administration. coming up, what that position will be and how people are reacting this morning. plus, this is usually a happy time of year for students. but today an arlington county high school is with the death of a classmate. coming up how the school and students are handling this tragedy. good morning, everyone. welcome to "news4 midday." i'm barbara harrison. it is wednesday, june 5, 2013. we begin with information just released by d.c. police. aaron gilchrist is at the live desk with what we know now. >> we are just learn being the death of a 16-year-old d.c. boy, malik spears. police letting us know there was an incident monday might. he died from his injuries tuesday afternoon. it started with reports of a shooting in the 1,200 block of brent wood road in northeast d.c. is 1 cloak monday night. police went to that location and found the young man inside of a hallway suffering from multiple dpn shot wounds and taken to the hospital and obviously in critical condition. and tuesday afternoon, just

after 1:00, he died from his injuries and was pronounced dead at the hospital. this, of course, leading to an investigation by d.c. police now and would like to hear from anybody that might have information about now the death of 16-year-old malik spears of the district. >> thank you, aaron. today grief counselors are on campus after an 18-year-old high school student died in a skateboarding stunt. john malvar was a student at washington lee high school in arlington. tony tull is live there. how are his friends coping with his loss? >> reporter: it has been tough. the few students we talked to were at a loss for words. john was a popular kid, well moan. a lot of people knew him and liked him. graduation, about two weeks away. a time when everybody is manning parties or graduation, what they are going to do for college and now dealing with this loss here at washington lee elementary school. in lieu of interviews, the principal gave a statement this morning. he said washington lee lost an incredible young man and goes on

to say things like that are often said about individuals that pass away. however, for john, it could not be a truer statement. goes on to say, talk about john's perfect attendance. he received an award for that. also what a dedicated and determined young man he was. less an day after 18-year-old john malvar died his classmates here at washington lehigh school deal with the loss know he will not be attending graduation which is two weeks away. carlos lopez was a friend of his. he struggled to find the words this morning to express how he was feeling. >> really hard. that was my friend, you know. >> reporter: faculty and staff were on hand they will morning standing out front making sure they provided students with the mess help while coping with the loss of malvar. carlos tells me the news hit the student body pretty hard. >> he is not going to be there today. >> reporter: it was just after noon yesterday when according to

arlington police malvar was on a skateboard while holding on to the side of a friend's truck. at some point malvar lost control and fell off his skateboard and hit his head. he was rushed to gw hospital where he later died. tonight another candlelight memorial will be held like the one yesterday. where friends share memories of malvar. >> he is a really nice guy, genuine. one of those kids that was always in a good mood. >> reporter: that candlelight memorial will be held here in washington lehie high school. i talked to the police. they have not determined whether or not they will follow through with the charges. they are still pending in regards to the 17-year-old driver that was driving the truck. that's the latest here from arlington. i'm tony tull. >> thank you, tony. new today, major shake-up in president obama's cabinet. national security adviser tom donilon is stepping down and susan rice is replacing him. the president considered nominating rice to be his

second-term secretary of state. she withdrew from consideration when republicans criticized her for claiming last september's deadly attack in benghazi was as a result of a spontaneous riot. turning to the weather now. another nice start to the day. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein joins us with his first forecast. tom. >> good morning. yet another day of juniper effects after a chilly start this morning. we were down near 50 degrees starting off early this morning. but now temperatures have climbed back into the 70s. there is a view of the sky over washington. right now beautiful view from the news4 sky watcher camera. you can see quite a bit of sunshine there. right now camera panning over towards rosslyn and falls church and fairfax county. and off in the distance on the horizon is tysons corner in the foreground. that's american university. and panning the camera farther to the west, way off in the distance there is loudoun county, foreground looking into montgomery county. you can see just a few clouds are beginning to pass on through

