the flooding has stop, the waters have receded,esidents face the huge task of cleaning up after yesterday's massive water main break. the water is gone but the town of dundalk, maryland, has a long road ahead. let's look at these pictures a. six-foot water main broke yesterday afternoon and a deluge of water left many neighbooods completely under water. today, mud and a great deal of water left behind for the residents. >> reporter: friday there was too much water. today for some residents just enough to go around. what else is going around, stories of high water and high anxiety. >> it was terrible. >> i got everything pumped out. my furnace is destroyed.

i just put hardwood floor in my house last november and it is destroyed. >> reporter: the gaping hole when a six-foot water main erupt erupted. mose residents had no inkling until the water ruz rushing toward their doorste others weren't so lucky. >> there's a lot of elderly people out here, a lot of disabled people besides myself. i'm calling for people to come out. >> reporter: red cross workers and others converged. items that were precious were water laden moldy piled, ruined and unser moan yously dumped. part of the red cross relief is to distribute these mundane

items. >> i don't believe we know the cause for this particular break. the pipe, as i understand it, very large pipe, 72-inch main was installed in the early '70s. >> 70 houses were deemed uninhabitable and an emergency shelter is opened for those who need it. a man is behind bars charged with murdering a professor and three other people near longwood university. four victims were discovered at the longwood university professor deborah kelly. police tracked down their suspect. 20-year-old richard mccroskey. they found him in the baggage claim area at richmond international airport. police believe he was trying to catch a fright to california. kelly's husband, daughter and a friend were known to stay at the home.

>> when it is friends and loved ones, it -- i don't have the words. >> kelly's daughters left a posting on the suspect's myspace page professing her love and saying she would soon see him at her house. prince george's county police have a murder mystery. they found a body inside a burning home earlier this morning in capital heights. now they must figure out if the fire killed him or it was set to cover up his murder. day spencer has more. what did you find out? >> reporter: neighbors reported the fire after smelling smoke. some also say they heard shots fired. police don't know exactly how the victim died. around 2:30 saturday morning firefighters were called here to this single family home on kayak avenue in capital heights. >> they put out the fire and

found an unidentified black male deceased. they called in the homicide department and they determined this is an arson and a homicide. >> reporter: some neighbors reported smelling smoke and heard shots fired. >> i'm in shock. it hasn't sank in with me yet. the neighborhood person who cut the grass was shot and killed and burned up in that abandoned house. >> i was in the house asleep. i smelled smoke. i came outside. i saw the smoke and the fire. i went in the house and said okay, another day. i didn't know it was a big thing like this. i didn't know it was a major crime seen. i thought it was a fire. >> reporter: they are trying to determine not om who the man was but how he died and who killed him. they are not saying whether the victim had been shot. residents say a man who was

staying in the vacant house would mow lawns in the neighborhood to earn cash. >> the homicide detectives will work on who the arsonist is, what are the elements of the homicide, when did events occur. >> reporter: police are waiting on the results of an autopsy to determine who the man was and determine whether he died from the fire or how he died. the republican presidential candidates are off and running. yes, already. mike huckabee has the unofficial early lee. he topped a straw poll at a conservative gathering in the district today. he gathered more votes at the value voter summit than mitt romney and sarah palin combined. it is a chance for the christian conservatives to show they are relevant. >> i'm leading an effort amongst house republicans to earn back

our majority so we can take the gavel away from nancy pelosi. >> president obama and the democrats are in control trying to reform health care before it is too late. president obama will push his plan tomorrow on "meet the press" at 10:30 a.m. here on nbc 4. buyers got a chance to jump back into the housing market at an auction for foreclosed homes. >> $44,000. >> 130 properties across the washington area and west virginia were on the block this weekend. they ranged from $5,000 to $615,000. all of the homes are being sold as is. prospective buyers could inspect the properties before bidding on them. there were several auction sites including this one in falls church. >> we are getting them under contract. we have lenders trying to approve offers and get the hands

of the community on these properties to get them fixed up, repaired and moved into. >> they presold 30 of the homes before bidding began today. still ahead, several people were attackedy a bear. at a crowded bus station this bear appeared in the crowd and we have the bizarre story coming up. a driver can recovering at her car is hit with such force it ends up on top of another car. what caused the crash has her fuming. she's had quite a year but how much would you pay for dinner with sarah palin? chuck, that question was not directed directly at you. >> i would love to share a hotdogith her at fedex field. beautiful weather for football tomorrow. what about the work week a complete check of the forecast coming up. coming up in sports, a busy day on the college gridiron.

viinia going for its first win and the terps get into a shootout with middle tennessee state.

security cameras captured yesterday's deay shooting ram passage in a mexico city subway yesterday. two people were killed. eight more were injured. the shooting began when a police officer confronted a man about writing anti-government graffiti on the wall. officers subdued the suspect.

police are randomly checking for guns at the subway stations. a bear went on a rampage in japan yesterday as more than 100 horrified tourists were looking on. witnesses say the bear started attacking people. it injured nine people before employed managed to trap it inside a souvenir shop. it was put down. a massachusetts woman is in pain after a crash this week. the other driver's explanation as to why the accident happened that really has her angry. >> she's like, oh, my god. is everyone all right. i w paying attention to the spider on my windshield. >> the old spider excuse. the spider distracted her and caused her to ram into daniel's car. it hit her with such force it caused her car to fly into the air. firefighters say they are lucky

the gas tank did not catch fire. the other driver is charged with following too closely and not registering her car. still ahead tonight, how much would you pay to have dinner with sarah palin? the auction has closed with a huge winning bid. we'll tell you exactly how much. will this beautiful late summer weather stick around for tomorrow's redskins game?

