a new name captures more gop support and it's not trump. fairfax county police are defending the officer seen in this video. he tased a man who appeared to have his hands on the squad car. our bureau chief julie carey spoke to the suspect's relatives about this takedown and she joins us live from woodbridge with both sides of this story. jules? >> reporter: well, the result of the police administrator review into the use of this taser only came out about an hour ago. so since my 5:00 live report i had a chance to work thoroughly and i had a chance to go down the street there and talked to the brother of the man who was tased in that video about his take in the latest information. the incident happened last week at the rose hill shopping center in fairfax county. we are here in woodbridge and that's because the subject of the whole controversy came here to stay with his family after he bonded out of jail. he told me he has cerebral palacy and he was extremely shaken by the incident. the family tells me they are

very upset to learn that police have ruled the use of this taser was justified and they say they've hired an attorney to represent them. >> this is a video that caused an uproar on social media taken by an employee as the rose hill shopping center. it shows a man advertising a man in the back when the man appears to be compliant with his hands on the squad car. he had walked into a bank and stolen some sunglasses. police released a second video from another witness showing a wider view. police say when the officer confronted him, he turned over the sunglasses and the officer also noted this knife clipped on cansler's pocket. he ordered mr. cansler to move his hands behind his back and kept his arms locked out on the cruiser and he used his body to push back against the officer, assaulting the officer, and

actively resisting a lawful arrest. consequently the report concludes the use of the taser was justified force. cansler's brother doesn't see it that way. >> obviously, it's just trumped up, made up. clearly, you can see his hands. clearly on the tape he didn't push back. i mean, actually he was leaning forward on the car, you know what i mean, with his arms and if that's assaulting because you were tased and fell back then okay. that's justification. >> reporter: my colleague jackie benson just finished interviewing fairfax county police chief up at fairfax county police headquarters and he emphasized that the suspect had a knife and a deadly weapon that the officer could not see the suspect's hands and that is a chief reason that they rule that the use of the taser was justified. >> for a look at both of the videos and to see the complete review from the police department go to the nbc washington app and search taser.

juliecarie. oui about to show you images from chopper 4. this is sugarloaf mountain. you see the people gathered on the gro you understand and you see the red harness lift from the ground to a helicopter above and we don't know the nature of the injury and so the age of the hiker and this hiker was injured significantly enough and they had to scramble the maryland state police hospital to do that rescue and see the hiker moving through the air there. those personnel hanging out of the door and the helicopter bringing the platform and the hiker onboard the helicopter and en route to a hospital. and this happened on schullerloaf mountain in maryland and we'll get you the condition of the hiker as soon as we get it. i'm scott macfarlane. a man is facing charges for shooting at office building in

northern virginia. officers took him into custody accusing him of shootings in herndon. this is the video of the aftermath. the shattered glass and boarded up windows and in some cases there were employees inside an office building that was shot at. no one was hurt. if you call 911 for an ambulance you might get a private company taking you to the hospital. there is a new proposal by muriel bowser that could make that a reality. our mark segraves has more on that. mark? >> reporter: that's right, jim. you know, d.c. mayor muriel bowser will make this proposal tomorrow and we've been reporting for years about delayed ambulance responses where children had to be taken by fire truck because there was no ambulance available. d.c.'s new fire chief says that using private ambulances will help reduce those delays. >> the idea is that if you're

not what we recall a medical emergency going by red lights and by fire truck is not the right method to deliver you to a medical facility. >> reporter: under the proposed plan when you call 911 for help, d.c. fire would still be the first to respond, but then it would be up to that first responder to decide whether a d.c. ambulance or a private ambulance transports you to the hospital. that decision would be based on the seriousness of your condition. the department will evaluate the level of care that the patient needs. the patient always has the right to refuse that level of care, but the department decides that we're not the right agency to transport them based on their status and then we will not transport that patient. >> the proposal must first be approved by the d.c. council and the chief hopes to get the thumbs up for a one-year fire period. >> d.c. fire and medical

