>> this is news 4 today. >> are yousurrender to the fbi? >> no. >> a news 4 exclusive, a father on the fbis most wanted list for kidnapping his kids. >> welcome, it is sat, july 14th. get ready for another heat wave. first, you have to plan for the rain. it was a wet start this morning. a live look outside and we could see more downpours interrupting

your weekend plans. >> we're tracking what's ahead, chuck joins us from the weather center. >> welcome to your weekend. mother nature decided to throw a few rain drops into our forecast, and they will be with us for most of the weekend. that being said, it's not going to rain all weekend long, but we're off to a damp start first thing this morning. plenty of clouds outside, but it's a middle one. 74 down at reagan international airport. you see her on the radar there are showers marching north and eastbound. a few more showers out toward the blue ridge as well. boca is in central and western parts of montgomery country. there's more along the northern neck and rain chances off and on through much of your saturday and part of your sunday as well off to a nice school start,

temperatures in the 60s and 70s now. again, off and on shower chances. plenty of clouds and chances for rain off and on today and tomorrow as well. you will be able to squeeze in a few dry hours. have a back up plan ready to go. now, back to the news. >> thank you, chuck. we begin with a developing story out of afganistan. at least 20 people are dead from a suicide bombing including a high ranking parliament leader. police say the bomber walked up to the politician and detonated his explosives, no group has claimed responsibility. police are searching for a gunman that shot up a vigil.

it was in landover mills around 9:30 last night. he walked up to a man getting out of his car and shot him several times. rescuers took the victim to the hospital in critical but stable condition. >> the main thing right now is we're trying to locate the suspect. hopefully if any witnesses were out and about, saw or heard anything, please provide some information to the police department. >> police right now do not have a description of the gunman or a motive for that shooting. >> metro is back to brooklyn. and you will see delays everywhere you go. there is work on all five lines. the biggest issue is on the blue and yellow lines. that means that the reagan national and crystal city stops will be closed. there will also be single tracking on the red, green, and orange lines. a traffic alert for drivers in

northern virginia this morning. a three mile stretch of the gw parkway will be closed today as crews clean up a tree downed from a store. it it. >> lesley: be between belle view boulevard and collingwood avenue. >> a police officer that made a threat against the first lady is on desk duty. he said he would, quote, take out the first lady at a morning roll call meeting. another often heard it and the secret service are investigating. other officers could be in trouble if they heard it and did not report it. the officers reportedly made the comments during the last rich to

richmond in may. secret was ask agents said there was no criminal wrong doing, they were fired for conduct unbecoming of an officer. >> the president continues his tour today with stops in richmond and in cliffton. he took aim at romney's tax plans. he said he is on the side of american businesses and wants to do everything he can to make sure they succeed. >> he wants to give tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas. i want to give tax breaks to companies investing here in virginia, in american workers, investing in advanced american manufacturing, so we can sell our goods around the world stamped with made in america. >> he shared the stage with mark warner and tim cane.

meanwhile, mitt romney went on the offensive scheduling multiple tv interviews to address his time at bain capital. peter alexander has more on how romney says the president is being dishonest. >> in a heated campaign becoming increasingly nasty, with both teams accusing the other the lying, mitt romney said it's the president being dishonest to the american people. >> the president's campaign has been i think outrageous making the kind of charges they have. the kind of attacks are beneath the dignity. >> they're trying to raise new questions about his business experience at bain capital. especially when he stopped running the private equity firm. he saying he went to turn around the winter olympics. but these documents list him as the chief executive officer in 2000 and 2001.

