but tonight mike bernardo torched the ninja warrior course. they rebounded last season and wound up in the top 20 of tonight's qualifying. >> we're not curing cancer or solving hunger, but it is symbolic for the struggles we face in our everyday life and the things that we you know strive to become better at to help ourselves and help others. so i'm going to keep doing it as long as i can. >> how do you not root for that? bernardo moving on for a chance to head it vegas. >> more local heros competing right in our backyard. day four of the world police and fire games is rapping up right now. one of the many competitions five on five basketball. games last through sunday. we have a full schedule of the event and more coverage in the nbc washington app. just click police and fire games. >> new setback tonight for space x after its falcon 9 rocket exploded in the sky. its next mission for the u.s. government is now delayed. falcon 9 was supposed to launch a new weather satellite into orbit back in august. now it's possible that nasa will have to f

last night, mike bernardo set the course on fire. the d.c.fighter and paramedic rebounded from the early exit last season to wind up in the top 20 last night. >> we're not saving the world, we've not curing the cancer or curing hunger but this represents the struggles we face every day and to help others and so i'm going to keep doing it as long as i can. >> bernardo moves on to the city finals for a chance to head to vegas. good for him. >> i'm thinking he could make it. >> yeah. >> definitely has the drive. he's come back. probably made him really hungry when he got cut last season. >>> turn to tom kierein. did you see the moon this morning? >> yeah. >> beautiful. >> i was coming up nebraska avenue and it was fat. that's the world coming into my mind. >> big yellow moon. we have the humidity back. that's why the moon is yellow, because we have haze in the air this morning. it's because of the humidity pushing in. we're getting a few light showers. that moving area of green, that's in the panhandle of west virginia and western maryland. a li

he is usually trying to put out the fires but last night mike bernardo set the course on fire himselfhe rebounded from an early exit last season to wind up in the top 20 last night. >> we're not saving the world out here, we're not curing cancer. we're not solving hunger but it's symbolic for all of the struggles we face in our lives and the things that we strive to become better at to help ourselves and help others. i'll do it as long as i can. >> he moves on to the city finals for a chance to go to las vegas. >> good luck. looks like he'll go far there. >> he's tough physically and mentally. >>> well new calls for the washington redskins to change the name. >> and the movement could soon have a lot of support. the megachurch pushing the team to make a change. >>> blink and you'll miss it. it could have a huge impact on your day. what the leap second could play havocen on. >>> why several drivers are now suing the company that runs certain express lanes. >>> and do you work at the capitol? here's a live look as you get ready to head into work. it should be dry on your way in but what

mike bernardo made it through to the american nineveh warriors course. he moves on to the city finals for a chance to head to vegas. you can follow along by watching american ninja warrior here on nbc4. >>> the fight against the hiv-aids epidemic in the district is working. >> the infection rate has dropped for the sixth year in a row. as news 4's tom sherwood reports, the district still has a major battle on its hands, however, to get that rate even lower. >> 31-year-old d.c. native duane lawson brown has spent 15 years, half his life fighting hiv-aids in his hometown. he says the latest hiv-aids report still shows too many african-american men reluctant to get tested or treated. >> the main thing that we need that we're fighting is really stigma. stigma is what fills the spread of the hiv virus. >> he was on hand tuesday as mayor muriel bow certificate and health officials announced hiv rates have dropped for six years in a row, a 40% decrease since 2009. and other good news -- >> i'm also pleased to tell you that there were no babies, none, zero born

mike malone. malone: where bernardo meets fremont meets 85 an anonymous, empty intersection full of ice plant and not much else, on a given afternoon in the late 1960s, you would have seen steve wozniak riding home from cherry chase swim club practice. you would have seen ted hoff turning in 'cause he lived right at that corner and you would have seen bob noyce racing down fremont avenue, going home in los altos. so, at that moment at that intersection you would have had the inventor of the integrated circuit, the inventor of the microprocessor, and the inventor of the personal computer all in one spot. jobs: in spite of that... lam: in an interview with the silicon valley historical association, steve jobs recalls an early product to tap into telephone networks illegally. jobs: it was the first digital blue box in the world. it was the magic of the fact that two teenagers could build this box for $100 worth of parts and control hundreds of billions of dollars of infrastructure in the entire telephone network in the whole world. we had the sense of magic that we could sort of influence the world.