services will continue to transport what we call advanced life support patients and those are the ones who have had heart attacks and major trauma. >> reporter: to give you an idea of how big a drain these low-priority calls are on this system, so far this year, they've responded to about 50,000 calls for the low-priority, non-life-threatening calls compared to only 1300 calls for the most life-threatening inciden incidences. one of things that have to be hashed out are the finances and d.c. collects $17 million a year in reimbursement for ambulance calls and yet to be determined how that money will be paid out. jim, back to you. >> mark, before you go, if d.c. firefighters would still respond to the call before they request a private ambulance and then wait for the ambulance, how does that save time? >> because, jim, most of the first responses are actually done by fire trucks and either a regular engine or paramedic engine company and not actually an ambulance and the biggest

delays come on the back end of the transport. when the ambulance drops off the hospital it's known as the drop time and that could be as long as 40 minutes to an hour that an ambulance actually has to stay at the hospital after they drop that patient off before they're cleared back to duty, and that's where they think they're going recover a lot of this time. jim, back to you. >> got it. mark segraves, appreciate it. >> there are new developments at the united nations where president obama and russian president vladimir putin met just a few minutes ago. this comes hours after they publicly blamed each other for contributing to global instability. this is putin's first trip to the u.n. in ten years and he brought his a game outfoxing the u.s. on the syria crisis. steve handelsman outside the u.n. with the latest. steve? >> reporter: hi are wendy. thanks a bit of breaking news. the one-on-one meeting between obama and putin, their first for these presidents in a year ended

with no statement from either president, just a cold handshake and you can understand from the american point of view, why there would be a bit of a freeze because this new putin plan to fight isis and solve the syrian problem clearly would do a lot per for russia's in the middle east and for the american interest, but president obama apparently thought he had to go along. embarrassing, president obama was outmaneuvered by russian president vladimir putin before they met at the u.n. this afternoon for the first time in a year. putin engineered a plan to fight isis, cut out the u.s. and save syrian dictator bashir assad, a putin ally. >> translator: we think it is an enormous mistake to refuse to cooperate with the syrian government and its armed forces. >> reporter: putin got iran and iraq and the assad government to joint together with russia to fight isis by sharing intelligence, a critical function. president obama had come to the

u.n. to find help in the fight against isis and stem the tide of refugees fleeing syria. think of the families leaving everything they've known behind. >> he has to support the putin plan. >> the united states is prepared to work with any nation including russia and iran to resolve the conflict. >> not, he said, to save assad who helped spawn isis. >> there cannot be, after so much bloodshed, so much carnage, a return to the pre-war status quo. >> reporter: obama critics say we told you so. >> we have no strategy to pur pe so therefore we are surprised when vladimir putin exercises a clear strategy. >> a strategy revealed in the united states almost in president obama's face. now putin who invaded ukraine without the u.s. or any other nation being able to stop him is grabbing for a much bigger role in the middle east. live from the u.n., steve handelsman, news 4, jim, back to

you. >> thanks, steve. it appears that a government shutdown will be avoided at least for now. political experts are saying that speaker john boehner's resignation is the reason for that. congress is expected to pass a bill tomorrow to keep the government running until december when someone new will be in charge in the house. a number of conservatives have said they will not vote for a long-term spending plan that funds planned parenthood. majority leader kevin mccarthy of california announced today that he will be in the running for speaker of the house. and in presidential politics, the race is getting tighter for both donald trump and hillary clinton in the latest nbc news/wall street journal poll. first the democrats, clinton leading bernie sanders by seven points among the democratic primariet voers nationwide that's a big drop from previous polls although we should note those numbers do include vice

president joe biden and he has not entered the race. on the gop side, ben carson has moved up to a statistical tie with donald trump while carly fiorina has jumped to third place in a tie with marco rubio. >> donald trump released a tax reform plan today that would cut taxes for millions of americans. he said the plan is not popul t populist, just common sense. critics, though, are demanding to see the fine print. brian moore has our report. with trademark bravado, donald trump laid out a sweeping tax reform plan that would lower or eliminate taxes for millions of americans and give big breaks to businesses. >> it's a tax reform that i think will make america strong and great again. >> reporter: individuals making less than $25,000 a year and married couples making less than $50,000, 31 million households in all wouldn't pay federal

