. >> and i'm jim rosenfield in for jim vance. police say these robbers will break in even if you are inside. jackie bensen reports. >> reporter: imagine the creepy feeling of knowing someone came up on your porch at 4:00 a.m. tried the door handle and walked away. that's what happened at a home on wheat ridge drive the night of may 23nd. the would be burglar who broke into a car in the destroy realized a security camera was mounted on the porridge. since the end of april that there have been a series of 18 break ins to homes in this neighborhood. some have occurred while residents were asleep inside. cars have been broken into or stolen. >> this is a spree of crimes of opportunity. many of these if not all could have been prevented had the homeowner or vehicle operator locked the car door, put the garage door down or locked the door to the homes. >> residents are on edge. >> we heard a car alarm go off and my husband was like go look out the windows. our cars were fine but we heard the alarm go off. >> reporter: police say with c

and i'm jim rosenfield we start tonight with the heat. >> temperatures will be near $1 100 degrees. last week the temperatures were in the upper 90s but we will be near triple digits. the heat is moving our way as we speak. tomorrow will be a hot day but that's not the hottest of the day. friday is the day to watch the heat. that's why the national weather service issued an excessive heat watch. we could see a heat index approach 110 degrees. that could be friday, saturday, sunday and into early next week. i'll show you how long the heat sticks around in my forecast. >>> tears of joy and appreciation from a man nearly killed by two dogs. news4 was there when he was reunited with the neighbor who jumped in to save his life. shomari stone has our exclusive report. >> made it back. >> reporter: as tears rolled down his cheeks, 74-year-old sony bell gets a surprise from the neighbor who rescued him from a vicious dog attack two weeks ago. >> cut that out. >> reporter: phil ragland saw the two cane corso dogs mauling on him. phil let his american bulldog loose and chased the dogs away. t

ben rosenfield and others. we have the opportunity of taking our business tax system which is an archaic system based on payroll which does have an inhibiting effect on job creation in san francisco. we also are -- we of the current extension of ipos. we are the -- we have a current extension of ipo's. this would elminate the taxation that occurs. it will happen if we don't make changes to the community. revenue generation is a vital part of what we want to do with our business tax especially in 2001, there was a change that happened when many businesses, some of the largest corporations in san francisco had settled to eliminate the gross receipts tax that had existed at that time. there are parts of the business community that are not paying the same kind of taxes they were in the past and it has created a hole. we would expect $40 million you're counting our financing for the settlement as well as inflationary measures. people would say our business tax has increased dramatically over the years despite the se

good evening, i'm jim rosenfield. let's get right to the aftermath of last night's storms. more than 7,000 people still don't have power, most of those outages in prince george's county. pepco is working as fast as possible to get the lights back on and some may not have power for a few more days. darcy spencer has a look at how they're coping. darcy? >> reporter: at the height of the storm pepco had 45,000 outages. they're made progress, but obviously it will take some time. take a look down here. this is newton street in bladensburg and this was the hardest hit area, and there is debris all over the streets and pepco crews are doing all they can. if you come back over this way, just to give you an idea of the sheer fort of the winds, this white thing is the roof of a nearby apartment building that flew about 200 yards and landed here on an suv. so they have a lot of work to do. a lot of these lines are tangled up and we are told it could be sunday night into monday morning before they get the power back on. pepco officials say they're working 24 hours a day to get the pow

i'm jim rosenfield in for jim vance tonight. >> and i'm doreen gentzler. the national weather service issued heat advisories from vermont to virginia. we have team coverage tonight on the heat and begin with chief meteorologist doug kammerer. >> tomorrow temperatures will be 20 to 25 degrees warmer than yesterday. looking outside right now the temperature is very warm, 80 degrees with winds out of the south at 6 miles an hour and the dew point at 73. the humidity up to near 80%. feels on the warm side out there tonight. outside today, high temperature of 88 in washington, 09 in leesburg, 9 in charlottesville. that heat will make its way into the region. still warm. 76 in fredericksburg. it will be a warm and humid morning tomorrow. tomorrow afternoon a heat advisory for a heat index between 100 and 105 and that is just getting things started. we'll talk more about the heat coming up. >> reporter: right now in chinatown in d.c. and i tell you as doug told you it will be very hot over the next couple days. health experts recommend that you be careful. >> it'

i'm jim rosenfield. >> i'm erica gonzalez. delaying "nightly news" because of the destruction from last night's severe weather and potential of more storms also in the forecast for tonight. as we speak, more than a million people in our area are still without power. and it could be a week or longer before the lights are back on everywhere. >> storms being blamed for at least four deaths in our area. d.c. and virginia have declared states of emergency. maryland is following suit. >> complicating matters in virginia, the 9191 -- 911 system is down. bring emergencies to local police and fire stations. >> water restrictions are also in place for many marylanders. wssc is telling customers in montgomery and prince george's county to limit the water he noouds use, because the storm knocked out pouber to filtration plants and other facilities. if the heat weren't unbearable enough, word more storms could roll right through parts of our area tonight. tom kierein is watching things in the weather center for us. tom, bopup thunderstorms

