scene. jane watrel is there live now with the latest. jane? >> this is a devastating scene. there's a lot of children that are in this apartment complex. we are in the oak ridge apartment complex which is an older complex. we have chopper 4 up above. we also have a ground shot here. and apparently the prince george's county firefighter came very quickly. they got a call at 5:12. and they were here within four minutes. when they got here, though, they found two young boys and then -- an apartment that apparently had flames but joining us now to give us details is mark brady, spokesman with the prince george's county fire department. mark, tell me what happened when the firefighters got here. they got here within four minutes. >> they did. they all arrived about the same time, within four minutes. they knew had had to work from the amount of smoke coming from the apartment and 911 callers told there were two young men still inside the apartment. they did a valiant job of going inside and knocking down the

fire and locateding the two children inside a back room and brought them out and their condition was extremely grave at the time. cpr has been in the area and taken to an area hospital. >> reporter: i know the investigation is still going on. any thoughts to what may have happened, if this was accidental? do we know at this point? >> not at this point. we are still -- you know, making sure the hotspots are out on this fire and came out and around 5:15. 45 minutes into it. so we are still making sure the fire is out completely. fire investigators are on the scene and conducting sber views and trng to determine exactly what happened. >> reporter: looking at the building it does not look like the whole building has gone up. you said these are older, well-built apartments. >> these apartments were built back when they knew how to build apartments. and typically when we come to the two story or three-story red brick apartment buildings the fires are contained to the apartment of origin, they are that well built ask and that was the story in this case here. >> reporter: i know the kids were rushed out. did you know if there were any adults, were people yelling for people to go in and get these young boys?

>> you can see it is a busy community. a lot of people out and nice night out. we received numerous 911 calls reporting smoke coming from the building and then neighbors reporting that the kids were still inside. the father of the children, i understand, was on the scene at some point. and he also has been taken to the hospital to be with the children. >> reporter: do we know if these are toddlers, young children? >> we are talking between 4 and 5 years of age. reporter: very young kids. >> extremely young. >> reporter: all right. thank you, mark. what happens now? is there -- are there investigates here? what happens from this point on? >> fire investigators are on location and conducting the interviews of anybody that they can find that knows something about this incident. the prince george's county police department will come in and assist us in this because in the -- the event there is a death, that the -- police department will have to get involved. they join us in this investigation. and we will go from there. >> reporter: tragic. a tragic for our family. >> any time -- any time you have a death, tragic death, it is

terrible. it is compounded when it is some young child involved. >> reporter: to recap, mark, thank you very much. 5:12 this afternn, firefighters responded here to the oak ridge apartment complex where two young boys, 4 to 5 years old, were found inside an apartment and there had been a fire. the boys were pulled from that fire. very grave condition. taken to prince george's county hospital. back to you. >> thanks, jane. also in the news today, attacks at two luxury hotels in indonesia. suicide bombers posing as guests set off a deadly pair of explosions. >> twin bombings in jakarta killed at least eight people and wounded dozens more. julie carey joins with us the latest on this. >> reporter: all of the americans in the attack a are expected to survive. three years since the last big attack in the region. crackdown there kept terrorism at bay until today. the bomb blast came just minutes apart and guests a two hotels

were just waking up or sitting down to breakfast. at the ritz-carlton the explosion tore through the restaurant. at the marriott the bomb appeared to be planted in the basement and an undetonated explosive was found in an 18 floor guest room. stunned guests, some still dressed in bathrobes, described the scene. >> like an earthquake we had about a year or two ago. >> moving a lot. a lot of smoke. everything was crazy. >> reporter: this closed circuit video taken from the marriott shows the moment of the explosion. a man pulls a bag across the lobby towards the restaurant when a flash and smoke filled the air. emergency workers and anti-terror police rushed to the scene. soon after, victims were carried from the hotel. and at least eight people were killed. and more than on 50 were wounded, including eight americans. none of their injuries was believed to be life threatening. in recent years, indonesian elected leaders had been pray r