taxes. business rates would be lowered to 15%. critics want to know how this plan offsets potentially trillions in lost revenue. >> it reduces or eliminates most of the deductions and loopholes available to special interests and to the very rich. >> there are too many tax breaks benefiting the super rich, but until we know specifically which tax breaks he's willing to get rid of, it's hard to believe that this tax plan won't add quite a lot to the debt at a time when we can hardly afford that. >> brian moore, nbc news, washington. we've seen a pretty nice day out there today and a bit of the warm side and the humid side and some of us have seen shower activity and most of us will remain dry and we're dealing with a mixture of sun and clouds across the region and temperatures 81 degrees and that's above the average which is down to 77 and winds out of the east at 9 miles an hour and we have seen some showers moving

through over the last couple of hours toward culpeper county and that's about it and most of us on the dry side and look down to the south and look at all of the moisture just to the south and this will try to move our way during the day tomorrow and there's more in the way of rain chances in the next five to seven days and i've got that for you including a tropical system. >> he's accused of using his car as a murder weapon, but tonight attorneys for the suspect are raising questions about his confession to police. metro's woes on the blue, orange and silver lines aren't just affecting regular riders. i'm adam tuss, i'll tell you why school kids are going to be impacted. >> there's new

it's something metro riders got used to hearing, and now you can expect delays even during the rush hour. that transformer fire is having a significant impact on the transit system as a whole and it can mean longer wait times over the next six months each for school kids. transportation reporter adam thompson is live with the impact. adam? >> yeah. that's right, wendy. you know, a half a year of delays because of this. here in the district, a lot of school kids take the train to get to school. tomorrow, they're going to have to get on a shuttle bus and just within the last hour we got a letter from d.c. council members

urging metro to reconsider these service changes. because of the big transformer fire here, metro now trying to squeeze trains through this area without using too much power. that means fewer trains and less service. one solution that starts tomorrow is to only have blue line trains stop here at stadium armory and for school kids who use the orange line to get here, that means a change is coming and they'll have to get on a shuttle bus. >> we can't afford to have kids getting up earlier and earlier because somebody screwed up. >> denise is a commissioner. she says simply metro has to do better and has to be held accountable. >> as the mother of two children i would be furious to be told my children have to get up earlier to get a bus to get to school because they screwed up. that's unfair. >> regular riders are upset, as bell. >> we have very busy schedules and we need to be places on time, so it really would help the sooner they get that solved.

>> reporter: the fix isn't easy, either. metro has to custom order nigh transformers and it will be about six months before everything is back to normal. >> billions of dollars go to metro and they're late for work and you have to explain to our bosses why we're late and it's because of metro. >> starting tomorrow, only blue line trains will start here at stadium armory during rush hours. >> reporter: we do have some alternatives to getting around this issue and open our nbc washington app and search stadium armory. jim, back to you. >> thanks, adam. >> so they wrapped up their last home game of the season, but that's not what folks are talking about today. they are talking about is that dust up in the dugout that has a whole bunch of folks' attention and tonight, jonathan papelbon has been suspended for grabbing bryce harper up in the neck. tom sherwood outside nats park right now and fans are not happy

with papelbon and they're not pleased with management either, tom? >> that's right. most of the fans are gone now for the season and some of the gates are already closed and the nationals did win their last home gentlemen of the season, but a big question for the fans. do they want manager matt williams back next year? >> as fans filed in for the final home game of the season, many were still discussing this, the fight. pitcher jonathan papelbon attacking star bryce harper on sunday. many fans were angry, some saying the dugout fight was an example of how manager matt williams didn't keep the team united in this disappointing season. so okay, fans, should manager matt williams be fired? >> thumbs up or thumbs down? >> thumbs up. >> thumbs down. >> two thumbs down. >> i would bring him back. >> reporter: quickly, why? >> because injuries aren't his fault. the insanity is not his fault.

