When it comes to the most important position on the field at quarterback, lets face it, theres still a lot of questions in terms of Robert Griffin iii. Hes thrown 12 pass in the preseason. 12. Enough to make you think hes mastered this new system . I dont think so, but heres the plan tonight. He and the starters are going to go about one half. Thats what jay gruden has said all week. If things dont go well they will play into the third period. We shall see. This offense is going to be tested. The ravens secondary is banged up but that front seven is nasty. If there are leaks in the Redskins Foundation theres a good chance we will see it tonight. Its great for us to continue to work through our offensive process. Like you say, get those line checks, get the protection right so that were having positive plays. You can do with it crowd noise in practice but its not like the real thing when you have a good pass rush like them. Its another great test for us as an offense, to nullify that pass rush. Well find those ways. Reporter all right, so quick news and notes. Keep your eye on number 97. Jason hatcher will make his long awaited debut. Morgan moses and spencer long will see action on the left side. They normally line up on the right. And the running back battle. I can tell you this, bruce, as we come back here live, Chris Thompson told me during warm ups he will not play tonight. The good news, though, weve gone from slight rain to hard rain, to no rain. So thats good. Kristen berset will have the ravens side of the story later, but for now, back to you, man, in the studio. That everyones excited back here. Theres also preseason action right here on wusa 9. Nfl coverage of the new Orleans Saints at the indianapolis colts. Join us back here at 11 00 after all the action has ended. Turning to other news, the pilot of a small plane was badly injured after that air crash from a local airport. The plane went down around nan at the Montgomery County air park in gaithersburg. Witnesses say the plane had climbed about 100 feat when it suddenly came crashing to the ground. The accident forced the closing of the airport for a short time. The pilot was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Have after a cloudy, wet day, whats in store . Meteorologist erica grow is keeping an eye on doppler 9000. Bruce, the doppler 9000 is finally starting to lack better. This is a threehour loop. You can see those heavy showers that pushed through Loudoun County into portions of Prince William and fairfax counties, now moving down into fredericksburg and also the Northern Neck of virginia. So this is what it looks like right now on doppler 9000. The latest data showing heavy showers just to the south of the city of fredericksburg and plenty of heavy rain still along the tidal potomac and the Northern Neck of virginia. The showers are tapering off in other parts of Prince Georges County and into calvert county. Upper marlboro is starting to dry out. Dunkirk still looking at moderate rainfall. You saw the trajectory of the showers moving from northwest to southeast. We will see clearing and drying as we head through the overnight hours. Those clouds and showers really held down our temperatures. Its currently only 69 in a bunch of places like arlington and chevy chase. Overnight tonight with clouds in place it is going to keep temperatures from falling that much further. 60 to 68 for your overnight lows. It is going to be a cool and damp nature but tomorrow is the payoff day. Ill tell you why in the first alert sevenday forecast. Big milestones for one of the citys little ones. Bao bao, the zoos panda, celebrated his first birthday today. Reporter from the kids to the adults, even the media, the smiles said it all today, everyone excited for the National Zoos only baby panda, bao baos first birthday. She climbed down a tree to bait into her first birthday cake. Ever since bao bao came, weve just been bao bao crazy. Tad eventually did crack a smile with the bao bao crazy. When we were born, we were only this big. Each birth is such a significant event that being able to celebrate bao baos first birthday is a huge success. Reporter the panda keeper says theres 2,000 pandas in the world right now. Deforforestation in china contributed to the scarcity of these pandas. Shes a sign of hope for scientists here. This is what we can accomplish together. If you havent seen the pandas yet, theyre actually on loan. Bao bao will have to be returned at four years old. At the national zoo, im stephanie ramirez, wusa 9. Bao bao also received the traditional chinese birthday ceremony where she was presented with three objects, or summings to predict what kind of luck she will have. She went for the flag, and then chose long life. Its the 200th anniversary of the battle of claytons burg. Armando trull was there for the reenactment today. Reporter 200 years ago this weak british warships that had been in the Chesapeake Bay sailed up the Anacostia River and landed troops a few miles back. It was here at bladensburg that they met resistance. They werent here to occupy but they were here to punish