>> the bottom line is in key areas of the country the security situation is still very fragile and in some places there's risk of deterioration. >> nbc's chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski is digging into why the president has made this decision and his report is coming up in just a few minutes. julie carey with a chilling testimony as an accused serial killer stood trial and mark segraves in the case of a man who injured a local mro ever and led to big changes into how the city handles emergency. >> we begin with derrick ward and the controversial takedown of a teenager in defendant .c. on the right, video of him today with his lawyer standing by his side. >> the young man is a student, a musician and a volunteer. he says he was targeted by the

police because of his race. derrick ward is at the bank where it all started. derrick? >> reporter: well, jim, by all accounts this young man has done some great things and was destined to do more, but still, he fit the description and that's what made this all so disturbing. >> jason goolsby has been a student ambassador at the white house. he met the first lady and he's an inspiring musical artist and the student at the school of journalism, communications and visual art. last monday he was a suspect. >> i don't want to ever see this happen again anywhere. >> reporter: this happened on capitol hill. he and his friend michael brown had just left dinner with an instructor and he was going to withdraw money from the atm and changed his mind and he held the door to the atm, a family of three, a mother, a father and a baby in a stroller. his attorney believed that one of those customers called police reporting that she felt goolsby and brown would possibly rob her. the police found the teens a few

blocks away and goolsby found the suv sped up to him stopping inches away and police say goolsby and brown fit the description of a possible robbery and attempted robbery suspect and ran as they approached. >> i saw the gun and pepper spray, and i nearly got hit by a car and my first instinct was to run. i didn't want to die. i feared for my life. >> reporter: ronald mason said today that fear is a dominant theme in this incident. >> the lady saw them outside the atm machine. she saw what america has taught her to see. she felt what america has taught her to feel and she did what america has taught her to do, similarly with the police, they did as solid america has taught them to see. >> reporter: they were detained for two hours, handcuffed on the curb before he was released.

>> that's why i have been so forceful about getting body cameras for all of our patrol officers so there's not a question. >> now d.c. police are indeed investigating this to make sure that all of their procedures were properly followed. the attorney for the young man says that he is indeed looking at a lawsuit possible, fourth amendment implications here and the suspension of civil rights and false imprisonment. we are live in southeast on capitol hill, derrick ward, news 4. >> thank you, derrick. >> now to a heart wrenching 911 call played at the charles severance murder trial today. placed by then alexandria sheriff jim dunning who begs for help after finding his wife bleeding and without a pulse. nancy dunning is one of three people severance is accused of killing. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey joins us now with what dunning's son told jurors about that terrible day. >> reporter: well, doreen,

longtime alexandria sheriff jim dunning died in 2012 leaving his son to inherit today's very difficult task describing what happened on december 5, 2003, when they discovered nancy dunning shot to death just inside of the front door of their home. it's a pattern that repeated a decade later with two other alexandria victims. it was a murder that jolted alexandria and nancy dunning was a well-known realtor active in community life. the morning she was killed she'd been to target to buy gifts to donate. chris dunning testified his mom was set to meet him and his dad sheriff jim dunning for lunch. when she didn't show they went looking. chris got home first telling jurors, i walked around through the kitchen and then found my mother in the hallway. i ran over to her and there was blood on her face. prosecutors played the heart wrenching 911 call and chris screaming into the phone. somebody attacked my mother, i need help now, oh, my god. oh, my god.

>> his father, the sheriff then arrived and checked for a pulse and took over a call, he's equally frantic shouting my wife has been killed and she's lying in a pool of blood, there's blood everywhere, please hurry. >> the former sheriff died in 2012, at the time still considered a possible suspect by investigators. family members tell me they hope this trial will clear his name for good. in fact, in this 2013 interview dunning's niece was the first to speak out about a similarity about ron kirby's murder well before severance was charged. >> ten years later and we're looking at very similar facts. >> reporter: but before the trial began, the defense won approval from the judge to try to suggest sheriff dunning could have been responsible for his wife's murder. when it came time to cross examine chris dunning, though, the defense said no questions. it's unclear whether the issue will be raised later in the trial. we also heard today from an fbi trace evidence analyst. she examined hairs and fibers

