overturned in tunisia and egypt. >> rebels are under attack in libya, bahrain and syria. >> the united states opposes the use of violence and repression against the people of the region. >> he slapped new sanctions on syria's leaders and intervened on libya, but obama principal number two says jobs work better than bullets. >> we think it's important to focus trade, not just aid. >> he wants u.s. loans like the ones to eastern europeans after the fall of communism. 2 billion to help egyptians and to win over other arabs. >> if you take the risks that reform entails, you will have the full support of the united states. he said israel has his full support, no compromise on security. >> but precisely because of our friendship it's important that we tell the truth. the status kuo is unsustainable. he endorsed a key palestinian demand. >> we believe the borders of israel and palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps. >> that will be a tough sell tomorrow when the president meets israeli prime minister net net. >> benjamin netanyahu here in d.c. is already worried that a lot of arab rebels are anti-israel and he's saying today in advance of his meeting with the president tomorrow, no way to returning to what he sees as impossible to defend 1967 borders of israel. live from capitol hill, i'm steve handelsman, news 4. doreen, back to you. >> steve, thank you. we are learning more now about the audiotape released by al qaeda overnight. it's referred to as the final message from osama bin laden. u.s. officials told nbc news that they had already heard the tape. a copy was recovered during a raid on the bin laden compound three weeks ago. >> in it, he praises the revolutions in egypt and tunisia and does not mention the uprisings in libya and syria. the message appears to be an attempt to appear relevant although many analysts see the peaceful revolutions as a repudiation as a vehicle for political change. "meet the press" moderator david gregory joins us with thoughts about the president's remark about the middle east today as well as another very busy political week here in washington. let's start at the beginning. benjam benjam benjamin netanyahu, the israel leader is supposed to come here tomorrow if i'm not mistaken. >> yes. >> it has set up shaky ground. >> it was an icy relationship and this doesn't make it better. what the president was talking about today or it's based on 67 borders has been policy going back several administrations and this is hardly a huge deal even upon if netanyahu doesn't like it. there are things in the speech he will like. the right for israel to defend itself, setting up a secure border. so they're going to balance those two things, but do i think it will inject condemnation and the proz sunday goes to speak to the american israeli political action committee meeting here in washington. so that the way netanyahu is setting his reaction up is going to impact the kind of low back that the president gets. >> the president has to be thinking about re-election? what is he up to coming up with a speech like that right now? >> and the implication being that jewish voters, florida will reject this. first of all, jews, historically will vote for a democrat by and large and not a lot of republicans get support from jewish voters, but the second point is again that this is consistent with what administration, republican and democrats have tried to do which is to forge a peace process based on the 67 borders and there are illusions to what are called swaps and places like jerusalem that are so-called facts on the ground and it was that border that was envisioned. this was the president charting a course where there will be tough negotiation. they would understand that this would be the basis for how you ultimately carve a palestinian state, but there has to be an important follow-up question about security. the key, the united nations resolutions would make this a final status issue which is why i think it's getting fireworks right now. >> let's talk about domestic politics for a minute. last week, you didn't create fireworks but newt gingrich did. this week you had paul ryan on. what can we anticipate, do you think? >> newt gingrich criticized ryan and his version of how to fix medicare and that lit everything up. it has imperiled gingrich's candidacy. it has earned him nothing, but condemnation from the right. this is a huge issue in the republican party. democrats are waiting to pounce, but this is all about budget politics and right now the two sides are talking about how they're going to get an agreement, not only on a budget, but whether they'll raise the debt sealing and it is a very polarized issue, but it will be an issue right in the middle. let's get him on and see how he can negotiate the path. >> i have to get personal. newt gingrich said you sandbagged him. how do you react to that? >> he's doing his thing. >> as he always does. >> he wants to blame -- i don't think it was the question that caused the problem. i think it was the answer. >> he does his thing, you've got to do yours. >> we'll see you sunday morning. the form cheeft international monetary fund was formally indicted in connection to a sex abuse case in new york city. the judge granted a bail request for dominique strauss-kahn. he appeared this afternoon for a bail hearing and he approved home detention monitored by armed guards. strauss-kahn had been behind bars since saturday after he was accused of trying to rape a maid at a manhattan hotel. he resigned from his powerful position from the international monetary fund late last night. the family of a teenager in fairfax county who was killed in a traffic accident after he drank something called four loko is suing the maker of that drink. julie carey is in our newsroom now with more on the wrongful death suit that was also filed against a manassas convenience store where they bought the drink. julie? >> reporter: this drink has been nicknamed blackout in a can and with prom and graduation season here a centerville mom wants to make sure other families don't suffer the tragic loss she did. >> my hope is that these drinks that are sold in single-serving cans will be pulled off the shelves everywhere. >> reporter: centreville mother carla rupp blames four loko for her 