welcome to "news4 at 4:00." i'm pat lawson muse. >> i'm jim handly. new warnings out today as we expect big changes in the weather. the national park service wants people to know about the hidden dangers along the potomac river after close calls. we have the story now from megan mcgrath. >> reporter: the potomac river is a national treasure. while a source of great fun, the potomac can also be a source of great danger. betsy train has seen it firsthand. her husband nearly drowned last year in a canoeing accident. >> they actually capsized at seneca. they were in the water for about 2 1/2, 3 hours. they had life jackets. and they scrambled for what they could. >> reporter: in 2009, ten people drowned between the key bridge and the waters just north of great falls. an area known as the potomac river gorge. to prevent accidents, emergency responders want to urge visitors

to be careful, especially on wet rocks which can become extremely slippery. >> algae growing on the rocks and make it very, very slippery. these rocks have been here for thousands and thousands of years eroded by the potomac river. the area is smooth. when they get wet, smooth surface can be slippery. there's sand. sand gets on it they act like ball bearings or tiny balls and make you slip as well. >> reporter: swim sing not allowed in the potomac river gorge. remember, while seemingly still on the surface, down below the current is very strong and can sweep you under in a flash. boaters have your life vests. it is not only smart, it is the law. park rangers have also seen a new and rather dangerous trend in the last year or so. what they call young thrill seekers. jumping from the rocks. there have been a number of injuries, including broken legs and concussions. along the potomac river, megan mcgrath, news4. heading into the big holiday weekend, we are in for some

dramatic changes in our weather. >> meteorologist veronica johnson has details from the storm center. >> the last couple of days we have been talking about the slow moving storms. attention important the upcoming weekend, holiday weekend, memorial day, will be on heat and humidity. you will want to make sure you hydrate. red write to pull the fans out and get them red xwrip looking at clouds across the area right now. like yesterday, we have more storms popping. 83 degrees currently with the south wind at 15 miles per hour. and as you look at the satellite and radar, take a look where the clearing is. just east of front royal right now. it is right around the rim of that clearing that we are seeing the storms pop. they are popping and like yesterday they are slow moving. yesterday's storms, you can see there, i labeled it there for you in loudoun county, prince william county, fauquier, produce ad lot of rain. round hill, over 3 inches of rain. catlett, four inches. bull run, over five inches of rain. slow moving storms today. biggest batch down to our south.

this cluster will be making its way north and northeastward towards stafford county. mt. pleasant, spotsylvania, chancellor, heavy rain and lightning in a very short period of time. watch out for light mink in those areas. yesterday we had some flash flooding around the area. could see that again today. we are in the 80s but again, turning up the heat and humidity. take a look at your 7-day forecast coming up in a few. decades old mystery may soon be solved. police in new york are questioning a man who says he kidnapped and killed a young boy more than 30 years ago. 6-year-old etan patz vanished 33 years ago on his way to school in new york city. he may look familiar to you. he was one of the first missing children featured on a milk carton. new jersey police picked up pedro hernandez late last night in connection with the child's disappearance. hernandez lived and worked in the neighborhood around the at the time patz disappeared. right now, a second former aide to d.c. mayor vincent gray

is in court in connection with a federal probe of gray's 2010 campaign for mayor. howard brooks is accused of lying to the fbi about payments made to suleman brown. another mayoral candidate. another gray stafford pleaded guilty to charges related to the investigation earlier this week. tom sherwood will have the latest on the hearing on "news4 at 5:00." mayor barry says he's sorry about comments he made about fill pane owe nurses in the last few months. barry apologized during a joint news conference in southeast d.c. asian american advocacy groups stood with barry as he addressed the media. >> i apologize efor any hurt or harm i did to anyone. apologies are not enough if you are going to continue to do it.

and so i -- raise myself in leading this community, highest standard in everybody, and that would be very, very careful about my words and about any group of people. >> barry came under intense scrutiny in april after he said the district had to do something about, quote, asians coming in and opening up businesses in dirty shops. later in april, barry also made controversial remarks about the number of filipino nurses in area hospitals. today barry said he hopes to make ward 8 a model of diversity and inclusiveness. new polls in three pivotal presidential battleground states suggest president obama is holding a slim lead against his presumed challenger, mitt romney. that's good news for the president. but romney also has a reason is on celebrate. his numbers are going up. steve handelsman has the latest. >> reporter: mitt romney is stronger in three key states.

