major change that's left no people with a place to park. tonight only on 4:00, a nightmare trip to aruba to dc public schoolteacher and her girlfriend. >> i'm leon harris. this all started with a security scare aboard their flight on the way to caribbean island, both women say they did nothing wrong but they were thrown into jail any way. they just returned to town here and they spoke only on news 4 kristin wright. >> a beautiful vacation destination. dc's special ed teacher, jennifer jones has been four times but says after a nightmare trick with her girlfriend dixon, she'll never go back. >> they flew southwest, somebody wrote the word bomb on a sickness bad in a bathroom on the flight. jones shot video of passengers

surrounded by tsa and aruba police. >> apparently someone pointed me out saying i was the last one to use the rest room. >> the bathroom where the bag was found, i didn't even use that bathroom, i only used the one in the back and it was found in the front. >> a picture of dixon here as they both got hauled off for questioning and then thrown into two separate jails in aruba over night. >> it was just dismal. i literally slept on a concrete slab. >> all the legal documents are in dutch. the couple says there was a major language barrier while they were detained and jailed for 26 hours before they were finally cleared for wrongdoing and released. >> i was pe tri fied. like this is the most horrific thing that has ever happened to me in my life. >> i have been on the phone working to get clarity as to whether jones and dixon received proper treatment by dutch authorities. they were given a lawyer in aruba but say theye

embassy for help. i also talked with southwest airlines today. they confirmed the security scare but say once the plane touches down, they had the entire situation over to the local authorities. in the newsroom, kristin wright, news 4. tracking right now the possibility of strong storms later this evening. now, again, most of the area is fine. take a look right now at the radar. what we're looking at now is way north and west of dc, back to the west, let's get right to it. washington county under severe thunderstorm warning, allegheny as well, in towards sful ton county pennsylvania. this is a strong storm, another one down towards county. there's a tornado warning with this storm, you see the severe thunderstorm warning has been a lot to exspire there. the tornado warning continues until 6:15 around parts of fulton county. we'll watch all of this, this line that's developed is going to make its way our way, i

for the next couple of hours, i'll taking you hour by hour in just a couple of minutes with the latest on what you can expect over night tonight. >> after more than two decades, a former teacher will spend the next four decades behind bars. preyed on their children. news 4 chris gordon explained why other believe teacher is innocent. >> prosecutors say former teacher preyed upon four young girls over a period of 15 years. they were his students at the el men men industry school in silver spring. the families of his victim say he murdered their soul and caused some of them to suffer so much that they've contemplated suicide. >> the maryland sentencing guidelines ran above 50 years. judge david circuit court judge made a comment in court today. he thoughte

and so do we. >> he has dozens of supporters who showed up at court wrote letters on his behalf and spoke in his defense. he was portrayed as a teacher who loved his students. they say he should not have been convicted of child sex abuse, let alone be sentenced to serve 48 years. >> we will continue to fight until he's vindicated and justice is served. i'm solely disappointed in the judicial system on this day. this wrong must be rewrited. we will remain strong. >> told the judge in court today, that he didn't realize that times had changed and his for his students no longer seen as loving. among his victims say, he caused t

he called them a monster who should be kept in a cage. >> thank you, chris. right now, metro police looking for a man who sexually assaulting a woman and taking up skirt photos of several other women. woman reported to police that she felt a hand up her skirt while she was on the escalator leaving columbia heights station. investigators say surveillance video revealed the suspect actually placed a cell phone up the victim's skirt and they learned there may be additional victims who are likely unaware that they were up skirted by the suspect. president trump has arrived at his new jersey golf course. president has no scheduled events during the 17-day stay. it's planned in part because of renovations being done at the west wing. so far he's spent about a third of his time in office at his own resort properties. >> while the president leaves town, russia investigation continues to move forward.

