virginia near thomas jefferson high school i alexandria. some minor damage near the football field, but nobody was hurt. >> across the region high drama as floodwaters rise shutting down ads, creating problems for a lot of drivers. many of us are under a flash flood watch until tomorrow. >> here's a live loot the conditions in northwest d.c. right now. the good news is that the rai has stopped for most of us. the badit news. not over yet. we've been in weather alert ode for four straight days and not a sign letting up. we have team coverage all across our dmv. let's begin with doug and ameli in the storm center. guys? >> saw the truck out there.e looked l military west. wet road, just some light rain falling right now, a this is going to be the same scenario setting up allgh the day. some areas getting rain, o. ers not at a >> we'll see an additional 1 to 3 inches of rain and whoer

gets the inches is where we'll see the heavier rainfall. i mean, last night that setup was right along the chesapeake bay. seeing tremendous rain and then early this morning, 4:00, 5:00 a.m., saw another little band set up right around william county into fairfax county. that's what brought us a tornado around the city ofaiax and that moved on towards parts of montgomery county. right now h theviest rain back to the west. shower right through 70. most of this on the light side waldorf and prince george's county and fredericksburg. this won't give usloing. up towards the north and west though, we are looking at an area ofai heavier towards martinsburg. a fairly mountainous and hilly area. you can get flooding earlier and once agala the flood watch until 6:00 tomorrow night. much more on this. when it all com to annd and when we finally see some sunshine. i got the forecast for you in tedominutes. >>, thank you. that tornado that touched down in fairfax county was at t

start of the damage in northern virginia. bureau reporter david culver is outside the school where it happened. david? >> reporter: doreen, i'm outside in the front of the school. you look behind me and you a dot se damage. that's a good thing. this is a school that was recently renovated and reopened last year with all the renovations done after five years. the damage itheack. i'll take you there in just a moment, but the bigger concern foks is on the roads, especially tonight going into tomorrow. you might expect another bumpy commute. tonight an off-roading experience for some lorton residents. old colchester road open for now. we mud ander making for a bumpy ride. >> we need the rain, so where i live we have problems with the creek rising, and thend road up being closed. that's been the major issue. >> reporter: some drivers not risking it. backing up before getting stuck. in vienna drivers obeying tad

closed sign creating a makeshift round-about on hunter mill road, s amingly choreographed follow the leader in search of another way around. farther west i perciville, the tuesday morning downpour had nowhere to gout up. the sheriff's office capturing the rising waters. as the day went on the water racing off the pavement but not quick enough. some roads like this one in vienna passable by one lane, but they are shut down because the other, well, covered with about a foot of water. >> rain for a block of seven days. it makes it almost impossible to get anything done. >>hteporter: ton there is a lot to get done on the grounds of thomas jefferson high school for science andgy technolo, namely cleanup. you can see some of the fencing here brought down. this is what was the batting cages. walk with me here. you can see it looks like some of the portions within the batting cage were flipped up to the top here, and the as we some of here towards the other athletic fields.

you'll notice whe a chain link fence normally is, you can walk right through. the tornado is to blame for this mangled mess. tomorrow steam 4's amelia draper justassing along with the latest from the national weather service on this. this tornado, doreen, got up tou 70 miles per and went about 100 yards. the good gnews, nobody hurt. just a lot to clean up. >> such a random oopathway, surprising what was ripped upha and wt was left behind. david culver, thank you. >> right. >> the weather turned deadly in another pt of virginia last night. beverly krizanovic was killed last night inside burke, virginia when a tree came crashing through. days of rain loosened the ground aroundldhe big tree's roots causing it to fall. to prince georgee county whthere's been trouble spots like queen anne's bridge road in

bowie but no major flooding so far. coming up in the next half hour, ws 4's cratracee wilkins hasre >> this case appears to be a case of self-defense and there's more from our pat collins who is there. >> reporter:n angry passengers goes into the station manager's kiosk. the station manager, she had a ife. it gets ugly. it gets violent. they say he hitsth her iarm. she stabs him in the chest, and now that passenger, he's in the hospital. it happened shortly after midnight. a red line train running late.

