to the people of this great city, i ll be taking no questions. with several ongoing scan zalg investigations, civic activist, dorothy bra until sb expressed the feelings of many d.c. citizens. there s real outrage and concern. what the hell is going on in our district government and the corruption and the malfeasance. brown faces fines and up to six months in prison for the felony. he left the federal courthouse to appear an hour later in d.c. superior court to plead guilty to a misdemeanor crime. he allowed an unregistered campaign bank account to spend thousands of unaccounted for dollars on his 2008 campaign. others are expected to face charges in that case. brown s attorney, fred cook, got permission from the federal court to allow brown to temporarily leave the washington area for a week to avoid the intense media scrutiny of his every. and kwame brown will be back in both courts on september 20th to be sentenced. he ll learn then if he s going to prison. the u
dropping equipment. we understand that in the coming days, that will be used to pump off liquids. so really that tells us that we are now moving away from a rescue mission and turning into a salvage operation. hope fading for the 20-plus people that are still recorded as missing there has been some good news though, a german woman who was on the missing list turned into her local police station in germany. she had been on the vessel and come off and returned home so we now know that she is safe. at the moment, the vessel s captain, francesco shelt tino is under house arrest in napless a few hours south of here and the latest we are getting is italian media reporting that he told prosecutors yesterday that he turned too late. that hasn t yet been confirmed and he does deny that he is responsible nor accident. for nbc. a year s worth of snow is falling in washington state today. schools are closed, flights canceled. everybody s staying home. the city of olympia could break it
caught on video, what was on the back of this pick-up truck that had drivers flooding the 911 call center? plus, an international friendly turns into anything but on the basketball court as the georgetown hoyas make headlines all over the world. good evening. i m doreen gentzler. and i m jim handly in tonight for jim vance. what a show out there. we begin with a noisy and nasty weather. a lot of lightning and rain out there this evening. let s go right to doug. we re watching the storms out there right now. some of them strong, if not severe. severe thunderstorm warnings right now in effect for washington county, frederick, berkeley and jefferson county in west virginia. and a brand-new severe thunderstorm warning. a lot of lightning with these storms. storms are continuing to pop up. they re popping up and then fizzling out and then popping up in other locations. if it s not raining where you are right now, you may see a storm in the next 15 minutes and then it may be
power problems, pepco customers from the get the chance to vent their frustration. the announcement of his going to be on dancing with the stars this season. live, and in hd, this is abc 7 news at 11. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org causing power outages and property damage there. cruise ships have been diverted and flights of been canceled. now the massive storm plot a course toward the u.s.. hurricane il is hurricane earl is battering pr. the category 4 storm is now plotting a course for the u.s.. curl could approach the outer banks of north carolina as early as thursday night. there is landfall in new england later on in the week. wreaking havoc with beachgoers along the eastern seaboard. hurricane danielle is already out there in atlantic and is producing dangerous rip currents. we had to fly a double red flag today. lifeguards and slammers sprang into action of the action to save a struggling swimmers. many had a close call.
capturing more and more oil, there s more of it spewing into the water right now, and the millions of gallons already in the gulf are on the move and seeping into whatever they come in contact with. the spill area has widened. it stretched out. just yesterday we got confirmation of those deep water plumes of oil we can t see from the surface. and confirmation today of something we heard in louisiana last week ourselves, that the oil is stretching far into the marsh now, as far as 20 miles. tonight, those floating booms are back in the news. people are also being told to avoid the water on certain beaches. we begin our coverage from the gulf tonight with nbc s kerry sanders. he s in grand terre, louisiana, good evening. reporter: brian, i m on one of louisiana s barrier islands. it comes to this. they are vacuuming up the oil. they like to say that it s cajun ingenuity. with the equipment in place, if it stopped leaking right now, it would still take more than 60 years to ge