a shooting ram page. it's unclear why he never contacted police. police chief cathy leneer said within the last hour the inability for her officers to see the video feed puts them at a disadvantage. she also says her officers never had trained for an active shooter situation on a military base. >> all the military folks, but none of that stuff -- we never did an active shooting training or drill inside of the base walls because i think because we all made the assumption that because it's a military base, everybody in there is armed, and in reality there was just a couple dozen people in there that were armed, if that, and i think none of us realized that. >> reporter: the report does make some recommendations,

including providing shorter guns to officers and ear pieces so radios won't give away their position. the report also recommends that the various agencies establish a unified command center so all of the local and federal agencies can talk to each other when an incident like this happens. it is worth noting that both the chiefs and reports say even if they had seen that surveillance video, it likely would not have saved any lives. the purpose of the report is to help coordinate the response during a future attack. at the live desk i'm tisha thompson, news 4 i-team. >> thank you, tisha. we're also following new developments in a high profile kidnapping and sex assault case. u.s. park police are asking for your help in finding this man. >> yeah. they're probably a person of interest in an attack that happened last april. news 4 jackie benson is live in northwest d.c. with the details. hey, jackie.

>> the victim told the police the man abducted her by force at 8:00 p.m. georgetown waterfront. he says he forced her along the canal trail and then into the park where he sexually assaulted her and fled. detectives won't say how the man came to their attention or when or where these security camera images of him were taken. the victim describes the suspect in the case aas about 6 feet tall, 230 pounds with a tattoo on the back of his left hand depicting an n, with stars down the center. zarchlgts 16 years ago a georgetown university graduate student named christine was raped and killed in the same woods here. it is unlikely that there is a connection, but there is still so many unanswered questions.

live in georgetown, jackie benson, news 4. an important warning before you head to the bank. fairfax county police just released pictures of skimming devices at atm's and gaining access to customer accounts. northern virginia bureau chief julie carrie joins us now from burke, virginia, at one of the banks recently targeted. julie. >> that's right. the suspect hit the bank machine at the sun trust just last weekend, but now that police have released those very clear photos of the suspect, their skimming days may be over. this fairfax county woman knows all about skimming. her bank card information was skimmed about a year ago. >> we used it at a gas station, actually, and to buy gas. somebody tried to use it down in florida a few hours later. >> reporter: police say these men know about skimming too. they want to track them down. this is one of the suspect

photos that caught bank security's attention. police think the surgical operation here involved adjusting a skimming device. police say the men have targeted atm's at least four times since early june at three sun trust banks in fairfax county on route 1, in the springfield area, and in burke. >> while this particular series is linked to the sun trust, certainly it may well be other banking institutions that are being affected by this. >> these are some of the devices that are often used for skimming. they can be inserted into the atm slot, used to copy a bank card's identifying information. small cameras are often set up to grab pin numbers. >> when you have your card, when you are putting it in, inserting it, make sure that there's nothing loose, nothing falling off. >> after her experience, dawn cassidy is very watchful. her husband also works for a credit card company. >> i kind of look around to see if there's any hidden cameras or little holes, and then i definitely look at the device where i'm going to slide my card. >> the recent skimming spree won't change this man's habits.

>> honestly i don't look. i honestly just go about it. if they get me, they get me. >> by the way, fredericks county police say the customers impacted by the skimming, they have all been notified by their bank. reporting live from fairfax county, i'm julie carrie, news 4. police in alexandria are youa are trying to retrace a murder victim's final months alive. she was found strangled in her apartment on derby court on the fourth of july. >> whether they should get their day in court or be sent straight home. steve handelsman has the latest live on capitol hill. hey, steve. >> hey, chris. here on the hill both sides say if they don't get what they want

on the issue of hearings, they won't give president obama the nearly $4 billion he says he needs to stop an illegal flood of migrants. >> along the rio grandee, the u.s.-mexican border politicians disagree about what to do. more children and parents are crossing into the u.s., and being taken into custody. each will get a hearing. many never show up and stay in the u.s. republicans like john mccain today demand the law be repealed and the kids sent home to send a message. >> only way that this is going to stop is if plane loads of children arrive back in the country in central america that they came from and their pare s

