good evening. i'm jim vance. >> i'm doreen gentzler. a federal judge sentenced harry thomas jr. to 38 months in prison today. he stole more than $350,000 from city taxpayers, money that was supposed to go to youth sports programs. tom sherwoods at the d.c. courthouse with new reaction tonight. >> reporter: the judge said thomas betrayed the city and that he said requires significant time in prison. harry thomas jr. rushed past reporters into federal court to be sentenced for his theft of more than $350,000 in city funds and filing false income taxes for three years. prosecutors had sought a 46-month term. thomas had asked for 18 months. the judge said 38 months. >> i think today's sentence sent an important message that public corruption will not be tolerated in our city. harry thomas will now serve more than three years in prison. >> reporter: but first thomas's

mother, a prominent political figure in her own right told judge john bates i humbly and passionately plead for mercy for my son. thomas himself said what is wrong? i broke the law. i humiliated my family. i humiliated my mother. he said i took this money because it was a sense of entitlement. my needs ahead of everyone. thomas pleaded guilty in january to two felony counts after several years of siphoning city money intended for youth programs he championed. he also resigned the council seat his father once held before him. judge bates, who neated thomas's earlier positive work with young people agreed with prosecutors that thomas led the scam that cheated city children. this is a case of betrayal the judge said. these programs were to benefit under privileged and needy children. most of the stolen money was used for lavish personal purposes by thomas. the former council member could have received 51 months in

prison. he left the courthouse again without speaking to reporters. mayor vincent gray whose 2010 campaign is under federal investigation said the thomas case is, quote, an important reminder that public officials must never forget they must be guardians of the public trust. now fed federal bureau of prisons will be sending a letter to thomas telling him when and where to report to start serving his sentence. at the federal courthouse in downtown washington i'm tom sherwood news 4. thanks. we are hearing the 911 calls from social service workers who are trying to stop a mother from killing her baby in baltimore. quinisha thomas was on a supervised visit at the department of social services last week. that is when she suddenly laid her child down on a table, pulled out a kitchen knife, and stabbed the 8-month-old baby. william purnell short threw a chair at thomas to get her to stop. dana hays ran to call the

police. she was so frantic it was hard to understand her. >> i can't hear you. >> the security -- [ inaudible ] >> today governor o'malley and baltimore's mayor made a surprise visit to commend short and hayes for helping save the child. the baby's name is pretty diamond. she is expected to recovery from her injuries. thomas has been charged with child abuse, assault, and weapons violations. some neighbors in montgomery county consider a 4-year-old girl lucky to be alive. she fell from a screened window today on the second floor of an apartment building in aspen hill. jackie bensen is there now with more on why this danger could exist for children across the area. jackie? >> reporter: well, doreen, this happened in an instant. the little girl came tumbling out of a second floor window. it was a shocking sight. >> we saw the baby come out.

>> reporter: eleanor hopkins was walking toward a small playground in the pepper tree apartment complex when she heard a strange sound and saw a child falling through the air. >> i just parked the bike right here and i went over to make sure she was all right and the grandmother came out the door but the screen looked kind of strange. it was bent this way and the little girl come that way. so how did that happen? luckily the 4-year-old landed on the grass instead of the pavement or patio. she was examined at the scene by pa paramedics then take bin ambulance to a local hospital. >> we know this is unfortunately not going to be last one year. >> reporter: he says now is the time to child proof windows. >> although it provides a nice view don't put beds, dressing tables, changing stands, any type of furniture next to a window that a young child

whether a toddler or up through an 8 or 9-year-old might get curious and look out the window to yell to a friend. the screen just does not provide that protection to hold the weight of a child from falling out the window. >> reporter: safety experts say you should also try and use those cordless blinds at any opportunity because small children can strangle themselves if they become wrapped in that cord. reporting live in aspen hill, jackie bensen, news 4. a high school in memphis, tennessee evacuated today after a home made chemical bomb exploded in the building. police say somebody called in a bomb threat to craigmont high just before noon. moments later the bottle exploded and smoke filled the hallway. nobody injured but an assistant principal went to a hospital after inhaling some fumes. two suspects have been arrested. authorities describe the incident as a prank. a mother in prince william county is going to go to jail for 18 months for barricading her three young children in a room by themselves. a judge today handed down the

