right now major damage to an arlington home after an early morning fire. firefighters say two people were warned to get out quickly. and i'm erika gonzalez watching a dangerous situation in parts of texas. we're going to show you how this man was just rescued this morning as flooding becomes an even greater problem. here, june starting off feeling like summertime. a look at our next chances for storms coming up. news 4 midday starts now. firefighters say that people who lived in this house can thank their neighbors for saving t

in arlington. it caught fire shortly before this morning. neighbors told the two people inside to get out and they along with their dogs all escaped. fire caused major damage to the first floor of the house as you can tell from this video. we just don't know how bad it is. we're also working to find out how the fire started. developing overseas, search crews have been looking for weeks. and now they may have found the black boxes from egyptair flight 804. the plane crashed into the mediterranean sea last month with 66 people onboard. this morning egypt officials said a french ship received signals it believes are the black boxes. if they are, we could find out why that plane went down in the first place, if it was terrorism as some officials believe, or something else. i'm tisha thompson live with deveen

way to work when he saw a woman trapped in knee deep water, but he too became trapped when he drove into that water in an attempt to rescue her. a water rescue team did help the woman walk to safety, but the man's vehicle became almost completely swamped with the water. texas has been inundated by water over the last few days with one river swelling to record levels because of heavy rainfall. emergency responders say a vehicle can be swept away in just one inch of water. so they always caution you to never drive into flood waters. good morning. right now we've got some ni sunshine and clouds beginning to build live from the storm team 4 tower camera overlooking off in the horizon is montgomery county. these clouds have been filling in rather quickly as some humidity in the air still sort of lingering humidity from the remnants of tropical storm bonnie lurking off the south carolina coast. right now we don't have any rain anywhere in the vicinity.

from the mountains all the way to the bay and the atlantic beaches. temperatures are really warming quickly. already in the low 80s most areas, reagan national's the outlier. it's up to 85 there. right around the bay it's around 80 degrees. and it's in the upper 70s, near 80 shenandoah valley and out into the mountains. a look at our next chances for storms over the next few days and into your weekend. that's all coming up in just a few minutes. tom, thanks so much. you can expect more police presence today in arlington county during school dismissals and that's because of several reports of suspicious men near children. the latest incident happened last week on north stafford street in arlington. in three of these cases kids reported seeing a man in a dark colored pickup truck. in two of the cases kids say the man tried to get them into the vehicle. police are investigating and need your help if you have any information. lots of montgomery county high schoolers are graduating right now, and it's normally a time to celebrate. but at one school it's a bit of co

news 4's derrick ward is live at constitution hall in northwest d.c. where seniors from bethesda chevy chase high school are graduating. >> reporter: well, you know, as we speak now the 2016 graduating class of bethesda chevy chase high school is going through all the pomp and circumstance that comes along with making that transition from high school to college and whatever else is coming for the students. but six of those students almost didn't make the ceremony all because of what happened at the prom. now, six students showed up at the prom on may 6th, and they say they were drunk. school policy had been stated regards to alcohol and its use at school functions and functions that the school sponsors and those students were warned they could be barred from the graduation ceremony if they were found to have used alcohol at the prom. that's exactly what happened. principal dr. donna redman jones announced that the six students would be allowed to graduate, but they couldn't take part in the ceremony. what also happened was

superintendent of the schools larry bowers. he explained in the letter to parents that his decision was based on a case by case evaluation of those six áy students' records. and we spoke to a graduate who says, well, she's acquainted with all those students involved. she actually thinks that the principal and not the superintendent made the right decision. >> i would say all of them are my friends. dr. jones made it very clear about her policy beforehand. i think of course there are a few exceptions due to circumstances, but i can't -- i'm not a professional so i can't make a full judgment. it's not my place to, sir. for future just like be smart with your decisions. >> reporter: and while principal jones wasn't all too happy with the reversal of her decision, she says there's a silver lining here and that is there's a conversatino

inevitably it's going to pop up in the future and hopefully then be more guidance on what school policy is and what the power of a principal is in a situation like this. we're live outside constitution hall, derrick ward, news 4. back to you. >> derrick, thanks. developing right now, prince george's county police investigating a shooting. this happened around 9:00 last night on kayak avenue in capitol heights. police say one man was pronounced dead at the scene. no word on a suspect's description. and today three men will be arraigned for the deadly shooting of an american university grad. matthew shot outside the shaw-howard university metro station in northeast. this happened last august. marcus king, andre dudley and christopher proctor are all charged in his death. fairfax county police are looking for help to track down a repeat burglar. they say somebody's been stealing cash and jewelry from people at the avana apartments on patriot drive. most of the break-ins have