parents. >> reporter: to be sure that children in danger back home can stay in the u.s. kids, they say, who look like their kids. >> stop. stop trying to use the children and exploit a humanitarian crisis for political gain. >> reporter: at a detention facility in new mexico today obama homeland security security jeh johnson vowed to speed up deportation under current law. >> the message has to be that our boarder is not open to illegal migration, and we are sending people back. >> reporter: but the obama request for nearly $4 billion to deal with the surge is hung up in congress. over the issue of who gets a full hearing. >> upset by that gridlock, three billionaires who backed comprehensive immigration reform, conservative sheldon adelson, obama supporter warren buffett, and microsoft's bill gates today together charge that lawmakers here on capitol hill get more prize from beating

their opponents than from advancing america's agenda. i'm steve handelsman, news 4. frederick birk police will be working overtime this weekend to keep children state of. the department is digging into its overtime funds to keep children away from a quarry where an 18-year-old drowned this week. family sxr friends say anthony johnson knew how to swim, but he drowned because of muscle exhaustion. >> crews filled the hole, but there's still a question of why did it happen. news 4's derek wards live in d.c. it looks like we haven't seen the last of sinkholes there. >> you know, probably not. take a look at that metal plate there. that's where the sinkhole used to be, and just beyond it is constitution avenue which actually used to be a canal. now, what's the connection between the two?

well, it's a theory that sometimes the past doesn't stay in the past. it's a modern problem. holes in the infrastructure like this one at the intersection of 14th street and constitution avenue that opened up on tuesday. authorities wanted to know why. >> i'm going to need to identify what's under there and the condition that it's in and who owns whatever is down there. >> reporter: it's not d.c. water or any other utility as far as they can tell. they filled the hole and made a temporary pamp, but there's something left beneath the surface. a mystery. it could date back to before there was a city called washington. there was a creek. >> it was meant to transport. agricultural products. >> reporter: whatever it was one

theory is it hasn't lasted. hence, the hole, and the ongoing investigation. >> these are investigations just to see what is down there. right now we're just we don't know. >> reporter: now as people make their way to the more well known re pos itories of american history they're unknowingly cross aing big part of it to get there. just maybe a subterranean relic of the past is vying for new attention. right now it's just a bump in the road. we're live downtown, derek ward, news 4. back to you. now to the big story in the sports world. the decision. cleveland basketball fans seemed to be ready to forgive and forget. they were outraged when lebron james left the cavs for the miami heat, but now is he coming back home. diane is in the newsroom with more. hi, diana. what a big story. >> really is. you better believe that cleveland is ready to forgive. the cavaliers have not made the playoffs since lebron james left four years ago. now he is back and ready to bring a title to cleveland.

lebron's announcement to leave miami and return to cleveland was announced on the sports illustrated website. he cited his desire to raise his family in his hometown. his wife is currently pregnant with the couple's third child. he did tweet out in the article he wrote "my relationship with northeast ohio is bigger than basketball. i didn't realize that four years ago. i do know." coming up later how lebron is managing to put that in the rearview mirror, including the letter from the cavaliers owner calling lebron a coward. we'll have that coming up in sports. >> all right. thanks, di. we want to know what you think. is lebron making the right move by going home to cleveland? that's our nbc washington flash survey of the day, and the results are overwhelming 78% of you say yes, he is. >> good for cleveland and good for his image too. still ahead, a robber posing as a cable guy targets a local

politician's parents. why police say the crime is part of a much bigger problem. a dramatic scene in court. a man charged in the murder of six family members collapses in front of a judge. a tribute 70 years in the making. how a mix-up almost gets this world war ii veteran from getting one of the military's highest honors. doug. oh, guys, a beautiful day for a backyard barbecue, and everybody is eating. hello, everybody. we have got a great night here for backyard weather. wait until i show you some really cool things about this backyard. coming up in just a minute.

would you do? that's the question to palestinian militants. more than 100 palestinians have been killed since the air campaign began four dies ago. militants have fired more than 550 rockets at israel, and for the first time today two rockets came from lebanon. prime minister benjamin netanyahu said today that the fight will continue and no country would tolerate repeated attacks on its citizens. an american soldier is days away from re-entering everyday life after he spent years being held hostage by the taliban. militants let bowe bergdahl go a

month ago. the controversial prisoner swap. since then bergdahl has been undergoing a re-integration process in a texas military base. the army says bergdahl has been easing his way back into the public after five years in captivity, meaning he has been able to go to restaurants and malls, but only under supervision. new information about the violent past of the texas man accused of killing six family members. nbc's chris clackum has now details and a look at the suspect's dramatic first day in court. >> reporter: in his first court appearance on friday. >> it's going to be his machine condition.

