news 4's elaine reyes joins us now with more. elaine?excited. >> i'll bet. >> they understand how big of a deal this is. charles county is one of several school systems taking part in the national student flais spsp flight program. they're traveling to florida to watch their experiment take off. >> reporter: you're look at some of the smartest kids at lackey high school. >> according to the schedule we're supposed to have everything in to nasa by seven days. >> reporter: hand picked to come up with a very specific science experiment. >> we brainstormed a lot of ideas. >> we came up with this one. >> so we're going to start with five seeds and we're going to put them in the oasis material because it helps it germinate faster. we are going to set up two identical experiments and one will stay here at school in the dark and it will germinate with a gravity environment and the other set will go up into space on the space shuttle. >> reporter: that's right. lackey high's vials will go aboard the space shuttle atlantis scheduled for liftoff ne

. >> elaine reyes reporting from the news loom. >>> d.c. council member harry thomas, jr., has been accused of funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for youth sports to an account that he used for luxury trips and to buy an suv. d.c. attorney general irvin nathan announced today that the city has filed a civil lawsuit. john schriffen is at the wilson building with more on this. john? >> reporter: jim, good evening. harry thomas, jr., is the latest council member caught up in an investigation into the spending of city funds. as you said, this morning the d.c. attorney general's office filed this very lengthy complaint about these spending habits. this complaint alleges that council member thomas used more than $300,000 of city funding and funneled it into two companies that he ran. the complaint alleges that thomas, instead of using the money to for inner city kids to learn how to play golf and tins allegedly used the money on himself. tonight council member thomas is telling a very different story. he actually called for his own

elaine reyes takes a look at what else they're going to be doing. >> we were able to play the coursend the course is playing very, very difficult. >> reporter: longtime congressional country club member says next week's tournament can't get here fast enough. >> and with all the great players out today, anybody -- it's anybody's game. let's see who hits it down in the middle and stays in the fairway. the course is just in fabulous shape. >> reporter: he'll get to hell cigars to fellow members and be a marshal at the event. but he's also 1 of 200,000 people expected to crowd the exclusive bethesda golf course for the u.s. open. because of anticipated crowds, 300 federal, state and local law enforcement officers will keep things safe and moving. >> this is a marquee event. and it's not just a local or national event. but this has international attention. the last time the u.s. open was at congressional was 1997. things have changed. the world has changed since then. >> work is already under way at the montgomery county fairgrounds. one of two main parking lots for ticketholders. before

. >> he wrapped up a news conference to new york city, elaine reyes is live in the newsroom with the what a dramatic afternoon it was. >> it really was, wendy and

. >> elaine reyes, thanks. >> the next couple of days, you'll being to hover over a sprinkler. >> if you have a tee time set up, you may want to rethink that just a little bit or at least make it really nearly the morning. temperature out there 88 degrees. it's a very warm afternoon. but the humidity is not a problem. the dew point is below 60 degrees. and as long as it's below 60, for the most part, it doesn't feel too uncomfortable out there. over the next couple of days, the dew point will climb and maybe even into the low 70s. that is going to make things feel very, very humid. 88 right now in frederick, maryland. 86 in sterling. ocean city, maryland if you have friends on vacation, 85 degrees. tonight, 6 234d washington. 64 in warrenton. here comes the heat. a high around the area, 98 degrees in the district. it's going to be a hot one. >> thanks for the warning. >>> while we're on the golf course, lindsay had lunch with tiger woods' caddy who will have some time on his hands the next few days. >> that's exactly right. tiger woods will not be healthy enough to play at the u.s. o