good morning, everyone. welcome to "news 4 midday." i'm braush harrison. it's monday, june 25. the supreme court just released their decision on the controversial arizona immigration law. the high skort said three of four parts of the law are unconstitutional. it upheld the decision that police must check the immigration status of none they arrest before they can be leased. the vote was 5-3. associate justice elena kagan sat out this decision because she worked on the case while she sat with the justice department.

justices also struck down the provision that allowed arizona police to arrest someone on suspicion that they had violated a federal immigration law. the court also ruled on juvenile offenders in murder cases. the court decided 5-4 against mandatory sentences of life without parole. this case came from a 14-year-old alabama boy convicted of murder. his lawyers argued and the justices agreed that life without parole violates the eighth amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. and the high court said the rest of their decisions for this term will come on thursday. that includes the highly anticipated decision on president obama's health care law. 26 states and national business court urmged the court to strike down the law's central requirement that all americans must buy health insurance police believe alcohol was involved in crash that killed a young girl. she was in one of three cars

that collided along 210 yesterday afternoon. aerika gonzalez has more for us >> reporter: they found 7-year-old janae woodard dead and at least three others injured. you mentioned it yesterday. it was in the afternoon on route 2010 near lewis plachls someone has come to place flowers and a toy bay. she died when 73-year-old jackson tutt who was headed south on lewis in a green chevy tahoe went through the median, rammed into the side of one car carried two people and then sideswiped the 2003 nissan ultima janae was traveling in. 36-year-old marquita rochelle mcgee was behind the wheel of that car and had be interest be transported by chopper in critical condition as was tutt. but his injuries were

nonlife-threatening. of the other two individuals involved in the crash, only one was taken to ft. washington hospital. detectives are continuing their investigation today but they do confirm that alcohol did play a factor in this accident. in bruins road, maryland, erika gonzalez, "news 4." >> thank you, erika. we're going to take a look at our midday traffic now. we have danella sealock standing by. good morning. >> good morning, barbara. i'm watching an accident as you make your way on the interloop. you can pass but you're going to have to stick to the left side of the road. the crash involves a motorcycle and is blocking two of your lanes. in the main lanes earlier. we had emergency response. they were blocking your left lane. they're gone. again, you're going to have to pass single file in the main lanes. now let's head over now to the 14th street bridge. 395 northbound, roadwork again just blocking the left lanes as you can see here. you're going to get by, but you've got to get by of the two

left lanes. let's check your travel speed. 55 miles an hour, not bad, from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. that drive right now taking 12 minutes. barbara, back over to you. >> thanks, danella. taking a look outside right now, it looks pretty nice with comfortables. tom kierein standing by the tell us if we can expect rain today. tom. >> eye, i think we probably will. coming in out of the north and west ahead of a cool front we have scattered showers. there's been a little bit of thunder and lightning associated with it. we look at the radar going in. right now across much of mon montgomery county, the area of green is light rain. moderate showersing maybe a little bit of thunder and lightning moving into howard county. there have been some heavy downpours near ocean city but that area north of washington, no severe weather associated with that but there mate be light smours over columbia and elsewhere. along i-66 on the way out toward

front royal, that area getting a little bit of moderate rain in northern fauquier county north of warrenton. that is drifting off to the southeast as well. and behind this as it does move on through, we'll have lower humidity moving in. all these areas on this severe storm risk map are under the threat for some strong storms that might produce some wind damage and these are areas of just to the south and east mainly of washington and around the bay, the eastern shore. perhaps up to along the northeast corridor up toward boston. there may be some flight delays between washington and boston later today and right around the region, we're beginning to heat up. reagan is up to 88 degrees. the rest are in the 70s. as the afternoon progresses, we'll have temperatures holding steady in the mid and upper 80s. any storms around should be ending around the metro area by 2:00 or so. then the lower humidity does move in and turning breezy. here's a look at the radar down over florida now and this is all

as a result of the persist tmt circulation of tropical storm debby that is just off the west coast of florida. not really showing much sign of any movement. but the main problem is rain, and reporting on that now live is my weather channel colleague mike seidel along the west coast of florida. mike, how's it looking there now? >> reporter: well, it's not too bad lighter in the tampa/st. pete area. we have heavy rain. severe weather around the orlando area and rain wrapping back toward panama city. here the sun is coming out. yesterday we got hit. 9 1/2, 10 inches of rain. the tide came in so high, came up -- this is low tide, tom. there's hardly any sand left at low tide because it's not going out with the onshore wind. but yesterday it made a visit into the pool at the doubletree. they've not seen this since the super storm since 1993.

