hastert hastert. just yesterday he was charged with disguising payment that's were going to a person from his past to uncover and cover-up misconduct. we now know that the nature of that misconduct was sexual and the gender of the alleged victim, too. here is what we're learning now. a law enforcement source has told pete williams hastert was making the payments to a man to conceal a relationship they had while that man was a student at yorkville high school in illinois. according to the tribune company reporters that relationship took place while heartastert was a teacher and wrestling coach there. we also know this misconduct had nothing to do with his time in congress. the tomorrow republican house speaker is now a lobbyist here in washington. as we said, lots of new information coming out by the minute here. steve handelsman will join us from capitol hill at 4:30 with much more on this investigation. from the live desk, i'm jim handly, pat and chris back to you. we're also watching showers and stronger storms on the storm team4 radar.

>> meteorologist doug kammerer is in the storm center. how will it affect the ride home, doug? >> it depends on where you are. we are continueing to see showers and storms out there. nothing too heavy. we have one severe thunderstorm warning until 3:00 for cullpeper county. that's out of there. one storm making its way to the north, a couple around falkier county. some shower activity through prince george's county, this was moving across the paotomac and just died here. we saw it go through waldorf earlier, now the action in falkier county, culpeper county. heavy rain in southern and falkier county right now, warrenton area, more showers. we'll continue to see a few more develop just like last night, any showers that develop the biggest thing is very heavy rain that will come from there. now, tonight's headlines a little different. continued shot for sure this weekend chblt we have the potential for strong storms. i'll tell you when that is and a changing forecast. this is a big change from what we talked about yesterday. i have that for you in just a minute.

there is a major traffic headache brewing that won't go away for months. >> the curbside lanes open the memorial bridge are closed for at least six months. we just learned no buses can drive indefinitely. mark segraves is live on the virginia side. mark these restrictions are already in effect? >> reporter: well, chris, that's actually a trick question. the lane restrictions are in effect, and those lanes are actually blocked off. but the wait restriction while it did go into effect today, they won't start enforcing it and issuing tickets for several weeks, allowing buses like this one that just drove by me to kind of get up to speed with these changz. now, this bridge carries 60,000 cars a day in and oust district. it's one of only four bridges that crosses the potomac into the district. and these lane restrictions that went in today include both curb lanes. that's one lane in and one lane out now closed. and those will be closed for six months. the other restriction, no buses or large trucks.

that's a weight restriction. and that ten-ton weight restriction will last indefinitely, according to the national park service. now as you can imagine, this is going to impact everyone who drives in and out of the city. coming up at 5:00, we'll hear from the experts, the traffic experts, at wtop radio about how this willism pact your commute. chris, back to you. >> thanks, mark. that's going to publicsh a lot of folks onto the key bridge. tomorrow martin o'malley is expected to announce his run for president. ♪ o'malley tweeted this video strumming a few chords of "hail to the chief." his announcement will take place an at an event in baltimore where he served as mayor. there are reports that freddie gray protesters may show up. he joins hillary clinton and bernie sanders on the democratic side looking for the nomination. we just checked and still no

arrests in a brazen rush hour shooting in the district. a man by the name of pedro alvarado died in the shooting, another man still in the hospital after someone opd fire on their suv along 295 yesterday morning. at this point police do not have any suspects. they don't have any possible motive either. news4's megan fitzgerald talked with a relative of the surviving shooting victim. we'll hear from him at 5. 20 suspected drug dealers are in jail after a big raid in prince william county. news4 had the camera there with police at the culmination of a four-month investigation called operation growing pain that focus on dealers who sell to high school students and young adults. in one case, officers arrested a 21-year-old at a townhouse in prist toe. coming up at 5 and 6, julie carey show us why police say these cases go way beyond innocent teenagers smoking pot. tension appears to be growing in arizona right now. muslim leaders held a news

