walking in my room and asking where my monane drugs were. he showed me the gun, told me he wasn't here to hurt me. >> this is 911. he said, i've been robbed. among other things taken was my marijuana. >> reporter: it happened on curry place, a cul de sac not too far from the campus of the university of maryland. in fact, the place where it happened that house over there. a group house occupied by present and former students at maryland university. around 1:00 this afternoon police said three men, all with masks, two with guns, go inside the house and make demands. they want money. they want valuables. they want keys to a car. only two men were in the house

when it happened. but it didn't take long for the crooks to cash in. so what did they get? money. computers. cell phones. a honda crv and, oh, yes, an undetermined amount of marijuana. >> we do believe that the motive for this robbery was drug related. >> reporter: police spent hours at the house today talking to the victims and collecting evidence, trying to figure out who may have done this. in the meantime, this reaction from the neighbors. >> ridiculous. i can't believe it. we never have anything in this neighborhood. >> scary now. i thought it was very safe here. we have kids. it's just very scary. >> reporter: among the items stolen a 2003 silver honda crv with maryland plates, 1 aa 9783 with the university of maryland logo on the back. the investigation continues on.

as you might imagine, police have a lot of questions they want answered out here. live in prince george's county, pat collins, news 4. new developments tonight in an accident robbery scheme. tonight police in montgomery county are releasing photos of one of the men involved. police say they are investigating two cases. drivers were intentionally rammed from behind so they would get out of their cars. they both happened earlier this month on jones lane in potomac. in one of the cases a man was bound with duct tape, thrown into the trunk of his car, and forced to withdraw money from several atms. no bail for a man accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend in prince george's county. 22-year-old nathan rogers was arrested this weekend charged with first-degree murder for the death of 23-year-old jazmine moss. police say she was stabbed to death. her body was thrown in the trunk of her mother's car. the victim's family is now looking for justice. >> now we will never have the

opportunity to meet the child and to see jasmine's bright smiles and witty sense of humor. we want justice for our family. jasmine does not deserve to lose her life. >> reporter: rogers has been ordered to undergo a competency exam later this month. >> d.c. police are on the hunt tonight for a man who sexually assaulted a georgetown university student on campus. details are sketchy but students are on guard tonight. megan mcgrath has our story. >> reporter: many students were already aware of what happened as they went to class this morning. a campus alert went out over the weekend informing students of the sexual assaults. >> it worries me that it happened. of course it's always a concern. >> reporter: it happened friday evening around 6:00. sources say the victim, who is a student, was attending a gathering in village a when she was forcibly fondled. the victim was not physically injured. the man was last seen running west between o'donovan hall and the southwest quad. a search of the area by police

turned up nothing. >> you would like to say your campus is safe but, i mean, unfortunately things happen sometimes. >> you feel very safe on campus or around campus but it is still important to remember you're in a city and that you need to, you know, stay with the group and stay with friends. >> reporter: the suspect is described as a black male between 19 and 25 years old. he is approximately 5'8" and has crooked teeth. he was wearing a lime jacket at the time. megan mcgrath, news 4. school officials are reminding students to keep doors and windows locked. they're also encouraging students to report people loitering around dorm entrances or in the hallways. we are now hearing some terrifying moments on tape in the murder of oscar winner jennifer hudson's family members. a jury heard a 911 call from the singer's sister after she found their mother dead. allegedly at the hands of her estranged husband. erika gonzalez is in the newsroom with more on this trial

and that chilling 911 call. erika? >> absolutely. chilling almost doesn't even cut it. the call is often hard to understand. julia hudson sounds more than emotional and panicked. the 911 audio that you are about to hear may be disturbing. >> i don't understand what you're saying. you've got to stop screaming. >> somebody's killed my mama. please. >> what's going on? >> i don't know. like she's been shot. can you please send an ambulance please? >> what happened? >> i don't know. she's on the floor. i can see blood coming from her head. >> do you know what happened? did she fall? >> no. i just got home from work and there as bullet hole in our front door. >> you're listening to the frantic call for help from hollywood actress's jennifer hudson's sister julia after finding her family shot dead in october of 2008. a judge agreed to release the tape played during the trial of 30-year-old william balfour, julia hudson's estranged husband. prosecutors say balfour killed

