process begins. now it's the democrats preparing to gather. good evening, eye wendy rieger sitting in for doreen. >> and i'm jim vance. the gulf coast is trying to recover from heron isaac. five deaths have now been blamed 9 the latest from a man who tried to drive through flood many did waters two drowned in their home, other neighborhoods in plaquemines parish remain under water. the levees there are not as strong as the ones in the city. republican presidential nominee mitt romney toured the damaged area. president obama will visit there on monday. he'll meet with officials and locals to see what help is needed. while most of new orleans fared much better compared to what happened with hurricane katrina it still will take a while. jay gray is lift in the crescent city where the labor day will

mean a lot of recovery work. >> absolutely. for the first time today, good news, no rain at all, but patches of night. this is what the city desperately needs to shine light on what isaac left behind and what it will take to recover. the storm may be gone, but evidence is still scattered across the gulf coast. >> we are now fully in the cleanup and recoveries phase of the storm in the city of new orleans the bell has not rung on this storm, and it won't ring until we're finished. >> reporter: and just like the slow-moving storm, the cleanup is going to take some sometime. after two straight days of driving rains, floodwaters still fill some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods. >> we'll continue to see flooding challenges, because we do have the tide levels in the rivers and buy use yews and quite frankly the water still

continues to accumulate from the rain. >> power crews are just beginning work to get a million customers online. for survivors, recovery has become an all too familiar thing. >> i've been through it. you just pick up the pieces and move on. >> reporter: this afternoon, a day after accepting his party's nomination, republican presidential hopeful mitt romney toured the devastation. president obama will visit on monday, though the focus of both trips is far from political. >> we're not talking politics. that's not the right time to do that. we are solely focused on the hurricanes and recovery efforts. >> reporter: and there are early signs that recovery is on the way. >> it will be back. it may take a week or two, but it is what it is. it's new orleans. >> reporter: though the task here is big, and will be anything but easy. okay. so the curfew has been lifted,

businesses are reopening as the power is restored. clearly the focus now is on that recovery. i'm jay gray, back to you. >> thank you, jay. coming up, brian williams will report from the hard-hit area of the plaquemines parish at 7:00. there are no guarantee it's going to stay that way through the labor day weekend. monica johnson. that's right. before our holiday weekend is over with, we'll see some showers and it will not be as nearly comfortable as it is right now. after a hot wind, we have a breeze starting to cool off out here, but again showers we're talking about, tropical showers for this weekend. all you have to do is look at the radar and know where those rains will be coming from. louisiana is still getting a line of storms coming through, the showers, and jay gray sea some peeks of sunshine, but the

big storm unwinding. there's been one to five-inch rain totals. the ohio valley to the mid-atlantic states, we're talking about sunday, monday, perhaps even this range lingers. so some tropical showers for us. if you have plan tess beam, i think we'll be just fine. right now saturday is looking fairly dry, with the rain starting in the western counties first, so at the beach, best chance will be on monday, but cooling off with clouds move in. a look at our local water with a seven-day forecast. by the way, if you go out this evening, pus on the bug sprays. the mosquitos are really biting this evening. presidential politics now, the republican national convention all wrapped up, the democrats getting ready to celebrate next week. the time warner arena is almost ready. the today the candidates were on the move.

and so is steve handlesman, who joins us from charlotte. steve? >> reporter: thanks. good evening from the cable box, that's what the folks here in charlotte, north carolina call this time warner cable arena, which next week will be the home of the democratic national convention. it's here that president obama gets his shot to try to fire up his base and win over undecided vote serious like the republicans did last week. before splitting up to campaign, mitt romney and paul ryan put a positive spin on their republican convention. >> coming out of tampa, we have given or fellow countrymen a very clear choice. >> you listen to the last guy running for president. he was unable to do it. >> reporter: in his soaring speech last night, romney did not lay out specifics. >> i have a plan to create 12 million new jobs.

