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happen when some employees are driving home cars, using chauffeurs and riding around in gas imus hers? >> we're public -- guzzlers. >> we're public servants. >> tommy wells ordered a full review of fleet and found some agencies getting around the law. for example, some employees at d.c.'s housing authority have take-home vehicles even though strict law says employees shouldn't, but dcha claims its exempt because it's an independent agency. >> we'll have to go through all that and figure out is there any justifiable reason under law fosh people to be using these essentially as their own take -- for people to be using these essentially as their own take-home cars. >> the investigation uncovered several agencies using employees as drivers. did you know kaya henderson the chancellor of d.c. schools is driven by a chauffeur in a big suv. the report says it's in her contract. >> we're going to take a look at that. i know we called some other school systems to see what they did with their chancellors or superintendents and it's not standard. >> reporter: does she need a chauffeur? >> i don't think she needs a chauffeur. >> it appears the district is having trouble keeping track of who is using vehicles and when. some employees have received parking tickets while on duty and the district can't figure out who was driving when the tickets were issued. for example, d.c. public schools currently has 35 unpaid tickets which total just about $3,500 when it comes to fuel efficiency standards, district law says vehicles should get no less than 22 miles a gallon. the investigation revealed a majority does not meet that efficiency requirement. in fact, the department of public works reported only 11% of its vehicles met the 22-mile per gallon threshold. all right. so back to the beginning, what about the fully loaded suvs ordered for chairman brown? well, the office of attorney general is still trying to get the city out of those very expensive leases, but so far, brian, no deal has been reached. and a developing story at this hour, the mayor and seven council members are in custody, part of an act of civil disobedience protesting the congressional budget deal that has direct implications on d.c. fox 5's will thomas is live tonight in southwest outside a u.s. capital police facility. have they been released from jail? >> reporter: no, they haven't, a total of 41 arrested all charged with a $50 fine for an infraction called unlawful assembly, not really a big deal. we see peace activists go through this all the time, but it's turning out to be a long night for these citizens. they'll be removed from the southwest facility to headquarters on d street to be fingerprinted there. let me lay this out as it played out starting with the rally today on capitol hill at 5:00. dcvote.org pushing for d.c. voting rights pulled a permit with u.s. capital police, but there was an understanding there might be an act of civil disobedience and there was. the small group blocked this section of constitution avenue in front of the hart senate building, mayor vincent gray arrested along with council members muriel bowser, tommy wells, yvette alexander, kwame brown, michael brown and interim council member biddle. here is the mayor prior to his arrest and two council members as they were actually handcuffed. >> i am tired of being caught in a political game. last time i looked we paid our taxes just like anybody else does. $3.6billion in federal taxes. >> reporter: do you think this will send a loud message? >> it should send a message. our elected officials are trying to get the message and being arrested. it should send a loud message. >> i think it sent a message to the country that we're u.s. citizens. >> reporter: staff members at the mayor's said he still remains empowered despite income custody as long as he's in the district and able. if he was not able and not in the district, the next in command would be the city administrator. again 41 people arrested behind me in a southwest facility and will be moved to a downtown facility on capitol hill actually on d street. they'll be fingerprinted with something fancy called live scan. so this could be a very long night. >> we'll have the latest on www.myfoxdc.com overnight. the news edge on virginia now, concerned parents got some much needed answers this evening following the arrest of a teacher charged with sex crimes. the pta at john adams elementary in alexandria held a meeting to address concerns of justin coleman accused of receiving child porn online. today the feds stormed his 4th grade classroom looking for more evidence. they already retrieved a pair of girl's underwear found in his pockets when he was arrested, the news terrifying to parents. >> i was devastated. i really had a lot of respect for this man. >> reporter: never any ink ling? >> never. >> actually we liked him a lot. so i was really surprised and shocked because i had so many meetings with him going over report cards and things like that. i was really surprised. he didn't strike me as that type of person. a shootout in a maryland neighborhood today between an off-duty federal agent and a home invasion is. laura evans is