donna. neil bogard who founded her in the mid 70s from casablanca records launched her in europe. she was a giant hit in europe. nothing in the states for a while until finally record executives realized her records were selling all over the place. she was an underground sensation. the first crossover artist. then all of a sudden they realized wait a minute. how come this woman is not on the radio? an even crazier move, a 17-minute version of her song "love to love you baby" hits the radio. imagine that. nowadays you don't see anything more than 3 1/2 minutes. she broke all kinds of ground and in 1982 quincy jones moved in. i love this stat. 1982 quincy jones comes in. he does a collaboration with her. he convinces on one song on the donna summer album to get back up vocals from michael jackson, lionel ritchie, and stevie wonder. he said, watching that collaboration, seeing all these people back up donna summer, he said, that gave him the inspiration for "we are the world" in 1984, the ethiopian famine relief hit. donna summer cut ground all over the place. >> we why just playing "last dance." pat and i and everybody knows all the words to her music. do we know much about her personal, private life? did she have a family, kids, a husband? >> she had two marriages. her first husband was last named summer where she got the name donna summer but then she married, became sedono in 1984 i believe. 1983 or 1984. so she's had a long marriage but, no. she never really knew much about her personal life. she kept it quiet. no one even knew she had cancer. >> billy, you know, one of the things that i thought was so amazing about her is that disco died out. it faded. but she didn't. she made the transition. she crossed over, segued to pop music and did it nicely. >> oh, she sure did. she hit the charts again in 1983. she got out of disco and into pop. there is no question that, you know, as far as legends go disco is hers and she owns it but she does get credit outside of it. i'm telling you man, i'm going back to kobe college and when i was, look, only 5 years old when donna summers came, 4 years old, i'd just like to go back further when she came on the scene but i am telling you i hahave groovedy business to so many donna summer songs and right now all over the world especially tonight it's going to be going down. >> she'll be missed. thanks a lot. billy bush. >> thank you, guys. >> well, now to the death of d.c.'s own music legend the godfather of go-go, chuck brown. >> people are talking today about the impact of his life and music in this city. meanwhile the magnitude of the city's loss is still sinking in. news 4's tracee wilkins was on hand as fans today remembered chuck brown on the radio. >> 1-877 par show and of course chuck brown has left us, 75 years on this earth. >> reporter: it's the first morning after the passing of d.c. music legend chuck brown. >> doing chuck brown stories. good morning. i believe that's denise in d.c. how you doing? wnchts wkys's russ parr offered listeners a chance to call in and talk about the godfather of go-go. the phone lines lit up. >> look, i grew up with him. go-go music is my favorite. i love him. my heart was broken yesterday when i heard he passed. my prayers are with his family. he was an amazing, amazing man. >> so many people there and he just wanted to walk through the crowd and he would stop and pay attention to everybody. it was a testament to the fact of the type of person he was. >> this is something we owned. this is something that was ours. and we're very passionate about it. you know? you could have michael jackson in concert and chuck brown. chuck sells out. >> brown cultivated the go-go sound in the '70s stringing together latin, funk, r & b, soul music and percussian rich sound that was all d.c.'s and its suburbs. >> because he had the ability to reach everyone. i mean, you could talk to someone in their 40s and the first thing they'll tell u. well hey, my dad said he partied with chuck, you know, and still today if he was here with us today he probably would have his show. >> reporter: brown's shows were a standard performance. he would play for hours nonstop. there were no intermissions, only musical interluds that would often be filled with call-in response from the crowds, screaming, wind me up, chuck. a signal for him to keep going. thus the name, go-go. >> he was a genius. you know, he had a gift. and we're lucky to be recipients of his gift because it's going to keep on giving to us. >> when you think about it in music it is hard enough just to create a hit but to create an entire music genre that is now the definition of the music for one specific city and has influenced countless musicians around the world, well that's something to be proud of. in silver spring, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. >> and tonight on nbc washington nonstop chuck brown in his own words. we'll be playing one of his last interviews where he talks about how it felt to be the godfather of go-go and where washington would be without its funky brand of music. that's tonight at 7:30 and at 10:00 on nbc washington nonstop comcast channel 208. verizon channel 460. cox number 803 and digital channel 4.2. >> closing