corruption investigation surrounding mayor vincent gray's 2010 campaign. public relations executive jeanne hair sis is pleading guilty to charges of making illegal straw donations to the gray campaign as well as other candidates for local and federal office. she's also acknowledging a scheme that allegedly funneled more than $650,000 through her business. for a shadow campaign to to get gray into office in d.c., she says that scheme, however, was not her idea. tom sherwood is at the hearing and will have all the latest developments coming up right here on news 4 at 5:00 tonight. d.c. fire investigators are still trying to figure out what caused a two-alarm fire at an old northeast washington elementary school. firefighters responded late last night. crews had a tough time fighting the fire because some of the doors were welded shut. the blaze did so much damage

investigators say the building is unstable. witnesses report seeing people inside the building about 30 minutes before the fire. no one was hurt. a hit-and-run accident in arlington today killed a man who was reported missing and endangered. >> that's right. it was hundreds of miles away. investigators are trying to figure out how that 62-year-old victim from massachusetts wound up here. they are also working to find the driver who struck him in the southbound lanes of route 110 near i-395. that accident snarled traffic for hours this morning. nbc's megan mcgrath has our report. >> reporter: police walk along the side of the highway looking for personal effects and footprints, anything had a could explain how the victim came to be in the middle of route 110 at the start of rush hour this morning. what police do know is that the car that struck him was going fast and didn't stick around. >> and this individual was struck and thrown approximately 600 feet from point of impact, so he was hit at a high rate of

speed just by the sheer distance of being thrown. >> reporter: it was a passing motorist who called 911. they told the dispatcher there was a car on the side of the road with a man lying in front of the vehicle. but when officers arrived, the car was gone. police say the victim is 62 years old, a veteran with a history of mental illness. he was listed as miss iing and endangered by authorities in massachusetts a week and a half ago. his body was found on the sidewalk that runs along 110 not far from the wall that surrounds arlington national cemetery. there were also two construction projects in the area. >> we're trying to work through and identify this person, whether he was working on a construction crew, passing through the area, here to visit the cemetery. there are so many different avenues or possibilities. it's too early to make the call. >> reporter: and investigators are looking for help from the public in this case. anyone driving through the area just after 5:30 and may have seen something, you are asked to call arlington county police. megan mcgrath, news 4.

residents of georgia are cleaning up today after severe storms pummeled many parts of the state overnight. in atlanta the storms brought down trees, dozens of them. some landed on the roads. others landed on houses. a 59-year-old woman ended up in the hospital after being struck by lightning. she is listed this afternoon in stable condition. the local power company says more than 1,000 customers are still in the dark waiting for power to be restored. >> our weather is warming up. folks, we have a chance for rain again. >> veronica johnson is live with the latest. hey, veronica. hey there guys and, doug, out of the frame. we have a chance for just a few showers. nothing big around our area. take a look at some of the temperatures. ocean city, maryland, 79 degrees right now. definitely our cool spot. manassas, virginia, at 82 degrees. gaithersburg at 86 degrees now and our warm spot, yeah, 90 now in college park, maryland. and 90s may be creeping back

into our forecast. but for right now again generally in the mid and upper 80s. we have some scattered clouds and even some showers showing up. those are mainly north and down to our south. you can see a little shower there around fairfax and then we've got more rain up in areas of frederick county, carroll county and then way south down around the northern neck. so there's the possibility up until 9:00 p.m. of seeing some scattered showers around our area. it's going to be warm, too. 87 degrees at 5:00 p.m. partly cloudy. 84 by 7:00. and then as we head to 11:00 p.m., 79 degrees for a temperature. the fast 4-cast shows us it will be warm tomorrow. call it hot. talk about temperatures throughout the area and the possibility of some much-needed rainfall coming up and we're going to be premiering one of the newest parts of our weather department. it's brand spanking new and will be getting a big workout this