the starlet's mother, 29-year-old brother jason, and their 7-year-old nephew julian in a fit of rage thinking julia had cheated on him. she and balfour separated in february of 2008 but continued to have a relationship. she claimed he once told her he'd kill her and her family if she ever ended things with him. but the defense says julia never told police about the threat. the defense has presented dna evidence found on the murder weapon and the suv in which the boy's body was found. although they say he does in fact belong to a man it is not linked to william balfour. if convicted he faces life in prison. from the newsroom, erika gongz, news 4. back to you. jurors at the john edwards trial heard tearful testimony today from sherry young, the wife of edwards' former aide andrew young. she said she was scared when she deposited money from a donor that was supposed to be used to take care of edwards' pregnant mistress. and she became emotional when she described edwards, how

edwards asked her husband to claim responsibility for his baby. prosecutors are trying to prove edwards illegally and deliberately used campaign dollars to hide the affair as he campaigned for the white house in 2008. the trial is in its second week and is in greensboro, north carolina. edwards is denying these allegations. >> now to the latest in the race for the white house, republicans tonight are blasting president obama for a new campaign commercial that comes nearly a year to the day that osama bin laden was killed. >> he took the harder and the more honorable path. and the one that produced in my opinion the best results. >> reporter: the ad is called one chance and commends the president for approving the mission that led to bin laden's death. republicans are angry because the ad kwe questions whether mitt romney would have made the same call had he been president. today romney said he would have given the order. >> would you have given the order governor?

>> of course. even jimmy carter would have given that order. >> reporter: vice president joe biden for his part last week said bin laden might be alive today if mitt romney were president. before the raid romney publicly questioned spending billions of dollars to catch one person. turning now to our weather, oh, it is still a little bit cool out there. temperatures are going to rebound later this week but that is later this week, doug? >> later this week for sure. right now 66 degrees. not all that bad when you look outside but we have been dealing with the cloud cover all day long and that has kept temperatures a little bit below average yet again across the region. the winds have shifted out of south. we were in the 50s for most of the of afternoon and now are into the 60s and seeing some breaks in the clouds. we've seen the east winds most of the day as i mentioned. now they're out of the south. take a look at this. here is a wm front. the east wind keeping the clouds and cooler air in. look how close the clouds are just off to our west. clearing skies. look at these temperatures out to our west. we're talking about temperatures

into the 80s just toward charleston out toward elkins. morgantown, west virginia, 84 degrees. the 80s very, very close. when will they get here? i'll show you coming up. ♪ it's a new plan to combat crime. police cadets hit the streets of prince george's county to run the beat this morning. this event is part of the county's transforming neighborhoods initiative designed to help connect with local communities. there will be a run the beat in each of the initiative's six target neighborhoods in coming weeks. they're langley park, blade ens burk, suitland, kentland, hill crest heights and glass manor. a whole foods fight over plans to bring whole foods and other retail shops to prince george's county located on 36 acres on route 1 near the east/west highway in riverdale. this would be the county's first whole foods. county officials began a hearing today on this development. executive baker supports the project but critics fear the

development could add too much congestion to route 1. if approved the store could open in two years. growing back lash tonight over a plan to extend bar hours and also liquor sales on sunday. today council chair kwame brown and council member jim graham said the city doesn't need to make alcohol more available. graham said extended hours would only add a neighborhood noise and other problems. mayor gray proposed the changes to help raise more revenue. the council will vote on the proposal in the coming weeks. next on news 4 at 5:00 a cheating scandal hits the national blue ribbon school in montgomery county. tonight the superintendent is addressing the allegations. dna dilemma. why a recent ruling by maryland's high court could make it harder to convict some of the most serious offenders. pranksters target one of the most recognizable landmarks on mi should be arrested for crimes against potted plant-kind.

