this evening, police continue to look for that hit-and-run driver who left behind a critical cluev search. oraytu ini mnng s saturday morning in srsaspngt a and lethy avenue. chris? >> reporter: good evening. both women have broken bones and serious internal injuries. they have either undergone surgeries or about to face numerous surgeries but it is believed they will survive. they work together as a cleaning crew and literally just finished one job at a home and crossing the street to clean some offices when a driver hit them, dragged them and then fled. >> reporter: the families of the victims came here to police headquarters directly from the hospital. 29-year-old rosa has two children and a husband who spoke through a police interpreter. >> translator: it's very, very hard. i have no words to express how hard this is on my family.

>> reporter: 22-year-old was represented by her brother and sister. >> translator: my family would like to send a message to this individual. to face the responsibility. would like for him to come forward. >> reporter: this may be the best evidence police have. the grill that fell off the vehicle lice say it was involved in the hit and run. investigators have tentatively as identified as coming from a black toyota ford runner 1998 and 1992. coming to this health center at silver springs. crossing over capitol view avenue in the walkway when they were hit and dragged by the toyota. >> we can't believe that the person didn't know that he or she struck these two women. and from all indications, it

appears that they were in the crosswalk. >> the victims of this hit and run are both from silver spring. they work for home services enterprises. its owner hopes that the hit-and-run driver surrenders or is turned in by a toyota missing a grill. >> they're great responsibilities and great friends. >> montgomery county police department is hoping that anyone with information about this hit and run will give them a call at 301-279-8000. 301-279-8000. they say all callers will be kept anonymous. that's latest from the police headquarters in rockville, back to you in the studio. >> such a tragic story there. thank you the wildfires that are raging out west tonight are getting worse. more than 80,000 acres have now scorched in southern california alone. crews continue fighting eight large fires in that state. tonight the one burning in

angeles forest. winds are in the forecast and they could continue fueling these flames. yesterday two firefighters were killed after their vehicle tumbled down a mountainside. governor arnold schwarzenegger who declared a state of emergency in four counties today saying to all of the fire crews for their hard work. >> every californian is grateful for their bravery and their great service and of course they're my heres. >> some firefighter from our area have been helping the fires out west. darcy spencer spoke with one of the rangers and she joins us. >> reporter: wendy, local firefighters and forest rangers don't typically see the types of wildfires that are burning out of control in california but they say their skills can be used to fight any type of fire ithre whe with where th

>> reporter: fes burned. >> reporter: forest ranger rick long spent two weeks in california hngorpiel to battle e wildfires raging there. these photographs depict the mag touched the blaze. >> the one day we were sit there and all that we've seen was just an air show. fire was making a really good significant runs and just had air tanker after air tanker after air tanker just coming in, waopping retardant, dropping r. orter: dispatched as part of a>>-p20n so teramlptehe o -h ba le the firehaast t h consumed tens of thousands of acres. the firefighters went to utah's big pole area and then to california for the assignment. they helped along the fire line, put out hotspots and conducted other tasks as the fire raged. >> it was a rush. adrenaline rush because you're seeing like all this much stuff happening so you're like this is really awesome and doing a lot of different things. so it was really, h really neat. i think that's why a lot of us do it. >> reporter: officials say a difference in fire seasons here and out west makes it possible for maryland to send the resources to help in california. the fire season here is in the

spring. >> and let's us free up our resources during the summer mont when you typically have a lot of the western fires that are burning. >> reporter: back home the firefighters don't encounter these sorts of blazes that consume miles of territory but rangers say once you know how to fight fires those skills can be used anywhere. >> no matter if it's a small fire that you're fighting here in-state or a large fire, it all flows under the commandystem and the structure of how you fight the fire's the same whether it's here or someplace else in the country. >> reporter: the maryland crews remain on stand-by. they could be called back to help now the california. typically only given a 12 to 24 hours' notice. back to you, jim. >> darcy spencer, darcy, thank you. police in ana rundel county oe searching for the tworyobabe at a aatve dveouatm. 9:15 at the mefnkhe ahe t t 500cklo b heelcesl ttli tomellces the woman just pulled up to the n tre-ivrough e- two young

