josh norman, kirk cousins and ryan kerrigan rode around the track with none other than nascar's dale earnhardt junior! dale junior was just as excited - he's a longtime redskins fan. tomorrow - the redskins and ravens square off tomorrow - the redskins and ravens square off in their first preseason game of the season. you can watch it on both abc7 and newschannel 8. coverage begins at seven. our erin hawksworth will be live all afternoon from baltimore. it's 5: and time for a check on weather. - delightful today and - rain chances friday through monday - no sign of high heat and humidity today: mostly sunny. low humidity. very nice for early august. highs: 82-85 winds: n to se 5 mph tonight: mainly clear. another comfortable night. lows: 65-70 winds: se 5 mph thursday: sunny start with increasing clouds late. still pleasant. highs: 81-84 winds: se 5-10 mph kidd o'shea in the now.. singer glen campbell passed away yesterday at the age of 81. he was one of the first artist to have a country cross over hit, which opened the door for many other country artist to go from country to pop, including d

dale earnhardt, jr.eam in richmond. >> but first here is lester holt with a look at what's ahead on nbc nightly news. >> jim and wendy, we'll be leading off tonight with a major escalation with north korea crisis. president trump fire and fury on the news. deadly form of cancer claiming more younger people than a look back at the life of singer >> we need to spice it up. >> we need some snow cones now. >> we need -- we always need snow cones. that's a good rule. in two days for the redskins you might say it will be gentlemen, start your engines. it will be time to get revved up for a real game. but at least competition against another opponent with redskins by the ravens thursday and baltimore. today for a few redskins, it engines with the help of a racing icon. sort all of that and much more we go to the source down there in richmond. she was on the track. sherree burruss has all the details. sounds like a fun day. >> reporter: it was. thousands of fans come into training camp every day. one die heart f

dale earnhardt jr. took in some of practice this afternoon. nfl training camp, they resumed the hitting that only occurs in pro football. it's got our sports department thinking about the time when some of those hits went too far. ♪ [ music ] >> let's get ready to rumble! >> reporter: stacy deangelo hall is none for his chippiness. back in 0920 he was on the receiving end. he was surrounding by the enemy. >> even the head coach came over there, and said some words to >> reporter: flags for washington, but no fines in the mini may lay. meeting sean greland in practice. that's your teammate. and showing richard sherman he's more bite, than bark at the end of this playoff loss. >> what are you doing? >> reporter: this brawl was especially noteworthy, because it went viral, thanks to a little show called hard knocks, which was following the texans in august of 2016. their training camp skirmish went downright nasty, forcing their coach to call off practice. number 1, the only tv camera to catch michael westbrook. >> like i say, it's unfortunate, a

burning passion for dale earnhardt jr. in his final race. martin truex trying to conserve fuel, holds off brad keselowski to take the creekered flag. he leads in the cup stand -- checkered flag. he leads in the cup standards. >> all right. we will take that. >>> guess what? >> my weather computer gets a second chance when we come back. >>> take 2. looking at over night lows tonight, the weather forecast for tonight, lows in the middle 50s and as we head out in redding tomorrow, 101 degrees. thunderstorms in the sierra and temperatures in the middle seventy. in the bay area, sunshine and low clouds along the shore. concord 89. oakland 71. south bay, campbell 87. and san jose 84. east bay tomorrow we will be nearing 90 degrees. but not quite there. north bay tomorrow, nice, novato 84. 77 petaluma. 74 santa rosa. 94 lake port. in the extended forecast, the usual low clouds along it shoreline and sunshine tomorrow afternoon. with temperatures just easing up a little bit inland. low 90s by wednesday and thursday and friday. so there is a very gen

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like his buddy dale earnhardt jr. >> crazy story. >> and that spawned more people to respond. >> crazy this is funny the things that catch fire on twitter. lots of people sharing their own takes on kenny's story. >> love y'all. >>> let's go underwater in this well in mexico. they are on a specific mission, a mission that has been in the making since 2010. look what these divers are going to pick up. >> oh, cool. huge bones. >> what is it? >> mammoth, right? >> no. they are prehistoric bones, but those are the bones of a sloth. a giant sloth. >> no kidding. >> they found it in 2010 in a well. but before they took the bones out, they wanted to replace the natural water with distilled water so it would preserve the bones. they've only taken out the skull, the jaw, three long bones, three ribs, and seven claws. but slowly they will take out the other parts of it. look at this where they found it. how beautiful is that? >> did they say how deep they found it? >> they found it 164 feet down. >> not only are you lucky to find it in this place, but also someone to realize how important that fi