>> most americans figure if you're the chairman, ceo, and president of a company, you're responsible for what that company does. >> if you were officially the boss in those years, why are you not responsible for bain capital's activities including the outsourcing of jobs at that time. >> in february 1999, i left bane capital and all management authority and responsibility for the firm. i had no ongoing activity in the affairs of bane capital. >> if that is the case that you left in february of 1999, and some independent fact checkers say that is the case. is it fair to take credit for jobs credited after that time. >> businesses that we help create and helped start, went on to create lots of jobs. if you're responsible for starting a business, and it grows and adds a lot of jobs in coming years, and i'm happy to point out that i helped get that

business started. >> romney's personal finances have also been in question. despite sharing 23 years of tax returns, when romney was vetted for vice president in 2008, he insists he will only put out two years. >> i understand that the opposition research people at the obama campaign want more information to dig through. >> romney was also tooigt lipped following a report that condoleezza rice is a front runner for a possible running mate. >> that was peter alexander reporting, the next appearance for romney is in pennsylvania, a key battleground state for november. his biggest opponent is now stepping out in support for the former massachusetts governor. rick santorum is holding his first campaign event for romney today for the opening of an

office in pennsylvania. santorum said he would be willing to stump for romney, but there reportedly has not been much contact between the two since. up next, what medical exampler ins are saying about the sudden death of silvester stallon's son's sudden death. >> in a news four exclusive, he explains why he has

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there was prescriptioner prescription drugs in his home, but no word on if they had a role in his death. this morning, the man charged with killing an unarmed florida teen is asking for a new judge. the attorneys say the current judge is biassed and made remarks about zimmerman. he suggested zimmerman was guilty of other crimes for misleading the court about money he raised online. the files says that zimmerman fears he won't get a fair trial. prosecutors say they object to the question and will respond on monday. a fugitive father accused of kidnapping his kids from their grandmothers and fleeing to tunisia. now he is out of hiding and sharing his story on news 4. we have the exclusive interview. >> really, i'm free. >> in an exclusive interview

from tunisia, he told me he will not bring his kids back to the u.s., but the fbi says he kidnapped them and he is a wa wanted fugitive. >> are you going to surrender to the fbi? >> hell no. how can someone surrender himself from freedom to jail. >> he got visitation rights after he and his wife got divorced last october. then he picked them up from their grandmother's house. he was supposed to return them two days later, instead he flew to germany, and then landed in tunisia. >> why don't you allow your kids to come back? >> i'm not going to bring the kids back as i told to their

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the storm was postponed. the party was appropriately named finally fireworks. and tonight, great falls, virginia will get their fireworks show. they also postponed because of the storm. the festivities are from 0u6 0 to 9:30. let's hope there is no rain. >> i like their chances, we have rain for today and tomorrow, the whole weekend cannot be guaranteed to be rain free, but there are many usable hours. anything you're doing outside this weekend, know where the tent or the house is just in case. you will be in and out of the rain chances for much of today, especially, and another one coming up on your sunday. let's take a look outside this morning. the city camera view over washington where we had a little right rain this morning. the rain appears to be easing up for the moment here in downtown

washington, but there are plenty of showers on the radar. i'll show you those in a brief second. it is a middle 74 degrees now. temperatures around the rest of the region, we have 66 in hagerstown. close tore the 07 degree mard for loudon and prince william counties. and there is a moderating influence of the warm bay water. if this is your weekend to break away and go down to the beaches, rain chances will follow you all of the way to the beach. not the greatest beach weekend, but sometimes all you need is just two or three hours at the beach. here we are on storm 4 radar, the bulk of the rain now western parts of howard county. it's lifting northbound. the rain drops, again that's

headed northeast bound, and a few more sprinkles out here along interdate 81, and a little rain across parts of western north carolina. that will push the warm, humid ugly air mass that we dealt with a week or so ago has been bottled up. it's starting to go northbound once again. this will provide us with a cloudy and damp start to the weekend. as it lifts, it will act as a focussing mechanism for rain shower chances today, tonight, and tomorrow. we need the rain. we're more than six inches behind for the year, and low pressure coming in late sunday and early monday might bring more chances for showers. it will not rain start to finish for your weekend. today, more clouds an sunshine. that's the rule. passing showers, a rumble or two of thunder, but not much severe weather. highs should generally be below

90 degrees. tomorrow, once again, more clouds than sunshine, but warmer tomorrow. as i mentioned, that big heat dome that we dealt with a week or so ago, it's trying to inch it's way back northbound. you noticed here, 93 tomorrow, 94 on monday, but 97 and 98 for monday and tuesday. hot, humid, hazy, not a big rain chance. if you need to stay ahead of the weather you can follow me on twitter. i tweet out radar pictures and how the weather is looking. so follow me. >> just when you thought the heat wave was over, it comes back to get you. >> once we get towards the middle of august we can look for the end of the heat waves. today, a solar storm is expecting to reach earth. nasa released this image.

