we head out to fairfax county where flood warning continues there, including bailey's crossroads, parts of alexandria along 95 until 6:15 in the evening. this warning will expire in about 15 minutes. everybody remains under a flash flood watch until tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 p.m. that's because, guys, this event is not over yet. we're looking at widespread steady, for the most part, light to moderate rain across the area right now. as we head into the later evening and overnight hours, the rain will start to pick up in intensity once again. take a look at the current radar right now, seeing heavy rain up around the baltimore area. the heaviest rain falling right now in western parts of montgomery county, out around the poolsville area, out around barnsville, as well. german town, will start to see some of that heavier rain as well. we'll see it intensify, with the most rain falling over night tonight. staying ahead of the weather, make sur

if you can, avoid travel over night. road closures are going to be scrolling at the bottom of your screen when we're not in weather. we have a lot of them across the area. remember to turn around and don't drown. those are ways you can stay ahead of the weather and looking at the road conditions tonight on into tomorrow morning, we're talking about some flooded roads out there, but we do improve as we head on throughout the day on saturday. by saturday evening, just wet roads out there. more on what you can expect hour by hour coming up in a little bit. >> amelia, thank you, because of all this rain we're getting some creeks are over flowing their banks and roads are flooding all across the region. yeah, ducks can handle this kind of weather, but with so many roads cut off, it's making tf drive home challenging for a whole lot of us. our team coverage continues with darcy spencer, she's along creek parkway. has it let up any over there,

darcy? >> doreen, just a little bit. the 5:00 hour, it was coming down really hard. i could barely handle it, even with this big umbrella. it's not coming down as hard. but it's still very steady. i have to tell you within the last few minutes, a police officer came over to us and said we're going to have to leave this area along the parkway because this road is going to be shutdown. take a look behind me, this is the creek, normally, it is very calm and very tranquil. you can see that it's flowing very rapidly. and with this rain that's continuing, i know they're concerned that the flooding is going to get worse. >> the creek, typically calm and tranquil, rose up and over its banks. >> it was just pouring. it was scarey. >> jeanie brought cocoa, mojo and -- out to see the river. these were prepared with their own raincoats. >> that creek is never that deep and it never runs, it just sits and now it's

>> drivers making a big splash on the road in kensington. flash flood warnings in the region. drivers had to slow down for standing water on dellwood drive we found men pushing a car that had gotten stuck in high water. >> tell us what happened? >> the car got flooded. >> it forced officials to close some roads. beach drive are just a couple. gene johnson had to take a detour. >> the normal route i take is blocked off. >> this creek, a northwest branch tribute looked more like a ranging river and that created some dicey moments for campers at the nature center. e

were. >> that was definitely good news. if you are headed out tonight. if you're having plans, you want to keep in mind that the rain is coming down right here in silver spring. if you're headed out, you'll need the umbrella is coming down at a pretty good clip. this, obviously, every time we're having weather like this, you want to play it safe, drive slowly and be aware there are a lot of road closures in the area, including right here. leon, back to you. >> okay. thank you, darcy. let's go from the road to the rail. had a hard time keeping them right out of the tunnel. this is the capitol south station in southeast washington. look at that, you see the water. water there leaking pouring to the ceiling. maintenance crews trying to figure out what caused that leak now. it lasted only for a few minutes and it did not effect the train service there. >> many of you have been posting dramatic photos of today's rain

of you have taken and shared with news 4. with more nasty weather on the way, we hope you'll keep sending them in as we monitor the conditions around our region. >> we'll stay on top of the all the weather changes. storm team 4 will send an alert to your phone when there's dangerous weather in your area. besure and load the nbc washington app. turn on the weather alerts and stay ahead of any changes headed your way. >> chris lawrence here at the live desk where we're getting new details of what was going on behind the scenes before president trump announced his new chief of staff. nbc news now confirms reince priebus actually resigned privately yesterday. that came after that profanity laced new yorker interview from white house communications director anthony. he called priebus a paranoid schizophrenic and blamed him for the on going leaks. now, the president announced priebus's replacement just minutes before walking down the

