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rosenfield. dozens of trains stopped in their tracks, leaving riders con fused and angry. the third major problem on metro in less than two weeks. darcie spencer is joining us live with more on what happened today. >> i checked in with the metro official just a short time ago, they still don't know what caused this computer problem earlier today. how to understand the impact of this or the magnitude. think about it this way, an air traffic control system mondayers all the planes in the sky. this computer system monitors all the trainings on the tracks. those trains disappeared from the computer screen. for at least 45 minutes saturday afternoon metro trains were grounded, held in place after a major computer system went down. >> it took an hour to get from pentagon city to chinatown, and that's half our day already just to get to ben's chili bowl. >> reporter: the problem

affected computers at the operation control cen per it officials were unable to track the 44 trains in service. out of a concern for safety, all trains were directed to the closest station and held until the issue was resolved. officials are still trying to figure out what went wrong. >> on the weekends, it's not even worth it to take metro on the weekends unless you have a lot of time, you're transferring. yeah, we took the metro, it worked out, but we might cab it back later. >> reporter: this is the third major incident affecting metro in the last couple weeks. on julyth a heat kink caused a derailment forcing dozens to evacuate through the tunnel. there was a power outage near the college park station. rider got off the train and walked to the station in the blistering heat. the incidents do shake their confidence in the system. >> people are going to take ail turn tish methods to get around

the city. >> reporter: they hope to have the cause of the problem figured out over the next few days. in the meantime, they're apologizing to riders who were inconvenienced and frustrated today. they're working on ways to make sure this does not happen again. reporting live from woodley park, darcie spencer news 4. >> let's turn to some changes in the weather tonight. chuck bell has the details for us. >> we've had plenty of showers around for most of your saturday evening. especially if you live west or south of the immediate d.c. metro area. not a lot of rain in town, but just down the road along i-95, heavy rain earlier this evening in and around the city of fredericksburg, much of stafford and responsible ilvein ya county. they're getting quite a bit of rain right now along the west of i-95 here. you folks in fredericksburg, which had two inches or more of rain earlier this evening. more rain coming, nothing is strong or as heavy as what we

saw earlier. rumbles of thunder out here. we'll talk about all this coming our way overnight and what your suffered and monday is starting to look like. one thing, it's looking very warm for the upcoming week, jim. >> forewarned, we'll see you in a bit. police are trying to 23ig out who killed a man in the hallway an apartment building in prince georges county. someone reported gunshots around 6:40 this evening. police got there found a man's body. no word yet on the motive or the victim's identity. d.c. police are looking for a man who robbed and sexually assaulted a woman at gunpoint. police say a man attacked the victim just before 5:00 thursday morning. this is a picture of him. this happened on 18th street southeast. the man pulled a gun, demanded money and sexually assaulted her. and then he says or she says he walked her to a nearby atm and forced her to withdraw cash. the man was last seen walking east in the 1300 block of good

hope road southeast. vincent gray not shying away from public appearances this weekend in the wake of a campaign scandal. the mayor spoke today at a community art event in northeast. earlier this week, a former aide pleaded guilty to running a $650,000 shadow campaign for gray in 2010. three d.c. members have called for the mayor to step down. others say calls for his resignation are premature. turning to the race for the white house. president obama finished a two-day trip to virginia in fairfax county today. he spoke at centreville high school. he talked about the need to renew the middle class, and reiterated his call for tax cuts for people making less than $250,000 a year. he continued his attack of mitt romney's record at bain capital even after romney asked the president to apologize. >> he invested in companies that

have been called pioneers of outsourcing. i don't want a pioneer in outsourcing. >> the president's campaign has been outrageous in making the kind of charges they have. i think the kinds of attacks are beneath the dignity of the presidency. >> romney took a break from campaigning today to spend time with his family at his lakeside home in new hampshire. he will not release any more financial information beyond this year's tax returns. florida can now check a federal list of noncitizens, officials believe someone's trying to vote illegally. the list is maintained by the department of homeland security. the state's been trying to get permission to use it for months. the obama administration finally gave the okay after a judge ruled in favor of the plan. some are concerned that any mistakes on the list cannot be corrected in time for the november election. a d.c. man who spent 22 years behind bars for a crime he

