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to a mail carrier. for unknown reasons, the boy unbuckled his seatbelt and got out of the car into the path of an oncoming suv. the impact was catastrophic and fatal. the suv driver remained at the scene. >> we're conducting an investigation and right now it does not appear that speed or drugs or alcohol were contributing factors. it's a tragic situation. >> the waldorf subdivision is full of families with children, all are touched by the grief of knowing what the boy's family must be going through. we're told that the little boy and his family had recently moved here from canada. reporting live in waldorf, jackie bensen, news 4. jackie x thank you. a man was flown to the hospital after a car hit him in southeast washington today. it happened in the 4100 block of south capital street near a pnc bank branch. the driver stayed on the scene. the driver had life-threatening injuries. no word on his condition. growing pressure on jpmorgan chase. the justice department launched
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a probe into the $2 billion trading loss. despite that trading blunder, the shareholders gave the ceo a vote of confidence today. steve handelsman on capitol hill with more on this. steve? >> i'm sure you're not surprised to hear this is more political. didn't take long for the latest wall street scare to fire up one of the biggest fights in the 2012 race for the white house. how to fix our economy. how to keep our banks stable should government do more or do less. >> protesters outside the jpmorgan shareholders meeting today in tampa. some demanded suffer federal regulations. >> jpmorgan speculated it lost $2 billion, maybe 3. jamie dimon took the blame. >> this should never have happened. i can't justify it. >> dimon kept his job at $23 million a year and kept up his opposition to some of the new
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obama banking regulations. on trades call it hedges that reduce risks if they're done safely. >> however, we also understand the need for rules and practices to make sure it doesn't morph into something different. >> on abc's "the view" president obama demanded congress finalize the toughest rules. >> since these banks are insured, backed up by taxpayers, we don't want you taking risks where eventually we might end up having to bail you out again. we want these rules in place to make sure this kind of stuff does not happen again. >> it's a lot of dough. >> that's real money. >> yeah. >> billions of dollars. but in iowa today, mitt romney charged trillions is what obama policies are already costing taxpayers. starting with his '09 stimulus. >> was the biggest, careless one-timex pend tur by the federal government in history.
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the stimulus wasn't just wasted, it was borrowed and wasted. >> romney did not mention the new wall street scare. romney's theme is that government shouldn't regulate too much. opposite the obama theme that government now ought to do more to keep the banking sector safe and the economy out of another recession. on capitol hill, i'm steve handelsman. >> thanks, steve. we are following developments on the release of a new audio message from an al qaeda leader. ayman al zawahri. he's talking about yemen. this sophisticated underwear bomb came from al qaeda's affiliates in yemen. a government official tells nbc news the message was recorded before the news about the foiled bomb plot broke last week. forces in yemen have increased attacks on terrorist militants in the past week and a half with the backing of the u.s. military. there's no public translation of that full message as of yet. flash floods washed out
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parts of southwestern virginia last night. rescue teams had to help people evacuate from parts of rockbridge county after they were stranded by the rising water. they had to help a man and woman whose car was stuck in a swollen creek. the rain lasted well into the morning. turned out to be too much for the ground to absorb or for the storm drains to handle. we continue to keep an eye on storms in our region tonight. doug has the latest on conditions right now. >> doreen, we saw very heavy rain early this morning. the airport officially picking up over an inch early this morning. now, all the showers and storms just down to the south and mostly down to the south and east. towards culpeper. look at the strongest storms now. one to the south of quantity coe. another one near la plata. a lot of lightning and heavy rain. and notice the line. it extends through parts of madison county and orange county towards the fredericksburg area and right up i-95. some very heavy showers and heavy storms right now.
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this storm right along i-95, around wide water and quantity coe. it will make its way across the potomac. we have a lot more coming up. a murder for hire plot uncovered in prince william county, virginia. police didn't have to go far to find the suspect. he tried to have a 28-year-old man killed because of a domestic dispute. police got wind of the plot and arrested the man. the suspect lives about a block from the police station. he's held without bond. he is supposed to be back in court next month. a d.c. man was shot and killed by the police last night while walking his two little dogs in southeast d.c. officers say they opened fire after the man pulled a gun. the victim's widow says that's impossible. pat collins at police headquarters with more. >> reporter: jim, this man has a history of gun convictions.
