to us from their home in sterling, virginia. >> i'm his mom. i was worried about him every day. >> doug was just an outstanding human being. >> he was my hero. >>. >> reporter: a child of northern virginia, doug green was a graduate of louden county potomac falls high school, a communication specialist with an army infantry unit, an iraq war veteran killed by an ied in afghanistan sunday. >> this was sudden. we weren't ready for this. in two months, he would have been done with his tour. >> he was way too young, 23. >> i think i'm still really numb to it. i don't think it's going to hit me for awhile. >> to me, it's beyond my imagination, because he was so trained and so talented. i think that the enemy was lucky on this one. >> reporter: his parents, doug and sonny, say they tried talking their only son out of enlisting in the army, that was in 2007. >> sat him down just like this and we said, whatever they're giving you, we'll double it, don't go, don't go. it's not worth it. and he said, it's something i have to do. >> reporter: he said he wanted to be a veteran. >> and i get that though, because when i see veterans in parades and i see them, i look at them differently. thank you for serving. i do. and i think -- you know, he wanted that acknowledgment but he wanted to say he served his country. >> reporter: doug green was engaged to his high school sweetheart, wrote her a letter two weeks ago, which she gave to doug's parents. >> talking about himself, i will always love and cherish all of the time i was given on this earth. >> reporter: he wanted them to remember two things about life. >> he will never truly know a man and woman until you try and see things from their perspective. and secondly, never pass judgment or put anger on anyone too quickly or too harshly, because i guarantee you that person is fighting a battle that you know nothing about. that just -- you know, wow. >> reporter: doug green loved old music and old movies, was a volunteer firefighter and camp counselor during high school, had a dream to be the us senator. >> he was always there for me, and i was always there for him, and i'm definitely going to miss that person i can't just call anymore, you know, it's hard. >> doug green will be buried at arlington national cemetery. the 10--year-old war in afghanistan claiming yet another young life, shawn. >> bob barnard thank you. august has become the deadliest month for us troops in afghanistan. a record 66 service members have died. the death toll of course soared when 30 american troops, most of them navy seals were killed in a helicopter crash august 6. the us military will withdraw 10,000 troops this year and 23,000 more by next summer. now, to hurricane irene's aftermath. here's what you need to know right now. up first, the school closures. calfert and st. mary's counties are closed a third day. prince georges county is without power and a decision will be made in the morning. the latest power numbers shows more than 6,000 pepco customers are still in the dark and nearly 9,000 for bge. will thomas is in with more on the after math. >> power outages are a really big deal this time. irene caused nearly three times as many power outages as the massive blizzard last year. we spent time on miles road service by bge. we talked a lot about pepco here. 72 hours after they lost their power in the burtonsville community, neighbors as you can imagine are just fed up because they say this always happens, in the summer, when it snoez. a few of them have a generator like you saw, enough to power some necessities, but most have no hot water and can't use the bathroom. we're talking about three days, and they're being told it could be saturday before crews get to them. bge told me this, the company has an aggressive vegetation management program on a three-year cycle to cut back some of these trees, and crews are focusing on neighborhoods where they can restore the largest number of customers at one time. >> what bothers me about all of this is the arrogance of this company. this happens to us two or three times a year, every snow storm, i have to sit in there, man the fire place so the pipes don't freeze and wonder when they're going to show up. >> bge has about 5,000 workers out in the field, including their own people, contractors and out-of-state help. those out of towners, by the way, part of the mutual aid deal representing about 1400 workers. most of them are doing about 12 to 16-hour shifts. some very long days for these utility workers. >> hopefully the power will be back on soon, thank you will. in addition to power, the biggest concern in the northeast tonight, still raging flood waters. in vermont, bridges and roads have been washed away. parts of connecticut got 9 inches of rain. in east haven, more than two dozen homes were destroyed or have to be torn down because of the damage there. in trenton, new jersey, a levy broke swamping cars and up to 12 feet of water. residents were caught off guard. >> we didn't have no time to get anything. this is the only outfit i got. >> it was that quick. >> that was quick, yep, we had to get out. >> at least 42 people in 12 states have died. the storm's cost is being estimated at 7 to 10 billion. former washington wizards player has a court date in la tomorrow. laura evans is everywhere at 11:00. >> he was arrested for murder last night in southern california. cops say he shot a woman in atlanta. julian jones was the mother of four shot while walking with two men. police believe one of the man was the intended target. they think the shooting may be retaliation for a robbery in which crittinton was apparently a victim. the father of gary giordano who's being held in connection with the disappearance of a maryland woman in aruba says his son is not a monster. frank giordano says gary is a human being that's good to his family. the younger giordano reported robyn missing saying she disappeared while they were snorkeling. a drive-by shooting outside texas congressman gene green's office today. they were shot leaving bullet holes. there were no injuries and congressman