>> reporter: nor did ryan wednesday on taxes, spending, medicare, as campaigning resumed, joe biden took a shot. >> congressman paul ryan has given absolutely clear definition to all those vague commitments -- >> reporter: a lot of buzz today is not about the romney speech, it's about clint eastwood's odd chat with imaginary barack obama. >> people, uh -- people were wondering -- you don't -- >> reporter: you saw that in that of moving tributes to mitt romney. >> what happened with clint eastwood will not decide the results, but what it represents is a mistake at big moment. >> reporter: today romney changed his schedule to visit louisiana where barack obama plans to go monday for a presidential style tour of the hurricane isaac flood zone. mr. obama went to ft. bliss, texas, to remind voters, he kept

his promise to end the iraq war two years ago today. >> you left iraq with honor, your mission complete. >> reporter: next week is the president's turn in a convention spotlight, the time warner arena, which is almost ready. this state, north carolina, and florida, are battle grounds on the race for the white house. these two plus the other swing states like virginia, both campaigns will be avidly checking the poll to try to get a measurement what kind of convention bounce romney got at the rnc. at the site of the dnc in charlotte, i'm steve handlesman for news4. thanks, steve. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke called the stagnation in the u.s. labor market a grave concern. bernanke spoke at the annual conference in jackson hole, wyoming today. he said the fed is ready to act to help boost the economy but

stopped short of giving any details. he highlighted recent purchases of u.s. bonds, which helped the u.s. economy to recover, but he cautioned the economy could suffer years of damage if the unemployment rate does not start to drop soon. new york stock exchange maintained the gain, the dow closed up more than 90 points. a club in prince george's county has been shut down, called club elite. it was closed today for violations of licensing and dance permits. police say last night a man was shot in the back while he was danci dancing. he is expected to survive. they haven't arrested anybody yet there was an assault and stabbing in the parking lot earlier this month. volunteer at a church in fairfax has been charged with sexual abuse. 23 years old james west was

arrested this morning. police say he was a youth group volunteer with the church, and he had been working in that capacity for several years of the he's been charged with the sexual assault of a 14-year-old member of that group. police tell us the teenager was assaulted twice. it is still a mess in crystal city after a broken main sent water shooting into the air for hours. this appeared just after rush hour this morning near south 12th street and long bridge drive. news4's melissa mollet has a progress report. is there progress to report? >> reporter: you know, it's a good progress report. the crews are still behind me. we're now nine hours into this one, wendy. they are digging down trying to fix this broken main. 9:00 a.m., water shooting up

like a geyser. >> my window actually overloose the corner, so i looked out and there was a big river. >> reporter: a big river. crews say it's a 12-inch main that broke. flowing into one parking garage and for hours gushing into the construction site where they're building east coast headquarters. the site had to be shut down as they pumpe the flooding water out. >> an apartment complex and four offices buildings had to be shut off. >> it was entirely closed, and the water pressure was basically zero. >> a block away as sparkles it was e -- parents asked to pick up their kids early. >> the water was out. the air conditioning is water cooled. that cut back on the air

conditioning, which would an impact on the servers. >> reporter: with no water flow to showers. >> we had the privilege of two -- we diverted traffic t. and member usage to the club on the south end. >> reporter: they now have to assess the damage here, and stabilize walls that may have been damaged. >> without knowing what exactly is down f. broken, with cannot tell. hopefully eight hours. >> reporter: but for many, excluding these crews, a jump-start to their long weekend. >> you know it's a friday before a three-day weekend, so really we're getting a few hours extra to get started. >> reporter: three of the buildings are still shut off until they get the asphalt out of the way, it's hard to say exactly. they do plan to be out here for several more hours. melissa mollet, news4.

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amber was only 17 years old when she was killed. she was an honors student, murdered in her bed last week. >> today police canvassed the neighborhood. police are hoping to find

something that leads to a break in this case. >> reporter: cadets were brought to a wooded area to search for evidence, including a gun from the mysterious murder of amber stanley. about 10:30 p.m. last wednesday, a man kicked in the door where the 17-year-old, a top student at charles flowers high school, lived with her mother, older sister and foster sister. he went directly to amber's bedroom, shot her several times and left while the home's other occupants escaped. >> witnesses always notice the guy running with "bad guy" written on his forehead. we've been told this guy was not necessarily running. he may have been walking, fast-walking, he may have been thinking i'm not going to bring attention to myself and i'm going to walk through this neighborhood. >> reporter: not far away, they attended a memorial service held at prince george's county ballroom in orlando. she never got a chance to live

out her life. i saw her last tight at the audition. >> we went to the same school in the same program. we both wanted to be models, both in shows together. >> this is a good friend of my daughter. i look at her as my daughter as well. the funeral will be a private family service. jackie bensen, news4. it was 15 years old today that princess diana was killed in a car accident. today admirers from around the

world are paying tribute. it's a similar tribute at the crash site. diana was 36-year-old at the time. french police said the driver, who also died, had been drinking heavily, and he was speeding in an effort to get away from the paparazzi. a black-hawk helicopter indicated that something was wrong. three soldiers on board brought it down in a cornfield. no injuries. mechanics are inspecting the aircraft to see if it's safe to fly it back to base. the farmer just continued to harvest his crop. >> he's got work to do.

