stephen strasburg was throwing strikes.he barrel caught rawlings a couple times. >> and now, the toyota sports desk brought to you by your local toyota dealers. >> stephen strasburg pitched another terrific ballgame. a four hitter over seven innings. strasburg is tagged for another loss and he is now 7-9 for the season. the marlins got him again. giancarlo stanton down the left-field line. he hustles around. he comes home to score. stanton is thrown out at third. strasburg made a nice play with the cut off. 1-0 marlins. autumn of the eighth, christian yellowish hits a hard line drive all the way to the wall. reed johnson will try to score from first. he comes home. marlins win 3-0. let's go to baltimore, orioles and angels. manny machado is your batter. he gets a good, fat one here. look out, get a new baseball. that one is a souvenir. walkoff home run. orioles win 7-6. the controversy over the redskins continues. polls show the majority of people surveyed want the name changed. the oneida people want it removed. politician

he was thankful to see anybody but stephen strasburg after striking out three times.turns a rough night into a good night with a base knock. >> kenny: jonathan papelbon in the phillies pen. papelbon in the news the last couple of days following his comments when asked if he would like to be traded to a contending team. >> f.p.: he was honest. >> kenny: he said of course i would. of course i would like to be on a team that's talented. >> f.p.: yeah. and i think that's what you want to hear out of a player. the only problem is after he said it, the phillies went on to win five straight, they think they still have a chance to win the national league east. >> kenny: eight and a half out at the moment. >> f.p.: and that's how they should be. i think a.j. burnett said after the game paraphrasing, if anybody doesn't think that, they can come see me. that's what you want to hear in the dugout. too many games left to be played. >> kenny: clippard retired the first two phillies in the eighth. and cody asche with a two out single. 1-1 to cameron rupp. clippard missing high. now

steve not strasburg, whenever he takes the mound, that's good for the nationals. but on the road this season, straus hasn't been very good. an e.r.a. over 5. nationals going for the sweep today in colorado. but it was a rough start for steven strasburg. bottom of the first. game tied at 1. paulson slides one into center field. rockies, take a 2-1 lead. strasburg gave up four runs in five innings of work on nine hits. up to the ninth inning. nats have bases loaded. and desmond goes down swinging to end the game on strike three. nats lose 6-4. ting a day off before starting a series with the cincinnati reds. here is that very bad news. nationals without one of their very best weapon webs that's ryan. batting a .360 since return to lineup in june. back on the disabled list today for a hamstring injury suffered in last night's game. he will be out at least two weeks, possibly longer. >> pretty substantial strain of the hamstring. you never know how they will react. but, so, we will just take it, you know, day by day. going to be a couple weeks at least. see where he's

that thing is -- strasburg. that thing is falling apart. there had been a little lightning with this. so far we're in pretty good shape. it's fairly quiet out there. when you look at the futurecast as we get into the mid afternoon, storms lining up on the blue ridge. some of them make it towardus, especially north of town.

strasburg falls 7-7. nats fall a game behind atlanta at losing 4-2 to the brewers. >>> you will get your fill of natitude on 9 the next couple days. they host the brewers tomorrow at 7:05 right here. gio on the hill. then on sunday the brewers finale is also on wusa9 at 1:35. doug fister is pitching for the nats. >>> there are bad rounds and then there is what happened to tiger woods today. the former no. 1 player in the world seemed poised for a storybook tournament at the open championship and then this happened. let's go to royal liverpool. tiger promising start to the open championship 1st round, 69. then today reality setting in. woods firing wayward bullets left and right. this one almost hits tower cam. that's never good. he shot 77, barely made the cut. woods' assessment of his play, not very good. thank you, captain obvious. woods 14 strokesba leads us to this. tiger woods hasn't won a major since '08 and it doesn't appear he'll do it this year either. do you even remember what was going on in 20

