silver spring apartment building exploded into smoke and fire. >> court documents revealing what was said to police about the controversy surrounding four u.s. swimmers. it was their job to minister to teenagers at their church. now two youth group leaders in prince william county accused of having inappropriate relations with teenage girls. >> new includes in a deadly apartment building explosion in silver springs. investigators say natural gas in a meter rom is to blame. >> it's been more than a week and the painstaking task of identifying the seven victims continues. >> reporter: news 4's chris gordon is outside the flower branch apartments talking to one resident who says he smelled gas moments before the building blew up. chris? >> doreen and jim, that resident was taking out the trash here, and he says he not only smelled g b

we now know where it was coming from. what we don't know is why. atf investigators have concluded that a gas explosion occurred in the basement of the apartment building. it happened in the meter room similar to the one pictured here. the gas-fueled fire destroyed everything above it. >> at this point in time in the investigation there is no indication that a criminal act occurred. >> reporter: now the ntsb takes over the investigation to determine how the gas ignited. the smell of gas was reported to montgomery county fire and rescue on july 25th by this resident. he says he also smelled gas the night. explosion in this building, but he didn't have time to call 911 because just moments later it blew up. >> i was able to hear like a noise or something and i knew -- not exactly but where the gas was coming from, from like the basement. >> reporter: he's hired a lawyer. >> a landlord

company has a responsibility to protect its tennants from known hazards. >> reporter: this couple told news 4's ericor, gonzalez how they barely escaped death. a friend kicked down their door. the wife jumped from the third floor balcony and the husband walked their two children downstairs to safety just before the floor of their apartment collapsed. search team recovered seven bodies from the collapsed apartment building, but so far the remains of only three have been identified. >> augusto jimenez sr., maria castellon-martinez and saul paniagua. unfortunately, when we talk about the science involved in identification, there's no quick solution. >> reporter: a final note about that possible lawsuit. we reached out to the flower branch apartments by both phone and e-mail asking for their comment, but we have not heard back from them as yet.

silver spring. doreen, back to you. >> chris gordon, thank you. thank you, chris. a developing story tonight. prince george's county hospital center officials confirmed that a potentially deadly bacteria was found in the hospital's water system. they say pseudomonas bacteria was found in four sinks and they were in the neo natal unit. three babies died. it's unclear if the bacteria played a role in their deaths. three other babies were tested and the nicu has been killed. more bacteria was discovered in an adult care unit outside the nicu earlier this week. >> we began bathing our healthy newborns in bottled water to ease any concern for their parents. >> wsse is stressing that there is no contamination in the drinking water surrounding the community outside had the hospital.

a new water filtration system. we have new details tonight about that gas station incident involving four team usa swimmers. you probably already by now have seen the apology posted by ryan lochte accepting responsibility for his role in what went down. lochte initially claimed he and his teammates were victims of an armed robbery, but tonight new police documents out of brazil show the other swimmers told police a different story. news 4's david culver is outside jack conger's home in rockville with more. david? >> reporter: jim, it is important to note here that brazil i don't know police originally interviewed jack conger as a witness, not as a suspect, and according to that police statement investigators say conger told them that ryan lochte's original claim was a lie. >> i can't comment on anything at this time. >> reporter: dave conger not rereeling where his son jack is but is acknowledging that he's relieved his son is back on u.s.

soil. >> i'm glad he's back, absolutely. >> reporter: this is video of conger arriving with teammate gunnar bentz to miami international airport. this photo shows the two embracing each other. a day earlier brazilian officials pulled them both off their u.s.-bound flight for questioning, trying to get more details of what exactly happened last weekend. >> and then the guy pull out his gun, he cocked it and put it to my forehead. >> reporter: what was initially reported by star swimmer ryan lochte as an armed robbery said it was a drunken incident. the four emerged from the back of the gas station along with the station employee and told to pay for the damages. police say conger told them that lochte ripped off a board attached to the side of the station that caused a lot of noise. investigators note that conger also saw on the news the statement ryan made and realized ryan was lying about what had happene