praised for making a strong stand against terrorists. in 2003 a car bombing at the marriott killed 12. after that attack, blamed on the al qaeda linked group, police killed or captured many of its leaders. the u.s. state department spokesman says today's attack does not necessarily represent a setback for indonesia's dem october. >> i these are acts of terrorism. committed by people who don't want to see indonesia succeed. they want to see democracy disappear. but we are going to support the indonesian government and in its efforts to find out who carried out this -- these attacks. >> reporter: indonesian authorities have not yet named a culprit, here in washington, metropolitan police issued a statement in response to the jakarta bombings saying they have given patrol officers here relevant details and a list of hotel locations. they will not reveal hotels in

our area are on heightened alert. today thousands of protesters packed a prayer hall in iran while an overflow crowd faced off against the police outside. this happened at tehran university today. police and pro-gornment militiamen fired tear gas at the protesters that chatted death to the dictator. those protesters also called on president ahmadinejad to resign. inside the prayer hall and an iranian cleric who backs the opposition delivered a sermon that bluntly criticized the country's leadership over the crackdown on the lexapro tests. opposition leader was in the front row there and the protesters say ahmadinejad and other iranian leaders stole the election from mousavi last month. dozens of protesters were arrested. we con to follow a developing story in northwest d.c. police searching an area that includes rock creek park and national zoo after a violent

attack late this afternoon. a man was stabbed near rock creek parkway and calvert street. not far from the omni hotel in connecticut avenue. d.c. police s the male victim ran to the u.s. park police stables meesh and after he was cut in the face. the man was also robbed. police are now searching for that suspect. a woman working as a nanny in maryland has been arrested on child abuse and child pornography charges. police arrested ck22-year-old harnich yesterday in hyattsville. she was accused of transmitting pornographic images of children over the internet using a live web cam. the investigators say that she also showed the victims explicit images on a computer. she's from bosnia and is in the u.s. on an expired work visa. she's believed to have worked for several families in the area. city police in hyattsville want any family who let their children in the suspect's care to give them a call. the capitol police officer

is out of the hospital in toght after a teplrito shooting in prince george's.co tyun itpetyap hne apou atseidnme artt complex in the 8500 block of greenbelt ad in greenbelt a just across t nasaoddard sp eace erntce. officer and 12-year old girl were injured in the shoot-out. derrick ward has our report. >> bullet holes in cars, among the remnants of the shoot-out that occurred in the parking lot of of the apartment in greenbell. the shoot-out left three people injured. among them a 12-year-old girl, grazed by a bullet that entered her second floor apartment. it all started with an argument between an off-duty fort meyers army base police offer and civilian roommate inside the apartment they shared. >> the off-duty officer left the apartment in an attempt to call for assistance. and at that point the roommate was able to locate the officers' off duty weapon and subsequently ran out into the parking lot and began randomly firing the

weapon. >> reporter: the officer's roommate was among the trio of wounded and he was shot by an off-duty capitol police officer who had come to the complex to visit his mother and witnessed the first round of gunfire. he subsequently shot the gunman and was himself wounded. >> my son ran to his car and he was going to his car and when he went to his car, he -- he -- got his gun and all i know is i was laying down and i called 911 and they told me that the policemen were on their way. and when they did that, i -- my son came to the car and said it is okay, mom, get up. when got up, he was -- i looked at him and saw he was shot. >> reporter: that officer has since been released from the hospital as has the 12-year-old girl grazed by one of the dozens of rounds fired in this parking lot. as important the third victim in the shooting the roommate of the ft. myers military base police officer, he remains hospitalized with several gunshot wounds to the upper body. that's when u.s. capitol police officer released today, double

good news for him. today is his birthday. police have not released the name of the capitol police officer involved because he's both a victim and a witness. he was the chief supplier of a heroin ring that infiltrate ad northern virginia high school. today he learned his fate. 33-year-old antonio harper of waldorf was sentenced to more than 26 years in prison. and an fbi investigation traced serious heroin use and distribu aono troo gup ofup stwed elfigh el school. the investigation began following the overdose deaths of four teenagers including alicia of centreville. according to court documents harper and his co-conspirators put anywhere from $100,000 to $300,000 bags of heroin into the hands of addicts from 2006 to 2008. a federal judge is allowing a wrongful death lawsuit to go ahead in the case of a man who was shot with a taser by a deputy share nif frederick county.

