several hundred customers come back online with electricity, so they are just shy of 2,000 outages here in northern virginia. most of those are centered right here in fairfax as well as in the burke area. i asked them when they anticipate to get everyone back online, their deadline, they are hoping for late tonight but it's not going to be easy. drive through fairfax tonight and you can't miss them, dozens of dominion virginia power crews focused on getting the area back online. chances are you may hit a roadblock. we certainly did. twin brook road shut down ali lane blocked off. the soaking rain and strong wind pulled down the trees, dangling them into the power lynns. one tree alone had more than two dozen of these power poles on the ground. >> main thing is make sure nobody gets around any of this stuff here, if they get anything out of this interview, the public should just stay away from all this. >> reporter: ortiz got called away from our interview several

times, he had several crews to coordinate, some clocking 20 hours. long, labor-intensive work. >> little by little. cable up. >> reporter: it is up to jeff fliss' team to hoist them up and out, they are massive. >> what's the weight on that? >> 3,000. >> reporter: a hefty price tag, too. >> this job right here is probably in excess of $9000. >> reporter: a few houses down we met the kim family. normally, they would be at work but took leave for this major reconstruction. >> this is the crack the home the tree hit and water started pouring. >> reporter: you can see the deep roots garage, kitchen, porch all smashed. estimated to be about $100,000 to fix. >> i was too shocked to be scared or anything. i couldn't believe it was happening. >> reporter: i retweeted fairfax county police who put an updated list of the roads still closed at this hour. among the ones they point out major one the intersection of ox road and braddock road, crews

still working there at this hour. they are hoping to have it fixed, wendy by tomorrow morning's rush hour. >> david culver in fairfax, thanks david. in maryland a lateightning strike blamed for this an apartment fire in greenbelt. family also to flee when the roof caught fire yesterday. no injuries but a lot of damage. people in 22 units now have to find somewhere else to stay. holy crap. >> hit the monument. >> i got it on video. >> this viewer sent us this video. a bolt of lightning appeared to strike the washington monument during last night's tempest. there are no reports of any major damage. that storm also caused some accidents. one of them was deadly. a man in maryland was killed when his truck crashed into a tree in poolesville last night. that victim had just celebrated his 79th birthday. and tonight, his family is talking about why he was on the road at that time. our meagan fitzgerald has more

on this story. meagan? >> reporter: and jim in fact, that crash happened not far from where we are here on darns town road. the family of elmer frolik say he ventured out in the middle of the storm because they lost electricity. he was heading to the store to get gasoline for their generator. for more than 30 years 79-year-old elmer frolik lived in this house with his family. >> just him being there all the time for us. >> reporter: his son-in-law, tom king kirkpatrick, says those who knew hill well like his wife for 50 years called him juneny. he got the nickname because he was born on june 20th. he celebrated days ago with many friends and family members because juneny was the type of person who helped everyone. that's what he was doing on tuesday night when the storm knocked out power to his house. he left to get gas for the generator. >> just said no, i will be fine. i will be fine. and it was only a couple miles

down the street here. >> reporter: but never made it back. montgomery county police say elmer collided with a tree that had fallen in the middle of the road. he died on the scene. >> not real it is not real. >> reporter: his family is now struggling with how to say good-bye to a man who not only gave selflessly to his family, but to his country, too. >> he was in the marine corps. he was a union carpenter who worked hard until the day he died. >> reporter: investigators say this is still an ongoing investigation and asking anyone who may have witnessed this collision to contact the montgomery police department. jim? >> thanks meagan. okay. i know doug has got to talk about bad weather coming our way, but honest to goodness, what i'm -- doug, this was a most delightful day. absolutely gorgeous wasn't it? >> it was, jim. i tell you what it really takes a day like we had yesterday to get a day like we had today and

the reason is because those storms really helped to scour out all the humidity in the at moss father and really just spectacular day today. look at the highs today. yesterday, high of 96 degrees, a couple degrees shy of aed are, low 80s, low humidity beautiful, 85, d.c., 82, leesburg, yeah a phenomenal day. tomorrow, well, tomorrow once again, we do have a chance for some severe weather making its way on through here, that severe weather chance brings us a chance for strong winds once again. we will talk more about that in the next ten minutes. reactions still coming in as the boston marathon bombing suspect is sentenced to death. just minutes before the judge formalized dzhokar tsarnaev's sentence, he broke his silence and apologized to victims and loved ones saying he prays for their relief and healing. his words came after three hours of statements from people impacted by the attack two years ago. >> what he said show nod remorse, no regret and no empathy for what he has done to

