and i am on your side. tonight there are some explosive allegations against alexandria police officers. >> we have learned that the department has begun an investigation into the behavior am sof the officers while on

duty. craig melvin has been in contact with several alexandra city officials this evening. craig? >> reporter: jim, alexandria police aren't saying much. they won't talk about the investigation. they won't talk about the event that led to the investigation. but news 4 has learned that tonight two alexandria police officers are in fact under investigation. sources tell news 4 the alexandria police department has launched an internal investigations into claims of misconduct with two of is officers. sources also say the claims are sexual in nature, and they were made by a woman who h bnee pulled over. then alexandria police departmet would ons s aay a matter of lili, "we don'tss dcuishecu specifics of any ongoing internal investigations." if the claims do turn out to be true, it would be the latest in a string of recent embarrassments for the department. july 25th, alexandria police chief david baker was arrested and charged with dui after crashing his city-issued

vehicle. next week a parking enforcement officer for handing out parking tags to people who weren't handicapped. bill you'll is on vacation, but told me by phone wednesdayight otat hef o the "we have one of thehe e have one of the top departments inhe o metro region council and our citizens." some of those citizens strolling through old town did not sound so supportive. >> it does seem to be a lot of could ips dens, one filed on top of the other. so i hope the city will look into it, and if there are problems, things that need to be fixed, i hope they'll fix them. >> the police should be doing their job. and if they're not doing the right thing, the people should be very concerned. and they should be accountable. and, you know, as the taxpayers,

we deserve they do the right job. >> i dove old town. i love living here. and it's kind of sad. >> reporter: now, over the next few days we hope to learn more about the investigation. and the event that led to the investigation. we'll keep you posted. for now, live in alexandria, craig melvin, news 4. >> thank you, craig. a big development on capitol hill tonight. the senate has reached a deal to save the cash for clumpgers program. due to the popularity of the bate, the program is nearly out of its original $1 billion in funding. the senate's plan would add $2 billion giving car shoppers until labor day to trade in gas guzzlers for a new ride. a vote is planned for tomorrow. therere reports tonight that the government may be ready to split fannie mae and freddie mac. the "washington post" is reporting the obama administration is looking to overhaul the mortgage giants. one option is to split the companies. fannie and freddie's troubled assets would then be put into a new federally backed corporation. it could allow the companies to

get back on track financing mortgages nationwide. the gunman who started shooting inside a gym outside pittsburgh last night apparently was motivated by his failure to attract women. brian moore has the latest from the investigators. >> reporter: ts pennsylvania community is struggling to comprehend the deadly attack, directed at innocent victims. women, targeted simply because they were in an aerobics class that caught the eye of an em bittered gunman. >> seconds later you hear shooting and he's shooting all over the room. >> we don't know as we stand here what made him stop shooting. thank god he did. >> reporter: before taking his own life, gunman george sodini gave the police a window into his existed mine. an extensive note in blog postings he spelled out his failed love life. >> he complains about he's never spent a weekend with a girl.

he's never vacationed with a girl. he never lived with a woman. >> reporter: investigators say they now know sodini had planned th massacre for months. >> he had a lot of hatred in him. he was hell bent on committing this act. there was nobody going to stop him. >> reporter: police say there's now no doubt who the gunman was, and why he targeted his victims. answers that provide little comfort. brian moore, nbc news, bridgeville, pennsylvania. two american journalists freed from north korea are back on american soil tonight. laura ling and euna lee returned home to southern california this morning, after being held for nearly five months. north korean leader kim jong-il granted the release after former bill clinton during an unannounced visit yesterday. >> when we walked through the

doors, we saw standing before us president bill clinton. we were shocked. >> ling and lee were sentenced to hard labor in north korea, but they were never taken to a work camp. the women were kept apart, and not allowed to communicate with each other. william jefferson has been found guilty. he's the former congressman from louisiana who was accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. a federal jury convicted him on 11 of 16 counts, including bribery, racket earring, and money laundering. prosecutors we leased this surveillance video showing, among other things, jefferson taking a briefcase from the trunk of a car. fbi agents raided his house here in washington bk in 2005. they found $90,000 in cash in his freezer. jefferson has denied claims that