. -- ben rosenfield as well. supervisor chiu and the mayor have talked about sponsoring a measure that is very similar. i think it would be best if we have forward to the ballot. it should be revenue generating. it will generate upwards of $40 million. a lot of that is pasted on the business registration fee, which is skilled up by the business's revenue. that makes sure the business tax is fair, so the smaller businesses are paying much less. some of our unions, like the american federation of teachers, and jobs with justice organization members and, and coleman advocates -- we are looking at how we can have a tax system that is fair and looks at how we can recover our local economy, as we are seeing the tax cuts done at the state and federal level begin to limit the services we get funded from those levels. we need to make sure we have transit and the road work that needs to get done in the city, to make sure we have a city that works for everyone. as we are needing more resources and getting less money from th

i'm jim rosenfield. pepco reporting more than 6800 customers still have no power, most in prince george's county and the hardest hit town was bladensburg. dozens of home deemed unsafe, dozens left homeless are staying at a shelter at the high school. others are staying with friends and family as crews work to clean up the mess left behind. darcy spencer is live and talked to some of the folks affected by the storm. been a long 24 hours for them, right, darcy? >> reporter: it certainly has. jim, to just give you an idea of the devastation, this here is just one of 20 condemned buildings here in prince george's county. you can see there are tarps over of parts of the building. take a look at the very corner of the building. a huge piece is missing. you mentioned there are a lot of power outages here in the county. thousands of people are without power. many of them told me tonight they feel fortunate because they escaped with their lives. loretta banks is in tiers. her condo unit she's rented was heavily d

>> then rosenfield, controller. we have the first project completed and we look forward to receiving the second, the multi-year business plan the foundation is committed to completing by september. i'm hoping the document provides a long view of the foundation and museums finances over the horizon, including the debt that continues to need to be paid off in the structure agreement. there will be a funding gap remaining that will likely require a capital campaign. but the intent of the plan is that it informs the city's financial arrangement going forward and are around which the capital campaign can be structured. the proposed budget i have reviewed for the coming year does begin implementation of a number of the recommendations in the first daddy that was completed coming out of the agreement a year-and-a-half ago, including resources in that development office at the foundation. >> i want to add that the plan as looking at the institution holistic way. we want to be able to address any issues in the context of the

good evening, i'm chris gordon in for jim rosenfield. pepco restored power. even for some who have power the aftermath is cleaning up from the debris from friday's storm. news 4 darcy spencer is live in cheverly with a look at some damage. good evening, darcy. >> reporter: we can see a big difference what it looked like earlier today when we drove through the streets this evening. we could see many lights have been turned back on. this is one of the problems outstanding you. have a large tree down on power lines. affecting one home here in this community. the sorts of jobs are going to take a little bit longer. pepco officials are hoping to have power restored to everyone by some point tonight or early tomorrow morning. >> i'm going home. >> the power is on. >> the power is on. >> not sure about the gas. the power is on. >> snow baker is one of the lucky ones. power has been restored at her apartment two days after a microburst left numerous buildings heavily damaged. strong winds ripped roofs off. displacing 600 people. >> shocking. just telling my friend. r

chiu, eric mar, got together with the board of directors and, of course, a big thank-you to ben rosenfield who helped us all to figure out with the mayor's office, how we could put together a real state of financial support and strength to make sure the that the asian could move forward. they responded. not only with an agreement going forward, but with this idea of branding which came out of the number of ideas of how the nation can make sure it is appealing to an even broader audience, making sure that its wells, richness, not only in this place -- we have a lovely room like this for actual performances that are consistent with the asian culture. as you know, some 20,000 kids get invited to come through these halls to learn and see the exhibits. i am very excited about the next exhibit. i know the bali exhibit here will have international flavor. with this opening, with this brand name, i want to think the board of directors, the foundation. jay hsu and your work with the city. the supervisors, charlotte, the arts commission, and our controller, for coming together at this time to allow