adam laroche has carried this team offensively and the starting pitching you've had stephen strasburg up and down, and then throw in tanner roark and jordan zimmerman. things have pieced together for the nats. >> get back to the starting pitching. rate how they've been in this first half. >> very good. i would give them a b, b plus to this point. >> strasburg has had some underlying statistics that have made it not as aesthetically pleasing but has pitched well. jordan zimmermann all-star worthy all-star pitched very well. tanner roark as good as there is in the league, gio started to find his groove and fister has been miraculous since coming off the dl. >> if you had to pick an mvp the first half it would be? >> rendon. offensively carried the team up there and in all the offensive categories as a leader. defensively spectacular at third and second base, very versatile. this is a guy that has been the most valuable player to me in the first half. >> that was dave owens with mr. kushner. the nats hit the field again friday here in d.c. taking on the central division leader, the milwa

strasburg,europe, in a new session of the parliament began today marking the start of a new five-year mandate for lawmakers who were voted in during the eu wide elections. dozens of mp's turned their backs on the eu flag. some rather unusual scenes compared to what we are used to. >> absolutely. it is an old tradition in strasburg at the opening of a new parliament, and orchestra plays the european anthem. to the years of those led but not to by nigel. as everybody stood up to listen y," they turned their backs that they do not andgnize europe's symbols so forth. interestingly, another the nationalarty, front from france, remained seated and observers saw in that there is an that coordinated action. as you know, tension has been rising between the two leaders after nigel blasted the national front as a racist party. as you can see, even in the eurosceptic league, it is not one big family. >> they do not seem to be singing from the same hymn she et. any surprises martin was reelected? >> not really. victory, hear-cut was reelected to a second term as president of the european parliamen

but strasburg is a fastball pitcher and they're a home-run-hitting club. that's going to happen sometimes. if you give up the homer you want it to be a solo homer. the one that got us was the two-run single the >> now to golf. tiger woods. in the good old days if he was playing saturday, he had a shot. but he's 14 shots off at the british open and his aim was a little off most of the day. everybody on the 17th yelling fore. his tee shot a little wide right, headed to the concession stands. so you overcompensate. we've all done this before but not with a lot of people watching. he -- he triple bogeyed the hole the five over for the day. two over for the tournament you a -- but he's 14 shots behind the leader. >> i got off to a terrible start again and i had some opportunities to make a few birdies along the way to fete back to even par for the day and i just never did. i never made anything. i had myself in good position to make gird -- birdies and i just didn't do it. >> here are the guys who did. sergio garcia. second shot, second hole, on the green. don'

nine strikeouts and four runs allowed by strasburg. now for your viewing pleasure, harper in the ninth. up with the new relaxed batting stance. and it pays off. crushes it to right. too bad nobody was on. it's a solo homer. three hits in the game for bryce including the homer. got to love how harp was swinging it tonight. >> looked good up there. hit the ball hard tonight. just missed the ball he popped up, too. he's seeing it good. certainly the homer gives him confidence. the other two hits are taking what the opposition has given him. that's a good sign. >> orioles fans in oakland. bottom three. man on for john jaso. he makes the orioles outfielders chase-o. thank you. a's take the lead. it's the same score now in the fifth. i'm a poet and didn't know it. the weather at the british open is supposed to turn ugly for tomorrow's third round. phil miso says it opens the door him. clearly today the sun was shining on one golfer. it wasn't lefty. it was rory mcilroy. the birdies were finding him. how does that happen? he was just that goo

moving to areas near strasburg. headed to the east, southeast. even indications of some hail in some of the southern storms. not everyone will see them. they will be scattered through the evening. the cold front lies farther to the west, so the chance of showers and storms with us through the overnight and maybe even a lingering shower during the day. 95 in frederick, 93 in fredericksburg. it's the dew point making it feel warmer. it feels like 100 degrees now in the nation's capital. watch for the thundershowers this evening and then in the overnight a few more showers will linger. temperatures 67-73. we'll look ahead in the seven-day forecast coming up. >> a reston woman is charged with spear heading a terrorist funding conspiracy. muna osman jama is one of five suspects accused of sending money to al-shabaab. the money sent was documented as living expenses, with code words such as "orphan" and brothers in the mountains. she could face 15 years for each count in the indictment. >> we turn to the netherlands where some of the bodies of the vict

