here we . hot, hot, hot. that's the only way the describe the conditions outside today.so unds familiar. we're in weathermoalert e. we're working to help protect fr you m the dangerous heat. thank you for joining us this morning. what a backdrop behind us. >> i know. let's get right to storm team 4 meteorologist with the latest or this very w forecast. hi, chuck. >> good morning. sunny skies early have led to quite a jump in temperatures. keeping a close eye on storm team radar. you can see a couple of developing showers right along

the maryland-pennsylvania border. there will be a chance for an isolated strong and maybe a severe thunderstorm later on in the day. it'otgoing to be for the next few days. today's high temperature at least 93 degrees. some spots will be above that for a couple of hours. chances of getting rain on fairly high. that's the reason we won't be much warmer than 93, maybe about 95. starting tomorrow and on into saturday and sunday, rain chances will be greatly suppressed. that wiles allow temperaturnd heat index values to reall jump. we'll talk more about the dangerous heat for friday and the weekend in a few. for now, just get ready to suite. >> thank you. d.c. firefighters are on the scene of a fire. megan is live with the latest on all of this.

megan. >> reporter: good morning. this fire involved one of those tour buses that you see around downtown. a little like that one that you see tloefover there. the one inside was inside the wareho e. it's putf a lot of smoke. also making things tough for the fifighter firefighters,his heat wave we're experiencing. this cell phone shows the tour bus in flames. this was a challenging fire to knock down. the burning bus inside a very large warehouse. the curbed roof, the kind that's prone to a collapse. a dangerous situation for first responders. then there was the blinding smoke. >> it's a very dangerous situaa on. we used search line which we do in large open area like this to prevent firefighters getting lost. at one point we did have a fire officer become separated from his company. he declared may day w but heas

able to find his way to an jacent door. >> reporter: making the job me difficult, thend extreme heat a humidity. wearing heavy, full protective gear. extra units were called to the scene so the firefighters could get swapped outqu freently. >> it's hot doutsie. you go inside and encounter heat, smoke, zero visibility. you're working your butt off to almost the point ofus exhaon and beyond. come out and heating the heat again with zero relief. >> reporter: another it air-condioned spot was a cooli ining station. the rule of the day, stay hydrated. the cause of the fire is accidental. a malfunctioning battery is to blame. back you. thank you so very much. as our area prepares for another round of potential storms, rews are cleaning up from the damage

reft yesterday. >> reporter: fo several hours hi here, the attention was on what was a large tree. the branches of the tree toppled wires here late yesterday leaving neighbors in the darkr everal hours. we're told the storm rolled in p.m. h here close to 6:00 and brought with it heavy rain and wind. it was that combination that caused the large branches to bra break. pth it came down the wires that knocked outer here. d.c. fire was called to the scene. >> treat wir as live.

you don't know if they will re-energi re-energize. you don't know what will happen. >> reporter: you never know if they are live or not. d.c. fire warn iing. this orning, a look at some of the evidence prosecutors used bars james fields behi for life. earlier this week he was sentenced for ramming his car into a car in charlottesville in 201re he bared down the street in. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: capted the view of the entireampage from

above. prosecutors also released prison reportings of fields talking with his mom about hyer's mother and her advocacy work. >> she's a communist. >> i don't know,jay. >> it's not up for questioning. she is. she's the enemy. >> nobody's the enemy. >> she is the enemy. she is the enemy, mother. stop [ bleep ] questioning me. >> hard to hear. fields was seenced to two life sentences plus 419 years for that deadly attack inchar charlottesville. we have what's aheador congress.

>> reporter: the president took aim at four congresswomen of color. >> omar minimized the september 11th attacks on r homeland. she described america, that's you, that's me. that's all of us a garbage. she thinks that people with the same skin color all need to think the same. they don't love our country. i think in some cas they hate our country. r: >> reportehe house of representatives called his go back to your country racist but rejected a bid to impeach the si prent. >> we have six committees that are working with following the fact. >> reporter: texas congressman eal green argued presidnt trump should be impeached because his words could inciteviolence. >> we risk having the blood of someb hy on ourds and it could be a member of co>gress. some of us are getting death

