and now from washington's leading news station, this is "news4 midday." breakings news to begin "news4 midday," a teenager is at the hospital, after getting hit by a train in gaithersburg. it happened around 8:30 a.m. near the washington grove station. that's where news4's megan mcgrath joins us live. good morning, megan. >> reporter: well, good morning barbara. investigators say a 17-year-old boy was walking in this gravel alongside the eastbound tracks here. just prior to the washington grove train station. at about 8:30 this morning. that's when a csx train carrying a load of gravel began to approach him from behind. the train saw the teenager

beside the tracks, according to witnesses, the engineer sounded the horn. trying to get the young person to move out of the way to give a little bit more of a berth. unfortunately, though, according to investigators, the teenager was listening to music. he had ear buds in at the time. the music was too loud, he didn't hear the horn, did not realize that there was a train coming up from behind him. and his right arm was clipped by the passing train. >> the train was approaching the station as per standard policy. he aired the air horn to let people know they were approaching. they did that, the juvenile was wearing ear phones and was unable to hear the train at the time. therefore he got hit. >> reporter: the teenager was conscious when transported to the hospital. his injuries primarily to the right arm that was clipped by the passing train. now service was shut down for about two hours this morning. the train did leave the area right around 10:20. now we have normal service in the area. the boy is being treated for his

injuries. reporting live in gaithersburg, megan mcgrath, news4. thank you, megan. let's find out if this is affecting the rail service out there, danella sealock joins with us the latest on that. good morning. >> good morning, barb raxt earlier we did see a delay on the m.a.r.c. train. but right now things are running back to normal. now let's get over to the roads. i-95, if you're making your way southbound at 216, connecting to the beltway, you're at 64 miles per hour. only a nine-minute trip at this time. over to i-66, in delays here, a live look at cedar travel east and westbound on i-66, you're clear. travel speed, 58 miles per hour, 11-minute drive to get from fairfax county parkway to the capital beltway. barbara, back to you. thanks, danella. right now the united nations security council is discussing north korea's failed rocket launch. the rocket disintegrated over the yellow sea yesterday. the u.s., britain, japan and others are calling the launch a

violation of u.n. resolutions. the white house calls the launch a quote provocative act. north korea says the rocket was on a mission to send a satellite into orbit. but that mission did fail. and now to a developing story in new hampshire. a small community is mourning the loss of its police chief shot and killed during a drug raid in the town of greenland. four other officers were injured in the shoot-out last night. police say the suspect and a woman also died. they're still trying to determine if it was a murder-suicide or a double suicide. a police robot found the bodies inside the home around 2:00 a.m. police chief michael maloney had 26 years of experience in law enforceme enforcement. >> our thoughts and prayers go out to police chief maloney and all the friends and loved ones of the officers that have been injured. and all of the friends and family of the greenland new hampshire police department. and the new hampshire law

enforcement community. >> the 48-year-old police chief was set to retire in less than two weeks. prince george's county police want people to use a popular, who use a popular trail in maryland to be on alert after three women are attacked there. police say the women were abducted then sexually assaulted along the northwest branch hiker trail, that's near the west hyattsville metro station. news4's tracee wilkins has more on these attacks. >> reporter: police say that since january, they have had reports for at least three incidents of rape, sexual assault or attempted assault happening on this trail here near the west hyattsville metro station. now they're asking the public to help them catch the man they believe to be responsible. police say a woman was taken by knife-point and raped here on the northwest branch hiker/biker trail behind the west hyattsville metro. they say it happened on tuesday march 27th, just before 10:00 p.m. police say it's the third sexual

assault case reported in this area. and on this trail since january. two composite sketches drawn by two different artists were released by the maryland national capital park police this week. both sketches show strong similarities, although police don't know for sure if they're only looking for one attacker. in the most detailed description, police say their suspect is a hispanic male in his late 20s, early 30s, between 5'5", and 5'7", weighing about 160 pounds. the witness told police her attacker spoke spanish, with an accent she believed to be a salvadorian. his weapon of choice? a seven-inch kitchen knife with a brown handle. the women we talk to who use the trail say they were not aware of the attacks, but will be more cautious now that they do. >> i walk here every day to go home. and now i'm very afraid that something could happen to me or to another woman. >> it's disheartening because