sentence to christina moore. last march moore and a man named john robi kept their 1, 2, and 4-year-old girls behind a six-foot sheet of drywall in their house in bristow, virginia. robi was sentenced to three years in prison. lawyers claim the couple is struggling with drug addiction. the kids are being cared for by relatives. at the john edwards corruption trial today another aide described the former presidential candidate's efforts to hide his affair. john davis testified in court in greensboro, north carolina. davis said that he had a run-in with edwards' mistress at a detroit hotel during the 2007 campaign. he said rielle hunter knocked on his door and said she and edwards were in love. the next day edwards denied it. davis also said he overheard a phone conversation between the two discussing her pregnancy. prosecutors are trying to prove that edwards illegally used campaign donations to hide the affair. now to decision 2012 and the republican presidential race.

mitt romney is spending a second day in the key battleground state of virginia. he is campaigning there with virginia governor bob mcdonald who is said to be on the short list of possible romney runningmates. romney also picked up a key endorsement today from one of his former rivals. steve handelsman joins us live from capitol hill with more. hi, steve. >> thanks. >> reporter: this was more evidence that republicans, even those proudly on the right wing of the party, are coming around to romney. >> he will win. >> reporter: congresswoman michele bachmann never won a primary and she quit the race for the white house in january. but she was a powerful voice for the tea party and for republican women and she spoke out today in virginia to endorse mitt romney. >> president barack obama, president mitt romney. you decide. >> another beautiful lady. how are you? >> reporter: what women decide could determine who wins. polls show romney trails the president with those voters. many in the tea party movement dreamed of one of their own with

the nomination, santorum, gingrich, perry, michele bachmann, not mitt romney. >> what mitt romney has going for him is the deep and broad antipathy to barack obama on the right among conservative women and among tea party types. he can capitalize that to compensate for his own short comings in appealing to them. >> reporter: another issue for romney is choosing his runningmate. florida senator marco rubio is being mentioned. rick santorum. those two topped today's reuter ipso's vp poll of republicans. there's virginia governor bob mcdonald who hosted romney today and got a tryout taking on president obama. >> remember three and a half years ago we heard that tune about hope and change? and now what do we have? we have recession and division and malaise. it's time for a change. don't you think? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: one possible gop

vice presidential nominee. but mitt romney could pick a vice presidential nominee to specifically help him with tea party conservatives or with independent women voters. on capitol hill, i'm steve handelsman. the white house tonight is side stepping questions about the fate of a blind chinese activist who is looking now to leave china and find asylum in the u.s. he escaped from house arrest last week. he took refuge at the american embassy in beijing. he was arrested for exposing chinese human rights violations. earlier this week he left the u.s. embassy after being assured that he and his family were safe in china. but today he changed his tune and said he was afraid for his family safety and he wants to leave that country. the u.s. ambassador to china said that could be difficult now getting outd of the u.s. embassy. >> we have to sit down and talk with him and review the options. they'll have to make a decision.

>> reporter: secretary of state hillary rodham clinton was in beijing today for previously scheduled meetings on energy and environment. she did not specifically address the chen case. we just learned the identity of a bicyclist struck and killed by a car in olney this morning. police say a driver hit 48-year-old diane whitman who was riding her bike near the intersection of route 108 and zion road. the victim lived in montgomery village. the driver stayed on the scene and was taken to the hospital for minor injuries. police are still trying to figure out what caused the crash. plan for crowds, delays, and possible confusion this weekend as the series of big events in washington coincide with metro track repairs. every metro line will be affected in some way because of the work and that combined with the caps playoff game and nationals game and avon breast cancer walk has a lot of riders planning ahead. >> several hours early. yes. several hours. if it's going to be one tracking because i do ride the subway. >> this is not routine track maintenance. this is the first time that

metro, now at 36 years old, has ever had to go through a massive rebuilding effort. >> reporter: four stations on the green line from fort to then to green belt will be closed. the only trains operating on the yellow line will be between mount vernon square and huntington. kind of like summer time out there today. any storms around, doug? >> we got a couple storms back to the west. we'll talk about those right now. most of us though on the dry side and that is how we'll remain, on the dry side. yes, very summer like. 81 right now with a dew point of 64. that's a very high dew point for early portions of may. a lot of you saying hey it's just too humid too early. winds right now out of the south at 6 miles per hour. here are the temperatures. 88 in cumberland, maryland. 87 in charlottesville. 81 here. only 68 out toward annapolis along the water there. a little cooler to the east. here's where the storms are right around portions of west virginia and even a severe storm right now down around stanton, virginia. i'll update you on where the storms will go and what to expect tomorrow. may see more of them coming up.