taken from the homes of the other two victims ruth ann lodato and ron kirby and not one marched the defendant charles severance. back to you. >> julie carey. virginia's governor terry mcauliffe is banning the open carry of guns in some state-owned buildings. mcauliffe signed an executive order today. it pushes for tighter gun control measures. only law enforcement officials will be permitted to open carry in offices used by executive branch agencies. that order also establishes a statewide tip line to report gun crimes or -- gun crimes and state police will be required to request a trace of every gun used in a crime in that state. this is certainly a hot-button issue. we asked viewers if they support virginia's efforts to restrict open carry of guns in some state

buildings. so far, the vast majority say yes. >> he ran down a d.c. police officer with his car, now he'll spend the next 15 years in prison even more time than prosecutor his recommended because of a series of outbursts in the courtroom today. news 4's mark segraves was there as usual marshals physically removed him from court. >> even after being found guilty by a jury, kevin burno insists he's innocent as the judge sentenced him today, he became disruptive, and u.s. marshal his to forcibly remove him from the courtroom. when he was allowed to return the judge gave him 15 years behind bars. during the trial, prosecutor his offered him a plea deal of just three years in prison. >> i'm glad the sentencing went the way it did. i'm glad it's over for sean, but it's really not over for sean. >> it was march of 2013, officer sean hickman wassa patrol riding

his motorcycle when kevin burno deliberately rammed his car into hickman sending him flying 15 feet through the air and hickman waited 30 minutes for an ambulance that night. a jury found burno guilty of nine counts including assault with a deadly weapon. for officer hickman and his family this was two years in coming. >> we're very happy with the way it went and now we can close this chapter for now and move on. so things are good. >> hickman has undergone 20 surgeries and he told the judge he's still in danger of losing his leg because the injuries were so traumatic. yet through it all, hickman has kept a positive attitude looking forward to getting back on his motorcycle. >> i persevered and got through it and now we're back to healing and moving on. >> burno's attorneys say he'll appeal his conviction. >> in the district, mark segraves, news 4. dennis hastert is going to plead guilty. hastert is the former speaker of the house who has been charged

with evading federal bank laws in order to pay $2 million in hush money to cover up conduct in the past. law enforcement officials have said that misconduct was committed before hastert was elected to office. back when he was a high school teacher and coach in illinois and they have also said it was sexual in nature and involved an underaged male student. a guilty plea would spare hastert the potential embarrassment of a child. it is not clear whether the agreement includes jail time. hastert is expected to enter that plea in about two weeks. president obama announced today that the 9800 u.s. troops in afghanistan will remain there through much of next year and the true presence will be 5500 through the end of 2016. that's far larger than the initial plan to leave 1,000 troops. it comes after months of review with top advisers.

>> we're adjusting our presence based on conditions on the ground to give the united states and our allies the capability to sustain a robust, counterterrorism platform, denying a safe haven for terrorists and violent extremist organizations. this will keep americans safer back home. >> as nbc's jim miklaszewski reports, afghan forces are facing a triple threat from the taliban, al qaeda and isis. >> president obama's call to keep more american forces in afghanistan longer than his original deadline to withdraw almost all forces from afghanistan is based on the new reality on the ground that the taliban, al qaeda and now even isis present an increasing threat to the afghan military forces who proved just a few weeks ago in kunduz that they cannot defend themselves entirely without help from the u.s. now the president has intended

to draw down to about 1,000 american troops inside afghanistan by the end of next year. now because of that increased threat from the terrorists and taliban. >> we will maintain 5500 troops in a small number of bases including at bagram, jalalabad in the east and kandahar in the south. >> not only to work with the afghan military, but to continue to conduct counter terrorism attacks in the country. according to u.s. military officials this was not an easy decision for the president that it took several months of convincin convincing, but in the end he saw the necessity to keep those troops in afghanistan beyond his original deadline for withdrawal. >> jim miklaszewski, nbc news, the pentagon. >> the u.s. bombing of a hospital in afghanistan earlier this month and the associated press is reporting that u.s. special operations analyst knew it was a hospital because she's been gathering intelligence on

