investigators say that some people set fire to the bales of hay and mailbox necessary maryland last night. >> there's new information this evening about the man accused of plotting the biggest credit card theft in u.s. history. columnist and tv commentator robert novak died this morning here in washington. we begin tonight with news out of northeast d.c. where they found a body inside of a pizza shop this afternoon at a restaurant that had been set on fire. good evening. i'm jim vance. at y bth wodouasnd f at at body was found atza piz ma t prt mart at frtee sttr izms seet se bckenn oisnhe jackie bensen is on the s on th >> reporter: news that an employee had been found dead, murdered, inside the pizza mart here at fourth and adams street northeast has sent shock waves through the neighborhood just off rhode island avenue northeast. right now, police are looking into the possibility that the

man was murdered last night. and not discovered until officers were sent to check on his welfare about 1:00 this afternoon. the thing that has investigators somewhat puzzled at this point is that police tell us the restaurant was locked uptight when the first officers arrived and they had to force entry inside and neighbors tell us they are very upset about this. >> very nice man. very, very nice man. >> very sad. we never expect this to happen here. very nice man. >> very sad. >> reporter: police are looking into the possibility that this was a robbery. jim and eun, back to you. >> jackie bensen. we have storms rolling around out there today. bob ryan is upstairs to tell us

what's up. bob, are you there? take may word for it. there are storms rumbling around and there were some in bethesda this afternoon and other parts of maryland and in virginia. and we are told that there will be continuing thunder bumpers bumping around the rest of this evening and maybe tomorrow as well. but maybe not. bob, what's going on? >>e have some nasty cells up to our north. let me show you, first of all, where that area is. that's now north of baltimore. earlier there was a warning out for folks in anne arundel county but as you can see, that's -- diminished a lot now. that warning has gone down. but meanwhile, line of nasty cells up to the north of baltimore. there is another little patch now coming through, oh, fairfax county. it might pick off a couple of strokes of lightning and gusty winds. but at this point i think it will just be bringing in beneficial rain showers. we have been so, so dry. our temperature now in washington, 90 degrees. i think we will be getting more

showers over the next few days. showers and thundershowers. look at that heat index. and the other big story is hurricane bill. there you can see this is a great picture from the nasa aqua satellite. there's the eye, about 40 miles across. bill could become abcategory 3 hurricane in the next 24 hours. tell you more about that. also, when our heat is going to break. when i join you. back to you. >> thanks, bob. new nbc news poll out today shows that the american public is changing its mind when it come to health care reform. the polls show people are now rejecting the so-called public options and once a key element of president barack obama's health care initiative. steve handelsman has that report. >> reporter: he called it one sliver of health care reform. president obama is still fighting for the public option. government insurance. so is the health secretary today. >> we continue to support the public option that will help lower costs and give american

consumers a choice and keep private insurers honest. >> reporter: after two weeks of town halls, where the public option is a big issue, nbc news finds america has changed its mind. now opposing the public option 47% to 43%, last month it was 46% to 44% in favor. >> the public doesn't necessarily have the appetite for big governmental change in health care now. >> reporter: the republican point man on reform said "told you so." >> the bottom line of it is a public option is resented by a lot of republicans and some democrats. because we feel it is the first step towards government takeover of health care. >> reporter: team obama claims republicans like grassley are scaring the public by are spreading falsehoods. >> pull the plug on grandma. >> rorter: this was gop senator jim demint. >> you heard the president say well, maybe you are too old for a pacemaker, maybe you need painkillers. the president shouldn't be deciding what kind of health care we are going to get. >> reporter: obama aides insist

he has not lost on government insurance. >> the public option is his preferred method to add choice in competition but certain sly hoping to looking at it and discussing other idea >> reporter: which sounds to many democrats like a presidential cave-in on a key part of reform. some democrats up here are saying that they won't vote for any health care package without the public option. i'm steve handelsman, news4, capitol hill. >> president obama now plans to hold a live teleconference on health care reform with supporters thursday afternoon. on wall street, the market managed to recover se of the big losses from yesterday. stock prices are up and annists say it is due in part to some better-than-expected earnings reports from retailers and another monthly judgment in new home construction. the dow gained 82 points today. the nasdaq, up 25 points. the new york stock exchange up 84 points. columnist and tv commentator robert novak died. novak pass wade this morning here in washington.

