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Will stay there. Of big changes big changes at neutered dame university. Notre dom university. Theecame the first man in position in the university history. He is now stepping down. Goes into of power effect almost immediately. Covering the nation tonight, president obama is announcing a series of new initiatives to help disabled veterans, including more funding for prosthetic limbs and improvement in health care. The meeting in orlando, president also said his administration is also improving assistance with the backlog of disability claims. Six months ago, claims were at their peak, more than 600,000. Right now, chief concern is the backlog of those claims for compensation from injury caused by military service. Some folks are out there trying to scare people, including veterans. Plainly. Y this if you already plainly. If you already have Health Insurance or health care from the va, you do not have to do a thing. Your Va Health Care does not change. It is safe. There are no new fees. Dont let them would wind you. The president also announced the release of a comprehensive plan to improve the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat pst d. , traumatic brain injury, and to deal with suicide. Fire officials have confirmed four bodies have been pulled from the site where a small aircraft crashed into two homes tuesday afternoon. A Family Member is identifying two of the victims as an executive and his teenage son. They were in the plane and traveling to the east coast visiting colleges. Hundreds are searching the idaho wilderness for a man accused of abducting a girl and killing her mother and brother. Imaggio isd james d suspected of kidnapping Hanna Andersson after killing her mother and brother. Theyre asking campers in the in the idaho area to bring them information. We are not going to take any chances of missing something. Were going to investigate every possible lead. The wilderness area there currently searching covers 320 square miles of rugged territory in idaho near the montana border. Marrowded to be a bone donor at a college fair 20 years ago, and recently learned that he is somewhat perfect match. For the first time, he meets a young girl whose life he saved. Hundreds of students are getting believe it or not, this festive event in cockeysville is in preparation for the return of the school year. Much of the day was spent getting out backpacks of all shapes and sizes to school kids of all ages. Organizers tell us it is the sixth year of the event and each year, it gets bigger. Gave out a total of 250 backpacks to the first 250 students in line. There are full of school supplies. This years event also included a safety expo from state and local police and even members of the marine corps. You still have a chance to save money on backtoschool clothing starting tomorrow. Consumers across the state will not have to pay 6 tax on shoes and clothing. This marks the fourth year in a row. For more information on where you can save, go to wbaltv. Com. An emotional meeting for a baltimore man who made a lot changing decision for himself and a 10yearold from michigan. He came face to face with her. His donated bone marrow is credited with saving her life. He said he actually had forgotten about signing up for it more than two decades ago, but then learned he was her perfect match. A child is sick, you want to do something. If you can help somebody, you want to do this little thing for somebody else. You could be laid up for 30 days or for four days, it does not matter. She was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder and used the bone marrow in a critical procedure in 2009. What had happened this evening, or late this afternoon, northwest winds have brought in slightly less. It is not going to last. Enjoy it while we have it. The forecast just ahead. Quite a quick look at the radar again. There were some showers this afternoon. This line here, that is where this northwest breeze has brought in slightly drier air and push the moisture down to the south. That is where most of the rain will be generated in the next 24 hours. We will have to keep an eye on things, but normally we have a breaking going on. Earlier today, one onehundredth of an inch of rain at the airport. Have enough to keep things clean. Yeartodate, 25 inches of precipitation, about half an inch below what he would consider average. 85 was the high today. Typical is 86. Humidity was high this morning, but dropping late in the day. The skiesw morning, will be clearing and allow the temperature to drop a little bit. Rederick, 82 right now 70s out in the mountains to the west. This stalled front is going to stay there. That is fine, we cannot keep rain completely out of the forecast. Lets take a look at the forecast. At the moment, slightly drier air overnight tonight. 60s to around 70s for the low. If there is a break or two in the clouds, be watching for the perseids meteor shower. Freeould have to be cloud to see that. That might be a challenge. A southeast win at 27 Miles Per Hour tomorrow. Friday, andhursday, saturday, lower humidity. The orioles out in San Francisco Training Camp combined with the heat and humidity made for a test this afternoon. Williams seems immune from all camp. He has managed to stick with it, thanks to determination and toughness. He scored a pair of touchdowns in the season opener. Thaty find a role beyond specialty. Hes working to keep pushing and motivating a spirited and hes a special guy. A week ago he had a shoulder issue that would have kept a lot of guys out for a couple of weeks. A lot of guys would not have played with batchelder that he had. He came back and was rewarded which a lot of guys would not have played with that shoulder that he had. He came back and played with it and was rewarded. We pick things up with the inoles on a Beautiful Day San Francisco. Adam jones delivers to center. Davis makes it to third. He, however, would be stranded there. How about that . Giving San Francisco a 31 lead. That is where they find themselves now in the bottom of the seventh with the giants enjoying the 31 lead over the orioles. J. J. Hardee continuing his exceptional career with the orioles. 20 openingight season from baltimore. Taking fuller advantage of this opportunity. He knew Something Special was going on when after allowing the first two borders batters to second, he struck out nine. Of the dykema the orioles lead. 21 bottom of the ninth, the orioles with a 21 lead. Davis delivered with his 109th rbi for the season. New york this afternoon, the fourth place yankees them trucked the tigers. He said he needed a day off. Cabreras 35th home run of the season. Chamberlain tried to keep the yankees in the game. Their egos. A threerun shot to right center and there it goes. A threerun shot to right center. Tomorrow will be fine. You cannot being bring big bags in. Theres a new policy in place. Only bringing back the but you need tomorrow. Exactly what you need tomorrow. Chancesal rain tomorrow. Something may come in tomorrow night. The highest chance will be tuesday. Everything is south of us until tuesday. Wednesday and thursday, drier air sticks around for awhile. Way to end the week. By tuesday it is not going to be a washout. Looking forward to when we can get to it. The middle and end of the week. News atis it for 11 6 00 p. M. [captioning made possible by Constellation Energy group] captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org we will see you at 11 00. Good evening. The water came fast and caught a lot of americans off guard overnight in places where the ground was already saturated and inches fell within hours. There were rivers of muddy water filled with debris roaring past houses and down hoy highways. Heavy rains sit several states across the middle of the country with more rain in the forecast and in colorado the flash flooding was deadly. Thats where we begin tonight just west of Colorado Springs with nbcs leanne greg. Leanne, residents say it hit without warning . Reporter kate, and as you can see, the cleanup is now under way, but within the last 24 hours, a wall of water hit this town surging more than 12 feet above the creek bed, sending visitors and residents scrambling for higher ground. More than an inch of rain turned this road sbooi a raging river rushing 25 to 30 miles an hour. Oh, god. Reporter torrential downpours hit the area west of Colorado Springs late friday. Causing flash floods and triggers mudslides. Sweeping away cars and homes in the tourist town of manitou springs. I have concerning news to shart. Reporter reports of one dead and three people still missing. Doing the best to get the city cleaned up so we can get back to business as usual. Reporter an other than of a local restaurant said the storm hit during business hours. It was very, very scary mip staff had to evacuate. The customers to the east side of the restaurant, and there were still plates of food on the tables and candles burning. Reporter just was trapped in a building more than two hours. Just bawling my eyes out. When i came down the avenue, it was like a raging river, black river coming down. Reporter colorado is one of six states in the midwest who suffered severe dprach flash floods this week. In central, missouri, up to nine inches of rain. There it goes. Yep. Reporter floodwaters swamped this crane and sent it crashing down. Oh, no, no, no, no reporter in tennessee residents outside nashville were forced to seek refuge on rooftops while waiting for rescue workers. In arkansas more than six inches of rain. The result of a storm system that stalled over the plains. 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