>> great guy. got to go. >> i think up thises up. keep him. >> reporter: for a team expected to win the world series and didn't even make the playoffs, the fight summed up the entire year. >> papelbon up next year? >> not in my opinion. i think it's papellgone. i thumbs up for matt williams and he was manager of the year last year and he is didn't suddenly lose the ability to manage. he's had a difficult and trying year this year. >> lots of things went wrong and didn't go as well as we hoped and still a nationals fan and will remain a nationals fan. >> reporter: so a mixed decision on manager matt williams, but all of the fans agreed on one thing, it was a disappointing season. at the nats ballpark, tom sherwood, news 4. >> you have an opinion, tom? thumbs up or thumbs down on williams? >> he was manager of the year last year, and i think the team sank on a lot of teams and it

wasn't the manager's fault. >> what a waffly way to answer a direct question. >> man! >> never mind! >> listen, i cover politics. i know how to play it. >> yeah, we learned that! we asked you folks to weigh in on the suspension. so far most have said that jonathan papelbon should have been suspended each longer, in fact, more than 60% felt that way. the team is also weighing in today, carol maloney with a look ahead at what's coming up in sports. we're following the latest developments out here at nats park. jonathan papelbon suspended. bryce harper out for today and manager matt williams is under fire. and the gm, mike rizzo talking about the future of the nats closer coming up later in sports. >> still ahead, a top school official under fire, now thousands of students may be asked to leave school, and that's just part of the problem. >> a confrontation involving a

police officer caught on tape, but both sides telling very different stories. tonight, the fallout from a fight outside a local restaurant. >> and a big breakthrough from nasa fueling speculation about life on the red planet

and now your storm team 4 forecast. oh, and that forecast has some much-needed rainfall, and if we do need to see some rain, we have been extremely dry during the month of august and

september. we need some rain and it looks like we'll get some rain over the next couple of days and the national harbor camera looking good, and some cloud cover and in the way of some sunshine. current temperatures around the region and a very warm 81 and the average this time of year is 77 and we're above average and 75 kullpepper and martin coming in at $75 and we've seen a few showers this afternoon, and not much. fredericksburg, culpeper county has seen a couple up toward berkeley county and west virginia and right through jefferson and it's just to the north of mart insburg and most will remain on the dry side tonight. >> i want to show you the satellite and radar. take a look at the cloud around the northeast and the mid atlantic and look at the rain toward the south and watch the wider view here. look how much of the country is just encased in cloud cover from kansas city and down toward florida which is getting inundated with rain right on through parts of the northeast and everybody seeing the cloud cover and there are areas of very heavy rain and a couple of

these will move our way up into the next 24 hours, and tomorrow morning, no problems. i think you're starting your morning commute a-okay. cloud cover for sure and by noon, most of the area is dry around the noon hour and by 2 ks :00, 3:00, 4:00, heaviest rain though, and the best chance of the heaviest rain well to the west of i-95 and back toward i-81 and that's the area of concern and they're one to two inches potentially and it could be quite heavy at times and even through midnight and on wednesday, another chance for rain and that comes late in the day most of the day wednesday it's dry unless you're west of the mountains and watch what happens during the west of the afternoon. we've got a lot of rain chances right on through the next seven days and the commuter forecast, and cloudy tomorrow morning and the rain moves in and some of that rain will be heavy tomorrow evening. and tomorrow evening's commute could be a problem and it's tropical depression number 11 and well down to the south of

bermuda. the latest computer models bringing this much closer to the u.s. coast and watch what happens here. here is the latest track from the hurricane center that takes it just off our coastline at saturday at 2:00 and we are in the cone of uncertainty and some bringing it in as an even stronger storm and this is something that we'll watch very closely over the next couple of days and of course into the weekend. if you want to talk more about that and we'll all be mentioning more on that coming up at 6:45 does much more on the tropical problems for the weekend. of 6 on thursday and that's not the only problem and we've got a chance of rain and look how cool we get with the chance of rain thursday and friday, highs only in the low to mid-60s. casting doubt on a man's confession to police. what we're just learning about the moments before a deadly hit and run in a quiet local suburb. a cop with a closed fist, hits a woman in her face and knocks her out.

was it justifiable? i'm pat

now at ed5]6:30, a businessl gone bad and now one is dead and another locked up for murder. >> i was in shock. anything like this is obviously disturbing. >> a controversial takedown on tape. was it self-defense or excessive force?