15-year-old son's deaths. so today she and her husband filed a wrongful death lawsuit against fusion projects, the maker of the alcohol-packed drink. >> the four loko effect is eternal for our son. >> reporter: bo rupp was an honors student at westfield high school, but last september 25th, he and some friends took four loko drinks to jiffy lube live. bo drank two xans the 24-houns container carried the alcohol equivalent of five beers along with the stimulant of four coffees. soon after, security called carla rupp to come get her son. >> reporter: carla rupp safely got her son home and then bo took off. under the influence of four loko, he lost touch with reality. bo was last seen running in and out of the traffic on pleasant valley road. he eventually sat down on the pavement and was struck by an suv, bo died the next day. after the fda cracked down last november four loko was reformulated. the stimulant dropped and the product still packs an alcohol punch of five large beers. even worse, the fruity drink packaged like some iced advertise is aimed at teenagers. >> this product is design said as a delivery system to mask both the alcoholic taste and the impact of the alcohol so that it can be drunk quickly. >> bo's parents are also suing this manassas raceway convenience store where bo reportedly purchased the four loko. >> a statement from fusion project says we work very hard to make sure our products are consumed safely by adults over the age of 21. they add we will vigorously defend against the wrongful death lawsuit. >> we stopped by the convenience store and they are stocking the case with a newly formulated four loko. no comments from the owner of the store. >> jiel carey, thanks. they've busted an international drug operation being run out of our area. 18 people from four states, virginia, maryland, new york and ohio are under arrest accused of distributing a drug called khat. it is a leaf containing the stimulant like cocaine, but less intense. it was run out of an arlington home of a naturalized u.s. citizen from somalia. the suspect smuggled the drug for distribution throughout the u.s. the recent heavy rains have caused flooding across the region. some trees were nearly swallowed in the swollen river. chief meteorologist doug kammerer is here to tell us what to expect in the next couple of days. is that flowing our way, doug? >> we saw the problems that the potomac created last month, almost a month ago today and this is what would happen earlier today around the georgetown area. the last time they did not put up those flood walls around the georgetown harbor and we did see a lot of flooding for those businesses and fortunately today, the flood walls are up and they're protecting that area today and the water could be very close to the same level that we saw last week. once again, definitely good news that they did put those walls up this time. flood warning in effect until saturday morning for all of the counties along the potomac river and a coastal flood warning for the potomac around portion of georgetown and the washington, d.c. area. alexandria will flood again overnight tonight and into the day tomorrow. live digital doppler radar just about all gone as far as the rain is concerned. southern st. mary's county as well. we will continue to see a chance of showers during the day tomorrow. i'll talk more about that, but more importantly, jim, the weekend. >> thanks, doug. for people in southern louisiana they're just waiting and they're watching. watching the mississippi river as it rises and as they hope it will eventually recede. many towns like henderson, louisiana, are virtually goefrt towns and people there packed up and moved to higher ground. the river is not expected to crest in that area until next week and it could rise another six feet between now and then. coming up on news 4, revealing the hero who stepped in to save children being attacked by a dog on a school bus. a woman confronted her attacker begging him to take her possession, but that's not what he wanted. >> investigators are taking an approach to one of the noeft most notorious cases that's never been solved. >> we'll bring in a new electric car that no other electric car on the market has. >> what's ahead in sports? >> derek williams says he's graduating with this year's senior class in maryland. lebron james is clutching a battle with the bulls and plus the nationals get hosed in new york. - ( music playing ) - we know technology can make you more connected. but now it can make you more connected to your 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there, and this parking lot. that's where it happened. lauren was walking to get into her suv. she had headphones on and she was listening to music, as she opened the door she was attacked by a man who put a knife to her throat. >> i was very scared, but i knew that it was my life, it was life or death. >> reporter: in this space, inside that suv there was a struggle. you see, the man had handcuffs stuffed down the front of his pants. as he went to grab the handcuffs he let go of the knife and that's when lauren made her move. >> when he dropped the knife i picked the knife up and we began to struggle. i knew it was time for me to start fighting. >> reporter: that fight spilled out of the suv and on to the pavement of the parking lot. lauren still had the knife. she tossed it down the street. the man then grabbed her around the neck, but she went limp and as she did he let go. lauren saw a man driving his car down the street and that's when she made her getaway. >> he tried to speed off because he didn't know if the man had a gun and he didn't know what to do, so he started driving and i jumped through his window while he was driving along and held on until he got about a block away. i was hanging on to his window until he felt it was safe enough to let me in his car. that man, in that car drove lauren to a police station. cops are investigating. >> now there are a lot of security cameras around here and police are hoping that video from those cameras will help them solve this case. i'm pat collins, news 4, washington. comcast issued a statement about this is aing the safety of our employees and customers is a top priority and we will work with local police as they investigate