. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to this wednesday, sepmber 22nd, 2010. a live lookoutside at 5:00 a.m. it is 66 degrees. still a cool, refreshing morning. things are heating up. meteorologist tom kierein tells us more about ur forecast. beautiful day yesterday, tom. >> autumn equinox arrives at 11:09 this evening. it will feel more like summertime as we get start odd this wednesday morning, as well as into thursday it will be on the mild side. same thing tomorrow morning. it will be in the 60s. at national airport. and under this sky on wednesday morning we have temperatures in the western regions in the 50s in western maryland, west virginia. on the bay, on the eastern shore, around 60 degrees. right near the waters i's in the mid and upper 60s. he view from space showing a mostly clear sky. a few clouds producing showers in eastern kentucky. that is a little bitf a disturbance that may be drifting up into the shenandoah valley. east of the blue ridge, sunset,

our own john yang is in kabul and he's with us from there. john, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. military officials say this appears to be an accident, not a shootdown. but still as you say, the worst helicopter crash since may of 2006. today's nine deaths bring the u.s. death toll to at least 351 for this year. still, more than three months to go in 2010 but already, it's the deadliest year for both u.s. and coalition forces. the helicopter that crashed today was a black hawk. the crash is under investigation. officials say there's no indication of any hostile fire. that, despite the taliban claim that they shot the helicopter down. meanwhile, another threat to the stability to the government of hamid karzai in afghanistan. mounting claims of fraud in this past weekend's parliamentary election almost on the scale of last year's tainted presidential election. so growing challenges here, both on the security front and on the political front, brian. >> thank you for all of it, john yang in kabul, afghanistan, for us tonight. >>>

our own john yang is on duty tonight in kabul. john, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. tonight, general david petraeus, the top u.s. commander here, has reached out to officials in pakistan to offer his condolences for the deaths. but nato officials aren't yet ready to accept responsibility. pakistan wasted no time responding to the death of these three soldiers, killed at a border post in pakistan's tribal region by apache attack helicopters. the choppers were supporting ground forces in afghanistan, who thought they spotted insurgents firing mortars. nato officials say the apaches took small arms fire from inside pakistan. >> operating in self-defense, the aircraft entered into pakistani air space, killing several armed individuals. >> reporter: within hours, pakistan blocked u.s. and coalition supply trucks heading into afghanistan. late today, more than 150 trucks were backed up in the khyber pass. the border crossing is on a vital supply line. it handles a s about 80% of the military's supplies bound for bases i

john yang in kabul, thank you very much. >>> hurricane igor swept past bermuda. jim is live in pajit. i don't know if i pronounced the name right. >> we're actually at elbow beach in paget. that's close enough. the good news, it still exists. we've received no structural damage and no injury or death. that is just huge. but the major power company said that we have considerable damage to our power system. 7/8 of the customers are without power. first responders are out there clearing the roads. and it's one time a category of category 4. back to you. >> jim cantore with the weather channel. thank you very much. >>> democrats trying to get organized. a daily rundown interview with president richard trumpca. >>> plus, the founder of facebook rip off the idea from his harvard classmates? a controversial new movie. >>> first, a look ahead at the president's schedule today. we told you about it. a town hall meeting with our friends at cnbc and then it's philadelphia. you're watching "the daily rundown" on msnbc. my name is vonetta, and i suffer from allergies. [ male

nbc's john yang joins us tonight with more from kabul. john, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. officials say at least 14 people were killed in taliban rocket and bomb attacks on this election day, but the taliban failed to stop the voting as they had promised to do. in fact, despite a recent uptick in violence here, today was calmer than last year's presidential election, but turnout appears to have been spotty at best. none of the long lines that marked last year's balloting. this was a key test of afghan progress today, not only security progress, but political progress. president obama wants to start withdrawing troops next summer. late today in a statement, top u.s. commander general david petraeus stressed that today the afghans were in charge, in charge of security and in charge of the voting process. last year's election, of course, was marked by massive fraud, and observers are already saying there was evidence of fraud again today. so the biggest test will be how the afghan government handles those complaints. and