special council robert mueller is using multiple grand jurys in both the district and in virginia, so we wanted to help you understand exactly what a grand jury is and why it's significant. maybe you've heard people use the term impanelled, well that simply means to enlist or enroll people. grand jurys are made up of regular citizens, just like trial juries are and they can look into multiple cases at once. unlike trial juries. grand jurys don't decide innocence or guilt. instead they're used before a case goes to trail to determine whether to press charges or not. witnesses give testimony and a grand jury is also powerful tool for prosecutors to seek indictments and subpoenas. and unlike a trial jury, grand jurys meet in secret with the prosecutor. the defendants are not allowed to attend the proceedings. why is that important? why is that development significant? well because grand jurys are usually o

the president's lawyer say they still have no reason to believe that the president himself is under investigation. leon. >> well doreen, as you know, this comes as the trump administration is -- said the justice department will pursue and prosecute anyone who gives up classified information. blayne alexander live, this has something that's long frustrated and embarrassed the president. >> absolutely. that's why the justice department said they're cracking down has has already tripled the number. that's according to the justice department. in fact the fbi has created a different special unit just to handle those cases. >> strong words from an embattled attorney general. >> i have this warning for would be leakers, don't do it. >> from jeff sessions a message to those working for the president but also a message to

that sessions job may be hanging in the balance. the attorney general coming down hard on issue that's long frustrated his boss. >> we were not allowed rogue anonymous sources with security clearances to sell out our country. >> classified transcripts of president trump's contentious calls with leaders of australia and mexico. much of the anger stems from leaks that are more about gossip and national security. >> that's politically embarrassing and sensitive for the white house. it's not, at all, illegal. >> the white house works to plug the leaks. the "wall street journal" reporting that special counsel robert mueller is working with a washington grand jury as part of the russia investigation. >> thank you. >> president trump mocking that investigation at a thursday night rally in west virginia. >> are there any russians here tonight. >> the white house convinced americans do not care about ia

as what americans are telling us and what they're being told by the media is important to them. >> the white house's focus, the latest job numbers, unemployment matching a 16 year-low. and about that leak investigation, one source tells nbc news that there are currently dozens of open leak cases. nbc news, washington. we've got -- chlorine leak fairfax swimming pool. the fire chief says -- shutdown a pump to the pool on roberts road. when the power was restored. sent a big amount of chlorine. the fumes were so strong, five children ended up in the hospital. the pool will remain closed tonight as health inspectors continue their investigation. some northern virginia residents are upset over new parking restrictions. >> yeah, they live on a street where the houses have driveways, so losing a few street spots may seem like a minor issue. but residents say

the story. >> one of the biggest complaints come from the elderly couples that live on the street like joe rogue, he's 93 years old and says when winter hits it's hard getting up the driveway. instead he likes to park his car here, it's easier to access. less than 24 hours ago, the county said that's not happening any more. for the last several months, neighbors along 24th street north have been going back and forth with the county over street parking. >> what started with a complaint that i guess a woman could not get out of her street because there were too many cars parked on the street. >> after looking into the complaint, they discovered that the street was a safety hazard. they issued a statement which says "we understand their distress about losing some on-street parking spaces, but if

is clear that emergency vehicles simply could not maneuver there." >> well, that's bo logny. >> the real issue, he says, comes during the winter. >> it's convenient and right in front of the house and especially in bad weather. >> his driveway ices over and at 93 years old walking up and down is quite the task, which is why he use to park here. but his nearly 60 years of convenience is over. >> it wound up yesterday they put the signs up and we're stuck with it, i guess. >> reporting in arlington, megan fitzgerald, news 4. >> changes at a local hospital after a sheriff's deputy came into contact with the dangerous opioid on the job. >> stopping and starting in every single traffic light. the way of lights for drivers in the district. you could start, th,

the wheel as early as this weekend. >> hundreds of weekend are turned away because of confusion about passport and passport car

robert mueller is reportedly using a grand jury as part of his probe now. >> president trump and hid lawyers are all saying they're not worried at all about mueller and this investigation talk now about grand jury and all. should they be, what are you hearing. >> obviously, i think they should be, i think we also ought to understand, put this grand jury news a little bit of context. it would be a news story -- they're tools. grand jurys are how do you compel witnesses to testify even to get initial interview. grand jury subpoenas are how you compel financial records to be brought forwards and things like that. so it would have been -- it would be news, if it wasn't using a grand jury. let me give you a stat that i saw that was unbelievable about grand jurys and cases that are brought before them and the amount of times they bring indictments. there was a study that was 19

