Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio has emerged from the primary campaign with a sizeable lead over Republican Joe Lhota, winning support of nearly two-thirds of likely New York City voters in the first general election poll.

De Blasio leads Lhota 65 percent to 22 percent among likely voters, according to the NBC 4 New York/Wall Street Journal Marist poll released Tuesday. Nine percent of voters are undecided and 4 percent support either Independence Party candidate Adolfo Carrion or another contender.

The results of the survey, the first since last week's primary, suggest Lhota faces a difficult path to win over the city's voters, even though the city hasn't elected a Democratic mayor in 20 years.

De Blasio, the city's public advocate, is ahead by double-digit margins among likely voters in almost every demographic group looked at by the poll. Voters also chose de Blasio when asked which candidate could better handle a host of issues facing the city, though Lhota narrowed the gap when it came to crime prevention and handling the city's finances.

The poll also shows de Blasio winning support of 25 percent of likely Republican voters surveyed, while Lhota has 13 percent of likely Democratic voters in his corner -- a trend Lhota must reverse in order to win in New York's lopsided political landscape. Just 13 percent of likely voters with a candidate preference indicated that they might vote differently than they feel now.

"In a city where there are six Democrats for every Republican, to be successful, the Lhota campaign has to attract a lot of Democratic detractors to his side, and right now the opposite is occurring," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. "He is losing more Republicans to de Blasio than he is capturing Democrats from him.”

The primary campaign appears to have taken more of a toll on Lhota than de Blasio, according to the poll, taken by phone Sunday and Monday. The Democratic nominee has emerged from the contentious and fractured primary largely unscathed, enjoying favorable ratings from nearly two-thirds of voters citywide.

His campaign's populist bent and contrast to the Bloomberg administration appears to have resonated with registered voters. More than two-thirds of those surveyed agreed with his campaign's central theme that New York is made up of two cities -- one comprised of those struggling and the other of those experiencing success. The same share of voters -- 68 percent -- said they want the next mayor to deliver a break from the policies of Mayor Bloomberg.

Lhota, meanwhile, is viewed favorably by 29 percent of voters, and 41 percent said they had a negative perception of the former MTA chief, who defeated John Catsimatidis in the primary. 

The numbers and dynamics of the race mean Lhota needs a "game change" to win over voters who think they have already made up their minds, including the 30 percent of voters who have not yet formed an opinion about Lhota, Miringoff said.

"There’s not a lot on the table right now, so he needs to change the nature of this race,” Miringoff said.

In a statement Tuesday, Lhota spokeswoman Jessica Proud said, "We always knew we'd be the underdog in this race and once New Yorkers learn more about Bill's radical policies, they will be looking for a practical alternative. Joe's experienced leadership and solutions to expand the middle class will resonate with everyday New Yorkers in all five boroughs.”

The poll paints a picture of an electorate that is clamoring for change, yet pleased with the progress New York has made in recent years. Sixty-one percent of voters also say the city is better than it was 20 years ago, a sentiment Lhota may be able to tap into by framing de Blasio as an overly liberal proponent of radical change.

“Lhota’s argument that New Yorkers don’t want to turn back the clock would have resonance with New York voters because they do feel the past two decades have generally been positive for the city," Miringoff said.

An endorsement from former Mayor Rudy Giuliani can help shore up support among Republicans, but it could turn off the wider swath of voters he needs to win. Some 51 percent of registered voters surveyed in the poll said that association makes them less likely to back Lhota, while 29 percent said it makes them more likely to support him.

The poll surveyed 930 registered voters and 632 likely voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points among registered voters and 3.9 percentage points among likely voters. 

The poll also marks a low point for the outgoing mayor.

Just 42 percent of voters said they approve of Bloomberg's job performance, his lowest rating by Marist since August 2011. Twenty-two percent rated his current performance as poor.

“It all adds up to a sense that, although people are not displeased at how things have gone in the past decades, they nonetheless feel it’s time to turn the page," Miringoff said.