it days before it was destroyed. the analysts believe the pakistani government operative was using the hospital to coordinate taliban activity and according to the a.p. they believed the operative died in the attack and it is not clear whether u.s. commanders who approved the missile strikes knew the building was a hospital. 22 people were killed including 12 workers with the group doctors without boards. >> a look at the race for the white house now and there's quite a bit of speculation over the vice president joe biden will run for president in 2016. today, while the vice president stood outside his house waiting to greet south korea's president, reporters asked him that question. >> are you running for president? have you made your decision yet? [ inaudible answer ] >> sources say a decision will

come soon. analysts say biden needs to make a decision by early november. demonstrators disrupt a hearing at city hall in baltimore. we'll tell you about the issue that has been fired up and demanding a change in leadership. >> reporter: he was sort of a teenage phenom, top grades in high school. he was running for congress. he just turned 18 and now he's a suspect in a home invasion case. what happened to japheth newman? the story coming up. a heated debate in one of the area's most highly regarded school districts. we'll tell you why it could have an impact on your child's education and even the property value of your home. we're talking the first possible freeze and frost of the season. that's how cold it's going to get this weekend. i've got the forecast and the numbers in just a minute.

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baltimore city council will vote next week on a permanent appointment of interim police commissioner kevin davis. so far that process has been fraught with protest. 16 people including three teenagers were arrested and charged with trespassing last night when police broke up their sit-in at city hall. that sit-in followed the larger demonstration that disrupted a

committee hearing on the davis appointment. despite the protest, the appointment was approved in committee. >> protesters are demanding a voice in the selection of the commissioner. one of their complaints is that kevin davis is not a baltimore native. he is, in fact from our area born and raised in college park. davis started his career at the prince george's police department and rose to the rank of deputy chief and he also served for a year as police chief in anne arundel county. he served as a deputy commissioner. we're hearing new reaction on what police call an attempted home invasion. three teenagers were charged including one young man who planned to run for congress. news 4's pat collins has the story from charles county, maryland. >> reporter: japheth newman. he had top grades in high school, he launched a congressional campaign a few

months ago, now he faces serious criminal charges. japheth newman. he lives in this house in waldorf. it was raided by police after newman was arrested and charged in connection with an attempted home invasion. cameron mcdougal is a friend of newman's. he was there when police came to the house. >> what do you make of this whole thing? >> i was really scared, but i know japheth is a good kid. >> i know he'll do better. >> police say the attempted home invasion happened at this home deep in the woods off billingsley road. it was 3:00 in the morning and the homeowner scared the suspects off and newman and two others were charged in connection with the crime. >> at the scene, police find a duffel bag inside a baseball

bat, duct tape, gloves and a rope. what do you make of something like this? >> the fact that they were willing to commit a burglary at that time of the morning is unusual and in that respect it's alarming. >> now i mentioned that japheth newman was running for congress, but on october 2nd he called off his campaign. seven days later on october 9th, that alleged home invasion. in charles county, pat collins, news 4. tonight a new clue in the search for a peeping tom at the potomac mills mall in woodbridge, virginia. bless released these pictures of the suspect and there have been two reports of a man dressed as a woman spying on women in restrooms. the latest incident happened sunday at the mall. a mother and her 5-year-old daughter were in the restroom when a mirror slid under the

stall. a similar incident happened last may at a nearby walmart. >> next, she went on lavish shopping sprees with arth man's money and how she was able to steal almost half a million from a victim. local farmers all because of that sign up in the window. coming up all new at 6:00, we'll show you where the fairfax county police department stands in the debate. drivers losing space on the road to make room for cyclists. >> all new at 6:00, we'll tell

and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> and that forecast is a cold one. get out the coats, and i do mean the coats. that's really the kind of cold air that we have moving on especially if you have plans saturday morning and saturday night and sunday morning and sunday night and even monday morning and that's the kind of cold we're dealing with and this is reston live camera and the sun about to go down and it goes down tonight at 6:30 tomorrow night and it goes down at 6:29 and yes, now it's set before the 6:30 hour. >> right now currently at the airport, we're sitting at a good temperature of 65 degrees and still some of those pink hues on the building and winds out of the southwest at 6 miles per hour and temperatures are on the