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last night he was out walking yorkshire terrier dogs, gets in a confrontation with the cops and shots are fired and he ends up dead. >> he was a husband, a brother, a son, a friend, a father, he didn't deserve to get shot seven times for nothing. >> that's his wife. her husband shot and killed in a confrontation with police last night. he was 41 years old. the 4200 block of sixth street southeast. 10:30 at night. dominique campbell walking his wife's two yorkshire terriers, diesel and lyric. on that street, at that time police say they were responding to a report for a man with a gun. they say campbell fit the description of that suspect. this is how police say it came down. >> as officers arrived on the
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scene, the officer in particular, he sees a person matching the description of the person that was given and he is fired upon by that person. he then returns fire and strikes the suspect. >> but shantay campbell says there's no way her husband could have fired a shot because he had the dogs' leashes in one hand and a cell phone in the other. >> he was walking with the dogs and a cell phone. he was on the phone with me. >> did you hear the gunfire? >> i heard the gunfire. it was about five shots. i put on some shorts, i put on a t-shirt and i ran out the door, hopped in my car and went around the corner. they wouldn't let me see him. they tried to handcuff me. the police tried to handcuff me to prevent me from seeing him. they left him laying on the ground like an animal in the street. >> according to his sister, dominique campbell has done time for carrying a gun. she says he never shot anyone.
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she ask that we not show her face. >> did you ever know him to carry a gun? >> yes. >> was he scared in that neighborhood? >> yes. he was carrying it because his wife said earlier that day somebody tried to rob him to take the dogs from him. >> sources say police have an independent witness that back up their account of what happened. sources say police found nine shell casings from campbell's gun on that scene. they say he was carrying a .45. live from northwest, pat collins, news 4. thanks, pat. a memorial held this morning on capitol hill for law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty last year. president obama was among those who attended the service. he paid tribute to the men and women who make the ultimate sacrifice to save others. the president spoke of their willingness to risk everything for a complete stranger.
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president kennedy first proclaimed may 15th as a day to honor fallen police officers. been a light turnout so far for voters deciding who will replace harry thomas junior. he resigned and confessed to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money intended for kids sports programs. 12 candidates are vying for his seat. the winner will be sworn in at the end of the month. that person will serve the rest of thomas' term which runs through 2014. the polls close at 8:00 tonight. coming up -- >> we got to go. >> protesters take aim at pepco. what's behind this messy display of disgust? a juror on the murder trial of a uva student breaks their silence and for the first time evidence from that case goes public. former president george w. bush is back in town fighting for freedom. >> i found my freedom by leaving washington. the life of a cat is revealed. cameras show what they really do ♪
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the first criminal charges filed today in the phone hacking scannel at rupert murdoch's british papers. charges were brought against news of the world editor rebecca brooks. she's been accused of trying to hinder the police investigation and voice males were illegally intercepted and bribed for information. brooks husband and four other people also were charged. she calls the charges weak and unjust. we now know when john edwards' daughter could take the stand in her father's corruption trial. the defense's final witness list is being put together tonight. she's expected to testify as early as tomorrow. edwards is accused of using nearly a million dollars in campaign contributions to cover up his affair with mistress rielle hunter. jay gray has more from greensboro, north carolina. >> reporter: the pace of the trial increased dramatically today for the defense. >> it really was speed defending. five witnesses in just the morning session.
