afternoon. >> we heard gunshots and then we saw all the police coming with the one officer had, like, almost, like, a rifle and then the rest of them, it was like seven to ten of them thought with handguns pointing at my neighbor, my backyard neighbor's house. i saw them take down somebody. i couldn't really tell the age. i actually have four kids. so, um, we kind of are in shock. >> reporter: again, we believe the alleged shooter is in custody. the man he shot airlifted to the hospital.a with life-threatening condition. we don't have identities on either of those people right now but we are told that there may be a family relationship between the two men. live from centreville, i'm julie carey, back to you. our other top story, a woman hit and killed in a hit and run crash in the district and her family today is calling her their anchor. >> the victim in this case died just outside the hospital where she worked. news4's pat comes live now where this happened in southeast d.c.

pat? >> reporter: jim, it's happened again, another woman struck and killed by a hit and run driver as she's leaving the united medical center, trying to cross southern avenue. the latest victim works at the hospital. she's from ethiopia. her name is emma bet. it means noble, grand lady and they say she was all of that. the victim, emma bet cab bay day, a 56-year-old physician's assistant at the united medical center. struck and killed on southern avenue by a hit and run driver. she's from a large and loving family and at her home in lanham today, a great sense of sorrow. >> my mother was the kindest person you will ever meet in your entire life. >> it's completely devastating, because everybody -- she was the

anchor, 'cause we always called on her when we have problems. >> everyone is so torn up. i've never, ever seen my family like this before and i really hope i never have to see them like this again. >> reporter: this happened around 6:00 friday evening. emma bet was on her way home. she was gonna take the metro. as she was crossing southern avenue, she was struck and killed by a chevy tahoe. witnesses say the driver stopped, that he was crying, that he stayed on the scene for a few minutes and then they say he took off. a passerby took a picture of the driver. police describe him as a person of interest. they say they have identified him, that they have talked to him. so far, no charges in the case. for years, emma bet worked here at the united medical center. she was a highly regarded medical professional. >> you can feel her absence. it's kind of hard to believe she's not gonna be there anymore. and i'm not quite sure, you

know, how we're gonna do without her. >> reporter: it was just last april that 68-year-old faith pines was struck and killed by a hit and run driver on southern avenue at almost the exact same spot. [ sirens ] now at the entrance of the united medical center, there is no traffic light. there is no crosswalk. what's it gonna take to get a traffic light here? more on that coming up at 6:00. live in southeast, pat collins, news4. >> as pat just mentioned ed ie reference, the second time in just a matter of months someone was killed in a hit and run crash outside of united medical that woman named faith pipes hit and killed when she tried to cross southern avenue in april. she had been to visit a friend at a hospital. and a woman who worked at a nearby apartment complex is charged in that case. see pat's previous story about

this dangerous road crossing situation in front of that hospital. search southern avenue in our nbc because app. and it's scott macfarlane at the live desk, breaking news now, another lifeline for former governor bob mcdonnell. u.s. supreme court chief justice john roberts just ordered on hold a ruling that bob mcdonele must report to prison. that ruling came a few days ago after the his latest appeal of his corruption conviction failed, but the supreme court says bob mcdonnell can stay free, at least until it considers more of his new appeal. let me back you through this again a year ago today, bob mcdonnell convicted of corruption, sentenced to two years in prison, appeal it twice, lost two times, now appealing to the u.s. supreme court, the chief justice says he can remain free until he gets more paperwork on that new appeal. at the live desk, i'm scott macfarlane. >> thank you. the hunt is on for four armed robbers in montgomery county who led police on a wild

high-speed chase today. those robbers held up the verizon store there on spartan road and olney at noon today, men seen taking off in a 2015 dodge charger. police chased them onto theism cc. chopper4 flew over the scene at kennel worth avenue and prince george's county. officers were not able to catch him. no one was hurt in this holdup or the chase. an attempt to sneak drugs, a weapon, even porn into a maryland state prison and police say they busted this contraband operation over the weekend. as news4's derrick ward reports the suspects were using a drone to get the goods inside. derrick? >> reporter: what police think and things we take for granted, easy to get on the outside but behind prison gates, these are the things banned and even dangerous and there are people who will go to extremes to make or get a delivery. dangerous synthetic drugs,

