safety standards for rail agencies across the country. we'll tell you what is on tap for all of the passenger trains across the country, including metro. back to you. >> one thing we do know is this isn't over yet. thank you, andrea. >> another hot and humid day out there today. are we in for another round of storms tonight? that's the question. topper is on the terrace with the answer. >> pretty nice here in northwest. it's hot and humid, but we have a couple thunderstorms on live doppler and any storm that develops is going to be heavy. let me show you live doppler. you can access this on our website. we'll zoom into this one storm up in montgomery county. they are moving southeast, almost parallel to the river. nothing severe with this storm, but there's some hefty rains. see the rain? that's rain fall rates of an inch per hour. past pennsylvania toe potomac. it does spill over to great falls if you are headed out route 7 in fairfax county. so again, nothing severe with that storm, but that's going to slow traffic down no doubt about that. other storms down in southern maryland are heavy, too. this is south of la plata. now, we'll widen the radar out a little bit and put this into motion and show you where they will go in the next hour. again, general movement off to the south and east. this is going to move through bethesda. good news is, it will weaken a little bit. see it turning green. so, it's going to weaken over the next hour, but get ready for a wet commute in parts of the metro area, especially inside the roadway and east, west highway. 94 right now. 90 in leesburg. this is not the hot stuff yet. you factor in the humidity, feels like it's 99 downtown and 98 in leesburg and 98 up in frederick. for tonight, early thunderstorm possible. then partly cloudy and muggy. lows in the 70s. we'll come back and talk about the prospect of hitting triple digits and the prospect of more storms. >> thank you, topper. well, our 9 wants to know report have exposed pepco and bge billing you for their outages and the anger which could prevent it from happening again. there's no movement at the maryland state house to outlaw those service charges. here's our investigative reporter. russ. >> hi anita. maryland customers still don't know how much they'll be billed for those first 24 hours. pepco lost all of their revenue from the storm power. but estimates vary from around nickels to dimes dimes to around a dollar. it could be against the law. >> today, downtown bethesda is back to full power. and although our report went viral online, about maryland, pepco, and bge customers being billed for 24 hours of income, many here are just now learning about it. >> so you are going to get a bill for that? >> no. >> really? >> state senator says our story could change the law. >> people were in the dark. your story lit the lightbulb. >> constituent reactions from our report could influence the maryland state house. plans on introducing legislation in january to ban such practices. >> lightbulb went on. people said, oh my god. i'm paying these people for not giving me electrical service? >> why should you pay for something when you don't have it? >> should be no charge. >> yeah. i need to call them. i'm upset now. >> even though customers are only paying for the first 24 hours of lost revenues, even though it could be less than $1 a customer, utilities shouldn't be able to charge. >> 500,000 pepco customers, a million pepco customers, you're talking real money. >> at maryland state house last year, introduced a similar amendment outlawing outage bills all together, but it failed on a tie vote. >> we reached out to all 22 state senators who voted against that amendment. only three responded and one said in retrough spect, he would have changed his vote. now a smoke spokesman said they are used to invest and he believes the public service commission, not the state legislature should be looking into this. pepco would not comment, saying they haven't seen the proposal. >> how soon could these changes take effect? >> it is too late. this is something that wouldn't go into effect until next year. so any storm until then, you're going to be paying the bill. >> individually, it's small. a lot of it is principal. >> we don't know how much. but a quarter a dime, maybe a dollar. >> russ, thank you. lesli. d.c. mayor, vincent gray is refusing to say if and when he knew a well funded shadow campaign had worked to get him elected in 2010. now federal prosecutors say the illegal campaign spent more than $650,000. our bruce johnson has been following this thing from the beginning. he has the latest on what this means for the mayor and the political fallout. >> this is not going to go away. it is heating up. the mayor has not taught the prosecutors. they have gotten win conviction directly in connection with the shadow campaign. they want to talk to vernon hawkins. that's a name you'll hear a lot of in the next couple of days. >> vernon