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tonight the doors own. games begun at the closest casino to the nation's capital.
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hundreds can't get in. >> one of the biggest companies decide to move thousands of jobs out of northern virginia. >> a typo that means #,000 new diplomas will have to be sent to local graduates. >> first, the city's number two elected official out of a job. kwame brown resigned after being charged with felony bank fraud. >> the charge could send him to prison. what we know for sure tonight, another black eye for a city struggling toto overcome proble. >> kwame brown resigned. he said he made mistakes. former d.c. council chairman resigned. the door closing on his once promising political career. federal court papers filed wednesday charge brown with a phony scheme to inflate his income by tens of thousand of dollars to refinance his house,
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buy a boat, bulletproof and other items. brown as late as the tuesday insist heed had no plans to resign. >> i have no plans to resign. >> the u.s. attorney's office said brown defrauded independence federal with falsified documents and signatures all federal crimes to obtain a $598,000 mortgage on his home thought to be worth far less. >> mr. brown any comment? >> kwame brown, first elected in 2004 to d.c. council had been under investigation for more than a year. prosecutors continue to look into his 2008 council campaign and hundreds of thousands of dollars unaccounted for. mayor vincent gray, under his own separate criminal investigation for his 2010 campaign for mayor reacted to the kwame brown charge. >> well, i am stunned. i'm shocked.
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and disappointed. i'm saddened. >> the d.c. council will convene nexts when day to name temporary chairman to replace brown. jim. >> okay. more than a year and what they come up with is something having to do with his personal finances. its there more to this that we should be aware snuff. >> people should know this is a plea agreement, agreed to plea to this. had he not agreed there would be many more charges to charge him with and possibly his wife might be charged. he took the best route to getting this over and done with. rather than facing many more charges and perhaps a long trial. >> how it concerns kwame brown this investigation seems to be wrapped up? >> as far as this. there its the 2008 campaign where they have been looking at expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars the u.s. attorney said we are going to root out public corruption and i think you are seeing the examples of this now. we had it with tommy, harry thomas jr. in january. and now the chairman of the council. and, everyone is saying there is
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more to come. >> all right. tom sherwood. thank you, tom. >> live look from chopper 4 at new maryland live casino in anne arundel county. the doors opened an hour ago. look at the long lines of players, hoping to get in. a lot of them are going to be waiting a long time. inside, celebrations have been going on all night. and the players hope they will continue into the early morning. but getting inside is becoming the big story over there. shomari stone is live. what's going on, shomari? >> reporter: well i till you there are people that are lined up out here and they have been here for around an hour. folks, you can see right over here, look at that line. all the way, extending around the building over there. a lot of folks say they plan on going in here and they're going to win big. but right now they're taking a gamble. because this line is relatively long. >> now, okay. this is like -- >> michelle wins $130 at the
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grand opening of maryland live casino at arundel mills, hanover. >> it feels awesome. i just won. >> this its the largest casino in the state with 3,200 slot machines. the vegas-style opening with a red carpet, beautiful dancers in costumes, masks, weird walking insects. and this s guy, operating a wine machine on a bicycle seat. cheers. >> i'm excited. very excited. >> itaw >> there are restaurants like cheesecake factory. got to love red velvet, right? >> right. >> other nationally acclaimed restaurants. phillips seafood and bobby's burger palace from bobby flay. >> a place people can run in. run out. make it long experience or short experience. something that basically can afford to eat in. >> maryland live officials told me the casino created 2,500 jobs and 1,500 employees work here. >> i'm working, that's what
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matters. >> where were you working before? >> at home, for quite some time. >> $400 million tax revenue to support schools. >> money is staying in maryland here, not in delaware, or, elsewhere. >> i love it. i love it. >> reporter: back out here live outside maryland live. you can see right now -- all these people lined up. police are doing an excellent job of keeping the crowds cool. there is a huge demand to get in this place. it closes at 2:00. and a lot of the folks say they're going to wait until the last minute. live here in hanover, shomari stone, news 4. >> thank you, shomari. president obama in california tonight. his second trip to the l.a. area in a month for fundraisers. finishing the night with a dinner at the house of ryan murphy. the president joined the tv producer after speaking at a gala for gay and lesbian supporters at beverly wilshire hotel.