pornographic videos, they are things on the outside to meet inside demand. technology added a new wrinkle, drone. these flying machine does have positive application. law enforcement is considering their use. >> all too often, these same devices are being used in a negative manner or in this case a criminal american. >> reporter: police say on saturday around 8 p.m., they found two men with a drone. they were park old a public road outside the state prison complex in cumberland. they also had synthetic, tobacco, porn on dvds and a gun. >> which we believed was about to be used to deliver contraband into the western correctional institute. >> reporter: police say they had been watching the owner of that vehicle that was outside the gate for some time, as well as an inmate on the inside, concerning a suspected contraband operation. that inmate is facing charges. state corrections officials say that they are looking at twice drone-proof the airspace above their prisons. >> it is sort of like if you remember the old radar system, it goes out and detect and anything comes within that

perimeter over the airspaces it can pick up. >> reporter: right now, that's not in the corrections budget, but officials say this incident, the first of its kind in maryland, means this threat should be taken seriously. it is about the safety of prison workers, other inmates ant public at large. coming up on news4 later, the union representing correctional workers say this is part of a bigger problem. back to you. >> derrick, thank you. a rockville man is being held tonight on as 5 million bond in connection with the death of his infant daughter. robert davidson and lorena thompson are both charged in the death of their 10-week-old baby. police tell us back in june, davidson called 911 when he found his daughter unresponsive. they say he admitted to dropping her, shaking her and acts that investigators say amounts to sex abuse. the child's mother has been released but can't be around any children. only one more virginia railway train will be leaving on the fredericksburg line this evening from union station. train 311 leaves at 6:00.

this drop iní0-ñ service follow that deadly pedestrian accident this morning that occurred just south of leyland road. all trains on both lines experienced delays this morning while it was under investigation. storm team4 tracking some showers out there for you and the colder, yes, cold front rolling through. >> doug and veronica, reunited. what can you tell us? >> i think a song. right. >> we got those showers coming through right now, along with that cold front. today, the warmest day we have seen the last couple of days and a little change come. >> change coming but this line is moving east, not very fast, only about 25, maybe 30 miles per hour. nothing severe. we are talking about some showers and yeah, a couple rumbles of thunder out there [ inaudible ] that line of thunderstorms moving off to the east about 25 miles per hour it will be near the warrenton area, toward leesburg, gaithersburg, the next

20 to 30 minutes. once again, we will continue to watch all that. here is the heaviest along 66 now. this making its way off toward the east, 25-mile-an-hour thing. put fairfax in there, right the 6:00 hour. had somebody tweet me from herndon saying will we get football practice in at 6:00? looks right around that time, that's when we are going to see some of those showers and storms. mention the cold front, 88 right now in d.c., 88, hagerstown, back to the west, only 74. much cooler, less humid air trying to make its way our way. that forecast in a couple of minutes. all right. ♪ so many kids just wrapping up their first day of class after the summer break. those who did return today include d.c. public schools, frederick county, howard county and some anne arundel schools as well. tomorrow, prince george's county schools will be heading back in, but there are already some wins and losses even before kids need class. county bureau chief tracee wilkins live with a look at the

changes following a big budget battle. >> reporter: we intimately covered this fight over the budget and the ceo for the prince george's county school system was hoping for a new, robust school system to welcome these kids back, but now, he is managing what he has and not as much as he wanted, but there have been some successes. >> we will continue then as we always have and always will to work within the resources that are appropriated. there's no other choice. >> reporter: not getting the increased funding he wanted has forced prince george's ceo kevin maxwell to change the way he meets his goals. >> court problems of 2020, that will be the problems of prince george's county. >> reporter: maxwell proposed adding more than $136 million to the tool school's more than $1 billion budget. county executive rub short-term baker proposed a property tax increase to pay for it, but that failed. the ceo says it means he can't expand some programs. >> we want to do a lot more prekindergarten for, you know,