ng y meks mas snufr themlene o pfuld them pulled fa gunnd aem danded her money. poce say she complied and the two men ran away. police don't have good descriptions of the suspects. d.c. police have identified a man who was found dead in rock creek park on friday. a jogger running along a path near beach drive and massachusetts avenue noticed a man faced down in a creek. he's been identified now as 54-year-old larry frankel. the medical examiner has not yet released the cause of death. frankel was the legislative director at the american civil liberties union. previously he served as the executive director of the aclu of pennsylvania. pennsylvania's governor ed rendell released a statement praising frankel's work in civil rights and justice. a man was seriously burned in a house fire in frederick county this moing. fire officials say it started on the lower level of a town house in the 10 100 block of victoria

square. two people were inside. emergency unit his to medevac to johns hopkins in baltimore. the other made it out and the other is expected to be fine. good evening. veronica johnson here at storm 4. it is cool outside. we're used to temperatures starting out in the 70s or at least 70 degrees in d.c. upper 60s a lot of locations but this morning 50s and low 60s across the area and that's what we're going to have for the next couple of days. we've got some showers still hanging on. areas of southeastern virginia. those will be moving out. you could see our temperatures right now in the low 70s across the area. where do we go from here? on your fast forecast another chilly start coming your way. more sunshine coming to us tomorrow and what about the taste of autumn? how long will it last? a look in a few minutes.

>> vor eronica, thank you. a school bus collided with a car earlier this morning on east randolph road between old columbia pike and fairland road. no students were aboard the bus at the time. police say the bus rear ended the car and an investigation is under way. ♪ this was the scene this morning when school bes montgomery erom tgy blair high school in university boulevard at silver spring for the first day of school. ninth graders are all that had to report tomorrow. a big year for blair. celebrating its 75th anniversary in october. students are headed back to classroom in silver spring. parents dropped kids off for their first day back. students are returning to changes this year including a

fresh look inside the new gymnasium. and sixth grade students will embark on an outdoor education lesson in september. that was just a few of montgomery countys 142,000 students that headed back to class today. >> and despite the recentudget cuts county remains one of the nation's top school districts. tracee wilkins has more on what school officials are hoping to accomplish this year. >> reporter: the singers of orchard high school are march interesting a new year for the expectati expectations for one of the nation's leading high school systems are about to get a lot higher. >> poverty shouldn't be an excuse and mobility shouldn't be an excuse and race cerinly shouldn't be an excuse. >> reporter: has turned into the top 3.5%ile into the nation's schools and the system's growing minority population is also enjoying great strides and achievements and in some cases surpassing their white counterparts. the county's successes has been

published in this new book published by harvard university. >> what our employers are able do. if you have high expectations you actually lead for equity. i don't led race or socio-economics become an excuse. >> reporter: that's why the superintendent says his new aim is to have every montgomery county college graduate-ready. >> that's a great goal. >> i think that's excellent. i think that's a wonderful goal. i definitely want my son in college. i have one daughter already at college. and it's a wonderful goal. >> does the idea of going college you say it frightens you some to think about it? >> well, not frighten me but it leaves me kind of nervous. >> reporter: sophomore andrew is the first generation american nine years in the country, and english is his second language. he's among the 20% of latinos and the 60% of minorities who are in the montgomery county school system. >> we found out that we can get them college-ready regardless of

their backgrounds and regardless of some of the impacting circumstances and now we have a college graduation rate twice the nation's graduation rate. >> reporter: would you even consider college? would you think about it? >> yeah. yeah. i think it's good for you for college to like get ahead in life. >> reporter: montgomery county's newest school building just completed this summernd the superintendent is saying that this place is an example of where college prep should begin. pre-k and follow those students up through their high school years. in germantown i'm tracee wilkins "news4." everything's back to normal in prince george's county. say all of their students now have full-time schedules. when the school year started last week more than 8,000 high schoolers were left without those schedulers. administrators say a computer glitch is to blame. the county's new school superintendent says there is no excuse for these problems. as the academic year begins d.c. students turn to schools

today with revamped truancy policies. in the district parents will now be called after a single unexcused absence. after five unexcused absences the students is referred to a school support team and thunder new policy a student with 25 unexcused absences will be referred to the juvenile justice system. and the first day of school was especially special for one child. plus the search for answers. police arrest a suspect in that brewsome pays shop murder. we'll tell you about the crime connection. and planes