our lives. >> i have forgive him. i have come to a place of peace and i genuinely hope that he does as well. and for me to hear him say that's sorry, that is enough for me. >> tsarnaev made several religious reference and praised allah in his five-minute speech to the courtroom. president obama acknowledged today that at times the government failed the parents of james foley and kyla mueller and other kidnapped americans. he announced a new hostage policy and we learned more than 30 americans are being held in captivity right now. steve handelsman has our report. >> reporter: it is too late for american isis captives james foley and steven sotloff and abdul rahman, who were beheaded and too late for warren weinstein and kayla mueller killed in captivity by u.s. air strikes but terrorists still

hold more than 30 americans a shocking number revealed at the white house. >> it is over 30 right now. >> reporter: president obama promised hostage safety will be priority one and he vowed hostage families will no longer feel let down by the u.s. government. >> that ends today. i am making clear that these families are to be treated like what they are our trusted partners and active partners in the recovery of their loved ones. >> reporter: that means no threat of prosecution if u.s. families try to pay a ransom like some western governments have, reportedly more than two dozen of their hostages have been freed. james foley's parents wanted that option and more information. >> we felt we were in the dark a lot. >> the government could have done a lot more. ransom is a very complicated issue. >> reporter: u.s. government will still not pay the likes of isis but critics worry about letting families do it. >> you could be endangering more americans here and overseas.

>> reporter: but the president says the u.s. government now will help families communicate with hostage holders, to try to prevent more executions. experts on isis warp the group's ransom demands typically run into the millions of dollars and with that kind of money at stake, they say hostage families seem sure to come to the u.s. government for help. i'm steve handelsman, news4. seven murders over seven days. the district has seen a dramatic spike in violence and now, city leaders are talking about ways to tackle this problem. news4's pat collins joins us from the wilson building with the detail on this. patrick? >> reporter: wendy, how do you stop the violence? in the last week in our city i we have averaged a murder a day. and the trend, the trend is going up. in the rear of a vacant house in trinidad, a body found burning in a trash can.

a grawsome scene that has not gone unnoticed by city hall. here now from deputy mayor for public safety, kevin donahue. >> it's a horrifying crime that understandably concerns the community. i want to do everything possible and within our power to have the community be safe and the members of that community feel safe. >> reporter: not counting that burned body, we have had 63 murders in our city so far this year. more than a 20% increase over the same time last year. in the last week we have averaged a murder a day. the latest victim, 26-year-old arvel stewart, the father of a 1-year-old girl shot on father's day. he guyed last night. >> arvel leaves behind a 1-year-old daughter who will never get to see her father again. won't at this young of an aim she won't even remember her

father. so rks so it's just hard. it's hard for our entire family. >> reporter: police and city officials are trying to do something to stop the violence. they blame the use of synthetic drugs for the spike in crime. >> we know that when we arrest people for violent crimes almost 40% have synthetic drugs in their system. >> reporter: so, they are going after synthetic drugs, but they are also going after potential suspects. they are going out into the streets talking to people on high-intensity supervision, warning them that if they commit a violent crime, it could have dire consequences. now back to you. >> pat collins. a teenager from herndon, virginia, has been charged in a deadly accident involving a pedestrian. the teenager is 17 years old. she has been ticketed with

failure to obey a red light. the girl struck and killed 58-year-old annabelle tran zavala as she was crossing herndon park bay last month. the teenager told police she was trying to beat the traffic light 'cause she was late for school. metro's culture of safety in question. tonight, a growing list of problems, the needed repairs, the impact it's going to have on your commute. a patient mocked during a routine medical procedure. we will heart audio that a virginia man recorded. his doctors trashed him during his colonoscopy. a shift in emotions as people pay tribute to a bea

