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plot. a foiled attack on chicago police, the city's mayor and president obama. i'll have another lives up to his name. he's won the kentucky derby and now the preakness stakes. could we see a triple crown winner? we begin tonight in prince georges county, where police say they have the man responsible for two sexual assaults earlier this year. and they say they may be able to connect him to even more attacks. news 4's darcie spencer has our story. >> edwin xavier rivas, charged in two sex aamounts and more charges could be filed. he's accused of raping a woman on buchanan street in the queens town apartments january 28th. the victim told police she was walking here around 2:30 in the morning when a man grabbed her from behind and dragged her into

some bushes. that's where he sexually assaulted her at knife point. the attack has had the community on edge for months. >> this is a high crime area. this is nothing that's new or uncommon here in this area. we just all try to take the necessary steps to make sure that our family and friends and everyone will be okay. >> rivas is charged with another sex assault in hyattsville. police tell news 4 he's being investigated as a possible suspect in a series of sex assaults that happened near the west hyattsville metro. some of them were at knife point. >> this is potentially a serial rapist. >> we know for two for sure he's responsible for. there's a possibility he's a serial rapist. we don't know at this point. >> police have mounted a safety campaign posting flyers about these attacks all along the trail. and warning women to walk in pairs. many are hoping with this

arrest, the community will be safer. >> if this is the guy that has done this. then we have taken a predator off the street. >> reporter: darcie spencer, news 4. >> it's being called a sophisticated terror plot. three men are accused of planning attacks ahead of tomorrow's nato summit. police say they wanted to bomb president obama's campaign headquarters in chicago. but their lawyers say it was a setup. phil rogers had a the latest. the alleged plot was happened here, a three flat near the corner of 32nd and morgan. accused in a plot to firebomb among other things, president obama's campaign headquarters, chicago police headquarters and even mayor emmanuel's home on the north side. >> these individuals charged today are self-proclaimed anarchists. >> reporter: ania alvarez alleges the three were engaged

in a sophisticated plot. they already purchased gasoline at this station. the bomb making efforts were well underway. >> defendant church at one point asked his codefendant it is they had ever seen a cop on fire. >> reporter: in court the state asked that the three be held on $5 million bond. the judge set the bond at $1.5 million a piece ap afterwards defense lawyers cried foul. >> we believe it is a setup, entrapment to the highest degree. >> reporter: the the attorney believes their inner circle was infiltrated. >> plans to attack the police station, the mayor's office is all coming from the mind of the police informants. >> reporter: the charges against the three are first test of a new state anti-terror law.

investigators insist the plot was very big. >> they weren't going to trick or treat, let's put it that way. >> president obama and other world leaders are already in chicago for the nato talks. they arrived tonight after wrapping up the g-8 summit at camp david. crowds met police in riot gear in thurmond today. there were no arrests or violence. g8 world with leaders had few conflicts. they agreed to promote growth in europe. the american economy depends on it. >> put simply, if a company is forced to cut back that may mean less business for pittsburgh or milwaukee. >> the leaders threatened sanctions on iran if it continues its nuclear program. a major development in the gay marriage battle. the naacp passed a resolution

calling gay marriage a civil right. this comes two weeks after president obama says he supports same sex marriages. traditionally the issue has divided the black community. prince georges county churches have led the opposition to same sex issues in maryland. gay marriage is already legal in d.c. and six states. a failed engine valve appears to be responsible for the scrubbed launch of a space x rocket this morning in florida. the private company attempted to large the rocket to bring supplies to the international space station. computers shut down the engines at the last second. nasa wants to use space x now that the shuttle program is retired. the next launch attempt could be tuesday. turning to the weather now, it

is quiet for now, but chuck bell is tracking the first tropical storm of the season. >> hurricane season doesn't officially start until june 1st. mother nature just a little bit ahead of schedule. it's a beautiful clear night here in the washington area. temperatures dropping into the 60s and most of the western suburbs, even a few 50s starting to show up on the map. no rain in our immediate future p.m. there will be rain chances coming our way starting late tomorrow. there is tropical storm alberto off the coast of south carolina. i'll talk about where it's expected to go over the next couple days and give you our seven-day forecast. a traffic alert, if you travel the beltway in virginia, the outer loop is currently closed at raddic road. vdot shut the highway down to work on the expressway with project overnight. the outer loop will reopen by 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. coming up, the man who wants

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u.s. soil. he escaped from his house and took refuge at the u.s. embassy. the chinese government allowed him to come to the us to study at law school. a tennessee man is going to court for help paying child support for his 30 kids. he's just 33 years old, his youngest children are toddlers, the oldest is 14. hatchet has fathered children with 11 different women. he wants the court to lower his child support payments. says he makes minimum wage. some of his children's mothers only get $1.49 a month. flee horses that were mysteriously slashed last month are doing better. one with of the horses has fully recovered. the other two are still healing because they're active and their wounds keep opening up.

a $1,000 reward is being offered for any information about who slashed these horses. a martini that tastes just like captain crunch.

tomorrow could be your last chance to catch the air show at andrews air force base for two years. because of budget cuts it will run only every other year. the event feet tours

demonstrations and performances. it continues tomorrow from 8:00 to 5:00. facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg made a big update to his facebook status today. he posted an update to his time line that he's now married. he wed priscilla chen at a ceremony at his home in palo alto, today. the ceremony caps off a busy week for zucker are burg. chen graduated from medical school monday. the couple met at harvard and have been together for more than nine years. flavored vodkas are shaking up or stirring up the drinking world. some liquor store develops are packed with more than 50 different flavors of vodka. there's sweet from cherry to raspberry, then there's the savory, like bacon and peanut butter. >> i think it's a bartender that

comes up you with a great idea, tries it. his consumers like it, somebody picks up the idea and distills it. >> you can use loopy vodka, reminiscent of fruit loops. this season of saturday night like is going out big with mick jagger. both the guest and the host for tonight's season finale. jagger's no stranger to snl. he's been a musical guest many times over the years and has appeared in a few sketches. tonight is the first time he'll be hosting the show. >> it's very exciting hosting snl for the first time. i've been on the show before, done sketches, done music. i know how much. i've always said i don't want to do it, it's too much hard work. i was right.