this is an area where there are a lot of children and as a woman it's frightening because you shouldn't have to fear for your safety in your own neighborhood. it's unfortunate. >> reporter: until this rapist is caught, police are urging women who use this trail or go to this metro station, to walk in groups. and if they see anything suspicious, to call 911 immediately. in hyattsville, i'm tracee wilkins, news4. this morning, george zimmerman is behind bars, a place his attorneys say is safer right now than if he were free on the streets. zimmerman had his first court appearance yesterday on a second-degree murder charge in the death of trayvon martin. his attorney won't ask the judge for a bond hearing until he can find someplace safe for zimmerman to stay. a probable cause affidavit filed by prosecutors claims that zimmerman profiled martin because he was black, chased him and then shot him in the chest after a struggle. zimmerman maintains he shot martin in self-defense. he'll be back in court at the

end of may. meanwhile, trayvon martin's mother is clarifying some comments she made during yesterday's interview with the "today show." when asked what she would say if she could talk to zimmerman, she said that she seemed to suggest that she thought the shooting was an accident. listen. >> i believe it was an accident. i believe that -- it just got out of control. and he couldn't turn the clock back. >> fulton is now clarifying comments, saying she was referring to the chance nature of the confrontation between zimmerman and her son. she told the "associated press" quote, their meeting was an accident. that was the accident, not the actual act of him shooting him. that was murder. they were never supposed to meet. kids in fairfax county may soon have a little more time to get ready for school. the school board approved a resolution to push back the start of high school classes until 8:00 in the morning, right

now classes start at 7:20. meaning some students have to get up as early as 6:00 a.m. or be on the bus that early. the county will look at how the changes would impact other school divisions before a final vote is taken in june. taking a look outside right now, it looks petty nice out there. still on the chilly side, though, let's find out from storm center 4 meteorologist tom kierein what we can expect for the rest of the day and into the weekend. >> a beautiful among, it's fresh and cool, bright sun and a blue sky. and we've cleared out as high pressure has been pushing in over the last 12 hours. we had a little cloudiness this morning, it's long gone, all around the region, plenty of sunshine pouring down. temperatures now just past 11:00, all of those areas in green, they're in the 50s. a few spots there in the blue, in the highlands of west virginia, western maryland, still in the mid to upper 40s there. closer to washington, it's into the 50s now. at 58 at reagan national. richmond now up to 60 degrees. and it's beginning to warm up just a little bit with the strong april sun. in the suburbs, and rural areas,

west and north of washington, we're in the mid 50s now. soust and east in southern maryland around the bay, northern neck, eastern shore, it's climbing to the mid to upper 50s. fredericksburg is 59, culpepper, manassas, 57. charlottesville as well. it's cooler right near the pennsylvania border. the low 50s now. and later this afternoon, we should be warming up nicely. i'll have the latest on that and a look at the forecast in detail for the weekend and into next week. and i've got good news for allergy sufferer, a look at the latest pollen count coming up. new today, newark, new jersey's mayor, cory booker, is talking about his heroic efforts to save his neighbors from a fire. booker came home last night and noticed his next-door neighbor's home was on fire. the mayor and two of his security guards ran in to help, even going inside the burning home to get them out. rescuers later took booker to the hospital along with a woman that he rescued. and the news conference just minutes ago, booker said he did

what any other neighbor would have done. >> i considered all of us very lucky. there was a time when i got through the kitchen and was searching for her and looked back and saw the kitchen in flames. it was really frightening experience for me. i didn't think we were going to get out of there. so i feel just very grateful right now and very lucky to be here with you today. and it's over the top. i think i did what most other people would do to help their neighbors out. >> booker is known for using social media and tweeted during his ordeal overnight. one of his tweets read quote, just suffering smoke inhalation, we got the woman out of the house. and we are both off to the hospital. i will be okay. he wrote. a political battle over stay at home moms, why president obama is sticking up for mitt romney's wife. plus a controversial mockumentary, the adult situations children have found themselves in. and the three stooges are back. a look at what's new in the box office this weekend.