conference this afternoon in phoenix where they condemned a protest that's planned for later today. a few hours from now anti-muslim groups are going to demonstrate outside an islamic center. a similar protest in texas turned violent. today police in arizona say they're prepared to handle this kind of event and are working with both groups to make sure everyone stays safe. federal prosecutors say there's more than enough evidence to support the corruption convictions virginia's former first lady maureen mcdonnell. prosecutors also said the conviction should be upheld. and they go on to say mcdonnell has a, quote fundamental misunderstanding of bribery law. prosecutors are responding to a push by the mcdonnells to have their guilty verdicts overturned. the president of feefifa laz been reelected to a fifth term chosing to lead the soccer organization despite criminal investigations into the group for alleged corruption and called for his resignation. after winning the election today in zurich, acceptsep blotter thanked

federation members and said, quote, we p do a better job together. fifa was hit by a scandal this week. u.s. and switzerland are looking at possible corruption involving sefrm high ranking fifa lieutenants? coming up next, the top jobs for women is out. find out if your career made the cut. a shoplifter put a rifle

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. no word yet on when american a.m.american embassies will open but cuba has been taken off the terror list. the notification came last month, a few days after president obama met with cuban leader raul castro. cuba demanded to be removed from the list as a condition of normalizing relations. for american the deck can feel a little stacked when it comes to the job market. they earn less money and fields where women aren't representing well. however, there are amazing jobs out there that don't come attached with that grass ceiling. careers.com put together this list jobs and fields that are expected to grow. now, a lot of these jobs pay

well regardless of gender and many of them put women in charge as a manager or entrepreneur. a couple of examples for you here now. an actuary. a lot of you in the federal workforce are already in this role paying $93,680. biomedical engineering another high-wage year, where women are having a big impact already. advertising and promotions managers have the highest salary on this list, more than $115,000 a year. and occupational therapy is another field which is paying well and growing in the health field. really the number one take-away here is this. women need to take a close look at so-called s.t.e.m. jobs. yes, many science technology engineering and mathematics field are heavily male dominated but there's incredible opportunities for women. >> the job site career cast compiled that list and notes that competition for these jobs is fierce. but your way to get the foot in the door is with internships. next on news4 so-called

hookup apps are growing in popularity. now a group is tying the social media applications to a troubling national trend. and incredible video shows floodwaters tearing through a home. find out how the family made it out alive.

>> announcer: you're watching news4 at 4. this is not your everyday shoplifter. a guy in miami tries to steal a high-powered rifle by stuffing it into his pants. as you might expect the store's owner noticed a little something was wrong there. >> yeah. naturally i can't believe i'm reading this, but stuffing a rifle in your pants cuts down on your mobility. who would have thought? marissa bagg reports it all added up to a pretty dramatic takedown. >> reporter: check out this takedown outside of a gun store in davie. the owner took matters into his own hands to stop a would-be

thief. and what was the suspect allegedly stealing? an assault rifle. >> by the time he started to leave i noticed there was a bulge in his pants so i followed him out. i don't want to have an altercation in the shop. too many customers, employees here. >> reporter: let's rewind eight minutes and show you what happened before the tackle. in the video, 19-year-old suspect marlon alvarez inspected the 3 hi foot-long firearm inside public pawn and gun for quite some time then stuffed it down his pants and under his sweat shirts. >> when he stuck it down his pants it was roughly about here inside of his pants. so when he went to pull it, he grabbed it and pulled it out like this, there was a magazine included in it as well. >> reporter: alvarez spent a few more minute ms. the store and employees thought he was acting a will little funny. >> he was really more trd in being left alone or looking for an opportunity to do what he was doing. >> reporter: alvarez went out the door. that's when hughes went after him, unsure if the firearm was loaded. >> anybody can load it, especially if he's putting it down his pantsz.

he could have obviously put one in the chamber, yes. that's why i got on top of him. >> reporter: alvarez eventually gave up the gun. hughes took him to the ground. but alvarez got away, running through the parking lot shirtless. police caught up with him just a few blocks away. hughes was happy to have the $900 rifle back but not because of the money. >> if he took that gun and killed 20 kids tomorrow at a school, i'm responsible for that. so that's not happening on my watch. >> wow. talk about quick thinking. >> man, not very smart. let's talk about the weather doug and what kind of day, kind of evening it will be. >> it's friday night and it's the weekend. everybody is wondering about the weather the next couple of days. we have some showers outs there but all in all, if you have plans this evening i think you're looking good to take those plans outdoors, maybe do some grilling outside. looking good there. current temperatures a little bit cooler than it has been. 82 degrees right now the dew point up to 66. it's a lail bit on the warm and humid side but not too bad as we move on through the evening. we're looking at about the same.