>> their 15-year-old daughter died. >> a brief chase followed and ended in a cul-de-sac with haskell ending after a stand-off after a history of violence that started in 2008 with a guilty plea in utah for assaulting his wife. >> he had been hurting her and she decided to leave at that time. >> haskell's wife filed for divorce a year ago. then just last week in california haskell's 61-year-old mother filed this restraining order saying her son had duct taped her wrist and choked her until she passed out. then he told me he was going to kill me, my family, and any officer who stops him. no officer in california could find haskell before he had fled detectives. while back in houston, the 15-year-old survivor is being hailed as a hero, including by her grandfather, who is allegedly to be among haskell's next victims had cassidy stay not alerted police.

chris clackum, nbc news. new at 6:00, a lot of people were outraged when drug charges were filed against a well known businessman in leesburg. now those charges have been dropped. police arrested thomas watson in march when he accepted delivery of a package that contained drugs. leesburg police set up a sting at watson's townhouse after a canine alerted them to that package coming in the mail. the ceo said all along the package wasn't his. watson supporters told news 4 he also received another mysterious package earlier. he never opened that one and had it marked returned to sender. now to our latest installment of backyard weather. doug is live in kensington, maryland, tonight. hey, doug. >> hello. my food is right over there. i know everybody is wonder whering my food was. this is the backyard. i got to tell you guys, here we are0l in kensington. a phenomenal backyard, and a backyard that's been really 37

years in the making. you guys have just about done everything yourself. from laying the brick by yourself. mike, you guys have done this. it's really been a work of art for you guys. >> yes. >> something to do. >> something to do. >> well, you had a lot of something to dos apparently. there's a lot going on. what was it about your backyard th that. >> we contacted channel 4 and we never connected -- >> it's a great -- where what do you call that? the hobbit house? if you want an awesome hobbit house, this is going up for sale. i get 2%. let's take a look. show you what's going on. again, it is a beautiful, beautiful afternoon at 1.5%.

take a look at the forecast. 84 degrees. that's the current number. it was partly cloudy skies. winds out of the southeast at 8 miles per hour. temperatures around the rest of the region. weather on the nice side. everybody in the mid 80s across the area. low 80s around gaithersburg. 82 degrees there and in fredericksburg. temperature there of around 87 degrees. now, we're not going to see much in the way of rain over the next couple of days. boy, we need a little bit of a break. we've seen a lot of it and a lot of severe weather. none of that coming up during the day today. there is that one isolated shower down along the potomac right around the wood bridge area. along i-95, that's the only area where right now we're dealing with at least one little shower coming up around the region. that could be a little bit on the heavy side if you are driving through that one. that's right over i-95 right now. satellite and radar shows mostly clear skies for the most part. we're dealing with a few clouds. as we look out towards the south and east, that's where our frontal boundary is. that's now cleared the region, and it's going to leave us with a very nice weekend in here. we'll have plenty of sunshine tomorrow. let's go right to the seven-day

forecast. i'll show you what i'm talking about here. the temperatures in the 90 degree range tomorrow. it will be rather warm tomorrow, but the humidity will be manageable. sunday a little bit of a different story. 95 degrees. 30% chance of some showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. hot and rather humid. clouds on the increase during the day on sunday. isolated late day showers. we're not talking about an all day rain. don't cancel any plans. just remember, it will be quite warm. same deal on monday. 93 degrees. 40% chance of showers. then on tuesday i think we have a good chance of not only some thunderstorms, but the potential is there for some severe weather too. high temperature around 90. that front will then move on through. behind that wednesday, thursday, and friday some fantastic weather coming in. this is like late spring-like weather we have late next week. wednesday, thursday, and friday. all looking very, very good. we've got some interesting stories coming up a little bit later on. guys, i got to tell you, everybody wave hello. we're looking at you guys over there right now. we'll be back in just a couple of minutes. yeah, we've got really great stories. you guys are part of the

