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an international manhunt for a father of who who kidnapped his kids in maryland and fled to tunisia. the scorching summer heat is coming back. the calls for mayor gray's resignation are growing louder tonight. >> three council members are demanding he step down. erika gonzalez joins us from outside the wilson building with the latest. >> reporter: the issue tonight is whether or not mayor vincent gray knew about the shadow campaign. some council members are saying how could he not have known? it was $650,000. the mayor says it doesn't matter who asks for his resignation, he is not going anywhere. >> first of all, i'm not doing that. >> reporter: amidst the calls for resignation by three of his peers, the mayor is adamant about letting the facts evolve. >> are the walls closing in, sir

that if you love the city you would do what's in the city's best interest and just step down. >> i am doing the job. >> reporter: it started with one. >> are you running with the foxes or the hounds? >> reporter: david catania says an apology and a resignation would be nice. >> it's time to step aside so we can have an ethical honest government and a chief executive who is not consumed with whether or not he is going to jail. >> reporter: within minutes, mary cheh was on board as well. >> we can't go forward with this huge cloud over us. it's too much to bear, actually. >> reporter: residents say the scandal gives the district a bla black eye. >> reporter: but the calls for resignation don't end with two. muriel bowser makes three. >> do you think he knew about the money?

>> it's hard to miss $650,000. >> reporter: that's one side of the coin and jack evans says he is not calling for the resignation. and marion barry says i'm not going to comment because it is inappropriate in the midst of a federal investigation and you have the chairman who tells us i did speak with gray earlier today but didn't say in regards to what but says that the fact that three council members have asked for his resignation is quote, unquote, premature. erika gonzalez, news4. tonight, nbc news learned jesse jackson jr. is receiving intensive medical treatment at a facility in arizona. what exactly that treatment is for is a mystery. the congressman's office said is it a mood disorder but a family friend says that the congressman's problems are more

complicated that he has severe depression and a problem with alcohol. jackson took a medical leave of absence in june. dangerous discovery as police find a suspected meth lab in culpepper. it started as a domestic violence call. crystal dever and a man were cooking meth in the garage. two boys lived in the home. neighbors had to be evacuated. the couple is accused of child endangerment and drug charges. a man has been added to the fbi's most-wanted list. the father of two kid napd his children during a visit in november and took off for tunisia. shomari stone has more. >> reporter: the three-year-old and six-year-old are not spending summer vacation in

fairfax county but in tunisia. the fbi says their father kidnapped them from prince george's county in november. tonight he is a wanted fugitive. >> we have the kidnapping of two children who were taken outside the country. >> reporter: the children's mother said she flew to tunisia to search for the kids. after the couple's divorce proceedings, the father was awarded visitation rights. he picked up the children from their grandparents house and he and the kids boarded a plane and flew to germany and landed in tunisia. he allegedly told their mother he is not bringing them back. a federal judge issued a warrant for his arrest. >> have you seen your children in tunisia. >> i see them at their father's parents home. >> reporter: but the government won't allow her to fly them back

to the u.s. >> the decision in our court case that is pending any moment now and i expect everything to be in our favor. >> reporter: the fbi launched a manhunt. she says she has not seen the father. now special agents are working with the state department and are in contact with tunisian authorities. >> we will track you down and bring you back to the united states. >> reporter: at fbi headquarters in northwest i'm shomari stone, news4. tomorrow a potentially damaging report will be relosed on penn state university's actions in the investigation on jerry sandusky. the probe was led by louie free. it is expected to detail how the university and joe paterno responded to sex abuse allegations against sandusky. today the family released a letter written by the coach. paterno tried to separate the actions sandusky from the

achievements of the football team. the report is expected at 9:00 tomorrow morning. chris gourd listen have live reports on the findings and the reaction on the campus all day tomorrow on news4. now to the flood fallout. some d.c. residents are blaming the city for not doing enough to prevent flooding during the downpour last night. people in the bloomingdale neighborhood saw some of the worst of it. sewage overflowed on to the streets and into homes. >> coming up through the toilet and the sewage, through both the front and the background drains. >> all these houses every time it floods the foundation gets unsettled. it's one thing to say sorry. but we have to fix it. >> >> reporter: the d.c. water officials say that the drainage system is part of a multi-billion-dollar project to reduce flooding. in the aftermath of the

