bank accounts, let's talk about bank accounts of the american worker who right now is trying to figure out how to make ends meet. >> reporter: romney himself charged in a letter to the president printed by virginia's largest paper. your insistence on slashing our military to pay the tab for your irresponsible spending could shut the doors on factories and shipyards and potentially shirt virginia military bases. a tough fight for a state that could be key in november. virginia polls put the president up by a bit. a new national poll out by pugh research finds mitt romney losing ground on the key issue, doreen, on who would be the best president to fix the economy. back to you. >> and is this accusation of the overseas tack shelter, steve, is mitt romney saying anything about that? >> he is, and the questions are biting. romney did something he hardly ever does late this afternoon which was to sit down and do one-on-one interviews with the networks. he told nbc, number one, his wealth is in a blind trust. it's his money, but not his investment choices. he says what's been released informed him that less than 1% of his wealth is overseas and he says no, he's not going to release more taxes publicly and he says give team obama more opposition research to work with. he says, instead he'll turn back to the economy that affects the rest of americans to try to get people back to work. doreen? >> steve handelsman on capitol hill. thank you, steve. >> you're coming up. coming up at 6:15, david gregory joins us to about one name surfacing as a possible romney runningmate. they called for mayor ins havent gray to resign because of the scandal are premature, attorney general says he's anxious to know the outcome of the probe. tom sherwood joins us with the latest on the story. >> the attorney general says the mayor is doing a good job of sticking to his job. >> this week, jeannie harris admitted her part in the $50,000 off the book shadow campaign to elect gray in 2010. and the lawyer won't let him talk opinion friday on the politics hour on wamu radio, d.c. attorney general weighed in on the scandal impact saying it does affect the running of the government. >> i can't say that this is not a distraction and is not the subject of water cooler discussions. he said the mayor is doing a good job. i have seen him up close and personal in dealing with governmental affairs and my judgment, this is an honest man who is doing a very good job as the mayor. >> reporter: now with three felony guilty pleas and more expected, the campaign scandal is raising questions that are hanging over the mayor. did the mayor in any way approve of the off the books campaign? did the mayor orchestrate it in any way or did the mayor learn of the shadow campaign and take no action to stop it? >> we have to go forward. >> after wednesday's felony guilty plea, three council members, david catannia all called for gray's resignation saying he needs to be held accountable. attorney general nathan said he thought that's premature. >> i know there's interest. i'm certainly interested in knowing the results, but i think we need to wait for the u.s. attorney to complete that investigation and that will -- and we'll know what happened. >> nathan said everyone realizes a very serious investigation is going on. >> all right. jim? doreen? >> as you know, despite the attention surrounding his campaign, mayor gray was going about business as usual today. gray did a walking tour of businesses on martin luther king avenue urging store keepers not to illegally sell drug paraphernalia and alcohol to minors. he got several questions about the campaign scandal and gray tried to keep things on topic. >> i kept to my schedule and i know to keep to my schedule and i will continue to do that. >> how much of the day to day operations can you monitor. >> you mean tops papers? >> no. i'm talking about the election. >> let's stay on this issue, okay? >> again, gray said while the investigation is under way, his lawyer says he can't talk about it. more fallout tonight from the allegation that a d.c. police officer threatened first lady michelle obama. united states. >> 4 learned the officer has been put on desk duty and other officers have been punished. jackie benson spoke to d.c. police chief kathy linear and jackie joins us outside police headquarters with the latest. jackie? >> reporter: that's right, doreen. a short time ago d.c. police chief kathy linear, spoke about what has become a national news story and an embarrassing matter for her department. >> is it possible the officer was making a joke? is it possible that they were joking around? first and foremost, there's absolutely no place for jokes of a nature that could be perceived as threatening to the president, the first lady or anybody else. that's not funny and police officers get that. this is not something that you joke about. >> the officer in question, a 17-year veteran has, in the past, been assigned to the