a sunday soaker, that rain we have been anticipating for days is finally moving in and it doesn't look like it will be going anywhere anytime soon. >> i am angie goff. welcome, everybody. it's april 22nd. the top story is the weather. it's what we have been talking about all weekend. >> and it's earth day on top of everything else. >> earth day is every day. >> yes, true.

yesterday we zoomed up to 82 degrees and all the bonus sunshine and then the rain came in and the temperatures plummeted and that's where we find ourselves this morning, there's a live picture outside. 55 in town and 56 in southern maryland. 55 fredericksburg. 48 in gaithersburg and frederick, and 46 in cumberland, maryland. rain showers are coming your way. light rain in and around most of the city in washington. look at the batch of rain down there around the border. that's the leading edge of low pressure that brought severe weather overnight. strong thunderstorms down there for the overnight hours.

that weather would be a good beach weather. temperatures, mid-50s and will fall. temperatures will fall during the course of the day back into the mid and upper 40s with plenty of rain showers coming down. and tomorrow, i don't know if we can make 50 degrees tomorrow when the high temperature is 70 now. so that's going to be the minus 20-degree kind of a day tomorrow. cold, wet, wind and rain, and that kind of stuff. did i mention somewhere out in western maryland, there might be a foot of snow. >> a foot? >> a foot. i would not be surprised if somebody out in garrett county did not have a foot of snow. nothing here in the metro, though. >> that's wild. thanks. new this morning. police are trying to determine what caused a crash that killed a man in montgomery county. it happened around 10:00 last night at mid county highway and

montgomery. detectives have not released the victim's name, but he was 30 years old and was the only person in that car. and a vicious dog attack that happened friday night along queen street. andre was getting home from work when he saw two dogs chasing teenagers. the dogs began to attack him when he tried to fight them off. >> both dogs were coming at me, and all i was doing is trying to protect me and my deck. i kept my arm up so the one could bite this one. >> he is now getting rabie shots. the police are still looking for

the dogs' owner. and the stabbing of two marines may have started with the homophobic slur. witnesses told police they heard 20-year-old michael poth make a slur. the two started fighting and that's when poth stabbed the man. the police showed up and arrested him and he is charged with second-degree murder. a carjacking turned into a kidnapping with two people locked in a trunk. it started yesterday morning in columbia heights and ended across the border in maryland. there was one major problem for the kidnappers. they didn't know how to drive the car. >> the police dogs and search teams were gone from this neighborhood, but the saturday morning quiet had been broken. >> my dogs are an alarm system

for us, and when they bark we know something is going on. >> actually an ordeal was ending for two people who had been car jacked and kidnapped. it began here in the 2300 block of champagne streets in columbia heights. a man and woman were standing near a honda civic which forced into the trunk of the car. the robbers discovered they could not operate the manual transmission. they took the man out of the trunk and made him drive. >> reporter: this is where police say the driver jumped from the vehicle while it was still running. he ran away to get police, and the suspects managed to get the vehicle into maryland heights. they abandoned the car with the woman still in the trunk. they don't know how long it took, but she managed to free

herself. >> and i saw the gray honda sitting in front of that home there, and i said, oh, my god, did somebody steal the car or just what? i didn't know what was going on and i didn't come out and ask. >> reporter: the woman was unharmed and the man suffered cuts and bruises while bailing out of the car. the suspects remain at large. media are staking out the jail near stanford, florida, for a glimpse of zimmerman. zimmerman's family is having trouble coming up with the bail of $150,000. he faces murder in the death of trayvon martin. the case sparked countless protest with many upset that police initially did not charge zimmerman. his lawyer said public outrage has made safety a concern for

his client. >> it's difficult in an open free society that we like living in, it's a little difficult, because i want to get him somewhere where he is safe and available to help me, but it's difficult. >> zimmerman's attorney says he hopes a release will happen by the middle of the week. he did not say if his client will stay in florida while waiting for a trial. today, a pastor banned from his historic church says he will hold sermon at a different location. his mother founded the church. since her death, joe has been in the battle with the church board over who controls the church and its money. the board says it had to fire

pepples to protect the church. a key figure in the watergate scandal has died. he had helped nixon's campaign. coleson spent seven months in prison. after his release, he founded prison fellowship. he spent the remaining years of his life helping ex-inmates. he died yesterday after surgery to fix a blood clot. he was 80 years old. we have wet weather moving in. >> yes, yes indeed. rain coming our way. i hope you enjoyed the sunshine-filled afternoon, because i will have a complete check of today's

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temperatures dropping, and some rain is going to be coming down too, right? >> this is just the tip of the iceberg for what we are in for for the next couple days. chilly rain settling in for the afternoon, but by tomorrow morning you will think we turned the calendar back. we had the warmest march ever, and it was normal for the month of april. april, we didn't miss march completely but just flipped the months around. this april has been all over the charts and it's going to be cold again in the month of april. the suburbs might have to concern themselves for frost and freeze looks for tuesday morning. we were 82 degrees yesterday. it's not going to stick to the ground here. but it might up into the high

spots. so 55 now in washington. winds have turned to the north at 14 miles per hour. yesterday that south breeze put us up to 82. and we will be in the low 50s and high 40s for the day. rain showers not too far away. there is your sunday planner filled with clouds and rain drops and temperatures falling as we go through the course of the afternoon today and into the evening. on storm radar, just spitz and drizzles around. and there is more where that came from. there is the rain showers along the northern neck. mostly wet along i-95 down into parts of eastern north carolina, though. that's where the heavy industrial-strength thunder showers are now. and there is snow in minnesota and maine and all the pocket of cold air will bring a chilly day

here tomorrow. heavy rain today, and heaviest rain starts at 3:00 or 4:00 this afternoon and runs up to midnight tonight, and then as the low pressure moves away, the cold air funnels back down on the side of it, and snow, no fooling at all, there might be six to ten or 12 inches of snow. nothing around town, again. kids you will go to school if you are in metro washington. i-95 will be the dividing line. at 6:00 this evening, an inch in washington, and 2.5 inches in southern maryland. tomorrow, generally rainfall amounts an inch and a half back

out to the west. temperatures holding steady are falling through the 50s today and into the upper 40s. tomorrow, cold, wet, breezy, nasty and ugly. you might as well go to work on a monday tomorrow. another chilly one tomorrow. so we have got stormy, chilly, and windy for the next three days. and they are replacing itchy, scratchy and sneezy. >> the commute tomorrow morning could be a little dicey. >> i would leave now. well, maybe not now but i would leave early. let's put it that way. a barriville woman is one of the winners for the prize. she claimed her prize friday. she will take home $1.4 million after taxes. she has not made any plans for spending that money.

