her car was stolen, her home was robbed but police didn't have to go far to find the suspect.

the train just derailed in front of the train station down here on main street. >> we are hearing the calls for help after a deadly train derailment. romney and ryan back on the campaign trail and now it's the president's turn to make his case for re-election. >> i'm jim vance. >> and i'm wendy rieger. we the aftermath of hurricane isaac. tens of thousands of people in the gulf coast are still without power and communities are under water. but the clean up is under way. storm relief in mississippi as well. a rain-weakened dam threatened to fail and swamp thousands of homes. but the water level in the lakes have eased the pressure on the dam. some families were able to go home for the first time in several days.

mitt romney visited a town foll flooded by the hurricane. bobby jindal was calling for expansion of the flood protection systems. president obama plans to visit on monday. what does isaac mean for your labor day weekend? veronica johnson tracking the conditions. how does it look. >> a potential for showers during the holiday weekend. right here is where most of the rain is through missouri, through illinois, the heaviest rain is here today. still some rains down south and seeing some showers out from that to the east. we'll have that tomorrow scattered mainly light showers in the area tomorrow as a weather front comes into the area. saturday and sunday a better chance of showers and widespread rains on monday on labor day weekend. best location will be at the

beach with still dry conditions saturday and sunday and showers on monday. we'll talk about here when you can expect the rain to come in and maybe thunderstorms in a couple minutes. a lost key, stolen car and botched burglary. a story that started outside the maryland live casino and ended with a suspect in handcuffs. shomari stone has the report. >> reporter: that woman drove to maryland live casino to have joy. while she was inside a man went on a joyride in her car. >> it's unsettling. >> reporter: marie feels uncomfortable in her home. >> i am walking around in circles things i want to do and i'm unsettled. >> reporter: she says she parked her toyota at maryland live casino on wednesday evening. she walkednside realizing she lost her keys in the casino. her car was gone. not only was she angry -- >> more violated.

>> reporter: daniel miller from baltimore stole her car. marie worried because she left a pair of house keys in her car for emergencies along with bills with her home address. >> i had a set of keys in the car. she called on star. >> i was trying to, you know, tell the on star person that -- can you send a police to my house? >> reporter: police drove to the house and found miller walking out of the door with a plastic bag. her laptop was inside. officers say he tried to run away. they caught him, he struggled and they tasered him. >> i'm glad. at least he is not on the street. >> reporter: police found her keys and her jewelry in the suspect's pants. tonight he is in jail facing charges of burglary and resisting arrest. i'm shomari stone, news4. tonight we're hearing the

911 calls from the deadly train derailment. two 19-year-old college students were killed when the train fell off the tracks. they were sitting on a bridge near the tracks. several people called police about the crash. >> it's coal. it came completely out. >> all right. >> i'm still here. >> some guy just ran over the coal pile. it's nothing. so it's all out on the road. >> yep, completely covering the road. >> this is on main street, the train fell off the track. >> is it on the road? >> no, it derailed. >> a preliminary report from the national transportation safety board is expected next week. police are hoping that tattoos will help them identify the woman who was found dead in

beltsville this week they released photos of the tattoos found on the woman's body. a man out for a walk found the body on wednesday morning. the police are treating the case as a homicide investigation. the prince george's police canvassed a wooded area in cut kettering today looking for clues to the murder of amber stanley. she was shot last wednesday night while she was in bed. police are asking the public to come forward the they saw a man who might have been suspicious this that neighborhood that night. it's primetime for crime. the hours between 2:00 and 3:00 in the morning. now the university of maryland is launching a campaign to keep students from becoming targets. darcy spencer has the latest. >> reporter: university police want students to know that doing something as silver as this,

walking down the street could make them a target for crime. they are out handing out fliers, warning students. in college park university of maryland students are back in class this week. and route one is filled with many hitting the bars and restaurants. >> do you have questions about safety? >> reporter: police want the students to be aware whether they are drinking or sober they could be assaulted or robbed as they make their ways home after the bars close. >> to educate students and others to enjoy themselves lawfully, enjoy themselves responsibly and to remember your night is not over until you're home safely. >> reporter: police are calling the high risk hours crime time when you are the most likely to be a victim of a crime especially by yourself and that's between 2:00 and 4:00