mary's, south of culpeper and the shenandoah valley south of strasburg. looks like it will stay mainly south of interstate 66. as far as the weekend is concerned, well, looks like we have a little trouble. i'll tell you which day i think is going to be the better one for your outdoor plans >>> it's a scam that's been around for some time but the internet complaint center says it still receives reports for this kind of consumer fraud. wusa9 call for action director shirley rook kerr is here to -- rooker is here to tell us about a scam known to some as the grandparent scam. >> computers are generating calls. some of the computer calls are going to reach people who have relatives traveling abroad. so you get a call and the person says, your nephew john or your grandson john is in the hospital. i'm calling for him. you need to wire money so he can pay the hospital bill. or it may say, well, he's been robbed. it may be john pretending to be call. very no money, i can't get money. please send me money. don't tell my parents because i don't want to scare them. >

strasburg has had some underlying statistics that have made it not as aesthetically pleasing, but he has pitched well. jordan zimammernn, very well, gio started to find his groove and doug fist -- fister has been terrific. >> if you had to pick an mvp? >> rendon. he's been a leader, defensively spectacular at third and second base, very versatile. this is a guy that has been the most valuable player to me in the first half. >> and the nats start the second half of the campaign friday when they host the brewers here in d.c. coming up later this week holden and i delve into our second half prediction >>> you are watching wusa9 news at 6:00, a beautiful shot of the d.c. skyline on a fantastic day, 80 degrees almost and 6:00 straight up. >> i'm derek mcginty. >> and i'm lesli foster. >>> in less than an hour residents of piscataway drive in ft. washington will learn the fate of their homes as well as what, if any, money they might receive from the county. >> mola lenghi joins us with a preview of tonight's community meeting. you've been out there many times. i know those residents are ho

stephen strasburg got off to a shaky start in colorado, but he settled in. back to coors field.nationals trailed 3-1 after the first inning. 3-2 in the sixth. corey bracksman to left center field. here comes mchenry and he's in there safe. the rockies now lead 6-3 with two outs in the ninth. >> the big story with the nationals appears to be the injury to ryan zimmerman. pulled his hamstring, went down. m.r.i. later landed zim on the 15-day disabled list. and zim is back on the shelf. >> the denver broncos owner stepped down and is giving up control of the team because of his alzheimer's disease. president joe ellis will take over as c.e.o. and handle all the day to day operations. pat bolin, one of the cl >> a few storms in our area tonight. >> especially north and west of the metro area. some heavy storms. a severe thunderstorm warning continues for portions of frederick until 6:45. steve rudin will keep an eye on them for you this evening. that's the only severe weather at the moment. well north of the metro region. part of a cold front they will move through. a few lingering

the brewers got to stephen strasburg early. deep right center, 1-0 milwaukee.top of the third, two outs. ramirez drops it in. a couple runs score. the nationals lost last night, 5-2. -- 4-2. >> i just have to keep them off-balance. i think everybody had the same approach against me. i need to make better pitches and use it to my advantage. it will be successful if i do not execute the pitches. >> the american league, late last night, tied at 2-2 in the seventh. manny machado, the two run shot. o's up 4-2. bottom of the night, two on for the a's. josh donaldson, a three run homer, walk-off. a's beat the first-place orioles, 5-4. the wnba all-star game in overtime, 125-124. twomystics loan player had of the 124 points. the redskins start training camp in richmond on thursday and will be 95 degrees. >> eileen? >> hi, back again. mostly cloudy skies through the evening, in the 70's, falling into the 60's. tomorrow, more clouds than sun, a little bit of showers, 82, still unseasonably cool. the pattern sticks with us monday, 84 degrees. then the heat and humidity re

stephen strasburg is 7-8. it is the nationals' pitching a lot ems to be winning of games.ix of the last eight and they a game and aace by half. facing the reds. bryce harper in the fourth ramone sa santiago going back and gymnastics impression. they take the lead and adam la to left and denard span and anthony rondon will score 3-0 washington. doug fister goes seven and gets some defensive help. monrendon. stop.g fats -- nationals win 4-2. go deep and there been a hick kuhn -- hiccup or two. score a couple of runs and they give us the opportunity to do they go out.me that is comforting. >> orioles and mariners tied and manny machado the batter. center mes jones the fielder reminiscent of the great willie mays catch. orioles win. it has been over 20 years since won a super ast bowl title but another washington professional team is arrying the d.c. championship banner the warshington castles f world team tennis. hingis martin that playing doubles. great placement. here comes match point and this it. they will put away with the slam were the world team tennis championship ove