grand jury, 160,000 ended in prosecutions, 30 of them didn't. of those 30,000 that didn't, only 11 grand jurys didn't return an indictment. the point is 99.99 point% of the time when you have to impanel grand jury, you'll get indictments. will be they directly connected, is it going to be something else. remember, started investigating one thing and ended somewhere else. >> the other thing about that, though. that's why you should be concerned. >> we also don't know anything about who may have been called to testify. >> that's right. with that in mind, the grand jury, as i've understood it. they have to be convened where they believe the crime was committed. so for the grand jury now from what we're hearing now has been there -- looking in virginia and in the district, this collusion thing all began in new york or on the campaign. it didn't begin here. so that means that they've got to be thinking, well, at least it looks like they're thinking something definitely happened here in the white house. >> we don't know if

grand jury impanelled in new york. >> this is -- look, we should say, we at nbc news, we have not confirmed he has confirmed his own. we've used grand jurys plural when necessary. and he has that power, as a special prosecutor at any u.s. attorney has. >> on nbc show. he said one -- one of the reasons sometimes you just have so many subpoenas, so many witness interviews that you need more time with a grand jury and you can't have a grand jury on one day listening to a murder case and on the next day listening to this white collar crime that you kind of need more time because this is a complicated case. so that's another

>> general john kelly, one week on the job, too soon, too soon to get a sense of what he's going to accomplish. >> well, look, i think there was a lot of us that were watching him and john kelly in this respect. if you know he's instilled new discipline and somehow the president doesn't talk about bob mueller at his rally in west virginia, i think. that didn't happen. but think about this, now the donald trump we've all gotten to know is the candidate wouldn't have let a broad side like that go unresponded to. that to me shows at least in week one, he has the president's ear and intention on things like that. because by not attacking jeff, a bunch of republican senators actually spent more time distancing themselves from jeff than they did the president. so perhaps he's seeing that maybe message discipline can be a good thing, that

walking around. when you have former staffers, you've got leaks. and, you know, there's been this whole today, you know, this but the water cooler leaks, they're gossip. look at our business, when is there gossip and when there's not. when things are going well, there are no leaks. it starts at the top. they need to look in the mirror. >> the president is high tailing it out of town and taking vacation for 17 days now. there's this observation about how tough august as among generally is for president, what's going on with that. >> you know, some of it i think is happenstance, but there is, i think, presidents get caught off guard in august they let their guard down, the staff is half time, they're on -- everybody is trying to get rest the one person that's on the

public expects to be on the job is the president. it's confluence of events. i think it has to do with the fact that everybody is not in washington, everybody is spread out. your guards are down. i think that's why historically so many presidential mistakes have taken place in the month of august. >> we know you're still on the job this weekend. >> you know, you're darn right. >> all weekend. >> i promise you that. >> all right, yes i'll meet president and california governor jerry brown, meet the press airs sunday morning here on nbc 4. thank you, chuck. your next drive through the district could be a little faster starting at 8:00 tonight. new traffic signal timing will be rolled out at more than 380 intersections throughout northeast and southeast dc. part of a five-year plan that started in 2012 to improve traffic flow in the city and optimize pedestrian crossing times. >> well, if you want to dr

listen to this, we've got news for you. yelp is opening up an office in dc. they plan to hire 500 employees over five years. half of the new hires will be district residents. the company says it picked dc for its talent pool and its proximity to other east coast cities. yelp is headquartered in san francisco. it has u.s. offices in scottsdale arizona. next on news 4. they made history when they played the navy band in the world war ii. decades later they tell us just how much it means to them to be seeing the navy museum for the very first time. >> the mistake one couple made when renewing their passport since teaching a lot of people costly lesson about international travel. >> i said we can't fly. we can't go --

news flash for you. >> what's that. >> it's 6:24 and it's dry. >> delicate week, do we hope it will continue. >> i think it will continue for the next couple of hours. that's exactly right, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, they were coming down during the evening rush and right now looking really good, as a matter of fact, clear skies around most of the area right now, now, we are tracking some storms back to the

the way most of us are seeing things, this is a pretty good shot of downtown. if you're making your way out this evening, 87 degrees this evening. 86 by 7:00. dinner, i still think is fine. if you're eating outdoors or maybe walking around town. no problem here, look at around 10 or 11, that's when we have chance for thunder. well, you'll see that a little bit faster. still 90 over towards culpepper. nothing in our area, just back to the west down towards west virginia we're looking at showers there, west virginia, that one is moving up towards the new hampshire county areas, this is actually pennsylvania now under severe thunderstorm warning until 7:15, that includes the city of chambersburg. heads up a strong storm moving in that way, it's part of a system here and it's going to be moving through tonight. it's a cold front. you can see the storm over the great lakes spinning here and yo