summer. sh showcasing it coming up in just a couple of minutes. the city of scranton, pennsylvania, facing a severe budget crisis. right now officials there say it has roughly 5,000 left in funds. to try to cut the costs the mayor has cut nearly 400 city workers paid minimum wage now. he says the city council is to blame for the cash shortage. he claims they passed a budget that borrowed a large sum of money from bajs without figuring out how to pay it back. unions representing the workers are planning a federal lawsuit against the mayor. now to presidential politics, today president obama and mitt romney both campaigned in states that voted democratic the last time out. and they talked about taxes. the issue is red-hot with an end of the year deadline, a new presidential proposal and another battle looming with congress. steve handelsman has the latest. >> reporter: iowa is where barack obama's rise to the white

house began in 2008. like they did then, iowans lined up to see him today, but not as many. >> the biggest thing right now is to get everybody back to work. >> reporter: polls here show the race a dead heat now that the president is pushing his new tax plan. >> make sure the taxes on the 98% of americans don't go up and then we should let the tax cuts expire for folks like me, for the top 2% of americans. >> reporter: taxes would go up on individuals making over $250,000 and those small businesses that pay at that rate. mitt romney informs colorado, another obama state in '08, slamming the president's plan. >> the very idea of raising taxes on small business and job creators at the very time we need more jobs is the sort of thing only an extreme liberal could come up with. >> reporter: romney was in the same school where the president three years ago pushed his number one accomplishment,

health care reform. >> the first one i'm getting rid of is obama care. >> reporter: on capitol hill republ republican lawmakers will vote again tomorrow to repeal the law. >> we are resolved to get rid of a law that will ruin the best health care delivery system the world has ever seen. it will bankrupt our country and it will make it impossible to grow our economy. that's why we're doing it. >> reporter: democrats say it boils down to politics. >> we're not trying to make law here. we're making political points. >> reporter: no question on health care and on taxes. however those issues affect the outcome, eight weeks after the e election everybody's taxes will go up automatically unless both parties can power through the politics and cut a deal. i'm steve handelsman, news 4, capitol hill. road work begins soon around the mark center in alexandria, widening the on and off ramps at seminary road and 395. work should be finished this

september. these are short-term improvements that are part of a larger plan to ease congestion near the new federal building. the next phase is set to begin next march and should be finished a year from now. you may not have to pay monthly fees if you have an e-z pass in virginia. the electronic toll paying service has decided not to pay a fee if you already have a transponder. only new customers will have to pay the monthly fee and existing customers will have to pay 50 cents a month for any new transponders they order. e-z pass backed off fees for everyone after many customers complained about them but e-z pass now says they need the fees to keep up with rising costs. >> we're just getting started. have you ever pretended to fall in love only to have it turn into the real thing? the hot talk around town. and cain joins us live in studio with the story. also, a crooner joins a country singer for the new s

season of "the voice" this fall. and late aeroprominent socialite renounces her u.s.

less than a week after he got pulled over for reportedly speeding, pop sensation justin bieber had to dial 911 to report paparazzi.

but it seems this time he wanted to remain anonymous. >> hello, i have like five cars following me. >> okay. and what's your name? >> justin. >> what's your last name? >> johnson. >> okay. what type of car are you in? >> i'm in a fisker. >> a what? >> a fisker. >> what kind of car is that? >> it's a -- a fisker. >> an expensive car, very. >> for those of us who don't drive expensive cars, a fisker is an electric sports car that sells for about $100,000. it's a fisker. >> justin johnson. there you have it. a virginia judge rejected a $50 million lawsuit filed by white house party crasher tareq salahi. >> he tried to sue journey guitarist neal schon for running

