areas saw roads that were flooded. in other places it wasn't the water so much as falling trees creating problems. we have team coverage and it's been right up to doug kammerer and what's coming next? >> what's coming next is what's happening right now. just take a look outside of the studios with northwest d.c. and we have incredibly heavy rain and notice the flag not blowing all that much and the rain is coming down and coming down hard around our region. we did see stronger wind gusts a couple of minutes ago and that rain coming through the d.c. area right now and that has prompteded the national weather service to issue a flash flood warning for washington. if you live in the d.c. area that was the alert you were getting there on your phone saying you were under a flash flood warning. notice where the warnings are, back to the west watching this storm right here and this is the same storm along the same trail that we're going to be seeing. so we have numerous storms one in fairfax county in and around the beltway now and another one backar

jefferson county west virginia and another one toward montgomery up near 70 in frederick and possible, we did have a tornado warning in that area a little bit earlier. so it would be interesting to see what happens there. the lightning has been prolific all afternoon and we've seen hundreds of lightning strikes in just a couple of minutes and that's happening right now toward downtown. i'm going to zoom on into the storm and you see all of this lightning right through downtown right now. you don't need this during the evening rush and that's exactly what we have and then you have the flash flood warnings in effect until after 8:00. this one goes until 8:45. we've seen a lot of rain and inches of rain have fallen and now we're expecting more with this storm. we will expect flash flooding to occur, and it will occur in areas that normally see the potential for flash flooding. so if you're driving, turn around, don't drown. make sure you stay indoors if you can. if you don't have to be out for the next couple of hours good idea to stay indoors and the fl

evening hours. to the north of this, not much left. the cold front moves through and we see a calm day and then we see another chance for a severe weather. that coming on thursday and we could see another round of extremely strong storms and much more on that and the latest on the this and any new warnings that come out and i'll be the first to bring it to you right here. >> thank you, doug. to presidential politics now. today it was hillary clinton holding the floor. she went to ohio to talk about the economy. >> she blasted donald trump's temperament, his business record and his campaign promises. >> it's important that he be held accountable for what he says he'll do as president. liberals and conservatives say trump's ideas would be disastrous. every day we see how reckless and careless trump is. he's proud of it. well, that's his choice except when's

president. then it's our choice. >> he tweeted and took to instagram during the clinton speech. steve handelsman joins us now with more on that, steve? >> reporter: trump now who is struggling just to get his campaign organize side under relentless attack by clinton who says he's a menace to homeland security and today claimed to homeland prosperity. ♪ >> reporter: hillary clinton charged donald trump's economic plan and his temperament are dangerous. >> just like he shouldn't have his finger on the button, he shouldn't have his hands on our economy. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: she was in ohio warning trump would trash the auto industry there, stock prices and family savings. >> we can't let him bankrupt america like we are one of his failed casinos. >> reporter: now clinton's campaign is richer with $42

trump's under $2 million total. trump who met with nervous christian conservatives put out his first fund-raising email, but complained on "today" republicans are not contributing. >> i'm having more difficulty, frankly, with some of the people in the party than the democrats because they're just -- they don't want to come on. >> reporter: like he did in the primaries. >> i have a lot of cash and i may do it again in the general election, but it would be nice to have some help from the party. >> reporter: instagram is free and trump fired back at clinton. >> the dent of this country is a disaster and obama has piled it on and she's been there watching. >> reporter: trump trails clinton in two battleground states, eight points behind in must-win florida in today's quinnipiac poll. a stumbling start, fewer staff and less money than the democrat. clinton has 700 staffers, trump now about 70. that's about the number it takes to run a few chipotle

lieutenant governor michael steel today, not what it takes to run a 50-state presidential campaign. live from the hill, steve handelsman, news 4, doreen. >> thank you. now to a story you will see only on news 4. federal agents are investigating whether an employee was plotting an attack inside one of the most secure buildings in washington, possibly targeting senior u.s. government officials. scott macfarlane is breaking this story tonight. >> doreen, the potential target, the u.s. department of homeland security headquarters in northwest d.c. and it's on par with the white house and the pentagon and the man under investigation works inside with a top-secret security clearance. >> about 3,000 people work inside the sprawling u.s. security complex in d.c. jonathan wienke was