cold front making its way in our way. it's not going to got here for a while. we've got some time before it does move in. by 7:00 tonight. there's the storm back to the west. watch what happens around 8:00, the computer leaves this one, keeps everybody almost clear to the east of the blue ridge, showers back towards the west. whach what happens as they move in by midnight tonight. and this model, actually keeps dc completely dry. now can't rule out showers and thunderstorms tonight around dc, around that 10, 11, 12:00 hour over night. it is something we'll continue to watch. tomorrow this clears out quickly, you see sunshine tomorrow and, really, a beautiful weekend. look at your forecast for the saturday. 84 degrees, gorgeous, low humidity, sunshine looks great. a little bit on the breezy side. let me get out of the way for you. let's talk about the whole weekend. you've got weekend plans, nice and comfortable but just beautiful. 84 saturday. 85 on sunday. fantastic weekend, whether it's getting out hiking and doing

little biking, looking good there, put away the bikes on monday. the rape comiin coming in. we're only in the low to mid-80s next week, little bit below averag average. >> looks great, thank you, doug. excitement and anxiety tolling ahead. it's got small towns worried about big towns. >> new vertical in place forced to close down part of its emergency room after police officer came in to be treated for an accidental feintal overdose. 75 years later, joined of the tour of the navy museum. >> thus,

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. it's happened again in our area, a deputy hit by an accidental overdose after handling potentially deadly heroin or fentanyl. this latest incident came wednesday morning in stafford county. >> in fact, this case was so intense, nurse at the hospital who was treating the deputy also be

northern virginia chief julie carey takes a look at this increasing threat to first responders. >> my face started burning. i broke out in a sweat. >> that is what it felt like a few months ago when two maryland deputies suffered accidental overdoses after packaging drug evidence, probably fentanyl. now a stafford county deputy knows the feeling, he had responded to the scene where a couple was found in a van, needle sticking out of the woman's arm. the deputy collected drugs found in the van believed to be the potentially deadly fentanyl. >> this has definitely been the most serious exposure that we've had. >> the female suspect had to be taken to the hospital, so the deputy followed. and as he stepped into the er, a hospital staffer saw trouble. >> he walked into the hospital. he began to stagger, become unsteady on his feet, his speech was slurred. >> a nurse recognized the deputy was likely suffering from exposure to the drugs. they used the overdose reversal drug to revive

began to get ill. >> for a number of hours we had rooms we had to close down because we really didn't know what the room contamination was. >> the rooms were thoroughly cleaned, out in the parking lot, a newly trained sheriff's office team jumped into action to contain the danger inside the cruiser. >> we had to get a few of our members of our team taped up in their suits, put on air tanks and they went in the car and then when they were done with the car, we packaged the evidence very securely and had to have decontaminate them afterwards. >> at the hospital, new procedures now in place, the heroin or fentanyl victim is coming in, protective gear will be warn and deputies will give the er a heads up when they're coming in with an opioid overdose victim. as for the deputy's vehicle it will stay off limits for now until they can find a specialized crew to thoroughly clean and decontaminate it. julie carey, news 4. cvs manager found mu

employee charged in his murder. we first told you about the arrest of 76-year-old bernard on wednesday. today the times are reporting that the store manager rex had been looking into his workplace conduct. late last month, officers found olson's body in a dumpster next to the cvs where they both worked on blackwell road. he's being held without bond. prince william county police have released a new video about body warn cameras as the department prepares to roll out the system. officers are going to begin wearing the cameras as early as next month. by the end of the year, patrol, k-9 and school resource officers should all have them. the equipment is a valuable tool for maintaining trust transparency and accountability. >> 49th wedding anniversary trip is ruined by a mistake that is easy to make. texas couple plan to celebrate in san lucas mexico. went to the post office and

asked where they were going and explained they didn't need traditional passports. the employees said passport cards would cost less and would arrive in the mail sooner. that employee was wrong. the cards didn't get them very far. >> we tried to check in and we were having trouble -- you know, wouldn't take it. she came over what's the problem. i said it won't let -- it says see ticket agent. she said let me see you passport. she said, oh my god. and i said, we can't fly. we can't go -- we can go by car or walk, but we can't fly. and she said, yeah, you can't fly. i'm sorry. >> the airline employee told the couple that they'd turn away roughly a hundred feet aweek who make the same mistake. >> i can tell you firsthand, a lot of us have made that mistake, myself included. we're working for you to help ensure you don