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>> reporter: a group that included former fbi agent jim walsh, who told jurors texas millionaire fred bare on continued to deposit tens of thousands of dollars into hunter's bank account long after the campaign ended undercutting the claim that it centered on his campaign. scott thomas took the stand. though his testimony was limited. outside the presence of the jury, thomas had told the court "this is a clear-cut case that the payments were not campaign contributions and that edwards did not violate the law." the judge ruled the opinions were inadmissible. he was able to tell the jury how complex the federal election laws are and in his 38 years of experience both at the commission and in private practice, that he has never addressed the situation where a third party is asked to pay the debt of another third party. >> reporter: we also learned today the defense is not likely to call the woman at the center of the legal and political soap
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opera. >> they have previewed to the judge, the witnesses they intend to call between now and then. rielle hunter is not on that list. >> reporter: edwards' daughter cate is on that list. >> the defense will be able to put more emotion into the case, humanize edwards and insight into edwards family as the drama unfolded. >> reporter: drama that continues to play out publicly inside the federal courthouse here. jay gray, nbc news, greensboro, north carolina. the potomac river is at the top of the list of most endangered rivers in the country. naming the potomac as the most threatened river is not based on new information. the group, american rivers picked the potomac because of its symbolism. the group is asking them not to water down the clean water act. although it's still threatened by runoff. some people do not see it as
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being that bad. >> can tell from looking at the pictures, we had very dramatic looking skies. >> we did. those storms, a couple of them just popped up in the middle of nowhere. the nationals played at 1:00 today. boom, here comes a shower. had to stop the game. steven straws burglary had a problem with that. oops, dan can talk about that. you can see the cumulus clouds across the area. most of us will remain on the dry side. the showers and thunderstorms are just down to the south. that's where they will continue to be. high today 79 degrees, low this morning of 67. a very warm and humid day across the area. take a look at this. since yesterday, the airport, 1.32 inches of much-needed rainfall. most of that fell overnight, last night and into early this morning. 78 degrees the current temperature out there. winds out of south at about 3 miles an hour. humidity upwards of 62%. lot of people complaining a little too humid. hey, we're getting towards the
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middle part of may here and then comes june and july. it's going to get more humid moving into those months. 79 in frederick, 80 degrees in baltimore. 74 in la plata. the rain is in culpeper. you can see the line of storms developing. southern maryland, they've seen the most shower activity. we'll call it shower activity. not much in the way of thunderstorms here. that's starting to change a little bit here. we'll move to the south where you can see where the strongest storm is. right now just to the east of the locusdale area. south of culpeper, to the north of orange. a ton of lightning associated with this storm as they move to the east. once again, this line moves toward fredericksburg. another storm to the north and west of fredericksburg. another to the south of quantityco. that continues around la plata, to the west. taking up fairly intense rainfall right now. no thunder or lightning with this one. you may hear a rumble of
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thunder. cloud to cloud lightning. more thunderstorms around the area. that towards norfolk. a big line of storms here. it has a hisry of severe weather. for us, we're just about done i think. it will make its way over the viewing area the next couple of hours. if you're north or west of washington, you'll be dry for the rest of this evening. we're looking at a nice evening. area of low pressure helping to create the showers and storms today. that moves out. tomorrow, partly sunny skies. another nice warm day, but i do think we stand to see at least a chance of a shower or thunderstorm tomorrow. first to the south and east of washington. then with a frontal boundary that comes through. that front could produce a shower, maybe a thunderstorm. best chance well to the north and west of washington. the i-95 corridor. i think should remain mostly dry tomorrow. right now, only going with a 30% chance of showers. thursday, we dry out. we get nice. thursday is going to be beautiful. plenty of sunshine. low humidity. thursday, friday, saturday.
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right now i'm thinking about perfect days across the area. this evening, partly to mostly cloudy. scattered showers. isolated strong storms to the south. temperatures in the upper 60s to lower 70s by 8:00, 9:00. warm start tomorrow. tomorrow we warm back up into the low 80s for most of us. nice and warm and humid. possible storms south and east. we're going to continue to watch for them with the winds out of west at 5 to 10 miles per hour. here's the next four days. 77 on thursday. 78 on friday. 79 on saturday. sunday right now we're going optimistic, saying partly sunny with a high of 81. that looks fantastic. monday and tuesday, not looking bad either with a chance of showers and storms. hey, don't forget. send us your pictures at weather@nbc washington.com for backyard weather. we're doing it all summer long. >> look forward to it. thanks, doug. coming up, somebody could be living with a mental illness for years without being diagnosed or treated. it's very common.
