tonight with breaking news from springfield, virginia. a young boy is fighting for his life after being hit by a pickup truck tonight. it happened at the parking lot right near a baseball field. we're told the victim is only four years old. he was flown to a fairfax hospital with life threatening injuries. the driver of that vehicle stayed on the scene. police are still investigating how it all happened. now to decision 2012 and a very busy night on the republican side as we learn more about when the presidential field will take shape. nbc news has confirmed that mitt romney will announce his bid for president one week from today. he will do so in ham happen, the second republican primary state. romny is is the former governor of massachusetts, new hampshire is also the state where romny announced the formation of an exploratory committee last month. michele bachmann said tonight that her decision about

a presidential run will be announced in iowa next month. michele bachmann said the announcement will be made in waterloo, the city where she was born. when asked before sarah palin, bachman said she is acting independent of any other candidate, no matter who decides to run. >> sarah palin will come to washington this weekend. she'll take part in the annual rolling thunder event on the national mall on memorial day. palin will make stops in new hampshire and other historical sites according to her political action committee. some believe this tour is is the strongest signal yet that she's considering a run for the white house. john mccain told reporters today he honestly has no idea what palin wants to do. the worst attack of an improvised explosive device this year in began stan killed eight american soldiers today. the taliban is taking credit for it. u.s. troops were on foot patrol

12 miles from the pakistan border. a nato general said a container of explosives blew up when the troops walked by. two afghan policemen were also killed. the names and hometowns of the americans killed have not been released. >> in arlington this evening, soldiers from the third u.s. infantry regiment began placing flags at every grave at arlington national cemetery. the annual ceremony began in world war ii. the old guard soldiers will watch over the graves through the weekend to make sure the flags stay up for memorial day. this is a live look right now outside. there are still some storms in the area. not over the capital, but kind of ye, kind of nearby, off to the west, we'll continue to watch unite for the storms not around the i-95 corridor, off toward i-81, that's where they've been much of the day,

with heavy rain. ping-pong ball sized hail out there today. you can see the system off to the west of i-81, the severe thunderstorm watch in effect until midnight tonight. we have a severe thunderstorm warning, making its way into hardy county. we're going to continue to watch as that storm makes its way to the north and east. i'll be back to talk about our next chance of storms tomorrow, doreen, plus, more heat. >> thank you, doug. take no chances, that's the warning from rescuers who will patrol the potomac river for this holiday weekend ahead. they're trying to prevent another memorial day weekend tragedy. something that's become too common in recent years. jackie benson joins us with that story. jackie? >> this hot sticky weather is likely to lure people to some very dangerous water. >> if you have a little bit of butterflies tonight, we're just

going to be on flat water, we're going to get comfortable. >> reporter: students take to the water for a lesson in how to respect this river. >> the river has the power of many freight trains in it. it can be powerful. you just need to learn how to paddle with finesse and use that energy in the river. >> reporter: those who learned the power of the potomac are not the ones that cause the most concern for the montgomery county firefighters who respond when someone gets into trouble in the water. they've been thinking about the tragedy that happened last memorial day. a 35-year-old mother and her 14-year-old daughter drowned after entering water that was only ankle deep. >> the bottom of the river looks like the gorge. it's all different heights. >> reporter: the potomac still shows some effects of recent flooding. >> for memorial day weekend i would say the river is average from where it would be this time

of year. last weekend we were at flood stage. the river is still draining down from that when we were out there today, we were supposed how high it still was. >> remember those warning signs in several different languages are there for a reason. doreen, back to you. >> jackie benson reporting. thank you. >> even with a lockout, this has been an eventful season. beforehand he said that nothing was off the table. >> we could ask him anything. he didn't have to answer anything. he answered more than we anticipated. it was interesting. dan snyder's been at the helm for 12 years now, on the field, the product has yielded just three winning seasons. off the field, snyder has often times set himself up to be a punching bag for critics and fans alike. the most recent example is his lawsuit against the washington city paper, one of several to c

topics we've broached with snyder this afternoon. >> there's so much written and indirect it is what it is. it's fast paced, i don't want to call it meety any more. it's a different form of journalism. >> i think people thought tony was out of his mind to suggest the suit against the city paper. was there any concern on your end from that, did you second guess it? >> sure, you always second guess things like that. i hired him to do a job, he's a really talented guy, i think i'm in good hands, i get over it, and move on. life is not that focused, the person that writes there has an obsession, some sort of issue. and needs to get over it and grow up. >> i try to print out the artic article. every single won i read was named.