at this hour. it is the temperatures by -- late morning and then in noontime we should be generally in the mid 70s most of the region, metro area. northern virginia, and the nearby suburbs in maryland. bit after breeze off the bay. maybe a bit cooler will. and by moon time temperatures in the low and mid 70s. mountains and shenandoah valley as well. i will show you big changes on the way. looks like we have rain chances. 7-day outlook, your weekend, coming up in a few minutes. >> thanks, tom. we have breaking news out of philadelphia. let's go back to the live desk and news4's aaron gilchrist. >> a plan particular search going on now in the middle of philadelphia after a building collapsed there. looking at live pictures now coming from our affiliate wcau in philadelphia. this is right at the intersection of 22nd and market street in city center. that part of philadelphia, if you are familiar, market street runs right into city hall there in downtown philly. right now firefighters, police officers, ems, on scene here. searching literally digging through rubble from a building

collapse there. her looking for my people that may have been trapped in the collapse. hearing reports this may have been an apartment building and know that there was another building that was being demolished very close to this one. and so there's some question now about whether the two incidents may be connected. as you can see here firefighters on scene digging through the rubble. no word on how many people may have been trapped here or exactly what type of building this might have been. it is set up next to a salvation army main building there in pill del. we will keep digging for information on this and checking in with our sister station in philadelphia. as soon as we learn more information, we will bring that to you. back to you. >> all right. we will be waiting for you to get back to us. thanks a lot. right now d.c. council members are holding a public meeting on taxi cabs and passenger safety. this comes on the heels of a taxi driver's murder. 57-year-old solomon okoro was shot and killed yesterday morning along ontario road in adams morgan. d.c. police have two suspects in custody. news4's richard jordan is at the

taxi cab safety hearing now. we will look at a live report from him at 11:30 this morning. and right now, prince george's county police are investigating a murder in temple hills. they were called to the 6500 block of buckland court near the beltway just before midnight for a report after shooting. when they arrive they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds and he die order the scene. no word yet on a motive or a suspect. a new report out this morning says police in the district may be racially proceed piling when making arrests in marijuana possession arrests. the analysis by the aclu reported in "the washington post" show us arrest for marijuana surged more than 60% in d.c. between 2001 and 2010. of those arrests nine out of ten were black. that is the highest rate in the nation. only matched by baltimore. police chief cathy lanier says she needs to take a closer look at the report but says her department is not specifically

cracking down on marijuana possession. american soldier will plead guilty today to one of the most serious war crimes in more than a decade. staff sergeant robert bales admits he went on a deadly rampage in afghanistan in march of last year. the mill center he killed 16 afghans in two villages. most of the victims were women and children. bales will avoid the death penalty by entering the guilty plea and will still be sentenced to life in prison but may be eligible for parole at some point. day three of bradley manning's court-martial sunday way now. we are hearing testimony today from a female soldier who claims the army private punched her while he was at intelligence analysts in baghdad. she testified at an earlier hearing that she witnessed manning in several violent outbursts. he admits to giving classified information to wikileaks and can get life in prison if convicted. the race for governor in maryland will heat up a bit

today. republican ron george will announce today he's running. he represents anne arundel county in the house of delegates and will be the second republican to enter the race this week. david craig announced his bid on monday. and right now we are waiting to hear from president obama on why he has chosen susan rice to be his next national security adviser. coming up, a look at why republicans are could be upset with this news and why 2 announcement is being made right now. and why college students will be at the u.s. capitol today and the message they want lawmakers to hear. stay with us.

i'm aaron gilchrist. take these are live pictures coming in from city center in philadelphia. a building has collapsed will. it happened about 10:45 this

morning. as we understand it now, you can see rescue crews, firefighters, police officers, ems on the scene here. digging through the rubble. this building all but completely collapsed will. and they may be looking for as many as ten people who may be trapped in some of the rubble here or who have been otherwise injured as a result. police telling people in pill del to stay clear of the 22nd and market street area as rescue crews do their work here. not far from the city hall building in philadelphia where this happened right next to a salvation army. we understand there was another building very close to this one that was under demolition and so there is some concern about that building, possibly having impacted this one. or that building possibly being unstable itself at this point. so crews are being asked to -- people are being asked to stay away. you can see now someone being loaded into an ambulance there on a stretcher. just out of view because of the building. we saw at least one person on a stretcher being put inside the ambulance as the search continues here. so we can hope that as they look

