responds after a third felony plea related to his mayoral campaign. prosecutors say there were hundreds of thousands in illegal cash. a major cleanup ahead after rain leave folks in d.c. battles sewage inside their homes. good afternoon, everybody on a busy day in the news. i'm jim handly. >> i'm pat lawson muse. >> the residents say enough is enough. last night's rain flooded their homes and their cars. >> they've to clean up in recent years, and now they want the city to do something about it. melissa mollet spoke to angry residents today. >> here along rhode island avenue, this low-lying block is a messed. we have waterlogged cars along the street, sewage in the road. residents who after several major floods over the years say they've had enough. >> the government needs to step up to the plate and do something about it.

i'm tired. >> reporter: charles harris has lived in the area no 15 years. it's enough to bring tears to his eyes. he wonders how he'll clean up again. >> every times it rains, you've got to wonder what's floating away. you don't know what's going to float away. >> as he talks about his task ahead and looks at the second water-damaged car in two years, he also worries with a friend next door. >> and the lady next door, she's got brand-new furniture. this is her second time new furniture destroyed. >> reporter: down the block, ryan ead and his wife spent the night awak, eight hours cleaning their rowhouse.

>> right now bleach and sewage are fighting for supremacy in nigh knolls trillion. >> reporter: it does smell like speech down here, a fan and dehumidifier working hard. >> just started coming in, and the worst part was it started bubbling out there the toilets and sewers and front and back drains. i literally had the sump pump stuck into the toilet at one point trying to pump it out. >> then water and did i bring in the car. her ford actually floated down the street. >> we came out and why wife's focus, the back passenger wheel was up on the curb. it floated up there. we took a quickicture and short phone camera video. when she started it, it actually spouted water. >> reporter: the storm also ripped down trees along massachusetts avenue. down to rock creek parkway. another downed across the

street. >> cleanup continues. >> this -- as neighbors here hope this is the last time they have to replace soening things. >> it's very expensive. i have to take all carpet and tile up. glue are there more storms in for tonight? >> veronica johnson is outside on the storm4 weather patio with the answer to that burning question. >> we are not going to see any slow-moving storms, on top of that for your evening we've got a bit of a breeze out here. you can see behind me some of the leaves on the trees are moving around a bit, and the humidity is down that. take a look at our city cam right now, mostly sunny to partly sunny skies. last night's rains, though,

right there from fairfax all the way east to buoy and annapolis. these are the areas that picked up some of the that rainfall. from areas bethesda down to the south toward braddock and east toward kettering. as far as this evening again, no slow-moving storm. hagerstown and around frostburg and around petersburg. off -- your temperature right now sits at 87 degrees, so it is quite warm. the dew point is at 61, so a comfortable warmth for us. again with a few clouds over the last couple hours. where do we go from here? your forecast a warm one for us this evening, down to 83 by 9:00 p.m., 78 degrees by 11:00 p.m. so we're going to be looking at a pretty nice start to the day tomorrow. we'll take a look at tomorrow. what looks like rising

temperatures as we head through the weekend? we'll detail those with the seven-day forecast in just a couple minutes. we have breaking news this afternoon. d.c. counsel 8 member atlarge dave katanya has told news4 he's calling on mayor gray to resign. he's the first official to call for the mayor to step down. yesterday prosecutors laid out in court for the first time details about a $650,000 shadow campaign was run to help elect gray in 2010. gray's longtime friend jeannie harris pleaded guilty to operating the scheme that was run off the books and separate from gray's official campaign. gray addressed the media today, but declined to comment about the investigation itself. he did say that he has no plans to step down. >> this is not the campaign that we intended to run.