>> yeah, that happens more often than we think, though. >> jennifer lopez' mom won the lottery price. >> well, two people. >> what are the odds? >> well, the capitals and the nationals and even the wizards were all in action yesterday, and they did not disappoint their fans. here is dan hellie with your sports minute. >> good morning, everybody. sports minute starts with game five. the caps and the bruins in boston. the game winner scored on a power play. they take the 3-2 series lead. they can close it out at verizon center this afternoon. game time, 3:00, you can watch it here on nbc 4. on the diamond, strausburg

pitches great, but doesn't get the win. the sac fly scores danny es paw know sea, and nationals win 3-2, and going for the series sweep this afternoon. how about the wizards? they are up eight at half-time, and they win the game and wizards take it, 86-84. their first three-game winning streak all season, and in fact their three-game winning streak since last april. everybody have a great weekend. next up is reporter's notebook. a look at stories affecting our community. >> for now, here is jim handly. welcome, everybody. we have a lot to talk about. let's start out in d.c. and the

topic of school reform. the chancellor calling for longer school days and extended school years. a five-year plan. is this going to be an uphill fight? >> well, that's a good question. i am glad you asked me that question. it could be. >> always a fight. >> could be. here is the reason. longer school days, people said they are doing better in charter schools and he wants kids to do better in the district schools, and extra hours and attention is the way to do it. you have to think about the teacher's union. initial responses from the teacher's union seems ton receptive they will try to work things out. if that holds this could be a major change in the district's school situation and many supporters of improved schools, a great improvement. >> parents have problems at

3:00, what do i do with my children? and then we have a lot of city presumes after 3:00. there is money that could be saved there because most of those programs are for children to occupy them until parents come home. day care centers. i mean, dave is right, this could cause a lot of uproar for a lot of people, but for the parents, for those responsible getting kids to school and back home after school, they should be in favor of it. >> they are competing against charter schools. because the charter schools are the ones that have the longer hours. sometimes they are special, elective-type programs. computer labs. that type of thing. teachers certainly might initially go for it, but what you hear your teacher union executives saying, they should

get paid, but the issue will be school closings, because people are very emotionally attached to certain schools in d.c. and certain neighborhoods. as the mayor pointed out, you may have to give up that attachment. schools are just not as occupied as they used to be, and some of the schools are under usized. there is also -- let me add, they are not only talking about the length of the day, but they are talking about extending the school year. >> exactly. >> you know, what is neuts abou our school year, it's based on the old-fashioned agriculture society. >> exactly. >> good point. one of the biggest problems -- getting back to joe's point about closing schools, and one of the flash points of the

administration, she had to make sure case, and that's a big issue. >> well, henderson has met with the teachers' union, and they have been talking. they will have to reform also the personnel structure in the schools if this goes through, when you talk about longer days and another longer year. and the reason why is because, you know, principals have to takeover search at the lunch day, because of the union. >> and chancellor says it will raise graduates. and there is the issue of bars and clubs staying open longer. you mentioned columbia heights. >> there are a whole lot of

neighborhoods. people in the neighborhoods feel they have been looked over because for years -- i know in columbia heights, several a and cs, advisory neighborhood commissioners as well as organizations have been fighting of the several quote, unquote, dives along columbia heights because they cause a lot of problems. for instance, not only columbia heights, but you have capitol hill, and also you have 8th street, which is a growing corridor of night clubs or night life. so people in the neighborhoods, residential areas are complaining. a lot of them saying, okay, we will go along with you, mr. mayor and mr. council with you on the extended hours, but put it where there's tourists, downtown, and not in the neighborhood. >> well, my thought is that's a messy way of doing it, because quite honestly all neighborhoods try to get tourists. u street, folks go down there.

you have the african-american civil war museum, but at the same time, it's a neighborhood. you have got a gallery place. china town. it's certainly a major attraction. some people say it looks like a mini times square. but it's also a neighborhood not far from penn station. here is where the rub is and nobody is paying attention to this, and that is who pays the piper. most of these council members get their financial contributions from where? bars. businesses. restaurants. i bet you that -- >> that's the problem. >> i bet you they are the ones that will win out. >> what about tax revenue from people who cannot sleep and are cleaning up the neighborhoods the next day? >> but you don't make contributions as much as businesses do. >> so the residents probably have less of a say in all this.

>> but the fact remains, the people who live in the neighborhood are the people who vote for the council members, who may not vote them back in. we figure a lot of the businesses are from the suburbs, and they don't vote in the city. >> and the neighbors have been fighting this. when these people close -- the patrons go back to the cars, and they drink outside their cars beers and etc., and they most likely urinate in front of your house or the alleys. >> aren't you being a little stereotypical in terms of where you are saying? >> no, i talked to too many people in columbia heights who have been fighting this problem for a long time, joe. property owners in many of the neighborhoods, they don't mind the bars, but the city will not work to keep people in the communities to make sure the

bars walk the line. >> but the police chief is saying they will add additional officers to make sure these things don't happen. >> they did when they had troubles at an added expense to the city. >> the bars in maryland close at 2:00 in the morning, can you rest assure georgia avenue will be crowded from silver spring into the district. >> my dad used to say nothing good happens after midnight, and after 3:00 a.m. i can't imagine what he would say. >> unless you own a bar. >> urinating out in the street, good lord. we have to take a break and we will pick it back up, and we will talk virginia and maryland too.

