i think he has done great things and i rememberian well. i think that -- i remember diana well. he did doing a wonderful job. >> reporter: he will visit with servicemen and women from the uk who participated in the paraolympics event warrior games in colorado. then off to the ritz-carlton to receive his award. women that work in the area say it is exciting the prospect of seeing the dashing young prince. >> i would love to meet him. yeah. young, handsome devil like that, you bet. i would love to meet him. the fact he's here for a good cause is wonderful. >> i would love to bum inner loop the prince. yes, i would. i love him. that's great. i didn't know he was going to be this close. we may have to work late tonight. >> reporter: megan mcgrath, news4. >> another member of the obama administration has spoken out in support of gay marriage. during an interview, education secretary arne duncan said same-sex couples should be able to legally marry. it was his first public about the issue. yesterday vice president joe biden said he's comfortable with same-sex marriage. both biden's and duncan's comments may put them at odds with president obama who has said his position on gay marriage is evolving. now to the race for the white house. president obama's team launched into its first week of the official re-election campaign with a major ad. the economy is the main focus. steve handelsman has the latest. >> reporter: in the battleground state of ohio, mitt romney today accused the president of steering the u.s. to the left. actually to the east across the land. he is taking america on a path towards europe. it is not going to work here. europe is in real trouble. >> reporter: two days after president obama kicked off his re-election campaign. >> four more years! >> reporter: new national polls show the race virtually tied. romney up by 1% in a survey of swing state voters by politico. obama ahead by 2% in a similar poll by "usa today" and gallup. the president is making his case for re-election in a rare all-positive tv ad. to run in nine swing state battle grounds. >> today our auto industry is backfiring on all cylinders. our greatest enemy brought to justice by our greatest heroes. instead of losing jobs, we are creating them. >> reporter: mitt romney's campaign put up a video slamming the obama record. back to your open. socialist francois hollande was elected. >> anything that slows down the global recovery is bad news for the president and could affect the re-election. >> reporter: especially in a race that's so close now in the polls. a race that seems sure to be a referendum on recovery. i'm steve handelsman, news4. dozens of guilty verdicts handed down today in one of the deadliest shootings in recent history here in washington. five men are convicted in connection with the south capitol street massacre of 2010. they are accused of killing five people and wounding several others over the course of two days. all apparently over a missing piece of costume jewelry. san kwan kartd carter, orlando carter, robert boast, lamar williams are all convicted of murder and dozens of other felony counts. pat collins will have more from the survivors of these crimes coming up tonight at 5:00. john edwards' core ums trial is in its third week. prosecutors are trying to show that edwards knowingly and illegally used campaign donations to hide his pregnant mistress. edwards and his daughter cate arrived at the courthouse this morning. today alex forger was back on the witness stand. he is the lawyer for virginia heiress rachel bunny melon. memorandum only gave thousands of dollars to edwards when he ran for president and that the money was for a personal need of edwards. prosecutors contend that some of that money was used in the coverup. edwards denies breaking any law. new numbers out today say nearly half of american adults are projected to be obese by the we are 2030 unless the country makes significant changes. the growing problem has prompted many experts to look at ways of preventing obesity long before adulthood focusing even on toddlers. erica edwards has our story. >> reporter: america's scales continue to tip in the wrong direction. the prevalence of obesity is now predicted to reach 42% of adults by the year 2030. slightly lower than earlier projections, but still expected to add billions of dollars to health care costs. >> probably the best treatment is prevention. >> reporter: obesity experts say the best time for prevention is childhood. >> for many parents, a chubby baby or chubby toddler in their mind is a sign they are doing something well. >> reporter: new research found many mothers of overweight toddlers misjudge their child's body size assuming the kids are at healthy weight. 