>> yeah. the bridge looks pretty empty at this point? maybe a good beach weekend? it was hot today, but tore will feel every bit like summer, because it's going to be pretty hot he created -- with our blue moon, high today, 97 degrees, that was shortly after 3:00 that we maxed out at 97. the average high 85 degrees. hit 98 degrees, so there's your temperature, there's your dew point temperature. cool down tomorrow. we are going to see the

community rise, some of the tropical air, so here we are today, pretty comfortable. by this weekend we'll get into slightly humid air, and into very humid air with dew point temperatures. it's going to be sticky and hot tomorrow, and then we're going to start to cool down for the bulk of our labor day weekend. 90 in gaithersburg. overnight, lovely evening, because we're going to cool off. there's even a nice breeze blowing, so pretty evening, too. we're going to head down to 83 by 9:00, 0 by 11 p.m., a few clouds coming into our area, slightly humid, with temperatures anywhere, on radar right now, you have to look back to the west, into west virginia

and kentucky to see some of those showers they are advancing, look at the heavy rain. that's what's still rapping around. with that low pressure area associated with isaac. at least the bigger rains are out of those areas, south of around arkansas and louisiana. we'll get to some of these rain showers as they make their way into our area. tomorrow will be the moisture from isaac and this cold front kind of squeezing on us, so a chance of showers, i think, a 30% chance, mainly west of blue ridge. i this i we'll have a fair amount of fine around the area tomorrow. sunday things will start to slip downhill, but gradually. the cold front coming from the north and moves out to the

south, so right now, for monday that's when the bulk of the rain will be -- and even then still not a washout. off the coast of africa, we've been watching two storms, it is one up here, kirk, that's a hurricane that won't bother us at all. it will make its tern to the northeast. a bigger storm to the south, this one is expected to make its way northward, and could be providing rain as early as next week. here's a look at your four-day forecast. 93 tomorrow, 84 for sunday, labor day 80 with a chance of showers, maybe even some thunderstorms. so not a terrible labor day weekend. just keep an eye on the sky. >> yes. a whole bunch of folks going down to the beach.

they're happy about that down there. to try to make last-minute summer money. and metro has a warning. coming up in sports, tough decisions and a suspension, as the skins finalize their roster. the terps look to a true freshman for a spark against william & mary. the nats are trying to keep the pedal to the

you usa. a large apartment fire last night was a close call for one firefighter trying to rescue a woman trapped in her apartment. we spoke to captain scott kilpatrick about this dangerous

rescue. >> reporter: he shinuns the hers label. a safety officer may show up to a fire scene in one of these or one of these, but he's still a firefighter. he's still got the gear and can still be called upon to save a life at a moment's notice. >> we heard a woman say, hey, it's hot up here, help me, help me, i'm upstairs. >> reporter: the fire started in a kitchen, and we quickly climbed a ladder. they could barely see and the woman could barely breathe. it was all he could do to use his radio. >> i'm with the rescue. she's alive. above the fire floor, region 2. >> i just told command i'm going to start sharing my air with her. i took the regulate or off and started sharing my air with her. it basically free flowing. >> reporter: between breaths, he said he talked to the woman, but

the apartment was about to reach a flash point. the carpet had start to do bubble from the heat. he was met by even more smoke and flames. >> so i closed it, said a quick prayer, got help me to get out of this. >> it was super-heated air and gases that rushed out of the apartment up into that stairwell. >> reporter: it drove those manning the hoses man. now they both needed rescue themselves. >> it was going really bad really quick. she was screaming, she was crying. she was telling me my feet are burning. i knew she was being hurt, and that really broke my heart. >> reporter: and the air was running out. >> i was sucking thick nasty hot black smoke. >> reporter: mer rack his will you then the other firefighters made it to them and got them out. they both were hospitalized, had taken in smoke, but came out

alive. president obama is on hi was back to washington now. at the marked the two-year anniversary of the end of combat operations in iraq. the visit was not an official campaign event. it was a reminder to voters that president obama is the commander in chief and kept his campaign promise to end it. half staff flags are flying in memory of neil armstrong. there were hundreds of people at the memorial service today. buzz aldrin and michael coppens who made the historic moon landing were there as well looping with other former astronauts. armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. he died on saturday from complications from art surgery. he was 82. a public memorial service will be held september 12 here in d.c. recovery from hurricane