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but now a simple test that just takes a few minutes could change lives. >> the fight over whether people should have to pay for an ambulance ride is getting ready to go another round. coming up in sports, rg3 still in town and still working hard. a rookie making a name for himself in the stanley cup playoffs and strasbourg struggles but harper is
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two men are charged in a disturbing sex assault in fairfax county. it happened behind a church in the 2400 block of gallows road. these two men attacked a woman from behind. then raped and robbed her. they're both charged with rape and malicious wounding. for the first time the public is hearing george huguely's hysteria the moment he found out he killed his ex-girlfriend, yeardley love. >> the evidence may have saved him from a harsher sentence. julie carey reports. >> he would have been had to have been a fantastic actor to pull off the emotional responses that he did in that video. >> reporter: that's what one of the jurors says about the
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videotaped police interrogation that played an important role in their deliberation. today for the first time, the media and public were given a chance to see and hear the 64-minute long police interview. at the trial, the monitor was turned so only jurors could watch. >> this was the interrogation room where charlottesville police brought huguely that morning. he was in this chair, two detectives were in the room. huguely was not handcuffed. he was given a glass of water to drink. in the beginning, the conversation was somewhat casual. in camera captured his rambling sometimes slurred statement. >> the time of this too, he's either extremely hung over or he's still drunk from the night before. and he's not thinking straight. >> police tell huguely he's being investigated for an assault. he tells them yeardley love was totally freaking out when he kicked a hole through her bedroom door. in the video, huguely lightly bangs his own head on the wall and tells police she kept hitting her head against the
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wall. i shook her and said we need to talk. about 45 minutes approximate into the interrogation, the two detectives stepped out of room. when they returned, the atmosphere changed dramatically. that's when they told george huguely that yeardley love was dead. >> for a moment huguely is silent, then in a profane, almost hysterical tirade, he insists over and over and over again, i don't believe she's dead. there's no way she's dead. i didn't do anything last night that would kill her. finally, it seems to sink in. he drops his head to the table, lets out a wail and begins to cry. >> you probably saw in the video that when things start off, he's basically a bad boy with his hand caught in the cookie jar. when they tell him that yeardley is dead, it was a very big change in his demeanor. >> that along with other evidence convinced jurors huguely didn't intend to kill yeardley love. they convicted him of second-degree murder. in charlottesville, julie carey, news 4.
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right now prosecutors in the trayvon martin case filed court documents in florida listing the evidence they will use to build the case against the man accused of killing him. 22 witnesses are included, along with surveillance video from inside the gated community where the unarmed 17-year-old was shot and killed. george zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder this that case. police are investigating a shootout between an officer and a man walking his dogs in southeast d.c. the officer shot and killed dominique campbell last night after campbell allegedly opened fire first. his widow says he had the dogs' leash in one hand add the cell phone in another and says he could not have fired a gun. trying to figure out why train doors opened in the middle of a ride this morning on the red line between the van necessary and trinity town stations. they're from the 1,000 series of cars. the oldest models on metro's fleet.
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there's a new effort under way to try to charge fees for ambulance rides in montgomery county. just two years after voters rejected a similar plan. today, county council members voted to try again. critics fear the fee will discourage people from getting emergency help. chris gordon reports. >> reporter: ambulance transports are now paid for by taxpayers. it is estimated an that an ambulance fee will generate between 14 and $17 million from reimbursements from insurance companies, like in prince georges county collect $11.5 million a year. fairfax, $15 million and the district, $20 million. >> no county resident would ever get a bill. the insurance reimbursement would be just from the insurance company. that's it. >> montgomery county says anyone who doesn't have insurance will not be billed the $3 hub 00 d to $800 cost per ambulance ride. 17 months ago, voters rejected the fee in a referendum in which the volunteer rescue association campaigned to keep free
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ambulance service. >> if you wait one minute, if you're having a heart attack to determine if you should call an ambulance, you can die. >> county council member rice says the referendum result rejecting the ambulance fee was due to misinformation and misunderstanding. today rice cast one of the votes in favor of the ambulance fee which passed 6-3. >> my constituents, my residents told me that they were fine with this fee and understanding that it would not negatively impact them, nor their insurance rates. >> 19 volunteer fire departments service montgomery county. their 2,000 members will meet this week to decide if they want to continue their nine-year fight against an ambulance fee. >> you bring this to another referendum, to the voters. >> certainly. that's one of the possibilities that may occur. >> the montgomery county ambulance fee is scheduled to go into effect in january. in order to give opponents time to decide if they want to circulate petitions and try once again to get the ambulance fee
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on a referendum ballot come this november. in montgomery county, chris gordon, news 4. protesters armed with bull horns and cakes stanld a noisy and messy protest at pepco today. about 100 people gathered at the headquarters for a rally at noontime. some of them smeared cake on the company logo and doors. others cliepd the awnings to hang signs. the protesters want pepco to know they are upset about a proposal to raise rates by 4%. >> if it takes this kind of action to come and let somebody know, they're not going to listen to us if we walk to the teller window. they'll say i'm sorry ma'am, we can't help you. >> pepco needs the rate hike to replace aging equipment, improve customer reliability and prepare for future customer growth. news for your health now. mental health conditions can be tough to diagnose. patients often go years missing out on treatment that could help.