welcome back. let's move into maryland now, annapolis. a tough session for lawmakers there, dave. >> exactly. they did not finish up what they

started out to do, because we have unrevolved gases in the state, and basically the budget is hanging by hooks, because folks could not agree over gambling. other people in the state didn't want that extension. other people didn't like gambling because it's a tax on the poor. the whole thing got blown up, and now a prospect of the special session looms and whether they will be able to settle things remains to be seen. >> if they don't have a special session, or if nothing happens as dave is alluding to for this whole, what, year in maryland, if nothing happens, the counties could suffer. o'malley has been saying this will affect education and infrastructure, but last week somebody said if something doesn't come through it will hurt prince georges county, because monies will not trickle down. >> the counties will also have

to come up with a contingency budget. in essence, they will have two budgets. one is based on if there are the revenues there, and a state budget is reached, and then i guess they will have what some people refer to as a doomsday budget or contingency budget, and where are the cuts going to come from. but it's not only gambling revenue and that type of thing, but it was raising taxes on things that make over $100,000 a year, what to do with teacher pensions and splitting that. those are the real key points. but i suspect that the governor will get his special session, although republican leaders are saying they are going to hold out because they don't want it because they think it will lead to an automatic tax increase. so what do you have to do? find a consensus before a session is announced. >> but republicans have a

distinction, and democrats could vote things through as they wanted. and to talk about the session, they did the gay marriage thing, which will be subject to a referendum, and they redistricted roscoe bartlett, and donna edwards, and both of them did not like that very much. and beyond that, critics say it has been a do-nothing session. >> richmond got something done, but it was a struggle. that could be bad news for drivers in virginia. raised tolls on the dulles. >> but funding was not included and that's why the democrats thought they had something going in the senate, and all 20 of them voted against the budget, and the lieutenant governor cannot break a tie on the budget, and one of the guys caved and went to the other side, as critics say, now there is a budget but without serious

metro funding and that has the northern virginia area in an uproar. >> the fact that there will be some races affecting northern virginia. $2.25 toll could go up, and this affect on northern virginia because northern virginia -- not only do we talk about this as the purple state, northern virginia being the swing vote and things like that. it's heavy populated. the most populated is in virginia. >> well, it's the engine that drives the commonwealth of virginia. and i think that that's why people in fairfax, and in these counties and northern virginia, they always feel like they are being picked on. folks that live beyond these

counties, they don't really understand what some of us go through, just trying to get through the traffic, and get to work. you know, people have to get up at 3:00, 4:00 in the morning, and get their kids to a day care school, just to get to work on time, i just think the democrats were right in trying to do what they needed to do, but they failed on this one. >> while we are on budgets real quick, lieberman plans to introduce a bill giving d.c. more of a controlled ataupb me over the budget. >> lieberman feels the city needs to exercise the power. his companion as it were in the legislation in the house tried to pass a bill giving the city this, and it contained abortion right issues, so that will has not gone anywhere. but if they can get together and give the city more power and

congress is not worried about, you know, its role in the city being modified where they don't like it, this could be a great advance for the city. we will shave to watch and see what happens. >> normally, dave, we know that when these bills come up, they put the tags on it such as abortion rights and gun rights and these kinds of rights getting them through. e budg >> budget atonomy is hard, because they don't have to get approval from congress and they go bonkers when they hear we have to wait for somebody in mississippi, or georgia, or california to approve our budget. >> but the thinking is, even with the added issues, there are

some folks that wish to go ahead and try to get the law on the books and work on the other issues later, but we will see. >> i am glad lieberman did this, though. >> thank you, gentlemen. we appreciate it. good to see you on the sunday morning, and good to see you as well. now back to "news4 today." enjoy the rest of your weekend, everybody. hello, everyone. let's bring in our meteorologist, chuck bell, because the rain is here and it will only pick up, huh? >> it will be a good day to get yourself a hot cup of tea or coffee, and a good book, maybe "war and peace," something you can just breeze through, because it will be an intense day to be in the rain with the umbrella

being dragged along by breezes today. here is the live picture, the jefferson memorial illuminated in the brightness, still. the rain not too heavy around downtown. that will b changing, don't you worry. we are 55 in the national airport. the colder air is up to our north and west. cumberland, maryland, 46 degrees. 51 in martinsburg, but still 55 in fredericksburg and 55 in solomon's island. and a few sprinkles around town. moderate rain showers to the west of leesburg, not too far outside charles county. it's raining now from fredericksburg to annapolis there. there's a whole lot more rain down across southern virginia and down into the carolinas as well. the main area of low pressure is about ready to come off the

coast of jacksonville, florida. it's going to pick up the intensity big time. it will provide us with a very ugly stretch of weather. a lot of people don't like the rain on the weekend, but we need it. temperatures will actually hold steady or fall today back into the mid and upper 40s. tomorrow, it will be colder and won't rain quite as much tomorrow. but i think snowflakes will be flying tonight across western maryland. some places might get six inches or so of snow, but not here. i have to say that every time, no snow here. >> good to know. right now the fbi is joining the search of a 6-year-old girl in tucson, arizona. her disappearance is being called suspicious. she was last seen in her bed at 11:00 friday night. her parents say they discovered she was gone around 8:00

saturday morning. investigators are looking into all scenarios, including isabel wandered out of the home and was kidnapped. police in new york are searching for clues in the 30-year-old disappearance of a 6-year-old boy. they have been tearing a basement apart in hopes of solving a mystery. >> working into the weekend, police investigators in new york continued their efforts to close the cold case disappearance of ataupb paeuts. for days, the forensic team has been tearing apart a basement where the 6-year-old disappeared. each piece of ruble could hold the key to closing the troubling case. after tearing down walls and breaking up the floor, searchers were literally sifting through the dirt for clues.

>> a lot of careful work is going to be done. precise, detailed deliberate work will be done. >> his appearance is national news then and it is again today 33 years later. for years the suspicion was on ramos, but attention now focused to miller, a handyman that used the basement that is now being searched. >> i am not saying anything about that involvement. >> police declined to say what brought them back to the neighborhood or whether the case is nearing a conclusion. in new york, hope, and lots of resolutions in the search. and then according to the

"new york times," walmart new mexico accepted bribes. walmart issued a response saying it is working aggressively to determine exactly what happened. right now, it's 6:38. david gregory is joining us to break down this weekend's politics. and then long term and expensive contracts. what you can do to avoid getting locked up. what this man was shooting at and what garth him so fired achoo! nasal allergy symptoms

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welcome back. election day is now less than seven months away and it appears romney will face president obama

in the general election. the president holds a sizeable lead over the governor in the latest wall street general poll. >> joining us now is the moderator of "meet the press." good morning, david. we know obama is seen as the more likeable candidate. >> people want the president to succeed and they do like him, and they don't agree with the policies, and because of the pessimisms in the country, that weighs on president obama and makes him subject to the whims of the job reports, and the economic conditions. there's fear the spring into the summer where the economy flat lines again, it could spell real trouble. >> romney did do better in the polls when it comes to the state of the economy. but he has room to make up when

he walk about the gap with woman, and the enthusiasm gap as well. >> among social conservatives that's an issue among independent voters and hispanic voters. romney has a lot of room to make up. the economy alone is what creates conditions in the post election. romney has room to go as a candidate, and i think he will hear as we get into the next weeks and months when we sort of settle into a general election race, he will try to be focused and keep this about jobs. >> i was going to ask, how much of his selection of a running mate will affect him, because there's a lot of talk about that? >> we will talk about it on the roundtable on "meet the press" this morning. the question is, will he play it safe or go for a game change moment. what is he looking for? i think he will try to do no harm with his pick and there will be a lot of focus on this

in a way that will be more important than the pick itself. >> and today's show, the whole secret service scandal, it's a mess. >> it's a mess because it's an on going investigation. i still think that there is a lot of feeling of what were these guys thinking. darryl issa and peter king, we will see where this goes. all of this angst and frustration with government spills over into the president even though he is not directly involved with any of this. >> what is coming up on "press pass." >> we will talk with jay leno, a rare conversation with comedy and he compares democrats to republicans, and that will come up after the program. >> turn the tables on him. >> yeah, and david axelrod with the president's campaign will with with us, too.