here i am just trying to protect my name. >> it does and it doesn't. what's right is right, what's wrong is wrong. if you believe in what you believe is right, stand by it. it's awful when you have a losing season, and you're sitting there and you can't fix it you're sitting there with a 4-12 season two years ago, and you can't fix it until after the season. you take the punishment that comes with losing and i respect that. >> he thinks things are going to turn around in the near future with mike shanahan. we asked him about donovan mcnabb and albert haynesworth. still ahead tonight, a decision for the u.s. senate. >> the governor of maryland at a middle school today putting the spotlight on bullying. how a woman with no ♪

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in frederick conti. all adults in the school must intervene when students are being bullied. his visit was part of a week long series of events to help prevent bullying in maryland schools. a heating oil delivery mistake has resulted in one house in northern virginia. it has to be torn down now. >> reporter: an injured firefighter has to leave the hospital after six weeks and he went right back to the fire station. >> a look at our hot holiday

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a half million dollar house will have to be torn down after a delivery man's mistake. that mistake led to home heating oil being pumped into the wrong house. >> now with the shifting of the homes, this has started to be a sinkhole. >> reporter: charlie looks at

the house he's still paying for but can no longer live in because it's been condemned. >> i think there's between 14 to 18 inches of water in there now. >> reporter: back in august, griffith energy unloaded 300 gallons of oil. that pipe had led to an oil fired furnace that was removed years ago. all that oil went into the basement. the company had the wrong address. >> the pleas of a tenant who was home at the time were ignored. >> she went outside and voiced her concern to the representative who didn't pay her very much attention. >> reporter: he was told not to worry, that the problem would be handled in 90 days, but he says nine months have passed and there's no solution in site. the oil seeped into the two neighbor's homes forcing all three to be condemned. despite excavation under the homes, soil samples indicate

there's still contamination. >> clearly indicated some very elevated levels of patretroleum the ground. >> reporter: he bought the house for $560,000. he's still making payments. initially, griffith oil was paying the rent money he lost when the tenant had to move out. those payments recently stopped. now he's in limbo, wondering how and when he'll get his house back. i'm very frustrated. they told me it was going to be fixed by now, it hasn't been fixed, and there's no timetable for how long it's going to take. >> a griffith company representative could not be reached for comment. >> doug's here with the scoop on our holiday weekend weather, and also still some folks are getting weather warnings tonight? >> probably 90% of the viewing area was just hot. those of us to the west into

western portions of maryland and virginia. you saw a very stormy day with a lot of thunderstorms, and not just thunderstorms, severe weather, we saw hail, upwards of ping-pong ball sized hail, i saw pictures of it coming out of virginia. one lady e-mailed me said we saw baseball sized hail. that's big hail. take a look out there right now. you can see what's going on. we have some cloudiness, warm and humid conditions across the area, we still have storms going on at this hour, and they continue to make their way up from the south. digital doppler radar showing where those storms are off toward the west. i-81, that's really been the boundary here, a few of them have made their way to the east of 81, it's to the west of 81 where we've seen those strongest storms, a tornado warning in effect, this is hardy county here. this storm making its way close toward hampshire county, and shenandoah county. this storm means business. and it's going to continue to track off to the east over the