aim a produce of is the coombs of the city. i got into this for the right reasons. >> he agreed to cooperate fully with prosecutors, who say the investigation is continuing. news4's tom sherwood will have the latest coming up. >> the ntsb will try to determine what caused part of this -- firefighters evacuated the area earlier this morning. >> i ran outside to see what it was, and then i ran in the house to get my cussing, because they told us we needed to leave. >> two people who ran toward the scene before the detailed regards were were injured, but able to take themselves to the

hospital. a jetblue pilot had a brief psychotic disorder. by right-hand of insanity. by screaming about religion and terrorists. passengers wrestled the pilot to the floor. doctors testified that the disorder was due to a lack of sleep. he's at a texas facility for observation. the house has voted to repeal the health care reform law. political analysts say the vote changes nothing, but does keep the issue alive. steve handlesman has our report. >> reporter: it's a vote on obama health care that will not change the law. >> we know this will pass the house and die in the senate. >> but republicans want to show their resolve to kill what they call obama care.

>> this is making our economy worse, driving up the costs and making had harder for small businesses to hire worker. >> it closes a door to wellness that's not just being opened to over 30 million americans. >> house republican leaders have held at least 30 votes to kill the obama law. >> it's time for republicans to end their relentless obsession with taking away ben fritz from millions of americans. >> reporter: like congress, americans are still divided. >> just because it's been ruled constitutional doesn't mean all aspects of the law aren't great and we shouldn't discuss them. >> reporter: mitt romney kept up his attack, but he did it today at the naacp and got booed. >> i'm going to eliminate every nonessential program that i can find. that include obamacare and i'm going to work to reform and save.

>> el probably would not have used that term, because it personalized it, and all of a sudden it sounded like you were talking more about the president. >> reporter: but romney figures keeping health care a hot issue will help him in november. that's why the house republicans staged another vote today. they made their point, but the senate will not debate or vote again on obama health care. i'm steve handelsman, news4, capitol hill. tomorrow we're expecting the results of an internal investigation into penn state's role in the jerry sandusky case. the family of the late coach joe paterno is already questioning the integrity of the findings. >> reporter: about three weeks after jerry sandusky's conviction the universities

braced for what may be more bombshells. is the school-paid internal investigation will be released online thursday morning, and will detail what freeh said last november may have been failures by the university. >> which may have enabled the alleged misconduct to occur, go undetected and not be reported. >> reporter: while nothing officials has been released yesterday, much of the report is expected to be critical of the late joe paterno, and what paterno did or did not do when told by assistant mike mcqueary in 2001 that he had just seen sandusky showering with a young boy. the family is all right stay in a statement -- joe did not act in any way to prevent a proper investigation.

a statement from his attorneys reads -- at no time in the more than 16 years of his presidency at penn state was dr. spanier told of's incident involving jerry sandusky that described child abuse, sexual miskicked or criminality of any kind. the school is also bracing to see how the report helps or hurts the slew of lawsuits expected from sandusky's victims. chris clacken, nbc new. our chris gordon will be in pennsylvania tomorrow for the release of that report. he'll have reports tomorrow right here on news4. still ahead, after the storm, is it safe to use those medications left in the house while you had no power? dr. jackie has answers. we have new details about the tom and katie divorce. what tom's lawyer says has nothing to do with the split and why katie's actions might prove

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finish finish fest in austin, texas. they went to retirement after the murder of jam paster j the proceeds will go to his foundation. they reached a divorce agreement with surprising speed, but cruise's lawyer claims scientology played no role in it. they reached a deal less than two weeks after she filed for divorce. "the huffington post" says she's returning to the catholic church. one most popular women on tv is now engaged. "people" is reporting that zsofia vergara got a ring from her boyfriend, nick loeb. loeb reportedly popped the

question while visiting the mayan ruins, this will be vergara's second marriage. no love lost between courtney love and her former assistant. she's suing the rock star jessica labry claims love still owes her part of the salary and also accuses her of asking her to brake the law. the form are assistant said she fired he when she complains about being owed thousands. love hasn't commented on the lawsuit. thankfully most of us have our power back, but for people with asthma and allergies, and though who is who take medication that need refrigeration, a lengthy outage can present a serious dilemma. planning ahead in you have a medical situation and you don't have a generator.

you were giving -- >> number one, were we opened? a friend of mine, his office was open, but the patients couldn't get through to call. my system a cloud-based system, so i can't get into may reports, but beware, some may not be able to. lastly, lots of people were calling about what to do with their allergy shots. allergy shots, what other kinds of medication needs to be on -- >> number one would you say antibiotics or different types of liquids. vaccines in general, but some live in there that don't have to. things like eye drops that are cooling or creams that feel better, or some things just taste better when refrigerated. they would be personally five.