for people that may have been injured, they are finding survivors from this building collapse in philadelphia. we will keep an eye on this as more info comes in, we will bring that to you. aaron gilchrist at the live desk. in an hour, some democrats and college students across the country will rally outside of the capitol. they are protest upcoming student loan hike. the rates on government subsidized loans are set to double to 6.8% on july 1 if congress does not take action. last month the republican-led house passed a bill that would let the interest rates vary and the white house promised a veto that measure. new this morning, poll numbers that show president obama has not been hurt too badly by the recent scandals plaguing his administration. according to the nbc news/"wall street journal" poll the president's approval rating remains about 48%. that's where it was in april before we learned of the irs targeting tea party groups and the justice department's

monitoring of the ap reporters of phone records. the majority of americans still have confidence in the military despite the recent rise in sex assaults. 67% of people say that they have a lot of confidence. that's down nine points from a year ago. 27% have some confidence. 5% have little or no confidence in the military. the white house committee is taking up legislation in the wake of a sex assault's crisis. the house armed services committee will debate a bill today which stwriped commanders of authority to overturn convictions in rape and assault cases. committee members say no legislation will solve this problem completely. >> i will say whatever we do legislatively can't solve that problem. it is a deep cultural problem within the military that they must confront and must have take dramatic steps to change. >> yesterday senators grilled military leaders for not doing more to crack down on assault among service members.

we reported earlier in the newscast president obama will announce in just a few hours that national security adviser tom donilon is resigning and will be replaced by susan rice. here to talk more about that and the latest nbc poll is senior political editor mark murray. good morning. welcome. let's talk about this announcement. "the new york times" says the republicans see this as a -- defiant measure. defiant gesture because it doesn't require any senate confirmation. >> correct. what republicans are going to be mad about, this goes over the past several months or so, susan rice, when she talked about the benghazi talking points on "meet the press" in september of 2012, republicans hammered her for that and in a lot of respects kept her from becoming secretary of state or being considered for that position due to all the controversy. so republicans are going to be upset about this but as just mentioned, this isn't a job that's confirmed by the senate. this is president obama's national security adviser. in -- he doesn't have to use the

senate to get her through. it is worth noting as we saw the e-mails about the talking points, susan rice did not have much to do it. we when we found out what was in the e-mails she was vindicated and this was more of an internal dispute between the state department and cia what would be cracked on the talking points, describe that september 11, 2012, terrorist attack. susan rice, while she mentioned the talking points she was not responsible for that. almost everyone is a lightning rod now in politics. she's been hit because she works for president obama. but the big part of this is this was not all that big of a surprising news. people assumed tom london would be stepping down at some point and president obama's second term. if he did step down, susan rice would be the natural pick. i-r it will be interesting. another person that the president obama is attacking to be u.n. ambassador and replace rice. samantha powell. >> we will be talking about that, i'm sure, soon. let me ask you about the

president's approval rating. it is holding steady. why? >> one of the reasons is it is his base of supporters. the same people who elected him in 2008, re-elected in 2012, were firm lindh him. another reason why it has not hurt him all had a much is that most americans don't directly blame him for at least three controversies we have been talking about. the irs, the benghazi stories as well as the leak investigations. so those are propping him up. if there is one bit of warning sign for the president in the poll, his numbers among independent have gone down a little bit. overall as we put it, he seems to have absorbed the punch he has taken from congressional republicans on the scandals and still is standing out and can't probably afford too many more punches. >> americans' reactions to the irs scandal. >> they have concerns and -- 58% of americans, around 58%, end up saying that this is something that gives them doubts about the obama administration's honesty and integrity but for to stress this is the obama administration. it has not got to president obama personally yet. >> thank you so much. always great to see you. >> thank you.

