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of capital avenue in northwest d.c. near gallaudet university. shomari stone maryland. >> reporter: the scene was cleared moments ago. two officer were driven to the hospital with minor injuries. this started at 9:00 tonight. a man in an suv was driving in the young direction on a one-way street and slammed head on into a police officer's car. the man took off running and this the police caught him. he has no license, registration or tags. the passenger in the car was transported to the hospital. the good news is no one was seriously injured. i'm shomari stone, news4. in that awful story out of colorado tonight, the man accused of killing the 1 people in a movie theater was seen publicly for the first time since that attack. he looked dazed and showed no emotion today. jay gray is outside the

courthouse with more on his bizarre appearance and reaction from some of the victims, jay? >> reporter: you describe it perfectly. a strange day in the courthouse. some of the injuries from the attack and family members of some of the victims said they were drawn here and had to be in the courtroom to see james holmes face to face. at times wild eyed and on edge, james holmes was before a judge, the fist time he has been seen publicly since the arrest. the face of evil for so many watching including family members of some of the victims. >> he seems demonic or something like that. >> reporter: his hair dyed bright red and pink, holmes was disengaged during the hearing, looking at times like he was struggling to stay awake. formal charges will come next monday. prosecutor says a decision about

the death penalty is months away and they will discuss the issue with survivors and families of the victims. >> that is a very long process that impacts their lives for years. they will want to have and we will get their input before we make that decision. >> reporter: aurora's mayor says that the community has to figure out how to work through the tragedy emotionally. >> we have to find a way to go on. if we let this guy win, then we've made a horrible mistake. >> reporter: that will be toughest for families of the deceased and the 58 injured 20 still in hospitals including this 22-year-old, in and out of consciousness. her mom worries it will affect her recovery when she learns the magnitude of the attack. >> she asked me three times is everyone else okay? >> reporter: most here are beginning to understand it will be a long time before anything is okay.

now prosecutors say that at this point, this is still an active and ongoing investigation and the movie theater is a crime scene. it will stay locked down through friday at least as the investigators look for any forensic evidence there. that is the latest outside the arapahoe county courthouse. back to you. two days after the colorado shooting police stopped a man with a similar arsenal in maine. he was pulled over for speeding. he was going 110 miles an hour. investigators found guns and ammunition in his car, including an assault rifle. they found newspaper clippings of the colorado rampage. he told police he planned to kill his former boss. he admits to taking a loaded gun with him to see the new batman movie on saturday. that was the day before he was arrested. allegations of

discrimination rock a fairfax county school. the naacp is filing a complaint against the admissions policy at thomas jefferson high school for science and technology in alexandria. erika gonzalez has more on the racial divide. >> reporter: martina holmes claims that the fairfax county public school system disnates. >> the poor latino kids are not been identifying. african-american kids are not being identified. >> reporter: and these students are underrepresented at the crown jewel of high schools in the country. thomas jefferson high school for science and technology or t.j. together they filed a complaint against the county school system. the report indicates this year's

class has 476 students, 43% are white and 64% are asian. 8% are multi racial. only 2.1% are hispanic and a bleak .6% or just 3 students are black. >> i haven't read it but i think what they bring up is a valid concern. >> reporter: the public school board member agrees with the complaint and says the remedy could be in the pipeline that feeds into the process to get into t.j. >> in addition to focusing on early education we've put more money to summer school and to interventions throughout the year to help struggling students. >> reporter: the education department's civil rights office has right to withhold funds to any school that refuses to correct civil rights violations. it has to look at the documentation and figure if there is enough here to warrant an investigation.

erika gonzalez, news4. turn to weather now, it will get hot again and the threat of thunderstorms as well. doug as a look at that. >> and severe weather during the day tomorrow. the high temperatures in the mid atlantic because of the cloud cover in the region. we reached a high of 90 at 6:00 in the afternoon. we saw it at 3:00 but a lot of clouds. more sunshine in richmond and 94 in virginia beach. we did have the cloud cover today. the storms stayed to the north and well to the south of us. but i do not think that will be the case tomorrow. i think temperatures will be a lot warmer tomorrow and that will provide a focal point for thunderstorms out there. some could be strong and maybe severe. we'll talk about when the storms may run in and how hot the temperatures could get tuesday and thursday. officials in virginia want to recover some of the $27 million thain spent responding to that terrible storm at the

