and lindsay has lunch with former washington coach joe gibbs. >>> first this afternoon our top story.more trouble for metro. following an investigation into how a train was allowed to leave the yard with too many cars. >> the last two months have been a nightmare for metro with one tragedy right after the next. pat collins is live outside of the metro center station in northwest to tell bus the latest. pat? >> reporter: metro trouble. it seems every week something bad happens to metro. at the silver spring home of michael nash, someoneeft a card of cdolence in the front door. 63-year-old michael nash, a track repairman, for metro killed bay piece of equipment while he was working on the orange line sunday. mr. nash worked for metro 21 years and he lived in the silver spring neighborhood for a long time. >> every time he saw me he says hello, how are you, how is everything going. he is a good guy. didn't hear anything bad. >> reporter: today more bad news for metro. word that on july 31, a green line train left a greenbelt station with two too many cars. a passenger alerted the operato

. >>> this is geico sports extra when joe gibbs returned as redskins head coach back in 2004, one oft signings was cornelius griffin. there were a few changes after that, but one of them left the tackle. more on why why they didn't have to worry about filling that position. >> reporter: of the redskins training camp, you could say this one was looked at with a lot of respect, more than any other. he has never been to a pro bowl, nor has he provided big numbers, but for six seasons, cornelius griffin walked the line. >> i enjoy being here and playing the teammates, i enjoy being here. part of the team. everybody has a job to do and be accountable for their position. >> reporter: yes, the man he will line up next to, albert haynesworth, received the richest contract provided for. but the man in the middle, staying quiet except to the teammates behind him. >> he does a lot of the tough work, you know taking on double teams, controlling the group so somebody else can make the play. cornelius is a professional, comes in, day in, day out. gets the job done. >> griffin just makes things hap

they want a win now. >> can't get enough of coach joe gibbs. coming up in the final half hour of "news 4 today" -- >> reporter: security measures in place. i'm derrick ward. i'll have details coming up on "news 4." >>> plus some high school students in our area getting an early start in college. >>> and wild ride for the first family. stay with us. >>> topping the news this half hour, breaking news and myanmar. virginia senator jim webb has secured the release of an american man being held prisoner there. the american was locked up for visiting a woman who supported democracy. she is currently under house arrest. >>> more devastation in china caused by heavy rain. the storms triggered land slides and destroyed major roadways in the country's southern provinces. entire apartment buildings slid down one slope into a river below. as many as 11 people were killed in this latest round of storms. >>> michael jackson's final resting place is still not clear, but we may have some insight as to where his body is being held right now. tmz is reporting th

of course, joe gibbs, the author of "game plan for life." day. i grew up a giants fan and still resent you for beating us each and every year. >> i fnl you. i've been in a costume because i don't want anybody to see the redskins coach. i get some lumps in new york. >> smart man. >> my father is a fan. >> let's talk about the news of the day. i guess first of all were you surprised that the eagles took michael vick? >> i felt like it was probably going to be somebody that would take him and say this solved all of our quarterback problems. i thought they would probably take him to be a starter. i didn't think somebody would take him to go in behind a starter that they have there. it was a little bit of a surprise. what we hope here some of these young guys made a horrible mistake, paid a big price. now we all hope that he would reinstate his career, have a great finish and learn from his past mistakes. >> how do you weigh that as an organization from the pr sta standpoint? you're looking at what you need as a team and how he can help you as a t