two weeks ago wienke was arrested for carrying a gun on the grounds and he's pleaded not guilty and is awaiting his next court date, but an affidavit obtained today by news 4 says there's reason to believe wienke was plotting to attack before his arrest. the agent in this filing said when wienke arrived at 7:30 a.m. he was found to be carrying a knife, two radio devices, incapacitating spray, an infrared camera and black hand kufrs and security seized some of those items and allowed wenching toe enter the offers and 90 minutes later before a meeting of senior agency officials, they went to wienke and checked him again, they said and in their filing he was found carrying a loaded.22 caliber revolver and hollow point bullets. no answer when we went to wienke's martinsburg home in downtown martinsburg, and no response from their attorney. there's probable cau

planning to commit workplace violence and against dhs officials in the building. wienke's next-door neighbor said he saw the feds canvassing the house in recent days. >> i expected them to move down, but he was hardly ever up here. i mean, you would just see him occasionally up here. he was always clean cut, nice guy. >> wienke was released from custody after his arrest, quote, pending further court proceedings. he's pleaded not guilty to the gun charge and no response when we sought out wienke or his attorney for comment. >> thanks, scott. a well-known rabbi is trying to appeal his six and a half year sentence. rabbi freundel secretly recorded women at a ritual bath in georgetown. last year he pleaded guilty to 52 misdemeanor counts of voyeurism

current sentence is illegal and his lawyers want that sentence reduced to one year. it could be weeks or even months before a panel announces its decision. tonight friends of murder victim michelle castillo said that justice has been served. a jury recommended that her estranged husband braulio should be sentenced to life in prison plus 16 years for her death. he is an ashburn ceo. he was found guilty yesterday by the same jury. today the castillo children testified how the murder has had an impact on them. our bureau chief, julie carey will have reaction to the sentencing recommendation later in our broadcast. a lot of metro riders are listeni to the calls to stay away from the blue, orange and silver lines during this next safety surge. ridership on those three lines was down about 75% today. many riders h b

lines altogether, for instance, using the green line to get around, instead. we have the best ways to get around during the safety surge in our nbc washington app. open it up right now and search safetrack. life is about to change for the tens of thousands living along the planned route of the purple line in maryland. there is a new financial agreement in place between the companies that will build and operate the light rail line. new at 6:00, transportation reporter adam tuss is in the chevy chase lake area with the big step forward. adam? >> reporter: most days are good days here at the lemon twist boutique in the chevy chase lake shopping center. >> i love it because as i've said i've been here so long and i've lived in the neighborhood so long. >> sally prince has owned and operated her store in this area for 40 years. i see my friends every day coming and going in my store, in the grocery

the crescent trail. it's a fantastic neighborhood. >> this neighborhood like so many along the 16-mile route of the planned purple line in prince george's county is going to change. this is what sally's shopping center looks like today. this is what the development here will turn it into. >> i would lose my job. sally would lose her store. it would affect everybody in this area. >> the state and the group of private companies that will do all of the heavy lifting for the purple line have reached a financial agreement and that means change is coming from bethesda to silver spring to new carrollton, change with roads, development, trails. many call what's going to happen an upgrade especially for traffic-weary commuters as a way for them to get off the roads. >> this is a reality now. the purple line actually will happen. >> reporter: montgomery county council manager represents bethesda and chevy chase. he says there is concern about new development. that is true and it's also true that the larger pc

transit project. >> back here at the lemon twist, the talk about what they want to keep and not what they want to change. >> i'm not sure that the benefits could possibly be what it is costing and what it is taking away from the general public. >> adam tuss, news 4. >> construction on the purple line is expected to pick up in the coming months. if all goes well the line could be running by 2022. >> we want to return now to our top story. the weather and the damage it's caused in our area. >> shomari stone is in walted offer area. shomari what have you got? >> good evening. we are at 1126 hamlynn road and you look at this house behind mes and completely destroyed. there was a really bad thunderstorm that came through this area and it caused a tree to fall and that tree pulled down power lines. the power lines hit the ra

it just sparked and all of a sudden it just continued to burn this house. the good news is the homeowner was not home at the time. 50 pier fighters arrived out here and they put it out in 15 minutes and there was approximately $200,000 worth of damage. the homeowner is now with a friend who is trying to figure out what exactly happened. it's a really tough time for her. the red cross is here offering temporary food and housing vouchers to her. >> there is a man down the street who actually shot video of the flames and he just sent it to me and i'm going to put it on twitter and you will will see that within the next five to ten minutes, but as you can see behind me, this woman doesn't have a place to live. shomari stone, back to you. >> shomari is in waldorf and we're getting an alert of a new weather warning. let's go back to doug. >> this one f

and we've seen numerous trees around the bluemont wear and just around the leesburg area and if you live in ashburn and toward sterling you will get hit by this. a severe thunderstorm warning and bluemont got hit earlier and numerous trees and you have another storm across the region. this storm now strengthening just a little into prince george's county and extremely heavy rain. head's up, buoy. than storm system came right through downtown and we're seeing sunshine in and arne the city, but we goinged get hit that might pop up from the storm center. ? police are going door to door in the neighbor with