in the morning. if you've got any information about this, you're asked to call police. we've got some new details in a heartbreaking story out of prince george's county. you may remember a dog died in the care of the clinton kennel last month. well, now we know the kennel fired the employee who was responsible. officials say the employee violated company policy by leaving the dog outside in a pen overnight. the dog got out and was later found dead. the kennel took full responsibility and said in part, quote, all vet bills were imminently paid by us and we are deeply saddened by this event, end quote. a lot of nerves rattled with this next story. this morning school officials on the look out for bears near two prince william county schools. the bears were spotted yesterday morning at pace west school in tyler elementary. both in gainesville. bear tried to paw its way into a car in the parking lot. both police and animal control

scary. >> yeah, you can say that again. well, it's 11:07 right now. from cereal to pizza to sandwiches, new guidelines just released this morning on how much salt you should be eating. plus, who's david french? the man being named as a possible independent

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live desk. just in, food and drug administration proposed new guidelines on how much salt should be added to the food you buy at the grocery store. about 100 different limits set to categories including pizza, bread and even sliced turkey. americans eat about one teaspoon of salt daily on average, that's about a third more than the government recommends. and the obama administration says one in three adults, and one out of every ten kids has high blood pressure linked to a diet high in sodium. these new guidelines are voluntary and experts say many companies will gradually reduce the amount of salt currently in their products with the hope you won't even notice. it took nearly two decades to build, but now the world's largest rail tunnel in switzerland has been blessed before it opens for business. a group of interfaith leaders performed a ceremony at the 35.4 mile tunnel that goes through the alps. service through the tunnel

start in december. right now you will pay more for that coveted parking spot in the district. today, meter rates went up across the city to $2.30 per hour. this means a huge increase for those normal demand spaces. there's also a 30 cent increase for premium and commercial spots. now, from parking on the road to the rails, in a few days metro will launch its yearlong safe track maintenance plan, until then though it wants to remind riders you're going to notice signs on station monitors, going to want to look for these fliers at transit stations like metro center. the plan launches on saturday and it will mean single tracking and station closures. commuters along one of the busiest roads in our area are bracing for a possible change. transportation planners want to eliminate less left turns on part of route 123 in

help our road congestion is a good thing, right? but eliminating left hand turns altogether from a busy road, that's something that's being considered here along super busy route 123. as a matter of fact, they want to turn this stretch here into what's known as a super street. basically eliminating a lot of the conflict point where you would make a left hand turn. so traffic could just continue to flow. but not everyone's sold on the idea. >> yeah, that's going to jack this stuff up. i'm not in favor of that. >> reporter: why? you need to make a left sometimes? >> you have to make a left. >> reporter: this is an idea that's still going to take a little bit of study. nothing is set in stone yet, but fairfax county planners say flat out something has to change here and it does look like that's coming. in tysons, adam tuss. tsa dealing with long waits at airports this summer, but also asking you the passenger to help out. this afternoon at dulles international airport tsa

officials will share some travel tips about how to get through summer security lines. they will explain why its rules are in place and what they are doing behind the scenes to keep airline travel safe. and some very scary moments onboard this united airlines flight. take a look at this raw video. a botched landing, the plane bouncing on the runway at newark liberty international yesterday. then the pilot taking that plane back up into the air. you can see the hard landing dislodged panels from the ceiling of the plane. thankfully nobody was hurt. the plane finally was able to land about half an hour later. there could soon be a new candidate in decision 2016. sources confirm to nbc news that david french may run as an independent. the conservative writer and iraq war veteran says he is considering a campaign but has not decided yet. conservative pundit bill crystal may be trying to persuade him, widely known for helps discover sarah palin for the gop

veteran. according to his bio also a recipient of the bronze star and a constitutional lawyer and author. right now french writes for the conservative national review. recently he urged mitt romney to launch an independent bid for president, he's been pretty outspoken about being against donald trump. >> i know for a fact an awful lot of republicans are throwing in for donald trump right now because they feel like they have no other option. >> trump told reporters he's not worried. he says an independent candidate has no shot at the white house. politicians from donald trump to president obama have been called narcissists during their careers, but what is a narcissist and is it a appropriate label? dr. joshua weiner joins us more on this personal disorder. thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> so this actually is a disorder, it's been established that it is. what are some of the symptoms? >> first let me say there's a little bit of a difference between narcissist and somebody who has