the cash was bribe money. he'll be sentenced in october. and he could face up to 20 years in prison. the district will expand an std testing program to all of its public high schools. that means all of the roughly 12,000 d.c. high school students will be able to get tested for sexually transmitted disease without parental consent. the voluntary program was conducted last year at eight schools. officials say 13% of the 3,000 or so students who were tested tested positive for a disease. a 2007 study by the d.c. public school system found 60% of high school students said they'd had sex. the district is also making positive strides in fighting hiv and aids. a nonprofit think tank found marked improvements in the way the d.c. government is handling what's termed anemidep.ic ave greatest improvemes h. come in the form of interagency co ioern. hiv surveillance and the distribution of condoms. the chief medical officer of the whitman walker clinic agrees

with those findings. >> i feel like the government from all the interactions i've had with them have been doing a great job at behind-the scenes. >> despite the encouraging signs, d.c. still has the worst hiv and aids rated in the nation. the think tank recommends high ranking city officials speak out more about the hiv/aids problem. ahead tonight, a local man survives a copperhead bite. the mayor apologizing for sticking taxpayers with a nearly $40,000 bill for fraternity party. a violent accident had witnesses running into the streets to help the injured. parts of one university under water, after torrential rains. >> we may begin seeing not anything like that, but a few rain drops in our future. tomorrow morning as a matter of fact. dan, what you got? >> you'll love this. andy roddick serving it up in d.c. for his first match since wimbledon. ryan zimmerman back in the lineup and making some fantastic

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the big eat tiny price menu. only at pizza hut. five people were injured in a serious car accident today just a few steps away from a planned press conference with district leaders. it happened this afternoon. a car smashed into the back of an suv, and flipped the suv onto its roof. it happened on pennsylvania avenue and alabama avenue. witnesses ran into the intersection to help the injured people. two of them were taken to the hospital by helicopter. a vigil was held in columbia heights for a man killed by a special police officer. 31-year-old michael parker was shot and killed friday night during a confrontation with the officer. tonight service was held in the 1400 block of girard street where parker was shot. police say their investigation continues. mayor adrian fenty says his fraternity has repaid the city $37,000 for a party that it held

in town monday night. we're still not clear why taxpayer money paid for the party in the first place. it's holding its convention in the district this week. monday night a lavish reception was held at the historical society's carnegie library. somehow a request came from the mayor's office for $37,000 in taxpayer money to cover the cost of the gala. mayor fenty says it really was a mistake. >> there are some things in life where you really just want to speak very clearly in saying, you know, this was just a mistake. >> the original payment came through the deputy mayor for economic development. still to come, a local woman browsing craigslist finds her own house for rent. police say the criminal trail leads overseas. 37 stories high. the scaffolding holding two window washers broke. bob's back with potential for a wet commute.

imagine browsing online and finding an ad saying your house is for rent, but you didn't put it there. that's exactly what happened to happened in prince william county, virginia. police say it's just the latest example of craigslist crimes. >> reporter: beware of criminals oncraigslist. that's the message from prince william county police, after two incidents involving online classified ads, one of which has resulted in an arrest. -year-old i van gill yam has cenharged with armed robbery, in a is scheme to rip off people responding to a craigslist ad for a $400 flat screen tv. >> the victims would arrive, rob them, threaten them with a rifle or shotgun. and relieve them of their money. >> reporter: police also point to the case of ashley pollard, she was horrified to discover that her home for sale and under contract had been posted in the housing for rent section of