ohio, virginia, and florida. big battlegrounds. president obama still leads in today's nbc news/marist poll. there's still good news for the president. 48%, he's ahead in all three states. ♪ romney campaigned today in a fourth swing state, pennsylvania. visiting a charter school in mostly african-american west philadelphia. >> nice to meet you. hi. how are you? >> reporter: romney disagrees that smaller classes mean bigger achieveme achievement. overnight in california, president obama called romney out of touch on economics. important pushing the same less tax, less regulation plan of

george w. bush. >> most good business people i know if something doesn't work, they do something different. so he must either think that there's going to be a different result or he's hoping you don't remember what happened the last time we tried it his way. >> reporter: romney promise as difference from president obama. in his new ad -- >> ending the obama era of big government, helping secure our kids' futures. >> reporter: 166 days until the election. most of those days, the campaigning will be in the battleground states where today's nbc news/maris poll shows this contest is getting closer. steve handelsman, news4. investigators are looking in a a fire today that sickened the crew from an entire d.c. fire station. crews were wearing protective gear on the job this morning at the harmony house apartments here in the 3700 block of hay street in northeast. they were following up on last

tonight's fire which investigators believed may have started when a pcp drug lab exploded. eight firefighters from the engine 10 fire station suffered from diz aniness, itchy eyes and other health problems. they were transporteded from their firehouse to be evaluated. if you take your lunch to work, check this out. new study suggests keeping your lunch in the office fridge could make you sick. researchers at kimberly clark swabbed nearly 5,000 surfaces in several office buildings. some of the dirtiest surfaces included oven handles, refrigerator doors, vending machine buttons and keyboards. and three out of four break room sinks were dirt write. the scientists did not look for specific germs but says it is likely the surfaces were teaming with bacteria. they underlined the importance of washing your hands before eating or drinking especially if you have just been in the break room. safety out of the sun.

many of us will be heading outdoors to enjoy the good weather. but we don't want to end up hurting ourselves in the process. erica edwardses that latest on staying safe while in the sun. >> reporter: the lifeguard's his sl like a sirens call to jump into some summertime fun and let the sun warm our winter skin. >> heard my own mother say she wants to get a little color royf dr. joseph of brigham and women's hospital of boston says the truth is no color from the sun is safe. he says people should invest early and often in sunscreens that offer broad spectrum uva/uvb protection with an spf of 50. the trick is to slather it everywhere. >> the earlobes are a huge area people forget. we see types of pre-cancerous skin lesions develop on the ears very frequently. >> reporter: and although spray-on sunscreens are convenient, more of it can end up in the air than on your skin. >> the problem with the pray-on

sunscreens is that we tend to not use enough of it. >> reporter: if you want to boost your personal sun protection factor, a lot of brands have makeup now containing sunscreen, including powders you can reapply all day. dermatologist space the typical wide-rim hat can offer ultraviolet protection factor of at least five. besides they are totally in this season. most clothing also has protection factor of about 5. but you can increase that number by washing clothes in products like sun guard. >> washing your laundry with that material increase it is spf of the clothing to 30. >> reporter: there are several sunscreen options that can help you last longer without getting burned. erica edwards, nbc news. when news4 continues, kanye and kim out on a date. ♪ it is a little bit funny ♪ this feeling inside >> nothing funny about it, the feeling inside sent elton john

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rapper kanyou can'kanye wes hand in hand with his girlfriend kim kardashian for the debut of "cruel summer." academy award winning actor adrian brody stopped by one of the after-parties. heidi klum from "project runway" showed up. she knows how to work the red carpet. paris hilton wouldn't miss the party. ♪ "idol" has a new winner. music superstar in the hospital and legal woes for two actors. >> we have a new "american idol." last might the show crowned its 11th winner.

>> yeah, hard to believe. i was going say it was an upset. most people thought jessica sanchez would win. >> let's take a listen. >> philip phillips! >> jessica sanchez has been the favorite to win. philip phillips has been sidelined for health issues the entire time. he's probably at the doctors now. his doctor literally told him he was risking life and limb by appearing on the show. he has a liver issue or kidney issue. i forget. he has been sick. i'm glad he won. you know, what's crazy is this is the fifth guy to win in a row. since 2008. maybe i need to just try out and just get on there and just howl and show what's up. that's the only thing i can do. >> speaking of sick and a singer, talk about a superstar, elton john reportedly spent a day in the hospital. so what was he treated for? how is this going to impact house tour? >> well, that's the problem.

