. >> wendy rieger's out at fedex field with the crowd there celebrating the new quarterback selectiont first to dan hellie with details of a very big night for the redskins franchise. >> this is fun. robert griffin iii now officially going to be wearing the burgundy and gold, and he'sar already feeling at home. he opened up his first teleconference after being selected by singing "hail to the redskins." not much of a surprise with this pick tonight, but that didn't really matter, did it? >> with the second pick in the 2012 nfl draft the washington redskins select robert griffin iii. >> the heisman trophy winner looking dapper on the biggest night of his football life. he will be introduced to fans and media here in d.c. at a draft party at fedex field on saturday at 2:00. rg3 is the franchise quarterback the redskins have desperately needed for more than two decades. he's been in new york since tuesday soaking up the draft experience, and tonight was what he's been waiting for. >> yeah, i was excited and i was sitting there staring at the phone, waiting for the call. and they called t

wendy rieger reports. ♪ i only have eyes >> reporter: at first you're not sure what you're seeing.shing lights, patterns, silhouettes looming large. and you can't take your eyes off it. and that's the point. artist doug aiken is using the museum's round facade as a screen, creating the first 360 degree convex cinema experience, a new version of theater in the round. and it's wild. the images are accompanied by various haunting renditions of the 1934 pop classic "i only have eyes for you." this installation is called simply "song one." and it's something the artist is known for. having done similar cinema outside new york's museum of modern art. he likes transforming these buildings into what he calls liquid architecture. people gather at the hirschhorn at sundown. some lying on the grass. others just simply stopped in their tracks. this woman was driving by when it seized her. >> and i asked them, i said what is this? what's going on? so they told me it was art, isn't it beautiful? i said yes, it is. because i heard music. >> the images move around the hirschhorn's round structure,

. >> wendy rieger is with us with our app of the day. wendy? >> hey there.imply called madonna. and it's a cool app for your ipad and only for your ipad. you can start off by looking at all of her albums and if there are songs you might have missed, that you want to download, you can -- let's go to this one. hello. hello. here we go. there you go. not only can you see what people have said about it but you can look at all of the songs that are on it and you can download them if you don't have them yet or there is something that you need to go back to from years ago if you're young and suddenly grown up and thought, hey, i didn't know she did that. you know, madonna has been around for quite a while, some plus years. you know, she is -- she has still got it. here's her 2012 tour. she'll be coming to washington but it tells you where she is appearing, what people are saying about it. you can buy tickets. they're quite expensive. i know they're something like 250 bucks for this but this is one of my favorite parts of the app. the photos. because, you know, the

i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger.gin with breaking news that involves howard university. there is a report tonight from the washington city paper that howard has temporarily suspended its athletics program. the paper published a statement from a howard university spokesperson saying the suspension is self-imposed and the university is conducting a review of the alleged violations. news 4 talked to the spokesperson who tells us an official release is coming as soon as we get that or learn more about this reported suspension we will bring it to you. >>> there is a new twist in the megamillions mystery. today the mcdonald's worker from baltimore who claims to hold one of the three winning lotto tickets calls a press conference with her lawyer and then refuses to talk. news 4's richard jordan is in the newsroom with more on her calls now for privacy. hey, richard. >> hi, wendy. she didn't talk and didn't show the ticket. the woman bringing in legal counsel because she says she is afraid someone will come after her money.

and good evening, i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm jim handly.art with the deaths of five people inside a home today. it's the worst carbon monoxide incident in shelby drive history. pat collins is live with what caused it. >> reporter: jim, the silent killer claims five lives. the worst carbon monoxide incident in recent memory here in prince georges county. >> family, friends, tears in the street today following a tragic discovery at this home on shelby drive. a woman, her husband, her sister, two renters all five dead. all apparent victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. the only survivor

i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm jim handly.mployee in a botched robbery attempt at a rite-aid in the district. it unfolded in an area already on edge over recent crimes. pat collins is live for us in northeast washington with more on the chaotic search. >> reporter: the employee was shot in the back and is in the hospital tonight. police are trying to track down the gunman responsible, trying to see if he is linked to other robberies here in this neighborhood. it was an all out man hunt.