the markets have made some steady gains this month but august wraps up on a sour note today. joining us now to talk about today's trading and what lies ahead is cnbc's mary thompson. she joins us now live from

cnbc's headquarters in new jersey. so, mary, the dow heads jumped more than 300 points this month. today investors retreated. what happened? >> reporter: well, you know, china was the spark to today's sell-off. the chinese's market dropping 7.1% and a lot of concern that government efforts in china to restrain growth in that country is going to spill over to the rest of the world. given that we've seen such a runup in the markets investors took the money off of the table today. >> as we head into september, do the analysts think that the gains might continue from last month? or are there some road blocks ahead. >> reporter: you know september's always a tough month for the market. in fact the toughest of all o the 12 months, on average the s&p 500 is down 1.3% for the month of september. this since 1928. so typically what happens in the month of september is you see a lot of companies come out and issue warnings or forecast for the third quarter and so that tends to make it a rather choppy month. additionally, investors will be waiting to see if autoales continue to climb or if they start to slump because the cash for clunkers program is over and

watching home sales as well because keep in mind a tax credit will expire at the end of october and see if any impact on home sales as well. again, the housing market continues to be thought as a key to the overall economic rover. you have to see strength there before you see the economy pick up as well. >> and, mary, oil prices fell below 70 bucks a barrel today on new concerns about the global recession. so do analysts think that we'll be seeing further drops in the coming days and weeks? >> reporter: i think probably what you have to look for is what happens again with the stock market. you know growing concern that if china's breath is not as strong as people had expected it will certainly have an impact on oil because a lot of the growth into other energy sources is coming right from china so any expectations that growth there is going to be curved by the government, you are likely to seenergy prices pulled back as well. >> cnbc's mary thompson. mary, thank you. >> reporter: sure. southwest airlines has until tomorrow to replace unapproved parts on more than 80 planes. aviation officials say the parts are designed to push hot exhaust away from the engine.

they don't pose any immediate safety hazard. on august 22nd the faa gave southwest ten days to make those replacements. southwest says they fixed 25 jets. they need more time to find replacement parts for the rest of the fleet. without an extension, aviation officials could ground up to 10% of southwest's 737s. it looks like the faa s also investigating a helicopter ride that a florida father arranged for his teenager's fiay dt of hool. hr d t hrtghouis 14-year-old son joseph last week and landed safely but he could be in hot water with the aviation because he did not make word of the flight. he just wanted to make an impression on the first day of school. >> thanks, dad. you skydive your kids. >> yeah, of course, you go there, see ya you go there. >> out you go! >> what was he thinking? >> i don't know. >> we love this day, veronica. >> yeah, it was kind of nice on

t a little taste of autumn. i think we needed that after that hot august. >> that is true. so true and got two more mornings too that are kind a cooling like to. >> sweater weather. >> and light jacket weather for the kids, certainly at bus stops and did you notice those big, huge, puffy clouds that we had around today. that too to kind of make you think offall, right? k we, indeed. temperatures across the area today, we did get up to 75 ee degrs. egreeg cooler than er styey.da y.nds out of the north at 12 miles pe hour. started the day at s 64 degrees and it's our coolest since june the 6th. let's talk about other starts across the area throughout new england. temperatures started out low 60s. boston at 62. buffalo 51. sioux st. marie. the western adirondack.

77, not hot either down in atlanta, georgia. so that same system that's hooving in here giving us the cooler air. the refreshing air even affecting areas of the south. meanwhile, you probably had a few shers if you live across southern maryland and especially the early part of the day. some showers still left around the extreme southeastern virginia and down through areas of southern southeastern georgia right now. that is because there is a stationary front that stalled out here. tomorrow it pushes off of the coast as high pressure moves in but as it does the clear sky, the calm winds, we'll see more locations dropping down. probably 52 degrees. damascus probably at 51 degrees. don't expect rain until probably the end of the workweek and this is one storm that we'll be keeping our eye on. it become erica. five miles east of the lesser antilles. it's probably not until the end of the weekend or the beginning of the week that this could do