86 in leesburg right now. look toward culpeper, 74. we had some rain earlier. 86 in winchester and 84 over towards the huntingtown area. storm team4 radar tracking a few of these showers, most of them south of 66 and south of 50 here. we had one pretty heavy shower in through prince george's county and charles county earlier. that dying out. the heaviest showers we have toward i-81, page county, right around luray heavy rain there. then you make your way over toward the falkier county area, and you notice some shower activity around the warrenton region, right on the border with prince william county. these showers are not moving very fast. they're moving slowly to the north. anytime we have heavier downpours with the slow movement you'll pick up potential for a lot of rain. there's the other shower right across the river toward the tar lore. was we look at the picture the next 24 hours. if you're going to dinner, going to the movies walking around downtown tonight, no problems at all as far as that is concerned. other than the fact it's going

to being on the warm and humid side. future weather, temperatures tomorrow on the hot side. notice a slight chance of a shower, maybe a thunderstorm, but mostly back towards the mountains and then maybe with a boundary that forms down toward southern maryland. we may see a shower tomorrow but most of us should stay on the dry side. sunday is a little bit different than we talked about yesterday. yesterday i was thinking maybe some strong to severe storms on sunday. i think now most of that activity stays well to our west back through portions west virginia maybe the shannon dough wa valley. most of us dry on sunday, a little on the hot side on sunday, too, as the frontal boundary is going to take a little bit locker to get in here. high temperatures tomorrow up to 90 in d.c., 91 fredericksburg, 85 winchester and 87 toward gaithersburg. a very hot day. your exercise impact, if you're heading to the pool, a perfect pool day, temperatures starting in the 70 78 by 9:00 a.m., 84 by 11 lk. you're going to want to be in the pool around 1:00 and 3:00 with temperatures around 90 degrees. a very warm day tomorrow.

that's why i have us on the low to moderate side, because of the heat and humidity, isolate storms shouldn't affect too many of us. as we move through the next couple of days, 88 on sunld. about a 30% chance of a storm. best chance of storms now and maybe strong storms is monday. that front looks to come through on monday now. and i've completely changed the forecast. it looked yesterday like we could be in the 60s monday tuesday and wednesday. that is no longer the catesse. we are warm again, the warm air really just wants to win out as we move into the month of june. now to some of the most dramatic video we've seen this week of devastating floods in texas. a mother fearing the worst for her family watched this raging water sweep through the windows and into her home. nbc's amanda brandeis shows us how the family barely made it out. >> we're okay. all right? >> i kept thinking, i need to -- we need to get out. we need to escape. i can't let anything happen to my daughter. >> reporter: sarah perez said she didn't realize she was recording when she captured

this. >> oh, no! >> as soon as the water came through the window, i knew that we were in trouble. >> we have a tahoe and his brother has a truck. we just watched them float away like they were toy boats. >> i think the worst thing was not knowing what was going to happen. >> oh, no! >> reporter: they describe the rushing water like a freight train. they washed as it crashed through their cabin, water rising in just a matter of minutes. >> smelling fire and stuff after the water came in because the electrical stuff was burning up. so that's when i really started panicking. >> reporter: finally flashing lights. help was close by. >> pulled up with a boat and from the second story window we just climbed into the boat, me and i was holding my daughter. >> reporter: it's hard for sarah to think about what if help hadn't come. >> i'm sorry.

i just thank god that he saved us and that i have my daughter and my husband and my brother brother-in-law and sister-in-law. >> reporter: while cars and furniture can be replaced, they know loved ones cannot. and they're grateful for many more days together. a new study shows sexually transmitted disease are on the rise in rhode island and health officials say it follows a national trend. between 2013 and last year syphilis cases jumped 79% and gone rhea 30%. hiv is about the same, up 33%. the rhode island study found social media is partly to blame. it says a growing number of people are using apps to arrange high-risk sexual encounters. some experts dispute that claim. >> certainly we believe that it does contribute to an increase in sexual infections and potentially things like that,

but it certainly is not -- we don't have enough evidence there is no clear evidence to say what that impact is. >> some of those experts say you can attribute the rise in stds to simply better testing by health providers. we continue to follow our top story this afternoon. multiple reports saying former republican house speaker dennis hastert was paying a man to conceal sexual misconduct. he has been indicted for a payment scheme. we're working for new information. find out why doctors are seeing more patients complaining about their smartphones.