also coming up the fears of osama bin laden have been revealed in some newly released documents. the family of a drum major killed allegedly in a hazing incident are making a new demand that will impact a famed college marching band. sometimes when the door bell rings, it's not always the avon lady. it can have dire consequences. watch how this firefighter got real small to keep from getting mugged in his own home. i'm pat collins. the story coming up. >> reporter: and a picture perfect moment at the

final writings of osama bin laden suggest he still dreamed of another blockbuster attack on the u.s. some of his correspondence has been declassified now and placed in the public domain. michelle franzen has our report. >> reporter: the compound in pakistan where osama bin laden lived in secrecy and died after u.s. special forces tracked him down is gone, destroyed without a trace. but documents, letters, and other evidence seized the night of the raid left a trail showing the al qaeda leader still had aspirations to attack the u.s. >> as a former professional intelligence officer there is nothing i would like to have more than the capacity to read my enemy's mail. and in this case we're actually

reading ten years of osama bin laden's mail. >> reporter: the intelligence community and the public are getting a snap shot look at some of the documents analyzed over the past year at west point's combatting terrorism center. the west wing gave west point the green light to publish 17 documents and letters on its websi website -- originals written in oishic and translated into english dated from 2006 to april, 2011. bauecause of the renewed interest on this anniversary in the mission that led to bin laden's demise, that this was deemed an appropriate time to release them. >> reporter: terrorism experts say it shows bin laden focused on grand plots following 9/11 including an outline to assassinate president obama and then nato commander general david patraeus. >> there is no question of his aspiration here. he wanted to kill the president of the united states. >> reporter: the documents also exposed cracks within the terrorist organization worldwide. >> this shows an organization in

decline, under siege, and really feeling the pressure. >> reporter: the threat of al qaeda diminished with bin laden's death experts say but not gone. michelle franzen, nbc news. new york. >> the family of a drum major who died in a hazing incident wants florida a&m university to disbandits famed marching band. robert champion was beaten to death five months ago. 13 people are facing hazing charges in connection with his death but none has been charged with murder. >> so i know i did not get what i anticipated for my son's murder. i did not at all. so, no, i was not happy with it. felony hazing. of course, there again, that word hazing just don't fit. i've always said that. >> champion's mother says the only way to stop the hazing is to clean house and disband the marching band until further notice. for now, the marching band had

been suspended and a hazing task force was set up. a student at the university of san diego says he was thrown in jail and then forgotten in a jail cell for days. he has now sued the agency for $20 million. daniel chong was put in a cell after a drug raid at his apartment complex last month. he admits he was smoking pot with his friends. he says dea agents told him he was not being arrested. but chong was put in a windowless cell. he didn't hear from another human being for days. >> i kicked the door many times. even my neighbors i guess were getting annoyed at me. told me to shut up. about the third day i was completely insane. >> reporter: he said he tried to carve a suicide note into his arm with his broken eye glasses. on the fifth day an agent opened the cell door. he was taken to a hospital suffering from signs of kidney failure. the dea issued an apology.

>> it was a race against the clock. a miner was buried under ten feet of coal today. he was standing on the pile of coal when it sank under his feet and suddenly buried him. firefighters found him with only his head and arms sticking out. they quickly shoveled the man out before he sank any further. took about 15 minutes to free him. he was taken to a local hospital and is expected to be okay. la nina is over. the national weather service has declared an end to the weather phenomenon. la nina is caused by the cooling of the central pacific ocean in the winter and usually triggers drought in the southern u.s. and more rain to the northwest and often means more summer hurricanes in the atlantic. so over forever or for this season. >> for now. normally they're about a year cycle. this was a two-year cycle. now we're going into what is called neutral which for us means expect average conditions for summer. a lot of people thinking it's going to be a hot summer i don't think we'll see that.