something. clouds out there now those will be moving out of here. clear skies, calm winds and another cool start for tomorrow. then tomorrow morni again, almost like fall, almost like, miah, already d-miseptembero temt aymeorsd fneed. .t 'lnesday.wor 'll be a carbon copy day. a bit of a cool week and a dry week for the most part here. not bad. >> nice change. when we come back on "news4" at 5:00, a water mess. came hours too late. i'm liz crenshaw. did you ever look at your credit card statement and whedel wher that charge came from in my look at a reb

a water main break caused

problems today. before the crews fixed that lake. megan mcgraph has our story. >> reporter: sherman hughes scrambled to fill some buckets with water. having heard the pipe gushing outside of his home, hughes figured it was just a matter of time before he and his neighbors lost water. >> right now there's no water at all. prior to them cutting the water off i was able to fill a couple of buckets for flushing purposes and washing purposes. >> reporter: the problem, a water main break. a big sinkhole marks the troubled spot. the flowing water undermined the pavement and sent sand and gravel floating down the street. buddy lee's car was parked now where the hole stands. luckily one of his neighbors called and able to move it now the time. >> i came out and the water was gushing up under my car and on the side of the window, okay?

i got started and drove off and parked it up on e corner and when i came back i could actually see the water gushing out of the boat holes. >> reporter: they called wausa when they notic water leaking from the crack about two weeks ago and no repairs were made and homeowners are asking why. >> it was like that for a while and you would think that something's going wrong especially when it's pushing out sand and the sand just covered e whole street. and this morning just final he broke through. >> rorter: officials with wasa are going through call logs to see what, if any, complaints they got on this particular pipe. it's unclear why it broke. in northeast, megan mcgraph, "news4." >> late this afternoon wasa officis told "news4" the main break has been fixed and restored. it was scheduled to be fixed today but it broke before the work could be done. pizza shop murder. new details tonight about the woman that police say committed

the crime. where are jobs? find out when d.c. businesses are hanging up the help of wanted signs. >> i'm following a 14-year-old in a district who is starting school but it's not high school. he's starting college? why

and welcome back, everybody, to our second half hour. i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger. clinton portis has talked about his birthday gift. how to keep charges off your account. but our top story at 5:30, police investigate an immigration scam as the motive for the murder of a local pizza shop owner. a prince george's county woman is behind bars tonight. police tell us his attempt to get his brother citizenship may have led to his murder. pat collins joins us live northeast with the latest on this investigation. bizarre story, pat. >> reporter: indeed it is, jim.

bizarre money for manage plot that ends in a case of murder. >> reporter: shahabuddin rana killed because he cut off cash money payments to a woman for marrying his brother. this according to court documents obtained by "news4." mr. rana found murdered inside his pizza martstore back on august 18th. one police officer said it was the bloodiest scene he's ever encountered. according to court documents, mr. rana had 14 large lacerations to his head. multiple skull fractures. nine lacerations to his left side. and there was an apparent attempt to set him on fire. his back was scorched and burnt matches were found lying on his body. the suspect identified as 26-year-old shanika robinson. the motive, money.

according to documents, rana paid robinson $500 a week to marry his pakistani brother so his brother could eventually become a u.s. citizen. when the brother found out that robinson had sexual affairs with others, rana cut off the payments. robinson vowed to get rana. according to the documents the plot was hatched at this home o addison road in capitol heights where robinson lived. this is where they say they got the box cutter knife they used in the crime. >> that's scary. you wouldn't think that something like that would happen that close to home and it just makes me neous. >> reporter: on august 18th, robinson and two male accomplices went to the pizza mart. there was an argument, there was

a fight, there was murder. so bloody was this murder they say when the suspects got back to the house, they burned their clothes in a barbecue in the back. so bloody this was murder they say when they got back to the house, they scrubbed out the getaway car with bleach. so what did they rob from this place? about $2,000 in cash. some newpt 100s and some dutch master cigars. they say shanika robinson used $1,600 of the stolen money to pay for her rent. tonight she's being held without bond in d.c. jail. jim, back to you. >> pat collins, pat thank you. if you owe backtaxes in maryland you can pay without penalt for the next few months. anher tax amnesty program, it an s terapast i 1tck untera i rstt runs t beghoctor. iten ofbetor. y o tnles ofyntt er i araesndtet