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carolina's state house today, in silence and sorrow as people line toupee their respects to reverend clementa pinkny, with own of nine people killed in that church massacre last week. nbc's chris clackum has more on this emotional day. a horse-drawn carriage took the body of church shooting victim clementa pinckney to the state house so mourner does pay their respects. the sound of the procession, the longest along the route. one of nine people gunned down during stud date charleston's emanuel ame church where pinckney was pastor, he was also a member of south carolina's state senate. >> he cared about the people of south carolina, whether you're black, white, rich or poor, from upstate, low country, he was a true south carolina state senator. >> reporter: lying in-state in the capital row town dark pinckney's body was viewed by a steady line of mourners. the viewing was down the hall from the house and senate, who have agreed to consider removing

the confederate flag from state house grounds. a movement gaining momentum, especially with support from the son ofone-time dixiecrat presidential candidate, strom thurmond. >> we must take down the connecticutconnect confederate flag and now. >> reporter: black drapes hung inside prevented mourners from seeing the flag. pinckney's funeral will be friday in charleston with president obama giving the eulogy. chris clackum, nbc news. the shooting at that church and recent police brutality cases have reignited the concern, and to some degree, the conversation about race relations in america. "nbc nightly news" anchor lester holt has been on the front lines of reporting those stories. we have the opportunity to ask him what he thought about the current state of race relations.

what gives me honor the outrage seems so universal when we see these things and cuts across color lines. you saw the reaction of the people in charleston, people that filled the church on sunday from all walks of life. that gives me hope and that tells me -- quite eloquently that it's a -- it's -- still a lot of ground to cover. >> you can watch "nbc nightly news" with lester holt tonight at 7:00 after this broadcast. louisiana governor bobby jindal is running for president. he is 44 years old a republican. made the announcement today on twitter and a series of online videos. jindal is considered a long shot for the gop nomination. he got 1% of the support in a recent nbc/"wall street journal" poll. well, lightning rocked the rain delay at nats park last

night. this instagram user shared this video with news4 as a bolt strikes a construction crane not far from the nats fans. no injuries. doug is now joining us. [ bleep ] yeah, i'm sure people were using some blue lang with a edge to look at the flash. >> amazing. >> it was amazing. it was an amazing storm last night. >> it really was. also an amazing day to recover. >> it really is. that's at thing. aes that's the thing. takes a big storm to knock this thing out so we see a day like today. if you can, enjoy it this evening looking at a nice night. after work, i'm going to do barbecuing outside my house. anybody can come, wendy, jim, if you are available. thank you, doug. >> post your address. >> my address is 555 -- let's take a look, show you where the temperatures r 85 degrees right now winds out of the north, ten miles per hour beautiful plenty of sunshine, really just a great afternoon all the way

around. 83 martinsburg, 85 fredericksburg, 84, annapolis, nation as taking on the braves once again this evening no problems for that game and really a picture perfect night for a game. no rain to talk about storm team4 radar is clear that will not be the case tomorrow. most of the day tomorrow will be fine. you can see right now no clouds from philadelphia all the way down to new york and down toward richmond, just a few higher clouds coming on through, this is the storm system i'm watching, not here it's back here, you can see a little spin in the atmosphere, that's what's going to make its way during the night tonight and during the day tomorrow, most of the day looking pretty good. going to be a slight risk of severe weather, an area in yellow, encompkofrncompasses our entire region. what will we be seeing? when it will it come through? 7:30 tomorrow morning walking out the door, don't need the umbrella you will be a-okay. starting off very nice as far as temperatures go sunshine around 1:00 starting to see the clouds on the increase and then by around 4, 4:30, when we start to see the storms really

developing, some of them could be quite strong and watch how a line starts to develop here toward bait around 5, 6:00. so the timing really around 3:00, to the west 7:00 down to the south. so between 3 and 7 is when we expect to see these storms rumbling on through the area even around 9:00, still just down to our south. that's something we will watch. severe storm potential tomorrow, tornado threat very low once again. the high winds, that is going to be the issue, just like it was yesterday, i think that's at biggest threat heavy rain also going to be a threat we could see some areas of hail if you're exercising tomorrow, much better early with those storms coming in late. 71 around 7 a.m., rising to a high temperature of 90 degrees tomorrow. so once again, a very nice start to thedy tomorrow, but then a chance for storms. 84 on friday and much better forecast this weekend than what we had yesterday but still, a lot of rain potentially on saturday, high temperatures around 78. 80 degrees on sunday any chance of r looks like it could be early next week, a little bit cooler than average. all right, thanks, doug. a secret place in northern virginia dating back to the