hawkins hasn't returned our phone calls and he wasn't answering at his home today. vernon seen here was a major volunteer operative in the vincent gray campaign. today used the word, mess, to describe the official campaign that was put together and funded. hawkins was the field operations manager for the unofficial effort where shadow campaign charge with helping get out the vote. much if not all of the money came from businessman, jeff thompson. the illegal funds were channeled through harris, who last week pleaded guilty for her role in the shadow campaign activities. >> tell us why you did it. >> you support vincent gray? >> alabama avenue, most, but not all of the people we talked with say mayor gray knew about the shadow campaign. >> how could he not know what was going on in his campaign? >> you think he aught to resign? >> yes. >> i don't believe it. >> you don't believe it? >> not yet. >> i'm waiting to see what the result is going to be. >> you don't think he should step down? >> no. not at this time. >> prosecutors are prepared to offer immunity for his cooperation. the fbi has been talking with his attorney to arrange an interview. >> now the mayor isn't talking publicly. but privately, he is telling associates that the first he heard of the shadow campaign was on june 10 in a private meeting. she brought invoices in from that shadow campaign. she wants them transferred over to the campaign. the mayor is telling associates that he made a phone call to his attorney and we haven't been able to confirm exactly what robert bennett and his attorney did with that information. legal observers are telling me that if the mayor has a story to put out there, if his attorney didn't contact federal authorities, he needs to say that. if he is not saying that, they have some problems. >> he needs to tell people what is going on. there are three council members who is called on him to step down. has that number changed? >> you have one waiverring right now. he met in private and urged the mayor to stay more and make himself available for questions. we'll see. >> not clear how soon that may or may not happen? >> no. the u.s. attorney is going to have the next say and say after that. i don't think anything is going to happen next week. >> bruce johnson, we know you'll stay all over it. back into the studio. president obama continuing to attack his republican rival, mitt romney. romney is down south today. he is raising money for his campaign, but the president was back on the campaign trail in cincinnati and he accused romney of sending jobs overseas as he was head of bane capital. running a negative campaign so he doesn't have to talk about his bad record on the economy. >> there's a new study out by nonpartisan economists that says governor romney's economic plan would in fact create 800,000 jobs. there's only one problem. the jobs wouldn't be in america. >> what does that say about a president whose record is so poor that all he can do in his campaign is attack me? >> louisiana's governor is helping romney raise some money today. jindal has been mentioned as a possible running mate and today, top adviser says that vp announcement could come as soon as this week. lesli. still ahead, new information on the tragic series of events that led to the death of a man during an armed robbery. >> u.s.a. is in town. basketball that is. a will the of star power. kobe, lebron. we'll have a full report coming up in a second. new reaction and fallout to former penn state football coach, joe paterno's role in the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. we'll be back. family members of the late joe paterno disaguy with some of the findings from that special prosecutor's report. led by former fbi director found that paterno covered up child sex abuse. that family says paterno called for a quote, thorough fair and transparent investigation. the family adds that the late penn state coach was stunned by the charges against sandusky, quote, like everyone else. the fate of the joe paterno statue outside penn state's beaver stadium is up in the air. many called for the removal in the wake of the child sex abuse scandal at the school. and the university has come under increased pressure following the special investigator's finding. the university's board of trustees and administrators say they have not decided what to do with the sculpture. >> over the weekend, the artist of the famous inspiration mural removed the halo from joe paterno and painted a blue ribbon to present child abuse awareness. he would not remove paterno from the mural as he did with jerry sandusky, he was going to do something to change it. >> the countdown to the olympic games is on. opening ceremonies a week away. >> the u.s. team has been practicing all weekend here in d.c. tonight, they take on brazil in an exhibition right down at verison and we found dave owen live. dave. >> reporter: what's going on? more than just a basketball game out