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if you happen to be texting right now, you're going to want to put the phone down and watch this next story. >> doctors are seeing more and more hand injuries among people with a tenacious appetite for texting. >> nbc's shy nell jones found out there are some things you can do to avoid the pain.

>> reporter: let's face it. we're a culture of typers texters and touch screen addicts. >> our smartphones do so much now. you get your personal e-mail, your work e-mail, your text and you can order feed. it's really hard to put it down. >> reporter: in fact, 64%, two-thirds of american adults, now own a smartphone. that's up from 35% just four years ago. while modern phone vz revolutionize revolutionized the way they live all of that texting may be taking its toll. some doctors report an increase in hand injuries due to overuse. >> with everybody texting so much and using smartphones we do see a fair amount of people that are coming with thumb pain. >> reporter: the most common digit in danger? your thumb. >> the thumb being the most useful digit that we have tends to be the most problematic, and in a variety of ailments, whether it be a trigger thumb or basil joint arthritis they're much more prevalent in the thumb than the remaining digits.

>> reporter: solving the problem may mean making smarter decisions with our phones. >> you should take the injuries seriously because the quicker you correct the problem the less likely you would need an invasive procedure such as an injection or a brace or small procedure to correct the problem permanently. >> reporter: so if you feel pain doctors recommend you put your phone down and take frequent breaks, switch hand soz that one hand isn't doing all of the work, hold your phone in one hand and type with the other. and place your phone on a table and type. sound advice write at your fingertips. last year amazon rolled out a plan to use drones. now the online shopping giant is changing its brand again. what the company has in store now. fitness trackers are supposed to help keep you

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right now at 4, a former local teacher is punished for abusing young girls and his victims are reacting to his sentence. and new reaction is coming in tonight from presidential candidates who worked with former house speaker dennis hastert. a source tells nbc news he paid a man to conceal sexual misconduct. a former substitute teacher in montgomery is heading to prison. >> that's right. a judge sentenced jose pineda for five years for inappropriately touching two girls. >> i'm darcy spencer in roekville. jose pineda was a substitute teacher in the montgomery county school system for a number of years. several students came forward to say that he had touched them inappropriately in class at three different middle schools here in montgomery county. now he previously pleaded guilty to two charges as part of a plea agreement. today the judge gave him the maximum sentence he could get under that agreement which is five years. coming up on news4 at 5, you're

going to hear from one of the victims of these sex cases. in rockville darcy spencer news4. turns out the economy isn't growing as much as previously thought. in fact, it shrank 0.7% in the first three months of the year. the government revised the number today after it previously indicated some growth. analysts are blaming a brutal winter and an even bigger trade deficit. but they expect job gains to fuel economic growth through the rest the year. former president bill clinton is defending the work of his global foundation. he sent a letter to the clinton foundation's 300,000 donors today, saying the organization is nonpartisan. he blames recent attacks on the fact that his wife is running for president. the group has come under fire recently for its fund-raising practice. foundation aides say they are working to correct mistakes. a lot of folks are tracking their calories and activity and wearing fitness trackers to make it a little easier. >> they are. but did you ever wonder how

accurate those trackers are? consumer reporter erika gonzalez got some answers. >> reporter: it's a great time of year to start moving gain motivation, and your result snz they're likely tallied by one of these. fit nassz trackers. but are they accurate? professor greg welk and his team at iowa state university's department of kin easologist tests fitness trackers to see if they're recording precise results. >> there's very little information provided by the companies about the validity as a researcher that's important to us. >> reporter: welk and his team tested four consumer monitories, fit bit flex and misfit shine cost $100. jawbone up24 up to $130 and the nike band which can cost as much as $200. 56 people participate nd the study ages 18 to 65. each spent 20 minutes doing sedentary activities like