disorder. a lot of people have elements of narcissism. this is this love, high, self-esteem. and i would say majority of world leaders probably possess a fair amount of that. think about the confidence you have to have to consider yourself capable to be a world leader. that's different than having narcissistic personality disorder. somebody with narcissistic personality disorder really has problems in their relationships because of their level of self-love. these are people so grandiose they lack empathy, they believe they're special, exploit others and underlying this for many of them is actually this fragile view of themselves and that's why they get so upset if there's any kind of criticism or anything that seems to threaten that view that they want to have of themselves. >> you're talking about the secret feelings of, you know, shame and insecurity they hold within. >> in some cases. not everybody, not all narcissists are going to have that or people with narcissistic personality disorder, i should say, but many will. >> okay. would you say it's more with men than women?

so it's much more commonly occurring in men than women. you know, we don't know it occurs in roughly about 5% of people in the population. and we don't know exactly what causes somebody to develop this personality disorder, but there was an interesting study that was done in the last year that suggests that this might be caused by parents putting undue praise and unearned praise on their children just telling their child all the time you are so smart, you're so special, you're so wonderful. and just going way overboard without that without the kid actually earning that praise. >> so when they fall short this is how they react? >> exactly. yes. it doesn't fall in line with what they have been told throughout their whole lives. >> well, that makes me wonder is there a difference between a perfectionist then and a narcissist or someone who has npd? >> absolutely. a perfectionist is somebody who really wants to make sure they do a ve thorough job on everything. that person doesn't necessarily possess these personality qualities where they feel like they're better than everybody and they

treatment. >> when we talk about mental health professionals, if you're not around someone every single day, is it possible for them to be able to diagnose somebody correctly? >> no. so this is what kind of bothers me. you see some people on television talking about donald trump and how he's clearly got narcissistic personality disorder. i think that, look, i don't know donald trump, it's not possible for me to know that or for anyone to know that unless they know him very, very well. you can't just base somebody's diagnosis on how they present themselves outwardly. so the public persona can be very different than the private persona. we know that very well. in fact, some people who are sosh pa sociopaths, killers out there in the public, these can be very charming and endearing people. so you actually can't make any assessment about somebody unless you really get to know them. now, donald trump may have this, he may not, but i think it's inappropriate for anyone to really make that statement with confidence without knowing him well. >

is actually affecting their relationship and they want to get help and seek treatment, what is the treatment? >> you know, there isn't a great treatment out there actually. so one thing that's interesting is that narcissistic personality disorder tends to burn itself out as people get older. it kind of peaks in your 20s, but as you reach your 40s and 50s it tends to diminish in intensity. but really the treatment is therapy. but even that hasn't been shown to be all that effective. when you have this, you kind of have it. >> you got to talk it out it sounds like. >> talk it out or go through life with it and burn a lot of bridges and have some rough relationships. but that's kind of the way it is for many people. >> all right. dr. josh weiner, thank you so much for stopping by. >> my pleasure. >> back to you ncht start of hurricane season, the steps you should take today whether you live on the coast or not. plus, the first baby with zika-linked problems born in the united states. what we know about the newborn's ondition. c

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today marks the official start of the 2016 atlantic hurricane season. president obama urging people to be prepared. >> what we're always worried about things we don't know, things we can't anticipate, things we haven't seen before. and that is why it's so important to make sure that every american, every family participate actively in getting prepared. >> the president a

the fema app and ready.gov. the app provides for all kinds of hazards and helps families put together evacuation plan and disaster preparedness kit should they need it. so what can we expect this hurricane season? >> tom, you're the man with the answers. >> well, you know, we hear about el nino and la nina, those are different weather patterns that can effect a hurricane season. we're transitioning between the two, as a result it's looking like an average hurricane season for 2016, which means we may have anywhere between 10 to 16 named storms. we've already had two. and we could have four to eight of them as hurricanes. and of those we can have one to four major hurricanes. now, the prime "timtime for us get hurricanes in our region is late august through mid september. right now though nothing going on in the atlantic. we're all clear around the region other thanme