away with his wife. the northern virginia daily reports that the judge ruled monday that salahi's suit would be better addressed in didvorce proceedings. he claims he'll appeal to the virginia supreme court. the salahis became famous in 2009 by crashing a state dinner at the white house. >> and we're still talking about them. >> we're still talking about them. a new gig for grammy winning singer michael buble. >> joining the cast of "the voice." he'll help on jake shelton's team. it's still a mystery who will be helping christina and adam. >> that's buble. >> that's right. nothing but some clothes and his laptop, a possible explanation why movie co-stars fall in love, and what would you do to get your phone back? >> good questions. here are today's hot topics and

the answers. >> great to see you guys. >> welcome. >> you've been away. you've been away from us and we missed you. >> a nice little vacation. i have a lot of great stories for you. >> you got sun, too. >> i did. >> the first question is about this hangover star zach. >> love this guy. >> so listen to this. he is ex he is executive directing a movie about a guy that lived off of craigslist and only craigslist for 31 is days. could you do it? could you travel across the country with a laptop, a cell phone and the clothes on your back right now only with ads taken out on craigslist? that's craigslist joe. his real name is joe gardner and he did this 31 days, transportation, food, and shelter all taken off craigslist and he made it, survived, and he loved the story so much he made a movie about it. august 2nd on itunes and in theaters. >> that's going to be cool. >> it's a great idea. >> it sounds like it. >> we've heard the phrase fake it until you make it.

according to a new study this could apply to love, too. >> absolutely. ever wonder why celebrities fall in love on the set of their movies? it's because they spend so much time together and sometimes acting like you're in love makes you fall in love. sibtists got together, took 100 people and found that when they were speed dating if one of them acted like the other one more, googly faces, they found they actually wanted to extend the speed dating time so they applied this and realizes this is true. when you act like you are in love with someone, you tend to follow, your emotions tend to follow. >> interesting. love. >> you can will love if you spend enough time wanting it, you can. >> some women are apparently rude when it comes to social media. is this true? >> according to our listeners on hot 99.5 it is.

40% of women would upload a picture of their friends that's unflattering without makeup to facebook as revenge because they had it done to them. here is the thing. 89% of women hate this. think it's the worst thing ever, yet it still happens. listen to this, one in four have uploaded an unflattering picture of a friend in a bathing suit because they looked good in the picture as well. >> that's just not right. >> it's mean. >> guys don't do that to other guys, by the way. i didn't put that picture of you up in the bathing suit. >> i know. >> i looked unflattering in it. >> you are nicer to your friends. >> apparently so. exactly. >> all right. we've heard surveys about the number of people who use cell phones while in the bathroom. this is a little tmi, took it a step further to find out how people would go if it actually fell in. what were your results? >> have you ever dropped it in, by the way? >> i have not. >> would you go get it, if did

you? >> i probably would. >> most people would go into the toilet to get their cell phone than on the train tracks. wh what in the world? 59% would pull out of the toi t toilet, 65% would dig through the garbage, 25% would get in a fight with a stranger. >> it's a lot safer. >> running into traffic? >> well, no, no, no, getting it out -- >> they didn't mention there was anything in the toilet, by the way. >> okay. we're moving on. >> journalistic integrity. >> hypotheticals. >> next question, a twitter handle doing a public service by warning people about the pictures that they post? >> yep. i want you to beware of pictures you may take and put on your twitter or facebook if they may have a credit card in the background. did you ever think you could blow those pictures up? they are raising awareness for people who have put pictures of their credit cards online.

unbeknownst to them it is a helpful, handy site you can check out. it's an aggregate of the photo streaming, twitter, flickr and so forth. >> a good heads-up. >> absolutely. >> what's up for tomorrow? >> at 8:00 and 9:00 we have a chance to head to vegas for the music pest val with rihanna, pit bull and more, aerosmith, all at the mgm grand and it's at 8:00 and 9:00 tomorrow on hot 99.5. >> a blast. all right. >> great to see you. >> see you guys. >> see you next tuesday. the wildly popular "50 shades of grew" books are heading for the screen. focus features will produce a film based on the erotic novels. >> the books have sold 20 million copies around the world. "fifty shades of grey" became the first to sell a million ebooks on kindle. >> and coming up on news 4, starting over.