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across our region. we have a lot of trees down in portions of our area all across our region and waldorf over toward montgomery county and the trees down and d.c., we've had trees come down and we're watching. this is the latest warning and this is the only severe thunderstorm warning left. it's loudoun county and right now around the city of leesburg and take a look at this. on this track it will be near hughesville coming up in the next couple of minutes and at 6:26 and sterling at about 6:43 as it moves through loudoun county and on that track, also moving down across fairfax and maybe even back into d.c. and this is the storm team 4 x 4 and this is around the mclean area as the first system moved out and still more to move in. >> all right. we'll be careful, thanks, doug. a developing story in the new york city area togh

arrested on the new jersey side of the holland tunnel after a whole bunch of weapons were found in the trunk of their truck. they were headed toward new york city in a brightly-colored vehicle when an officer pulled them over for a cracked windshield. the officers discovered guns, handguns, rifles, ballistic vests and drugs inside the van. two senior law enforcement officials say the three suspects are gun enthusiasts and that they don't suspect terrorism. some new details out of orlando tonight as the investigation into the nation's worst mass shooting continues to unfold. nbc's jay gray reports now on today's crime scene and a visit by the u.s. attorney general and more on the friend of a gunman who tried to warn the fbi years ago. >> reporter: streets are opening up again around the crime scene now. the footprint of the investigationhrinkin

to be growing. a week after the massacre in orlando we are learning more about the self-proclaimed islamic warrior omar mateen. he was in the pulse nightclub briefly around midnight and returned two hours later to carry out his killing spree. >> i'm shocked each until now. >> mohammed malik considered himself a friend and each a mentor to mateen. two years ago mateen told him he'd been watching radical muslim sermons online. >> this is something that raised a red flag and when he told me they were powerful it raised it even higher. malik said he never heard from the fbi after the initial call and assumed there was nothing to worry about until that night. >> that's the person that goes through your mind is innocent people got hurt. >> reporter: attorney general loretta lynch visited families of the victims and survivors today in orlando and announced the justice department would o

in emergency funds for the area as investigators ton search for some kind of motive in the atta attack. >> this was an act of terror and an act of hate and we will look at all motivations and hope to come to a conclusion there. >> an effort that just like the recovery will be difficult and take a long time. jay gray, nbc news. many people are still rurting and may struggle for a long time in the wake of the orlando shootings. some lgbt groups in the district are mobilizing mental help resources to help people cope with long-term effects on this. for tips on how to handle grief and anxiety, search orlando mental health in our nbc washington app. some of the people in the neighborhood in maryland are a bit on edge tonight. a crime spree up there involving break-ins and stolen cars. and from homeless to college. how this young lady overcame the odds to earn a w out ofay

stormy weather in our area for several hours now. doug, what's the latest? >> the latest, guys, continues to be that severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 7:00. that's from loudoun county again. very dangerous storms continuing to move on through our region and we just continue to see these develop across the area and they'll be developing right on through 8:00, probably

tonight and take a look, the national harbor where we're looking through the area right now just starting to end down toward national harbor and you can see on the radar, this line we saw a line move down to the south and now we're watching those storms developing back toward leesburg and back toward prince george's county and this storm was severe earlier and no longer severe and has prompted flash flooding in and around d.c. we've seen video of flash flooding -- or flooded roadways in and around the d.c. metro areas so please watch out there. this is the one storm i'm really watching the severe thunderstorm warning until 7:00 and let's go ahead and zoom on in around the leesburg area and we'll see where the storm is along route 7 as you come out of the sterling area and over toward leesburg and extremely heavy rain and let's go street level around the leesburg area and show you what we're talking about. here ate extension of the dulles toll road and just down to the south and in and around

