finally arrived at redskins park., you accept the challenge. >> i got challenged by dale earnhardt jr. >> and i accept the challenge. >> a couple people from nbc. >> reporter: then you pass the challenge along. >> i would like to challenge jerry jones. >> i would like to challenge a legend here in washington, joe gibbs. and i would like to challenge trent williams. >> reporter: and then comes the ice. >> what's wrong? >> i'm good. >> reporter: i challenged redskins head coach jay gruden, and the entire nbc washington news team networks behind the scene. ready? three, two, one. ahhh! you said it wouldn't be cold. >> she dried out pretty quickly. that's all for us this week. thanks for joining us. we leave you with more ice bucket challenge videos from the week. have a great weekend, everybody. ♪ oh! the name your price tool! you tell them how much you want to pay, and they help you find a policy that fits your budget. i told you to wear something comfortable! this is a polyester blend! whoa! uh...little help? i got you

they will be back on the field at redskins park tomorrow afternoon settling in for the long haul and they will play the cleveland browns monday afternoon. jay gruden wants them to get into the regular season routine. but the question begs how much with will they play against the browns? >> we have to go through the rest of the week and practice. thursday and friday we'll be in pads. and i'll see where we are from a health standpoint and we'll go from there. >> jay gruden. by now i'm sure you have seen this brain freeze for als. everybody raising the bucket and taking the plunge to bring awareness and raise money to fight lou gehrig's disease. all across the nfl players and coaches accepting the challenge. i'm told over the last week they have quadrupled the money a.l.s. has raised over the same period a year ago. so keep the checks coming. brain freeze, just google it. >> the mystics had a chance to lock up a playoff spot this afternoon. but no, ma'am. down 72-69. they go to the center. way out of her comfort zone. the mystics are still on the outside looking in. they have now lost f

they're back on the field at redskins park and that's where they'll be at least until the end of december. the players certainly hope the season goes longer. safety phillip thomas and tight end jordan reed were back on th÷ field from their injures and with -- injuries. and now jay gruden wants to see them stay healthy and show him what they can do. >> it's important to try to get some sort of continuity with the quarterback and the offense in general. just the speed of breaking the huddle on game day and how many plays can you go in a row without getting tired. if i send them deep can they come back and dig out a forced block. so we'll see what kind of stamina they have. they look like they're doing well in practice, but game day speed is a little different and we hope they can handle it. >> keeping it real. >> the nationals have won 5 of their last seven games. cabrera was the hero. a liner into the white seats. the mets trying trying to rally. look at cabrera here. go get it. reel it in. can't stop, up and over, and yes, sir. good catch. that's still in my glove. get him out of there. n

at redskins park, diaa russini, news 4 sports. >> after three preseason games are you concern about rg and the redskins offense? weigh in on twitter or facebook. text or call us at 202-601-3444. so far about half of you are concerned about rg iii. >> you can watch against the buccaneers in the final preseason game. >>> it happened over and over again. >> now at 5:00 we are learning new details about the attack on women in one local neighborhood. >>> we have the new clue that could help catch the man who is still on the run. >>> first day of school is tomorrow for prince george's county students. a number of kids were already in class today. >>> right now follow the squiggly lines. what is being done to fix the confusion. >>> and doctors say let them sleep in. >> just an extra hour of sleep can really make a difference. >> what it really means for your kids when students don't get enough sleep. >>> a fight over the future of fortune telling in virginia. why this battle over magic will take more than just looking into a crystal ball. >>> first at 5:30, three sexual assaults on women. >>

ad redskins park, dianna russini, news 4 sports. >>> a new development regarding robinil deprsin'e only battle he foug before h death. >> this afternoon his wife revealeia had an incurabl illness. she said he was brave as he struggled his own battles of depression and anxiety as well as early stages of parkinss disease. she says her husband had maintai his sobriety after leavinrehab. parkinss progressive disordere nervous system. >>> final honor for a two sr gener >> w take you to the e for maj gener harold green. >>> protesters are getting ready to take on whole foods. find out what has some grocery shoppeo u >> rerti' julie carey where the prosecution of the mcdonnel trial wraps up with courtroo >>> right now at 5:30, one family' tragedy and how a student died during a hazing ritual what on earth? why? why? >> wha they want parents to see as studen prepare to go back to college campuses. >>> and he was a trusted local church leader. why the man who once led bible study wi spend decades in prison. >>> are the youngest victimsf abuse in our station campaign on changing minds learn how a