end of june. 15 people died. more than 1 million customers lost power own several states. governor mcdonald is asking fema for help. they could reimburse expenses for activating extra emergency crews, opening shelters and removing debris. police are looking for teenagers accused in a weekend hate crime that left a local yoga instructor in the hospital. michael hall and his boyfriend were headed home in northeast d.c. when they encountered the teens who started beating the couple up. another couple got them to safety and to howard university hospital where hall under went surgery today for fractures in his face. >> the kids came out of nowhere without any warning. we didn't think it was a robbery. because they didn't immediately ask for anything. they just came out swing and

hitting. >> police say they yelled out homophobic slurs. there is mixed reaction to crippling sanctions against penn state university from the ncaa. they will have to pay $60 million for covering up the sexual abuse of children by jerry sandusky. the football team will be banned from post-season play for the next four years. and the team will be stripped of 112 wins coached by the late joe paterno going back to 1998. current players will be given the option of transferring and playing at other schools. critics say the wrong people are bearing the brunt of what happened at penn state. >> i was really surprised and almost angry at how harsh the punishment was. it punishes the wrong people. >> they took stereomuch out on the players and the plates who are going to the school.

>> in addition, the football team will lose 10 scholarships over each of the next four years. the punishment today came after an independent report found a cover up at the highest levels of the university dating back to 1998. more questions tonight about mayor vincent gray's 2010 campaign. the washington post reports the came pain improperly used lists of public housing tenants to boost vote totals. the post noted the mayor's son, carlos has a management job at the d.c. department of housing. carlos declined to comment to news4 but the mayor defended his son? >> i believe my son. i have been with my son all my life and he is hard working. he is a young man of integrity. and he's very committed to the city. >> the housing department announced it would review the post allegations.

mayor gray's 2010 campaign is under investigation over allegations of a $650,000 shadow campaign that might have helped him get elected. president obama called sally ride a national hero and powerful role model who inspired generations of girls to reach for the stars. she made history in 1983. she was the first american woman to go into space. she literally changed the face of the space program after retiring from nasa she continued to advocate math and science education especially for girls. she was 61 years old. coming up tonight, a dust storm over phoenix. we'll tell you how that happens and why. elton john lends his star power to the international aids conference. and a debate about cholesterol

another major dust storm blowing through the phoenix area tonight. this is the second one to hit that area since saturday. the storms are known as haboobs and they come during arizona's monsoon season. haboobs need dry conditions and a large amount of sand in order

to form. they are most common in the middle east, the issahara deser and in arizona. bloomingdale area is declaring an emergency town hall meeting. the city officials and utility companies and public works need to sit down in august to address the flooding problems. the area flooded three times in two weeks. d.c. water officials blame the city's outdated sewer system but a plan to repair the system won't be finished for another 13 years. some of the world's top hiv and aids researchers here are for the international aids conference. the city deals with a 3% infection rate. at the conference the black aids instituted that most of the city's black gay men are

infected by the age of 40. >> i hope and pray that we will all discover a vaccine. we all do. but we won't get it to those in need if governments shun their most marginalized citizens. >> an estimated 34 million people worldwide are living with hiv and aids. in other health news should all u.s. children be tested for high cholesterol levels? doctors are debating after a government appointed panel recommended widespread screenings. research published today said that it is too aggressive. another research group says putting children on cholesterol drugs could cause problems as their young bodies grow into adulthood. former congresswoman gabrielle giffords is reaching new heights. giffords and her husband

traveled high into the french alps today. she rode a cable car to a station 12,000 feet above sea level to take in views of france, italy and switzerland. this is her first trip outside the u.s. since being shot in the head back in january of 2011 during an assassination attempt in tucson, arizona. she resigned from congress in order to focus on her recovery. it will cost you more the next time you fly. united airlines raised fares by $10. american, virgin and u.s. airways all matched it. southwest and airtran are increasing their fares for flights of 500 miles or more. the hike is the first since march but the fourth this year. doug is here with more about the weather. we have some of the rain we

needed over the weekend. that slow, steady kind. but we may get more of the kind that we don't necessarily welcome. >> that's exactly right. you talk about the flash flooding in washington over the past couple days. we could see the potential for more severe thunderstorms over two of the next three days, tuesday and again during the day on thursday. i want to show you pictures of strong storms in northern california. look at the lightning pictures that were shot yesterday. take a look at these as they are making their way across. look at that one lightning strike there. long bolts making their way across the northern california sky. as for our temperatures and lightning we will see a good chance of lightning tomorrow evening. the high was 90 and a low of 75. nearly seven inches below average for rainfall. so even though we saw a lot of rain over the weekend we need to make up that deficit.