and for more from mark and the rest of the nbc news political team, check out first read on nbcnews.com. new this morning. we are working to get a comment from the white house after learning the first lady was heckled during the private fund-raiser here in d.c. michelle obama was speaking to about 200 supporters about gay rights at a home of a lesbian couple when a protester interrupted. the woman demanded the president issue an executive order to end discrimination against gay employees by federal contractors. while the first lady reportedly went over to the woman and said that she could, quote, listen to me or you can take the mike but i'm leaving. you all decide. have you one choice. the others attending encouraged her to stay. the heckler was escorted out. we have a beautiful day here in washington today. tom is here to tell us about that. i hope it is going to last, tom. >> my by popular acclaim i think people want to keep it going after yesterday's near perfection. we have had clouds rolling in

overnight. and now there with us, off and on, we have sunshine pouring down through those clouds. that's a live view from the nbc 4 hd sky watcher camera, american university in the foreground. in the distance tysons county. fairfax county. this is the scene just about everywhere in the region. high clouds coming through, sunshine breaking up. now temperatures that are right now in the mid 70s should be making it up to 80 degrees. this is as of around 4:30 this afternoon. northern virginia, district, nearby suburbs, should be near 80 degrees. right near the bay, breeze off the water. should be cooler there. and in the mid 70s for highs there. a beautiful day, too. later this afternoon, shenandoah valley, out of the mountains, many locations there should have highs in the upper 70s. right now there it is in the low 70s. then by this evening, this is as of about 11:00 tonight. we will be back down into the low to mid 60s. so it is going to get cool again. and by dawn tomorrow, this is as of around 5:00 tomorrow morning, sunrise is at 5:43.

we will be down into the upper 50s to near 60 degrees. most of the region from the mountains all the way to the bay and atlantic beaches. starting off tomorrow morning. then during the day tomorrow, more clouds coming in. probably not as warm. we should have highs tomorrow afternoon. generally in the mid 70s. so a rapid warmup today to near 80 degrees and partly cloudy afternoon. then temperatures begin to get down to the 60s by midnight tonight, under a partly cloudy sky. here is how the sky cover will be looking here for the afternoon. just some of the high clouds in and out from time to time. maybe an isolated sprinkle, way out in the mountains. and then overnight tonight, partly cloudy and through around dawn, sunshine tomorrow morning. and then you can see quite a bit of cloudiness developing during the day on thursday. this is as of thursday afternoon. lot of cloud cover around. but no rain yet. probably not until well after sunset thursday evening. that's when we will likely get rain moving through. storm team 4 four-day forecast is looking after we reach near 80 today. down to 60 by dawn tomorrow and increasing clouds. during the day on thursday with

increasing humidity as well. highs reaching mid to upper 70s. there is a possibility of some of those showers coming in late, may not be until late evening and off and on during the day friday, some passing showers are possible. highs reaching near 80 degrees. and maybe some thunder and lightning, too, friday afternoon and into friday evening. some lingering showers are possible on saturday morning. afternoon highs in the sunshine breaking out into perhaps the low to mid 80s. lot of cloudiness on saturday as well. also a small chance of an afternoon shower saturday. then on sunday, we should have more sunshine. storm team 4 7-day outlook slowing that with highs in the 80s and maybe an afternoon thunderstorm as well as on monday. sunshine back on tuesday. and recently i traveled to prince george's county, visited this school. lew lewisdale school. talked to the whole school but took the picture of cole ooej even banks' class there and invited me to visit. lewisdale elementary school in prince george's county. i had a great time. >> look how wonderful they look.

are those uniforms? >> yes. >> i see. that's great. >> they were great. >> beautiful picture. we are monitoring several stories developing over the next hour. and, in fact, in the next few minutes, the funeral for senator lautenberg will begin. breaking news from philadelphia. building collapsed and rescue crews are looking for anyone trapped there. we are watching for any new developments. first, here is a look at what's hot on nbcwashington.com. people are stuck in very old habits of using toothpaste to clean a denture. but dentures are very different to real teeth.