market street and seeing the very heavy rain making its way down 7th and we saw the fire around the world offaldorf area. a new storm and this is a brand new one that just developed around the gaithersburg and rockville area and that one moving up to the north. notice the red here in through d.c. and fairfax county and back towards loudoun and that's the flash flood warnings and they're into effect until 8:00. we have seen flash flooding with these storms moving through and we're not done just yet. we have the boundary moving down to the south, but take a look to the north up around hagerstown and we've seen storm after storm form in this area, one, two, three and they've all moved down into our region. so we're not done just yet and it will be a rather bumpy evening and temperaturewise, 72 degrees and winds out of the north at 7 miles an hour after the rain came through. we hit 90 and t

atmosphere to charge and that's why we saw some of the storms with all of the rain and just about everyone has seen some rain. the severe weather, we knew it was there and we told you this yesterday, slight risk today and an enhanced risk down toward southern maryland, and we're going to see this again on sunday. take a look at sunday, slight risk for severe weather or rather on thursday, i apologize. on thursday, tomorrow is wednesday and no problem on wednesday and it will be on thursday that we have the strong to potentially severe storms and those can come in early in the morning on thursday and that's something that we'll be watching closely and high of 87 on thursday and then we get really nice weather. wednesday, friday and saturday all looking very, very good and it's tonight and thursday that we'll have to watch out for those strong storms. any other warning, and we'll continue to keep you posted. >> thanks, doug. >> some arrests outside the nra in our area in the wake of the orlando shooting, but not everyone is

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right now at 6:30, police are looking for a guy who tried to snatch a sleeping child from his bed through the bedroom window. it happened this morning on l street in fairmont heights. bureau chief tracee wilkins talked to the boy's father as police now are going door to door looking for a suspect. tracee? >> reporter: jim, this is unbelievable. the brother thought that his older brother was pulling on his arm and he yelled to his mother tell him to stop. that's when they realized it was someone trying to come into the window. prince georges county police are asking the public for their help. prince georges county police are going door to door in this fairmont heights community searching for a man who apparently tried to kidnap a 7-year-old boy from his own

his arm through the window right there. >> reporter: it happened around 4:00 a.m. this morning on l street and fairmont heights. the child's father says the 7-year-old was lying next to his mother when the would-be kidnapper reached inside the house. >> i would like to see some justice. i would like to see whoever it is running around here doing stuff like this be caught. >> reporter: this neighbor says her own grandchildren have had close calls with strangers. she wants to see this brazen criminal arrested. >> someone is always trying to do something to children or trying to snatch them out of the library. children can't walk anywhere by themselves. >> children in the community are always vulnerable and it's something when the child is a victim of any crime it's frightening to us, our community, the police department and us personally, and it's once again, that's why we do take any crime against children so seriously. >> reporter: police have this sign up reminding folks

community to give them a call if they saw anything suspicious. they only have a vague description of the person who they're looking for in this case. they're asking anybody with more information to give them a call. reporting live in fairmont heights, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. >> let's hope they find him quickly, tracee wilkins. thank you. fairfax county police want you to take a look at this picture. they believe this person is connected to a groping incident over the weekend at the target store on district avenue. an 11-year-old girl said a man touched her bottom and the surveillance video backs her story up. the suspect left the area driving a burgundy ford mustang. a series of changes brought on by a shooting have received fine approval in fairfax county. it is the way officers are trained and the way the department communicates with the public. most of the changes were

recommendations from a commission formed after a man named john gear was shot and killed by an officer back in 2013. officers are receiving more training now on how to de-escalate situations and there are new guidelines for transparency in the department. it's a story that you are still talking about on facebook tonight. activists protesting outside the national rifle association headquarters in fairfax calling for an end to gun violence and assault weapons. 18 people were arrested for blocking the nra entrance. news 4's chris gordon has been talking to people on both sides of the gun debate today. ♪ ain't going to let the nra turn us around". >> reporter: protesters of the nra staged a die-in. hands painted red to symbolize the blood of those

violence. the civil disobedience was organized by code pink to demand tougher background checks and ban assault weapons. >> the nra issued a statement saying the nra respects the entire constitution and that includes the first amendment unlike these anti-second amendment groups that like to pick and choose which amendments are valid. >> reporter: here at blue ridge arsenal in chantilly, virginia, sales of semiautomatic weapons have gone up dramatically since the orlando shootings. i asked katie meyers, the director of training here about proposals to make background checks tougher. >> i'm not sure how much more strict you can get. we go through the virginia state police which has their whole database and they go from six to nine different databases, fbi, you know, domestic abuse, felony, everything. so i'm not exactly sure what more we can check. >> reporter: she ended our conversation by saying there is not one person who