a town in which he had been a prominent journalist for decades. today michael flynn spoke with some of those that knew novak and joins us with more. >> reporter: for the past year, novak battled brain cancer. today he is being remembered as a conservative columnist and commentator who gave us washington political scoops for almost half a century. >> he has been in very difficult shape the last couple of months. especially. it still comes as a shock. >> reporter: >> that was political commentator pat buchanan who says this is a big loss for everyone that has been following the political scene in washington, d.c. i also spoke with "meet the press's" moderator david gregory who says that, boy, if you wanted to know what was going on in the conservative community, conservative politics, you had to read robert novak's column. he was 78 years old. no word yet on funeral arrangements. back to you. >> michael flynn.

michael, thank you. plans for michael jackson have been finalized. michael's father, joe jackson, told "the new york daily news," his son would be buried on august 29th in a cemetery in los angeles that would have been mig's birthday. in the past, joe jackson had said that michael would be laid to rest in los angeles' forest lawn cemetery but that has not been confirmed by a jackson family spokesperson. coming up on our broadcast tonight, somebody set fire to hay bales and mailbox necessary maryland last night. there was an attack on a nato convoy in afghanistan today. that country prepares for the upcoming presidential election. first lady of south carolina speaking out about her husband's affair. metro is planning on expanding cell phone service inside stations. we will tell you when it is happening. >> coming up in sports, the nationals finally get their man. signing stephen strasburg to a record deal. brett favre says he's back.

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two u.s. troops were killed in afghanistan today. it was anotherinbombg. ilstl bombing. ylsmetro f yet from officials there.et oi ci eight eighterth ozens ozens ofthjureind. ciju sdeci esoms a.s u a.omesit as u.s. and n tatsroop are trying to ncitasyurecit ntd aheadl ia wo prel desiiant election there two days from now. richard engel has our report. >> reporter: it was clear the attack had taken place on a nato military convoy. nato later confirmed that one of its convoys had been attacked and nato personnel were among the killed and injured. >> translator: smoke and death while i walked way.

i saw several dead bodies on the ground. >> reporter: afghan security officials say at least 50 people were hurt and more than seven killed in the suicide bombing. the taliban has claimed responsibility and says that there will be more attacks leading up to elections here on thursday. this is the second time in the last several days that the taliban has been able to carry out attacks right in the center of kabul and there are great concerns, no only about voter fraud, but about turnout on election day if this level of violence continues. richardia engel, nbc news, kabu. >> there's also word tonight that a former spokesman for the taliban has been captured. a senior official in pakistan says omar was arrested by a pro-government militia in a tribal region near the border with afghanistan. omar was a spokesman for a group called the taliban movement of pakistan. he also served as a senior aide to the head of the taliban in

pakistan and believed to have been killed recently. a move today that could lead to the release of a libyan man convicted in a lockerbie bombing. he is serving a 27-year sentence for his part in the bombing of pan am flight 103 in december of 1988. the airline carried mostly americans on the way to new york explod over scotland. all 259 people onboard were killed and so were 11 more on the ground. the lawyer told the scottish court today that he's terminally ill and with advanced stage cancer and has just months to live. the judges removed a legal hurdle to his release allowing him to drop an appeal against his conviction. >> i am now instructed to abandon both his appeal against conviction and his appeal against sentence. >> in light of the circumstances before us, this court, we grant that leave.

>> reporter: libya wants him transferred to his homeland. u.s. officials are urge skop land to keep him in prison to serve out his sentence. days ago, russian officials said that they found a ship that had vanished more than two weeks ago. now they say that they knew where it was all along. the freighter was called the ctic sea. a russian naval ship reached late sunday in waters near cape verde in africa. off africa. the russian defense minister says that eight suspected hijackers have been arrested. the comment was the first official confirmation the rnc had been hijacked. the last contact with ship happened in july and as it passed through the english channel. authorities now say that they knew that the ship had been hijacked but they stayed quiet in order to bring the episode to a peaceful end. the crew of the arctic sea is reported to be in good condition. the former president of south korea's kim dae jung died in a hospital in seoul today. kim served as south korea's

president until 2003. he was awarded the nobel peace prize for his effort at reconciliation with south korea. kim had been hospitalized for several weeks with knpneumonia. he was 85 years old. a 14-year-old girl hit by two stray bullets in her house last night. we will hear from her. bob will be back with a check on your forecast.