storm, much of northern virginia's 911 crashed. in a special session of the council of governments, leaders demanded answers about what caused the system to fail for days. residents were told to flag down passing police officers or go to a fire station for help. a verizon representative said this the problem is complicated. >> three things occurred. we lost commercial power to network elements in our network. we had widespread damage to the network elements as well. we had mechanical favorable in some of our redundant systems. >> even the solution of burying power lines underground will not solve the problem completely. no storms in sight but change is coming. doug is here to let us know when the heat returns. >> the good news it's not in the next couple days. we will have to wait a few. out there right now it is simply gorgeous. 80 degrees in the airport. winds out of the southeast at 10

miles an hour under partly to mostly cloudy skies. most of the area in the 70s. 70 in winchester. 70 in culpepper and 72 in fredericksburg. the urban heat island effect and the presence of the bay keeping annapolis on the warm side. what are we seeing out there? no rain to talk about. showers to the south but they are not hitting the ground at this moment. we are going to see the heat come back. how hot will it get? this will this be a big time heat wave? i'll have the answers coming up in the forecast. mitt romney took his campaign message to the naacp convention today and the crowd booed when he talked about repealing the health care plan. he earned respect for showing up. romney's claim that he would be the best to help african-americans got a mixed response. >> if you with want a president who will make things better in

the african-american community, you are looking at him. you take a look. >> president obama's not addressing the convention this year. in 2008, he won 95% of the african-american vote. there was a symbolic vote on capitol hill to repeal president obama's health care law the republican led house voted to scrap the controversial measure but it has no chance of pass able in the senate. the vote comes two weeks after the supreme court ruled the law constitutional. lawyers for the virginia man who fired shots at the pentagon want a court ordered mental health exam. he pleaded guilty to a series of shootings in 2010. no one was hurt. in his plea deal he agreed to that 25 year sentence. but his lawyers requested an evaluation claiming he is schizophrenic. it is unclear if that could impact his plea. he is settle to be sentenced on

friday. police in alexandria say this man's actions were criminal. a man goes into a united bank on washington street on saturday and cashing a check that was counterfeit. the teller gave the man more than $1500. he tried to do it again but the teller became spsuspicious. a man is ejected from his car. a popular actress is rushed to the hospital. a missing python has a neighborhood on edge. and don't mess with mom. how this woman turned the tables

a team from the national transportation safety board will try to figure out what led to a train derailment in ohio. it happened just north of downtown columbus. 16 train cars carrying 90 thousand gallons of ethanol burst into flames. authorities evacuated dozens of people within a one-mile radius. two people suffered minor injuries. a video shows a man flying through the open sunroof of his car. and the man walked away from this perfectly fine. the accident happened in central england. the man was arguing with his girlfriend moments for the

vehicle hit a wall, flipped and crashed into someone's yard. you see the guy fly out of the top of the car, gets up and walks away. the girlfriend was unhurt. christen chenoweth was rushed to the hospital tonight. she was filming in brooklyn and something fell and hit her. early reports are that the wind blew a piece of lighting equipment and the light hit her and she fell to the ground, hitting her head on the concrete. you hear about people looking for a lost puppy or kitten. but a family in arlington is looking for a baby python. ava rigs had her snake happy with her yesterday while playing with her brother and sister. the snake looks like this one -- another one that the family owns. her mom says that happy slithered off while the kids had

a picnic. >> ava took happy out of the bag and wanted him to join in their picnic and put him on the grass and looked away for a minute and forget just for a minute and happy was so fast. >> pythons can grow to be four feet long. the rigs have hung up a poster in their neighborhood hoping that someone will find the missing pet and give them a call. there is a guy in arlington who seems to be on a lucky streak. joseph sylvester won $100,000 in the cash five game for the second time in three months. he won the first time on april 3rd and again on july 3rd. sylvester used easy pick. the first time he won he used the money to pay bills and bought a new truck. august 3rd we should get close to it. >> figure out where he is and

gps him or something. nice out there tonight. >> not just nice, doreen. it's calm. it's calm. >> this is a huge lull. 24 hours. >> getting a bit of a breather. >> i was able to take a nap in between shows, order some food. it's been great. this last 24 hours because other than this, we have been seeing everything out there. we had the derecho and the microbursts and the intense heat. last night we had flooding. tonight, there is nothing to talk about. as a matter of fact, back to you jim and doreen. fine, i still have to do some weather out there. high temperature, 89 degrees. it was gorgeous with plenty of sunshine. the high temperature was average for this time of year. the low was 73. but yes, the heat is on the way. but still the good news here we're going to be calm over the next couple days. 80 degrees is the current temperature with winds out of