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he knows voters are questioning whether he can build a sustainable economy. he said his opponents are doing nothing more than finger pointing. the president will go to nevada tomorrow for more campaigning. congressman, barney frank says the attempt to recall wisconsin governor scott walker is a fight that democrats should never have picked. barney franks represents massachusetts. he told the hill newspaper that his party never should have fundped that campaign. governor walker defeated the recall attempt, beating out democrat tom barrett. organized labor supporters who led the recall say the was worth the fight. walker's win turns him into a sort of star in the gop. he is now in line to get a primetime speaking spot at republican national convention. >> mixed reaction from washington redskins fans over a decision to move the team's training camp to richmond. the team announced an eight-year deal with virginia today that will begin next year. in exchange for relocating summer training to richmond, the
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commonwealth will subsidize $30 million in upgrades to redskins park in ashburn. >> well the die-hard fans will go down sure. but the good fans, people that like the redskins, just look to come out here during fan appreciation day, they're not going to go down. >> as a fan, i don't have a big problem. >> would you go down that far? >> sure. i'm a redskin fan. not just where they are. >> the red skins are stead to be considering several sites in richmond, the old city stadium and virginia common wealth university. >> metro silver line aporpearedo bypass a bump. voted to go without a pro neighbor agreement on construction of extension to dulles airport vachlt irginia i right to work state. the labor agreement jeopardized hundreds of millions. the dulles extension is hinged on funding from loudon county. officials there must vote on that by july 4. >> fairfax county losing one of
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its major employers. exxon mobile announced it is shutting down its campus in fairfax, all 2,100 employees transferred to houston. that move is expected to begin in 2014. county leaders say they're working to find another company to talk over the site. >> a woman tearfully told news 4 she believes her son is guilty of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl. police say it happened yesterday at a day care the woman ran inside her home in woodbridge. the woman's son, miller, charged with assaulting the toddler in a bathroom there. miller's mother told news 4 that she is just devastated. >> i am so sorry to the family. please forgive me. i am so sorry. i would never want to hurt nobody's child. they were just like my babies. he said he didn't do it. he said he was upset that he was accused of something like that and we believed him.
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still believe him? >> no. >> miller is being held without bond. tonight a full jury is seated in the jerry sandusky trial. seven women and five men will render a verdict on the child sex abuse charges against the former penn state assistant football coach. the selection process wrapped up more quickly than expected. critics pointed out the challenge of finding people who would be impartial in ape close knit community in central pennsylvania. most potential jurors had direct ties to the case which the judge said was to be expected. >> 15 people knew a member of the, a person named on the prosecution witness list. 20 knew someone on the defense witness list which was much longer. >> a current penn state stuf dent, professor and football season ticket holder are among the seated jury members. opening arguments will start monday. >> tonight, the nation is remembering the contributions of
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see if ye of science fiction author ray bradbury. he died in his home in california, 91 years old. a wreath of flowers placed on his star on the hollywood walk of fame. bradbury best known for his novel "fahrenheit 451" a futuristic world where people burned books. he also had a thing or two to say about electronic literature. he only allowed fahrenheit 451 to be published as an e-book last year. >> first adam's morgan now u street. the busy corridor to become a construction zone monday. d-dot will begin a street scrape project between 9th and 14th streets northwest. sigh walks and roads get face lifts, curb side parking restricted. the work is scheduled to be finished next spring. here's veronica with a first look at our overnight weather forecast. hey, veronica. >> hey there, guys. yeah, we had showers around. but those faded around 9:00.
