we certainly join with you in expressing our absolute abhorrence. >> secretary of state john kerry among leaders around the world reacting to the attack in france that killed 84 people. we're learning the death toll could climb in the day ahead. i'm pobarbara harrison. >> and i'm erika gonzalez. we are also getting new information on this texas father and son killed in nice. what brought the americans to the bastille day celebration and how they are being remembered today. >> the attacks also on the minds of the presidential candidates. donald trump postponed his news conference where he was to announce a running mate. but just

and right now i'm tracking plenty of cloudiness across the area. does this mean a better chance for showers this afternoon? updates in my forecast. france is in a period of national mourning right now for all those people who died in nice. we're learning some major developments now. first that lease now believe the truck live who plowed into a crowd was moham ed bouhlele about 50 people are still between life and death following that attack. 84 others died, including two americans. president obama and leaders around the world have condemned the attack but we still don't know why it happened. here's the latest on the big investigation now under way. >> reporter: a night of carnage and nice waking up to the

devastating attack, the third in just 18 months. it was supposed to be a night of celebration, bastille day, france's most important national holiday, the equivalent of a fourth of july celebration in america. families and tourists were out for the fireworks show. they were enjoying their evening when a man plowed that enormous truck into the crowd at about 10:40 p.m. local time, driving nearly a mile across a busy promenade before he was shot dead by police. an act of terror, according to french president francois hollande, and one that didn't require bombs or explosives to devastate this nation. all it took was a determined attacker. no formal claim of responsibility by any group at this stage, although in the jihadist circles on social media we did see some cheering of this carnage on various pro-islamic state accounts. president barack obama condemning what he said appears to be a horrific terrorist attack in nice and the french president also vowing to step up the military campaign against

cold comfort for the dozens of families mourning in the aftermath of this violence. >> this attack is having an impact around the world not only on security, of course, but on the people who feel a deep connection to the people in europe. this is the third major attack in france in about a year and a half. news4's megan mcgrath is live at the french embassy for us. megan? >> reporter: well, that's right. the "charlie hebdo" attack, the blood shed in paris and now nice. these are difficult times for the people of france and people in our area are voicing their support. people lined up outside the french embassy to get visas and passports this morning. the bloodshed in nice weighing heavily on everyone. >> it's really devastating. it's really sad what happened in nice. and it's not just about france. i think it's happening all over the world and thens

>> reporter: he and his wife have been planning a trip to paris. he's still applying for the visa but may postpone their trip. olivia is keeping her plans. in fact she's relocating to france for graduate school. she's saddened by this latest attack, an unfortunate sign of the times. >> i've lived in d.c. my whole life and you can't escape the worry that something is going to happen. unfortunately that's the world we live in, so you can't let people win. if you have your plans, the best thing you can do, i think, is just keep on with what you plan to do. >> reporter: a few people have left flowers at the gates of the french embassy to show their support for the victims' families. warren schneider, who lives in the neighborhood, showed solidarity by wearing a french flag around his neck like a cape. >> all i'm trying to do is show some support for the people of france. you can do it with words or you can do it with a

you can. they have suffered a terrible tragedy. >> reporter: and homeland security secretary jeh johnson just stopped by literally moments ago to make a statement and to express his condolences. he says this sort of thing happens all too often, and it's a reminder that everyone must stay vigilant. back to you in the studio. a father and son from texas were among the dozens killed in the truck attack in nice. a family representative tells nbc news that the victims were sean copeland and his 11-year-old son, brodie. they were visiting nice as part of their european family vacation. according to a family friend, sean copeland had just run with the bulls just a few days ago in pamplona, spain. >> sean had that -- always had a spi smile on his face, a bubbly personality, always upbeat. his attitude and personality was infectious. >> brodie's little league team posted on facebook this morning saying,

this type of fate, especially not such a wonderful family. i'm aaron gilchrist at the live desk. breaking news coming in just a few minutes ago that donald trump, the presumptive candidate for president has chosen indiana governor mike pence as his running mate. this news had started to come out yesterday and then there was some back and forth about whether that was actually the case. today we have via twitter donald trump tweeting that he has chosen mike pence as his running mate. he will meet in new york with the press tomorrow morning. there originally had been a news conference scheduled for today. instead he will present mike pence to the public as his running mate at 11:00 tomorrow morning. let's go to hallie jackson now, nbc's reporter, with more on who mike pence is. >> reporter: governor mike pence, waking up in new york after a dramatic day in the running mate race. that wild ride, introducing him to america, with many