good morning, i'm eun yang. >> good morning i'm joe krebs. welcome to "news 4 today" on this 30th and final day of september, 2010. the weather is the big story this morning. it is raining out there right now. tom beenelling us about th progression of this rain into our area. >> we do have a tornado warning for those of you just tuning in for calvert and anne arundel counties. a tornado warning. that means there is the potential for funnel cloud to be touching down in anne arundel county, and northern now looks like calvert county. now just the latest update of the radar. it does appear that the storm is holding its strength there. all of this moisture coming in from the south, continuing to advance to the north from circulatioaround the remnants of tropical storm nicole, it's no longer a named tropical storm, but it is certainly having an enormous impact up and down the atlantic seaboard. now where you see that area of orange in calvert county, just to the southeast of washington, that is the area of heaviest rain right now. that's a band th

>> john yang at our nbc news bureau in kabul tonight. john, thanks. >>> grim story in the news today in this country for the fourth time in the last few weeks, a teenager has taken his own life after being taunted and humiliat for being gay. in this case, a young man was recorded via hidden camera in what he thought was private was being play out over the internet. it combines the era of oversharing with the ultimate cruey. our story tonight from nbc's mike taibbi. >> reporter: he was an exuberant student and gifted musician who graduated high school with honors and scholarships. but the body of 18-year-old tyler clemente was pulled from the hudson river just days aft two of his rutgers college freshman classmates allegedly secretly videotaped him during a sexual encounter with another man and streamed that video live. three days later, reportedly wrote on his facebook page, jumping off the g.w. bridge, sorry. but there's a growing chorus of voices saying this is an incident of not just of cyber bullying but of cyber gay bashing. >> that

nbc's john yang is live in kabul. john, do we know yet whether we're talking about an accident or whether this was actually, as the taliban claiming responsibility, which you know better than i they do all the time, for something that happened where there might have been a shoot-down? what do we think happened? >> reporter: well, the military, andrea, is saying there was no shoot-down. they say there was no evidence of any hostile fire before this helicopter went down. it went down about 4:00 this morning local time, late monday night walk time in zabul province in the southeastern part of afghanistan. this is a taliban stronghold, the taliban control s much of te territory on the ground, also where coalition fors have been ral ping up their efforts to try to drive the taliban out. as you say being the taliban did claim responsibility, the military saying debbing it, saying there was no hostile fire. this now makes this year, 2010, even more than three months to go, the deadliest year for coalition forces in this nine

fred yang is democratic pollster with ger hart yang research. both firms co-conduct this poll.t to start with tax cuts. we are trying to get at this debate. it was the big debate over the last three weeks. should the tax cuts for the wealthy expire and we asked it two different ways. should they expire for folks over $250,000? just a flat question. let them expire, 49%. extend them, 45%. then we asked them and made the arguments both sides are making and the results were essentially the same. 47% to 47%. but inside the numbers, lots of things change. so, fred, i guess what i ask you, is this a winning argument for democrats at this point considering everything is so divide on this issue? >> i think it is a winning argument. i think in the next five weeks, we want to energize our base. we want to energize democrats to vote. we want to persuade independents to come to our column. the one thing we did not do in the nbc poll, which is totally fair is in polling i've done and i'm sure gene has seen for political candidates. when we use the name george w. bush and say it was the bush

. >> american's should release 8 8 iran yangs -- iranians. >> i don't believe it would be too much to ask to make a humanitarian gesture to release the iranians: >> there is no word from the iran president as far as release of the others. >> turkey, security cameras capture pictures of a 1 year old who is crawling across the crosswalk. the panic drivers call the police and return the baby to the mother. >> frank zappa several hundred fans join right here, and the bus is a replica here and many were at hand to celebrate with frank zappa. >> what the protested singer, lady gaga is expected to take part in. >> first, we want to check in with your trains and buses. >>> mark? >> >> light rail and the metro subway has some delays in the travel due to the construction work. and we have the 10 and 30 buses working with the construction diversion downtown. >> >> it's 5:38, hurricane igor is causing a lot of problems. there is no electricity on many parts of the island. meanwhile, crew ship passengers are stranded in boston instead of enjoying the tropical paradise get-away with. >> the last fl