gerald the family of gerald gray is seeking $145 million. in november of 2007, a sheriff's deputy trying to break up a fight used a stun gun twice to subdue gray and gray died. previously ruled the sheriff's office could not be sued. today he ruled there is enough evidence to go to trial, no date has been set. coming up our broadcast, neighbors took the stand in the trial of a woman accused of killing her four children. a tough weekend ahead for metro's red line users. investigators search for the cause of last month's deadly train crh. daring rescue bay police officer after a van burst into flames on the side of a highway. >> troubles for the manufacturers of the swine flu vaccine. they don't know if it will be ready for the fall season. how about the weather? >> we had a few showers. some spots had a lot of rain. not everybody has gotten sun for their garden but that changes for the weekend and good baseball weather this weekend. >> very nice. coming up in sports, nationals point fingers at themselves at the british open.

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five police officers saved a family from a burning minivan last week. it happened on route i-75 when police rolled up, the vehicle and a trailer already were fully engulfed in flames.

a young woman outside of the vehicle was frantically trying to get to her sister and mother who is disabled. there are several explosions while police dragged the victims to safety. the mother and one her dauters were burned but they are expected to recover. the fire was sparked when a tire blew and ignited one of the flammables. there are mixed signals tonight about the nation's economic recovery. jobless numbers are up in several states. and 15% unemployment rate in michigan is the highest ofny state since 1984. yet new housing starts rose to that highest level this year. the disparity is renewing debate over wther president obama's stimulus plan is working. steve handelsman reports. >> reporter: the patient is stable. experts agree the u.s. economy is not getting worse. and construction of new homes rose, 3.6% in june to the highest level in six months.

citigroup and bank of america recorded big profits. top obama adviser summers said the president's plan is working. >> substantial progress has been made in rescuing the economy from the risk of economic collapse that looked all too real six months ago. >> reporter: vice president biden claimed the obama plan is saving jobs. >> layoffs of idle workers. layoffs of police officers and firefighters and teachers. >> reporter: in 16 states in june, the jobless rate rose to 10%. summers called that a major concern but insisted that the obama recovery plan was designed to spur job growth by the end of next year. >> the peak impact of the stimulus on jobs was expected not to be achieved until the end of 2010. >> reporter: some outside experts see an obama plan that's falling short. >> stimulus program has been a bit of a disappointment. the impact is not quite as

powerful as anticipated. >> we are an extraordinary economic times and we have tremendous job loss. >> reporter: republican house whip eric cantor said that millions of jobs will be crushed by this administration's big spending high deficit policy. points to the grim unemployment numbers. the white house originally predicted that the president's stimulus plan would hold joblessness below 8.5%. now the projection is 10% nationally by the end of this year. i'm steve handelsman, news4, capitol hill. >> the treasury department is scrapping a plan, controversial plan,ing in fact, to hire -- lighten the mood of employees there. the idea came from easury's bureau public debt. the workers managed federal debt which is currently more than $1 trillion. the bureau considered hiring a cartoonist to conduct presentations on the benefits of humor in the workplace.

the senator heard about the plan and got in contact with the bureau. and the bureau dropped the idea. senator dorgan said today there is very little funny about today's economic conditions. pope benedict xvi is recovering from surgery for a broken wrist. the pope is on vacation this week in northern italy. the vatican officials say he fell and fractured his right wrist last night. he was in his room at his vacationed russia lay in the alps. the video shot earlier this week before his accident. despite the injury vatican says that the pope celebrated mass this morning and ate breakfast and then he went to the hospital. he is expected to wear the cast for a month. the pope is 82 years old. coming up tonight a bizarre scene. pickup truck crashed into a house in prince george's county. craig melvin goes into the wind opportunity toll see what it is like to be in a strong hurricane. our forecast coming up. stay tuned. =d