we will head over where chuck has more on the soaker we are expecting today. >> absolutely right. everybody get your rain gear ready to go. the showers are moving northbound

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opening statements are expected to start tomorrow in two high profile cases. a retrail is happening here for roger clemens. he faces perjury and obstruction of congress charges. he is accused of lying about using performance enhancing drugs. in a statement, clemens denies he told a teammate he took a

human growth hormone. and ironic klee, prosecutors allowed some of that statement which led to a pretrial. and then john edwards will face a federal jury. the two-time senator is accused of miss handling campaign money to cover up an affair. he faces six criminal counts. the mistress, rielle hunter, could testify for the defense. that trial is expected to last six weeks. police in new mexico are searching for a man that opened fire on a mobile speed camera. a man pulled up and steps out in what appears to be a nightgown and starts shooting at the van. as you can see, the camera was perfectly fine. santa fe police say they are

confident they will be able to identify the man soon. >> i am sure a lot of people can relate to that feeling, that frustration, and i don't know if we would take it to that point but you can understand where he is coming from. >> maybe he should have just stolen the van, but that's not a good idea either. >> and not many men can pull off a nightgown. >> i am have nightgown and a .38. where is that cam? >> well, you should be slowing down with the wet roads out there today, and be ready for a soggy sunday afternoon, and not so pretty of a start to work and school week as well as tomorrow doesn't look like anything similar to what we have been enjoying. remember 82 and sunny yesterday? no more of that. it could be two weeks or so before we could get back close to 80 degrees. a pattern change has emptied the

warm out out of the coast and ushered in the cooler temperatures. 55 at the airport after a 82 day yesterday. and for temperatures this morning, upper 40s to low and mid-50s around the area. temperatures will hold steady here through the morning hours, but as the heavier rain moves in this afternoon and this evening, temperatures tend to fall back down into the upper 40s and low 50s by later this afternoon. heaviest rain is coming in this evening. a ban of light to moderate showers down south of annapolis. this is all lifting northbound, so it will be wet in and around the capital beltway here in the next couple hours. heavy rain down across north carolina and south carolina, and the main apparent area of low pressure, that's also racing northbound. here is the way it breaks down. heavy rain moving north this

morning, and in here by mid to late morning today. heaviest of the rain showers starts about 3:00 or 4:00, or 5:00 this afternoon and runs to 11:00 tonight. and then the area of low pressure turns tonight and then an april snowstorm. this could be a big power outage problem for weeks in western and southern pennsylvania. you folks in western maryland might get six inches or more out of the snow thing before it's done. might get a conversational snowflake, and i don't think it will be in the city of washington but it could be close. heaviest showers coming in this evening and we could have an inch the by the time sun goes down. a whole lot more on i-95 eastbound. an inch to inch and a half out

to the west. tomorrow, an ugly, cold, windy, breezy, nasty day to be outside. might as well go back to work tomorrow, and staying notably colder. not a single number on the seven-day forecast at or above average, and not even close. minus 15 today, and minus 20 tomorrow. get out the coat. robin gibb is showing signs of improvement after showing more than a week in a coma. the singer can nod his head and communicate with family members. the 62-year-old got pneumonia and fell into a coma last week. gibb founded the bee gees with his twin brother and older brother back in the '70s. home break-ins are often a crime of opportunity.

many choose to pay for home security systems. be warned, locking out criminals could leave you locked in a long-term contract. >> james hadly is talking about his home security system. two years ago there was a knock at his door, somebody selling home security with free installation. >> the house had an old-fashioned security system that basically wasn't working anymore. so when they came to the door, i thought, why not, it's going to be free, and it's, you know -- great pitch. >> so hadly agreed to a new home security system and signed a contract, a five-year contract. >> about $45 a month, they get your credit card and they take it out every month. >> $45 a month for five years, $2,700. but then his plans changed. >> i found a beautiful house and i wanted to move. when i tried to get them to

settle the account, they told me no. you have to pay the full five year contract. >> when you signed this, did you have any idea that you might want to move out of silver spring? >> no. >> hadly decided to rent his old house and could have turned his contract over to the renters, but the renters didn't want the system. >> you have got a five-year contract. how much more money do you owe them? >> $1,600. >> for nothing happening? >> services are not rendered. >> if you move, you may still be stuck with the contract. >> consumers are remined to read the fine print. >> if you don't like the contract and you can't negotiate to get a better contract, don't do business with the firm. the fact that you are prepared to do that may enable you to

negotiate very effectively. >> also, bewary of door to door sales. >> you are better off to check out the firms independently, and either talk with friends and neighborhoods who have firms they are satisfied with, or, of course, use checkbook.org. >> they surveyed thousands of home security customers and checked out complaints filed. >> the difference with the satisfaction and the quality of the work, and how convenient it is to use the system and etc. and dramatic differences in price. >> when comparing prices in one case, checkbook found the same installation including three years of monitoring service ranged from 2,634 to $6,545. >> the status is i owe $1,600.

