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you paid for. dig into why it's so hard to stop them. >> and late-breaking news on florida's gulf coast now impacting redskins. we begin tonight with a bizarre accident, in the middle of the evening rush a tree came crashing down on moving car on beech drive. >> seriously injured driver but so many people nearby they managed to lift the tree off. live between connecticut avenue and cal ver street. >> reporter: it's amazing when you see the size of the tree they lifted up. driver is battling life-threatening injury. as you see traffic is back and throwing through

part. >> car was moving, just one in a million kind of thing. >> reporter: just after 6:00 this even when 911 calls came in for a man trapped in a car. tree landed on this car moving northbound. officer asked him to help. >> looked at tree. >> tree is sizeable. i don't know if the officer could have done it alone. adrenaline or not. critical that the people stopped to help. really incredible. >> reporter: once the tree out of the way, firefighters had to cut the roof off the car. how many people did it take? >> i would say probably five police officers, a couple park rangers and

pedestrians. >> reporter: still don't know what caused the tree to snap. whether uprooted or snapped. not the first thing that something like this happened with large, old-growth trees in the park. about a year ago with snowstorm, a tree fell on a car about a mile from him trapping the man inside and in that case the man died. back to you jim and doreen. >> thanks so much. now breaking news tonight. just in from the nfl, redskins final preseason game against the tampa bay bucks just moved up to wednesday. >> tweeted just before coming on air, due to expected severe weather game moved up for the safety of fans and players. still

the weather doug? >> tracking a tropical depression, three storm systems in the basin. gaston, 105-mile-per-hour hurricane, off the coast. and depression in the gulf of mexico, this is hard to see, don't have radar in this area but look at track of the storm. this is why they're moving this game one day forward. winds at 35 miles per hour now and going to move into the gulf and back towards florida. wednesday night. 8:00 it's offshore. still getting rain i think, could be wet game but winds will come until thursday and if they waited would be high winds. won't impact as much. i'll show you how this will affect us later. nk

e-mail threats have campus on alert. virginia tech say e-mail threatened campus safety, a threat to kill people on campus. police chief wouldn't confirm. in statement on the school website, other schools received similar e-mail. asked officials to be vigilant. the campus is open. busy in washington d. c., a man shot into the bathroom and victim still in the hospital. only on news4 tonight. still trying to catch the guys responsible. >> reporter: that mother is devastated. son shot in the bathroom inside the

in critical condition breathing with help of a ventilator and undergone reconstructive surgery several times. >> still fighting for his life. >> reporter: speaks out for the first i'm about her son. shot in the middle of the day a few weeks ago. >> he's gone through so much, and you can just see the fear in his eyes. >> reporter: asked us not to release her son's name. flew into d.c. from kansas a couple days ago. >> just hurting so bad. >> reporter: police released security video, showing walking into restroom, suspect follows and shot is fired. suspect casually walks out. police say they had interaction. she insists son

suspect and random robbery. looking for two more persons of interest. >> please turn yourselves in. you messed up a young man's life along with his family. >> reporter: and tonight d.c. police urge anyone with information about the shooting want to hear from you. shomari stone, news 4. construction to make a bethesda intersection safer. river road by brayburn parkway years ago. but crash there killed three members of a whitman high school family. tonight crews installing lights to brighten the area and warn drivers when cars are turning. tonight two people are dead and more injured in three hit-and-run crashes in a

period in virginia, one in reston, another inaneandale and another in manassas. arrested 23-year-old nicholas hammond of fairfax for that crash in beltway. he drove into back of the nis n nissan. woman died and four others hit. in reston looking for driver who hit the woman on north shore drive here. released picks of vehicle but now think it's just witness to the crash. devastating news for dozens of fam i lz in manassas. had days to move out. many are latinos calling on advocacy group for help. say they own their homes and

investment. says today's notice could mean financial ruin. >> in order to move would cost too much and i can't pay the mortgage and find somewhere else to live. looking at bankruptcy. >> city of manassas says working to help the residents. buying the property to fix the sewer system. damages unfixed by property owners for years despite warnings and fines. hoarding conditions made it tough for firefighters to battle a fire near pennsylvania avenue. said access was tough because of debris, furniture and clothing piled high throughout the house. person who lives here was able to escape and fire contained to one side of the duplex. cause is still under investigation. tonightre

emergency shutoff button that caused the 911 outage in the district over the weekend. down for about two hours early sunday, engineer investigating a water leak hit the all-stop button because feared the leak was threatening sensitive equipment. 911 dispatchers rushed to backup center. officials tell us one aware of major emergency calls missed. who doesn't like free wifi? now you can save your data and connect to metro's wifi but only temporary. gallery place. union station, metro center, judiciary square and plaza are part of a pilot program. you can test the where's may train feature and access other web sites. only lasts

next at 11:00 tonight, laptops lifted from local schools. and drug company mylan slashing the price of epipens but

