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message as part of a joke to a woman in seattle. once i realized i had posted it to twitter i panicked. i took it down and said that i had been hacked. i then continued with that story, to stick to that story was a hugely regrettable mistake. this woman was unwittingly dragged into this and bears no responsibility. i am so sorry to have disrupted her life in this way. to be clear, the pishth was of me, and i sent it. i am deeply sorry for the pain this has caused my wife huma and our family and my constituents, my friend, supporters and staff. in addition, over the past few years i have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over twitter, facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women i have met online. i've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. for the most part these relations -- communications took
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place before my marriage, though some have sadly taken place after. to be clear, i have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time. i haven't told the truth -- and i've done things i deeply regret. >> house democratic leader nancy pelosi issued a statement today saying, quote, i am calling for an ethics committee investigation to determine whether any official resource were used or any other violation of house rules occurred. doreen, back to you. >> elaine reyes reporting from the news loom. d.c. council member harry thomas, jr., has been accused of funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for youth sports to an account that he used for luxury trips and to buy an suv. d.c. attorney general irvin nathan announced today that the city has filed a civil lawsuit. john schriffen is at the wilson building with more on this.
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john? >> reporter: jim, good evening. harry thomas, jr., is the latest council member caught up in an investigation into the spending of city funds. as you said, this morning the d.c. attorney general's office filed this very lengthy complaint about these spending habits. this complaint alleges that council member thomas used more than $300,000 of city funding and funneled it into two companies that he ran. the complaint alleges that thomas, instead of using the money to for inner city kids to learn how to play golf and tins allegedly used the money on himself. tonight council member thomas is telling a very different story. he actually called for his own press conference in order to tell his side. >> d.c. council member harry thomas, jr., arrived at the press conference today inside the luxury suv in question. according to this twefsh-page complaint, the d.c. attorney general's office said council member thomas secretly diverted more than $300,000 in city funds
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meant for baseball programs into companies he controlled. the documents allege he spent nearly $60,000 on this audi suv, but that's not all. he also allegedly racked up more than $20,000 in personal expenses including lavish golf trips to las vegas and pebble beach in california as well as another $10,000 in political material that went out to award five constituents. >> we will seek a judgement in the superior court if we do not settle and let me make clear that settlements often in trouble damage matters are for the actual compensatory damages. >> reporter: investigation dates back to january 2007, that's when thomas took office at the city council and became the president of a non-profit company called team thomas. according to the complaint from 2007 to 2008 he allegedly received more than $80,000 in private donations although he was not licensed to engage in charitable solicitation. the d.c. attorney general's office alleges it was through
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team thomas and another for-profit company he ran with his wife that council member thomas spent the money inappropriately. >> i have always maintained that i've done nothing, and they can speak to the legal issues i have around this. >> reporter: with a lawyer by his side council member thomas would not directly address the purchases detailed in the complaint, but he did say the audi was bought with his own money and that a settlement is not an option. >> i'm strong stand here in this media gauntlet and i was not going settle on something i did not do. my integrity and more important than anything and not just my integrity for the public i serve. i think about my children first and my family legacy first and i think about what made me who i am today and that's what i'm fighting today and that's what i will continue to fight for because that's the message i have sent to anyone. i have always done what i'm supposed to do on behalf of those i served. >> reporter: they are asking for council member thomas to may