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it's a disturbing trend. doctors are seeing more and more babies born addicted to prescription pain killers. as erica edwards reports the cost of treating this is also going up. >> reporter: a newborn's tiny

cry fwroes louder and becomes inconsolable. when the baby is born addicted to prescription pain killers. >> they cry constantly, very difficult to control. >> doctors say they can tell which infants are experiencing withdrawal symptoms. just by listening to their shrill cries. >> they have more issues with feeding. they appear uncomfortable, oftentimes will scratch their face. >> reporter: over the past decade dr. patrick of the university of michigan and his colleagues noticed an increase in babies born with neo natal abstinence syndrome. when they looked at hospital records from across the u.s. they found the number of newborns with drug withdrawal tripled between 2000 and 2009. >> by 2009 the number exceeded 13,000 or about one baby born per hour with signs of drug withdrawal. >> reporter: while the study did not look at the exact drugs taken during pregnancy, researchers found the number of mothers using or abusing opiate pain killers like vicodin, methadone, and oxycontin skyrocketed since the year 2000.

the majority are covered by state medicaid programs. >> states are really incentivized to do things to limit opiate exposure before the babies are born but potentially promote innovations to care for the babies most effectively after they're born. >> reporter: the cost for treating the infants reached more than $700 million in 2009 as the babies must stay in the hospital and be weaned off the narcotics sometimes over a period of weeks or months. erica edwards, nbc news. first it was jennifer lopez then kim kardashian and now nicki minaj, all women known for their larger rear ends. well, now some people are trying to look like their favorite celebrities but using an illegal procedure and it is leaving some of its victims sick, disfigured, and even dead. tonight at 11:00 doreen gentzler has more on the illegal silicon injections. there is a new effort under way to make sure the metro-to-dulles project isn't derailed. the first phase of the silver line is expected to be completed in august of next year. but the second phase from reston

to dulles airport may be side tracked by a number of issues. the biggest among them a disagreement over union labor. transportation secretary ray lahood today has called a meeting for wednesday to try to reach an agreement on funding the project. the metropolitan washington airport authority along with the commonwealth of virginia and loudoun and fairfax counties are all expected to take part. well the temperature got up into the 60s today but it didn't feel like it. it felt damp. >> yeah. it really did. a lot of clouds. then an east wind. any time we have the east wind off the ocean right over the bay and over toward us you know you'll mostly get some cloud cover. you could feel it out there too. high temperatures today or rather temperatures were in the 50s most of the day and then we did see some breaks, our winds shifted a little bit to the south and now we're rising into the mid 60s across much of the area. so temperatures are getting a little better. another cool start to the day. out there right now the current conditions currently at 66 degrees. you can see what we're talking about.

66 under mostly cloudy skies with winds out of the south at about 7 miles per hour. let's go over and show you what we're talking about here as far as the numbers are concerned. look at # 6 right now in washington. 84 right now in -- there you go right there with the -- hold on one second. and boom. i'm just going to switch the graphics and make sure we know exactly what we're doing. as far as temperatures go across the region like i said back to the west temperatures are into the 80s right now and that's where they're going to remain just off to our west. 83 right now in elkins. 83 in charleston. and 60 degrees right now in roanoke. as far as what is going to be happening over the next couple days we're looking at temperatures going up for us. 80 degrees out toward petersburg in through portions of west virginia but down toward our south 71 in frederick. temperatures to the west as i mentioned 83 in charleston. 83 in columbus. storm 4 radar no rain to talk about. we do have some rain just off to the west talking about a frontal boundary that is making its way our way.

that frontal boundary will move through overnight tonight in through the day tomorrow and right now some big time thunderstorms back toward the ohio river valley. we will see a chance for some thunder during the day tomorrow. but i'm not expecting a whole lot in the way of rain. right now going with a 50% chance of rain. here is your future weather forecast showing what will be happening here as we make our way through the night tonight. a few showers about 4:00 or 5:00 tomorrow morning so get ready for that but they should be out of here by the morning rush. don't be surprised to see a few of those sprinkles left over. tuesday around 1:00. tomorrow afternoon the front moves through. we will see a good chance for showers. maybe a rumble of thunder or two but i don't think we'll see anything severe and then we'll clear out as we make our way through the night tomorrow night. this evening mostly cloudy. isolated showers. on the cool side. sunset tonight at 8:00. from now on, through the mid august it'll -- the sun will set after 8:00 each night. >> we like that. >> that is very good news there. 57 to about 63. tomorrow morning cloudy. mild. maybe a few showers. a rumble or two of thunder. 56 to 63 degrees.