renaissance fair. i cannot wait to hear about this. it's really cool. you should see the outfits these guys wear. >> the hawaiian shirt isn't going to cut it at the renaissance fair. say hello to my friend, mike. he is an xlebt photographer. he has been volunteering his time and talents to the washington area women's foundation for many years. i have known him for a long time. >> i will say dorine says hello. you didn't tell me that. you didn't -- >> he was keeping that from you. there you go. see you in a few minutes. >> what door even said. the new plan of attack to fight foreclosures and prince georges county. a police officer nearly killed in the line of duty after getting pinned under a minivan. tonight the big step in his recovery and what still needs to happen before he can get back into uniform. a freak accident at disney. how a tourist ended up severing his fingers on one of the

rickly is accused of attacking judge audrey creighton in her home last may and then kidnapping her. she was able to get away. creighton told police she and the man had a romantic relationship. a minivan smashed into him.

nearly crushed him. the prince georges county police officer is just about ready to go back to work. officer olasaia came back to the police station today. he was wrapping up a traffic stop when a minimum yea van came flying towards them. two officers were able to get out of the way, but the minivan crashed on top of him. >> he is still there. then i actually remember being at the hospital. >> i'm still doing a lot of rehab on my knee. personally i think i feel good. i'm ready to come back to work. then again, i ain't no doctor. my doctors are telling me that my ribs and my left knee still need to heal. >> all things considered, he looks great. so far they haven't filed any

charges against the person driving that minivan. police tell us they are still investigating the crash. he looked legit, but his actions were criminal. tonight the new impostor who is robbing people while they're still inside their home. maybe you have been cut off in traffic. maybe you have followed a little too closely sometimes. a new push to make the roads kinder and gentler. i'm adam tuck. i'll tell you about that coming up. well, this guy definitely stands out from the crowd. what he is accused of doing at a local mall that lan

warning tonight about a robber posing az cable guy to get access to your home, and it turns out the parents of a d.c. mayoral candidate are the latest victims. driving it forward. it's just like pay it forward, but on the road. could it improve your commute? better late than never. a soldier is awarded a silver star for his action 70 years ago during world war ii. find out why it took so long. it's a reminder that anyone can be the target of a crime. a man pretending to be a cable worker coned his way inside a d.c. couple's home and took their personal property. >> yeah. not just any couple either. the mother and father of muriel bowser, the d.c. councilmember and candidate for mayor.

there's a warning for others. >> reporter: police say this man caught on surveillance video is their suspect. according to the police report, he tells the homeowners his name is mr. joe, and he is there to upgrade their cable signal, but he has to come inside to reboot their tv. one of the victims we know about turned out to be the parents of d.c. councilmember and mayoral candidate muriel bowser. here today at her offices she said her parents are doing fine, but understandably, upset. >> they're fine. they're shaken up, of course, and they're mad, but they're like me. they're very grateful for the rapid response of npd and the concern of a lot of neighbors. >> police say he stole two expensive cell phones from her parents. one of them from their bedroom. >> it reminds us that there are people out there that will prey on our neighbors and my family is no exception. >> reporter: police say yesterday morning he hit two homes. within about an hour. both in the northeast neighborhoods near michigan

park. >> we're just very grateful for what the police responded very quickly and are investigating very vigorously, and we hope that this person is taken off the streets just as soon as possible. >> reporter: police are offering a $1,000 reward for help solving these crimes. >> we want to remind everybody that don't let anybody in your house without proper identification if you're not expecting them. >> reporter: in the district mark seagraves, news 4. >> thanks, mark. it's a growing problem in our area. people illegally renting or even squatting in foreclosed homes. a task force is looking to crack down on those who try to benefit from others' misfortune. prince georges county bureau chief tracee wilkins has more on this new effort. tracee. >> reporter: this is a complicated issue. sometimes you have folks who are knowingly taking advantage of the system. others are just victims who know little more about how to scam the system than they do. now the task force is hoping to

crack down for everyone's safety. >> we've identified 16 categories of squatters. >> it's a growing problem the county is trying to handle. people illegally using foreclosed property. >> what we've found is that each occasion has their own facts and circumstances. >> gary cunningham, director of inspections and enforcement. his agency is partnering with police, the county's office of law, and the state's attorney's office to manage the growing problem. >> what we're going to do is look at these cases and determine which path they should take, whether it's a criminal prosecution or something that should be done through the civil courts. >> ron white lives in the upper middle class suburb and believes some people are squatting in $1.8 million home in his neighborhood. we won't show you the house because it's still under investigation. this is now one of the cases on the task force's list. >> the problem that we have with that specific property is there is no clear ownership. the owners cannot be located. the bank is not taking clear possession of it.

