that were happening. osama bin laden is known to record many of his thoughts and intelligence officials are pouring over the recordings in his compound. it's up cheer if this is the final -- unclear if this is the final sermon from this terrorist mastermind. severe weather has been moving through the area. >> a viewer sent us this video of the hail that fell. you can see it's coming down. topper is in the weather center and we're hoping not to see anything like that again. >> it's quite right now. we have a flash flood up until midnight. we have storms pushing into pennsylvania. more showers and few storms lower bay and southern maryland. they have been moving off to the north and northwest. zoom into these storms, see some small hail in these, heavy rain up around tently town and emmitsburg and they're moving to the north and west. get back to the video. this is incredible video. and this was taken by the way in taborstock forms section of leesburg this afternoon at 4 p.m. look at that hail. the irony, that's going to be around tomorrow morning. it takes a long time for that to melt. steve, good job. we appreciate it. overnight scattered storms and showers. we know the drill right now. grab the umbrella again 50s to low 60s at 7 :00 and sprinkles by 9:00. we'll talk about warmer weather headed our way. this just in. crews cleaning up after a huge tree fell on the corner of 16th and monroe, that's in northeast d.c. and you can see right there, blocked the whole street. police closed off the entire area because that tree took down some power lines. they're telling us this will be an all-night clean up. and new at 11, the d.c. medical examiner's office has lost it's creditation. the chief lacks board certification. this is according to the washington examiner. she's been out of school too long to get it. now, this weakens the prosecution of criminal cases including homicides and drunken driving cases. new at 11, a military tanker jet crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff in ventura, california. all three on board survived. the tanker is used for fleet operation support and transporting fuel. claim your cash is back on 9news now. take a look at the bottom of your screen. you can see names coming through. maybe somebody you know. that means they have money or valuables coming. we have list of more names coming up at 11:15 of this newscast. it's been a few year since sean lanigan was acquitted of charges that he molested one of his students. he's still struggling to reclaim his life and reputation. >> it is a rebuilding process that still has a long way to go. >> you take the other side. you guys got this side here. >> reporter: sean lanigan is often surrounded by kids. >> i love what i do. this is me. i am a teacher. i think god put me on this earth to be a teacher a soccer coach. it is what i do, my passion. >> reporter: last year a 12-year-old he had disciplined at center ridge elementary where he taught for more than a decade accused her of touching her inappropriately. >> i was stunned. it took me many days to get a grasp of the actual accusation of one of my students coming forward and saying something like this. >> reporter: the man long praised by parents saw something else. >> i would get dirty looks. >> reporter: several nights in jail, stripped from his pay, league fees of more than $100,000, he refused to plea deal ann was cleared a year ago. but he was transferred to a different school this school year and then. >> i got destaffed which means the student enrolment will not support having as many teachers there, and i was placed by the county in what they call an overstaffed position. >> reporter: he wants the district to pay his legal fees, would hike some certainty about his career. >> my head swirls at times. the stress of dealing with day in, day out, and just knowing that it's not resolved and try to figure out why. >> reporter: but he remembers what he tells his team. >> i biggest lesson i told my kids is when you believe in yourself you will persevere. >> reporter: the school board transfers cases like this. when a school spokesman said there's more to this than meets the eye, we asked if there was any reason for parents to be concerned. if there's a problem with mr. lanigan. the spokesman said i don't think parents should be concerned. >> it seems jack johnson's guilty plea on corruption charges could end up taking his wife down with him. the documents released during his court hearing yesterday showed jack johnson and a cohort of developers planned to rely on leslie johnson to keep the racket going. she allegedly tried to hide and destroyed evidence as well. leslie johnson pled not guilty to obstruction of justice charges and she's still in office as a prince george's council member pending trial. we have good news and some bad news for metro riders tonight. the bad is the number of thefts is on the rise compared to last year. the number of violent crimes like robbery and rape is down. some folks don't feel any safer. >> reporter: a manhunt, multiple bullet holes and casings, a metro station shooting on a palm sunday. it may have been a month ago but recent enough. and one of the reasons why people like kathy henderson are putting the chief on the spot. it may appear like a dull community meeting but people here are armed with dramatic stories of metro crimes. >> because we see crime that happens every day. >> reporter: james wheeler should know. he and fellow guardian angels work the metro. he says the crime can happen any time and any way. take four incidents over the last months. on may 5th a man is shot in the leg in a metro station. it was on a thursday in the evening. on april 27th at the brooklyn metro station, a neighbor is robbed at gunpoint a wednesday afternoon. six days before that on april 21st, four females approach a woman leaving the metro station. they beat