from the verizon center, i'm jason pew, news4 sports. >> all right, jason pew he has it covered. >>> don't panic, nats fans the season is young, just try to forget that max scherzer may miss his start in atlanta on tuesday with what he calls a sprained thumb and that your team was just swept out of miami. all is well though. birthday fans for the nats, they won an autograph and home run. bryce treated the kids to one of the top two, scoreless. harp facing his old team mate dan her ron, gets the best of this one. smashes this one to right. solo shot nats they are on the board, 1-0. bottom four now, problems for the nation as with two on. ichiro u.s. is zbluk kirk hit it is over gio gonzalez so fast and safe at first, nats catch john carlos stan top, wilson ramos going to throw it, never makes the throw, so, stanton saved the death stare from matt williams the next batter echevarria takes this one in center all the way to the wall, bases-clearing triple for the shortstop. marlins, they get out the broom, sweep the nat, 6-2. nats on a five-game losing skid. >>> little league day at camd

jason pew is live at the phone booth with the big game against the rapt rz tonight. jason they played pretty well in toronto. are they going to keep it going here at home? >> reporter: yeah, let's hope so, jim. it's been a busy day here at the verizon center, the last two days going back to last night with the capitals. the wizards hoping to take their momentum they gained in toronto and bring it home. last year they struggled at home in the postseason winning just one game. if they want to get to where they want to go this season, they know they have to establish a dominant home court advantage and it starts tonight against the raptors. >> we've got to protect the house man. we can't let anybody come in here and win. we struggled last year but this is a new year. we have to elevate our game, play the same way we play on the road. we have to bring it back here. we know it's going to be tough because our nerves and anxiety will be running because we're in front of our home crowd. but we've got to try to control our emotions as much as possible and play our game. >> we

let's go straight to jason pew live down at the phone booth. jason, fans getting a little nervous yet? >> reporter: yeah, they are, jim. they were nervous especially after the performance in game one by the capitals. this morning's skate-around didn't help the nerves. one of the star players, goaltender braden holtby missed the skate-around. he is feeling under the waernlg. he is kpeblgted to play tonight, though. the players know they need to give fans something to cheer about, something they didn't do in game one. >> i'm sure the fans are sitting in their seats rd to get out of them, and bedidn't give them much to do. we need to player better, be physical. we need to have that relenltless attack. it's going to be a fantastic atmosphere if we give them something to cheer about. >> we were a little off, not our best hockey game chshgs is disappointing. but the more we get going here, the more games we play, i think we're going to continue to improve, continue to get better, and we have to have a mind-set that we're going to be a lot better and

from nationals park i'm jason pew, news4 sports. >> thanks, jason the injuries continue for the nats.ple nfl notes the league announcing today they'll reinstate adrian peterson tomorrow. this was expected. also expected, redskins re-signing kicker fullback terms not disclosed. the nba releasing its playoff schedule, wizards opening up on the road against the raptors. game one saturday at 12:30, game two on tuesday, wizards home for games three and four next friday and sunday. paul pierce urging the team to just soak in the moment. >> these are special moments. there's a lot of teams that wished they could be in this position, a lot of teams are home. so there's nothing like playoff basketball. the intensity the smell of the popcorn. this is where good players become great players and you try to relish these moments. that's what i'm trying to install into these guys, every moment counts. >> so we may be criticizing the teams for not having enough intensity and execution for the playoffs, but the fans need to get into it. verizon center last night a little quiet. >> really/? >> yes. jas

dianna russini, jason pew getting us ready for the big game. >> reporter: guys, no question tonight is it going to be rocking. fans playing off that momentum, the caps able to get in the overtime win back in long island. >> reporter: no team in this series has won back-to-back games caps trying to do that tonight. when a series is tied at 2-2 seven-game series, whoever wins game five goes on to win the series 78% of the time. huge game tonight. >> reporter: jason, it's no secret right now that in the nassau coliseum the fan wrzs were crazy. some of the caps players saying they were a little rude. we're hopetion the fans bring some of that heat. coming up at 5, you will hear from the caps players on what they are specifically looking at from the fans here at the verizon center. we'll send it back to you. >> thanks, guys. >>> a violent brawl caught on camera camera. >> all happening on a subway platform. the incredible pictures and why police didn't have a chance of catching the suspects. >>> and viral video of a u.s. marshal knocking a phone right out of a woman's hand. a new look at wh