temperatures should be about average. i also think the trend is for us to go back toward an el nino. that could mean some fun stuff for the winter. >> okay. >> all right. we didn't have any fun stuff this year. i want some fun stuff for next year. you know what i'm talking about right? >> here we go. all right. out there right now plenty of sunshine across the area. not a bad day at all but a lot of you are saying hey it's just too humid. 81 degrees the high temperature today. 56 the morning low. a fairly cool start to the day today with very low clouds but the clouds got out of here ickly and right now we're sitting at 81 the high today. yeah on the humid side i asked you on my facebook page and twitter what do you think? a little too hot and humid? 80% said too hot, too humid too quickly. well, get used to it. that's what we'll see again tomorrow. 81 right now in washington and in gaithersburg. look to the west. 90 in cumberland the high there. 88 martinsburg. 8 # winchester. 88 in charlottesville. only 68 in annapolis and 69 down toward pax river. the easterly component to the

wind along the bay kept you cooler. 81 is the current temperature with winds oust the south right now at 6 miles an hour. dew point is 64 so it is quite high as is the humidity. the humidity is going to stay high throughout the rest of the evening. currently 84 in martinsburg. 82 manassas. 83 in fredericksburg. still cool along the chesapeake. 68 degrees in annapolis. ocean city by the way if you're thinking it's nice and warm let's go to the beach, 59 degrees in ocean city, maryland. storm 4 radar right now showing the shower activity in through the panhandle of west virginia and then right along the blue ridge here. we'll take a couple stops for you. one right around martinsburg where you can see we are dealing with some showers around hedgesville and then around shepherdstown. this did have lightning and thunder a little earlier. not seeing that now but you can still hear some thunder probably around the shepherdstown area. cloud-to-groundstrokes. a little shower around strasburg trying to make its way over the blue ridge toward front royal. front royal may see a quick shower. this is about it. this is part of a little

boundary moving down to the south and east. bigger storms associated with the boundary in pennsylvania but it moves down the mountains around roanoke. heavy rain there so if you're thinking of traveling i-81 the rest of the evening you may run into a few showers and storms there. there is the boundary. cooler air to the east. warmer air to the south and west. and tomorrow the warmer air will be in. tomorrow a little bit better chance of thunderstorms i think for just about everybody along the i-95 corridor. 5:00, that is when the showers and the storms could move through. ahn they could be strong tomorrow. maybe severe with the potential for some heavy rain. maybe some hail. then on saturday best chance of showers back toward the mountains. right now i think most of the weekend should be on the dry side and most of it should be rather warm too. this evening partly cloudy. warm and humid with isolated storms. mostly to the west. 69 to about 75 degrees. tomorrow morning a nice morning. i do expect some low clouds especially from washington to the northeast but the rest of us just partly cloudy with temperatures in the low to mid 60s. tomorrow afternoon mixture of sun and clouds.

warm. a bit humid once again with showers and storms. some of those storms could be strong. high temperatures 80 to 85. although a little warmer once again down to the south and west. saturday and sunday, looking pretty good. 82 on your saturday. 73 on sunday. monday 74 and then getting back to around the 80-degree mark on wednesday and thursday. i want to show you one more graphic here. i know you've been waiting for this. we're getting ready for backyard weather. >> wow! >> all summer long. >> summer can't be far away. >> not far at all doreen. if you want us to come to your back yard send the pictures to weather@nbc washington.com. >> you're bringing the burgers. >> a lot more than that. >> thank you, doug. coming up tonight the legend of the goat man. alive and well in prince george's county. now going to the big screen. a man who was supposed to preserve the national archives will now go to jail for trying to make a deal on e-bay. coming up in sports the capitals end up on the wrong side of a marathon playoff game.