ierest rate and inay pag in faf he r penay.lt t it's last taxmn aisesty was in ctleolrledea n y0$4 initctleed nearly $4 en rue f ev rorenue for the prsatram' the program's dd es neigtone encourage people to pay their back taxes at a time when the state could desperately use the money. here in the nation's capital, it is affecting the huge hotel business. in fact many hotels are actually looking to add workers now. tom sherwood joins with us the story. >> reporter: the city still has lots of tourists and a lot of people come theorto do business with the national government and the hotels they have room for all of them. >> reporter: the poor national economy has taken a bite out of business, but the hotel industry here is faring far better than other places. at the jefferson hotel reopening

downtown, the 99 room luxury hotel is bringing back worker sideline during a 30-month multimillion dollar makeover. >> ahmad omer has been here 25 years. >> everybo should be happy. this is a very nice place to work. >> reporter: hotel managing director frank arnold says the recessionary climate is not holding back hiring plans. >> we starting now. yes with approximately 120 employees and we will be giving up and ramping up approximately 135, 140 employees in the next -- in the coming two months. there was a little cutback in year. i think people were reluctant to fill some positions but i think that they realized we're not being hit as bad as most cities. >> reporter: head of the city hotel association says 26,000 people are employed by city hotels. the obama administration and national political issues are helping to boost occupancy rates

and jobs. >> it's all across the board. it's entry-level jobs all way up to management jobs. >> reporter: while the top 25 nations are down this year. d.c. holts are down only 7% and the overall national rate is down 18%. >> fall is always our busiest season a think that this fall will be particularly busy. >> october is traditionally the busiest month for city hotels. the spring season and april and may is their second busiest. jim and wendy, back to you guys. >> thank you, tom. virginia and the district could soon require sixth grade girls to be vaccinated for hpv. after federal officials recommended that the vaccine given to 11 to 12-year-old girls. is a particularly cancerous sexually transmitted disease. the commonwealth and the district allow parents to opt out of the requirement for any reason. still to come tonight at "news4" at 5:00, rescued at sea.

boaters stranded with no land in sight. find out what one captain did.

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set. massachusetts governor deval patrick announced january 19th is the day a special election will be held. kennedy died last week after a bout with brain cancer. his death has left a void that needs to be filled. >> some health care reform fm jobs bills and climate change and education, the congress is debating some of the most historic and significant legislation in decades bound to affect all of us for decades. >> the governor said he spoke to kennedy's widow vicki, about having her fill her husband's seat on an interim basis until this special election. he says she told him she is not interested. two bags of potato chips, six packs of crackers and three gallons of water that and sheshoulder determination kept them alive at sea for over a week. their boat capsized and waiting

as cost guard helicopters searched 86,000 square miles over the gulf of mexico. they saw the choppers twice but coast guard didn't see them finally the captain of the sport boat spotted them and pulled them out and cooked them a big steak din smear we got close to the boat and we had coast guard online trying to talk to them, see what it s and as we backed up to the boat, we hollered, what's their name. and when they gave us their name, the coast guard said they've been missing for eight days and i said, hey, we're going to get you. come on and when i started motioning that we were backing up to them, man, they jumped in the water. there was no stopping them. they jumped in the water and swimming on the boat. >> it was on a day-to-day basis that everybody actually had their breakdown and like i said the power of prayer had us feeling safe so far as knowing that we were going to make it out of it but didn't know how long that we were going to have to endure this. >> the trio was actually asleep when their cata that ran started

to take on water and flipped. the coast guard called off the search for a week. the captain of the boat who found them who said he was at the right place at the right sometime my goodness. wow. >> lucky. well, veronica, what do we got? >> it looks like a taste of autumn? >> a little taste of autumn. clouds out there too. the big puffy kind and hopefully those clouds will be moving t of here because in the southern sky tonight we've got jupiter. we have the moon. but on up. >>ipper is three times the size of earth. its red spotane think with a good pair, decent pair of binoculars maybe a good pair of telescope you may be able to see at 8:06 this evening. 73 degrees the current temperature. yes, chilly. much like mid-september and lows tonight. 58 d.c. we'll have a lot more sunshine and slightly higher tempetures across the area. upper 70s i think at least in d.c. so two really dry days. two pretty days with lots of

sunshine. pick up clouds on right side. the high 80 degrees then so we're trying to warm up and then we get the clouds at the end of the week on friday and that will bring up cooler temperatures. upper 70s there is a 30% chance of rain. toin the weekend it is looking dry. much more coming up. stay with us.