A jury found a South Florida man guilty of second-degree murder on Tuesday in the killing of his adoptive mother.

Gerard A. Lopes, 23, had faced a charge of premeditated murder in the death of 43-year-old Natalie Belmonte. Authorities said he raped her, and her bludgeoned body was found in a marsh near their Pembroke Pines home in July 2011.

The Belmonte family held hands waiting for the verdict. After it was read, defense attorney Jose Reyes said he plans to appeal it shortly after sentencing on Oct. 10.

"We're happy with the verdict. We are going to go up on appeal. The next step is to motion for a new trial," said Reyes, who was pleased with the verdict because his client had been charged with premeditated murder.

Prosecutors had claimed Lopes, who pleaded not guilty, sexually assaulted his adoptive mother before killing her. An autopsy showed that semen found in Belmonte matched Lopes’ DNA, but Lopes’ attorneys argued it was not relevant because the sexual relationship was consensual.

Police said security video from a neighbor’s house showed Belmonte and Lopes, who was 21 at the time of his 2011 arrest, leaving in the same car and stopping at a Walgreens before heading to a party.

The car returned with both individuals around 2:48 a.m. A short time later, Lopes is seen dragging a bag across the driveway and loading bags into the trunk. Belmonte's body would be found three days later near their Pembroke Pines home. Lopes' clothing was found in a dumpster with Belmonte's blood on it.

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Belmonte's sister Michaela Teixeira had said: "There's absolutely no way she had a consensual sexual relationship with her son."

Reyes said, "There is no evidence of ill will."

The defense had proposed that perhaps a scorned boyfriend had killed the vicitm.

"[Lopes'] story from the beginning has was that he didn't remember the night. That he had been drinking too much. That's why we postulated that someone else could have killed her in the middle of the night. That's the theory we were going for, for not guilty. They rejected that, but they also rejected the first-degree [conviction]," said Reyes.

A first-degree murder conviction would have carried a mandatory life sentence. Lopes could still face up to life imprisonment, however.

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Vice President Joe Biden's niece was arrested and accused of resisting arrest and other charges after a dispute with a roommate got heated and she allegedly took a swing at an NYPD officer. 

Caroline Biden was allegedly arguing with a roommate in her Tribeca apartment Tuesday morning, and when police responded, she resisted arrest and tried to take a swing at the officer, according to police.

Biden is also charged with obstructing governmental administration and harassment.

She was given a desk appearance ticket and released Tuesday afternoon. Information about her attorney was not immediately available.

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A 22-year-old man is accused of stabbing two New York City men -- killing one -- in separate street attacks because he thought they were gay, police said.

Steven Torres, 22, was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime in the killing of Ever Orozco on Monday, officials said.

Police said Torres is also charged with assault as a hate crime for stabbing a different man last Thursday on the Lower East Side.

Orozco was stabbed near Roosevelt Avenue and 90th Street in Elmhurst as he was feeding a parking meter, witnesses said.

Police said there was no indication that Orozco was gay, which was also true of the 47-year-old man Torres allegedly stabbed in Manhattan.

In the earlier stabbing the victim suffered several stab wounds to his arm and was treated at Bellevue Hospital.

In the second attack witnesses ran after Torres and held him for police until he was taken into custody.

"There was a lot of screaming, and all I could see was the guy was stabbing him -- stabbing him and stabbing him," said Eddie De Jesus, who was in his locksmith shop on 90th Street when he heard the commotion.

Information on a lawyer for Torres was not immediately available.

--Rob Schmitt contributed to this report. 

The members of the U.S. Park Police Aviation Unit helicopter crew sent to the Washington Navy Yard to lift a shooting victim out of harm’s way Monday aren’t comfortable being called heroes, saying they simply did what they are trained to do.

But the most dangerous mission for a medevac helicopter is to hover and hoist an injured patient. Add to that they were flying while rain was pouring down and a gunman was on the loose.

The Park Police helicopter Eagle 1 removed the woman wounded in the shoulder from the roof of Building 197 while police on the ground searched for the shooter inside.