cuban missile crisis. it's still being used by the government. and tonight, the i-team will reveal what goes on inside there. a drunk driver kills a cop ten years ago and flees to kenya. this is chris gordon with a

office of personnel management is reacting to that massive breach of secure wit a new security plan. today, the government put to you the a plan to strengthen the cyber security with more than a dozen changes. for starters, it will hire a cyber security adviser to help manage the response to any breach. it will also overhaul its i.t. department and encrypt databases that were not already protected.

that recent hack had an impact on more than 4 million federal workers. every worker in montgomery will soon get paid sick leave. the county council unanimously approved a bill last night that requires businesses to provide one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked. this new law takes effect october of 2016. right now, about 90000 private sector workers in the county have no paid sick leave. coming up tonight a local man got some big money because of what a doctor said while he was under sedation. you will hear the audio. metro's plan to get back on track means you're going to have

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has been ten long years a family in maryland has been waiting for justice. >> today, they got it the man convicted of killing a police officer in a drunk driving crash was sentenced to prison and he made one big mistake that led to his capture. >> reporter: the victim's family thought this day would never come. retired d.c. police inspector joseph o'brien, who was 76 years old, was killed in a hit and run accident by a drunk driver ten years ago. >> for my own personal three daughters who will never get to know the man and who would have cherish and loved him unconditionally not get to see them grow up and sporting events, it's very heartbreaking. >> reporter: in 2006, police say the driverer olalo pleaded guilty, but before he could be sentenced, he fled to kenya, his home country, and hid from the law. olalo was one of kenya's ten most wanted men until he made mistakes that allowed local police working with interpol to arrest him. >> i think he just relaxed and,

you know, didn't really keep undercover while he was in nairobi. so they were able to you know, zero in on him. >> reporter: today bill fred christopher olalo was sentenced to three years and 60 days for driving impardon and caution the the -- impaired and causing the death of o'brien. that is the maximum the law allows. the officer's family is grateful to police and prosecutors. >> i feel like we did right by him and that makes us happy, 'cause he always did right by us. >> reporter: wilfred olalo will be returning here to the circuit court in about a month for sentencing were he could face an additional five years in prison for jumping bond fleeing to kenya and leading police on an international chase. reporting from the montgomery courthouse, chris gordon news4. a new clue in an arson investigation. police believe this man burned down a popular restaurant in upper marlboro. surveillance cameras captured

him outside tucker's restaurant and grill and inside what looks like the kitchen. this fire happened last week, caused $2 million in damages. the safety of metro has been called into question as the national transportation safety board continues to investigate a deadly smoke incident in la l'enfant plaza. metro is making repairs and upgrades but that means you can expect more transportation reporter adam tuss joins us now. he has got more on metro's mr. to make the system safer. adam? >> reporter: that's right jim after all the problems with metro recently all riders really want to know is when's it gonna get better? in order for metro to upgrade and get safer, it's going to take more time to make the fixes. do you think it's going to get tougher? >> i think there's going to be some single-tracking during the middle of the day that will provide some inconvenience and longer trips that make the system safer. >> reporter: more single tracking during the middle of the day on top of what's already out there at nights and on

weekends. the union that represents most of metro's front line workers says -- >> passengers obviously don't want there to be single-tracking, don't want there to be their unusual delays on the system but these are necessary repairs that have to take place. >> reporter: not to get too technical but here are some of the things that need to be group graded now, power cable and tracks leaky tunnels and third rail equipment not to mention communication systems. metro says it can and will do better. >> the thing that everybody wants to know after all this is what's gonna change? what is gonna change with metro as we go forward today? are you safer today than you were in january? >> i think we are safer, acting on a number of different situations. >> reporter: back now live, now a lot of this work, guys, is getting started right now so the delays they are coming. jim, back to you. >> adam, before you go metro's what, 30, 40 years old, do you have systems in philadelphia new york boston, elsewhere, way