. >> i'm eun yang for this wednesday, september 29th, 2010. it is 5:00 a.m. 61 degrees. much cooler morning. >> a nicer morning than kind of a muggy day yesterday. >> yeah. the dry air moved in. overnight it dried out. we have cleared out on this wednesday morning. it's an autumnal feel. right now in the mid-50s in prince george's. only near 50 farther west and north in the mouains right now, temperatures are only in the 40s many locations. eastern shore, mid-60s. we have leading edge of more rain pushing southeast and virginia. that will move up by this afternoon. and temperatures should climb into the low 70s. moderate to heavy rain tonight and into tomorrow morning many likely we'll have flooding this time tomorrow morning. flooding rains likely thursday, ending thursday night. drying out friday into the weekend. >>> tom, off we go. from the north country this morning, smooth sailing. very calm commute. just the way we le it along i-270 as we head from frederick to urbana, 118, germantown on down. no accidents or incidents to work about. travel lanes are open as well.

. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to news 4 for this friday, september 24th, 2010. it is 5:00 a.m. 72 depress. beautiful capitol dome lit up in the night sky. tom, feels like summer already. yeah. summer in september continues. one more day. relief is on the way. we do have fog around the region as well. it is mild. it is muggy. prepare yourself. dress yourself for a summer like day. mid-60s in prince gorge's. arlington, fairfax, and montgomery. most locations weather watchers reporting rural areas in the 60s with patchy fog. these are the latest visibilities. down to five miles in washington. andrews air force base, zero visibility. watch out for thick fog. eastern shore, 60s. over the last 12 hours, a few high clouds drifting north and wes highs reach the mid-90s that's right near or above the record. and finally,ooler weather coming in on a northwest breeze. much cooler sunday and monday with a chance of rain. ashley, how is the traffic? >> well, we have an issue out of southeast athe end of a police chase. minnesota and southeast. this is the ce on 66 past route

i'm joe krebs. >> i' eun yang. it's 67 degrees. beautiful pink sky right now. tom, we'retarting off with a refreshing morning we want to know what kind of day we're going to have. >> sunrise 25 minutes away. temperatures are pleasant now. we are in the 60s. shenandoah to the atlantic beaches. right now mid-60s in arlington, fairfax, prince george's and montgomery county. near 70 in washington. 50s in the mountains of western maryland and west virginia in a few locations in the central and southern shenandoah valley. a few clouds have come through. nd we will have those clouds dissipating this morning and we'll have lots of sun with highs reaching near 80 degrees. by dawn tomorrow, 40s. sunny on tuesday with afternoon highs in the upper 70s. warmer on wdnesday and thursday. just for mh needed rain wednesday night and thursday. how is the traffic, jerry? >> an accident at prince george's county inund on route 214, central avenue. three-car accident. one lane will get you by. swing wide to the right to get by. not too much ithe way of delays. be careful if you're

. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome to news 4 for this monday, september 27th, 2010. 5:00 a.m. 64 degrees. a nice schooldown this weekend. we have rain in the region, and we need it. >> here's tom. he has our forecast for today and the re of the week. >>> passing showers since yestday afternoon and evening. now this morning looking at the radar we continue to see showers moving south to north across easternest virginia, virginia, maryland, the district of columbia. the heaviest rains where you see the areas of yellow on t eastern shore and north and east of washington, etern howard county getting the heaviest showers. elsewhee, scattered lig showers around the region. right now low to mid-60s parts of west virginia. and on the etern shore, low 70s. northern neck, near 70. more rain on the way. more showers coming south. conveyor belt moisture off the gulf of mechanics will bring in showers and perhaps song storms late this afternoon, overnight into tomorrow morning. individual storms could produce damaging winds