threats. >> reporter: some trump allieshe think has crossed the line. >> i wouldn't tell anyone american citizen to go back home home. this is >> reporter: it showed more than two-thirds consider the president's go home tweets eyfensive. th rejected impeachment but lawmakers are holding attorney general william barr and commerce secretary wilbur ross in contempt for not complying with subpoenas. tracy potts, nbc news washington. funeral plans are still in the works for former supreme cort justice john paul stephens. he passed away on tuesday after a stroke. virginia senator tim kaine wants the death investigatedma khashoggi. blasting how the trump

administration handled the death. a washington post journalist d virginia resident was murdered in turkey last october. several weeks ago the united nations released the report. it found quote, credible evidence linki his murder to saudi crown prince. khashoggi was crical of his native country. new this rning, out of prince william scounty,hool resource officer started an investigation that put one man in jail o child abuse charges. jean corrielus was arrested this week. a student told a guidance counselor about them. allegedly burning them with an iron. abuse later arrested on andr cuelty charges and is being held without bond. a local gas station owner says thieves are costing them thousands of dollars. some customers say he's going

too far. dennis owns the gas station on 13th anda pennsylvaavenue. he posted surveillance video of people who he claims ha stolen from him but it's a special kind of commentary that drives the controversy. >> he could put pictures up and add the description of not dehumanizing people like that. >> sometimes people come in aca ll me a racist. some people call me why krou yo i grading other human beingings be. st showed the criminals. >> he says he does this because he believes there's no consequences, no other consequences for these alleged thievs. there'uch more ahead on news 4 midday. we have details on a flesh eating bacteria posing a threat to vacationers trying to take a dip in the ocean. it or not. it's just about that time to start your back to school shopping. >> it's working for you in the community. hi, derek.

>> good morning. a lot of folks wonder what's going out here at this whole food market at ivrdale park. it's all about these busy workers. a lot of folks teaming up to make sure young kids have exactly what they need. we have these folks here. h theyve came out twice already. they have come by twice and already dropped off some stuff. yore with marketing at whole foods market. tell us quickly what this is all about today.f >> one o our purpose values at wholes food is to give back to our community. thisis a perfect opportunity for us to give back to our local community by helping students th start off theirchool year in a positive way. we partnered with one of our suppliers to donate over 300 bacacks and a thousands note pads. >> ty'll be here until 2:00 this afternoon.

bring by supplies. bring by a back back. bring by cash and pick up some swag. this ising on all day. it's until 2:00 here. they will be doing it out of prince gegeor

for theirstime in more than 100 year girls have been their he chance to spend summers at boy scout camp. at camp saffrin, boys and girls have separate troops and camp sights but they come to dther foly programs. some of the girls have participated in rifle and water sport activitieactivities. the camp plans to update for future programs. we all know there are dangers lurking in the water. things like sharks and jelly ish and strong rip currents.

that can a problem. >> now a simple dip in the ocean could expose you to a rare but deadly flesh eating bacteria. kerry sanders has a closer look atow you can get it and how you can avoid . >> reporter: 56-year-old gary most recent victim of the flesh eatingbacteria. his family says thectors erlieve he died after he was expored to the watorn bacteria while crabbing in texas. the bacteria causes 80,000 illnesses and 100 deaths in the u.s. every year. now hospital lare on high alert checking on patient samples. >> before going into the infectious disease lab they aske us to put on protective gear, gloves included, that includes the camera crew. >> this is what leads to the flesh eating bacteria. this is the actual bacteria.

>> i'm safe here. >> we're perfectly safe. >> reporter: . stacy baker says is symptoms includes one ot black spn thuaskin. it y happens near a cut or scrape that was there before ctact with the bacteria in the salt water. >> why do we see more of this in the gulf of mexico? >> it's probably related to the warmer temperatures of the moter. >> reporter: the recent cases have been in the gulf of mexico, this problem is not confined to that body of water. there's been an increase nuer of patients with the flesh eating bacteria also in delaware bay. nbc news. it's been three months since the iconice notre dam cathedral went up in flames in france. >> this morning we're getting a look at the repair work under way. cameras were allowed inside during a tour yesterday. officals say the ceiling is still torn apart and the site remains covered in ash.

robots are removing debris from the floor. officials are concerned that more may actually collapse. at least 30 people are dead after a suspectedarson attack on a japanese anime studio. dozens more are hurt. someof them in critical condition. the suspect doused the building in gasoline. >> reporter: the intensity of the blaze visible through windows today. an inferno that killed people. this is the suspect being arrested. a man in his 40s who was screaming you die as he burst into the offices starting the fire and spraying an unidentified flammable liquid. from a distance smoke could be seen spopouring from the studio which produces movies aimed at teen audiences.