kids in our highest poverty neighborhoods this year and we can't do that. the breakfast program, you know, expanding the breakfast program. >> reporter: maxwell was also hoping to increase teacher salaries and hopes of holding on to the county's most talented teachers who tend to leave for higher paying districts. >> we know that it's a couple hundred thousand dollars teacher starts in month come roipt same day or here and work for 30 years. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> reporter: then the successes like the two international schools opening this school year at largo high school and lindley park. >> called an international high school, but it is about their learning. >> reporter: maxwell says even without the money he was hoping for, still, what's most important to student success is parent involvement. >> you want to make sure when you say how did it go today, they say fine, you say, well, what does that mean? >> reporter: this was a con strollers situation opening up this international school, it was up and running, tomorrow will be the first day, on news4

at 6:00, we will meet some of the students and talk to the principal. i'm tracee wilkins, news4. inrollment is up at d.c. schools for the first time in four years. and there are four new schools, including van ness, river terrace, brook land middle school in northeast was created by combining noise, john burrows and bunker hill schools. it answers parents' calls for more art classes and project-based learning. another change in d.c., two new career academies at hc woodson high school in ward 7. one is in i.t. the other is in engineering. >> the combination of the industry partners, internships and the course work means that we have a greater chance of getting our young people jobs in these areas. >> while d.c. schools performance is up, chancellor henderson says there is much more work to be done time profit test scores and get graduation

rates up as well. a new assault in arlington. this time, a mother attacked walking with her child. it's where this attack happened that has so many people concerned. plus, more evidence that vice president joe biden is really considering a run for the white house. find out how this white house is reacting to that. i'm julie carey in prince william county, a case that outraged the public, a marine vet charged with destruction of property for painting a picnic table at his apartment complex.

prince george's county bliss have identified the teenager they believe shot and killed another teen. 17-year-old chet jarrett jr. is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old juwan mccray in glendale on friday night. investigators have an arrest warrant out for jarrett and they are asking the public to help them find him. there are some good news tonight about that disabled marine we introduced you to on friday, mickey trip left. he was charged with a crime because he painted a picnic table at the apartment complex yes lived. northern virginia bureau chief, julie carey, there was earlier today as mr. triplet had his day

in court. >> reporter: since early july, marine veteran mickey triplet has had a criminal charge hanging over his head management at the potomac rim apartment koch plex where he used to live called police when he painted this picnic table white. triplet headed into court today to face a destruction of property charge. but in just seconds, that charge wiped away, dropped at the request of the commonwealth's attorney. >> today was a glorious day where the law did exceeding and above all that i could imagine and that's dish think it's because of him. >> reporter: an out raged public took to social media. the vet had been bounced from his apartment. triplet told us he painted the table to spruce up the place before a visit from his daughter and granddaughter. prosecutor says he got quite a few calls from residents. >> felt sorry for this man, being put upon by the system, so to speak and i had to agree with

him. >> reporter: today, the prosecutor bumped triplet's case to the top of the tocchet. he said there was no crime. >> no wait commonwealth can prove criminal intent in this matter. according to him and from the evidence indicated, he was painting, right or wrong, that table and he didn't have any intent to destroy it. >> reporter: triplet says he will try to put the case and the weeks of worry behind him now. >> i can forgive and i can forget and i don't think any of this should have ever happened. >> reporter: but today's hearing may not be the end of the case. coming up on news4 at 6:00, i will tell but what an attorney who has volunteered to represent triplet may have in mind. in northern virginia, i'm julie carey, news4. >> julie, thank you. a developing story right now, wall street took another huge hit today, folks. are you watching the numbers? the dow industrials tumbling 588 points after a hint of a brief rebound at midday. the nasdaq also down about 180 pounds and the s & p closing down nearly 78 points. joining us now to put this into

some perspective is cnbc's courtney reagan. we know last friday, the big concern was china. is that still the case with today's big slump? >> reporter: it is still the case. you know, china is the world's second largest economy and their stock market, which of course is separate from the economy but still another key indicator for us, is down 40% from its highs f that happened here in the u.s., we would call that a crash. so, it's very concerning. because of all of the business that gets done between the two countries. think about big tech companies lake apple or hp, they do a lot of business in china, both selling products as well as that export and import trade that goes back and forth. so, china is definitely the big concern. and we saw chinese markets fall 8 1/2% overnight. so, we knew it was going to be a rough open. we opened up down about 1080 points at the lows of the morning. we did end up coming back. midday, we were down only about