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that ripped through the former home of the late singer isaac hayes. the 1700 squoir foot mansion is located in cordoba, tennessee. about 70 firefighters worked to put out the blaze yesterday. three workers were treated for smoke inhalation. nobody was injured. hayes died in the house in 2008 and it went into foreclosure in 2009. the soul singer is best known for his hit song "shaft." more than # $80,000 of america's protected audio recordings were stolen from the national archives. >> the man who took them admitted to stealing them and was the same man trusted to preserve them. news 4's richard jordan has more now on the sentence handed down today. >> one of the worst catastrophes in the world. oh, the humanity. >> this recorded first-hand account of the 1937 explosion is one of the many audio files housed at the national archives, a true piece of american history. archivists are trusted to preserve the material but now leslie waffen who helped

safeguard national treasures for more than 40 years is sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing and selling thousands of historic clips online. >> he misled his friends and his colleagues while he was in the process of training them and instructing them about the ethical rules. >> i've known him for a long time. >> reporter: jay david goldman was the first to report the internet sales. golden gave waffen a 1937 audio interview for the archives with baseball great babe ruth. golden saw the material he donated for sale on ebay. >> i guess you could call it ironic. i just call it sad. >> reporter: waffen even sold an audio interview with major league legend jackie robinson appraised for $100 for less than $16 online. only about 20 of the ebay buyers have been found so far. waffen apologized for the thefts in court. he said, i violated god's fourth commandment. in doing so i have scarred my soul. the archives now struggles to

mend a tarnished reputation. >> this is a time when federal workers are under the gun. many are criticized and somehow we take on the characteristics of a few limited poor bad guys. >> i hope he gets past this human failing and goes on to greater success. >> reporter: the aarchival recovery team says it may never recover all the items stolen but the team will not quit trying. in college park, richard jordan, news 4. >> the retired archivist will be on probation for two years following his 18-month sentence. restitution will be determined this summer. former d.c. council member harry thomas jr. will be going to prison today. a federal judge sentenced him to 38 months in jail. prosecutors say thomas stole more than $350,000 in government funds intended for youth sports programs. thomas also filed false income tax reports for three years. federal agents in connecticut busted one of the biggest prescription drug rings in american history.

two brothers were taken into custody today accused of executing an $80 million heist from the eli lilly warehouse in march of 2010. the investigators say one of them left a water bottle at the scene. 18 others are facing charges in that. >> virginia governor mcdonald campaigned with mitt romney in portsmouth, virginia this afternoon. mcdonald is said to be on romney's short list of possible gop presidential runningmates. romney also picked up a key bachmann his one-time campaign rival. a firefighter had an unexpected stress test in montgomery village this morning. some thieves broke into his house while he was recovering from heart surgery. he was so frightened that was prepared to take really drastic measures. pat collins reports. >> montgomery county 911. what is the emergency? >> yeah, there is somebody breaking into my house right now. he's trying to come in now. he's breaking up the back door.

he just broke the window to come in. there's two of them. oh, my god. >> reporter: it started innocently enough with a ring of a door bell. but it wasn't just one ring. it was ring after ring after hh. phil herbert was upstairs and he went to the window. he looked out. he didn't recognize the guy down here so he didn't open that door. >> i thought maybe he is just selling magazines. >> reporter: the first big rumble. phil said he could feel the house shake. somebody jimmying open the patio door. >> nothing scares me but that scared me. >> reporter: the second big rumble. one of the would-be robbers first with his body then with the chair smashes through the window to get inside. it's getting serious now. >> i could hear him talking inside and walking around. >> reporter: he goes to his bedroom, barricades himself

inside, crouches down between the bed and the window. they had come busting through this door -- >> i probably would have tried to get out this window. i guess my thought was broken bones are a lot less than a gun shot. >> reporter: with all the shattered glass and the break-in well under way, phil calls 911. police there in a flash. the robbers on the run. phil emerges shaken but unharmed. did i mention that he had heart surgery last week? and today he was to go to the doctor to see if he could go back to work. >> i had heart surgery last week so this was my stress test. >> reporter: i don't know what phil's doctor is going to say but i think he wants to get out of that house and get back to work. in montgomery county, i'm pat collins, news 4. an argument ended with a double stabbing in southeast washington last night. it took place in the 1700 block

of 27th street southeast. police say two people got into an argument. one of them was stabbed. a third person who tried to break up the fight was also stabbed. both were taken to the hospital with injuries that they are expected to survive. police say all three of them know each other. the legend of the goatman. a man/beast said to be roaming the woods of prince george's county devouring people caught alone in those woods. for many in the area it is kind of like a home grown bogey man. urban legend perhaps. now there is a local filmmaker working to give the legend new life. derrick ward reports. >> reporter: no one can quite pin down the day the legend started but by the late '60s and into the '70s it was thriving. experiments took place back in the 1950s and '60s and animal genes mixed with human genes created a concoction and it became a prince george's county legend which was called goatman. >> reporter: one of the places the goatman was said to frequent was the grounds of the old glendale sanetoreum wielding an