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i'm wendy rieger. a 19-year-old man is charged with that attack and another attack that left a young woman in the hospital. he was also suspected in three more assaults, including one that killed a tourist. we're live from the petworth neighborhood with new details she learned from one victim. darcy? >> reporter: this victim is 58 years old, and he walks his little white dog named cocoa here in his neighborhood every day. and that's what he was doing thursday afternoon when he encountered this suspect, a young man. the young man said hello to him and he says he was suddenly hit on the head. this man is one of the victims in last week's hammer attacks in the petworth neighborhood of northwest washington. he was walking his dog, cocoa, last thursday afternoon in the 200 block of ingraham street when he said he encountered the suspect, 19-year-old michael davis. >> he walked by and he said, how you doing, sir, with a smile, and i said, how you doing? before i could turn to see where my dog is like i'm doi

i'm wendy rieger. we have a lot for you on this sunday evening, starting with that victim. he says he was just walking his dog when a man on the street spoke kindly to him and then attacked. news 4's darcy spencer has what happened next. >> i keep going. and god looked out for me. >> reporter: this man walks his little dog coco twice a day in his northwest washington neighborhood. but last thursday afternoon the walk turned into a traumatizing event. he was struck in the head, police say, by a teen suspected in a series of hammer attacks. >> he walked by and he said, "how are you doing, sir?" you know, with a smile. and i said, how are you doing in and before i could turn to see where my dog was, like i'm doing now, i was struck with an object. >> reporter: the victim, who doesn't want to show his face or give his name, was walking in the 200 block of ingerham street in northwest d.c. he says he was knocked down and knocked out. he regained consciousness several minutes later. he was hit here on his ear in the side of his head. his forehead was cut when he fell to the groun

i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm jim hanley.for a tourist ended in the petworth neighborhood. news 4's pat collins was first on the scene in northwest. he joins us live with the latest on the investigation. pat? >> jim, a couple weeks ago a man from colorado came to tour our city. he rented a basement apartment in a home here in petworth to stay during his visit. yesterday he's murdered in this petworth

. >>> and good evening, i'm wendy rieger sitting in for doreen gentzler. >> and i'm jim vance.ictims were found this morning in a house in the70

. >>> good evening, i'm jim handly, i'm wendy rieger. police uncover a home improvement scheme.actors are accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars and never finishing the work. darcy spencer says one family was conned out of their retirement. >> reporter: this couple is not rich by far, but they were using their nest egg to turn their house in a dream retirement home. but more than $370,000 later, the work still has not been completed. the man police say they paid the money to, is facing criminal charges. >> it's just absolutely amazing to me we let it go on. >> reporter: they paid a contractor $300,000 to remold their home. they didn't get what they paid for. much of the work unfinished or not done. >> he was very

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

i'm doreen gentzler in tonight for wendy rieger. >> i'm jim handly.with our top story out of prince george's county. it began with a fight on social media. a teenage girl was then stabbed in the stomach at fairmont heights high school. news 4's pat collins joins us now live from the school in capital heights. >> reporter: jim, sources say this all began with a dispute over a wig last week. that led to angry exchanges on social media. those angry exchanges led to a fight inside the school today and the 17-year-old teenage girl is stabbed in the stomach with a paring knife. the cops had the place surrounded, the school on lockdown. the scene, fairmont heights high. the crime, stabbing. the victim a 17-year-old teenage girl. the suspect, a 15-year-old teenage girl. they say it happened around 9:00 this morning in a hallway. now with the permission of

. >>> i'm wendy rieger. coming up at 5:00 we'll stay on top of the breaking news. are expected to be filed in the trayvon martin case. a man who was fired from the library of congress has filed a discrimination lawsuit claiming his sexuality cost him his job. >>> and in our latest installment of what's your workout it's a new fitness trend that helps you break a sweat and release your aggression and you do >>> leave the limos at home. a guy in china says to really get hitched you need a tractor. he decided to drive his bride-to-be to their wedding in a big, red tractor. he works for a farm cooperative and his fellow workers decided to help him out and make it a whole tractor procession. he and his bride grew up in the country and say they want to remember their rural roots. >> are those the groomsmen and brides maids maybe? wow. >> it looks really romantic. >> yeah. and noisy. show and tell in a kindergarten classroom ends with a drug bust up in connecticut. police say a 5-year-old boy brought 50 packets of heroin to school on monday to show his classmates. the tea