1%. but then the selloff then reaccelerated and we closed down 588 points on the dow. we are locking -- logging our three worst point decline ever, as will of 1477 points for the dow. but on a percentage basis, it is far from the worst day ever. so, that should actually give us a little bit of solace because the dow jones industrial average is so high now. so it's far from some wore there is we saw and it's very different from what we saw in 2008. in 2008, that was a u.s. problem, where we had a major bank system, some would call it a failure, we had a house market collapse. we had a very fragile financial system. that is not what we are looking at here. this is just a worry because of what we are seeing in china and fears that it could cause a global slow down. that's where we are now. it could be another rough day in the morning but get another indication what happens overnight overseas. >> very quickly, courtney, a lot of people are wondering is this

a good time to bayh now, about stocks so depressed? >> if your risk profile can take it, your financial adviser may very well advise to you buy in certain areas. i'm not quipped to give that you kind of information because it's different for every person but obviously, you always want to bayh low, so it's at least time perhaps to have a check-in conversation with your financial -- financial adviser about opportunities. cnbc's courtney reagan. thanks so much. our panda cubs are doing well, folks, but this comes after facing a big challenge. what had some people at the zoo up all night. he was good enough to practice. is he going to be good enough to play? the latest developments on rg3's injury. almost ten years after katrina, we have a look back at the super dome and the one thing that may have saved hundreds of lives when that storm hit. >> and i thought, it's over. we will n

that forecast right now has showers and a couple of thunderstorms out there, as we make our way through the evening hours, keep the umbrella handy, the d.c. metro area, take a look, show what you is happening right now, not a whole lot going on, you can see the clouds are starting to move in starting to increase.

temperatures have been up there. 88 degrees today after seeing high so far of 90, winds out of the south about 10 miles per hour. the rest of the area, 92 in fredericksburg, 85 in annapolis, 88, manassas. notice only 75 in leesburg, 77 in frederick. that is rain-cooled air. bev seen rain come through the areas a broken line, there is nothing too strong out there you can see scattered showers around frederick, toward damascus, mount airy, the gaithersburg area, becomes a little bit more of a line through loudoun county, right around sterling, right around the airport, also seeing some heavy rain through portions of loudoun county and really fauquier county is seeing the most of it, we will dedo a little bit of a zoom and show where you thissome around 66, middlebur middleburgh, toward fairfax county here and back toward fauquier county. fauquier county really seeing, as we move this about 25 miles an hour, what we are seeing here, the next few hours, going to be seeing these move off to the east about 25 miles per hour that would put it in and around

manassas, 5:48 timeframe, 20, 30 minute, same deal with herndon, reston, see it the next 20 minutes, through central portions of fairfax county. about the next 45 minutes to an hour, gainesville, 5:50, bull runs, 6:02. manassas coming in about 6:09. not moving too fast about 25 miles per hour. clifton, about 6:20 that is the timing on these storms, continue to move off. nothing too strong, did see lightning strikes there all because of this cold front, a very clearly defined front, seat front there with those clouds behind it, not much going on as well. not much going on at all, much cooler air, minneapolis today only in the low to middle 60s, only in the 70s black toward ohio. so some of that air coming our watch now, talk about the troppishes, we did have a hurricane, hurricane danny a couple days ago that storm is not in effect anymore. that storm, as a matter of fact, just completely gone, just an area of low pressure, but now watching this storm this is a new storm it could become tropical storm erika any time during the afternoon this storm