bottom four, strasburg on the hill and here he is getting marlin nine strikeouts, two runs for straussburg. top six, it is jayson werth. a man on for him. the former philly delivers deep to right center. and it is gone. a two-run shot for worth. nats take a -0 lead. bottom of the 8th. phillies within one. . cody comes in to score. the rbi single ties it at three. we go to extra innings. pick it up in the top of the tenth. zimmerman, you know what his nickname is, don't look at the prompter, go ahead, captain clutch. thank you, chris, for playing. >> you said don't look. >> i wanted you to guess. >> waiting to google it. >> nats add another. they win in ten innings 5-3 snapping a two-game losing streak. >>> now this is what you call the nose bleed seats. watch the orioles taking on the yankees. top three. two on, two out for mark teixeira. all the way down the right field line. you see nick chasing it down. one comes in. can another come in? derek jeter, you're out. ryan flaherty with the throw. a perfect throw and jeter is out at the plate. yanks get one but the o's get out of the inning.

strasburg got off to a slow start. i want you to see the ninth inning.this was the not at their best. denard span singled. jayson werth singled. walter scored to make it six the country. anthony rendon singled. it was 6-4. bases loaded, two outs, a 2-2 count. ian desmond struck out with the pressure on. here is ian desmond. a hit here, and the game is tied. they were battling, but they lose. the final was 6-4. the orioles are playing in anaheim against the angels. markakis he knocks it to right field. right now, they are in the fifth inning. at an amazing .394. a back to the nfl for a moment, former maryland star vernon davis has just ended his holdout with the 49ers. the tight end is back in cap now. >> once he reaches 35, it is all over. [laughter] how about another kind of drink? starbucks. your next trip might be a little bit easier. how the coffee cha >> some good news for starbucks fans out there. [laughter] lines may beng inside. "people" magazine reports that starbucks is coming up with a smartphone app to pre-order your drink before you step in

day is a l >> up the middle strasburg slows it down. rendon a chance. and he got it done. >> wow. >> pretty good. your play of the day it's a little like pinball on the baseball diamond. washington's second baseman anthony rendon with the quick reflexes. after the ball rebounded off pitcher stephen strasburg but the nationals eventually fell to baltimore 8-2. pretty cool play of the day. >> it was fairly amazing. someone is likely to make a joke or two if you get caught dozing off in public. >> when that happened with a yankees fan, he decided to what else sue? >> it's not the place you come to sleep. ty ill you what how -- i tell you what though, how comfortable is that. >> no neck problems tomorrow. >> the fan suffered substantial injury to his character and his reputation after espn announcers made fun of him sleeping at the ballpark and he's suing them now for $10 million. >> you can sue anybody at anytime for anything. >>> it is 25 minutes after 6:00. renewed outrage after the da decides not to bring charges in the death of andy lopez. coming up th

that thing is -- strasburg. that thing is falling apart. there had been a little lightning with this. so far we're in pretty good shape. it's fairly quiet out there. when you look at the futurecast as we get into the mid afternoon, storms lining up on the blue ridge. some of them make it towardus, especially north of town. for 6:00, 7:00, that's when we start to watch potentially for stronger thunderstorms approaching us. we'll be tracking it for the afternoon. i'll see you in a few minutes with that seven-day forecast. >>> breaking news out of landover, maryland, where police have arrested the man suspected of abducting his own daughter. a security guard recognized 19- year-old darrel keith parker at a store. he was wanted for snatching his 15-month-old daughter out of her mother's home. parker ran when police arrived. they caught up with him, arrested him and found the little girl. we're told she is in good condition this afternoon. >>> u.s. capitol police say they stopped another man from entering the house when a -- with a gun this morn