everywhere at 11:00. >> it happened on peregrine court and n bowie this afternoon. the two men forced their way into this woman's house. the off-duty officer went to check it out and exchanged gunfire with a suspect as they ran off. no one was hurt. later police took in two men for questioning. two more sets of bones found on a long island beach today. the medical examiner will determine if they are human and if they are, that will bring the number of bodies found in that area since december to 10. police believe they have a serial killer on her hands. a 50-year-old woman facing animal cruelty charges after nearly 30 dead cats were found in her herndon home. fairfax county police say pamela wykle turned herself into police yesterday. two dogs chased the cats into the backyard. according to police wykle left the cats over the holidays and never returned. you probably heard of restaurant week, right? what about spa week? it's going on right now in d.c. find out where you can get pampered without spending a fortune coming up. and you'll need it after dealing with d.c. traffic, right? find out the spot you'll want to avoid this week thanks to the latest construction project. it's all right after the break. hang tight. >> this is fox 5 news edge at 11:00.  this week marks the anniversary of president abraham lincoln's assassination. starting today the cottage in northwest d.c. where lincoln spent time away from the white house during his presidency will display a special flag. it's one of the five flags hanging at ford's theater where lincoln was assassinated in 1864. tomorrow marks 150 years since the start of the civil war and history buffs can now get a look at never before seen photos from the era at the library of congress inside the thomas jefferson building. the exhibit features 400 rarely displayed portraits from the civil war era. >> if any of you for a moment think that the civil war is long gone and irrelevant to our life today, just bear in mind faulkner's comment where he writes the path is never dead. get ready for some rest and relaxation. it is d.c. spa week. shawn yancy has your fox 5 top five. >> broken, if you were having trouble multi-tasking, blame your age. no. 5, you research shows older people are slightly less able to multi-task than younger people. the reason? it's thought older people may not be able to refocus as well after being interrupted. no. 4, blueberries may help you lose weight. a researcher at texas women's university found the highest dose of polyphenol found in blueberry cut the number of fat cells in mice by 73%. the smallest dose cut fat cells by 27%. it still needs to be tested on humans, though. no. 3, united is the meanest airlines out there according to u.s. news and world report. united received the highest number of customer service complaints, but delta received the most overall complaints and american eagle got the most customer service complaints among regional airlines. no. 2, could snarl your commute for the rest of the week. tomorrow through friday at least one lane of westbound constitution avenue between 23rd and 20th will be closed. the closures are between 5 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for construction and also from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. over the weekend. and no. 1 tonight, you can relax after all the traffic and congestion drama at the d.c. spa. that's right. spas all across our region are offering services for $50. you can see the full list of participating salons and the services they're offering. go to www.myfoxdc.com and look under web links and that's tonight's fox 5 top five. hate driving an suv? these gas prices probably got you ready to ditch it, at least thinking about it, but are there deals to be had if you downgrade. we'll take a closer look next. but first he revolutionized the tech industry and now he's ready to tell his story, the first authorized biography of steve jobs coming out next year. the bioi, steve, the book of -- the bio, i, steve, the book of jobs will come out next february.  rising oil prices causing even more pain at the gus pump. in the district the average for a gallon of regular unleaded now 3.93. in maryland it's 3.76 and virginia 3.68. of course, many of us are already paying more than that, perhaps up to $4 a gallon. if you're finally ready to say good-bye to that suv, you're not alone. small cars are back at the top of many shoppers' lists. fox 5's money reporter melanie alnwick explains what that means for prices. >> reporter: filling up the gas tank is tough on the wallet right now. >> gas is about $4 a gallon. so it's getting high, getting really expensive. >> reporter: and it's not likely to get much better at the pump. that's why first time buyer fativa dialo is shopping for an economical call. >> looking for a honda, something call. >> reporter: american consumers can be a fickle but predictable bunch. when gas is cheap, suvs are popular. when fuel prices climb, they're looking for economical. >> we're pretty good of turning on a dime in terms of what do we need to carry, how can we liquidate what we need to and get the product people want. >> reporter: the national automobile dealers association says average