. >> a huge game up here tonight, vance. it's going to be the caps and the rangers.talking baseball. bryce harper doing it with his glove as well as with his bat. a maryland star leaving the program not under the best of circumstances and here at madison square garden, doesn't get bigger than this. playoff hockey. the capitals trying to avoid going in that dreaded 0-2 hole to the rangers as news 4 at 6:00 continues. >>> coming up after sports an amazing tsunami. debris washing up on the shores of ♪ have a better day [ male announcer ] only subway has a deal this flat-out delicious -- the $3 flatbread breakfast combo. a toasty flatbread breakfast sandwich and a 16-ounce cup of seattle's best coffee or 21-ounce fountain drink. all for only $3. bacon, egg and cheese, featured $5 footlong™ of april. it's available all day, starting at 7am! with eggs, bacon and your choice of veggies on toasty flatbread! this april only, it joins our many $5 footlongs™! subway. eat fresh. >>> let's take a look outside. you know we've been dealing with the cloud cover all day and that clou

very good images. >> thank you, vance.ll see you in a few. >>> coming up next a look at the evidence in the trayvon martin case and the police protocol for that investigation. >>> for all your news follow news 4 online. just search nbc washington on facebook and twitter. we're coming right back. [ female announcer ] with xfinity, you can always expect more. like more on demand shows and movies than ever and more ways to discover them too. plus more speed from america's fastest internet provider. so you can run more devices at the same time. ♪ feel a firework [ female announcer ] and best of all, it keeps getting better. no wonder more people choose xfinity over any other provider. ♪ love can be so mystical ♪ >>> in the trayvon martin case investigators are trying to retrace what happened the night of the deadly shooting but are running into a few load blocks. >> since there are no eyewitnesses other than george zimmerman experts say the forensics evidence is critical. nbc's kerry sanders has the latest on the investigation

dallas vance will take over the school system this summer. he says he plans to focus on results, not his age. >> reporter: an across the board approval for the new superintendent of baltimore county schools. dr. dallas dance takes over the state's third largest school district. he comes to baltimore from houston and says the change in leadership at school headquarters has already begun. >> the whole point of my transition is figuring out what is the baltimore story. and i know already, it's a rich story. >> reporter: the board offered the top spot to dan last month. it comes with a four-year contract and $255,000 a year. at 30 years old, vance is the county's youngest superintendent in decades. >> framan was at the university at 41. >> reporter: dance takes over the school headquarters on july 1st, one day after current superintendent joe hairston retires. and dance will face overcrowded classrooms, wide achievement gap between minority and low- income students. and winning over a strong and vocal teachers union. >> we'll have to move forward

i'm wendy rieger in for jim vance. >> i am doreen gentzler.gin with a mark that couldn't have come at a better time for mitt romney. a jab from a democratic political commentator has elevated romney's wife ann to the status of hero mom. steve handelsman is on capitol hill with the latest. hi, steve. >> reporter: hi, doreen. thanks. this is the second day in a row that president obama tried to make this 2012 race for the white house at least partly about higher taxes for the rich but he got

for those jerks who were coming down hard on that boy. >> that is one of the problems with twitter, vance, it catches fire so quick and it was ridiculous. i read it last night and chose to move on. because you want to celebrate the good things and not focus on the bad things, we'll talk about one of the good things, that is the nfl draft. we have been talk about robert griffin iii forever, this is why i like this young man. he's already studying redskins history. he knows who sonny jurgenson is. he won't be talking about maroon and black or dc baltimore area. he already calls it the dmv. he knows what he's talking about. people will love robert griffin iii. bruce allen confirmed today what we already knew that yes the redskins will be taking rg3 with the number two overall pick in the draft. i hope so, they traded a way a couple of first rounders and second rounder to have the right to draft this kid. the coaching staff know it won't be a perfect ride with a rookie quarterback, they love everything about this kid's arm, athleticism and speed, they absolutely infatuated with the off the fi

i'm jim vance. >> i'm doreen gentzler.