tomorrow afternoon, overcast and mild. 60% chance of showers. some thunder. 76 to about 81 degrees. and look at the warmup over the next couple days rising to about 82 on your wednesday. 83 on thursday and if the winds are correct and the winds are right we could warm up into the mid to upper 80s by friday so we've seen a couple of really cool days out there and we'll see that flip around just a little bit. temperatures get well above average the next couple days. >> it'll feel like summer. >> let's hope. i'm ready. >> we're all ready. >> thank you, doug. soaring to new heights? coming up next the major milestone ten years after the terror attacks on the world trade center. >> a new twist to an old scam. criminals are going after grandparents getting them to fork over hundreds of dollars quickly. the caps are in new york we know with a crucial game on the line against the rangers. dan will join us live to tell us what they need to do. >> the national zoo's giant panda couple may soon become parents. we'll tell you about a new effort to bring a baby panda to d.c. coming up tonight at 6:00.

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payback time up at the big apple. the caps gearing up for game two in new york. >> dan hellie is live at madison square garden with the details. tonight feels good, doesn't it? >> yeah, it does. the capitals, guys, trying to do something that they've already done against the bruins.

they lost game one of course. they're trying to win game two on the road. they can't be careless like they were in game one with the penalties. probably the most important thing is just bring the intensity. playing with the sense of urgency is what is going to win this game tonight. it didn't happen in game one over the weekend. >> you know, we talk about it before the game but, i mean, game two of round two you should be intense and prepared to play. >> it is more of a mental thing. i think each guy, you know, in order to win everything, every player on the team has to be able to get themselves ready every game. and so after last game we talked about it and how, you know, upset we were about that. so we have to hope that everybody is take thag to heart and you mentioned it before the game. and then, you know, everybody takes it by themselves from there. >> caps owner noticed the team's lack of fire in game one and

said in his blog we looked a little flat mentally and emotionally. rookie goalie braden holtby had the worst game of the playoffs allowing three goals on just 14 shots. he's the bounce back kid. holtby hasn't lost back-to-back games in his last 24 nhl starts. >> just not letting it, you know, get -- have to keep a level head and, you know, just never have two bad games in a row. the key to consistency. and it's what we're looking forward to tonight is having a solid performance as a group. >> reporter: holtby needs help and if the caps score first, odds are they'll go home winners. >> to get first goal is important and get a little loosened up. i think it's going to be a different game today. we'll start more aggressive than we started last night. >> you get the other teams doing stuff they don't normally do,

taking more chances. we have guys that capitalize on that on the other end. the biggest thing, we score first. if they score first they get a chance to play their defensive system and get locked down. it's big. we got to come out hard tonight and push it from the get-go. >> reporter: scoring first is going to be huge for the capitals tonight. the guys just 3-12 in their last 15 when they've allowed the opponents to score first. so we'll have a lot more coming up from here at madison square garden at 6:00. >> aggressive out of the gate. we'll see you at 6:00. coming up next a maryland blue ribbon school is accused of cheating. >> a crime victim speaks out today after a series of hammer attacks in the district. how he was ambushed while walking his dog. >> it's nick named the bermuda triangle. a dangerous stretch of road blamed for a deadly crash that ♪

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giving the green light to the raid that killed osama bin laden. the ad also questions whether mitt romney would have done the same. now let's fast forward to the weather. in the weather today we've seen a lot of cloud cover across the area for much of the day and just now starting to see at least some breaks. you can see what i'm talking about right along the blue ridge and off to the east where we saw the clouds and why we saw much cooler numbers. take a look. you can see what i'm talking about. high temperatures in our area only in the 50s. 58 degrees in hagerstown. 59 in frederick. washington coming in with a high temperature of 67 degrees. just to the west of the mountains, elkins, west virginia 83. 85 in morgan town. 83 in charleston. some of that warmer air will make its way in here during the day tomorrow. and it's not only going to work in here tomorrow. it is going to stay here throughout much of the rest of the week. we'll talk about the warm temperatures and let you know about our rain chances too. you may need the umbrella a couple times. we'll talk about it. >> all right. thank you, doug. the state of maryland tonight is at the center of a national debate over dna and the person's

