businessman jeffrey thompson who allegedly provided the schhadow campaign funds and then tried to cover up the payments when prosecutors began investigating in 2011. the guilty plea in court disclosure puts more legal pressure on thompson who so far has denied wrongdoing, but it puts even more political pressure on gray as this scheme unfolds. now jeanne harris disclosed one interesting fact in court today. she said neither she more co-conspirator one thompson came up with the shadow campaign idea. the big question is, who did? at the district court, tom sherwood, news 4. so, tom, what does mayor gray have to say, if anything, about this today? >> reporter: when this all started mayor gray said he had done nothing wrong and hoped an investigation would clear his name. several months ago his attorney said to him, don't say anything. so the mayor now whenever you ask him any questions about this widening scandal of his campaign

he says, i have no comment. my lawyer says i have no comment. i have no comment. but this is a lot of political pressure and the mayor who will hold a news conference tomorrow, his weekly news conference and we'll be asking him questions tomorrow. >> and he and miss harris go far back, is that right, tom? >> reporter: jeanne harris is a longtime person in washington. she's been part of the political and social elite of the city going back to maybe the '70s and the '80s and she knows a lot of people and certainly the mayor knows her. they don't have a business relation sh relationship or anything like that and she supported his campaign but she is very well known in town and a lot of her friends are disheartened that she got called up in this mess. >> all right, tom, thank you. we'll stay in close touch with you as soon as people come out to that podium behind you. we have a developing story in prince george's county where a manhunt is under way for the man who shot a taxicab driver on the grounds of an elementary school. jackie bensen is live with the latest on this.

jackie? >> reporter: wendy, police think the suspect lured the cab driver here to rob him. now this happened just after 2:00 this afternoon. the victim is in his mid-40s. his cab, a minivan, has the words blue bird taxi car company written on the side. police tell us the driver picked up the man at the new carrollton metro station. the man instructed the driver to take him to cooper lane elementary school known as cooper lane academy. the school open and the parking lot was empty and the driver sensed it may have been a robbery. >> the suspect then asked the driver to take him and the cab driver refused. the suspect pulled a hand dpun and shot the cab driver in his lower extremities. he has been transported to a local hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. >> reporter: police have only a vague description of the suspect. he's a black man in his 20s,

that he was wearing khaki pants and had a full beard. they're asking cab drivers particularly at the new carrollton metro station to keep an eye out for him. reporting from landover, jackie bensen, news 4. >> jackie, thank you. four people charged of sexual assault. police tell us it happened at a house on hamway drive last month. pat collins spoke with neighbors and a relative of the suspects. >> reporter: in this house police say two underaged teenaged girls were given liquor and then sexually assaulted by four men. they say it went on for hours. this woman lives in that house. she says she's the mother of one of the suspects. do you want to say something on behalf of your son and your grandson? >> what do you want me to say? they're guilty? no, i don't want to say that. a conviction -- they've not been

convicted of anything. why don't you come back in a month or so and then ask me. >> reporter: 42-year-old adam terry, his 19-year-old son justin, and two friends charged with sexually assaulting the two underaged girls. police tell the story this way. thursday, june 21st, justin it terry brings two girls to this house. one is 14. one is 15. once inside, they say, adam terry, the father, begins serving the girls vodka and liquor laced iced tea. >> they got drunk to the point of physical helplessness and then after that the four adult males actually took turns sexually assaulting the two juvenile females. >> reporter: police say this went on for about seven hours. around midnight, they say, ju justin terry took the girls home. two days later one of the victims told her mother.

her mother called the cops. the investigation began. gary fletcher lives across the street from the terry home. >> it's crazy. i would have never known. >> reporter: 14-year-old girl, 15-year-old girl. >> that's sick. >> reporter: according to state records one of the suspects in the case, caesar lopez, is on the sex offender register for an assault on a minor back in 2010. were there pictures taken? were there other crimes committed? police say the investigation continues on. pat collins, news 4. >> we are going out to the news conference at the u.s. attorney's office in progress about the d.c. public relations executive jeanne harris pleading guilty in a widespread shadow campaign to elect mayor gray. >> business owner agreed to generously finance the campaign so long as it was who was the

