no washington or virginia player has ever been taken higher than that. the graduate posted 11 wins this year and uva all time leader in wins and strikeouts >> nationals were hoping he would fall to their pick at number 6 but gladly took the nation's top third baseman inside. they pictured anthony rendon. he has power at the plate and is a future gold glove winner. they also took alex myer and brian goodwin with the 23rd and 34th picks respectively. congratulations to all them. help the nats win some games. >> see testimony in five or six years after the minors. >> that's right. 4:55. 69 degrees. royal visitor coming to virginia today. >>> also, who will become kate's wedding dress. >>> and sarah palin's paul >>> former vice presidential nominee sarah palin's version of paul revere's ride. palin claimed the famous ride was intended to warn both his fellow colonists and british soldiers. on monday the page featured a padlock which wick bead ya says provides a cooling off period when there are numerous attempts to edit a site >> millions of people around th

no washington or virginia player has ever gone higher.lar for the cavs this weekend driving in five runs, striking out 12 as uva rolled on in the ncaa tournament. but tonight he's thinking about his future. >> i was completely and utterly shocked that i was picked there. i had kind of an idea that i might be picked somewhere in the top area, but never would i have thought it would be number two. it's an incredible, incredible feeling. >> meanwhile, anthony rendone was taken as the sixth pick. he was picked up by the nats. they say he has power at the plate who can also win gold gloves. i also happens to be his 21st birthday. >> biggest day so far, turning 21 and getting drafted on the same day. it can't get any better. my choice, i want to be in the lineup. but if the coach puts me in the lineup, i'm happy. >> the nats now have another third baseman of the future. the nationals also selected kentucky pitcher alex meyer and miami-dade college outfielder ryan goodwin. right now, they're leading the san francisco giants 4-0 in the fourth inn

washington, d.c. you can either select your zone, one of five zones, including northern virginia, shenandoah valley, metro washington area or northern maryland or west virginia. or type in your zip code. i'm going to type in the zip code here at our station, hit the okay button and you'll get a forecast that is not only tailored to your location. this is not coming just from a computer model. our meteorologists right here, veronica, myself, tom, chuck, we're all looking at this data and putting in our own forecast. the forecast temperature of 98 degrees for washington. to the right, our video screen pops up. if you need a seven-day forecast, it's right there as well. and once again, we update this daily right here at nbcwashington.com. you can take a look at the interactive radar. you can zoom in, put on satellites, radar, watches and warnings. you can put on so many things. we think this is cool. i think i could go all day. >> i think with the summer and the heat with the thunderstorms coming through. sometimes we're sitting there and the region is so large. you think, wait a minute. is it going to be coming through my nei

or virginia's governor. $175,000. >>> former dark house dc mayoral candidate brown showing the washington post money orders he says he got from a top campaign aide to vincent grey and now he is planning to testify before the city council. brown says he got the $600 from vincent grey's campaign to disparage the then mayor adrian fenty. the council hearing slated for tomorrow. >>> this may be the first time an election in peru has snarled traffic in falls church. jamming two schools on leesburg pike voting in their country's presidential run-off election. britany morehouse reports the gridlock is really costing people. >> reporter: directions for thousands of peruvian voters that live in six states. >> dc, virginia, west virginia, delaware, kentucky and maryland. >> reporter: traffic is snarled for 12 hours plus. the government is renting out the two schools to be used as polling sites for the run-off election for two presidential candidates. >> a little nervous today because it is very strong. >> reporter: nerves run high because of driving and parking here. while some wait in their cars for family others decide to pa

or nae. >> reporter: palin said she does plan to visit george washington's mount vernon home in virginia. >> and we had some clouds out there right now. temperatures in the 50s. keep the umbrellas handy. daytime highs tomorrow cool. these were the highs from today. highs tomorrow, below the average. that's because of the cloud cover and the chance of showers. computer model at 8:00 a.m. look what's coming on shore. up around bodega bay. and that's what happens is we get into # 11:00 a.m. that's the heaviest action. maybe a thundershower north up toward st. helena up toward napa. as we get into 1:00, we see scattered showers. it just goes on. there'll be sun out there but this is a different deal. this is what we had last time we had severe weather. i wouldn't be surprised tomorrow afternoon it's up in the northern valley, we saw severe thunderstorms. so showers in the forecast tomorrow. back here 10:45. i'm going to roll this model all the way into the weekend where there is rain in the forecast. i'll see you back here. >>> in about one hour and 15 minutes, space shuttle endeavour is suppos