>> what happens to medication that's supposed to be refrigerated that isn't. does it spoil? does it not work? how long do you keep it before you throw it out? >> yes, it does. it loses its effectiveness. antibiotics have to be a few hours out, and that's it. plan ahead next time. vaccines can also be left out for just a few hours. a lot of people had the allergy vaccines, and they stuck them in the freezer, and they don't work when frozen. what we had to do in our office. we had power back on monday, but over the weeks, we had to get the vaccines and put them in a refrigerator to keep them safe. you have battery-power anybo nibblizers? >> i'm going to give it now to just about anybody, if you're on a nebulizer, you'll need that

medication. so plan ahead. they cup in impartry-operated ones and carjack-operated ones. >> we have that string of extremely hot days with no air conditions. how does that affect an asthma patient? >> they were having a tough time. one they didn't have the air conditioning on, so they didn't get their air filtered. they were exposed to a lot of policiant that normally would have been filtered with. with the high amount of pollution, it makes for more concentrated pollution, and increasing the number of asthma attacks. >> since we know the next storm is around the corner, what are you to do? >> plan ahead. go ahead the medication now if you have liquid medications, get them in a power form, so you can reconstitute them later. many people think their foods and meds are reasonably

safe for a while. if you leave them in the refrigerator and keep the door closed. what are some of the rules to keep in mind? >> some of this i had to look up myself. ketchup and mustard may be able to last for six months and olives about two months, but my greater concern, especially for my patients was you may have kept it closed and then pitched everything, but did you wash it out well so there's no mold in the refrigerator. all those stinky refrigerators closed up for up to a week, we cleaned it all out and left it open for quite a while. so that you don't end up with another problem that you didn't really mean to have. >> mold from your fridge. >> mold, you didn't plan on that. >> dr. jackie, thanks a lot. >> you're welcome. when we come back, stunning numbers about summertime dangers. what the government wants you to

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a day after a noisy night, we got it all at witness. we needed rain, but not like that. >> our next opportunity won't come for a couple days. at least not evening it's going to be quiet out there. just a few clouds are with us. it's pretty comfortable. a nice evening, with temperatures in most neighborhoods that are in the upper 80s right now. a light southeast wind at 10 miles per hour. good enough to make it feel a bit better outside. i'll be headed out to our weather patio in a couple minutes. college park at 88, rockville 93. 90 in leesburg, so a couple spots already hitting 90

degrees. next best chance of rain will come in a couple days. we're seeing some thunderstorms out there. west of i-85, areas around hancock. i think they're going to stay west in along i-81. temperatures will come down from the mid 80s to 83, to 78 by 11:00, and tomorrow morning i think a great start for us. 84 in el kints, 90 in columbus, ohio more heat in the nation's midsection, and we'll see that temperature rise next week, even higher heat, but not extreme.

here we are this evening with a mostly clear sky, that many old front down to the south, i think that most of the cloud cover will remain south of us. by the time we get to friday, that high pressure moving off the coast. again, our winds pretty light, really nice start. sunrise tomorrow at 5:53. it should look gorgeous for sunrise tomorrow morning. 86 to 90 is our temperature tomorrow afternoon. it will be comfortable with that low humidity. friday 88, saturday 92, and 94, maybe 95 degrees on sunday. so we're turning up the heat. watt until you see the numbers for next week.