20% of mothers of healthy, average sized children wanted their kids to pout a few more pounds. this is a good time for pete yeahtritions to step in with a growth chart and ensure they are on the right track. >> pediatricians don't provide the reassurance, they may be trying to fatten their children up. >> reporter: overweight children are likely to be overweight teens and then overweight adults. >> it makes sense to focus on children to prevent obesity in the first place. but we also need to reach out to adults. >> reporter: health and human services secretary sebelius spoke at a conference monday. she and others agree that the nation can't afford to expand the waistline any longer. erica edwards, nbc news. other new obesity related research focus owes teenagers and their television viewing habits. those who watch the most tv, a fewer fruit -- ate fewer fruits and vegetables each day and consumed more candy and more sodas. cameras captured the moment a tornado tore through a city northeast of tokyo on sunday. the twister touched down 40 mules outside of japan's capital city. a 14-year-old boy died and dozens of others were injured. the tornado tore roofs off houses and snapped tree limbs. about 24,000 homes lost electricity. forecasters say that it was an f-2 tornado with winds as high as 157 miles per hour. tornadoes are rare in the tokyo area. cloudy skies in our area and get ready, folks. rain could be en route for the rest of the week. >> storm 4 meteorologist veronica johnson has the first look at weather. >> hey there, guys. this is the way we are starting off our week. with clouds, right? across the area. and we are waiting on the showers. seems like, you know, we have been overcast much of the day today. take a look. complete canopy of cloud cover throughout the area with our temperatures throughout holding. holding in the 60s, low 70s around the area. radar right now, storm 4 radar, you can see where the showers are. off to the west, south of frostburg. around areas of mineral, around hampshire and harty county in west virginia. there is a little storm there that is building. that will be making its way eastward. moving slowly at about the 10 to 15 miles per hour. so any storms well off to the west. we could see an isolated shower trying to sneak into our area here for the evening hours. that really is it. again, upper 60s, low 70s throughout the area. 70 degrees now in cleveland park. waldorf area. 72 at fairfax city. great falls, down towards culpeper. some of the higher temperatures down you a round fredericksburg, virginia, and stafford at 75 degrees, average high for today is 73. we are going to see the mercury drop, down to the low 60s by 11:00 p.m. again, just a few storms that could be staying well west of our area on your fast forecast. i think those storms west, dry morning coming to us. we will talk more about our storm chances, thunderstorm chances, this week coming up in a couple much minutes. stick around for that. it is going to be a big game for the caps tonight. the series is tied at 2 games apiece. >> dan hellie is live at madison square garden with a look ahead to game five tonight. >> reporter: game five important the playoff series. as expected nip and tuck the entire way. usually in playoff hockey, the own us is on the team that's just lost the most recent game to make changes. you can expect the rangers to come out like their pants are on fire this game. one one member of the organization said i expect them to play as hard as you have seen them play the entire series. the capitals doing what they do best this series. blocking shots. 244. more than any other team in the postseason thus far. it is going to be more of the same. hope said it is awesome when he sees the forwards and defensemen blocking shots. puck drops shortly after 7:30 on the nbc sports network. rangers and the capitals getting it on. game five, tonight, madison square garden. >> welcome to the big leagues. bryce harper. phillies pitcher, yeah, hamels admits he hit the 19-year-old rookie on purpose last night. harper was hit in the back with a 93-mil e-an-hour pitch. he said that's the way baseball was played in the old days. the general manager rizzo called hamel's classless and gutless. hamels was up to bat next and got beaned in the leg. payback. it can be rough. >> can be. in the big leagues. when "news4 at 4:00" continues, this afternoon, sasha baron cohen stopped by 30 rock. >> now i have the look every woman dreams of, wylie coyote. >> she is on fire. what the real tan new jersey mom thought of the "snl" skit. rihanna is a no show for the dress rehearsal. billy bush from "access hollywood" joins us live next. after winning 16 olympic medals, swimmer michael phelps says he is looking to retire in a televised interview yesterday phelps said the london games will be his last olympic games. the 26 year old baltimore native broke a record in beijing back in 2008 earning eight gold medals but will need to win three gold to break the record for most olympic gold medals. as for the 2016 limb knicks brazil, phelps says he will go but only as an observer. he will stay dry. blockbuster hit at that time movies. a tan mom backs