us. Reporter when british troops arrived at bladensburg they decided to quickly take the initiative. Their attack caught american defenders unaware. They were militia. They had never been fired upon. The british had been doing both. Reporter they were battle hardened. They were battle hardened. Reporter the british soldiers were part of the most powerful military force at the time. They were experienced troops. They had just beat ennapoleon. Reporter as the skirmishes continued, the american retreat was chaotic. When they left, they lab. They panicked. When the first line panicked, it panicked into the second line. Leadership was poor, training was poor, so they all ran. It was a very humiliating defeat. Reporter after routing American Forces during bladensburg the british moved into washington, burning the capital and the president s mansion, but that was their last victory in the war of 1812. They were unable to take fort mchenry. Thats where the starspangled banner would be written. It would be the last time the british and american soldiers faced each other on a field of battle as enemies. In bladensburg, armando trull. Good history, arrest man dose. Maryland governor Martin Omalley helped dedicate the undaunted in battle. Three explosions leave Dozens Injured in baghdad. 11 dead, another 24 wounded after a suicide bombing. The increase in sectarian violence follows yesterdays attack on a sunni mosque near baghdad. Its still unclear tonight who is behind that attack. Coming up, thousands of people peacefully march on Staten Island to protest the death of a man put in a choke hold by new York City Police. 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Meanwhile president obama has reportedly ordered a review of federal programs that enable local Law Enforcement agencies throughout the country to obtain military equipment. Meanwhile, a rally also held today in support of officer wilson. We share the united belief that officer wilsons actions on august 9th were warranted and justified. We believe this has only intensified the destruction of the community of ferguson and the surrounding st. Louis area. An online fundraiser for officer wilsons legal fees has raised more than 300,000. Meanwhile on new yorks Staten Island some 3,000 people staged a peaceful protest over the death of erik garner, the 43yearold father of six who died after new York City Police officers allegedly put him in a fatal choke hold while placing him under arrest. Cell phone video captured the incident. Protesters walked past the District Attorneys Office which has agreed to present the case to a grand jury. No sun today, but erica says the sun will come out tomorrow. Sounds li v weve got the nats playing, football in baltimore. Were finally starting to see things clear out. As dave told us at the beginning of the newscast they had heavier reign baltimore earlier, then things finally tapered off. That will be thrend overnight. It is that will be the trend overnight. Starting off with the like cal son weather cam you can see low clouds over Reagan National but those clouds are going to at least stop dumping down all those showers as we head into the overnight. Right now it is 73 degrees, still lightly raining at Reagan National. The dew point is 67. So we have a fairly high amount of relative humidity, 81 . That could lead to fog overnight tonight. It will definitely help to keep temperatures from falling overnight tonight. It will be cool, and it is going to be damp tonight. Mostly cloudy as well. And we are going to see big improvements on sunday. That cloud cover that we have out there is going to break for sunshine by about midmorning tomorrow, and then we will see lots and lots of sun throughout the rest of both tomorrow and the work week. We have beautiful weather moving in for several days, pleasant temperatures, low humidity. It just looks awesome. On satellite and radar, the 12 hour loop shows that early cluster of showers that developed overnight and dragged through the metro area. Our model data completely missed it. This forecast was a bust, i would have to say, because our model data was showing lingering showers through the morning, then some clearing in the afternoon, and it just did not materialize. That little cluster of showers was really just holding on. So on 9 futurecast we are looking forward, though, to a big improvement as we head into tomorrow. Some showers still possible through about midnight, but then waking up tomorrow morning, and High Pressure is nudging in. Thats going to bring us the sunshine, because this is a certainty. This area of High Pressure will push in and bring us that sunshine. Not only tomorrow afternoon, but also on monday and into tuesday, wednesday looks good, too. Were going to enjoy a really nice stretch here. Overnight mostly cloudy. Those showers that we have out there are going to be ending within the next three to four hours. 