right to privacy. last week the maryland court of appeals issued a decision to prohibit dna collections from suspects who have been charged but not yet convicted of violent crimes. so today a top law enforcement official started pushing back. darcy spencer reports. >> reporter: when gail seton's teenage daughter stacy was murdered in 2005 investigators found a cigarette butt containing dna near the scene. years later authorities got a hint after jarvis tyler's dna was taken after he was arrested on a drug charge in florida. he was then charged in the killing. >> i am 100% convinced that was the case that he would not have been arrested if it was not for that hit. >> reporter: but the practice of swabbing for dna with suspects is now being called into question. the maryland court of appeals struck down a state law allowing the collection of dna from suspects accused of serious crimes saying it violates their privacy. >> every opportunity we have to bring justice to a family is

extremely important to us. if you prevent us from holding a person accountable in one case as far as i'm concerned that is a devastating blow. >> reporter: the prince george's county state attorney also says there have been nine dna case ness the county since 2009 resulting in five arrests and one conviction. >> we are in the process now of looking at any pending cases we may have where we collected dna from an arrest. >> reporter: in stacy seton's case jarvis tyler was acquitted by a jury. even so stacy's mom says without the dna hit tyler probably would never have been arrested for the crime. a crime she still believes he committed. >> if you listen to the jury they want dna. "csi" and "law and order" if they don't have dna a lot of jurors won't convict. >> reporter: maryland's attorney general is considering appealing this ruling to the u.s. supreme court. in the meantime police departments from across the state including here in prince

george's county have already stopped the process of swabbing suspects for their dna. in upper marlboro, darcy spencer news 4. police are searching for suspects in a deadly shooting in southeast d.c. that happened just before noon in the 2200 block of savannah street. it's just a couple blocks from the maryland border. police say a man in his 20s was hit twice in the back -- his back by gun fire and died at the hospital. they have not identified the victim and they don't have a motive. >> officers are beefing up patrols after another sexual assault along the northwest branch trail in hyattsville. there have been five attacks since the start of the year. the most recent one happened a little more than a week ago. police have released sketches of suspects but there isn't enough concrete evidence to link the crimes yet. a man wounded in the series of hammer attacks in northwest washington is describing his ordeal telling news 4 he was hit in the head on thursday while walking his dog off ingram street in the petworth neighborhood. the victim who did not want to be identified said he was hit on his ear and the side of his head and suffered cuts and scrapes

when he collapsed unconscious. >> he walked by and he said how you doing, sir? you know, with a smile. i said, how you doing? and before i can turn to see where my dog was like i'm doing now, i was struck with an object. the suspect in these assaults is 19-year-old michael davis who was arrested thursday. he is being held without bond. police believe davis could be linked to three similar attacks in petworth including the assault on a woman and the murder of a colorado tourist. he is due back in court next friday. the falls church community activist accused of molesting young girls at his daughter's slumber party took the stand today. michael gardner denied the allegations repeatedly. julie carey was in the arlington courtroom. >> reporter: michael gardner left court holding hands with his wife city council woman robyn gardner both knowing tomorrow the jury will begin

deciding his fate. he took the stand today in his own defense and repeated three times i did not when his attorney asked whether he inappropriately touched his three young accusers. the 10 and 11-year-olds all once his daughter's friends have accused the well known political activist of fondling them at sleepovers. asked the defense attorney did you ever touch these girls in any manner close to what they described? no, answered gardner. have you ever had any interest in children from a sexuality point of view? >> absolutely not. last week the three girls took the stand to describe in detail how gardner molested them. one girl said she was at a sleepover last june 16th when gardner's daughter called her into his bedroom during a thunderstorm. the 10-year-old says gardner laid down on the floor between the girls and repeatedlily touched her chest, stomach, and vagina. gardner said the only touching occurred when the girls were playing an imaginary game and asked him to connect them so lightning power could flow through them. gardner says he put one hand on his daughter's back. another on the guest's midriff.