at 6:00 jason pew will join me and we'll break down the matchup between the isles and caps. for now back to you. >> thanks, dianna. >>> a surprise decision from a local officer who was on trial. >> the officer switches his plea and says he's guilty. new tonight, the video that was key to this case. >>> freezing temperatures and what could be a rather rainy weekend. >> announcer: and now your storm team4 forecast. >>> and cold temperatures, that's what we've got out there. across the area, we'll call it cool, not cold. cold would be 30s or 40s. right now we're in the 50s for the most part. some of us are actually near 60. that's where we are right now downtown. take a look mostly cloudy, a little bit in the way of some sun peeking through with a temperature of 59. that's the high so far today, ten degrees below average. the wind is gusting up to 30 miles an hour, 31 in manassas, 25 in winchester, 24 in annapolis. we've got rather breezy conditions. you add that in with the current temperature, 52 in gaithersburg 53 baltimore 54 leesburg and only 49 in hagerstown, and it defin

for now, i'm dianna russini, this is jason pew, live at the verizon center, back to you. >> thanks, guys. >>> we are talking about the big stories in washington this week. >> from more trouble to the secret service to big changes to one of our favorite macaroni brands. we're dishing with "the washington post" coming up next. >>> later in our news the impassioned plea that angelina jolie made to the united natio >>> we want to get to a segment we're calling the petrie dish as we take a look at the big stories of the week. >> with a little bit of a twist. to do that, we welcome "the washington post's" alexandra pe try. hello. >> hello. >> thanks for joining us. there was more trouble this week for the secret service amid reports agents failed to fix a broken alarm system at former president george h.r. bush's home for a year. what's your take on that if. >> look, it happens to the befs of us. you have to have your priorities. if you're trying to get inasmuch partying and driving your vehicle over suspicious packages as you possibly can sometimes a little thing like making sure the former p

dianana russini and jason pew are live there. after wednesday's loss no one is hitting the panic button just yet. >> reporter: the caps aren't. they're actually pretty relaxed, calm going into this game. but, guys, let's face it, this really is a must-win for the caps because they do not want to go back up to new york, go to long island, play at nassau coliseum down two games. >> reporter: in order to get that win dianna they need their stars to step up and play very well. one of those stars is goaltender braden holtby. he missed this morning's skate. he's feeling under the weather according to head coach since game one. but he expects him to play tonight. they need him to stept up and a few other guys to have good games. >> reporter: they surely need to step up after the lackluster performance in game one where they came out playing very flat. not only did the caps play flat but a lot of people noted that the fans here at the verizon center who really had nothing to cheer about in game one because they only scored one goal were

jason pew here with you in studio. good time to be a d.c. sports fan. tonight in new york, the capitals start their series with the rangers, second round of the playoffs. also in chicago, first round of the nfl draft taking place. that's where we start tonight. dianna russini is in the windy city. dianna, what are you hearing about who the redskins will take with that fifth overall pick? >> reporter: well, first a lot of people were thinking that maybe the redskins would take a quarterback. but i can tell you that gm scott mcleunen is sitting at redskins park in the war room with jay gruden. they are going to kons trailt on building up their defense. dante fowler jr. out of florida is a guy you're going to want to keep an eye on tonight. he's a defensive end, really athletic. athletic. he's big. he's strong. he could start on this team come august. now if fowler gets picked before the redskins get to him, look for offensive tack embrandon scherff. rg 3, these guys need protection. this guy could do it. he's well coached, out of iowa, a left tackle. he h