a computer glitch shuts down the entire system. for the second time this weekend, will metro solve the problem before tomorrow's rush? >> a robbery turns deadly. the bizarre crime that ends with one victim killing another and the criminal still on the loose and the search for man accused of shooting two people in the nail salon. one of the vrjs the mother of his children. >> good evening, everybody, i'm jim rosenfield. storms rolling through the area. chuck bell has details for us. >> severe thunderstorms are bubbling up and not as many as we had to deal with yesterday in

the intense heat. we made 96 in washington and we're down to 92 and rain-cooled 70s out to the west and here's where we could see the showers and thunderstorms moving into parts of lowdown county, and they'll be on the lookout there and that storm is not severe and capable of heavy rain and also capable of heavy showers and plenty of lightning, on the calvert county and an arundel county line. i'll be back in a few more minutes with another update on the forecast. >> those storms have caused a number of power outages. >> to other news tonight, the search is on for a maryland man accused of shooting the mother of his children right in the middle of a nail salon. that man's name is tuan pham. a judge ordered him to stay away from her. instead he arrived at her workplace and opened fire.

we have more from ellicott city. >> reporter: he's accused of shooting his estranged girlfriend at her workplace, the hair and nail care spa as well as her friend, a 40-year-old man from florida who was there to drive her home from work. >> his shirt's covered in blood and he has a gun at his hand, and i'm, like, oh, my god. he has a gun. >> reporter: the gun fire erupted saturday night. pham and the female victim got in a fight and pham shot 34-year-old lan phan of silver spring, his estranged girlfriend. a nail technician who only worked here for a couple of months. >> once i found them i tried to stop their bleeding and checked their pulse to make sure they were alive and tried to keep them alive as best i can. >> reporter: according to court records pham and the gunman have

two children together. the salon did open today and customers are showing their support. >> this area is a nice area, and it's unfortunate that the incident did happen, but once again, it isn't going to deter me from being a patron here. so -- >> you were saying that the business was open today. why is that? >> because they're a part of the community and they run a really wonderful business and they're very kind and i would hate to have something like this affect them. >> reporter: howard county police say both shooting victims remain in critical condition. the owner of the salon says that worker was shot in the shoulder and she is expected to be okay. the gunman is still on the loose. in ellicot city, darcy spencer, news 4. >> the gunman was last seen driving a 1998 tan or gold four-door honda accord with license plate two 91. him you are asked to call howard county police. police say an attempted

robbery in prince georges county ended with one victim accidentally killing another. a group of people were standing near a parked car at 12:30 this morning. three masked men approached and ordered the group on the ground. police say a woman was behind the wheel of the car she became frightened and drove over one of the men who was on the ground and killed them. neighbors are shocked. >> it is a close-knit community, so everybody knows everybody and it was unfortunate that these people -- >> i serve the lord and i pray for protection, but it makes me want to buy a gun. >> police say the robbers ran away after the victim was run over. two times in less than 24 hours, metro is trying to figure out why its computer systems mysterious crashed. the crashes happened in the metro rail command center and it left them unable to see where the trains were on the lines. the first outage happened yesterday afternoon at 1:00 and another outage at 12:30 this morning.

each time train operators were told to go to the nearest station and hold there until the computers were back online. metro says it would have additional rail and i.t. people on hand tomorrow in case something happens during the morning commute. it's been two weeks since the derecho and some people in tacoma park are still trying to get some pretty important repairs made. this pole has been hanging precariously since the storm hit. neighbors say they have power back and phone service and internet, but they can't seem to get anyone to fix the pole. >> we're getting cable and power, and that's all terrific, but this is not and this is a disaster waiting to happen. it's going to block the street. it could possibly hurt a small child. we have a lot of children in the neighborhood. it could possibly hurt an elderly person. we have a lot of elderly people. it can hurt me. >> residents say they've contacted verizon and pepco. when we called pepco the companies it has no record of this problem and that neighbors should call to create a ticket. verizon tells us it's still

looking into the issue. overseas, the conflict in syria is now being called a civil war. the international committee of the red cross made that announcement today. it means that international humanitarian law applies to any area where war is taking place, it gives parties the right to fight, but it also means that any attacks on civilians can be treated as war crimes. the declaration came just after syria denied claims they used heavy weapons against the opposition to president bashar assad. right now u.s. officials are working to secure the release of two americans held hostage in egypt this evening. michael louis, a church member and their egyptian tour guide all kidnapped while traveling in egypt on friday. family and church numbers prayed for them. the pastor's son is concerned for his father's health because he's diabetic. his father was making his annual trip to the holy land. >> it's the opportunity that he

