a local fire fighter on the force for mon than 20 years facing charges tonight after an

internet sex sting. good evening, i am wendy rieger. jim and doreen are off tonight. he answered an ad on crgslist posted by what he believeas a 16-year-old girl. tut ts ad was posted by an undercover police officer. jackie benson joins us from rockville. jackie. >> the allegations are disturbing. the veteran montgomery county fire fighter was arrested in the parking lot of the shopping center in gaithersburg. documents allege that he agreed to meet there and pay $150 f sex to a person he contacted through an ad in the adult services section of craigslist. a female montgomery county police officer went on the internet using classified for sale and social networking sites to post advertisements as though she were a 16-year-old girl placing an ad for prostitution. >> it iscourt documents allege

used county e-mail address. fire chief richard bower tells news 4 he took action after being notified of the july 20th arrest. >> i was fully aware of the situation yes. as a result of that i took an action which placed the individual oleechavhi wsai i pd eav which is paid leaveet a meis a >> news 4 spoke to the lieutenant's eatec declined add specceicexos tpt sn i t her ient22s rsea yn i the fire and i rescue service he gained respect from colleaguegreat reputation. gr eat reputation. he the last lhet six monthize ha izs ieavee h s increase in questionable prosecutions, for ads place in the adult erotica craigshis. police say this is part of an on going investigation into online prostitution ads involving minors. so far it resulted in more than 20 arrests. now, lieutenant mothershead is free on a $100,000 bond.

wendy back to you. >> jackie benson. thanks. new developments in the investigation into the fire. police learned a washington area sewer thority found no problems with water pressure in the fire hydrants in that area. last week flames engulfed the former school board chairman's home on chainbridge road, northwest d.c. fire crews ran hoses to hydrants, blocks away. because they said they were not able to get the proper water pressure close to the fire. l arette the general th general manager. titgeyit reads in part . reads in part. et fhe o tse distrfoioerce panre b so te enbewnhoo be rerdhe tit d to the at supply to fire and ems to suppress the fire in this emergency. the mayor is expected to announce the findings tomorrow. d.c. family has posted thousand of fliers. searching for a young mother.

24-year-old tiffany holsey. she has two young children. today is her 5-year-old son's birthday. her family spent the afternoon searching fort dupont park where tiffany has been known to frequent. her mother says she cannot think any reason why tiffany would case peer. sonia sotomayor confirmed to the u.s. supreme score the by a vote of 68-31. the 57-year-old new york native will be the first hiss panning -- hiss panic to spanic to sit court. many worry that sotomayor has a liberal bias. >> she is extremely intelligent. and she represents the american ideal that at the end of the day, race and ethnicity and class aren't supposed to predetermine anything. >> judges who uphold the rights

of all not just some. >> president obama praised her confirmation calling today a wonderful day for america. sotomayor will be sworn in saturday on live tv. another first for the supreme court. congress hit the accelerator on the cash for clunkers program. the senate joined the house, approving an additional $2 billion for nding. that bill now awaits president obama's signature. the rebate program's initial $1 billion had expired and only ten days. and officials expect new funding will last through labor day. the race to become virginia's next governor. turning to our area. democrat hoping his party's biggest star can give him the run for governor a boost. prident obama, attended a rally and fund raiser for him tonight in tyson's corner. while republican bob mcdonald opened a sccampaign office in

alexandra. derek? >> if you closed your eyes and listened. almost seemed like a presidential campaign rally. all about the race for the virginia governor seat and for democrats nationwide and republicans there is a lot riding on this race. polls show him trailing his republican opponent, bob mcdonald. in a rally and fund raiser at the hilton in tyson's corner. the state's democratic heavy hitter, the heaviest hitting democrat, president obama. >> it isood to be in virginia. a place that has been good to me. >> obama carried the once solidly republican commonwealth in 2008. his approval ratings in virginia are slightly higher than elsewhere. president obama told a crowd there, emerging tradition among the state's democrats. >> a tradition that -- that starts off with the basic idea that we're all in this together. >> he said he would carry on the tradition with education at the top of his agenda. you have to bring change.

innovation and greater accountability to our schools. we haveo make change that ensures that our education dollars are being spent wisely and where most needed in the classrm. >> deeds and mcdonald are staking out northern virginia as the key battleground. mcdonald opened a scam pain office in alexandria. and keying in on issues dear to northern virginia, like transportation. >> northern virginia has got stew be taken care of, got to fund the roads here. prosperity helps the state. >> the people at the deeds' rally were energized by the president, role in state and national politics. >> when you are in northern virginia you have support from other democrats. but my husband and i have a place in lake aston, southern virginia. i'm the liberal person in the neighborhood. >> i'm impressed with the support.