right about an hour ago the top of news 4 at 5:00. while still inside. he tweeted that homeland security secretary john kelly will be his new chief of staff. >> general kelly has been a star. he's don he's done an incredible job so far. he's a great american. reince priebus, a good man. thank you very much. >> in his tweets, the president thanked priebus for his service. here is nbc kelly o'donnel with more on how we got to this point. >> this is a long-time coming and on a rainy friday in washington with the president giving a wave under the umbrella. he's making a major change in his administration. >> reporter: on that aircraft today, air force one, were two people who were kind of polar rivals in this trump, reince priebus who came from the rnc who has been with the president as a partner for the year, since the pde

nomination in july of last year working with him in the white house, much of his portfolio was delivering on big things, like health care, last night after multiple attempts, multisetbacks. it appears that is as dead as it can possibly be at this point. people in the white house say there might be another way to revive health care. the fate of reince priebus seems to be on a policy or maybe a deeper level or personal level tied to fate. what he's also doing is saying that john kelly in his role from general to secretary has been a stand out in the administration on a lot of issues important to the trump base, to the trump campaign promises and so he is taking someone who he believes and has seen as been successful in this atmosphere and bringing him right into the white house. >> look, chiefs of staff come and go. remember, this is a high stressed position. presidents usually go through more than a few of them. but to put this in the little bit of

administrations, the president's first chief of staff lasted at least a year and a half. nbc chief political director chuck todd is going to join leon and doreen set there to give us some more insight on this. doreen. >> chris, thank you. >> as more breaking news to share now, prince georges county states attorney angela alsobrooks has just announced she will run for county executive. she made that announce m on her personal facebook page. she was first hired as domestic violence prosecutor back in 1997 and caused she has championed over the years. she plans to formerly announce her bid for prince georges county executive on monday in camp springs. the current county executive, baker can't run because of term limits, but he's running for governor. >> hey, how about some more political news. the 2020 presidential election nearly 12 hyundais away. and get this, maryland congressman john delaney says that he plans to hit the ground running.

not run for re-election. he plans to run for the white house. delaney is a democrat who represents maryland's sixth district. he was elected to congress in 2012. now, he's largely unknown outside of maryland, but raising campaign funds may not really be an issue for him. turns out he's one of the wealthiest members of the house and has self funded his congressional campaigns. local police officer whose case made national news won't go to jail. so far, he still has a job. in june of last year, the officer followed a suspect into a field and then slammed into him with his police cruiser. it looks very bad, but the man wasn't seriously hurt. as tracy wilkins explains tonight, that's one reason police union believes he got the right punishment. >> dash cam video shows there's one -- juan hernandez decision to

striking the suspect, could mean the end of his policing career. >> if you watch the video in this case, you'll see that he turned his car into the individual causing him to fly up over his hood and it was actually just a lucky thing that that viindividual was not injur. >> the suspect has not cooperated with the investigation. >> officer hernandez was following, chasing a suspect who was set to be armed. >> according to the defense attorney in this case, until this incident, hernandez had a spotless and exemplary record with the police department. he's been with the department since 2006. >> one incident should not define the great work this man has done throughout his career. >> in the end, the judge decided he didn't deserve any jail time, although prosecutors asked for it. >> we felt that he deserved some sort of jail time, given the fact that a jury of his peers found him guilty of second degrss

affairs investigation into officer hernandez. at that point the police department will decide whether he can continue with the department. he's been on suspension since his indictment. i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. now, to the grave concerns for parents school sex abuse investigation in charles county. tonight officials at the middle school will host the first of two parent information nights. carlos was arrested on june 30th and charged with several criminal acts. he was a track coach, as well. he was accused of assaulting young boys and making child pornography. tonight's meeting starts at 7 and there's a second session set on august 16th. both meetings are at the school. up next, a war of words brewing inside the white house. chuck todd joins us next as we take a deeper dive into the political headlines that still seem to be breaking at this hour.