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save with a shake. feel good about your decisions. a good day to be outdoors. we have some brand-new digs. >> a brand-new place to take you outside. it's the storm 4 weather patio where veronica is now soaking up a little sunshine. how is it out there? >> it is not bad out here. it's certainly cooler and better than it was last week. as promised i am outside for one reason right now and one reason only. and that is to show you our new storm team 4 weather patio. folks, this has been months in the making. take a look at this weather patio here. folks, we have it all for you. so during some types of weather, during heavy rain, during heavy snow, we will be able to come to you from our weather patio. it's got everything. it's got a weather, all weather

monitor. it has an all weather camera. it's got casings to protect the plugs from any type of weather and from what i understand the screen right here is gorilla glass. not that we'll be here during any big-time hail but it is protected. and look at this. it comes with a well dressed meteorologist. say hi. >> hey. >> did i say that we could come out and take a nap, too? it's a wall. i'm not going to push him. it is not bad out here right now. our temperatures where they are sitting in the 80s. 89 degrees at reagan national airport. that southeast wind is at 9 miles an hour. your dew point temperature at 64 degrees. so i can attest that it's just a little humid out here now. 87 ft. belvoir. 87 down in warn ton. 81 over in manassas. 90, though, in leesburg and rockville, maryland.

i do think we're going to see temperatures in the 90s start to creep back into the forecast where the end of the week and toward this weekend. now earlier i said there was a shower there in fairfax and, indeed, it is still sitting there north of manassas right now. fairfax right along i-66. don't think that's going to last too long. you have some other showers up i-95. baltimore, i-83, and down around richmond. so everything right now is moving off to the east. that shower in fairfax may hold together to bring a little bit of wet weather inside the beltway. for your good night wake-up forecast at 9:00, 82 degrees the temperature. 78 by 11:00 p.m. and we'll start the day tomorrow muggy and warm. 73 to 74 degrees. here is what's going on. we have that same front, folks, still down to our south and it's going to be meandering down there the next couple of days. so what we get tomorrow a few clouds and the possibility of some showers in the mountains and just north and west of our area. and for thursday i think we're going to see more sunshine

around the area. more sunshine and temperatures are going to start nudging upwards again close to 90 degrees for your evening. we're partly cloudy. an isolated shower possible. 74 to 80 degrees with a light southeast breeze. we're warm, we're muggy. 67 to 75 degrees. and then tomorrow afternoon again those showers possible in the mountains but some neighborhoods could touch on 90 degrees as was the case today. here is a look at your four-day forecast. 89 wednesday. 89 thursday. we get friday's temperature at 88. 92 on saturday and right now for friday and saturday we 0 do have a chance, a slight chance for seeing some showers, maybe even a thunderstorm around the area. for sunday, guys, a better chance for showers and thunderstorms. and sunday maybe a few severe thunderstorms around the area. but toward the end of the week, toward this weekend and into next week, the heat is going to come back but it doesn't look

like extreme heat and we can all be happy for that. so right now at least -- >> nice job. >> bye from us from storm team 4 weather patio. that's what we're calling it, right? >> yes, yeah. >> there is also a grill out there. could you wake doug up? he has a half hour before the 5:00 and he can cook up some hot dogs and burgers for us? >> i will get him on that. we'll have to find him an apron first. >> it looks great out there. >> see you in a few minutes. >> thank you. all righty. still to come on news 4 at 4:00, she made her fortune as an american entertainer but now she's an american no more. what's behind the move by a renowned songwriter and political activist. >> and the x-ray tells the tale. parents are arrested for trying to s

welcome back at 4:30. i'm jim handly. >> and i'm pat lawson muse. a d.c. public relations executive is pleading guilty to corruption charges involving mayor vincent gray's 2010 campaign. eugenia jeanne harris is accused of making campaigns. her business is implicated in a