he has a nasty respiratory infection and he has to go to vegas. he was -- scheduled to go to vegas this weekend for four shows. will be canceled. he has to rest for seven days. when you go to vegas to see elton john that's a thing, you plan it. maybe for six months or a year in advance. people that have tickets inform this weekend's show, it will be hard to make up. >> lot of dis appointed fans. sharon stone is being sued by her former nanny for, that she made. >> yeah. >> about philippine those this is a crazy story. because this nanny says that sharon stone didn't want her speaking to the kids because she didn't want them speaking with a filipino accent. you hire a nanny, her job is to communicate and take care of the kids. that's kind of odd to me she wouldn't want her to talk to her. the kids, how else will she communicate with them? this nanny says that sharon stone forbid her to read the bible in her own room in sharon stone's house. she talked about the filipino foods and i think the real issue came about when she says, nanny

alleges sharon stone would not pay her overtime. you know, i don't know. this is one of those stories we are like really? i'm not sure. i'm not sure. >> money. >> sounds suspect. >> another star with legal trouble. former "law & order" star terrence howard is having legal issues of his own. >> he has something going on with his love interests. he just can't stay out of court with them. he claims that his ex-girlfriend came over to his house, one he had been dating a while, they had broken up. came over to his house, knock order the door. he shows up at the door with the new girlfriend. i don't know with y they both came to the door. he says his ex socked him in the nose. she claims she was attacked by him. yet she was the charged with force his love life is keeping him in court. >> you remember "peyton place"?

>> yeah. >> sounds like he res it, too. >> tomorrow is the big concert. we have tickets. verizon center. we have tickets so you can get some. i will have to do it too because i don't have tickets yet. we have tickets for you but not for me. >> get in line. >> exactly. >> great to see you. >> good to see you. coming up on "news4 at 4:00," national recognition for a family that puts a new spin on a girl scout favorite. ♪ help me help me there was not a drive-by. we will go backstage with train during this local performance. for all of your news, be sure to follow news4 online. search nbc washington on facebook and twitter.

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we had a lot of storms brewing out mr. >> yes. exactly. they were right close to d.c. of course, over d.c., too. today we have fewer storms. most of our action today is just down to the south and off to the south and west. as you will see in a moment. we have at least a brighter looking sky now that pretty blue with the clouds, those puffy white clouds in the foreground. some of you down to our south again getting rain around spotsylvania county. as you will see in jt a moment. our temperature currently stands at 83 degrees. reagan national, so many neighborhoods today. low 80s. south at 15 miles per hour. the dew point at 64 degrees. but again, we are going to be turning that humidity up for the holiday weekend. down to the south we go. checking you on those storms around fredericksburg, good batch of rain come down an inch an hour around route 1 there. heading northward. then we have more rain down to the south just west of i-95 around beaver dam area. that's headed to the north and northeast.

towards spotsylvania. some of the same locations that got some rain earlier. fewer storms but still couple of neighbor hads really getting drenched. we will have the isolated hours and storms up until about 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 p.m. we will see showers for tomorrow morning and know most of the showers at 5:00, 6:00, 8:00 tomorrow morning will be east of i-95. so we will be starting out in the mid to upper 60s for tomorrow morning. the other story, again, the heat. where is that heat coming from? it is coming from the west and plains. dallas at 92. right now 09 degrees in memphis, tennessee. that's all going to be making its way eastward where we are going to be around 90 degrees this upcoming weekend. the futurecast behind me, our projection for early tomorrow morning, again, few showers, mainly east of i-95. they will be scattered. not heavy. we have a chance, slight chance, 30% chance to get more storms in here tomorrow afternoon. then saturday, yes, we have things pretty quiet on saturday. but there will be an approaching weather front and i think as we heat up for the holiday weekend,

on at day afternoon, even sunday, could have an isolated, isolated shower around the area. and look at that. just off the coast of south caroline a there may be another tropical system developing. we will be watching that closely down south. showers and storm, some heavy. mainly south and west of the area. would will be dropping down into the 70s tomorrow morning. 62 to 66. just a few showers east of i-95. don't think it will be enough to carry the umbrella for tomorrow morning. plenty warm. getting up to 87. humid tomorrow afternoon. and quite humid for a holiday weekend. there is your saturday, sunday, monday. right near 90 degrees with humidity. it will feel more like 95. we are going to take a look at not only the beach and boating forecast coming up in a few minutes but noaa, out there forecast for the hurricane season today which starts june 1. >> here we go. >> okay. thanks, veronica. traffic alert for anyone who drives through southeast washington. the 11th street local bridge is