isaac are under way. five deaths have been blamed on that storm. gop presidential candidate mitt romney toured the flooded areas today. president obama will visit on monday. the store is part of the reason that gas prices are higher. the average is $3.82. as the storm bore down on louisiana, oil riggs and refineries on the critical pipeline shut down. the good news is there appears to be no damage to the rigs or refinery. >> the high gas prices and sluggish economy are not keeping folks away from hitting the roads. travel is expected to be up, compared to last year, and a lot of people in our area are headed to the beach. tony tull is there, he spend the

day at rehoboth. >> reporter: we decided to head down to rehoboth, and check out everyone trying to get the last beach day in before they head back to work and school. check it out. >> we're at the beach with our whole family, brothers, sisters, kids, grandparents, and we are having a blast. >> i'm having a great time celebrating my friend's birthday. >> reporter: what more could you ask for? a cobalt blue sky, warm water and the saltwater aroma of the coast. aaa says the 3.5% increase from last season is nearing pre-recession numbers. >> we did well, but this year definitely has been a big improvement over the last couple years. >> reporter: mayor sam cooper says the increase of revenue is up with a majority of the

businesses along the boardwalk. >> people say the accommodations have done well, the retail is maybe still off a bit. >> the chamber tells me that typical it is shorter, where almost all the used used to be -- now people are hooking up. >> if you're one of the 87% of travelers, the mdta says the best time to travel is this, and after 5:00 p.m. >> the traffic yaw just normal, wasn't the normal holiday traffic you usually get. >> we did head a lot of traffic. >> reporter: we probably should be heading back to the station, but i'm going to grab a slice from louie's, spend the weekend here, and while i'm at it, see you guys on monday. a series of cab robberies in northeast d.c. has drivers on edge. the first robbery was reported

wednesday in the 600 block of rhode island avenue. the driver, later that night, a similar report at third street and rhode island, and on thursday, there were two more robberies. police caught up with two establishmen suspects shortly after those two robberies. and metro is warning about a rash of thefts near two metro stations. this video noes officers catching two suspected thieves in the act noor the an accostia station on tuesday night. they've beens have stolen at least from 20 -- -- the cable locks can be cut, so they are advising thor strong u-locks. there's a pause before the democrats begin their convention. tom insurewood reports both sides know they must sway crucial voters in our area. >> reporter: the republican

balloon drop in tampa is barely over. local area democrats are getting ready for their national convention in charlotte. both major parties agreed that virginia is one of the battleground states where the close presidential election will be decided. on wa some of the umu 88.5 frid the state in november. >> northern virginia, a key area for democrats cast 28% of the vote statewide for the presidential race in the last three presidential elections. democrats have gone in breaking evening to carry it last time by 33,000 votes. republicans have to basically put the tourniquet on in virginia. >> tom davis a former member of the house of representatives. >> and the host hosting from tampa, davis said northern

virginia is unique, not suffering as much joblessness, and is less socially conservative. >> in northern virginia, just remember our unemployment is way until the national average. we have to understand that government bashing is not popular. we have hundreds of thousands working for the federal government or federal contractors. >> reporter: in the sped-up world of twitter and instant news, it's the democrats' turn to respond tom sherwood, news4. we invite you to stay for continuing coverage of the democratic national convention from charlotte. our reports begin on sunday night. coming up, the pentagon is making taking some legal action before the release of the book about the bin laden raid. the winner explains how he came up with the numbers. we're talking a little rain this weekend.

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some high temperatures this afternoon, but we're cooling off. it's pretty nice outside, with a nice breeze that's been going through the area. look at that clear sky. 67 degrees up in frederick and mount airie by tomorrow morning. i think we'll have a decent start to the day tomorrow. just a few clouds that will start sneaking into the area. i promises you that timeline, there's your partly sunny, and then some showers. they will be scarreded, they're not going to be ticking around

all day, they're going to be in and out, so not going to have rain over you the entire day on saturday or even the afternoon. 6:00 a.m. sunday we'll still see showers moving through, a chance for showers, maybe more thunderstorms coming in again on sunday. that would be for the most part isaac moving in. so keep an eye on the sky this weekend and meteorologist chuck bell will keep you updated. carol is down at nats park, where they put a whipping -- >> i know they want you. they're treating them like a bunch of nobodies. it's gio gonzales. he has something to prove after the setback last week. this is the first time he's

faced the cardinals in his career. last night here at home for game 1 of the series bryce harper lit up the sky and the scoreboard. bottom of one, man on first, taking it yard. a two-run shot, harper's third homer in two games. edwin jackson on the mound last night, he looked good. three 10 ks for action jackson. he gives up just one run. a solo shot to -- and they cruise to win the opening game. 8-1 the final. even though they're ahead in this division, 5 1/2 games, the nats are not letting up. >> there's a lot of games left and crazier things have happened. i think we're in the hunt every night. >> it's a long season, and you take every day as it comes.