all day long news4 and our partners have been out collecting school supplies for students that need them. >> our anual backpack force kids drive. pat lawson muse joins us life from the tenleytown cvs with more on how you can help. hi, pat. >> reporter: there has been a tremendous outpouring of support to collect and provide backpacks for kids. for 12 hours today, people have come here to thetent tenleytown to donate backpacks and gone to

cvs stores around the washington region and gone online to make donations and if you look behind me here, you can see some of the results. these are the backpacks that we collected here in the 4500 block of wisconsin avenue northwest. of course, news4 could not do this every year without partners and without our co-sponsor which is cvs. tim is with cvs. tim, how are we doing so far? >> just fantastic. i'm overwhelmed by the outpouring from the community and our business partners. we have collected over 600 backpacks here today and over 1300 in total between here and our other stores. thank you to everybody in the community. it has been terrific. >> we are not done. >> we are not done. our goal is 4,000. you can still come to the stores that have the backpacks for the rest of the week. take them to the register and purchase them and we will get them to the schools and kids that need them. >> reporter: tell us good -- talk about the need for the kids that don't have the wherewithal to get the supplies.

>> it is greater than ever before. what is significant, though, pat, is people realize that there is a great need and som in our community have come forward and we cannot thank them enough. in order to serve at least the 4,000 students we need more people to come forward and it is simple. they can go online and many people have done that had a. and made their contributions via credit card by going to nbcwashington.com. you know, news4's committed to making a difference. we are delighted to have been working with cvs. tim and howard gordon and the whole team of folks who really, as we are, committed to our children. thank you, pat. it has been a long hot day. rainy day. we have been able to do it. we have been grateful. >> reporter: well worth the effort. thank you so much, thank you. ong u.yoyoinnton u. to get a o elithf st cvs stores you cannd y donate and also y can donate online. using your credit card.

did you get a backpack when you were a student? >> i did. it got heavier each year. >> carry your books like this. >> with a belt and a strap. then you get tendinitis in your wrist from lugging the books around. i wish i had a backpack. >> i had one shoulder. >> outside, a few rain showers in northwest washington. and officially down in national airport, nice to see the rain with the dry, dry summer that we have had. break out the umbrellas. next couple of days, we will get a chance again, 95 degrees, our high temperature. down at national airport, many spots, since july 1, less than two inches of rain. that's a third of our average. right now we are closing in on almost four inches below average rainfall since july 1. outside now we have the clouds.

move through baltimore into northeast and maryland. and right now, some of the heaviest cells are in northwestern parts of baltimore and heading up into northeast maryland. that's the reason in hartford county there are new warnings out. not so much probably for wind gusts but an awful lot of lightning. you folks in northeast washington, there is another little batch of rain showe coming through. there are a few more out to our

west. these are just plain rain showers out around warrenton. in the future scan you can see how these will continue to move out to the east and we may get some more needed rains. falls church, taking anything we can get. quarter of an inch of rain. knocked down the temperatures. 79. meanwhile, out of the tropics, you see the eye staring back at you. look at the circulation. bill now is on the verge of becoming a category 3 major hurricane. winds 110 miles an hour. look at the eye. 700 miles east of the leeward island. the big threat, though, big that over the next few days will beber maude a. projected track with the uncertainty. moving up to the east of the -- east coast. but bermuda by the weekend may be an increasing threat for bill. right now, it is out over the open waters with really no problems for us. nor for the east coast. tomorrow once again, we are going to continue to see southwesterly p winds and more

humidity coming in. each afternoon we may be seeing afternoon showers and thundershowers and especially as we get into thursday increasing risk. few more showers, i think, right now for the washington area. it will be warm and humid. temperatures about where they are now. the high 80s. overnight tonight and even though we get thoseassing rain showers, give us a little b.r., brief relief, hazy and humid. very humid tomorrow morning. temperatures will be in the lower 70s. then tomorrow afternoon, the humidity very, very humid day tomorrow. and once again, by the afternoon, some thunderstorms eedes. deees. next seven days here is how things shape up. we are going to see a very humid right on through friday saturday, the pattern begins to break. and the good news is that as we get into suny and then early next week, i think we do see the pattern back to some drier and more comfortable with temperatures in the 80s. but the next couple of days, afternoon thunderstorms, august and the good news is we need the