source of the funds. between july and september 2010, the business owner used one of his companies to send one of miss harris' companies, bell international, more than $650,000 to be used in the mayoral campaign. miss harris put that money to work to influence the outcome of the election. subcommittee hired political consultants with the official campaign during the time leading up to the primary. she also purchased more than $100,000 worth of campaign materials that were identical to the official campaign materials. these materials were purchased from the same vendors as the e official campaign materials and were often delivered to the official campaign headquarters. as you can see from the exhibit to my right, the money that was provided to miss harris was used to pay for over $200,000 in

campaign staff expenses, over $127,000 in campaign materials. approximately $58,000 in field worker supplies and over $265,000 in rental advance, hotels, and other expenses. as today's plea made clear, the 2010 shadow campaign was the handiwork of a well-financed conspiracy to funnel corporate money into federal and local elections, but it just didn't start in 2010. since at least 2001 this scheme has violated federal and local election laws by using straw donors, many of them employees, friends and family members of the conspirators to make high-dollar campaign contributions that would then be reimbursed with personal and corporate money from the conspirators. this allowed the conspirators to evade campaign contribution limits and then end the ban on corporate donations. and to illegally direct tens of thousands of dollars to

candidates for federal and d.c. offices. today's plea is yet another reminder of the desperate and ultimately unsuccessful efforts that have been taken to bury the truth of what happened in 2010. we saw this obstruction before in the case of howard brooks lying to federal investigators and in the case of thomas shredding documents that contained records of elicit campaign contributions. miss harris today admitted to a far more expansive and sophisticated effort to obstruct justice. this effort involved the creation of phony business documents and a false tax return to try to disguise the shadow campaign as a legitimate business expense. it also involved destruction of paper and electronic records and it even involved the plan it to send miss harris to brazil for over five years which is the statute of limitations on many federal offenses.

these obstructive acts may have slowed our investigation but they did not end it. today we're going to repeat the same message we've repeated time and time again as we've stood here after defendants have been convicted of lying, of trying to hide the truth, and avoiding responsibility for their actions. the truth is going to come out in the end and you are far better off if you come to us on your own rather than waiting for us to approach. one of the positive developments today that we have seen is that miss harris came forward early and acknowledged her crimes. and for this we should all be apprecia appreciative. the sad truth is that political corruption owe can curse across our country at all levels of government. from jack abramoff to rod blagojevich we are familiar with those who use public office for personal gain. corruption is not limited to any one political party, to any one race of an elected official or to any one particular region of

the country. and while d.c. has many, many, many hard working public servants, we have learned that we, too, are not immune to the forces of greed and corruption that we have seen at work in many other parts of our nation. the truth about what happened in 2010 in that campaign is troubling. and it's troubling because the people in the district of columbia have fought for so long for the well-deserved right to elect their own officials. in 2010 we went to the ballot box not knowing that one mayoral campaign was secretly financing another and that more than a half million dollars in unregulated, unreported corporate money had been used to influence the outcome of the election. in 2010 the mayoral campaign was compromised by back room deals, secret payments and a flood of unreported cash. the people of this city deserve

better. they deserve the truth. that's why my office together with my partners from the fbi and the irs are so committed to pressing forward with this investigation until we hold everyone who played a role in deceiving the voters in 2010 accountable for their actions. now we're going to hear from special agent in charge of the fbi washington bureau. >> all right. responding today to the guilty plea by a d.c. public relations executive jeanne harris in relation to a widespread shadow campaign to elect mayor vincent gray. he said before we got to him, he said, quote, her guilty plea confirms that the 2010 mayoral campaign was corrupted. these are big dollar amounts, too. you should know as tom mentioned off at the top of the 5:00, the mayor will be holding his regularly scheduled weekly news conference tomorrow, and you can

bet he will be asked repeatedly about this. that's tomorrow. >> all right. meanwhile, let's head outside. it has been a beautiful day especially compared to last week. anything is beautiful compared to last week. and doug kammerer is in our storm center to tell us how long this break will last. that's right. i think that break will last right on through the rest of the week and probably into at least part of the weekend. 87 degrees is the current temperature out there right now. really not a bad day. a little bit on the humid side. temperatures around the region 88 in leesburg, 81 in frederick. 82 in manassas. 85 in la plata. temperatures upper 80s to around 90 degrees but we are feeling about 20 to 25 degrees cooler without the heat index than we were a couple of days ago. as far as the showers go, there are some showers and a few thunderstorms out here right now including some right in portions of fairfax county. a lot of the storms, though, down to the south a. few up to the north. right now a squeeze play for us. we'll tell you what the storms

have to do with the weather over the next couple of days. plus, when we may see the heat return. we'll do all of that from our brand-new weather patio. i'll be out there in just a second with more on that. wait until you see this, guys. pretty cool stuff. >> lucky man you are. still to come, the investigation into what started the blaze that destroyed an old elementary school. >> how you may be able to add more years to your life just by standing up. >> and we tried out a new matters. pioneers in outsourcing us jobs supports tax breaks overseas. insourcing. industry and favors bring jobs home. it matters. this message.