a passenger waiting on the platform upset by the delay. he went to complain. somehow the guyntets ithe kiosk. they say he hits the stationna r in the arm, and she pulls out a pocket knife and then stabs himhe in the and he falls to the ground. the wounded passenger taken to the hospital. he's said to be in grave condition. metro police, d.c. police called to investigate. here on thecene police chief bruce newsome. >> we believe there may be a viable claim of self-defense in this case,nd that's what we need to look at. >> reporter: this is what some of the riders are sayingat abou appened here. was she right or.rong? >> wro for a push, you've got to be the bigger man or woman and just call whoever you need to call and, yeah, you don't retaliate like that. >> the way that people have been

treating the bus drivers i guess i don't her because what's a mother to do. >> all across the board it's terrible when anybody gets hurt. >> reporter: there are surveillance cameras all throughout the metro system, but it's unclear as to whether or not this confrontation near the kiosk was caught on tape. so far no charges here. now are metro employees allowed to carry knives? we've asked about that, but so far no word back. doreen, back to you. >> pat collins thanks, pat. a fairfax county school teacher is under arrest accused of trying to solicit sex from a minor he met online. scott macfarlane is at a live desk with how police tracked him down. scott? >> this is part of anundercover police operation. the teacher's name is norman aiken. police say aiken made contact with the officer asking for

sexual contndt, he even sent a sexually explicit image. aiken was a teacher at westfield high and west springfield high last yr. he's bee suspended without pay during the investigation. th news s i-team went through employee records and found that aiken taught latin language and he's currently being held without bond at the fairfax county adult detention center. back to you. >> all right. scott macfarlane, thank you. now to politics, and we begin with something that the president said. he defended his tariffs and told a group of veterans not to believe their eyes. w just remember what you're seeing andt you're reading is not what's happening. >> the comment got a lot of play on social media today. the quote was often compared to pis line from george orwell's novel "1984," tty told you to reject the evidence of your

eyes and ears. it was their final most essential command. blayne alexander is tracking trade and tariffs tonight for us, blayne? >> reporter: certainly, there's a lot to track on that frontea ng to that same group today the president promised american farmers that the tarils w pay off eventually. today his administration says that help is on the promising billions of dollars in emergency aid, but critics s that they have a better idea. stop the trade war that made it necessar in the first place. with the trade war heating up, president trump sending help to american farmers caught in the crossfire. this is the time to take off the rip-off of tariffs. we have to do it. >> reporter: the administration nouncing $12 billion in temporary aid for farmers hit hard by retaliatory tariffs. >> i it's two yea we'll have

a lot of problems. >> reporter: president trump made it clear that the trade war is not ending soon saying that tariffs are the greatest and promising this eventual happy ending for supporters. >> farmers will be the biggest beneficiary. watch. we're opening up marke. to watch what's going happen. just be a little patir:t. >> reporack on capitol hill some republicans call the tariffs and a plan to them a bad idea. >> i happen to disagree. moving to a zero tariff rld. >> reporter: with wisconsin senator ron johnson writingd i'e herom farmers that they want trade, not aid. the farm bailout coming on the same day that the president's daughter and senior adver anka trump announces she is shutting down her retail business. the company calling it a very difficultor decision ivanka who said in a statement after 17 months in washington i do not know when or if i'll ever return tohe business calling it the only fair outcome f her team. but recentl stores like

nordstrom stopped carrying her declining and amid sales and calls for boycotts. the a symbolic target f those critical of her father. and in the past ivanka has said she did not want to brand because she didn't want whoever purchased it to be able to essentiallyeverage the president's name around the world. jim and doreen. >> blayne alexander, thank yo much more coverage of the record-breaking raitill ahead. >> yeah, dou and amelia are tracking the impact heres we look at the extreme conditions from coast to coast. >> breaking news involving pop star demi lovato. the singer rushed to the aspital for drug overdose. we're working this story as we learn about wha was done to save her life. >> and an apology tonight for a disturbing treat. a message that created a a message that created a firestorm almosts a