next half hour to hour. there's the picture here, this storm on track. watch out, if you're in west virginia it could be a stormy night for you, at least for the next couple hours, there's a lot more in the way of storms, down to the south. and some of these may try to come across 81. that's really where they're going to stay, back to the west of the i-95 corridor, i think washington's going to stay on the dry side tonight. 91 h 2 degrees, the first 90 degree day so far this year. last year we hit it a month earlier, it has been on the cooler side this year. 78 out there right now, definitely not cool right now, as we are seeing winds out of the south at 6 miles per hour, that will help to keep those temperatures up, still at 11:00, 81 down toward leonardtown. 79 in annapolis. 92 today, 89 in hagars town. the hot haair is going to stick

here, so are the thunderstorms. i think the boundary will stay back to our west. the best chance for storms tomorrow, but may be coming closer to the 95 corridor. maybe into louden county, montgomery county and places like manassas tomorrow. area of low pressure, the same one that produced the tornados back to the south and west. it's going to stall over the next couple days, that's going to keep us very warm during the day tomorrow, and on o the humid side. on saturday, as it stalls out we could see rather cloudy conditions and shower activity as well. tomorrow morning, partly cloudy, warm and humid 65 to 70 degrees. tomorrow afternoon, warming back up to between 85 and 90 once again, it's going to be rather humid, some of those storms if they develop could be on the strong side. you're going to want to keep a watchful eye on the sky. saturday and sunday, temperatures still in the 80s, sunday looking like the dry day, monday looking good, a high of 92 on memorial day, and i think

a couple more 90s next week. >> looks like good swimming pool weather to me. >> i don't have one of those. do you? >> no. >> come on by. coming up tonight, a woman with no experience at a cockpit landed her husband's plane in an emergency. the bulls try

more on dan snyder tonight? >> we hit on the city paper lawsuit earlier, now we're going to talk about some of the players he brought in recently. mike shanahan is a lot like joe gibbs. both guys like to run the show,

he likes to let them do it. he doesn't know how the donovan mcnabb situation will play out. here's snyder on mcnabb from our interview this afternoon. >> bruce allen, mike shanahan, you trust them, they'll do the right thing. i don't think they've made any decisions often what they want to do yet, we'll find out. >> does it seem pretty clear cut at this point that mcnabb can't come back here? >> no, i wouldn't say that at all. let's see what happens. >> with the haynesler situation, a lot of people would wonder what about all the distraction, why not just let the guy go so we can move on. i know you can't let him go now. >> talk to bruce. >> you don't talk about this at all? >> obviously we do, and it's their decision. and they keep me totally informed, these guys have been great on that. i've enjoyed the relationship building process here with them, and i completely trust them. i think i'm in good hands.

>> i would believe the haynesworth situation must drive you crazy. >> sometimes when you spend a lot of money, you -- disappointment would be an understatement. >> that kind of money, $100 million, i think he did say it well there. you can't argue with him. nba playoffs. >> stop smiling, okay? the heat had a chance to close out the bulls tonight, and the bulls had a different idea. that was until the last five minutes of the game. the heat have a remarkable run to close out the game. and you just might be able to crown king james this season. an animated pregame speech to fire up his squad, and chicago responded early. he just attacks the continue. looks like he's fouled. jams it home, lebron breathing down his back. day, no foul. of course, it's not.

>> here you have james getting absolutely hammered. not just a foul, but a flagrant foul. that's his former teammate in cleveland. carlos booser. and then you have lebron going to work. draining the three to tie the game, the heat going 18-3 run. win 83-80, they advance to the nba finals, where they will play the dallas mavericks. by the way, guys, this is a rematch of the 2006 finals, remember when shaq and dwyane wade went and won their title? >> they beat the mavericks handily that year 37 i don't think lebron is going to do as well. that's my personal opinion if you care. talking baseball now. >> you must have lost your mind, come on. >> dwyane wade and lebron are playing out of their minds, especially lebron, i'll give you

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tiffany goodwin really earned the name super mom with that impressive catch she made while holding her baby at a minor league baseball game. tonight the richmond squirrels allowed her to throw out the ceremonial first pitch. she got a golden glove trophy and a jersey with the number 15 to commemorate the day she made the catch. a wife was forced to take over controls from her pilot husband when he lost consciousness. the wife had never flown a plane before. the crew of a nearby commercial flight had to talk her threw it.

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