craigslist last weekend. >> a picture of my house showed up. with my full address. and i thought, i was just like -- i didn't know what to do, who do you call. >> reporter: pollard says she thinks someone pulled the picture and address right out of the real estate advertisement. police believe the ad was placed by a man in nigeria. >> they're just trying to get someone to pay the down payment, or, you know, the deposit and then take off, i guess. >> reporter: police say a quick check of property records, which can be done by phone or online in many cases can prevent you from giving your hard-earned money to a thief. jackie benson, news 4. a guy who likes to keep snakes is in a hospital tonight. 31-year-old jason dale had just bought a copperhead from a neighbor. he thought it was a python. pythons aren't poisonous. trying to pick it up, the snake bit him. that's when he found out it was

poisonous, because his hand started to swell up. dale went to a hospital. doctors say the snake was in fact poisonous, and if dale had not received treatment when he did, it could have killed him. folks in florida got quite a surprise when a dolphin jumped out of the water and landed in their boat. he was cruising along in florida yesterday when a 6-foot dolphin made its leap. the dolphin spent more than an hour on the boat before those onboard could push it back into the water. the dolphin was not hurt. they are still cleaning up down in louisville, kentucky, where torrential downpours caused some extensive flooding. classes were canceled again today at the university of louisville. nine buildings there, along with a parking lot, were flooded after those storms yesterday. 30 school employees had to be rescued from one of the buildings. a cleanup is also under way at churchill downs, and other landmarks in that city. >> we're going to get a little rain, but nothing like that. >> that was threeo six inches

in one hour. we're going to get a little rain tomorrow morning outside tonight. clouds have come in. but so far, the rain drops are to our south, and to our west. you folks in southern maryland, those are the areas that i think are going to be getting the most rain. we made it to 90 degrees. second time this summer we've had two 90-degree days in a row. that's been a pretty easy summer, hasn't it? look at the temperature right now, 79 degrees here. 6 ohs and 50s. they've had the heat on more than the ac up around the lakes. 57 degrees in sioux st. marie. a little weak wavy weather front and a little area of low pressure trying to get organized. that's the reason i think overnight tonight we'll see some rain. you can see where that is now. it's getting closer to us. front royal beginning to see a little out there, especially in the shenandoah valley, coming out of the mountains of west virginia.

rain showers not severe thunderstorms, but look at the batch. these are some moderate to heavy rains. not that far to the south of fredericksburg. so will be coming up and over us i think as we go through the nighttime hours. here we are in washington. you can see over the last couple of hours, how it has been moving in, so the most likely areas to be seeing those areas of heavy rains are into southern maryland, charles county, pecially, oh, by 6:00 in the morning. this is out in the mountains of north carolina. they've had over an inch and a half of rain there. look at blacksburg, over two inches of rain. temperature only 68 degrees southwestern virginia. because of that little area of low pressure, and as it comes up and over us, we'll continue to have a northeasterly breeze tomorrow. so that will keep us a little bit on the cool side. and especially just to the south of washington, maybe as much as a half inch of rain. and out to prince jordan county, spots like that. so tomorromorning when you get up and head out, be prepared for some light rain coming in from

i-66 and from 270. but even with the heat that we've had, the roads, a little bit of road oil, so there could be some slick spots. then for a period, there could be some moderate rain, even lingering showers later on tomorrow afternoon. then late tomorrow evening, we begin to clear out. northwesterly winds come in with temperatures tomorrow evening dropping into the mid to high 70s to around 80 degrees. we're not going to get a whole lot above 80 degrees tomorrow. all areas right here in washington now, i think maybe .10 to a quarter inch of rain. delightful day on ireakak in te it really comes back. especially sunday and on into next week. oppressive humidity comes back. we're not done with august. watch out for the rain showers tomorrow morning. coming up tonight, a rescue, 37 stories high. jay leno talks to critics about his new comedy hour. in sports, defense, name of the game for the nats. that's a good one there. barehaed ñçxçyc