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this year marks the 60 birthday of the university of maryland's wind tunnel. researchers use that tunnel to test the effects of hurricane force while -- for winds on cars, planes, boats, roofs. today they tested the effects on craig melvin. he withstood wind speeds up to 117 miles an hour while tethered to the floor. those are the same kind of winds

seen on category 3 hurricane. that went reasonably well. when craig tried walking around in the wind tunnel untethered that did not go quite as well. you have to take my word for it. >> he did it. we saw him. >> you saw him. >> yes. he was blown around. yes. >> researchers say using the tunnel to do more research on the effects solar panel on houses and in hurricane-prone areas. >> wonder about that. put them up there and have -- blow off. >> i did that once. remember. my sinuses have never been the same. did we tell craig about that before he went in there? we will see next week how it turns out. >> we just got -- >> some spots had no rain at all today. it is dry. other spots a lot. there was enough in northwest washington briefly to break out the umbrellas and also in parts of southeast and other areas that had been pretty dry now hardly anything. our temperature, high

temperature, because of all of the high clouds and that helped suppress any of the severe weather. there was some to our south. 85degrees. officially down in national airport, over a tenth when the brief shower came through. july rainfall still well below average and the clouds are out and are still one or two lonesome showers later on tonight and we will get another shot of dry air coming in for the weekend. 76 degrees. wind from the north at 9 miles an hour. and humidity is still up there. that dew point near 70. look at the temperature, though behind us. 76 here. buffalo, 62 degrees. up around sioux marite.marie. we have had this dip in the jet. that was the reason important the potential that i mentioned yesterday of the severe weather. there are still severe thunderstorm watches and even a tornado watch out for a short

tile. and the -- tide water area of virginia. there you can see the batch to our north, northern maryland. folks up there, had you a fair am rain. there is the other batch of the severe storms down through southern parts of virginia. and blacksburg, virginia, over an inch of rain. 70-mile-an-hour winds around suffolk, virginia. there has been damage but not around here. and really not much in the way of rain. one batch moving off now into northeastern parts of maryland and right in and around town. there have been one or two lonesome showers that have been trying to pop up. there is one for you folks around potomac. and there is another one down around dale city. there are a few others that may come through coming out of the blue ridge. keep an eye on those. we had a bit of nasty weather. well to the south. i want to show you really industrial strength hail. when we talk about hail, this is what happens in austria. insburg, austria. summertime. there is the guy shoveling out his driveway. now he says you know this

happens -- no, don't do that to me. he is shoveling out his driveway and in the summertime, because -- then after it all begins to melt, there's fog in a lot of areas. wild weather. other parts of the world, too. look at the temperatures out in the west. phoenix, 113 degrees. at the same time, 50s and 60s around the lakes. with that little dip in the jet as it moves to our north later on, monday and tuesday, humidity will be come back. not tomorrow. and as that area of little storminess moves to our north tomorrow, westerly winds, a fair amount of clouds out of the mountains of west virginia. around here, i think just fair weather clouds and as we get into sunday, more of the same. temperatures into the 80s but the comfy 80s. so for the remainder of the evening, it is cloudy and breaks in the clouds and a few light showers. and a chance that we may see a few more come through, 9:00, 10:00, 11 cloak. the weather front comes through. we will clear out tomorrow morning when you get up and head out and it will be mild but with

comfortable humidity. temperatures in the low to mid 60s. sparkling blue skies. we have seen that many, many days this month of july. then some of those fair weather cumulus clouds, a delightful day. uv index high tomorrow. air quality, code green. good air quality, too, for the hoest time of the summertime when other years we have been talking about heat and humidity. not this weekend. sundays again, another very, very nice day. humidity begins to come back a bit on latter part of monday and by tuesday and wednesday, with a -- little boundary of weather front off the coast, there is a chance, a chance, for some typical afternoon showers or thundershowers. which we could use a bit of. things are beginning to get dry. a great weekend. great weekend. >> that's important. >> thanks, bob. coming up tonight, manufacturers have hit snags in their efforts to create a swine flu vaccine. >> expect some delays on metro this weekend as the agency conducts major test to find the cause of last month' deadly train crash. a trip to the dmv that one driver will not soon forget. >> a remembrance of jazz great

billie holliday in our hometown of baltimore. >> coming up in sports, tom watson defies father time of the british open. steve marino gets help. nauld tonight be the night the alontiset g the

a look at the top story. two boys fighting for their lives after they were rescued from a fire in riverdale, maryland. >> the fire broke out just before 5:15. the police say the boys are around the age of 4 or 5. jane watrel joins us from the scene. >> reporter: we have updated information. the boys are 7 and 6 years old. they are clinging to life. according to mark brady with the prince george's county fire department. and firefighters got the call around 5:12 tonight for a working fire. they arrived at the scene and went into the first floor and found two young boys. ages 7 and 6 in a back bed room and believe the fire may have originated in the kitchen. mark brady says when they found the children they were not breathing and did not have a pulse. so cpras started immediately. and they were transported to the hospital where they are listed in extremely critical condition.