we are also looking at yen and yang, a much loved peace -- piece.ut the team has been damaged over time, so we need to treat -- patina has been damaged over time, so we need to treat it. >> roof and was given a lifetime award for her contributions to and influence over the bay area artist community. >> the lifetime achievement award -- it is embarrassing to me but i have to learn to accept it. this is the way it is. also, everybody here is good things happening about them after they are dead. i have the opportunity to see this happen while i am still lives. i look at this award as an opportunity for me to find a place for my craft and keep the art program going. >> the director of the program address the crowd and ask for each member to consider donating funds to help save some of san francisco's most important neighborhood landmarks. >> as one of san francisco's living treasures, we respect you and, frankly, we are in off -- awe of your 50 years of tireless effort as an early art on from for north. >> i would like to be perhaps the first donation t

i'm joe krebs. >> i'm eun yang. it is wednesday, september 22nd, 2010. a live look outside at 6:31. 67 degrees. nice, mild start to the morning. beautiful blue sky out there. things are going to fe like summer today. >> yes, indeed. time to go back to the pool. oops, the pool is closed. >> do you remember where you put your shorts and t-shirt? >> fliplops. >> you'll need it later today. up to around 90 degrees. right now a mild morning. in the 60s throughout most of e region. right now 68 at national airport. and out of the mountains, though, it's cool. feeling like autumn in west virginia, maryland, where there is autumn color showing up. bay, eastern shore region, upper 60s. waters, low to md-60s. vw from space showing a few showers in eastern kentucky, eastern tennessee. they mayrift your way late this evening. a small chance of a passing thundershower. probably no rain. up arond 90 on friday. how is the traffic? >> we continue to follow breaking news in howard county, maryland. chper 4 over the scene of the accident. overturned tractor trailer. now t

i'm joekrebs. >> i'm eun yang.eptember 28th, 2010. 71 degrees out there. 6:31. interesting looking sky. clouds up there. looks like it's going to rain or has rained a little bit already, tom. >> somewhat serious clouds. >> they mean some harm. >> it looks like it. >> gusty winds. we saw that scene, the cloud level, winds whipping along at 40 yarp. right now gale warnings, special marine wnings on the bay with rong winds crossing the bay with showers moving there. elsewhere, we are getting rain advancing soh and north. heavierains just to our south. we have another band that's beginning to develop. right now there is a band of moderate to heavy rain right now whipping across the panhandle of west virginia. closer to washington, no rain right now. a band about to move in from fairfax to montgomery county. that's perhaps accompanied by gusts of wind as well. southern maryland, northern neck of virginia. all this rain coming from low pressure rotating over west virginia into eastern ohiothis morning. that's continue to

. >> i'm eun yang. september 28th, 120. we want to take a live look outside at 5:00 a.m. it is 70 degrees. we had rain in the area area. few spots of flooding, tom mentioned. today we could get more rain. >> it got heavy at some points yesterday. tom told us there were small creek flooding in some areas yesterday. >> yeah, montgomery county because of foenl downpours. two to three inches fell there esterday afternoon. rain abated a bit. this morning we have had another surge of rain moving in west of interstate 95 in talkier, loudon county. radar showing also a little bit of circulation in the clouds. there may be some strong winds as the surge of rain comes through. northern faulkier, western fairfax, loudon, warren and clark county. that's heading to the panhandle west virginia. it's just skirting right near montgomery as well. this is all assoiated with an area of low pressure that's spinning south and west of us. it will spin a cool front later today. that will likely bring other showers through midday. for this morng, we're in the 60s and low 70s. 72 in washington. w