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in just about a half an hour, the white house will put aside politics for a little football. president obama will host a super bowl champion baltimore ravens at noon. this video is from march when

wide receiver torrey smith presented the vince lombardi trophy to maryland law makers in indianapolis. three players that left the team in the offseason won't make the trip. that includes you a kwan boldin w boldin. a developing story now, major league baseball is not commenting on a report that they plan to suspend at least 20 players in what could be the largest performance enhancing drug scandal in u.s. history. espn's "outside the lines" reported the suspensions that nbc news yet to con firm the story. founder of the miami anti-aging clinic at the center of the scandal agreed to talk to investigators. anthony bosch is expected to begin this week naming the stars who visited his bio genesis clinic. alex rodriguez, former national league mvp ryan braun and melky cabrera have been tied to the clinic. the players could be hit with

100-game suspension it is their ties are confirmed. do you feel safe getting into taxi in our area? coming up, the hearing taking place right now that could improve your next ride. plus the fight on get a lung transplant for a young girl and why the government has been asked to get involved in this. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is also back with a look ahead to rainy end of the week. stay with us.

i'm aaron gilchrist. we are following breaking news out of philadelphia this morning. live pictures coming in from the scene of a building collapse in center city, philadelphia. i will tell you the area we are talking about here is right at the intersection of 22nd and market street. very busy area in downtown philadelphia. not far from the city hall there. lots of city officials on scene here as we go back to the live picture for you. what we learned at this point is that it was about 10:45 this morning when the calls started

coming in about the building collapse. since then, pyre crfire crews a and police have converged on the scene. firefighters were close enough to walk to this area to start that process. we believe that this was a four-story apartment building. i just listened in to some of our affiliate wcau's coverage out of philadelphia. this was an occupied building and are reporting that at least three people have been seen on stretchers being loaded into ambulances from this area. there was concern about eight to ten people being trapped inside of that building. will was a demolition project going on in a building directly next door to the one that collapsed. we don't know if there is impact from that process that may have caused this. this salvation army has a left store next to the collapsed scene and firefighters who have been seen inside of that building and going through that building to the collapsed site. there are dogs on scene now. 80 with the search effort. the police chief said will was

month explosion that wasapayent that led to the scene. trying to get anyone that may be trapped in the rubble out and then try to figure out what caused the building to collapse in center city, philadelphia. that's the latest from the live desk. any minute now a public hearing about taxi cab safety concerns here in the district will begin. on average there are 150 complaints a month from passengers. news4's richard jordan is live at the wilson building with more on what's happening right now. >> reporter: this is an issue that affects just about everyone in and around d.c. anyone that has ever gotten into a cab and concerns passenger safety but surprisingly, there aren't many people who have actually turned up to have their opinions heard. that could change later today as the public hearing is expected to go into the afternoon. it was a few weeks ago to d.c. councilwoman was requested from the taxi cab commission. she wanted to know how passenger

complaints are received in a month on average it is about 150 complaints. most of those complaints have to do with passengers who say they just don't feel safe. had feel threatened and some said they have been verbally, even physically harassed in a taxi cab. but in the short time since those numbers came out, the d.c. cab -- taxi cab commission says the statistics are improving. >> we are seeing some effect of the enforcement efforts and education program. people understand better their rights. >> they say 150 people complain about their safety. how many drivers have been killed. why don't they give the same to drivers, talks of the complaint and safety. >> reporter: that's the opinion there. they are willing to work with

passengers making it a more safe and comfortable experience. they are concerned for their own safety especially in light of tuesday's incident when a cab driver was killed inside of his own cab. that will be discussed here today. something a lot of people are excited about and that is the requirement that all taxi cabs will be allowing credit card payments now so that will be discussed here. tom sherwood is in the meeting now and will have more here throughout the afternoon. for now, from the wilson building, richard jordan, news4, barbara, back to you. >> thanks, richard. right now, the funeral vaunld way for new jersey senator frank lautenberg. here is a live view from where the service is happening. joe biden and hillary clinton are among those delivering eulogies. after the funeral lautenberg's casket will held to the u.s. capitol where lit lie in repose. lautenberg will be buried on friday.