arguments just wrapped up just minutes ago in the john edwards corruption trial. prosecutors talked for about 90 minutes today saying edwards was part of a scheme to take money from wealthy donors in order to hide his pregnant mistress. the defense then told the jury prosecutors failed to prove edwards intended to break campaign finance laws. edwards faces up to 30 years in prison and more than a million dollars in fines if convicted on all charges. the jury is expected to begin deliberations tomorrow. in the presidential race other hot debate today over the reverend jeremiah wright. a conservative political action committee was hoping to launch a $10 million media campaign that would play up president obama's ties to reverend wright. but the billionaire who was supposed to fund this has pulled out. as steve handelsman reports mitt romney is also against the ads. >> i want to make it very clear i repudiate that effort. >> reporter: mitt romney called it the wrong plan saying the campaign ought to be about jobs not about chicago preacher jeremiah wright and his association that ended in '08 with barack obama and a $10 million attack ad campaign will not be launched. billionaire conservative joe redistri ricket said he saw the ad but rejected it. president obama is being attacked by karl rove's conservative super pac. >> today i'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office. >> broken because he hasn't even come close. >> reporter: vice president biden attacked mitt romney over bain capital's takeover of steel dynamics in the '90s. >> 750 workers lost their jobs and romney and his investing partners walked away with $12 million. that's romney economics. two sets of rules. >> reporter: romney in florida said the obama/biden campaign had turned to character assassination. >> there is this fiction that somehow you can be highly successful by stripping assets from enterprise and walking away with lots of money and killing the enterprise. there may be some people who know how to do that. i sure don't. our approach was to always try and make the enterprise more successful and the purpose of the president's ads are not to describe success and failure but to somehow suggest i am not a good person or not a good guy. >> romney, hoping he can define who he is, before his opponents do. because as interest in the reverend wright and the bain capital stories today proves politicians believe that character matters to voters. i'm steve handelsman, news 4, capitol hill. mortgage rates are once again at a record low today but it's not helping out with home sales. right now the average rate for a 30-year fixed loan stands at about 3.84%. that is the lowest since long-term mortgage rates began in the 1950s. 15-year mortgage rates are now just over 3% but despite that home sales remain weak. that's because many potential home buyers don't qualify for loans because of higher down payments and other requirements. turning to the weather we've had another warm afternoon but don't put the sweater away. >> not yet anyway. let's get the first word from veronica johnson in the storm center. >> a lot of us needed our jacket this morning, right? i know i sure did heading out. a little on the cool side. we're talking about temperatures tonight that will be even lower. but look at that beautiful, beautiful blue sky there with the monument there in the distance. also the jefferson, hey, the reason for a clear sky, big area of high pressure just to the north and it's moved in behind yesterday's weather front. so if you've got clear skies all the way up to the north around pennsylvania and new york, notice the clouds, though, down to the south. around the norv neck and areas of southwestern virginia right now. otherwise again a very clear sky with a north to northeasterly wind around the area. your temperatures at 75 degrees. yesterday's high was 82. your wind now at 8 miles per hour after a breezy late morning and early afternoon around the area. 73 bethesda and damascus. chantilly good afternoon to you. falls church coming in at 72 degrees currently. 76 in fredericksburg and 73 currently in bowie and landover. we'll watch the temperatures head on downward, nice and refreshing for your evening with a clear sky. 69 by 9:00 p.m. and then 65 degrees by 11:00 p.m. once again another day, the pollen count is high. we'll talk about the next chance of rain. could come sooner than maybe you want. i'll have the details coming up. >> thanks. that wildfire in arizona's prescott national forest has nearly tripled. the fire started sunday. it's now consumed at least ten square miles. high winds are fueling it. fire officials are concerned that if the wind shifts the fire will head for a community of the mostly summer homes and the handful of residents who haven't left yet will become trapped. the fire likely started in one house and then quickly spread. the brits now have their hands on that single olympic flame. the torch that was lit in olympia, greece last week arrived today at the british embassy in athens. it's been on a week-long relay across greece. british soccer star david beckham and princess flaanne we among the celebrities who received it. it will spin tonight at the embassy and fly to the