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this is what we're dealing with over night tonight. pockets of extremely heavy rain, doreen. more on the impact coming up with lauren and myself in a little bit. >> all right, amelia, thank you. back now with a deeper look at the -- wild week in politics. >> once again how many weeks in a row have we said that now, let's start with dramatic defeat for latest republic efforts. that loss delivered by none other than republican maverick john

washington this week, not on a horse but on a plane. he delivered a speech that may be one for the ages. >> yeah that was set against the backdrop of white house at war with itself, with verbal battles and words that we will not share on tv. who better to try to break it all down for us and chuck todd nbc news political director, meet the press, just within the hour and another bomb shell, the president's chief of staff is out, reince priebus is gone. what's your take on all of this. >> reince priebus, the rumor of his departure, i think, it started on the day he took the job. it was never -- it always seemed to be a tenuous relationship. of all of the people, if you were to ask me who is the best person he could pick, i think the answer would have been john kelly at homeland security secretary. he is somebody that i think successfully walked the line of implementing the president's

pushed back in the press. he does it quietly and has had success doing that. at the same time if the president says i want to get my wall, he's fought for those things. he's figured so far how to navigate that. but he's navigated that from outside the west wing. this is a whole new ball game. there's a lot of things he does not bring to the table as chief of staff, very little political experience, at least on paper, although pete williams, our colleague, here pointed out that actually when john kelly was in the marine corps, he was actually the congressional liaison for the marines at that point on that. not a lot on domestic policy in general. it's not like he's familiar on tax policy. but if he could bring order and discipline to this unruly white house, even just a little bit more, then it's a win for this town. >> you know, we've been watching inside the white house for the past week or so. >> and i

i'm curious about, where does steve bannon go. i think it's clear to me that the family -- and i know this in my own reporting, when i say the family, jared kushner, donald trump, jr., they have been trying to push bannon out for a while. donald trump, jr. tweeting his support, anthony who is still communications director has yet to apologize either to reince priebus publicly or steven bannon, that tells you something there. bannon's days are numbered at this point. the question is how does he exit. they now have the room to do it. john kelly, they could use that as the excuse they're going to name his own staff. we'll see if he gets that opportunity. but it looks to me that if bannon is probably next. >> continuing chaos. >> continuing chaos. >> shuffling in the white house, they had not this tweet come out an hour or so ago. what happened last night, senator johcc

major role with that defeat late in the hours to repeal obama care. now, we want to talk about the role he plays in our political life. first let's take a look at meet the press clip. this is from february right after the president called the press the enemy of the american people. >> do you believe any group of americans are the enemy of another. >> i hate the press. i hate you, especially, but the fact is, i -- we need you. we need a free press. we must have it. it's a vital. if you want to preserve -- i'm very serious, now. if you want to preserve democracy as we know it. you have to have a free adversary yal press. without it, i'm afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. that's how dictators get started. >> you know, it's interesting when we've been calling him a maverick. i think that's the wrong word to use to describe john m

whole political career. he's an institutionalist to the int degree. you saw him there talking about free press. he cast a vote in favor of restoring what he believes the proper of restoring. it's less about a win for the democrats and a loss for trump and everybody wants to read between, it's not a real conservative this. he's been consistent. mavericks are inconsistent. in this case he's been very consistent. he puts the senate above party. and that's what he did last night. >> he likes -- some of -- to see some of his colleagues join me. >> he's going to like general kelly. >> enough about all of this political drama for a moment, you know, we've been sharing our memories of jim vance all week. our friends reminded us that you presented vance with their life achievement award a couple of years ago. i knew it meant a lot to him that you were the presenter. >> i look at it the other way.