older than that. do they have the same kinds of problems that we are having here or worse or what? how do we compare? >> reporter: some of them are, philadelphia, boston, they kind of run into the same kind of problem bus a system like new york city, yo tracks as opposed to the two we have here. say new york city needs to shut down one of the lines going into the same direction they can shut down the local move the trains over the express or vice versa. we can't do that here. that's why if metro really wants to get serious about safety they are going to have to put that thought about the service and that unfortunately, is something we are going to be seeing coming up, jim. all right. adam tuss, thanks, man. this could be a first. president obama had to deal with a heckler this afternoon. inside the white house. >> civil rights of lgbt americans is -- >> president obama. yeah, hold on a second. >> lgpt -- >> okay. you know what -- no no no no no, no no no, no no, no, no no, no, no, no, no, no no no, no no.

hey. listen you're in my house. [ laughter ] [ applause ] come on. my altitude is if you're eating the hors d'oeuvres -- [ laughter ] -- you know what i'm saying? okay. and drinking the booze -- i know that's right. >> and this was an invitation-only event to observe lgbt pride month. as maryland's governor, larry hogan battles cancer, we are going to hear from a woman who says the story resonated with her. we will tell you why she is living proof that that disease can be beaten. and this video shows a biker's brush with death. doug? >> incredible video you don't want to miss that. tomorrow, another chance of severe weather here it is coming through the ohio valley

right toward our region. we will break it down for you.

a biker's gopro camera recorded his own crash it is disturbing to see the least. the good thing is he survived. jesse lopez was riding his motorcycle through the angell lease national forecast in california, he came around a blind curve and crashed head on into an oncoming l.a. fire truck. he ended up with several broken bones, but lived to tell us he can't remember the crash itself. now that he has had a chance to watch the video though he thinks he panicked and hit the bike's front brakes which drove him right into the path of that truck. >> the gopro camera kept recording. >> apparently so >> wow. a northern virginia man has been awarded a half million bucks in a medical malpractice lawsuit that stems from an audio recording he accidentally made while he was undergoing a colonoscopy. news4's chris lawrence is here to tell us about this. chris? .are represented the procedure done in 2013 at a medical building in reston. his phone was in his pants which nurses place under the operating table and it recorded everything. the female voice you're about to

hear is the anesthesiologist, dr. tiffany ingham describes how the patient is annoying her and makes fun of him for having a rash on his genitals. >> a lot of lefter in that room the doctor who performed the colonoscopy didn't try to stop it but he was dismissed from the lawsuit the first day of trial. the "washington post" tried contact that anesthesiologist but didn't have any luck. state licensing records indicate she moved to florida. vance? >> thanks, chris. tonight a local woman says if she can beat the same type of cancer that has afflicted maryland's governor, larry hogan, he can do it too. ten years ago, shar tease barnett was diagnosed with, aggressive large about cell

non-hodgkin's lymphoma. that is what governor hogan is fighting. she says it started off with her with a cough, then an x-ray revealed a tumor the size of an eggplant in her chest. she says she thought before that that she was the picture of health. >> i was an avid fitness enthusiast. i was 38 years old at the time, mother of a 5-year-old, long-time vegetarian. >> she beat the cancer with, aggressive treatment and now she works for the lukeeukemiaukeeukemia and lymphoma society. mystery on the mountain the i-team sheds

tonight a news4 i-team investigation. for decades a massive government facility has operated atop a mountaineer the loudoun clark county rumors of bunkers and fallout shelters have swirled.

well, now the i-team's scott macfarlane finally sheds some light on what really happens inside mount weather. [ beeping ] >> right here? just fine. >> reporter: lunch hour at berriville grill which sits near one of the few stoplights in town. >> just slows down when you come over the mountain. >> reporter: what hasn't slowed down west percent about the 564-acre top-secret facility just down the road, known as mount weather. >> i don't think anybody really knows what happens there. >> reporter: christie runs the town toy store. seems a mystery. >> yes. >> reporter: a mystery the news4 i-team set out to solve. we made the trek to mount weather, so high up the mountain, it seemed we drove into the clouds. overhead, you can see it's massive with huge vents locked beneath gates and "street signs" make it clear we are not allowed to stop the clear. look at the mountain fencing security here. the federal emergency management agency operates mount weather. they wouldn't speak by phone,