>> then there are clear cut cases like the one involving shannon lee who pled guilty to several charges connected to her allegedly renting out foreclosed homes she did not own to unsuspecting families. >> there are agencies that are looking at the problem because it is a problem that needs to be addressed with county resources. >> reporter: he says he is just happy to know there's somewhere for him and other residents to finally turn for help. >> i think that is great news. you know, i think it's maybe overdue, but i'm really happy that they're actually doing something about it. >> reporter: lee was due in court today, but she did not show up, saying she was in the hospital. now the court is now demanding that she has to show medical proof of that by the end of business on mob or she could be looking at a bench warrant. meanwhile, those two are looking for assistance and want to reach out to the task force because they think they have squatting issues, can you dial prince georges county 311. call 311, and they will funnel your requests to the appropriate

agency. reporting live from marlboro, tracee wilkins, news 4. if somebody tailgates or fails to use their blinkers, chances are they don't know what today is. news 4 transportation reporter adam is live in bethesda to explain the drive it forward friday campaign. adam. >> let's be nice. think of this as kind of like a pay it forward, but on the road. maybe you let somebody turn in had front of you. maybe you don't tailgate so closely to that person on the beltway. whatever the case may be, the whole idea here making the ride more enjoyable on the road. >> you start to see some selfish tactics. watch in the distance. our friend in the truck decides he is not going to wait in this line. nope. what's better for him is just to jump around everyone and then butt in. >> like, get out of my way. i have something that's fornt, and you're not important. get out of my way. >> reporter: here are other

examples. at high speeds tailgating certainly can make the driver in front of you feel a bit anxious, and there are the speedsters who seem to fly by everyone even though they're not in the fast lane. >> everybody is hungry, tired, and just wants to get home. that's what i find it the most difficult as we're coming home from work. >> reporter: we can do better. in fact, that's what today drive it forward friday is all about. 59% -- 59% would also feel better if people stopped driving too slowly in the left lane. by the way, there are still some slow drivers in the left lane who hold things up. what do you do better while driving? >> i seem to go faster. >> you are a speeder, alt bit? >> yeah, i'm used to it. >> just not drive too fast. just obey the speed limit, and the traffic laws. >> i'm trying to be considerate to other drivers and put myself

in their shoes to make everybody's life easier. >> reporter: making everybody's life easier. that sounds nice. happy drive it forward friday, guys. i'm sure you both will be the most courteous drivers on your ride home tonight. reporting live in bethesda, adam tuck, news 4. breaking news. just into news 4. a veteran prince georges county police officer is now accused of fighting outside the howard theater and hitting another man with his gun. corporal michael brown has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. he is suspended with pay pending an administrative hearing. they're doing an internal investigation underway right now. you heard adam's report. a new study now reveals just how much time we spend stuck in traffic, and which days of the week are the worst when it comes to gridlock. >> scary moments on a popular ride. a tourist ended up severing his fingers while visiting disney.

we're working to learn more about a scary incident in disney in florida. a tourist lost the tips of two fingers on the ride pirates of the caribbean in the magic kingdom. it's not clear how the accident happened yesterday. the ride was stopped and inspected and found to be safe. they went ahead and reopened it. visitors are instructed keep their hands inside that ride at all times. numbers are out, and they aren't good. the gps company tom tom has ranked d.c. the worst in the world for -- in our area if your commute is an hour long, you spend 28 minutes a day delayed in traffic. if you're commuting 30 minutes, you spend 73 hours every year in traffic. tom tom went on to calculate the most congested times of the week here. tuesday morning and thursday night tops the list. 415th. yont to see number one. tell you that.

police -- a man allegedly robbed a woman at a local mall, but police made a quick arrest mainly because of this guy's rather unique look. his name is jermiaha johnson. he confronted her yesterday. she says he walked away and then followed her out to the parking lot. when she grabbed her cell to call 911, he grabbed it and ran off. he didn't get far. based on how she described him and those green dreadlocks, officers stopped johnson a little while later and got her cell phone back. up next, a military mix-up made right. >> one of the main things -- >> why it took seven decades for this war hero to receive the honor owed him. >> plus, back in the wild. see what it took to rehab this red hawk. coming up tonight on "nbc nightly news", a big admission from the cdc as to some dangerous handling of deadly viruses. we'll have that. you might have heard the news

out of cleveland. we'll look at all things lebron tonight, and a highly unusual movie coming out this weekend. we'll have it all for you

today the u.s. army recognizes the heroic actions in combat 70 years after the fact. only after a military historian realized it and first went to the wrong person. we are introduced to this war hero who finally received his silver star. >> reporter: it took nearly seven decades, but today retired lieutenant colonel ralph is wearing his silver star.