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you are looking at a dry storm 4 radar right now. but you know what we are going to see rain showing back up on the forecast. that will be after we get through a dry morning. but look -- it's going to be cool again tomorrow morning. feeling a lot like it did this morning. i will have a time line forecast on that rain coming up. >> thank you, veronica. coming up tonight. new dramatic video of a young child dangling from a 4th floor fire balcony. daring effort to get him to safety. >> thousand got a diploma with a misspelling. the plan to make things right. >> all right -- also tell you what washed up on
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some really scary video. that is a little boy hanging from his, by his head, from a balcony four stories up. that child is okay now. according to an english language blog he had been out on his family's balcony when he slipped through a crack. some how his body got through his head got stuck. he dangled for several minutes. a man climbed from an apartment below and pushed the boy back to safety. that's incredible. >> a crowning achievement for teenagers, receiving a diploma at high school graduation. for thousand in prince george's county a mistake is stealing the headlines. jackie benson reports. >> everybody just went into their dipz alomas and reading,
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that's crazy. they're messing up. >> reporter: he shares his reaction with news that his hard earned diploma and those of roughly 8,000 other prince george's county graduates contains a typo. the word program is spelled progam. bullock who graduated may 31st says he learned of the error on facebook. >> he played football. he was so proved it he read through everything. then he noticed it. and he put it on facebook. and everybody just caught on to it. oh, now we can't have that. >> prince george's county public schools release aid statement that says, please accept our sincere apologies for the typo that appears on your high school diploma. we are working with the printer to ensure that a corrected diploma is sent to you as quickly as possible. the school system apoll jitogizr any embarrassment the may have caused graduates. jackie benson, news 4.
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>> 48 years to the day, honoring veterans in washington. kids from ashland elementary school held up banners and cheered as vets arrived at the world war ii memorial. the storming of normandy led to a battle that helped pave the way to the end of the war. >> it's just absolutely amazing. it is a super, super, treatment for people. and we're very happy we are here. >> i wish people all over the world could come here and see -- these dedications, how beautiful they are, and what, what it really meant to the people of this country. >> organizers say today's field trip taught the kids history and how to recognize those who have served. >> after traveling by air and sea, the space shuttle enterprise is at its new home tonight. the shuttle was hoisted by crane on to the intrepid sea, air, space museum.
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enterprise left the center on board a 747. then a barge floated it out to the intrepid this weekend and a crane finished the job today. enterprise was a prototype shuttle and never actually traveled into space. but it has been on a journey since. >> to get to where it is now. >> right. >> so all those folks standing in line trying to get into the casino are they going to get rained on? >> they're not going to get rained on. exactly what i was going to say. can you imagine. sure they're dressed up a bit. >> the line is unbelievable. >> crazy, come on. anyway. we're talking about dry conditions for now. but we are going to see rain move back into our area tomorrow. as far as -- the coastal flood advisory still up for the area. there is a look at the view from above. okay. traffic is terrible too, right. >> good grief? >> don't go anywhere near there, right? >> uh-uh. >> you are not going to move. coastal flood advisory. continue throughs thursday morning.
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that's our onshore flow. high tide. minor coastal flooding around annapolis, potomac. saw that this morning. near annapolis. west river area. some folks saying water got really high. storm 4 radar right now. the only area where we are seeing showers is down to the south around charlottesville. but they have had bigger rains down south. with, and actual weather front down around jacksonville, florida. big storms. around dallas, texas. even denver. hey, we are getting ready to move into a dry pattern that -- that area of low pressure that's been locked up over us. finally going to start moving out. so the cool air is going to retreat. warm summertime air will move in. i say summertime. does include humidity coming back. 63 degrees right now. dew point at 55. a lot of folks reaching out. can't we bottle this. keep it around a little longer. at least one more day. that will be tomorrow. more wet weather for us.