. >> tonight the nationals were hoping steven strasburg could exorcise his road demons and produce ahe has only one win away from nationals park. tonight wasn't about performance but bad luck for the 26-year-old. stras areburg with an e.r.a. of almost #.0 at marlins park. he was looking good. casey mcgeerks christian yellich, jared saltalamachia. kept it scoreless in the five. in the sixth he had trouble in the form of john carlos. with a man on first he ripped the ball into left. he's got speed. he'll be thrown out at third trying to advance. the marlins take the lead 1-0. top of the 9th now. nationals down 3-0. anthony rendone with bases loaded. he strikes out. the nats left just 1 for 11 with runners in scoring position. they fall to the marlins 3-0. angels and orioles beginning the three-game set tonight at camden yards. o's up 6-5. facing josh hamilton who grounds to short. his throw to first is too late. mike trout scores to tie the game. camera focuses on hardy. he wasn't the problem. late getting to second there. hardy forced to first, not in time. we are tied at six. extra i

strasburg gets the start. >> we'll head back to football now.n manning had the best season in nfl history last year. he picked up his fifth mvp award. setting nfl records for passing yards and touchdowns of the season. manning showed off other impressive skills at training camp. i don't know if these skills are impressive. this is manning dancing to "rocky top." that's the -- is that the chicken dance? you see number 83, wes welker in it with the happy feet. manning, great football player, great person, makes solid commercials. not the best of dancers out there. wes has something going on. i like the feet. i don't know. training camp, having fun. stick to quarterbacking. dance moves, ooh. not that good. >> not going to win him new >> not going to win him new >> not going to win him new you fifteen percent or more on huh, fiftcar insurance.uld save yeah, everybody knows that. well, did you know that playing cards with kenny rogers gets old pretty fast? ♪ you got to know when to hold'em. ♪ ♪ know when to fold 'em. ♪ know when to walk away. ♪ know

use strasburg road to get around that. paving work in schuylkillownship blocking ute 23, valley forge ro during the overnight. that usually lasts until 6 o'clock and it's scheduled the whole project to wrap up in the next couple days. so, 23 will not be closing any more during the overnights within the next few days. ly in bucks county don't forget at 6 o'clock each morning they're doing this project where they close fretz valley road. burlington camden county rourke working on 130. one of ourriends says watch out for a minor crash along 422 in exeter but you can get by without too much avenue problem. erin. >> an arraignment is expected in a montgomery county home invasion and kidnapping case. it happened yesterday near the intersection of trinity and hotein roads in upper merion township. police say the suspect bkero into the home, grabbed a shot gun from the owner, tied up the man's wife and drove the husband to a bank to withdraw cash. police spotted the vehicle. the suspect ditched the car but then was arrested a shor

it's trying to move to the north, northeast maybe passing east of strasburg and east of route 81. if that holds together, we'll have to watch out in a little while toward stephens city and berryville. but these will pulse up and down for the afternoon. so that's idea spotty showers and storms are out there. you see the mostly cloudy skies we have. i'm just going to try to get back to where i was. we did the weather headlines. now we get back to temperatures. we have 79 in orange but 84 over in easton. tappahannock, they've seen more sun so they're in the mid-#s on at 86. frederick has been socked in with the clouds most of the day 73. and when you factor in the humidity, now we've got the heat index values in the upper 80s. cumberland by the way w-8 8. feels like 89. outside on our weather camera, mostly cloudy skies at noon. 84. the dew point still in the upper 60s. that's the muggies i'm talking about right there with a south wind at 8 miles an hour. humidity at 58%. satellite and radar, we have a front down south. most of the showers here are going to affect the carolinas. we'r

hamels who got this winning streak started on monday in milwaukee gets start tonight against steven strasburgnd nationals. phillies won 15 of the last 18 starts against washington. >>> well, lebron james is going home. just not yet. before lebron packs up his miami mansion and moves back to cleveland he is going to brazil. not to play basketball but to watch tomorrow's world cup final which you can watch right here on six abc. lebron signed his deal with cleveland today. it is a two year contract worth just over 42 million-dollar. this is according to espn. speaking of money, the calves have made an estimated one million-dollar in ticket sales, alone, former sixers great charles barkley says he is a big fan of this move and big fan of lebron. he just can't understand why he left ohio in the first place. >> i just think he shouldn't have left there the first time. come on, you have to get drafted by the hometown team, and you are as good as he is. this guy is one of the ten greatest nba players ever. people that don't likely brandon james, you have to be a lebron james fan. i don't know if the