she may be out of office, but sarah palin seems to be as popular as ever. an alabama woman paid more than

$63,000 to have dinner with the former alaska governor. th woman had the winning bid on ebay. the proceeds go to a veterans group. sarah palin can back out. that's got to make a person feel good. >> what if you cough up $60,000 and she says no. >> no. hopefully this turns out. today, i search for a cloud and couldn't find one. >> i found two. but i'm a trained weather observer. a beautiful day. whether you found one cloud or two, i did not hear any single weather related complaints with the way saturday afternoon went. tomorrow every bit as nice, maybe a tick or two warmer. a beautiful, mostly sunny day on the way. the skies are clear with a fairly light breeze, dry air in place we are going to see our temperatures drop very, very

quickly in the overnight hours. after a beautiful day where a high temperature made it to 77, we dropped to 63 this morning. with a clear sky and calm wind our temperature stands at 64 in washington. a lot of our western suburbs dropping back down into the 50s. take a check of it on the map. fairfax county down to 59, m manassa 59. widespread 40-degree readings tomorrow in the western suburbs. low to mid 60s next to the chesapeake bay and in downtown washington. overnight temperatures drop into the 50s. a very nice, albeit cool start for tomorrow morning. sunday, sunshine for the skins game. great weather at fedex field in

maryland tomorrow. humidity and moisture coming our way. not much of a factor for tomorrow. tomorrow the only impact is high clouds later in the day. tomorrow no chance for rain. plenty of sunshine. the area of high pressure will move away and put a south easterly component to the wind and increase clouds. late monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, next chance for rainfall. when you wake up tomorrow, clear skies, cool to chilly, 40s in the western suburbs, mid 50s in town. mid 60s in the chesapeake bay. a few high clouds later in the day, high temperatures upper 70s, near 80 from stafford and fredericksburg. by tomorrow evening skies to the milky white color of overcast. evening temperatures in the mid

60s. sunday forecast, beautiful weather, another mild day on tuesday. south westerly winds push temperatures into the upper 70s and low 80s. even with a chance for rain it won't be a freezing cold rain. the unsettled weather will be ending form. >> we get to leave the windows open. >> as long as you have a blank ket close

hakeem is joining us live to talk about sports. not a lot of celebrating in college park.

>> deja vu all over again. >> not the kind you want to see again. >> exactly. when you attend a college football game at college par you can receive fan assistance by text terp and followed by issue. problem solved. if you want to request like we need help on the field you will get a request that says we know already. middle tennessee state has the terps' number. they beat the terps for the second year in a row. to college park for the highlights. edwin williams and kevin barnes in the house. terps trailing 23-21. chris turner connects with corey smith. smith had five catches for 165 yards. terps up 28-23. mtsu possession. on fourth and one they go for it. he scoots 32 yards for the td.

the blue raiders take a 29-28 lead. drama the blue raiders drive to the maryland 1 yard line to set up this. a 19-yard field goal. it is up and it is good. middle tennessee state edg maryland 32-31, ralph friedgen none too pleased about that. >> i don't think our guys were -- i don't know what the deal was. they didn't seem into it. i got after them pretty good haft time. >> something we emphasize is not killing ourselves, sound mechanics, execute to the best of our ability. we made too many mistakes today. >> i think i'm going to go back and, you know, i'm going to start getting real tough. we are going to do things the right way. we are going to play better next week. i'm going to promise you. i'm not worried about guys legs or what they feel like.

they need to worry about how i feel. >> practice will be a doozy on monday. elsewhere, virginia tech taking on the big boys from nebraska. this heavyweight battle did not disappoint. down in blacksburg. the hokies started strong. virginia tech by five. tie rod taylor trying to make something happen. pump fakes and goes up top and deep to a wide open danny cole. off to the races. he is knocked out of bounds at the 3 yard line. tech, here we go. three plays later, tech on the 11 yard line after a sack. tyrod taylor had the hokies in business. let's go, guys. come on. taylor, sees dyrell roberts. check out roberts. makes an incredible catch for thegame-winning touchdown. virginia tech beats the

cornhuskers 16-15. let's go to hatsymississipp. toree morrison, a speedy fellow. 57-yard touchdown. the cavs led 27-10 at halftime. they lose 37-34. virginia falls to 0-3. to pittsburgh. navy playing pitt. second quarter, the panthers up 14-7. they are threatening. deon lewis stretches in for pitt. pitt downs navy. the mids back home on next saturday against western kentucky. in the wnba playoffs the mystics, win or the season is over. in the fourth quarter, lindsay harding, count it. mystics up four.

langhorne 15 points, ten rebounds. game tied 69. mystics get it to alana beard. drives baseline. no good. we go to overtime, ts guy loves him some bonus basketball. the fever inside tammy sutton-brown. indiana wins 81-74 in o.t. eliminating the mystics. turning to hockey. the countdown is on. the capitals open on october 1st at boston. preseason tuneups get the blood pumping. pick it up in the third period. under 20 seconds to play. shawn morrison drives the net with the puck. matthew perot gets it past cristobal huey. redskins corner fred smoot questionable for tomorrow's home opener because of rib injury. hopefully he can play, if not, i

think they will be okay. >> i still have goose bumps. virginia tech. >> that was great. >> thanks. that is our news for tonight. see you again tomorrow. "saturday night live" is coming up next.