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also, a joe gibbs driver takes to the track with a heavy heart.nd andy roddick takes the court here in d.c. >>> okay. i'm looking at your script because that's what i do all the time. >> i know. why do you do that? >> because i need to know what's going on. albert haynesworth, what about him? i want to know now. >> if you just hold on, i'm going to tell you what the deal is. the fifth day of training camp for the redskins. they might have a slight concern. even if it's routine, when you pay a pretty penny for a top-of-the-line rolls-royce, you don't want to see it sitting in the garage. today, albert hanynesworth was limited, but it was just precautionary after getting an injection to cushion his left knee. haynesworth was looking out for the knee. he said he could be back, in fact, as soon as tomorrow. but haynesworth, who signed the most lucrative contract in the nfl in history, didn't want to push it today. jim zorn says do not worry. this is precautionary. >> we're just trying to keep his knee, which is sore, just from all the work we've been

this is his first year as a driver/owner after leaving joe gibbs racing. he is his own boss and doing well. >>> five day with gary. >> it was very hot today. upper 90s. tomorrow only 92. we will have some clouds and a couple of scattered thunderstorms but that will be later in the day. look aft the rest of the week. good-bye to the 90s. 88 on wednesday and middle 80s on thursday and friday. >> thank you. now you have the news edge. always on i www.myfoxdc.com. back here tonight at 10:00. the news edge at 11:00. hope you will be too. hearts h happy... ...a b hearts ppy too. because as part of a heart althy diet... .those delicious oats in eerios can help naturally r cholesterol. (cheerios illing) somethg soig. ..o

the joe gibbs driver, holding off on them.that's the story from here and the training camp in the books, but no him out there. i know that you said that earlier. he'll be happy to take that number three quarterback position. they will also be very happy to return the punts for the league minimum of that much. see if they need it. >> getting more than that. >> you can get hit hard. >> right. that'll cost you more. >> a million. >> i'm sure you were working out, whatever it will be. >> that's right, that's right. >> all right, you can see them in the league. >> i think so. i think for the next couple of weeks. that's it for us, the cbs evening news, next. we'll see you at seven and don't forget, wusa9.com, the news is always on.

and for that he has one man to thank, joe gibbs. >> he is like, mike i understand your past.nce. make the best out of it and if it wasn't for that man right there, no telling where i would be. >> reporter: where he is now is smack dab in the middle of the trenches and fun and games. dave owens 9 news now and wusa9.com. >>> we are buzzing about a few things. one dominick, the author that had a story of crime. he died of bladder cancer. he was griffin dunn's dad by the way. he was 83 and wrote the two mrs. granville. he traveled to germany and dominican republic and had stem cells and he wrote they had been in the same clinic as farrah fawcett. >> an amazing summer with all of the noted celebrities who have died. even an article in the "washington post" about it comes in threes, but this has been waves and waves and waves. >> o.j., even some kennedy family trials he covered, as well. >> we talked about this earlier. we teased it. bob dylan is the rock icon. guess what kind of album he is coming out with. >> christmas. >> she coming out with a winter wonderland little drummer bo

this is his second go around in dc and he has one man to thank, joe gibbs. >> i remember the first day i came back. i understand your pass, make the best of it. if it wasn't for that man right there, no telling where i'd be. >> where he is now is smack dab in the middle of the trenches and the fun and games. >> yeah, he is a team spankster. he keeps going and you have to say mike, you win. >> and he is 270-pounds. >> he's a big guy. >> you can't judge a book by its cover. >> thanks dave. >>> all right, coming up in living well, radiation overload from too many medical tests. a new study addresses this potential problem. we'll be right back. >>> and don't forget, we are always online at wusa9.com. stay with us. tonight's living well segment >>> now on to an important question in our high-tech world. how much is too much when it comes to radiation? tests give doctors clues on what is going on inside us, but radiation exposure adds up. in living well tonight, what that means for long-term health. >> john wilx needs a health scan. >> i can't get my heart fixed without getting a cat scan. >

i talked to born-again coach joe gibbs about the religious and how they view how jesus would view providing health care. this is from my discussion. >> the argument you hear from those to support it -- the arguments you hear is that it is the right and decent thing to do, even the christian thing to do, that everyone should have this basic human right. do you agree with that? >> i think we definitely want to do that. there is a real concern for those who do not have health insurance. that is obviously a big deal. i would also say there is a real concern for a lot of us, is the government going to run everything? neil: which wins out? because or the moral commitment? >> well, they are related, neil. and you cannot say that people are lacking health insurance so we are all the gallager focus on expanding access to without looking at affordability. people are being denied access in part because it is not affordable. we are not debating the fact whether or not the country should provide more access or make it more affordable. we are debating how to do that, he and the democrats want the governm