this, i was like, really. i get to do this for jim. i was -- it was really cool to do this. i felt like i wasn't worthy to be, honest. i mean, jim vance is a legend. we all know this. here i am the new guy, you know, it's funny. i've been here ten years now working in this building. jim vance every time he walked in, people -- i mean, a -- we're not always -- there was this awe, it was excitement it's vance, check it out. you know, the last time vance came -- jim came up to meet the press, came to the third floor. it was like vance is on the third floor. it was like excitement to get a glimpse. >> he was going to the personnel office, right. >> it was always this moment and he and i also got to tell, we were next door neighbor's in the parking lot, as well,

nobody out shows your car. that corvette that he had, man, was i jealous. any way, i have to say, it's funny, he's been here with so many legends, whether it's brinkly, he was here with tim. i just find it, jim vance is -- he epitomizes this building. >> it was a treat of the lifetime to get to know him. >> all right. thanks. >> good to see you. senator susan collins, one of you guest. >> yep. >> she'll be joining chuck sunday on meet the press. you can watch that with us on 10:30, right here on nbc 4. canvassing the scene for new clues and answers one day after woman was randomly attacked. >> local teacher stranded in alaska desperate to get home. we brought you her story and the kindness of strangers earlier this week. now, we're hearing from her directly. and you'll hear her only on news 4. >> we're paying tribute

friend jim vance this evening. we'll share footage of him along with a whole lot of memories. it airs tonight on nbc

we're in weather alert mode, heavy rain and flooding in some areas and it's far from over. >> that's right, storm team 4 by 4 is in fairfax co

there in the roads. police and fire trucks telling people to move their cars to higher ground now. as we're working to make sure you are prepared. >> amelia in storm center 4 tracking all the conditions out there right now and a look at what's still ahead. hello. >> hey, guys, widespread showers across the area right now. more heavy rain moving in over night tonight. we get new information and every hour with events like this. they continue to suggest, heavy rain when most of us are sleeping. >> you'll wake up and flooded roadways over night. i'll be with you guys tomorrow morning we'll continue to track it throughout the over night and we're tracking some things out there right now. >> a lot of flood warnings in effect. these are flood warnings, this until 8:15, parts of prince georges and fairfax county as well as the district. also under flood warning. everybody, guys, under familiar flood watch that goes through tomorrow afternoon at 2:00. i want to show you the latest check on storm tea

across the area, some brighter colors up around baltimore with some thunderstorm activity there, as well. for the most part we're looking at steady rain right now. all indications we'll see heavy rain move in later tonight. this is 9:00. snow showers across the area. we move toward 11:00 p.m. we start to see heavy rain moving into the area. this is torrential rain and a good portion of the area. we can see rain fall rates of 2 inches per hour, especially as we head toward 2:00 a.m. and as lawrence comes in, we'll start to see showers and they wind down throughout the day tomorrow. more on your ten-day in just a moment. with your details hourly forecast for the rest of the weekend, we'll send it over to lauren, half of the weekend still looking really nice. >> i think we were able to save half of that weekend. it's going -- nice weather and i know you've gotten nice weather on that ten-day forecast. tonight stay inside, order in. watch some netflix, because, boy, is it raining

out there. widespread heavy rain, that will continue over night as amelia shows you. we'll start to taper off through the day tomorrow. we're looking at heavy rain ending area, maybe before 7:00 a.m. and maybe a few scattered light showers as we continue through the day. temperatures by sunday back in the mid-80s. if you're headed to the beaches, maryland delaware beaches, we're going to have some rain tomorrow, sunday not looking too bad and not looking too bad next week, amelia, thank goodness. >> monday, tuesday, wednesday, the humidity levels aren't all that bad. we've been telling folks this all afternoon on into the evening hours if you can avoid travel this evening and over night tonight, wait until tomorrow morning, check nbc washington app. check lawrence' latest forecast and you can hit the road. here is a look at your ten-day forecast. weather alert at least for the morning hours with that flash flood watch still eflkt and more flood warnings will come out later tonight. you'll want to keep it here as we update on tv, on facebook,