ax and exacting an evil toll for his misfortune upon hapless pets, wild animals, and the occasional prince george's county resident. he was born out of an experiment gone wrong at the usda research center in bellsville where derrick parks was bitten so to speak. he was working as a contractor. >> once we started cleaning out one of the buildings and talking to a couple professors and scientists that is when i actually found out about the myth of the goatman. >> reporter: from myth to movie plot is no short trip especially for a filmmaker's first time out. >> the biggest thing is budget and if you're working on a shoe string and trying to put together a class a movie it's an extreme challenge but we came into this project with the business sense and really organized so we had a vision in mind so it made it a little easier doing the story. >> reporter: park says the biggest challenge was special effects but still he is surprised at how much movie related business there is in the area and how much help. >> a good feeling and sensation, so many people in the art of making movies don't mind

stopping what they're doing and giving you a hand. >> one last thing, detective. >> reporter: some of the actors had previous experience and other locally based movies such as the civil war epic "gods and generals" and some were folks with a will to play a part. to make a long story short the film got made and got some buzz at a few festivals. dick park says he wants people to come away entertained not thinking about how much the movie costs to make. the filmmaker and most locals will readily admit this whole goatman thing is just a legend that has endured but nothing more. no basis in science and fact. it's all in fun and there is nothing to worry about. or is there? [ roar ] >> reporter: derrick ward, news 4. >> watch out, derrick. coming up a very determined tiger made a big scene during a family trip to the zoo. wait till you see this. >> somebody has serious yard work to do but nobody is fessing up while -- while -- >> what? >> while weeds reach five feet high. try that. good gracious.

>> no thanks. >> sea shells down by the seashore with the weeds reaching five feet high. storm 4 doppler radar showing showers and thunderstorms back to the west. temperatures today well above average. will they stay that way through the weekend? my forecast coming up.

a guy in wichita, kansas is dealing with really tall weeds. his name is ron sparkman. he says the house next to his has been abandoned since last fall. since then the situation in the yard has gotten quite out of control. in parts of it the weeds are nearly five feet tall. the property is now owned by bank of america but ron says when he called the bank he got a less than helpful response. >> i said they're almost five foot tall. what am i supposed to do? she says we're not legally -- we're not doing anything on the property to maintain the property at this time.

you wake up with a good day and come out here and say oh, my lord, every day. >> ron says he can't do anything because he would be trespassing over there. the bank of america says in a statement that they're in the process of getting legal permission to do some maintenance. they're big, incredibly heavy, and they can be incredibly dangerous. those giant highway signs you can see any time you drive on a major interstate. the news 4 i-team has spent weeks checking into their condition and whether you need to worry. tisha thompson joins us with more. >> reporter: you drive by them so fast chances are you've never really checked out those big highway signs lining our interstates. after a highway sign came tumbling down on interstate 66 a few months ago in virginia, we wondered how often are these massive structures inspected? what do they really look like up close? we spent weeks negotiating with the state of virginia to get special permission to look at its inspection reports. tonight you'll get a first look at what we found in those

records plus see what our own camera caught when the i-team hit the road -- rusted bolts, missing equipment, and broken bits being held on with duck tape. we'll show you the quick action the state of virginia has already taken to fix problems we found during our investigation. that's tonight on news 4 at 11:00. >> thanks. what you got? >> man, it was just a really boring night last night. >> nothing going on. >> and you're hanging around in the building with us once again. >> it's nice to see you. >> we'll be talking about a walkoff home run in baseball yesterday and a little hockey game that went down at verizon center. only one of the longest in

hello everybody. welcome back. what a day we have out there today. almost summer like across the area. current temperature right now sitting at 81 degrees. that is the high across the region today. winds out of the south right now at 6 miles per hour. we do have some cooler temperatures just off to the east. only 68 in annapolis. 74 down toward huntingtown. to the west warmer. 87 rockville. 82 dulles. 82 in manassas. everybody in this area is on the dry side. you go out towards the mountains