a.m. >> our goal is to continue to push to the students awareness. to be alert between the hours of 2:00 and 4:00 and push this message of crime time. i appreciate everyone's support. we want to hit the streets and just do it. >> reporter: police handed out fliers to students spreading the message get home safe by playing it safe, don't walk alone. >> i feel sometimes it is unsafe. but if you be smart about it and walk with someone and don't go out too late at night, you should be fine. >> reporter: police are going to be handing out those fliers in businesses as well over the weekend and into the labor day holiday. reporting live from college park, darcy spencer, news4. mitt romney and paul ryan are back on the campaign trail after the republican national convention in tampa. before they left florida this morning they addressed a crowd of supporters outside the campaign airplane. >> coming out of tampa we have given our fellow countrymen a

clear choice. >> you listened to the last guy running for president. he laid out what he was going to do. he was unable to do it. time to give someone new a chance. >> romney headed to louisiana to visit the areas hit by tropical storm isaac and paul ryan went to virginia and spoke today less than a week after being introduced as romney's running mate in norfolk. president obama made a stop at a texas military base today. he spoke to troops at fort bliss and held a round table discussion with fill tear families. and the city of charlotte, north carolina is getting ready for the democratic national convention. the organizers are releasing a time lapse showing how the arena was turned into a convention hall. school children were allowed in to get a look at the hall before

the proceedings begin. we will be in charlotte. we'll have a report beginning sunday night on news4 at 11:00. the government is ordering virginia tech to pay a $25,000 fine related to the 2007 massacre. a judge dismissed a larger fine issued by the department of education. officials claim that the school violated federal law by waiting for two hours before informing the campus of a deadly shooting at a dorm. by that time the gunman was in a building where he killed 30 people. the u.s. education secretary reinstated half of the fine. police say the shooting at perry hall high school could have been much worse. investigators say the 15-year-old suspect was unable to access his stepfather's gun collection because it was locked in a safe. he used his father's shotgun

instead. gl gladden has been charged as an adult with attempted murder. the victim is in critical condition and the family is overwhelmed with the support they are receiving. a social media campaign to help him has gone viral. lady gaga is expected to send him a gift. coming up tonight, the dramatic effort to save people trapped in a burning apartment. the number of people infected with a rare rodent infected with a rare rodent virus i'm barack obama and i approve this message now mitt romney's attacking the viruspresident on medicare? the nonpartisan a-a-r-p says obamacare "cracks down on medicare fraud, waste, and abuse

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i'm with the rescue. the firefighters division two. >> that's the radio call that

went out after firefighters found a woman trapped in her apartment. this was breaking news last night. that fire was burning one floor below. when the crews went in to rescue the woman they were trapped by the heavy smoke and flames. >> it was going really, really bad, really, really quick. she was screaming and crying and telling me my feet are burning. and i know she was burning and being hurt. that broke my heart. >> firefighters were able to rescue them both just in time. four firefighters were injured but they are expected to be fine. a nightclub in prince george's county has been shut down because of violence. it's called club elite in temple hills. a man was shot there in the back while he was dancing. there was an assault and stabbing in the parking lot

earlier this month. dramatic video out of los angeles. a suspected car thief steals a police cruiser and crashes in front of a starbucks. the man stole a marked car from a crime scene, sped off and lost control. the suspect lost his leg in the accident and is in critical condition in the hospital. two more people who visited yosemite national park are fighting a potentially deadly virus. that raises the number of cases to sex. the centers for disease control determined that 10,000 people may have been exposed to that decide after visiting the park. the people infected stayed in tent cabins in this year. it's called hanta virus and spread through deer mice and can cause breathing and lung problems. two campers have died from that decide. more than 800,000 people in our area are expected to hit the beach for labor day.

but getting there is not going to be cheap. tropical storm isaac contributed to an increase in gas prices over the last few days. the national average is now $3.82 a gallon. that is the highest ever for labor day holiday weekend. a michigan man quit his job as a railroad engineer after winning one of the largest jackpots in powerball history. meet donald lawsson of la pier, michigan. that is his mom by his side. he says divine intervention helped him win the 370 million bucks. >> there was a line in front of me. so something from above i do have to credit that told me to pick my own numbers. i didn't pick them. my and just went. >> lawson took the lump sum of 224 million. he has no plans to stop eating

at mcdonald's. he wants to travel and live a simple life. >> simple. >> we'll make sure you put up a big fence around you. a lot of people will want your help. >> that's right. >> not so simple these days. >> how are we looking? we are looking at the unofficial close of summer. summer hasn't got the message. outside today it was hot. now we're going to be hot and sticky coming our way tomorrow. 97 degrees was the high temperature today. whew. but here's something else we got today. the full moon. did you see it? back by popular demand here, the blue moon, the second full moon of the month. we'll not get another must. >> moon until the year 2015 in july. gorgeous to look at. let's talk temperatures. today, 97 degrees. the average high 85.