the suspected arsonist was wounded. any motivation stil a mystery. he didn't work at the studio. around 70 people were inside the offices whenhe blame began at 10:30 in the morning. now forensic teams looking for clues and removing badly burned bodies after a horrific fire, apparent arson with no clear motive. a terrible day for japan but there are acts of kindness emerging to restore a little faith. an online appeal has been set up and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. nbc news, london. still ahead, finding growth in an unexpected place. in an unexpected place. >> one of lo

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if you're one of the thousands of peole growing up in a food desert then you know

there's no easy access to fresh fruits anda vegetes. it's a reality that a lot of people face, particularly kids east of the river.>> the maya angelou blic high school is helpin change that. >> how does that look to you in. >> perfect. it's growing. at first it was no roots. not a lot of roots but now the roots are growing. >> reporter: he's earning his ged at theou schools y adult learning center. he's about two weeks into his ternship at the school greenhouse growing butter head lettu lettuce. >> i've done it with my grandma before. i wanted to learn it. >> reporter: it's a littlean mo thsimple gardening. it's all recycled water. gutter runs down into a and gets cleaned.

we use 90% less water than traditional farming but we use no dirt at all. >> reporter: the water is chocked full of nutrients and student employees are ab to grow produce year round. this lettuce takes 36 days from seed to harvest. half the time of traditional farming. >> we teach working skills. how to beim on te, dress for a job and get along with other fee people. what you need to do to get a job. >> reporter: that is only part of the mission. >> our young people are intellectuals and critical wh scholaro have faced numerous challenges. who have been pushed out of other schos. who have been marginalized by society. our goal is not to question why they are here. our role and r goal as a organization is to support them right where they are at. >> reporter: the alternative school educates but provides clinical counselling and other developmental services to care for the whole child. >> they discovered for hemselves that this school and

their community is a food sde desert. they said like what do i do. >> i can learn how to grow plants and give food bang ck toe community. >> the maya school started their greenhouse with help. a lot of this year's produce was ven to local food banks. >> the goal for year two is to have the students take the fruits of their labor from the farm to table in wards seven and eight. a lot of cool stuff. >> all right. chuck is here talk to us about like if you're going to be doing any of those things outside today, you want to do them injust a short amount of time. you want to wear light clothing. you want to be well hydrated. 're in the thick ofit. we're in the stretch. >> it will be about another four or five days of this with heat indices climbing way over. this is the proverbial tip of

he iceberg. temperatures will be in the 90s again today. that will make nine days in a row. today will be the 27th 90 degree day of the year. l as youok over northwest washington you can see quite a few cumulous clouds bubbling up. that will be cool but comparison to the next three days. heat indices mostly into the mid-90s to near 100 degrees.nd super warm a humid for now. temperatures ll sty in the ay i upper 80s and 90s for most of the afternoon. you get a sense there's a lot of unsettled weather. now that the daytime heating is going, showers areo starting t develop. no thunder and lightning just yet. that may change with time as we

add more and more fuel to the fierp fire. be weather alert for the rest of the day. not every one, not going have quite the coverage or intensity of storm chances that we saw yesterday. any individual could easily produce winds gusting well over 50 miles an hour. keep a weathhe eye to t sky. have your nbc washington app ready to go. we'll be here to post any severe weather watches and warnings and push them out. also we'll have them on air. heat indexes before tomorrow, mid-90s. up over 105 degrees for heat indexes. saturday will be worst than that. saturday afternoon, look at the heat indices. 115 in fredrick. that's danger zone material for sure. that's how hot it will feel friday and saturday. sunday will also feel that hot but there will be storms rollina in lr on in the day on sunday. ten-day forecast in the end to the heat wave in

it was 2015 when donald trump launched his presidential campaign. at a campaign rally we got a closer look at the president's re-election stre egy. >> hunvaeil a new line of attack on four congresswomen who have become known as the squad. even after four years of blowing through every political norm what happened next still has the capacity to shock. ter alex aander reports. >> represent omar blames the united states. >> reporter: it was the defining moment of the president's rally in north carina. >> send her back. >> reporter: the crowd unleashing a new chant, send her back. >> send her back.