statements about what had happened. lochte apologizing friday in this instagram post writing in part i accept responsibility for my role in this happening and have learned some valuable lessons. a fourth swimmer, jimmy feigen, ordered to donate nearly $11,000 as a condition of brazilian authorities allowing him to return home. back in conger's rockville community, signs of support still hang high. while officials in brazil may be done with the matter, even accepting lochte's apology late today, it seems that usa swimming could still act on this and issue some sort of sanction against lochte and the other swimmers, anything from a fine to a suspension. doreen? >> all right. david culver, thank you. metro is investigating another possible red signal violation. it happened this morning in the west falls church rail yard. there were no injuries or damage. earlier this week federal officisl

problem with train operators running red lights saying there were at least 68 incidents since 2012. >> hundreds of motorcyclists rolled through maryland and into northern virginia today as part of america's 9/11 ride that. ride started this morning in shanksville, pennsylvania. chopper 4 was over the riders as they made their way along the dulles toll road on the way to the pentagon late this afternoon. the ride will wrap up in new york city tomorrow. this is the 16th year for the ride. it's meant to honor first responders and raise monday for college scholarships for their children. >> donald trump appears to be listening to theives have people who urged him to act in his words more presidential. he met with victims of the flooding that has ravaged louisiana, but the visit was partly overshadowed by another campaign shake-up. today his campaign chairman paul manafort resigned. news 4's jennifer johnson has our report. >> reporter: donald

touring flood-ravaged louisiana, showing empathy for homeowners who lost everything. >> we lost everything and knew you would come. >> reporter: part of the new presidential acting trump. >> nobody understands how bad it is. it's really incredible, so i'm just here to help. >> reporter: after two new hires at the top trump campaign chairman paul manafort has resigned. >> the poll numbers, particularly in the battleground states, are ever wide things and you've got to reverse that and demonstrate that you are trying to reverse it, and usually that's going to require a leadership change. >> donald trump's america is secure. terrorists and dangerous criminals kept out. >> reporter: trump has unveiled a new ad running in battleground states, ohio, florida, north carolina and pennsylvania. and last night trump sort of apologized for making offensive comments that may have hurt people. >> and believe it or not, i regret it. >> reporter: meanwhile, documents released this week to congress show hill hill told the fbi that former secretary of state colin powell advised her to use a personal e-mail account while she was in that

washington. >> colin powell's office confirm to nbc news that he wrote hill hill an e-mail describing his use of his personal e-mail account for unclassified messages and said it vastly improved communications within the state department. a state department inspector general report released in may says that by the time clinton was secretary of state the use of a private server was neither allowed nor encouraged. two men leading separate church youth groups in prince william county are charged tonight with inappropriately touching teenage girls. one has been fired, but leaders at the second church are defending their youth pastor. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey joins us from one of the congregations now coming to terms with the news. julie? >> reporter: mm-hmm. well, doreen, big red brick building behind me is the life church. i'm told it's one of the fastest growing churches in the country with four locations in northern virginia. tonight churea

saying he denies the allegations against him. 25-year-old jordan baird is the youth pastor at the life church in manassas, but recently prince william county police were told he had an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old girl from the church. >> on numerous occasions between january and september of 2015 sent inappropriate text messages as well as had inappropriate touch with the juvenile on multiple occasions and one of those incidents was as the church. >> reporter: jordan's father david is the senior pastor and joshua baird is the associate pastor. jordan led the youth groups here. today the church issued a statement saying that a church volunteer first notified leaders of the alleged misconduct in early june. they placed jordan baird on leave of absence as they conducted an internal investigation. then on july 13 prince william county police notified the church they were

but the life church wasn't the only place of worship that got bad news this week. this is grenwich presbyterian church and there the derrick trump was arrested for i inappropriate conduct between him and a jauf nile. trump's former church fired him in june. a statement says he was terminated, quote, due to his failure to live up to the high standards we require of our staff. we're satened by the impact of derrick's action and invite the prayers of the community for all that are involved in this matter. back live now at the life church. it's been an especially tough week for the baird family. on top of jordan baird's arrest, his uncle, senior pastor david baird's brother, passed away. the family will gather toghe

they have already found a defense attorney to represent jordan baird in court. back to you now in the studio. >> julie carey reporting, thank you, julie. a dramatic moment inside a local courtroom as a mother delivers a message to her daughter's killer. why her words left so many people stunned. >> i'm darcy spencener northwest washingt washington. a man was hit and killed here by a hit-and-run driver early this morning. coming up, one idea to make this a safer intersection. >> plus a live report from rio as wendy shows us the exotic sites and sounds of brazil during the games. >> above 90 today and i'm tracking some rain over the weekend and then a great change, a change we're all going to lot. see you in a minute.