neighbors we talked to tell us that they saw smoke coming from what they thought was an air conditioning unit in the window. they started banging on doors and, in fact, one neighbor even used a baseball bat to knock down the windows to try to get inside. firefighters arrived and got in and knocked the fire down quickly and found the two young boys, ages 7 and 6 unconscious. not breathing and started cpr and took them to the hospital. that's the scene here in riverdale. we will have more tonight on "news4 at 11:00." the banita jacks trial continues today. jacks is accused of killing her four daughters in the southeast d.c. home. neighbors are testifying that the familiar sounds of her children playing stopped abruptly two years ago. pat collins with the latest. >> reporter: banita jacks, she is taking an active role in her defense here at superior court. talking to her attorneys about questions to be asked. making strategy decisions that could greatly influence the

outcome of this case. it was banita jacks that decided to have this trial in front of judge frederick weisberg and instead of having a trial in front of the jury. kenny robinson is a former prosecutor and savvy criminal defense attorney. >> weisberg is a good guy. to try the case in front of judge weisberg with his long standing judgment since 1978 and experience and intelligence, his track record, that's like automatically may as well telephone in the verdict and send her off to a maximum security prison. that's how that's going to play. >> reporter: banita jacks charged with killing her four daughters, ages 5 to 17. she says that they were possessed by demons and they died in their sleep. jacks continued to live in her house for several months as the bodies of her girls decomposed and mummified. is this insane?

overruling her defense attorneys, jacks chose not to mountain insanity defense. >> if she goes to trial on guilt and innocence, and on insanity, over objection or not, with a judge, period, with that judge without getting him upset, no chance. those lawyers know that. so she is a tough client. she's controlling what they do. >> reporter: in court banita jacks neighbor said that in spring 2007, jacks daughters seemed to disappear one by one. and in summer 2007, she noticed a foul odor near the jacks house. and in fall 2007, she ssay thas jacks told her girls are fine, they are staying in north carolina. by the fall of 2007, banita jacks daughters were dead. inside her house.

i'm pat collins, news4, washington. for people would use the red line, it will be a tough weekend. the takoma station is going to close while officials continue their investigation. into the deadly metro crash last month. the officials focusing on a malfunctioning circuit that continues to be a problem. that circuit was supposed to stop the red line train that crashed, killing nine people on june 22. the problem circuit has been replaced but still is not working. metro and ntsb officials don't know why. >> this is not a situation where we can say we have the solution. take us a little while to get. it worked out. we will get back to you. this is where we are in the dark. and the public needs to know that. >> nsb investigators plan to conduct tests on the tracks between the takoma and fort totten stations tomorrow. rail service between those two stations will be suspended. the takoma station will be closed from 7:00 in the morning

until 7:00 in the evening tomorrow. couple of strange accidents across our area this morning. 11:00, driver crashed into the motor vehicle office in loudoun county. this happened at the dmv on edwards ferry road in leesburg. investigators say the driver hit the accelerator instead of the brake accidentally. no injuries. the dmv shut down for the rest of the day after this but lit reopen tomorrow morning. and an hour earlier a pickup truck crashed into a house in prince george's county on croom road. driver was trapped for about 40 minutes while firefighters and paramedics and the collapse team worked to get him out. after the man was preede he was taken to a trauma center. investigators say it is not clear whether he suffered any medical emergency that caused this accident. and an hour earlier than that, around 9:00, ups truck collided with a car in charles county on route 225 near the intersection