. >>> i'm dianna russini at redskins park. a redskins player suspended for an illegal hit. one teammate says that is >>> welcome back to news 4 at 5:00. i'm dianna russini. the redskins will play in their final preseason game on thursday. in just over a week and a half they will play in their first regular season game. unfortunately, the team will be without one of their best defenders, brandon meriwether. he was suspended for two games. he put a high hit on ravens receiver torrey smith on saturday night. he says he will appeal the suspension. his teammates were sounding off today. >> it is a very fast decision and harsh decision and rash. i think it is incorrect. nobody is concussed. i think it is a tough call. >> reporter: do you think it is something the nfl needs to be district about because knowing so many young players are watching you guys. >> it is football. it is a violent sport. after a while we are just going to put flags on and run around. >> they are making it get to a point where we have our hands tied behind our back. you can't touch the receivers, can't hit

finally arrived at redskins park. >> i accept the ice bucket challenge by my 8-year-old daughter. >> garett. >> reporter: then you pass the challenge along. >> i want to challenge jerry jones. >> i'd like to challenge a legend here in washington. joe gibbs. and i'd like to challenge a left tackle. >> reporter: and then comes the ice. >> whoo! >> what's wrong? >> i'm good. >> reporter: i challenge the entire nbc washington news team behind the scenes. he's going to help me out here. three, two, one. [ laughter ] >> he only got the back of her head. go hard or don't go at all. no, but that's pretty exciting. i guess we're challenged now. >> yes, we're challenging now. it seems everyone is getting in on this. >> take a look at this. this is a group of seniors. the coolest seniors in town that took the plunge -- took the challenge i should say. this retirement community in charlestown went and jumped ice water on themselves for the challenge. now they're challenging retirement communities all over the world to do the same thing. [ screaming ] that's oprah. she did it this week. that's ga

today the als ice bucket challenge took over redskins park. first you accept the challenge. nominate. then you get wet. even dan snyder played along. >> i accept the als ice bucket challenge by my 8-year-old daughter, maya, sxaul the redskins fans. >> i would like to challenge jerry jones. >> oh. >> i challenge redskins head coach jay gruden, jim vance, gensler and the entire nbc washington news team network behind the scenes. >> all the guys participated, and you can imagine how many challenges. >> is there an option to make a donation? >> that's the cool part. exactly. the best part about it is not only did they take the ice, but they are going to donate $100 each. >> he took half a hit. >> we'll be right back with >>> it seems that things have calmed down a bit in ferguson, missouri, and that is a welcome change from earlier this week when the nation was subjected to a spectacular demonstration of how to get it all wrong. the way that police force behaved was horrible. the truth be told, when you step away from the terror of the moment, there was part of it that was even

. >>> coming up in 20 minutes cuts have already begun at redskins park, not an easy day if you're on the bubble. we'll tell you not coming back. >>> ever wonder whatever happened to that guy who told the cops he crashed his million dollar bugatti because he accidentally dropped his cell phone? coming up his in some serious trouble. we'll tell you why. >> reporter: critics blast president obama for saying the u.s. has no strategy yet for taking on is >>> with the surveillance flights already underway speculations have been high the united states will soon launch airstrikes against isis strong holds in syria. >> but president obama says there aren't yet plans for military action and as tara mergener reports, the president is drawing criticism from some on capitol hill. >> reporter: president obama says the u.s. isn't prepared to carry out airstrikes on isis targets in syria. >> we don't have a strategy yet. >> reporter: that comment drew swift criticism from republican lawmakers who say the sunni militant group poses a great

parking lot is starting to fell up a bit. the redskins kick off the game against the browns at 8:00 there. that's about an hour after the first pitch for the washington nationals and arizona diamond backs game at nats park. by the way it's also $1 monday. that's a promotion that offers cheap concessions as an incentive to get fans out to the ball park. >> and it should be dry for both games. >> for a night like this you have to have great clicker skills. you know anyone with better clicker skills than me? >> no. >> it's going to be a good night watching sports. weather-wise we're fine. looking live from the rooftime camera, a little sunshine -- rooftop camera, a little sunshine. that will be the story until the sun sets tonightgárñ 79 in springfield. area temperatures have not moved much the past couple hours. 81 in fredericksburg, 81 in frederick. 82 at reagan national. it will drop to the 70's tonight. the heat and humidity is displaced well to the south and southwest of our area and the heat is building into central and southern plain