"I found her to be a remarkable woman who showed a tremendous amount of bravery considering what she had just been through,” rescue technician Sgt. Dave Tolson said.

The crew put the danger out of mind as they hoisted the wounded woman into Eagle 1 and flew her to the hospital for treatment, Tolson said.

"Active shooter was definitely part of our thought process,” said Sgt. Ken Burchell, the pilot in command. “We were well aware that we were a big, fat, blue and white target."

Under the best conditions, the crew has just 5 minutes of hover time, but in an active shooter situation, it could become a target.

“But we also knew we had to get in there, so you kind of have to push that aside and just get the job done,” Burchell said.

Another rescue technician on Eagle 1 was armed.

“In case the active shooter decided to pop up on the roof and if possible need be return fire,” Officer Michael Abate said.

As they transported the wounded woman to MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where she is recovering after surgery Monday, Eagle 3 flew support missions patrolling the skies over the Navy Yard, helping police on the ground with command and control.

Eagle 1 returned to rescue the three men who had carried the wounded woman to the roof, taking them back to the Eagle’s nest: The headquarters of the U.S. Park Police Aviation Unit right across the Anacostia River from the Navy Yard. Its flag flies at half-staff in honor of those killed.

“I can tell you this is the first time I’ve been in an active shooter scenario where I’ve rescued someone from the top of a building,” Tolson said. “It was definitely one of the more satisfying moments of my career.”

It's what the Park Police medevac unit has been doing for 40 years: At the crash site of Air Florida in 1982, the shooting of two U.S. Capitol Police officers in 1998 and the Pentagon after the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001.

The current commander of the unit was just 16 years old when Air Florida Flight 90 crashed. He watched the rescue on TV.

“I saw the aviation unit on TV and I said, ‘I’d love to do that one day,’” Lt. Simeon Klebaner said.

He praised his team.

“The amount of coordination, and the amount of training and the amount of guts that it took to carry out those missions, I’m very incredibly proud my team did an A-plus job,” Klebaner said.

The crew said they only wish there had been more survivors to transport for treatment.

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She still hasn't opened her eyes yet, but the National Zoo's celebrated new panda cub is starting to look more like, well, a panda.

The cub -- who, according to Chinese custom, will be named on her 100th day -- got her first full veterinary exam Monday, and vets deemed her hale and healthy.

Plus, panda fans got new pictures of the little cub, which is starting to show the signature black and white markings of a panda.

The cub, whose gender was revealed with great fanfare two weeks ago, has more than doubled her weight since her preliminary health check Aug. 15. She weighs slightly less than two pounds, is 10.6 inches long from her nose to tail and is 9.8 inches wide around her belly.

The veterinarian team was able to complete the exam when her doting mom, Mei Xiang, finally left her cub’s side after more than three weeks to eat bamboo and drink water in the nearby enclosure.

“It’s amazing to see how much she has grown in less than one month,” Senior Curator and Curator of Giant Pandas Brandie Smith said. “Mei Xiang continues to be a great mom, as she was with her first cub, Tai Shan, and it shows.”

After the exam was completed at 4:31 p.m., Mei Xiang returned to her den and immediately began to groom the cub.

The David M. Rubenstein Family Giant Panda Habitat remains closed to the public until further notice to provide quiet for Mei Xiang and her cub. Both can be viewed online by the panda cams.

A survey of financial investors showed that Wall Street believes at least 4 million Americans will sign up for health insurance through the newly created online exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act. That estimate, however, is less than the 7 million Americans the Obama administration expects to sign up once the exchanges open on Oct. 1. 

Investors see 4 million signing up for Obamacare in 2014: survey (Reuters)

• Investors expect 4 million Americans to sign up for health insurance under the new online state marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act, according to a survey released Monday.
• The expectations of the 56 investors surveyed by Citigroup fall short of the Congressional Budget Office's forecast that 7 million Americans will sign up for subsidized health insurance when open enrollment begins on Oct. 1. Americans have six months to sign up for coverage in 2014.
• Wall Street is closely monitoring the progress of enrollment as health coverage means more new paying customers for insurers and hospitals.