two other girls say gardner molested them repeatedly at a birthday slumber party held the next night making several trips to the basement to touch them. gardner testified he woke up just once during the night, went downstairs to turn off the kitchen light, then went to the bottom of the basement stairs to check on the girls. it was quiet and dark and i went back upstairs he said. asked the attorney about one the girls did you reach under her pajamas and touch her as she described? no, said gardner. testimony from a dna expert last week did reveal dna with a high probability of being gardner's was found on one girl's pajamas and another girl's underwear. but the defense team did not call their own dna expert. closing arguments will begin tomorrow. reporting live from arlington, julie carey, news 4. a vigil in downtown d.c. today to mark the birthday of a maryland man being held in jail in cuba. cuban authorities arrested international development worker alan gross in 2009 convicting him for bringing spy equipment into the country last year.

gross denies the charges saying he was simply bringing in ining access to the country's small jewish community. protesters gathered today to mark gross's 63rd birthday. there was a vigil and a cake but they did not light the candles. >> we're not going to light it. that cake is going in my freezer and it's not going to be lit until alan gross comes home. when we have another celebration. >> gross is serving a 15-year sentence. his health has been deteriorating while in prison. up next tonight's student pranksters at georgetown strike again. i'm liz crenshaw. a call looking for money to get your grandchild safely out of a foreign country? how to stop this scam from stealing thousands of your ♪

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it's a call no one wants to get. a loved one calling to say they are in trouble and in need of some help quickly. >> turns out it's a common scam targeting seniors. liz crenshaw is here to explain why it works. liz? >> jim and wendy, it's called the grandparent scam. a money transfer scheme that's preying on seniors across the country. tonight one bethesda man is revealing the trick that prevented him from being conned out of hundreds of dollars. >> hello.

>> reporter: the con starts with a frantic phone call from someone claiming to be your grandchild. >> she says it's your granddaughter. you've got to help me. i'm in deep trouble. i'm in very deep trouble. >> reporter: this bethesda man who did not want to be identified but did want to expose the scam said the voice on the phone claimed to be his granddaughter stuck in jail and desperate for help in lima, peru. >> i said what do you want me to do? she said i'm going to turn you over to an official from the american embassy. >> reporter: from there another voice came on the phone. our grandparent was told to wire nearly a thousand dollars through western union for bail to get his granddaughter out of a peruvian jail and back to the u.s. >> what you should do is go to your bank and don't answer any questions. just draw it out in cash. don't tell her parents. don't tell the authorities. that's what you have to do. >> reporter: at this point our grandparent was hooked. you're thinking about doing this? >> oh, yes, yes.

very much so. as i say, my adrenalin was flowing and my emotions were the top of the chart. you're not thinking logically just with your heart. >> these seniors are smart but vulnerable and their number one vulnerability is their love for their grandchildren. >> reporter: eric friedman director of the office of consumer protection in montgomery county says this money transfer scam preys on the grandparents' emotions. >> every grandparent wants to do two things -- protect and indulge their grandchildren. if they think their grandchild is in trouble they're going to jump up, maybe in the middle of the night, and wire the money because they want to protect the grandchild. >> reporter: the scam sounds believable in many cases because the scammers use information from social networking sites like facebook to get personal data about the grandchild so the call sounds more realistic. the fbi has been investigating this scam since 2008. the bureau suggests grandparents follow these steps before

handing over any cash. first, resist the pressure to act quickly. never wire money based solely on a request over the phone or through e-mail. never call back the number provided by the panicked caller. contact a family member to determine whether or not the call is legitimate. in the case of our grandparents, calling his daughter before going down to the bank made all the difference. >> she says relax. relax. i called your granddaughter's dorm room in college. and she is preparing for a 1:00 class. she has never been to lima, peru. >> okay. if you or one of your loved ones gets one of these calls contact the better business bureau, the attorney general's office, internet crimes complaint center. these are all places where you can complain and let them know. the chances of these guys being shut down is slim to none. >> right. >> you need towns the only way to stop thieves is to basically

don't bite. >> they're just randomly calling out there. >> yes. in many cases they randomly call and in some cases they know that this is an elderly person, etcetera. they don't know the grandchild's name so that is why they say, grand parks i'm in trouble. then you say oh, kathy is that you or billy is that you and then they pick up the name. it is very clever. really smart. >> sad. >> great heads up. thank you liz. still ahead cheating allegations rock the montgomery county school system. >> this doting dog has become a hit on youtube. why she can't seem to keep her paws off her owner. doug, how is that weather? >> the weather today not mad. temperatures in the mid 60s. a little bit below average today. we've got a frontal boundary making its way our way. take a look at the frontal boundary with some big-time thunderstorms back to our west. that front will move through over the next 12 to 24 hours. it's going to bring us some changes. i'll show you w