twitter and on our nbc washington web site. showers at times tomorrow, especially early, otherwise breezy, sunday really nice. as lauren said there's the stretch of fabulous weather next week. this week not the best week for the pool. but next week, wow, it's looking great. >> thank you amelia. a family holding out hope for justice more than ten years after the murder. and they're helping others in the process, too. why this type of cold case can be so tough to solve. >> ahead, a message from nancy, the retired teacher who was stranded in alaska with a medical emergency. a message to the people of alaska who donated money in order for her to return

her family raised $5,000, reward money to help find whoever killed her little brother. that money has been paid out, but not in the way you might think. >> i don't walk past this area without thinking of what happened that night. i'm also reminded of incredible kindness and help fullness of our friend and neighbors. >> it's been 11 long years

>> bureau reporter david culver explains. >> a check presentation without much smiling when they raised this money 11 years ago, they hoped they would be handing the check off in exchange for some sense of closure. they want desperately for it to leave them to her little brother's killer. >> i always think about the senselessness of what happened. the frustration of not knowing why. >> reporter: why did someone target paul in the early morning hours of june 30th, 2006. here is what we know, the 26-year-old iraq war veteran finished work. he took metro back to pentagon city, stopped into the harris teeter, store cameras record him leaving. after leaving, he had with him the cigarettes and mountain dew that he just bought. he was walking along the path on pentagon row, continuing up, just a few steps from where we are. up ahead at the world

that's where shots rang out. >> the bullets shattering the glass store front. paul killed. the motive, that's what's bother detectives to this day. it wasn't robbery, nothing was taken from him. >> whenever identified -- we never identified anything in his background or a target of a crime. >> even with pain, more than a decade deep. news families not giving up and finding paul's killer. >> but if it doesn't help you, and maybe it can help another family and solve something tragic that has happened to another family. >> which brings us back to that giant check, donated to articling crime sol vers. >> -- sovrers. >> and remember what happened to paul. >> if they have to keep waiting to find his killer, it doesn't mean another victim's family shouldn't find healing, in arlington. top story tonight, the stormy weather out there. our team coverage continues with shomari stone. >>s

conditions in clarksville. looks like a mess out there. what do you see? >> reporter: it is a total mess. that rain is coming down. it has definitely eased up a little bit. i'll tell you 10 minutes ago it was rather heavy. i'm here on frederick road, known as route 55. a lot of people are on their way home picking up the kids from day care after long day's work. can't make a right here. you can see the sign. road closed, why? around this loop over there, there is a low-lying area and that water moments ago jumped the banks and it was rushing across the roadway. what's interesting as amelia and lauren have been telling you all evening long, that this storm will come in and rain a little bit. it will die down and then it will pick up again. worth mentioning that if you come across standing water, turn around and don't drown. it may sound like a cliche. the thing is there are people who will drive in the standing water and ruin their cars and suvs.

i'm shomari stone news 4. >> thank you. police are back on a popular fairfax county trail today. they're trying to find clues to leave them to the man who randomly stabbed a woman yesterday and took off. the victim was walking on the path on the way to the vienna metro station when the guy came out of nowhere and suddenly stabbed her in the neck. people who use this path say this is disturbing. >> lived here for four years, walked the path for two or three times a day, never been threatened by anybody. it's a pretty active neighborhood. >> you have to be a little more careful, i think. but probably get a little bit of pepper stay in the future. >> investigators say they need help finding crews to crack this case. if you saw anything unusual or suspicious here yesterday morning, please give police a call. >> it is one of our top stories online, a maryland woman stranded in alaska with a terminal illness. tonight she's back home. thanks to the kindness of strangers and she's sharing

>> and a flash flood warning just as parts of baltimore. i'm showing you right now, parts in northern virginia, southern maryland where we're starting to see pockets of moderate rain, more of what you can expect over night tonight and

terminally ill woman is finally back in maryland after getting sick and stuck in alaska for nearly three months. >> nancy house has cancer and she suffered a health care putting her in hospital in anchorage for weeks. today she's back in maryland at rehab facility in the county. that's all thanks to strangers in alaska who heard her story and they went out and raised thousands dollars to pay for med vak flight to bring her back home. chris gordon spoke with nancy today in an interview you'll see only on news