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back not just the $300,000, but $1 million, that is three times the amount he allegedly took inappropriately plus legal fees, but that might not be all. if the u.s. attorney's office -- the attorney general's office gets involved council member thomas could also face criminal charges. we are live here at the wilson building, john schriffen, back to you in the studio. >> john, thank you. former d.c. mayoral candidate sulemon brown testified under oath that he was given money to verbally attack former mayor adrian fenty during last year's mayoral contest. coming up in our next half hour tom sherwood will have a report on today's rring that some people described as rather chaotic. five american troops were killed in iraq today when rockets slammed into their compound in eastern baghdad. officials say the service members were working as advisers to iraqi special police. this is the deadliest day for american troops in iraq in more
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than two years. the 46,000 forces who are still in that country are scheduled to withdraw by the end of this year and the iraqi government is debating to ask whether the u.s. keeps some of the troops in place. dramatic events today in the case of the d.c. police officer accused in the deaths of a woman and young daughter. a relative of the victim lashes out at the suspect and makes a plea to the court. pat collins joins us from upper marlboro with the latest on this case. pat? >> reporter: doreen, wynetta wright's family in court speaking about her accused killer, speaking out loud, holding nothing back, but we're going to begin this report with some thoughts from the state's attorney. >> it's an especially heinous case and we will prosecute it aggressively. >> reporter: drama in the courtroom. a judge allows the family of a murder victim to speak out. family to the suspect, you're a
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monster. you're trash. family to the judge, make sure nothing happens to him in jail so we can get our justice. the murder victim, 20-year-old wynetta wright. the murder suspect, 39-year-old richmond phillips, a d.c. vice cop. the murder scene, the oxen run park behind the hillcrest heights community center. now that community center has security cameras all around the outside. according to court documents those cameras recorded the murder suspect cop and the murder victim around a picnic table in the park from 11:00 at night until 6:00 a.m. the next morning. seven hours around that picnic table until -- until that murder. miss wright found dead in the nearby woods. she'd been shot to death.
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the two were involved in a paternity and child support dispute. they had a court hearing scheduled later that day. after the murder police say phillips moved miss wright's car. police found that car and locked inside, the body of her little baby girl jaylin. it appears, they say, the baby died of heat exposure. officer phillips, he's charged with manslaughter in the baby death as well. >> this has been absolutely devastating for our community. it is, as you might understand extremely devastating as well to the family of the victim. they are just absolutely beside themselves as are all of us. >> reporter: officer richmond phillips held without bond pending further court action in this murder case. doreen, back to you. >> pat collins reporting from upper marlboro, thank you, pat. all the lanes of i-270 have reopened now after an accident
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involving a cement trouk and two cars. it happened about 2:30 this afternoon near father hurley boulevard. the cement truck driver was trapped and it took fire fighters about 15 minutes to get him out. he was one of four people taken to a hospital with serious injuries. drivers might want to be aware of yet another lane change on the 14th street bridge this week. beginning wednesday morning there will be two lanes to the left that can be used to get to the southeast, southwest freeway and to downtown d.c. one lane on the far right will be for freeway traffic only. the bridge will be closed all night tuesday to make the lane changes. confusion from past road lane changes caused some major delays on that road. officials say this final stage of work will take about four weeks. coming up on news 4, a massive wildfire continues to grow as a heat wave stretches across the country.