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people who work nearby. darcy? >> reporter: well, doreen, this is the intersection where it happened. the man who died here was a bartender and waiter at a bar right here in d.c. i spoke to his boss earlier today and described him as a fantastic guy and a great employee. when i spoke to people who work in this area about the incident here, they ptolemy they are not surprised. that intersection new hampshire avenue and m street northwest where a popular bartender was killed and marcus kelly who works in the area says something needs to happen. >> maybe they could have the crossing guards like i see times i see down by the nats stadium. maybe something like that may help. it's a pretty bad intersection >> reporter: video of the bright blue striking car is dark, but right now it's the best chance that d.c. police have of finding the driver who struck and killed

morning. that pedestrian, david narvellas was 29 years old and lived in arlington. police released the video taken from a surveillance camera and two pictures as they tried to find the car. >> got to be accountable for it, you know. go to jail or something because it's not right. >> reporter: it happened at an intersection that many we spoke to describe as dangerous with heavy traffic, bikes and pedestrians all sharing the road. >> when i walk to work, that's the way i walk so we were talking about that in the office. it could have been any of us which was like pretty scary, you know. >> reporter: it's the second pedestrian fatality in two days in d.c. there have been five so far this year. thursday a popular restaurant owner was hit and killed and that driver stayed on the scene. the district is working toward a goal of having no traffic fatalities by the year 2024. it's called vision zero. now if you recognize the car in that veins video you're asked to

back to you. >> darcy, thank you. first 4 traffic alert for those who drive in alexandria. there's a new red light camera you need to know about. it's been installed at duke street and west taylor run parkway. it will be turned on monday. it will only send warning notices for the first month. there are five active cameras at three other intersections in the city. red light tickets in alexandria coming with a $50 fine. >> the washington monument is going to be closed for at least ten more days, this after a series of elevator problems. on wednesday a cable broke causing the elevator to stop up near the top of the monument. the elevator broke down twice over the weekend. today the park service said staff and technicians will do a thorough evaluation of the elevator and a new elevator control system is in the works. >> well, for the past two weeks we've seen some incredible competition amid the stunning backdrop of

>> and our wendy rieger has brought us some of the best sights and sounds from the city and joins us from olympic park with what she will remember the most from three weeks in rio. hi, wendy. >> reporter: there. imagine how lucky it is one feels to be able to live in rio for three weeks. this is a sexy city. it's a fabulous city and i had an all access pass. rio can be a feast for the eyes. the best place to see it from christ the redeemer on corcovado. i'm lucky enough to have been here twice. it is a wonder to be in the shadow of this icon and to see just beyond the reclining body of rio's shores. this magical moment presented itself on the celeron steps created by a chilean artist and i love that it's organic.

and as i climbed higher discovered this musician providing the perfect accompaniment. ♪ the boss nova seems to perfume one's experience in rio. you hear the soft rhythms in your head, at the beach or at ipanema where i came upon the composer forever following that girl down the beach and finally i must tell you of diogo, one of the nbc bodyguards. one week he was covering the victoria secret models who had come to the olympics. then we heard he was assigned to matthew mcconaughey who was visited. then we heard he was assigned to matthew mcconaughey's wife who is brazilian and visiting and then we saw pictures of diego with the so-called melon woman, famous for her round posterior, so, as i leave rio, i know it's good to be

yes, indeed, it is. diego was assigned to my party for about two hours, just long enough for me to go homina, h ho mina, homina and then he was gone and it's like where's diego, and they are like diego is off with matthew mcconaughey and it's like really in he's with the victoria's secret model, really? not that the other body guards weren't lovely. >> you couldn't compete. >> reporter: diego is one of the official sights of rio. >> we'll get diego on your flight back on monday. we're going to make that happen. wendy, great stuff. >> your lips to god's ear. >> can't wait to see you. >> see you later tonight. still ahead, a woman out for a test drive and then, yikes, this happened. what we know about the moments before this ci