most of us do it for hours on end, and it could be shortening our lives. we are talking about sitting. there is a new study and it points to the risk of sitting and how much we could help ourselves if we would get up on our feet. chief medical editor dr. nancy snyderman is joining us as we both sit here to discuss this. how many hours are we talking? >> this is not a perfect study. this is from a british medical journal. it does underscore an increasing body of evidence that as human beings we are meant to be up and moving.

so this study looked at a couple hundred thousand people and found that people who sit for more than three hours a day and, yes, that is most of us, shave a couple of years off their lives. and just watching television, not getting off the sofa for two hours at night does the same thing. so the take home here is not that it's less likely you will be able to have a job that doesn't require sitting, however, every hour on the hour if you're sitting, get up, walk some place, get the circulation going. getting your heart pumping decreases your chance of stroke and heart disease. independent of other risk factors. >> i know it's not realistic, one of our colleagues here had a bad back and he got them to bring him a tall table and he stood all day long. that may not be realistic. how about getting up a lot? >> i think it is realistic to ask for the tall desk, but then

you have to make sure you don't just stand in one spot because that can can be the same problem. getting up every hour on the hour to get a cup of coffee, to go and get a breath of fresh air, just something to break that position of the frozen body is probably the key to it all. and if you go out to california and you look at the internet companies, people aren't even sitting on chairs. they're sitting on big, blown up balls. why? because you can wiggle and you can move and that's probably healthier for you at the end of the day anyway. >> and we all have those in the back of our closets that we don't use anyway. >> bring them out and blow them up. it's better for your core. >> exactly. that stability thing. all right. thanks, nancy. >> you bet. >> dr. nancy snyderman. and coming up on "nightly news with brian williams" dr. snyderman continues reporting on bone marrow transplants and the troubles mixed race americans are facing in trying to find a match. >> toug was listening in the storm center so he made a mad dash out to our brand-new storm

4 weather patio. you are christening it tonight. yeah, guys. this is something extremely exciting for us. you have the weatherman, you have the weatherwoman, and you want to send is them out into the weather. that's exactly what we'll be able to do now with this brand-new state-of-the-art weather patio that we have here. let's take a look. i will switch cameras now. exactly what we have is a pretty simple setup to you and i but, trust me, a lot went into making this happen. this is actually a weather proof camera, whether it's raining or snowing, this camera is all alone. stands on its own. this monitor is a weather proof monitor, 100% weather proof. yes, we are going to put a cover on it. it's 100% weather proof. has gorilla glass although i shouldn't hit it like that too often. what this will allow us to do as we move back to our camera, this is going to allow us to show you weather in ways we haven't been able to do. there's snow, if there's two feet of snow, you are going to see us in all of that snow. and if it's raining, we will be 0 out here in the rain. if it's hailg, we're going to be

inside. but most of the time, we're going to be right here for you on the outdoors patio at least as much as we can because that's where we want to be. we want to be in the weather where you are most of the day and we have a lot of weather to talk about over the next couple of days here as we continue to watch a little bit of a front that's down to our south. let's take a look outside right now. it is beautiful out here on our nice storm 4 weather patio. 87 degrees. winds at 9 miles an hour. temperature wise, well, we're in the upper 80s in most locations. frederick, maryland, i wouldn't be surprised if they saw a little shower go right over the airport. i did see a shower earlier. manassas, there has been rain there. temperature of 82 and 86. storm 4 radar is showing those showers and you can see the one up around frederick county, also around leesburg or to the south of leesburg including chantilly, down to centreville and manassas. there's one over manassas and over to the clifton and burke area. we are seeing a little bit in

the way of shower activity there. no lightning associated with this but still some showers. down to the south and east, down to newington around springfield, down to lower heights. once again not heavy, just a shower making its way through. no lightning as far as that is concerned. we're also seeing some just to the east of the airport around 0 showers. that's nothing compared to what they're seeing down south. inundated with the rain and that's that boundary that made its way our way that's helping us to be a lot cooler than we were the last couple of days. our stationary front down to the south now will stay warm and will stay rather humid. typical of what you'd see this time of year in the month of july. that is not moving a whole lot. and that's why most of us are going to stay dry over the next couple of days. we'll see a mix of sun and clouds each day. it will be fairly warm out here and, again, a little bit humid but not all that bad.