prices on used cars were up between 4 and 6% in march, but some manufacturers like kia and hyundai were up more than 6%. it's demand driving that increase. new car dealers are seeing this shift back to small cars as well. >> it seems to be one of the prominent questions now, what's the fuel mileage as opposed to other questions that used to be asked. >> reporter: perfect timing for the launch of the fiat brand back into the united states. the first store in the country opened in gaithersburg last month. >> it's rated in the upper 30s for fuel mileage, although we've got some customers telling us they're getting in the hoe 40s. >> reporter: and for a lot of consumer -- low 40s. >> reporter: and are a lot of consumers are saying cute has become cool again. a close watch on what's happening with manufacturing and parts in japan. a supply impact could drive prices temporarily high we are those parts as well. toyota expects to feel the effects this summer. in a memo to its dealers the company said new vehicles could be in short supply this summer because of a production slowdown in japan and perhaps north america. >> we got the rain coming back in. >> yeah. going to wipe the pollen out of the air and change things up a little bit. every day is different in april. >> i just exchanged e-mails with somebody down in new orleans and he said he was suffering from upon, too. >> we're lucky to get this rain -- pollen, too. >> we're lucky to get this rain. we're in the height of the season and tomorrow we wash it out of the air with showers develoround the morning rush hour. some of you may not see them until after the morning rush hour is underway, but when they start, they'll linger a little while and we'll be doing some good pollen washing into wednesday. first stop tonight i want you to see true view. we do have this line of showers, not much around d.c., a little stuff passing by earlier today. an area of low pressure here is developing on front and will slow things down a bit. i don't think anyone is complaining because we got such a beautiful day out of it, such a lovely evening with temperatures still in the 70s. this will eventually shift in our direction. we should see it around the morning rush hour. over to our temperatures today, we had our own little sliver of summer in the east, 84 for d.c. and raleigh, 80 rochester, boston cooler near water, but you don't have to go too far to find temperatures much closer to normal in the 60s as our frontal system has moved through that region. we heard about all the severe weather, a terrible outbreak over the weekend and it is that contrast in temperatures that provides it. still 93, new orleans 85 degrees, but most of the rest of the country in the 60s, slightly below average at the moment. here's your temperature trend. average for us is 65 degrees. tomorrow it's about 66 degrees. we'll likely hit ha in the earlier part of the day and -- that in the earlier part of the day and as our showers continue, temperatures will drop. thursday and friday as the sunshine comes back our temperatures should get up to about 70 degrees, nice and mild, a couple real beautiful days this to look forward to at the end of the week. meanwhile we're still comfortable at 74 degrees now in d.c., gaithersburg 72, annapolis 77, 78 fredericksburg and 68 in hagerstown, but our sign says it all, wet and cooler for our tuesday and we'll take that forecast into wednesday as well. showers will develop closer to daybreak from west to east, 65 degrees for us during the day tomorrow, a little bit of a breeze today, a warm breeze. tomorrow's breeze will shift eventually and come out of the east, northeast and bring in its own cooler air. so we'll say showers, a slight risk of a thunderstorm, but it's not looking as likely. we just aren't finding the instability around during the day tomorrow so, mostly showers and on the cool side but not so much in the morning. the temperature will be about 66 degrees at 9 a.m. and we drop a bit for the noon hour with the showers and more so by 4:00 at 62 degrees. so here's what's going to be happening. our area of low pressure will be a slow mover cut off from the jet stream. we'll keep the showers around and the cool temperatures. this will go even into wednesday. it might be as late as 2:00 we're still dodging a couple lighter showers on wednesday. max hd futurecast shows you those will be in here for our morning rush hour and continue during the day tomorrow. we'll keep it going even into the evening hours tuesday night into wednesday. your five-day forecast we extend the showers at least the first half of witness now, thursday and friday night another round of rain late friday and saturday. last home game for the wizards tonight, did the fans leave happy? we'll find out when dave feldman joins us with sports. we'll be right back. as good evening. i'm dave feldman. the boston celtics came to town tonight only they weren't the whole celtics, the starters resting for the playoffs. the wizards had no playoffs so this is it. 2nd quarter the wizards up three, javale mcgee with a great mock, gets it back. this guy is 7 feet -- play, gets it back. this guy is 7 feet. they trail by seven at the break. let's fast forward