hey, did you ever look at a charge on your credit card statement and wonder, what's that for? why is that there? well, chances are you have been crammed. billed for a service you never ordered. >> it really wasn't those shoes you forgot buying. >> uh-huh. >> tonight liz crenshaw shows how an innocent looking check

turned into a big charge on a local consumer's statement. >> one of those things that catches you off guard. looking to make a buck discover that a marketer is trying to sell you something you never asked for. tonight, a little story about a local consumer who got caught in a marketer's trap. >> reporter: this is the ped egg a device for pedicures. he bought it for his wife. several weeks out of the blue he says he received a dmeek it was a rebate or a customer loyalty check. it was $8 so i didn't worry about it too much. i cashed it. >> reporter: but that simple act of cashing that small check turned a crammed consumer. >> and then about a month eyeing was looking at my credit card statements and i saw a charge $139.99 to something called buyer's advantage. i didn't recognize it. >> reporter: now what he isn't sure how cashing the rebate check resulted in his getting

crammed. but over at the federal trade commission michael tankersley says the disclosure should be the marketer's problem. not the consumer's. >> what the commission says is that the terms and condition of any sale that you're making to a consumer have to be disclosed up front and anyone -- any terms or conditions that are crucial to the deal have to be disclosed clearly and conspicuously. >> reporter: where was the disclosure who told him that he was yebur'buyer's club? on the check under tiny print under the $8 and on the back, tiny print again where you sign. >> no, i did not see the fine print. like i said i just thought it was a standardat rebse check. >> reporter: so what do you do if you find yourself a victim of cramming? first if you finance unrecognized charge that includes a phone number call to find out what that charge is for. ask the company to refund your money and cancel all future charges. also ask your cret r or debit

card company to cancel the charge and contact the ftc, which tracks cramming incidents and prosecutes offenders. >> and the companies have an obligation to come back and explain to you how it is that that charge got on there and if it's not an authorized charge to remove it. >> reporter: walt's cramming charge was dropped but he says he's learned a valuable lesson. >> you have to be so careful when you put your name on something to read everything or just throw it away. forget the check or read it. th credit>usr:orft jr y iou cedmmra y couan crammed you c find bhiept wayt 87 1-7-ftc- 1-87he7-c-help gore to thetrraf website that's ftc.gov. and you know i know that walt says that he was being stupid by not reading all of the fine print but a lot of times we just do things quickly and the truth is really the key is look at every one of your credit card statements. don't just pay them.

look at them and make sure that the charges are in fact yours. >> great. >> thank you, liz. >> good story. dozens of homeowners in northwest washington they're banning together to go solar. 50 resident the mt. pleasant neighborhood will put solar installations on their roof. cooperative as it is being called is a neighborhood group. they organize inned this effort. they believe the new installations will cut each home's energy consumption by 25% to 40%. that should be fun. time to take a look at stories that we are working on "news4" at 6:00 tonight. police are back at home of a northern california man acced of kidnapping that 11-year-old girl and holding her in his backyard for 18 years. we'll tell you what they're searching for now. we also continue to follow those wildfires that are raging in california. we'll have a live report on that. and a big surprise for some students who on their first day of class got to see a bear stirring up things quite a bit in one neighborhood. all of that and plus a good deal more at "news4" at 6:00.

see you then. but meanwhile, head out to lindsay. she's got news of clinton portis and his birthday suit. >> kind of funny, isn't it, wendy clinton portis his birthday is tomorrow september 21st. he'll be 28 years old. a big party to celebrate that on friday and if you know clinton portis you know that he'll be the best-dressed guy in the house. there's only one man who gets to see a sneak peek of him in his birthday suit and he let us tag along. men's custom clothier joked he was blown off by the biggest time they met but onerial t suit and a little persistence and four years later he's become the master of clinton portis' threads. how did you meet matt? what is that relationship like? >> mutual friends. i asked recommendations a while ago. and you know what for probably