expected to move toward the caribbean and poe tengly toward the bahamas this one is going to be one to watch, i think, could move toward the southeast coast. wouldn't be for another seven to ten days but something to batch. high temperatures, 84 tomorrow in leesburg, 82, an nap poly, 84, la playa. thinking about getting out there your hour by hour forecast, 71 by 8 a.m., 78 by noon, great day to get out for lunch, a nice evening, thinking about doing dinner outdoors, high temperature tomorrow, as i mentioned, 86-degree mark. heading out, exercise looks good, going to the pool, yeah, get one more day n rest of the week, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, all in the mid-80s, puts most of the suburbs in the low 80s. the 90s come back, we show you when at 5:45. loving it doug, thank you. american heroes foil a terror attack abroad. hear why they say they didn't think twice about taking down a man armed with an ak-47 on a high-speed train. plus, if you haven't seen this image on your facebook

page, it might be heading there. it is going viral. we have the story behind this conversion to sign at a virginia school. a woman is attacked as she walks through this local park with her 3-year-old daughter. i'm mark segraves. coming up, why police say

at least six women assaulted in arlington in the past month. >> we have learned of another attack friday night at rubber run park. as news4's mark sea grave shows us now the victim was walking with her 3-year-old daughter when someone attacked her. mark joins us now live in arlington. mark? >> reporter: that's right, each of these cases, the suspect comes from behind out of the dark and tries to wrestle the woman to the ground. and so far in each case, the women have been able to fight the attacker off. but as you said in this most recent attack, the woman not only had to protect herself, but also her young daughter. the recent assault happened friday at 8, a woman with her 3-year-old daughter was walking from george mason drive into rubber run park. the woman began to feel

uncomfortable, she turned around to leave the park and that's when the man attacked her. he approaches her at that point, she goes shield her daughter from him is when he touches her inappropriately. >> as the map fried to throw the victim to the ground, she screamed out for help. the attacker eventually ran away. police say what makes this assault even more troubling is that it's not the first time a woman has been attacked in recent weeks. >> this marks the sixth incident, not saying technically they are are all connected at this time, however there is a possibility of it >> definitely makes me more concerned about the fact that it actually happened in the park. >> i think it's really scary. as you can see, these trails are beautiful and you would just never imagine something like that happening here. >> reporter: police released sketches of the other attacks no one has been seriously injured in the asauls. >> the child was not touched, her mom did shield her from this attacker. very scary situation for our

victim, to have her 3-year-old daughter with her. >> reporter: police are urging resident to not walk alone in isolated or dark areas. coming up at 6:00, you will hear more about how the woman fought off her attacker and protected her daughter and what police are doing to keep the community safe. in arlington, mark segraves, news4. >> thank you. a busy interstate bridge in arlington will soon be named for a fallen virginia state there were. the i-395 overpass over south lee road will be designated trooper jacqueline vernon memoripeopl memorial bridge, a special ceremony will take place wednesday, that will mark 26 years since trooper vernon was killed by a come muter bus. she had pulled over a car when she was struck. trooper vernon was the first woman and african-american trooper to by dye in the line of duty. the red cross is now helping dozens of people and their pets after a fire at their apartment

building at prince william county. this is along meandering way in lake ridge. about 60 people were able to get out without injury. investigators looking into this. here at the live desk, tracking those massive wild fires out west and just learned that a group of fires that are burping in washington state is now the largest and in that stated's history. the fires have now surpassed the size of a wildfire that was burping last year. 4,000 people have -- burning last year. 4,000 people volunteered to fight fires in washington. 200 have been cleared to start working so far. the most fires are burning now in idaho,16 of them. the massive fire in the state of washington could keep burning for months. at the live desk, i'm chris lawrence.

the redskins playing in their third preseason game this weekend, the question everyone wants answered, will robert griffin iii play against baltimore? he left last week's game with a concussion. based onning rerules, the head coach, general manager and owner don't have any say if griffin will be cleared to play here what's we do know. griffin was back at practice yesterday, three days after suffering a concussion. he fully participated in team drills, one-on-one, he did everything but no contact for the quarterback. rg3 must be cleared by the team's medical staff and then, an independent neurological consultant. again that third preseason game is the final same the starters usually play in before the regular season kicks off. watch skins versus ravens right here on nbc4. wendy? now to that horrific crash at the pocono raceway. british indy car driver justin wilson is still in critical condition today after he was hit in the head during a crash. wilson was hit by a peas of debris that came off another car yesterday during the abc supply