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a live look at the radar as storms wash over our region. we're seeing a brief break from the heavy rain, but there's more headed our doug and amelia are back in a few minute. year-old her and her escaped a terrifying situation in montgomery county last night. police say a m threatened that woman with a knife and tossed a

burning object o w of adow right near the child. officers eventually shot 30-year-old john carlos perez at the home of the home on mozart drive in silver spring. he was gravely police say they knew they had to move in when they heard the toddler screaming. >> he was moving furniture around and barricading doors and windows. at one point observed him light something on fire and throwin some out the second story window. >> the man who owns the home told news 4 the w woman who renting his house is staying in a shelter tonight because he doesn't have anywhere else to go. for the suspect police say he's not expected to survive. d.c. chain z burger is apologizing tonight after a tweet from their account created some serious backlash over the weekend. that tweet juxtaposed a photo of murdered by ho was isis within an image of a hamburger.

there's a caption when you say you want a burger and someone says okay let's hit mcdonald's. the tweet has since been deleted. posted er the company this message. our design team put this up not knowutg what the cu image was. innocent mistake thatau csed heartache. your forgiveness wouldean the world, end quote. back to our weather now. doug and amelia, a look at the conditions with the conditions from storm center 4. when is the rain going to start to hammer us? >> light rai for theost part, doreen, but over the past couple of daysn we've s a lot of rain and we're hearing about the potential for more downed trees because we're so saturated and that coming in the way of not much wind. >> an additional 1 to 3 inches of rai tonight before we finally shake this pattern on thursday.

>> one ofam ouras out side in parts of northwest d.c. dealing with a little t but not a whole lot. probably don't need the umbrella in parts of the city and other parts you definitely need it because we've got the rain coming down. we'll show you what's happening around the area.re here's the c radar picture showing the rain moving from the southvi and ht rain back to the south. i'm tracking this down to the south of culpepper county, down around orange and madison county. you can see the yellows in here where around the m d.c.ro area not much in the way of yellow. most on the light to moderat side, but it's steady at times.e yeah, you'll the umbrella. this section will come through downtown. good shower around the damascus area and more back to the west and this is an area that i'm goinge to b watching because of the potential for flash flooding tonight as our storm system continues to move along our coastline. we se got onerm right down here. this is the upper level low and it's bringing up all of this. moistu want to show you a little bit of

a different way here. a huge ridge of high pressure and heat buildingnt i parts of the southwest. cooler than average and extremely wet inreur bringing up that moisture from the south and continuing to give us the rain and the flooding potential right on through the day tomorrow. it's over after tomorrow, but amelia, w already set some records and we're not done yet. >> record rainfall amounts of almost 2.5 inches and then other places at reagan national where you barely so .3 of an inch of rainfall. the loudoun county fair is happening this week. weather okay tonight and n,tomorrow. ag would really, really look forward to going to the fair on thursday and friday of course they are saying, hey, it wasn't that bad out there today. you can still come out. highly variable a rainfallunts is what i'm seeing across the area. dulles picked upbout half an inch of rain and what you're noticing 8.5, 8nd inches 13 inches of rain. that's how much we've received

tonight. bwi marshall, the wettest july on record andid morepread rain in the forecast. not a continuous rain. we'll have some breaks, and b're gettingaks from the rain we'll have mostly cloudy skies. everybody noticing the mugginess, and look at the nice change. thursday and friday, the green here, well, most of us are completely dry especially during the daytime hours. towards the weekend, a chanceno for aft and evening scattered showers and thunderstorms, so it's n o widesprer the weekend. as we look to the beginning of the workweek we starthe to see wet pattern set up again. as you're making your weekend plans, if youine pla pool time this weekend, go earlier and you'll be just fine. warm and humid. yard rk, those lawns are going to be saturated but plan to get out in your garden during t mornin and the car wash, doug, hold off. look at the steeven-day forecas we have a chance of rain every single day. >> kind of the ptern that reinvents itself next week.