it is sending highly charged particles at earth at 3 million miles an hour. scientists are not too worried about the storm. electronics could be affected for a short time. they don't believe the flair will have any major impact on communication systems and power grids. >> the u.s. exhibition team visited last night. he along with oxz city thunder teammate james harden stopped by to check out the games. they will play hoops with the troops at the dc armory. they will face off against brazil at the verizon center. >> the designer for the olympic style is responding about it the

uniforms being made in china. they say they will be made in the united states. people harshly criticized them. harry reid called for the uniforms to be burned. they say they're grateful for the support from an iconic american company. >> they look nice too, so it's a shame there is all of this controversy. i know they got criticism for the berets -- >> not my style, but it works. >> if you remember in 2002, the powder through beret was a big hit with everybody. heather, i think looked really good with it. it's a throwback to old world elegance. >> are you sporting untomorrow? >> that blazer she's wearing, it's free for the olympians, but $59 for the glablazer.

>> you can swing that. >> i can do the flip-flops. >> for everything olympics, head over to nbcwashington.com. you will find a schedule there and in-depth athlete profiles and all you need to get ready for the summer games is right here on nbc. the action begins with the opening ceremony on friday, july 27th, which is now less than two weeks away. >> the nationals and orioles are back on the diamond after the a-star break. we have all of it in our sports minute. good morning, your sports in a minute starts with the nationals who started off the second half of the season with a bank in miami. ryan zimmerman providing a lot of the noise, he went three for four including to two one homer. it's his ninth of the year. the nationals beat the marlins five to one.

in baltimore, the o's hosting -- he came down wrong on his knee and had to leave the game. johnny takes him deep, and the tigerers get six straight wins. wizards in summer league play, here he is, the rookie, bradley beil, his first progame on the break, and the dunk. and beil tracking down the offense, tracking down the ball, and says get that stuff out of there. the wizards fall to the hawks 103 2-82, a. the renewed push to expand gambling laws in maryland.

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taking a live look outside. we have already had a few showers come our way, and it looks like we will be dodging more throughout the day. good morning. welcome to news 4 today, i'm richard jordan. >> chuck bell is tracking rain for us this morning. let's check in with chuck. >> hey angie and richard. saturday off to a rainy start for folks in the great state of maryland this morning. the showers are in central

montgomery county headed northeast boun. the showers are coming your way. it's raining right along the 270 corridor up towards rockford, germantown all getting showers this morning. no severe weather expected. and rain across charles county and sprinkles out to the blue ridge as well. temperatures upper 60s and low 70s for now. we'll gradually reach into the midand upper 80s for today. a few folks might touch 90 degrees today. if you like hot weather and humidity, there's good news in the seven-day forecast. a taste of the heat coming back. for now, let's go back into the studio. >> vincent grey is not stepping

out of view despite calls for his resignation. three council members have asked him to step down because of an investigation into his 2010 campaign. an aid pleaded guilty to running a $650,000 shadow campaign, but herb nathan says calls for the mayor to step down are premature. >> i know there is interest, i'm certainly interested in the results, but i think we need to wait for the u.s. attorney to complete that investigation. then we'll know what happened. >> i went through my schedule and i continue to keep to my schedule and i'll continue to do that. >> nathan say he believes m.a. your gray is an honest man doing a good job with government affairs. >> he will meet with a handful of officials in hopes of organizing a session on expanded gambling in the state. he will meet with mayor baker.

tuesday he will sit down with the leaders of state house and senate and lawmakers only have about month left to get legislation passed that would put gambling to a vote in november. >> maryland officials say they will hold meetings to discuss the power outages over last month east storm. bge and smetco will have meetings in august. in petco they had more than six hours of meetings yesterday. officials say they appreciated all of the suggestions and are always looking at ways to improve reliability for customers. more than two million people lost power in our area in the storm. >> an electrical short is to blame for a massive apartment complex fire. they rescued 17 people trapped in their homes. it happened on the wood lake

apartments. one man talked about how helpless he felt watching his neighbors trapped in the building. >> him and his mom and aunt were on the balcony, and i felt helpless. they were screaming, yelling, smoke was pouring all over the place, it was awful. >> no one was seriously hurt in the fire. the red cross is helping those whose homes were destroyed. this story proves you're never too young to be a hero. at a local pool with adults and life guards around, it was a 9-year-old that saved another child. they talked to this young rescuer in this news 4 exclusive. >> june 26th was a busy hot day here at the pool here. she was here with her grandmoth grandmother. the nine year was just about to get out of the water.