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for "young frankenstein," "the producers" and blaising sadles. died from complications of alzheimer's at 83 years old. after problems with epipen, offering a generic. cost half the price but means the price will go down to $300, three times more than what the drug cost about a decade ago. consumer advocates say it's too much for drug that can mean the difference between life and death in allergic reactions. in one major school district some of the equipment has been walking out. >> investigation finds crooks stealing laptops and

dozens. scott mcfarl and reports it not just computers but taxpayers getting pinched. >> reporter: elementary school, one of the most innocent of places. wouldn't think a crook would target one. but there were valuables at morley for the taking and they haves took 25 laptops from the school library. >> computers are used every day. parents fought tooth and nail to get more in. >> reporter: they haves hit barnard elementary at least twice and this security camera caught four suspects in action. every computer theft in d.c. public schools in past four years found at least 300 computers, laptops,

tablets. at neighbortion school districts with similar or larger enrolement, found fewer, 11 in frederi frederick. found the supervisor. >> laptops we hand out are everywhere and easily grabbed. >> reporter: each is given a bar code and serial number and can only be used after signing onto the school district network. >> sign into your computer, they can find out you can find out where they are. >> yes. >> reporter: issuing a statement saying the buildings have alarms and cameras and saying that each digital device is set up with tracking tool to monitor the location when it's online. and in addition are

locked carts in the school day. but even if they can be traced they sometimes travel far and wide before recovered if recovered. >> reporter: at least four made it across the country before recovered. sold online before this store was shut down nor peddling stolen electronics. >> reporter: police have got some of the crooks. two of the 25 stolen computers have been found. case remains open. but found something else interesting, asked for insurance claims filed to recover money for the theft, the school district said it had none. pressed as to why, they made a different statement. made 121 claims in the past two years, about a quarter of which have been paid out. joe

recouping money. >> it's sad it's happening across the district. >> reporter: news 4. see which schools have reported computers stolen and when, go to our app and search investigation. well, doesn't feel like all those back-to-school new clothes -- going to have to wait. >> hot today. >> yeah. >> going back to school. well, it was hot today. hot at school. high temperature, look at this 94 degrees across the region. high in d.c. and 94 in -- and 92. as far as the heat index, up to 98 today. a hot one for sure moving across the area.

we seeing tonight? pretty nice. temperatures in the 70s across the area, low in the shen do with a valley. no rain to talk about. we do need to see some rain but not coming soon. satellite radar tracking two systems. tropical depression off the coast and one in the gulf of mechl. closest to us. moving to northwest about five miles per hour. expected so move closer to this area and back out to sea. 45-mile-per-hour winds off the coast and that's about it. south, tropical depression number 9. 35-mile-per-hour winds.

changed redskins' game, that's good news. still raining for a lot of the game, wet field but thursday is on sure, 40 to 50-mile-per-hour winds. good idea to change the game. what what happens? up the coast and off the coast. for the labor day weekend could still have effect on the coastline as far as the rip currents are concerned. remember that on the beach. 90 degrees tomorrow. nice afternoon if you're out. highs in the 80s. 91 in fredericksburg. warm back to 93 degrees. but thursday, high temperature of 84, see a chance of showers and thunderstorms, not a big chance but a chance. and really nice weather friday, saturday, sunday and monday, high temperatures around 83 on friday, mid-80

and sunday and tropical storm on the coast stops our hp from moving off and will stay nicer longer. >> good news. coming up jas worth ons

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audible with tropical depression 9. expected to hit tampa. game scheduled for thursday at 8:00, moved ahead to wednesday. likely still wet but winds not as bad right? >> yeah. >> you can stay dry and watch it here. that's the good part. redskins are back at work today. wednesday night in the preseason the young starting quarterback. it's a good showcase. defensive lineman coen jensen. former giant. not lacking motivation heading into season. >> continuing to push myself. love the game of football.

as long as push myself and try to improve. i'm confident. >> i like to pick his brain to get better, what do i need to do better here. got a guy like that, get into his head. >> nats visiting the phillies. how do you do that? not very neighborly. >> looked like a dish. >> top of the first. former philly jayson werth in philadelphia, something to look at. 18th career home run, most against any team. later anthony -- this is going to left, harper showing off the hust hustle, coming if first and happ harper scores. bottom of the fifth, man on second, hernd

later. then in the seventh, still on the mound, sky one to left. jayson werth is there for the out. seven strikeouts. shut out the phillies. that will show them. >> beautiful night in baltimore. like a painting. orioles. this one is going back. he's -- can't make it. instead, check this out, great catch by the fan. hardee's eighth homer, orioles up 1-0. toronto now with jose beau teeftta, doesn't look good. blue jays. 5-1 win. orioles four games back. american league east.

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