has to -- to bring people together to go to israel, to walk the footsteps of jesus christ and a lot of people look forward to it. >> the kidnapper reportedly wants his uncle released from prison in exchange for the u.s. hostages. he says the hostages are fine and are being treated as guests. still ahead tonight, an nba veteran facing some off the court-issues after driving his suv off the road. plus two adventurers trying toic bra the record with lawn chairs and helium balloons and we'll tell you what cut the daring attempt short. two

police in falls church are investigating what may be a murder suicide. officers were called to the evening center in the 6700 block of wilson boulevard last night. they found two men who were shot and killed. police say it appears one man took his own life and they're still investigating exactly how the other man died. their iities haven't been released. nba veteran jason kidd is charged with drunk driving this evening after running his suv off the road. police say kidd was arrested just before 2:00 this morning on long island. officers say his cadillac escalade ran off the road and went into the woods. afterward he was charged with

misdemeanor dwi. kidd is an 18-year veteran of the nba and he recently signed with the new york knicks. some storms moving through the area right now. chuck bell will be back with what we can expect tonight and for the upcoming workweek and coming up tonight at 11:00, cell phones used as tracking devices. police looking for personal information and cell phone providers giving

. [ applause ] that's sir paul mccartney helping bruce springsteen close his concert in london's hyde park. suddenly their mikes went silent. organizers say they pulled the plug because springsteen broke the noise curfew by 30 minutes. both artists left the stage in silence and the crowd started booing and expressed their displeasure all over twitter. >> drama at the tour de france after someone reportedly threw nails and tacks on the road. about 30 cyclist his to stop and change tires during the last legs. >> race organizers filed a

complaint with the police and investigators are looking into whether the tacks were intended to hurt the cyclists. the president and mitt romney over his time at bain capital. >> it was a pioneer of outsourcing jobs to countries with cheaper labor. >> brian moore has our report. >> reporter: president obama's supporters are making no apologies for their latest attacks on mitt romney, his personal finances and claims he was a jobs outsourcing pioneer when he ran bain capital. as he said to his own republican colleague, stop whining. i would give him his own advice. stop whining. >> reporter: romney's supporters say the allegations are untrue, unfair and effective. >> they want to talk about anything, but president obama's dismal record when it comes to the economy, and it's working. >> romney lost the narrative in a week that was supposed to be focused on another lackluster jobs report. >> independent voters don't care about tax returns in bain

capital. they care about getting the greatest country on earth, out of debt and back to work. >> president obama's fortunes hang on the state of jobs and the economy on election day. >> the economy on election day will feel pretty much like it feels today. >> which means an economy, weak jobs growth and unemployment over 8%, but for now, it's a focus on the personalities and on some very personal attacks. republican governors meeting in the key battleground state of virginia are advising romney to skip the personal attacks and focus on the economy. brian moore, nbc news, washington. talk about an interesting way to travel. two oregon men strapped themselves into these lawn chairs yesterday. they were trying to break the world record for the longest cluster balloon flight. they trusted 350 helium-filled balloons to get them at least 500 miles and that was their plan and unfortunately they had to stop 30 miles into the trip because of bad weather. >> they want to try to go for

the record in iraq coming up in act october. >> i don't know. interesting way to travel. very interesting way to travel. i'll take the boeing solution to travel. >> it's to raise attention on what's going on in iraq for the troops and the aftermath of the war, but i wouldn't want to be in that thing in our area today. >> no, not at all. plenty of electrified storms and if you're making plans to enjoy your sunday eening and just keep a weather eye to the sky and we'll be facing some showers and thunderstorms here over the next couple of hours and not quite as many as we had to deal with yesterday and if you get underneath one of them it could lead to an inch to half an inch of rain and outside, it started to cool down just a touch, down to 88 at national airport as of the 6:00 hour and a nice breeze now out of the south averaging 21 miles per hour, so quite the breeze in and around town. that's helped lower our temperature down from the 96 where we were earlier this

afternoon. so 88 here and all of the 90s disappearing off the map as the cloud deck has thickened up and where you see 70s on the map is where we have seen the rain showers. here's the thunder showers marching in to the immediate d.c. metro area. the showers just on the west side of the capital beltway, right up the 270 spur here and not severe and a quick dousing of rain and rum bells of thunder and near thurmond, and western carroll county, maryland. we've had more severe weather today in and around the fredericksburg area, you're out in the clear for now and you can hear another thunder shower along route one here just to the south of alexandria near mount vernon and out here into portions of charles county drifting generally eastbound and the thunderstorm now out over the open waters of the bay and headed out toward tillman island and the eastern shore where they have pretty strong thunderstorms in central del aware and a powerful cluster of storms just