the joe gibbs driver held off montoya in the final lap to snap his 50-race winless streak.t was his third victory in eight career starts in pocono. >>> a local lawyer files a discrimination complaint after he's arrested for disorderly conduct. >>> and local lawmakers begin an effort to use more federal resources to help to clean up the chesapeake bay. >>> we come to you live from canal road and cambridge. notice some construction is on. vome is obviously light. no traffic. more shots when we return. howard? >>> outside we have the humidity and some haze in the air but it is comfortable this morning. not going to be so comfortable later this afternoon. we will talk about that when 9 news new no this morning returns. this is one way of getting vitamins and minerals. this is another. new total blueberry pomegranate cereal gives you 100% of the daily value of 12 essential vitamins and minerals. plus the bold new taste of blueberries and pomegranate with crispy whole grain flakes and crunchy oat clusters. total, a truly delicious way to get vitamins and minerals. how are you get

i was introduced to joe gibbs. >> thank you so much. i learned, happy birthday, pensacola, as well. 450 years. willie, if it's way too early, what time is it? >> it's time for "morning joe." but the "morning meeting" starts right now. >>> today, we will talk aboutçó questions of ted tenabout ted k health. >>> also, a midair collision caught on tape. disturbing new video of that crash over the hudson river. plus new information about what was happening in airport control towers at the moment of impact, and also not encouraging. >>> meanwhile, the huffing ton post that spells out the details a back room deal between the white house and drug companies. we will speak with a reporter that broke that story coming up. >>> protecting the president, a man being investigated for making threats against barack obama leading police into a chase, and standoff. the president is getting 30 threats a day. how difficult is it to keep track of the so-called loan wolf's danger. >> i am daven weaver, and i am here at the white house to interview president ob

. >> we had joe gibbs on and he was surprised vick went to philadelphia when they already have a quarterback philadelphia fans are some of the more gentle fans in america. you know, fans that boo santa cla claus. santa claus. >> he's in a place where he's going to be sabaged. >> until donovan mcnabb fumbles the first two or three weeks. vick goes out and he alludes three dallas cowboys and flicks it 60 yards and suddenly michael vick, always the most popular guy. >> the back-up quarterback. >> exactly, exactly. >> willie will tell you everywhere we go. >> is he insulting me? >> i am sure it is some kind of insult. >> wherever we go. i was out last night eating dinner with my family and a guy calls me across the restaurant in new york and he goes, hey, joe, big fan! my family walks over there and i'm like edging my wife and we get over there and he said to me, of course, i'm a much bigger -- >> put her in coach. >> and i say story of my life. >> all right, fine. >> is it not? >> i got an e-mail from a prominent journalist on friday, an e-mail to a prominent event. look forward to mika. >> i k

it's a venture that everybody said i was crazy for leaving joe gibbs racing. to stewart house racing and have ryan newman has been a lot of fun. brian: your dad had to take out loans and spend own money and used to have to use used tires. he would say can i borrow those tires. race and deal with that take a look at your car and find out about your great program. number 14 car. why would this go fast? >> it's got 850-horsepower first of all. that's a big power. it's 3400-pound stock car, no interior so there is no airconditioning, no luxuries no, power seats, tilt wheel. our seats are small and contained. they go fast. this new co 2 car that nascar came out with is cool. brian: you talk about economic downturn significant. tighter and tighter. you are still filled with them. tony a lot of pressure to win. >> there is. luckily we are leading the cup points right now. brian: operation backpack is right here. what is operation backpack. how does it give back to the kids. >> this is a program throughout office depot foundation. and basically they are going to be gi