of route 301 and la plata. a nearby bank, gas station and restaurant were evacuated because of a fuel spill from the ups truck. the area had to be blocked off until the accident was cleared and that caused a major traffic jam. the driver of the car was taken to a hospital with injuries not expected to be life threatening. the truck driver was treated at the scene for minor injuries. clinical trials for a swine flu vaccine will get under way in a few weeks. the manufacturers are hoping to have it ready for the fall. the makers of the vaccine have run football problems. tracy pots has our report. >> reporter: pharmaceuticals, only american manufacturer producing swine flu vaccine, has brought it ready go but are made from cell cultures and that's not approved. for theu.s., vaccines must be grown in eggs. but another company novartis reports its eggs are yielding less than half the active ingredients they need. >> right now we immediate the

virus vein to catch up. >> reporter: health officials insist that will have no impact on delivering the first doses. >> we still feel we are on track to have a vaccine ready by mid october. >> reporter: the cdc fears once students head back to school the virus could begin to spread. quickly. unlike the regular flu this virus is taking its toll on young people. so educators are getting ready for what could be a mass immunization campaign in schools. >> the children obviously tremendously high risk. we want schools to be centers of the community anyway. and so schools can be part of the solution we want to do that. >> reporter: pregnant women are also at risk. the cdc says they should plan on getting shots. this we can the government set aside more than $800 million to stock up on vaccine ingredients and president obama's designated $1.8 billion in emergency funds just to get ready for what he has called a looming threat. tracy pots, news4. most of that vaccine is

being ma overseas and that's prompted concern that those countries might get the first doses ahead of the u.s. today the centers for disease control said that it's confident that the u.s. will get enough vaccine to begin immunizing students in the middle of the fall coming up. when we come back, the crew of the "endeavour" arrives at the inteational space station. >> we will find out how a woman hopes to use an apple cake to hopes to use an apple cake to stop the foreclosure of her the pontiac summer closeout is here; hurry to get the pontiac you want before they're gone. the price on the tag is the price you pay. get a 2009 pontiac vibe for $13,708 after all offers. or get 0% apr for 60 months on most 2009 pontiac models! all are backed with the best coverage in america, including a 5 year/100,000 mile powertrain warranty. sot ge esoem xcitt en wh t ile you stil, during the pontiac summer closeout. visit pontiacdealer.com

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good evening. bob ryan in storm center 4. we are getting breaks in the clouds. there are still, as you can see, a few showers out there.

as a matter of fact, some right around the beltway in dale city and another one up into montgomery county. there is a whole other batch, too, that we will keep an eye on. not severe. may give some of us more needed rain. many spots did get front royal, half inch. next seven days, a beautiful weekend coming up with westerly winds and afternoon clouds and light northerly winds. low humidity. humidity will be coming back late monday and then by tuesday, wednesday, and thursday with a little front off the coast. there's always a chance of an afternoon shower or thundershower. still no dramatic change in what -- still a rather dry and cool pattern for july. back to you. the crew of the shuttle "endeavour" is aboard the international space station docking at the space station they will afternoon. carefully choreographed procedure took place in both spacecrafts, 220 miles above the australian coast. after checking for leaks, the shuttle astronauts opened up the hatches and met up with their

space station colleagues. this is the first time in history they are now 13 -- there are 13 people onboard the iss. increased numbers are possible because the station was expanded earlier this year. billie holliday was a jazz pioneer. a vocalist that had very few peers. on this day 50 years ago she died. as a child, billie holliday lived in baltimor today that city -- rededicated a statue in her honor. the statue originally was built in 1985 in a neighborhood that once attracted entertainers like holiday. the memorial was unveiled again today with the addition of two panels. one shows a newborn baby. the other shows a lynched man, reference to holiday's ballad. the famous one. "strange fruit." it was one of the first anti-racism songs in american popular music.

>> when we come back, our chance online search is sparking plans for marriage. >> we have good stuff today. always have good stuff today. local guy making good. showing up at the british open. >> tiger. >> exactly. the nationals try to avoid the same mistakes they made in the first half of the season. at the british open, fair tax and steve marino thanks his dad for getting him to scotland. plus tiger woods loses his cool and possibly more. "news4 at 6:00" cont