blue ridge arsenal who doesn't want the gun violence to stop. reporting from chantilly, virginia, chris gordon, news 4. >> we'd like to know what you think. our informal survey asks whether a candidate's position on gun control will affect your vote. a majority of people who have responded say yes and they support reforming gun laws. researchers from our area are beginning a study of 10,000 pregnant women in regions that have been hit hard by the zika virus. the national institutes of health will enroll women in their first trimester -- pardon me, compare the birth outcomes of those who become infected with the virus and those who don't. the study will track a variety of birth defects, how the risk may vary by trimester and if there are additional risk factors. it's life in prison and then some for the ashburn ceo

estranged wife. the emotional reaction as that sentence was handed down. and we'll have the story of a young lady's success in the classroom despite a woefull lack of stability in her home life. and tracking the latest right now with lauryn ricketts and we have severe storms and washington county and northern berkeley until 7:15 and this storm coming right through leesburg right now, a dangerous storm system. we'll continue to keep you posted and a lot of flash flooding around the region, too. muchmore on th is

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garage door because of a power outage. a teal toyota camry with a pink deer and a decal that says lax girl. a witness tells news 4 that this was the most dramatic transformer fire he'd ever seen. tonight, hundreds of customers who live along clarendon boulevard in arlington are hoping their power will be restored soon. the fire has been out for hour, but repairs are still under way. firefighters had to use a foam truck from the national airport because water is not effective on a transformer fire. officials tell us they hope to have the lights back on for all their customers by 10:00 tonight. d.c.'s largest homeless shelter rarely seems like a place of optimism, but a 16-year-old is about to head to college on a scholarship. >> her name is destiny tyree and graduated two years early with a

perfect grade point average. our mark seeing rave introducse introduces us to a wonderful teenager. >> this is the room where tyree and her mom and sister share. >> i don't want to live in a shelter when i get older. >> destiny was so motivated she took summer classes, classes on saturdays and online classes in addition to her regular class work. she credits living in a homeless shelter with giving her the focus to achieve those goals. >> d.c. general helped me be humble in life, and it helped me be humble. at age 16, she graduated two years early at the top of her class. she was recently among students honored by the school's chancellor for excellence and has a scholarship to attend potomac state next year and has her eyes set on grad school before returning home to d.c.. >> i wanted to be a lawyer, but as i thought

i want to help people like me and i want to come back to the community and help. the principal has no doubt that she can achieve anything. >> look out, world. she inspires me. she's the reason why i do this work. to see students like destiny, to see it's amazing. >> there is nothing i can't accomplish. the sky's the limit. while she's received a scholarship she's still working to save money for books and other essentials the scholarship won't cover. if you'd like to help go to the nbc washington app and search college. in the district, mark segraves. >> we wish her well. >> we sure do. big changes set to happen along i-66. >> the new rules regarding hov drivers. friends of an ashburn mother of five killed two y

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tracking these storms once again. we have some severe weather out there. we're starting to see a lot of the area clearing now and may see some sunshine and you have strong stormsnd

storm that came through d.c. prompting the flash flooding is moving out toward the chesapeake. another severe thunderstorm warning around hagerstown and this is the storm i'm really watching. this is another strong storm around the city of frederick down towards urbana and that one moving down 270, but this one right here and some really heavy rainmaking its way through leesburg and this one moving down to the south and east and hail reported with this, too. on the track over toward herndon at 718 and reston at 7:32 and moving at 25 miles an hour and maybe closer to 7:15 for you folks in the reston areas that moves on down to the south and east and there is lightning associated with that storm and notice the red here. we're starting to clear a little bit in d.c. and that will set the stage for these storms and they're moving right toward the district through fairfax county and more along i-95, but the red indicates the flash flood

tonight and we have seen flash flooding ongoing in parts of the city. now the wider picture showing everybody in purple and that's the severe thunderstorm watch in effect until 9:00 and more back towards la rhea which has been hit more times so far and paige county will get hit again and nothing severe in that region and this is all part of a storm system that's moving our way. >> look at this. this is the shot out from the tower cam and you'll notice, see that line right there? that's the rain. we're looking at no rain here, but then the rain picks up and that's the rain shaft coming out of the cloud and coming out of the storm making its way through loudoun county and wends out of the northeast at 7 miles per hour and tomorrow we get to 88 and thursday a high of 87 degrees and now thursday another chance for severe weather and this is going to be the case here as we move on through thay