uk tomorrow. the torch run begins on saturday. it will crisscross every part of the uk and visit ireland before arriving at the opening ceremony in london. that's on july 27th. nbc 4 is your official olympic station. a consumer alert for honda owners today. the company is recalling nearly 57,000 acura tl sedans because of a problem with the power steering hose. the hoses can deteriorate over time and leak fluid. the auto maker says that can cause the car's steering to fail or cause the car to catch fire. the recall applies to 2007 and 2008 sedans. owners will get letters next month telling them to take the vehicles to the dealership to get a free repair. >> we're just getting started. remembering the life of the godfather of go-go georgia alfredas joins us next to share her reflections. >> also lady antebellum puts on quite a performance at the prom. >> plus the most anticipated ipo in years. everybody wants to become friends on facebook. that story c ♪ ♪ >> they came through just weeks after tornadoes devastated their town. high school students in kentucky saw an a-list concert. lady antebellum performed a mini prom for henryville high school. the band surprised the students at a party in louisville. the students won an online contest thanks to the help of other schools all over the country. they submitted youtube videos in support of henryville. a huge statue of marilyn monroe finally landed in southern california. the 26-foot tall creation is named "forever marilyn" and arrived in palm springs from chicago earlier this week. the sculpture is by artist stuart johnson and recreates the scene from "the seven-year itch" where the icon's dress is blown above her knees by the wind. we are all familiar with that image. the 34,000-pound sculpture is currently being touched up for display next week. the story of steve jobs is coming to a theater near you. sony pictures has green lighted a movie about the legendary founder of apple. it'll be based on walter isaacson's best selling biography about jobs. the screen play is being written by the oscar winning writer of the social network. steve jobs died last october after a long battle with cancer. no word yet on who will play jobs in the movie but actor ashton kutcher is set to play steve jobs in a separate project. is rihanna headed for a nervous breakdown? a new list of the top celebrities in hollywood. but the most talk around town today is the passing of go-go godfather chuck brown. >> joining us now is georgia ail fr fred -- ail fredas. you actually got to see him within the last year of his life. >> we had a party at the radio station. you know, i think people here in this area just saw him more as a part of the family. you know, he was a world renowned entertainer and artist but really if you're from this area or you live here you really saw him as a family member who traveled who would just happen to be an entertainer because people have been tweeting, facebooking and you know we had lots of calls at the radio station this morning and everybody had a chuck brown story. they'd see him some place and they're like chuck goit to go. everybody loved him as an entertainer but also a home guy from d.c. that did well. >> part of the fabric of the community. >> absolutely. >> let's talk about rihanna. a lot of people are speculating about her emotional and mental health. >> after she was hospitalized last week due to dehydration and exhaustion people are concerned. they think she might be partying too much and, you know, her father, her mother is really concerned because her father as former crack addict. she is concerned that maybe she is following in her father's foot steps so she is allegedly moving to l.a. to stay at rihanna's house and make sure she is doing what she is supposed to be doing and keep an eye on her. she ness the new movie "battle ship" and was surprisingly really great in this movie i thought. i never saw rihanna in the movie at all. i thought she played her part well. her director praised her and said she was the first one to work and the first to leave. maybe she can party and still get her work done. some people can. >> maybe. >> stay tuned on that. and is j-lo saying bye-bye or is this just a big rumor? >> j-lo is trying to get another $20 million. it's negotiation time for her. she has all this great stuff going on. you know, she's got fiat, gillett, this month's "vogue" and is getting $20 million a year and she is like okay. britney got 15 for x factor. i think i deserve a little more. she is a big draw. i think they need j-lo for that show. everybody loves her. >> that's what's going on there. all right. so which entertainers are bringing home the most bucks these days? >> speaking of j-lo is going to definitely use this when negotiating. she is the most powerful celebrity in the world. according to "forbes." she didn't make so much, well i say she didn't. she made $52 million last year. but oprah is number two and made $165,000. they kind of, you know, the list is compiled, they calculate your fame, you know, what you've done for pop culture and of course your money so oprah is number two. justin bieber number three. rihanna number four. lady gaga number 5. she was number one last year and j-lo