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which means we can fix things differently. thanks for calling fios. this is ryan. you can't tell me this cord isn't in. i know it's in. it's in, but it's not working. i'm sending you a link to the my fios app that going to let me see what you're seeing. really? yes, mr. mcenroe... see that cord? just plug it into the connector on the right. so you can clearly see what's in and what's out? oh absolutely. i like that. tech support that lets your technician see the problem over your smartphone. only from fios. still pretty hot out there today, but it sounds a lot better today than it did yesterday. >> think we're moving in the right direction, doug. >> moving in the right directi

high temperature today still up into the low 90s and with low humidity really almost no humidity, really didn't feel all that bad today considering where we've been over the past week and a half. we're now day 19, day 19 of august, and august 19, 15 of 19 days have been above 90 degrees. we've not seen much of a break at all and the good news is we're finally going to get one. pretty nice at the airport down to 90 degrees and winds are fairly calm and it is going to be a very nice night. out and about and maybe getting dinner outdoors and taking a long run or bike ride, looking good for that. 88 in leesburg and 84 in frederick and down towards fredericksburg 94 degrees. looking really good for the redskins game, 87 around 7:00 and 85 by 9:00 and down to 82 degrees by 11:00 so really a per neck night. once the sun goes down you're really going to notice less humidity so it is going

quite nice. on the radar no rain or storms to talk about. we'll be dry and same thing tomorrow. a day very similar to what we're seeing out there. we've got some cloud cover and the bulk of the preptation is down to the south and another system back to the west. that's the one we'll be watching during the day on sunday, so sunday we could get some rain and i think tomorrow we're looking pretty good. 91 degrees and with low humidity just like today not all that bad at all. heading to the beach eds, looking good down there, too. 85 on saturday and 84 on sunday. late showers or thunderstorms so heads up for that. better chance will be up towards the delaware beaches than the maryland beaches and watch out there. 58 degrees on monday. monday will be rather breezy. offshore flow, too, and that tends cool the ocean a little bit. monday getting in the ocean and maybe a little on the cool side if you're lucky enough to be down there. you don't care. hot conditions, yeah. this is what we've seen. the hot air has been over us the last few days. here comes a cold front. that cold front will move our way and be on top of us for

thunderstorms to develop. some of them will be strong and now we'll stay just to the north and it will still be hot. next week we've got high pressure and by cool i mean some of you will wake up to temperatures in the upper 50s on tuesday and let's show you the ten-day forecast. 89 degrees on saturday and 11 on sunday and look at the temperatures in the low to mid-80s here right on through the middle of the week. we do get a little bit warm towards next weekend and all in all 80s are better than 80. i think most of us can agree on that. >> all right. thank you, doug. >> it's annoying and seems to happen at the worst possible time. how some major tech an cable companies are coming together to stop those annoying robo calls. >> also ahead, the zika virus spreads to a popular tourist destination. now the warning from top health officials here to keep

south beach safe. >> shock waves inside a local courtroom as the mother addresses a man who killed her baby. why her words left so

now at 6:30. >> my name is kar eem bryant. i'm calling for my girlfriend. >> reporter: >> a woman's boyfriend pleading guilty for her baby's death. what that mother said in court today thatur

>> putting a stop to robo calls. >> victims are fed up. >> how some of the world's largest companies are teaming up to silence them. plus, a new travel warning tonight as the zika virus spreads in south florida. >> and battling the opiod epidemic. how one man's mission in a small town is spurring change across the country. >> we did drive down the overdose. a maryland man sentenced to 12 years in prison in connection to a disturbing crime. >> he admits to shaking his girlfriend's baby to death, but it's what happened in court that took many by surprise today. the child's mother thanked him and professed her love to the child's killer. prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins was there. >> reporter: in january kar eem bryant called 911 for help after his girlfriend's 6-month-old daughter appeared unresponsive. he claimed she mayav

seizure. >> i think she caught a seizure. >> you think she had a seizure. >> reporter: >> there is feigned, i believe feigned sort of panic in the phone where he called and requested 911 assistance when in fact as it turns out following investigation we realized he was the person who killed this baby. >> bryant was sentenced for shaking and killing the 6-month-old twin girl mariah tillman. state prosecutors say bryant was high on k2 at the time. the baby's mother was home when it happened, but in another room. bryant apparently helped to care for the child. bryant was on probation at the time for a robbery in d.c. >> in our estimation he was a violent individual who was high at the time that this offense occurred. >> reporter: at one point the baby's mother takes the phone. >> reporter: in court her response to her daughter's death. >> the mother in this case came to court afterwards and thanked him in the courtroom and said that show wanted to thank him fo