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four new movies are hitting the big screen today, they include the "three stooges" which brings a popular tv show to film. why have more on this week's box office preview. >> mind your p's and q's.

>> don't forget to dot the i's? >> certainly. >> this reboot of the franchise finds three brothers with a penchant for battery and mayhem trying to save the orphanage where they grew up. but it goes afoul, leading larry, moe and curly into the dark regions of television. >> i'm going to ask a few questions, do you dream while you're under? >> i'm going to dream about you. >> violent inmates take over a prison in lockout. this is no ordinary jail house, it's a slammer in space reserved for most dangerous criminals and they've got hostage. the president's daughter. there's only one guy who can help, guy pierce, a falsely-convicted prisoner, whose only shot at freedom is to save the presidential offspring. "lockout" is rated pg 13. >> we should split up. >> good idea. >> really? >> horror flick campers commit a cardinal sin in "the cabin in the woods." five friends find a creepy cabin to get away from it all, but

strange things start happening that may not be random acts. it's rated r. >> is this going to get weird? >> yeah, probably. >> a young evangelist sets out for heathen territory, in "blue light jazz." texas teenager travels to an ultraliberal body campus in oregon, but the student body appears to be more interesting than he thought. it's rated pg 13. that's the box office preview. so you see anything you want to get to the movies for? >> well the "three stooges" is always total mayhem. >> just want to not think about anything, just be there. >> here we've got a gorgeous spring day under way and it's looking like spring, last several mornings it hasn't been feeling like it. but after another cold start this morning, we have warmed up. there's capitol hill under the gorgeous blue sky. look at the potomac river

reflecting that royal blue sky. we have greened up beautifully. that is a live picture from our city camera. can you see there's not much wind. not much of a chop on the potomac, just a perfect spring day, if you like crisp, cool, invigorating weather weather. right now, reagan national is at 58. bright sunshine, but it's very dry. dew points only at 30. and because things are so dry, we've had a few small fires popping up. because of people flicking cigarettes out of their cars. driving along. we've had some small fires popping up because the ground is so dry. we still even though things are greening up, we still have much of the vegetation is, is very dry. so it can easily get a fire going. so watch out for that. and we've asked you to send in your photos of your spring scenes, right? well look at this, isn't that a beautiful dog? and the tree is pretty nice, too.

thanks to robin blevins, for sending this, a beautiful cherry free in her front yard, bristol, virginia. if you have a great springtime photo, send it to weather@nbcwashington.com. send photos of your dog, too. pollen count, i'm happy to report, has improved. it has dropped. congratulations allergy sufferers. it's still in the high range, but only about half of what it was just a couple of days ago. it's still mostly oak tree pollen. radar scanning the sky, no precipitation around the region now. looking at the view from space, we did have a few clouds passing through, right around dawn. we had a beautiful sunrise, and right now it's being replaced by high pressure giving us this gorgeous sunny sky from new england down to virginia. and into the mountains, just a beautiful spring day under way. and all of this area in green, it's in the 50s. from southern new england all the way down to the carolinas. and into the mountains, most locations in the 50s. and reagan national is now at

58. suburbs and rural areas in the mid 50s. just to our west and north, upper 50s southern maryland, northern neck and through central virginia, near 60 degrees there. shenandoah valley, mountains of west virginia, into western maryland. there it's in the low 50s. so a little bit of a chill still in the air there. now for the afternoon, lots of sunshine throughout the entire region. we'll be warming up to around 70 degrees just to our south from fredericksburg over to culpepper, warrenton, manassas, leesburg. closer to washington, mid 60s. a little cooler along the pennsylvania border. southern maryland, northern neck looking beautiful. for the metro area for the afternoon, 63-67. lots of sunshine and a lighter wind. and then overnight tonight, we'll have a clear sky, we'll have our temperatures dropping from near 60 around sunset, to around 50 by midnight. with a light southwesterly breeze. and if you're heading out for some friday night baseball, to nationals park, it's going to be a cool evening, so dress accordingly. there at nationals park, we'll