working on a computer, then 25 minutes of aerobic exercise and 25 minutes using weight machines. the trackers were compared to this mobile machine that measures oxygen consumption to determine calories burned. welk's results show all trackers either over or underestimated activity, but overall he found the fitbit flex jawbone up 24 and the nike fuel band se provided reasonably accurate estimates. the fitbit flex and nike fuel band both tested off about 17% the jawbone up 24 was off about 18% and the misfit shine off by 30%. that may seem like a lot, but let's say the tracker records 1,000 calories burned. if it's off say, 18%, that's 180 calorie difference. >> so there's some serious technology inside the devices. >> reporter: as for aerobic activity, the largest error came from the misfit shine, off 60%. and the biggest problem welk

found resulted in resistance, those weight machines. >> when you're lifting an object so your hand is moving fairly slow but you're doing a lot of work so it's not able to capture that. >> reporter: we contacted the manufacturers of the fitness trackers tested. misfit told us iowa state's study conflicts with its own study and believe there's are problems with the university's methodology resulting in skewed data. it also questions the way the university recorded calories burned. and misfit believes the tracker used in the study was damaged because participants of the study all used the same tracker. fitbit told us, while there may be a small difference of a few calories or steps between tests, ultimately the success of our products comes from empowering users to actually see their overall health fitness trends over time. the other companyies did not respond in time for our story. so at the end of the day, does welk think fitness trackers are worth it?

>> i think the key to a consumer is not as much as if it's accurate or not in terms of calories but whether it's motivational for them and keeps them accountable. >> as we received comments from the companies included in the study, we'll post them on our website. as for new trackers, you know what i'm talking about on the market iowa state university has another round of testing this summer and it includes the apple watch and latest version of jawbone. >> thanks, erika. we're tracking breaking developments in the charges against former house speaker dennis hastert. a federal law enforcement official confirms to nbc news hastert was paying a man to conceal a sexual relationship they had while that man was a teenager and student at yorkville high school. news4's steve handelsman is live on capitol hill with some stunning developments. disturbing to say the least. >> reporter: disturbing to us, chris. disturbing up here on capitol hill where the illinois congressman and former speaker of the house denny hastert was well liked and well respected,

was speaker from the late '90s to 2007. i think we're all surprised by this, said maryland democratic senator ben cardin today. out of character cedric santorum who's running for the presidential nomination but served in the house with hast erlt. but that federal law enforcement official did tell nbc news this alleged misconduct was with a boy, a former student who hastert is allegedly paying off to conceal their sexual relationship at the high school where hastert taught and coached wrestling. the indictment itself does not specify what the alleged misconduct was, but it makes clear it was allegedly so serious, so embarrassing, the former house speaker was willing to pay $3.5 million in cash to keep it secret, willing to structure the payments to keep them secret and willing to lie to the fbi to keep both secret. the school where hastert taught and coached, something he often referred to in his political

career, issued a statement today saying, yorkville community unite school district 115 has no knowledge of mr. hastert's alleged misconduct nor has any individual contacted the district to report any such misconduct. on the indictment is the year 1965 suggesting that what allegedly happened allegedly happened then or began happening then. note, demanding that anybody pay you cash to cover up something that's potentially embarrassing is another alleged crime, blackmail. after he left here, hastert went to "k" street, actually, to "i" street to a mega lobbying and law firm that today severed its ties with the former illinois congressman who's now under federal indictment. i'm steve handelsman news4. no clear-cut champ in the national spelling bee. find out how the two winners feel today about sharing the

crown. plus, a lot of guys go to hooters for the waitresses. what one man is getting from his server. it's going to change his life. and i'm taking a look at a couple of showers and thunderstorms out there right now. we continue to monitor those on storm team4 radar biggest one toward luray and prince william county. i'll show you what to expect for the rest of the week. if you're heading for the

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a young waitress just served us all a lesson in true altruism and one customer a second chance at life. mary anna had surgery this morning to donate one of her kidneys to a man by the name of don thomas. they're not related. they weren't even friends until recently. don just happens to be a longtime patron of a hooters restaurant in roz will well, yornlg yornlg, and mary ana is a

server there. >> and i just barely knew her when she made the offer. >> i was like, well, i have two do you want one of mine? >> my reply was, i will accept it. >> if he can live two years the happiest he's ever been, that's completely fine with me. >> doctors tell our sister station in atlanta don and marianna are recovering from the transplant surgery. there were no complications and both should be just fine. what a gift. >> oh, man. that's an amazing story. you know, restaurants are changing the way they make your food to take out some artificial ingredients. >> how those changes could affect your health.