>> how do you feel about it? >> i am angry. i could use that doing other things. >> he has prevailed in getting a refund from the security company. for more information on how to choose a company, just visit nbcwashington.com and search on home security. >> definitely good information there. >> yeah. >> you hate to go broke protecting yourself from being robbed blind. >> can you say that again. >> today, if you head out you want to grab the umbrella for sure. >> have that in one hand and another warm device in another

good morning, everyone. i am angie goff. >> i am richard jordan. we are checking up on the top stories tonight. we are working to learn the name of a man killed in a crash in montgomery county. he lost control of his nissan altima around 10:00 last night and hit a tree in the median. nobody else was in the car and police say the victim was 30 years old. a homophobic slur may have led to a deadly stabbing involving two marines.

one man died at the hospital. poth in charged with second-degree murder. >> and then a key figure in the watergate scandal has died. he spent seven months in prison and he died yesterday after surgery to fix a blood clot. charles coleson was 80 years old. we will introduce chilly today and cold tomorrow. in fact, today might be a good day to make a pot of chili at the house. be ready for this. temperatures in the low 40s and upper 50s right now to get your sunday started. light showers in and around the

shenandoah valley. and sprinkles into parts of southern maryland. that's the leading edge of what i promise will be a leading storm up the coastline here in the next 24 hours or so. and the pressure is racing up the coast and should be passing us by about midnight tonight. 18 from now it will be zipping up the coast. clouds, rain and nastiness for today and tomorrow. bundle up and stay dry, and drive slow. >> probably stay inside. >> a lot of people like to go to the movies. i know there is a few people. >> we are so excited about the gaps. >> definitely rock the red today if you can. i am not a good example. >> i got it. >> yeah, you got it covered. next is nbc's "viewpoint," and we will be back with an update. welcome. today we are talking about the celebrating heroes triathlon and

the great work of medstar rehabilitation network. our guest this morning, chase baker, a t triathlon athlete, and the big race is coming up on the 24th of june. in this half hour we will share a web address or phone number for people that want to sign up and get involved. let's talk about the goal of the triathlon. >> as a sports events organization, our goal has been to partner with different types of charities and be able to forward a mission. so partnering with the national rehabilitation hospital was near and dear with us, and we work a lot with triathlon athletes, and so when we had the opportunity to really work together within our age, it seemed like it was

just a great fit to be able to forward the work that nrh does and how it impacts peoples' lives. >> as a doctor, what is your role as a physician? >> as a physician, you are there in case there is any emergencies or any just common medical conditions that come up. coming race day, some people may have a cough or cold, sprained ankles, anything along that line. road rash, if they fall. any problems with swimming. the majority of the aspects we'll be treating at that time will be your general aches and pains and you hope there's no emergencies, but we will be ready for anything that comes our way. >> and getting people ready is a big goal, too, or part of the mission because you have clinics going on, and some training beforehand, is that right? >> when you are doing a triathlon it takes training beforehand, and some people may have over use injuries while

they are training so they need to be addressed adequately so they can maximize the recovery so that come race day they are fully capable of competing the race without injury. >> compete something nothing new to you, and you set records yourself, chase. tell us your story if you would. you were 18 years old in high school or coming out of high school? >> yes, i was 18 in high school. i fell asleep one night driving home and i ran off the road and hit a tree head on. i was driving a full sized truck, and the truck frame broke in two places and just smashed me in the middle. the engine came back and crushed my legs. my leg that is amputated, i actually have a metal rod with 13 screws holding my femur together, and my other leg was

broken in three days. i was in a coma for 17 days in the hospital. so at first they tried to save my leg, and then after three days they had to amputate it, and then i spent 27 days in the hospital, and then another year in a wheelchair with this -- my left leg being in a full cast. of course, this one being amputated. i got on crutches, and then after crutches for a couple months, and then i got my first artificial leg and i started walking again. from there, you know, i went to ohio state and entered college, and i was always athletic. i was a swimmer since i was 5. >> right. >> i played football in high school. i continued with the athletics, and i joined a master's swim team at ohio state and i started swimming again. i was always a good distance free style swimmer.

so there is a lot of try athletes on master swim teams learning to swim because they are cyclist or runners. these guys on my team came to me and said, hey, you know, you are a good distance swimmer, and we're -- i am a good cyclist and he is a good runner, why don't we make a relay team and we can do the triathlon thing. other than the iron man, i had never seen a triathlon before. i started to go to the local races and competing in, you know, just doing the swim and relays. i think i did that four times. i was like, you know, this is not that hard, you know? the swim is easy. >> you got hooked. >> yeah. i had mountain biked all over school, because ohio state is big, so i biked everywhere. the only thing i had to do is get a leg i could run in. so i went back and started -- i got a leg that i could run in. and then in '98, right after i

graduated college i competed in my first triathlon. >> and you haven't stopped since. >> no, i haven't stopped since. i got better legs and bikes. fp >> we will take a look later, and you brought some things in you would like to share with us. doctor, the early part of getting back, so to speak, you know, together and out there, becoming active, how do you inspire somebody who is, i guess, in the early phase or stage of recovering from their injury to let them know that this is all possible for you, and if they are wondering what can i do and what will i be able to do? >> when somebody sustains a significant injury such as chase, we go through the typical medical recovery, and we talk about the rehabilitation aspects for somebody with limb loss. we talk about prosthetic gait

training. it's good to have people like piece that serves as an adviser at area hospitals, and we have people like him where we can bring him in front of the soldiers or other injured people and discuss this is the recovery process and this is what i am doing now. not only are we talking about the medical aspects but we want to focus on the social aspects and the social return, and having them see everything they can do in life, and it will take training but we will get you there. we may need a different adaptive equipment, and chase was mentioning with the different sports he was doing, he needed a different prosthetic device for each event, and through medical

evaluation and technology, we were able to do those things and get our injured participants back out there, and so right now is a great time for adaptive sports. it's blossoming with the strength of the perry olympic movement. we will address who can take part and what people need to know about getting involved. we want to put up the web address and phone number. if you would like to take part, ♪

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there? it's not too late to sign up. >> no, not too late to sign up. anybody can take part in the triathlon. if you are 12 years of age, you can be on a relay team. if you want to join mom or dad, you know, or your brother or sister, you can be on a team and compete whether you swim, bike or run. it's over a 6.2-mile swim, and a 5k run. we encourage everybody to train for this type of event, and it's not something you just jump into. >> how much training does go into that? how rigorous is that? is that something you have to do months or a year leading up to? >> well, for this distance of a race, you know, depending on your athletic ability, you could probably train, you know, for a couple months and then compete in the race, you know, like for a longer distance race you would be looking like -- something

like an iron man would take a year or more to train for. >> you have done two of those? >> i have done one iron man and two half iron phapbz. >> let's look at what you brought in. >> this is myroni running leg. how it bends, it's like a cheetah. when you come down on the weight, it springs back. it is all carbon fiber, you know, and titanium up here. it's not very heavy. it's very light. >> compare the sensation and the feeling to your left leg, when you are running with that. is one stronger or more flexible, obviously, or what? >> this one is like running on a spring, you know. if you had like a spring-loaded shoe on one side and not the

other, that's what this would be like. it only wants to run. and then it's funny, because i will, like, run with my wife, right, and when we go downhill, you know, she would be like, hey, you know, why are you picking up the pace and running away from me and she would make fun of me, and it's like i cannot slow down, there is no heel or no leaning back on hills or whatever. when i run down the hill, i am as fast as i can go, and a lot of times i will have to stop or slow down so i don't stumble because it just wants to go. >> i bet. what else you have brought, too, while we are showing these. >> and this is my leg for biking. there is no foot on it. don't need the added weight or anything else. it's just straight, all the force going straight down. it clips into the pedal here so it locks and won't come off. it's straight up and down.