schools in montgomery county are angry over cheating allegations aimed at highland elementary school in silver spring. it received national recognition for improving test scores but some are questioning how such dramatic improvement could have come about so quickly. >> reporter: virtually all of the students at highland elementary school in silver spring achieved high scores in standardized reading tests. highland proudly displayed the national blue ribbon award it won in 2009. the highest award bestowed by the u.s. department of education. this weekend an investigative report was published by the atlanta journal constitution called "cheating our children --

suspect scores put award's integrity into question." the report examined thousands of schools questioning how highland elementary school test scores could have improved so dramatically in just three years with a high proportion of students who live in poverty and come from homes where no english is spoken. montgomery county public school superintendent dr. joshua starr is outraged at the implication that there was cheating. >> somehow african-american children, latino children, and poor children achievement increases and somehow it's related to cheating? so we do not accept anybody disparaging the hard work of our staff and our kids. >> reporter: scott stepan is in his second year as principal at highland elementary school. >> i'm completely appalled by the allegation this school is cheating. we take a lot of pride in what we have done for our students here at highland elementary school and there has never been one allegation, one accusation, that there has been anything other than just fantastic

instruction going on here that has achieved, has led to the results we've achieved. >> reporter: we asked for a response from "atlanta journal constitution" editor kevin riley by phone. >> we looked at 69,000 schools, hundreds of school districts with suspicious results, and we also focused on blue ribbon schools and highlighted some of the schools where our experts tell us the scores looked very suspicious. >> reporter: you may ask why the "atlanta journal constitution" focused on highland elementary school here in silver spring. it's because sometime back they did stories about cheating in atlanta schools, allegations that were first denied and then proved to be true so they decided to use the same methodology on blue ribbon schools and found highland elementary school near the nation's capital. in montgomery county, chris gordon, news 4. school board montgomery county will vote tonight on possible changes to the back tack flyer policy. earlier this year antigay

pamphlets went home to students in five county high schools. school officials tell us a lawsuit from years ago prevents them from deciding which flyers go home if they come from a nonprofit. the proposed change would stop flyer distribution all together in middle and high schools but allow them in elementary schools. now to take a look at some of the stories trending online today 1 world trade center is once again the tallest building in new york city. the trade center is now a little taller than the observation deck at the top of the empire state building. >> this watershed moment came this afternoon when workers put a huge steel beam in place on the 100th floor starting the framework for the next floor. when it is finished 1 world trade center will be the tallest building in the country. >> not much was off limits for president obama speaking at the white house correspondents dinner over the weekend. >> the president mocked his opponents, his own fumbles such as the hot mike moment with the russian president and even compared his situation now with

what it was four years ago. >> four years ago i was lost in a brutal primary battle with hillary clinton. four years later she won't stop drunk testing me from colombia. the president himself was the subject of jokes also host jimmy kimmel remarking about the hilarity of the country rallying around him four years ago in hopes of a better tomorrow. this adorable pup is showing why dogs really are man's best friend. her name is shiro and in this video she is sitting next to her owner as he drives ten minutes to work. during the trip shiro repeatedly begged for her owner to hold her paw and every time he lets go she cries and taps his hand to hold it again. you cannot get a cat to do this. the owner posted the clip on youtube. it has almost 1 million hits. doug has a check of our forecast. >> i don't understand that one at all. is it just me? >> it's a needy dog. >> a needy dog. >> maybe you have to be a dog

person. >> i am definitely a dog person wendy. let's move on and show you what's happening cloud cover wise. we have some clouds out there and the clouds have kept things on the cool side. was that nikita? 66 degrees. the temperature right now. winds out of the south about 7 miles per hour. around the region 65 in rockville. 63 in gaithersburg. 66 in for the bell voir and right now 64 down toward hunting town. temperatures below average baufs the cloud cover. we have clouds here and in between sunshine in the 80s just to our west and that is allowing for some big-time thunderstorms to develop in parts of indiana, kentucky. severe thunderstorm watches in effect here. that same line is going to move our way and i do think we will see a good chance for some showers. maybe overnight tonight. then a better chance for some thunderstorms during the day tomorrow. 60 degrees overnight in washington. 57 in leesburg. 60 in fredericksburg and 58 degrees coming over toward annapolis. a nice morning tomorrow on the mild side. there could be a couple showers though as you step out the door early tomorrow morning. and then tomorrow afternoon a