didn't commit has officially been cleared. the judge signed exonerating odom yesterday. he was convicted of raping a woman back in 1981. the key piece evidence was a single strand of hair found on the victim. the fbi said it matched odom's hair on a microscopic level. new dna testing found the hair was not his. >> they sent me to hell, really. to be honest with you. they sent me straight to hell. >> the case has sparked a review of thousands of other similar cases where hair analysis was used. the fbi maintains it is sound science, but other scientists say the practice is too subjective. congress is considering national standards to try to prevent other false convictions urge coming up, major news from penn state. questions about the timing of joe paterno's final contract negotiations. and a big change to his picture on an iconic mural.

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word tonight that joe paterno renege air yated his contract the same mon he testified in the jerry sandusky trial. he reached an agreement last

august. it included a three million dollar bonus if paterno retired after the 2011 season. he was fired in november after sandusky was charged with child sex abuse. paterno died of lung cancer in january. and penn state paid out the rest of the contract in april. sandusky was convicted on 45 counts and is awaiting sentencing. a famous mural in state college no longer has a halo above paterno's head. the artist added the halo after paterno's death, he said he felt he had to remove it after the release this week of the damning freeh report. that investigation found paterno and others knew about the allegations. instead he added a blue ribbon to paterno's lapel. sandusky has been removed from the mural. chuck will tell us about a warmup in the works. plus, the dos and don'ts of dating.

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this weekend 130,000 characters have desended on san diego for a one of a kind convention. 43 years ago it began as a comic book event. now, it's an extravaganza. movie and television studios use it as a major promotional tool for hollywood. >> there's always going to be a place for comics at comic con. they're just sort of sitting alongside of everything happening in movies and television. >> this is the best time of year for me and my friends. >> comic con ends tomorrow. what to do or not do when it comes to dating. a love bites survey will help all you singles. 70% of women say it's a big turnoff when their date has more to drink than they do. 90% say it's a turnoff when

their date has nothing to drink at all. 90% of males prefer dinner as a first date. 60% of singles do not want to split the check. >> splitting the check, you know it's not really romantic. >> beautiful day outside, speaking of drops. we had a lot of drops outside the area today. heavy rain on the north side of waldorf earlier today. we will be facing the chance for more summer thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon. i think they'll be a little less in coverage than they were today. for now, though, your saturday night it's cloudy outside, there are raindrops not too far away from washington. thought they may make it inside the belt way, they are taking their time making the drive inbound. cloudy skies for now, it's a

fairly muggy night out there. 78 degrees at 11:00 at night. dewpoints back up into the low 70s. that's what makes it feel so humid. that's the mid summer misery from a humidity standpoint. winds out of the southwest averaging 8 miles an hour. southwesterly winds will persist for tomorrow. 76 parks burg, 77 degrees as you get up toward the baltimore area. here's your sunday planner. most of the raindrops, i'll show you on the radar, most of those will be gone leading to a quiet and cloudy start. another very warm day coming. we made 88 today. higher heat on your sunday. and once again with all the heat and humidity around, thunderstorms will be bubbling up tomorrow afternoon. there the raindrops which haven't made it to the capital beltway just yet. down south of town, hard hit early they are evening, more rain out here. this is nowhere near as intense

of a rain event as we had three hours ago. every drop adds insult to injury. rumbles of thunder across far western maryland out toward morgantown, west virginia. all this part of the humid air mass which had thunderstorms all over earlier in the day, now with a loss of daytime heating. by morning time, almost all of it will be gone. showers ending during the overnight hours tonight. the warm and humid air mass is going to be sitting in place. we'll start off tomorrow, clouds around, breaks of sunshine late morning afternoon, will lead to a stormy sunday for some. especially west and south town, where the elevation helps out a bit. as you get into monday. a trough of low pressure swings some dry air in here. that will allow the heat and humidity to ramgp up for monday, tuesday and wednesday. rainshowers slowly coming to an end. otherwise warm and humid in the morning. your sunday, a little bit more sunshine than we had today. higher temperatures, fewer

storms, but still don't stray too far tomorrow. if you're driving down to the beach tomorrow, the beach weather gets better as our weather gets warmer. 90s are back tomorrow. mid-90s monday. upper 90s tuesday and wednesday. be ready. >> we will be. still ahead at 11:00, the nats go fishing in miami. and a sweet ending to