who exactly is mike pence? >> i'm supporting donald trump because we need change in this country. >> reporter: the indiana governor, a former congressman who rose to a top house leadership role before winning the hoosier state's top job in 2013. he backed senator ted cruz, not trump, in the gop primary. even while insisting back in may he would support the republican nominee. >> reporter: are you hedging your bets? >> no, not in the least. i'm proud to stand with ted cruz in the indiana primary. >> reporter: and it's that support for cruz that could help pence convince skeptical grassroots conservatives to turn out for trump. a christian with strong ties to the evangelical community, pence seen as a safe pick who could get the party's conservative base on board. still his lgbt stance might hurt him in a general election after his support of a controversial religious freedom law. >> one of the great pieces of the legislative history of the religious freedom restorati

bringing people together. >> reporter: while pence and trump are just starting to get to know each other, they haven't always seen eye to eye. pence calling the candidate's proposed muslim ban offensive and unconstitutional. and on trade, a split too. politically not always on the same page but on the personal side, both men appearing often with their families. pence with his three kids and wife karen, a schoolteacher. the two married for more than 30 years. pence grew up in rural indiana, went to college in the hoosier state too and facing a tough re-election fight at home. the national stage perhaps more appealing. pence now stepping into trump's very bright spotlight. >> after much speculation within this past 15 minutes, donald trump himself has tweeted i am pleased to announce that i have chosen governor mike pence as my vice presidential running mate. while it's too soon to say whether there will be added security at

republican convention, that's what cleveland officials told hallie jackson earlier this morning. we know at least 3,000 law enforcement agents on both the state and federal level will descend on the ohio city within the next few days. homeland security director jeh johnson is in cleveland today touring facilities, making sure everything is in place and ready to go for next week. a reminder that news4 will start bringing you coverage live from cleveland this weekend. look for tom sherwood and chris lawrence's live reports from the convention hall beginning sunday night on news4 at 11:00. and now to the democrats. hillary clinton is not giving any hints about who her running mate could be. senator tim kaine joined the democratic presumptive nominee for president at the northern virginia community college yesterday. while at the community college, clinton rolled out her new plan to make debt-free college available to everyone. she also spoke about immigration reform. virginia will be a battleground state this november. new numbers show virginia voters are leaning toward clinton. a

street journal poll came out overnight. clinton is ahead by double digits in virginia. in florida it's a tighter race and she also leads in north carolina and colorado. we have learned each poll has a margin of error of more than three points. new information just released from the white house. the 2016 budget deficit increased by $162 billion. that now stands at $600 billion. budget deficit, the difference between what the federal government spends and what it takes in. and a live look outside at our studios here in northwest washington. you can see plenty of clouds. mostly cloudy skies across the area right now. as we head on into the afternoon hours, a mix of clouds and sunshine. overall, though, i think more clouds than sun and that's going to help keep temperatures cooler today than they were yesterday. 86 right now in the district, 84 in manassas and

gaithersburg. here's a look at the satellite and radar where you can see plenty of clouds across the d.c. metro area. a little bit more sunshine down in parts of southern maryland. when you factor in the humidity, it's still feeling like temperatures are a few degrees warmer. highs today, though, in the low 90s. i've updated these high temperatures from earlier. 93 for a high today in washington. i'll be talking about the weekend coming up next time you see me. >> all right, thanks. developing right now, the fellow officer who shot and killed a prince george's county police officer will not be indicted. this announcement came just minutes ago. in march police say michael ford opened fire in an ambush attack outside the district 3 police station. they say his brothers recorded the shooting on their cell phone. officer colson was killed when a fellow officer mistook him for a suspect during that shootout. all three brothers have been indicted in officer colson's death. a summer outing meant for escaping the heat has

family. fairfax county rescue crews pulled a teen's body from lake barcroft this morning. 16-year-old jeremy munga was swimming with friends and never resurfaced. divers searched the water for hours. the teen's body was found just before 3:00 a.m. this morning. the medical examiner will have to determine what the official cause of death was. and we are learning more about a police shootout this morning. it happened overnight in baltimore. one man is dead. what police say he did as they arrived on the scene. and we've got new information just reased on el man: hey baby, how are you? woman: i have a surprise for you. man: you have a surprise for me? narrator: at dominion, 1 in 5 new hires is a veteran. and when they're away, they miss out on a lot. but they won't miss out on financial support. because we cover any difference between their military pay and their dominion salary, and continue benefits for them