was number 50 last year. >> interesting. >> i know you want to know where kim kardashian is on the list. >> of course. our next question. >> she is number seven. britney spears number six. kim kardashian before beyonce. hard to believe. >> that is hard to believe. we're not doing our part on the kim kardashian money wheel. what is up for tomorrow morning? >> everybody wants drake tickets. it's coming here may 25th. you can get them kosdk.com and i see the tweets. is you tweeting me as somebody else begging for tickets? >> you bring rihanna here -- whoa. that's a ticket. >> busted. he's busted here on live tv. >> all right. kosdc.com we got them. >> see you next week. coming up next on news 4 at 4:00 it was a blue light special. one man just couldn't pass it up. then he decided to do something very honorable. >> also a new jersey man is starting to get to know police officers pretty well. why he was arrested five times in f tell us this is not ending any time soon. you're on a roll. >> well, okay. we're going to get through tomorrow just fine. we're going to get through a good part of our weekend just fine. >> there is a big but there. >> yeah. you've got to stick around and kind of follow me through the weather forecast. great outside today. nice and refreshing our start and it is going to be like that again tomorrow morning. probably even a few degrees cooler to start out. again, jacket weather for tomorrow morning. take a look outside right now. we've got a great blue sky across the area. temperatures throughout the area running in the 70s. we're at 75 degrees. reagan national airport with the wind out of the north at eight miles per hour right now. as far as our good night wakeup forecast goes, nice and refreshing. 65 to 69 degrees. very starry skies. cool again tomorrow morning. 56 at 5:00 a.m. 58 degrees at 7:00 a.m. there will be some neighborhoods around the area starting out in the 40s. sun sets today at 8:16. so great evening coming our way. all right. wanted to start at 7:00 a.m. this morning. take a look at this animation here of our satellite and radar. if you don't think the mountains really matter watch what happens right here. you see that? that lift high into the atmosphere. mountains helping trigger some showers and even some thunderstorms, isolated storms just west of roanoke. the cloud cover that you see down south is an area of low pressure that is going to try and form. we've got today though high pressure that has been moving in. clear skies, pennsylvania down through areas of most of virginia so terrific evening for us. that high pressure moves in for tomorrow so it's going to be nice and warm and nice and sunny, too. we'll keep our eye on the area of low pressure because the two by the end of the weekend will start doing a little bit of a battle. saturday we're fine, too, with sunshine but the area of high pressure will be slipping away. and i do think that by the end of the weekend very late saturday this area of low pressure may start winning out. as it moves close to the coast and northward we'll see an area of moisture start to creep on into areas of the northern neck. maybe even extreme southern maryland. but i don't think it's going to really have any big effect on any weekend plans for saturday, certainly, and even sunday. east wind will be cooler and a little wet coming on monday, though. and for most of the early part of next week. for your evening, low humidity. 60 to 69 degrees. for tomorrow morning jacket weather again for us. take a look at the four-day forecast here. into the 70s. unseasonable temperatures for the next couple days. we've got sunshine for saturday and partly sunny for sunday. so that rain probably not until sunday night. but early part of next week we'll take a look more. next week coming up in a couple minutes. >> not bad at all. thanks, veronica. still to come on news 4 the latest as facebook gets ready for the ipo tomorrow and what investors should know before shelling out big bucks. >> plus imagine running a marathon while in a hot air balloon. that story s welcome back at 4:30 everybody. i'm jim handly. >> i'm pat lawson muse. here is a look at the headlines this hour. the woman known as the queen of disco died today. donna summer lost her battle with breast cancer at her home in florida. she won five grammys in her career with a string of hits including "last dance" and "she works hard for her money." donna summer was 63 years old. closing arguments just wrapped up this afternoon in the john edwards corruption trial. in their final presentation prosecutors told jurors today that edwards knowingly used campaign money to hide his affair with rielle hunter. the defense says there is no evidence that edwards intended to break any laws. jury deliberations are expected to begin tomorrow. conservative billionaire joe rickets says he will not fund a $10 million ad campaign that highlights president obama's ties to reverend jeremiah wright. rickets supports a republican pac that wants to run the ads. they would have featured some of wright's controversial sermons. today both mitt romney and the obama campaign spoke out against the plan. stocks plunged today on discouraging reports on manufacturing and economic growth