rain, too. >> certainly do. >> coming up tonight, somebody set fire to hay bales and mailboxes in maryland last night. >> a 14-year-old girl was shot twice last night in her own home by stray bullets. we will hear from people living in the neighborhood where it happened. >> a maryland state delegate is apologizing tonight after staging a police raid while proposing to his girlfriend. >> metro is planning on expanding cell phone service inside stations. coming up, fred davis says i'm not going on fumble anymore. brett favre says just kidding. the nationals -- deal at the deadline for stephen strasburg.

a look at stories making headlines tonight. >> police are investigating the murder of a man inside of a local pizza shop. the employee's body was found this afternoon inside of a pizza mart near fourth and adams street in northeast washington. investigators are looking into the possibility the man was killed overnight. so far there are no suspects. the latest message from the white house on health care reform is that a government-run insurance option is still on the

table. over the weekend, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius suggested that a public option was notenstial to overhauling the system. the liberal democrats say that they will not vote for any reform bill without that public option. columnist and tv commentator robert novak died this morning following yearlong battle with brain cancer. novak was a face on various political talk shows. the family said he died at his home here in washington. novak was 78 years old. coming up this evening on "news4 at 6:00," metro is expanding cell phone service inside stations. the maryland state delegate is apologizing after staging a police raid while proposing to his girlfriend and we will tell you what the first lady of south carolina is saying about her husband's affair. a 14-year-old girl was shot in the back inside of her own home last night. it is the latest problem that has residents in a southeast d.c. community feeling like they g in ag war .nezo in the ptasee thrks weerehe t

have been more 12 burglaries, 2 ar thefts, two shootings, and stabbing. pat collins has our report. >> reporter: how much did you pay for your house? >> over $300,000 for my home. >> reporter: how much did you pay four your house? >> $317,000. >> reporter: what do you think it is worth today? >> i wouldn't pay a dime for it today. >> reporter: there are a number of people who paid big money to buy homes at henson ridge in southeast washington. it was marketed as a model community, mixture of owners, renters, and subsidized families. a modern replacement for the run-down red brick apartments known as stanton terrace in the douglas dwellings. but the crime problem here has made this something less than a model place to live. >> my kids may have spent a

total of four days outside in the last two years that we lived here. because of the stolen vehicles and the murders and the rapes, beatings. >> this is an american dream. my new home i worked so hard for and worked for, i feel like i'm living a nightmare. >> reporter: a barrage of gunfire at henson ridge last night. nine shots into this corner home. two bullets into the back of a 14-year-old girl getting out of the shower. she was treated and released at the hospital. but it was a scary night. >> how many bullets came into your house? >> nine. nine. two struck her and two was in her pillow they pulled out. if she was laying in her bed on the pillow, she would have gotten shot in her head twice. >> reporter: residents say august 8th, a 15-year-old girl was stabbed on the steps in henson ridge. there was still some blood here.

there was still some police tape here. are you scared to live here? >> yes, i am. interest shouldn't be that way but you can't go outside because they run wild. you don't know if you are going to shot. you don't know if you are going to get stabbed. >> very violent problems in the midnight shifts. shifted resources to cover this area, late evenings and midnight, to have a high visibility and very high presence. >> reporter: so tonight the promise of more police protection. the people that live here are meeting here and organizing here to make sure that happens. i'm pat collins, news4 washington. >> police say they found a number of shell casings up the street from the house hit by the gunfire. they say they are processing them and hoping that some information from that will lead them to the suspects. arson investigation is under way in rural montgomery county. following ll series of ovnier ni

euge stacks of straw nseren w t'theatocns oer wyen'ty targets. julie carey has our report. >> reporter: the fires began to pop up around 3:00 a.m. nine different fires set in just four hours. four were start in straw bales stack ad alongside rural roads, subdivision mailboxes and one was in a trash can. all locations within a couple of miles within one another. three of the four straw stacks belonged to roy stanley who says 1 $100,000 worth went up in smoke but is more worried about what can happen next. >> my concern right now is that they catch the person it could be escalating into something that could causeersonal injury. >> reporter: a couple of miles away, kathy mason's postal carrier was kind enough to hand deliver the mail this afternoon. she got a call around 6:15 this morning from a neighbor other that her mail mailbox was on fire. >> our neighbor was leaving for work at 6:10, 6:15.