this evening partly cloudy skies, isolated shower possible. temperature 74 to about 80 degrees. tomorrow morning waking up and walking 0 out the door, warm and muggy. temperatures 67 to about 75 degrees. as we move on through the next couple of days, here you go. temperatures in the upper 80s to near 90 but, guys, watch the weekend. 92 on saturday. 95 on sunday and, guess what, here comes another heat wave as we make our way into nearly 9 degrees coming up next monday. maybe we'll be out here for that. it depends on the heat index. if it gets above 100, i draw the line. i'm going indoors. >> i think that was ready to be unveiled last week but we pushed it back. >> you need a little weather sprinkler out there. >> we have a weather mister. a storm 4 weather mister and i get misted. we have everything, grapes coming down. whatever we need. >> thank you, doug. still ahead on news 4 at 5:00, a brawl at a little league game, what is wrong with these parents? that's right. it wasn't the kids. it was the adults. >> a new way to keep tabs on

d.c.'s favorite panda all for a good cause. coming up in sports, bryce harper made quite a name for himself among baseball fans. now hear what his fellow

so what do you think? >> i think everybody loves them. >> i do, too. what's not to love? >> he's been great and it is the

year of youth at this year's major league baseball all-star game and no one has been more celebrated than bryce harper just 19 years old. the most talked about teenager to hit the major leagues in 30 years. this morning he was the lead story on the front page of "usa today." he's trying to remain humble while earning the respect of some of the game's current greats. >> you know, i'm just trying to have fun. it if i go oh-fer, i don't care. it's just time to enjoy myself and time for the fans and, really, try to come out here and be around the best guys in baseball and, you know, just try to enjoy it as much as i can. i'm going to take it in and get all the free stuff i can and really try to enjoy myself. >> you know what i like about him, he plays hard. he plays everything hard, runs out everything. a lot of times you don't see all the time with young guys, with older guys. you don't see guys hustle all

the time. i like to see them come up and play the game the way it's supposed to be played. he's one of those guys. he's the real deal. he's as good as advertised. >> i'm glad he's made it. he said some classy things about me earlier this week. it's much appreciated by those of us who have been around for a long time. i hope i come back in 10, 15, 20 years and he's still making a - all-star teams. he's going to be the face of baseball for a very long time. >> to be able to come in here and really be here for the last -- for chipper's last game, i think, is going to be something for the ages, to be able to tell my kids i saw

chipper for the last time. it's going to be fun to see all the different players and see all the fans and just everything that's going to happen. it's going to be a blast. >> and wouldn't it be something if bryce harper actually determined the outcome of tonight's game? he's not going to be starting but he is expected to play which means he'll probably be hitting late in the game and, who knows, maybe it's on the line and the nationals, of course, have the best record in the national league. they could end up in the world series. and here is the funny thing. the winner of this game, the winning lead gets home field advantage in the world series. so this year it actually matters to the nationals a little bit for the first time ever. >> to have those people -- those kinds of accolades, boy, that has to be terrific. >> derek jeter and chipper. the amazing thing is he got lambasted back in the day for being cocky. but he really, really has remained humble throughout all of this.

he's lived up and exceeded. >> he's still 19. coming up at 5:00, much more ahead. a robbery you might expect to see in the movies. how two guys got into a business through the roof. >> a local police department using high-tech equipment to help them make life and death split

more now on tonight's breaking news about what exactly jeanne harris did wrong. the u.s. attorney who brought the charges says harris used more than $600,000 to buy campaign items like t-shirts, signs, and stickers for mayor gray's mayoral campaign back in 2010. according to the u.s. attorney, the problem came when harris did not report these expenses to the d.c. ofts of campaign finance. >> on the outside this shadow campaign looked like any other. there were paid consultants, those who were put up in hotels and ferried around town and rented vehicles with paid drivers. distributing thousands of yard signs, stickers and car magnets. but what made this shadow campaign sinister was how it was paid for. the shadow campaign was entirely off the books. financed with secret corporate