well above it. just when we didn't think we'd have more 90s. today was the second warmest day in the month of august. bethesda at 73 degrees. college park at 77. leesburg at 77 degrees right now. 74 in leonardtown, maryland. the spots near the water too just a little cooler. for the overnight and tomorrow morning starting out in the mid-70s with a mostly clear sky. we'll see a few clouds come our way and humidity will start creeping upward tomorrow. there is the rain that we've been talking about moving in. showers through ohio and kentucky. the big rain still right here coming through missouri and into illinois. there's been heavy rain here today. 1 to 5 inches and severe weather there too with quite a few tornado reports right on the border of missouri and illinois. as that system, isaac what's

left of it makes its way north and east will move our way. showers for us and showers and storms coming our way on sunday. temperatures too the big story. we get the heat and the humidity tomorrow and back into the 80s on sunday. look at the high heat off to the west. triple digit readings showing up in the nation's midsection in wichita and dallas. and with that cold front in our area tomorrow we're going to cool down but it's going to stay steamy through the labor day weekend. there's the cold front and the area of low pressure. and that tropical moisture all interacting on us. a 30% chance of showers tomorrow. not a big deal at all. passing in and out. not everyone's going to be wet. saturday a better chance of widespread rains in our area. but this won't move in until

later in the day. showers early on sunday. and monday looks like a wet day. humidity creeps upward. the temperatures this evening have been in the 70s. tomorrow morning, 70 to 75 degrees. there is tomorrow afternoon, a 30% chance of showers. tomorrow is going to be like a real summer-type day around here. low to mid-90s across the area. heat and humidity. and then we'll start to cool off. the sunday, 84, the temperature, with a 50% chance of showers and storms. we'll have more clouds. greater chance on monday. labor day, 80, the temperature. it will be cloudy and overcast around here too. we'll see the rain linger through tuesday and some of the guidance wants to keep it around here on wednesday. so you know, our grass is green enough. and now we have more rain coming. coming. sports coming up next

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if you're not, you're awake now. >> it was raining baseballs on this night at the park. attention eharmony and match.com you may want to sponsor nats park. it was singles night between the white lines. every run scored off singles. the cardinals could barely get to first base. nats going to work early. adam laroche at the plate. two runners in scoring position. laroche pokes it to left for a

single. jayson werth and bryce harper come in to score. the nats take a 2-0 lead. ryan zimmerman this is not a single. deep to the bull pen. a two-run shot. it's nats 10-0. the bull pen with the night off. gonzalez dealing in the ninth. he strikes out eight and goes the distance for win. he gets a gatorade bath and how nice is this? a pie to the face later. nats dominate again, 10-0. orioles visiting the yankees. buck says let's go after the division. mark reynolds got the division. top two, man on for reynolds. he cranks it to left. a two-run shot and the orioles go on to win 6-1. they trail the yankees in the division by two games. players

some of the most accessible athletes in sports but not on this day. guys like aldrick robinson turned their phones off. but tanard jackson won't be hearing anything for a while. he was suspended indefinitely for violating the league's substance abuse policy. and anthony armstrong caught five touchdowns in two seasons here in d.c. the team elects to keep desmond briscoe in the log jam at receivers. the most surprising cut, tim hightower scored two touchdowns in five games last season. in one appearance this pre-season he got 28 yards on five carries. so here's a list of a few of the 22 that they had to cut down. tristan davis, also one of the notables not making the roster.

terrence austin. lineman eric cook and willie smith. and on defense, corner, brandyn thompson. and brian kehl had to turn in his playbook. so everyone was surprised he was let go. the regular season is upon us now. speaking of tennis and i wasn't, andy roddick giving fans love at the open. facing off with bernard tomic. andy with a great sliding return. he's getting pumped. match point for roddick. he ends it with an ace. 13 aces on the day for roddick. he wins in straight sets to advance to the third round. retirement can wait one more match. >> if it's your last appearance at the u.s. open which is the only grand slam you have won how cool is it hoe win in straight

sets and an ace to go home on. >> it has been so long since he has won it. >> but he hasn't won since then. but he's top ten for ten years in a row that's not bad. >> you follow tennis. you do the highlights next time. >> he has done them plenty. our general manager loves tennis so i loved how

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