like two years i was really calling him the wrong name you know what i am saying? because always in the suit. i was the guy he never met. i was calling him "e." >> the first suit i had to prove myself i gave it to him and i said all right, this one osme. if you like it, great. hopefully we can work together. if you don't, nothing lost. >> reporter: the rest is history. wherever he's going, portis wants to make a statement and he takes all measures to make sure his look is one of a kind. here in the privacy of his backyard haven is where the magic begins. >> right now we're looking at the -- what i'm choosing for my birthday suit. the color scheme is -- >> we get everything together and couple of weeks, two, lee, four weeks later. we get everything ready. unveiling for his birthday. i come up, show up the day of and fine-tune and put everything

together for him. i have to give him options with accessories. it's up to you now. do you like this tie? you don't like this tie? we can do the sweater with something. we can do whatever shoes. and so then he puts together all of the details after he's already picked out fabric. >> these threads is hanging out. this is the new wear. this is going to be hot for this year. and it's mot because it's a trend. it's hot because i picked it out. >> the biggest pressure with him is the time constraints now because i know his style. i know what he likes and then he's like, matt, need it tomorrow. and i'm like c.p., you have to give me more time with that so that's the biggest pressure anyme. in the early days yeah i wanted to make sure that everything fit perfect and now we've got him fine-tuned and really dialed in. >> reporter: what's the quickest turnaround? >> i don't want to say on camera. i can -- >> he's done some quick turnarounds. >> i can do some stuff pretty quick but everyone's under the gun then and under the microscope trying to get everything done. so it's been -- >> he's given many an opportunity.

portis showed us his closet and if you can get past the shoes, his collection of birthday suit's past is pretty outstanding. >> man, last year's birthday suit i came home with -- this was two years ago the birthday suit. i mean we were looking at it forever. i left out fully dressed. i came home with the pants and a white beater on. i can't find the shirt. >> what happened to it. >> i don't know. still looking for it. >> reporter: doesn't matter because in a couple of days portis will have another add to his collection. his suit is being finished as we speak but c.p. agreed to give us a look at the design he's chose pen we've got the artist's drawing coming up tonight at 11:00. so somewhere someone out there probably is wearing clintis portis' birthday suit at least the jacket from last year. but this it's new suit you guys, for friday is arriving tomorrow. so they did do a really quick

turnaround for clinton portis and matt lan berg the president of the suits who says he knows that he's going to love this one. >> he gets the job done. >> he does. >> big close let it. >> yeah. still ahead we're going to meet a real overachiever. >> a 14-year-old whos tlaernding one of the nation's top black colleges right here in our area. thclass.oue

is under way for a lotf students in our area. >> those 14-year-olds are transitioning from middle to high school. but one just had his first day at college. michael flynn with that story. >> reporter: a typical class getting under way at howard university as the fall semester begins, but in the back of the room is a student who's anything but typical. >> to me it's just normal. i'm just in a different environment. couple of older kids but nothing different. >> reporter: ty is howard's youngest student at just 14 years old, the district teen completed his high school requirements in two years. ty's marining in political science. he plans on completing his undergraduate work in two years

before tackling grad school. >> i hope to go into the kind of like, law and medicine because i want to go to medical school and law school. >> reporter: ty's parents say they knew he was gifted early on. he started to speak chinese at age 3 and began first grade at age 4. his father teaches pediatric medicine at howard. >> before he was even had teeth in his mouth he was actually talking. >> i'm extremely proud of ty and i thank god, i think we're really blessed. >> reporter: fellow students at howard are stunned when they find out ty's age but they admire him. >> for him to be entering college by himself, amazing. >> i think that people already respect him by the mere fact that he has worked so hard to become a howard student. >> reporter: ty's already a sophomore because he took some community college courses and some online classes, he'll be living in a campus dorm because he wants the entire college experience. there's a lot more hard work ahead but he's ready, he says,

so he can some day make his career dreams come true. >> i wouldn't knock down the offer to be president like barack obama. >> reporter: in northwest washington, michael flynn, "news4." >> ty says he hopes to have both his law and medical degrees by the time he's 19 years old and he's going to do it. >> we should hang on to that video. you never know when we can look back on that. >> that's it for "news4" at 5:00. the race against time as the battle continues against california's raging wildfire. "news4" at 6:00 is next. police are srching for a driver who hit two maryland women, then left the scene. police are searching the backyard of a man accused of holding an 11-year-old girl captive for 18 years. and three fishermen have be found alichtclinging to their capsized