her, though her to the ground, rob her. it was thursday at 9:15 in the morning. and then one month ago yesterday, two men are shot outside the shaw howard university metro stop. it was 2:30 in the afternoon on a sunday. which brings us back to this scene. one of many that chief taborn says is near a station not on metro grounds. >> you are a lot safer in the metro system that you are walking the streets of any jurisdiction. >> reporter: still, he says more collaboration with other police departments is needed. it's not passing the buck, he says, it's sharing the load. >> so then let's talk metro police manpower. they have 450 officers but they have to cover a 1500 square mile territory plus 150 feet of property that's outside every metro station. a ride to school ended with a trip to the hospital for five kids after a dog attacked them on the school bus. this all happened this morning along windbrook drive in maryland. an american bulldog came up to them at the bus stop. when the bus came the dog hopped on board and lashed out at children leaving five of them with bites, bruises, and scrapes. >> he was trying to bite everybody. kept running back and forth, doing this. >> i didn't know what to do. i was, like, one running through running through the car. >> reporter: police arrived and were forced to shot and kill the dog. when the dog got on the bus, he was simply overwhelmed by the attention. they will have to do a test to see if that animal had rabies. dc officials have announced the standardized test results from three classrooms are unvalid from cheating. this follows an investigation by the dc state's superintendent office an investigated prompted by concerns about widespread cheating. we spoke with the state superintendent. >> there is no evidence that we have that indicates that there is widespread cheating in d.c. ps. >> now, this was all about the 2010 test scores. some personnel had to be terminated, new tighter security guide lines are if place for the 2011 testing -- in place for the 2011 testing and that scores are out early next month. celebrity police escorts are not allowed in the district. unless it's bill gates and jz. that's according to records obtained by the associated press. they got escorts from dc police officers. the police were reimburrsed. this came under investigation after charlie sheen got an escort to a performance at constitution hall. for the last four months congresswoman gabrielle giffords has been wearing a helmet hike this one except hers is adorned with theards state flag. a portion of her skull was removed to releave the pressure on her brain and she needed the helmet for protection. they attached a hard plastic implant under the skin today which matches the piece of bone that had be cut away. >> a huge deal because you know for the last few weeks she's been looking at herself in the mirror and seeing what looks like a dent to the person in their skull. now she's going to have a skull line that looks like the original one she had before, and she is's going to look like herself. >> a doctor told me today this is one of the last procedures giffords will need before being released from the hospital. her husband, astronaut mark kelly, got updates on the operation while in orbit. >> ones you're on the internet it's fair game. >> in a world where image is everything, when yours is tarnished, where do you turn. >> how a person's bad online reputation can be wiped clean. scrubbing your persona. that's coming up. at wendy's we grill fresh beef only from north america 'cause we believe that's the way you make hot and juicy hamburgers. like wendy's bacon mushroom melt with applewood smoked bacon and cheesy mushroom sauce. try one today. ♪ you know when it's real ♪ . aksentuate the positive, eliminate the negative. that's the model of a company that emphasizes cleaning up people's reputations on line. this is field that's becoming increasingly important to an increasing number of people. >> reporter: over the past few decades, bob beckle has developed a reputation in washington as a willing golfer and an outspoken political commentator. his reputation led to a job as walter mondale's campaign manager. his image was tarnished a few years ago. >> cnn said take time off. >> reporter: when articles began spreading describing the lurid details of a relationship outside of his marriage, a relationship that beckle adamantly maintains never existed. >> what else have you about your reputation. >> reporter: the articles were written and planted by political enemies. he says he was powerless to do anything about them. >> i didn't know what he do. >> reporter: until he meet dino cater. a dc company that specializes in cleaning up and protecting people's online profiles. >> everybody is becoming a public figure without any of the benefits of being famous. >> reporter: cater says he took the same two pronged approach to scrubbing the online image that he does with any client. he asked the websites to take the articles down. but some wouldn't remove them voluntarily and for them, cater had another plan. set up new websites about beckle listing his accomplishments and credentials. he linked that website to as many other websites as possible to improve their chances of being at the top of the page when beckle's name was googled. the key is getting the negative articles off the first two pages of google searchs. it took a few months but beckle's online reputation has been rehabilitated. >> they made it better. >> reporter: he says he'll never forget what he went through. >> it was just brutal. . >> wow. so how much does it cost to have your online reputation professionally scrubbed like that? it depends on how much scrubbing is needed. usually starting at a few hundreds and running into the thousands. it is claim your cash time and there's still a whole lot of unclaimed money out there sitting in