have our game time temperature, first pitch, 7:05, right around 60 degrees, it will be cool, under a clear sky. we'll be dropping back through the 50s through the game and by dawn tomorrow, down to the upper 30s, near 40, a beautiful day on saturday. we'll have afternoon highs into the mid 70s, the big cherry blossom festival parade is tomorrow. perfect weather for that. feeling like summertime, almost beach weather, sunday, monday, into the 80s. morning lows, 50s to near 60. then a front comes in tuesday, might trigger some scattered storms. after that, wednesday and thursday, it should cool down. now the big story on tuesday, is the space shuttle discovery flying in piggyback on a big 747. they may have to adjust the arrival time because this could be some storms around as we get closer to the day, they may have 0 to postpone that. >> too bad it's not coming on sunday. that would be the best day. >> why don't you tell them. >> it would be a weekend. thanks a lot, tom. let's check on the midday

traffic now, danella sealock joins us with the latest. danella? >> well, barbara right now i'm watching the 14th street bridge, because road work continues again today. and it blocks the left lane here. i am seeing a little bit of volume as you make your way across the 14th street bridge. and you are facing a delay if you're traveling northbound on 395. right now, you're driving at 46 miles per hour, it's not so bad. looking at a 14-minute trip get from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. now crossing over the american legion bridge, nice and open. if you're making your way on the outer loop and continuing into virginia, your travel speeds not bad at all, from the dulles toll road to the interchange, you're driving at 54 miles per hour, only a 14-minute trip. barbara, back over to you. >> danella, thank you. 11: 20 the time. still ahead, the caps are down one game to nothing. why they say they're good and ready for the rest of the playoffs. plus an unusual robbery caught on tape. why police say a store clerk reminded a thief that he forgot to walk out with the money.

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a heart-breaker for the caps in their first playoff game last night. the bruins scored the only goal of the night, a little over a minute in overtime to take the first game of the series, 1-0, it was a stellar game for braden holtzby in his first-ever nhl playoff game. he stopped all 29 shots he faced. the caps will try to even up the series tomorrow in boston. you can catch that game here on news4 starting at 3:00 in the afternoon. an online video documentary is putting pressure on mexican officials to make some changes and it's also creating controversy for showing kids in adult situations. [ speaking foreign language ] >> the video is called "discomforting kids" by a group called our mexico of the future. the video shows child actors with guns, robbing people,

protesting, participating in gang violence. and trafficking people across the border. the group says it depicts a typical morning in mexico. the group wants the mexican presidential candidates to promise to make some changes. mexicans will be heading to the polls on july the 1st. it is now 11:25 and coming up, beyonce writes a letter to michelle obama. what the pop star reveals about her relationship with her newborn daughter. ♪ ♪ >> plus, how singer debra cox got tricked into an impromptu karaoke session. and tom will be back with details on a

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her of being out of touch. >> guess what, his wife has actually never worked a day in her life. she's, she's never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing. >> that was hilary rosen on cnn on wednesday night. rosen tried to imply that the romneys cannot relate to average americans. ann romney did raise five children, but did not work outside the home. rosen has since apologized. president obama said family members should be kept out of political debates. >> my general rule is you don't talk about the spouses of elected officials. >> this is not about stay at home moms versus working moms. i think your husband needs to stand up for women's economic struggles and so far we is not seen how he's going to do that on the campaign trail. >> romney also responded to the comments by saying she made a choice to stay home and raise her children and it was hard work. ann romney incidentally will be

in northern virginia on monday to headline a women's only event at the home of a prominent republican fundraiser in mclean. montgomery county's controversial ambulance fee, which was shot down by voters seems to be showing signs of life. congressman liggett wants reinstate the fee. he said patients with health insurance would be covered. those without insurance would have to pay unless they fall below a certain income level. liggett estimates the fee could bring in as much as $17 million a year. maryland governor martin o'malley says he's planning to sit down with lawmakers to discuss a special session. the governor told wbal radio that he'll meet with house speaker michael bush and senate president thomas mike miller within the next several days. however, he says an agreement as well as trust and understanding are needed first. the general assembly failed to reach a budget deal, triggering a so-called doomsday budget that cuts spending by half a billion dollars if no deal is in place