it is too much hard work, it's a lot of fun. you can watch snl tonight, in about 15 minutes right here on news 4 at 11:00. the rolling stones were only on once and it was 1978. >> who knew? >> that's why i'm telling you. now you know. >> now they know at home too. >> you don't get it, you don't get it. beautiful weather today. man oh, man. 83 degrees with sunshine. nearly perfect, next weekend is memorial day, and there's talk somewhere in the weather office that it might be near 90 degrees by memorial day. there's a long way to go between now and then. starting with a cool start tomorrow morning. beautiful saturday night out there right now. those clear skies are allowing temperatures to drop off quickly out there. there will be a few scattered 40s on the map. most everybody in the 50s. there will be some 40s on the map for sure. currently as you look live over ronald reagan, washington national airport. the current temperature stands

at a pleasant 70 degrees. 70 at the airport, light wind out of the southeast average about 5 to 10 miles per hour. 6 in rockville, 63 in college park. andrews air force base is at 64 degrees. temperatures hovering around the 0 degree mark and even now down below 60 in manassas. one our typical cool spots. what is your temperature looking like. 50s in most of the 'burghs to low 0s in town. a warm day tomorrow. flirting with 80 degrees again. clouds on the increase any time after lunchtime, shower chances starting to sneak into the forecast. especially for you folks in southern maryland. you folks down here might get the first raindrop as early as 5:00 or 6 can 00 in the evening. most of us will be dry for most of sunday. this is tropical storm alberto off the south carolina coastline. it's not racing off the coast just yet, but it bears watch

withing. for now, high pressure in charge of our weather, and there's an area of low pressure in the upper levels of the atmosphere as well. that's the one that's going to come in here tomorrow, bring in the clouds and rain chances as early as 6:00 tomorrow night. there's a chance for light raindrops, southern maryland. most of us get our first drops around midnight tomorrow night. and expect a showery day coming up on sunday. alberto by tuesday, off the coast of the outer banks of north carolina. but it's going away from the coastlines. as long as it's that close to virginia beach and may provide us with some shower chances about wednesday. high clouds for now. clear skies for now. a few high clouds coming in by morning. 40s in the cool spots to near 60 bayside. on the whole, i think it's going to be a pretty day. clouds will be increasing. chances for light sprinkles late in the day. there's the all important

seven-day forecast. 81 tomorrow. 73 with the rainshowers off and on through much of the day. then we go back to scattered showers by wednesday and thursday. look at that, next saturday, that's the beginning of memorial day weekend, 8 degrees. that's going to feel like summer. >> and you'll reveal the rest of the weekend starting tomorrow? >> exactly right. >> very good. still ahead, the battle of the beltway gets a ninth inning nats rally.

i apologyize for not getting the gray memo. let's talk baseball shall we. the o's continue to sit atop the a.l. east, they enter tonight winners of eight straight on the road. the o's hope to stop that streak bs they did not. davey johnson squaring off against his former squad. now managed by buck showalter. top three, russ detwiler, and the nats down 2-0. it's about to get worse, adam jones takes de s detweiler deep left. now jones homered last night. so did nick markakis. at the top of the fifth, guess who's going yard too? markakis. his eighth of the season, also a 2-run bomb. orioles take a 6 life 0 lead. the nats chipped away at the lead. they're down to their final out,

ryan zimmerman facing jim johnson. zim says this isn't over yet. a solo shot to left. the nats are down just one. rally caps are working. next batter, adam laroche looking to keep the rally alive. johnson does what? gets him swinging. strike three. orioles hang on to the 6-5 win. tonight the nationals have to live with the outcome. >> tonight i'm going to let it sink in a little bit. i feel terrible about it, our team was there. they put up five runs on the pitching staff. we need the win when we do that. >> i think we're a team that will never give up. we got a pitching staff that keeps us in the game pretty much. if we could get some more runs for them it would be great. >> it's been 34 years since the

last triple crown winner in horse racing. let's go to paul for the 137th running of the preakness stakes. a chance to become the first triple crown winner since affirmed. the favorite and derby runnerup body meister well in front. that's i'll have another right there outside, chasing him down. yes, he will -- i'll have never just beats out body meister. the last leg, the belmont stakes is in three weeks. mls action. dwayne derosario and united hosting toronto. the free kick. and the goal. fourth best goal in team history. 57 seconds. united takes an early 1-0 lead. same score, 33rd minute. united attacking.

back post, goal number two on the night. united goes on to win 3-1. they have now won three of their last four games. the mystics opening their schedule at home. the mystics trail. crystal -- chicago still leads. big third quarter from washington. watch this, drains the three, mystics close to within three. chicago's sylvia faust two off that alley-oop, you saw the mystics lose their home opener. ncaa lacrosse quarterfinals unseated maryland facing johns hopkins. terps with the ball. drew snyder drives past his defender. snyder with a hat trick, and it was the start of something

really big for the terps. maryland now up 7-2. john osworth scores and falls down. six unanswered goal from maryland. the terps advance to the final four for the second straight year. nice job, terps made it to the national championship last year, but lost to virginia. >> uva. we covered that. great game. tomorrow is going to start out. i like sunshine in the morning, maybe some showers before the day is completely done with us. >> that's our news for tonight. mick jagger and "saturday night live" is next. ♪

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