500 race. he is still in a coma in a hospital in allentown. wilson's family was not at the race, but nascar driver tony stewart sent his private plane to get them so they could get to his bedside. the ashley madison website hackers exposed cheaters. now, there's some new incentive to turn in those hackers. gonna hear from the american heroes who took down that accused terrorist in france and find out what prompted them to act. >> we saw him cocking the ak-47,

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those four americans who took down a gunman on a european train with 500 people aboard have france's highest honor. the french president land handed them aed me al of honor, a fifth person couldn't make it to the ceremony, still recovering from a gunshot wound. on friday, they helped tackle a man on a train from amsterdam to paris. the man carried an ak-47, knife and a bag of ammunition and had ties to militant groups. >> i just want that lesson to be learned going forward. in times of, like, terror like that, to please do something. don't just stand by and watch. >> the wife of the virginia man hurt says he was shot in the

neck and back. he lives in paris, teaching english at the sorbonne. ashley madison is offering big bucks to the hackers who leaked details of the users. the announcement of the $380,000 recomes the same day toronto police are discussing disturbing new fallout from this hack. >> as of this morning, we have two unconfirmed reports of suicides associated because of the leak of ashley madison's customers' profiles. >> toronto police promised to go after the hackers who exposed the e-mail addresses of people who are using the extramarital affair website. police also warning services offering to remove customer profiles from the ashley madison database are scams. someone sent a photo of these banners hanging from a house near old dominion university to our sister station

in norfolk on friday. they encouraged parents to drop their freshmen daughters off for a "good time." no bored on who lives in the house or put the signs up but odu leaders citeded the school's zero tolerance policy for sexual harassment. and their demand for removal of those signs. it has been almost ten years since hurricane katrina. we are going to take a look back at the super dome and the one thing that saved lives that was hidden in the basement. -- zoo, all panda, all the time. i will have the story coming up. i'm tracking an area of rain moving slowly eastward into montgomery county through loudoun, through fauquier county. could your lawn get a little bit of this rain? of this rain? i will be back to ♪

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is that live shot of the national zoo panda cam. panda mei xiang resting now after giving birth to her two cubs this weekend. they are doing well but zookeepers are hoping for an easier night. mei xiang can only nurse one cub at that time, so the cubs are swapped in and out. last time, she would not put down the cub she was holding so the panda team at the zoo was up all night feeding that cub and

keeping it in an incubator until the swap was made at 7 this morning. news4's tom sherwood is on panda watch as well and joins us live with more on what has been a busy day at the zoo. historic time there at the panda house. >> the latest update of the panda watch. mother mei xiang is resting. panda cubs are still fragile but doing well. all good news for panda fans. >> the crowds, once you take your pictures and videos, please give others a chance to see the panda. >> reporter: you might say a herd of humans was maneuvering here today at the national zoo to see anything panda in the panda enclosure. >> we do have more viewing room. >> reporter: panda souvenirs were doing brisk, in some cases, biting sales. do you let your child eat everything it touches? >> pretty much. $12. >> $12? i think he bought that one. >> i think so. >> reporter: the latest excitement, seen for now only on a zoo cam, was the weekend birth of two panda cubs, each only a few ounces and in kbar rquarant

from outsiders. >> they are at a critical stage, they are very small, three to four ounces big. >> reporter: unnamed pandas are being monitored by staff and nurtured by their mother, mei xiang. they are watched bao bao, but anything panda would do today. these visitors came on the train from richmond. >> a bunch of excitement. we were hoping to see them, but -- >> reporter: a tourist from south africa passing by. so what do you think? >> oh, very nice, but you can't ever -- can't see them. >> reporter: this suburban d.c. 10-year-old knew pandas are endangered. do you like pandas? >> yeah, everyone likes pandas. >> the kids, this is one of the main exhibits that the kids wanted to come see that unfortunately, they are locked away. >> reporter: now, coming up at 6:00, when will you actually get to see the pandas and not just on tv and when will they get