or nae. >> reporter: palin said she does plan to visit george washington's mount vernon home in virginia. >> and we had some clouds out there right now. temperatures in the 50s. keep the umbrellas handy. daytime highs tomorrow cool. these were the highs from today. highs tomorrow, below the average. that's because of the cloud cover and the chance of showers. computer model at 8:00 a.m. look what's coming on shore. up around bodega bay. and that's what happens is we get into # 11:00 a.m. that's the heaviest action. maybe a thundershower north up toward st. helena up toward napa. as we get into 1:00, we see scattered showers. it just goes on. there'll be sun out there but this is a different deal. this is what we had last time we had severe weather. i wouldn't be surprised tomorrow afternoon it's up in the northern valley, we saw severe thunderstorms. so showers in the forecast tomorrow. back here 10:45. i'm going to roll this model all the way into the weekend where there is rain in the forecast. i'll see you back here. >>> in about one hour and 15 minutes, space shuttle endeavour is suppos

or click today. >>> 7:15 right now as we look out over washington, d.c., looking over into virginia this morning as well. beautiful start to the day. get out there while you can while it's still cool, at 70 degrees which is where we are right now. >> you can see the haze out there and the humidity levels between 75 and 80% this morning. so not as bad as we've seen some other days but still rather up there. and we're on tap for a warm day today and warm the middle part of the week. >> really warm. >> serious warm. let's look at the current temperatures across the nation. we are at 70 degrees now here in the district. let's see, 68 degrees in wilmingtonton and 66 in cincinnati. there are heat advisories off to the north and north and west because of the expected high temperatures. for example, in milwaukee today they're looking for a high of 95, chicago is the 76, looking for a high of about 98 degrees, close to 100. so heat advisories in effect in many parts of the eastern united states for today. currently 77 degrees in dallas. out to the west, temperatures in the 40s and 50s for the most part. her

virginia, america or anywhere else in the world. we like our virginia values and bringing them to washington.d to be asked by ralph reid to speak to the faith and freedom conference here is perfect. i told ralph, this is the way i was raised and that will explain that war. he said earlier today he was looking at this conference as like an nfl minicamp paradise that great, perfect. i understand that because growing up in the allen family, our parents would impress upon us on the importance of the four f's in life, family, faith, freedom and football. not necessarily in that order. however, were going to say how these really do apply. as far as in the football family, family does matter a great deal. it's the only constant, cohesive units in the coaching profession because he go from job to job in place to place in our parents would always tell the allen kids, there is nothing more important than family and that is so true. you learn some of those later in life if it didn't make sense when you're a kid may be. the concept and importance of faith is inculcated into allies with grace before every

or have health problems, humidity is not included in these records. richmond, virginia almost tapping 100 yesterday and baltimore, maryland, seeing 9 7 degrees and washington4 degrees. similar numbers in other areas. we don't expect this to let up, at least across the southeastern third of the country. 96 today in atlanta. looking ahead toward tomorrow, the heat continues across the southeast. we may see somewhat cooling from chicago up towards new york over the next couple days. then the heat builds back into chicago as we get towards -- as we get towards friday. watching that, also watching this. it ask t it is the first day of hurricane season. we have a disturbance that will be rolling into florida here. national hurricane center put the orange box on this. watch for development. it won't develop much furtherer than this. florida needs the rain, they'll take it. we'll watch the gulf. who knows what happens there. we'll also want to talk about this in regards to hurricane season. have some disturbances down in the caribbean. the northwestern caribbean and the gulf of mexico during the move june, those are the areas we watch for development. and this yea

every year by the zogby group or the american institute in northern virginia for anyone running for any kind of office who was welcome to come. i was brand-new to the washington field office in specialized in joint counterterrorism. tom major was the chief of police and there were a number of local school board positions. you came and you talked. the first thing that amazed me was how many parents brought their children. i thought, that is just amazing to try to orient in acclimate people to having a voice in the community. the other thing that astounded me was, and it was, can't remember. we will stay all night until everybody has questions they want answered. two hours worth of q&a. every single question, accusation, and it does, diatribe was directed at the fbi. every single one and i was the fbi for the night. and we stayed and i walked out of there thinking, do you know something? we dispatch fbi agents to pakistan, afghanistan, jordan and the west bank. i don't know anything about the community and my own backyard. this is about nine years ago in the spring of 2002. and it just astounded me how ignorant i was. that led to the conversations over the cour