we could make it up a little bit tomorrow but it's i don't think everyone's going to see the storms. the temperature is 82 degrees with winds out of the southwest at 8 miles an hour. the dew point is 68 and the humidity at 62%. you will feel muggy outside tomorrow morning. 73 in culpepper. and 81 on the eastern shore. cambridge at 75 degrees. we are not going to see any chance of rain tonight. we are looking at clearing skies and a nice night except for the muggy conditions. what we have seen most of the day is the cloud cover right across the washington metro area that helped to do a couple of things. it kept us cooler and helped to stop the thunderstorm development today. big thunderstorms in philadelphia and down around richmond. but for us because of the clouds they were not able to get going. it will be a different case during the day tomorrow. warm and muggy out there right now as you make your way into

tomorrow afternoon. hot and humid tomorrow. a heat index close to 100 degrees tomorrow. and the frontal boundary comes in late in the afternoon to spark off the thunderstorms. some could produce strong winds and heavy rain and maybe hail tomorrow. wednesday, the front moves down to the south and we see nice weather. wednesday looks great. but then thursday we go back to the heat and maybe not just the heat. we could be talking about temperatures close to 100 degrees yet again on thursday. tomorrow morning, a few clouds and nice start but muggy. 68 to 76 degrees. the highs in the low to mid-90s with possible strong storms. we will keep you updated on those all day long. there are the temperatures the next couple days. wednesday with a high of 89. 99 on thursday with the heat index between 100 and 105. a chance of severe weather on

thursday. and garden variety storms on friday and saturday. the temperatures above average, though. >> garden variety sounds appealing. >> i'll take garden variety any day. still ahead, brides to be trading in high heats for sneakers. find out what the winner gets. [ male announcer ] where did all the obama stimulus money go? friends, donors, campaign supporters, special interest groups where did the obama stimulus money go? solyndra: 500 million taxpayer dollars. bankrupt. so where did the obama stimulus money go? windmills from china. electric cars from finland 79% of the 2.1 billion in stimulus grants awarded through it went to overseas companies. [ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message.

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goofing around. >> he gets to have all the fun. >> isn't that something? >> i had fun watching bryce harper today. >> he smoked them out, didn't he. >> 19 years old. he impressed new york. tomorrow the headlines should read welcome to the bryce harper show. on the day the nats lost ian desmond to the d.l., the 19-year-old gave new meaning to the words next man up. the nats were taking on the mets. that's not one word. before the game, david wright chatting with snooki from jersey shore. bryce harper batting and that will get snooki's attention. home runs. he launches that to right center. the two-run shot is his first homer since june 28th. the nats take a 2-0 lead. bottom of the seventh. nats up 2-1. and the first pitch to the first batter he faces is out of here.

ike davis got ahold of that one. it ties the game and this game is going to extra innings. in the tenth, the nats have the bases loaded for harper. and the kid comes through. the base hit to right leone scores. the nats go up 3-2. all three runs at this point driven in by harper. the next batter is ryan zimmerman. the nl player of the week keeps it going. that knocks in two. they all come in to score on that double. the nats go up 6-2. michael morse ads on a two-run homer. 8-2, the final. let's go to cleveland, tommy hunter and the o's looking for the sweep of the indians. hunter faces sin sue chu.

it finally carries out of the park. it gives the indians a 2-0 lead. chavez at the plate and laces one to the left field corner. nick markakis took off from first base. he's coming around third. but he ran through the stop sign and is stuck in the middle. you never stop. he is caught in the run down and he's tagged out. that mistake would prove costly. indians win 3-1, snapping the o's five-game winning streak. the olympics start this week. the opening ceremony is friday night. the london forecasters is saying it's going to rain. >> it could rain. >> it didn't look good. but it shouldn't affect the show. they planned to use fake rain anyway as part of the act. >> fake rain? >> venus williams staying dry at wimbledon today carrying the

olympics torch. andy murray was carrying the torch at center court. you can watch the olympic games right here on news4. coverage begins friday with the opening ceremony. dan hellie is reporting from london. may i say you don't have to be 19 years old to do a number of different things. 19 helps but -- >> it's easier --

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