names? the public is going to be asked to help with the names. i'm tom sherwood at the national zoo, back to you, bendy. start thinking. >> all right. thank you, tom. a lot of you have questions about the new pandas, so we have asked the zoo experts and you can check out our panda q & a on the washington app. a republican candidate joined the maryland senate race. richard douglas is from bladensburg, a navy veteran and served as an appointee in the defense under george w. bush. he is the second to announce he will seek the nomination in the race to succeed barbara mikulski. she will announced back in march that she will not seek re-election. will he or won't? he growing speculation that vice president joe biden may be edging closer to that 2016 run for the white house. mr.ed by.met with president obama earlier today following the president's two-week vacation in martha's vineyard. the vice president is also fresh off a weekend meeting with

massachusetts senator and progressive favorite, elizabeth warren. white house press sec joshernst had this to say when asked about the possibility of the vp entering the race. >> president has indicateded his view, that the decision that he made i guess seven years ago now to add joe biden to the ticket as his running mate was the smartest decision that he had ever made in politics and i think that should give you some sense of the president's view of vice president biden's aptitude. >>ernst went on to say that the president would likely make an endorsement during the primary. veronica is back, joining wuss blue skies for most of us, but there is some rain you're watching in virginia. >> it is headed eastbound, so, it is going to hit the beltway before long, but not a high impact on area road, right in the middle. so we are seeing traffic slow down, some areas getting a

little bit in the way of downpours. rain could be moderate. your road impact. we get into the late to overnight hours, around 11 p.m. to midnight, i think we will be faring much better. we get the green light then, showers will be ending. first thing tomorrow morning, i think we are dry with a little bit of a breeze coming through. definitely a green light as we head out and back to work, back to school. here is a look at storm team4 radar, the area i'm talking about leesburg, areas toward warrenton, eastbound toward fairfax, toward d.c. the next couple of minutes. so, these areas here around bethesda, around fairfax will be getting some moderate rain. eastbound, as i said, not looking extremely fast, only about 25 to 30 miles per hour, look at areas like ashburn, haymarket, gainesville, on toward linton hall, bull run, manassas in the next couple of minutes. right into fairfax county, as well as prince william county. here is future weather, at 7:00, still some scattered showers, maybe even an isolated thunderstorm around the area.

by 11:00, we will start to see the chances end, especially down through areas of southern maryland and the northern neck, when that weather front heads on out of here. when it does behind it, you are really going to notice the drop in humidity and temperatures coming down as well. 88 right now, think we are down to the mid-70s by 11 p.m., maybe the low 70s by midnight. so, rain chances really coming down by midnight, we are dry for tomorrow morning. here is a look at the overnight, 69 right in d.c. 70, camp springs. 68 overnight temperature in bowie. for the kids going back to school, we are warm, we are mainly clear, this is prince george's county heading back to school, light breezes, early on, 70 degrees, by 9:00, i think we are around 72, perhaps even 74, but low humidity that is the key, very comfortable throughout tomorrow afternoon, getting up to a high temperature between 85 and 89 degrees. very few in the way of any cloud cover coming through our area, but wednesday afternoon, watch this, low pressure system will

be skirting by, producing a few clouds on wednesday. so, a few clouds, still temperatures in the mid-80s, it's not until we get to the upcoming weekend when i think we are going to see the heat back just a little bit, maybe a little bit of humidity as well. temperatures in the low to middle 90s, and it is looking dry right now for the weekend. i think any chance of any rain coming up after this the next couple of days, maybe sunday night, a betterchance really monday afternoon. while we have got a quiet week here, things are getting a little busy in the tropics. doug hammerer, he has got more on that, what's brewing on news4 at 6:00. ness thank you, veronica. ten years ago this saturday, hurricane katrina made landfall that storm killed more than 1800 and remains the costliest natural disaster in u.s. history. chris lawrence joins us now in the studio with a look at what became bun of the most iconic landmarks during that storm. chris? >> reporter: the super dorm became a refuge of last resort