to the north of richmond. at the track it's going, and it might graze southern st. mary's county where you might have severe weather earlier today. be on the look out from that two to three hours from now. scattered storms through 7:00 and most of this should be ending earlier than yesterday leaving us with a cloudy and muggy evening. so the evening storms are fading away quickly and most have been dealing with daytime heating. start off temperatures well into the 70s tomorrow morning and then tomorrow afternoon, the high heat and humidity return and they'll be here for monday and they'll be here for tuesday and it will be here for wednesday. be ready for a nasty, hot stretch of weather. if you're headed to the beach. a good time to go to the beach. and then just plain old hot weather at the beach. ocean water temperature, 79. so overnight, most storms gone until midnight and lows in the 70s and for tomorrow, more sun, warmer and smaller storm chances

tomorrow. tomorrow's chance is only down to 30% or less and then real hot. near 100 degrees for tuesday and wednesday. wednesday late night into thursday, that will be the next chance for thunderstorms. it will bring us back down in the upper 80s to near 90s to finish the week. >> and the roller coaster ride continues. >> marlins' manager ozzie ♪

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i'll start with those nats. >> yea. they have to get back on that winning side today. it was a full month since stephen strasbourg won a game and it was 25 days ago on june 20th when he struck out ten against the rays. since then, three straight losses. today, just trying to snap the longest losing streak of his young career. meanwhile, desmond sitting out and resting that sore oblique. just the second start he's missed this season and strasbourg wasn't sitting. he was sending other guys to sit down. he gets john buck swings and strasbourg's six shutout innings and bryce harper at the plate and george brett gave them tips

at the all-star game, because ozzie guillen thought there was too much pine tar on the back and ends up accusing harper of something and had a long talk with marty foster and hoe would switch back later in the game, but forget haerp. strasbourg is the guy at the plate. top five after the marlins intentionally walk jonathan solano, and danny espinoza scores. strasbourg's fifth rbi and 52 career at-bats and it was 2-0 after five. top 6, michael morris comes up with two on and hits a seeing eye grounder up the middle that gets through. ryan zimmerman scores to second and the nats make it 4-0, so bottom nine, tyler clifford in a save situation, loads the base wes nobody out and then gets out of it. omar infante with two out. harper and steve lombardozi collide and the nats win 4-0 and

stratsburg 10 and 4 in the season and afterward, davey johnson was confused and upset at the situation. >> ozzie complained that the pine tar was too high up on harper's bat, and so we changed it. and then he was still chirping about it and it got on the umpire's nerves and it got on my nerves. he started intimidating my player. >> ozzie being ozzie. and jackson pitches the series finale tomorrow. bad news for the orioles' jason hammer will have surgery on his right knee. he's expected to miss at least a month. the os actually may need innings from the jim pumer statue at this point this year. mibel gonzalez,'s second pitch of the game and austin jackson takes the yard, tenth of the

year and the tigers are up 1-0. great moment in the eighth, and steve johnson comes up and making his big league debut with his dad, dave watching, just the sixth father-son combo to play for the os and the kid's pretty good and after -- and look at dad. so proud. two strikeouts and he was auctioned off to aaa after the game. justin verlander was dominant and eight strikeouts and eight shutout innings and chris tillman pitches in minnesota tomorrow. the u.s. men's basketball team put on a show yesterday for over 3,000 military members and their families. part of the hoops for troops program tp today more of a businesslike practice as they get ready for tomorrow night's exhibition against brazil. they were at the smith center at g.w., kobe bryant and kevin durant and crew putting a two-hour practice in their first game against the dominican republic and durant came off the bench and pulled in 24 and the

d.c. native pulled in all over the world and representing his hometown is still a big deal. >> come from maryland and playing around d.c. my whole life and i feel i have to represent them as much as i can. i played in oklahoma city and i love oklahoma city, but this is where i come from and this is who i am. i'm a maryland, d.c., type of guy. you know me. i have to represent them as much as i can and i let people know that i'm playing for them and hopefully i'll do a good job. >> there are not many, but there are some tickets left for tomorrow's game. >> some people have a foot fetish, good for them. other than my daughter's toes, i am not a fan of feet, so there's no way i would enter into this event. it is a toe wrestling contest event in england and you actually lock toes and away they go. this is so gross. there are reportly toe

inspections to make sure there is none involved and that is well deserved. >> what a horrendous, horrendous event. it takes all kinds. i suppose so. >> what did the sports producer force you to show the video? >> yes, she did. heath heather? >> will it be shown again at 11:00? >> i hope not. >> she just said no. >> kind of like the hot dog eating contest. >> i hate that. >> it's