and things change a little bit. you get some thunderstorm activity. most of this dying out now but look at this storm right here. redeveloping, martinsburg seeing a couple showers this afternoon and a few storms. this one right now does have some lightning associated and maybe even some small hail along 81 making its way just down to the south of shepherdstown which saw some of the showers earlier making its way down toward the charlestown area probably within the next half hour to about an hour. most of these will continue to die out before they make their way across the blue ridge. now temperatures overnight tonight 62 in gaithersburg. 65 in washington. 50s back to the west and 62 maybe in annapolis but i do think we'll see some low clouds once again especially to the north and east of washington in through portions of maryland during the day tomorrow. then tomorrow night take a look at this. the super moon making its presence felt tomorrow. the super moon is a 30% brighter moon tomorrow night. 14% bigger the moon will be at its closest point as it makes its way around the earth's

orbit, 221,000 miles away tomorrow night at 11:35 when it reaches the point there. i do think it will actually be bigger between 7:55 and around 8:30 tomorrow night. you guys get all that? >> yes. >> when it reaches what? >> parigy. there is apegy. >> all right. rockville somewhere in. >> that sounds like we ought to have a party. >> this is saturday night by the way. saturday night. just want to let you know. >> thank you. >> got that? >> yeah. i thought it was friday night and steven strasburg is making a start. then he screwed it all up by saying it was saturday night. >> this guy is going to be -- >> the fans, too. >> it was really funny because for the last couple of overtimes i was wandering around from the stands and talking to fans and they all kept saying this is just so epic. this is an epic game. it was one of those games you'll remember forever too.

a fun game to watch. >> just one problem. >> yeah. it really wasn't your ordinary hockey game. playoff intensity for four and a half hours until the rangers finally broke the caps' backs with a game-winning goal late in triple overtime. it was the third longest game in franchise history and once again the capitals find themselves trailing two games to one in a playoff series. when the caps came on to the ice they had no idea how long this night was going to be. in the second period caps down 1-0 on the attack. john carlson with the puck makes a couple moves and stays with the puck, beats henrik lundqvist all tied at one. nice shot. good concentration here by carlson. no scoring in the third. so we go to overtime. in o.t. check out tough guy matt hendricks laying the huge hit on ryan mcdonagh. with the puck out front to troy broward who can't convert. watch this again. hendricks and then the great back-handed feed to brower and

oh, a golden opportunity. can't believe he didn't get it to go. later in overtime, the rangers controlling the puck. but alex ovechkin playing some defense gets the steal. he has a chance to score but hits the post. another great chance here so we remain tied and we're going to a second overtime. in double o.t. the rangers with a great chance. the shot from mike rupp goes off teammate brian boyle right in the old back side here. that would have been a goal. luckily it wasn't. a hundred minutes not enough. we're going to a third overtime. almost six minutes in rangers with another chance. but brandon pruch, grabbed by holtby. mr. and mrs. holtby mom and dad loving it. holtby 47 saves in the game. less than 5:30 to go in triple overtime. to gaborik, and that's the game winner. nice pass from richards to gaborik. at 12:14 a.m. the rangers emerge

victorious. 2-1 the final in triple o.t. a huge disappointment for the caps. they're ready for game four. >> it's tough. no matter what, if it's a 60-minute game or extended in overtime, but when you extend the game, you're investing more and more and putting everything you've got into it. unfortunately we didn't win tonight but we can't let that bother us. we just need to get prepared for the next one. >> we weren't able to get the goal but no reason to hang your head or pout. we were right there. we got to rebound. we'll get a couple days rest and practice and come back for game four. >> we can't hit the panic button. there are still so many games left and we're playing well and eventually i think those guys are probably going to get a little tired. they got a lot of guys logging a lot of minutes. we just got to keep going with the program and hit and dump the puck and doing the little things and it's going to be good in the end. >> so what happens if you play in a triple overtime game and

you have a couple dogs expecting you to be home a lot earlier? >> oh, no. >> these are carl alwaysner's dogs, a caps defenseman. he tweeted the picture out saying apparently the dogs are not happy about the loss either. >> wow. he needs a dogsitter. >> i think he does, man. coming home after that loss then see that. well he had some cleaning up to do. bryce harper has been on the baseball fast track most of his life but the nationals hoping to slow him down just a bit before his major league debut. now that changed when they called him up last weekend. today harper moving on up again. the 19-year-old will be batting third in the lineup after the best game of his fledgling big league career last night. harper with a single in his first at bat. he was picked off trying to steal second. bottom of the fourth nationals down, 2-1. this is harper going deep to right center. looks like it could be -- no. almost. his first major league home run. still pretty good. a double off the scoreboard. that is his second double of the year.

