is speaking out about the maryland woman who's been missing in this country. he's revealing details about the evidence in that case. good evening. i'm jim vance. doreen is off tonight. there is new information about the search for a missing maryland woman in aruba. we're hearing about the potential evidence against the man who went with robyn gardner to that island nation. and we're hearing it from the country's top prosecutor. jackie bensen is in gaithersburg now with more on this. >> reporter: tonight, news 4 was given extraordinary insight into this case in an interview with aruba's top prosecutor. he confirmed they've seized the car, the white toyota rav4 that gary giordano rented. in a telephone interview, aruba's solicitor general was remarkably forthcoming about the legal status of giordano. the 50-year-old man told investigators that gardner, 35, failed to return to shore after the two went snorkling on august 2nd is. >> up till yesterday, he was cooperating. as from yesterday, he refused to make any more statements and refuses to cooperate with us further. there are some differences in our legal systems. but for us, he is seen as a suspe suspect. >> reporter: he addressed whether he believed that giordano and gardner went snorkling together. >> we have history that they were snorkling. he was in the possession of snorkling gear. but nobody had seen them snorkling. >> reporter: he confirmed his country's government has requested the fbi's hell top search for and analyze potential evidence, cluding computers from giordano's home. and he says he's aware of those restraining orders obtained by ex-girlfriends who claim giordano was violent and abusive with them. >> at first mention of that in the press, i know that there have been some incidents. but officially, of course, we have that information -- we have not yet gotten that information because that is one of the things you have to ask for officially. >> reporter: the big question -- what evidence against giordano will be presented at monday's hearing in aruba? >> we will maybe present some telephone information or some e-mail information that we obtained from the computer we seized. if you refer to dna material or investigation into hard drives of computers, that's still being done. >> reporter: during monday's court hearing, a judge will decide if there is sufficient evidence to continue holding gary giordano. jim, back to you. >> jackie bensen, thanks. big swings on wall street continue for the fourth day today. this time, though, the stocks surged. at the closing bell, the dow jones average was up 423 points. it marked the first time that it has moved more than 400 points in four straight trading days. on monday, the dow was down 635 points, only to jump up 430 points on tuesday and then fall again by more than 500 points yesterday. the big gain today came after a report that fewer americans applied for new unemployment claims last week. investors also were encouraged by the news that france and germany might be able to -- or better able, that is, to repay their debts to the u.s. texas governor rick perry today decided that he is going to join the republican race for the white house. he'll make that announcement later. it was not in time for tonight's gop debate in iowa. tonight, eight other candidates faced off ahead of the straw poll that will be held there this weekend. steve handelsman has the report from ames, iowa. >> reporter: all eight republican candidates in the fox debate in iowa saved their best shots for president obama. >> our president simply doesn't understand how to lead. >> the message is this -- you are finished in 2012. >> reporter: mitt romney in iowa for the first time since may got heckled today. >> you came here to listen to the people -- >> reporter: and sort of got heckled tonight. >> obamacare was patterned after mitt's plan in massachusetts. >> reporter: tim pawlenty vowed no more timidity. he clashed with michele bachmann, the iowa frontrunner in today's corn poll at the state fair. >> in congress, her record of accomplishment and results is n nonexistent. >> people are looking for a champion. >> if that's your view of effective leadership with results, please stop because you're killing us. >> reporter: rick perry made clear today he's going to run. perry's move mocked by a fellow texan. >> i'm very pleased he's coming in because he represents the status quo. >> reporter: all the debaters did agree to oppose tax hikes. but this was the most contentious debate. some of tonight's participants are sure to be knocked out of the race. other news tonight, court records suggest the driver suspected of causing a deadly crash in fairfax county should not have been behind the wheel. the crash happened last night in springfield. police say a truck crossed a median and hit another vehicle. court records show the driver of the truck recently had his license revoked and was previously charged with dwi. three people were killed in that crash. investigators are still trying to figure out whether speed and alcohol might have been factors in the crash. the pentagon today released the names of the 30 americans who were killed when their helicopter was shot down in afghanistan over the weekend. 