>> thousands of students still without immunizations. the risk to your child and the trouble for one employee. >> plus the new discovery on mars and what it means for nasa's plan to send people to the red planet. brian is 32 years old and lives in germantown, maryland and tonight he's in jail. police say last week he killed a man. that man is 21-year-old william mcdaniel. they say the two had some kind of beef. salandy got mad, jumped in a car and ran over mcdaniel and today salandy was charged with first-degree murder and darcy spencer has more on what happened in court. darcy? >> reporter: wendy, what happened in court today, a judge ordered him to be held without bond and his defense attorney is raising questions about his confession. montgomery county police say ryan salandy confessed to purposely running down another man with his car, killing him

because he was angry over a dispute over music recording, but in court his defense attorney raised questions about that confession saying he was, quote, held until 4:00 a.m. to get whatever confessionua(éç thy have. the hit and run happened at 12:30 in the afternoon. it is unclear how long he was questioned. outside court the attorney would not discuss the confession. >> i have no comment. we are conducting our investigation, and i haven't received any real information about it so i have no comment. >> family and friends of ryan salandy joined in prayer outside the courthouse in rockville. some wiped away tears after the 22-year-old faced a judge for the first time on a first-degree murder charge. he was described by relatives as a christian rapper and college student. >> there was a lot of love in the community for ryan and we want to express that love. >> the victim, 21-year-old william mcdaniel, he was walking his german shepherd near his clarksburg home friday afternoon when witnesses say he and salandy got in a heated

argument. salandy left, but then he came back. >> and struck mr. mcdaniel intentionally with his vehicle. police say salandy just drove away and detectives found him and his heavily damaged saab at his home in germantown after his own mother called 911. >> here is one radio call that day. >> we have the suspect's mother on the phone that apparently is with him and has the subject. >> mcdaniel's parents and grandparents were also in the courtroom, but did not speak to reporters. a family friend cried throughout the court hearing. j very emotional today. if you want to read the charging documents in this case, you can go to the nbc washington app and search under hit and run. back to you. >> thanks, darcy. we've learned a mother and her son were the two who were killed in a fire early this morning in anne arundel county. that house caught fire last night and it took firefighters more than an hour to bring it under control.

44-year-old pauline na lylor an her 11-year-old son were there and no word yet on what caused that fire. she says an officer punched her in the face, but police say she's the one who got physical first. grainy surveillance video shows the moments outside a restaurant this summer. news 4's pat collins talked with the woman and the police department involved and he is live with the details. pat? >> reporter: wendy, was this the right thing to do? a cop with a closed fist hits a woman in the face a number of times. he knocks her out. we begin our story now with the woman's lawyer. >> reporter: i believe it's a case of excessive force and the officer could have de-escalated the situation without the use of force. there was no threat to the officer whatsoever. >> lynna uribe looks good today,

but back on july 12th, different story. that's when she was hit a number of times in the face by a blatensberg cop. she was knocked out and taken to the hospital, treated there for three days. it happened at the el tapatio bar. some women were beating up on her sister and when she went to the rescue she says some bouncer took her outside to the cop in the parking lot. she talked to us today through an interpreter. >> translator: when he twisted my arm to the back he threw me down to the ground. he continued to hit me on my face after that i lost consciousness. >> reporter: miss uribe's lawyerses have produced a blotchy surveillance video which shows the cop throwing her to the ground and punching her in the head. according to the police, miss uribe was throwing bottles at people inside the bar.

she was brought outside where police say she spit, punched and scratched the cop in the face. the cop said i delivered several closed-fist strikes to uribe's face until she stopped striking me. >> the cop here was off duty, in uniform, providing security for the bar when this happened. he remains on active duty with the police department. the prosecutor will review the case. in the meantime miss uribe has been charged with assaulting the police officer and her lawyers say they may sue the cops. watch this space. wendy, back to you. >> pat collins. montgomery county police fine-tuning a program for body cameras. they updated the public safety committee today. some technical and legal issues still have to be addressed

including who should see the video and how it should be stored. police tell us both the department and community members agree that cameras are a good idea and another panel is working on the guidelines to be used by police statewide. >> you could also soon see officers in fairfax and prince william counties and both are planning pilot programs, as well and they could begin later this year. just last week the dump c. council approved a plan to buy 2400 cameras, but that council and the mayor still have to work out some of the final details. 75% of laurel officers are wearing these cameras xñ)y the police department there has been using these cameras since 2013. pope francis back at the vatican tonight reflecting on his trip to the u.s. and we'll tell you what he says surprised him the most. and a big announcement from nasa has some asking is there life out there? that's a huge announcement and great one, too. as far as the rain goes for