Obamacare customers may show up in fits and starts (Reuters)

• Officials involved in implementing the Affordable Care Act anticipate a fairly busy start of the healthcare open enrollment on Oct. 1, followed by a drop-off for several weeks.
• A small uptick could occur just before Dec. 15 – the deadline for buying a policy before coverage begins on Jan. 1, 2014. A final rush is expected ahead of March 31, the last day to buy coverage and avoid a penalty.
• The Obama administration expects at least 7 million people to sign up via the exchanges, but needs that number to include about 2.7 million young, healthy participants for the program to work financially.

Apple is scheduled to roll out its latest and much-awaited mobile operating system Wednesday.

The new update to the tech-giant's platform, iOS 7, is the company's first major overhaul since 2007.

The update is available for the iPhone 4 and later models, the iPad 2 and later, the iPad mini, and the fifth generation iPod touch, according to AllThingsD.

Free for all Apple users, the update boasts of some 200 new features. 

Apple unveiled its latest iPhone models - the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S - last week at an event in Cupertino, Calif. The phones are scheduled to go on sale Friday.

There have been reports that stores aren't packed with the product, perhaps an indication that Apple isn't expecting blockbuster sales. 

Preorder sales have not been "overwhelming" for the 5C, a U.S. wireless carrier source told Reuters. The phone comes in blue, green, pink, yellow and white and starts at $99 with a contract in the U.S. The pricier 5S phone begins at $199 with a contract.

One of the new features that comes with Apple's new iOS is Airdrop, which lets users share photos, videos, and contacts by clicking share and selecting another iOS 7 user from their contacts list. All of the transfers are encrypted and items can be sent using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, according to MailOnline.

There is also a revamped Notification Center and the addition of a Control Center, which can be opened by swiping from the bottom of the screen, letting users tweak different settings.

The software update also boasts of improvements to the Compass app, the way photos are organized, and a flashlight app called Torch has also been added.

Reviewers have been calling the latest iOS incarnation a huge success, with Apple's Senior Vice President of Engineering, Craig Federighi, predicting that anyone installing iOS 7 will feel as if they're "getting an all-new device."

 

Two cars containing the skeletal remains of six people were pulled from an Oklahoma reservoir Tuesday and may close two cold cases that date back to the 1960s.

According to the Elk City Daily News, a test of new sonar equipment revealed two cars submerged near the marina in Western Oklahoma's Foss Reservoir.

When removed, the cars were revealed to be a green or brown 1950s-era Chevrolet and a 1969 Camaro.

Officials speculate the six bodies found in the cars may be people who disappeared in the 1960s and 1970s.

Custer County Sheriff Bruce Peoples said late Tuesday three skeletal remains were found in the Chevy, not two as initially believed.

Peoples had said the oldest case may involve a couple last seen in Canute who, in the early 1960s, were believed to be heading to Foss State Park and the reservoir, but were never seen again.

In the second case, three teens, 16-year-old Jimmy Allen Williams, 18-year-old Thomas Michael Rios and 18-year-old Leah Gail Johnson, were reported missing after they went for a ride in Williams' Camaro on Nov. 20, 1970. The trio, all from nearby Sayre, were believed to be headed to a football game in Elk City.

Investigators said they have confirmed the name of at least one victim found in the Camaro, though they have not yet released that name to the public.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations is expected to release the names of the victims after identification and notification of family members.

Editor's note: It was initially reported that five skeletons had been recovered from the lake.  Late Tuesday, officials increased that number to six.

Police have identified all of the victims of Monday's shooting spree at the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard, as they begin to piece together more about the man who killed 12 people and injured eight others in one of the deadliest single events ever in the nation's captial.

The gunman, 34-year-old Aaron Alexis of Fort Worth, Texas, acted alone in killing 12 people and injuring eight others before he was also killed Monday, the FBI said at a Tuesday afternoon press conference.