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more charter bus crashes have sparked some new concern all of this after a deadly accident last week in virginia. investigators believe they have pin point the source of a deadly e. coli outbreak in europe. doug, how are we looking? >> temperature out there right now 86 degrees and i heard you mention heat wave and that's going on in the middle part of the country and it will affect us in the middle part of the week. i'll tell you about it coming up. lindsay? >> coming up in sports, plaxico burress a free man again and ryan zimmerman is making progress towards a return from the disabled list and how the miami heat hung on against the
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dozens of people had to go to the hospital after two charter bus kraeshs overnight. one of them happened in chicago. 20 people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. the other wreck happened in mobile, alabama, where a bus collided with an 18 wheeler. that bus had 30 people onboard, mostly children. three of those injured were flown to hospitals with serious injuries. charter busses have been under scrutiny since the tour bus crashed on i-95 killing four women outside of richmond just last week. former head of the international monetary fund today mrooed pled guilty in court. dominique strauss-kahn is
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accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid in new york city. the maid says he came out of the bathroom naked and attacked her when she went into his room to clean it. strauss-kahn has been charged with attempted rape, sex abuse, a criminal sex act, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching. strauss-kahn is on house arrest now. his next court date is set for july 18th. if he's convicted, he's facing up to 25 years in prison. the field got a little more crowded today in the race for the republican presidential nomination. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum declared he's going to be a candidate. he is a social conservative and today he blasted president obama. steve handelsman reports. >> reporter: like the rest of the republicans who are running, rick santorum blasted barack obama as a big spender. >> who are you, mr. president, to say that you and your administration should take 40 cents out of every dollar and
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borrow it from future generations to prop you up? >> reporter: santorum was in pennsylvania where he lost re-election of the senate in '06 after fighting gay marriage and abortion. now santorum says the fight against barack obama is about val us. >> he's devaluing our dollars and he's devaluing our other currency, our moral currency gee it's similar to the campaign of michele bachmann who is expected to declare soon and to sarah palin, but her stumble over the story of paul revere saying he rode to warn the british is more of a palin problem now than rick santorum and the economy seemed sure to be the main issue. >> i appreciate your help. >> reporter: that's why former businessman mitt romney is seen by many as the gop front-runner, but he flip-flopped on abortion. newt gingrich has been married three times and admitted an affair. santorum sees an opening. >> join the fight. join the fight!
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>> reporter: he's already campaigned a total of 47 times in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. and rick santorum has already won two republican straw polls in south carolina. the most conservative early primary state. i'm steve handelsman, news 4, capitol hill. continuing concern about the economy pushed the stock market lower for the fourth day in a row. the industrials closed down 61 points to end the day at 12,089. the nasdaq is off 30 points at 2702 and the s&p 500 is down 13 points to close at 1286. the market has finished lower five weeks in a row if it should happen again this week it would be the longest losing streak in nearly a decade. >> some members of the european union are meeting today in luxembourg for a briefing on the e. coli crisis in europe. the outbreak of an especially aggressive strain of the food borne bacteria appears to have started in germany.
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german officials say they are confident that bean sprouts and other spouts from an organic farm near hamburg may be to blame, but the first samples from that farm have tested negative for e. coli. the outbreak has killed 22 people so far, more than 2,000 others have become sick. coming up on news 4, an unusual light show from a volcano. >> some cell phones may give off more radiation than others. we'll tell you which ones topped the list. get used to this great weather while you can becau
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the eruption of a volcano in southern chile has forced the evacuation of more than 3500 people. that volcano started erupting violently on saturday. the eruption continued today throwing smoke and ash high into the sky. according to chilean authority, a column of gas six miles high and three miles wide rose from the volcano. lightning in the cloud provided a colorful display. so far no reports of injuries. that volcano is about 620 miles south of santiago. a raging wildfire continues to burn out of control tonight in eastern arizona. that fire is now threatening mountain communities and it's forcing people to evacuate. the flames are being fuelled by
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high winds and very low humidity. the fire's been burning for more than a week now, about 2,000 fire fighters are trying to get it under control. the fire was possibly the result of an abandoned campfire. >> that's in arizona. too much rain in so many places and not enough in others. >> yeah. we have video along the missouri river and they're dealing with major flooding, too. for us, we'll be dealing with the heat over the next couple of days. it's not out there today, however, starting off very nice and here is the video of the missouri river, the missouri starts around the northern portion of the rocky mountains and it's because of snow melt up around the rockies and a lot of rainfall in the northern plains. we are seeing a lot of flooding along the missouri and that will flow right in toward the mississippi river, right near st. louis. we saw the major flooding that they've had along the mississippi river over the past couple of weeks and they could see more flooding as a result of all of this water coming down along missouri. big deal out there.