humidity that is lingering. and we see that over capitol hill. that's a live view from our capitol camera. right now storm team 4 radar not showing any rain anywhere in our vicinity. but there are still some showers. this is the remnants of tropical storm bonnie still lurking off the south carolina coast, still likely to track off to the north and east and pull away from the outer banks. but it's going to take another couple days before it really does that. so right now temperatures are getting warm. we're already well into the low even mid 80s around much of the region. and what to wear today? well, you need your sunglasses, sun block, go sleeveless, wear your shorts and have an umbrella ready. there's only a small chance of isolated storm later this afternoon. your hour by hour forecast including rockville where falls meat elementary school is back down to the mid 70s by late evening and by dawn tomorrow we'll be down to the upper 60s. during the day on thursday greater chance of an afternoon storm, low 80s. likelihood of some showers, maybe ln

friday, over the weekend dry saturday, sunday could get storms and look at next week perhaps on tuesday. thank you, tom. to the latest on the zika virus. a baby born with a zika related birth defect in new jersey. the baby born at the hackensack university medical center has low birth weight and severe microcephaly. the 31-year-old mother is from honduras and in the u.s. on a visit. well, check your pantries, general mills is voluntarily recalling several brands of flour due to a possible e. coli contamination. the company says that the outbreak may be linked to gold medal, wondra and signature kitchen flour. the cdc found about half of those with the illness reported making something with flour before becoming sick. e. coli has not been found in any general mills

this morning we're going to tell you about regarding the takata airbags. and the bag airbags still being installed in some cars. and take a look at this. the jeep did not just hit the house, but it looks like it must have somehow just blown into it. what we know about what happed.en

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new developments this morning. more recalls for those defective deadly takata airbag inflators. also brand new companies are still installing them in cars right now. a senate report says manufacturers are using the defective airbags as replacements in millions of cars and that four companies are all putting them in new cars. the faulty airbags can explode instead of inflating in a crash. they've been blamed for several deaths already. in the latest recall ford said this morning it's almost recalling 2 million cars for this problem. this is not how you want to start your day. a family in georgia got an unusual awakening this morning when this jeep right here rocketed into their home. crews pulled it out shortly after, as you can see. police are trying to figure out how the driver lost control and slammed into that house. he is ri covecovering at a hosp and expected to be okay. no one inside the house was t.

southwest of houston, texas, are under water. and there is more rain coming. nbc's jay gray is live with the latest right now in richmond. jay. >> reporter: hey, erika, as you describe a dire situation. take a look at this neighborhood. not supposed to be in the river and it is right now because it's over its flood stage. more than 54 feet it's crested here. that's three feet above the previous record, and nine feet above the flood stage here. they've seen ten inches of rain or more in this area. we're getting a break right now, that's the good news. but more on the way, unfortunately, according to forecasters. we could see in the next couple of days 9 to 12 inches of rain adding to what is already just a very difficult situation. nine people we know have died as a result of this flooding. officials are worried that that number like the water level could increase. we've seen water rescues and teams continue to work around the clock

and also helping to rescue drivers who get stuck in this water or those who refuse to leave their homes. it's a constant problem. it's something they'll continue to deal with over the next couple of days here. again, we know thousands have been displaced. shelters opening across the state. and more rain on the y, according to forecasters, a bad combination here right now, erika. >> this has been probably pretty hard for you to cover being a texan. i'm sure you're probably checking on your family members as well because this is just such a wide area where all this is fallen. thanks for giving us some new perspectives on this, jay. >> reporter: thanks. feel like doing a little good? we're going to switch gears now, consider participating in the united way's do more 24 campaign tomorrow the united way is helping hundreds of nonprofits raise money. nbc 4 is a proud partner too. rosie allen herring ceo of the united way of the national capitol area is here nowto

involved. thank you for joining us. >> thanks so much for having us. >> tell me when this got started and what this is about. do more 24, pretty easy thing for folks to remember. tell me what this is about. >> do more 24 is a 24-hour day of giving that is powered by united way of the national capitol area. today, well, 2016 is our fourth year, and we've raised over $3.5 million to support many of the nonprofits in our community over the last three, well four years now. so 24 hours basically giving an opportunity for anyone and everyone to go online to domore24.org and make a contribution. there are over 732 nonprofit organizations that are participating this year. it's our largest ever. >> you can find something that is close to your heart, something that really speaks to you in an effort to give. what is the contribution that people maybe are suggested to give, is there a dollar amount? or if you say, look, this is what i can afford, can i do that? >>