the government's kofers instead of your pockets. if you hear your name you could be owed big bucks. on average, the payout is $1,000. let's get going in the district and in virginia, emily hargrove northeast, james h shelton, jr. of southeast, debra talb of burke, these folks have unclaimed money waiting for them. lets pea get over to maryland. row lando rivera, joan up hole of germantown, and rose ziegler of buoy, go to our consumer page at wusa9.com, learn how to file a claim. if you did not hear your name, check out the links on the state treasury anyway because your name could be on that list. at the top of the newscast, hail leesburg in may. >> cool stuff. we had showers and thunderstorms, keep our severe weather alert for another 45 minutes. this is sent from fredericksburg. nice job, carol, we appreciate that. collected all over the deck. this is from loudoun county. live doppler, we have a couple of showers off to the south and to the east of us in southern maryland and these showers moving away north into pennsylvania. so there are no warnings right now for thunderstorms. there are a bunch of flood warnings in effect, so don't mess around with any kind of flooded street or stream. zoom in to the south, st. mary's city pretty good rainfall, more than 2 inches per hour and lexington park has moderate rain and good storms over the bay as well. widen out a little bit and put this into motion, where will these storms go in the next hour. rumble of thunder across southern maryland and also parts of the eastern shore as the storms move off to the north at about 20 miles an hour. again, going to hold together pretty well, too. the red is intense. moving due north over the bay. flash flood watch is in effect until midnight. we have flash flood warnings past midnight. wet commute for some of us, not all of us, but for some of us. more sun tomorrow, that's good. that will lead to nor thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. not quite as widespread or severe. but 6:15, more clouds, showers north and west of town. showers come back at lunchtime. if you don't see showers in the morning, you will have showers by lunchtime and by evening we'll have some areas that have wet roads on the way home. good news, light green to dark green which is light activity so nothing crazy heavy tomorrow which is very good. by friday, we see showers down to the south of us and down to the west which is good. we dry out a little bit in the immediate metro area. may come back friday afternoon but dry out much of friday and friday early afternoon. overnight, scattered showers and thunderstorms. some could be heavy or severe. with light winds. tomorrow cloudy and mild. showers or a thunderstorm possible. 50s and 60s. very comfortable temperaturewise. by afternoon, few storms possible, high temperatures around 735, winds west southwest at about 10. next seven days. showers late friday. weekend is nice. going to break this pattern, shoal, maybe a shower on saturday, preakness hike dry. 84 on sunday. isolated storms in the afternoon. monday will have its fair share of storms back in the low 80s. 88 on wednesday. >> getting toasty. >> yes. >> thanks,top. i don't know if you can use this word but you have a teeny quarterback controversy. >> only the red skins could manage a quarterback controversy in may during a lockout. that's how special they have. john beck says he wants the job but last we checked rex grossman had the job. rex chimes in on the qb hierarchy. and the turtle who tried to end it all. don't do it, friend! sports is next. . yesterday the nats got rained out despite the fact that it never rained. tonight it poured hike chalton hesston was going to park the infield and the umps let it go. it didn't stop the mets from hitting. justin turner, up and over the head, 3-0 mets. nats had a chance in the 9th. bernadino flies to left field and the nats get blanked in new york, 3-0. orioles hosting the yankees. guerrero hits that deep enough to push in adam jones from third. always dramatic sac fly ties the game at 1 and 1 and that's where we remain in the 14th inning. when you saw lebron james and the heat rip through the celtics in five games you thought they'd tear up the bulls as well. miami has three vps and three is better than one. the bulls win. and game two, this was a different store. that's lebron with the steal. 29-10 for king james today. heat lead by 7 and lebron breaks down dang and hits that. heat win 85-75. series tied at 1-1. mystics held their media day today. beard comes back after missing last season, post-draw was held at the preakness today. animal kingdom comes from the 11 hole. the colt is a 2-1 favorite. dials in is the second choice at 9-2. moxie from john beck getting on the radio saying he expects to be the starting quarterback next year but i wonder if he ran that by the guy who was the starting quarterback at the end of last year. rex grossman was the starting qb and while he is not under contract for next season we know how much shanahan loves him from their time together in texas and rex begs to differ with mr. beck. >> i feel like i'm the starter, but, but, you know, i'm not even signed yet. i'm assuming a lot of things here. so the coaches have to set the, set the playing field and let us know what, what the situation is. >> meanwhile, mcnabb was in d.c. today and he says he was not offended by rex being the starter but he was offended by an article last week about him and shanahan. if you're bored to death by watching golf on tv, you're not alone. this turtle was where the championship was this weekend and he decided to end it all because he was so bored. don't do it! don't do it! oh, no. you know, kind of overrotated the entry. they take off points for that. look at slow-mo. >> turtling can do that. they're fine. >> we'll be right back. 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