but when they two wars going on. they speak from their hearts. >> deed and mcdonald are no strangers to facing off against one another. deeds lost a close one to mcdonald. the margin victory. out of two million. community meeting held in northeast washington to discuss a plan to bring street cars to the h street corridor. advisory neighborhood commission requested the meeting to improve dialogue between residents and d-dot. d-dot director, dave klein, took questions from the public at tonight's meeting held at atlas eseeerming arts g.center.n proposed in anacostia, and on k street in northwest. still ahead -- the filmmaker known for such 1980 block busters as 16 candles, and ferris bueller's day off. died suddenly. fire fighters battle a blaze at a local home and find a room full of snakes. shoppers are going to be able to get a break when they start looking for back to school

supplies. that starts tomorrow. and huge catch in maryland. it set a record. and he brought in a lot of loot as well. and bob, how is the weather? >> wendy, we are catching a rare day in august. tomorrow morning you won't believe what it will feel like. i'll tell you about the wek eek beach and boating. >> ryan zimmerman spearhead the comeback kidd against the fish. andy roddick, rolling at rock creek park. plus skins quarterback, carlos rogers says he strongly dislikes

director john hughes died suddenly today of a heart attack. walking in new york city when he collapsed. his many credits include directing breakfast club, 16 candles. he wrote home one. he has a wife and two children. just 59 years old. a memorial service held tonight

for the three women killed in a suburban pittsburgh fitness center. community members came together to remember betsy gannon, a radiologist, 37-year-old, jody billingsley, a physical therapist, and heidi overmier, a single mother. two youtube videos and ought biographical website called crazy george, shed light on the gunman's lonely life. and his yearning to find love. laurie drew has been told she can use the internet. the missouri woman accused of using myspace to harass a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide. convicted of related charges last fall. her conviction was thrown out last month. today a federal judge modified her bail so she could use computer and internet to find a new job. fire fighters responding to a house fire in the alexandria section of fairfax county got a surprise. the house contained dozens of snakes. the reptiles belong to a teenager who lives there. omostf the snakes died in the

blaze. a few including a boa constrictor survived. the fire was accidental caused by an extension cord. still ahead -- twitter goes back on line after a worldwide outage. but was your personal information ever at risk? a peek into your personality, what you may be revealing about yourself just by the way you hold your drink. and after a cool rainy thursday, the heat could be retmo

hacker took aim at twitter this morning. the site experienced an outage because of a denial of service. that's when a hacker overwhelms the website servers with communication requests. the deluge prevented legitimate traffic om getting through. twitter status blog reports the site is back up. experts say user's personal info never at risk. well there is hoeding your liquor and hold your glass of look core.

apparently both say a little something about you. a new study finds you can judge someone by the way they hold their drink. our correspondent reports. >> reporter: between the sips and swi and swigs. a psychologist studied 500 drinkers and divided them into eight personalities on the way they hold their drink. what does your glass say about you. >> very transparent. clear, and how it is projected. >> mike leans into his chair while pushing the glass away. the personality test revealed mike is a peacock who is confident, arrogant and conscious about his image. it may be just as easy to spot a flirt. she is some one who hold her drink in a provocative way as to draw attention to her attributes. amelia says that is her. >> a little touching. being a little close. >> a wallflower usually a shy

submissive person who holds the glass protectively. palms are hidden. the glass is a social crutch. then there are the fun-lovers, a social man or woman who likes a good laugh. some one like hollis holds the drink loosely and takes short swigz to not miss out on the conversation. >> i am laid back. i have a god time. you know. just try to enjoy myself. >> the playboy, self-confident. don juan seducer, uses a bottle as a prop. the browbeater firmly holds a drink in a threatening way. a browbeater a know it all. and can come across hostile. the cold, defensive ice queen holds the drink with one arm across the body. sending the message don't come near me. >> cold, defensive. not really. i'm lovable. >> the gossip can be found clustered around a group of friend. leaning over her drink carrying on confidential conversation she's may be talking of others

and may be critical. >> all righty, that was denise natano reporting. virginia kicks off its annual back to school tax holiday tomorrow. waived on school supplies up to $20. clothes and shoes up to $100. wal-mart has also absorbed the sales tax on electronics. the deal lasts through sunday. d.c. and maryland canceled their tax free holidays because of their budget concerns. well this is a nice little break. a little rain. cooler temperatures. yeah, full moon. >> tomorrow morning. folks are saying. it can't be august. can't be august. can this last into the weekend? no. but enjoy tomorrow. it's been a beautiful evening out there. isn't that a pretty moon. clouds breaking up. it is the planet jupiter. high temperature today. we havened made it to 79

degrees. the lowest high temperature since back in the beginning of july. 76 degrees. outside right now. we were 79. there were a few 90s down to our south. look at this. and the east. has not been a bad summer at all. matter of fact, temperatures again today were well below average up to our north. all because in a way the pattern we have had. a little area of low pressure. i talked about that last night. that moved off. behind it while, here in washington we had a, .1 inch rain. down to our south. southeast. fair all. rain. heat is still on by the way in texas. friends in austin. 105 degrees today. san antonio. 103 degrees. meanwhile, doppler. nothing in and around us. ocean city. 1/2 inch of rain for the folks on vacation out there. good news is, that area of rain, stm moving off. so for the weekend if you are heading out to the beaches doing some sailing. great sailing weather. we're going to be back into a south, southwesterly wind. but, winds i think around the

