is it. in the form of 120-pound cujo. he fell down a well at 12:00 this afternoon.

water coming up around him. firefighters, i don't know if you can see the video, they -- got their high angle rescue team and got the ropes and harnesses down there and up came cujo. perfectly okay. he does have an abrasion over one eye. he's being taken to the vet but his owner, daniel ellis, tells us he is just thrilled. the fire fighters tell us that they were just thrilled cujo, despite his very, very large size, has a beautiful temperament. i can attest to that, too, because i got to meet him a short time ago. but again, something they say they don't necessarily train for in the fire aacademy. they were quite happy it was a successful resolution to what was a scary scene earlier today in that rain when they were very worried the dog might possibly drown. >> you know he was so scared, too. just incredible pictures. >> yes. >> that's good. >> jackie bensen, thanks so much. we needed that one. the head of the school board in prince george's county says

it is a problem that should not ve happened. but she says that progress is being made. >> it has been a bumpy first week, as you know, for public schooltudents in prince george's county with thousands of students left without schedules and nothing to do because the computer scheduling system failed to work. tom sherwood is here with more on the story for us. tom. you know, this is his first year as superintendent. what a way to start out. >> well, you know, he got some support from other superintendents around the area who said you know, this is -- this happened to us, too. the school board chairman says they hope to have it resolved by next week. >> great. i think we are having tech mikhail difficulty. it has been a bumpy first week for public school in prince george's county. thousands of students left without schedules and nothing to do. because the computer scheduling system failedo work. >> certainly there's a problem where we have 8,000 students at the beginning of a school year and not having a schedule. >> reporter: the wmau politics

hour with cojo. prince george's school board jacobs says despite the problems, the board still has faith in superintendent william hite. >> does the board still have confidence in him at this point n. >> certainly. dr. hite has come to us with -- we worked with dr. hite as a deputy superintendent over the last few years. i'm not interested in turnover now. i'm interested in how we go forward. >> reporter: prince george's reported friday that 1300 students still were without clear schedules down from 8,000 on monday. >> we anticipate we are going to have this -- through working over the weekend that we will have students with the schedule by monday. >> you are listening to a special education summit. back-to-school summit. >> reporter: on wtop radio friday, three area school leaders were sympathetic observers. >> great deal of sympathy. last thing you want do is start school without kids and with schedules and in the classroom. glad we don't have that issue. >> i have every bit confidence

that bill hite, superintendent, will work it out. it is his first year. got to give him a shot at this. and my first year, ten years ago, hi the same issue when i came in. >> when i came in and had my first school opening we had hundreds of kids at the high school level sitting in auditoriums and with nowhere to go because their schedules weren't ready. i also have a tremendous amount of confidence in bill hite and his ability to figure this out. >> reporter: again, prince george's school officials say the scheduling snafu should be cleared up early next week. trouble for the parents and the kids. i thrill they will work it out. >> yeah. it is early. okay. thanks, tom. there is new evidence tonight that the h1n1 virus could have a devastating impact on the minority groups when the flu strikes this fall. researchers at the centers for disease control looked at data out of chicago. they found the mine ortsz there were at least four times more likely to be hospitalized for swine flu infections than

whites. hispanics and asian has the second highest hospitalization rates. health officials say that they believe it is because minorities tend to have higher rates of asthma, diabetes, and other medical conditions which are known to increase the risk of complications from the flu virus. the findings are based on 1,500 confirmed swine flu cases reported to the chicago department of public health between april and july of this year. district officials want to send a strong message about stopping the spread of aids. th are asking all residents to get tested for hiv whenever they go to the doctor p.m. the new campaign comes in response to this year's disturbing report that 3% of district residents have contracted hiv or aids. what's equally disturbing is that estimate is one-third to one-half of those with the virus and don't know they have it. d.c. health officials want to make getting tested as standard as having your blood pressure checked. >> it is extremely important

that we emphasize every resident. we don't want to make the mistake in years past where we just kind of ring trying to focus our testing on one particular area because everybody is vulnerable. >> d.c. residents can find the nearest testing site by texting d.c. test to 365427. 365427. still to come tonight on "news4 at 5:00," what happened to michael jackson? there are new details clearin st atqions surroundih.de > lide>>neuee the airline worker who is in trouble with the law tonight.

michael jackson's death was caused by two drugs according to the l.a. county coroner's office. released new information today. earlier this week the coroner ruled jackson's death a homicide. the coroner reports jackson's body had lethal levels of anesthetic propofol. the coroner listed other sedatives including sedatives. jackson died late their day.