>> i saw the girl, she was face down on the bottom of the pool. >> the little girl -- a 4-year-old. >> so i held my breath and went down and poked her to see if she was holding her breath and she didn't look at me. >> the mother left her five children, ages one to eight, while she signed in a guest. no one noticed the child until camile saw her. she picked her up, laid her here and yelled for help. i yelled help, someone help me. >> the girl wasn't breathing. two life guards started cpr. >> i thought oh my gosh there is really something wrong. >> now she is being pailed a hero. >> she was at the bottom of the pool for a few minutes, and camille saved the day.

>> the victim's mother has been charged with three counts of child negligent. a mother of two witnessed the rescue, and says it was terrifying. >> it was terrifying, you should not just entrust your children with the life guards, they're your children and your responsibility. >> the 4-year-old is expected to make a full recovery. this morning she was honored by west gait and she will get an award for her bravery. >> continental pool that runs the facility says they have completed an investigation, and the life guards were in their proper positions at the time. >> what a brave little girl. next, a consumer alert for parents before you put a young child in a highchair. and how credit card swipe fees are passed to you.

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a more than $7 million settlement between visa, mastercard, banks, and retailers. they will have to pay retailers $7.3 million for swipe fees paid by stores for years. but those fees are not going away. the settlement changes how they will pay the fees in the future. now the stores can put a sir change on everything you buy if you use plastic. >> and half a million highchairs are recalled because of safety concerns. it has pegs on it's bag legs that can injury children. at least 20 kids have been hurt from them.

they were sold in stores and jonl from january 2005 to today. go to usa.com/polychair to find out more. >> lester holt joins us live from new york. >> coming up, mitt romney goes on the offensive. we'll hear from the republican presidential candidate about what he calls the obama campaign's outrageous attacks against him. also more on that tragedy for sylvester stallone, the death of his oldest son. and the number of baby boomers addicted to prescription drugs is skyrocketing. when it comes to getting a new car is it better to lease and buy, we'll offer the pros and cons of each option. and with less than two weeks to go for the opening ceremony, is london ready for the olympic

games? it's all when we get standard here on a sat morning. >> thank you, lester. >> this morning i want to say a big thank you to the washington journalism and television conference. and the host of the conference, more than 250 students came to hear from top journalist including nbc hoda, and chuck todd. >> and you were a great hit. i heard how inspiring and encouraging you were. >> you follow me on twitter? >> yeah, every now and then. >> yeah, there is a few things you might be interested in, and the conference doubled in size this year. journalism has a future and a hope. >> one of nbc's hit comedies will be filming in the nation's capital next week. >> they will be there to shoot

parts of the season premier. they will be near the white house, lincoln memorial. if you would like to see parks and recreation, you might see some of those stars. >> i bet you rob lowe will be here, he loves it here, and i think he will run for office. >> he has been a fake politician for many years. >> okay,ly not start the rumor, but it's just common knowledge he really loves washington. >> good to know. happy to have him here. >> for us, what we don't love too much is rain on the weekend, but we desperately need the moisture around here. it's been a very hot and dry summer. hi there.