send her back. >> reporter: a new spin on donad trump's 16 rallying cry against hillary clinton. >> lock her up. lock her up. >> reporter: the president zeroing in on minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar, an american citizen who left somalia as a child. part of his recent attacks on those four democratic women calling on them to go back to their home country. three were born in the u.s. and all are u.s. citizens. the president trying to cast them as radical and un-american. >> they don't like it, let them leave. >> reporter: omar tweeting her response. you may shoot me with your words you may cut with your eyes. you may kill me with your hatekelness but still li air, i'll rise. >> and they want to try and impeach. it's a disgrace. >> reporter: the president also claiming vindication after the house voted wednesday to shoot

down and impeach him. >> the resolution, how stupid i that onimpeachment. >> reporter: the vote revealing just howdy viev dd. most opposing the resolution spearheaded by a single congressman, al green of texas who argued the raicist attack disqualified them from being president. >> if you did what the president has done, you would be punished. >> nancy pelosi has consistentle counselled crats not to rush achment.m she's concerned it could distract from bread and butter policy issues and work to the president's advantage. right now we are waiting on a judge to rule on new york billionaire jeffrey inepste bail proposal. his attorneys asking he be released oen a bond ed on a bo million. prosecutors argue he's a threat.

we're getting a look atrc seawarrants from the raid of michael cohen's officeast year. a judge ordered redacted portions unsealed this morning. cohen serving a three ye prison sentence for breaking campaign finance laws. prosecutors say hmade hush money payments on behalf of them candidate donald trump. the judge ordered theme docuts released calling it a quot matter of national importance. going through the documents right now. we'll have much more throughout the day and in our nbc washington app. then starting againn news 4 at 4:00. mplgt we kn . we know traffic on 95 can get bad but we found the worth spot is in virginia. this is according to the 95 improvement project. people spend 1.2 million hours in delays one that mile stretch. let me tell u, it gets bad

around 5:30 in the morning every day. >> 95 improvement project plans to hold a meetg. they are adding shouer lanes that could be open during crashes on major delays. right now federa review board is hearing proposed changes for the museum building. take a look here. johns hopkinsed purchas building in january. the university wants to transform the building into a graduate program center. there will be ample opportunity for public comment. the museum is set to close on december 31st.it 's still looking for a temporary administrative space and the artifac will be returned to lenders. the national philharmonic is closing after 40 years.

funding has decreased and have gone up.s thetr orchesa's effort to transform could not overcome the challenges it faced you may have been one of millions of people who downloaded the face app. it lets you alters your features. you saw the pictures online but nre are really some serious security and privacy concerns about this app which was developed in russia. >> reporter: while millions ofe facapp users wonder what will i like look decades down the road. >> there's justrinkles everywhere in places i didn't y k get wrinkles. >> reporter: lawmakers are wondering what is this russian based company doing with all your photos. calling for an investigation into whether personal data up loaded by millions of americans on the face app may be finding

its way into the hands of the russian government. warn i warning not to use it because it was developed by russians. >> russia requires the companies cooperate with the authorities in a way that would make most americans uncomfortable. >> reporter: in a statemt the mpany says user data is not transferred to russia and we don't sell or share any user data with any thirdparties.5k in terms of service, users agree cf and to the u.s. and other countries and by using the app, you give the company irrevocable royalty free permission to use your photos and advertisements for the company. it's the number one download with more than 100 million installations and famous users like the jonad broers and kevin hart. >> what we're all doing by posting our photos to apps like this is creating a surveillance technology industry that's goi to be worth billions of dollars

and whll always know w you look like. >> reporter: think minority report where tom cise walks by stores that recognize his face and target him with ads. privacy advocates say face app gathers less info on you like facebook, ggle and twitter which not only know your face but track pretty much everything else about you. face app saying its server deletes most photos after two days. iconic photos from ebony a jet magazine have a new home. > we'll take a lok backat

hundreds of thousands of or photos takenbony and jet magazines have beenauctioned off. at ester holt takes a lo some of the most iconic images of black america.