green was not in the office. police are investigating but they don't think he was the target. thank you. dc says it gave more than 300,000 dollars to a nonprofit to build a special facility but instead it ended up with this night club. what happened. sue. for people without power in the region, at least it's a comfortable night. we have the ability to get those windows open. temperatures falling to the 50s. i'll have the rest of the forecast coming up. >> thank you, and check out some of the other stories on our run down tonight. the news edge at 11:00 is back in one minute. >> the dc government filed a lawsuit claiming a city's nonprofit took more than $300,000 to build a job training facility but instead renovated a night club in northeast. the suit claims the director of miracle hands improperly billed the city for work never done. fox 5's paul wagner reports. >> reporter: the complaint says miracle hands told the city in 2007 it planned to renovate thid and turn it into a job training facility. but instead, the city says cornell jones and miracle hands billed the city for work that actually took place inside 2127 queen's chapel road. the suit goes on to claim a night club liquor license was secured in 2006, and in 2010, the stadium night club was opened to the public. cornell jones, seen in this bete documentary called american gangster served time in the '80s for running an open air drug market. he started miracle hands to help ex-offenders. the money from the city was ear marked to help people with hiv/aids. james truet ring told us when he bought the place from cornell jones it contained nothing but offices. >> he had about eight, nine offices in there. he came in, moved out, demolished the building. we put 3 1/2 million dollars in this building. he has not affiliation. all i know is he was working miracle hands out of this building and had some offices that were built in here because i demoed them in order to gut the whole building to build my business in here. >> reporter: ring says cornell jones has nothing to do with his business. >> we have 30 local people working with the neighborhood in this business and we cleaned up the streets and everything around here. we have security every night. we just want to run a good, honest business, and we have no problem with cornell jones. >> reporter: the attorney general says he wants damages and penalties from jones that will exceed $1 million. >> paul wagner was reporting there. the lawsuit claims the job center which never materialized was supposed to openum back in 2007. fox 5 was unable to reach jones today for comments. coming up next, busted outside the white house. find out why police led this hollywood actress away in handcuffs today. and take a look at this x-ray, a man's face impaled by gardening sheerz. as bad as this looks, you might be surprised to hear how the victim is recovering. but first, beyonce's baby announcement at the mtv video awards has everybody talking. twitter says she also set a record. the site says when she performed saturday night, there were 8,868 tweets per second, per second -- that's a rate twitter has never seen before. utceete >> actress darryl hanna is under arrest after an environmental protest outside the white house. hanna, along with dozens of demonstrators sat on the sidewalk in front of the white house and refused to move. they slapped her into cuffs there. the group is opposed to a planned oil pipeline from canada to the us gulf coast. before she was arrested, she told the associated press, the group wants to be free from dependence on fossil fuels and calling for clean energy instead. a gardening accident left a man impaled. the 86-year-old finished trimming plants in his backyard when he fell face first onto his pruning sheers. the x-ray shows the after math. doctors were able to surgically remove the sheers, and the man has made a remarkable recovery. he has slight swelling in his eyelids and minor double vision but is otherwise okay, incredible. another health problem linked to the lack of sleep and plus a reason for people in alexandria to celebrate. back to laura evans for your fox 5 top 5. >> one more reason not getting enough sleep is bad for your health. number 5, researchers found people who had fewer levels of deep sleep had an 80% increased risk of developing high blood pressure. deep sleep decreases with age meaning older people are more at risk. number 4, you will soon be able to get your starbucks fix at home one cup at a time. the single brewing system will hit stores in november. they will make a wide variety of flavors available in packages of 10, 16, and 54. prices are going up for netflix, renting dvds and netflix streaming will no longer be $10 a month. unlimited streaming is $7.99, the dvd option is a separate 7.99 and the bundled cost 15.98. a big victory for the city of alexandria. the potomac river generating station will close next october. the coal-powered power plant is blamed for causing a number of health problems. amtrak is getting back on track after hurricane irene. many northeast regional trains are running again including service between new york city and boston. but service between philadelphia and new york is still out because of flooding. that service is expected to resume tomorrow morning, shawn. >> thank you, laura. speaking of the damage from irene, you know while it's beautiful here, you're saying we're still seeing flood warnings? >> there are a lot of flood warnings in the northeast from virginia to north carolina. these rivers and streams are collecting this fresh water and flooding will still be a concern for a lot of areas. it'll leave a big impact. they'll be talking about this in new england for decades. meanwhile tonight, it's so beautiful. get out and enjoy -- or at least walk to the car and enjoy. it's going to drop into the 50s in it many areas tonight, real comfortable sleeping weather, and a real reminder that september is ready to begin and some of the most beautiful weather we mentioned at the 10:00 is in the month of september. these are all flood warnings that we're