mild side. our average highs are 69 and we got there earlier today at 68 and the current temperature at 61 and 62 at fredericksburg and 60 in huntingtown. it is going to cool farley quickly and it will be a cool night, but not a cold night. storm team 4 radar and it will be like that for the next week, at least. we see almost no chance of rain and there is only one chance of rain and that comes with the next storm system moving in and you can see the storm up toward the great lakes and notice the front coming down and that could spark an isolated shower or sprinkle and that's it and also notice the cool air and look up here. this is snow happening up toward canada and we're not going to get any of that and we are expecting upward of three to five inches in vermont and new hampshire. for us, it's just the cold air and take a look at the numbers behind this front and only 43 degrees in international falls, minnesota. look at the freeze warnings back

toward the dakotas and these are freeze watches around the chicagoland area and over towards detroit and i do expect to see frost or freeze advisories in our region as early as tomorrow and that's something we'll continue to watch out for and one thing you know it will get rather chilly. 52 in d.c. and 42 mart insburg and 44 in culpeper and this is what we've seen already so far and it will not be any different than what we've seen in the last few days and hour by hour tomorrow, 56 degrees and cloudy skies, most of the early morning hours and that's when we could see that sprinkle and 55 degrees by noon and clearing and becoming breezy and cooler and temperatures dropping through the day and 58 by 8 dlok and if you're thinking of heading out tomorrow night for dinner and the events and it is going to be very chilly and only 58 on saturday and only 55 on sunday and 53 on monday, very cool conditions. again, close to freezing and winter like here and noaa issued their webtser outlook and what

does it mean for our area? we'll talk about that and i'll see you at 6:45. >> thank you, doug. a local woman admits to stealing from a powerful politician and creating fake charities to line her pockets. the i-team broke the story and it has new details on the bold merge. more than 100 employees forced to leave their work because of an invasion of bedbugs in a state office building in maryland. how a plan to shift in students in montgomery county could affect families at

>> now at 6:30. a woman hired to care for an elderly man, but her actions were criminal. she used his money to go on high-end shopping sprees. >> five years is a very long time for a woman who is quite sick. a plan to redraw school lines in one of our biggest counties, could impact more than your children and could also affect your home value. >> the head of a local police union is protesting a popular pumpkin patch because of a black lives matter sign. new bike lanes could soon take away part of the road on a busy local street. >> it gives you a sense of i have a safe place to be in.

>> why this could be changed back again in a year. >> and we have new video of the national zoo's panda cub. >> a woman named lynn miller is accused of using her position in a virginia state senator's office to line her own pockets. >> and she created a charity to do the same thing. tonight she's owning up to it and the i-team's scott macfarlane broke the story and scott is at the federal courthouse ini al xanexandria w more. ? her name is lynn miller, also known as linda wallace and she pled guilty to a bold scheme for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from the account of top senate democrat dick saslaw and putting it into bank accounts she controlled. she also madmits lining her pockets from the organization she helped create and helped run. the consortium on autism and intellectual disability and in open court late today she said her husband was in on the scheme

with her and helped her commit the fraud. he was not in court today and has not returned our requests for comment and he's been unavailable for comment this week and the feds have long said they believed lynn miller had a co-conspirator and we asked her about her co-conspirator and her guilty plea outside court and she declined to answer our questions. >> in court she said an awful lot this she wrote 73 bogus checks from the campaign of dick saslaw and moved it to bank accounts she controlled. she is back in court january 29th, and she is facing 20 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. what did she buy with all of that money and what happens to the thing shes bought? we're working on that part of the investigation and we'll have it for you tonight at 11:00. for now, scott macfarlane, news 4. >> thanks, scott. to watch the i-team's previous stories and we invite you to