first lady's motorcade. he's alleged to have said during a roll call wednesday at special operations divisions headquarters in northwest, how he would, quote, take-out price obama and showed a photo on his phone of the gun he would use. the alleged threat was heard by an officer who reported it to a lieutenant who immediately notified superiors. the incident is under investigation by both the secret service and the d.c. police department's internal affairs division. that investigation could lead to discipline for additional officers who may have heard the statement, but did not report it. needless to say, these revelations are unwelcome to the d.c. police department. >> the amount of frustration and outrage and hurt to the members of this agency that if this allegation is true, cannot be overstated. this is an organization that prides itself in our history and being one of the most efficient and affected and professional agencies in this country when it comes to dignitary protection. >> reporter: news 4 has confirmed that a white house spokesman told reporters travel to virginia with the president that mr. obama is aware of the situation and that the officer has been moved to desk duty. reporting live to d.c. police headquarters, jackie benson, news 4. new fallout from the bad investment that cost j.p. morgan chase billions of dollars. the company's ceo jamie dimon now says the bad bet cost the bank about $5.8 billion this year. that's almost three times the original estimate. dimon says the bank closed the division responsible for the trade and got rid of the managers tied to it. despite the loss, j.p. morgan chase still earned $5 billion last quarter. that new report from j.p. morgan gave stocks a rally on wall street. the dow jones industrial average snapped a six-day losing streak to pick up 204 points today. the nasdaq gained 42 and the s&p 500 closed 22 points higher. the penn state community is reeling today in the wake of yesterday's big report about the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. nbc's michael isikoff takes a look at the issues facing the school from state college. >> the fallout from thursday's scathing internal report from former fbi director louie freeh are rippling through penn state community. the flood of lawsuits by the victims of jerry sandusky, armed with new ammunition that top university officials protected the former defensive coach. there are also ongoing criminal investigations and one of the biggest issues of all, will the ncaa take action against penn state and possible even suspend its football program? it's one of the big questions today here in state college. this is michael isikoff, nbc news. michael will have the latest tonight on nbc nightly news with brian williams. that airs right after our newscast. a pretty nice-looking day outside, but we could see changes in a hurry. doug kammerer is outside on the weather patio. what's the word, doug? >> reporter: the word is a little warm and a little muggy although not bad outside right now and i think it will be a great evening for all of us and a few showers out to the west. 87 right now at the airport with winds out of the southeast at 7 miles per hour. it is going to stay on the warm side throughout the rest of the evening, but notice the areas to the west in the 70s. 77 winchester and 78 in martinsburg and only 70 in cumberland, maryland. along the eastern shore. check out the storm 4 radar and you can see a few showers trying to make their way in through western maryland and part of the west virginia panhandle. i do think we'll see an isolated shower and a much better chance for rain during the day tomorrow and we'll continue to watch out for that. through your morning, tomorrow morning say you're into portion of fairfax county and around tyson's corner. 83 degrees by 7:00 and 77 by 11 and 73 by tomorrow morning and yes, we could see a few showers and you will need the umbrellas tomorrow and most likely at least some part of your saturday and where i think your rain could be the heaviest and just how hot our next heat wave is going to get. >> thank you, doug. still ahead on news 4 at 6:00, more than a dozen people rescued as a fire rips through a industrial complex. >> how a 9-year-old girl saved a 4-year-old from the bottom of a swimming pool. how a light show can impact electronics matters. pioneers in outsourcing us jobs supports tax breaks overseas. insourcing. industry and favors bring jobs home. it matters. this message. more than 200 delta air lines passengers are finally in madrid, spain. they arrived several hours later than expected because a suspicious device forced their original flight from new york to return to the airport. someone on the plane found the device with wires in the lavatory once the plane had taken off last night. it landed two hours later at jfk. a bomb squad determined the device was not dangerous and the flight took off again early this morning. there are calls tonight for the president of syria to take action after reports of a new massacre. helicopters, tanks and soldiers bombarded a small region in the western part of the country. 