as we first reported, wizards designated blatche.l become a free agent but still gets paid the remainder of the contract. his time in washington has been marched with poor play, plenty of injuries and off the court embarrassment. they gave him 23 million to get on a dodge. bradley beel having a good night. he flips the defenders for 2 of his 14 points. the wizards outrebounded the grizzlies 56-22. they win this one. and today i got to play a little tennis with redskins hall of famer darrell green. he participated in the washington classic. when i asked him about the redskins, greene had some harsh words for his former team. >> i said this is ridiculous. it just was a joke. the last 10 years has just been a joke and it's about time that they step up to the plate. and i think the showing that they're serious about it, to get rg3, that to me says they're serious. and a lot of other good changes this year. so we'll have to see what happens. >> we'll have to see what happens. fans are excited. former players are excited. he looks good for

. >>> andrea blatche is no longer a washington wizard. they waved him yesterday.latche will still receive the $20 million on his contract but it wouldn't count against the wizards salary cap because the wizards designated him as their, quote, amnesty player. they drafted blatche out of high school in 2005. >>> that ball gets away! here comes zimmerman! the nationals win on a wild pitch. >> the nationals continue to find new ways to win. they beat the mets last night with a wild five in the tenth inning. the nats tied earlier in the inning. last night's ending similar to the national's home opener when ryan zimmerman also scored on a wild pitch in the tenth inning. that game was against the cincinnati reds. >>> the nats are in first place by 3 1/2 games and have the best record in the national league, but they may be without one of their star pitchers for the stretch run. the team set to shut down steven strasburg in late august, early september, as part of his recovery from elbow surgery. how hard would it be for strasburg to watch his teammates play in october an

down the road, yeah. >> my thanks to christina blatche.ere's a look at the colorado shooting story how it was told around the world. on the left, there's the front page from puerto rico translated the headline reads "night of terror in colorado." on the "tell a graph" from india, the headline "vampire at bat night." >>> next, we look into james holmes' past. oh, that's just my buds. bacon, duts. -my taste buds. -[ taste buds ] waffles. how about we try this new kind of fiber one cereal? you think you're going to slip some fiber by us? rookie. okay. ♪ nutty clusters and almonds, ♪ ♪ almonds. ♪ fiber one is gonna make you smile. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing new fiber one nutty clusters and almonds. with 43% daily value of fiber for you. crunchy nutty clusters and real almond slices for your taste buds. >>> matt mcquinn's family agonized for hours before they found out he was killed in the aurora movie theater shooting. he was at the movie with his girlfriend and her brother. witnesses say he died while trying to shield his girlfriend fro

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. >>> the wizards have parted ways with andray blatche. and they had to eat the remaining $23 million on his contract. he was designated as the amnesty player. he gets paid his money but it country count against the salary cap. >> that's the reward. >> an amnesty clause. i have to remember th . >>> parents worry about their kids getting tattoos. but one woman probably won't have that concern. >> it won't come off? it's okay. it's a pretend tattoo. it's okay. it's for fun. >> that's 16-month-old marshall. his mother posted the video on youtube. she got one at a festival and wanted to include him >> announcer: it's "the tonight show with jay leno," featuring rickey minor and "the tonight show" band. tonight, jay welcomes -- from "total recall," kate beckinsale. comedian adam carolla.

down the road, yeah. >> my thanks to christina blatche.ere's a look at the colorado shooting story how it was told around the world. on the left, there's the front page from puerto rico translated the headline reads "night of terror in colorado." on the "tell a graph" from india, the headline "vampire at bat night." >>> next, we look into james holmes' past. oh, that's just my buds. bacon, donuts. -my taste buds. -[ taste buds ] waffles. how about we try this new kind of fiber one cereal? you think you're going to slip some fiber by us? rookie. okay. ♪ nutty clusters and almonds, ♪ ♪ almonds. ♪ fiber one is gonna make you smile. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing new fiber one nutty clusters and almonds. with 43% daily value of fiber for you. crunchy nutty clusters and real almond slices for your taste buds. >>> matt mcquinn's family agonized for hours before they found out he was killed in the aurora movie theater shooting. he was at the movie with his girlfriend and her brother. witnesses say he died while trying to shield his girlfriend f

and after seven years in d.c., andre andre blatch will still get paid, but not be in a wizards uniform anymore. and finally tonight, former redskin, charles mann, helps pass over 2,000 backpacks with school supplies today. those backpacks going to children of military families. he was also joined by new redskin, pier. so, lots of redskins doing great work in the community. tonight is the washington capitals charity classic. and we have some castles behind us, people warming up, getting ready for this event tonight. a wonderful event, and i'm going to go join them. i have to warm up. i have a big match tonight. live from castle stadium, i'm kristen berset. back to you. >> i hope you got some water out there with you, because it is hot. >> melting weather. >> you walk out, you have warmed up pretty much. you don't have to do much. here's the next seven days, heat advisory goes into effect at 11:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. 99 tomorrow, but the big news really will be showers and storms wednesday, thursday, and friday. some will be heavy. we'll talk about that at 7:00. >> that's it for us, the

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so they use that provision and they got rid of andray blatche. now free to sign with any team in the nba, and he collects all $23 million remaining on his contract. one team i can tell you for sure that he will not be playing for, team usa which was at verizon center last night. this was fun. they were taking on brazil. president obama walked into the game shortly before tipoff. and team usa rose to their feet to pay respect to the commander in chief. and then threw him off a little bit. down 19-13. the jumper to give brazil an 8-point lead. brazil led for much of the first half. first lady michelle obama arrived in the second quarter. on the kiss cam, she denies the old president. unbelievab unbelievable. a minute and a half to go in the second quarter. usa now up by one. lebron drives right by his defender. lays it in for two of his 30 points. the u.s. ends the half on a 20-5 run. third quarter, more defense from team usa. chris paula head of the pack. takes the bucket. hits the free throw to gift u.s. a 13-point lead. fourth quarter, guess wha