hit on "saturday night live." and no-show for rihanna. >> "access hollywood's" billy bush is joining us live now from l.a. first off, billy, is -- "the avengers" that good of a move write? is it really that good? >> i mean, it was built-in success. you have thore has his own movie, captain america has his own movie. iron man has his own movie. big up these giant franchises on their own and then you put them all together, it is sort of genius. s can why kanye and jay-z tour together. quadruple, quintuple. expect "aconventivengers 3." no shortage of superhero movies in your future. >> hey, bunch of laughs on "saturday night live" this weekend including the tan mom from new jersey. let's give a listen. >> sorry about all the smoke. i just came from the -- >> tanning salon? >> tanning salon. >> patricia, how do youtance allegations you brought your child into a tanning bed with you? >> that's -- i would never bring a 5-year-old into a tanning bed. tanning beds should only be used by responsible adults because you may not know this, seth, some people overtan. >> wow. she was smoking all right, billy. >> on fire. >> hysterical. took a piece of bread, put it between my thighs and it is toast. hysterical. this is what we live in. it has been overnight sensation. this woman was a local store write on thursday of last week. and now there's not a person in the world who doesn't know the too tan lady. it is incredible how fast these things move. paparazzi on her front lawn today, yesterday getting her reaction. she said yes, i saw it. she saw the "snl" thing and thought it was hysterical. they were there too long. get off my lawn! she is going to get an agent or she will lose it. >> yeah. little hot to handle. >> a lot of buzz over rihanna's performance and her pre-performance. what do you make of her appearance on "saturday night"? >> she was great when she performed. you would think by the looks of what she pulled off, not once but twice, you know, dress rehearsals went perfectly. the truth is she didn't go to dress rehearsals. she missed them. nobody missed a dress rehearsal after as a musical guest. mick jagger has gone the all of his. she did go to the show. the reports are that, you know, staff at "snl" are miffed and probably not thrilled about it. that said when she went on she pulled it off. all disaster averted. you have to go to dress rehearsal. the old ad image the biz. >> you do. that's a big one. what's on "access hollywood" tonight? ? you know, forget about the too tan laid write. some people think she's not ready for this fame. we have instant, you know, reality people who are. have you ever heard of the three golden sisters? these women, three old ladies, 72-year-old twins and an 81-year-old -- no, 76-year-old twins and 81-year-old sister watching the kardashian sex tape horrified them but their reactions are better than the tape itself. watch these ladies. they are our guests. they are hysterical. we have them tonight. also, glen frey on the anatomy of hotel california. the meaning behind the song. these are questions i always wanted to ask. >> you owe me 20 bucks from last week. >> sorry. >> double or nothing tonight. okay? >> thanks. >> double or nothing it is. >> thanks, billy. on we were going to say irresponsible but irrepressable, high risk. apird on the "today" show live this morning. he was in character for his new film "the dictator." >> route of the country -- ruler of the country called wadiya. he described it for matt lauer. >> 1, 3sh300 miles from tel avi is a scud flies. it is a lovely place. it has population of 4 million but obviously that figure changes depending on my mood. >> "the dictator" opens nationwide on the 16th. >> matt lauer is a braver man than i am. sitting next to him anything can happen. >> literally. coming up next on "news4 at 4:00," did you see it? a super and spectacular view over the weekend. >> what a view that was. tonight is the night the final performances for the final four on "the voice." angie goss will join us live from the red carpet at 4:30. we love gardening... yeah, but the feeling wasn't always mutual. i want you to grow big! if you grow for me, you'll get cookies for free. nothing worked. ♪ but we started using miracle-gro garden soil. you just mix it with your backyard soil... and it feeds your plants for up to 3 months. my plants grew bigger... more beautiful... with more flowers and vegetables. guaranteed. everything changed with miracle-gro. for you are these flowers, like soap is for showers. everyone grows with miracle-gro. it was cloudy around here over the weekend. but down under, they had absolutely picture-perfect weather to see the super moon. this is what the lunar moon looked like from australia. it is when the moon is closest to earth. this year it also coincided with a full moon. not expected to happen again for another 17 years. at least. can't wait. we just had too much cloud cover around here. we were telling folks to look around 11:30. we also gave folks the moon rise time last week. as it was coming up, you know, we wanted to see the great big shot. it was too cloudy. when it got higher in the sky saw it. too bad. now we have to wait. >> another 17 years. >> wait around for the next time. >> we have been waiting around today for the mercury to rise. upper 60s, low 70s. quite a bit of cloud cover across the area today. look at that cloud deck. we are going for higher temperatures tomorrow. and i will explain why as we scoot over to the weather wall here. gaithersburg, maryland, 67. 