we're not expecting as much rain next week as this. looking towar thursday and friday, nice weather as far as sunshine is concern. very hot and humid those days, and, then, yeah, a chance of rain saturday and sy night all the way through next friday. ting er rainy pattern s up, not quite as bad as this one, but we'd like to do away with the rain for a >> yeah, we would. >> we all wod. >> thanks, doug. wish there was something you could do abo if. >> yeah. >> and urgent warning after a serious spike of overdoses in ourre a 300 people treated in a matter of days. tonight, what's to blame and what's bei done to>> stop it. and it's called the lassie effect. still to come, doreen and i will haul out pics of ourog d the scientific research that

right now multiple wildfires are literally chasing people into the sea in greece. this is one of the worst fire outbreaks in europe decade. more than 70 people have been killed so far. states of emergency have been decled in athens and other areas. armies of firefighters across europe are trying totu get this ion under control. >> a houston community is deeply

invested in a murderat mystery hits close to home, and they say they have uncovered someewvidence. they are the friends and neighbor of of a prominent cardiologist shot and kled frid morning as he rode his bike into work. the amateur detectives areas cang the area passing out flyers and asking for surveillance video. they foup at least one image of the suspected killer on a bike and following the doctor. investors released new surveillance video from a bus showing both men on bicycles. >> the number of drug overdoses in the distric has soared all of a sudden. 300 people have overdosed in the last ten days. several of themied. as news 4's markegraves reports now there's a new strain of drug on the street and d.c. officials fear more people will die. >> the drawing causing the overdoses, synthetic

cannabinoids or spice. it's thought thathe drug is responsible for many drug overdoses. >> d.c. is seeing a spike. ig>> reporter: here's how the problem is. in the past ten days the d.c. fire department hassp trted 261 people for synthetic in that same ten days they have treated an additional 99 peoplen who were not to the hospital. dr. jennifer smithith t d.c. department of forensic scientists says a new type of synthetic cannabinoid has hit the streets. >> they are all very extremely dangerous, and part of what makes them dangerous is when you buy this product you don't know what is in there. most of these have been near homeless shelters and they sell from as little at $2 a to $5 pack. in the district, mark segraves, news 4. >> back to our weather. you can see the rar behind us

as rain moves over the region. >> hope you like green because that's all we've got for a while. doug is back with a look at what's come. plus -- >> with all the rain we've been having, prince george's county is paying very close attention at its pumping station. i'm tracee wilkins, that story is next. >> this story kind of bizarre but true. some uber drivers have a sick way of making extra cash. way of making extra cash. what in the world is vom

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keeps on coming. in some areas flooding and inud others m and debris. >> this tree crushed cars and blocked streets in northwest d.c. >> several areas with rouds with flooded waters in prince george's county. public officials are monitoring and ready to respond to any issues. >>ur team now with a look at how long the flooding will lastr >> more tw night and even on thursday. right now most of the area seeing light rain. th i is how it this morning very heavy rainfall. we saw baltimore with upward of

2.39 inches of rain and you can see rain coming too portions of downtown right now as itco inues to move in and on through the next couple of hours. most of this on the lightyo sid. can see what i'm talking about here. i don't see any yellows here, especially no oranges or red. that's where you see the heavy rape. mostf that towards culpepper ounty and moving back towards rappahannock county. ramp out in that location. frederick, aroundre fredderick mt. aerie, shors and rain on light side. we'll see some heavierain overnight tonight into the day tomorrow. some of tomorrow's rn, we're thinking maybe 1 to 3 inches in spots. not everybody will see that, but if you get it in that area could be a big problem, and one of the problems right now we'll take a look at in prince george's county >> that's right, doug, in prince george's county there's been