. >>> we'll have highlights of today's exhibition against boston coming up in sports with jim vance.ng sports again. >>> we'll also tell you how the winless racing president did in his first race of the season. >> that's what counts, huh? >> that's right. >>> coming up on news4 at 5 xlok. >>> a man locked up for a crime he didn't commit all because of a faulty police lineup. >>> kicked out of her home by a local church. tonight we'll hear from a two-time cancer survivor who is now facing an uncertain future after being evicted. >>> we still don't know who won the historic mega millions jackpot. but a former lottery winner is speaking out tonight. his advice to the ticket hi should be arrested for crimes against potted plant-kind. [ clang ] my house is where plants came to die. ♪ but, it turns out all i was missing was miracle-gro potting mix. it's got what a plant needs. even plant food that feeds them for up to 6 months. you get bigger, more beautiful plants. guaranteed. who's got two green thumbs thanks to miracle-gro? uh, this gal. boom! everyone grows with miracle-gro. >>> throug

now over to jim vance with sports. > >> no, jim vance. >> i'm just a transfer station now.you know how that works. i'm glad. l a lot of people don't know that's hard work. %hat's hard work. i just want to say. it is. all she ever does is laugh. >> he made it look too easy. >> has a new appreciation i think for what you do. >> an entirely new one and i mean that sincerely. let's talk about the caps. good news is they're in the playoffs. the bad news is the bruins? wow. >> it's a different role. they're the underdogs this time around. we haven't said that in forever. and on paper the capitals really should get bounced out of the playoffs in the first round. they're playing the defending stanley cup champs and bruins. the capitals just one of two playoff teams that allowed more goals than they scored this season. and they're likely starting a rookie goalie. as we've seen before paper means nothing in the postseason. the capitals' top two goalies are injured right now. michael noivert is battling a knee issue. he was on the ice this morning but not skating with the team. he cou

news 4's jim vance takes a more personal look at the music, the people, the memories that made the howard the d.c. landmark it has become. >> reporter: back in the day we used to gather around the radio and hear the music that shaped our lives. but if you lived in d.c., you could go here to the howard theater where you could catch ella live. ♪ >> reporter: all the greats played there -- actors, dancers, singers, and more. >> there were some real jazz, live jazz, you know? >> reporter: and charles cassell saw as many as he could. he is a former school board member and founder of the jazz society. as a kid he would cut classes on fridays to catch the matinee. >> it cost 40 cents to go in. >> reporter: for that you got a fantastic array of stars of all kinds but it was the big bands that charlie loved the most. >> the band would go, bam. and the curtains would open. and we'd see all these shiny brass instruments. >> reporter: in the '60s the acts changed from big band to r & b with a heavy dose of motown. ♪ my mama told me you better shop around ♪ ♪ stop in the name of love >> reporter: the

vance who started as general council became successively army secretary. deputy defense secretary and later on secretary of state. paul went through a similar process and so did i. i would like to say a few things just briefly about vietnam. those who come after me will be addressing more directly. bob became skeptical of the vietnam war well before he stopped saying how great it was going. one thing that i remember is from early on, he was very dubious about reports from the field even though he insisted on quantifying them and encouraging the systems analysis to quantify what in the end was not really quantifiable. he turned to the cia, for example, for separate inputs into what the situation was and increasingly he believed those. he tried to find other ways to limit the war and to make it more successful. one notable example was the mcnamara line which was an attempt to set up sensors along what became known as the ho chi minn trail to pinpoint where the north 98 nam ease infiltrators was coming from. so they could be attacked. they set up a special or

now on to sports with sports man jim vance. >> go ahead. >> we're not sure how you have arranged thisellie is out of town so vance has conspired somehow to live out his dream of being the sportscaster tonight. so watch out. >> seniority ought to get you something. here's the deal. dan is gone. hakem -- dan is off. hakem is gone. lindsay was -- i called and she is tied up and too busy. doug wanted it. but i big footed him. >> yeah. >> here we go. in the midst of a big push for the playoffs the caps visit the tampa bay lightning tonight. you knew that didn't you? less than a week ago things were looking really bad for this team. last tuesday they were blasted, embarrassed at home by the buffalo sabres. it was not pretty. they overtook the caps for the eighth and final playoff spot in the eastern conference but here's the deal. the sabres in the last couple games really sucked. they have lost both of them. as for the caps, they went the other way. they pulled out two wins, two shootout wins. thursday in boston brooks light was the hero. after blowing a 2-0 lead the caps win against montr