we're tied at two. bottom nine, rally time. harper leading off the inning. again, like groundhog day drilling one off the scoreboard. his second double of the night. he was 3 for 4 in the game. three batters later, ian desmond the last chance for the nationals, the twodesi does it. a home run into the bull pen, walk-off two-run job and the nationals win it, 5-4 and snap a five-game losing streak in dramatic fashion and they are at it again tonight. in last tonight the angels up 9-0 in the ninth. more importantly jeff weaver one out away from a no hitter against the twins. he lifts one to right field. this is pretty deep but plenty of room for tori hunter and jeff weaver throws his first career no hitter. it's the second no-no of the season. phil bumber threw a perfect game last month. finally d.c. united had their seven-game unbeaten streak snapped in san jose late last

night. the earthquakes rocked them with five goals the most d.c. united has given up in almost five years. just one goal on the season entering last night's game in the eighth minute united on the attack. danny cruz with the ball loses the possession but never fear, d' ro is here from 25 plus yards out his second goal of the season. united feeling good up 1-0. in the 21st minute just two minutes after san jose tied the game they're back at it. look at this shot. uh-oh. yeah. nothing to do about that. san jose scores three goals in a 12-minute stretch. they go on to win, 5-3 the final. one last night. t. sizzle of the baltimore ravens the defensive player of the year last season tore his achilles working out so he'll miss the entire upcoming year. >> huge loss. >> a bad one. >> thanks, dan. coming up the first look at the multimillion dollar makeover for the national mall.

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the national mall is getting a multimillion dollar makeover and today we got our first look at the new designs. the nonprofit trust for the national mall announced td winners of a design competition that will bring much needed repairs. they chose three architectural firms to overhaul neglected sites. the designs include a wooded canopy and ampitheater and a new pavilion with cafe near td tidal basin and they plan to transform constitution gardens near the lincoln memorial to include a water basin for small boats and ice skating. >> pretty cool. >> i was thinking they need a restaurant by the tidal basin today. drove right by there and said they need a restaurant right there. >> there you go. >> look at that. >> sounds good. >> there is a restaurantw in. >> a couple of you seeing showers and thunderstorms. right now the areas to the west of washington. don't worry metro area. i don't think these will make their way our way but we need to see the rain.

look around martinsburg and down around the charlestown area. they are seeing pretty good showers and a few storms with lightning and thunder. look to the west of hagerstown. a big storm there right on the pennsylvania/maryland border. that storm has a ton of lightning around hancock along icht 70 so watch out in that region. again, these are moving to the southeast but with ill most likely die out. tomorrow 85 for a high with a good chance of strong storms in parts of the area and maybe even severe. saturday and sunday we've got a slight chance of a shower. maybe a thunderstorm. but most of us should remain on the dry side looking at a pretty good weekend and i think next week is looking like it's going to be on the warm side for the most part, too. >> thanks, doug. 1-year-old boy named jack went to the zoo last week for the very first time. it's really cool right? naturally his parents recorded the moment for posterity and whoever else. people now around the world are all talking about it. jack's mother says she did not notice until later she dressed the kid up like a zebra for his trip to the zoo.

kia the lioness did notice. jack must have looked like lunch. >> whoa. >> zoo officials say there was a thick layer of glass that separated the lion from the toddler. jack was never in any danger. his family wasn't worried. they can be heard giggling in the background. >> oh. >> i think i'd have got my kid out of there so fast. >> so would i. like lightning. >> wow. >> kind of freaky. >> yeah. >> kind of freaky somebody was just standing there recording that. >> thinking it's funny. anyway, that's our broadcast. "nightly news" up next. [ male announcer ] does your cable company keep charging you more...

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