by the 1st of july. a cbs manager in montgomery county is accused of helping a robber steal from the store. police say he was part of an inside job and they say they have proof of that. take look at this video. police say man robbed the cvs on tuckerman lane on potomac twice in several days, the same manager was on duty both times. police say they got suspicious when the surveillance video shows the robber forgot the bag of money. the video shows the manager walking out with the bag of money and leaving it outside the door for the robber to get it. police arrested the manager, 35-year-old fenton graham in silver spring. his girlfriend, michelle allison, who is the daughter of the robbery suspect, 53-year-old michael cook, was also arrested. and we're going to check again on our forecast now. let's talk to tom kierein about just how soon we're going to see the warmup begin, tom? >> it's going to begin here in the next couple of hours. right now it is still quite cool. beautiful blue sky over washington, live view from our sky watcher camera.

300 feet above northwest washington, looking into downtown washington. all splashed with sunshine now. and all around the region, we're in the 50s. upper 50s now in washington, and areas just to our south. to the north and west, temperatures mostly in the low to mid 50s now. but by later this afternoon, we should be hitting the mid and upper 60s throughout much of the afternoon. sunset today is at 7:44 and by then we'll be back down to near 60 degrees. and then a clear night tonight. we'll be down to near 50 by midnight. near 40 by dawn on saturday. another gorgeous sunny day tomorrow, it should be warmer with a southwest breeze, we should make it into the mid 70s tomorrow afternoon. on sunday, mid 50s in the morning, and feeling like summertime, sunday afternoon, a lot of high clouds coming in, but it's going to feel like a summer day, into the mid 80s it looks like. and that's going to repeat on monday. though more clouds around monday. near 60 in morning. afternoon highs mid 80s. then on tuesday, we could have some afternoon and evening thunderstorms.

now it does look like it may be after the time that the scheduled discovery piggybacking on the 747 arrival. which is supposed to be in the morning on tuesday. hopefully it will beat the storms. we'll keep an eye on it. cooler after that, sunshine back, that's the way it looks. barbara? >> thank you, tom. and let's head over to the roads, danella sealock looking at things, keeping an eye on what's going on out there. >> good morning, barbara. i'm watching this 14th street bridge, that left lane is still blocked right now due to bridge work. you are seeing a delay here about 43 miles per hour, 15 minutes to get from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. now over to i-270, no issues here. traveling southbound at father hurley, you're clear as you make your way through rockville and connect to the beltway. here's a live look at the  beltway, your travel speed on the inner loop looks good as well. you're at 58 miles per hour, just ten minutes to get from i-270 to i-95. barbara, back to you. thank you so much. today we're getting a look at some new technology aimed at better protecting airline

passengers. the transportation security administration is showing off some new machines at dulles international airport. that can electrically verify passenger boarding passes. right now, tsa agents check each ticket to make sure it's valid. a process that's open to human error of course. the tsa says the new boarding pass and identification system should make it easier for them to spot fake documents. metro fares are a step closer to going up by as early as this july. the transit system's finance committee approved a thik that will raise fares on the rails by about 5%. that means you could pay as much as $5.75 during peak hours. bus riders will see a ten-cent increase and you'll pay 25 cents more to park. the biggest change is for riders who use paper fare cards. they will now pay $1 surcharge for every trip that they take. there will be two new passes, a $14 all-day pass, that won't have any time restrictions. and for the first time, a 28-day pass that will run you about

$230 a pass. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> that's debra cox, singing "same script, different cast" a due it she recorded with whitney houston a while back. but somehow she got driked into singing this with a comedian. that comedian is scott nevins from true tv's the smoking gun presents. and he happens to be joining us in the studio right now. how did you get her to do that, scott and welcome, good to see you. >> how did i get her to do it? i completely tricked her. she said i'm going to sing my songs that i'm planned to swing. as we're talking during the interview, i said what is that song you did with whitney houston? i did the beginning and i pretended to mess up the words. she went no, no, that's not it. she started to sing it and i filled in with the whitney part because we're so similar.