money so the d.c. voters had no idea who was influencing them at the ballot box. >> prosecutors say harris created false documents, shredded large amounts of paper and destroyed electronic documents as part of her cover-up. fire investigators are still trying to figure out how a two-alarm fire started in an old school in northeast d.c. it broke out it at the old web elementary around 11:00 last night. investigators aren't even going inside because the building is no longer structurally sound. >> reporter: firefighters say the building here in the trinidad neighborhood is unstable. the wall behind me so weakened by the flames they fear it could collapse. take a look at the inferno. news 4 the first tv station on the scene capturing this video of the two-alarm plays eating away at the windows tearing through the old web elementary school charring nearly everything on this side of the large building. crews say fighting the fire was especially difficult because

some of the doors here were welded shut. caroline hudgins lives down the street and watched as firefighters tried to get in. >> they did everything they could to get in. they had to use a torch to burn the door off in the back and they burnt the bars off the window and they went in through the window. >> reporter: ten hours after the fire broke out, crews still here. >> as you can see it's still burning. >> reporter: were it not just about hot spots but a weakened, unstable structure they fear can could collapse. take a look at some of the brick and concrete drooping. the windows are gone. this side is charred. investigators taking photos with so many homes nearby. crews also putting up fences in case of a collapse. >> so we're not going to be sending fire investigators inside the building until we get dcra to help us shore it up, to make sure it's structurally sound. >> reporter: neighbors say they saw people in the building about 30 minutes before the fire broke out. though investigators don't yet know what sparked the blaze,

shawn patterson, who lives nearby, says seeing trespassers here is nothing new. >> there are always people in there. to see kids playing inside and playing on the roof. >> reporter: the school was closed in 2009 as they moved to the education campus. since then it's been used by the city's office of property maintenance as a storage facility. firefighters tell news 4 there have been several smaller fires here over the years and that that information will play a part in this investigation. luckily no one was hurt. it will still be several weeks before investigators know what sparked this blaze. in northeast washington, news 4, back to you. authorities tell us two men cut a hole in the roof of a building, slid through it and robbed the place. they broke into the ace cash express. one of the men pointed a gun at an employee and demanded all the

money in the company safe. the two men got away. no one was hurt in the incident. if you have any information about this robbery, call crime solvers at 866-411-tips. a group in maryland released a web ad today pushing for marriage equality in the state. this ad comes as voters prepare to decide whether to make same sex marriage legal in maryland. news 4's chris gordon has more on the ad, its supporters, and its opponents. >> i believe in equal rights and i'm voting for marriage equality. >> reporter: this new video is being released by marylanders for marriage equality. >> my name is candace. and we have four children. >> reporter: the advocates for marriage equality say they will distribute this new videotape on the web, through social media, perhaps on tv and actually carry it door-to-door as they seek votes in the november referendum in support of same sex marriage. >> so we're targeting every marylander. we want people to understand that same sex marriage is really

about their friends, their family, their neighbors, really going to city hall and getting a marriage license. >> reporter: the maryland legislature legalized same sex marriage this year but opponents, led by members of the clergy and prince george's county, gathered more than 162,000 petition signatures to put same sex marriage to a referendum vote. reverend mccoy is the chairman of the marriage alliance. >> quite frankly we just believe that the current marriage law that's been in place in maryland is good, it's responsible, it's the best thing for kids, gives the kids the best opportunity to have a mom and a dad in the household and being raised by them. preachers across the state and this country will be talking about this issue all the way through election day. >> reporter: maryland vote letters have the final say and decide whether same-sex marriage should be legal when they go to the polls on november 6th. chris gordon, news 4. still ahead on news 4 at 5:00, a massive fight at a little league game but it involved the parents. i'm liz crenshaw. after the storm you tossed out after the storm you tossed out your spoiled

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mortgage documents. >> thousands of laptops and phones left hyped at airports. >> we'll talk about that storm and that food. we begin with the food folks were forced to throw out after last week's storm after days without power, lots of food in the area spoiled. if you used food stamps, tomorrow is the deadline to file a claim in the district of columbia, and that deadline has now been extended. d.c.'s department of human services told us today it's taking requests for replacement food stamps at its service center locations through july 20th. eligible residents must be current food stamp recipients. of course more than just food stamp recipients tossed out food due to loss of power and you may get help through your homeowners or renters insures. check to see if you are covered. limits vary policy to policy. if you are not covered, do check to see if you can add food spoil coverage for the next storm. if you ever bought a house and sat through signing all