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help but notice every time you see pictures of e british open is the weather conditions. i mean, you see the flags. just whipping all over the lace. >> sometimes we were like why do they want to play this course. >> the gal. >> i people bundled up. >> yeah. >> incredible. they get it going over there. have you ever forgotten something really important and you needed your mom or dad to save the day? that's the story for golfer steve marino. fairfax native found out he received spot to play in the british open while playing in a tournament in illinois last weekend. one problem. his passport was at his home in florida. that's when dad saved the day. flying south to get steve's passport in time to board the plane to scotland. now marino is in the lead at the british open thanks to dad. and those are the conditions you are talking about. but they are perfect if you are on a sailboat. nice place to be. steve marino putting for birdie on 14. gets that to go. marino, most of three under. he had to have his agent send over warm clothes. yeah. tiger woods had a rough dayn

the tenth tee. shot goes way, way right. into some roughage. didn't know where it was. so the fans and tiger start to look for the ball. still no luck. tiger had to hit a provisional ball and double bogeys the hole. ouch. on 13, tiger's third shot. chipping from behind the green and doesn't make it far enough. rolls back down the hill. that's never good. wood finishes at plus five. he misses the cut for just the fourth time in his pro career. ing the second missed cut at a major. here's 59-year-old tom watson and he was yesterday's story after shooting a five under. today still part of the story. here on 18. 45-foot birdie. look at the reaction. kicks up that leg. watson finished the round at even par and shares the lead with marino at five under. here's the second. par 5 17th. this is the thing of beauty. remarkable. gets this ball pretty darned close to the hole for an eagle attempt.

and marino just staying kind of cool and calm and collected. and wearing his beanie. having a good time. then here's the eagle attempt. marino putting with precision. reads the break. cool customer. marino had the round of the day. flashes a peace sign there. he shares the lead at five under. >> i really didn't have any expectations to be honest with you. i just wanted to come over here and just enjoy myself and enjoy the experience and do the best i could. yesterday was just absolutely perfect. perfect for scoring and today it was a total grind out there. and, you know, the wind was tally opposite from yesterday. and it was cold and bouts of ra n eryveow and then. it was very, very difficult. >> steve marino, 29 years old, playing like a veteran. wouldn't mom and dad think of steve's second round surge? went to their house in fairfax today and gets the entire scoop. marino's parents, steve and france, most of the day watching their son on tv turn up turnberyy.

mom and dad, what's it like seeing your son's name atop the leaderboard at one of the biggest tournaments in the world? >> wonderful. fabulous. surreal. it is hard to believe. >> unbelievable. >> unbelievable. exciting. unbelievable. >> i don't think i slept very good last night. i knew he was going off at 2:00. you know, knowing how difficult the course might be, but knowing he was going off early and made the course play easier, i just tossed and turned. when i got to work this morning and checked on it, i couldn't believe it. >> so i was talking to him mom and she got a phone call from steve. she's all excited. she's -- she's just elated. and he goes -- mother, i still have two days. she's like, well, can i at least be excited for today? he goes yeah, sure. he has two days to go.

he's even-keeled. he's staying medium and still has a chance to win. >> good for him. he has been playing extraordinary golf. let's hope he can keep it up. >> i sure do. talk baseball. nationals interim man ager riggleman said he expect possible results in the second half of the season. in his debut, the results were negative. the nats lost their 62nd game of the year. here is how it went down. jim riggleman, grew up in rockville, maryland, looking anxious before the ball game. bottom of the fourth, adam dunn at the plate. rich hardenne. dunn, well, doesn't get it done. gets caught looking. down the middle of the plate. six innings and gave up one run and struck out seven. top six. jo john lannan. crushes one to right. gone for a home run. 18th of the season. sounds like a home game for the cubs. cheering. i don't know what's going on there. get it going in that. yeah. chicago takes a 2-0 lead. bottom nine.

nats trail 6-1. pr zimmerman at the plate. gets a hold of one. gives the hometown faithful a little bit of optimism. zimmerman's 15th of the season. little too little too late. nats fall 6-2. riggleman keeping his chin up. >> i feel good about the ball club. i know that's -- you know, with our record, that's -- not -- what fans want to hear but i feel like we are going to turn this thing around and those guys in that other room will be the reason. because i -- i know that they care. and they are going to -- you know, they are going to get it done. >> at the end of the day, you know, when i hear -- you know, they are paying us boat loads of money to go out and win baseball games. and, you know, we have to be better. and, you know, we are not going to make this ship right in three hours. but, you know, we have to move forward. i feel like yeah, there are things we can take out of today that are good. but to say, you know, we are satisfied or anything like that, i mean, we got beat 6-2.