>> and she kept going? >> yes, we did this huge bit and it's become like a youtube video and people love it. >> you're actually from l.a. >> yes, living in l.a., originally from new york city. i'm an east coast boy. >> you're here in washington this week, tell us why. >> i'm here to do my show, "one night stand" my comedy show and i'm doing it as a benefit for the mccdc church. >> tell us why that benefit, who is it going to benefit? >> it's going to benefit the church in all different angles, they're the second largest lbgt church here in the country. and they do community outreach. they do a lot of community service, i wanted to do my part. because i travel and tour all the time. you know i kind of want to i love to give back and help some interesting stories that you've encountered over the years? i see with your job a as a stand-up comedian. i know that you say tammy faye

baker almost poked you in the eye? >> you can see it on youtube. she was my first celebrity interview and it was in this huge live space. i said i love you, i said i want do you make the me first guy to ever have his eyelashes done by tammy faye. she was doing the lashes and i moved and she stuck the wand right if my eye and i was blinded by tammy faye. i thought i saw jesus. >> was that live on the air? >> yes, live. i couldn't see. >> did you finish the show? >> i did, yes covering one eye, i looked like a pirate, it was great. >> you must wonder how she ever does this on herself? >> it was a lot of mascara. it was dripping off in globs. >> you worked with liza minelli, too, is that right? >> yes, it was amazing, i hosted the relee release of "liza with a z" she exceeded everything i ever imagined. >> is she one of your favorite impersonations? who are some of the ones you

like to impersonate? >> i do a bunch of impressions, and my liza gets a lot of attention and judy gets a lot of attention. liza, she'll talk about 8,000 things and then bring it back to the question. she'll say, you know, it's terrific. barbara, my mother, my mother, was judy garland. and poppa, poppa was vincent minelli. >> beautiful. >> her mother, do you her mother? >> what i do and the audience should know this when they come to the show. it's the only time i talk to the audience. they're safe. i don't like to make fun of people. i ask them to give me modern songs and i do them as judy garland. >> jude did garland doing amy winehouse's "rehab." >> try to make me go to rehab ♪ ♪ and i said no >> thank you. and i'm tone deaf. only when i do these impressions, i never sing as me. >> and anybody else you want to

do for us, one last one? >> you know, harvey firestein. you know, you don't understand a word he's saying. and carol channing. >> i just love our nation's capitol. barbara. >> very good, scott. >> thank you so much for coming to see us. are there tickets available still? >> there are. mcc d.c..com. or scott nevins.com and i'll be tweeting about it all day. >> you can catch scott nevins at one night stand, the comedy show, tonight and tomorrow night at the metropolitan community church in washington, d.c. come back and see us again. >> i will, i love it here. >> keep us laughing, i know everybody will be laughing all through it. >> i have a ticket if you want to come, barbara. just say it. >> thanks a lot, scott. it's 11:39 now. still ahead, a procedure designed to make you look rejuvenated. and less tired, who couldn't use that? and why prom season is a lot more expensive than it used to be.

we've been looking at the top five cosmetic surgeries over the last year. today we focus on a technique designed to rejuf night the eyes and make them look less tired. we're going to let dr. steven hopping tell us what it is. the scientific name you call is blepharoplasty. from the greek. but eye lift is much simpler. >> so if somebody is interested in this, that's what they call and ask for. tell us exactly how the surgery is performed? a lot of people don't know exactly what they do to lift the eyes. >> well 13 million cosmetic procedures, about 200,000 were eyelifts in 2011. basically, eye lift surgery is do make our eyes look less tired. people who show up at work every day had a full night's sleep and