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you is see the slick roads that we're daeing with early this morning, and a little bit of the roads taped off there. we're getting word they're performing part of a commercial there. they have a car driving through tunnels and through the streets, and so rightfully so they would close them off to make sure nobody gets hurt and nothing goes wrong. >> just what we needed, another road closure. >> this hour we're doing okay, great to see they're filming in the city. it's very, very wet out there, and we know the rain was coming down hard out of northern virginia when we got in here really early this morning. >> yes, a steady use of the wipers this morning. most everybody had a little moisture to get your weekend started. wash things after after another week. the rain showers will be off and on rain chances for a lot of

your weekend. i think better chances today than tomorrow, and they remain all through the weekend. so just keep that in mind as you make your plans. a lot of outdoor activities take place this time of year. outside as you're looking from our city camera view, looking northbound, the capitol building in the center, and these darkened areas here are rain shafts. you can see still the rain showers, i'll show you on the radar in a minute. 73 in washington with 73% relative humidity. as you would expect with the rain showers, a very humid start to the morning. around 70 across much of northern virginia and upper 60s and low 70s. the middlest temperature is in

annapolis where it is 79 degrees. if you're going to ocean city area, shower chances for today, tomorrow, and monday as well. not the prettiest weekend at the beach, but we only need a couple hours of decent weather at the beach. >> a rumble or two of thunder here. this shower moving northeast bound. they're headed up toward column bee in a. not severe, but stay on the inside if you hear thunder. thundershowers across western north carolina. that's a big area of high pressure. remember the heat and humidity that we heated? it's getting ready to come back our direction. it's bringing us chances for

rain showers this morning, and as that front lifts northbound, it will keep needed rain shower chances in the forecast for much of the weekend. you will need a back up plan ready to go. heat and humidity increasing toward next week. temperatures could easily be back in the middle and upper 90s as we go towards the tuesday, wednesday, thursday time frame. passing showers and a pass for a rumble or two of thunder this morning. tomorrow, more of the same, and rain chances will be lower than today. it will also be warmer on your sunday. here is your seven-day forecast. 89 today. a 70% chance you will get rain on at least once today and 50%

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not only a spectacular chef, but a author, tv personality yourself. i know you will be a pro at this. >> that's the one you picked out for me? >> i did because it's nice and heavy. you want to find, when you're looking for a crab, you want to fin ones that are heavier. >> what does that mean? >> more meat. >> so if you're going to do all of the work of picking the crab, you want the most for all of that work. >> let's flip this over. this crab we have right here is what they call a jimmy crab. it means it's a male. >> how can you tell? >> this is a upside down t. right this, we will just pull it off like a beer tab on the can.

then you will take where we pulled it off, get your thumb in there, and the shul will pull away. >> what's all that stuff? >> it's a little gunk. the yellow in here is the fat. we call it the mustard, it has so much flavor. >> and pry more calories. >> indeed, yes. and you break off the front here, you see these spongy things, these are the gills, you don't eat them. >> have you ever tried them? >> no, my aunt told me i would die if i ate them. >> stay away from the gills. okay. now you cleaned off the whole top of the cab. some people, will start making

the crab, but i don't do that. >> you had a lot of great teachers. >> i did, and they're the ones that know. we take one of these knives here -- >> this is a lot of work. >> it is. so you're taking off the side here. then, we're going to crab it open again. there's beautiful heat, i will put that right over there with the rest of your things there. we've taken off most of the knuckles on the side of the crab, and then you can go sideways in, open it up, and there you have all of the chambers of the crab meat. you want to the have a crab? >> sure. >> okay, you take one, i'll take one. we'll go to our pull tab. >> like popping a beer. >> yep, just get in there.

>> you make it look so graceful. >> there you go, you got it. we're just going to flip it off like that, there you go, beautiful. and just pull -- >> this isn't as hard as i thought it was. >> unbelievable. >> we have the gunk and the kills. pull this right off the top. >> it's soft, oh gosh, really? all right, so -- let's take a little of the swimming -- the knuckles off of there. you could use a butter nier kni a pairing knife. >> you can break it in half from there. >> okay, beautiful. >> and then you can just cut if you like straight down there. right down the middle, and as

you open, here is all of the great big lumps. >> you did it! >> heaven, now i want to do my favorite part, and eat. >> you can catch that segment and others on nbc waurg nonstop, that's on come cast channel 208. >> next time you crack, i'll eat. >> today, break out your best french beret to celebrate. french restaurants are taking part in the block party this afternoon. there are events for everyone today between 18th and 19th streets northwest. there will be a french maids race, french beer, and wine. and a ge