even off the record about what happens here but the i-team discovered the story behind mount weather goes back decades. to october 1962 the cuban missile crisis. jack rosenthal is one of the few who knows because he's been inside. >> this was potentially the most serious thing ever. >> reporter: rosenthal then a top aide to robert f kennedy was taken on a 60-mile drive from the justice department to a steel door entrance at mount weather. base. underground much. >> reporter: into a bunker. >> inside the bowels of the mountain. >> reporter: said designed to hold 2,000 of the most important people in the kennedy administration, jfk included in case of nuclear war. >> this was the master relocation site of government. >> reporter: he said he was set to prepare the space in case the white house press corps needed to be sheltered. >> i was sure glad there was a police and felt really privileged to have such a perspective on it. >> reporter: decades on record dees classified and released to theism-team confirm mount weather was indeed set up then to protect top officials from war-time has zbhards and attacks

and to run the government after disaster. even after the cuban missile crisis, mount weather's existence is remained a mystery in america, until december 1, 1974, when something very dramatic happened there. a twa flight 514 never cleared mount weather. >> reporter: in a winter storm, a commercial plane crashed outside the gate. >> 20 miles north of dull less, the jet hit a mountainside. >> reporter: more than 90 people died. at first, the feds tried to keep the reporters away. >> cameramen were not allowed on the scene for many hours. >> reporter: part of the mystery revealed nationwide. >> secret military installation that houses the president's bomb shelter. >> reporter: the public learned little more in the decades since. fema took over mount weather in 1979 and rumors began swirling immediately thereafter. one secret the i-team cracked, april 7, 2015. >> a low-voltable ripple affect. >> reporter: the day of massive power failure in the d.c. region. internal government e-mails about the outage show the

department of homeland security activated mount weather when the power failed. shifting the agency's national operations center its 24/7 war room of monitoring security threats to thee e-mail said mount weather is the alternate site for the war room. mount weather also operates 'round-the-clock with four teams preparing for potential catastrophes including solar storms, an agency memo says. we have learn there had are bunk beds a medical unit a embassy water treatment facility inside. [ sirens ] full-time police and fire departments, too, which even help loudoun county battle fires off the grounds, including at this home in february not far from that toy store. >> i know it's been a really good employer for a lot of local people. >> reporter: clark county records show mount weather is one of its biggest employers but even the county leaders can't say how many people work there. >> just kind of like an 800-pound gorilla up on the mountain. as long as it is quiet everything is good. >> reporter: and so far so good. scott macfarlane news4 i-team.

>> the i-team has put even more about mount weather including a timeline images all on our website. go to nbcwashington.com. click on investigations. look at that weather now, kind of rough out there last night but oh my, lovely today. one of our photographers shot this video last night along ohio drive down right off the river. doug here now saying there's some more rough weather coming our way, right? >> yeah, we do have a threat of that tomorrow. that was spectacular. those storms moved down around waldorf, down around la plain nah, fredericksburg, we had a great vantage point looking down to the south of all that lightning. saw a phenomenal sunset last night and then we saw the lightning show. it was pretty cool weather-wise. you know, i'm just saying. >> weather is cool. >> i love days like this, too because it's nice and sunny, bright blue skies, but yesterday was pretty cool weather day out there, although we did see a lot of damage and could see more during the day tomorrow. plenty of sunshine, blue skies, evening planner tonight temperatures right now sitting at 85 degrees. on the warm side.

we will stay warm but with low humidity, a very nice evening, down to 78 by 11:00. 82 in leesburg, 81 gaithersburg 82, camp springs toward hunting town. everybody into the low 80s with that low humidity perfect, perfect wednesday evening. now, storm team4 radar not showing any rain, the rain tries to come back tomorrow, but we will see sunshine early and i think a good portion of the day tomorrow just fine, especially around 2, 3:00, no problems. the clouds roll in and the storms roll in rather late. temperatures 85 to 91 degrees, we will be on the warm side humidity will creep up a little bit. best chance of storms about 4:00 and 7:00 around the metro region. that's what we will be watching. 90 tomorrow 84 friday. tomorrow if we do hit 90 could be the last time we hit 90 for at least a week. 84 on friday, much cooler on saturday, a good chance of rain maybe some storms but fairly rainy day on saturday. sunday, much better i don't expect much rain at all on saturday. 80 degrees on sunday, rather, monday, tuesday and wednesday right now, temperatures only in