no. 2, stephen strasburg nearly makes an incredible play on the comeback. instead anthony rendon finishes it off with a bare hand beauty and the orioles beat the national tonight. no. 1, the perks of winning the stage in the tour de france are kisses from pretty girls. vincenzo got one, but look at that. that's like you and your senior prom. come on. >> look it. a life well lived deserves a beer well brewed. fewer calories. fewer carbs. more refreshment. it's what makes a superior light beer... superior. michelob ultra. ♪watching everybody eating ♪what they want all day ♪oh this tasteless cardboard ♪brings me nothing but more shame ♪ ♪turning every turn until i find something right♪ ♪and it...takes my breath away so you reach for inute like something better.do something. fewer calories. fewer carbs. more to experience. michelob ultra. the superior light beer. >>> david letterman is next. >> our next newscast tomorrow morning at 4:30. i expect you all there bright and early. we're going to watch together. >> have a great night! >> goal call. give me ,,,,,,,,

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this storm hammering strasburg right now. we have rainfall rates 2 miles an hour. lightning to the south and west. this will move essentially to the east as well. that will be waterlake about 5:30. eventually into upperville. across the 17. that storm has gusty winds and a history of winds over 60 miles an hour and rainfall rates of an inch an hour. if you are in places like upperville and cedarville, get the kids inside, we will keep tracking these for you and tell you when the threat will be over. >> thank you top. >>> trending now, kim jong un wants to unviral this video. [ laughter ] >> how do you unviral a video? that is really hilarious. the video was made by a chinese man who sent it to south korea. it shows his face edited on various people dancing. this is one time we won't get in trouble for laughing in the middle of the show. people on social media in china have been having a field day. it shows him skipping on the field with osama bin laden. dancing with president obama. they are asking to have this video removed from the internet. but if they unviral t

. >>> the phillies are hot, tonight cole hamels takes on steven strasburg, plenty of reasons to get excitede phils are in last place but moving up the standing. check it out dominic brown got them on the board in the second inning and rollins got them on the board again. and they win it 6-2 and the phils are now eight games out. >> i can speak for everybody and say yes, if not come see me. yeah, i believe so, if not you wouldn't have this kind of baseball now, guys would be down worrying about where they are going, but that is not the case, guys come in preparing to win a baseball game. >> that is a.j. defending that they are indeed contenders and the all-star game begins sunday night. >>> so much for jeremy lin coming to the sixers he is going to the lakers and king james going home. remember the cleveland cavalier fans burning his jerseys, that is clearly forgot and, he has left miami and signed with the cavs his home town club. charles barkley says the decision is a wynnin-wiwin-win. >> they are a blue collar city and he say blue collar guy, and this is great for the nba obviously. >> yo

in sports, the phillies now won five straight, cole hamels takes on steven strasburg in their sear yours against it's nationals, plenty of reasons to get excited at citizens bank park. the phils are still in last but moving up the standings. dominic brown got them on board with a two-run single. but still struggling, jimmy rollins belts two home runs and they win it 6-2 and a.j. burnett gets the win. a.j. are they contenders? >> yes, i believe so, if not come see me, if not we won have this kind of baseball right now, guys would be down worrying about where they were going and it's guys are coming in preparing to win a baseball game and that is all you can do. >> the all-star break begins sunday night. >> so much for the reports of jeremy lin being traded to the sixers, he is shipped to the lakers and we remember cleveland cavalier's fans burning lebron james jerseys and that is all foregot en, now he signs with cleveland and his home town club and charles barkley says it's a win-win situation. >> houfrn do you goat to be a hero in your home town and home state. he is a blue collar guy a

cole hamels takes on steven strasburg of the nationals. they are in eight games out of first but are moving up. jimmy rollins belted to home runs and a.j. burnett wins it 6-2. even with this winning streak are they contenders. >> i can speak for everybody and say yes, if not come see me, yes, i believe so, if not we wouldn't have this kind of baseball right now, guys would be down on themselves worrying about what they are doing, but guys are coming in preparing to win a baseball game and that is all can you do. >> the all-star break begins sunday night and so much for the reports of jeremy lin being traded to the sixers, he is shipped off to the lakers and big news out of the nba king james going home. remember the cleveland cavalier fans burning his jerseys after going to miami. that is all forgot and, he left miami and signed with the cavs his home town club. charles barkley says this situation is a win-win. >> how often can you be a hero in your home state? this is great. >> the influence he and his entourage had in his miami is practi