here tonight. president barack obama will be here. vice president joe biden will be here. and by the way, you might be wondering why we are outside of the verison center where the women are about to tip off against brazil inside. that's why we are outside of the arena. it's been quite a scene. we have been canvassing the area in and around the verison center. take a look. >> this is like seeing an all- star game. it's awesome. >> all the way from minnesota. they didn't know where the verison center was. did you find it? >> we found it. thank you. >> it's right behind you. >> exactly. >> great all the time. you know, all through the playoffs, all through basketball, and charity work. i chose to wear his number to the game today. >> i've been a kobe fan since jordan retired. it's like the biggest day of my life getting to see him play. >> shortly before 5:00. here's the interest. look at this line. it's going all the way back here. go u.s.a. go u.s.a. but you have to go all the way back here. a little lebron, all the way back, and look at this, guys, hey, if you are all the way back at the end of this line, you got a long ways to go. >> yeah, certainly a long way to go. crunch time and you can see that line is forming. the people i talked to, they were spending $120 to $150 for these tickets. much more coming up. i'll tell you what, derek, these guys are rock stars, especially the men's basketball team. we'll tell you about that in just a little bit. we are live outside the verison center. back to you guys in the studio. >> it is dream team part two. thank you, dave. it's one of the busiest days at london's airport. athletes started arriving today for the olympic games. members of the u.s. and new zealand yachting teams and finland sailing team were among the first of the 16,000 athletes expected to arrive in london under heightened security. >> it's been great. london is obviously ready and excited. >> it's pretty smooth, really. >> it was easy. really quick. don't have to think about anything. >> now an army of 1,000 trained volunteers who speak 20 different languages are on hand to greet the olympians as they show up in london. topper, lesli. >> we were going to talk to you about the weather from outside, but the rain drops -- i don't do rain. >> it's a bad enough hair day. with rain it's really bad. i got your back. we have a couple thunderstorms on radar. we'll start with a live look outside. this is brought to you by michael and son. temperatures are toasty, but not as toasty as they are going to get. 94 right now. dew point 69. the dew point barely in the 60s. that's barely bearable. winds calm and the pressure 29.86 inches of mercury. okay, let's talk about live doppler 9,000. we are looking at, well, some storms. few and far between, but there's a couple that are heavy. not severe, but heavy. they will affect the evening commute. this storm we're tracking now as it moves, straddling the river in montgomery county side and fairfax county side. down 193. head toward mcclane. the red, 1 to 2 inches per hour. coming around 410, east west highway, heading out to connecticut avenue and especially further west out toward river. it's going to be heavy rain. this is going to drift into town, so get ready in northwest. headed for the airport, too. we'll back the radar out. big storms in southern maryland. a handful of them. this is south of la plata. headed into northern st. mary's county and southern sections of calvert county. now we'll talk about where they will head in the next hour. they are going to weaken and continue to move off to the south and east through d.c., headed for the airport and eventually moving through southern maryland down toward leanardtown and into the bay. so, everyone the boaters need to be aware big storms are possible through the early evening hours. not a bunch of lightning. so once these go past, there's nothing behind it. there's no other mechanism to kick off anymore storms tonight. 89 in bethesda. 92 in arlington. 94 downtown. 90 in rockville. and 89 in vienna and fairfax. we're looking at, you are going to get hotter. isolated storm tonight. triple digits possible tomorrow. more storms tomorrow evening and still very hot on wednesday. maybe triple digits two days. we'll be flirting with 100. partly cloudy and muggy. lows in the 70s and talking mid to upper 70s downtown. a little uncomfortable. tomorrow morning, partly cloudy, hot by lunchtime. 72 to 94 by lunchtime. air quality code orange. that's unhealthy. if you can car pool tomorrow, refuel up, we would appreciate it. some thunderstorms possible. and those that develop could be heavy. high temperatures near 100. winds westerly at 10. the next three days, code yellow. got to do it between the heat and thunderstorms. 99 tomorrow. 