they had to dig out the pool. they have three or four inches out. they hope to get the pool out tomorrow. we still have the rip currents. waves have come down. we've got a lot of debris on the beach. the seaweed has rolled in with the tide and also palm trees but the bottom line is we still have a tornado watch, the ill the chance of severe thunderstorms as debby has weakened now to 45 miles an hour. so it's a weaker tropical storm, but they changed the watch here in the tampa area to a tropical storm warning pause now debby is beginning to move east and northeast at 3 miles an hour. it may not make it to land for two or three days. we deal with the surf and the beach erosion and the risk of severe weather. one thing that's great, barbara harrison, is it's in the low 80s. i only hope when i get back to my old stomping ground that ta temperature is in the low 80s but aisle hope for 785 and be

happy with that. >> that would sound good to me too. enjoy yourself down there. hopefully you don't have too much bad weather to deal with. thanks a lot. president obama will be stumping for votes today in new england. he leaves about an hour for now f new hampshire where he'll speak at a high school in the portsmouth area and then head to boston where he has another campaign event. meanwhile mitt romney will once again campaign in virginia this week. he's expected to visit the roanoke area tomorrow. governor bob mcdonnell who's been one of romney's biggest supporters won't be there. instead he'll be headlining a fundraiser in washington. he made twostones last month and he also spoke at liberty europe vert's graduation. d.c. mayor vin cement gray just wrapped up another busy day in china. he spent the day in beijing working to strengthen business relationships. gray's week-long trip he says is

to take advantage of chi knee's economic expanse. he'll also make trips to shanghai and sue ju to sign an agreement that works on technology, education and sustainability. our time right now is nine minutes after 111::00 on "news midday." we'll have an exclusive news story for you. several crews remove a tree that fell on a house. then reinforcements arrive then reinforcements arrive as wildfires burn out of control

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u.n. observers are in syria on a monitoring mission. now the u.n. says it is committed to the mission in the war-torn country and the 10,000 people have been killed since the syrian uprising occurred last year. meanwhile syrian foreign minister says he has no hostility toward turkey, this after his country shot down a turkish plane. they say it violate their airspace. they say they accidentally strayed into the area.

>> egypt's new president is making his transition. mohamed morsi moved into his new office today. it was once occupied by ousted leader hosni mubarak. they declared him the winner of the presidential runoff. they gave itself power to write the constitution and pass laws. morsi is supposed to meet with the head of the military council over the power struggle tomorrow. and this morning the military is helping colorado trying to contain massive wildfires raging across the state. 248 homes have been destroyed and thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. two c-130 military planes will assist fire crews today. fie fire officials say dry and hot winds have been fueling the fires. it's been three days since our

storms. a northeast d.c. family in the 1200 block of lawrence street had a tree fall onto their house. in a "news 4" exclusive tracee wilson was there as pepco helped them clean up the process. >> reporter: still we are cleaning up from some of the damage. folks who live in this prookland neighborhood say it was like being hit by a mini tornado. >> when i was driving home i saw no damage at all until i got two or three blocks from where i lived. >> reporter: and when hi got to where he lived he found a large tree leaning on his house. robert keene grew up in this home. it's more than 130 years old. he says the structure was built sturdy. >> i don't know the exact number of how many trees down we've had but most of the damage from the

storm was tree damage. >> reporter: myra opal pepco's spokesperson said pepco knew a storm was on the way, but didn't expect this magnitude. >> we had trees uprooted like this one, trees on wires, trees that broke cross arms and trees that broke and snapped our poles. >> reporter: additional linemen were brought in from as far as new jersey to help with restoration. >> yesterday, for example, we had about 700 personnel out working to clean this up and some other 150 personnel supporting those guys. so we've had crews working around the clock since the storm moved through friday evening. >> reporter: and as for robert's downed tree it won't be missed. >> it actually provides too much shade for the lawn and basically i'm glad to see it go, but not that way. >> reporter: right, not at that way. >> not that way. >> reporter: pepco officials say most of the damage they dealt was was very similar to this. this was probably one of the more extreme cases. they're saying this time around they're very pleased with there