he was driving out in and the mailbox had just been set on fire. the gas can was still sitting there. >> reporter: the fire investigators are working with the montgomery county police department to try to catch the arsonist and they have some clues. >> one of the fires, we did recover a gas can. melted gas can. >> reporter: residents say they suspect teenagers might be to blame. mailbox victim kathy mason says that she doesn't think her family was targeted, though. >> i think this was random. i don't believe we have anybody angry at us. >> i'm not going to sleep sound tonight on account -- until i have this other locations, similar situations, until we find people or people that do this, i'm not going to -- nobody in the community should be sleeping. >> reporter: the fire department says it will be working with police to increase the patrols tonight and they will be at the ready in case any new fires develop. julie carey, news4, damascus. >> two of those hay bales are

still burning. what looked like a police raid at baltimore's inner harbor was a big romantic jesz tour. the politician that organized it is now facing criticism. delegate john cardin came up with an elaborate pla t propose to his girlfriend. he stage ad raid on a boat on august 7 while he was on the boat with his girlfriend. a helicopter flew overhead. at the end, cardin pulled out anygaugement ring for his girlfriend. the baltimore police commanders say that whole event was not authorized. >> the police department is not in the business of doing birthdays and bachelor parties. we are here to uphold public safety in baltimore and we use those tools for various public relations activities. but not wedding proposals for birthday parties. >> cardin has offered to reimburse the police department for the involvement of any officers and equipment in his proposal. his girlfriend, by the way, did say yes.

expect to hear more cell phone chatter at metro's busiest stations over the next two months. cell phone companies will begin installing a more expansive wireless network at designated stations. the work will take place late at night when metro rail is closed. the expanded service will allow cell phone users to make calls and send texts and surf the web starting mid october. a metro spokesperson says that they hope to have cell phone service to the entire system by 2012. coming up tonight, biggest credit card theft plot in u.s. history. we will have more on the man who police say pulled it off. south carolina's first lady jenny sanford is talking about her husband's affair.'t

we are had thundershowers earlier in pennsylvania. charles bell, known as chuck, took this picture of a -- that's the outflow fm some of the showers and thundershowers. you can see there is a batch finally moving through national airport. measurable rain down there. little batch, maybe some thunder for you folks down into i-95. moving into charles county but

no severe weather. overnight tonight, we are going to continue to see the showers settle down but then with the humidity and the pattern we have each afternoon, there's the risk and a chance because we do need the rain of thundershowers. some could be locally strong. we will keep an eye on things. it will remain very, very humid, though. right into the early part of saturday. after that drying sought out sunday and early next week, looks delight pl. back to you. >> thanks, bob. in her first ex-tense i have interview since leaving her husband south carolina first lady jenny sanford shares her thoughts about their troubled marriage. sanford moved out of the governor's mansion earlier this month shortly after her husband's affair with an argentine woman was made public. she has been living at the family's oceanfront cottage while mark sanford remains in the governor's mansion. in the september issue of "vogue" magazine, set to hit newsstands this week, mrs. sanford compared her husband's affair to an addiction. she said, otqubequt icame clear m haetot t heas j must obsessed ..

federal authorities have made a change -- changed their mind about one of the points in the investigation of a mid air collision in new york city involving a small plane and a helicopter. earlier the national transportation safety board said that an air traffic controller failed to warn the plane of the helicopter in its path. now the board says that while the controller did fail to pass along the warning to the plane, the helicopter was not on the radar screen. nine people were killed in that accident. coming up in our broadcast we are going to take a look at

the 1962 ferrari 250 california's fire. we will tell you how much it sold at auction. >> lindsay is at redskins park with a look at what's going on in sports. >> yes. rookie hazing continues at redskins park. you won't believe who got it this afternoon. also, the nationals get their man. signing stephen strasburg to a record deal. then we ll talk about brett favre. come on. you di't think he