>> like biking shoes, they clip in, too. it's an up and down movement over and over. which is your favorite of the three phrases? >> swim. >> swim. since 5 years old, yeah. >> i love the swim, because most races i would do, i would be the second or third out of the water, and people would be like, owe my gosh, that guy gets out of the water and he only has one leg. to be able to beat all of the other people who have two legs -- >> all the able-bodied thing. >> i will talk about the competitive gene coming up later, and i imagine that helps in a lot of ways. doctor, tell us about how technology has made your job a lot easier and really transformed lives? >> oh, yes. in sports medicine specifically nowadays, whether you are talking about adaptive athletes

with technology for using sports devices or computerized legs, and having a swivel component or upper extreme tea portions, and so you know, the technology that we utilized in the clinic, we could look at an injury, so while they are training if they are having tendonitis, we can look at it live in the office and not only do a physical exam and be able to see the tendon live right there with the patient. we could have them move their foot up and down. if they sprained their ankle, we could see it there dynamicly live, instead of having them come back a few days later. it's really helping with the

overall early identification of injuries so we can begin early treatment. there's great feedback when you can see it immediately and show them in the clinic, and you can hit pause and freeze it and here is the fluid in the tendon, and now we are able to see it and treat you right there and it helps with a lot of feedback. we have to take a break. when we come back, we want to talk about what the experience is like. if you want to learn more about the triathlon coming up in june, go to the website or call the

i am angie goff. here are some of the stories we are following this sunday morning. montgomery county police are investigating a deadly crash. police say a driver lost control of his car on montgomery village

avenue and hit a tree in the median and died at the scene. police say the victim was 30 years old. nobody else was in the car. d.c. police say a homophobic color may have led to a deadly stabbing involving two marines. one died at the hospital. a key figure in the watergate scandal died. he helped to run nixon's re-election campaign and he hired men to burglarize the national committee democratic offices in 1972. we will have your forecast in about 15 minutes. we are talking about the celebrating heroes triathlon coming up in howard county on june 24th. tell us about what you need. you need volunteers. who can take a part in this and get involved? >> we always can use volunteers,

so that's great. can you come out and do a variety of things. there's aid stations. you can help athletes like chase when they get out of the water, they will need help being able to get their different types of equipment to them, and we call them handlers. you will take their leg at swim start and then meet them at swim finish, and you can help somebody succeed with a goal they have set. we need people to come and cheer people on, which is an exciting thing. it's always fun to have people cheering when you are coming across the finish line or coming out of the swim area and getting on your bike. between volunteering and being able to help with the actual race and coming out and cheering, that's a great opportunity. >> it's very inspiring to watch. you get up in the morning and you think you are having a bad day, and somebody comes out of the water and they have one leg, it puts a lot of things in

perspective. >> you have the competitive gene, chase, and how much does that help when you are getting ready for these things? >> being competitive is good. one of the things i liked about the triathlon, on the back of your calf they write your category and age. >> okay. >> like when you run in the running part, you might say that guy ahead of me is in my category, so if i beat him i could be ahead. it's competitive in that way. >> talk about sports and how it helps bring people from all walks together and builds self-esteem and independence, too. >> with sports in general, there is independent sports and team sports. with the independent sports, even though they may be competing individually, and they talk about the team and relay

events. so one of the great things that you have is you have the specific goal that you can obtain and you can work towards that over time with training and you can maximize your great effort. with teamwork and team-related sports, you get the camaraderie that you have with it. you can work on personal goals and you see yourself as part of a larger entity. >> chase, if you would, and i know we started from the beginning in your story, but tell us what it was like when you got your first prosthetic and the first steps and to see the progress you were able to make all along the way. >> when i got my first leg and took the first steps, you know, it's painful at first because of the leg fitting on to your knee or whatever, and i guess for me,

it was funny, it was like, here is crutches and here is your leg, and walk with crutches. i walked with crutches for a day, and then i went to one crutch for a day and then i walked with a cane for two days and then after that i was like, i just limp really bad and people will wonder what is wrong with that guy or whatever. it was just like i didn't want to have no more wheelchair or crutches, just me walking. >> and step by step, there is no going back then. >> no. >> i noticed chase almost broke my hand shaking it. i have watched several time tennis, paralimb pick tennis. do you find that building strength around the rest of your body is critical? >> oh, definitely. well, you lose some of your

muscle mass of your overall body, and so in order to compensate for that, you need to build strength in other portions of your body. and so often times what you will see in some of the individuals, particularly in the wheelchair athletes, they are using their wheelchairs as a primary means of mobility. that provides more endurance to those body parts and also builds mass. when you are exercising, you are focusing on strengthening your upper body. >> and your cardiois in tiptop shape. they don't get winded. they keep going and going. >> the cardiosras cuer exercise with the upper remedies is more tasking with your heart than

with your lower extremities. when you are using machines, you get a lot more cardiovascular exercises. when somebody goes back and maybe going through cardiac rehabilitation and they may be a carpenter, and when they are using upper extremities more, they will make certain they can tolerate that type of work before you send them back to full duty. >> we talk about getting ready to be active again in sports and athletics, but getting them back in lifestyle and jobs is critical and probably even more of a priority for a lot of people, too. we want to take more one break,

welcome back.