i'm eun yang. >> good morning. i'm joe krebs on this monday, the 27th day of september, 2010. live look outside. you can see the rain falling this morning. and we need it. so that's a good thing. temperatures are cooler as well compared with last week. >> nice change, tom. >> yeah. also combined with the hot tears of espair. and we certainly do need the rain. continuing to see showers coming through. look at the radar over the last three hours or so. showers moving rather quickly. marching across virginia, west virginia, d.c. fom the south. areas of blue and green are generally lighter showers moving south to north. we have wet pavement around the region. that's fender-bender weather. leave early. 50s in the mountains. east of the blue ridge to the bay, 60s. bay east, low 70s. more rain on top from the southland all the way from the southeastern atlantic and the gulf of mexico. this moisture will come on through today and tomorrow. things settling down tomorrow afternoon. >> we are loading up rapidly along i-95. now we're getting the initial reports of an accident near 123 in

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. >> i'm eun yang. this morning marks the begning of education nation. a week long focus by nbc news on the nation's school systems. the event kicks off with a two-day summit in rockefeller center. national and local leaders will meet with parents and students to dcuss the problems facing school systems pros the country. d.c. has been at the forefront of this debate. michelle rhee has already voiced her opinion on meet the press. tracee wilkins is live with more. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. michelle rhee is becoming the face of urban school reform. she was featured yesterday on meet the press's panel. during the show we addressedhy she fired hundreds of teachers. moderator david gregory brought fenty's loss and e d.c. primary up. suggesting that a lack of national support may keep other mayors and governors from risking political capital lost through education refm effort. when gregory asked rhee wl she stay on as chancellor, she had this to say. >> i think that's something we still have to determine and i have

john yang, nbc news, kabul. >>> coming up -- the tech start up that definitely walks the walk.he robot could transform the future or your linen closet. >> ellis island of the west. now, taking a different turn. making new citizens. we are there as they take the oath and make a little history in the process. >>> bunt disgradget disgrace. awfoiama lawkersma redefine procrastination. [ male announcer ] as the ceo of hp, carly fiorina laid off 30,000 workers. when you're talking about massive layoffs, which we did... perhaps the work needs to be done somewhere else. [ male announcer ] fiorina shipped jobs to china. and while californians lost their jobs, fiorina tripled her salary. bought a million dollar yacht. and five corporate jets. i'm proud of what i did at hp. [ male announcer ] carly fiorina. outsourcing jobs. out for herself. [ barbara boxer ] i'm barbara boxer and i approve this message. >>> the governor and legislative leaders met up today and made little progress. that makes a record 79 days without a budget. democrats want to delay corporate tax breaks, passed in 2009,

eun yang shows us why. >>> three, two, one, zero. >> reporter: these kindergartners in southeast arethe class of 2023. that's the first lesson students learn when they enter the high performing charter school system,he year they will go to college. >> who can it tell me what our first rule in this classroom is? elijah? >> no hitting. >> we keep our hands to ourselves. >> reporter: right now the children enjoy singing songs -- ♪ and learning their numbs. >> now i need a friend who can come up and roll the number and figure out what number you have. >> reporte college seems a lifetime away. but their teacher says it's not too early to start working toward that goal. >> when they get to our school, the bar is set higher. >> reporter: students at kipp spend 40% more time in the classroom than students in other d.c. public schools. the day begins at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m. students also go to school two to three saturdays each month. on top of that, they attend mandatory summer school to learn rules and procedures like how to ask to go to the bathroom withut disrupting the class a

. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to news 4 for this wednesday, september 29th, a you just mentioned. >>> we re following breaking news out of northwest washington where crews are battling a fire at an eight-story apartment building on 16th street columbia heights neighborhood. we do have a news crew on the scene. we'll bring you an update as sn as we have it. >>> right now form president jimmy carter is still at a cleveland hospital, enclose doctors say it is purely precaution year. president carter began experiencinging stomach pains when he was flying to cleveland to promote his new book yesterday. today he is expected to be here in washington and hold a book signing at politics and pros. >>> police are looking for uspects after deadly shooting yesterday. it left several cars riddled with bullets and one flipped over after a jah. jackie benson reports. >> reporter: detectives investigating served a search warrant in the 1200 block of girard street. a police crane towed a tan-colored sedan. the home is one b