the real meat of this storm with the severity is north of strasburg and portland. and good flashes of lightning, 95 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes but this is lifting to the north and east and out of our area, it's quiet with a couple of downpours in buck county. the heat is on, 102 in philadelphia, 104 in wilmington and near the century point in millville and the poconos 75 with the downpours and storms around and also at the shore it only feels like 80 degrees with the wind coming in off the atlantic. the dew points the measure of how much moisture is in the air, this is as high as it can get. 77 in wilmington and 77 in allentown and 74 in beach haven, by the 4th of july the dew point goes back into the 50s as the air drys out. double scan live, most of the action, the real severe weather with the nasty squall line is far to the north moving into new england and we have a broken line from the north and west. we'll watch the storms north and west of washington as they pass through. future tracker shows through 6:00 tonight, the storms are peppered throug

it was scoreless until the 6th when jim carlos stanton g.t.e.s an rbi double off strasburg and the nats gave him no run support. they lose 3-1. the marlins, though, are on a 6-game winning streak. you can see today's nats game right here on wusa9. it starts at 12:30. if you want to catch your soaps or the rest of the afternoon program, they will be on our digital 9.2. if you're on comcast that's 207. cox cable is 807 and it's 459 on fios. if you watch us on dish or directv, they will have your soaps tonight on the "tv guide" network channel. >>> room key? forget that. all you need now is your mobile device. >> an international hotel chain goes high-tech and prepares to get rid of room keys. we lose them anyway. that's coming up on wusa9. we'll we showed people a survey that stacked fios up against comcast. what's it like paying for internet rated 6 out of 7 in customer satisfaction? not go no, it's not fun. look at it this way, you're kind of on top. if i was like this, all day. switch from the bottom to the top and see why millions of satisfied customers have made fios #1. sign up for

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the futurecast pretty quiet through the morning hours, but by 2:00 notice winchester to strasburg downard lee market getting into the blue ridge. this afternoon getting up toward frederick and that will be approaching d.c. 4:00, 5:00 p.m. these could be strong to severe storms from baltimore all the way down toward fredricksburg just in time for the rush hour, right? then as we get into the evening hour, 6:30 the threat moves over toward the bay, across southern maryland. a couple of showers can't be ruled out overnight tonight ahead of the front. then by tomorrow morning, we're going to try to get this stuff out of here. could be an early shower east. generally a much better day tomorrow with the drier air moving in. so today 88, 89. strong to severe storms in the afternoon and evening. passing shower tonight, 69 here. but low 60s north and west. really nice tomorrow and thursday 893. 85 thursday -- thursday 83. 85 thursday. chance of storms return friday with a high of 84. now monika with timesaver traffic. >>> it's been a really tough one. yesterday was tough. in fact, i was on the

steve strasburg for the nationals. for the phillies. >> guys it all seems forgiven and forgotten between lebron james and the city of cleveland. after four fruitful years in miami james announced sports illustrated.com today he's heading home to play for the cavaliers. cavaliers how about this guys sold out season tickets for the up coming season in just eight hours. james said quote my relationship with northeast ohio is bigger than basketball. i didn't roll lies that four years ago. i do now. >> heads back to his home stow with young talented nucleus an lot closer to winning championships than he was with the aging heat team he's leaving behind. the new 76ers joel embiid half jokingly half seriously tried to recruit lebron to the six social security. he went on twitter to say quote i guess my recruiting skills didn't work. >> free agent domino dropped the other started to fall in place. member little twist on this one. 43 agent chris bosche decided that stay with miami. again he got a max contract of $118 million ove

then the starting pitcher, you've had stephen straussburg up and down -- strasburg up and down. then you throw in jordan zimmermann, things have pieced together for the nats. >> i want to get back to the pitching. rate how they've been the first half. >> i think they've been very g. . would give them a b, b plus straussburg has had some underlying statistics that have made it not as esthetically pleasing but he has pitched well. jordan zimmermann, all-star pitcher. geo has started to find his groove. >> if you had to pick an mvp for the first half it would be? >> randone. offensively he carried the team from time to time up there in the offensive categories as a leader. defensively spectacular at 1st and 3rd. this is a guy that's been the most valuable in the first half. >>> popular movie about a raunchy talking teddy bear is now the subject of a lawsuit. >> what? that's a great movie. >> really. >> one local county is considering redistricting boundaries to deal with a growing problem ♪ you want to save money on car insurance? no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance?