9. a hint for next week? a right direction or wrong direction? you have to wait and see, jim. >> all right. thanks, veronica. still ahead on "news4 at 4," the new device that lets parents keep track of our teens when they're driving. plus he wasn't trying to steal anything. why police sai

welcome back. i'm pat lawson muse. >> breaking news at 4:30. david catania says he's called on may user vincent gray to resign. he's the first elected official to call for him to step down. yesterday jeannie harris pleaded guilty in connection with a $650,000 shadow campaign. gray has said he has no plans to step down. ra. right now residents in northwest washington are cleaning up. the rain flooded many homes and cars, firefighters even had to push some drivers to safety. the storm also toppled treats along massachusetts avenue. that prevented commuters from turning onto waterside drive and

reaching the rock creek parkway. two of the cars that derailed overnight in ohio are still burning. 11 cars jumped the track. the train was carry ethanol, and nearby residents had to evacuate. firefighters decided to let the fire burn out. a former fbi director is set to release a report tomorrow on penn state's role in the jerry san cuss did i child sex abuse scansal. sandusky convicted last month. 77 people have lost their lives in water since memorial day. most of those victims were children, 78 other people nearly drowned. >> nbc's tom costillo reports from bethesda. >> reporter: watch closely the surveillance video from a pool in washington state. see if you can spot what the

lifeguards and adults missed a-10-year-old faults off a float and begins to drown. he's there, head underwater. precious minutes past. no one notices he's on the bottom of the pool. finally after five long minutes, an adult swimmer finds him and pulls him out. it happened seven years ago. lifeguards, paramedics and doctors save his life, but he suffered permanent damage. >> drowning is quick and silent. it can happen before an adult even gets to the pool. it happens so quickly. >> reporter: the numbers are enough to scare any lifeguard. each year 390 kids under the age of 14 die in accidental drownings. 5,200 kids require treatment in an e.r., and drowning is the number one cause of death for kids 57 and understand. -- 5 and understand.

240 red cross certified lifeguards keep a constant vigil. >> i like to count how many are in the pool, so i know if anyone goes down. >> call 911. >> every day at one of reston's 15 pools, they conduct realistic drills to keep guards sharp. >> i dove in the pool to swim, and i hit my head on the bottom. >> reporter: lifeguarding has been serious bit for decades. ronald reagan himself saved 77 lives as a summer guard starting when he was in his. >> it only take a few minutes. >> reporter: it's a message that consumer product safety commission and the red corrosion have tried to drive home. you can never know which pool safety device will save a

life, until it does. >> reporter: experts say young children should never be more than an arm's length away from an adult. life rings or floats should be nearby. fence off private pools to keep kids out. use floating alarms, and in public pools cpr-trained lifeguards should never lose focus. >> reporter: the family in washington state where the child suffered permanent damage, the family was awarded more than $5 million in a lawsuit, but you've got to teach your kids to learn how to swim. back to you. >> tom costello, thank you. three fours of victims are younger than 5 years old according to the cpsc. a toddler in california owes her life to teenagers who happened to be swimming in a canal. 2-year-old alice avilas was with her parents. the child slipped through an area where there's no fence and

ended up in the water. when her parents noticed her missing, they searched the water with no luck. however, downstream some teens were in the water cooling off. >> just saw floating in the water. was she face-up or facedown? >> face up. >> what did you say? >> i said look at the doll, and he said no, it's actually human, a little girl. >> i ran to the tree over there and i got her out, carried her. i gave her to his dad, then i ran home and called 911. >> an adult at the scene performed cpr. doctors say little alice will be fine. aaa today is offering parents a new way to track teen drivers. it's a gps device that plugs into a car's diagnose tick port. parents can set boundary ahead of time for speed, location and times the cars will be used. if the car exceeds the parents' speed limit action goes outside

the boundary or is used at the wrong time, for example, during the schoolday, the parents gets an immediate alert on the computer or smartphone. >> it's weird to think about it, like they're kind of following me and watching me, but it's for my better good, so -- >> i don't want to say it's a big brother device, but it's like being a second parent in the car. >> it is not about not trusting your teens, it's more about inexperience. young people don't have the same amount of experience as you and i do behind the wheel. >> the device also sends alerts to parents if the teenager trying to remove it. don't do it. to get one, you have to be a aaa misch and have an insurance policy covering a teenager. there is more to come this afternoon. a teacher leads police on a wild chase, even goes airborne. why he was in trouble with the law in the first place. they tripped me, they jumped on me, you know, were biting me.