everyone says, you look so tired, didn't you sleep? i hear that story all the time. so people want to look natural, they just don't want to look tired add. >> does it aim from taking the puffiness under the eyes. >> the lower eyes, it's the bags and loose skin. upper eyes, it's hooded skin. >> let's take a look at some results. here's -- >> this is showing diagrams where the incisions are in the crease of the upper eye. just below the lashes of the lower eye. and. >> you take skin out there and lift it up so that -- >> and the interesting thing, there's very little discomfort with eyelid surgery but there's certainly bruising with the eyes for ten days to two weeks. >> this is a good example how again, tired on the left, refreshed on the right. we don't want to look operated. we want to look refreshed. >> so do you actually -- >> again -- >> take skin or fat? >> skin and fat. it's mostly skin and fat. but again, on eyes, less is best. so you want to be very

conservative. >> there's a real big difference. >> what are some complications from this surgery? >> eyelid surgery. there are a lot of problems with eyelid surgery. that's why you really need to be conservative. we don't take fat out any more. we move it around. we limit how much skin we take off the upper eyelids, because we want to make sure the eyes can close after the procedure. we want to avoid roundness, we want to make sure no one has eye problems beforehand, like glaucoma, dry eyes. because sometimes the surgery can aggravate these situations. so you need to find these things out in advance. >> does it often happen that people can't close their eyes after you take out the skin? >> its been described. and again that's a complication that we work hard to avoid. that's why you need to put yourself in the hands of someone who does a lot of eyelid surgery. >> what age person i guess, it doesn't really matter? >> this is the kind of thing people do in their middle age to beyond. 40s, 50s, 60s. men and women.

a lot of men do this. they're between jobs, they want to look sharp and look young. they don't want to look tired. the eyes, they know all the eyes tell all. so eyes are really important. >> so are there any tips that you would give people who are interested in this, what they should look for when they're looking for a surgeon to do it? >> i think eyelid surgery is technically one of the more challenging things we as cosmetic surgeons have to do. so find someone who does a lot of eyelid surgery number one. make sure they're board-certified number two. ask to see before and after pictures. if they don't have before and after pictures, they're probably not doing the surgery very often. ask it see patients who have done it and get an eye exam beforehand. if you have glaucoma or dry eyes, think twice about doing surgery. >> has it ever happened that somebody would come out with eyes looking different? one looking different from the other? with a droopy lid or anything like that. >> it's been described and that's a potential complication. fortunately it happens in less than 1% of cases and can be

corrected. but yes it can be a problem. >> all right. that's the number one most -- >> this is number four. next week we'll be the final in the series. facelift, number five. >> what was number one. >> number one was breast augmentation. >> still. >> still number one in this country. >> number one in the united states. >> all right. well we look forward to hearing the fifth of all five. so thanks so much for coming, dr. steven hopping. great to see you. it's 11:47, a look at president obama's taxes and something new from barnes & nob noble. cnbc hampton joins us now. >> first markets trading in negative territory so far today. nothing to do with friday the 13th, but concerns about global growth. right now we've got the dow down about 72 points, the nasdaq down 33. the s&p down 10. concerns about prospects for global growth remaining on the markets' minds, data in china

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you by sleepy's. beyonce's letter to the first lady and just wait until you hear what mary j. blige needs in her dressing room much we're joined by tommy mcfly from 94.7 fresh fm. >> how are you? >> fresh off the air, are you? >> absolutely. there was some knucklehead on 295, way like, i got to go see barbara, but i made it. >> okay, first you're going to deal with the historic howard theater it has some fresh new life? >> it's back open after you know

years and decades of being closed. the $29 million renovation. the place is beautiful. i got to go for one of the opening events, i ran into donna morris who watches us every friday. she told me to say hi to you. the work they've done in that place and the sound, it's just absolutely speck dak ltaculspec. there's incorrect acts coming up. including wanda sykes, she's there, a very famous comedian. she did the correspondents dinner a few years ago. she's there tonight and tomorrow as she called into the tommy show on fresh fm and talked about washington being her comedy home. >> washington, d.c. is like that's my comedy home. so whenever i come back, it's always special. and you know, i always get good crowds. you know, the first place i worked was at the comedy cafe. i think it was on k street. >> back in the day. she used to be, she used to work for the nsa and then she realized she was much funnier than that. and now she's in l.a. and a big-time comic.