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a man is dead from a police shooting right up 95 in baltimore. two baltimore officers are on administrative leave right now. police say they were among four plainclothes officers who heard gunfire in west baltimore last night, so they drove toward that sound. police say the man that started -- the man then started shooting at the officers with a military-style rifle. two officers shot back and at least one of them hit and killed that suspect. hundreds of people are saying good-bye to alton sterling today. he's the man who was shot and killed by police officers in baton rouge, louisiana, last week. his funeral service taking place at noon. it's open

there was quite a long line of people waiting to get in this morning. there were also protests over his death happening right outside that same area. well, it was after another protest that five police officers were killed in dallas. also at noon today, one of those officers will be laid to rest. michael krol served with the dallas police department for nine years. he was 40 years old. his funeral is taking place in michigan where his family lives. more details now on the man responsible for last week's ambush attack against police in dallas. we told you that micah johnson served in the army reserves and deployed to afghanistan. the associated press reports while overseas johnson was accused of stealing a female soldier's underwear. he was later dismissed from the military. people who knew him say he was never the same after that. it will be next week before the fourth officer on trial in the death of freddie gray learns his fate. closing arguments wrapped up yesterday in the trial of lieutenant brian

prosecutors say as shift commander, rice should have been aware of the dangers when officers didn't put a seat belt on gray in a police van. gray died of injuries he sustained in police custody. six officers were charged, two have been acquitted. a third faces a retrial. university of maryland's police chief says video showing his officers pepper spraying students is humiliating. yesterday the chief announced an officer has been suspended and the entire force will go through bias and diversity training. this is cell phone video of that incident that happened back in may. officers used pepper spray twice after responding to what turned out to be a fake call about a fight at an apartment. >> you can argue that i thought it was going to get worse. the bottom line is it never should have gotten to this point. >> university of maryland's president praised the police chief's decision. charges against the people arrested at the

dropped. health news just coming into our newsroom now. the first female-to-male sexual transmission of the zika virus is being reported in new york city. this is the first documented case of sexual transmission of zika from a woman to her sex partner. all previously reported cases have been men spreading the virus to their sex partners. the cdc says all pregnant women who have a sex partner who has traveled to an area with zika should take extra precautions. now to the mystery water flowing down the prince george's neighborhood sidewalk. for three weeks 24 hours a day it just wouldn't stop. residents say the utility company hasn't done enough to find the source, so they contacted consumer reporter susan hogan to get to the bottom of it. >> reporter: morning, noon and night, the water just won't stop. >> a leak but we don't know where it's coming from. >> reporter: frustrations are bubbling ov

live along colfax and cornish streets. >> we thought that maybe it was our homes. >> reporter: neighbors called wssc numerous times, but so far they haven't found the source. >> just to say there's been trucks out and folks look and leave and, you know, no communication. >> reporter: so the water just keeps flowing. >> i feel it's awful that they haven't done anything. >> reporter: fed up with the flowing water, grchshe called n responds. >> i called because i felt like i'd get some help. >> reporter: we contacted wssc. a few hours later they sent out another crew and by the next morning we received an e-mail with an answer. they found the source. in a statement the company says after conducting pressure tests at multiple properties on the pipe segment, it confirmed that the origin of the leak is from the property located on colfax drive. according to wssc, it's the homeowner's responsibility to fix it.

chopper 4 got a bird's-eye view of the home which according to wssc is at a higher elevation and so that's why the water is flowing down the hill. nbc4 responds reached out to the homeowner and check this out, although he had 30 days to fix the leak, he didn't wait. the pipe was repaired wednesday. >> well, good for that community, susan, great job. residents tell us the water has finally stopped flowing. if you have a consumer problem you need help with solving, contact news4 responds through the nbc washington app. just search responds. there are new health concerns associated with drenging sewdren drinking soda. what you need to know. and these are our current temperatures. take a look at this, it's hot out there but not as hot as yesterday. amelia is back withow today h

some scary moments for two former presidents. powerful storms forced george w. bush and bill clinton to rush for cover last night in arkansas. they were there along with former british prime minister tony blair to honor graduates. good news that nobody was hurt. well, it was very hot yesterday. i'm hoping we're not going to get up to -- was it the temperature or the humidity? >> it was both. it was the hottest day so far this year. we hit 98 degrees. when you factored in the humidity, it felt like it w