tomorrow, what will they need tomorrow afternoon? let's take a look at the rainfall intensity and the umbrellas for moderate rain? we could see heavier downpours tomorrow evening and we'll talk about the rain chances there and talk about the potential for a tropical system right around our region for the

pope francis is safely back at the sat cvatican and sharing first impression america and americans. on the plane home reporter asked what surprised him about the united states? he said americans were much warmer than he expected and lovable. he also noted that he received three very different welcomes, washington, warm, but more formal. new york, exuberant, philadelphia in his word, very demonstrative. >> he also said he was struck by

the piety of our people. four days after pope francis canonized father junipero serra in washington, the new saint's grave was vandalized at the carmel mission in california. someone spray painting the grounds around it and toppled the serra statue. the backlash over serra's sainthood serves as a reminder of the need to forgive. >> being made a saint doesn't mean the person is perfect, you know, we all have our flaws. we all have our defects, you know? and so it was with serra. >> father junipero serra is credited with bringing catholicism to california under spanish colonial rule, but some native americans say his actions spread disease and suppressed their culture. a leader in fairfax county is trying to find a way to force a gun shop to move. the outfit is called nov afire

arms. it just moved to old chambers road in mclane right next to franklin sherman elementary school. fairfax county supervisor says he is looking at federal, state and county laws to see if there is a way to get the gun store out of that community. he's also offering -- pardon me, to work with the owner to find a new location. the owner of nova firearms is a veteran. he says most of his clients are police officers. here's what's coming up next. >> thousands of students have not been immunized in prince georges county. the director of the school's health department placed on administrative leave. so how does this county fair with others?

the numbers are quite large. more than 3,000 students in prince georges count ve not gotten their shots and it' now one month into the school year. some may now have to leave school. news 4's tracee wilkins broke this story and looks at the difference between school districts in maryland. >> reporter: dr. angela wakawea has been placed on administrative leek leave as we learn that thousands of students in the system are not in compliance with state immunization requirements. >> does the state have faith in her ability to do the job? >> a district of the size it is less than 3%.

3,024 students are not immune kiez ized in montgomery county, 200 are not immunized. >> whose fault is it that this is happening in prince george's. >> i'm not sure we want to place blame, but our goal is to work with parents and notify them. that's our responsibility as a school district. >> we have some vacancies. >> hired by ceo kevin maxwell. she previously worked alongside maxwell when they both served in anne arundel county. she as the head of the county's health department and he as superintendent of schools. wakawea was fired from that position and including a lack of confidence in her leadership according to reports. parents say they are shocked to hear so many students are there this late in the year. >> when you put other kids at risk when you don't get immunized and it's really a

health issue. >> it's pretty shocking to hear that a lot of kids aren't immunized, so i'm a little at a loss for words right now. >> proof for immunizations are due to the school system by september 30th. students will be asked to leave their schools until they are. in upper marlboro, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. late this afternoon, we heard from dr. wakawea and her attorney by phone and she's not on administrative leave, but personal leave. prince george's county school officials tell us she's on administrative leaves. this has been one of the most fascinating stories of the week, month, day or years. s. >>a is one step closer to finding out whether there is life on mars. they say they have found water on mars. it appears in photographs as dark streaks that kind of come down and come and go as the

martian seasons change. they say it might be even saltwater. they say it disappears in the winter. they assume it turns to ice, but then it appears in the summer months and they assume it's water that it opens doors to even more exploration. the existence of liquid water, even if it's super saelt, briny water gives the possibility that if there's life on mars that wye have a way to describe how it might survive. we have the capability to go there, ask this question of is there life on mars and answer it. >> nasa will send another rover to mars in 2020. it will probably take another ten years or more before human beings are sent there and who knows when that might be. the point of all of this, of course, no water, no possibility of life as we know it. isn't that fascinating? >> it really is fascinating. that water, most likely is

around negative 90 degrees, but because of the salt it can actually continue to flow and that's what they've seen here. >> they think there's even more under the surface. >> it really is. and it comes up during the summer. so they have season which is is also something quite amazing. as far as weather is concerned we have some amazing things here at least in the weather department because we have stuff to talk about. the last month or so, we haven't had a whole lot. today, one thing i want to show you, take a look at this. there's one thing on this that really upsets me and it's the sunset time and the sun goes down before 7:00 at 6:56. the sun going down in the next 15 minutes. temperatures will drop only to the low 70s and a very mild and 75 gaithersburg and college park and right now manassas coming in at 77 degrees and there are a few showers and rappahannock county and most of us will stay on the dry side and look at the