. >> i'm eun yang. in the news it is a case raising more questions than answers. a woman murdered in the middle of the afternoon at an apartment complex en there are a bunch of peoplearound. jackie benson has more on the disturng and baffling crime. >> repoer: autos crime scene technicians fingerprinted the doorway leading to the stirwell, investigators tried to piece together a brutal crime. two separate 911 calls sent police officers to the gates of sip an know gard apartments in green belt at 2:00 p.m. one said there was a woman in the stairwell and she appeared to be very badly injured. >> they located the woman who was suffering trauma to her body. they transported her at that point to a local hospital where a doctor pronounced her dead at approximately 3:20 this afternoon. >> reporter: anher 911 call reported a shooting. but it's not clear whether that calleheard gunshots or assumed she had been shot based on her appearance. tree trimmers who were working 50 feet away from the doorway when the crime occued. it's not clear whether they were able to provide a

. >> and i'm eun yang. we're following breaking news out of prince george's county. three people are dead after an suv collidedwith an ambulance in district heights. the acdent happened at around midnight in the 5600 block of marlboro pike. investigators say the ambulance was en route to a call when it swerved to aid the suv, which police say was dring on the wrong side of the road. the suv side swiped the ambulance before hitting a brick wall and a utility pole. all three men inside were killed. two ambulance workers were taken to the hospital. joining us now on e phone is mark bray from prince george's county fire and ems. >> good morning to you. >> tell us what you can about exactly how this accident occurred. i understand the suv looked like a chevy suburban, is that correct, driving on the wrong side of the road? >> that's correct. a full-size suv. and the informationhat we gathered mostly came from the dash cam on board the ambulance, which video documented everything that occurred. it had been dispatched on an overdose call from the district heights area. it w

i'm eun yang. >> good morning. i'm joe krebs. it is the 24th day of ptember, 2010. the fire described three homes in the 8300 block of tillup loop in manassas. jane has more. >> reporter: eight homes were damaged or destroyed as strong winds whipped the massive blaze through a row of single-family homes. yann upscale neighborhood turns into a fiery infern as strong winds cause fles to jump from roof to roof. amateur video shows a fast-moving blaze as firefighters struggle to get control and neighbors start to panic. >> it was only ten minutes before all of these went up. it was really, reallyhorrific. i knew how close we were and seeing how close they were. it was pretty bad. >> reporter: witnesses say the fire broke out in the back of 8355 tillup loop. the heat from the fire caused vinyl sding on three homes to melt. one neighbor ran door to door to make sure everyone made it out okay. >> i ran to the guy's house. and he was in the house. like a teenager of some sort. he was in a panic. i told him, you have to get out of the house. i went through the garage, the wh

. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to this september 21st, 120. a developing story from afghanistan. nine serve members with the international coalition are dead in a helicopter crash. nato says two others were injured, including a u.s. citizen. the location of the accident is not being disosed. the cause of the crash is being investigated. there were no reports of any fire in the area the deaths spring the number of international troops killed this month to 32. >>> a man who referees is behind bars after a three-month-long investigation. jack j benson reports. >> reporter: june fire at this town house in virginia, firefighters entered the home next door to determine if the blaze had spread. there they made a disturbing discovery. photos spread out on a table. >> they found what they believed to be suspected child pornography. they notified the police department. >> at fist we thought it might have been hoarding. >> at least one noticed an unusual level of police activity. >> we saw a bunch of lice going in there. a bunch were sitting here, waiting and waiting and waiting and they ca