restoration time considering that all of their customers were back up and running by today. in brookland, i'm tracee wilkins, "news 4." >> that same microburst knocked out power and several buildings in bradenburg. it displayed 600 people. >> are you able to get into your building? >> no. the roof is gone. you can't get inside. >> reporter: in near by cheverly, the strong winds knocked down trees on homes and power lines. one woman told us a 7,000-pound power line fell down on her fence. fortunately no one was hurt. microbursts, little cells here and there and all kinds of things happen. >> cold air aloft. it gets very heavy and when it

hits the ground it spreads out and that's sort of what happened with the storm. it can happen very quickly and in matter of a few seconds it's over, but it's certainly intense when it does happen and we had a lot of power outages and a lot of people without power this morning. they're working hard to get power back from the storms we had on friday. this morning we have the clouds returning and a few showers coming through, but nothing like we saw over the first part of the weekend late friday night. that is certainly not going be the situation now. partly sunny at reagan national, 88. the winds just now shifting into the northwest. so the front is just now coming through, but the showers associated with this are right along the front and a little bit behind it. as we look at what's been happening in the last 12 hours, a little bit of damage there. but now as our winds are shifting, we're getting this flow from the north and west. behind this one cell right here in montgomery county, it's

clearing up but it's raining here. there's another cell that's not a severe storm but it's moving out of fauquier. that's about to move into manassas. it's about 66. and this area these passing north of washington, might not get any rain in the district. looks like this is going to pass into northern prince george's county from laurel down to pew wi and toward an anapoliannapol. this yellow zone, this is zone where there could be severe storms. that would not occur until later this afternoon. that would be more for southern maryland, lower neck and northern part of the bay and the eastern shore. right now the temperatures around the region, 88. gaithersburg, 75. not at that far away. temperatures are about 13 degrees cooler and the cooler air with the lower humidity moving into the shenandoah valley too.

charlottesville is at 89 degrees. we fweebt quite a variety of temperatures. the last of the rain will be gone by 4:00 and by this evening we'll have lower humidity moving in and unfortunately not a lot of rain associated with this. rainfall totals in this area in the green zone may only be a half an inch at the most but most areas probably less than that, except on the eastern shore. they might get an inch of two of rain there. turning less humid. the winds will pick up. we'll drop from the 80s back down to near 80 by sunset and by midnight down to the 60s. we'll be down to 65 or so by midnight. the winds will diminish and we'll have the lower humidity continuing to move in and we'll have the cooler weather with with us. in fact, only down into the mid and upper 50s tomorrow. quite a refreshing break for late june. we'll take that. afternoon highs near 80. winds a bit gusty. lots of sun with low humidity.

a beautiful day tomorrow and a gorgeous day on wednesday too. morning lows in the 50s. afternoon highs around 80. not as much wind. lots of snipe. thursday, though, getting hotter again, getting more humid. looks like heat and humid return for the weekend. friday, saturday, and sunday with steamy humidity. slight chance of evening storms on saturday. >> rolling toward the fourth of july, it's that time of year. >> it's inevitable. >> i know. thanks a lot, tom. it's inevitable we'll have traffic but hopefully not too much out there. danella? >> i wish i had better news? i to have an update on the crash. on the inner loop you can see the right lane is still blocked. i'll step out. traveling across the wilson bridge, a motorcycle. now it's only blocking one of your right lanes. let's head over to i-66 roadwork here at nutley. takes away the left lanes in

that area, no major delays for you at all. in fact, your travel speed. look at this. 50 miles an hour. that drive only taking 12 minutes. the only thing you have to look out for is the roadwork along the left. so make sure you stick to the right. barbara, back over to you. >> thank you danella. we'll see you shortly. it is 21 minutes after 11:00. still ahead on "news 4" midday, everything you want to know about sunglasses. wait till you hear all the news we have to share with you. plus, adopt a pet. some cats and kittens are looking for lucky homes. we'll meet a feline or two in the studio. stay with us. first here's what's hot on nbcwashington.com. [ male announcer ] are you paying more