shadow campaign scheme to get gray into office. news 4's tom sherwood will have the latest developments coming up. a man reported missing and endangered in massachusetts died in a hit-and-run in arlington this morning. police have not identified the victim but they did reveal that he was a 62-year-old veteran. a car hit him on route 110 near arlington. investigators are still looking for the driver. >> president obama and mitt romney were both on the road today. the president campaigned in iowa and renewed the call he made yesterday to raise taxes on americans who earned mo are than $250,000 a year. in colorado romney slammed the plan and called the president an extreme liberal. he renewed his vou to repeal the president's health care reform law. >> and wall street another day of losses.

the s&p 500 ended with an 11-point loss. denise rich is a renowned sopping writer, a mother, and a politically connected fund-raiser. one thing she is no longer, an american citizen. rich was born in massachusetts but she has renounced her citizenship. she wants to live closer to her children abroad. critics are summing up her move in two words, tax dodger. here is andrea mitchell. >> and it's just to be recognized by your peers is so wonderful. >> she is a fixture nominated three times. as a songwriter she has worked with everyone from natalie cole to mandy moore. they fund to her fund-raisers for cancer research. >> we know this saxophone has your name on it. >> oh, wow. >> reporter: denise rich contributed to the clinton

campaign and just before bill clinton left office, he cause add political storm by pardoning her former husband, mark rich, who fled prosecution for tax fraud in 1983. rich is among 1,800 americans last year who renounced their citizenship. a spokesman for rich says in order to be closer to her longtime life partner as well as her family and loved ones, she made the decision to become solely an austrian sit zep. new york senator chuck schumer sees a tax dodge. >> you don't need to renounce your citizenship to be closer to your family. we all know the reason she's doing this and it's to avoid paying taxes. i find the people des it pipicd. >> reporter: some say let them go and focus on broader tax reform. >> we have wealthy people leaving because they don't want to pay taxes. don't let the door hit you on your way out of the country. >> the bill would ban wealthy

people from returning to the u.s. after giving up their american citizenship. an egyptian couple under arrest tonight charged with trying to smuggle their 5-month-old baby boy through an airport baggage scanner. screeners in dubai made the discovery during an x-ray scan. he was hid nen a carry-on bag. officials say the parents both had entry visases and passports but the child did not. carry-on luggage is typically scanned after arrival in the united arab emirates after passengers clear customs. one of the most recognizable faces of the women's u.s. national soccer team is being publicly warned today after failing a drug test. the u.s. anti-doping agency says goalkeeper hope solo tested positive for the banned substance --

she will still play for the u.s. open team in london. meanwhile, the world will be watching london for the 2012 games but there's one sport we won't see just yet. quid quiditch, the game of the world's most famous wizard. j.k. roulgs introduced the high flying game played on a magic broom in her harry potter books. they create this had more earthbound version and want it included in the olympic games in the next 20 to 30 years. they enjoyed the game before the olympic torch relay arrived on monday. and we sent our doug cam omy ammerer. olympic park, where the athletes will be living. 0 olympic park is the home of several venues including the aquatic center. watch doug's tour of olympic park coming up tonight at 6:00. >> from olympic park to our

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loving it out there. >> so is doug. >> i don't think we're going to get them back inside. last week, 105, does the weather patio still work that way? >> i don't know. we could install a great big fan out here to blow around all the hot air. take a look. since this is right out front our new weather patio right out front of nbc 4. this is also an area where a lot of folks come out, a lot of our employees to sit for a while and, you know, check. take a break for are a minute and get away from it all. as far as today goes, temperatures not too bad. upper 80s right close to 90. some neighborhoods the wind out of the south at 9 miles an hour and a touch of humidity, too. as you look around the area,