bay could be 10, 15, 20 knots. some excellent sailing with temperatures around annapolis. and cambridge. into the 80s. by, sunday. more in the low 90s. heading out for the beaches. there may be an onshore breeze. even there. get your tootsies into the waist deep, 70s. water temperature. will keep you cool. overnight tonight. high pressure in on us now. tomorrow, during much of the day. north, northwesterly wind. really some refreshing air on us. before we get back into the humidity. as we hd on into saturday, sunday. tomorrow, only the mid 80s. sunday, saturday. 90s. here we go. matter of fact early next week. low to mid 90s. tomorrow morning, when you get up and head out. it will be a really, one of the rare, august refreshing days. get out, my goodness. the humidity, very low. temperatures -- i think in many areas will be in the mid to high 50s. then we'll only see the temperature rise into the low

80s. a lot of sunshine. some fair weather clouds. still delightful humidity around tomorrow. it is only a one-day affair. some times, we can take the one-day affairs in augug.inenorv g. friday evening. sunset have you noticed how the ssu in setting earlier, earli ier now. losing over a minute of day light each and eve day. before you know it welil w be talking september and october. weekend. willil be fine. next week for the first time i think this mmsuersu looking at three, four, 90-degree days in a row. >> we lucked out. >> yeah. beautiful morning tomorr. >> thank you, bob. >> still ahead. a man is trying to fly across the uk on his bicycle. we'll show you whathat is all about. but up next in sports.

a week into training camp. how are they looking? >> good and bad. depends on the day. good news, we'll start talking games very soon. because we are a week in. one week away from the first preseason game. the question, who will be ready to play. offensive line is healing. hire on the field. not full speed. and getting close to a return. receiver, santan moss, left practice. minor hamstring. but a calf injury that kept hem off the field. rogers is coming off the season in which he was spectacular. at times early on. but benched late in the year. now, in the final year of the contract. he has to be healthy.

zorn is calling the injury a significant pull. >> i am not alarpd. not panicking. i am not alarmed. not panicking. [ inaudible ] he is going to be back. i think this is just a training camp woe. >> i hate it. you know, it is worse. and everybody is complaining about the sun, it is hot. and you should know, really hurting. going to talk my time like i said from day one. once i get back out there i'll be out there. >> carlos rogers running gingerly out there. my question to you folks, who let the nats out. first time all season, your washington nationals have a five-game winning streak. man have they earned it. down 6-0 to the marlins this afternoon. nationals scored nine straight runs for the come back win.

what a game. bottom of the fifth. his nickname. looks like it here. awe two-one home run. zimmerman has been raking this season. 4-4. a double shy of the cycle. in the seventh. nationals down 8-7. elijah dukes at the plate. saw what zimrman did. how about i do that too? a solo home run for dukes. that ties the game up. the nationals were not done there. in the eighth. it is a rally. ronnie belliard. kind of a little squirter here. it does the job. gets right up the middle. guzman scores from second base. that is the game winning run. nationals add three more in the inning. they beat the marlins, 12-8. at the legg mason classic. andy roddick had to work harder. facing 21-year-old, sam query. the tennis center.

andy roddick, a huge welcome from the fans in d.c. first set. exchange ground strokes. roddick tries to sneak one by. gets there. roddick with the forehand. comes to the net. pretty good play by the young fellow. little fist pump th too. later in the first set. serving. watch roddick at top of the screen. i don't thinke'll get that one. roddick wins it 7-6. 6-4. he did have to work just a wee bit harr in the match. a good weekend. >> yeah. you know it. thanks. >> coming up next. new video of steven tyler as he falls off the stage at his latest concert.

aero-smith fans were shocked when steven tyler fell offstage landed in the crowd. tmz posted new video from last night's show in south dakota. tyler sang love in an elevator and fell off the catwalk. the 61-year-old performer broke his shoulder. the band's next show has been postponed. a new doll from a spanish toy company not your betsy wetsy. the toymaker says the doll is to promote breast-feeding and comes with a shirt for girls to wear and the doll latches on to nipple look appliques and makes a sucking noise. some parent say it is not appropriate for young girls. right now only sold in spain. en ocean cyit a man could make a klingagging a giant mainng. he broke a 20-year-old a record, ing inre the 1,062 pound blue iinherl tn white marlin open championship. took him more than three hours to pull it in. thproriz fe f snagging the biggest fish at thi on o tournament is $550,000.

so some german tousts in norway took in this sight. a ram got stuck 20 feet in the air. he was grazing with his friends and horns got caught on a wire. as he struggled to get free he slid down the mountain on the wire. and ended up dangling there. the tourists used a fishing pole to pull the wire to the ground. they unhooked the ram's horn. he went back to the pasture to join his flock. he appears to be doing okay.

a bike that can fly. and he took off on his flike to try to fly across great britain. a cross between a tricycle and propelled by a twin motor. he is trying to get to the northern tip of scotland. he hopes to be there by the end of august. looks like it is a smooth, cool ride. that's our show. the tonight show is next. we'll see you tomorrow.