today the humidity not as high and also we have cloud cover out there so it won't get as hot and also won't feel as warm. we're still going to climb into the low 90s. so a little above average for this time of year. as we look to the weekend, some scattered afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms are possible tomorrow. the threats are pretty low at about 30%, nothing to change your plans over. a great time to have the nbc washington app downloaded. also if you're out and about today taking pictures, make sure to follow us on instagram and use the #acreative dc. head to our instagram account and see what that's about. a little humid this weekend but not oppressive by any means. next week we're in the 90s, near 100 degrees on monday. today the weather having a low impact on your day. not as hot as yesterday. we'll have more sunshine. starting to make an appearance during the afternoon hours, partly sunny skies and really nice this evening with the humidity levels in check. here's a look at the updated high temps for

i moved these down a little bit from earlier this morning based on the current cloud cover. 93 for a high in washington, 89 in annapolis and 92 up in frederick. evening outlook for tonight looking good. tomorrow some storms are possible. i'm going to be walking you through your future weather coming up next showing you the storm chances later in the day tomorrow and also showing you our exclusive ten-day forecast, ladies. >> all right, thank you. a new study may convince you to cut down on soda or sugary drinks. researchers have found a linked between gallbladder cancer and those beverages. a new study found that people who drank at least two sodas or juices every day were more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with cancer. we have a safety alert for parents. ikea is recalling more than 100,000 of these safety gates and gate extensions. the company says the locking mechanism can open

concussions. the recall involves the ikea safety gates. you can take them back to any ikea store for a full refund. right now we are learning more about the driver of the truck that killed at least 84 people in france. we also got some new information in the last couple of minutes on the injured. we'll bring you the very latest. and the action taken by lawmakers that could mean tanges onhe labels on the

[ gunfire ] 94 people dead after a man drove a truck into a crowd in nice, france, and then was killed in a shootout with police. we are learning much more about those victims. a french prosecutor says more than 200 people were hurt, including 25 who are on life support right now. among those victims, teachers and students, children and parents. a father and son from texas both killed. there are mem yams already taking place around the world. the eiffel tower will be lit red, white and blue, colors of the french flag. at the french embassy here in d.c., we just heard from homeland security secretary jeh johnson. >> this is becoming far too common a ritual for me. just recently belgium, turkey, now france. >> we now know the name of the

suspect, mohammed lel. he is a french citizen but we do not know whether he has been linked to any terrorist groups or terrorism was involved here. when we've got more on that, we'll update you with the breaking news alert via the nbc washington app and right here on nbc4. new details now, federal inspectors say they have discovered more than 100 defects in metro's safe track work zones. metro tells us they have worked to fix 88 of those issues so far. the federal transit administration has not specified what's causing those problems but they say the issues are rated to the first and second surges of metro's safe track program. for the first time you'll be able to find out if the food that you eat contains genetically modified ingredients. president obama is expected to sign legislation that would require most food packages to have a text label, symbol or electric code. critics say some consumers may not be able to

labels. the food industry maintains that gmos are in fact safe. no progress on funding to fight the zika virus. politicians in washington are blaming each other for going into summer recess without passing a bill. lawmakers won't officially be back on the hill until september. democrats wanted the gop bill to include funding for planned parenthood as well. republicans wanted the democratic bill to include more defense spending. ♪ >> he's recorded ten albums and been nominated for 16 grammys. his hits include back to one, one last cry and any time. this weekend he's playing the strasmore and is he's with us. you actually had your first recording at 19 years old. >> yeah, my fist album i recorded when i was

>> i sent my demos out to all the record companies and they asked who's singing the songs. i'm like that's me. who's writing the songs, that's me. who's producing the songs, that's me. do you want a record deal? okay. >> where did you grow up? >> i grew up in buffalo, new york, and part of the time in orlando, florida. >> is your family musical? >> church. we sang in church, my entire family. our family reunions are concerts basically and i'm the designated piano player. >> it sounds like you can play a whole lot of things. you play nine instruments. piano, guitar, base, trumpet. >> i was one of those kids that if you gave me a toy that was unbreakable, i'd figure out how to break it. music was something i wanted to do. >> you can play the tuba. >> well, the brass winds except for the trauma

