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tonight the picturesque river turns deadly. >> i'm noreen gunther. at this hour there is good news. high tide tonight did not lead to as many problems as high tide this morning, but there is substantial flooding in alexandria and the harbor. we just learned that after hours of pumping, cars are still under water in the garage at washington harbor. we have reports on all of this tonight including the possibility of more rain coming. we begin live in georgetown with john shriffen. john? >> high tide rolled in here around 9:30. some people were worried it would get up to k street about a block away. that never happened, but there is still a huge mess left from this morning.

you can see this walkway still flooded. it's shut down. crews are working as hard as they can to pump the water out of these restaurants, but because there's still so much water inside, there is no telling when things will get back to normal. crews are working into the night to pump water out of this georgetown garage as the positipotomac river continues to swell. >> what surprised me this time is the walls to contain the water were not up. >> reporter: with the potomac three feet above flood stage, they said the flood gates were not pulled up. that allowed the raging river to play havoc on this property. this picture was taken in an above office building. you can see it's completely submerged with only the tops of umbrellas peeking out. business owners were left in shock. >> they're basically under water from the front all the way to the back. >> reporter: the water continued to flow into the adjacent

apartment building flooding one of the garage levels below. dozens of expensive cars from jaguars to porsches were taken out dripping wet. >> there's four feet of it. it's unbelievable. >> reporter: authorities say the washington harbor property management company is responsible for maintaining the flood gates. when we reached out to the company about the flood, it had this response. quote, we have taken precautions to protect the residents, tenants and visitors to the washington harbor including evacuating the washington tenants and are working expeditiously to mitigate further damage, end quote. as you can see behind me, the flood walls were event wael pulled up, but by then the damage had already been done. i spoke to a manager of one of the biggest restaurants at the waterfront. he estimated the damage at more than $100,000. he said despite that, he will have crews working around the clock trying to clean up the mess because he cannot afford to lose reservations booked this

weekend for easter. back to you in the studio. >> john, still no explanation of why those flood gates weren't up? >> reporter: we still haven't received a response from the company to see why those flood gates weren't up. they've had plenty of practice in alexandria, business owners there used to the high water, but it doesn't make them any less anxious. and it doesn't mean all their customers know what they're in for. jackie benson continues our live coverage in oldtown. jackie? >> reporter: diners at a king street restaurant climb over a railing to avoid floodwaters. those who live in or regularly visit the old portion of oldtown, alexandria knows this port town doesn't shut down when it floods, people just get flexible. obeying parking restrictions will keep you from getting a ticket, but it's even more important to move your car before high tide. >> i did make it out in time.

it came up pretty quick here in the last 30 minutes. >> reporter: city maintenance employees spent the day using a front end loader and rake to move a forest worth of driftwood gathered in the city streets and parks at high tide. >> this happens basically every seven to nine months, and the water didn't just come and backsurge into the streets from the potomac and out on the streets, but it came up the bulkheads themselves. >> reporter: flooding is such a common occurrence here that it really doesn't affect business that much. in fact, it often draws extra visitors. the city does occasionally have to tow parked cars out of harm's way, and they've got that down to a science. >> we clean it up as soon as it happens, and that's what happens when you're on the water in a port city, but it doesn't keep the tourists from coming down to alexandri alexandr alexandria. >> that was jackie benson reporting.

marie? >> a young woman was kayaking before she capsized. she managed to hang on for 40 minutes before a rescue crew brought her to shore. boy scout had to be saved from a ferry. their campground was turned into an island. >> all across the area, i saw a lot of people rolling along the potomac as well. not a good day to do such a thing. on a typical day, average flow was right around 116 billion gallons today. that water weighs around 1 trillion pounds and it was flowing throughout the afternoon as well at a very high rate of speed. we do have some more rain in the forecast, but tlas nhat is not to make problems worse. we're going to see a lot of water on the potomac. it is not going to be as bad as

we saw earlier today and earlier this evening as well. i'll be back later on to let you know just how much rain we could be seeing from our next storm. >> thank you, doug. flags in maryland are flying at half staff tonight in honor of former governor william donald schaefer. schaefer died today at his home outside baltimore. he was 89 years old. known to be outspoken and sometimes combative, schaefer was maryland's governor for 15 years. he then served two years as maryland's governor. tonight he is being seen as a political icon. >> he was a real inspiration, i think, to anyone who ever served in government and who thought about serving in government, but most importantly, he was a person who carried the concerns of every person in our state, every person in our city to work with him every day. >> governor martin o'malley said schaefer will lie in state in the state house in annapolis and

at city hall. a memorial service has not been set yet. in charlottesville, a murder indictment. and in north carolina, a woman who once accused duke players of rape is now the one facing serious charges. ahead, concerns that a local synagogue was vandalized as a string of hate crimes. a policeman wrestles a python off a woman, using his bare hands to remove

three people were stabbed tonight outside a nightclub in langley park, maryland. police say two of the victims are teenagers. both were taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. the other victim is a man in his 30s. police have taken one person into custody. if they know about a motive, they haven't shared it yet.