some localized flooding. the county has been spared from major flooding so far. tracee wilkins continues our team coverage from hyattsville where ty are getting ready just in case. tracee in is. >> a lot of monitoring going t arou county. right now we're getting harder rain than earlier when it was th spitting rain, and we have darker skies here. this is part of thehe reason t are monitoring roads and pumping stations. the fact that it's very quiet right now is good news. it means that these pumps have not been triggered to get that water o of the anacostia river before the banks overflow but we've seen in some areas standing water. no fun getting the mail in this. >> it's really dangerous. r >> reporter:ain is working fast, but it's not enough f all of the rain sitting over prince george's county. one neighbor here on queen anne bridge road tells me the was this high this morning. as you can see, it's muchh lowe the prince george's

countyepartment of public works continuing to monitor the low-lying areas trying to figure out when it's time to close the road. in aition to prince george's county public works monitoring roads like this one, county officials have pple working 24 hours at their automated water pumping stations. >> for the most part we keep people monitoring the stations just in cete sng goes wrong. >> like a loss of power or a generator that dies. that could mean flooding for neighborhoods all along the anacostia river. thatas happening regularly about ten yearsago. >> so this is the old original station. >> reporter: then the county added on to its edmonton pumping station. it now has five pumps, pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of water. >> so as the waters rise, it triggers the pumps that come along when they are supposed to. someporter: we've had storms when all five pumps have been triggered. dave howard chief inspector for prince george's county department of public works says it's hpening more now than ever. >> i've been with the county over 34 years.

ve hadtime here, yeah, w heavy storms, but today's storms in the last 10, 15 years seemar like the coming down harder and quicker, and that you -- you can quadruple the size of the pumping station. >> reporter: that's ana cstia. as you see it's really low at this point. not really low but not high enough toer trigg these pumping stations so that's the goodws ne i want to show you here. they have got these cameras all over the pumpingn stations prince george's county. they are able to monitor what's happening here and this is the autoted pumping station and when we've had the kind of rain that we've had in our area the last week or so they want somebody physically here 24 quickly move c to repair it. reporting live in hyattsville, tracee wbakins. to you in the studios. >> let's hope it stays calm in prince george' county. thanks, tracee. >> download the nbc washington app and stay ahead of the

weather wherever you are. check the hour-by-hoan forecast getat realtime informion when the storms are moving in. in other news tonight, survivors of a deadly gasex osion in silver springs say they have been forgotten.gh to those residents will demand the montgomery county take aion. the back in 2016 that explosion here hat the flower branch apartments killed seven people, and two of the people were . children they have struggled over the last several years needing rental support after being displace 200 leaders from action and montgomery county will lead with montgomery county leaders at broad acres elementary school in silver springs. we're following newst from the w coast where pop star demi lovato is in the hospital after an apparent drug overdose. sources tell nbc new that first responders used naloxone which is used to reverse the effects of an overdose. she's said to be stable and

breaing. the 25-year-old star recently celebrated six years of sobriety. we've covered lovato in the past as part of our open mind segmen. she's als been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. celebrity reaction is also pouring in on socia media. ellen degeneres tweeting i love o much.vato it breaks my heart that she's going through this. show's a light in this world, and i am sen my love to her and her family. country singer brad paisley kindest,emi one of the most talented people he's ever e praying for her right now. addiction is a terrifying disease. meantime back here in our area, we've seen a series of rescues in just a matter of weeks insid the jail in clarksburg, maryland. a review by the news 4 i-team shows montgomery county correctional officers saved at least three inmates from suicide

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>> not quite still chewing everything in sight. gatsby is loong ver quizical, a little long in the tooth, wearing his thundershirt because of all the storms. >> that shirt works, too. >> it does. >> now to the story that has our entire newsroom talking. here's adam tuss. he'll explain it. >> it's called uber vomit fraud you heard that right. uber vomit fraud. i'm adam tuss. t i'm going tell you how some drivers could be taking advantage of uber passengers by ng they got sick in their car. >> we promise not to destroy your dinner with that story. >> right. >> extreme weather from coast to coast. we'll take a look at the areas hit the hardest, but first here's doug. >> and our area has been hit extremely hard over the past couple ofri days. t now we're seeing moderate rain around the area and some location picking up steady rain. we could have heavier rain i comi i'll take you