seeing, including parts of new york state, new jersey, and part of the problem, they've already had a lot of rain in august. there has been tremendous flash flooding in new jersey, philadelphia even before the irene rain had had about 13 inches of rain for the month of august so the soil was saturated and all of this came out and so all of the problems were exacerbated by the august rain. hartford, albany, up to northern new jersey down to virginia beach still under flood warnings. meanwhile, let me show you the latest on the most recent tropical storm, katia. katia has winds of 60 miles per hour and we do believe as we take -- there we go -- it is moving very quickly. i wanted you to see this. it's moving west-northwest at 71 miles per hour. this is the coast of africa, it's about 885 miles west now. and let's see where the 11:00 update takes this tropical storm. still a tropical storm wednesday and thursday but by friday, we begin to see it developing, and even before that, we may see it. actually, on thursday we may see it as a category 2. and then it's a major on friday, and we continue to follow this thing and while the banner is up underneath it, winds of 125 miles per hour. what we're hopeful for as we take a closer look at this here, sunday at 8:00, you can see it's starting to make that turn, and this is bermuda up in here. probably will take a path somewhere like that but again, too far out for us to make a call on that. it would be sometime next week. spaghetti models are continuing to track it around the bermuda high and where it is traveling. you can see the nice tight consensus and favors strengthening so we'll wait and see where the models take it but will probably follow the periphery and we'll have to continue to watch it on the east coast. meanwhile, you don't have too much to worry about in the weather department. as we get into the weekend, there could be a couple thunderstorms around and temperatures climbing into the 80s, but between now and then it looks like we'll be rolling through the next several days dry. tomorrow is beautiful, high pressure right on top of us, keeps the warm conditions comfortable warm, not too cold or not too overly hot. thursday, there might be a couple of showers in the mountains and may see a few of the clouds and some sprivrpgles will get into the western suburbs. enjoy what we have, it is so delightly. 72 here but many places in the 60s heading to the 50s tonight. here's the five-day forecast. 84 for tomorrow, just going up a little bit each day, thursday and friday, maybe increasing clouds on thursday. heading into the weekend, a little uptick in temperatures and a few storms ahead of a cold front doesn't look like a wash-out and that forecast holds monday as well. another season beginning, it's the season of shortening up the roster for the redskins. feldy has more on that when we return. >> good evening. remember devin thomas, taylor jacobs, mike gardener, desmond howard. redskins receivers taken in the first and second round did not live up to the hype or their pick. malcolm kelly the latest as the skins trim their roster to 80 this afternoon. the fourth year receiver always injured with the skins and this season it was his right foot. kelly appeared in just 21 regular season games for the redskins, caught only 21 passes for 365 yardes and no touchdowns. spent last year on the injured reserve and now is a former redskin. >> i think i kind of realized the fact, you know what i'm saying, so like i said, i hadn't really been stressing over it. i'm just about kind of -- like i'm saying, with everything else i was kind of mad but when i messed up my foot i wasn't fixing to sit up here and good mad you know. >> since we have depth at the wide receiver position, we released him. running back tim hightower acquired from the cardinals at the start of training camp has been pretty good. raked up 170 yards with two touchdowns in the preseason, averaging almost seven yards per carry. thursday is the final dress rehearsal. we know the two quarterbacks are going to play. mr. hightower, how much are you going to play? >> i was going to ask you. no, i got to get myself ready to go. the hard thing about preseason is in order to play a football game, it's a violent game, man, and if you think for a second, okay, you play with five players, 10 players, you're setting yourself up. if you give me a head's up before the game, i got to prepare for the whole game. >> the nats' davy johnson has confirmed plans for stephen strasburg to make his first start of the year on september 6 against the dodgers. he hasn't pitched in the majors since tearing an elbow ligament and undergoing tommy john surgery 12 months ago. tonight, the nats in atlanta against the braves. we pick it up in the fifth. nats lead 2-1, when zimmerman drives one to deep, right center field. it clears the wall for a three-run home run, his tenth of a year. jim just a triple short of a cycle. nats up 5-1. michael morris also had a big game, a base hit up the middle. ryan zimmerman scores, a triple short of the cycle, nats up 7-1. very next pitch, lance knick touches it to right field. a two-run home run. the nats with a four home-run barrage, and eight extra base hits, pounding the braves 9-2 to end a season high six-game losing streak. the orioles and blue jays, a wild pitch. kelly johnson scores from third base and toronto's in front 5-4. bottom of the 10th, tied 5-5, rookie ryan adams, runners on first and third, drives one to the gap in right center. it continues to carry and bounces into the stands for a game-winning hit. mark reynolds scores and adams is, go easy as the orioles defeat the blue jays. today in tennis, match point, blake absolutely crushes the return serve for the win. he is amped up. you won't see a flatter return serve than that. blake wins in straight sets. bobby reynolds of the washington capitals falls in the fourth round. and the miami hurricanes will be shorthanded for monday's season opener against maryland. the ncaa says eight hurricanes will not play in that game. shawn's back right after this.