police in montgomery county are investigating a possible hate crime after a synagogue in potomac was vandalized overnight. someone fired a bb gun at temple beth shalom. they also hit a jewelry store. both have jewish owners. they're celebrating passover which began tonight at sundown. a grand jury in charlottesville, virginia indicted a former uva lacrosse player on murder charges today. he is accused of killing yeardley love last may. prosecutors say he charged into her off-campus apartment and slammed her head into a wall. today the jury indicted huguely on six charges including robbery, burglary and first-degree murder. huguely has been in jail since he was arrested. a trial has been scheduled for  february. the woman at the center of the duke lacrosse rape case is now facing murder charges for the death of her boyfriend.

police in durham, north carolina say krista mangam stabbed her boyfriend back on may 3rd. he died after three days in the hospital. she accused three members of the duke lacrosse team of raping her. those accusations proved false. coming on news4, best-selling author and founder of a non-profit faced some serious questions about the truthfulness of his book. a virginia council holds a hearing tonight about stinkbugs. we gw

parkway nearly took charlie da virks es' life and thought it would surely take away the game he loves, but a year and a half later, davies is proving them all wrong. lindsay has more on his remarkable recovery. >> we'll tell you it was his mistake that led him to be involved in that accident, but what surprised and impressed me the most was that afterwards when things were at their lowest, he decided it needed to be his mental mindset to get him out of it. he looked adversity in the face, worked harder than he ever could and is now having a second chance as the leafs' major scorer. >> charlie davies never dreamed

he would score two goals to lead his team to victory. for him it signalled a new beginning, and the tears began to fall. >> it was one of those moments where, like, i got back in the locker room and was like, what just happened? >> to get back on this field, charlie davies had to forget what happened a year earlier. charlie davies and two friends were involved in a deadly accident on the george washington parkway, their car split in half after striking a guardrail. a female passenger killed. charlie davies suffered multiple injuries that would take months to repair. >> i have no memory of the accident. >> really? >> it was get in the car, put on my seat belt and wake up and you have stitches down from your belly button basically down 36 stitches. i found out someone had passed away in the accident and the car had split in half. that's kind of when my world turned upside down.

>> reporter: he had just helped the u.s. national team conger one of his childhood dreams, confident to play in the world cup. he was 19. but that night on september 12, he decide to do break curfew, and that is when everything changed. >> you walk into the car, and obviously you're going to check to see, okay, is this person okay? and i remember being perfectly fine. i know they had a drink or two, but did i think they were anywhere near intoxicated? no. >> reporter: he lived with the guilt of knowing that he let his team down. meanwhile, off the field he wants to share his experience in hopes of helping others avoid making the same mistake that almost ended his life. >> you feel like, wow, this is so great i want to celebrate.

and, you know, the rules don't really apply to me. and that was the mistake, and i pa paid dearly for it. >> reporter: so, again, to clarify, charlie davies said his mistake was getting in the car with a friend who had been drinking. there was also another woman in the car who had been killed. he has five goals this season. already he leads the league, and that's why this has been so emotional for him because he worked really hard to get to that point. we have more on charlie as he sat with me at lunch tomorrow and that's at 5:45. >> thank you, lindsay. doug sheer with our weather, and we have more rain in our future? >> it's not going to be a problem, especially for flooding and people dealing with that flooding, you're not going to see much from this next storm. let's look outside today. we are looking at a moon. isn't that gorgeous? look at the planes going in

front of them with contrails. those contrails are clouds made by the planes. a fantastic shot from our chopper. look at that next plane just moving around. is that cool or what? what a night. a full moon out there tonight. one more reason why we did have higher than normal tides. yes, the flooding does continue in some locations, but it's not going to be nearly as bad for tomorrow's rush hour. that's the good news and the potomac will continue to go down. more storms in the forecast? yes, there are more storms, potentially on wednesday. we'll talk more about that in a minute. winds out of the south at 12 miles an hour. it's really a very nice night and a great evening, too. 56 light now in hagerstad and cool in frederick. much warmer air down to the south and that's where it's going to stay. 55 tomorrow morning, 60 when you wake up. i think it will be dry tomorrow morning. maybe a shower or two around noon. most of those will be washington to the north. if you live in maryland, at