to the 4th quarter, wiz down two, under 10 seconds to play. jordan crawford, an immediate jumper, ties it at 84. we're going into overtime. knotted at 92, less than 45 seconds to go, crawford again from three! he puts the wiz up three. he had 17. last chance for the celtics, down only one, carlos a roy ya with a pretty good look but it -- arroyo with a pretty good look but it doesn't go. wiz with an exciting finale, 95- 94. >> i think the lesson more than anything else is here are guys down six with 40 seconds to go and we found a way to get it in overtime and win it in overtime. you hope these young guys that go through that can realize that and next year when you're in that situation and making a playoff run, it's huge and really is even more meaningful when they have the ability to make those plays. >> good sign for the future. wizards finish their season wednesday in cleveland. hockey. today the caps sign mike knuble to a one-year extension. he's 38 and bruce boudreau says he's like a fine wine getting better. the caps are going 16-3-1 in their last 20. they open up the playoffs at home against the rangers. february 25th the rangers shut out the caps coming to town, 6- 0. the blue strips dominated regular season winning three of four games and outscoring washington 17-6. the playoffs wipe the senate clean, but the caps know who they're playing. >> there's no hiding from the fact they beat us a couple times pretty good this year. we have to stand here and talk about it, but we're looking forward to the chance come wednesday and moving forward wednesday and getting our playoff run going. >> it doesn't matter who we play team is competitive and has a chance to win in the playoffs. they're a hard working team with a lot of talent end and a phenomenal goaltender. it's going to be a tough test. >> that february 25th game was the last game mike green played after suffering a concussion and hasn't played since. today coach boudreau told reporters green will be ready for game one and green is ready, too. >> i feel great, so what a better time to come back for the playoffs. so i'm extremely excited. >> they gave us the puck and he's got some good patience and seem says like he never panicked with the puck. so it's good to have him back and hopefully it's going to be ready for what's in it. baseball, nationals third baseman ryan zimmerman expected to be placed on a 15 day disabled list with a strained abdominal muscle. he reaggravated the muscle sliding head first into second base gets the mets on saturday. in today's wnba draft the mystics selected victoria dunlap out of kentucky the 11th pick and dubbed lindsey harding to the atlanta dream acquiring today's eighth pick. i'm dave feldman. brian is back with more of the edge. have a good night. 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enthusiastically handy, eager to help his neighbors with any chore, fascinated by all things electric, knew the dangers of power lines and yet perhaps was too comfortable working around them. neighbors, friends and relatives gathered on barrage street in fairfax city near the tree and power line where 17-year-old gregory malsom was electrocuted 24 hours earlier, investigators telling us the teen was trimming a neighbor's tree when a limb touched a 19,000 volt power line. >> gregory was what everyone here said he was. he was just a jewel. he was honest, he was hardworking, he was just -- he had such integrity and just a joy for life. >> reporter: in the crowd of more than 100, malsom's parents, rebecca and ronald, younger brothers, kindall and jackson. gregory described as an old soul with tarza hair, a budding electrician and handyman. >> when anybody asked for anything, he was very nice. [sobbing] . >> reporter: the teen's death is still under investigation but only under virginia line, only trained professional linemen are allowed to work within 10 feet of a high voltage power line. >> we're experts at what we do. we have insulated bucket trucks that handle all this work. we do it on a daily basis. >> reporter: one tree service told us they won't go near a tree unless it's at least 15 feet from a power line. >> these types of situations happen all the time, and this is a very dangerous business, and safety is number 1. >> reporter: in his middle school year book, grerg was described as someone who loved exploring with electricity and spends his free time learning how to be a lineman. >> i don't know, he was always doing something like this every day, so i don't know now. >> reporter: the sudden loss of a life so young still hard to accept. >> i had a bad day at my job, coming home, seeing him, he'd wave to me, he'd put a smile to my face, so i'm going to miss that guy. >> reporter: gregory malsom was about to begin his senior year at fairfax high school, brian. >> bob barnard tonight. another vigil this evening, this one at sherman circle northwest in honor of neal gadlesski. he was shot to death while riding his bike home from work. friends and total strangers joined together to pray for safer streets. the crime is hitting home with people who often ride through that circle. investigators are trying to find out whether he was robbed. his funeral is tomorrow