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brett favre is in minnesota. what's up with that? >> i know. i was so excited to talk to you about that, vance. we didn't think he would stay retired. we have a lot of stuff to talk about today in sports. mike williams did not practice today. he has a sprained ankle. before we get to redskins, we have to talk nationals. last night they did it. they had just over a minute left to get a deal done with an overy'all draft with stephen strasburg. they did. dan hellie is at nationals park and that's where we join him live now. got to be an exciting day down there for you, dan. >> certainly the buzz of the ballpark now. very tense moments last night as they head to negotiate this contract down to the wire with the super agents scott boris who can be extremely difficult to work with at times. the man standing to my right is chuckling. this stan who is responsible for

signing strasburg. noticed, stan, a skip in your step today. >> some people call me difficult, too. to be fair. it is a great moment for us. you know, the continuation of what we think we have been achieving this year, building blocks, we see the results now starting to come with a lineup we put together and young pitchers that are maturing and getting better and better. this, of course, has the potential to deliver us the rotation starter which every team need we couldn't be happier. >> i know this is perhaps the most hyped college baseball player of all time. there's month way, stan, that he lives up to the hype. however, he could be an all-star and he could be a hall of famer. and he's -- going to be your number one force for a long time. >> i have said that to him. there isn't any way he could live up to the hype and doesn't need to. we are not looking for him to be a savior. we are looking for him to be very good. he has -- physical package of tools which when you add it to his work ethic, again, looks

like he could produce the top of the rotation starter and that would be more than enough for us. >> reporter: >> you look at his numbers. i want to look dn and make sure i get them right. 16 ks pfect nine innings, ten strikeouts to one walk. i mean, the numbers are off the charts. >> it looks like he is ready to move. he conquered that lead and ready to move on, whether it is the minor leagues or up here remains to be seen. we will send him to arizona, arizona fall league in october. see how he does in spring training. however his talent takes him, as fast as it takes him here, that will be great. we won't bring him here until he is ready. >> so important for this team to sign this pick to build credibility with the fan base and build credibility around baseball. i don't know if you realize he had the bulldog in mike rizzo, interim general manager. he was the one negotiating the deal with you right by his side. correct? >> he ran point on this. life is too short for me to keep doing this with scott. fantastic job. as he has with everything he

has -- been assigned to do this year. i couldn't be prouder of him. >> very happy man out here at nationals park. thank you so much for joining us. lindsay, we will send it back to you at redskins park. everybody -- raining here. everody is happy. >> yes. >> everybody is. i would think you would have to think because they pulled off that move that maybe that gives mike rizzo a better chance of being that final gm for the nationals. thanks so much, dan. enjoy the night down there. moving now to redskins. last year, rookie tight end, fred davis, made a lasting impression because he was the guy that people thought of because he slept through his alarm on the first day of practice. but he pulled through. he h what he would call lackluster season but now he is has been working hard trying to get back to where he feels coaches really need him to be until last thursday. he struggled in the preseason performance. let me take you back to the field and show you what happened. it was late in the first half. fred davis, number 86, gets the ball. longest drive of the night.

can't hold on to it. good news. the redskins recovered. however, davis wouldn't let it happen again. it was three plays later. again, davis there to make the catch. but he allowed the ball to be popped. the ravens recovered and scored a touchdown. fred davis said the feeling after letting that happen not once but twice is the lowest of lows. >> i don't like errors. i don't like being the reason we stopped making a touchdown or doing something. to me, that -- it messes with me. i get really upset. i have to definitely bounce back mentally and be ready. >> how do you personally mentally bounce back when you make that type of error? >> never happen again. we did a lot of ball drills and stuff like that getting ready. tugging on the ball. every time i get up and make sure i keep it high and tight. >> you canelieve that fred davis has been working on those drills this week especially spending extra time with tight

end. if you think draft status may mean something as far as rookie hazing is concerned, no. brian orakpo that got the brunt of it. man, were the defensive linemen having fun with this. tied them up and let them have it. i thought it was possible redskins would take it's i don't a guy that looked like they could eat him alive. there goes the ice chest. flech other the left. haynesworth on the right. i talked to tackle cornelius griffin who said you thought we were going to be easy, no chance. >> ease them into it and say, look, don't react, just go along with the flow. they do. don't run. it will get worse. >> tighten my helmet to the tape. i'm trying to get the tape off my helmet but it is not coming off. that's why i'm holding all the tape that i have on my body. >> i thought these guy was leave me alone.