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the second day of redskins rocky minicamp and there is no rg3 and they said goodbye to blatch and he was a.m. nest ied and that means -- a.m.nestied and he gets his $23 million. laura, you are not amnesty, you are getting paid and have to be here. >> now you have the news edge. of course, the news is also always on at www.myfoxdc.com. keep it here. tmz on the is up next.  [ romney ] i'm mitt romney, and i approve this message. [ male announcer ] when a president doesn't tell the truth, how can we trust him to lead? the obama outsourcing attacks: "misleading, unfair and untrue." there was "no evidence" that mitt romney shipped jobs overseas. candidate obama lied about hillary clinton.

they're under the salary cap after waiving andray blatche. >>> the team usa in barcelona taking on spain. early on the spaniards came to play, 16 point in the 1st half with sergio baca and they led by as many as nine. carmelo anthony had a huge first half as well and so did lebron. had he 23 in the 1st half and spain's lead was -- he had 23 in the 1st half and spain's lead was long gone. team usa won 100-78 is. they won all five exhibition game -- 100-78. they won all five ex picks games. >>> the redskins first -- exhibition games. >>> the redskins first preseason game is august 9th with buffalo. they signed free agent david jones. training camp guns this week. here's a look at the -- begins this week. here's a look at the schedule. we will be live from redskins park beginning at 5 p.m. rg3 has a press conference at 5:30. camp begins thursday with a 10:40 a.m. walk-through. day of ross will be live during the 6 a.m. hour. practices are open to the public beginning at 3 p.m. thursday, friday and saturday. sunday is an off day for the players. >>> finally the kastles beat the philadelphia

. >>> andre >>> andre blatch was released. he will still be paid the $23 million owed to him.e averaged nearly 10 points and five rebounds. he had several off the court problems during his time in d.c. >> $23 million to go away? nice work. >>> day three of redskins rookie training camp and still no robert griffin iii. >> he is expected to sign a four-year deal for around $21 million. there is a lot of money being thrown around this morning. >> yeah, it is. griffin may not be on the field

such is the life of andre blatche. after seven years in washington, he's no longer a wizard. the team bought up his contract for $23 million. it also made him a free agent so he can sign with another team and then he gets another paycheck. >> good night, everybody. >> good deal. lin sanity going from the big apple to the h town. the knicks will not match the offer offered to jeremy lin so he's most likely to accept a zeal with houston. this past season he became a nationwide star helping the knicks to the playoffs. good deal. >> that's going to be really interesting to see if he will be at good in houston. >>> 6:25. straight ahead, learn where the redskins rank on the list of the world's most valuable sports teams. >> taking a gamble on table games in maryland. find out what's going on today in the free state. >>> commute time. let's toss it over to monika. >> on the northbound side of i- 95, not a bad commute. things looking good from dale city all the way up the line here in springfield and over the beltway through annandale and tysons corner. i'll be back with more coming

the wizards used their so- called amnesty provision and released andre blatch.3 million that is still owed to him. >> of course. >> $23 million to go away. he was selected in the second round of the nba draft. he had several off the court problems during his time in d.c. >> it just mazes me that -- amazes me that they can do that. >> why do they call it amnesty? >> they could have gotten rid of him a couple of years ago for free. they signed him and gave him a whole bunch of money. >> we have a history of doing that. >> forecast going to be hot again today. our temperature will be right up near triple digits. we'll be close to 100 later today. we want to kickly touch on yesterday's high temperatures. 100 at reagan national. that was the sixth time this year that we've hit 100 or better. dulles was 99. bwi marshall was 100. today, in addition to temperatures near 100, our dew point temperatures, our humidity has been creeping up overnight. 80 right now in washington. we are just not cooling off at nighttime. 82 in annapolis. 79 in leonardtown. 75 in fredericksbur

the team used the amnesty provision and released andre blatch. that means the remainder of his contract will not go against the salary cap but he will still get paid the $23 million still owed to him. he had several off the court problems during his time in d.c. but he has got $23 million. so the problems go away. >>> day three of redskins rookie training camp and still no robert give iniii. >> he still hasn't signed a contract just yet and technically, he is not missing any training camp. but he is missing the extra time that rookies get to get up to speed when the veterans show up. griffin is expected to sign a four-year $21 million deal. >>> so who is ripper, canadians or americans? >> that is a good question. we'll find out coming up in a little bit. interesting story just ahead. >>> time for our facebook fan of the day. we say hello to vernice bryan. she says she and her husband are celebrating their seventh wedding anniversary. they are fox 5's number one fans. we want to say thank you for tuning in. we appreciate it. we'll be right back. >

a good friend of alex sullivan, christina blatche, is another victim of the shooting massacre. she was with alex at that midnight movie. she survived and earlier we talk, as she recover in her hospital bed. >> a couple hours ago, a day or so ago, you were a manager at a restaurant and then this. >> yeah. you can never expect it. you're always that person that says, that will never happen to me. and then when it's going on, i didn't even know what was going on for the first three minutes that it happened. i thought it was like movie theater antics. when there are midnight movie premiers, they put on shows. they have people dress up in costume and come around and what not. i honestly thought that might be what was going on because it was in the middle of a movie scene. where they're fighting. and then when the thing that was thrown and kind of lying, you could literally count to five. then this bomb went off. and that was like two things in front of me. two rows. and then all of a sudden, you hear pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. gun fire. that's when it hit me, oh, my god. this is actua