it's whatever you can share and are willing to give. of course there will be different tiers where you can give, online, but of course you can give as much as you like and certainly you can give as little as you like because this is an opportunity for us to come together as a community and be able to demonstrate everyone can do something. we call it do more 24 but it's really an opportunity for us as a community to do more, give more and be more. >> rosie, is this just for folks that are in this area? is this a nationwide campaign? who all is getting in on this? >> well, it's local here in the greater washington area, but we do have colleagues from united way who are now looking to pattern this. so this particular year our colleagues in united way in the state of delaware are doing it on the same day as we are. now we've gotten inquiries from some of our colleagues in other parts of the country as well. it is locally home grown here. again, it's our fourth year. >> congratulations to you guys for that. what's the turnout been like? i guess i should say how's the support been for these nonprofits through this event? >> well, it'see

because, again, when we talked about what we were able to raise last year, which was $1.4 million. >> whoa. >> in that 24-hour period of time, we're hoping to surpass that this year with the number of donors we have. last year over 11,000 individuals made contributions. and, again, that just speaks to the heart that we have as a community. we're really a philanthropic community. there's a lot of need. many of the nonprofits on the ground in the community every day doing this work need the support. and so it's our pleasure to really try to be a convener, collaborator and bring innovative new thought leadership solutions to the table around those issues that are really impacting our community. >> so i'm going to be joining you guys tomorrow. i'm really excited about that, doing some facebook live for folks that are joining us online to show you kind of what it looks like. tell folks to leave with final thought about how they can get involved. they don't exactly have to go to some place, do this from the convenience of their computer. >> they can do it from the convenience of their computer, smartphone, any type of

and you'll have an opportunity to look at something that's closest to your passion, be it animal welfare, education, financial stability issues, just about anything you can care about will be an organization that will certainly appreciate and meet your help. it's an opportunity for us to do more and be more as a community. >> rosie, thank you so much, see you tomorrow. >> absolutely. >> what's so cool is you just have to do a little to do more. rain is headed our way for the end of the workweek. tom is back with an update. and it's not your typical shakespeare product. after the break meet the star of the all-male cast of "taming of the shrew."

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♪ i will remember you ♪ >> many fell in love with maulik pancholy and now the actor is taking on a bit of a classic. he's part of the shakespeare theater company's all-male production of "the taming of the shrew." maulik joining us. so nice to have you here, i'm like that's the same guy. so i want you to tell me about this. you play kathrine. >> i do. >> first question has to be how does it feel playing a woman? >> it feels great. it's exciting and power -- she's such a strong powerful character. i think she's one of shakespeare's greatest heroines. i get to step into this woman who throws down and has control and dignity and strength, but then also goes through a very emotional and vulnerable process throughout the

>> well, because she is so fiery, so spirited. does it take a different piece of you to be able to channel something like that and to portray that character? >> i think so. my character was to find what her beating heart was and everything else kind of fall into place. but there are things that held me. i get to wear like four and a half inch heels, i have to wear a corset. a little bit of stumbling around and falling downstairs, but i think we've got it down. >> so the costumes play really an integral role in this, especially doing all this how many dress rehearsals have you had to do to get it down? >> we had like a week of dress rehearsals. you know, we played with costume pieces in the dress room. i had a corset i wore throughout because it changes the way you breathe. >> yeah. >> so we had some time. >> okay. tell me what it's like. i want to know the difference between doing comedy and doing

you know, moving this way, doing theater, doing shakespeare of all things. >> it's super different. tv is super fast paced, very little rehearsal time, a script the week before, two rerehearsal with the other actors and shooting it. with theater we had live five weeks of rehearsal, the play, everyone knows the play, i had time with the play before we started. there's a sense of like dropping into a bigger picture in a way with the play because you have the whole script and you know where this character's got to go. but also i think this play has a lot of comedy in it so we're getting to do some pretty funny stuff on stage as well. >> are you working on some other projects? are we going to get to see you in some other things as well? >> i do a voice for "sanjay and craig." i work on writings right now. hopefully at some point i'll pitch a show. >> wonderful. it's wonderful to see you evolve on tv and now we get the opportu