we have to be better. >> barred telling it like it is there. >> getting paid boatloads of monday. >> we have a problem. you are talking about the fans, the chicago game. i was at a phillies game last year. you thought i was -- what do they call it now? >> citizens bank. >> you thought you were in philadelphia. you know. it is like that -- last year, went to the redskins game. pittsburgh fans. you know. >> happened earlier this year when the red sox came to town. filled the place out. all red sox fans. you know. i mean. >> do something about that. let's work on that. >> all right. we will see what we can do. >> thanks. when we come back, could alcohol be coming to a starbucks near you? >> a womanry ??o?oó#

a single mom in new jersey is hoping to bake her way out of foreclosure. the woman has to come up with more than $2,500 by next week. she is halfway there. thanks to her bake sale. >> reporter: angela logan is whipping up a way to fight foreclosure on her home by baking these apple cakes. >> my goal is to fill 100 cakes in ten days. i sold 42 cakes and i have 50 some odd cakes to go. >> reporter: she is calling them her mortgage apple cakes. $40 each. trying to raise a little over $2,500 in the next nine days to

make the mortgage payment on her home where she lived for 20 years. her own economic downturn began when one of the stand-up comedian agencies shut down and held several paychecks and after she hired a home improvement contractor for major renovations. >> the to make a long story short he messed up about $20 thousand to you worth of plumbing we had to have been done, thousands of dollars worth of other stuff. >> reporter: she figures the cakes can help in the short run. media attention today is helping her reach her goal. >> we can't count the orders. it is amazing. >> reporter: foreclosures in new jersey are actually down. 30% so far this year. that's according to realty track and angela wants to make sure she doesn't become just another statistic. now we think we can really make it because we have enough cakes to bake. >> reporter: besides baking logan is studying to become a nurse to supplementler acting. she says if she can make the july 26 payment, any other bake sale money will be icing on the cake.

a cup of java and bottle of bud. it is an idea starbucks is trying out in seattle. serving alcohol is common in european cafes. starbucks is seeing whether it catches on here. the new store will be called 15th avenue coffee and tea inspired bystarbucks. it will sell the typical coffee products along with a small selection of beer and wine. get an update on the forecast for the weekend, bob. >> the weekend, we get through the evening, too. we still have a few showers, as you can see. these really no lightning in there. they could be bringing in here and there little bit of light rain. up until 10:00, 11:00 and things will move through. as we get later into tonight, temperatures will drop into the low i 60s. shenandoah valley, towards warrenton, manassas, even prince george's county. upper marlboro, pleasant tomorrow morning. and with westerly wind and bit breezy. winds on 10 to 20 miles per hour.

good sailing whether you are going out sailing on the bay and then on sunday more of the same. temperatures into the low to mid 80s and well below average but the big feature will be that nice low humidity and it will be back by late monday and the us and that will be the next time for needed showers and thundershowers. typical buildup in the afternoon and die out in the evening kind. with the temperatures still only in the 80s. although it will be humid. great weekend. enjoy it and back to you. >> thanks, bob. tonight at 11:00, disturbing story that involves a local nanny. arrested on child pornography charges and now police are looking to find any and all families that she worked for. the doors are closing on one of the area's premier destinations to watch a movie for a big sporting event. the white house is breaking new ground with the big announcement on twitter. stories of internet romance have become fairly commonplace these days. now along one with a twist. the guy from texas named kelly hilldebrand is getting married in october. his wife is from florida.

her name is kelly hilldebrand. they met because the female hilldebrand was on facebook and she decided to see if there were any other kelly hilldebrands. she found just one. they started corresponding and then they met in person. three weeks late and engaged before the year was up. and they say they ask all the time if they might possibly be related. they thought of that. so they checked back 250 years and no, they are notrelated. and they have just moved in together. they say that the only complication they have right now is mail. since they don't know which kelly the piece of mail is meant for, they both open everything. which is cool because that way they have to be careful. strange mail coming in. we wish them well. that's our broadcast for now.