i'm eun yang. >>> good morning. i'm joe krebs. welcome on tuesday, the 28th day of september. right now rain moving into the area. messy morning commute. i-66 towards manassas. rain already falling out there. check in with jerry edwards for a loo at the impact on the rain on the traffic. first of all, let's get a check of the traffic. >>> here it come. another surge after a bit of a lull overnight. right now on the radar we should see areas of green. that's moderate rain falling in prince william county and faulk county. that is advancing to the rth. the radar is showing the area of the heaviest rain just about to move in towards manassas and crossing into culpepper county. that, again, is heading to the north. the western part of 66 is going to get inundated with rain. it moves into montgomery county, loudon, fairfax. stay tuned. eun an joe. >>> flames engulfed t livestock exchange on john marshall highway in marshall. fire crews were able to get many of the animals out of the burning tructure. however, at least 50 died. firefighters on the scene describe the damage as signif

today's meeting, the south korea demanded the north apologize for a deadly warship singing, but pyong yang refused to accept the findings that found them responsible. >>> italian and croatian authorities are searching for a pair who have survival suits, life jackets and rafts in their balloons that went missing yesterday. >>> astronomers say they have discovered the first planet beyond our scholar system that could have the right conditions to support life. the new planet, some 20 light years away from either is being referred to by scientists as a goldy locks planet since it's not too hot, not too cold, but just right for possible human habitation. >> and now here's a look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 10,835 after losing 22 points yesterday. the s&p dipped 2 points and the nasdaq fell 3. taking a look at overseas trading this morning in tokyo, the nikkei fell 190 points while in tokyo the hang seng dropped 20. >>> the dollar could get another dip yesterday thanks to speculation from the fed. investors are convinced the federal reserve will poor more money bac

. >> and i'm eun yang. welcome to "news 4 today" for this thursday, september 16th, 2010. we want to take a live look outside right now. it is 65 degrees. a cool, refreshing morning. another autumn day. tom says clouds are moving in. good morning to you, tom. >> well, to help out our parched region with the drought ongoing we have a chance for much-needed rain. that is probably not going to be arriving until this evening, after sunset. between nownd then, another dry day. and right now around our region the temperatures are showing a mild start compared to the last couple oforning when it's been rather chilly. right ow it's generally in the low 60s in the suburbs and rural areas. upper 60s in washington and near the waters. out in the mountains, low 50s in many locations. eastn shore in the low 60s. and as we take a look at the view from space, we can show that on graphic 22, the view from space is showing some ouds moving in from the north and west, and there are some showers beginning to move in there. here's the four-day tlook on graphic 22. we ha afternoon highs climbi

but as nbc's john yang reports, nato stays didn it doesn't have reports of hostile fire. >> reporter:ere were no reports of hostile fire before the crash. it took place at 4 p.m. in southeastern afghanistan in a p taliban stronghold. >> very sad, very tragic news to hear about that type of crash that type of incident. >> reporter: it was the worst helicopter crash in four years and it makes 2010 the deadliest year in the 9-year-old war. 529 coalition forces have been killed, 351 of them americans. john yang, nbc news, kabul. >>> today, president obama awarded a me ed dal of honor to man who died saving three fellow airmen 40 years ago. he had been hand picked for a top-secret assign nlaos during the vietnam warm he managed to get three wounded comrades into a helicopter and lifted to safety. he was struck by enemy ground fire and fatally wounded. his three sons send the award on their father's behalf. >> today, your nation finally acknowledges and fully honors your father's bravery, because even though it has been 42 years, it's never too late to do the right thing. >> etchberger's he

i got her. >> and that's a nice feeling for anybody. >> time for your close-up, daisy. >> john yang, columbia, missouri. >> that is cute. >> i was thinking that would make you a whole lot less home sick. >> ten years from now when they go to college, they better take the dog with them. >> just don't send the pits to classes. >> we had 90s for more than half of the area. look at that, san jose 93. 84 san francisco. now the seabreeze starting to pick up. 8 oakland. santa cruz 73. trivalley soaring to the mid-90s. right now, san francisco, we got the seabreeze going. we still are waiting for the low clouds to come back at this hour right off the monterrey bay and should move northward an on the coast tonight. 77 degrees around the embarcardero right now. san jose t-shirt weather for the last few hours of labor day weekend. northwest wind at 15. the seabreeze is starting to pick up. this is going to lead so-to-real wholesale changes in our weather over the next 48 hours as the fog sets up. the coolant for the ocean air conditioning. inland spots 70s and 80s. that is a big time drop in te