some shakespeare. >> yeah, come out and see us. >> thank you for stopping in. absolutely. maulik pancholy, "the taming of the shrew". >> thanks so much. what can he not do? he has it all covered. right now we are starting to see a good mix of sun and clouds outside. take a look, for another day it is starting to warm up real fast. that mercury is just rising. and, tom is here to tell us about whether or not we have a rain-free day. i hope so because i left the umbrella in the car. >> yeah, most of the region will be rain-free throughout much of the day ahead. we've got just a very small chance of an isolated shower popping up by later this afternoon. you can tell the humidity is hanging in the air. as a result the storm team 4 seven-day outlook is kind of busy. we do have some scattered showers little more likely tomorrow. just a very small chance this afternoon as we get temperatures into the upper 80s throughout much of the region. it's going to be feeli

summertime, and many of the area pools are already open so it's great pool weather, great beach weather as well. then as we get into tomorrow we'll have increasing clouds and about a 30% chance of an afternoon thunderstorm popping up on thursday. afternoon highs tomorrow will just be in the low 80s generally. now, the average high this time of year is at 80 degrees. then as we get into friday it looks like a lot of clouds around on friday and some showers are looking likely. maybe a little thunder and lightning on friday, highs around 80. then over the weekend another great pool day and beach day. we'll have a partly sunny sky, afternoon highs into the mid 80s. then looks like an increasing chance of some showers, maybe some thunderstorms on sunday. that looks like that's going to move in sunday afternoon and sunday evening. highs should be rising up around 80 degrees or so. then monday partly cloudy, low 80s. tuesday another chance of storms as we get into next week with highs near 80. that's the way it looks. thank you, tom. medical billing mistakes happen more often than you think. after the break, how you can get help to correct all tho

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well, it is graduate season, and father's day is just around the corner, so whether you're looking for a gift for that grad or dad, we have some great ideas for you. my friend steve greenberg, author of gadget nation back in the house with us here. we always love you bring us really fun finds.

>> i think everything is for both grad or dad depending on the dad and grad. so for example if that dad or grad does a lot of driving, this is pretty cool. this is by verizon, you don't have to be a verizon customer to use it. it clips on to the visor of the car, goes into the computer port of the car and then basically you then have access to all the information going on in your car, it goes right to your smartphone. on top of that you push a button and live access to a person if you were in an accident use this or another button you can talk to a certified mechanic so you can get a second opinion on a repair or ask on the pricing of the repair, all that available $10 a month. hum by verizon. totally crazy about this. >> in times of emergencies. >> it's a must-have. this is honeywell's lyrics thermostat. this is their second generation. what's new about it now is it has geosensing, meaning it keeps track of all the smartphones in your house. as the smartphones move away from the house, people move away

mode as those phones move back to the house it goes into comfort mode. it's a great way to save money and it's doing all the work for you. >> smarter than us now, right? >> really cool from the folks at honeywell. >> fire it up, steve. >> this is fizzick -- ics, basically put in your glass, can right in side here or glass or push right here and it will pour you a perfect beer. it's the world's first personal draft beer system. >> and foam, right? >> when you want the foam back it up like this, tip it like this and give it a little backup and it will give you the perfect. >> there we go. nice inch. >> and what's nice about it is you'll take any kind of beer, actually improves the flavor and taste of that beer. again, work with growlers or long boys or even cans. just put it in here. good to go. very cool. available at target and best buy. next, do you remember this? this is what tower usedo

probably still looks like in a lot of offices maybe here at nbc. what you replace these big towers, check out new minipcs. >> it's like a fraction of the size. >> fraction of the size but the same power if not more power, great for gaming or video editing or whatnot. this is from acor. this is dell's alien ware alpha, but, again, under $500, super powerful and doesn't take up nearly the real estate. >> yeah, such a space saver. this is cool. >> this is the charger leash. this is basically a cord for your smartphone, but when you take your smartphone away, what happens is it knows that you left it behind. so normally you just leave this in the airplane, this one instead starts to beep and tell you, hey, don't forget me. that's how you don't leave the cord behind. >> how many cords have we left behind? >> under $20. and this is one of my favorites, this is called spill fix made from coconut shell. it clears up nearly anything. we spill oil on the kitchen

floor, this would work in the garage, with gasoline or anything from paint to vomit to urine. anything around the house that you want to clean up that's liquid. put the stuff on it, let it soak in and just kind of take it away. like i'm doing right now. do a second hit of it just to get the last bit. angie's going to prove there's no oil here. angie, take a little touch and tell me if you feel any oil. >> no, it's gone. >> it's landfill safe, absolutely amazing. under $10. spillfix.com. i am absolutely crazy about this. it's just coconut shell. super healthy. safe around the house, should be on the boat, the car, garage, datd's shop, must-have. >> we love you, steve. thanks for coming by. lots of neat things. back to you. thanks, angie. there's a statistic now that may surprise you. some studies show that up to 80% of medical bills have mistakes on them.