those mortgage documents and wondered what did i just sign, you are not alone. now the consumer protection financial bureau wants to cut the paperwork and confusing language. it has proposed new forms which consumers will receive after applying for a loan and before closing and they're part of the campaign know before you owe. the proposed forms would highlight information consumers need including the interest rate, the monthly payments, and the closing costs. it would make it easier to look out for risks such as clear warnings about prepayment penalties and it would give more time to consider your choices and provide limits on the closing cost increases that occur. in addition to proposing clearer forms, they want to expand protecti protections for high-cost mortgage loans. so that hopefully will make things better when they take effe effect. finally, before you leave airport security, make sure you don't leave your laptop behind. according to a new survey,

travelers have left behind more than 8,000 mobile devices at seven of the nation's largest airports just in the last year. laptops were left most often followed by smart phones and tablets. most airports reported the mobile devices were simply left at the tsa checkpoints because you are putting your shoes back on and you forget where your laptop is. >> it's easy. >> yeah. so take your time. tell the tsa guys, i'll be there in a minute. where is my laptop. >> okay. >> thank you, liz. when we come right back, the new way vitamins are being delivered via iv, but it's being debated by doctors. >> a new way to keep tabs on tai shan. watching a couple of showers out there right now in parts of the area. where those showers are and what ♪

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getting sick? need a quick pick me up? now some celebrities are turning to iv drips of straight vitamins and minerals. >> reporter: hi, jim. this has been in the news. rihanna and simon cowell have been talking and tweeting about intravenous infusions of witt minimum cocktails. some say it has anti-aging and immune boosting properties that not only keep you looking young er but can also erase the effects of a night out on the town. >> it's a relifting juice. >> reporter: twice a week 38-year-old malia sits in this chair hooked up to an iv of vitamins. >> people don't believe i was really sick because i had so much energy. >> reporter: but she has stage 4 breast cancer that has spread to her lungs and she believes these vitamin treatments are helping her live a better life. the same for elaine gibson, a cancer survivor but now gets regular infusions to stave off

exhaustion and boost her immunity. >> if i'm tired or run down from whatever, my first call is to natural horizons medical center. can you take me in? can i get an iv? >> the people who come to us are largely people looking to improve their overall health. >> reporter: peter evans is president of natural horizons we wellness center in fairfax, virginia, an alternative health provider offering iv vitamin infusions for years. he says the treatments have been gaining popularity as more and more people come in for help with boosting athletic performance, fighting fatigue, and treating illness including cancer and lyme disease. >> unfortunately in the lifestyle that we have today oftentimes the body doesn't get the percentages that it really needs in high enough quantities from the food that we eat. >> reporter: evans charges patients about $150 for each

customized vitamin cocktail. the most popular is a blend of high-dose vitamin "c" with magnesium and other trace elements that he believes can help people boost immunity and perhaps even fight cancer. he says getting vitamins delivered directly into the bloodstream in this manner enables the body to absorb more nutrients. but some doctors say an iv drip is unnecessary unless the body has problems absorbing vitamins. dr. timothy coke is a gastroenterologist at medstar washington hospital center. >> the average american who doesn't have a gut disease or have trouble with previous surgery really should be able to get these vitamins absorbed if they take a multivitamin. >> reporter: but evans' patients say this is making a real difference in their health. >> first my hope is to get better. it's not going to be cured, i know that. but i know that i can have the vitamin drips to help me along the way and to keep me as happy

as i possibly can be. >> reporter: doctors told us they're not surprised people feel better and more energized after getting these vitamin iv drips, but that's because most of us aren't getting enough vitamins and nutrients in our diets to begin with. it is possible to overdose on certain vitamins, so be careful. always consult with your physician before undergoing any medical treatment. wendy? jim? >> let's check with doug again on our weather, and it's nice out there. it's not bad. when you consider where we were, 87, a little bit on the humid side with a couple of showers out there seems like a beautiful day when you can consider just a couple of days ago we had that heat index of 110. we are at 87 with a heat index of 88 degrees. that is still 22 degrees cooler than where we were the other day. simply amazing how much cooler we were and how hot we were. a couple of showers across our area. you can see those through montgomery county, and one here