let me set the record straight early on, these folks, i think, they are dumber than joe the plumber. >> robert gibbs be right. we are all focusing on some of the craziness taking place at town halls and some of the politicians playing to the bases showing up at town halls when you are not getting a representative sample of actual people in the middle who show up. bill: now, there is something very disturbing about a major corporation, g.e., allowing its news division to brand americans, rationist, stupid because they oppose. i have never seen this before. folks are using their constitutional rights to protest the health care policy they believe will harm them and the country. a powerful corporation, g.e., which just received more than a billion dollars in low cost government loans, taxpayer money, demonizes the very people that provided them the cash. is that unbelievable? and the folks are noticing. so far in august, the msnbc network, the most radical left arm of nbc news is down 24% in total audience while fox news is up 21%. at 8:00 p.m. factor is up 56% in the. it's not just nbc news going afte

joe. also members said he is not buying in and they questioned robert gibbs about the latest string of gasat yesterday's briefing. let's take a look. >> i think the president and his team are (inaudible) ♪ >> uh. >> ranging from people involved in the politics and political reconciliation that has to happen in order to make iraq a safer place and to see us fulfill our commitment to remove our troops as to the timetable the president has laid out. i think he's an enormous assets to the administration. >> robert, i think the only thing better than having you as a press secretary would have joe biden take your job. this evening awes universal nightmare segment comes courtesy of the united kingdom's health service. it is supposed to provide everybody across the pond with universal healthcare. the harold reports scotts are not pleased with nhs scare quote almost one-third of the people had a problem with the nhs but 53 percent of that group did not complain about the service they received with many saying it wouldn't make any difference. the article goes on to say quote the report said that peo

president obama, david axelrod and robert gibbs are at a little bit of a disadvantage right now because there are so many targets to shoot at. >> great having you on, joe, given all of that, where do you think this is all headed. the democrats draw a line in the sand in mid-september, if they don't by any republicans they'll go it alone, will they really do that. >> nancy pelosi came out today and said, i believe, there's no way progressives are going to vote against the health care plan. i think you and i both know what's going to happen, you're going to have -- when republicans are in charge, it's a moderate republican senators. when democrats are in charge, it's a i think that's where we're going to end up, we're going to end up with a bill that claire mccaskill can end in on capitol hill. it may be a little bit closer to what the blue dogs want than what henry waxman and ted kennedy want, but that's unfortunate for progress sifs who got elected and thought they controlled washington just like conservatived thought they controlled washington. washington is a krr frustrating part for ideal logs. it's going to happen here too. i predict, david, we're

gibbs said it is boringly consistent. now it appears the message to be changing again. joe biden's former speechwriter, jeff.on is a former communications director to former house speaker dennis phastert. thank you, both. it seems that the president is shifting his pitch and leaning more toward the moral imperative of making sure everyone in this country is insured. clean up on the motion -- playing up on emotion now. >> it has shifted all over the place. the plan was protested by thousands of americans across the country. the nancy pelosi called it un- american to do so. then obama blamed the media for covering the town hall meetings. then he blamed the republicans. now all he has left is a pr ayer. he is trying to say it is the right thing to do. the real problem is that there are legislative quicksand. they cannot find the right formula to get this through their own party. trace: i want to bring up this poll. we talk about the message shifting. here are the results. in august, this is president obama's handling of health care. approval, 41%. july, 41%. disapproval, 47%. what do you make of that? >> one of

gibbs. >> you don't know what you were driving at? >> reporter: you are killing me, joe? >> reporter: well, in other words, the white house is not signaling to them, don't worry, we are for a public option, we will fight for it and never let it go and hug it tightly and embrace it forever. what they are saying is we are still keeping all of the options over. the position has not hardened at all from the white house. they are saying all along we have left our options open. maybe we will have a public option, maybe we won't. what is not optional is choice and competition. >> so do you get a sense, as buchanan said, and i think somebody else said this morning, they want to get this behind them. let's just ask something, even if it's giving everybody a free aspirin. let's get a health care bill and get it behind us once and for all. >> yeah, they realize as soon as the president signs the bill, that approval rating is likely to go back up. we have seen our latest poll shows another drop in the approval rating is down 10 points since february, and that's because we waded knee