the differences between passports and passport cards, subtle but important, biggest difference, though, is access. okay. now, traditional passports they allow you to travel internationally, pass pord cards only allow you to travel by sea and by ground. and you can only use the cards to go to canada, mexico, the caribbean and bermuda. now, they also look different, all right. you can see this looks like a driver's license. well, passport books, on the left there, you see, they come with lots of pages that, you know, agents will stamp. the card, though, as you can see looks more like a driver's license and now also price is another big difference. a new adult passport, that will set you back $135. new adult passport card cost only $55. but picking the right option, that depends on where you're going and how you're going to get there. so once again, if you're flying to a destination anywhere outside the u.s., you need the

or mexico. the passport card is very popular with people who live in border states because they drive to canada or mexico, often. if you're taking a crews to the caribbean and leaving from a u.s. port, you can use the posz port card there, doreen. >> they were some of the first african-americans to serve in the u.s. navy. they also played in the navy band back in the 19th 40s. today world war ii veterans from around the country were honored for their service, all new at 6:00, amy choe takes us inside the ceremony of the u.s. navy. >> when you've spent years in a band, you can't help but sing along. it was 75 years ago that these navy band members marched to the beat of their own drums. they were among the first african-americans to serve during world war ii. >> during that time,f

opportunities. >> and you always wanted to be somebody. i always wanted to be somebody. and being a pioneer. i feel good about it. >> now, today, they're marking a new first. a first ever trip to see in a museum of the navy. >> say it. >> while they're at it, stars of the show once more. >> and being recognized after these years, many years, just beautiful. we played our part just like everybody else to really help to win world war ii. >> they played their part in the band and in the books of history. >> this is a great honor for us.

amy choe, news 4. >> so glad he lived to be able to have it. >> wonderful opportunity. and we really appreciate all the veterans who come to washington to experience that. >> exactly. it's a treat for us to see that. >> oh, wonderful. >> one officer struggled with mental illness is going viral online tonight. >> news 4 is committed to changing minds and tonight we'll explain what's motivated this deeply personal storey and how it's impacting those tasks with protecting and serving us. >> nothing in the immediate area right now, but still tracking some strong storms back in our western zones, franklin fulton county pennsylvania back into portions of west virginia. i'm going to track it all for you and take it hour byhour. for years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach.

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one virginia state trooper's deeply personal battle with posttraumatic stress disorder is getting a lot of shares tonight. in may of last year,

a husband and father of six months of counseling, prayer and meditation. they're acknowledging his struggles. he says opening up in that manner likely saved him. he hopes it will help others in the law enforcement community, as well. >> it was difficult, but i was at a place where i didn't talk about it. i was in a really trauma i that i've experienced. it was effecting me emotionally and effecting my family. >> michael was also teamed up with the group honor them.net. they report that 57 officers have taken their own lives so far this year across the country. last year it was 138, that's more than the number of officers killed in the line of duty. anyone can struggle with mental health issues. if you need help, you'll find a list of resources on our nbc washington app, just search changing minds. and it looked like candy.

they caught a family selling treats with marijuana. robert andrew, mcgee from virginia pleaded guilty on wednesday. investigators used undercover deputies to buy $80 worth of products from him last september. it showed the candy contained cannibal. they're pushing for a six-month jail sentence. judge will sentence mcgee at the end of the month. if you're looking for some clean old fashion county fair fun we've got two local options. that ear open through sunday and howard county's fair starts tomorrow. we posted all the details as well as the dates for other local fairs at the nbc washington app, go there and check out county fairs. >> we're working for you to help get you around big metro shutdown that's coming up on the green line starting tomorrow. the branch avenue and suit land stations will close for two weeks. and the nail or road station will also be closed for two-week ends in a row,

august st12th. congress heights or the other stations as alternates. green line closure is happening to rebuild a critical cross over point in that area. metro still has a few other major rebuilding projects to tackle, even though the big safe track project is now over. millions are expected to hit the road in a few weeks to find the perfect place to view that total solar eclipse. yeah, cities in the line of totality are expecting a influence of visitors for this once in a lifetime