>> announcer: you're watching news4 at 4. amazon wants to become your supermarket. the will "wall street journal" says the online retailer plans to sell its own private line of groceries including baby food, cereal and milk and more. it already has a variety of food

brands. this new perishable food line would expand the grocery business for amazon selling its own foods means amazon can now compete with other big companies like target and walgreens. as you've likely heard by now, the nation has two students who are so brilliant they're sharing this year's championship for the scripps national spelling bee. they are such good spellers, the judges ran out of words and had to award the top prize to both of them last night. now that some of the adrenaline is wearing off, wear hearing from the champs. >> like it was a really fun to win at the end, but the whole competition was really great. and i had a lot of fun this week. >> i think it's great to be a co-spelling bee champ because more people got an opportunity to win and less hearts were broken. so i think it's a great opportunity. >> what a great attitude. in addition to the trophy, the winners will receive nearly $38,000 and a merriam-webster dictionary which they obviously

do not need. they could probably write a merriam-webster dictionary. >> that's right. we need the dictionary. and which word would you use to describe the weekend to come, doug? just a three-letter word. hot. yeah, hot, that's the word we're talking about today. it's going to be hot, a little bit on the humid side. we have a slight chance of a storm tomorrow and over the next couple daves, but right now the weekend really looking good. if you've got one of those boats it's going to be a beautiful boat weekend, beautiful beach weekend a beautiful pool weekend. because it's going to be on hot side. i've really taken the chance of storms on sunday down. that's good news, too. 82 degrees the current temperature 79 by around 7:00 tonight. can't rule out isolated showers in parts of the area so know that going out. if you see a shower, we can could see heavier downpour. 82 in gaithersburg 84 in reston and manassas, warrenton, 82 degrees. we have some shower activity around warrenton, prince will ym

yam county, to the west. i-81 around luray see something showers through page and shenandoah counties. these are heavy rain showers and we could see localized street flooding with these. again they're not moving much. kind of sitter here and developing. 66 has had shower activity all week, now toward manassas and marshalls, heavy downpours along 66. follow this right through prince william county and it's moving very slowly through. manassas it will come through your area, fairfax county if it holds together will come down there, too. this is a big one toward spotsylvania county, very heavy rain there. if you're heading to the beaches, look what's going on along route 50 as you cross across kenton arrows bridge toward easton, very heavy rain. there are actually flood advisories in this area. be careful around easton just to the north of camcambridge. they're already reporting some flooding there. watch yourself going that way. high temperatures tomorrow 84 to

91 degrees with an isolated storm but most of us dry. if you're heading down towards the beaches, look at this beach forecast. not bad at all during the day today, 74 degrees, 77 tomorrow 80 degrees on your sunday. i really think the weekend is looking dry at the beaches. however, monday a different story. i think a good chance for some storms there areawide, high temperature of 87 degrees. then we get cooler but nowhere near as cool as i was thinking yesterday. temperatures still around 80 degrees next wednesday. >> thanks, doug. food companies and restaurants are taking steps to make your favorite meals with fewer artificial ingredients. nbc's erika edwards tells us what nutritionists say would have an even bigger impact on your health. >> reporter: some of america's most well-known restaurants and food companies are touting what they're not serving. and customers appear to be eating it up. >> i want to give my money to somebody that seems like they care. >> reporter: kraft dayglow orange macaroni and cheese will fade when they change to natural

coloring. mcdonald's phasing out antibiotics. >> it's great when restaurants say, let's simplify, take out we don't need. >> reporter: chipotle is free of gmos, much to the delight of its patrons. >> with the gmo thing i don't know a lot about that, but it just seems like they're making the right choices. >> reporter: genetically modified organisms in plant-based foods means scientists have changed the dna from one plant to one plant to sustain a growing population. while there's no solid evidence gmos are harmful to health critics argue their long-term safety is largely unknown. >> i don't want my children to have to eat, you know, genetically modified food. >> reporter: the potential health impact of phasing out some artificial ingredients also remains to be seen. nutrition experts say bigger gains would be made by cutting back on sugary drinks and oversized meals. >> it's important that people still pay attention to portion size and calories, even though