now open. the bridge provides a direct connection between anacostia and the navy yard area. >> there will also abtemporary six foot separated walkway for ped wrans and cyclists. and a ramp from the bridge to the navy yard at o street. still to come on "news4 at 4:00," the success of a popular fashion line. >> this dog is on the road for a go

welcome back, everybody. 4:30. i'm jim hand. >> i i'm pat lawson muse. your headlines, d.c. council member barry apologized today for comments he made about the asian american community. barry spoke alongside asian american community leaders in southeast. he had come under intense

scrutiny in april after saying asians were opening up dirty shops in his ward. bare write says he hopes to make ward 8 a model of diversity. new polls out today in three pivotal battleground states suggest the presidential race will be extremely close. right now president obama is holding a slim lead against his presumed republican challenger mitt romney. the poll shows him leading in florida and ohio. there is room for romney to cheer. the margins is close and numbers are going newspaper all three states. park services urging boaters and hikers to be safe and obey the law. the number of drownings in the potomac river has decreased. ten people drowned in 2009. swimming in not allowed in parts of the river. and all boaters have to wear those life vests. on wall street, stocks ended on a mixed note. amid ongoing speculation over whether greece will exit the eurozone. dow jumped 34 points today.

nasdaq fell 11. and the s&p 500 closed the day with a two-point gain. if you have walked into a j. crew store lately you have probably gazed upon the work of a man credited with revitalizing the whole company. a tremendous amount of work goes into creating an environment that encourages you to spend. cnbc has a new documentary out that takes you inside j. crew and the mind of mickey drexler. he's the man who turned it into a multibillion dollar brand. here's david faber. >> reporter: to most of us it is just a store. but when you visit a j. crew location with the boss, ceo mickey drexler, you realize that his business is the result of a thousand details. >> i'm taking in everything. >> right. >> i love the way the front of the store looks. the thing you see first is color in the store. to me color is kind of painting a picture. >> reporter: drexler likes to see yellow. to capture attention. >> you have a lot of yellow.

>> yellow looks like it is a lot more than it is. >> reporter: he likes merchandise mixed together. shoes, jewelry and nail polish nexted to clothing to highlight the variety of products. it is all part of j. crew's effort to present a classic fashion forward brand that customers will aspire to. >> j. crew because they want a certain lifestyle. they don't go in there just to buy a single item. this is who i want to be and this is who i am and understand me. >> reporter: to help ensure all stores appeal to his customers, drexler pays frequent visits to a mall location near his new york city headquarters. the first store in the country to receive the latest merchandise. new shipments arrive every month. and employees work through the night perfecting displays which will be copied across the country if they earn drexler's approval. >> good morning, everyone. >> reporter: the next morning, he arrives. and doesn't mince words. >> the shoe department doesn't look like a shoe department.

show these, please. you will probably double your sales by showing -- >> reporter: seemingly small details that can add up to big profits. >> i wish more retailers would be in the stores. at the end of the day, selling product to your customers, they want to buy what they like. >> reporter: david faber, cnbc business news. >> you can learn more about the inner workings in the documentary "j. crew and the man who dressed america." it is on tonight at 10:00 on cnbc. >> the first lady is a big fan. >> she is. she buy as lot and wears the clothes well. two dogs with amazing tricks are getting lots of attention on the internet. >> take a look at this. lili in china can hop on his owner's bike and hang on for a ride. he watches his owner's bike when it is parked. another talent. >> toto would take the basket. norman can actually ride a bike.

his owner is in canton, georgia, says it took norman four months to learn how to pedal. how many months is that in dog years? it all began when norman played with the kid's bike in the backyard. the family thought it would be fun for him to learn how to ride the bike. okay. i'm going to stretch this out. we have to see this. riding it on his own. >> can you believe that? >> he looks -- look at that posture. >> pay no attention to the training wheels. because that really doesn't matter. >> that's true. >> when there is a dog on the bike. >> he looks good. look at that. people don't ride it that straight up and down. good for him. texas family is making over the classic samoa girl scout cookie. arpelo -- the arpelos were asked to help the organization celebrate the 100th anniversary. they decided to deep fry the classic treat for the texas state fair. >> yum. christie and her sister considered the request an honor. the pair say they were empowered by the group growing up.