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ride shotgun at the raceway with dale earnhardt junior, a lifelong redskins fan. we are bringing you all the action, coverage begins at 7:00. dry today, don't count out fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection... you get our fastest... internet ever. with download speeds up to 940 megs - 20 times faster than most people have. switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone plus hbo for one year and multi-room dvr service for two years, all with a two-year agreement. and switching has never been easier. get out of your contract with up to a $500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. go to fiosgigabit.com veronica: it is a beautiful start to the day. the sun coming up. it really has been doing it to burn off the fog. right behind me, right there, you can see a little bit of a fog just starting to lift more in the low lying areas. the temperature right now stands at 65 degrees at reagan national,

kurt cousin and josh norman and others took a spin around the racetrack with dale earnhardt, jr. bay and number hour tour from the track. dale jr. is a huge redskins fan and was excited at the opportunity to meet the players. saying if there's anybody to get star struck or geeked out about it's anyone plying for the redskins. >> define love or maybe make yourself look like a stud. he booked 6 dates in one night truckston inn. the night was not a total bust the women became friends and ended up haptioning at a bar across the street. >> i want to know more about this. >> six women in the same place. >> not the brightest. >> not a good idea. >> yeah. >> all right. let's move on. 5:5 3 is the time letter man coming back to tv. he plans to host on netflix up seatled six episode series will the second series. >> sort of like charlie rose. >> he needs to shave that beard. >> i'm not feeling it either. >> this friday wheeling in culpeper virginia, from 6 to 11, i'll be there and tucker would be this and i would love to he soo new culpeper. friday, zip trip. >> time now to say good morning

al next hour find out why kirk cousins, josh norman and the top players hanging out with dale earnhardt there is a tease for you. alison: good tease. okay. great. see you soon. fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection... you get our fastest... internet ever. with download speeds up to 940 megs - 20 times faster than most people have. switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for $79.99 a month online for the first year. plus hbo for one year and multi-room dvr service for two years, all with a two-year agreement. and switching has never been easier. get out of your contract with up to a $500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. go to fiosgigabit.com alison: an eight-person jury has been seated in civil suit involving taylor swift and former radio d.j. swift accuses the d.j. of groping her in a photo shoot and he is suing her for getting him fired. >> outside the federal court. security is tight a

the fans, current around former redskins and nascar superstar dale earnhardt jr. under one roof to raise money for the youth programs programsn loudoun county. a day where the players brought their a game with a different uniform. >> can you take me through the jesus piece right quick? >> nice jesus piece. had to ice him out, too. you know. >> looks good. i like the hat. >> the some players the welcome home luncheon is a reminder time to walk down the long road called the season. >> a long off-season. just ready to hit somebody else. get it going. robert: it means that the roster will soon be down to 53 players. >> we have competition across the board. it will be excited for me. i'm excited to go out there >> players mingled with the fans and the donors. virginia governor terry mcauliffe making a pitch for the virginia stadium. >> you want a super bowl? you come to the commonwealth of virginia. i'm just telling you. >> over all, a good time for a good cause. >> get to see the fans and raise money for the children's program in the loudoun county area. we are excite

to nascar, this guy showing his burning passion for dale earnhardt, jr., in the final race. ouch, final lap, trying to conserve fuel. tashing the checkered flag in new york. a native of new jersey, winning his nascar, best race of the year. >>> good for him. >> wow. >> it's great to see both the giants and a's winning again. >> the young guys will continue to develop throughout the rest of the season. >> it's been a rare experience this year. thanks. coming up in our next half hour, president pence. the rumor that trump's number two is working hard to push back as his boss takes a break. >> she went to mulan for a photo shoot and woke up in a chest of drawers. the kidnapper's plan to auction off a young model on the dark web. >> and a homeless woman begging on the street with her baby. only on 5, we take a look at san francisco's new plan to help families in crisis. food. water. internet. we need it to live. but what we don't need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. i see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. you got me, mark. we just want fast internet

checking out super -- >> high a chance to talk about dale earnhardt about his love for the redskins.t before the season was about to start two seasons ago and he was breaking down the depth chart. >> is that right? >> it was like oh, well, ooh it mean that if this guys goes down this guy is here to back up. i can eye like how they're deep here. he's all in. he never liked getting the spoiler alerts when he was during race. that's like our play off run. >> really. >> sometimes on sunday afternoon i just had to know. i have the pitt crew give me little bug in my ear. >> wow. >> he's deep. >> he's all in on the skins. >> i said to you this morning i had no idea he was skins fan. i mean -- >> he grew up in north carolina. when he grew up there -- >> carolina wasn't there. you were either a falcons fan or redskins fan if you grew up in carl china. he said he was very happy but he said as kid he had always redskins gear. when he and his friends were eight years old playing in the backyard he had enough redskins jerseys for everybody. his whole team of neighborhood buddies allred skins fans

. >> well, you know, dale earnhardt made it famous, it's a family number, and my grandfather gave meing a lot of fun with it. this will be our second year in a row going into the playoffs, so trying to win a championship, got our first win this year so really excited and having a good year. today's race we have our stem car, dow stem car where rcr and come in for a stem program which is science, technology, engineering, and math, teaching kids about the fundamentals of how we make our cars faster, lighter, and it's all about the future, so we're trying to make these cars faster every week. >> it's about 8:30 here on sunday morning, race day morning morning. walk me through what they're doing throughout this what they call the hall or the giant toolbox and i want to talk to you about what you do to get ready mentally. >> this is our holler. we bring in two race cars each weekend. got a backup car upstairs, our primary car is outside getting worked on, kind of warming up. the engineers work out of here and this is where we kind of go over strategy for the weekend. today there will be d