They've also determined that Alexis entered the building armed with a shotgun, and sources close to the investigation have told News4 that he retrieved a handgun from one of his victims. And investigators have learned that Alexis said he heard voices, that he had trouble sleeping and that his family believed he suffered from PTSD.

Police have identified those killed as:

• Arthur Daniels, 51
• Mary Francis Knight, 51
• Gerald L. Read, 58
• Martin Bodrog, 54
• Richard Michael Ridgell, 52
• Michael Arnold, 59
• Sylvia Frasier, 53
• Kathy Gaarde, 62
• John Roger Johnson, 73
• Frank Kohler, 50
• Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46
• Vishnu Pandit, 61

Among the eight injured was a D.C. police officer, identified as Scott Williams, who was shot in the leg while responding to the shooting, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray reported late Monday. Doctors say they hope Williams will be able to walk again after undergoing hours of surgery.

• LEARN MORE about the victims

None of the people killed is reported to be military personnel. The rest of the injured individuals suffered non-life-threatening injuries and are expected to recover.

Who was Aaron Alexis?

FBI and ATF agents searched a D.C. hotel Monday night where Alexis, who recently began work as a civilian contractor, was reportedly staying with five co-workers in town for business. 

Alexis, who served as a petty officer in the Navy between 2007 and 2011, had been previously arrested in gun-related incidents. He moved to the D.C. area about four months ago from Fort Worth and was working for The Experts, a subcontractor of Hewlett Packard that had been hired to work on computers at the Navy Yard.

Originally from New York City, Alexis has siblings who still live there.

"No one saw it coming," said Alexis' brother-in-law Anthony Little. "No one knew anything, so all of this, it's just shocking."

Alexis opened fire before 8:30 a.m. Monday in the lobby and on the third and fourth floors of Building 197 of the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters in southeast D.C. Survivors recalled sprinting from the sound of gunfire. Bullets hit walls, and people fell to the floor, bleeding.

Officials reported Alexis had "legitimate access" to enter the Navy Yard at the time as a civilian contractor, using a valid pass.

"I was in the cafeteria, just paid for my breakfast," Patricia Ward said. "I was waiting for my friend to pay for hers when we heard the gunshot. It was three gunshots straight in a row, pop pop pop. Three seconds later, it was pop pop pop pop pop, so it was like about a total of seven gunshots, and we just started running."

Alexis entered the building armed with a shotgun, FBI Washington Field Office Assistant Director Valerie Parlave said at the Tuesday press conference. There is no evidence that he had an AR-15 assault rifle - the type of weapon first-responding D.C. police officers had - at any point during the shootings.

Sources confirmed to News4's Shomari Stone that Alexis did use a pistol acquired from a security officer he shot, though it is unclear if he hit anyone with shots fired from that pistol.

Alexis had purchased a shotgun lawfully in Lorton, Va., during the past week or so, NBC News correspondent Pete Williams reported.

The gun store issued a statement Tuesday: "In light of the many questions surrounding the event, it is not appropriate to provide any comment at this time, except to affirm that Sharpshooters fully complies with all requirements to conduct background checks on all potential purchasers as required by law, and to further affirm that all purchasers are required to comply with all laws concerning allowed purchases," read an emailed statement from Sharpshooters Small Arms Range of Lorton, which is cooperating with investigators.

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The FBI said Alexis used a valid pass to enter the building along the Anacostia River, where 3,000 Navy employees go to work each day, many of them carrying authorized firearms.

His attack threw much of southeast D.C. into pandemonium, which continued after he was killed, as authorities for several hours investigated the possibility of more than one gunman. Eight nearby schools were put on lockdown before authorities gave the all-clear.

D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier said Tuesday the decision to shelter-in-place was the best decision while they investigated that possibility.

Terrie Durham, a civilian employee in the Office of Naval Sea Systems Command, was looking for a way out and glimpsed the gunman down a hallway, about 40 feet away. He was wearing blue, a uniform, maybe, and held a rifle. He said nothing. Then he fired.