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88 degrees, the high temperature today. it was a very warm day today, but the humidity is not a factor. we're looking at beautiful conditions with plenty of sunshine. low this morning at 66. sunset, check this out. sunset at 8:30 or later and now until july 21st. we've got a lot of long days, about a month where the sun will set after 8:30 at night and it will be pretty nice out there until the heat kicks in later this week. 86 degrees, the current temperature and winds out of the north at 12 miles per hour. 83 in haguers town and 21 degrees and right now sales burr e 78 degrees and 77 degrees out toward ocean city maryland. as far as the radar is concerned, no rain out there and we're not going see any rain over the next couple of days. there's only a slight chance of rain. tomorrow may be a little bit of a chance of rain on wednesday and a better chance on thursday, but all in all, most of us are going to stay dry. we are going continue in this very dry pattern right through the next couple of days.
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you can see out there right now, not a cloud in the sky, all of the way down into portions of the carolinas and it's going to stay this dry, i think, during the day on friday and that's when the heat will start to break and look at the heat right now, 100 in omaha, 101 in wichita, 109 in st. louis and that will make our way over the next couple of days and it is going to get very hot here and once again, just like last week, it's not going to be hot, it's going to be humid. warm air out ahead of it and another warm day tomorrow with the high near 90 degrees tomorrow and the humidity still will not be much of a factor and one more day of at least comfortable temperatures and you can take a lunch during the day tomorrow, but as the high moves down to the south we'll see the hot air build in and we'll see more humid air build in on wednesday. that heat index will approach 100 degrees just like last week. mostly clear, sunset mild, 77 to 82 degrees and winds out of the northeast at 5 miles an hour and
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just a perfect night to get out and about. tomorrow morning, mostly sunny, a good start. sunrise at 5:43 in the morning, 60 to 67 degrees and winds out of the southwest tomorrow morning at 5:00 to 10:00 miles an hour. once again, we're dealing with low humidity. tomorrow afternoon, not too bad and heath up, low humidity and 86 to 90 degrees and winds out of the southwest at 10 to 15 miles an hour. tomorrow one more pretty nice day before we start to deal with that. humid krngs 96 degrees on wednesday and 98 on thursday. 98 on thursday could bring us the heat index upwards of 100 to 105. this is a dangerous situation we're talking about on wednesday and thursday but it doesn't last too long. by friday a cold front moves into our area. we'll see a chance of showers and thunderstorms and i'm still predicting a temperature in the low 90s on friday and that will lead us into what looks like for now a pretty good weekend and there will be a chance of showers and thunderstorms both saturday and sunday as high
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temperatures will be in the mid to upper 80s and staple deal goes for monday and we talked about records and we could be near record-breaking heat on wednesday. the welcomed will be 98 and i don't think we will get there. the record on tuesday is 102. i do not think we'll be close to that record and that's the time of year we'll start to get into the summerlike temperatures where records are over 100 degrees. it happened before and it looks like it will happen again. >> if you want to get outside, get out there today or tomorrow. >> you do have tomorrow, yes. coming up tonight, a d.c. postal worker accused of stealing checks out of the mail. also ahead on news 4 at 6:00, the biggest airplane makes history at dulles airport. >> i've never been at a hearing like this before. >> and they were laughing at a bizarre hearing involving a man who claims he was paid off by the mayor's staff to help take
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down former mayor adrian fenty. the work of some maryland high school students will be part of the final space shuttle mission. we'll be right back. coming up in sport, ryan zimmerman takes another step closer to returning to the nationals. also the miami heat regained control against the dallas mavericks though a lot closer than they would have locked and local golfers make a bid to play in next week's u.s. open at congressional when news 4
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today is not about finding the time to do your homework. it's not about logging on to this week's class. today is a celebration, a triumph of dedication, a victory for that little voice that urges us on. today is a day to recognize that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, and to prove that not all heroes wear a cape. some wear a cap and gown. congratulations to the strayer university graduates of 2011.