>> a lot of shows have been on those boards there at the howard theater. >> incredible stuff. >> great to see what comes now that it's reopened. let's talk about mary j. blige. you've got an interesting story about letter. >> i was shocked to find this out. every artist has a rider, what they need in their dressing room backstage in the show. part of hers is she needs a fresh toilet seat whenever she comes and performs. an unused, straight from the package, toilet seat. >> you mean paper won't do? >> exactly. >> you can't use the little liners for her and there's actually rumors that madonna has the same thing in her rider. who knew? >> that would be a good question to ask you. why do you feel like you need a new toilet seat. >> i guess it makes sense, a backstage dressing room gets used by everybody. so you want a fresh seat sometimes 679. >> let's talk about beyonce, she wrote letter to the first lady. >> yes. >> do you know what it says? >> it's a beautiful letter. she published it, she put it on her website. i'm no mr. manners. but i thought the whole idea of

a thank you note or a private letter was to make it a private letter, not put it on your website. >> she wrote it and put it on her website. >> dell us what it says? >> she sent it to the first lady. it was great, saying what an inspiration michelle obama is, and she's so glad to have her daughter grow up in a world like michelle obama. but it seemed a little promotional to put it on her website, not just send it over. >> has the first lady responded? >> i haven't heard anything back yet. >> on social media. we'll see what happens with that. there's an event coming up this weekend you want to tell us about? >> this weekend is the sixth annual fashion for paws runway show benefitting the washington humane society. it started out six years ago as this event you know, a georgetown fashion show. and now we're in the national building museum. and scissor g. events is putting on just an amazing production, we've raised $670,000 for the washington, d.c. humane society. >> there's an actual fashion show. >> yes, it's -- >> but dogs are not dressing up?

>> well there are some dogs that are getting dressed up. the fashions are all down by tyson's galleria. and there's models who have raised at least $5,000 to be on the fashion show runway and some walks with dogs and there's rescue dogs, that's where i met my dog, chip, who was a rescue dog three years ago. >> tell chip we said hi. tell him that we look forward to seeing him on the air, 94.7 fm, tommy mcfly, thank you. >> thanks, barbara. >> coming up, we'll talk about some stories that we're going to be following for you this afternoon. and jim hanley joins us now to tell us what we're going to see later today. jim? >> that would be chip mcfly, right, i had dog? hey coming up, we've got a busy afternoon on news4 at 4:00 and 5:00 this evening. the white house trying to further distance the president from comments made against stay at home moms. but opponents aren't letting the issue go away. and for the first time, we're hearing from douglas kennedy,

son of the late robert f. kennedy, about his confrontation with two nurses at a hospital as he tried to take his newborn out of the hospital maternity ward. five years later, hear from the survivor of the virginia tech shooting rampage. and how she is, how she's used the crime now as a crusade to help other victims. that's tonight at 5:00. for all the day's news and your first forecast for the weekend, join us here, we begin first at 4:00. barbara, back to you for now and have a great weekend. >> you, too. time for a final check on our forecast, here's tom kierein. >> it's turned into such a beautiful day. we've got a gorgeous blue sky with sparkling sunshine. a live view from our sky watcher camera, overlooking washington on this friday. approaching the noon hour. temperatures approaching 60 degrees around the metro area now. and it's going to hold steady in the low to mid 60s over the next couple of hours. may hit upper 60s, near 70 in parts of north central virginia. anyone then overnight, we'll have a clear sky.

by dawn tomorrow, it will be down to near 40 degrees starting off saturday morning. saturday, a gorgeous day, great weather for the big cherry blossom festival parade. mid 70s, then feeling like summertime. sunday and monday, could get storms tuesday, a bit cooler after that. have a great weekend. we'll see you monday morning. >> going to get out your kayak? >> i may do that. >> okay, that's "news4 midday" for today and for this week. we thank you for being with us. and invite you to tune in for news at 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, tonight at 11:00. we have news throughout the weekend. i'll be back monday morning at 11:00 a.m.