. >> i spoke with nancy and -- and they have of a people in alaska who donated more than $60,000 to their go fund me page to pay for the special medical charter flight home. >> i want to thank them for everything. it's a miracle that i made it here. and i'm so happy. >> after all you've been through, you have any plans to ever travel again. >> well, my one son is getting married in vermont. so i would like to go up there. >> are you at all nervous about traveling? >> no. >> even after all you've been through. >> well, sometimes that's an experience. i guess

is not buying travel insurance, which would have got us home a whole lot sooner, but then again i would have never met the people. >> as retired teacher, i asked her if there is a lesson in all she's been through. she said, yes. always believe and never give up. chris gordon, news 4. >> you can always find good people if you look hard enough. you can find bad weather, too, if you look hard enough. our weather coverage continues, rising of flood waters all across the region as strong storms move in. it's not over yet. >> ahead tonight remembering jim vance our special tribute airs at 7:30. as we look back on his incredible career and some of his best stories after 48 years here at news 4.

welcome back, we continue to be in storm team 4 weather alert. we say it over and over again and this is why, turn around, don't drown. look at this car stuck on beach drive by east west highway. why would you think you could drive through that with your vehicle? i have no idea. as we continue, though, on into the later evening and overnight hours, we'll continue to track areas of heavy rain moving into the region. we'll pick up an additional 1 to 3 inches of rain fall. most of it falling when we're sleeping tonight. you see it here again, turn around don't drown, more flood warnings will come out tonight. more showers. by sunday, the weather looking quite nice. here is the latest check starting to see moderate rain develop in parts of northern virginia. up around the baltimore metro area. i want to show you down here in

starting to see some thunderstorm activity. this is just north of the area. as we work our way toward 10, 11 and midnight we start to see heavy rain moving back in that will lead to additional flooding. 8:00 a.m. we're tracking showers right now at 73 degrees. by midnight we're still at 73. throughout the day tomorrow, we actually stay in the 70s with heavy rain very early coming to an end at about 7:00 a.m. after that scattered showers around the midday hours and the chance of showers for your afternoon and evening hours. . and then as we look to your outlook for the weekend, barbecue tomorrow evening. we want to have a plan b heading to the beach, rain, breezy conditions, especially on saturday. but a good weekend on sunday to get the car wash because look at the next ten days, sunday, beautiful and dry after that, a big stretch of dry weather. we continue to track rain right now, heavy rain on storm team 4

>> pretty soggy day down at redskins training camp. >> down in richmond, to catch all the action, hey, carol. >> hey, guys, i'm having fun inside the tent. so many questions need to be answered this training camp, four takeaways so far coming at you. >> number one, determination, you could hear it on the field. >> there we go. straight on the post. >> and in the player's voices. the brutal end of last season has not been forgotten. >> you know, a lot of us last year, we had a really good team to not make the playoffs was a disappointment. i think this year guys are focused and locked in. >> it left a sour taste in our mouth. we love to live up to them. for us, what we've got at stake this year, we've got a tough schedule in our early by week. for us, we've

together out here every day and put it together. >> number two, the highlight of camp so far is watching a second year wide receiver getting a chance to redo his injury play rookie season. >> it feels good, man, you know, first experience the reason to welcome for me i was injured, you know, just a new slate, man, just looking to do a lot more than i did last year. >> number three, defense, jobs are open. guys are hungry, young and old. >> looking forward to seeing these guys compete. hopefully i can get out there sooner rather than later and compete with them. >> you were talking about that. i can tell, you're smiling. >> yeah, yeah, absolutely. if you don't want to compete and you don't like competition, you're probably in the wrong business. for me i love seeing these young guys compete and, you ow

we'll all be fighting. everybody wants to go out there and make plays. >> number 4, no disstrtractions. both sides of the ball are ready to get to work. >> it's not a distraction at all, i mean, we've got so much to worry about on our own on the other side of the ball. we've got enough to worry about on our own. >> 20 practices to go, promised by the end of the camp. we'll add to that list, know who the best trash talker is. we'll have a preview coming up tonight at 11 clak. back -- 11:00. >> thanks again to all of you for sharing your love and memories of jim vance this week. >> coming up, we're putting together special tribute to vance and we'll air at 7:30 right after nightly news. it will air online. first we share a story that vance reported back