pennsylvania's democrat joe sestak now among those saying he would have a hard time voting for a health care bill without a public option in it. at the white house today, the press secretary mr. gibbs admitting that the president still has not reached out to any members of congress concerned about just the possible loss of the public option. meanwhile mr. gibbs and others, like hhs secretary sebelius still insisting, quote, nothing has changed about the administration support for a public option. indeed, everything has changed. >> as i have said now yesterday and earlier today, the president, his position, the administration's position is unchanged, that we have a goal of fostering choice and competition in a private health insurance market. the president prefers the public option as a way of doing that. if others have ideas, we're open to those ideas and willing to listen to those details. that's what the president has said for months. coincidentally, that's what the secretary of health and human services has said for months. that's what i have said for months. >> time now to call in our own lawrence o'donnell, contributor to the huffington post, former chief of staff to the senat

gibbs nailed that coffin shut. it's not going to happen. >> yeah. i think he had to, joe. you know all the problems the president has got with spending and budgets and the rest of it. all he's got to do is leave the door open to raising taxes to pay for this health care program or something else, the health care program has a lot of problems. i think the backlash from that would just about sink it immediately. people would say we've been had completely. i expected gibbs to nail it shut. it was just at exactly what moment in his briefing he hit it. it would be, as you said, first thing out of the box. >> you know, mike barnicacle i' going to be positive. we're talking about a major health care reform package. everybody seems as if the debate now all centers around paying for this very big program. this is not the way washington has worked in the past. the american people have clearly been set up by six months of reckless spending and they have said enough. that has put a great deal of rerestaurant, i think, on the obama administration and democrats in this debate. if you wa

if i'm robert gibbs i try to keep him away from reporters for quite some time. >> there's also been, joe, a lot of jubilation about the economy. i would like to put a big red flag out there. >> why is it that i'm hearing how great things are becoming and every person that you know and i know who has lots and lots of money, money sitting on the sidelines, the money that has to get poureded into the game before this economy takes off are all saying they're more nervous today than six months ago. gee, we don't know where the bottom is. >> the fundamentals starts with the consumer. there were some great numbers on monday. the gdp 1% versus 6% contraction. when you look at the consumer, spending was down 1.2%. consumer confidence dropped from the month before 3%. i think and i've said this all along the consumer psyche is permanently damaged from this and it is not going to come back soon. i don't care whether you're relatively affluent or somebody living month to month -- >> i have to stop you there. you say permanently damaged. i say permanently healed. >> i mean for the economy. >> the goo

we at "morning joe" apologize to you, robert gibbs. >> no. >> yes! d job. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "morning joe." i'm mika brzezinski, along with joe scarborough and willie geist. john ridley is here with us this morning. good to see you. >> you know what, the family's back together. we started it all right he

and former redskins coach joe gibbs. that's tonight on "news4 at 5:00." >> no. traveler's wife." i actually can't wait to see this movie. the two stars are traveling to our studio here, studio 1a, to visit us tomorrow here on "today." it's so romantic. >> it starts tomorrow. >> eric bana, he is adorable. the two of them will be here tomorrow. meantime today we've got sarah gore in for natalie, as well as mr. al. and you're going to be talking about a subject you know a lot about. >> yes, i'll be partnering up, teaming up with my tv partner in cre, george oliphant. she's going to show us cost effective ways to update the room of any room in your home from splashes of color to how to add some light and a sense of space. and you don't have to spend a lot to make a big impact. so he's going to be here swing us how to do that. >> oh, and also ahead, they say in oklahoma the corn is as high as an elephant's eye. if you've been in our newsroom you know what that means. we're talking corn this morning. our hot chef john shenk is here to show you how to pick it, strip it