to care for her 6-month-old child at the sentencing. >> reporter: the mother then told bryant she loved him as he was escorted out of the courtroom in handcuffs. >> i'm concerned and confused by that, you know. i'm very concerned about it. i think we should all be concerned. >> reporter: bryant's sentence for this murder 12 years. in upper marlboro, tracee wilkins, news 4. >> now to an expensive mistake. many of you saw this earlier on our facebook page. a woman went for a test drive at the mercedes dealership in ballston. somehow she wound up hitting the gas instead of the brake and slammed into four vehicles. she took a sharp turn and you can see the car ended up over on its side. no serious injuries. police say the insurance company is going to investigation this one since it all happened on private property. >> the centers for disease control now adding south beach to that travel warning telling pregnant women to avoid the area as the zika virus spreads in florida. southch

cases of zika have been linked to that area of miami. there are now 36 zika cases across the state involving people who did not travel outside the u.s. it's believed all the cases are linked to mosquitos. miami's winwood arts district in dade county was the first florida neighborhood identified as an infection zone. >> some of the world's most powerful companies are teaming up to silence the calls that plague your cell phone. consumer reporter susan hogan is here to tell us what they are doing about it and this is all new at 6:00. >> hey there, doreen. your cell phone rings. unfortunately, it's not someone you know. instead it's some random recording offering you a so-called deal. in other words, a robo call. today the federal communications commission launched the robo call strike force. the group which includes all of the major wireless providers will meet two times a week over the next 60 days with the goal of

to block robo calls from all customers. >> people are fed up. robo calls are a scourge. it's the number one complaint that we hear from consumers on a daily basis. >> reporter: now this strike force will present its plan to the fcc in mid-october. comcast, which is the parent comof nbc 4, is part of this strike force. now sprint and at&t currently provide a version of this caller blocking already, but it is for a monthly fee. jim? >> all right. it is frustrating, susan. thank you. for 71 years, some world war ii veterans have been sharing their war stories like no other. on april 12th, 1945, the u.s. army's 80th infantry division helped liberate buchenwald concentration camp in nazi germany. the 80th divis

met every year since then to talk about that day and the many other battles they fought together during world war ii. they are now in their 90s and there are only 13 soldiers left. they are holding their reunion here in washington this week, and today they paid a special tribute at the world war ii memorial. >> makes me feel very proud. this is not my first time here. i've been here four times, and each time we get the same feeling, you know. makes you want to cry. >> we salute you. the 80th division fought across normandy, northern france, luxembourg, belgium and germany. they lost more than 17,000 soldiers in combat. >> it's a story of hope amid the drug epidemic in the u.s. why a small county in north carolina is getting national attention for its effort to save lives. >> coming up on news 4,

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♪ >> must be friday evening. >> it must be. here we go, folks. a local band that's been touring the world for 45 years is now the subject of a new documentary. tonight the movie will make its premiere at the old bethesda movie theater. >> news 4's mark segraves is there live with the story. hi, mark. >> reporter: good evening, doreen. bethesda's own night hawks and for two generations they have been touring the world with their special brand of roots and blues music, and tonight there will be a celebration and they will do what they do best, play the blues. ♪ >> it's a bit of a homecoming. i mean, it's a lot of a homecoming. >> reporter: hanging how the in the garden of his kensington home mark winter recalls th

spent on the road playing with some of the most successful musicians of their genre like muddy waters, greg almon and george thoroughgood. >> the documentary traces the history of the band which got its first big break on bethesda's whfs radio. >> they were the part of the fabric of what we were and they were a huge part of the local scene in d.c., huge. >> reporter: movie includes rare footage of the original band in the early days. ♪ >> reporter: and the current lineup that's still going. how do you keep a band together for 40 years? how do you keep a name out there, and that's one of the things that the film is concerned with. what does it take? there are triumphs and tragedies. >> reporter: and the movie reveals the tension between the band's

one leaving the band and the movie takes you on the road with the current lineup that's still playing concerts around the world. >> well, i don't know about another 45. i'd like to make another five. like to make an even 50. ♪ >> reporter: so mark winter and the nighthawks, as you can see, show no signs of slowing down. he wants to make it to at least 50 years. want to see if for yourself get down here to the bethesda blues and jazz and supper club. the hawks take the stage at 9:00. jim and doreen. >> big night, wow. >> and you're already in position to enjoy the rest of the evening. good planning on your part. >> >> reporter: yeah. i'm not giving up this spot, you bert believe that. >> all right. thank you, mark. have fun. next, a shocking price hike on a potentially life-saving drug used by thousands of children. >> making a difference in the face of the drug epidemic. what our area can learn from a small community in north