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are you looking for a family pet? you may want to adopt a cat. this week king street cats in northern virginia is having an adoption event. joining sus mary beth corrigan and her forest lefty. what a beautiful cat he is. welcome to you too. >> he is. he's about 7 years old so he's looking for a good home. >> he's just gorgeous and i fwloi have quite a few. tell me, what is it that makes king street so cat-friendly. >> we're really lucky to be in alexandria which is cat-friendly. we're the only cage-free

free-roaming cat facility. so that makes us very friendly where people can come in and interact with the cats and see how they bay hav. >> he's a cute cat. he happens to know there are some kittens behind them and he's not feeling too friendly about them. he's not too sure if they're going to try to take over his territory. you say that there's an explosion of kitten this time of year. why is that? >> this tomb of year a lot of stray cats, people because of the economy are letting their cats out instead of taking them to shelters like ours and they don't get -- they can't afford to get their cat spayed or neutered. it's an optional expense they're not able to take. so we're seeing more as more cats and kittens. cats ternd to breed in the spring. not just our shelter. there's a huge influx of kittens. >> are there any services for people who don't feel they can provide it. >> we partner with washington. we're very fortunate our vets

give us low cost spay and neuter and there are vets throughout and shelters that will provide certificates if you want to take your cat in to get it spayed or neuters. >> you have seniors like lefty who are available for adoption. are dwrou have quite a few? >> we do. we have a lot because of the economy people are having to give up their cats. they can't take care of them. somebody -- you know, an older person dies and the family doesn't want the cat. so we have quite a few, i'd say 30 to 40 cats that are in our shelter or foster homes that are older than three or four years old. >> do they adapt pretty well to new homes? >> they do. you know, some of them better than others. it depends if they were in a home with cat before. for the most part they do. >> what's going on at dogma bakery and boutique. >> we're very fortunate will to be partnering with dogma this thursday and this second and fourth thursday. they awe lou us to have captain adoptions there. we'll have lefty there this thursday. >> lefty is a beautiful cat.

>> he's an an gloria. he's actually a purebred an gore ya. you can't see on the camera. he has one blue eye and one green eye. >> i want to show you also have some kittens while we look at the address of where this is going to happen. dogma bakery and boutique in the village of shirlington. thursday, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. that's kingstreetcats.org is their address. look at these kittens. aren't they just available. they're available. will they be too? >> i'm not sure. we'll have kittens on thursday and throughout the summer. we call these are designer kitchens, versace and. >> kingstreetcats.org. thanks again, mary bekts for coming in. our time now, 11:27. coming up, we're on the top of breaking news from the supreme court. the justices rule on the controversial arizona

immigration law. then the trors surrounding the ousted uva president, the university gathers once again demanding her reinstatement. and what's next for convicted jerry sandusky. plus tom kierein tells us when we can expect a fresh weather

right now on "news 4" midday pepco is working to clean up from the friday's storm. this tree fell on a d.c. home. pepco says they have restored power to almost everyone who lost it on friday. tropical storm debby is churning in the gulf coast but the outer bands are causing havoc in florida. the system already dumped more than 10 inches of rain there that caused flooding in the tampa area. debby is expected to strengthen and make landfall sometime this week. breaking news from the u.s. supreme court. about an hour ago the justices announced their decision on the controversial arizona immigration law. the high court said three of four parts of the law are unconstitutional. it upheld a provision that said police in arizona must check the immigration status of anyone they arrest before that person can be released. the supreme court struck doubt provisions that required immigrants to look for work and be in the state without documentation. justices also struck down the

provision that allowed arizona police to arrest someone on sus spinning that they violated a federal immigration law. the court decided 5-4 against mandatory sentences of life without parole. this case stems from a 14-year-old plaem boy convicted of murder. his lawyer said justices agree. life without parole violates the eighth amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. the high court says the rest of their decisions for this term will come on thursday. that including highly anticipated decision on president obama's health care law. 26 states and a national business group urged the court to strike down the law's central requirement that all americans must buy health insurance. and we're going to turn to the weather again now. let's talk to tom kear ryan about what's happening here and elsewhere. tom, good morning again. >> a wonderful fresh change, barbara. good morning. right now we're having the wind

shift to our north and west. that's bringing in lower humidity, thankfully, along with a few scattered showers but no severe storms. we've had a little thunder and lightning in loudoun county, but that's now existing and that thunder shower is now pretty much breaking down. right now it's in northern county. northern anne arundel. there's a shower farther south right now in far western fairfax county into prince william. that extends just south of war enton. that's another shower right along the blue ridge where it reaches rappahannock county. as these showers move south and east perhaps toward southern maryland, they might get a brief storm that could produce wind damage. this is for far southern maryland and perhaps on the eastern shore over the next two or three hours or so. then after that things will settle down.