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there's a new test that can help identify a person's illness earlier. it only takes a few minutes and doctors say it can make a big difference. >> i had 15 hospitalizations. i had electroshock therapy. i've been on, i can't even tell you how many medications over the years. >> it took five long years before he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. it was during the years that his business crumbled, his marriage suffered and his relationships with friends fell apart. >> that's why anything that we can use to find early warnings signs or figure out what's going on with a person as soon as possible really changes the outcome of the illness. >> now doctors have a new tool to help them diagnose mental illness. it's called the n 3 screening. it's a test that looks for key signs of conditions like depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and bipolar disorder. >> we need a test to make it
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easier for patients to get diagnosed in medical practices and primary care practices. >> after someone takes the test, the website immediately provides a score from zero to just over 100. if the number is over 30, a person may have a mental health issue. the higher the number, the more severe that condition might be. dr. robert post is a psychiatrist who studied mood disorders at the national institute's of mental health for decades. he helped develop the m 3 screen. >> we think it's critical that patients have numbers like everybody knows their blood pressure and their cholesterol. >> i took the test and it is as fast and easy as the developers claim. you don't have to enter any personal information online either. you answer the questions and right away you get your results and your recommendations. >> primary care, we're trying to take care of the whole person and that shouldn't just be a list of health issues. >> bethesda internist has been
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using the screening with his patients during annual checkups. he says it's helped him identify some patients who he thought were depressed but were suffering from ptsd or bipolar disorder. he said the online screening helps him get important information about his patients much more quickly than simply asking them in person. >> primary care physicians are busy. there's a lot that goes on with visits with the patients. >> patrick henry has his bipolar disorder under control and now he uses the m-3 test on an ongoing basis to monitor his condition. >> if i had been diagnosed then and got the help i needed, i would have been able to continue working. i wouldn't have destroyed my business. i destroyed my marriage. i had a real heavy price to pay as do most people diagnosed with a major mental illness. unless you catch it very early. patrick henry has found a new career as a mental health advocate and is doing well.
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the test is not meant to be a diagnosis alone. it can identify a potential problem and help you start a discussion with your doctor. check it out yourself online. we've sent up a link at nbc washington.com. search for mental health test. president george w. bush is back in washington for a rare public speech. he talked about freedom at the institute in northwest d.c. today. the institute is celebrating the successes of dissidents and activists around the world who fight for freedom. >> mesh does not get to choose if a freedom revolution should begin or end in the middle east or elsewhere. it only gets to choose what side it is on. the tactics of promoting freedom will vary case by case. but the message is clear and strong. we stand for freedom and for the institutions and habits that make freedom work for everyone. >> former first lady laura bush
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also addressed the group. she spoke of the inspiration she has gained from her meetings with dissidents from around the world. coming up on news 4, a look at what cats really do when you let them out to play. a 12-year-old called a hero for what he did when he was left alone to care for his younger siblings. doug, what's up with the weather? >> we're watching a line of storms moving to the north of the i'll let you know where they're going next and how
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intense scrutiny. the news 4 i team tisch a thompson with more. >> the airport authority has been battling with local and state governments over the exploding budget for the new silver line which would link metro to dulles airport. this new inspector general's report says the 13-member board regularly takes first class and last minute flights paid for with taxpayer money. one board member bought a $9200 plane ticket to a conference in prague, booked ten days before the conference. at another conference in hawaii, board members and unnamed guests ate three dinners totaling $4800. then there are the contracts handed out by the board. the report says one board member recommended a law firm that received a $100,000 contract even though that board member was related to someone who worked for the firm. the report also found at least five contracts worth $6 million
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awarded without board approval. the airport's authority told news 4 mwaa is committed to confront every single concern confronted by them. we will do what's necessary to strengthen our policies and procedures to ensure transparency and accountability. the airport's authority started following new ethics and transparency rules in march. and secretary ray lahood announced he's appointing a special accountability officer to watch over the airport's authority. but he says he has confidence in the new leadership and he's "past problems should not impact the progress of the silver line." jim, doreen. >> thanks. >> there is positive movement today in maryland. budget about the ls, the state senate approved. it's headed to the house for consideration. it will probably mean higher taxes for high-income residents.