100 on wednesday and 94 on thursday. temperatures are going to go down on thursday, but the storm chance increases on thursday. next seven days, cold front is going to roll through thursday into friday. maybe left over storms. temperatures in the upper 80s. maybe a left over shower on saturday. not concerned about that. nice, upper 80s. we'll take that below average and know 80s on monday. so few and far between, but those that develop will be hefty. coming up, why you soon may be able to check out who is checking out you on your facebook page. >> and construction crews checking out the top of the mormon temple today. ?gw?qyjw sky 9 was over the mormon poem it temple. it can be so prominently from the beltway t. will be closed for cleaning. the building near connecticut avenue was the first mormon temple built in the eastern united states. sky 9 was also over jesup, maryland, where a prison is being torn down by the inmates themselves. the baltimore sun reports by using inmates at the maryland house of corrections to take the prison apart piece by piece. this could save the state millions of dollars. the prison was closed in 2007 after a string of violent incidents. the public will have a chance to tour the facility on august 4 and 5th before the deconstruction is complete. and some boundary stones that are steep in history have now been restored. the original stones george washington ordered in 1791 to mark the new federal district are the first and oldest federal monuments. the stones are located at eastern avenue northeast. many of the stones fell into disrepair during the mid 1990s. >> today, the montgomery county planning board took up a proposal to bring light rail to chevy chase lake. the service would run through chevy chase and reunit jones bridge road. the planners say the rail service with rush hour traffic along connecticut avenue. the proposal got calls for the creation of a new town center with high-rise office and residential buildings. also a new public park, bike trail, and pedestrian crossings. and there was a ground breaking ceremony for a major new development. you remember the old mall. the project will feature hundreds of thousands of square feet of brand-new retail, office space, residential units, even a hotel. all less than a quarter mile from the metro. maryland governor along with county executive and other local leaders were all in attendance. some opponents of the proposed costco gas station at west field wheaten mall launched a new effort to defeat the plan today. montgomery county councilman, mike mark and an environmental activist want new legislation passed to restrict the location of new megafueling stations. now el ridge says the proposed costco station would be the busiest gas station in the entire county and would pose an environmental and health risk to people in that area. maryland lawmakers are asking you to consider donating your hotel reward points to help wounded warriors. the program is called hotels for heros. it's an expansion of a program enabling travelers to donate frequent flier miles to military families. six hotel chains are participating in the program. the goal is to reduce travel costs for wounded veterans and their families. >> still ahead, a teenager who lost his arm to an alligator looks ahead to life with a prosthetic limb. he has a positive attitude. there was a father of three being mauled by two pit bulls in the middle of the street. he was able to get up and get to safety thanks to one person. i'm peggy fox coming up, i'll tell you who that person was and i'll have the story. we have new information tonight on a pit bull attack in arlington. today we're getting a firsthand account of how the family was able to fight off the two dogs that were in on this attack. >> this happened yesterday afternoon in the intersection of walter reid drive and south oakland street. peggy fox is live from the neighborhood with the very latest. >> we were able to catch up with max after he was released from the hospital this morning. he is going to be okay, but he has been pretty severely injured. you see the pit bulls had him down in the middle of the street. what saved his life? the actions of his son. >> start biting into the side. >> 62-year-old max is covered from head to toe with at least 14 dog bites after being attacked by his neighbor's two pit bulls. >> this is the worst part. >> he has trouble walking because his calf muscle was injured. both arms were mauled and the dogs almost bit off part of his ear. >> i never imagined dogs -- i thought they were friendly. but these dogs were really trying to kill. >> he had just come home from shopping when they found the dogs playing in their yard. they got out of the pickup truck to tell the dog's owners when they attacked. >> they came out of the house. i see my bed on the floor over there. >> his oldest son heard his little sister screaming and came running to find his dad in the middle of the street being attacked by the dogs. >> they are trying to kill my dad. i have to do something. >> he did what he does so well on the soccer field. he ran and the dogs chased. >> i made a quick -- the car