the redskins had a walk-through of t park in ashburn tonight. jay gruden says the first team will not play. kirk cousins will get extended playing time at quarterback. he has been terrific this week. after so much talk about a quarterback controversy, he kept quiet and kept things in perspective and tries to get better every day. >> i have aspirations to be a starter. i cannot do that unless i do my job as a backup. i need to be ready as a backup, coming off the bench in the fourth quarter. i have got to be ready. the next step is thursday night. >> dallas football. jumping from the second quarter balcony to save his drowning the issue -- drowning nephew, it was all a lie. he met with his coach and apologized to his coach and the team. he has been suspended indefinitely from the usc football team. still no word on how he injured his ankles, but the story is totally bizarre and the investigation continues. zniacki gets her hair caught in the racket and loses the point, but she wins the match in straight sets. she advances in the u.s. open. a harr

redskins. centerplate provides food and drinks on the lower and upper levels, dream seats, verizon center, m&t park in baltimore do not use that company. >>> redskins owner dan snyder told comcast sportsnet today he started the process of meeting with architectural firms for a new stadium and is already seeing new drawings. the new redskins home will have a retro feel keeping rfk in mind. where will it be is the big question. he says he's open to all options. fedex field has been the redskins home since opening in 1997. that's just 17 years. coming up in sports dave owens will give his take at why it's time for the redskins to get some new digs. >>> a gadget created by a d.c. man ended up in a dispute over the skies all over a very limited necessity up there, that is, leg room. it's called the knee defender. we'll hear what all the fuss is about and the reason the man came up with the contraption. >> reporter: it looks like a rather innocuous device that attaches to your seat back tray. >> these two little pieces of plastic you can put on the arms of your tray table and that will stop the seat from

parking lot. so after the mix, rush hour traffic, a prime time preseason redskins game and a nats game with similarstart times. >> it will probably horrendous. there's nothing you can do about that. ♪[ music ] >> this group of die-hard fans is always at the stadium on game days well before the parking lots open. today's traffic scenario, more motivation for them to arrive early. >> so we don't have to get out on the road and sit on 495 not moving. wouldn't you rather have a hot dog and chill out and talk football. >> on football game days aaa reports speeds on highways near fedex field slow an average of 57%. an impact that will be compounded by the nats crowds. nats park isn't known for attracting tailgaters buticz tonight's traffic has made some reexamine that concept for the matchup against the diamondbacks. >> that's why we're here. 2:30. [ laughter ] >> they sure got here quite early. get this, a.a.a. saying to expect some 20,000 car loads just for the football game. the good news, plenty of metro service tonight including metro staying open an hour later for fans trying to get home from the f

down the road two miles we have a day game at at&t park and i will have that forecast and for paul in mccartney's farewell. ought washington redskinsaunches a spirited defense to protect its name and they are getting help from a prominent native american group. >> texas teen turns a wal-mart store into his own home and how he managed to avoid being noticed if days before employees caught on. >> covering san rafael, south bay, pleasanton and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >>> the washington redskins have their own youtube video defending the controversial maim and featuring native americans. >> it actually makes me feel proud and reminds me of my cultural back ground and heritage. ought video released by the redskins fact campaign was funded by the team and shows native americans from cross the country saying they do not fine the redskins name offensive and argue they have bigger issues to deal with. the video country materials another video from the national congress of american indians entitled "proud to be," which says native americans call themselves many things but not redskins. >> a texas teen secretly spent four days li

redskins bench monday night. pitching change for the cardinals as they get ready to start a three game series with the phillies tonight at citizens bank parkey moved up adam wayne white to pitch tonight. kyle kendrick on the mound for the phillies. >>> cancel cuban defector rusty castillo off the phillies list tonight guys. the 27 year old outfielder came to terms today on a seven year, $72.5 million deal with the boston red sox. phillies had been one of seven teams in the running for castillo. the money got high. the phillies had private workout with cass cass still hoe last month in my many me but he's about to become a boston red sox and $72.5 million man. a smidge more than i make. it's close. (laughter). >> the extra year he went to boston. >> you can give us financial advice. >> that's what i do between shows. you guys don't know that. >> big stock trader here. thanks, srendenschek. >> among other things. >> you don't want to know about that. that does it for us here at 6:00. we'll see you backhoe at 10:00. have a great night. inside edition comes your way next. enjoy. >>> heartless e-mail. >> just revealed, the sickening e-mail sent