head to the nbc washington app and once there click on investigations. >> a woman is going to prison for stealing more than half a million dollars from a man with dementia in what's being called a sweetheart swindle. >> rosseta horn was hired to be the caregiver for 47-year-old renee duress. over a year she stole tens of thousands of dollars from him, and this video shows horn on one of the many shopping sprees on high-end stores in our area and she bought an $86,000 audi car and took her $76,000 investment account and her lawyer says the five-year prison sentence is too harsh. >> five years is a very long time for a woman who is quite sick. >> what if she's not a good woman? >> well, i'll leave it to you. >> horn has until monday to turn herself in. >> there is a man in montgomery

county to fix overcrowding by moving students out of their neighborhoods. the student we broke on nbc washington earlier today. the process will begin in gaithersburg, but as chris gordon reports it could have an effect on students in bethesda and potomac, as well. chris? >> here's the information that parents and students in bethesda and potomac have been waiting to hear, the recommendations of the school's superintendent contained no proposed changes for walt whitman or winston churchill, but the changes do involve mcgruden and walter johnson. it is testing its capacity daily. montgomery county is considering alternatives like converting tillman middle school back into a high school. >> walter johnson, and to look within the cluster. whether we open closed schools?

how would we do that? >> reporter: another recommendation is to transfer students from gaithersburg high school to wootton and magruder where the student population is growing as rapidly. francis frost is the president of the montgomery county council of parent/teacher association. >> i think there will be some parents who will be upset that they have to move from the school that they had planned for their child to go to with their neighborhood and with their neighbors. i think there's always that unrest when there's change. >> we asked families with students at mcgreweder and gaithersburg what they think. there's a great idea and capacity at mcgreweder and we have wonderful teachers there and we would like to see more student comes there to enjoy what we have to offer. >> as part of a gaithersburg high student how would you feel if your student was transferred to magruder or wootton? >> i would feel okay. if they have the all of the programs they need and they have here, it would be okay with me.

>> reporter: again, these are just recommendations. for public discussion in november and it could take a year or more before any changes and any decisions are made. that's the latest live from montgomery county. doreen, back to you. about 150 state employees in maryland are getting the rest of the week off because of a bedbug infestation. the comptroller's office in baltimore has been sprayed twice this month for those bugs, but they were found again this week. employees were sent home on paid administrative leave while the problem is addressed. they're expected to return to work on monday. a measure that would make d.c. the most generous city in america when it comes to paid family leave, but tonight the mayor reveals the challenges it creates. >> i'm adam tuss in downtown fairfax where a plan for new bike lanes may be dead before they even get started.

here at the live desk we're following breaking news in gaithersburg where chopper 4 has just arrived for the scene of a shooting. here is a live picture in owed inhall neighborhood. we know the lakeside laundromat is right at that intersection. police say a woman was found shot in the head. she has been rushed to the hospital with what is being called serious injuries. jackie benson is on her way to the scene and we will push

traffic is moving again on rockville pike in bethesda. that massive water main break has been repaired now. the 16-inch water pipe broke on tuesday. it flooded rockville pike at cedar lane right in the middle of two major complexes, walter reed national military medical

center on one side and the national institutes of health on the other. there's also ongoing construction nearby so the break and the repair job caused all sorts of additional traffic tie-ups, but all of the lanes reopened at 8:00 this morning. the city of fairfax is getting ready to roll out some designated bike lanes. that means more room for cyclists and less room for motorists, but as the transportation reporter adam tuss reports now those bike lanes might be removed as much as they're put in. >> you'll never know if a bike lane is effective unless you put it in and now for the first time ever the city of fairfax is designated by blame, but they come with a catch and they're only a pilot program and they could be ripped out before they're even deemed a success. plans for a larger bike lane here have been scaled back. nancy loft is the council member in the city of fairfax because she said it doesn't make sense and doesn't strike a balance

between need and safety. >> there is an existing bike trail, but i think it is better and safer for both the cyclists and vehicles. >> this is what a section of university drive will become, changing from two lanes of traffic in each traffic along with a bike lane on each side and a turn lane down the middle. >> this is a road that connects downtown fairfax to george mason university. the room for the cars will be shrinking and the room for the bikes getting bigger. >> cyclists happy to have it. >> it also gives you that sense of i have a safe place to be in. >> buck strad ler is the service manager at spokes bike shop in fairfax and he's beenushing to get that infrastructure around the city and he understands the dynamic that plays out on the road. >> in any culture there are, you know, respectful and non-respectful cyclists. so i think everybody has to follow the rules of the road. >> the rules will be changing this fall, another sign that all of us have to roll together. in fairfax, adam tuss, news 4.