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>> reporter: maryland senators pass an income tax increase on residents who earn at least six figures by a 27-19 vote. it happened after heated debate. >> citizens and the families of maryland are saying enough. >> this is a smart vote. >> >> reporter: the package heads to the house where it's expected to pass wednesday. the third day of the special session. you think the session will be complete by tomorrow, everything getting done? >> well, it -- yes. >> reporter: the tax hike would hit individuals making more than $100,000 and families making $150,000. generating $260 million for the state and avoiding the so-called doomsday budget that would have resulted in $500 million in cuts. >> when you raise taxes, these same people that you're trying to help, you're hurting them. >> everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die. everybody wants all the services, they want number one service and education to continue and they don't think it costs money. it does. >> reporter: lawmakers say 40%
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of the new money would come out of possibility et cetera of montgomery county residents. delegate charles barkley introduced an amendment instead of raising income taxes. >> i don't think montgomery county should take the whole hit. with the sales tax, everybody in the state pays. he kicked down a door to safe four children in a burning house and he's only 12 years old. this is all that's left of his home near pensacola, florida. the house caught fire while he was asleep in the living room with his three younger brothers. he woke up and rushed the brothers out of house and alerted a neighbor about the fire. then he remembered his three-year-old sister was inside her bedroom. so justin ran back in, he had to kick down the bedroom door to save her. >> pick her up and she was stiff. i i was worried i wasn't going to get her out of there. i was real scared at that point. >> there ain't enough words to say how proud i am. he's my hero.
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>> justin and his siblings were on their own when the fire broke out, too, since their mother was working an overnight shift and their dad was out of town. >> good for him. good kid. what are we looking at daniel? >> we have to talk a little hockey. there are some games to be played. >> why? >> henrik and the rangers are king while kobe and the lakers looking like jokers. steven strasburg has a day to forget and his teammates, they just dropped the ball on this one. also ahead, first lady michelle obama shares her play list of
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hello everybody. i'm meteorologist doug kammerer. i think we'll see a pretty nice evening. 78 degrees under partly to mostly cloudy skies. winds out of the south at 3 miles an hour. still on the humid side. look at the numbers. montgomery county, rockville around 82 degrees. towards prince georges county, 78. calvert county, temperature there 74 degrees. fairfax, how about reston at 75. this is where the showers and storms are. they've stayed to the south of washington for most of the afternoon. we did see a couple of showers that actually put a damper on the nationals game a little earlier. here is where the storms are. just to the west of fredericksburg. just to the south of culpeper. big time thunderstorms. nothing severe yet. but we are looking at a lot of
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lightning associated with this and heavy rain. this is along route 20 and through route 15. as you move to the east, notice the line continues over towards hardwood in through stafford county to the north of frederick. this is slowly progressing to the north and crosses over towards charles county around la plata. watch out for in area here. we'll see the potential for fairly heavy rain. tomorrow an isolated shower, maybe a thunderstorm. most of us should be dry. we'll all see temperatures at least around 80 to 83 degrees. oh, my. thank you, doug. michelle obama reveals what's on her workout play list. ♪ yeah, you might have heard that before. that was will smith's daughter, willow whipping her hair around. the first lady tells women's health magazine that song gets her moving and grooving. stevie wonder, jennifer lopez and beyonce are also on her play
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list. beyonce's move your body song is part of michelle obama's move your body campaign. it's to be as healthy at age 75 as she is now. she works out most mornings with cardio, and adds weights and more whenever you can. >> that's a novel pursuit to be like that at age 75. that's pretty good. i do not propose it as a big loss today, but is there another team as beat up as the nationals will are. >> i don't think so. they have 11 players that have gone to the dl this year. it's amazing to play as well as they have with this lack of offense. maybe it's because of one of the young guys, brice harper, now on a home run streak. he's the first teenager to homer in back-to-back games since ken griffey, jr. in 1989. but brice's bomb was the only run the nationals could muster all day. combine that with a rare sub par
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performance from s. steven strasburg and it was not a good day at nationals park. strasburg trying to go 4-0 this season. the first batter, will venable lifts one to shallow left. who has it? does anybody have it? desmond -- what are you doing? professionals looking like little leaguers there. later in the inning, padres up 1-0 with bases loaded and the skies open up. strasburg set to deliver the 3-2 pitch, the umps say all right, we're going inside. after an eight-minute delay, play resumes. the home plate umpire calls time. why? i don't know if the guys are playing cards. i don't know if they were stuck in the bathroom but his cohorts weren't there. maybe they went to ben's chili bowl. right up the middle, two runs score and the padres take a 3-0 lead. fast forward to the bottom of the fifth now.