nbc's olivia sterns reveals where you can go to battle these unwelcome surprises. >> reporter: cindy and her husband planned everything for their first baby eleanor. but complications forced a c-section at the hospital. and that's when they got an even bigger surprise, anesthesia bills for two births. >> for both vaginal delivery and cesare cesarean. >> but you only had one delivery. >> right, i only had one baby. >> reporter: over 14 months the bills kept coming from some 20 different health care providers. so you got $40,000 in bills totalled. >> yes. >> reporter: that's when cindy went online and found help from medical recovery services, which discovered several errors in the paperwork. she was double billed for anesthesia and billed for tests that should have been covered by insurance. in the end cindy's $40,000 became $8,000 out of pocket and medical recovery services got that down to $1,700. >> you would be shocked and

errors that we do see on a daily basis. >> reporter: in fact, some studies have found up to 80% of medical bills contain errors. the problem so widespread that half of employers now offer medical bill advocates as a free benefit. to find an advocate yourself, contact organizations like claims.org, know that many charge for their service. cindy paid a $1,600 fee after saving $6,400. and check out your advocate with the better business bureau before sharing sensitive medical information. back in florida cindy has some good news. >> we're due around christmas. so that's really exciting. >> reporter: this time praying not just for an easy delivery, but also an easy time with those bills. olivia sterns, nbc news, sarasota. >> a lot of good information there. >> yeah. well, the video it's gone wild, it's everywhere. a giant gator on a golf course. >> after the break, we're going to hear from the man who

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well, it might be the most challenging obstacle course in the world, and it returns tonight to nbc 4. "american ninja warrior" begins its eighth season tonight. last season two contestants made history with how fast they completed the course. but this year there are new challenges and new twists for the ninjas. there are 27 new obstacles and old familiar ones are being tweaked. >> the rock wall has

used to seeing the step, now it's totally different. >> people love watching the show for the individual victory and for the stories of these people. >> well, "america ninja warrior" begins tonight at 8:00 right here on nbc 4. it will be followed by the season premiere. >> i want to know if who revamps those can do what's been revamped. you can find plenty of hazards on a golf course, how about an alligator. >> why this isn't your average gator tale. >> that is the biggest alligator i've ever seen in my life. >> reporter: talk about a hazard, a 15-foot long alligator lumbered across the golf club just north of sarasota. >> you ever see anything? >> no. >> i think that's two guys in a suit? >> reporter: charlie says the

course. >> you kind of learn very early on that, you know, people really aren't on the menu. you just don't bother it. don't annoy it. certainly don't corner it and let it go. >> reporter: with swamps and water hazards, gators are such common sights on florida's courses they've been captured on video many times. but this one looks like it would be more at home in jurassic park. happy gillmore fans know what a gator on the golf course can do. >> alligator bit my hand off. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: no bites here, just awe at this alligator's golf course swagger. anne thompson, nbc news. >> yeah, had to throw that reference in there. >> you know he's not going for his ball if saw something like that. that thing is goliath. >> i would say it's cocktail time. everybody go inside. >> get closer, a little more perspective,no

longer friends. let's get a last check of the weather. tom, warm out there. >> yeah, we love seeing your videos and photos, next time you're taking video of a crocodile, post it on twitter, facebook, share it and use hash tag nbc4dc. live view from the storm team 4 tower camera clouds and temperatures building as well. mid 80s much of the region, upper 80s later this afternoon with just a few clouds around. then tomorrow chance of an afternoon storm, mainly shenandoah valley in the mountains. metro area should stay dry, highs low 80s. as we get into friday aerial wide up near 80 over the weekend partly sunny saturday, maybe few more storms on sunday and then few storms tuesday into next week. >> dry stretch never lasts long. that's going to do it for news 4 midday. thank you so much for joining us. we are back on the air this

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