for tens of thousands of people in new orleans. ten years on, we are learning just how dire that situation truly was and how a few inches were key to their survival. in the days after katrina, the super dome was a living hell for the 30,000 people inside it. >> there was no running water, no functioning toilet, no hvac, cramped conditions, hot and humid. >> reporter: doug thorton is the executive vice president for s & g, the company that manages the super dome and he was inside it through it all. >> i thought, it's over. we will never be back here. i mean, how can we survive? >> reporter: super dome had been on generator power for two days and people were on high alert because of a dire warning from then-new orleans police superintendent eddie compass. >> i can't stop the water from coming into the levees, going to be more levee breaches, could be eight feet, as much as eight feet of water tonight, eight more than what you have. >> reporter: thorton said at the super dome, there was no room to spare. he said if the water had climbed

another few inch, the super dome's generate wore have been overcome and the 30,000 people inside would have been plunged into total darkness and utter chaos. >> off panic situation on your hands and people won't know how to get out of the building. literally, wouldn't be able to see your hand in front of your face. >> reporter: they kept the dire situation confidential then the decision made to mark the current water level to see if it would actually go up. >> now, we know where it is right now it's got to go another three to four inches before it hits the generator. the water rose two inches and stopped. >> reporter: and because that generator survived, so did the super dome. >> for me, it was probably the scariest moment. and it was one of those tipping points, i think, in this whole disaster. if we lose power, full power in here, we could have had a terrible loss of life. worse than it was. doug says if he has his wake

those water marks are going to stay right where they are. he told the team they are a peas of history and should never be erased. i was down there when the storm hit and said there in new orleans after the levees broke. later this week, i will be heading back to new orleans and you can look for my stories starting this thursday. wendy? >> we look forward to that chris. a top maryland health official is calling it embarrassing, more stores and gas stations are caught illegally selling cigarettes to teenagers in our area. as the news4 i-team found out, they are blaming part of the problem on fewer compliance checks. well tonight at 11:00 we go undercould have we are the local police who are still testing these stores and the teenagers who are working with them who try to buy those cigarettes. in one city, half of the stores checked ailed. some sold the cigarettes even though they checked the teenager's i.d. >> he checked the minor's i.d. twice and still ended up selling. his fear is losing his job because sometimes the

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emotional homes today in a colorado courtroom as survivors and family members of that movie theater shooting testified. >> james holmes has already been sentence it had had to life in prison but as nbc's leanne gregg shows us, today's hearing gave people a chance to grieve. >> i believe the only regret this murderer has is being caught. >> reporter: an emotional day in court, family members of victims of the theater shooting describing incomprehensible grief. >> i cannot describe to you the innumerable hours that i have wept or the horror and heartbreak that seizes me each time i think of how i will never get to see my dad again. >> reporter: the prosecution

plans to call about 100 people to testify about how the crimes committed by convicted killer james holmes have impacted their lives. >> i think the defendant should be get the max sentence and think about what he did every day. >> reporter: he was automatically sentenced to life in prison without parole on first-degree murder charges when a jury earlier this month failed to agrees groint death penalty. the hearing today is on the other 140 charges holmes was convicted of. the gunman could be sentenced to thousands of years in prison. one grieving family member took issue with the judicial system. >> if someone could explain to me the value of insanely long sentences, that would be helpful. is it supposed to make the victims feel better? >> reporter: the judge sharply responded by explaining why this phase of sentencing is necessary. >> the system says that the defendant must be punished for each and every crime that he committed. >> reporter: the defense has an

opportunity to call witnesses. >> no word on whether holmes will take the stand. he hasn't so far in the trial. leanne gregg, nbc news, centennial, colorado. what a wild ride on wall street today, stomach churning, drops and comebacks, finally closed today with another big loss, all this prompted by fears over an economic slow down in china. it has been a harrowing day for anyone with even a little bit of money in the market. >> the dow took an historic plunge when trading opened this morning and markets rebounded from the worst of the losses but the dow and the nasdaq and the s. & p 500 all closed the day sharply lower. here is a closer look at how volatile it has been.