there's controversy at a place with local families. we'll show you what display led to a backlash of cox farms. we'll tell you yet owner said there's nothing wrong with it. >> a potential problem as d.c. considers 15 weeks of paid family leave to help

d.c.'s mayor muriel bowser

says he supports paid family leave to help workers in a time of need, but the mayor stopped short today of embracing the d.c. council proposal. that bill would require employers to grant 16 weeks of paid family leave. the mayor says she still wants to review the cost to businesses and the government. in they are awaiting a fiscal analysis to be done. i think there are some very important questions to be answered. i think certainly everybody wants to support families, but we have some questions for the district govern am itself and our 33,000 employees. >> if a pruffa proved by the co that would be among the longest in a country. >> there is a controversy around family fun. it revolves around this sign that reads black lives matter. and a police union president is

standing by his personal boycott of cox farms. tonight the fairfax county police chief is weighing in. news 4's david culver reports. along the front entrance to cox farms, pumpkins and side ar welcome you to the fall festival hosted here by the cox family into the 80s and the house of a neighboring property, a sign some claim isn't all that welcoming. >> i think there should have been more discretion, particularly being the busiest time of their season. >> that was the voice of brad car uthers. on wednesday he posted on facebook that he won't be going to cox farms anymore, citing the find. >> i've made the choice that i'm not going to go there and it's up to others to make their own decisions. >> the facebook was so inflamed he took it down replacing it with an explanation. he and other officers believe

the slogan has been misused to target police. >> of course want. i would put a sign up that says -- there are t-shirts that say that, and that's not my message. >> she's proud of what it stands for. >> black lives are devalued in our society and it's really important to take a stand and make a point of saying that black lives matter. >> car uthers has no plans on visiting the fall festival any time soon. >> there will come a day that i wish to meet with gina cox about the situation. >> reporter: referring to gina cox, the matriarch of the cox family, erin's mom. the police department say this is a matter of free speech, free speech between the organization and the local farm owners. they do point out that the fraternal order of police does not represent the whole police department. in centreville, i'm david culver, news 4. a misread email brought

police to the skyline area. an email was sent to a tenant of an active shooter drill in the building, but the tenant called police believed that someone with a gun was on the fifth floor of the building and police secured several floors and conducted a search before the mistake was identified. the national zoo's panda cub. bei bei is that cub's name. he now weighs more than 6 pounds. his eyes are fully open. the cub also received his first vaccination. zoo keepers say he's becoming more active and rambunctious. doreen is loving this. >> yes, i am. >> his mom mae jiang is even taking her outside her den in the enclosure from time to time. we have posted a live show of bei bei's life so far and you

can find it on the nbc washington app. i was supposed to say bei bei's cutest moments so far. >> i'll say it. he is very cute. he was all bald and sprouty little hairs and he's starting to look like a little panda. >> it normally takes you seconds to read a page. you liked it, too. >> he is adorable. he'll need some fur on his little body, isn't he? >> he is over the next couple of days and for the winter, of course, we've got that for you, too. our storm team 4 winter forecast coming out in about a month, but noaa, the national oceanic and atmospheric administration calls for above-average temperatures along the mid atlantic and right on up into the northeast and the great lakes. below average temperatures down to the south and this forecast follows el nino very, very closely and a strong el nino, but it does have our region in