down to fauquier and culpepper county. a couple of zooms. show you where these are now. manassas has been seeing rain right here along 28 over to the gainesville area. these are just to your east. these were over in chantilly earlier and then you move over to eastern portions of fairfax county and right down 123, all the way up to the city of fairfax. these are just to the south of the city of fairfax around burke and clifton. these will continue. these are moderate showers. no lightning just yet but wouldn't be surprised if you heard a rumble of thunder or two. to the north and to montgomery county. damascus and you can see the border of howard county around the area, too, seeing shower activity. once again not a whole lot of rain but just enough to give your grass some much-need ed precipitation. 90 degrees in rockville now. 82 in it reston. look at this. nice and cool, 75 in manassas after that rain. right now huntington coming in at 87 degrees. overnight low temperatures tonight. 73 in the district. 69 in leesburg and 69 in

culpepper. everybody a little bit lower than we were last night. that's the good news. tomorrow afternoon we'll be right back where we were today. mid to upper 80s to near 90 degrees as we move on through the day tomorrow. i think we'll see a mixture of sun and clouds. there will be mother chance for a few showers, maybe a thunderstorm. the best chance of that will be to the west of i-95 and really out to i-81 and along the mountains so we'll continue to watch out for that as we move on for the next couple of days and as we look to the next few days here it does look like we will heat up as we move into the weekend. 89 on thursday. 88 l on friday and then i think another little heat wave. but the key word there, little. back down to 90. it does look like we'll cool down for next week. now coming up at 6:00, back to london. well, technically not really but we're going to show what you we did in london just a couple of weeks ago with our olympics preview. today we'll be talking all about olympic park. an amazing place, some amazing venues that went on in london there and you have to tune in at

6:00 to see the latest. >> and that was the inspiration for your new patio. >> exactly right. >> all these drawings and plans. big i ideas. >> we got a patio. >> it looks good. >> it's great. >> and already there are complaints there need to be plants to dress it up. >> wendy, when you move into a house you don't bring everything at once. you start to look at it -- >> hang some pictures. >> you have to bring people in. >> all right, thank you, doug. see you at 6:00. the cookie monster and some grown-ups who should know better. >> we start with the grown-ups getting into a full-blown baseball brawl on the sidelines of a little league game. this was friday night in columbus, georgia. no one was injured seriously but at least two people are facing charges. police say the fight apparently started because one parent was playing music too loud and disturbed the other parents. little league officials have condemned the adults' behavior. ♪ hey we just met you and this is crazy ♪ ♪ but you got cookies >> you knew it had to come, even

the stars of "sesame street" are getting in on one of the hottest songs of the summer. it features the cookie monster singing about how if people have cookies they should share them. it's to the tune of the hit song "call me maybe." "sesame street" posted it and in just a few hours it has gotten more than 160,000 views. now we have that song in our head. >> hey, when we come back, jim goes to test out some brand-new state-of-the-art police training showing them how to make a split second life and death decision. they gave handly a gun. a terror suspect accused of trying to bomb the pentagon with a remote controlled plane. also, the teenager who battled a

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shoot or no shoot. in prince joshlgs county officers are training to make the right decision with a brand-new state-of-the-art system. i went out to police training facilities today to see first-hand how practice in crisis scenarios can mean everything. from active shootings and the domestic to traffic stops and a

hostage crisis, training can make the difference in split second life and death situations for police officers. prince george's county police have a new weapon that gives them a critical advantage in a crisis. >> scenario based training and that's what this is. this is as real as you can get. >> reporter: the police purchase the judgmental enhancement training system designed for homeland security. it allows them to practice in a variety of unpredictable crime scenes. the system comes with more than 400 training scenarios but the applications are endless because officers can go out anywhere in the community and film their own customized scenes. officers learn communication skills to de-escalate a scene before shots are even fired. >> we call that mental preparation. the more practice they get, the better prepared on the street to handle these situations. we can escalate the situations

to make them worst case scenario and call that crisis rehearsal. >> reporter: there are tasers batons and pepper spray for the situation that is can be resolved using less lethal situations but the scenarios can easily be dialed up when there's an imminent threat of death. forcing an officetory take action. there were 15 police involved shootings, flee officers were shot. to make it more realistic, pellets are fired from this shoot back cannon. i put on the goggles and a pistol to respond to a domestic scene involving an armed man. whoever has a gun, put it down. calm down. i think i got wounded, too. >> you didn't get hit by the small pellets because you utilized cover very well. >> okay 0. calm down. it's not the first thing -- but i couldn't hear the rest. this training system you should know is the most advanced out there. the u.s. army has purchased