220 syrian civilians were killed. deputy secretary of state william burns spoke about the massacre in lebanon and they must pay the price for their rights violations. they believe the massacre is an effort by bashar al assad to crush the rebellion against him. eight months since the cruise ship smashed into rocks off the coast. just a small number of people attended a special mass mark the costa concordia disaster. the cruise ship started to capsize after it hit the rocks in shallow waters and 32 people were killed including an american couple from minnesota. the captain of the boat is accused of abandoning ship after the accident. for the first time in 50 years a cargo ship from the united states arrived in cuba today. the small cargo vessel was carrying humanitarian supplies. the shipping company has -- a ten-person crew will unload the cargo and is not allowed to leave the ship. nothing on the shym be sold to cuba. as we mentioned at the top of the show president obama is campaigning in virginia today and tomorrow, underscoring the commonwealth's weight in the electoral equation. >> meet the press moderator, david gregory joins us now to talk about virginia's status about the battleground state. everyone was in virginia today. >> it will be hard fought. it was hard fought in the life cycle and president obama prevailed and this is a target of opportunity for mitt romney as well and it is just one of those states that will go down to the wire. just no two ways about it. so you will see both campaigns, spending a lot of time and energy. look at all of the advertising over this bain capital issue, for one, that's being directed on virginia and that's really going to continue. >> for his part, mitt romney sends rudy giuliani into the commonwealth and any traction with that? >> well, it is interesting that they're trying to put the president on the defensive with defense cut which is means so much to our area and particularly in virginia. of course, republicans wanted what was called sequestration as part of the package so that that sword would fall and cut into the defense spending as a way to force something to be done about the deficit which just hasn't been accomplished yet. >> what do you think about the condoleezza rice, runningmate talk. i think it was a distraction. the way they're rung the v.p. search is so formal and so buttoned down that somebody's putting this out there to try to create a distraction. >> there's no question that you look at condoleezza rice and she's been very clear and she's not interested in politics, and she brings diversity and she might bring some electricity and she brings a lot of problems, too. she was at the center of bush's foreign policy. she's socially moderate which i don't think governor romney wants to spend time wanting to defend. i just don't see it. >> any more sense since the last time we talked about when romney made it? >> i was trying to get more on that today and we just don't know. >> my hunch is that he'll have to wait until after he does it in the olympics and he'll want to do it in august and more of a run-up. someone suggested to me that he has a number of surrogates right now who are out deploying and raising money and out on the stump and that works to his benefit, so i don't see a particular reason why he has to accelerate that for most campaigns. >> he's doing a round of these network television interviews. is this to counter the bain argument that's out there floating around? >> it is. there was a feeling that the press is looking into it in a way and that only romney could most effectively address it and the issue is gone and it is most complex because the president will try to use his time at bane to say this guy is not a job creator. he's a super-rich guy who made a lot of money by ultimately exploiting companies and it's all part of a larger pitch to middle class voters. so the romney folks felt it was important for romney himself to get out there personally and we'll see what impact it has. >> it's a tough decision to release information or you're hiding something. >> if you're explaining, you're losing and he wanted to do some explaining and ed gillespie will join us sunday, his senior adviser to talk more about this. >> david, thank you. >> we invite you to tune in sunday morning for "meet the press," david's guests include ed gillespie as he just mentioned as well as the debate between senator dick durbin and john kyl. and "press pass" follows "meet the press" and david's guest this week is sigourney weaver, one of my favorites. he will discuss her starring role in her new series "political animals." after the nats game you're going to? >> she laid it all out there. >> it's all david. >> and next week, on monday i'm going to be -- >> anyway -- >> see you sunday. >> thank