what's happening at nats park right now is ♪ ♪ ç+ >>> now wusa9 game on sports with dave owens brought to you by xfinity. >> the boys of summer are giving us quite a ride. the redskinst change their names, but maybe the nats should from the nats to the steam rollers. who dat talk about beating them nats? >> that's a terrible name. >> nobody. i like that name. wasn't easy today. let's get to it. rafael soriano, when he comes in, some tsna fans start biting their nails. he says take it easy. 6-4-3, double play. anthony rendon won it last night in walkoff fashion. this looks special until he goes wobble arms mcgillicutty. >> we're also here to win games. however we get it done isn't important, but that's not the plan. does that matter? no. we want to win. >> 10 wins in a row is tied for the longest streak in the majors this season along with kansas city. the mark equals a franchise best. the nats won 10 straight in '05, their first season back in d.c. washington is the first team since 1986, the astros, to win five walkoff games in a six- game span. i lady playoffs, wnba -- >>> ladies playoffs wnba, mystics led in this until this, tough bucket inside. talk about full s

park on 17th and franklin streets in northeast washington. the chuck brown band will play at the howland theater. he died two years ago. >>> the redskinsrending nationally on twitter this morning. partially for their preseason win last night, but mostly for this. browns quarterback johnny manziel gave the middle finger to the redskins bench after an incomplete pass. of course, it was caught on camera. in fact, it was broadcast live. manziel later said it was a mistake. >> i felt like i did a good job of holding my composure of judgment and slip up. >> being young, things happen. sometimes you don't know no better. we're all here playing, competing with each other. so, hopefully, he will learn from that. >> the redskins next preseason game is saturday against the ravens. you can watch it right here on nbc 4. >>> take a look at this as redskins players walked out of the tunnel in last night's preseason game, several put their hands up in the air, a sign of surrender, as a tribute to michael brown, led by veteran safety brandon merriwhether, in response to report that is brown had his hands up when he was shot. >>> just hanging on. a truc

parking lot, then a carjacking and now a manhunt. >> police send out a warning to women after three sexual assaults in northwest. >> and the nfl calls foul on the redskins slapping a safety with a two-game suspension. >> just go and do them again. >> you're thinking about changing policy right now? >> yeah. >> you just did it? >> yeah. >> plus two d.c. restaurants temporarily shut down sparked by a wusa9 investigation. >> pretty cool start tuesday morning. we'll talk about whether or not thkie ds need a sweatshirt at the bus stop and look ahead to the holiday weekend weekend. >>> but we begin tonight with breaking news. a manhunt is underway now after a shooting in a mcdonald's parking lot followed by a carjacking. i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm jan jeffcoat. the search tonight is in woodbridge where gunshots out in the 2800 block of dale boulevard before 7:00. jim osman is at the scene. >> reporter: two men at this mcdonalds parking lot behind me on dale boulevard in woodbridge got into an altercation. 1 man was shot in the face. the other got away. it was a possible drug deal gone wrong. we spoke with prince william county police. >> when we arrived, the v

park. >>> and the university of minnesota trying to ban the washington redskins name and logo in the stadium stadium to the vikings while theirs is built. they are slated to play there, the university admits they cannot force the bans. the redskins have been unreceptive. >>> and a year since harry potter, but now daniel radcliffe tackling romantic comedies. >> two young people who fall in love, but battling bad timing. for more, we step into the blinding yet weerirdly reassuri light here. he's v.p. of managemerketing he. >> it's been 25 years since" when harry met sally" out. it's not quite that, doesn't embarrass itself. it stars daniel radcliffe, it's a departure for him. he's done a great job of navigating his post-potter career, roles on broadway, and great reviews for" the woman in black" out a couple years ago. he plays an unlucky in love medical school dropout. meets a young girl, she happens to have a boyfriend. the age old question, whether or not the two can just -- maintain their friendship plays out in a rather predictable, yet charming ways. we sat down with him and asked about

the te of 90 players at this point ce in training camp mode ba at redskins park. who doesn't like being back home