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all right. here's a reminder while you should always check after an uber ride, and if you're just settling down for dinner you may want to hold off for a few minutes whilee tell but this next story. drivers are being accused of vomit fraud. customers are saying they are staging scenes and leavinghem with unnecessary clea fps. adam tuss has our story. >> reporter: uber vomit fraud. you heard that right. h you eve one of those uber trips where it just, you know, seemed a little fuzzy at the end of the trip? you don't reallf remember all

it. well, check your uber receipt, because it turns out some uber drivers could be trying to take advantage. faking vomit for extra cash? what do you think vomit fraud is? >> when ariver claims someone throws up in their car and then tries to get the money to cleane it or cha the passenger. >> reporter: yeah, correct. we'll spare you the graphic pics, but recently "the miami herald" detaileds numerou accounts where uber drivers staged fake vomit scenes in cars and then hit customers withn 80 to 150 fee to clean the vehicle. >> pretty, disgusti and hopefully everyone is doing the right thing changingut it straight away. >> reporter: most ubers drivers that i asked about acted like i was about to vomit in their car and i talked to this driver. >> vomit >> reporter: he does say in many cases vomit in cars is a real thing, and the eanup fees are

justified. >> sometimes you've got people who are not quite all right. >> reporter: uber says in a confirmed case of fraud, appropriate action will be taken against the driver. however, with 15 million uber trips taken every day this kind of thing can happen. just when you think you've covered everyransportation story, something like this comes along and then just gets right in your way. now, i wl say, guys, we ayntacted uber's d.c. office, and they if you think anything is suspicious with your receipt y should file a claim immediately about that, but just e happy we didn't show all the pictures of what was involved. >> we are, adam,y we're v grateful, but the advice to check your receipt isol sid. thank you, adam. >> now back to the forecast. >> we are in weather alert mode still 'snight. >> lheck back in with doug and amelia in storm center 4.

hey, guys? >> coming to us after adam's story. thanks a lot appreciate that. we'll take over for you. it's been raining a lot across the last couple of days here. right now light toodate rain, but we still have one more day to go. >> heavy rain in spots. we'll pick up 1 to 3 inches on top of the 6 to 12 we've seen. dy >> really incredible numbers over the past four or five d os. mothe area seeing light rain. steady right from southern maryland all the way up to d.c. and frederick. heavy shower activity. right now many so of the heavy showers in montgomery county and southwest. look at this, coming through madison county into rappahannock. that's heavy rain, and, again, the mountains are right here. much t easier get flash flooding in a mountainous area.n towards southern maryland, calvert county, under floodtc wah warnings all day. numerous water rescu in this area. please be careful. right now this is moderate rain.

nothing too heavy out there, though there's still a lot of moisture toome and still watching the storm. the storm itself way down here atlanta. needs to move well to the east before it gets out of here. what's in charge of this this is amazing. intense heat out west and rain in the east. a tale of two sides of the country. when i say heat l115 in vegas and phoenix and over 100 degrees in l.a. numerous fires in this area. colorado, parts of utah and colorado, yosemite seeing a big fire for us. that means we're dealing with the cooler weather and rain moving in. by cooler, you know we mentioned flooding, too. by cooler i'm not talking about 50 degrees. i'm talking temperatures today abou five degrees below average from where they would normally be. >> really all about thell rain too. so far this is baltimore's wettest july on record with 13 inches of rain so far this month. as far as d.c., we're top ten wettest julys and we'll climb to