we're 91 in frederick. 90 in sharl lotsville. again, a couple of spots hitting right at 90 degrees today but upper 80s. yesterday's high was 87 degrees. so one degree higher today and tomorrow. here is a look at your forecast anywhere from 86 to 89 degrees the forecast. culpepper 86. 89 right in d.c. with a few clouds around the area. tomorrow is going to be a partly sunny day and notice the showers and storms in the mountains for tomorrow. areas north and west, even hagerstown, martinsburg, cumberland down to charlottesville could have showers and a few isolated storms tomorrow. we're seeing at least some showers right now on radar. they're in prince william county and fauquier county and in fairfax county right now. they have been weakening, all moving off to the east so that one there that's just northwest of fairfax right now, it may last and hold together going right inside the beltway. ocean city right now is quiet but we have, in fact, even seen some showers and storms there.

the water temperature for ocean city, bethany beach at 80 degrees so a little warmer with that east wind. 81 the forecast for tomorrow with a partly sunny sky. 80 on thursday with some showers, possibly even a thunderstorm around. just rain showers in the forecast for friday. friday, in fact, with the high of 82. we could see a little more cloud cover around our area. so the next four days, 89, 89 wednesday and thursday. 88 on friday with more clouds. a chance of showers, maybe even a thunderstorm as well as the first half of the weekend. so the next three days it's going to feel much like it does today but the weekend and next week we're back into the 90s. 90 to 96 degrees. it's going to be hot and it's going to be humid coming up again this weekend. the best chance for showers and storms will be on sunday. in fact, we could even have severe storms around the area on sunday. the early part of next week, 96 to 90.

some much-needed rainfall. unfortunately, it will not be a real good soaking that lasts for days. so bye, everybody, wave. there you go. peter will have a lot more coming up, too, right here on the new weather patio. >> all right. >> bye, guys. the high-profile divorce of celebrity a-listers tom cruise and katie holmes is one of millions that take place every year. >> yesterday the couple announced a settlement. we know that katie will get full custody of their daughter but the rest of the details will remain private. >> now they have to figure out what comes next. cnbc's brian shactman takes a closer look at the business of starting over in this week's "insider report." >> reporter: in the united states about 2 million marriages a year. there are also 1 million divorces, that's 2 million divorced people starting new lives every year. fran cease is start over smart, an expo that brings together

vendors offering a variety of services and the newly divorced. >> no one has a number for the amount of money probably in the divorce industry. and so not only is the market underserved, it has not actually been looked at as a niche. >> reporter: there's still a stigma. few want to label themselves divorced, but businesses are trying to find their way to this untapped audience. >> we see divorce as a huge business. we went in to help on friday, give them the support that they need and what ended up coming out of that is, wow, this is really a big industry and i think it will grow. >> reporter: insurance companies and agents are among those capitalizing on marketing to the divorced. >> in 1960 when you look at adults, there was over07% married. when you look at 2010 statistics, you look at that, it's less than 50%. so more and more of their business is working with individuals who are divorced or who are separated. >> reporter: brian shactman,

cnbc business news. speaking of trying to start over on nightly news tonight with brian williams the city of scranton, pennsylvania, is taking drastic measures to survive a budget crisis. that story at 7:00 here on nbc 4. and coming up on news 4, a new six-week diet plan that promises big results. the latest on a developing story -- a cab driver shot on the grounds of a prince george's county school. also, how a day at the ballpark and a little league game turned into a major brawl between the parents. and then coming up at can 6:00, the teenager who took on an alligator is speaking out for the first time about the

you know the names, two big retail names joining forces for the holidays, neiman marcus and target plan to release a joint collection on december 1st. the offerings will include more than 50 products from two dozen designers including torre birch and oscar de la renta. the items will be sold online and in stores. prices range from $8 to $500. most will be priced under $60. a target official notes that target caters to a mass audience while neiman marcus is high end. however, she says they both love