>> it is crazy hard work. but it is so much fun. think they contribute to all our success later in life. we can give back to them for a change. >> the samoas are wrapped in wonton skin, fried and drizzled with chocolate caramel and coconut. the family expects to make 100,000 samoas during the state fair this year. that looks really good. >> i was being good today. i may have to be bad now. >> i don't know about fried cookies but those look good. coming up on "news4 at 4:00," much more ahead. a tractor trailer out of control careens into a house and flips on to a car carrying teenagers. and what would make a grown man wear a pink tutu in public? we will hear the story behind we will i'm more ofory behind an absentee plant parent.

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red carpet. don't forget you can download our own nbc 4 iphone app for free to stay up to date on the latest news and weather on the go. just search nbc washington on itunes. are beach or boating part of your plans? veronica has the beach and water forecast. ♪ help me help me we have your backstage pass to meet the members of train. in town for a show.

lot of pressure for the weekend. lot of big plans. any storms on the horizon? >> we are not going to have any major storms. no storms like we have seen over the last couple of days around here. but speaking of major storms,

well, that would be big hurricane for you p.m. right? conditions in the atmosphere and ocean, for the hurricane season coming up, june 1 to november 30, noaa, hurricane research division is calling for a near normal season. 07% chance we will see 9 to 15 storms of which 4 to 8 would be hurricanes. 1 to 3 would be a major hurricane with winds over 111 miles per hour. that's the forecast right now. the way it usually works is we start to move through the hurricane season for the atlantic. usually revise that forecast based on the conditions. right now, just a near normal season for us. speaking of the smaller storms, just take a look at radar behind me. storm 4 radar now, big storms firing down to the south of us. again, not quite what we saw the last couple of days. nonetheless, we are watching this area right around culpeper county and down ruined spotsylvania county. we have one cell around culpeper. that will be making its way towards warrenton bringing rain rates of about an inch an hour.

we have another area here moving through spotsylvania county. spotsylvania in the next 31 minutes, todd's traffic the american the next 43. 54 minutes, brocroad. not seeing much lightning. that's good. possibility of hail low, too. lot of rain and that means it will be slow go on area roads important the evening rush. tomorrow's high temperature is 85 to 87 degrees. not only hot but it is going to be humid. beach, looking like the great location to go or anywhere near the water. 66, ocean city water temperature. right now we are calling important the temperatures saturday, sunday rs, memorial day. upper 70s to 80 degrees. nice. getting humid and sticky with winds probably picking up on monday out of the southwest at 10 to 15 miles per hour. there is your look at your weekend for saturday, sunday, monday, 89, 87, 90 degrees. can't rule out an isolated shower on saturday and sunday. as we get to memorial day, better chance for seeing one of the isolated showers, maybe

pop-up thunderstorms during the afternoon. but 90 on monday. feeling like 95 degrees. keep that in mind for any of those big family outings that you are planning. we keep the heat around through tuesday. then cold front hits us with more showers and storms mid week. thumbs up for the holiday weekend. >> i will say. not bad at all. thanks. >> two thumbs. hey, they have been around since the '90s. now the band train is more popular than ever. their latest hitby is a top ten. >> it the band is here in d.c. and played a concert at the hamilton last night. they sat down with tommy mcfly. >> backstage at the hamilton live with train. thank you for doing this. ♪ i'll be there for you ♪ this is not a drive by >> how long have you been on the road doing stuff with the new alb album? >> we have been touring for years for the san francisco

record that ended up being very successful all over the world. we were kind of on the road for almost three years and wrote this record while we were on the road. ♪ help me help me >> how much do you tweet and do you do your own twitter? >> yeah, we do our own twitter. scott does most of all the phot photos. i do show photos. he takes great pictures all the time. >> what's it like on the road with train? you guys are a bunch of cutups? i was trying to find the right word to use there. any crazy tour antics? is that commonplace for train? >> i don't know that -- it is not like we are that crazy. but i mean, we do use humor a lot to -- i mean, to survive, you know. yeah. we are so busy. we do a lot of press and stuff during the day. then sound check and show at night. then it is like travel overnight on a bus. you know, we try to watch -- usually watch funny movies, not