temperatures dropping north and west of the front. it's down into the 70s while right along the front. reagan national was at 88. that's going to be the high for the day and will be down to the 60s by midnight and 50s tomorrow. low humidity on tuesday. winds gusting to around 20, 25 miles an hour with highs around 80 and we'll have lots of sun and low humidity with lighter winds. getting more humid and heating up on thursday, but hazy hot humid weather friday, saturday, sunday, highs 90s each day. that is the way it looks right now. barbara? >> all right. tom. thank you. and out to the roads we go with danella sealock. any problems? >> yes, barbara. still watching the inner loop. still very slow. as you make your way pretty much after telegraph road you're pretty, pretty slow here as you travel on the inner loop. the crash still blocking that

right side of the roadway here. you are able to pass two lanes to the left, but hopefully you ee see this conjection clear soon. but for now still pretty slow. let's head to the beltway. here it's much better. traveling this time on the inner loop as well as the outer loop past university boulevard. no issues at all to report. in fact, outer loop speeds, 10 minutes to get from i-95 to i-270. barbara, pack over to you. >> thank you. a new today, police arrested a 17-year-old in connection with an attack on farm animals on two separate occasions. police say investigators received a tip last friday and arrested the teen next day. he faces nine charges including four felony counts of maiming animals. in late april three horses were stabbed. a month later, two goats, a calf and chickens were attacked. montgomery county police say one man was shot and five others

were stabbed in a mass ichb brawl outside a gaithersburg restaurant. police say a fight broke out between two women inside the restaurant. that's when police say 100 people took the rumble into the streets or parking lot actually. >> total chaos. people running, using salt shaker as weapons. >> police say all vick tmger was taken to the hospital and all expected to make full recoveries. the restaurant owners say they plan to cancel all similar events in the future. police hope surveillance video can lead to the quick arrest after a stabbing on a metrobus. a metro spokesperson said two 18-year-old women got on a fight on a bus as it was headed to the anacostia station. the bus stopped at sixth and chesapeake streets when the stabbing happened. rescuers took the victim to the hospital. we're told she does not have

life-threatening injuries. investigators say it's not clear if the two wimg even knew each other. this morning jerry sandusky is behind bars but the case is far from over. sandusky was placed on suicide watch as a precaution after he was convicted on friday of 45 counts of child sex abuse and child endangerment. at least six of the eight known victims have private lawyers who will soon decide whether to file civil lawsuits against sandusky and the university. with an endowment of nearly $2 million, legal experts say the university is a prime target for the lawsuits. penn state is also a focus of dpgss into whether top former o officials covered up sandusky's conduct and could have stopped them years ago. >> if those in power at penn state had taken action in the early 2000s and stopped at nothing to see that justice was served on jerry sandusky, then my client would not have been arrested in 2007 and 2008.

>> sandusky's lawyers say they plan to file an appeal. they sought a mistrial before the jury was selected because they were not given up in time to prepare. they say his interview with bob costas was misleading to the jury because of the way it was edited. >> this could be crucial week for the university of virginia president who was ousted from her job. tomorrow's board of visitors will meet to discuss whether to reinstate teresa sullivan. thousands of sullivan supporters held a rally on the charlottesville campus yesterday. thousands more watched the protest online. students professors and even deans demanded the board reconsider its decision to force sullivan from office. >> the board of visitors would be enhanced. this is the great paradox. if the board were to reinstate terry sullivan, most of us will come away with a new

appreciation for the portland. >> this past friday governor mcdonnell threatened to replace the entire board unless it gets ahold of this growing controversy. well, with this hot weather, it's the perfect time to enjoy a swim in the pool, but some decided to add a bike ride and a run to that. hundreds turned out for the first celebrating heroes triathlon. it benefits the men's rehabilitation network. it helps those with brain and spinal cord injuries. it had competitors including veronica johnson. >> it brings us all together and inspires us and encourages us to make ourselves better and in turn make others better. >> another great feature of this triathlon, it's for both able bodied and physically challenged.