>> plus a woman survives a bizarre attack. how a

call it rage directed as a cash machine in china. police in beijing believe this man was drunk when he started hitting the atm. security cameras captured his angry outburst from a couple different angles. he wasn't satisfied with just using his fists. he then used a rock to damage a machine. investigators say he apparently was angry because the atm ate his card. >> i hate when that happens, but don't hate it that much. the government recently put out a warning about the metal brushes we use to clean backyard grills. >> a man in washington state experienced the consequences firsthand. adam watanowich checked into the hospital for pain in his stomach. they found a piece of metal inside of that. that doctor had recently seen the warning and realized he accidentally swallowed a bristol from a barbecue brush.

he's laughing about it now, but the doctor says the situation could have been much worse. >> you can have bleed from best continual content into the cavity, and that causes par tonitis. peritonitis. >> this is the season, too. sure is. when "news4 at 4" continues a pesky peacock problem. why a beautiful animal is attacking cars in one neighborhood. veronica, what's going on? >> it's a warm one out here today, but not too bad. we're looking for some great -- so many of us are getting tired of watering. the first time i saw fios it was absolutely amazing. for years and years we had to put up with cable. once we got fios it was like somebody like took our computer and shook all the junk out of it. [ male announcer ] don't settle for the same old cable technology. switch to a verizon fios triple play and upgrade your entertainment equipment

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veronica is holding down the fort. >> our brand-new patio. >> it's really nice out here, guys. we're going to continue to pretty it up out here. i've lost the sweater. it's just way too warm out here for this. we're going to be going short sleeves for sure next week. we'll see the heat start to make a comeback, but we're not talking triple-digit heat, but the america sill is really going to be going up. up top here, we have a few of

the wispy clouds, the cirrus clouds, a sure indication we have drier air over us, as opposed to yesterday. yesterday the air was juiced up. it didn't take much. it took a winter out of the southeast to give us the bay breeze, the sea breeze helped to kick off the storms we had. let's see where the temperatures are sitting. 86 in hollywood, winchester, virginia 82. down to manassas, out to the west 86 right now, and close to that 90 degree temperature there, germantown maryland, you're at double eights, 88 degrees right now. showers and storms, seeing those up to the north in pennsylvania. harrisburg just shy of hagerstown, maryland, may be getting some of those moderate rains that have been taking place, but really for all of us today, a different situation where we're going to see the rain hold off to the west and stay in the mountains. as we head to the beach, look at

that. it is a great day at the coast today, to be at the beach. 79 degrees the current water temperature. the beach forecast, coming up for the next three days, we're talking about hawaii conditions thursday and friday. 85 to 84 degrees thursday and friday. saturday -- now, saturday we could be looking at some showers and storms. 88 the high temperature at the beach. the mercury is going to be going up. locally inland, we're talking about 89, pretty much what it was today. 91 down in fredericksburg. over the next couple days, again we'll see even higher temperatures. your four-day forecast, 92 for saturday, 94 on sunday. keep in mind this weekend we could be getting those showers and storms. as promised the higher temperatures, 94, 95, 96 for right now, could be going even a

little higher, guys. back to you. >> thank you veronica. in florida residents need more than $2,000 worth of repairs done to their cars. it's all because of peacocks. >> why residents believe the problem really has nothing to do with them. >> reporter: every night folks cover their cars. >> peck, peck, scratches. >> reporter: to protect them from peacocks. >> all these scratch marks and difficult vets in the car are all peacock attacks. >> reporter: a pair of peacocks prowling the neighborhood. >> they're beautiful. they're indian peacocks. >> reporter: and apparently fighting the cars. >> came out to water my plants one morning and they were beating themselves up against the car. >> he thinks that he's seeing another male in there black car reflection. >> ray spencer's new car his a