here in the u.s. more concerns about the economy in greece. the dow was down 156 points. the average is headed for its first negative month since september. the nasdaq shot down 60 points. a loss of more than 2%. the s&p 500 is down about 20 points on the day. there is frenzied anticipation on wall street for tomorrow's sale of facebook stock. >> here we are. the eve of the big day. the share price was just set minutes ago at $38 a share. the ipo promises to be a big payoff for the social media giant. it began from scratch just eight years ago now. nbc's mark varger reports. >> because we want to keep facebook free for everyone. >> reporter: with 900 million users worldwide facebook is a hit. friday the success gets tested on wall street. >> this thing is going to open up gigantically maybe north of a hundred million dollars. >> reporter: that is the value facebook could have after its initial public offering of stock which would make it one of the biggest launches ever. about 241 million shares are expected to be up for sale at a starting price somewhere between $34 and $38 a share. >> this is hedge funds, mutual fund managers, and the pros trying to get in early at the offering price. >> reporter: they generally get first crack at ipos making it tougher for individual investors. but some websites do specialize in helping single share investors. the question is whether individuals should jump on day one. >> almost every single deal that has come public has gone down after the first day and you get burned if you come in and buy. >> reporter: several ipos have seen market declines in the past year with gm announcing earlier this week it would no longer run paid ads on facebook some analysts want more proof about the social network's long-term business model. >> we have to figure out if we still believe facebook can grow as fast as the size and price of its offering. >> reporter: still, the appetite for facebook stock is already big enough that founder mark zuckerberg will become even richer friday and some of his employees will become millionaires overnight. >> zuckerberg is selling about 30 million shares of his facebook stock tomorrow. but he'll still remain the company's largest shareholder. an australian man is taking exercise to a whole new level. he ran a half marathon yesterday. he did it on a treadmill and flying in a hot air balloon. the 47-year-old lost both his grandfathers to heart disease so is trying to raise $100,000 for charity. he says the view from above was fantastic. the run took him twice as long as normal. >> every time i took a step the basket would sway from left to right. so i kind of had this, you know, sea type motion being in the air. it was quite bizarre. made it very difficult. >> it took him about two hours and 18 minutes to finish. >> whoa. don't eat before that ride. most people may not remember their last day of preschool but it's a day one 5-year-old in nebraska will never forget. >> hi, dad! >> that's a surprise. navy officer jason tillman returned to north plat, nebraska yesterday just in time to see his son jaden graduate from preschool. tillman is currently serving in the persian gulf but is on leave for the week. >> yes. this is the very first time i've ever surprised the kids and it was very hard to keep the secret. >> it was great. you know, the look on his face was enough for me. >> that was a happy face. jaden says he is looking forward to exercising with dad while he's back home. police are calling it a miracle. a northern california man survived for a whole week in the woods without food or water after a car crash. the 25-year-old was last seen on tuesday driving his truck along a busy san jose freeway. a witness told highway patrol that he saw the vehicle lose control and run off the road. investigators found the car but not the driver. police went back to the crash scene seven days later after his family filed a missing persons report. they found the man unconscious but alive in dense brush. he is now listed in critical condition at a hospital. police in ontario, canada are hoping for some movement in the case of a man accused of swallowing a $20,000 diamond. it's been nearly a week since the suspect, 52-year-old richard mckenzie matthews, is alleged to have switched diamonds at a jeweler's and swallowed the real one. he has been held in a cell and fed laxatives since then and is forced to use the bathroom into a container. but after so much time waiting police are hoping that feeding him whatever he wants in more comfortable conditions will get things moving along. from our tmi category there. >> yeah. betty white is in town tonight. the 90-year-old actress will talk to the smithsonian associates tonight at gw university. >> she's here and everybody loves her. she'll be discuss herg career and long-time passion for animals and signing copies of her new book. white was the center of the jokes at the famed friar's club roast yesterday. we caught up with her before the roasting. >> are you really that nice or is it just an act? >> no. i'm not. i go home and the first thing i do is kick my golden retriever. yes. and he says, why, mommy? i said, don't ask questions! >> she's still got it. wendy rieger will have more with betty white on news 4 at 11:00 tonight. >> she is quite feisty for 90 isn't she? >> very. there is more to come on news 4 at 4:00. finally some good news about drinking that morning cup of java. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone likes a bit of order in their life. virtual wallet helps you get it. keep track of spending, move money with a slide, and use the calendar. all to see your money how you want. ♪ a new study shows drinking more coffee could help you live longer. the national institutes of health conducted the 13-year long study and examined data on more than 400,000 adults over age 50. the data shows men and women 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and upper 70s. a lot of sunshine throughout the area. might have a few high clouds down to the south. andrews airforce base, air show is this weekend. free admission. free parking. lots to see and do. and, folks, some great weather. take a look at this forecast here as the jet takes off. the weekend, sunshine, a few clouds coming in. partly sunny on sunday. but with a high around 80 degrees this weekend. you know, one of my favorite childhood memories growing up as a daughter of an army service guy was just going to the air show and hanging out with him. great weather for that this weekend. the weekend again nice and sunny. 80 for sunday. 77 for monday. there's that coastal storm giving us the rain on monday. tuesday, possibly even wednesday. we could have a bit of wind, too, with the rain coming in. right now this month 2.36 inches of rain so far. the wettest month since december, 2011. it's not over with. we're talking about again getting more rain the early part of next week. just enjoy the next couple days. >> everything is looking green out there which is good. >> it's unbelievable. every couple days you got to go out and cut the grass. >> yeah. >> and i have mushrooms coming up in the yard again. >> my gosh. >> thanks. a kentucky man saw his local k-mart was closing so he had a great idea. he thought he could make a little money. >> then he decided to do something worth a whole lot more. nbc's kevin tibbles reports. >> reporter: call it the bonanza of the blue light special. >> this is going to be good. >> when kentucky businessman rankin patter was shopping at a closeout sale at the local k-mart he struck up a conversation with the store manager. >> looked around and i said, what's going to happen to all this merchandise? >> reporter: that's when one of those little blue lights went off in 54-year-old patter's head. >> my wife has always said i'd give it all away if i had it. >> reporter: he decided to buy all the merchandise left in the store and donate it to local charity. >> the business i'm in i see it first hand, you know, the need. and times are getting harder. >> reporter: patter is a self-made man with a very successful jewelry exchange business. but he's never forgotten that he grew up poor. the clothing, shoes, household items, are all being donated to the clark county community services for distribution to those in need. >> this is the largest donation we've ever received, and with the number of families we're serving in this community we'll have home for all of it. >> reporter: it took four cash registers nearly seven hours to ring up all the merchandise. the tab? almost $20,000. all destined for folks who need it most. >> it's going to help me with children's jackets in the future, for the winter, some hats for them to be warm. >> i buy gold, silver coins. >> reporter: patter says he has always had the knack for making money and he could have doubled it had he sold the k-mart merchandise. but, he says, he is happier sharing his good fortune with the less fortunate. >> i was raised here. i knew the people. i know how good they are. and just because a lot of them is needy is no sign they're bad people. if i can help them i do. >> there is so much stuff. he rented storage space to store all the merchandise as volunteers sort it and figure out the best ways to distribute to those in need. he is a giver. >> what a good samaritan. just a generous thing to do for a people that you know and you live with. >> yeah. >> that you share a community with. it's a great story. coming up on news 4 a bitter college rivalry and now fans on one team will be able to show their team spirit. >> plus daredevil nick wolinda says extra safety precautions are going to be put in place for his next adventure. coming up on news 4 at 5:00 people in the district do a double take as google shows off its car of the future. graduation parties and father's day just around the corner. liz crenshaw has a look at high tech gift ideas. coming up at 6:00 a firefighter takes a dangerous fall during a firefight on the job. fii woke up with this horrible rash on my right side. an intense burning sensation like somebody had set it on fire. and the doctor said, cindie, you have shingles. he said, you had chickenpox when you were a little girl... i said, yes, i did. i don't think anybody ever thinks they're going to get shingles. but it happened to me. for more of the inside story, visit shinglesinfo.com one college sports rivalry is so strong it is pushing state lawmakers to change a state law. members