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some good news if you have to fill up at the pump. gas prices fell again. aa shows the average dropped two cents to $3.51 for a gallon of gas in the district to $3.34. virginia averages about $3.20. that's down a penny. and in west virginia your average is down 2 cents to $3.48 a gallon on average. it's crunch time for congress to take action on student loan rates that are set to go up. let's check in with cnbc's bertha coombs. she joins us live with morn that and the rest of the day's business headlines. high, b hi, bertha. >> now likely thursday. health stocks are down but so is the overall market.

under pressure again on european debt worries. the focus today is spain which formally requested a bailout to support its banks which are saddled with massive losses on real estate loan. the big news is that world troubles will hurt or economy. weather congress will find a fix for student loan interest rates by this friday. rates on popular stafford loans are set to doublen about 7% on july 1st. that change will impact some 7 million college and graduate students. lawmakers on both sides of both side of the aisle are anxious to spreenlt the increase. the problem is not being able to come to a budgetary fix. and facebook's ipo six weeks ago was supposed to be the nasdaq's big coup but the ceo admits the arrogance and confidence led to the debacle when they were overwhelmedpy the

record volume in the initial public offering and unable to confirm trades for horses. nasdaq executives. facebook shares are still down 5 1/2% in the initial public offering price. not something you'd press like on, i don't think. >> yeah, but i guess some folks still did pretty well with it, huh? >> some of them did. some of them did. we'll see what happens once they report their first earnings, whether they'll be able to prove the naysayers wrong. >> right. well, thank as lot and have a great day. in news for your health this morning a new study says even mild exercise can help reduce the risk of developing breast cancer, researchers found that women who skpers 10 to 19 hours a week showed the biggest risk reduction of 30%. they say the most important thing is to main tape a healthy weight. the study found the developmental risk increased if a woman put in a significant or gained a significant amount of

weight. well, summer's here, we all know the dangers the sun can pose to our skin, but we may not be aware that the sun has some pretty damaging rays that can hur your eyes regardless of whether it's cloudy or sunny. eye experts say we need some sort sof eye protect every day and joining us is dr. rachel coneful she's the optometrist. welcome. >> thank you, barbara. thank you. >> we've been hearing over the last few years we need to protect our eyes but a lot of people think it's a fashion statement. >> you're right. wearing sun glasses is probably the best thing you can do to prote protect health of your eyes long term. one thing is uv rays can cause damage not only to the skip around the eyes but also to the lens, the cornea as well. it can also show some links with certain types of cataracts and macular degeneration. so it's a serious subject. >> so you think about pupil

protection. that's one of the things you do with sun glasses. >> exactly. >> and uv protection, standards on the sunglasses? >> right. there are some standards that are on sun glasses but not always so you vl to be really careful about where you buy the sunglasses. >> you say go polar. what does that mean? >> polar. polarized lens reduces glare and give yos u the maximum protection. >> you also say price does not equal protection. so the fact that you're spend 3g $00 doesn't mean you're getting the best protection. >> it may not. it absolutely may not. >> how do you know? >> you hope you're buying from a reputable place that only is selling those that do meet the protection that's necessary but sometimes they may not. so it really depends on how and where you buy it and you can also have your sunglasses read by a vue meeter to make sure. >> i see. that can will be done by an optometrist. >> exactly. exactly. >> and you say color doesn't equal protection. so just because they're really dark lenses doesn't mean they're better than the ones that are

light? >> the color of the lens themselves. for example, gray lenses keep colors truer to life. makes everything look as they do and brown woks petr on overcast day. so the color of the lens itself does not always matter in terms of protection. >> is there anything stamped on sunglasses that people can look for? >> you know, sometimes but not usually. >> and what would that be? >> there's an anssi standard. >> tell us. >> that stansd for the american national standards institute and that says in order to have the standard it must block 99% of uv and uba light. >> we have a fashion. >> we do. we're going to start with our first model joyce. joyce is hup and fashionable and she knows sun glasses are not only a fashion accessory. her everyday prescription could be put into this eyeglass frame so her eyes are protect. less squinting equals less wrinkling.