"He aimed high and missed," Durham said. "I saw where the shot missed. It was a few feet ahead of us and a foot or above where we would have been standing."

She took off into a stairwell, hollering, "There is a man shooting in the building, get out, get out!"

Rescuers Respond

MPD and several other law enforcement agencies responded with active shooter teams after a call at 8:23 a.m. reporting the sound of gunshots. Two nearby MPD units with AR-15s were at Navy Yard in two minutes, MPD Chief Cathy Lanier said.

About five minutes after the report of shots fired, first responders were passing through the Navy Yard gates. At the time, police had conflicting reports about which building the shots were fired in, but seven minutes after the report, units outside Building 197 heard more shots fired, and entered.

“The response by uniformed police officers from both the Metropolitan Police Department and United States Park Police was absolutely nothing short of heroic,” Lanier said.

• WATCH: Raw Video: Police Respond to Shooting at Navy Yard

Investigators began trying to figure out if more than one suspect was involved, and distributed identifying information for two additional suspects. One was ruled out after watching video that tracked the man through the building and realizing that no harm resulted from his movements.

By late Monday evening, D.C. police canceled the lookout for the second possible suspect earlier described as armed with a "long gun," saying they felt comfortable they had the "single and sole person responsible."

Mayor Gray said suspected gunman Alexis' motive was unknown, though there were reports that he may have had a grudge against the Navy.

Obama: 'They're Patriots'

Flags will remain at half-staff until Friday at sunset in the wake of the devastating events at the Washington Navy Yard. President Obama made the order for all flags to fly at half-staff at military installations and public buildings Monday evening over what he called "yet another mass shooting."

“So we are confronting yet another mass shooting, and today it happened on a military installation in our nation’s capital," Obama said from the White House early Monday. "It’s a shooting that targeted military and civilian personnel.

"These are men and women going to work, doing their job protecting all of us," Obama said. "They’re patriots, and they know the dangers of serving abroad, but today they faced the unimaginable violence that they wouldn’t have expected here at home."

• WATCH: Obama remarks on Navy Yard Shooting

Treating the victims

MedStar Washington Hospital Center said MPD Officer Williams and two women who work for the Navy had been transported to that hospital. The officer was shot in the legs; one woman was shot in the shoulder and the other was shot in the head and hand.

Dr. Janis Orlowski, the chief medical officer at the hospital, told the Today Show's Matt Lauer Tuesday morning that all three were doing well.

Officer Williams is listed in fair condition. Orlowski said Williams was "having pain around the lower legs" but was doing well.

Lanier said Tuesday that she knew the officer, and that she was optimistic about his prognosis.

The woman who was shot in the shoulder was also listed in fair condition.

Orlowski said the other did not require surgery as the bullet did not penetrate the skull. She was shot in the finger and right behind her right ear, Orlowski explained, but the bullet only penetrated her scalp. 

"She's doing well. She's anxious about her colleagues," Orlowski said. She is listed in good condition.

George Washington University Hospital said they had also received a victim, a man in his 60s who had been shot in the temple. Despite efforts at CPR, he was pronounced dead at the hospital.

• WATCH: Victim Airlifted to Hospital

"There's something evil in our society that we as Americans have to work to try and eradicate," Orlowski said. "I have to say, I may see this every day, I may be the chief medical officer of a very large trauma center, but there's something wrong when we have these multiple shootings, these multiple injuries. There's something wrong. The only thing that I can say is we have to work together to get rid of it."

Honoring Those We Lost

As the nation takes a breath and the reality of Monday's mass shooting starts to settle in, several events around the area are planned to honor the victims.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel laid a wreath at the Navy Memorial to honor the victims.

Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington, held a Mass of Consolation Tuesday afternoon at the Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle on Rhode Island Avenue in Northwest. The church welcomed anyone who needed any kind of support.

Monday night, the National Cathedral held a service to remember the victims. The Cathedral offered a special prayer for their families and special responders. Cathedral officials say the cathedral will make ministries available to anyone who needs consolation and refuge.