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new york congressman anthony wiener today admitted that he has not been telling the truth for the last week. he acknowledged today that he posted a racy photo of himself on twitter and he said he's had what he called inappropriate conversations with several women online and on the phone. he apologized, but he refused to resign. a d.c. police officer is being held without bond in the deaths of a woman and her infant daughter. 39-year-old richmond phillips is accused of murdering 20-year-old wynetta wright last friday. he's charged with manslaughter in the death of her 1-year-old jaylin. >> d.c. attorney general irvin nathan filed a $1 million lawsuit today against ward 5 council member harry thomas, jr., this complaint says thomas
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used more than $300,000 in city money to pay for trips to las vegas and pebble beach and to buy an audi suv. thomas denies the allegations. sulaimon brown is a former candidate for d.c. mayor. he's made serious acquisitions about vincent gray and members of his staff. >> today for the first time brown made those accusations under oath before the d.c. council committee looking into the matter. >> as tom sherwood reports now the tone of the meeting was at times rather chaotic. >> reporter: refusing to take off his sunglasses, former candidate for mayor sulaimon brown set the tone monday in his first testimony under oath, that he was paid cash and given $110,000 government job by vincent gray for brown's campaign attacks on adrian fenty last year. >> mr. brown. >> i'm not going to remove them. >> reporter: through often murky and confusing dates, money order receipts, documents and detailed brown called mayor gray a crook
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who efrj neared the payoff, an allegation gray denies. >> gave me cash and money orders to maintain my campaign for mayor, cover living expenses and attacked then mayor fenty. >> reporter: the star witness compelled by a court order to testified battled nearly every council question. >> mr. brown -- >> no, you are i'm on the record because -- >> you're delusions -- >> you threatened the confirmation hearing. >> sir, how did the issue of money come up. >> are you going testify or are you going testify for me? >> no, sir, how did the issue of money come up? >>. >> reporter: some political observers say brown's demeanor undermines his allegations. at one point marion barry and other council members broke down in laughter at some of the nonsensical proceedings. >> i've never been at a hearing like this before. it is so serious.
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>> reporter: but disclosure of the money orders linked to gray campaign individuals fueled a feeling that something happened, no one's certain just yet what. >> we may never know exactly what happened. we may never see the cash or the fingerprints or cameras connecting one to the next, but people know something is wrong. >> reporter: tom sherwood, news 4, washington. a hearing is set for this week for a postal employee accused of trying to steal mail addressed to two charities. lisa hunter was arrested last week. a post office police officer caught her trying to leave a northeast processing center with a cart carrying more than 900 n envelopes that contained money. hunter is expected in court on thursday. police in prince william county arrested two men who shea say robbed a church over the weekend. 19-year-old stephen wing jr., and an rude conteh are facing felony gun charges. wing went into the christ is
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lord ministry in woodbridge and robbed members who were counting collections from the morning services. they have not said how conteh was involved. nobody was hurt during the robbery. the st. luke's episcopal church in bladensburg is undergoing significant changes. the entire congregation has voted to convert to catholicism. as chris gordon reports now it is the first church in the nation to undergo this streamlined conversion plan. >> reporter: censaint luke's ha stood on 553rd street in bladensburg since 1556. currently it has a diverse membership of 100. they have carefully considered their decision by seeking their entry into the catholic church. >> by making this move i'm going into a church that has authority and centralized authority to guide me in my journey, in my spiritual journey. >> to me as a youth member of my