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brice harper at the plate with the nats down 5-0. first major league home run last night. liked it so much, he's doing it this afternoon. that was far from enough. the nationals fall 6-1. strasburg takes his first loss of the year. apparently, strasburg accidentally got some icy hot or a substance somewhere it wasn't supposed to be. here's davy johnson trying to explain. >> i can't tell you what the problem was. it was on his shoulder. evidently. how it got to where it got. but it was uncomfortable to say the least. it got to the wrong place. i don't know. not an ideal way to start. all kinds of -- >> kammerer is upset and says it sounds like hazing. nobody is going to do that to the pitcher starting.
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>> the same day? >> that's idiotic. i can't imagine that somebody put icy hot on it. >> well, strasburg by the way, very irritated when he was asked about it in the locker room after the game. he was wishing that davy hadn't brought it up. because he doesn't want excuses. he said i didn't -- it is official, kyrie irving is the nba rookie of the year. the cats point guard led all rookies in scoring at 18.5 points per game. playoff action tonight. game 2 between the heat and the pacers while the clippers and spurs are in san antonio. last night the sixers evened things up with the celtics. this kid was hoping for a boston win on his eighth birthday. sorry kid. wasn't working out for you. philly up by 2. ray allen, this is what he does. drains threes. celtics president danny ainge is loving it. so is ray ray's mom.
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boston up. same score under a minute to go. sixers ball. check out turner here. he was the number two pick in the draft behind john wall. he is finally starting to blossom. great move. philly holds on to win it. 82-81. the series tied at one game apiece headed to philly on wednesday. western conference semifinals. metta world peace and the lakers taking on the man that he elbowed in the head. james harden and the thunder. two minutes to go, pulls up and buries the three. he had a game high 27. the thunder were up by 15 at the break. in the third, the domination continued. up by 19. on the break, west brook to kevin durant. he drains the three. durant had 25. thunder up by 22 in the fourth. they continue to pour it on. now, up by 30. harden going baseline for the dunk. he had 17 off the bench. kobe's face says it all.
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the thunder roll. 119-90. on the ice, capitals goalie thomas vo kun will not be back with the capitals next season. 39-year-old mike ka nubl would like to continue playing. he'd like to be playing this year. instead the capitals are watching the finals, game one between the rangers and the devils got under way last night. this is zach parise and the devils facing henrik lundqvist and their rival, the blue shirts. second period, new york on the power play. here comes new jersey. lundqvist stops parise not once, not twice, but three times. this guy is unbelievable. take another look. man, you cannot get it past him. 21 saves on the night for king henrik. third period, rangers up 1-0 on the power play. this has been the story, chris
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krooeder beats martin brodeur. he was playing in college, now he has three goals in the playoffs. the rangers blanked the devils 3-0. they take the early lead in the series. courtesy of redskins nation, rg3 sporting a new hairdo, working out in the weight room at redskins park. ponytail action going on there. organized team activities. also known as ota's start this coming monday for the burgundy and gold. mini-camp starts on june 11th. ashton pankey who started 17 games last season will transfer. he's leaving college park. >> was he in kettle bell? >> yeah. that's what it looked like. kettle bell. >> too much
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starting today, passengers on virgin atlantic airlines can now use cell phones during some flights. the new service available on some flights between new york and london. the system only allows six passengers at a time. the airline says it was designed for exceptional situations. coming up tonight at 11:00, not one but two women win huge lottery prizes in one virginia county within one week. also ahead, an appeal to get oj
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simpson out of prison. why his new lawyer believes he deserves a new trial. the house of missoni when their fashion line hit target, find out if there's another surprise ahead at news 4 at 11:00. doug? we have strong storms north of fredericksburg. if you're driving down i-95, you'll probably hit some of these storms. a lot of lightning associated with these. these are around culpeper county and through central stafford county. they're moving north into southern fauquier. and charles county. the next couple of days, we'll see fantastic weather thursday, friday, saturday all looking about as good as you can get in the middle of may. not bad. thank you, doug. some people let their cats hang around outside. you might wonder what does a cat do? you ever wonder? there's a researcher and cat owner who wanted to find out in georgia. she attached a video camera to her cat's collar and off he
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went. he toured the neighborhood storm sewer, stalked the neighbor's chicken. didn't eat any, not on that trip. he camped out underneath cars. he climbed a roof of a neighbor's house. there was even an encounter with opossum. the researchers said what was surprising is the cat seemed to have another family that let him in to visit. >> that's kind of cool. getting to see what the cat is really doing out there. >> i'm not sure i want to know. that's his business.
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