this issue. comcast is the parent company of nbc universal which owns nbc 4. one of the most notorious fbi cases investigators never solved. poisoned tylenol capsules that killed seven people in the early '80s. the fbi is now taking a fresh look at that case. they're digging for dna samples from several people including the convicted unabomber ted kaczynski. it would take a court order to force him to do so. the fbi is not saying why they're looking at kaczynski in connection with the tylenol murders. and an independent investigation into the deadliest coal mining accident in 40 years puts the blame squarely on the owners of the big branch mine in west virginia. that report was commissioned by the state's form governor. it found that massey energy company recklessly ignored safety and allowed dangerous conditions inside that mine. 29 men were killed in the accident last april. investigators determined that better ventilation would have prevented the explosion. massey has blamed a change in federal mining rules for contributing to the problem. doctors who operated on congresswoman gabrielle giffords say she's on the path to being released from the hospital. giffords underwent surgery yesterday to help relief pressure on her brain. the doctors also placed an implant to repair her broken skull. the operation is considered a milestone in her recovery. she will no longer have to wear a helmet for everyday activities. giffords was shot in the head for everyday activities and doctors call her progress so far miraculous. coming up, prince george's fire department honoring a special member of their arson team. aye whether storms in maryland stirred up tornadoes. >> that's a stormy week. we might finally have good weather for the weekend lots of people are paying $4 for a gallon of gasoline, but that is not expected to stop them from traveling this memorial day holiday. aaa says 35 million americans will take trips for the upcoming long weekend. that is slightly more than last year. gas prices are about $1 more per gallon than they were last year. those going on vacation plan to cut back elsewhere, weir told, to make up for that high cost of gasoline. >> that means taking shorter trips, for example, and indulging in less expensive activities. >> but don't give up the vacation. >> it's too important. >> strange weather today. i was on my way to work and the windshield wiper's going and the sunglasses are on and it's just crazy this week. >> you get that during the summer months and you see the big shower come across and a lot of times it's followed up by the rainbow. and something else, and severe weather and this was actual video around hagerstown and this is during the day on tuesday and we talked about this over the last couple of days and they did report a tornado out there and this is video of the tornado around the haguerstown region. another one was confirmed in frederick county and that again during the day on tuesday. we've had a lot of severe weather today, but for us it's been to our north and east. that's been the really good news today. outside right now, take a look at this, just gorgeous out there with plenty of sunshine. blue skies, the cowed cover any those nice, wide cloud, the cumulous clouds and sometimes they mean rain and it's fairly nice out there. the rain is really surrounding us. it's up to the north and east and it's down to the south and east. you're still seeing the rain and you'll see it for about another half hour or so and back down to the southwest, we're looking at areas around harrisonburg and a few showers into portions of west virginia and that will be about it and the rest of the evening is looking very nice. if you're thinking of heading out and about, it should be good for you. frederick county and fairfax county, the loudoun, and places into west virginia, as well. underneath warnings, those are river flood warnings. so the entire county is not in a flood warning and just lite right along the potomac river because the river will continue to rise over the next day or so and crest during the morning on saturday. >> so if you live along the river and you know it's prone to flooding and you will see moderate flooding around georgetown and around alexandria as well where we have the coastal flood warnings in effect. the storm system itself is finally starting to move off toward the east and that's where most of the rain is. the strongest storms up toward philadelphia and towards baltimore, and a couple of tornado warnings up toward baltimore during the day today, but for us, just the scattered shower variety and we'll see more of the same tomorrow. high temperature today, 70 degrees, average high, 76. a bit below average and with the sun, not all that bad and at the airport, just about an inch of rain for the last five days, down towards dulles, 2.13 inches in the last five days and so not a whole lot of rain for the airports and some lookeds have over the last couple of days have picked up three, four, five inches of rain and that's why we've seen some flooding. 67 degrees out there right now and winds out of the south at 7 miles per hour. once again, nice temperatures out there right now. 70 manassas and clinton coming in at 68 degrees. the next couple of days this area of low pressure has been pestering the region. it is going to finally start to move out, but it is going provide with us one more day of scattered showers. nothing severe during the day tomorrow, but just some showers and heavier downpours and by saturday it moves out into the atlantic and here comes nice, warm air and maybe not just warm air, maybe some hot air by the time we end the day on sunday. partly cloudy this evening and isolated showers and we showed you most of those are out of the region, and tomorrow morning, partly cloudy and a slight chance of a few showers and i expect most of those in the afternoon and you'll wake up to temperatures in the 50s and there's the chance of showers tomorrow afternoon and 75 to 78 degrees with winds out of the twoeft 5 to 10 miles per hour and as we make our way into the day on saturday. look at this. 82, a beautiful day on saturday. 87 on sunday with a slight chance of a shower. 90 on monday and a chance of a shower there and 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