number seven and this is the wettest seven-day rainfall stretch here in washington. a lot of rape over the last few days. as we take a look at your outlook tomorrow, not the best day to head to the pool with ra at times and heavy rain in spots and thursday and friday looking really nice. b sunshine ik on thursday and on friday just a chance for late-day thunderstorms, so t he pool earlier. not only has it been rainy out there, but it's been it's been feeling oppressive, almost tropical, because that's whereure is coming from. through friday we'll continue to feel muggy and then it starts to feel more humid. saturday and sunday has lower humidity levels and then sunday. here's what you need to know. more rain at times through n tomorrht. keep that umbrella handy. remember everybody under the flash flood watch until tomorrow evening. we'll get somewhat of a break thursday, friday, saturday and sunday, and then, doug, next week it's rain, and it's muggy. thankfully it's not as rainy it is this week.

>> i'll tell you, a lot of extra hair spray and gel for the guys. yeah, hair days, not the best for everybody the next couple of days. better on fridaynd saturday d especially saturday with a little less humidity. we do see the chance of thunderstorms return on saturday. hot and h aid thursda friday. the weekend not a compete washout i don't want you to look at that and say, okay, we need to cancel our plans. go ahead and do whatever you need ton saturday. all next week we have a chance of showers and thunderstorms pretty much all day. any time during the monthched july though, mostly we're looking at the later half of the day as far as the chaps for --we the chance for rain. we'll see next week and then if that hel as all, a little bit. >> thanks, doug. >> all right. coming up. one nationals player benched because of a bad nattitude. dave is up

all right. turner feeling some heat. >> i want to start having fun. >> i liked it better when baseball was red carpets and home run iderbies. thjust no fun. two months of baseball left. might be too early for the nationals to press the panic tt , but it's far past time to be concerned. instead of running away with the division like they did the last two years, the nationals are in third place, six games out of third place and watch them get swept away and seemingly stuck in aul-de-sac of conflict. davy martinez not putting turner into the lineup. in trouble after not running out a bunt. laid down a bunt and threw his helmet down and walke down t third base line. irony, he was awarded the team's heart and husbandtle awa.

you want to see this, max scherzer and that argument in front of the cameras friday night. nats 5 1/2 out of the second wild card and need to get this thing on track. it's tha simple. all this rather upsetting. in fact, just found out bryce harper out of tonight's game with an upset stomach. coincidence? maybe.im anyway, that of year though when our obsession when all old starts undy and to bubble. maybe that's my lunch. either way, redskins training camp is basically here. >> don't take an uber. >> don't take an uber. w that story. players report to richmond tomorrow and first practice on thursday morning and with that in mind not going to be a quiz. four things to watch for over the coming weeks for the redskins. number one, of course, is always the quarterback. new face alex smith enting his 14th season hoping to lead the redskins back to the playoffs. umber two, wide receiver jo dodson, an mri on his leg should be fine. missed his entire rookie season

due tohe injury. y, the rookies, haveo watch them, right. daron payne and second pick wrong and the return of chris thompson. running back that missed six games with a broke owen leg. before that a force of the redskins backfield. doug ss they need him and already has respect for his new etarterback. >> it's just sng about him that he just demands respe. he gets his guy going every play in the huddle what i've been told and guys are enjoying him, so i'm excited to finally be a part of that as well. just his veteraneadership and his approach to the game, we can all a young players just kind of learn from him as we go. >> hey, the team that wins the stanley cup stays together, or at least that's the case with the washington capitals. yeah, they did lose t barrytz, the islanders head coach and fourth line cenr jay beagle

signed with vancouver and today they welcomed back brooksrpik an the team has 18 of the 19 players on that ice on that agical night when they won the cup. orpik not in the avalanche's plans received a contract buyout and had the freedom t re-sign with the capitalsnd we'll never forget his ingame-wng goal in game two of the stanley cup final. won't forget that. now, the stanley cup continues go around a. t.j. oshie and hisamily getting his day with the cup. oshie posing with olympic gold medal hockey player and fellow road native gigi martin, the kingnd queen of the festival. oshie enjoying captain crunch out of the stanley cup. i wouldn't go with that.

i would go with the cup berries because it adds more

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