john yang is in kabul. what is the latest? polls closed awhile back. are things settling down? >> reporter: polls have closed a little bit ago. things have been quieting down. there were taliban attacks in afrg. in a relatively scattered area, areas away from kabul, places where the taliban had been traditionally strong. international observers say the tax didn't do anything to disrupt voting on a wide scale. they expected the violence. they stay voting is a process that could reduce the violence in the long run. >> hopefully, over time, as i said earlier, it's not going to be a factor. i think the more people that participate in a process like this, the more inclusive it feels and perhaps that's going to have an impact on reducing the violence over time. >> reporter: voting turn out today was a little bit scatter shot. there was some places relatively low. there were none of the long line that is marked previous elections especially last year's presidential election. some say it may be because of last year's presidential election because of the voter fraud, the voter irregular

. >> reporter: eun yang, news 4, washington. >> as eun yang report the methods have been controversialecause several schools have been closed and teachers laid off. tonight at 6:00, t washington teachers uion president weighs in on her performance. >>> the education nation series continues tonight at 7:00 on nbc nightly news with brian williams. we invite you to check our website nbc washington.com. a local father writes about his decision to take his twins out oftraditional classrooms and to home school them. >>> up next on news 4 at 5:00 tonight, more pilots are napping on the job. why experts say that's a good thing. >>> in sports the skins are looking for answers after a tough loss to four years ago, b ehrlich got fired as governor of myland. for good reason. first, he protected tax loopholes for giant cable cable. then, he let utilities jack up our rates 72%. and for the last fr years, he worked as a hired gun r big corporations, even a bank that took billis from a taxpayer funded baiut. ehrlich sides with corrate executives again and again and again tell bob ehrlich big banks and

nbc's john yang is in kabul now. john, are you able to learn anything new about the chopper crash?eporter: well, this was the deadliest chopper crash in about four years here in afghanistan. the choppers are used a lot in rugged and remote areas where it's hard to get around on the ground. this was in an area that was a taliban stronghold, but the territory controlled by the taliban, also an area where coalition forces have been pushing back against the taliban, escalating their efforts to try to drive the taliban out. this is the deadliest year for coalition forces, 529 now coalitions forces have died this year with still three months to go in the year. and 351 of them were americans, also a record contessa. >> john yang reporting from kabul, afghanistan. thank you, john. >>> we are seeing a huge jump in contractors building new homes, just getting the new numbers. new home construction jumped a whopping 10.5% last month. all the more surprising here because economists had expected that number to drop. the unexpected increase puts housing starts at their highest level in four mont

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i'm eun yang. >> i'm joe krebs. today i trsday. it is the 16th day of sepmber 2010. let's take a live look outside this morning. we have some clouds above us right now. nice day at 66 degrees. going to get warm, too. here's tom. >> a southerly breeze will increase this afternoon, that will sweep in some warmth and get us into the mid 80s probably by midternoon. then a front moves in fromhe midwest and looks like it may trigger some showers in the mountains by midafternoon. shenandoah valley by perhaps late afternoon, and here inthe metro area after sunset. so thankfully much-needed rain coming our way. let's look at temperatures now. it's off to a pleasant start on this thursday morning. we're in the low 60s in the suburbs and rural areas. upper 60s in washington. and right near the water, only in the 50s though in western maryland and much of west virginia, eastern shore mid 60s. and right at the beach, it's near 70. and if a few of those showers moving in, where you see passing showers in ohio, kentucky, and southern illinois. thas along a front that will be sweepi