you, david. >> we've got some video, pretty incredible, radiation from a huge solar flare is expected to reach earth tomorrow. nasa released this image of the flare which erupted on thursday. people living in southern canada and the northern u.s. may see some colorful auroras in the sky saturday. electronics can also be affected and experts say they don't believe this flare will have any major impact on communication systems and power grids or our cell phones, right? >> let's hope not. we love the colorful picture and they could be close to our area and maybe out to the great lakes and to the west. the east coast, not a good place this time around. >> never is. >> with the solaric soel continuing to get out there, we might see some over the next couple -- >> will you let us know? >> as long as it's not 2:00 a.m. >> yea. >> and you don't want to get up. >> i'll tell you what you do want to get up for and i would say, this morning was really, really great. tomorrow we could see some showers and i think they'll continue with those clouds. a lot of clouds out there right now and we did even with all of the cloud cover today. we saw a little bit of sunshine later this afternoon and that helped to push the temperature to 90 degrees today so we did hit 90. a little bit above average today and yes we had a chance of rain and another heat wave? yes, i think we have that, too. so a lot of people not excited about the hot air and they're not excited about the potential for thunderstorms and any thunderstorms would not be anything like what we saw two weeks ago. 87 degrees with partly cloudy skies and winds out of the southeast at 70 miles per hour and cooler to the west where we've seen the clouds and the rain out of the way and 77 in win chester and 78 in martinsburg and 85 right now in mraplata and along the eastern shore, cambridge coming in right now at 82 degrees. there are a few showers around and you can see some through baltimore and we saw some in frederick county and back toward the west and right along the blue ridge in i-81 and if you're headed to i-66 you may see sprinkles and also around the panhandle, once again, just enough to get the windshield wipers going and they will not be on heavy rotation. storm 4 radar showing what's coming our way. a lot of moisture and we have the chance tomorrow for pretty good rain and we need to see that rain across the area and it will not be a washout, but what it will do is provide us with much-needed rainfall and look at the highs today. only 75 degrees so we will stay on the warm side of things and look at this at 6:00. some of those could produce heavy downpours and same deal goes on sunday and a better chance for rain on saturday and still a chance on sunday and we're going a 60% chance tomorrow and 40% chance on sunday and sunday the heat does start to creep up a little bit and mostly this evening, mostly cloudy to the south and west. most areas should remain on the dry side. tomorrow morning we'll see numbers in the upper 60s back to the west and around 76 degrees and a few showers tomorrow and we might want to take your umbrellas no matter what you're doing and again, if it is not raining at your house it may be raining when you step back in. mostly cloudy, showers and thunderstorms likely with possible downpours and right there the temperature says 83 to 89. now i'm going 85 to 91. >> we don't like it when you go in that direction. beach forecast, not bad tomorrow. 86 on sunday and 87 on monday and the water temperature, in the atlantic, 81 degrees. how about that and there's the 90 degrees that we're forecasting for tomorrow and 93 on sunday and it gets hot and humid and 94 on monday and 97 on tuesday and 97 on wednesday and 92 on thursday. we're making that forecast, veronica johnson and i making a tuesday and that could be the day when we get higher than the 97 number. >> get us through this weekend. >> i will. for sure. >> still ahead on news 4 at 6:00 and a drama attic traffic camera that may have you hitting the brakes. >> hopeople leave their homes without belongings and firefighters had to pull them out of the apartment building. >> drew brees sets a record off the field. team usa's newest player, getting big early on and bradley beale's first day on the job for ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] virtual wallet can help you be that person who's good with money. see what's free to spend. move money with a slide. save with a shake. feel good about your decisions. petco officialsre testifying before the d.c. companies after the derecho storm. pepco officials took the stand following five hours of testimony from residents and groups. more than 65,000 pepco customers alone lost power. those outages lasted up to a week. pepco says they appreciate the suggestions and are always looking for ways to improve reliability. president obama campaigning in virginia and he spent the day in hampton rose and tomorrow he'll be speaking at centreville high sc