>> one of the main things that i lived this long to receive this. >> reporter: the reason for this humble ceremony dates back to world war ii, september 22nd, 1944. allied forces were all around him, he got orders to hold the line. he ultimately pushed german forces into retreat. >> we stopped the attack, and set up a defense at that point. >> reporter: he was never recognized for those daring actions. in fact, initially the silver star for that heroism was awarded to someone else. >> 70 years ago the army awarded the medal to the wrong guy, and it's taken this long to get the problem rectified. >> with the help of senator rekter's office, that wrong is now righted along side he and his wife dorothy, of 6 years. they met as he was recovering from war wounds. it hasn't slowed him down much. >> i did 40 sit-ups this morning. the last 15 i held for a count

of five each. >> is that your daily routine? >> daily routine. >> when i asked what he had planned for the rest of the day, dorothy chimed in off camera. >> she said watch "gun smoke." i do watch "gun smoke" at night. i enjoy it. >> in arlington -- >> sign him up. >> we're going to go home and do some situps. >> great, great story. well deserved honor. >> a lot of veterans are struggling. tonight there's a unique opportunity that might help them land a job. an i.t. company called chuck decision has a training facility in chantely, virginia. it provides services to government. vets who are 18 to 25 years old face a 20% unemployment rate. 60% of them say they have trouble finding a job.

the vet program is different. they stay together when they go to work for the company. >> i currently have my masters degree and i have a second masters. still with the education, i was still being looked over. >> we posted some more information on-line, including what inspired the company's president to start this program. to learn more head to nbcwashington.com and search veterans. a hawk in the sky over the potomac tonight after spending months recovering in captivity. biologists set the bird free in turkey run park this afternoon by gw parkway. they spent the last three months being rehabilitated at the raptor conservancy am being hit by a car. she was found by a man walking his dog in the park back in april. the hawk was given food. they made sure the predator

could fly and hunt before releasing it into the wild today. well, doug is not flying free. he is firmly grounded in the backyard in kensington with all the food and fun that he could ever hope to have. >> how is it looking, doug? >> i got to tell you, it's looking very good. you said you know mike, right? >> yeah, right. yes. >> have you ever seen him -- have you ever seen him wearing this? >> i have seen a facebook picture of him in that outfit. >> she says she's seen a facebook picture. tell me about these outfits. what do you guys do with these? >> we wear these at the renaissance festival. >> which is actually coming up. >> starts the last weekend in august through the last weekend in october. >> you don't just go to the renaissance festival, but you actually are -- >> guest vendors. we are guest vendors, and michael sells his wood earn

turned items. >> i'm a wood turner. >> a wood turner. >> i make bowls and bangles and -- >> he makes all this stuff you see here, and then she designs and makes all of the cost alls. you do fantastic work. these are your friends that are all going to the renaissance festival too. they all have outfits too. they just didn't bring them in their cars. i don't know why. i don't know why they're not in your trunks right now. i have no idea. let's look at what's going on weather-wise, guys. it is a beautiful night for the three musketeers. that's what they are right now. here is the forecast for you. 84 degrees. nice and beautiful weather tonight. a really nice evening. you look up in the sky, and you see a few clouds, but that's really about it. as far as the weather is concerned, high temperatures today are in the mid 80s for the most part. we have to 88 in d.c. earlier. now down to 84. 85 and 84 in manassas. what about the rain? storm team 4 radar has been clear most of the day, but now we do have a couple of showers out there, and once again, any shower that developed could be

on the strong side. let's go ahead and zoom in. there's one down towards fairfax county right around the mount vernon area that has twopd, and now this one actually moving p to the north up around falls church and around the fairfax region. heads up any showers that do develop could produce heavier downpours, but most of us will stay on the dry side tonight. high temperatures tomorrow around 90 degrees in d.c. 89 in bethesda. 91 in burke. let's take a look at the next seven days. we have warmer weather moving in. i mentioned that high of 90 tomorrow, but sunday we go to 95 degrees on sunday. the heat index approaching 100 again. same deal on monday. a little bit on the warm side with high temperatures into the 90s. a good chance of storms on monday. better chance of storms coming up on tuesday, and next wednesday, thursday, and friday, we have some fantastic, fantastic weather. okay. back live here, guys, if you want me to come out, obviously you can do that. send your pictures just like they did to my backyard weather -- facebook.com/doug.