much. >> what's your favorite to play? >> the bass guitar. the guy in my band was the ugliest one of the four of us but all the girls would like him most. >> you collaborated with a lot of great talents. what was that like and what were you doing? >> it's always amazing when you work with people that you respect and people that have the same musical acumen that you do. it's great when you call or they call you and they want to work with you as well so it's been fun. >> you were on season seven with donald trump in "the apprentice." that must have been quite an experience. >> i think people ask that because they think i know him. you spend about five seconds with him every day when you're on the show. he seems to know who you are but he doesn't really because somebody is telling him in his ear what it is. but we see what he's doing. he's a businessman, he's selling himself the best way he knows how. >> was that fun? >> it was a means to an end. i don't really like reality tv like that, but at the time

it was such a great opportunity. you look at the ratings of the show, either i do that or i don't and that's how it works. >> you have one night at the strathmore? >> one night. >> tomorrow? >> tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. there's so many songs that i've written that people have said our children sing your songs, we walked down the aisle or i got over a breakup with your songs. >> are there any tickets left? >> there's a few. >> if you want to see brian mcknight, you better call up soon to get those tickets. one night only. thanks so much, brian, for being with us. >> thanks, barbara. up next, amelia tells us why these clouds, not such a bad thing. and we've got a surprise for i

for you. man: you have a surprise for me? narrator: at dominion, 1 in 5 new hires is a veteran. and when they're away, they miss out on a lot. but they won't miss out on financial support. because we cover any difference between their military pay and their dominion salary, and continue benefits for them and their families. why do we do it? because our vets sacrifice enough. "dominion. depend on us for more than energy." ♪ stand by me. i'm eun yang. sunday is national ice cream day. not that we need any reason to eat ice cream but with this heat wave in full effect, ice cream may be t

the relief. there's so many ways to eat ice cream, not just out of the carton, which is the way that i like to eat it. joining us to show us some fun ice cream desserts is meredith. thanks for joining us. great to see you as always. there's always room for ice cream, no matter how full you are. it slides in there, right? >> exactly. >> and you have a make-at-home recipe. so what are the ingredients you need to make sure this works at home, though? >> right. you want to make sure you have an ice cream maker. essentially the way that we're going to do this is how we do it at the store. we're going to make a base which will include some milk. >> whole milk? >> yeah. you can do it with other -- skim milk or whatever. >> for texture. >> exactly. so we've got heavy cream, milk -- >> and you need both? milk and heavy cream? >> yes, you do. it's all about the water content that you don't want your ice crystals in the f

to be too big. you want them to be really small. >> and then you put some sugar in there. >> sugar and then a little bit of salt. all you would do is mix this together and put it on your stove over medium heat and bring it to a simmer. >> not a boil. >> not a boil, just a simmer. >> so watch it pretty carefully. >> you're going to want to watch it, exactly. once it comes to a simmer, then temper it into your egg yoklks. >> what does that mean? >> you want to mix it slowly and not all at once or you're going to get scrambled eggs. >> just the egg yolk schlyolk. >> yes. we're looking for the fatty part of the egg, that's the yummy part of the egg. >> for sure. >> at this point you would put all of this back on the stove and you're going to grab your wooden spoon. this is my grandmother's. >> is it really? >> it is. it's my good luck charm. >> that's very special. i love it. >> and then you would essentially mix this.

thickens and essentially you can run your finger across it and you would leave a line on the spin. >> even before you put it in the machine. >> exactly. at that point since we're making a sour cream ice cream, we're going to mix this over our sour cream. >> does it need to cool first or no? >> no. you're going to do this when it would be warm. we'll just emulsify this together. once this comes together, you're going to stick this into a refrigerator or over an ice bath to get it to chill really, really quickly. at that point you would then put it into your ice cream maker. so this one is the one i have at home. it's only $80. this is not an expensive piece of equipment. kitchenaid also makes an attachment that you could use. so those are two really cheap easy things, ways to make ice cream at home. >> you've got some other favorites that you can make desserts using ice cream. it's great on its own and you make your own hot fudge. what else do you like with your ice cream? >> so we have