>> reporter: intimate portions of gnat king coal and ray charles. the pages of ebony and jet magazines were filled with iconic images like these. documenting and celebrating african-american life. a historical .treasure-trove >> the intimacy of the photos that strike you most? >> the intimacy is the focus. we see the joy of black life. we see the drama a trauma of black life. >> when ebony debuted in 1945, blacks in many places were still forced to sit at the backsf buses. in the decades that followed, you'd be hard pressed to find ai black home america without a copy of especialbony or jet on coffee table. recently the magazines fell on hard financial times. johnson publishing company filed for bankruptc in april and today, the prize photo archive, nearly a million images spanning

seven decades was sold at auction. there's concerns what the new ll owners wio with the collection and how accessible it will be to public. there's no question about the photos place in history and their importance in telling the story of black life ina rica. >> that was nbc lester holt reporting. all right. chuck isboere to talk a the temperatures. when the temperatureslimb high as they have in the last couple of days, we've been talking about your air-conditioning, yo air-conditioning bill that can hit hard. >> you have some tips for us. >>ittle changes make a big difference. you can save 5, $6 per day. that's 20 bucks. here a some easy tips from our friends to help you save some money during this peak of the heat wave. set your thermostat inside at 78 degrees. youon't have to levave it there

24/7. if you lift it at78, it will save you some electricity. keep the out door windows closed. when the sun starts to come through the windows, close your blinds and curtainsup warms the floor and you have to cool it back down again. that will help to save. you can turn off our unplu lighting, devices and pliapplias that you're not using. theyci are using electri. >> coffee pot. >> anything that produces heat, your clothes dryer, oven, dishwash dishwasher, run those at night. >> that's a really good tip. i hadn't thought of that. >> wait until nighttime. a little bit harder f the oven because you might be using dinner. use ceiling fans and make sure the air-conditioning ducts are not blowing into the back of the couch. make the mostof the cool air that you have and the ceiling

fans really helps to make a big difference. it will feel cooler and you can run the ac a little less. >> as soon as right before we walk out the door before the workday, we turn the thermostat up and it's not kicking in. >> i ran the numbers at our hou house. our programmable thermostat paid for itself in less than one summer. let it run the air-conditioner less duringhe day and more at night. >> with that, take us into what we're looking at r today. your ac will be working over time for the next few days. take those tips. an excessive heat watch has been in effect for friday and saturyy and probably for sunda too. overnight low temperatures will be near 80 degrees. afernoton indexgh values. 110 perhaps even a little higher than that. tomorrow afternoon heat index values easily 100 to 105.

that's miserable a lo saturday afternoon. 111, 115, 109, 112. that is saturday afternoon. sunday may be just about that bad as well. this is the extreme heat. you need to avoid it at all possible ways. cooling stag ining stations, goc washington app. it will show you where your cooling stations are. not mu o t ay. it wi bala building chance for showers. not quite the coverage or intensity of yesterday. let me show you future weather over the next couple of days. ater today, we dry out overnight tonig then tomorrow. no chance for rain tomorrow. tomorrow night and again on saturday. no rain chances. that means nothing but sunshinea and temperes climbing again probably close to a hundred and maybe a degree or two over in the washington area. sunday will g the beginninf the end.

still miserably hot. that will be the beginning o the lowering down of the temperatures here. monday, a lot better chance of hit and miss showers around here on monday. that rain chance gradually begins to dry up on tuesday. all this in mind. put it into your n-day forecast. 93 today. that will be cool by comparison. 99 tomorrow. 1 101 saturday and 99 on sunday. none of those would be record high temperatures but don't focus on whether or not it sets a record. the real danger is in the ht index. we have our storm chances back sunday, monday and into early tuesday. then how cool and comfortable is degrees going to feel. overnight lows back in the 60s by wednesday morning and staying at or slightly below aver raj for the middle and second parts of next week. we had to get from here to

back with you live here at the whole foods at riverdale park. you wonder what's going on here, it's not too early to start thinking bout back to school. this is what this is all about. make sure kids hve what they need to go back to school. this is what we want you to do. fill up this basket. you have been one of the people that came by here. kling two birds with one stone. >> i love whole foods and what better way to drop off backpackt and shopthe same time. just being a great part of the community and loving what you do. i love whole foods and i love donating any time we can. love the children. >> thank you so much for that. kerry with whole foods market. this is part of your whole corporate structure. it's giving back. >> this is giving back. one of our core values at whole foods is to help out and support our local community. today is a perfect day to do that. we welcome every one to come on