i think, you know, maybe the final two weeks you might start feeling it, but right now we're still grinding. >> to football. a final round of cuts trimming from 75 to a 53-man roster. one guy made it easy to the skins, taye nard jackson will be suspended indefinitely after his third abuse of the league's substance abuse policies. jackson was one of the new faces brought in from tampa bay. he was the bucs fourth-round draft pick out of syracuse. while with the bucs he was suspended twice, one for a substance abuse violation days after being released in april, the redskins signed him. jackson is originally from

silver spring and played his high school football at -- the biggest surprise of the day, the redskins released tim hightower. you heard me. they cut him. now he's looking for a team. he played just five games last year, and he averaged 3.8 yards per carry. a knee injury kept him out of the lineup the rest of the year, and the kinds missed his bruising style. he did return for preseason game number 3 this years again the colts. his first care, but you know, he gained just 28 yards on five carries and did not suit up for the final game. hightower was brought in from arizona at the beginning of the 2011 season. as for who is staying, we hear brandon banks has a roster spot, so he can stop looking over his

shoulder. with the new rule about the kickoff. they would need to make him as a receiver, not just special teams. he did run a kick for a touchdown against the bears this year, and we 34u6 done enough in the final preseason game. he was thrown out three times and brought in a 47-yard toss from kirk cousin. so it appears that banks will stay. there will be 22 cuts. here are some of the notables hightower, davis is out, receiver teenager austin, center erik cook, and willie smith are all gone, on the defense, drandyn thompson and bryan kehl. they also have rumored a strayed

for steve lleyton. a full update at 11:00. and now are you ready for some college football? yeah it's a corny line, but the terps need you maryland kicking off the season, fans will see a different terps football team tomorrow. eyes will be glued to perry hills, the true freshman who stepped in after c.j. brown went down. a by factor is another true freshman, brad dix. coach randy edsel lights what he sees so far. >> we need to caution fans, too, that every time he touches a ball, it's not going to be a touchdown. the one thing is he goes out, he works ard, and works every day.

he's not a prima donna. he's a guy that has blended in very very well here. you go out, work hard, you automatically earn the respect. >> reporter: like you needed another renal to keep your eyes gload to the television this year. the u.s. open in flushing meadows, new york, highlights, novak djokovic making it look easy. sylvia silva couldn't fit on the djokovic's serve. match point coming down to, what else, a serve right in the net. so, jim, i know you love sports, and it's so hot out here, it's like summer, but man, fall sports are the best with

jam-packed weekends. >> they are. you have everything going on at the same time, and it would be nice if the nhl could get its thing together, but right now they're talking about they might -- they might have a lockout or something like that? >> right, we'll be busy hire with baseball. i don't know if we'll miss it right away, but talking about hockey makes me want cooler temperatures. so i'm going to send it back to you. >> thanks,

an iconic landmark is open again in our city. after being closed for two years, the fences came down around the reflecting pool in front of the lincoln memorial. the pool was closed for a $34 million reconstruction. that area has been a gathering place for historic events including of course dr. martin luther king's "i have a dream" speech. leaks have been fix, and it's

been reengineered to eliminate stagnant water. it's love will you to see it back open. it's just so peaceful and we're so lucky to have it. the week is not going a washout? >> no, it's not. some showers on saturday. each day we get a little more and a little more, where we have a 50% on sunday, a 60% chance on monday, hot and humid tomorrow with a high of 93. weep start toss the temperatures cool down. 80 and 60 on monday. maybe even a thunderstorm on tuesday. be sure to check it out tonight. >> gorgeous. >> with a blue moon. because it's friday and we're heading into a long holiday weekend, this marks the unofficial end the summer, but we want to show you a place that is very, very far away, but my goodness, is it picturesque. this is what it looked like this

morning, a heavy layer of fog in a coastal area in eastern china. some misty landscapes that are so very striking. the photographers from everywhere headed for the highest point snapping picture. some of them called the sight utterly breathtaking. but as summer ends, so did the fog. it burned off just before noon. timing is everything. timing is everything. that'she's made his choice.

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