17 navy s.e.a.l.s were killed along with five sarls assigned to work with them. the victims also included the five soldiers on the helicopter crew. three airmen who served as forward air controllers, among them was petty officer first class michael strange of philadelphia. his godmother is cheryl mcnamee who lives in virginia. she says he was an outstanding young man. >> he was always top of his class. he grew up with the rest of the rough guys but he always did the right thing. >> that crash marks the deadliest incident in the nearly ten-year-long war in afghanistan. coming up tonight, two small children found wandering alone several blocks from their day care center. a number of utility cables were cut in our area. and the man known as the barefoot bandit got a movie deal. things are changing a little bit. part of the weekend may be okay. verizon says union workers who are on strike are trying to sabotage the company's phone lines. repair crews were out on university terrace in northwest today. they were repairing fiber optic cable that had been cut. a similar incident happened in upstate new york. a circuit box was damaged knocking out power to several thousand customers. the company says it has seen more than 90 incidents. . it's offering a $50,000 reward to catch those responsible. union officials condemn those acts. a woman who runs a day care in virginia has been charged tonight after two of the little kids she was supposed to be watching were found wandering the street by themselves. those kids are 1 and 3 years old. they were found about two blocks from the day care in montclair, virginia. tonight, the woman who runs the day care is facing charges of child neglect. john schriffen reports. >> i'm just surprised. i am really totally surprised. >> reporter: residents here in montclair, virginia, are stunned after police say two young girls were able to wander the streets of this neighborhood without their day care provider knowing they were gone for an entire hour. >> that's just pathetic and sad, i think. >> reporter: tuesday this woman was arrested, 23-year-old malia gray shockey who runs a day care business out of her home on fairway drive. when we knocked on the door, no one answered but the back yard is still set up as a big play area for kids. police say they're still investigating just how the kids got loose tuesday morning around 10:45. authorities say once the kids arrived here about a block and a half away of the day care center, a passer-by noticed they were all by themselves. that person flagged down police but also noticed these little kids were carrying a diaper bag. jean says police knocked on her door asking if she knew who the kids belonged to. >> very concerned saying they had found two young children who were young enough they couldn't even say their names. >> reporter: police continued the search until a neighbor pointed them to shockey's day care. >> when police went to knock on the door, it was determined the kids belonged at that resident but she didn't know the children were missing. >> reporter: she's now charged with two counts of felony child neglect. the kids are okay. in prince william county, john schriffen, news 4. coming up tonight, a man who lost thousands of dollars in an online car scam has some advice. and the brand-new images from mars, nasa's been waiting a long time to see them. after a beautiful day, there's a warning tonight about a scam involving ebay. a man thought he was buying the car of his dreams online. instead he spent a whole lot of money and got nothing in return. harry hairston has our report. >> i was really excited. i did not want to believe that it wasn't true. >> reporter: and it wasn't true. 21-year-old joel nixon says he fell for a scam that cost him thousands of dollars. >> how could you just take someone's money? >> reporter: it started with this car ad on craigslist, a popular website for buying and selling items and services. >> all my family have cars right now, they get back and forth to work. i'm the only one that doesn't. >> reporter: so nixon jumped at the chance to finally have his own set of wheels. nixon says it was for a great price, a 2005 scion for only 2,800 bucks. >> it usually costs around $7,000 or something like that. >> reporter: but why would the seller offer the car up at such a low price? >> he's in massachusetts right now at a military base because he's in the army. and he's about to be deployed that afghanistan. >> reporter: nixon says they traded e-mails making arrangements for the transaction. finally the seller sent nixon an e-mail with a fake ebay screen. nixon says the seller told him for his own protection against scammers, nixon should wire $2,800 to the ebay auto protection agent. >> there is no ebay agent. that guy doesn't exist. >> reporter: george graves is an ebay education specialist. for more than a decade, he's trained people on how to use ebay and how to spot fake ebay pages. graves says if you suspect the page is fake, send it to [email protected] and they'll tell you if it's fake or not. graves also says all ebay transactions must start on ebay, not sights like craigslist. >> the whole transaction has to be done on ebay. and then you have to pay via paypal. >> i gave this guy all my money i worked hard for and got nothing out of it. >> reporter: harry hairston nbc nus. we are getting our first close-up look tonight at a part of mars. it's from the nasa rover called "opportunity." "opportunity" is at the rim of a 14-mile-wide crater. the rover spent three years traveling only 13 miles in those three years to get to that point. "opportunity" will take photos of rocks inside the crater, send the photos back with more information about that planet's history. it will also look for evidence of water and other potential signs that there could be life or that life at least could survive on mars. that will be interesting, wouldn't it? >> that would be totally fascinating. we have been really blessed with some nice stuff. got one more, right? >> we have money were. it's one of those days that you just want to get outside, no matter what you're doing, roll the windows down in the car, take the convertible out, take a bike ride, whatever. just get outside. we have one more tomorrow. tomorrow may actually be even nicer than today. high temperature today reached 89 degrees. above average for 26 straight days. i think tomorrow will be a little bit below average. temperatures around 86 degrees with our low temperature a lot cooler. right now, we're at 78 degrees. the winds are calm. dew point of 58. we could drop into the 60s tonight inside the city. look at gaithersburg, already 64. 