the mid-80s. thanks, doug. we got sports coming up, tell you how the nats plan to make it five in a row. also, potentially, the catch of the year. how about the dad with the baby

nats have been playing some pretty good ball, going for what tonight? >> win number five tonight. this is the team we all expected to see before the season started. you know, after stephen strasburg's best performance of the season last night, what most people thought would carry the nationals this year is starting to finally come to form and that's their starting pitching. tonight it's jordan zimmermann's turn to take the mound and more from nats park, we have the resurgence of this pitching rotation. here's carol maloney with more. >> reporter: we got some good times going here at nats park, a four-game winning streak seems to be more fun than normal

thanks to that simple formula what the guys are putting together, strong starting pitching and clutch hitting. yeah, these guys are competing, just not with each other. >> we all pull for each other, all want each other to have success and it's good to receiver be throwing the ball well together at once, because when the staff goes, that's when the rest of the team goes, when you can get on a winning streak. >> jordan zimmermann on the mound tonight trying to keep that streak going the starting pitching not allowing an earned run, 26 innings and counting. >> we understand that it's -- you know, not going to not giving up another run the rest of the season, not going to happen. the fact they are going about it the way they are going about it they are competing and what we enjoy to watch. >> a great job to keep us in games, i think our hitting is getting better and better as the season continues a couple of our guess have been hot the whole year. i don't know we were in first place, there's nothing really

too much to think about. >> always a party when you can take down the braves. game two of a three-game set coming up, in just moments. in nats park carol maloney intoes four sports. >> thanks, carol. vance, wendy, doug i need your help, rate this catch. people are calling this the catch of the year so far. watch josh donaldson of the blue jays jumping over kids into the stands, making a terrific grab in foul territory. on a scale of one to ten, ten being the best, one being the worst, where would you rate in catch, people call this the catch of the year now? >> i'm giving it a ten. >> a nine. >> a nine. >> right off the bat, a ten? >> i can't even look. >> 9.5. >> 9.5. >> a 9 for you. >> yeah. >> easy graders. >> 9.5. >> that -- >> was that an out because he left the field of play? >> it was an out. it was an out. >> yeah. >> reminds me of jeter. >> we have seen that catch

before. >> but see, i haven't, i don't watch sports. to me, that was perfect. >> if you like that catch, check out this catch right here, going to go to chicago now for a moment. not done with the great grabs, this ball in foul territory, adrian gonzalez making a play, watch the dad just snag it out of the air. baby in the left hand grabs the ball. look at that. check out the baby, the baby still drinking from the bottle. >> the baby knows how cool his dadsome >> like gave that a 9, vance wendy gave that a 10. >> 10.5. the .5 for the baby. >> what you got? >> 10. definitely a 10. only because -- this is what -- >> so chilled. >> here is the deal, he is not a professional athlete. >> no. >> he is dad out with his baby. should be one. >> here comes the ball i got the ball no worries. >> which one is the better? >> the dad. >> the dad. >> by him. without a shadow of a doubt. >> 'cause he can show that to his sop for the rest of his life. if that was a boy. i don't know if that was his son. >> the son is like let me show

you my old man. look at this. >> so calm. >> how many more do we have? >> that's the only one we have. >> that's it? >> we are done. >> that was easy. >> send notes to each other now at the table. okay. >> heather, find some more. we like this. let's move on to college baseball for a moment, see great grabs tonight in the college world series. uva taking on vanderbilt. the winner of this game tonight is your national champion. the cavaliers, they forced a decisive game three by winning last night. now, virginia senator tim kaine betting tennessee bob corker on the outcome. if vandy wins, cork letter receive some reservoir about bourbon from virginia. corker will send a bottle of jack daniels tennessee whisky. tells me those guys are drinking buddies. >> what do they do if there is a tie? all right. thanks, jason. >> i give that a ten. >> the guy with the baby is totally the coolest one of all that's our broad can ast for now. nightly news coming up next.

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