will be the high winds and maybe hail with this one and they'll come in the morning and the afternoon. we can have two distinct rounds of severe weather, one early in the day and another during the afternoon and could be similar to today. so that's something we'll be watching. friday, saturday, sunday all looking good and the weekend looking very, very nice. we get up to around 90 monday and tuesday. i've not heard that dinging in a while and maybe that's some good news and we'll continue to keep you posted if it does occur we'll get more warnings. >> thank you, doug. a wealthy ceo from ashburn could be headed to prison for the rest of his life for killing his estranged wife. today a jury recommended life in prison plus 16 years for braulio castillo. bureau chief julie carey said it's an outcome julie's friends have long awaited. >> reporter: murder victim michelle castillo's friends have waited per than two years for this day, the day jurors recommended her

husband would spend the rest of his life in prison. they wore orange, weari ing t-shirts showing her crossing a finish line. >> i'm very satisfied and i feel it was warranted, and just. for the crimes that were committed. >> the victim's friends say it's been a process, hearing braulio deny killing his wife saying it was a suicide. >> if you knew her she loved life and she loved her family and she would never, ever leave her children. >> prosecutors convinced jurors that in 2013, braulio castillo broke into her home, and hung her body to make it look like a suicide. >> to speaks of the cold heartedness and the planning that was involved and the callous decision that he made to try to get away with what he

with the victim's friends. >> what he did to michelle, and what he did to those children is heinous and unforgivable and he deserves nothing less than a life sentence. >> the four youngest castillo children are now being cared for by foster parent, two of michelle's closest friends. the oldest child nicholas was one of two castillo children who testified today. after the sentencing he told me, quote, my siblings are protected. we all feel better. it's a mixed bag because no one wants to lose their dad. he needs to go away for what he's done. the judge imposes a final sentence october 6th. in julie carey, news 4. i-66 in virginia is expected to change in a number of big ways in the next couple of years. one of the changes will be an adjustment to the hov rules outside the beltway. >> the commonwealth transportatio

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are you prepared to tell us what in the world is wrong with strasbourg. >> it was worrisome when you hear he was krached before his start last night. there is a silver lining today, if there's one because strasbourg missing his start, is thinking long term. he's fought through neck tightness and twisted ankle and we've seen many of the minor injuries turn major so he did the smart thing last night and he rested. the manager dusty baker says he's hopeful that stephen strasbourg with the upper back strain will be able to make his next scheduled start which is sunday. the nats made the decision to -- he tweaked his back while working out on an off day, but pain meds and treatment didn't cure it completely.

season. olympics are 45 days away. >> wow! ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i'm ready! >> we are for team usa and the u.s. women's national soccer team takes it to another level. how do i pause it? >> aliali krieger and crystal d very likely to head to rio before heading to tryouts for the u.s. women's national team. krieger who won the world cup last summer will be making her olympic debut and knows representing her country with all of the best athletes from all of the sports is a pretty cool thing. >> this is a bigger team. this is every sport and not even 1% of the world gets to attend the olympics and i'm one of the world that gets to be a part of the bigger team and it's

that other support and motivation from other sports and athletes and watching other people succeed at what they do best and kind of channeling that into our game and our team. >> we wish them the best of luck. there's no guarantees in sports especially in hockey where randomness can help or hurt you. boy, do we know that, but there is no doubt that the nhl awards when it comes to the trophy given to the league's best goal tender is going to the caps own, record, and after 48 wins. >> it's stanley cup and that's just what you grow up dreaming about. obviously, if i have to pick one of them that wouldn't have been one of the first three, but it still needs to be here and it's a life experience that not many people get to have and i feel pretty fortunate. >> today the caps are seeing

season and they'll open the season in pittsburgh against the defending stanley cup champs. they make their first trip to d.c. on november 16th and the caps ring in the new year against the senators at the verizon center. the nba free agent market opens on july 1st and kevin durant and targets everybody. wizards beware and it comes down to the golden state warriors after the prince georges county native more than any other. >> eight, seven, six, five! who else is next? >> school is in session. kevin durant not taking it ease owe the kids and we like it. give them some tough competition, k.d. the mvp -- and his fantasy experience in austin, texas. you see him knocking the ball away from k.d. and proceeds from the camp benefit the kevin durant

>> what do you think? >> that would not be fair to put him with -- oh,

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