chocolate float which is our cold brewed chocolate which is a drink that we make. we add some simple syrup, a little soda water and put vanilla ice cream in there. we also make really lovely ice cream sta cream sandwiches. you pick your ice cream and your cookie and have at it. this is the dessert i like doing at home. essentially it's a grilled pound cake with some wine-soaked peaches. today i was going to put on some sour cream sorghum ice cream which is one of my absolute faves. >> i've never heard of that. i'll going to have to try that for sure. >> sorghum, flavorwise it's a cross between maple and molasses. it's really found mostly in the south. it's a syrupy kind of consistency. it lends a little bit of smokiness to that. so for me when i'm doing desserts at home, i want to play with temperature and texture and this dessert really kind of -- >> it's

meredith, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> enjoy your ice cream. >> and i want some of that. it looks so good. ice cream, of course, on a day like this is going to be something we're all going to want. >> yeah, not too bad out there. it's not as hot as it was yesterday, but certainly an ice cream friendly kind of day. highs in the low 90s. here's how we'll warm up hour by hour as we head on into the afternoon hours. you can see by 2:00 around 90 degrees. we'll hit our high of about 92, 93, around 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. after that we'll start to cool off slowly. 6:00 p.m. the temp around 91. i know you're noticing a lot of cloudiness right now. those clouds break up somewhat not afternoon hours, a mix of clouds and sunshine. future weather, i'm jumping ahead to tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. we start off the day dry with plenty of sunshine. here we are at 1:00 p.m., some widely scattered showers and maybe a few isolated thunderstorms are possible. notice 5:00 p.m. most of us mainly dry with a mixture of clouds and sun. 7:00 p.m.ma

two out there. so something to keep in mind. i wouldn't necessarily change your plans, though, over the threat of rain. it's only about 30%. so your weekend outlook, exercise. hot as it should be for this time of year. it looks like the better pool day will be sunday. we don't have that threat of rain around later in the day on sunday. yard work, do so early in the morning, beat the heat. and eating outdoors, again, there's a chance you're dealing with a little larain later in t day tomorrow. tomorrow high of 91, partly to mostly cloudy skies. some scattered afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms are possible. on sunday a high of 92. monday it's hot and it's humid. 97 for a high on monday. after that notice every single day we're in the 90s. a long heat wave to look forward to, ladies. >> all right, thanks, amelia. yesterday we told you about the new food coming to fedex

today we're going to taste one of those new items. why the h dog isot

only a few hours left until the deadline. the redskins have until 4:00 this afternoon to sign quarterback kirk cousins to a long-term contract. even if they don't, he'll be calling the plays this coming year making almost $20 million with the franchise tag. however, that's only a one-year deal. several reports have been saying

aren't even close and they haven't been for months. well, you can't go to a ball game and not have a hot dog, right? well, get ready for a bigger and some might say better dog that's coming your way. this coming football season they're going whole hog and offering for the first time and only at fedex field the hog dog. with us to tell us about the new hog dog is jason tripett. >> absolute pleasure being here. >> we talked the other day about the big contest between all the new foods, what was the best. how did the dog do? >> the dog did great. we came up with four very unique flavors for the redskins. the hog dog came out the winner. our hog dog is something a little bit unique. it's got bacon in it, it's got pulled pork in it. it's got a bit of ham in it and sausage in it. we mixed it all together and came up with a hog dog. so it includes every piece of it. >> i think because you see buns here that you normally serve it

could you eat it with baked beans? >> i like it by itself because it tastes that good. the bun is something we add to it. if you have a gluten issue, you can eat it without it. >> fattening is it? >> we won't talk about that. it's a hot dog. >> let's talk a little bit about the best condiments for hot dogs. what would you say? >> i've got to tell you, with our hot dogs, i eat our hot dogs plain. i like them plain because i think they have got amazing taste. we've mixed all those great flavors inside of it. but i'd stick with the real simple mustard on this hot dog. >> and you like grilling your hot dogs. i see that you've got some on the grill here. these on the grill look a lot fatter and bigger. are they the same? >> they're the same hotting today. we leave the casing on our hot dogs. it keeps all the flavor and juices inside the hot dogs so there's no dry hot dogs, nothing falling out of them. >> i like the casing, that's what makes them so crisp, right. >> a little snap to it.