. -- ben rosenfield as well. supervisor chiu and the mayor have talked about sponsoring a measure that is very similar. i think it would be best if we have forward to the ballot. it should be revenue generating. it will generate upwards of $40 million. a lot of that is pasted on the business registration fee, which is skilled up by the business's revenue. that makes sure the business tax is fair, so the smaller businesses are paying much less. some of our uni

i'm jim rosenfield. >> and i'm erica rosales, if could be a week or long brer the lights are back on everywhere. virginia and d.c. declared states of emergency tonight, and maryland has plans to follow suit. >> also, water restrictions are in place in mount gumry, brins george's and loudoun countys and local 911 systems had a host of problems today. the situation in fairfax county is so bad, residents have been told to go to the police or fire station to report their emergencies. tonight we have eight reporters fanned out across the metro area including tisha thompson in virginia, derrick ward in d.c. and darcy spencer in maryland, but we want to get right to storm 4 meteorologist time kieran who sakei tom therien. say it's not a repeat performance. >> thankfully not the widespread wind damage like last night. we have a strong thunderstorm that is developing. it has been developing and growing over culpepper county. there's a close-up view of the radar and this storm is beginning to develop and is pushing off to the south and east. right now raining really hard in culpepper county as

i'm jim rosenfield. it's called rush plus. and it means your usual metro line might not go where it used to. and that could mean a quicker trip. but if you don't pay attention, you could find yourself at an unexpected destination. news 4's darcy spencer joining us live from the roslyn metro station. darcy? >> reporter: well, jim, rush plus is going to affect 110,000 metro riders. that's a lot of riders. and what we found out tonight in speaking to riders here at the roslyn station, many people don't know what this service is or how it's going to affect their commute. that could spell trouble come tomorrow morning. if you ride metro during rush hour periods, you may be used to standing shoulder to shoulder on overcrowd trains. but that all could change starting monday morning, when metro rolls out the new rush plus service. so overall, do you think it's a good plan? >> yeah, sure. >> reporter: you think it will reduce the crowding? >> i guess. if you have more trains, then yeah. >> reporter: rush plus is meant to reduce crowdin

i'm jim rosenfield in for jim vance. >> i'm doreen gentzler. roger clemens has been acquitted on all six counts of perjury in his performance enhancing drugs retrial. the verdict was returned after ten hours of deliberation. pete williams has the latest. >> this is a huge victory for roger clemens and a big setback for the government. it's telling the trial dragged on for nine weeks. the jury took a day's worth of deliberations to find him not guilty on all counts. >> i put a lot of hard work into that career and, so, again, i appreciate my teammates that came in and all the e-mails and phone calls. >> now, we don't know exactly why the jury reached that conclusion. there were problems with the case, mainly the main witness, his former trainer. he's the only person who claimed to have seen roger clemens take steroids and human growth hormone because he claims he injected him with the drugs. there were a number of problems with his testimony and credibility. he's been found to have lied in the past. the jury may not have believed him. some juror

>> we want to welcome to news 4 jim rosenfield. comes to us from new york city and you have a wonderful name. jim. >> jim. you're going to have to come up with some kind of nickname. >> joining quite the club here. >> distinguished, i'm so happy to be here. happy to be back in the nbc family. where i was in new york for five years. and with the number one news operation here in d.c. what could be better? >> you can't lose. we're blessed and happy to have you here. >> you can call me jim, j.r. whatever works. hey you. >> i like j.r. >>> news 4 at 4:00 continues. the winner of "the voice" joins us live. we're going to talk to jermaine paul. >>> also, dangerous conditions in a spot where life guards have to pull swimmer at swimmer. >>> plus, facebook opens up about potential plans to allow preteens on the >> god bless y'all, man. nobody but jesus ♪ i believe i can fly ♪ i can believe i can touch the sky ♪ ♪ i think about it every night and day ♪ ♪ spread my wings and fly away ♪ i believe i can soar >> you heard it if you didn't you mi

. >> this is jim rosenfield, our new anchor.de me cry. >> wait, here's some kleenex. >> jim is going to be -- jim is going to be taking care of me, because i'm a faucet. but you're our new anchor from -- that was just so sweet. bless his little heart. >> inspiration. i'm happy to be here. >> and we're happy to have you here. you came from chicago and new york city and worked the our station in new york and our station and cbs in new york and chicago. >> but i'm happy to be back in the nbc family and here with all of you. already first week it feels like home. it really does. a wonderful newsroom. number one operation in d.c. and what an interesting time to be here in d.c., so delighted to be here. my wife is from the area, so it it felt like home. >> you have kids? >> they're kind of grown and leaving the nest, but i'm happy that they're joaning us. >> we're a very fun station. >> you are cool. >> it is, it's a very fun station. everybody gets along. >> i see it, wendy. >> thanks for the tissone. >>> let's go out to veronica in

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