i'm doreen gentzler. >> i'm jim vance.g breaking news on a school shooting in california's bay area. seven people now confirmed dead. this was at a school called oikos university in oakland. the shooter is described by witnesses as a man in his 40s reportedly he opened fire in a classroom. police now have a suspect in custody. nbc has our report. >> reporter: the first calls to 911 came in around 10:30 local time. several people are confirmed dead and at least four victims were rushed to the hospital for treatment. the extent of the injuries? unknown. the shooting took place at oikos university, a korean religious school for adults. this cell phone video captures the moments after the shooting. witnesses describe a frantic scene. >> stood up in the class and started firing. shot one guy, shot another person and started firing like

. >>> i heard somebody else guarantee they'd make the playoffs last night too, vance. not sure who that might be. >> that would have been me. >> out there right now plenty of sunshine. a great afternoon. temperatures into the 70s. don't e >>> protests over the rising cost of education took a violent turn in southern california last night. got pretty ugly there. more than 30 santa monica college students were pepper sprayed by the police. the cell phone video shows a huge crowd banging and chanting outside a meeting of the board of trustees. they're fired up over a plan to offer a second tier of classes, not subsidized by the state. that would mean increases in tuition of course. the school has already agreed to cover all the medical expenses for those students who were sprayed last night. >>> health care is a big issue in the upcoming election. even with health insurance seeing the doctor can be expensive. today a group of medical experts unveiled the campaign to keep americans from spending too much on treatment that may be unnecessary. brian mohr reports on a push to

. >> vance is doing sports.well do the weather. >> all up for grabs. >> i want to tell you what's coming up at 6:00 in a few minutes. we continue to follow breaking news impacting howard university. tonight there are reports that at least some of the sports programs at the school have been temporarily suspended. we'll have the details in a report from campus coming up. >>> also, a new warning going out to doctors and patients. some experts claim americans are spending too much money on unnecessary medical treatments that might be harmful. we'll pinpoint some of those procedures coming up. and we have some great family reunion stories in the aftermath of the awful tornadoes in texas. you will not want to miss this story coming up at 6:00. i'll see you then. >>> the four-legged kind. >> yes. >> thanks, doreen. we'll see you in a few. >>> next at 5:00 donald trump backs down as a transgender beauty queen fights to compete in his pageant. >>> for all your news follow news 4 online. search nbc washington on facebook

. >> good evening, i'm jim vance. >> i'm doreen gentzler. >> the murder of katherine fu fuller and the men could get a new hearing that could set them free. the victim's family is speaking only to news 4. jackie benson has more. >> reporter: her 74-year-old shoulders carry the weight of what was the brutal murder of her sister. >> i won't be sitting there like i did before, every day, not missing a day it's tiresome. >> october 1, a 48-year-old mother of six, was walking near h/8th after running an errand. five feet tall, 99 pounds was dragged into a garage, beaten, raped and sodomized with a metal pole. in the ensuing days, 16 people were arrested, eight convicted sentenced to 35 years to life in prison. after their case was talken on by mid-atlantic innocence project. a judge agreed to consider if some of the men were wrongly convicted two. have been paroled. she heard one of them is writing a book about the crime. >> you want to write your book and get paid, write your book. leave us alone. but will you spend the money that you get for the book that you wrote? leave us alone. leave

. >> i'm jim vance. at howard university, suspension of athletes from competition. they won't say how many. it involves an internal investigation into possible ncaa rules violations. shamari stone has our report. >> reporter: ashley macpherson is surprised and disappointed. howard university suspended spring student athletes for possible ncaa violations. >> athletic department needs all the strength we can get. >> reporter: the school spokesperson sent a written statement saying, quote -- >> as a student i am kind of confused. i don't know why they're suspending athletics. i have friend on the track team. tennis team. they're affected by it. >> reporter: officials won't tell us how many athletes have been suspended. >> it saddens me because -- a lot of the -- athletes here are my friend. >> while the university investigates, most teams will still compete as scheduled. and students will support their athletes. >> i hope they can continue to play and make contribution to the university. >> reporter: howard university officials did not say how long this investigation w