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your children and we'll see a nearly total solar eclipse. >> you're preparing the family by buying safety glasses. people in small towns across the country, they've got a lot more to do. >> oh, yeah, places in the path of totality from coast to coast are bracing for a huge influx of visitors it could jeopardize public safety. miguel joins us live from los angeles. miguel, tell us about what's happening. >> well they're expecting madness, actually, they're expecting more than a million people just to flood into oregon. this is a town of about 6,000 people. we're told liquor sales are already booming, marijuana sales where it is legal in that state could hit an all-time high. they're also being warned that traffic is going to be a complete mess in that area. it's not just in oregon. it's also going to stretch all the way down to south carolina. all of these cities and national

complete totality are expecting to see a crush of people on august the 1s21st. have all hands on deck weekend. it will happen monday depending on where you're at and what time zone you're in. it will last roughly two minutes and take about two hours for us to go from west to east, it's going to be the experience of a lifetime. if you're not in that path of complete darkness, you're certainly going to be able to view this eclipse about anywhere in the country. you'll need those specialized glasses, those are going fast. if you're planning to look up towards the sky, you'll certainly need those, guys. >> listen, we're a step ahead of you, my man. we've got our glasses. >> ready to go.

>> and who told the build their house to be in line with the e collapse. that person planned ahead. >> it's a crazy store, they planned years ahead. it's a great storey. >> you guys aren't putting yours own. >> they're the coolest thing. >> wait a second. and by the moon and south carolina and

>> and midday and then of course during the afternoon shows coming in there right around the 2:30 hour right now towards south carolina around -- and . >> and the chance of storms isn't until 11:00 -- >> and the actual cold front way back to the west. we have a while to go. but notice right

this is the -- and it's making our way that's way. >> and take a look at that. and -- and at all -- frederick over towards winchester, best chance of storms tomorrow. and sunny and breezy just a perfect day -- afternoon swim, perfect at the pool. 80 degrees at noon. and breezy. you get to the pool around 10, 11:00. but in the afternoon, absolutely fantastic. beach forecast also looking great. chance of an a.m. shower at the beaches but then that clears out, too, you really see a great weekend for the beach if you're heading there. now -- and rainy

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big morning for playoff atmosphere for the nationals. >> chris miles joins us now from csn studio. feels like october already out here.

wizards holding a press conference and the nationals playing in 60-degree weather. we'll hear from john wall about his new contract. let's start on the diamond. the nats. in october. the nats, have four guys who were -- and it was daniel murphy's turn to carry off its first, take kyle hendricks and both pictures -- -- -- and halvier -- -- and earned runs. so it's a 4-22 the game in the bottom of the ninth. nats have struggled all season closing out

this issue. sean do little getting the job done. >> it's a game played. and, you know, you win the first game and put you in a good position for the series. you always like to win, you've got a tough game again tomorrow. >> the wizards held a press conference for john wall. all-star point guard made its extension. he caught up with wall this morning down in the verizon center. >> why did you sign this extension. >> why wouldn't i. i love being here and the city has been embracing since day one. i've embraced this city. second home to me. i want to win the championship here. i want to be the greatest wizard player of all time. you can't do that without winning a championship and having those things. that's my ultimate goal. >> was there any hesitation or

it's like why is everybody panicking. i wanted my agent and management team to be able to talk and get everything they wanted right in the contract and then negotiations. they got everything where we wanted it to be and what we wanted in our contract and i siged it. >> loc good while. how importasou guys to keepprogressing. >> it's great. we g guy to get it, can keep the core together. we need keith on our team. other than that, we drafted very high. one or two guys. we all worked to get better each year, the thing next year, we can have a chance to be most improved brad should be a first time a ah he'll definitely do it next he's calling and making the most

the past two years. fellow veteran verna davis believes that paul is ready for a bounce back year. >> he's always getting the job done and that's what the coaches like most about him is that he's very versatile, he can do it all. >> i worked extremely hard this off season, especially when it cams working in the weight room with chad and the trainers and being able to recover from my leg room surgery the way it did. i had a lot of time just to be in there working, you know, i really invest a lot of time in it. >> the arena league, regular season finale. the winner makes the playoff loser done for the year. leon doug, we're less than a week away from the first preseason game for the burgundy and gold as well. get ready for football that time of year. >> we're all ready. >> that's not going to be a problem. i can tell you that. >> thank you, chris. >> thanks. >> thank you for joining us.

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