we have two of the three musketeers. i need a costume. >> i could probably fix you up with one. >> let's do it. yes! we'll do that next. oh, wait. the show is over. >> there's still time, doug. we'll make time for that. >> show's over. >> all right. >> that's the first time in history doug wanted less time. >> yeah. >> here's what's coming up in sports. >> we're only talking about lebron james so we'll send it back to doug. he can have the rest of the sports. there. have you heard? he made his decision. how cleveland will be welcoming him back to town. plus, the nats they're without desmond tonight in philly. we'll tell you how long he will miss for

one man's decision opens up the entire eastern conference and gives everybody hope now. >> the landscape of the nba has changed completely now that lebron james has gone over to the cavaliers. back to the cavaliers, right? for two weeks very we have been waiting. the world has been waiting. we knew the world would break. i don't know many of us thought we would find out where lebron james was headed through his own words. today on sports illustrated's website si.com lebron said when i left cleveland i was on a

mission. you was seeking championship, and we won two, but what's most important for me is bringing one trophy back to northeast ohio." lebron didn't make any friends when he left cleveland for miami. fans outraged with him leaving and nationally televising the decision. for us no cleveland fans angrier than the cavaliers owner dan gilbert. he wrote in an open letter to fans after lebron left saying "our former hero who grew up in this very region that he deserted this evening is no longer a cleveland cavalier." "he simply does not deserve this kind of cowardly betrayal." he went on to say, "i personally guarantee that the cleveland cavs will win an nba championship before the self-titled former king wins one." that did not happen. lebron won two titles in miami. cleveland still waiting. according to lebron, he and gilbert met face-to-face and talked it out, and now he is back. this was the cover of the cleveland queens dealer saying

"gone." this was the cover today with the headline "home." this quote from lebron's essay in northeast ohio, nothing is given, everything is earned. you work for what you have and ready to take up the challenge. i'm coming home. two very different covers as we can see. as for what lebron is doing for the nba, specifically the wizards. marchin stopped by. >> it's good because miami became a weaker team than they were last year, so we have a bigger chance to win the division being the team that went to second round last year. we have a bigger chance of winning that division, and obviously, we have put out certain situations and players. lebron decided that the team was really talented. they have a lot of pieces, young pieces that in the future they can be a really good players, and he actually went from miami that was a good team to talented team and they can be even much better. >> the schedule is not out yet,

but can you imagine that the verizon center will be like when the cavs come in to play the wiz? i know. i'm looking forward to it. there was some good news for heat fans. chris bosh has signed with miami despite rumors he was leaving if lebron left. good news for the heat. let's switch gears. after losing two of three to the orioles, the nats are up in philly tonight. injury wrupts for the nats. jason werth will play even though he was hit in the left foot yesterday. ian desmond is out. he was hurt in the eighth inning in baltimore getting hit in the hand with an 88-mile-an-hour fast ball from o'day. he tried to stay in the game, but he was forced to leave. the mri on his hand was negative. he said it hit his funny bone. not funny, though, right? desmond is day to day and expected to be in the line-up tomorrow night. you know. >> you forget how fast that basall isoming in. it hits you -- >> not like the

140-mile-an-hour -- >> very good point. >> thanks, diane wra. nbc nightly news is coming up next. thanks for joining us.

on our broadcast tonight, dangerous mistakes, big trouble at the cdc. admitting more serious incidents in handling some of the world's deadliest viruses like anthrax and bird flu and now two high security labs have been shut down. summer chill. the weather phenomenon about to make a lot of spots unusually cold. likeuly temperatures in the 50s. cleveland rocks. the decision is announced and the crowd goes wild and we're live from there tonight. about a boy, the new film opening this weekend that critics say isn't quite like anything we have ever seen before. "nightly news" begins right now. >> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian