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at 11. breaking news tonight in prince george's county, maryland, a massive fire erupted at an apartment complex. as the flames shot through the roof, firefighters were rescuing several people, while others jumped from windows and from balconies. good evening. >> that fire started in the sutton walk apartments about 8:30 this evening. had when firefighters arrived, fire had already consumed one of the buildings. jackie benson is here with stories of people inside and some who ran for help. >> reporter: we've just learned that new carrollton police officers who were on patrol were the first ones to get here. they saw the flames and ran to help some get out, but some were trapped. not only was the fire raging up the balcony side of the apartments, the stairwell was quickly filling up with heat and smoke. one resident chose to jump and broke his leg. >> it was entirely to escape.

there was too much heat and smoke in the stairwell. they retreated to the balconies and made the decision they couldn't wait and jumped. >> reporter: residents ran to help. >> i heard people screaming, and i was looking on the balcony to see if anybody was trying to jump, neighbors went around front to help people come out. >> reporter: a number of elderly and infirm rez departments were affe -- residents were affected. >> my mother was in there. she just heard glass. by the time she came out, fire was coming through the ceiling. >> reporter: two people have been hospitalized. 35 people will not be able to get back into their homes tonight or anytime very soon. back to you. >> jackie, thank you. we're also following some breaking news in rhode island. at this hour, hundreds of firefighters are trying to get control of an eight-alarm fire at a mill. about 15 miles north of

providence, the smoke and flames can be seen all the way in massachusetts. nearby houses and buildings have been evacuated. more than 1,000 people have lost power and at least one firefighter has been taken to the hospital. the web site for the company which hones the mill says it's a leader supply of cosmetic and personal care products. for the second time in the week, the weather will become dangerously hot here in washington. a heat advisory is in place for the entire area attorney. tonight, a lot of people were out playing softball and other sports on the mall. because it might have been their last chance to do it safely for a couple of days. doug, it's going to get warm, huh? it really is. the word dank russ is what we're going to deal with, the dangerous heat once again making our way into the tomorrow and thursday as well. already right now, 79 degrees. that dew point around 67. you're going to walk outside tonight and you're real going to feel a difference in the past few nights. that humidity is really starting to creep up. high temperature today, 90

degrees but really not a lot of humidity to talk about. 89 in richmond, 88 in salisbury, temperatures tomorrow will climb between 5 and 10 degrees above where they were today. that's why we have the heat advisory in effect tomorrow. it begins at noon along the i-95 corrid corridor. the heat index could be between 100 and 105 and may be warmer on thursday. i'll let you how long the warm air lasts, coming up. police hope video released today will help them find a woman who attacked another woman in a brutal purse snatching. it happened may 29th at the second chance saloon in columbia, maryland. the victim was almost immediately hit in the face in the bar. a security guard hired by the private party under way appeared to walk away. the suspect is thought to be about 230 pounds, the victim was treated at the bar and was not hospitalized. it's a business that thrives long after most of us have gone

to bed. women are called to entertain men in the back rooms of restaurants. tonight one is shut down with its owner heading to prison. annan dale, virginia. >> reporter: a homeland security official tells me this is the second arrest like this in this area in the past six months, a man pays a woman 70 bucks for companionship. the woman then gives $20 to her manager. sounds shady, but that's not even the illegal part. inside korean cafes and karaoke bars like these in annan dale, someone would frequently call around 7:00 in the evening, sometimes a male customer, sometimes a manager, oftentimes they were calling tyson wong. he had the women. >> flirting, dancing, talking, keeping someone entertained for an hour at a time. >> reporter: according to court documents, sometimes the women did more. he started a business called

"honey" in october of last year and business was good. won was raking in $3,000 to $4,000 a month. but there was a problem. >> a business where he hires girls and young women who were for the most part here in the united states illegally. >> reporter: won pled guilty to harboring immigrants, he admitted he knew at least six of the women either had tourist visas or travel visas and were working in the country illegally. he used sites like this to advertise. the women lived in his home with them. he put some of the others at this nearby apartment complex. the special agent in charge of homeland security investigations said they actually found out about the whole thing when won himself tipped them off. >> in fact, he was the intent of won to work investigations

against his competitors. >> reporter: there are seven or eight other bitzs in this area that provide asian women to bars and restaurants, to men for entertainme entertainment. won hoped to help the feds bust them. he'll be sentenced september 2nd. he faces fines, ten years in prison and he could be deported because he was also in this country illegally. from annandale, news4. the pressure continues to mount on congressman anthony wiener to resign. he knits sending inappropriate photographs and comments to women other than his wife online. today nancy pelosi, house majority leader, formally requested an ethics probe to see if wiener broke any rules. the chairman of the republican party called for his resignation. members of his party are

reluctant to show any support. >> i know congressman wiener. i wish there was a way to depend him, but i can't. yesterday he had no plans to resign. the congressman did not speak publicly today. we'll find out what's next for a d.c. council member accused of corruption tomorrow. the council met behind closed doors to discuss ward 5 member, thomas is accused of spending more than $300,000 in city money on trips and an suv. he heads the economic development committee and that chairmanship could be stripped from him. new questions about sarah palin's bus tour and whether she should reimburse the national park sevls. questions about the first lady and the obama girls' trip. a casino in atlantic city is looking at its business strant looki[ male announcer ] strant washington, d.c.

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treated the palins as they would any other american family. angela merkel was the guest of honor at the white house state dinner tonight. president obama and first lady michelle obama hosted the chancellor, her husband and about 200 guests in the rose guaarden tonight. the president permitted the chancellor where the medal of freedom, the first woman and first east german to serve as chancellor. we're just learning about a secret trip the first lady took with her daughters. the "chicago sun-times" reported that mrs. obama and sasha and malia went to chicago, went to a wedding and bar mitzvah and returned to washington before the media knew anything about the trip. coming up, a first in the u.s. courtroom as witnesses testified about smell in the casey anthony case. relax.

and doug is back to tell us about really hot weather coming our way. . if you live in the waugarea, it can be hard to avoid stress. it can lead to insomnia, high blood pressure and diabetes. one local doctor is helping patients control nerves and anxiety with a tiny machine which teaches them how to relax.

>> it's a terrible feeling. anxiety is horrible. the world seems dangerous. >> reporter: for william halol, stress is a constant fight, the d.c. college professor says simply watching the news can make him feel so uncomfortable he has a tough time sleeping. >> well, things can trigger it, like when the chilean miners were trapped underground, it terrified me. my primary care physician said i could take medication or i can learn how to relax. >> reporter: he chose relaxation. but for most people, that's easier said than done. so he saw another doctor, an internist who specializes in integrative medicine, a combination of holistic and western practices. >> we get probably over 50% of our patients come to us with a major stress problem. >> reporter: the doctor suggested halol try a pocket-sized machine that

measures heart rate variability. >> i like to call it sixth or sedge vital sienl. it shows the changes in the heart rate, instantaneous changes. there's a healthy pattern and unhealthy patterns. >> reporter: he says heart rate variability measures the autonomic nervous system, the part of our body that reacts to stress and controls functions like blood pressure and digestion. that's why we often have a hard time sleeping or eating in a stressful situation. >> the dwiels heevice helps us the patients' autonomic nervous system and see how we can balance it with different practices. >> reporter: typically breathing certify excises, the patient hooks the device up to the body and work with a very specific breathe will pattern. the device flashes red when their autonomic nervous system is off balance, but then it turns green meaning the nervous system has relaxed. >> it puts you into a different state of mind. >> reporter: william halol has been using the device for four

months now. he says he's become more aware of his breath on a daily basis, helping him control his stress and anxiety. he no longer has high blood pressure and has even stopped taking medication for that. >> and i'm just aware of the way i put myself into a state of stress, and i try to calm it down. >> the doctor says this device isn't an instant fix to stress. you have to practice every day, and it can take six to eight weeks before you really feel the effects. the owner of the tropicana casino in atlantic city says he's not going to scrap a high-stakes business strategy even though two gamblers more than $5 million just a few weeks apart. the latest winner took home $5.3 million last week. he got on a six-hour hot streak on the craps table. wow. and also played in blackjack.

when he left, he tipped the dealers $150,000. the drtropicana's strats ji is does not limit the amount gamblers can bet. a nasty thunderstorm provided a stunning light show in canada early this morning. a camera was recording as lightning struck the top of toronto's cn tower. lightning was blamed for sparking two house fires in ontario. the storm also brought high winds and hail across the toronto area. pretty dramatic, doug. >> very dramatic. that's an amazing sme ing shot there. >> we're not going to see that here, are we? no. but that storm brought us the cloud cover. it's all kind of connected on this side of the continent. as far as today, the heat was out there but the humidity just now starting to creep up. even though we hit 90 degrees today, it really wasn't all that bad. plenty of sunshine later on in the afternoon as the clouds made their way off to the west and south. high was 90, after a low of 68. average temperature is 82 degrees and we continue to be

well above average as we start off the month of june. and, yes, i think this was the start of heat wave number two. currently 79 degrees, winds out of the southwest-south at 6 miles per hour, dew point at 67 degrees. that dew point has been rising over the past couple of nights. it will rise tomorrow as well. currently 74 in hagerstown, 73 in sterling, virginia. manassas, 70 degrees, fredericksburg at 73. la plate at that at 70. tomorrow we have the heat advisory in effect for the entire region, it's going to continue through the day on thursday most likely. right now in it's in effect noon to 8:00, for the potential of seeing a heetd index from 100 to 105, a similar pattern to what we saw last week with two 0 three days with temperatures above the 95 degrees and heat index 100 to 105. it will be short live, but a couple of things to remember. check on the elderly.

plan for the heat tomorrow now. remember the pets and drink plenty of water if you're out and about in the heat. 90 the high in new york. look to the west, 103 in minneapolis, 96 in st. louis, 98 in memphis. that is the heat that's trying to make its way toward the east and it's going to get here during the day tomorrow as our area of high pressure bringing the heat moves on top of us. very warm during the day today, but as the high slides on down to the south, here comes the hot weather and it stays here during the day thursday. i think thursday could even be a little bit warmer than it's going to feel tomorrow. at least due to the humidity. now, temperatures p tomorrow morning, mostly sunny, a warm start, 67 to 70. you're going to feel it when you step out tomorrow, the humidity that is. tomorrow afternoon, hot and humid, the heat index upwards of 100 degrees, the heat advisory again. the record high tomorrow is 98 degrees. i think we're going to be very close to at least tying that record right here in the washington area. thursday, the record is 102. i do not think we'll get there. 99 is what i'm going for for a

high on thursday, the heat index over 100. 93 on friday, saturday 88 degrees. a better chance of rain coming up this weekend. not a wash jout but a rain and much needed at that. we do move into the 80s by next week. as we mentioned, we do need rain around here. >> eventually. >> yes. >> yes. still ahead,

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around this weekend. >> are you really surprised? he dropped the hint in his press conference last weekend. tiger woods anounlsed today via twitter he will not play in next week's u.s. open. woods twittered, short term frustration for a long term game. he admitted injuries to achilles tendon and knee have not recovered. this is back in april when he hurt himself during the third round of the masters. he hits from underneath a tree. you can see that that's where he tar tweaked his knee and akill yez. he didn't play for a month. holes-pfvoielf. ùze then, tal his game. tonight fred funk who will play in the u.s. open talked about why it doesn't necessarily make a difference. >> even if tiger was 100% right now and was the tiger of old, i

don't think tiger is as intimidating as he used to be to the other players. just because everybody sees him as beatable now. the quality of golf and the amount of guys that were in contention coming down the stretch at augusta was a sign. you know, tiger made a great run on the front nine, couldn't keep it going on the back. mcelroy faded. all the scenarios and stories were great but all those guys were playing unbelievable golf coming down. they're doing it every week now. you get a tiger woods on the board, it's not, like, i'm scared of what he's going to do. they go, i'm going to beat this guy. i don't think that was the same thought pattern before. >> fred funk is 54 dwreers old. he has a world of experience, and that point that he just made is something a ton of dpoflers feel. it is the perfect storm right now because there are so many young golfers that are coming up. they've never been per se on a course to be inl ttimidated by

tiger, as he says. >> whole new ball game. >> yes. we may have seen the best of tiger. that may be it, as fred said. >> the fans will miss him at the open. >> we're happy to have seen what we saw. it was something. moving along, the nationals just want to get back up. they're trying to right the ship oaf the giants' come behind win. the two teams tied in the fourth, we're in san francisco. jim watching from the box tonight because he's serving a one-game suspension for the bean ball over the weekend in arizona. bottom of the second, the giants have a runner on third. zimmerman to shea holtz, huff scores, a double for cher holtz and the giants take a 1-0 lead. top of the third we go, the nationals get things going. desmond flares one to center, advancing to third.

desmond winds up on second. right now, in the fourth, the nationals are leading 2-1. in baltimore, buck showalter having to shuffle his lineup against the a's. one of the moves was jj hardy to the leadoff spot and he delivers. a solo blast to left to start the game for the orioles. they hit three solo home runs tonight, what they're supposed to. reliever krik jack boss cass making a spot in the fourth. the bat goes into the seats. everyone was okay, though. jack boss cuss strikes out five in five. the orioles blank the a's. the oriole[ man ] i got's. this new citi thankyou card

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