60 to 68 for your overnight lows. Then tomorrow morning temperatures will be in the 60s and 70s, the clouds breaking pretty early. We will be mostly sunny by noon. In the afternoon hours it looks wonderful, mostly sunny, comfortably cool with temperatures between 78 and 93. Our average high is still 87. We will get there on tuesday. Monday it will be beautiful with a high of 84, lots of sunshine. And then tuesday right back where we should be this time of year with a high of 87. Then it starts to get warmer again. Wednesday and thursday a high of 89 degrees. But there san approaching frontal system that could trigger an isolated storm thursday, another one friday, but the real threat appears to be on saturday of next week. So we are going to look for that chance of thunderstorms slowly creeping back into the metro area. And one final note. There is a developing system in the tropics that could become cristobal, but it does look to remain well offshore, not even affecting the delmarva beaches. Fingers crossed that the forecast holds. Weve sent our biggest and best, dave owens and kristen berset. Go ahead, guys. Reporter bruce johnson, homer. How about that. Big game tonight, kristen. Im excited. I know the ravens have a lot going on. Reporter absolutely. So hard it can be. How. To breathe with copd . It can feel like this. Copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Spiriva is a oncedaily inhaled. Copd maintenance treatment. That helps open my airways for a full 24 hours. You know, spiriva helps me breathe easier. 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You are either going to say, i like what im seeing, i like the direction of may team, or you are going to say, uhoh, were in trouble. I wonder where the redskins fans will be tonight. We shall see. We talked about the offense earlier. Lets talk about the defense now. They will certainly be tested. The redskins defense goes from the browns in that quarterback debacle to the ravens in super bowl caliber joe flacco. Night and day, yeah, id say. So its like going from basic math to calculus. Joe flacco knows what he is doing, and the redskins defense knows that. He gets paid the big bucks for a reason. Hes got good guys around him that allow him to be really good. Hes a guy that has a super bowl ring and has been in that offense for awhile. Theyve got a new coordinator but theyre pretty much doing a lot of the same things. Just a guy who understands offense, understands his reads. Definitely it will give us a test to show what weve got. Reporter all right, tonights Third Quarter might be the most important of the preseason for the redskins young backs. Chris thompson, his chances are on life support, we know that, because he cant get out of the injury room. He is not going to play. Evan royceter seemed to play his way into contention last week. Every rep counts but at the same time im just trying to be positive about it. Its real frustrating right now for me. Reporter tough for Chris Thompson to be positive because he is not going to be able to play. But that redskins offense is going to have their hands full with the ravens. Absolutely. This ravens defense has been trying to return to its dominance, and they think they have the pieces this year, going up against rgiii. The last time these two teams met it was that fateful night, hello tee haloti ngata hit rgiii. Its a good test for harbaughs defense tonight. Were going to talk about that, rgiii, hes a great talent, great guy. Hes obviously made plays in this league. I love what coach gruden is doing with him in terms of running the offense. Yet he can get out and run. Hes a dual threat. And its a lot of respect for him. A lot of respect for their whole offense and defense. Great football team. Reporter like we said, third preseason game, all important one. The last chance for some guys to establish themselves. The starting corner backs are all injured. This is a prime opportunity for the backups to make a statement especially against guys like Desean Jackson and pierre garcon. It is going to be an opportunity for those guys to go against the best for a long period of time. Those guys are among the best receivers in football. Great quarterback. The whole offense is very well stocked with talent. So it is going to give us a good chance to evaluate where were at and give those guys an opportunity to prove they can play with the best. Reporter re going to have a full half of starters against starters. It is going to be a good showing. Well have you covered. We will see you back here at 11 00. Guys, back to you in the studio. Thanks a lot. Absolutely. It finally looks like it is going to be drying out there so good news. Thats probably going to keep it dry through the entire game there in baltimore and in the d. C. Metro things are going to be drying out slowly but surely overnight. Join us back here after all the football, axelrod tonight, facing a dead. President obama wraps up a vacation. Major garrett and Juliana Goldman on the evolving story. An entire high rise blown up in gaza. Israel takes out an Apartment Building that may have also housed a mosque. From ferguson to new york city, thousands protest Deadly Police confrontations. A longrunning hollywood battle takes to the sky. Why the stars now fear drones. Nenew yorks newest tourists, whales have a