he died monday from viral pneumonia. new jersey governor chris christie announced a special election in october to fill lautenberg's senate seat and will happen lee weeks before the general election in november. he says the law, not politics, determines the special election being on a different date from the general election. the state of new jersey spends $12 million to hold an election. chris christie may be a republican but you may not know it from his poll numbers. 40% of republicans surveyed say they see the new jersey governor in a positive light. 43% of democrats do, too. and so do 41% of the independents. right now fire fighters from across the country are honoring the four houston firefighters killed in the line of duty. they died battling a fire in a hotel in houston last provide. part of the building collapsed and killing them and injuring more an dozen others.

firefighters across texas and even across the country took part in a procession through the streets of houston this morning. here is a live look from reliant stadium where the service is under way. family members and houston mayor are expected to speak. developing story right now. parts of the midwest are dealing with major flooding problems. this is west alton, missouri. a river breached a nearby levee. it is mostly farmland flooding now. police urged many people to leave their homes just to be safe. we are going to get a check from tom kierein on our latest forecast. he is outside on the storm team 4 weather deck. tom? >> gorgeous day once again. we have sunshine, few wispy, high clouds coming over. about 20, 25,000 feet up. there is a live view from the news4 city camera. showing that gorgeous sunshine on this delightful day.

there is another view looking off towards the west and into fairfax county from our vantage point here in upper northwest. you can see a milky blue sky, afternoon high temperature, likely making it up to around 80 degrees with low humidity in place. all throughout the region. tomorrow, changes move in. 4-day forecast, near 60 tomorrow morning. and a little sun in the morning. cloudy during the afternoon on thursday. and highs in the 70s tomorrow. and good chance of showers moving in late thursday evening. then off and on friday. passing showers are likely. and then maybe some thunder and lightning during the afternoon. might get lingering showers friday night through midday saturday. maybe another shower perhaps sunday afternoon or evening into monday afternoon or evening as well. both those days. up into the 80s as we get into the first part of next week, tuesday we dry out and that is the way it looks. barbara? >> thanks, tom. the susan g. komen walk will not be returning to d.c. next year. the message was posted yesterday

saying enrollment has dropped over the last four years. participation fell 25% last year alone after the organization announced plans to stop giving grants to planned parenthood for breast cancer screening. komen's re-day event in d.c. this october, though, is expected to go on as scheduled. the i young girl who needs a lung transplant led to a confrontation on capitol hill. national transplant rules do not allow the child to qualify for adult lungs. tom costello reports. >> reporter: for sarah monahan every breath is a struggle. >> how long have we been here at the hospital? >> reporter: cystic fibrosis filled her lungs with mucus and moved her to the top of the transplant list for children. but there are very few children's lungs available. national transplant rules created by surgeons don't allow a child under the age of 12 to receive surgically modified

adult lungs even though sarah could benefit. >> thank you, madam secretary, for coming. >> reporter: lawmakers urged the secretary to override the rules. >> study will take over a year. this young lady will be dead. >> reporter: secretary sebelius declined to intervene. >> the worst of all worlds, in my mind, is to have some individual pick and choose who lives and who dies. >> reporter: sebelius says there are already 40 patients, welfare and older, in pennsylvania alone waiting for an adult lung donor. but sarah's mother insists that the sickest patients should be at the top of the list. >> the stakes don't get any higher than this for my child. she 10 years opponents old. she has weeks to live. she is struggling and fighting with each breath. we have no greater chance of getting lungs today than we did when she was fairly healthy six months ago because the severity of her illness does not matter. >> reporter: for three months sarah waited at children's hospital of philadelphia for a lung transplant. the ethical question, are strict

guidelines standing in the way of sarah and other children from getting a chance at life? >> of course parents want an exception made. we always have to remember the statistic of the other couple hundred people on the wait list who are adults are, you know, parents of children, husbands, wives. >> that was tom costello reporting. online petition urging the government to change the policies to allow children to receive adult lungs has already gardenered 335,000 signatures. meanwhile, sarah's parents are pleading with any family who suffer as tragic loss to consider a direct lung donation to sarah. our time now is 11:41. time to make your plans for the fourth of july. a look at who will be performing on the national mall this year.