maryland congressman chris van holland said public opinion is key to the health reform debate and today he met with residents at leisure world, senior living community in silver spring. lawmaker told the audience there is a lot of room for improvement in the current health care system. >> every year, wepend 18% of our dollars on health care in this country. it is, by far, the largest expenditure of percentage basis of any western industrialized country in the world. so we should be asking ourselves what we are getting for those dollars. >> congressman says he believes the president's reform bill would help close gaps in the system that leaves 45 million americans without coverage annually. well, the weekend is upon us and it may be a wet one, folks. >> just a little bit. >> just a little bit. and not as wet as some areas have been today. that's for sure. at least we got a little bit of rain. believe it or not, less than a tenth of an inch of rain in washington. pollen count, ragweed, still out

there. latest batch. for you folks in prince george's county and charles county, that's heavy rains coming in. we are going to keep an eye on that. there could be localized flooding and after that, i think that's about it. things will be settle down a little later on. heading out to the game, though, do expect some lingering showers and some of these are moderate. by the time we get late near the game, just cloudy and humid. temperatures tomorrow will be into the low to mid 80s. and there may be afternoon sunshine. lot of clouds, maybe fog around. can't rule out once again that there will be some showers. temperatures on sunday into the 80s. here's how the next seven days shape up. bit of sunshine. lower humidity coming in as we head into next week. we will still be on the border with an offshore weather front so tuesday and wednesday, can't rule out completely showers. but it will be lower humidity and a bit cooler, too, next week. 70s and low 80s. >> back to you. >> thank you, bob. coming up, skins face off against the patriots tonight.

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vetiha yor oubu ou y have a question for us to consider, send it to ask liz. >> great. thank you, liz. >> have a good weekend. . you as or a w akerllwe. t a worker art be s usha benir a artted habeen buste anddus afcc selling hundreds of be tng o longed to paen airport authoritiesed charg maria ramirezod rezguri with two cof ondtsra g larceny. she worked for united. and had acces to united lost fo d andun baggage area.ea ve erom he origonts t hago and tnd a recovered laptops, cell phones, y,welr and other itemsweha t stolen rodriguez had from travelers over the past five years. officis are trying to contact those travelers and return their stolen goods. >> people looking closely if they recognize any of that stuff. jim vance joins us with stories he is working on for "news4 at

6:00." >> we will have a report from boston where friends, family and the public have been paying tribute to senator edward kennedy today. we will tell you about plans for his funeral in arlington tomorrow. wildfires in california are now getting closer to home so we will tell you how the government is reacting to that. back in the '60s the u.s. ambassador to hammond gave a dutch prime minister with the prime minister thought was a moon rock. it was ensured for $70,000 and put on display. guess what. wasn't a moon rock after all. those stories and more coming up on "news4 at 6:00." >> i thought it was piece of steak for a minute. >> diplomatic boo boo. to say the least. >> thank you, jim. let's head out to redskins stadium with dan and lindsay. patriots, that's -- big team. >> yes. you are right. patriots are not going to be easy. we are two games into the preseason for the redskins.

and you know, the redskins offense really hasn't done much of anything to scare anybody. but they are going to get a chance to do that tonight. jason campbell and company are going to go at least two quarters. >> when you look back jason campbell played the t plays against the ravens and was automobile to play a quarter against the steelers but obviously, this team, first team, nsthat time preseason schedule it is no joke. they opened with baltimore. and then they play the steelers. new they play the patriots. like super bowl champion after super bowl champion. so nothing going to be easy on eithere those are three of the best teams in the nfl. they would like to come out and play well. despite the lack of offensive production, there have been bright spots like malcolm kelly finally healthy. he's flashing serious potential. making a couple of sweet grabs and with the strong finish to the preseason, he could be a starter at wide receiver. the starting defensesls a showing potential to be absolutely devastating. london fletcher knows that they are getting the ultimate test in the prey season.

>> obviously we have had great challenges in preseason. you would think about going -- opening up at baltimore. you know, championship game. we played pittsburgh. super bowl champion. and we played new england who was basically 11-5 and did make the playoffs. i mean, how often does that happen? so when you think about the -- we face in the preseason, we are definitely -- battle tested already from this standpoint. >> the thing that we have do is continue to improve as we go along here. and it makes it difficult when you are

fall fashion is looking thin this year. we are not talking about the size of the models. feth advertisers cutting back, wer pages in recent women's magazines. allison risotti takes a look at

the shift in fashion trend. >> reporter: it is the biggs issue of the year. months in the making. but this september's issues for fashion magazines will drop with more of a whisper than a thud. like in years past. >> it is the issue people run to the newsstands to get. it has all the fall and winter hottest trends. >> reporter: kim pifer of nbcchicago.com, cutting back on the pages of fall fashion. this year even the gold standard of fashion magazines, "vogue," had to shed 36% of its pages. but it is not just a lack of ad sales that has publishers toning it down. it is also a shift to fashion websites. >> companies are finding it more and more efficient to use their advertising dollars to, you know,es press interests in print and online advertising. >> reporter: fashion and luxury brands are seeking out advertising online because it is cheap, flexible, and measurable. endless pages of the latest

trends and instant sale announcements have more women on twitter and facebook than in front of a magazine rack. >> the good thing about online is you can find anything. juan to search for the hottest shoes for fall, it is right there. search for, you know, warm coat for winter that's in your price point you can do it all online. it is very easy to use and user friendly. >> and we hope your weekend is a good one. coming up we are on the storm watch tonight. we continue to keep an eye on this weather this evening. wendy joins jim vance now for "news4 at 6:00."