so what were those engineers to get vance's to dr who the tried and true method is confident that it has a product that was after major advantages to both conventional cars as well as to traditional hybrids. if we compare our system with conventional vehicle we are going to save forty to sixty percent of. driving. if we compare our flyable hybrid. prius. to save. fifteen to thirty percent a few it does just by more effectively harnessing the regenerated energy during braking the normal is of transforming the power in city to the battery the flywheel absorbs ninety percent of it keeping that its kinetic energy significantly reduces losses during reef celebration the battery isn't overly strained since it's mechanical power is the primary mover now some people might raise concerns that gyroscopic forces during driving could cause complications but here i was testing facility there checking everything many times over to make sure there is in fact no threat even if someone manages to alter the configuration to get more power out of it but anyways unlike other high performance oriented fl

aren't providing for and vanced manufacturing technologies, programs that are going to online industries. do those folks talk about grants? i hear get the government out of my way. get regulation out of my way. help me with trade so i can have access to markets. even the president. said when he was campaigning, we need to cut back waste at agencies like the economic development administration. his words. september of 2008. i haven't seen that. i've seen continued efforts of this to pick winners in the manufacturing space. >> the federal government is involved in manufacturing in multiple ways. the work of the manufacturing extension partnership works with so many of these small and medium size d manufacturers and the communities and colleges that work with them, so yes, there's federal government. there are dollars associated with that. what we try to do is use those dollars really, really well. with ralph regard to -- >> i'm sorry. go ahead. >> economic development administration likewise small budget, very tight rollover cost and is the only development economic administration across t

and webster arranged for tad vance of jennings's purchase price. it was during his first full year of freedom in 1848 that jennings acted as an operative in the pearl escape attempt. one of the 77 slaves who boarded the schooner that night and hid themselves below decks was dolly madison's slave ellen stewart. she was the 15-year-old daughter of paul's great friend suki, dolly's ladies maid. it may well have been ellen's desperate need for escape that precipitated jennings' involvement in the pearl affair. you see, six months earlier, dolly determined that she was going to sell ellen to the georgians as the african-americans of the time referred to the traders whereby slaves would be resold to the deep south. the trader was at dolly madison's house across the way and had called ellen in, nominally for bringing in a glass of water. but really so she could show her to the trader. ellen was excused, and there was a deal between dolly and the trader that, at a prearranged time, dolly would send ellen to fetch water at the public square right here on th

future profits from the importation of these goods but also from state rights governors like zebulon vance in north carolina and joe brown in georgia who believed that richmond was becoming all too intrusive in the lives of southern citizens. the key question here, of course, is did it work? i promised you i would try to answer this question, and so i shall attack that. most historians who tried to answer the question about the legitimacy, the value, the importance, the impact of the union blockade do so by appealing to statistics. you've all heard the old saw, that there are liars and there are damned liars and then there are statisticians. as we'll see in an effort to answer the question relying solely on statistics is as likely to breed skepticism as to the process as to resolve the question. its numbers can be used to make very different and indeed d diametrically opposite reports. steam-powered vessels attempted to run the blockade, including our friend the banshee. those steamers made an average of four successful trips, that is, two round-trips, two in, two out, per vessel. that wor

. >> reporter: yeah, this is tough, vance and doreen.was exactly what you would expect for a game one of a playoff series against boston for the capitals. it was hard-hitting. it was tough. there were penalties. there were great penalty kills. both goalies were unbelievable in this game. braden holtby had 29 saves. he shut out the bruins through regulation. and then he let in the heartbreaker in overtime. just a couple of minutes in. let's take a look at the highlights in this one. braden holtby making his first playoff start on the nhl level. first the hitting we were talking about. in the second period alex ovechkin and dennis seidenberg. hard to tell who got the best or worst of this one. ovie all smiles, though, afterwards. as for holtby, he was all smiles, too. the caps were outshot 26-7 through two periods. holtby stopped all 26 of those bruins shots. tim thomas also on his game. third period the b's turn it over, but thomas stopped nicklas backstrom. scoreless after regulation. we're going to overtime. and this was the heartbreake

but also from state rights conscious governors like vance in north carolina and joe brown in georgia who believe that richmond was becoming altogether too intrusive in the lives of southern citizens. the key question here of course is, did it work? i promise you i would try to answer this question. and so i shall attack that. most historians who try to answer the question about the-- the legitimacy, the value, importance, impact of the union blockade do so by appealing to statistics. now, you have all heard the old saw, that there are liars and there are damned liars and then there are statisticians. and as we'll see in effort to answer the question by relying solely on statistics is as likely to breed skepticism about the process as to resolve the question. since numbers can be used to make very different points. for example, let me give you two facts. here is one. during the civil war, a total of 300 different steam powered vessels attempted to run the blockade. including our friend. and those steamers made an average of four successful trips that is two round trips -- two in, two

he, maybe for political cover, maybe because he was a decent guy, which you always thought he was, vance, he sent somebody up to investigate and then there were these long reports that showed up in the north carolina -- they were written to the governor and they're in the north carolina archives and they describe actually what charles frazier said, that in one case a woman with an infant child was put on the snowy ground in front of her. she was chitied. the child was put -- i think that's in the movie, too. they said if she didn't reveal the whereabouts of her husband and sons the baby would stay there until it died of ex-poeshd. they put women's thumbs under fence posts. they whipped women. they hanged them. i mean, it was regarded as, you know, a real war against the women. and some of the soldiers were extremely disturbed by it. others defended it as necessary in the war against the guerrillas. and yeah, these are literal -- they're transcriptions. frazier never says anything in the front of that book about the north carolina documents, but they're archival documents in every case. >

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he vanced as he -- vanished as he walked to a bus stop for the first time. >>> the widow of thomas kinkade filed for a retraining over against his girlfriend. she asked for the protection order. the order seeks to prevent her from making statements that criticize them or publishing anything concerning kinkade. he died that age of 54 earlier this month. >>> the man charged with killing trayvon martin is now awaiting release from a florida jail. he is still working to secure the money and a safe place to stay. a judge granted a $150,000 bond for george zimmerman accused in the shooting death of trayvon martin. it could take several days before he is released. >>> more fall out in the secret service prostitution scandal. they confirmed that one of the 12 in the scandal was staying at a different hotel and he was staying at the hilton where president obama would stay. he is being investigated in a separate incident that may have happened before the president arrived. there is little sympathy from the agents. >> on the whole the secret service does heroic work. they are professional. i always f

we did it bring a man and it took to vance and 5:00 p.m. teas just to transport him from his apartment to the show. we really talk about what his life is like at this point yet what the challenges are going forward. i think that people are going to be surprised at their attitude about this young man. it's one of the things that we are most proud of is we really do follow our guests and provide resources for them after they leave. this man needs in patient care. this is not something he can go home and go on a diet. the challenge is to find a place where he can go that is almost like a eighth week management rehab. they could not even take his blood pressure. if he needed surgery, it is unlikely that it could be perform because they simply could not do it. costs tests cost lightest high death here-and want ... >>gabe: google will have launched a new feature. at launch their offer of over 15,000 landmarks the you can tour. you can spend hours looking at these and feeling like you're there. some of these are so visual, skip the hassle of seein

in 2010, cyrus vance, jr., the newly elected manhattan d.a., formed a team called the conviction and its mission is to investigate claims of wrongful conviction. and while the manhattan d.a.'s office declined to discuss details of the case, they told us they are reviewing it. recently, velazquez' story has begun to hit the press and it's attracted hollywood actor and activist, martin sheen. >> hey, mr. sheen. how you doing? >> in december, the actor went to the prison to meet velazquez. >> your statement at your sentencing, there was a miscarriage of justice, and you trusted the system, and you trusted your own innocence, you trusted god thinking that day you would be exonerated. >> i still do. >> of course. that's why we're here. >> and then there's juror ramon avillez. he said he always had doubts about the verdict. >> what did i do? i think i did something wrong. >> he said he began to question his decision once the verdict was announced. >> once it was announced, i looked at the mother. then i looked away. in other words, i didn't know where to put my face. i guess that's what i

conference cost tax payers more than $800,000, but they took eight trips to vegas to do what they called a vanceork. the cost $147,000. >> my anger and frustration have finally gotten to a boiling point. >> a five and a half hearing, people were angry. it is clear why. >> i am a big man. i can't spend 44 bucks for breakfast. somebody had to say that. are you kidding me. >> the investigator put it this way. >> we turned over every stone. every time we turned over a stone we found two more. >> this is the 254 square feet suite that robert peck stayed. >> they told me all the rooms were within the government rate. >> it is unclear what the cost really was. the organizer seen here in what appeared to be a las vegas hot tub invoked his fifth amendment rights the second day in a row. he was very much a focus of story after story of allegedly skirting and breaking the rules to have a good time on the taxpayer dime. for example, it is against the government rule to spend meals at meetings unless awards are given out. so, they regularly made some up. listen again to the man investigating the whole thing.

. >> and i'm jim vance. those victims were found this morning in a house in the70

you know what, vance? they were really relaxed at this morning's skate.aybe it's because they feel comfortable here in boston. they won twice in the regular season. they've won 2 of 3 in this play-off series. the capitals trying to win a game seven for just the third time in franchise history. the boston bruins won three game sevens last year in the play-offs on their way to a stanley cup. but the caps not really worried about history. they're worried about tonight. >> the bruins obviously have to be respected for what they're able to do last year with all three game sevens. at the same time we've got a good group of guys, a lot of confidence and a goaltender playing really well. >> the bruins have experience from last year, a lot of guys. who said if we had this group last year that we wouldn't have done that. we're ready for tonight, playing like any other game. if we play our game and leave everything that we have worked on all year out on the ice, we feel pretty confident. >> we're treating it like it's another game as much as we can and staying relax

. >> i'm jim vance. we begin with a ruling by the justices on the supreme court.se many areay

vance is living out his sports fan dream and filling in for dan.now, i don't recall you telling how you were -- how you did with your ncaa bracket. >> what bracket? you mean the one i was busted out the first day out? busted. real bad. how about you? >> i never made one. sorry. >> doug, you had one, right? >> i got first in one of my brackets. and then i was fourth, fourth and third. >> fourth and third don't matter. in the 11:00 broadcast last night, at every commercial break and every opportunity, what's the score? who's up? we're talking, of course, about the championship matchup of college basketball royalty. one team was king. the team with six potential first-rounders, the team with the national player of the year, who may not have had the best shooting night. but he sure made his presence felt in every other way, didn't he. kentucky looked like the best team, and you know what, it was the best team. this ebeat caps as for the ncaa title last night. it was a matchup of two all-americans. d.c.'s own robinson from kansas, and anthony davis from

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discipline board chairman lieutenant tommy vance sits in the position of judge. >> how do you plead to not guilty? >> mr. hall pleads not guilty. >> any questions? >> yeah, richie, how many times have you been up for parole in the last 18 years? >> twice. >> what's happened each of those times? >> they continued me because of something i've done. >> why would you purposefully try to ditch your parole? >> because i'm scared of getting out. >> you went before parole board before? >> yes. i've been locked up for so long that i'm conditioned to this environment. >> if you didn't want to make parole, can you say i don't want to go? >> i feel like i would be ostracized. other convicts are hoping for any kind of release. it's normal. >> is that it? >> yes, sir. >> guilty of the charge of refusal, attempt to alter a drug screen. recommend five days. assess a fee of $25. court order fine. recommend a job drop. do you want to fill this in? >> yes. >> i don't feel the $25 is appropriate. >> i can suspend that. i will suspend the $25. >> and richie would like a little time to get his affairs in or

. >> i know that in 2010, cyrus vance, the district attorney in manhattan, reopened the case. i know he's been working with the nypd, commissioner kelly's team and the fbi. leads have developed over the years. there has been a major suspect before now. this development today, not sure how they got back to this carpenter. i assume that they talked to him in the very, very intensive, thorough investigation that began in 1979. hours after etan disappeared. but this has a stunning development of a promising new lead. >> what's extraordinary is this guy is now 75. he's not the main suspect that people have believed may have committed this crime. that is somebody else who's coming out of prison very soon for other offenses. but this guy has been out there all this time and they believe he may be connected. he was with etan the day before he died and he is suspected of being involved in some incident with etan in the basement of this block of flats which they're now trailing with dozens and dozens of their operatives. this is an extraordinary development after so long, isn't it? >> a

i'm jim vance. >> i'm doreen gentzler.he crash could have been much worse if the two pilots hadn't dumped fuel before slamming into those buildings. right now we're told seven people including the two pilots were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. remarkably, nobody was killed here but the damage is extensive. the fire broke out after the jet crashed. it's been knocked down and investigators are looking for any other survivors or victims in the

. >> i'm jim handly in tonight for jim vance.ark is considered by many the man who brought rock 'n roll into the main stream. his wildly successful television career spanned more than six decades. nbc's bruce hall has a look back at his life and his legacy. >> reporter: whether he was spinning a new record or ringing in the new year, america's oldest teenager was a beloved figure of music and television. in fact, dick clark was just a teen when he began his long career first

i'm jim vance. >> i'm doreen gentzler.e begin with the escalating tension mounting in the trayvon martin case. the unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a florida neighborhood watch volunteer in february. there has been no arrest. today the special prosecutor announced she would not go to granju

. >> i'm jim vance. tonight top lawmakers say more secret service jobs are on the line.the allegations that agents hired hookers down in colombia and potentially compromised the president's security. mark potter has our report from colombia. >> reporter: the first to fall in the prostitution scandal that officials say began in the night time clubs and streets here in colombia are three members of the u.s. secret service who are part of president obama's advanced security detail last week for the summit of the americas. the secret service says one supervisor will retire. another supervisor has been fired, removed for cause. and a third nonsupervisor has resigned. at

>> yeah, vance and doreen. game three going to be much the same as games one and two. would think that since the series is back in washington, for the first time this year, that it's going to get a lot easier for the capitals. that hasn't necessarily been the case in this year's playoffs. the home teams not always getting home cooking so to speak. but the momentum definitely on the capitals' side after that double overtime win in boston thanks to nik backstrom's game-winning goal, a much-needed win. the caps' goal going into the series? at least split the first two games in boston and that's what they did thanks to backstrom's game winner. holtzby has helped the team to just two goals in two games. the games happened to be his first two playoff starts. the bruins who seemingly have been frustrated with the caps' defensive minded play and patience, two words not often associated with the caps the last few years but times have changed and now it's time for home cooking. >> it's exciting to play in front of your home crowd and, i mean, it is still going to be a tough game

vance, they really can't afford to lose another game. they're at home.have to beat the bruins tonight. it is a huge game four coming up. president obama giving pat summit the highest civilian honor that he can. and the nationals' confidence growing by the game. these guys continue to get it >>> it's a great evening out there right now but we're still talking about storms for the weekend. take a look behind me. we've got the golden rays hitting the canopy of trees. beautiful evening. it's pretty comfortable, too, with temperatures that are in the 60s. some locations in the low 60s right now. jessup, maryland 67 degrees. andrews airforce base in maryland you're coming in at 68 degrees. lexington park, maryland, you're cool at 62. those locations near the water and then up north in montgomery county, germantown, maryland 68 degrees. quite comfortable out there now. there's the little bus for the bus stop tomorrow morning. it'll be seasonally cool. sun up by 6:24. we're talking about 40s, low 50s throughout the area. from frederick to hagerstown, 45, 47 degr

you got to put the bred on top, vance. did you know that? >> i did.up there, too. >> lucky enough to be joined by former redskins shawn springs. and come comcast sports anchor. we were there to help raise money for easter seals partnered with safeway. shawn's been looking to do something since retiring a couple years ago. i'm going to tell you this much. bags groceries probably not going to be it. >> he wasn't very good, huh? >> neither one of us were very fwood. julie was probably the best. >> he looks like he could still play. doesn't he look good? >> shawn said he wants to lose a little weight. i said what do you weigh? 225 and rock solid right now. still working out a bunch. >> thanks, man. >>> coming up, a boat trip to remember off the coast of california. >> for all your news we invite you to follow news 4 online. search >>> 100 years ago today people stood on a war f in england and waved bon voyage to the largest and most luxurious ocean liner in existence. the "titanic." ♪ >> the centennial of the "titanic" disaster was marked today at a memor