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all month long we've been taking a closer look at opiod and heroin addiction. president obama says tackling the problem is as important as fighting terrorism and the white house has also talked about the importance of community response, and tonight we look at one program in north carolina that's making a difference. >> reporter: wilks county north carolina in the foothills of the blue ridge mountains, home to the towns of wilkesboro, rhonda and north ringsboro with a total population of about 69,000. this is appalachia, one of the areas hardest hit by this

country's prescription pill epidem epidemic. >> appalachian area is a community and out got more injuries or chronic pain issue and all of that. >> reporter: just nine years ago this county had one of the highest rates of death due to overdoses from prescription medicine. >> we're losing 15 people, 20 people, 30 people a year. for a small community like ours, that's huge. >> reporter: fred bracen runs project lazarus which he started in 2008 in response to drug pews and overdose rates other. >> i just began to notice the medication problems in our homes in wicks county when i was the director, and that's where we had incidents of families sharing, stealing, selling. >> reporter: nonprofit is run out of fred's home. its mission, to help empower communities to prevent drug overdoses and to help this community project lazarus involves the community. >> what i'm trying to find out

has changed. we have the new law and we have a new brand narcan and then another that we know that we have here. is it still getting used quite a bit? are people picking it up? >> oh, yes. we have a lot of doctors who are referring patients here. >> reporter: narcan is a key component of the project lazarus approach. the drug, given to someone who has overdosed on opiates can revive the victim and is used by first responders and police across the country. police are using it here in our area, too. the team has worked to make the drug available for the citizens of wilks county. >> so when they came in, they did the training and brought us the kits on like how if they do overdose the procedure that we're supposed to follow so they help out a great deal with us. >> another big deal the project strategy is prevention. >> we have prevention teams set up in our middle and high schools. do a lot of prevention activities and we empower them to leadhe

peers in prevention activity. >> reporter: this emphasis on community has drawn national attention. the lazarus project which release mainly on grants for funding is duplicated in other states. fred bracen travels across the country to consult and continues to work here in wilks county. >> they can dirm at that point, well, you know, you've got that description. >> reporter: project lass ruz is doing something right. >> we did drive down the overdose. it did decrease the substance abuse visits to the emergency department and it did drop the school-based incidences regarding substance use. >> project lazarus is now working on how to help people with chronic or acute pain manage the use of painkillers in the safest way. this was the last installment in our series, but if you would like to use more or find resources or hear personal stories of those affected by this crisis, go to the nbc washington app and search addiction. parents of children with

severe allergies are reporting sticker shock for a back-to-school necessity. the price of an eni pan has skyrocketed anything or the portable device is going to stop a life-saving device. many families buy two, one to keep at home and one at school and the price has gone from $208 to roughly $500 and critics blame corporate greed for the price hikes and the company that makes the eni pens says it has made a significant improvement in the product and the features that the product provides. >> doug, the weekend is here, finally, and the we're trying to make some plans and we need your help. >> what are you doing? >> want to get outside as much as possible. >>

you don't have anything set in stone. wondering just generally. >> available for any ideas. >> okay. they never tell me what they are doing on the weekend and i need friends. out there right now let's show you how things are going. if you're planning on doing something outdoors, maybe yard work or get out to the bike ride or play a little tennis, saturday is your day to do it. out there right now in rockville looking good. sunshine and cloud cover as well but all in all seen a lot of sunshine across the area. take a look at what we're dealing with across the region as we look at what we'll be seeing as i walk across here, this guy ain't working. i'll be right back. that is the clicker which changes the maps, so with that let me see here and go boom and hit that button and now look at this. we're in business, everyone. yes! yes! >> good job, doug. >> thank you. 88 degrees in leesburg and 86 in gaithersburg and 85 quanti