Tuesday evening, the floor of the House of Representatives will fall silent in remembrance of those who died Monday. D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton will lead a moment of silence at 7 p.m.

Call 1-800-CALL-FBI

Anyone with information about this incident should call 1-800-CALL-FBI. The FBI wants to talk to anyone who knew Alexis. No piece of information regarding his recent movements, contacts and associates is too small.

The Navy created a family support center to assist personnel or family members affected by the shootings. Call 1-855-677-1755. Family members also can log into NAVY Accountability and Assessment System to muster and fill out a needs assessment and a fleet and family support center emergency case manager will call and offer assistance.

Stay with NBCWashington on-air and online for more on this developing story. 

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Three men pretended to be police officers, including flashing badges and driving a car with lights and a siren, to cut a line at the Staten Island Mall to buy the latest version of "Grand Theft Auto," police said.

Officers were patrolling the mall overnight Monday into Tuesday as a large crowd had gathered, awaiting the release of "Grand Theft Auto V."

Police saw three men pull up and get out of a car, approach security and get into the mall -- which was still closed -- while about 500 people waited outside. 

Authorities say the men, two 19-year-olds and a 20-year-old, flashed fake police badges and told mall security they were with the NYPD. They were then able to buy the video game early.

Police said the men then sped away, running several traffic lights. After officers pulled them over, they found the car had working police lights and sirens.

One of the men, who works as an auxiliary police officer, had handcuffs on him. Officials said Wednesday he has been suspended.

The men were arrested and charged with criminal impersonation.

The Children's Place is recalling nearly 40,000 footed pajamas after finding they failed to meet federal flammability standards.

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission says the pajamas pose a burn hazard to children because they do not meet the tight-fitting sizing requirements needed to pass flammability standards.

The recall involves three styles of bunny-themed, one-piece cotton footed pajamas sold between January 2012 through May 2013. More details on the specific pajama styles and sizes can be found by clicking here.

Customers with the recalled garments can return them to any location of The Children's Place for a full refund.

The seventh inning stretch turned into a seventh inning stench at an Oakland A’s game Tuesday night.

The baseball team dealt with yet another sewage spill late in the A's 2-1 walk-off win against the Los Angeles Angels at the O.co Coliseum. And the foul smells and water seeping out of the bathroom end of the dugout sparked renewed calls for the team to leave or modernize its aging, 45-year-old stadium.

On Wednesday morning, two plumbers were in the bathroom, snaking out runoff water that overflowed from a toilet because the automatic sensors were on the blink, said Dave Rinetti, the vice president of stadium operations.

Even though the spillage was easily cleaned up, the story was getting so much buzz in the media that someone started a new Twitter handle - @ColiseumSewage - whose motto was "overflowing with love for the Oakland A's."

Going with the flow...

— Coliseum Sewage (@ColiseumSewage) September 18, 2013

"Get it together Bud Selig," tweeted Eitan Cramer, in reference to the commissioner of Major League Baseball, which was sued by the city of San Jose for barring the A's to move south to Silicon Valley. "This team needs a new stadium."

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Players thought it was pretty embarrassing, too.

“Another O.co Coliseum flub there,” reliever Jerry Blevins told CSN Bay Area, who described a “pretty good coating” of sewage on the dugout floor when he returned after pitching the top of the seventh.

This sewage snafu comes after an embarrassing ballpark stink in June, which broke out when a massive sewage backup spilled into both clubhouses, the umpires' room and the managers' offices, as well as all the bathrooms on the clubhouse level.

That leak sent the Seattle Mariners and A's running around in towels and seeking higher ground at the nearby Oakland Raiders' locker room. A hazmat crew had to come in and inspect the area for E-coli and crews had to install new carpeting.

Before the sewage saga erupted on Tuesday, the team announced it would remove the tarps from the top level of the grandstand for its first round of the playoffs, making more seats available to fans. The fan reaction was immediate. Tickets sold out in two hours. Now, the Coliseum's capacity for the division series games will increase from a regular-season maximum of 35,067 to 48,146.