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how was that fishing trip for the nats? >> not particularly a good one. >> no? >> we need a bigger boat. most nationals fans probably zboichbtd disappointed when mark buehrle signed elsewhere from died. . geo in his first start since the all-star game looked like typical geo. top two filthy offspeed, freezes hanley ramirez, he had had five strikeouts through three. top five, nats down 1-0, breaks his bat off burly. drops in for a hit, ian desmond comes to score. tied at 1. the marlins get it right back, playing small ball in the bottom hal, a bunt, a sacrifice, and john buck singles. miami goes back on top 2-1. unfortunate, because geo deserved a w tonight.

just didn't get the run support. bottom sixth, gets carlos lee with the high cheese. six innings, nine strikeouts. 127th on the season, just one behind steven strasburg with the league lead. roger with the tieing run on second facing steve, and he goes down swinging. nats fall 2-1. strasburg gets the start tomorrowth the orioles pitching staff keeps getting better. jason hamels, who's basically been there ace may need surgery on his right knee. if he does, he could be out until saturday. bottom two, tied at one, robert and dino, takes max scherzer deep to left. the o's had a 4-1 lead in theh. jim johnson's been the best closer in baseball much just one blown save all year. until today, two out in the ninth, quinton barry slaps one to the left.

brandon bosh to the plate, tied at 4. o's down 5-4, adam jones. already his three walkoff winners in extra innings this year. scores nick markakis, who had three doubles in the game. o's tied at 5. bottom 13 after j.j. hardy hit a home run tied at 6th. taylor tea garden. with a man on, it's a tea garden party. his first career walkoff home run and the triple pie in the face. nice job for taylor. great day all around for o's fans, before the game, cal rich kin, eddie murray and brooks robinson on hand. great to see brooks at the ballpark again. they unveil the jim palmer statue with the high leg kick, joining frank robinson and early weaver at their garden of greats. summer league and it was only one game. the wizards had to like bradley beals debut yesterday.

a game high 22. the wiz back at it against the rockets, and beihl back at it as well. the old slip and fall. beihl flying in to finish on the other end. -3 gators showing off the hops. thomas sataransky does one better. right down the middle of the lane. worthy of another look, cox at bat with the left hand. the wizards will play again tomorrow against the grizzlies at 6:00. meanwhi meanwhile, kevin durant back in his hometown. they'll play monday night at verizon center, doesn't matter what court they're on, what city they're in, he can shoot. and then playing on the same team as lebron james. the finals mvp, kobe bryant won a gold medal in the '08 games. he's excited again to wear the

red, white and blue. >> there's so much significance that the anthem carries with it, you know, from different histories and different cultural experiences that we all carry with us, representing our country. it's an emotional experience. >> hard to believe the olympics just a few weeks away. the capitals expect to get john carlson and mike green signed to new contracts sooner rather than later. they should also hire their first assistant the coach by next week. ribeiro will wear with number nine for the caps next season, if there is a season. he had 45 assists last year in dallas. one of the lowest scoring teams in hockey. needless to say, he's happy to have guys like ove and backstrom on his side. >> it's nice to have guys who can put the puck in the net. at the end of the day, every year, maybe winning the cup, there's a piece here.

hopefully i can help this team go further in the playoffs, and hope any win the cup. >> caps have needed a second line sent there, they got one. hopefully they can make it work. >> he looks like a big rapper, he has the big earrings in his ear. >> that's our news for tonight. "saturday night live" is coming up next. hope you all have a great night. we'll see you back here tomorrow.

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