the southeast at 10 miles an hour. the temperatures showing 75 in leesburg, 77 in baltimore. 80 in annapolis. and right now in fredericksburg coming in at 72 degrees. what are we seeing? storm 4 radar, nothing to talk about. things are all calm at this hour. that's the way they will stay. overnight today and tomorrow we had a few thunderstorms developing to the north and in the mountains and down to the south. now we're just seeing some clouds making their way in from time to time. partly to mostly cloudy. the clouds are of the mid to high level variety. warm temperatures are going to continue. you know that. that boundary to the south will stay to the south tomorrow. the high pressure anchored over the area will keep the boundary south for at least the next two days. we still have an area of high pressure and a chance of showers trying to make their way in on

friday. this boundary, however will not stay south for long. it moves back up into the region on saturday and then the heat starts to build in again. mostly clear tomorrow morning. 64 to 73 degrees. light winds out there. tomorrow afternoon, not bad at all. mostly sunny, low humidity. a great afternoon. high temperatures, 86 to 90 degrees. light winds across the area. as we move through the next couple days, down at the beaches not bad at all. i think you are looking at a great, thursday, friday and saturday although a good chance of rain on saturday. it will not be an all day rain. don't think you can't go to the beaches whether it's ocean city or dewey beach or bethany. all are looking good for the next couple days. inland, 88 on friday. 38% chance of showers to the south and west. the best chance looks like saturday afternoon. 92 on saturday, 94 on sunday.

and then i think we get hot again. the temperatures could move into the mid to potentially upper 90s. be talking about not just hot but humid conditions the next couple days. but nothing like what we saw last week. we are not talking about records coming up. >> i'm getting outside as much as possible before sunday. >> i would do so right away. >> by the way, you snore in the newsroom. >> i do? that's what my wife says. you have heard about a piggy bank. quick how many devices in your home use the internet?

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dan with the youngster report, right? we have a lot of them in this town. >> a couple of 19-years-old doing big things. tomorrow bradley beal and the summer league team will travel to las vegas for summer league. i caught up with beal this afternoon and just like robert griffin iii and bryce harper hard not to like this kid. beal wanted to be drafted by the wizards with the third overall pick saying he felt comfortable here. >> the organization all around is just a great one. i just like -- as soon as i got here and worked out i felt like this is where i wanted to be. i was confident and having fun with the coaches and sam, especially -- >> he's a character. >> but overall just had fun

here. and it was a right feeling. i had it at the other places but not as strong as in d.c. d.c. is a great city. it's the nation's capital. who wouldn't want to be here. >> do you think obama knows your name? >> i doubt it. he may have heard of me, hopefully. but i don't know if he knows who i am, actually. listen, the president is a basketball fan. >> we know. right. >> i bet he knows who bradley beal is. >> when he's making brackets he has to know. >> he throws out a couple of nuggets. >> and he is watching right now. >> of course. the president. now he knows for sure. what else you go? >> nothing else i can give the president beyond that until tomorrow. the caps signed involveski to a two-year contract. he played with the panthers this past season. the capitals development camp continues.

one player everybody has their eyes on is philip forsberg. he was taken 11th in the draft. he won't be suiting up just yet. he has one more year remaining on the contract with his swedish team but being at camp has him excited. >> it's cool just thinking you are part of the capitals. so yeah, it's getting -- yeah, it's soaking in more and more every day. and hopefully i can make some good plays out here this camp. robert griffin iii coming back to washington tomorrow. he says today he hopes to have a contract signed very soon. he won best college athlete tonight at the espy's. let's hit the hellie pad. >> former georgetown hoya thompson signed with the oklahoma city thunder tonight.

the brooklyn nets are moving forward without dwight howard. the team agreed to a deal with brook lopez. and the brazilian soccer star cost himself a coke sponsor. why you ask? >> why, dan? >> because he was drinking a can of pepsi at a press conference. it was sponsored by pepsi. >> complicated. >[ leanne ] appliance park has been here since the early 50s.

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officials at this bank in austria might want to tighten up security just a bit. a wild pig roamed through the bank. it pushed through the sliding glass doors and let itself out. the bank officials said they wouldn't have known the pig was there except for the scuff marks on the doors. a would be robber in mississippi was busted by his own mother. video shows roy mitchell picking up chips and acting like he was getting ready to pay. when the cashier opens the register he pulls out a gun. mitchell's mom was in the store at the time. she walked up to the front and snatched the toy gun out of his hand and yelled at him to get

outside. the cashier called 911. >> he paid for his dorito's and said i'm still hungry. >> i wish we had audio from that when she said roy, what are you thinking? >> i think we can figure it out. >> what did she think she was going to do? >> moms don't miss a thing. >> always watching. >> beware. >> that's our news for tonight. >> we'll see you tomorrow. have a good evening.

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