couple thunderstorms as well with temperatures into the 80s. most of us. i think 79 in washington. 79 in gaithersburg. around 83 down toward culpepper. 82 in fredericksburg. if we see sunshine many of you will be 10 to 15 degrees warmer than where we were during the day today. chance of thunderstorms, yes. chance of severe weather, not that much. so that is good news there, too. here is your weather forecast taking you through the night tonight. you can see what we're talking about around 4:30 with light shower activity and during the day tomorrow that frontal boundary moves on through. that is where we see our best chance of showers and our best chance of thunderstorms, too. as far as the temperatures go the next few days warming on up 82 on your wednesday. 83 on thursday. and then near 88 degrees during the day on friday. so not just a little bit of a warmup but a big warmup and, boy, do we need it. >> all right. thank you, doug. well, someone literally has time on their hands at georgetown because the hands of the clock at the healy tower have been stolen yet again. the university says they're looking for the culprit and it

is not the first time. according to the university paper the clock hands, boy, you have to get up there. they were last stolen in 2005. all that creativity among the georgetown students or just students in general. >> there you go. coming up next on news 4 at 5:00 seven people killed after a family's suv plunges off a bridge near the bronx zoo. why this crash is raising some serious questions now about the safety of this road. coming up tonight at 6:00, this week marks the anniversary of a killing of osama bin laden and tonight the government is releasing the last words he had to say. a hiker out in the desert broke her leg, survived for three nights. she is talking about it now. and some fascinating debris washed up on the shores of canada following the tsunami in japan.

"access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. a victory for the widow of a man who released dozens of exotic animals before committing suicide in ohio last fall will be allowed to get the five surviving animals back. t two leopards and other animals have been kept in the columbus zoo since the incident.

the animals had to pass an evaluation. deputies were forced to shoot the other animals after they were set free. investigators are looking to see if improvements are made after the horrific crash in new york that claimed the lives of three generations of one family. >> a van carrying seven people to a family reunion went airborne and plunged nearly 60 feet inside the bronx zoo. jeff rossen reports. >> reporter: the final moments inside this family van are unimaginable. the driver maria gonzalez and her 10-year-old daughter jocelyn both killed along with jocelyn's cousins just 3 and 7 years old. her aunt and grandparents. police say they all died at the scene. relatives cried in the street sunday. >> it's hard. >> reporter: police say the

family was speeding down the bronx river parkway in the left lane going 70. they hit the median, crossing three lanes of traffic, hitting the curb and going airborne over the guard rail dropping 60 feet into the bronx zoo upside down. >> the injuries were horrific. in 30 years i've seen something like this once or twice. everybody was taken back by it because everybody has a relative. everybody knows a child. everybody has a grandparent. and you could see the emotion on everybody. it was very upsetting. >> reporter: the van landed in heavy brush in a remote section of the bronx zoo away from animals and visitors. >> our accident investigation squad is heavily engaged in doing an examination. all of the victims here were apparently wearing seat belts. >> reporter: but even seat belts couldn't save them. the focus now on the highway itself. this is the second accident here in less than a year. last june an suv plunged off the

road near the same area after hitting a divider. two people were injured. but nothing as sudden, nothing as tragic as this. >> officials say they'll be looking closely at that section of the highway to see if safety changes are needed. now at 6:00 the death of osama bin laden fuels a political war of words. one year after president obama made the call to kill osama bin laden, the controversial new campaign ad questions whether mr. obama's political rival would have had the guts to make the same call. good evenings. i'm jim vance. >> i'm doreen gentzler. tonight mitt romney says yes he would have made the same call and he is fighting back. steve handelsman joins us from capitol hill with this developing story. >> reporter: doreen, thanks. president obama is walking a political tight rope on this on