least northern maryland, a better chance of seeing that rain. it's all because of a frontal boundary. you can see that rain up to the north. more shower activity back to the west, so maybe a sprinkle in the early morning, but i'm not expecting a lot. most of it will be on the dry side. 72 the high in washington, 69 in pittsburgh, but on the other side of the coin, 81 degrees in richmond. it's going to be nice and warm to the south, a little cooler in the north. starting at 1:00 tonight, no rain across the area by noon tomorrow. i think we're still okay. maybe a couple showers entering the region, but we'll see some pressure move across and maybe some shower activity. we could see a couple rumbles of thunder during the day as well. the next chance will be on wednesday. it could bring us some thunderstorms, maybe even stronger thunderstorms during the day on wednesday. we'll continue to watch those for you as well. tomorrow morning, partly cloudy.

49 to 55. you may want to take the umbrella just to be sure. as you mabke your way through te day tomorrow, mostly cloudy, scattered showers, a possible thunderstorm. talking about fredericksburg, quantico, you'll be nice and warm. 67 on thursday, 60 on friday and that leads to us a weekend that should sh a little bit warmer but we will see a chance of rain on this weekend as well. >> been there. >> cloud on almost every day. all right. >> a little sunshine on thursday. >> thank you, doug. still ahead tonight, a policeman uses his bare hands to free a woman from the clutches of a python. of a python. >> the [ horns honking ]

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lindsay is back and you're back in new york for game 4 coming up wednesday. >> yep, getting ready to go back up there. the capitols, though, are in a dangerous spot because if they let the rangers have their way wednesday night, it will be two games tied at two apiece. talking about limiting the penalties and making the most of their opportunities, something they did not do sunday afternoon. the caps got a taste of what the rangers can do with that squirrely support crowd. noi they have to push back. madison gardens was better than the actual building. didn't mean much for the caps, though, who were able to tie it up. but the capitols let the rangers get back in it. the capitols fell 3-2. their explanation for what went wrong is simple, according to matt bradley. >> they were a desperate hockey

team and we didn't match their work ethic and their enthusiasm. there's really no excuse for it, but it was one game. it's not like we played a bad game, we didn't play as well as we needed to. so i think we'll be ready for wednesday. >> one team is going to push and the other team is going to push back, and the other team is going to push, and there is little swings and momentum like that. it was a very important game yesterday and they obviously realized it. i think their chances go way down if they go down 3-0. they pushed and pushed hard, and now it's our turn to push back. >> well said. so the caps and brooks now lead two games to one. they can reclaim that wednesday night in new york. meanwhile, the orioles back in camden yards tonight against the minnesota twins, the o's trying to snap a 7-game losing streak. bucks walter hoping the orioles

can get one tonight. he shoots one in the right-hand corner, two runners score. minnesota takes a 2-0 lead. well, the orioles' problem during this slide, production with runners on the bases. bottom of the sixth, the orioles down 3-0, a man on first, vladimir to fourth. eighth in a row lose ing to the twins 5-3. the sixers gave miami a scare in game one of their series on saturday making some question how the heat would respond in game 2. an even bigger question was whether dwayne wade would be able to play after suffering from a migraine yesterday. the answer was yes. dwayne wade in the lineup and it was the sixers who had the headaches tonight. the hees, wade, watch this move. he takes it the length of the court, throws it down.

i don't know what you're talking about, headaches. 14 poinlt. he was cool. he had some compresses later, i guess. mario chalmer throws it up for lebron james. the one-handed finish. james had 20 points on the night. the heat open later in the second. dwayne wade makes evan turner work for it and makes him look foolish in the crossover. hits the jumper. this one is over after the first half. the heat win game 2, 94-73, going up two games to none no the series. who do you think is going to win that one, huh? >> the big three. >> thank you, lindsay.3q

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a police officer in kansas used his bare hands to save a woman from the grasp of a python. crystal wilson's eight-foot -- eight-foot -- pet python clamped its jaws on the side of her neck last week. after one of her children called 911, a police officer showed up and decided to use his hands to pull the snake's teeth apart. wilson got out with minor injuries, but she's been charged with harboring a vicious animal.