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parish it means the opportunity to grow and to experience something new. >> reporter: this was made possible by the 2009 invitation issued by pope benedict for anglican parishes to come into the church as a community while maintaining some of their anglican identity. >> we're angli catholics and we take very seriously our catholic identity and we always have been praying, the church prays that we may be one. >> reporter: father scott who is a form episcopalian himself will serve as chaplain during the transition. >> they're going pray together and they'll learn catholic doctrine together and that process will culminate with them being confirmed and received into the catholic church. >> the archdiocese of washington says st. luke's has aren't lost any members due to the decision to convert. >> for me, it means i'm coming home. i was raised roman catholic, and i left the faith as a -- in my
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20s. >> reporter: for now st. luke's is under the care of the archdiocese of washington, but catholic leaders say before long they plan to create the equivalent of a national archdiocese for anglo catholics. in the newsroom, i'm chris gordon, news 4. the world's largest commercial aircraft has officially landed in our area. air france began running daily service from paris to dulles airport using an airbus a-308. julie carey was there for the inaugural flight. the moment it reaches the ground, that's when you fully a preesh why the a-380 is called a super jumbo jet. with it's football field length and two -- here's the surprise for the travellers from charles de gaulle airport in paris to dulles. it's quiet on the inside. >> it flies much, much better. you cannot feel anything, even the takeoff, landing and
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nothing. it is so massive, so huge and the -- it was different. >> inside the a-380 flight to and from dulles has four cabin class wes a luxury first class that offers full beds, even changing rooms. this man flew in business class. >> it was quite nice to have the aircraft taking off and you can see on the big screen, it's a 15-inch screen and you can see all the -- what the aircraft is doing. it's a nice experience. >> reporter: in the dulles terminal balloons marked the special occasion for the return flight at 4:40 p.m. these newlyweds were thrilled to learn they'd be part of a flying first. >> we're honeymooning. so think, we want to tell our kids that we were on this first airbus, you know, it's a special day. it's d-day. how case crazy is that? >> this drew a crowd of airport employees as spectators. >> the a-380 is so big that it takes two gates to unload and board passenger, one for the lower deck and one for the upper
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deck and two jet bridges as well. >> there was one snaf you on this first trip, the upper jet bridge didn't work properly so the top deck passenger his to walk down a flight of stairs to unload. by the time the a-380 depart the passengers were able to use both jet bridges to board. julie carey, news 4, dulles international airport. that's big. >> that's very large. you don't want to be coming in at customs behind that plane with all those people. coming up tonight, two new drugs giving doctors and patients new hope in the fight against skin cancer. [ male announcer ] looking for a complete picture of your money?
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and hello and welcome back, everybody. meteorologist doug kammerer in storm center 4. a beautiful day out there right now. 86 degrees and winds out of the north at 12 miles an hour and we're looking at a great night tonight. low of 67 in the city. 62 in warrenton and waking up to pretty nice temperatures. tomorrow afternoon back to 90 degrees in washington. 89 in warrenton and the heat really turns on by wednesday or thursday and friday, hey, we were out in somebody's backyard once again. e-mail us at weather@nbcwashington.com. i could do the weather live in your backyard.
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>> okay. thank you, doug. doctors say two new drugs can actually prolong the lives of patients with late-stage melanoma. one drug called yervoy is already on the market. the other drug is expected to be approved later this year. researchers say neither drug is a cure for mella nome abu it added month -- >> the lesions would be golf ball side and as big as tennis ball size on the back and my neck. when i've had the treatment we could see that they changed color instantly from the first treatment and we watched some of the leagues disappear sort of overnight. >> the two drug which is with a very expensive price tag. treatments start in the tense of thousands of dollars. there's a new report out that reveal some cell phones could be more harmful than others. not all cell phones give off the same amount radiation. one way to misch the amount your