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67 degrees. and college park maryland right now. tomorrow morning. 51 to 62 degrees. in the middle. 55 to 58. manassas. d.c. 58. going to feel just as cool as this morning was starting out. looking at afternoon. evening. tomorrow. showers. maybe even some isolated thunderstorms. coming through. and then nothing but quiet. nothing but sunshine for friday. high pressure moves in. we'll have sunshine and warmer conditions, so, today's high, 75. tomorrow's, will start to see temperatures rise to the low 80s. but looking dry early on. 52 to 61. again, jacket weather for us early in the day. 75 to 81 degrees finally some seasonable temperatures for tomorrow. and then, as we take a look at the extended forecast here. # # on saturday. 91 may feel like 95. -- 88 on saturday.
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91 may feel like 95 on sunday, monday. we'll cool down to wednesday. keep an eye out. showers for outdoor activities coming up. >> thank you, veronica.
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nats seem to own these days, the braves and phillies. only people they have problems with. >> the miami marlins. had trouble with that too. >> them. >> they have been playing well against the mets. boded well the last couple days. nice thing about the nationals, really a different guy steps up every game.
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tonight, adam laroche hurt most of last season. the starting pitcher, edwin jackson. first win since april 14th. nats putting distance between themselves and everybody else, . and he puts this one right in the area known as adam laroche's wheel house. a three-run bomb for laroche. ninth of the year. check out the fan. so excited he is high-fiving everybody around him. nats' fan. a mets' fan. there you go. mets' fan playing along. nationals 3-0 lead. bottom five now. nats up 3-2. mike morris. beast mode. starting to heat up with the bat. opposite field hitting right there. ryan zimmerman around second. he will score. nationals go up 4-2. morris has the the first rbi of the season. he went 2-3 at the plate. a solid outing for nats' starter edwin jackson. bottom seven. and the speed.
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swinging. jackson struck out six. he allowed three runs, seven innings. the bullpen adds two scoreless innings. nationals win 5-3. buck showwalter and orioles, red sox at fenway park. and out for the os and he was impressive. darnell mcdonald. have a seat, my friend. chen allowed one run, seven hits in seven innings. help from the offense. and single into right field. wilson bettamy comes around to score. and chavez would have an rbi later in the inning, all the orioles needed. they win 2-1. pick up franchise record, seventh straight win at fenway park. with the tampa bay loss, orioles once again, sit atop the al east. all right. chance for oklahoma city tonight to make the nba finals for the first time in franchise history. kevin durant and company trying to wrap up the western conference finals by closing out those pesky spurs.
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russell westbrook, and kevin durant, the nba's new die naming duo. first quarter. check out westbrook. this is what i like to call taking it to the tin with authority. oh, my goodness. just get out of the way. the spurs not ready to go home. tony parker, parker sets up for three. and he drains it. 23 points in the game for parker. spurs up by 15 at the half. third quarter now. thunder chipping away. kevin durant from deep. that's good. a five-point lead for the thunder. durant has 32, fourth quarter. how about -- that is a tough left-handed runner. the thunder talk their first lead of the game with 9:30 left to play. 103-97, to 99, is where we sit right now. which is just a couple minutes ago. one minute left in that game. and in the stanley cup finals, the devils stave off elimination against the kings. kings going for the sweep.
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couldn't get it. devils win 3-1. there will be a game five. there will be a game five. >> fat lad
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15 noneths after a tsunami ravaged japan there is a reminder of the killer storm that washed up on the beach in oregon. a 60 foot long, seven foot high, floating dock that made landfall near newport today. the japanese consulate in seattle and portland confirmed
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it was from japan. the dock was tested for radiation. those results are negative. scientists expect debris to show up on the west coast throughout the year. that one is big. >> updating a developing story, anne arundel, maryland, the maryland live casino opened its doors at 10:00 tonight. the big story is the gigantic crowd outside. hundreds and hundreds showed up tonight. haven't been automobile to gble. the casino is e
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