above-average temperatures and i would agree with this and the other thing it has is our region and above-average rainfall and snowfall precipitation. you have to think if a warmer than average and we're above average with rain and snow it will probably be more rain than snow. below average back here in the great lakes ask once again our area is above and once again, storm team 4 in the last couple of weeks and i think this may get a pretty big storm or two. >> you know i hope. >> i always hope, but we may get one or two. sunset tonight was at 6:31 and dropping to 56 degrees and rather cool by 11:00 tonight and not cold, we're not talking rain tonight and 57 in gaithersburg and 57 in college park and 59 in fort bell. tomorrow, high temperature, 68 degrees and 58 on saturday and 58 on sunday and 53 on monday

and we do rebound in the next week and we get back to 70 next wednesday and some areas will see the first frost or freeze and coming up this sunday morning. >> thanks, doug. coming up in sports, in basketball, boy are they similar? lester holt ahead with what's ahead on nbc "nightly news". >> ahead at 7:00 on nbc "nightly news," the president announcing a bigger troop commitment to afghanistan, but will it make a difference? our richard engel reports. dennis hastert to avoid trial keeping alleged sexual misconduct violations from going publ

this is the xfinity sportsdesk brought to you by xfinity. your home for the most live sports. >> remember when matt had those injuries for so long in the season. is that what our team is looking at now again? >> they have to watch the baseball playoffs. there are some similarities there and it doesn't get easier. it just gets tougher and that's just the mentality with the redskins and i have this huge incomery report and it's easier

to list who is healthy. as injuries rule the day at redskins park and 17 players on this injury report and key players today and instead of upgrades and they took a turn for the worse and the past 24 hours and that includes desean jackson. according to jay gruden, jackson felt a twinge and they're hoping it's just scar tissue and they'll wait to see how it feels tomorrow. on the o-line pro bowl left tackle, trent williams who was limited yesterday and he sat out with a neck injury today and center corey lichtensteiger he also missed practice with a broken finger and shoulder. he snapped the ball to kirk cousins and rivas just missed this spring and he's putting tons of extra work now knowing there is a good chance to get the call. >> it's feeling good. i'm staying after practice every day with coach shea and making

it. i just want to get to the point where the snaps, i don't each think about it and that's about it. >> are you at that point? >> close if you have. >> the coach is doing a great job. he knows about getting the practice reps and all of us being on the same page. >> so the level of concern for you is -- >> it's zero. i'm confident that we'll get the job done. >> as for trent williams, i heard you say oh, no when we showed that video. the players i talked to today say that that guy is a warrior and he knows what he needs to do to get red for sunday and they're not so much concerned he's going to miss right now. the meantime, the capitals no nicholas back strom for the caps tonight and he was up at 8:00 aflt m. today. caps hosting the black hawks and alex ovechkin benched tuesday after he missed the morning skate and that was not the case today and today's skate around, expect to see him back in the usual spot and hopefully giving a boost to the team and trying to establish his identity.

>> there's obviously a skill of players in the lineup and i just think it takes time to gel, and i think for us it will be time to get back to the basics and not trying to be too cute out there. >> have you seen combinations on the top two lines that you like? >> yeah. i mean, in my fantasy hockey that i put up my magnets and that, they look really good, but it matters what happens on the ice if there is the chemistry and the production from the groups. >> caps and the defending stanley cup champions on csn at 7:00. college basketball's best may be right here in the d.c. area. the big ten review day and the maryland terrapins ranked third in the country in the pool. you know the terps they don't want to talk about where they are in the year, but they do appease us with the expectations. >> we can't have expectations and we appease them. we can't say we'll go to the

final four and win the championship. we have the talent. we have final four talent and we have national championship talent. >> and we have to worry about the process and don't worry about the outsiders and focus on the goal. everyone wants to get to the national championship game and in order to get there we have to keep working and just worry about the process. >> mel on picking up pre-season honors and he's got the maryland logo belt buckle and that's not all, the homer simpson socks and they called him the best dressed at the big ten media day. >> that's the best. >> that's the best. >> for the original. >>. >> that doesn't surprise me midnight madness for g.w. and georgetown and maryland, and maryland and georgetown, november 17th in college park. john tompson used to hate the

pre-season stuff and putting his team up high and everything and he beat up on those guys every day. don't you even think about that. maybe what's

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