66 in martinsburg. 68 in culpepper. you're going to wake up to temperatures in the 50s in many locations tomorrow morning. that's something we haven't felt in quite sometime. satellite and radar, not really even a cloud in the sky, from washington all the way back toward the great lakes, it is high and dry and clear. we saw the high pressure and fantastic weather today. tomorrow, the area of high pressure slides off a little bit to the east but still dominates our region. so that fantastic weather will stick around one more day. by saturday, the area of high pressure moves off, here comes our area of low pressure. i think most of saturday will be dry, especially along the i-95 corridor. but the rain will move in from the west and it will move in late in the day. if you're moving towards the western portions of maryland, maybe west virginia or western virginia, you'll see the rain a little bit earlier saturday. to the east, might be a good day on saturday. on sunday, all bets are off. just about everybody seeing rain and maybe some thunder and maybe a lot of rain. that's the good news. some location, maybe 1 to 2 inches of rain. your forecast tomorrow morning, clear skies. just fantastic. 54 in some of the cooler suburbs to about 66 in the city. tomorrow afternoon, temperatures up around 83 to about 87 degrees. another beauty. really just about perfect for this time of year. if you're thinking about hiding towards the beaches, i think saturday is going to be a pretty nice beach day. water temperature down there is close to 80 degrees. but on sunday, expect a fairly rainy day and a fairly windy day with winds gusting upwards of 25 miles an hour. maybe it's a day trip during the day on saturday. four-day forecast, 83 degrees for a high on sunday with that rain. then 84 on monday. i think we'll see a chance for rain on monday. but then next week, also looking good, highs remain only in the 80s. >> not bad. not a single 9 up there on that board. we like that. coming up tonight, some local investigators cracked a credit card scam that went global. and in sports, an update on the nats' michael morse who was hit by a pitch today. this i watched a little bit of the ravens and the eagles tonight. ray lewis was in there for a lot longer than i expected him to be. >> it was a little sloppy, though. did you notice all the penalties? >> yeah. preseason. >> it's preseason, exactly. we're going to see some of this tomorrow night with the redskins skik off the preseason against the steelers. first time in full pads since training camp started. mike shanahan excited to see his rookies. rookies all over the league playing tonight. the preseason kicked off with five games. we start in philly, john harbon and the ravens, taking on their opponents. >> heck of a catch. >> isn't that nice? he had four catches for 47 yards. vance is already putting him in the hall of fame. michael vick, deep to riley cooper. that's a pretty good catch, too. 42-yard gain leads to a touchdown. vick and the eagles beat the ravens 13-6. let's go to san diego. chargers and the seahawks. this guy needs something to wake him up. they're talking about moving the chargers out of san diego. what a night it was for this young man, brian walter spent last year on the practice squad. he's from colgate. not exactly a powerhouse. but he played like it tonight. 103 yards. he takes it to the house. he is pumped. how about the coach? he's getting into it, too. yeah. but the seahawks come back to beat the chargers 24-17. josh portis is playing for them. it is the redskins and the steelers tomorrow night right here on nbc 4. stay with us after the game for a complete postgame report as well. great news for the nationals. michael morse is okay. the nats' best hitter this year, hit in the elbow with a pitch. he had to leave the game. x-rays at the hospital were negative. so he's just listed as day to day. as for the game, close but no cigar. let's go to chicago. ryan dempster, the pitcher, dempster sends this one into the elbow. that smarts, doesn't it? michael morse, you could tell was in obvious pain. he just didn't have a chance up and in to get out of the way, he tries at the last minute. but he's okay. day to day, no telling when he will be out there. hopefully soon. zimmerman pitching well. seven strikeouts. in the bottom of the seventh, facing aramis ramirez, and that is gone with a runner on. that's pretty much game, set, match. the first of back-to-back home runs zimmerman gives up in the innings. nationals lose 4-3. they are in philadelphia tomorrow. golf time now. steve stricker stole the show at the pga championship firing a record-tying 63. but stricker did not steal the headlines. rory mcilroy had a bruised wrist. and tiger may have a bruised ego. he shot a 7 over 77. tiger woods on the par 4 6th hole right here, from the bunker, he's already 4 over. and uh-oh, wouldn't you know this one is going in the drink? he double bogeyed the hole. he has five bogeys and three doubles to finish with a 7 over 77, his worst round ever at the pga championship. this is mcilroy, he injured his wrist early. look at all that tape. he was fearless. he attacked it. had some good shots like this one out of the sand. rory finishes at even par for the round, battling all day long. the round, though, did belong to this man, steve stricker putting for birdie. gets that thing to go in. stricker shoots a 7 under 63. that ties a major championship record. he leads by 2 going into round two tomorrow. 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