That news was heartening to owner Lew Wolff, who was upset that on a regular game night, the stands were nearly empty. The A’s average for September is just under 18,000 fans per game compared to the average MLB attendance of roughly 31,000.

There is no evidence that the stink has impacted attendance levels  - especially since the sewage problems are cropping up away from the bleachers - but even players say they're turned off by the ongoing odor issues.

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After Tuesday's game, infielder Jed Lowrie told CSN Bay Area he came down after the win to find four maintenance workers mopping up the dugout.

"It was kind of repulsive, honestly," he said.

A woman accused of killing her two children and leaving their bodies in a Southern California hotel room asked for the death penalty Tuesday during her first court appearance in connection with the slayings.

Arraignment for Marilyn Kay Edge, of Arizona, was continued to next month. She remained jailed without bail after appearing via video feed from jail for a Tuesday court proceeding.

"Only if you promise me the death penalty," Edge responded twice to the judge after he asked a question about her scheduled arraignment.

Edge did not enter a plea. Her attorney requested the case be continued and for permission to speak with doctors treating Edge.

The 42-year-old Scottsdale, Ariz. woman was arrested Friday after she crashed her car -- police said propane tanks were found in the front seat -- into an electrical box near a Costa Mesa supermarket. Police said she tried to strangle herself with an electrical cord after officers arrived.

The bodies of her son, Jaelen, 13, and daughter, Faith, 10, were found after the crash in a third-floor hotel room at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Santa Ana.

Edge was in a custody dispute with her husband in a Georgia court after the couple divorced in 2007, according to records.

Prosecutors filed two felony counts of special circumstances murder charges against Edge. The special circumstances sentencing enhancements include committing multiple murders and murder by poison.

She faces a sentence of life in state prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.

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Surveillance video released Tuesday shows what police say are some of the final moments before a South Miami man allegedly shot his wife and posted a photo of her body on Facebook.

The video of Derek Medina and Jennifer Alfonso was released by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, along with Alfonso’s journal. They both offer glimpses into the couple's relationship.

Police say Medina, 31, shot Alfonso, 26, at their South Miami townhome on Aug. 8. The home surveillance video does not give a direct view of the alleged confrontation, and Alfonso can only be seen toward the beginning. The footage, obtained by The Miami Herald, shows Medina, who had an argument with his wife in the kitchen, leaving and then returning with a gun held out of view, the newspaper reported.

According to a police search warrant, Alfonso grabbed a knife, but her husband took it away from her and put it back into a kitchen drawer. Medina told police that Alfonso punched him – and on the video, his head flinches backward, the Herald noted.

Medina told police he shot his wife six or eight times because she started punching him, the warrant said.

The video shows Medina leaving, but he returns with his phone and stops at the entrance of the kitchen, looking into it. Police say that is when he took the photo of his wife’s body, the Herald reported. Later, armed police officers are seen coming through the door. Alfonso’s body – which is never seen on camera – was discovered in the kitchen.

A post made through Medina's Facebook account admitted to posting the photo and to killing his wife. He then surrendered to police, the warrant said.

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Medina has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and child neglect without great bodily harm. He has also been charged with shooting a deadly missile, but he did not enter a plea for that charge in his latest court appearance. His trial is scheduled for Nov. 4.

Alfonso’s journal, obtained by NBC 6, reveals her descriptions of her private thoughts about her on-again, off-again marriage with Medina. In one entry, Alfonso wrote that she would get so jealous that she felt like murdering her husband.

“After little situations that me and Derek have been through, I find myself uncontrolably jelouse (sic), like want to murder type deal, only the feel," she wrote. When they attempted to go shopping, she continued, his eyes wandered more than once.

"Of course my blood boiled and I wanted to rip his eyes right out of the socket, disrespect ... " she wrote. She added that she would rather be alone.

In the journal, titled “The mind of an insane Women...,” Alfonso also wrote that she couldn’t sleep when she thought about her “unhappy husband," zombies – which she said she said she always believed in – and the world coming to its end.

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