the restaurant may have actually made some important changes. >> reporter: members of the grocery manufacturers association say the industry has reformulated 30,000 products since 2003, largely based on consumer desires. erika edwards nbc news. there are new concerns tonight that a recent child porg arrest that involved a local little league official may be part of a more disturbing trend. david culver has the update. >> reporter: a former coach and parent reaching out to us warning about troubled pasts for a local little league. >> i felt that it was important for the ft. hunt community to know that this was not just one isolated case. >> reporter: sullivan is a former coach and father from the league. he reached out to us after the report on the arrest of don essex, now in federal custody on child porn charges. but doland warn there's's more to the story. ahead at 5, the league's connection to a troubled past and what doland wants to see

done about it. a shooting during rush hour. >> that's right. traffic on a busy route. tonight, the victim's son explains what really happened. >> reporter: 50i78 of i'm julie chairy. police stage raids across the area targeting those selling drugs to high school. it's called operation growing pains. in a story you'll see only on

recovery teams have identified another victim from the catastrophic flooding across texas and the plains. >> we now know at least 27 people are dead, 13 still missing. most of them from the small town of wimberley texas. jay gray has our update. >> reporter: mother nature's at that tack has been relentless. >> oh, no! >> reporter: the scope and intensity overwhelming. >> oh, no! >> reporter: it's been the wettest may ever in texas according to the national weather service in ft. worth 35 trillion gallons of water dumped

on the state. and there's been at least four inches of rain somewhere in texas for 23 straight days. those are the numbers. this is the reality. historic flooding in dallas houston the hill country. water pouring into places it's never been before swallowing communities ripping apart homes, and lives. it's become a somber ritual. hundreds gathering each day at the first baptist church in wimberley, now a command center as rescue teams and more than 2,000 volunteers continued to search for those still missing. >> we're going to have up to, you know 28 to 30 teams in the field throughout the day over a large margin of the river. >> reporter: teams working through mountains of debris, wet and rugged terrain. >> there's so much ground to cover. it seems impossible but everybody is taking it one step at a time. >> hopeful their next step will lead them to a survivor. >> at this point, we're still

praying and hoping for the fact that we'll find somebody still breathing out there. this has not turned into a recovery mission yet. >> reporter: though most here seem to understand time is running out. there is a real sense of urgence sister here right now, pushed in part by the forecast which calls for even more rain this weekend. jay gray, nbc news, wimberley, texas. news4 at 5 is next with jim and wendy. first at 5, the man who survived being shot by a driver on i-295 is telling his story. that shooting happened on one of our busiest commuter routes in and out of the district. and there was a fear that the shooting was targeted. now the son of the man who survived wants us to know what really happened. news4's megan fitzgerald joins us now live with more on what we've learned tonight. megan? >> reporter: what we know is that the two victims who were inside the car, the two victims

that were in the car, were brother-in-law brother-in-laws. they were on their way to work, the family tells us. they came to this country to work hard, to try and give a better opportunity for the family that they lived with here. they were on their way to work when all of a sudden they say they were being followed by someone. someone opened fire. and that's when they say things happened. one person dead. the person who spoke with us has decided not to say his name. he also wanted to not be be identified. we did speak with his son. we decided to just go with his first name because we don't want this family to go into any harm's way. it wasn't easy for miguel to speak about the death of his uncle, 50-year-old pedro alvarado or his own father who's now recovering in the hospital. miguel says these men were his role models. they worked hard as maintenance men every day to provide for their family. thursday morning, they took

their routine route to work. miguel says his uncle pedro was driving as they crossed over the woodrow wilson bridge when they hit 295 they started noticing a black pickup truck trailing behind them. miguel says the black car eventually passed them but then returned. that's when d.c. police say that vehicle pulled up beside them and opened fire, killing pedro and hitting miguel's father in his jaw. miguel says doctors are unable to remove the bullet from the side of his father's face because it's too close to a saliva gland. miguel says he's thankful his father is still alive, but he's grieving the loss of his uncle and praying police find the gunmen who changed their lives forever. now, miguel tells us that his father saw at least four or five suspects i