february 22nd. a landmark transportation bill is up for consideration in the virginia legislature. even though it's backed by republican governor mcdonnell, tea party republicans refuse to support the plan. but terry mcauliffe thinks this is too important a time for partisan politics. mcauliffe reaches out to democrats and urges them to support the bill. and the bill passes. terry mcauliffe. putting virginia first.

chrysler is refusing the government's request to recall almost 3 million suvs. the national highway traffic administration asked the company to recall older cherokees and jeep libertys. it is worried about their gas tanks. the agency is concerned the gas to sxleek cause a fire if someone rear ends the vehicles. chrysler says the vehicles are r safe. they say the government did not have all the data it needed. turning to business news. stocks are down. let's dmek with cnbc's hampton pearson. he joins us live with more on that and more of the business headlines. didn't it start off like that yesterday on wall street and -- made a turnaround? >> yes. yesterday and again today. we have stocks in negative territory right from the open after a payroll company reported weak private sector job growth last month. checking the major averages at this hour, dow down 113 points. nasdaq down 26. the s&p is down 13.

payroll processor adp says businesses added just 135,000 jobs in may. the second straight month of weak gains and far below the 200,000 a month average for the previous six months. more anxiety for traders ahead of friday's jobs report from the labor department. meanwhile, mortgage applications fell 11 1/2% last week. mortgage rates are now at their highest level in a year. hovering around 4% for a 30-year fixed mortgage. refinance index fell even more, down 15% from the previous week to its lowest level in a year a half. fourth straight weekly decline for re-fis. a u.s. trade agency says that apple infringed on a samsung patent, used an older but very popular apple product. the u.s. international trade commission put a ban on the sale or import of the iphone 4, iphone 3gs, ipad 4g, all

distributed by at&t, biggest seller of apple devices when the lawsuit was filed in 2011. president obama has 60 days to review the ruling and if he does not veto it it goes into effect. apple can also appeal in federal court. now apple and samsung have been waging a global legal battle over patents for mobile devices, over 30 lawsuits currently going on in ft. collins. >> thanks, hampton. drug and alcohol abuse is not just a problem for the young. baby boomers represent one of the fastest growing segments of our population with substance abuse problems. dr. joshua joins us this morning with more on this growing problem. does this surprise you? >> it does surprise me a little bit. i think when you look at baby boomers, traditionally this is a generation the they grew up in the '60s and '70s and came of age and that's when drugs and alcohol became more prevalent. as you follow the baby boomers from the time they were in their

20s to now being in their 50s and 60s, this generation has been one that has been much more likely than previous generations to use alcohol and drugs and this is, of course, continuing into their older age. >> some people think of it it is a marijuana generation. at least for college students. i think most people assume that they had given it up. are they giving up if habits they picked newspaper college? >> it is hard to know whether they are picking up the has been fritz college or a continuation of the people continuing just to use into their older age. so it is interesting that when the substance abuse mental health administration does a survey and look at substance abuse and found that 50 to 60-year-olds ten years ago only about -- 2.7% of them said that they used an illicit drug in the prior month. now ten years later, what they pound is that number has more than doubled. close to 7%. so we do see that that of all the age groups, that's the age group that is showing the greatest spike in the number of

people who have started picking up the use of drugs and alcohol compared to previous years. >> the people in the baby boom era, which includes me, have young -- not young children but have teenagers and older. are their kids doing the same thing, having seen their parents do it? or in the closet? >> that's a great question. i don't have a great answer. i can tell you the patients i see in my practice who were baby boomers, i think they are clearly making sure that if they are doing things that are illegal like marijuana or other drugs, they are not doing hose in front of their kids. but i do think that this is a generation that has been a little bit more prewith drinking in front of their kids. little bit more willing to say to their kids, particularly maybe their teenage kids, hey, why don't you have a glass of wine with dinner, with us, you know, trying to teach that moderated drinking, the responsible drinking which we have talked about on the air before. generally a very bad idea. >> is it more difficult to

detect substance abuse in people of that age group? >> it is more difficult primarily because it is not suspected. so as a doctor, you just don't really think that the person who is sitting across from you who is in their 60s is going home and smoking pot on a regular basis or drinking several drinks per night. so you are just much less likely to bring up the topic and ask those necessary questions. in that sense, i think that -- you are less likely to suspect it but i think this is an for thing for doctors to be aware of and people in general because people who are in their 50s and 60s, they don't metabolize drugs the same way young people do. and they tend to have more physical problems and they tend to be on multiple medications and when you combine those multiple medications with substances, you really have a potentially dangerous cocktail. >> not much anyone can do because nobody here is policing them at home. >> that's true, too. this just what people need to be aware that just because somebody is in their 50s, 60s, doesn't mane they stopped their habits

they had in their 20s and 30s. >> hopefully there are some listening that can change their way. >> yes, we can hope. >> thanks a lot. it is 11:51. coming up, a look ahead to the fourth

still following a breaking story out of philadelphia. heavy equipment on the scene after building collapse. this happened an hour ago. just brought in heavy digging equipment to start going through the rubble of this collapse. what we learned from our affiliate in philadelphia is 12 people have been rescued from this general scene area. will are couple of buildings adjacent to the ones that collapsed. some people may have made their ways into other buildings to fall from a falling wallace it was coming down and got trapped that way. eight people being treated at area hospitals. this was a demolition accident. police say the building being demolished impacted the apartment building that actually

collapsed. barbara, back to you. >> all right, thank you, aaron. barry man slow joining the star-studded lineup for this year's july fourth lineup on the mall. it draws hundreds of thousands of visitors. darren criss and megan hilty. if you can't make it to the mall don't worry. it is broadcast each year on pbs and npr. this summer you can watch a new reality show. centered around a modern day birthing coach. jenny stars in "pushing it." >> the series follows three of my clients through different stages of motherhood or not. and it also follows me and my life and my husband, stanley, and our crazy life in harlem. >> the pint-sized and energetic personal coach, best friend and

worst nightmare to her clients. you can watch "pushing it" sunday night at 9:00 on cozi tv and digital channel 4.2 and comcast 208. we will take a look at the stories we will be following on news4 this afternoon. pat lawson muse joins us with a preview of things to come. >> a new trial part of a groundbreaking study into autism. we will tell you about that. tonight on "news4 at 5:00," healthier food on the national mall. how the menu is changing for anyone trying to catch a bite downtown. the latest news starting on "news4 at 4:00." >> thank you, pat. time for a final check on the forecast. >> beautiful day under way. as we approach the noon hour temperatures are in the mid and upper 70s and hold steady in the upper 70s to near 80 during the afternoon. these are expected high temperatures around the region. should be well into the 70s, near 80 from the mountains. across virginia, west virginia, and maryland. and around the bay, eastern

shore. then overnight tonight, we will have a partly cloudy and beautiful evening by dawn, near 60 starting off tomorrow morning. then increasing clouds on thursday. and also humidity increasing. afternoon highs into the 70s tomorrow. likely showers moving in thursday night late. looks like perhaps maybe by mid might then off and on showers on friday. maybe some thunder and lightning, too. some of the showers friday afternoon into friday evening. we might get a few lingering showers on saturday morning through midday. then sun back in the afternoon and maybe small chance of a shower saturday afternoon. highs in the 80s. and then on sunday, looking partly cloudy to mostly sunny and maybe an afternoon thundershower. highs in the 80s as well as on monday. then drying out tuesday with sunshine back. highs in the upper 80s. off to deliver a commencement address in prince george's county at the retail academy. we will see you tomorrow morning. >> good luck with your commencement address. that's "news4 midday" for today. thank you for being with us. invite you to tune in to "news4

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