trying to be hum sxwl stay focused as possible. that doesn't matter. i should have came in here talking a lot of trash from the get-go and probably would have gotten the same thing. >> brian orakpo, the redskins 13th overall draft pick, thought he would avoid it and not the case. keeps getting better and better as far as the hazing is concerned at redskins park. talk about someone that probably hasn't been hazed much. brett favre thought he would remain retired and you would be wrong. today he signed a one-year $12 million contract with the minnesota vikings. sorry, packers fans. let's take you back out to the field. here is brett favre who is officially coming out of retirement a second time. wearing the number four vikings jersey and a packers fans worst nightmare. shoulder injury and aches and pains. kept him from coming out of retirement earlier this -- offseason. and signing with the vikings before training camp. now that camp has passed, you know the story. jason campbell says you know what, i am not surprised at all. >> i knew -- i'm from

mississippi. and, you know, at the house. about that time. kids are in high school and talking about football. everyone is raving about football. he is sitting out there and getting the itch. i figure that -- i didn't know if he was going to come back but i believe it when i see it because dash you have to get all the way through training camp and the season to get going before i believe he is not coming ba. >> jason campbell told me back in february right after i asked him about brett favre retiring for a second time, he said i will believe it when i see it. i thought that he was nuts. now the deal is brett favre will be playing in that first -- preseason game and against kansas city on friday. so here you go again. i guess it is a good day for the minnesota strike zblgs i guess so. we will find out, won't we? >> absolutely. coming up, we are going to have new information about the man federal officials say is behind the biggist credit card theft plot in u.s. history.

we are going to tell you what was paid for this car.

federal prosecutors have broken up a massive identity theft ring in southern florida. the involves information from more than a million credit and debit accounts. jane watrel has the report. >> reporter: the justice department calls it the largest case of credit and debit card debt of theft in u.s. history. 28-year-old albert gonzalez is accused of plotting to swipe 130 million accounts. the victims, ordinary shoppers. gonzalez, seemingly ordinary guy. at least according to his miami neighbo neighbors. >> you are so nice. >> reporter: there were signs of trouble. a secret service raid a few months ago raised suspicions. >> all of a sudden in the morning, there we like 15

policemen coming in. >> reporter: gonzalez was indicted monday charged wh conspiring hacking into computers. among their targets, customers of 7-eleven, heartland payment systems and hannaford. federal prosecutors say that the sophisticated scheme began in october of 2006. and ended two years later. the stolen information was sent to computer systems in california and illinois and latvi latvia, nether sxlands ukraine. >> they potentially making millions of dollars selling the records and selling them on the black market. >> gone zal sez already in jail waiting trial in another hacking case involving dave & busters. this new case breaks his previous record of stealing 40 million accounts. from retailers t.j.maxx, barnes & noble, sports authority. the hackers use ad technique

used war driving which involves driving around with a laptop looking for accessible wireless networks. back at the condominiums his neighbors are realizing that it was always eerily quiet next door. >> i told joe, sid, they are so quiet. >> if convicted on the hacking charges, gonzalez could spend the rest of his life in prison. jane watrel, news4. final check on the forecast with bob. >> couple more thunderstorms coming through. for you folks around waldorf, these are summertime run of the mill thunderstorms. there was one warning and one report of estimated three-quarter inch hail in annapolis. the good news is they are coming through with rain showers, too, we could use. temperatures overnight in the 70s. tomorrow once again i think we will be doing it with afternoon showers and thundershowers. and right now, it looks like plain old august kind of thunderstorms and after that, we get into the weekend and it begins to clear up. back to you. tonight at 11 dloek clock,

in the mail, krard companies send out what choices you have. a ringing cell phone has been turning on one type of oven and even when the owners aren't in the room. we will have the response from the oven maker. find out why popcorn should be one of first things you reach for while snacking at night. tonight at 11 cloak. consider, if you would, for a moment, just the absolute max you would spend for a car. even if it were used. now lo at this one. and consider that somebody paid more than $5 million for it. happen order sunday. it was a ferrari 250 california spider from 1962 from a guy with proper posture. the car went up for auction during the annual automotive weekend in pebble beach. celebrities -- nobody drives like that. celebrities such as jay leno and jerry seinfeld were showing cars during the event. no other