design. the collaboration could help target boost its fashion image while neiman marcus can reach a broader range of shoppers. people are always looking for a better and quicker way to lose weight. six weeks to omg, getting skinnier than all your friends. the author claims you can lose up to 20 pounds in six weeks by taking cold baths, skipping breakfast and drinking two black cups of coffee on an empty stomach. this morning he told the "today" show his plan is not just a fad and that anyone can do it. >> a lot of people hear about this and think it is junk science. >> well, if they call it junk science, they are saying the scientists behind it are junk. we're talking research from the best medical journals from the world, the "new england journal of medicine," the mayo clinic, all of these great names. this is real stuff. it's not targeting anyone apart from those who want to lose fat. i wouldn't exclude anyone from it because there's a lot of weight problems in society. two out of three of us are

heavier than we need to be. >> health experts say parts work but that things like skipping breakfast could hurt your attempts to lose weight. there's a new way to keep tabs on the beloved panda. starting today there will be a live webcam from china. the startup included technical difficulties. fans should be able to watch the birthday party tomorrow. $1 for donations. the panda was born here at the national zoo and moved to china back in 2010. for a link to his webcam visit our website nbcwashington.com. >> he looks mighty fine. >> he is about to be even more famous. still ahead on news 4, a teen goes on trial for attacking

a peer who taunted him about the

text messages are at the center of an attempted murder trial in florida. a 17-year-old boy is charged with nearly killing a teenaged girl because she sent him taunting messages about his dead

brother. he doesn't deny the attack but now a jury has to decide if he was in his right mind at the time. >> reporter: wayne tracy sat in court crying as the prosecutor told jurors the teenager repeatedly kicked the victim's head while wearing steel toed boots. >> and he began to kick her head as if it was a soccer ball. >> reporter: the attack so vicious it left rattly brain damaged, her mother overcome in court monday. >> the defense does not dispute what happened. >> reporter: tracy snapped after a series of escalating text messages. in one of the messages he was taunted about his brother who had committed suicide five months earlier. tracy discovered his brother's body hanging from a tree. >> wayne had a mental disease or infirmity that he did not know right from wrong at the time.

>> reporter: in court six teenagers read allowed some of the threatening text messages. >> i would snap her neck and stomp her. >> i just tried to kill someone. >> reporter: defense lawyers say doctors for both the defense agree he suffered ptsd, posttraumatic stress disorder. the defense claims that is what triggered the attack on a girl he didn't even know. >> the issue is why -- why did this happen? and i'm hopeful that after the evidence that you will return a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity. >> reporter: one key piece of evidence may never be played for the jury. this video of him ranting to himself while left alone in the interrogation room. his lawyers say his bizarre behaviors are at the heart of the defense, that he was insane. >> it's your fault, you sick bastard. >> reporter: the prosecution dropped a bombshell saying they

had no intention of playing the video in court and the defense c cannot refer to the tape unless the prosecutor introduces it first. >> i think it's a little sleazy. >> sleazy? judge, i object to being called sleazy. >> the judge says he is considering whether there's another way the jurors can see that tape since it's critical to the defense strategy. now a former aide to mayor gray pleads guilty to corruption charges. tonight at 5:00, a cab driver shot on the grounds of a prince george's county elementary school. also tonight an old d.c. school destroyed after flames tore through the building. and a father and son hyped bars, accused of sexually assaulting two girls. new news on vincent gray's 2010 campaign.

a d.c. public relations executive just pled guilty to charges in a widespread shadow campaign to elect mayor gray and her role may have involved a lot morme money than initially disclosed by prosecutors. tom sherwood has the latest on this developing story. tom? >> reporter: jim, prosecutors already have said the gray campaign in 2010 deceived the voters, today's guilty plea add theed a lot more detail. 75-year-old public relations executive jeanne harris was in federal court pleading guilty 0 to her part in a massive scheme to funnel $650,000 into a shadow campaign to elect vincent gray mayor in 2010. prosecutors for the first time publicly detailed the scheme that included $127,000 in campaign materials, another $203,000 for field workers, and many other expenses that harris shared with someone identified in court only as co-conspirator one. sources tell news 4