moisture down to the south and a ton of moisture that will move its way down here during the day tomorrow and not tomorrow morning and 75 at noon and stormy tomorrow afternoon between 4:00 and 8:00. tomorrow afternoon will be stormy and we've got a chance of showers just about each day 8 and 1 tomorrow and 75 wednesday and much cooler on thursday and friday and only in the 60s and on saturday and sunday, yeah, we are in storm watch here. the reason is because they could be tracking a potential tropical storm that could be very close to the exact position still uncertain and it could be very rainy and windy for us this weekend. right now i'm leaning much more to this storm just to the north, but it is something that we'll watch very closely over the next couple of days. guys? >> nbc 4 is proud to celebrate hispanic heritage month. a short while ago erika gonzalez emceed an event. we are honoring for their achievements. hispanic heritage month is september 15th to october 15th.

according to the pew research center the hispanic population grew to more than 55 million people last year. coming up, we're talking sports. nats general manager mike rizzo answering some questions about jonathan papelbon's futur

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sports. i do think that was stupid stuff. >> who made jonathan papelbon baseball police? >> he's choking out bryce harper. what is he thinking? >> he will not be here next year. i guarantee that. >> want to know who will bring him on anyhow because he wasn't pitching that great, either. >> did you see how that guy rolls? is anyone shocked? >> he always has. >> choking out a teammate in the dugout like that? >> come on. that's pretty shocking. the nationals organization completely embarrassed and not just from the team's play on the field lately, but the public scuffle between jonathan papelbon and bryce harper yesterday. carol maloney, she's been out at the park all day long and carol, bryce harper spoke again today and general manager mike rizzo also spoke and what did he say about this incident? >> to say he sounded frustrated would be a massive understatement. i asked rizzo where does this rank? you've been around a lot of

teams and a lot of fights and he said, you know, it's part of the game and he's seen it all, but this is absolutely unacceptable. the gm did phone jonathan papelbon earlier today to talk about the incident. he's upset with the suspension, four games without pay and harper punished for his part in the incident and the nats four-game suspension along with the three-game suspension from mlb earlier incident and the nats are done for the year and what about jonathan papelbon's future with the nates? rizzo says he's not ready to go there. >> he's under contract, and we're going to evaluate every moving part that we have after the season and we'll make all those decisions once the final out is made in 2015. >> it's unfortunate what happened yesterday and you don't expect to fight your teammates or anything like that. so i want to win and i want to do everything i can and every guy in this clubhouse will look to do it on a daily basis and if

that's gino or anybody and we have to come together and win ball games and do everything we can to enjoy it. >> we're a family and it takes two to fight and that's what we say in our house, as well. he's taking heat for allowing papell bebon to go out after th fight. williams is owning up to it. jason, i get the feeling we're not done with this story. if only we were talking about a no-hitter today in the nats final game at nats park this season. >> thanks, carol. there was a final game blade at nationals park and let's go ahead and get to the highlights right now. matt sherzer getting the start against the reds. he has struggled in the second half of the season and not today. tom frazier goes down swinging and he has help from the defense today and check out this grab by tyler moore. laying out there, great defense and helping out the cause.

top of the seventh, sherzer still hasn't given up a hit. just a straight turner. the youngster, making some great plays out there. good feet. nice hands. adding to the drama. top of the eighth and sherzer five outs away from his second no-hitter of the season, and how about tucker barnhart and that's when you turns it on and after 7 1/. innings, he finally gives up a hit and a standing ovation coming from the fans and the final line and eight innings, giving up two hits and one run and the nats do win their home game finale this year by a final score of 5 to 1 and the big story jonathan papelbon and bryce harper and i still can't believe that happened and you're professionals. you can't allow something like that. >> it does happen from time to time. >> the best player, and this always happenses on the football field. >> reggie jackson and billy

martin when reggie was probably the best player on the planet and billy didn't care. >> that was stupid, too. >> i will knock you poout. >> that's the broadcast for now.

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