off the grill. >> i like to have them right off the grill, a little bit of mustard, throw them on the game and enjoy the game. >> let's see how you would set one up for us. i'm going to ask erika to come over here. >> i'm coming. oeng, i'm coming. >> you can join me here. >> here's the beauty about a hot dog. all you're doing is putting it in a bun. it's a sicmple, simple concept. >> do you like mustard? >> i do. i like everything. but you said that you -- this is the way you should -- you recommend is it just mustard? >> at least taste it with just mustard. >> i'll pass it over. all right, girl, go for it. the hog dog. >> this is a fan chosen dog. >> mm-hmm. >> it's good. >> mm-hmm. >> it's crisp and snaps in your mouth when you bite into it? i guess that's what you're supposed to ask for. do you want the relish and all of the other stuff. >> no, it really is good. >> she likes relish and

onions. >> you can taste the dice.fferen >> these are all natural hot dogs as well. >> can you only get this at fedex field? >> these hot dogs are only at fedex field. >> so the hog dog won't be on sale at our nearby grocery store. >> hopefully in the future, but right now it's proprietary to the washington redskins. in the future we have some other products that we sell in the stores that are very similar but not quite the same thing. >> what do you say? >> i like it, i honestly do. you can taste the difference, you really can. >> then i guess i'm going to have one. >> i think you should. >> maybe i'll just eat it plain. >> fantastic. >> thank you so much. we're so glad to have you with us. leave these because i know people will be lining up wanting one of these. coming up and now that we're talking about hot dogs, what about your fitness tracker, whether or not it's accurate. after the break jeff rossen puts three different brands to the test. but first, our social media editor looks at fun in the water on these hot dayses.

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fitness trackers, right? >> you do. >> you may be wearing one on your wrist, barbara has hers on, but just how accurate are the trackers. >> jeff rossen puts several trackers to the test. >> hands up. >> reporter: across the country, the fitness tracker boom is on. >> one more. >> reporter: but how accurate are they? to find out, i'm wearing three fitness trackers on the same wrist. right here i have the jawbone up 3, i have the garmin vivo smart hr and this is the fitbit charge hr. let's see what happens. i walk around new york city for more than an hour. >> oh, baby. >> reporter: ending up in central park. >> everybody is talking about them and everybody wants one. >> reporter: we're going to see which one is the most accurate. >> oh, my god, fabulous. >> reporter: stop walking. the fitbit says i walked 5,188 steps. check the garmin, it says i walked

but the jawbone says i walked a whopping 6,271 steps. so what are you supposed to believe? >> hop up onto the treadmill. >> reporter: to find out, i came here to the performance lab at new york's hospital for special surgery. that mask measures my calorie burn. my producers count 500 steps. >> 498, 500, jump off. >> well, that's comfortable. >> reporter: the fitbit was the closest with 502, the garmin 520 and the jawbone 559 steps. but the real headline here is the calories. so what is the official number from your computer. >> you burned about 19.9 calories, which is just about 20 calories in those few minutes of walking. >> the jawbone was the closest saying i burned 43 calories. that's more than double your number. >> yes. >> fitbit, 67 calo.

the garmin came in the highest saying i burned 78 calories, nearly quadruple what i burned. >> not even close. >> reporter: the companies telling nbc news the trackers are designed to motivate and encourage healthy lifestyles. garmin adding the position on the wrist matters if multiple devices were worn at the same time. and whether it's on your dominant hand. so this summer go for a walk, go for a jog, but experts say don't expect absolute precision. jeff rossen, nbc news, new york. >> of course a lot of us here are wearing them as we are on the race to rio with the olympics starting, so we've got -- i wouldn't call it a contest, it's sort of a fun thing that a lot of the people are doing here. >> that gives you the motivation to continue or to do more or maybe it's like the water coolerness of it all. >> i think the fact that so many of us here at nbc4 are doing it for fun as we go to the olympics or get ready

about it. >> today should be a good day to get out and do a little exercise, right, mel? >> exactly. it's not as hot as it was yesterday. it's about 90 in frederick, 93 in leesburg and 89 in washington. as we head on into these afternoon hours, we'll start to see a little bit more sunshine breaking out. here's a live look outside with our city camera. you can see plenty of clouds out there, highs in the low 90s. 93 in washington. as we look to the weekend, tomorrow partly to mostly cloudy skies. feeling a little humid both saturday and sunday. tomorrow afternoon and evening some scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible. not a definite. a high of 91. sunday a high of 92, monday hot, a high of 97. lauryn and doug will be in this afternoon starting at news4 on 4:00. >> that's it for news4 midday. thanks for joining us. we are back on the air first at 4:00 this afternoon. >> remember, you can get your news and weather updates any time with the nbc washington app. we hope you'll have a great day, a great weekend, and we'll look

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