thank you, joyce. >> i often hear you should buy large sun glass lenses to cover up more than just your eye. >> exactly. the skin around the eye. >> let's soo what else. all sunglasses we're showing. to block 99% but not all sunglasses meet the standards, so do you have to be careful. sh e has these polarizing levels which are great. they provide maximum production and reduce all glare. >> so polar eased is something you mentioned before. thanks so much. those are pretty too. here we've got a young. is this a teen or preteen? >> hee wears contact lenses. they provide uv protection but they only provide as much protection as the contact but it's not quite enough. >> even with contact lenses you should wear them. >> absolutely because you need to protect the areas around the

sides of the eye. >> do you like thosesome. >> yeah. >> you look pretty cool. >> also sam has these beautiful blue eyes so they do make him more sensitive to sunlight and can put him at a higher risk. >> let's see your -- so but the lighter the eye, the more protection you need. >> let's see our next model. >> thank you, sam. >> stefan is wearing a wufrl gray polarized lens and although the color of the lens does not affect the uv protection, it does change the way you see. gray is the most popular color as it keeps things in their truest form. brown is also a good choice pause it increases depth perception and makes things look a little bright sneer thank you very muff. those look good on you. wonderful. >> here's nikki and her 4-year-old daughter yosow josie >> children should start wearing

sun glass at an early age so they get used to wearing sunglasses. >> do their eyes need the same protection as adults. >> absolutely. if kids don't keep sunglasses on, they can have a big hat. >> i wish our camera could pull out so they could see the wonderful stance the 4rd has. she's got the model look going on. look at that. you look terrific. look at her. and those glasses are great. can you pull them down so we can see your eyes? >> oh, yeah, that's fabulous. and this is mom with her? >> yes. >> you both look great. did you want to say something? >> we're saying nikki is wearing sunglasses herself. we can all set good examples for our children by wearing sunglasses. >> fantastic. you can all come back over here quickly as we say good-bye and thank you so much, dr. cone for coming in. i know i've always thought it with us just a fashion statement but you really have to buy the lens that protect the eyes. >> absolutely.

>> thank you so mump and thank you to all our models for coming in, on short notice too. our time right now is 11:51. and still ahead on "news 4" mid tai, mom help, a curious cub gets stuck in a garage. how his mom comes to the rescue. plus meteorologist tom kierein will be back with a another check on the

♪too high to get over ♪ to low to get under >> today marks three years since michael jackson died. at the time of his death, jackson was rehearsing for a world tour called "this is it." the jury convicted his physician dr. conrad murray of involuntary manslaughter. he's currently serving a four-year sentence. michael jackson was 50 years old. doctors are giving a good prognosis to alex trebek three days after he was diagnosed with a mild heart attack. he's expected to make a full recovery when he returns on a new season of jeopardy. well the duchess of cambridge will be a future queen

but she will have to bow to members of the royal family. the queen, queen elizabeth. reportedly updated the order of precedence. it directs kate middleton to courtesy when she meets blood princesses whens she's without her husband. when prince william is with her, kate does not need to bend the knee to them. at all times, though, she must courtesy to the queen, the duke of ed inbreaux and the duchess of cornwall. kris humphries depose one on one with kim kardashian's lawyer, also ahead a woman gets pull ore by an officer what she was willing to do to get out of a ticket and it's all caught on video plus debunking safety food myths at 5:00. lisz crenshaw has the dos and don'ts to keep your family safe. stick around.

we're already getting mix read action to the supreme court reese ruling on arizona's controversial immigration law. find out how local leaders think this will impact laws here in our region. time for a final check on the forecast and here's tom. >> well, we've had a front now come through over just the last few minutes, and it's shifting our winds into the north and west, also brigging in some dryer cooler air from the northwest but south and east of washington, steamy humidity and temperatures in the 80s. right now storm 4 radar showing a cluster of showers moving out of fairfax county into northern charles and southern prince george's county. that might turn into a thunderstorm. but these areas in yellow, these are the zones that could get severe storms later today with damaging winds. stay tuned to nbc 4. if you hear thunder, get inside. we'll let you know if any storms are threatening your neighborhood. see you tomorrow morning. >> all right, tom. thanks so much. apparently nothing can keep a mama pair away from her cub. he doesn't say where in the u.s. he lives. you can see the cub barely

hanging on the beam of the garage door while he's shaking. that's when the mama holds the garage door open. he climbs down the ladder and out the door. so far the video has been viewed by 157,000 people. some are skeptical of the awe then it isty. they're wondering how the cub got in the dpraj in the first place and the fact that the ladder was conveniently placed at the end of the beam. tune in with us at 4:00, 5:00,

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