pea fowl punching bag. he just goes after it and kicks it and stomps it. >> reporter: the cars' owners say the beak dents have caused almost $2,000 worth of damage. the birds have been around three months and no one will come get them. >> animal control considers them wildlife, so they will not get them, remove the peacocks. fish and game consider them domestic, so they're not fish and wildlife's department. and from -- we're responsible to hire a trapper to get them removed. >> it's been like everyone passes the buck. nobody knows who handles -- >> so they're paying several hundred for a trapper. they caught the female friday, but the male is still ruffling feathers. >> just catching him is tricky. he's a lot faster than i am.

so they're using the female as bait. as the gloves come off, the car covers are staying on. >> keep those covers on. >> yeah. worth noting those are not nbc peacocks. >> no, they're from another network. [ laughter ] coming up, if the running of the bulls and one of the injuries hits close to home. and what started as a police chase wound up with a middle-schoolteacher . i'm wendy rieger, coming up on "news4 at 5," breaking news from the first call from an elected official for the mayor to resign. a major high-tech cheating scandal rocks a high school involving dozens. tonight at 6:00, a arm robber is busted on camera.

a middle school jim teacher suspected of child abuse led police on a chase. the chase ended when the pickup true veered off the road. the truck landed on the porch of a building at the end of the hill. he's been treated for his injuries. he is suspected of abusing a 16-year-old girl. police say the chase began when they tried to pull him over and he refused to stop. now to a different kind of

chase. an american is recovering from injuries suffered during the running of the bulls in spain. the red cross says they treated the new yorker for a hand injury. a spaniard suffered a broken nose. both will be okay. thousands each year flock to pamplona, spain for the running of the bulls. how a walk in the park wound up with a woman being attacked by a pack of -- not peacocks, but raccoons. for all your news follow

a washington state woman has scratches, bites and wounds all over her body, because she was chased and mauled by a pack of raccoons while walking through a park on monday. drew mickelson has more and how the woman finally got away from the angry animals. >> i walk this trail every day. every day. >> reporter: it's while she moved to lakewood. >> we really do live in a area where you're going to see a lot of wildlife. >> >> reporter: but today she's walking gingerly. >> monday madison spotted a

raccoon up a tree and broke free. as i was bending down, i saw them coming through the grass -- you wouldn't believe how fast they can run. >> i ran into their yard, i don't know where i was going. >> reporter: didn't get very far. >> they tripped me, they jumped on me. they were biting me. >> reporter: 16 puncture wounds and more than 100 scratches on an attack that last about 30 seconds. >> i picked one up, and grasgra from the scruff of is the neck and flung it. >> madison came to her owner's rescue. >> i've never seen her like that. i think she literally saved my face. >> i had never heard of anything like that. >> reporter: animal control considers the attack a rare

isolated incident, but the raccoon population is booming. this summer they're cracking down on the visitors to feed them. >> i was afraid that they were going to, you know, mess me up pretty bad. >> reporter: mikhaila considers herself lucky, but is worried about who runs into the raccoon. >> we have elderly neighbors, peel bring their little kids. what would they do? >> she says she's not afraid to go back, but she plans to take mace the next time. she still has three more rounds of rabies shots to get through. now at 5:00, breaking news in the district to call for a change at the top. >> tonight at 5:00 the first member of the d.c. council calls on mayor vincent gray to resign. >> what -- over that massive failure of the 911 phone complain. and the family of former penn state football coach joe

paterno speaks out the day before the release of a highly anticipated report. there's a lot unfolding at this hour. good evening, everybody. i'm jim handly. >> and i'm wendy rieger. breaking news today. atlarge david catania, has become the first elected leader to call on the mayor gray to resign because of the scandal plaguing his election. >> wendy. the mayor said earlier he's not resigning. atlarge d.c. council member david catania minced no words . >> i think it's time for him to step down. the consequences so far has been nothing. it's not enough for him to show up and say this is the campaign we would have run. it's the campaign youid