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a lot of tears and laughter this weekend. as we remember our friend and colleague jim vance. we'll share a tribute to vance and special broadcast at 7:30 tonight right after nbc nightly news and online at nbc washington.com. we'll show you some of his best work and it's quite a lot

you invited vance into your home every day for almost 50 years. he considered his place in your life a privilege, one he did not take for granted. he loved this city and we'll look back at another of vance's great loves, his harley ♪ >> it's early, and it's chilly. but it's the end of a long week and it's time to ride. ♪ ♪ now, a reasonable person might ask, who are these people? why do they do this? >> it's people from all walks of life. >> the majority of them are people that have enough disposable income that they can afford to have kind of a toy. >> they work at a shop that sells several different

bikes. toys, if you will, big expensive toys for boys and girls. >> exclusive motorcycle club for women. >> on wednesday night, you'll find her down on king street in old town alexandria with dozens other bikers, male and female. >> one of the segments of the business that's really grown recently is women getting into motorcycling. >> kathy miner is one of them. monday through friday kathy is on the job. special assistant of chief of metropolitan police. but on weekend, she's on her harley and she's no rookie. >> i have been riding since 1973 and the first year i rode around on the back of my girlfriend and after about a year, she gets tired of dragging me around and say you get a bike or walk. >> so she got a bike. >> it's very dangerous and i'm always concerned and i probably say more hail mary's. >> that's

in his other light. he's a photo journalist here on channel 4. the job is stressful. the bike is therapy. >> motorcycle riding is dangerous. there's no good way to describe it. >> he's also an experienced rider who knows -- who knows how bikers can minimize danger. >> what the people that don't have cbs in the middle. >> we ride in groups and packs. it

a larger body. >> chop, take it to the right lane. >> the person in front has either a radio we use cbs, sometimes, and we tell each other what we're going to do or we have hand signals. >> the fact is, biking can be safe, as well as fun. as the old folks use to say, you act your age. that's significant because more and more bikers are older and older. like many of these at the ameri cade motorcycle rally in lake george new york. here are some stats. there were 6.5 million bikers in the u.s. last year, more than 26 pk of them were pushing 50 and fully half of them had college or post-graduate education and a third earned more than 50 grand a year. no matter what their age, bikers, for the most part, are nice people. >> real narrow road. you don

big giant wagon. >> who love to have a good time and who defie stereo typing. this guy, for example. michael mccampbell makes his living as a judge. administrative judge. what's a judge doing on a motorcycle. >> it's fun. you come home, you have a tough day. you get on your bike and you're out in the country. >> how does your wife react to the fact that her husband is out here on this great big machine? >> well, i'm pleased to let everyone that she stopped kicking it as she passes it in the garage. >> i lo it. it's fun. her husband wants to ride. she climbs up behind him. old timers might remember pete wearing number 50 as a linebacker with the redskins. that was 20 years ago. today pete sells real estate when he's not riding. >> evenho

actually do. it's the single most dollar spent for fun return. it's the highest ratio of anything i've ever done. >> what do they say to people who think they're crazy. >> i know she's not crazy. >> people are crazy for spending their saturday for mowing their lawn, letting life pass them by. >> see, that's it. people who don't ride, don't get it. and those who do ride, couldn't imagine not doing it. they just got to go somewhere. >> think about biking, it doesn't matter where you go, it's not the education that counts, it's the -- the destination that counts, it's the journey. >> and at the end of the day when everybody has gone their way, you head on home, alone with all that power under you and all the glory of god's earth alar

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