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body absorbs is called the specific absorption rate. the federal communications commission caps that rate for all phones sold in the u.s. the computer website cnet say the rates vary when using data instead of calling. it also differs for the same phone on a different carrier or in a different place. the motorola bravo ranks at the highest rate yagz level. the samsung, blue earth at the lowest. to see how other phones fared we invite you to nbcwashington.com and search cell phones. a school fund-raiser ended today in a very messy, but hugely fun way. kids at the oakland school in anon dale got to spend the afternoon throwing pies at their teachers. oh, how we would have enjoyed that. it was the reward for students and their families for raisi more than $40,000 during a fund-raiser this year. the school wanted to raise
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$40,000 to coincide with its 40th anniversary. >> those are some teachers. >> oh, man. >> it would be fun to have pies on the set some time sno. >> who do you have in mind? >> if it's lemon meringue, bring it on. >> we have interesting and exciting golf coming to our area and they take their best shot at qualifying for next week's u.s. open at congressional. plaxico burress is released from prison and national's third baseman ryan zimmerman making strides toward
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plaxico burress used to be one of the premiere receivers in the nfl, but two years is a long time-out of the game. >> it is a long time-out of the game, but look at what michael vick did. he has made that comment and there is a blueprint for how to effectively do it. the redskins is a team that may be interested in plexico burress. after two years in prison on a gun charge, plaxico burress was released today and he will become a free agent once the lockout ends and free agency begins and the priority was reuniting with his family, he added that heel be ready to make an impact for the team if and when football season starts. 33-year-old plaxico burress left
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at 9:00 this morning. he did as much as he could to workout while in the prison. his agent drew rosenhouse was the first one there, running into his arms to greet plaxico burress this morning jumping into his arms congratulating him on completing his time. he did not rule out a return to the giants for plexico burress. burress was very humble after his release. >> it's a beautiful day to get to be reunited with my family and go home and spend quality time with them. i thank everybody for their prayers and words of encouragement. i thank all of my fans all around the world for the thousands of letters and for the unwavering support and as far as football is concerned, if and when, you know, everything gets settled and when i get back on the field i'll be read. >> after plaxico burress' release he was taken to meet his family at a nearby loelths.
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you mentioned he had a phillies hat, one of the teams he's rumored to be going on is the philadelphia eagles. that would be some kind of a connection. >> those two guys are awesome. >> the only reason the maverick his a chance to beat the miami heat last night, the only reason they kept it as close as a two-point game was because of dirk nowitzki. he scored 32 points. there is no way this team has a chance if other starters don't step up and that's why he called out teammate jason terry and said that he has not been a clutch player, that they need him to be hoping he will get a response to help avoid another loss like last night. let's go to dallas. could the mavericks capitalize on the game two win or would the heat retake homecourt advantage? second quarter, heat up ten playing stifling defense. dwayne wade, takes the ball all of the way down for the jam. wade had 29 points. miami led by five at halftime, but in the fourth quarter things were tight and the mavericks
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down two, turning to got-to guy, and he knocks down the pretty fade-away jumper. not much space there, we're tied at 8 1k36 2 of 12 straight points by nowitzki and he finished at 34. 45 seconds to go and lebron james, look at that sweet pass to chris bosh. he hits the jumper from the corner and the dallas native puts it ahead, and miami takes game three, 88 to 86. to baseball, the national pick six in tonight's major league baseball draft hoping to get another strong piece to improve the franchise. meanwhile, they're paying close attention to the current face of the franchise. ryan zimmerman had abdominal surgery in early may and has missed all, but the first eight games of the season and tonight he will continue rehab in potomac. last night he got back on the field for the first time in hagerstown. interesting to see ryan zimmerman in this uniform, isn't it? he did very, very well, though.
