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he joins trent williams, fletcher, cofield and bowen. shanahan says he thinks this is the first time he has had a rookie captain. >>> a celebration -- >> sorry. >> he's no typical rookie. >> that's true. a debilitating disease may have left him wheelchair bound but didn't stop him from living out his dream on the gridiron. 9-year-old jason smith is restricted to a wheelchair with muscular dystrophy. he's been watching his twin brother from the sidelines. with just a few minutes left in the game, jason's father, also the team coach, gave him the ball and a teammate pushed him all the way into the end zone. afterwards a big celebration by both teams. >> awesome. >> that is news 4 today. thank you for starting your day with us. >> the "today" show is next. back in 25 minutes with weather, traffic, and any breaking news. back here tomorrow 4:28. hope you'll join us then.

and now joining trenton williams, fletcher and alexander as team captains. shawn? >> thank you very much. >>> quarterback tim tebow is the victim of bullying, at least by one teammate n. a recent introductions the new york jets defensive guard spoke out saying the backup quarterback is, quote, terrible and that tebow doesn't come close to performing as well as starter mark sanchez. well, guess what? currently sanchez is not doing well either. his completion rate ranks the worst in the nfl at 52%. >> it was not that one, there were a couple of players but kept their names out of the article. they didn't want to be named yet. they're hating on tebow there. >> and slausson, who is he? even our sports producers are like this is not at the level of the tebow. the endorsement. i say be careful. karma will come back to get you. >> that is true. >>> when we comeback, we will take you inside a pub that donates 100% of the profits to charity. we have the answer coming up in laura's like. >> plus, black friday battle. an employee pushes back against the plan to open stores ea

let's bring in william fletcher, a walmart employee. with a welcome to you, why are you protesting?otesting because of the retaliation at our stores. many associates when we try to speak out are either fired or pulled into an office having to speak to multiple manages for at times hours on end. they are scare tactics. they try to put fear into people. and i'm protesting who hopefully make that stop. >> here is what one exec it tetch said on the "today" show. let's play that. >> we are really confident about a great shopping experience for our customers. we'll have a million walmart associates serving our customer. what you are seeing is a small group of associates and a select number of stores. >> so there's no ramifications if somebody protests? >> we'll treat each case individually, savannah. >> what's your response to that? >> well, there's not a whole lot of associates protesting in comparison to the number that work for the company. however, for each associate that is protesting, there are 14 or 15 that support us but are too afraid to speak out. an important thing to remember

and joining the current, williams, london fletcher and alexander and hit refleshed and where he shent his -- spent his day office and it was not a familiar setting. he wanted to get his mind right for the final push of the sea soon and that he's hungry to lead his team to yes, the play- offs. >> this is one game at a time. you don't look to the future. you have to take care of what you have in front of you. what am i say something yeah, i think the play-offs are a realistic goal for us and i don't think that there is a guy in the locker room that doesn't believe that. >> they're a football team and understand we have to play that the second half of the season. they do regardless what your record is -- record is and you want to play well. the focus is on one game and that is selly. let's play the best football and concentrate on one game and do it that way. >> rg3 has 9 more nfl starts under the belt and the eagles qb. rookie nick folds will leave in place of the injured mike vick and he was the greatest thing since sliced bread. not a threat to run that mike vic was and has a great ar

he joins trent williams as captain on offense. fletcher, cofield and bowen are the defensive cap taps. shanahan says he thinks this is the first time he has had a rookie captain. so well deserved for robert griffin iii. richmond is the new home of the redskins training camp. ready for the team by summer. the city plans to pull the money from construction budgets for a new city jail and schools. the projects, however, are expected to remain on track. and the $10 million repaid through sponsorships. it will include a field house, medical facility, two football field and double as sports medicine and men's health facility when not used by the team. >>> terps going out for the annual blackout game this weekend. take a look at the uniforms they will be wearing. they call these maryland's block ops uniforms. it features part of the maryland flag. the terps, who have struggled since losing all four scholarship quarterbacks to injury face florida state. game time noon in college park. >>> five minutes before the top of the hour now. new york and n