serious movies after the show. >> i feel like train after the last couple of years got edgier. was there a moment you were like we are going to get more provocative now? when did things changes? is that with the album progression? >> i think what happens in life in general is that you get better whether -- as you grow up. and in music, it seems like the edgeiest periods of your life should be in your youth. the records we fall in love with for the most part are people's first, second or third record. we are on our seventh album. and i feel like we are just starting to get into our stride where we feel comfortable enough as human beings or as a band or as whatever to express ourselves as honestly as possible. >> thank you for coming to d.c. you brought hits. you were awesome. >> thanks for joining us. >> they are on a roll. >> they are. they still have it. >> hit song. coming up on news4, many people will be hitting the beach but many others will be spend part

of the holiday weekend someplace else. find out where and why coming up. coming up tonight on "news4 at 5:00," scam artists target an elderly woman in prince george's county. how they got her to fork over thousands of dollars. >> also a new case of a rare flesh-eating bacteria in georgia. why doctors say th

after tallying the votes, hot and spicy crackers are america's favorite. the kellogg company confirms the win from 67 million votes cast in the facebook contest. hot and spicy beat out seven other flavors including pepper jack, california woman cast it is moss votes in this selection. her likeness will appear on specially marked boxes of the crackers. hot and cheesy cheez-its will hit the shelves this summer.

the start of the summer car buying season. 13.1% of may sales occurred during last year's holiday weekend. and analysts believe car makers could see a 30% jump this year. kelly blue book reports toyota and honda are finally rebounding after the earthquake and tsunami in japan. chrysler is also expected to have a very good weekend. a horrible wreck this morning after a semi truck driver lost control. slammed into a house and flipped over on to a car. >> this was awful. take a look. there were two teenagers in this car. this is the video. the semi driver was killed after he swerved into oncoming traffic. the truck left the road and crashed into the house. the trailer came down on the back seat of the car crushing it. miraculously the teens in the front were not hurt. and neither was the person inside of the house. the homeowner had just walked from the front to the back of

the house when he gfelt the impact. no word on what made the driver lose control. still ahead on news4 the unusual way one man is raising

an inspirational story about a photographer who found a very creative way to support breast cancer. >> you may have seen the pictures online. a man in a pink tutu photographed in unusual and historic places. nbc's natalie morales has more on the tutu project. >> reporter: for the last nine years, photographer bob karey traveled across the country, taking hundreds of self-portraits. his ritual was always the same. finds his spot, sets up his tripod, focuses his camera, and then does something -- well a bit out of the ordinary. he strips down to nothing more than a pink tutu. >> i feel like i'm giving everything i have for these images.

>> reporter: his pictures have been described as magical from subway platforms to public beaches. parking lots to amusement parks. bob lets his imagination soar. his inspiration, his wife linda. they have been happily married for 24 years. >> i started using this project to get away from things. and to start expressing myself and it turned into this journey. >> reporter: bob's unlikely journey began in 2003 when linda was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer. as she faced grueling rounds of radiation and chemotherapy, the tutu project became an outlet for them both. a way to laugh through the tears. >> he forgets about things and becomes this guy in the tutu. >> reporter: just three years after linda's initial diagnosis, her cancer came back. this time it spread to her liver. her doctors say it isn't

curable. each day is a battle. with bob by her side, linda undergoes cancer treatments every three weeks. it has become a routine, part of their lives. >> hi. how are you? >> good. >> this is new actually. >> reporter: had often brings his pictures along to show other patients in hopes of raising a smile and inspiring them to find their inner ballerina. an unlikely inspiration i bob's tutu has taken on meaning in breast cancer. he created a nonprofit organization to help raise awareness and money for patients in need. just recently his ballerina website tutu project has gone viral. his pictures now touching countless people across the globe. many writing him simply to say thank you. from the times square in new york city, he says his wife's strength gives him the courage he needs to play dress-up and give back just a man and his pink tutu. >> when we were just talking when we saw the first picture,

it is a little jarring. by the time you get to see more there's nothing cooler. what an impact. >> they are nice pictures. >> beautiful. natalie morales reporting. now a money scheme snare as local elderly woman. >> off the top tonight, sweepstakes scheme. elderly woman convinced she hit the jackpot but ends up getting conned out of thousands of dollar. >> a second campaign aid pleads guilty in the probe. baby born in the middle of rush hour traffic. how the new mom paid tribute to the arlington police officer who delivered the little girl. good evening. i'm pat lawson muse. >> i'm jim handly. wendy has the night off. police on the hunt tonight for the people who scammed an elderly woman out of thousands of dollars. the suspects posing as legitimate sweepstakes workers said she won a jackpot. but they needed some extra cash to cover the