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zimmerman went two for two with a walk, two runs and an rbi with class a hagerstown. he's most concerned right now about getting his throwing ability back. the nationals were hopeful that he could come back in mid-june. there is no timetable, but ryan zimmerman feels like he's right on track. >> it's all good. everything felt great. i think obviously throwing was the thing that hurt most before and that's the last thing that's coming back. so we still have a little bit of work to do there, but other than that, hitting feels great and rung feels great and i think we're right on schedule to where we want to be. >> ryan zimmerman continuing his rehab. >> there are 11 different sites around the country for today's u.s. open qualifiers. one is in our backyard. 112 golfers showed up and each has a play a grueling 36 holes. the best once make the cut. fred funk and he did it, 112 golfers trying to qualify today
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including this guy, former maryland golf coach fred funk trying to make the field as well as playing himself into shape and he did both. here, by the way, is steve wye kroft, another golfer of the county open, part of the nation wide tour. he hasn't gotten a lot of sleep especially after winning yesterday. his gps got him lost and he had to deal with bad traffic and so after a weekend to remember he says he had a day to forget. >> awful. absolutely awful. i can tell i'm drained. i thought i would be fine, and i feel like i'm dragging two trees. i'm excited. i thought it was a good shot and i would three-putt it and over the green. it was a rough day i probably need to rest a little bit. he did not make the cut, in fact, he walked off in the middle of the second round. bummer for him, but he still has
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his win from yesterday. lie berger didn't qualify and there's nobody who knows the course better and today he introduces us to what he calls the toughest hole on the course, here it is, number 11. heel number hole number 11, my opinion this will be one of the most difficult hole on the golf course, 494 yards in its length and it's a converted par 5 to par 4. the members play it as a par 5, the players will play it in the championship as a par 4. this hole has a pond on the right side that feeds a creek all of the way down. we used to have two bunkers that protected the balls from going into that creek on the right. now a wayward tee shot to the right will miss bunkers that used to be there and it will land on a firm fairway and more than likely carry them into that
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creek. the creek is skinny and deep and there's a collection area behind the green where most long shots, their ball will end up in that area. again long and it plays up hill on the second shot and certainly is going provide a challenge for the players. if you can get through 10 and 11 par partake it and run. >> it's tough, but it sure is pretty. >> it looks like it will be fun,
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>> some charles county high school students are flying high because of a skiesence experiment upon the project was chosen by nasa to be part of the last mission of the space shuttle atlantis. elaine reyes has the story. >> reporter: you're looking at some of the smartest kids at lackey high school. >> according to the schedule we're supposed to have everything in to nasa by seven days. >> reporter: hand picked to come
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up with a very specific science experiment. >> we brainstormed a lot of ideas and we came up with a couple. we looked on the approved list of everything that we could use and came up with this one. >> so we're going to start with five seeds and we're going to put them in the oasis material that is a substrate that helps it germinate faster. we will set up two identical exper ams and one will stay here at school in the dark and it will germinate with a gravity environment and the other set will go into space on the space shuttle. >> that's right. lackey high's vials will go into the space shuttle atlantis scheduled for liftoff of the in next month on the very last night of flasa's shuttle program. >> it's for future possible space colonization. >> what do you have to manipulate and what will be the best to use to have it be a good crop in a microgravity environment. >> reporter: the ten-person team worked on their experiment during lunches and after school. after atlantis returns the experiment will come back for analysis and their final report
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and there's a good chance their graduate-level paper will get published. >> these kids, you know, for them to be able to see this very, very last one is a chance of a lifetime and i am just so excited that they're going to be able to see that and be able to tell their children and grandchildren, hey, i was there. i saw this takeoff and part of me was in that shuttle. >> junior samuel per sis thrilled, but still focused on the assignment. i'm hoping our experiment will work. yeah, we can write it up and make it sound good, but if it works is big thing. we hope it does, but they no guarantee that it will. in charles counties, elaine reyes, news 4. >> what an opportunity. the students are trying to raise money to pay for their trip. they're planning to take a bus down to florida and keeping their fingers crossed that launch doesn't get postponed. we're familiar with that, those things get postponed frequently. quite often. a lot of times due to weather. >> good news the rest of the week? >> you know, hakeem dermish
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loves temperatures above 95. >> he'll be happy. >> he'll be a very happy man on wednesday and thursday. 906 wednesday, 98 on thursday and very hoot hot with the heat index above 90 degrees, and he's the only member of the department who said they enjoy it above 95 degrees. lindsay is above 95. >> thank you, doug. >> he'll get over it. bill lee owns a ranch out in idaho springs, colorado. during the holidays, christmas holidays, think, he's a santa at a mall. you can see why, but bill was badly injured in an accident two months ago and it almost killed him. he still can't get along very well so 12 of his friends helped him to tend to his ranch. every one of his buddies is also a santa claus. you notice the reindeer? they call themselves the society of santa. they say they gladly volunteered to help because lee hon
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