nice night to be out and about. nothing really coming our way until sunday. that's when we see a chance of storms. there is cooler air to the north and that's where our air was coming from and that's why we did not see the humidity across the region today. 91 in d.c. and 89 down towards richmond. high temperatures tomorrow right back to 91 and look at today. plenty of sunshine, yeah. still on the hot side but not much in the way of humidity, and i really think it's going to be quite nice tomorrow. sunday, a good chance of rain. not an all-day rain but it could actually start before noon and go for a little bit so heads up there. not a washout but don't cancel any plans just yet. 89 there, and then look at monday through friday. every day is dry. every day has sunshine. warming up a little bit but temperatures in the 80s and many of you will start off in the 50s. >> we love hearing that. thank you, doug. >> coming up in sports tonight, redskins ready to kick off at home just about half an hour away. the head coach and players explain what w should bee

>> time for jason and the jets and the redskins. >> jason and the jets. >> we're home, buddy. >> we are home. it's good to be back home here at fedex field. the redskins and their second preseason game against the new york jets. you know what, the starters, they are going to play a little bit more. that's a treat for the fans. expect those guys to play anywhere for the entire first quarter or the majority of the first quarter. want to step

here you'll see some of the players getting warmed up behind me. you can see the defensive line. rookie jean francois and all the guys ready to go for their matchup or getting ready to go for their matchup tonight against the new york jets. tritt williams will not play but guys like cravens the young linebacker trying to stay loose, drafted this year, playing in front of the home crowd for the first time and kirk cousins played one series last week. expect a heavier workload for him tonight. desean jackson also ready and been in greatness at preseason and head coach jon gruden has an idea of what the team can work on tonight against the jets. >> i would like to see us improve on the running game and the penalties is another thing. i don't want to see a lot of penalties. we had 16 or whatever it was. we want to play a clean football game and improve on physicality and obviously eliminate the big plays on defense. >> just continuing to get better. work on the communication with other defensive

without the defense and, you know, any time you get an opportunity to go out there and play you have to take advantage no matter if it's ten plays or 30 plays, always a chance to get better and working at your craft. >> you can watch the redskins take on the jets over on comcast sportsnet, also on cozi-tv. kickoff is scheduled for 7:30. we'll have plenty of highlights and post-game reaction for you following the game on "news 4 at 11:00." olympics coverage on nbc 4 starts at 7:00. let's move on and talk about some baseball for a little moment here. earlier this year or actually last year in december al jazeera tv network, they had a report linking several high-profile athletes to performance enhancing drugs. first baseman ryan zimmerman of the nationals was in that report. today, however, major league baseball cleared zimmerman of any wrongdoing. zimmerman will not play tonight in atlanta but one of his teammates will. tanner rourke who has been

3-0 in his last three starts with an e.r.a. under 2. he's won 106 his last 15 games and he has great numbers against tonight's opponent, the braves. 5-1 against them in his career with a 1.73 e.r.a. let's head over to rio now. kevin durant and the u.s. taking on spain. the basketball semifinals. first quarter, usa up by five. durant, he gets free off the screen and that's too easy. he had 14 points today. second quarter klay thompson, can't believe these two are teammates in golden state. how about that. thompson nails the three and led all scorers with 22 points. spain, they drew within three, but in the third quarter the united states starting to pull away. deandre jordan with the monster flush here. jordan 9 points, 16 rebounds. the u.s., they get the win by a final score of 82-76. they are now 12-0 against spain in the olympics. let's bri

field. four things to watch for tonight. first up, the redskins running game which was pretty much nonexistent last week in atlanta, let's see if matt jones and keith marshall can get it going tonight against the jets. also, special teams, the skins, they were pretty solid on special teams last week, but they did have that one mistake, a huge kickoff return for a touchdown against the falcons and you heard coach gruden say it earlier and i'll say it again. clean up the elbe penalties. 14 penalties in atlanta in the preseason opener. too many for this football team and finally a few players to watch out for, the veteran defensive lineman could be left off this roster if he didn't pick up his play in the next preseason games and jamison crowder returns after missing last week with a hamstring and tritt williams, left tackle, he will not play and won't dress. we will not see the captain tonig

that will do it for me here. back for you guys in the studio. >> give us the highlights on the late news at 11:00 tonight. >> yeah. >> we promise, after the game. we'll see you tn. >> goohed

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