out and help us support our community and kids. >> you have people ready to help. get this basket full. they will be out herentil 2:00. this is what you need to know. they will be out here until 2:00. you can bring school supply, a backpack or cash. you can go to our websi, nbcwashington.com and make a secure donation there. whatever you do, please help out. these kids want to start outsche ool day right. what better day to be part of the community than to make sure they we're live in riverdale park, back to you. >> got plenty of time to head on out there and make a donation. most parents monitor how much sleep their kids are getting from tods hdler to teen years. there's something else to consider when it comes to sleep schedule and could bpacting their health. we have new research that is being done right here in our area and the results of the research may surprise u. we have more on doreen's story

in our nbc washington app. >> the doctor said it's okay to let teens sleep in and stay up late in the summer but you want to keep it within one hour of their norma bedtime and wake up time. coming up later, why kids are for likely to pack onds poun this time of year. we'll talk about who is most at risk and what you can do to keep it from happening. that's today on news 4 at 4:00. we are going to get a fiej che -- final check of your forecast in a couple of minutes. looking a little hazy outhere now. don't forget to stick with nbc 4 this afternoon for ellen.

aparents pay attention to hw much your kids sleep during the school year and during summer it's like can stay up later. do you let your kids do that? should we. for every parent it's

different. let's back to more on that. >> these clocks in our body tell us when to go to epsle. >> reporter: it's so easy to get off schedule when you don't have the structure of school and morning routines. thoseng cha can throw off your child's internal alarm clock. >> young children, there's a strong tendency for them to want goo bed earlier and wake up earlier. putting a young child to bed very late is problematic. it does not fit with their body clock just as putting an adolescent to bed at 8 or 9:00 at night, they can't fall asleea early. >> reporter: dr. danny is the associate director of sleep medicine at children's national health system in d.c. he says it's not just about how long your children are sleeping but what time they are going to bed. >> we tend to think about only duration but it's really critical to think about when'r sleeping. critical component of sleep health, mental health,le ning, physical health. >> reporter: children's

nationalist is part of a group that's about to publish research on optimal bedtimessed on a child's age. it builds offnd recommeions that many parents already use from the american academy of pediatrics. it calls for babies to sleep from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. wite al additional hours factored in nor naps. toddlers should go to school around 9:00 p.m. once kids start elemtary school, try to get them into bed by 7:30. they need about 12 hours of d sleep anhould avoid taking naps. 8 to12-year-olds may not be readyor bed until 8:00 while tanc teenagers aren't wriired the goo eeep until 9:30 to 10:30 aiming for hours of sleeph night. key is the consistency even on weekend and the summer or it

could lead to social jet lag. >>ld weekends shou not be considered wild time, free zone to stay up as late as you want. if they are delaying their sleep time by slerhree or four hous is like living in california. we note our bodies don't adjust. >> reporter: it can lead to mood swings, changes in appetite and trouble ticoncentrang. >> our muscle rair is not functioning optimally and learning can be affected. >> it's okay to letee teens in and stay up later in the summer. just keep it within one hour of normal wake up and bedtime. today, summer weight gain and y kids are likely to pack on the pound bs ths this time of y. that's at 4:00 p.m. keep an eye on netflix

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seattle, and las vegas. i'm indicakate rogers. there's tons of ways to exercise. you have soul cycle and you have yoga. sometimes the challenge can be finding the time to burn those calories. there's a hot new work out you can do at home.nd haley hernaez shows us hold up it works. >> reporter: veronica has a time job, a crazy popula blog and two kids to keep her busy. >> he's my wild child. >> reporter: she says she hasn't had time to work out in year. >> i'm a mom of two kids a i didn't work out during either of my pregnancies. i was really sick and post partum. i went back to work full-time and i never made the time for myself. >> reporter: that's al changed. >> it's like p no otherogram you have done. the movement seems strange but once you see the benefits, it's hard to stop you get addicted. >> reporter: the work out is mostclosely to pilates or

barre. >> there's no pulsi you only do eight repetitions. i feel a strong mind, beside connection. i've seen an increase in tone. >> reporter: she said it saved her a ton o time since she can jump right into it. >> it doesn't look hard but like my leg is shaking. it requires so much balance. >> reporter: she says it's saved her money. >> i always kind of thought working out was something you kind of had to do and i was kind of dread and since i've been doing this, i've been able to be consistent and some of the best $30 i spend every month. >> that's it for news 4 midday. thanks

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