♪ ♪ >> verne: we welcome you back to williams-brice stadium, columbia, south carolina, verne lundquistry danielson, tracy wolfson on the first s.e.c. road encounter for the missouri tigers. single game record for consecutive pass completions 23, tee martin, tennessee. against south carolina. connor shaw has hit 19 in a row and the gamecocks have a second down and 11 at the 19 yard line. he will run it. oh, boy. what has most impressed you about the effort today? >> gary: connor shaw. i think because he's been able to manage his throws. a lot of these have been easy throws. missouri, you can say what you want, but when steve spurrier gets your number, out of those 17, 18, 19 throws, half of them have just been gimme throws -- that is, dump-offs, so i think if you're going to have to move up on the receivers and force those receivers from south carolina to beat somebody, you can't give them gimmes. >> verne: the draw play again. >> gary: nice play. >> verne: shaw has gone to this several times, steve spurrier has. >> gary: i think brad madison got him from behind that time, didn't he, nu

. >> brice harper is racing home. the gnats are getting closer but they are still down 5-3.ame score in the bottom of the sixth. the first man out of the pen. first pitch to the first batter he faces. a solo home run for domonic brown. the nats fall 6-3. they have lost seven of their last eight to the phillies. the braves just four games back. what about the oriel bird. taking on the blew jays. facing colby who tallies one of toronto's 11 hits against the starters. they rally in the ninth but they fall short 4-3 is the final. red skins sign ryan grant as some insurance. down to just one healthy running back. kyle shanahan a little lightener the wallet. he was not pleased with the officials at the bengals lost. the officials made several critical errors and shanahan let them know during and after the game, chasing them off the field. he issued a statement saying he would not respond like that again and the nfl said no you won't, fining him $25,000. that was costly. more official issues in last night's monday night melt down. replacement officials awarded the sea hawks a win o

this guy brice decided he was going to do some magic. he claims to have been doing magic since he was 10 years old. take a look. >> oh! turn a quarter into an iphone. >> the quarter is in the iphone. >> that's an app. >> it's in the phone now, but then it's not in the phone anymore. >>ic i could do that trick. >> do it. >> he had the quarter on this finger back here. >> that doesn't explain how he turned it into the ipod in the first place. >> he probably had his friend make an app. >> look at this with his dorm pillow. puts it on the chair. >> this guy is good. >> he's really good. >> that was pretty impressive. >> i've watched too much pen and teller. they tell us all the secrets. in the end, it's trickery. >> but it's still great. i couldn't do this with my hands. he could have a huge vegas show some day because he's practicing in his dorm room. >>> beth, you're from north carolina, right? >> i am. >> have you seen this? >> holy cow that's awesome. >> woo! >> what is that? >> are they flying fish? >> those are jumping mullet. the guy

brice harp we are a pair. the nats deep six the cubs 9-1. that's your first look at sports.ggin. >>> now let's get another look at the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins with that weather channel forecast. good morning once again, bill. >> relief for some people, lynn. a very humid day up and down the eastern seaboard. cooler and drier air trying to push into new england. partly cloudy skies today. lower humidity levels for philadelphia northward. southward that, front is hung up down here. there are showers this morning in coastal areas of delaware. so forecast-wise, should be dry just about everywhere. still very warm. this tichl year we're only supposed to be around 80 degrees. we're going to be 92 in d.c. a slight chance for a shower or storm in albany and northern new england. best chance of a shower and storm through missouri and possibly hit and miss storms down there in north carolina. >> all right. bill, thanks so much. straight ahead, why britney spears can't be like kim kardashian. >>> and the actress whose driving record is giving lindsay lohan a run for

. >> brice harper has one of the nationals' hottest selling jerseys, but the uniform he was wearing yesterday isn't likely to be as popular. take a look. he and the other nats rookies sport red leotards as part of the team's annual hazing ritual. that's serious hazing. gonzalez tweeted these pictures out of the rookies. dressed like the u.s. olympics gymnastics team. the women's team, we should remind you. looks like everyone kept their sense of humor about it. good sports i guess. last year's rookies, by the way, had to dress up as smurfs. it's going to be tough to live those photos down. >> they look good in tutus, too. >> at least they're in shape. >>> still ahead this afternoon, another picture that has people talking today. a picture of the vice president getting cozy with a biker. >>> plus the worst weekend at the box office in nearly a decade. >>> also, a prison inmate makes a jail house confession. he explains why he decided to take anncr: this casino's in west virginia. but it makes millions off marylanders every year. now they're running dishonest ads. why? because voting for questi

. >>> the rookies led by brice harper had to dress up as the u.s. olympic women's gymnastics team. pictures courtesy of the twitter account of gio gonzalez. he said the 2012 olympians that didn't make the cut this year. gio, by the way, will be on the mound for the nationals tonight. it's good to see in a season they're playing so well, they can have a little levity and a little fun in the clubhouse. >> better them than us in those outfits. >>> if it was rg-iii with a few butterflies, i can't wait for the rest of the season after getting that one behind him. amazing. >> reporter: amen. it will be fun to watch, jim. >>> coming up, the man who got close enough to get a good squeeze on the commander in chief. we're going to be hearing from him. [ romney ] this president can ask us to be patient. this president can tell us it was someone else's fault. but this president cannot tell us that you're better off today than when he took office. [ female announcer ] here in virginia, we're not better off under president obama. his defense cuts threaten over one hundred thirty thousand jobs, l

brice harper drove in another run with one of his four hits on the night.hink it's the first time he had four hits in a game this season. the nats win 5-3 and now have a 7.5 game lead over the braves who lost again last night. >> you have to have a strong bench in life. >> okay. >>> robert griffin iii is the talk of the town after sunday's big win down in the big easy, of course. he also has started apparently a new craze among skins fans reminiscent of course of tim tebow's signature move. check it it's called griffinnin and it refers to this pose right there which the qb made after throwing his first touchdown pass. okay. it's catching on. we said that, right? so here's a look at some of the fans getting in on this griffinning craze. the first picture was sent in from lamont on twitter and then here's a student doing the same back at his alma mater baylor university. we don't recommend this. but some folks are griffinning at the office. and finally, little scott benson on twitter -- excuse me, daddy scott sent little calvin's photo. calvin is 3. but he is

. >> brice harper hit two, gonzalez no-hitter through five innings, his 18th win.s wrap up the series tonight. nats lead the braves by 7.5 games in the n.l. east. >>> the nfl season kick off last night. it pitted two redskins rivals the cowboys beating the giants 24-17 on the road. tony romo threw for three touchdowns and the dallas defense frustrated eli manning in his offense with three sacks. ouch. this is the first regular season game with replacement refs. there were no controversies, no blatant mistakes to talk about. so good job for the refs. >>> travelers who use bwi thurgood marshall airport have another discount option. spirit airlines will begin service day from bwi marshall to dallas/fort worth and fort lauderdale, florida coming on the heels of the busiest month in the airport' history. spirit is known for low fares but fees for carry-on luggage and other services. >> you have to weigh your options. >>> up next, sarah is on the fox lot with our garden expert, he is answering your questions. >> then holly is live in georgetown with a look at what men ca