i'm doreen gentzler in tonight for wendy rieger. >> i'm jim handly.lling into a place of honor. the retired shuttle discovery is being moved into its new home today, the smithsonian museum near dulles airport. at one point it sat nose to nose with the shuttle it's replacing. erika gonzalez joins us now live from chantilly with more on the transition ceremony today that included one of the greatest gatherings of astronauts in recent memory. erika? >> it's still a very active site. i want you to see this. we still have movement here inside the smithsonian. shuttle discovery has just been wheeled in or tugged in should i say less than an hour ago it was still sitting outside. enterprise was moved aside and discovery came in. now, you want to talk about precise precision? you have a 57-foot tall tail coming through one single panel. it was absolutely incredible and thousands of people have shown up to see discovery come home. on a picture perfect day shuttle discovery was tugged down the runway from the dulles international airport and welcomed into the a

wendy rieger joins us with the app that puts everything you need to know about our local taxies in oneright. this is called taxi tally and is created by a local guy. dr. daniel kruchy created this. you can look at all of the cab companies in the area so if you are out in the hint erlands and looking for a cab you can find it. i put in washington, d.c. just to show you. here are all the cab companies. see all the stars over there? it rates them for professionalism, safety, environment. all of them have a number so if you're out at night and you think i got to call a cab and aur he not finding one on the street you can call one. you can report a violation and you can write a comment. this one a guy wrote on this cab company may flower, old cab but aren't they all? very polite driver and clean environment. there's just -- look at all these cabs in d.c. what i love about this, again, if you are out in montgomery county and you're visiting a friend and you had too much to drink and you want to take a cab home you can look at all the cabs right there. these haven't been rated yet but they ha

. >>> i'm wendy rieger. coming up on news 4 at 5:00 you first saw the story on news 4.logizing for controversial comments about asian owned businesses in d.c.'s ward 8. the megamillions mystery is just deepening. even surveillance video isn't helping anyone figure out who bought that winning ticket at the local 7-eleven. coming up on news 4 at 6:00 some unusual tornado debris. something nostalgic turns up on something nostalgic turns up on it was like a red rash... very sore looking kinda blistery. like somebody had set a bag of hot charcoal on my neck. i was a firefighter for 24 years. but, i have never encountered such a burning sensation until i had the shingles. i remember it well. i was in the back yard doing yard work. i had this irritation going on in my lower neck. i changed shirts because i thought there was something in the collar of the shirt irritating my neck. and i couldn't figure out what was going on. i had no idea it came from chickenpox. i always thought shingles was associated with people... a lot older than myself. i can tell you from experience, it

our decision 2012 coverage continues now with wendy rieger. >> i'm here at the super screen with a look at some of our local races. in the district incumbents saw a lot of success last night. marion barry, yvette alexander, muriel bowser all beat opponents challenging their council seats. barry got an overwhelming 73% of the vote inward 8. jack evans also won but he was running unopposed for ward 2. one race that is still too close to call with all precincts reporting at large member vincent orange is currently leading. his challenger trails by only a little more than 500 votes. that means some 3800 absentee ballots will have to be counted and results may not be available until next friday. let's head over to maryland. in maryland, a hotly contested seat for the house is set for this fall. businessman john delaney won the democratic primary for district 6. he will now face long-time republican congressman roscoe bartlett. now, bartlett is running for an 11th term. that's a lot of sustainability. but bartlett could face a challenge with redistricting that includes a larger portion of mon

i'm wendy rieger. >> and i'm jim handly. it's our top story. the suspect is just 19 years old. us he tried to run off but he was caught with a bloody hammer in his book bag. now investigators want to know if he's linked to three other assaults nearby. pat collins joins us live with this news 4 exclusive. he spoke with the latest victim and her family about this attack. pat? >> reporter: jim, the suspect's house over there, a half block down there one of the crime scenes. a block up that way the murder scene. the attack last night, walking distance. police all over the house where the suspect lives on emerson street. searching for clues that may link him to a string of ambush assaults in petworth. the suspect identified as 19-year-old michael davis. he's said to be mentally ill. arrested last night after yet another attack. and today i spoke to the victim by phone. >> i had just crossed and i seen a shadow following me and it kind of scared me. so i turned around. and it was -- i didn't say nothing. you just turned around. after like a second he just struck me with something. >>