72 degrees currently in college park, maryland. and 71 degrees in st. mary's, maryland. little warmer south, higher temperatures down there. 70 degrees, reagan national, south wind at 16 miles per hour. dew point temperature not bad. it doesn't feel that sticky or humid as it did at the end of last week. we are going to keep quite a bit of cloud cover around for not only the overnight period but also tomorrow morning. notice the temperatures, though, not too bad, 62 at 11:00. 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. just a little cool. watching one great big weather system affect the east coast. we have thunderstorms from texas all the way up to the northeast. look at areas accept round mississippi, louisiana. powerful storms there. more scattered storms, western pennsylvania, western maryland and right through west virginia and ohio. better chance of storms for us tomorrow. and as we watch this cold front that is in areas of ohio make its way eastward for tomorrow morning. we are dry but any time after about 1:00, 2:00, we will start to see showers and then thunderstorms in the potential for moderate to heavy rain comes our way tomorrow. maybe even high winds. big potential west for tomorrow afternoon. then down to the south for late tuesday night and early wednesday morning, yeah, wednesday morning, storm, before we start to get clearing behind that system. wednesday afternoon. so seasonal, dry, 64 for your evening. then for tomorrow morning, it is going to be breezy, definitely cool, 56 to 62 degrees. wind out of the south. it is the southerly wind that's going to help us really see the temperatures rise tomorrow. 73 to 78. again, strong thunderstorms, best chance of those storms will be off to the south. and down to the west. your high tomorrow is 77 degrees. bit of warmth ahead of the cold front. we are down to 74 for wednesday and a chance for showers and storms at 70%. and then we were windy and drying out for thursday. i know folks want that weekend forecast. >> all right. we will see you then. still to come today on "news4 at 4:00," kanye west goes off on twitter with fashion advice for men. >> also this massive sinkhole is close to swallowing this entire house. live from l.a., i will take unbehind the scenes of "the voice" welcome back to "news4 at 4:00." i'm pat lawson muse. >> i'm jim handly. here is what's happening at 4:30. five men convicted of murder today in d.c.'s south capitol street shootings. prosecutors say they killed five people and wounded several others over a fake diamond bracelet. three attacks back in 2010. the men were also found guilty of dozens of other serious felony counts. >> prince heir write is in washington right now meeting with service members at the british ambassador's residence. he is here in town to receive a humanitarian award. the atlantic council is honoring the prince for his charitable work with wounded soldiers. new numbers out today say 42% of adults will be obese by the year 2030. expected to add billions of dollars in health care costs. obesity experts say the best time for prevention is in childhood. overweight children are likely to be overweight teenagers who are likely to be overweight adults. >> on wall street, stocks ended the monday on a flat note following election results in europe. the dow jones industrials fell 29 points. mass dakota remain unchanged. closing a point higher. the s&p 500 had month change. are you red write for a big couple of nights? everything is on the line tonight in part one of "the voice" finale. >> last week america and the coaches cut the field of contest nantz two and now we are down to the final four. angie is live. >> reporter: we are here giving you a sneak peek behind "the voice." you are looking at a very quiet red carpet but don't be fooled. in a matter of hours it will be hustling and bustling. not only are the contestants going to walk the red carpet but see carson daly and coaches come by as well. as you mentioned, it is down to the wire. final four is set. tonight we will see jermaine paul take stage, tony lucca, juliett simms, chris mann. sadly we won't be seeing erin willett, the young lady from gaithersburg who we have been rooting for. she was eliminated last week. we had the opportunity to catch up with her earlier. despite the loss, she's more motivated than ever. it has been six weeks since gaithersburg's hometown girl erin w