cole hamels and steven strasburg 7:00 o'clock phillies and nationals tomorrow night on fox.e more so by mced in den. i got witness had he, scott williams. they were doing it. they had no idea what the guys in cleveland were saying. >> that's right. >> we love that stuff. >> got a lot of talent here, man. shredder, thanks lot. another half hour full of news. fast-moving flames destroyed two homes in upper darby. where the fire started and the conditions firefighters face that's straight ahead. >> hollywood club owner found dead in a philadelphia hotel room. his girlfriend and actress on the fox hit show glee. what we have learned about his death. fox 29 news at 6:00 star if he were a lobbyist... if they were political contributors... maybe tom corbett would listen to them, instead of cutting funding for their schools. oil and gas companies gave corbett 1.7 million dollars in political contributions. and he gave them a sweetheart deal on taxes that's costing pennsylvania billions. corbett's mismanagement has caused a huge budget deficit. and his painful education cuts are forc

. >> one thing else we should at least get a chance to see, the highly touted pitcher stephen strasburgk: we tried three times to get former granite ceo don cornwell to explain why wtvh merged with a competitor in syracuse. but he declined, as noted in this email from cornwell. he did issue, though, a published statement when he stepped down as ceo in 2009. >> your reaction to don? >> what exactly did he accomplish? i can't point to a single great accomplishment by a granite television station in syracuse, other than running the place into the ground. i don't mean to be harsh, but, you know, to make a laudatory statement when you are basically waving the white flag is not just tone-deaf; it's infuriating to the people who really, really put their hearts and their souls and their blood and their guts into trying to build something, you know. we knew we had a good operation at channel 5. we knew we had longtime journalists, longtime photographers-- photographers you could send out as journalists and they'd come back with a story because they knew what they were talking about. great photog

strasburg slows it down.n a chance many he got it down -- and he got it done. >> all right, that's your play of the day. baltimore went on to beat washington 8-2. but not a bad play. >>> all right, it is tuesday morning. 25 minutes after 5:00. coming up as tensions rise in the east, president obama urges israelis and palestinians to make peace coming up the latest on the president's op-ed published in an israeli newspaper. >> plus, a new report out explains how the general motors' deadly ignition switch flaws emerged. how gm officials say they were just trying to improve its cars. >> a teen killed. a sonoma county sheriff's deputy off the hook. i'm mark kelly, coming up why the da is not filing charges in the death of 13-year-old santa rosa teen andy lopez. ,,,,,,,, dove bar for 7 days? with one small catch. no mirrors. everyday they wash with dove beauty bar but can only feel what's happening. on the seventh day beautiful skin is revealed. dove is different. with one quarter moisturizing cream it helps skin

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speaking in strasburg, he resisted rumors that he was going to step down from the ecb. >> all the rumorse contrary coming from some interested parties, perhaps, are unfounded. job.meone wants drug use there is no change at the boj. earlier, the bank said they're keeping its records in place. they also reaffirmed their forecast that inflation will meet its 2% target in the next two years. data out of beijing today. china released the latest figures for credit growth. for more, we're joined by david inglis live from hong kong. money, moret more than people expected. >> there's a lot more new money, right? look at those set of numbers for june. they did step in, loosening the grip of the lung credit on sport growth. all of these measures, all were clearly higher than estimated. much higher than compared to the previous one. when you look to china, you look at m2 money supply, 14.7%. that is the biggest increase since august of last year. look at bank lending, local currency loans, $175 billion in one month. that's 34 billion compared to may. loans plus other forms of credit, $317 billion, 9

none of the wins have come from strasburg or zimmerman who starts tonight. the offense outscoring opponents 41-27. one is leadoff hitter denard span batting almost .500 since break. the comcast center is no more at least the name. the arena renamed the xfinity center effective