chase you were commenting during the break how you were inspiring other people and you were inspired when you received your injury. what a difference that makes to seep you are not alone and you just have been injured, for people that you have met with, walter reed for one. >> yeah, for myself, it was huge to see other people that, you know, had lost legs in similar situations and see like what they can do. for me, being competitive, i always said well if they can do that then i can do it better. i hope that visiting soldiers in walter reed and other people in rehabilitation hospitals and friends of friends or whatever, people we talk to on the phone, i hope those people that i talked to does the same thing, if that guy can do it then i can do it better. >> tell us about the different conditions and injuries you treat? >> well, the rehabilitation

network is comprised of clinics and hospitals in the d.c. and virginia region. we treat a wide variety of injuries, stroke, spinal cord injury, pain management and what my primary focus is, spine and sports related injuries. >> let's wrap up and drive this home. on the 24th, who can take part and get involved? >> anybody can come out and participate in the triathlon. they can compete independently or relay teams. we hope people will come out and see what is happening in the whole movement. >> it's not howard county. where are we talking about? >> centennial park. >> if you want to learn more, go to the web address that we want to flash up on the screen one

more time. and a phone number, too. again, can you take part of this, and it's all for the medstar rehabilitation network. now back to "news4 today." enjoy the rest of your weekend, everybody. good morning, everyone. i am richard jordon. i am angie goff. >> it looks like dramatically wet weather is on the way. i am saying dramatic, because it's something we are not used to. >> yeah, it has been a long, long time since we had anything like this. only once have we had more than an inch of rain since the beginning of the year. i think most everybody should get an inch of rain over the next 24 hours, and some folks,

especially down into southern maryland might get three or four inches of rain in the next 34 to 26 hours. for now it's cloudy and drizzly and nasty outside. temperatures are not going to respond at all today. in fact, if anything they will slide backwards in the upper 40s and low 50s. rain off and on and the heaviest rain moves in from 4:00 to midnight tonight. and then we will be stuck with the cold air and drizzle and light rain showers on and off through tomorrow. i don't think we will be able to crack 50 degrees for any more than a few minutes tomorrow. so heavy rain this afternoon and into tonight, and then not a lot of heavy rain on monday but with a strong westerly breeze and lots of cold around, it will be an ugly stretch around here. and yes, indeed, it will snow in maryland. >> here? >> western maryland. way western maryland. but still, snow in april, it's

just absolutely wonderful from a weather guy's perspective, fun to have all of this going on, but it will be an ugly stretch. drive slow and careful because it's going to be mean. >> thank you, chuck. this morning police are trying to determine what caused a crash that killed a man in montgomery county. the accident happened around 10:00 last night at montgomery village avenue in mid county highway. police say the driver lost control of his nissan and hit a tree. the man was the only person in the car. this morning a man is recovering from a vicious dog attack. the attack happened friday night along queen street. andre hawthorne said he was getting home from work when he saw two dogs, and he describes them as pit bulls, chasing two

teenagers. he tried to fight the dogs off and the dogs began then to attack him. >> i fell down, so both dogs were coming at me, and all i was doing is trying to protect was my face and neck and i kept the arm up so one dog could grab this one. >> hawthorne was bit on his hands and arms. he is getting rabie shots. a u.s. marine is in jail after a deadly stabbing in southeast washington. we told you about the homicide along pmarine barics row. there was a homophobic slur against the 23-year-old, and the two started fighting and then there was a stabbing. the victim died at the hospital.

and a kidnapping in columbia heights. there was one major problem for the kidnappers. they didn't know how to drive the car. >> the police dogs and search teams are gone from the neighborhood, but the quiet had already been broken. >> my dogs are an alarm system for us and when they bark we know something was going on. >> actually an ordeal was ending for two people that had been car jacked and kidnapped. it began here in columbia heights. it was about 6:00 in the morning, and the victims, a man and woman were standing near a honda civic when they were forced to the ground by two men. they went through the victims' pockets and then forced them in the trunk of the car, but the robbers discovered they could not operate the manual transmission and they took the man out of the trunk and made

him drive. >> reporter: this is where police say the driver jumped from the vehicle while the vehicle was running and he went to get police. and the suspects got the car a little further. they abandoned the car with the woman still in the trunk. they don't know how long it took, and she managed to free herself and was found by police. >> i saw the gray honda sitting in front of that home there, and i thought, oh, my god, did somebody steal the car or what? i didn't come out and ask. >> the man suffered cuts and bruises from bailing out of the car, and despite an intense search of the neighborhood around 60th avenue and fairmount heights, the suspects remain at large. defense attorneys say it could be days before zimmerman gets out of jail. his family is coming up with the collateral for the bail set at

$150,000. he faces second-degree murder. zimmerman claims he shot the unarmed teen in self defense. many are upset police did not initially charge zimmerman. >> i think there is still a lot of emotions wrapped around the case and we are worried some of the emotions are still negative and that may play out against george. >> zimmerman's attorney says he hopes a release will happen by the middle of the week. a pastor banned from his family's historic church says he will hold services at a different location. the pastor led one of the region's chargest churches. his mother founded the church. since her death, joel has been in the legal battle over the

management and money. the board says they had to fire him to protect the church. he plans to hold a service at the metro points hotel in new carrollton. a prominent member of the nixon white house who became a key figure in the watergate scandal has died. he spent seven months in prison for trying to discredit the man hide the pentagon papers. after his released he founded prison fellowship. he died yesterday after surgery to fix a blood clot. he was 80 years old. and the time right now is 7:38. it was caught on tape. a man gets out of his car and then opens fire. what he was shooting at that got him so fired up. it could be one of the best days in recent d.c. sports

history. highlights of the caps, the nats

tomorrow opening statements begin in two high profile cases. a retrail in the district for roger clemens. he is accused of lying about using performance enhancing drugs. he faces perjury and obstruction of congress charges. the government wants to keep one recorded exchange out of court between clemens and a congress man. clemens denies he told a teammate he took a human growth hormo hormone. clemens could get a 30-year prison sentence if convicted. tomorrow, john edwards will face a federal jury. the two-time senator is accused of misusing campaign money to hide an affair with an aide while he ran for president in 2008. edwards acknowledged he fathered

the child in 2010. the former democratic senator faces six counts. the trial is expected to last six weeks. almost four years since the 2008 election, and there are hundreds of cases of voter fraud in virginia. so far 38 people have been charged, and 26 have been convicted. state police say most of the charges included people lying on registration forms and illegally casting their ballots. the "today" show is next and starts at 8:00. >> lester holt joins us live. >> coming up, we will talk about the stormy weather and the big system hitting the east coast today. it's predicted up to 10 inches of snow. we will get the latest. and then the latest on a