of the missouri legislature are working to ban the university of kansas logo from missouri license plates. an amendment to a higher education bill was approved in the missouri house this week. the university of kansas graduates say they simply wanted the plates to raise money for their alumni. some say they're upset the rivals won't be playing each other in the near future. missouri is switching from the big 12 conference to the s.e.c. tight rope walker nick wolinda is fighting to cross niagara falls without a safety device. he is scheduled to cross the falls on june 15th but sponsors are threatening to pull out if he doesn't agree to tie himself to the wire. he crossed baltimore's inner harbor last week without a net or harness and his managers hope the niagara sponsors will change their minds. wolinda's great grandfather died during a tight rope stunt in brazil in 1978. >> sponsors have to pay the insurance on this. >> yeah. he's got a lot of nerve. >> he does. >> and a lot of skill. >> in his little finger more than we have together. still ahead on news 4 at 4:00 a guy gets arrested five times in just five weeks. >> plus a second woman is battling a flesh eating disease. for the fifth time in as many weeks, police stopped a new jersey man suspected of dwi. officers pulled over anderson sotomayor yesterday after they spotted him driving err at cli. they say he admitted to illegally using oxy codeine without a prescription. he has been charged with dwi and has been released from jail four times. he's now being held on $10,000 bond. just days after doctors rushed to save a georgia woman who had contracted a rare flesh-eating bacteria now a new case has come up in south carolina. >> reporter: lana kirkendale expected to spend the week bonding with her newborn twins. >> she got to hold her babies once. >> reporter: instead the new mother is fighting for her life. >> so you've got two babies that don't have a mom right now. >> reporter: the 36-year-old gave birth at the beginning of last week in an atlanta hospital. a week ago today she was released and drove back home here to greenville, south carolina. friday morning friends say she noticed a spot in the back of her left leg. at first kirkendale, a paramedic, thought it was a blood clot. >> around 11:00 is when she saw it and it was about the size of her palm her husband said and by the time she went to surgery and they thought they knew what it was it had consumed practically her whole leg. >> reporter: since then her husband darren a firefighter has stood by her through four surgeries. >> it all happened kind of quickly and she deteriorated quickly after coming to the hospital. >> reporter: this case comes just days after another woman in georgia was also diagnosed with what's called necrotizing faciatis. she got the bacteria after cutting herself in a zip lining accident west of atlanta. so far she has lost her left leg and her family fears she could lose her fingers but her father says she is improving. >> at this point seeing her spirits high, knowing that she can communicate with us, and we have some wonderful moments in there with her, and the visiting hour just runs far too short. >> reporter: these infections are rare between 500 and 1,000 cases each year in the u.s. and they are often lethal. a quarter of those infected die. in south carolina, kirkendale's friends are thankful she went to the e.r. so quickly. they're now raising money for her treatment and waiting for her to breathe without a respirator. >> leaning over and talking into her ear and watching the heart monitor. as you talk you see the heart rate go up a little bit. i truly believe that she knows. >> reporter: a paramedic that has dedicated her life to helping others now finds her friends helping her. >> and the twins are both doing well we're happy to report. now, at 5:00, a story of corruption and kickbacks. >> off the top tonight a murder mystery that began after a complaint over a noisy car. >> more fallout after new income tax hikes in maryland. a lot of people saying they could move out of the state. ♪ let's dance the last dance tonight ♪ >> the queen of disco dies today after a long battle with cancer. tonight the music world stops to mourn the loss of donna summer. good evening, everyone. i'm jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger. the federal government is calling it one of the worst corruption schemes in recent memory. >> $30 million in kickbacks uncovered and tonight one of the key players pleads guilty. >> pat collins is live outside u.s. district court with tonight's top story. pat? >> reporter: wendy, they busted this ring just in time. they were about to execute a bogus federal government contract for $780 million. in district court, the plea from kerry kahn. guilty. guilty to accepting bribes. guilty to money laundering. kahn is one of the key figures in a huge embezzlement scheme from the federal government. he worked for td cohe corps of engineers and they say he steered bogus contracts to corrupt contractors and then would share in their ill-gotten gains. >> this greed and reckless disregard for the interests of the american public is unacceptable. i stand with my colleagues behind me shoulder to shoul