training camp, every time you hear about training camp, you hear about everybody going down. >> we dmt talk about it for the first three or four days, now the injuries are here. injuries now becoming a pretty big issue for the redskins. first it was the offensive linemen, three starters missed at least a practice because of nagging injuries. now it's the receivers. both thomas and kelly missed practice today with hamstring soreness. the good thing for jim sorn, there was another healthy receiver in camp. the skins signed d.j. hackett for his days in seattle. hackett replaces williams who

was released. devon thomas did not do much at all today, but he does expect to be back tomorrow. malcolm kelly did get work in with jason campbell after practice. zorn said holding him out is just precautionary. >> it's frustrating for them and us. but it's not quite as big of a sting as it was last year. and the good thing about this, if there's anything good out of it, they don't have -- they're not going to be out for weeks. these are just days. we tried to go with malcolm this morning, and again we just limited what he did. he started things out, and then we tailed him off. >> here's clinton portis. look out below. after practice, giving his linemen a lift. he thought -- look at them. they just look miserable. he thought they needed it, since they did the extra running. the team decided to punish themselves for jumping offside.

today it meant two gassers at e end of practice because of lineman jeremy bridges. >> i have no reason to hide anything. i'm just human. i don't make those mistakes. i apologize to my offense. we got the gases in. i told them it would never happen again. it happens. but that's something i don't do. >> that wasn't my plan. that was the players' plan. so they took it upon themselves to be conscious of the idea that, it's the unit together that is going to make the difference. >> they're trying a bunch of new stuff. chris cooley said he had to run some, too. we really had to run. >> won't you quit that so we don't have to do this? >> talking baseball now. rigleman might be the man. the nationals win again tonight, improving 10-6 under interim general manager jim rigleman. let's go downtown to the nationals park. bottom of the first.

we're picking it up. no score here. ryan zimmerman at the plate going opposite field and getting big about 345 down the line. zimmerman's 22nd of the year. nationals up 1-0. to the top of the third. john lanon in a bases loaded jam. cody ross, the sharp grounder to third. off of zimmerman's chest. but he stays with it. lungs forward. makes the throw over to the first for the out. playing well. the nationals win 5-4. it's their fourth straight victory. at the leg mason classic, andy roddick gave away 150 tickets to his match tonight via his twitter. roddick dispatched benjamin becker in just 55 minutes. straight sets, folks. first game of the match, andy roddick serving. don't cheat. >> i don't know, 130, 140. ? >> 119. that's real slow for him.

roddick serving in the far court. blasts the forehand right here. he just has becker on his heels the entire way here. you know what's coming. mm-hmm. game, set and match. 6-3, 6-2. roddick the number one seed, advances in the next round. coming up for andy roddick. >> that's a whole other game they play, isn't it. >> oh,ee. it was fun. >> thanks. up next, cash for clunkers takes its toll on some local charities. xxxwg??xop÷p>

two window washers had really scary moments today high above the streets of boston. they were on a scaffolding up there when it broke. that cannot be good. one side of it dropped. the workers were 37 stories up in the air. they held on until rescue crews arrived. firefighters had to break some windows on the floor below to get to the men, and one of the workers was hospitalized with a minor injury. the cash for clunkers program is not as popular with charities as it is with car buyers. nonprofits like the car ministry in falls church help needy families stay mobile. cars that might have otherwise been donated are now traded in for clumpger rebates. those clunkers then head to the crusher. the car ministry's president has another idea. >> they could be donated to a charity like ours. and we could make them available to people who need an affordable car. >> tomorrow the senate will consider an amendment to the cars for clunkers funding bill

which would benefit charities and needy families. that amendment is not expected to pass. > weht

in just over a month, jay leno the take over the 10:00 hour here on nbc. tonight leno met with critics to talk about the new primetime comedy show. >> some of the "tonight show" that people like, the monologue

will stay. headlines, jay walking, some of those pieces. stupid criminals, whatnot. the difference is, you've just got to carry the comedy through the whole hour. >> the network is reportedly paying leno more than $30 million a year. i would like to have just a little bit of that. >> just a little bit. that's our broadcast for now. the "tonight show" is up next. [ cheers and applause ]