6-year-old arizona girl that vanished from her bedroom, and searchers are scouring the area for clues in what is obviously a suspicious case. we will preview john edwards's criminal trial. he is accused of using campaign money to cover up an extra marital affair. and "ghost," the story is becoming a broadway musical. we will see you later on today. this morning, walmart is responding to allegations it skel muched an internal bribery in mexico. they used bribes to obtain permits all over the country to build stores quickly and to dominate the market. walmart issued a response saying

it is working aggressively to determine what happened. a volleyball that washed up in alaska may be the first debris to wash up from last year's tsunami in japan. the sports equipment was traced back to a japanese school hit by the tsunami. a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on march of 2011 triggered a wall of water that flattened towns. 16,000 people were killed and 3,000 people were never located. crazy to think that so much time has passed and now this stuff is showing up. >> not just little things like that that float, but huge pieces of debris. there is a huge circular current that is literally a debris field that came off of the japanese coast that has been able to stay

afloat. ships are very aware of where that debris field is. for us, it may rain around here for a change. we will talk about

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>> yeah, and you said it was a sampling of what is in store for the rest of the day. >> what you see is what you get outside today. you have no chance of seeing a single ray of sunshine today. i don't think you will see one tomorrow. you may not see one on tuesday. >> what are you holding out for? come on! >> why go on? because we must. outside, nasty weather out there for today. we might get more than an inch of rain, and it will be the second time this year we have had an inch or more on a single day. the only other day we had rain, leap year, february 29th. before that, pearl harbor day, december 7th. we had more than three inches of rain back in december and have not had any real heavy rain since then other than the february 29th event. for today, rain on the way. 53 in washington. wind out of the north averaging

16 miles per hour. the north to northwesterly breeze draining the cold air further south. we will not see any rise in temperatures today. we are trending downward, and i think that trend will continue in the afternoon. temperatures are now as warm as they will be, and we will draft back to near 50 by 6:00 this evening. moderate rain into parts of southern maryland. light sprinkles out towards martinsberg. there is more than enough rain down the coast to keep us on the soggy side all day long today. the main area of low pressure driving this mess is off the jacksonville and north carolina coastline right now. here is the way the next 48 hours will shape up. heavy rain moving in along the warm front. it will be warmer for folks out

at the beach today. heaviest of the rain shows up after 4:00 or 5:00 this afternoon, and into about the 11:00 midnight timeframe tonight. and then once it heads northbound in new york and new england, the cold air spills down behind it. we will get april snowflakes in the mountains of west virginia. six inches or more possible in far western maryland. this could be a big problem. the trees are already out in full leaf and snow on top of that there could be power outage issues. by 3:00 this afternoon, moderate to heavy rain moving in. rainfall amounts, by 8:00 tonight, an inch and a half on the ground in washington. so here we go. your forecast for today, what you see is what you get? cloudy, windy, wet and chilly today. as much as three inches of rain

east of i-95 today. tomorrow, might as well go to work. cold, wet, breezy and nasty. snow mixing in higher elevations tomorrow. the high spots of loudoun county and northern maryland might have to worry about conversational snowflakes and far western maryland and into pennsylvania, they may have to worry about snow and get a snow day. not here, though. >> bee gee singer is tphnow awa. the 62-year-old got pneumonia. he fell into a coma last week. the group helped to define the disco era with hits like

"stayin' alive" and "night fever." and a man opens fire at a mobile speed camera. the camera caught a man pulling up in his car last week. he steps out in what appears to be a nightgown, and the van had damage to the windshield and roof. santa fe police say they are confident they will be able to identify the man soon. if you are a caps fan or nationals fan or wizards fan, you are probably waking up in a good mood this morning. >> all three local teams put on impressive shows yesterday. dan hellie has highlights. >> the capitals, the team that barely made the playoffs, one win away from knocking off the second highest scoring team in

hockey, and, oh, yeah, the defending stanley cup champions. today they have a chance to close out the series at verizon center at 3:00. can you watch it here on nbc 4. and backstrom back after his suspension, and the capitals lit the lamp twice in the second. the shot is off the mark, but simmons has not. he has now scored a goal in three straight playoff games. and three minutes later, you could just sense the frustration of the bruins. but boston is good, and they tied it newspaper a hurry. fast-forward to the third period, ward shoots here, but the rebound bounces out. he gets credit for the goal and

the ex-bruin puts them up on top. late in the third period, and this time it's the capitals in the power play. and then the game winner fired home. the garden crowd was stunned. the capitals lead the series and has a chance to close out the series at verizon center this afternoon. >> it's an idea situation. we will be playing at home tomorrow. got to go home and use all the energy we can get for the fans. every single player will need it. we will feel tired tomorrow, i assume. we have to, you know, win that game. >> we know if we play our best, we will have a chance to win every night. we are trying to come out and play our best, and, you know, now we have a chance to close it out at home. it should be a good game. >> that's when a lot of experience comes to play in these types of situations. hopefully i can share mine with the guys, and they have been in game sevens and sicks and games

you need to win to close out other teams, and teams come out and they are very desperate to win that game. you know, for us, i kind of like how we got a quick turn around and we have a good feeling and can turn it again tomorrow. folks, if this is a dream, don't wake me up. almost in may and there is not a team in baseball with more wins than our nationals. yesterday they went off script after strausburg pitched another gem, but they managed to win another one-run game. number 37 gets the job done. top of the second, strausburg strikes out sanchez. he goes six innings. still scoreless in the sixth. sanchez was killing until now. desmond said give me all of

that. nationals on top, 1-0. and strausburg said come on, we got your back. and then jayson werth with his first home run of the year. nationals on top, 2-0. and then top of the ninth, brad lidge to close it out. oh, no, lidge is a little shaky. a two-run shot to the second deck for more sun. a blown save. we are tied at two and going into extras. bottom of the tenth, and desmond at the dish and he delivers. plenty deep, the sac fly, and the throw coming home ain't going to be in time. the nationals win it 3-2 and improve to 12-4 on the season. in seattle, the white sox at the mariners. one out away from the perfect game. the 3-2 pitch to ryan. check swing. that's strike three. the catcher tracks it down and

throws it to first and that's the game. chicago wins it 4-0, as that's the first perfect game in two years, and his first career complete game happens to be a perfect one. >> the wizards visiting the heat riding a rare two-game winning streak. lebron james and chris bosh out and resting for the playoffs, and wade would be resting, too. he dislocated his finger. and crawford pummeled by miller. we are tied at 84, and looks like the wizards will blow another game.

but then, wizards go up by two with five-tenths of a second to go. and how about the wizards? they now have won three straight for the first time all season, for the first time since last april, picking a good time i guess, or not. that's your sports. i am dan hellie. everybody have a great weekend. >> where is your caps red? >> i was banning on you wearing it, so -- i am putting it on later for the game. >> the "today" show is coming up next. >> that wraps it