morning. investigators are trying to track down whoever torched a bunch of cars and scooters in northwest this morning and why. with no link between the victims, not much rhyme or reason on this thing. fox5's paul wagner has the edge on this crime. >> reporter: they're all incinerated together while chained to a tree on the southbound side of 16th street. although though accelerant was detected, investigators are certain they were deliberately torched. minutes later in the same block, firefighters were called back to the scene to extinguish several car fires. d.c. police say one car was deliberately torched on the northbound side and one on the southbound side. the other two cars were collateral damage. john powell spoke with the owner of one of the torched vehicles, a howard university student. >> say to move our car before 7:00 and found out they'd been burned. at that point, she was amazed and upset to say the least, she had just bought the car. >> reporter: a canine assigned to the car alerted an accelerant on the southbound side of the street. investigators believe that the car belonging to the howard student was deliberately set as well. >> i want to find out who did it quickly to put them behind bars as soon as possible. >> reporter: d.c. police say there were no witnesses and none of the owners of the vehicles knew each other. paul wagner, fox5 news. >> 16th street was shut down for a good part of the morning rush, affecting traffic in surrounding neighborhoods. a hero tonight, an suv had flipped over, flames coming from the engine, and an 18-year-old teenager helped out. >> i started looking around noticing no one else was sitting here watching it from a distance, like wait a second, someone had to drive this thing and i heard this pounding from the inside. >> that's when the 18-year-old ran to the burning suv, threw open the door and rescued the driver just in time. after he rescued the driver, there were several explosions. the driver is still hospitalized but expected to be okay. as for the young hero, he didn't have to think about helping. it was instinct. now for the first time, a drone has broke the no fly zone. an unmanned helicopter similar to this one wandered into the restricted air space on august 2. operators apparently lost communications with it. the drone came within 40 miles of the city before they were able to turn it around and get it back to its space in southern maryland. the navy blames a software issue. a baltimore police officer has been fired three years after he was caught on video berating a teenager. shawn yancy is everywhere at 11:00. >> reporter: you can see the officer scolding a 14-year-old skateboarder, putting him in a headlock and pushing him to the ground for calling the officer "dude." last month, the trial board recommended several days of suspension, but he was fired today after meeting with the police commissioner. police are searching for a bank rosher in queen ann's county. the man went into the bank yesterday in chester, gave the teller a note demanding money and took off with the cash. former president jimmy carter is in north korea tonight on a mission to bring home an american citizen jailed for months. the man was sentenced to eight years of hard labor for entering the country illegally. it's a private humanitarian visit but also a chance for unofficial diplomacy between the us and north korea. brian. >> one primary race is not over and it could shape the political landscape. up next, we could break down the wins and losses and what it could mean for the mid-terms. plus google is taking on skiep while helping you pull the plug to your land line. the new program unveiling coming up. first a quick check at the rundown. the news edge will be right back.  >> the primary results are too close to call in one senate primary. a tea party favorite backed by sarah palin is locked in a count. more on the races from last night's primary election. >> reporter: miller is a gulf war veteran who painted morcowski as being too liberal and part of the problem in an out of control washington establishment. morcowski proudly promoted her service over the last eight years. >> his was really a sort of renna gade rag-tag army. it was the continental army versus the british. >> reporter: it was a test of the political power of sarah palin and the tea party movement. in florida, a major upset as political outsider and business man rick scott beat attorney general bill mccullum in the primary for governor. he had the backing of former governor jeb bush. that group released a statement urging the party to come together and focus on november. jeff green beat the outsider and the democrat will face off against gop nominee and tea party favorite marko rubio, along with former republican turned independent charlie crist. tea party saturday didn't help hayworth in arizona, and tea party support high across the country didn't hurt mccain. he had no problem securing the seat. he spent more than $20 million on the campaign. in washington, kelly wright, fox news. tales of two spies next on the news edge, one murdered in his own apartment, found in a bag. the other managed to pull off an historic security breach of pentagon networks. more coming up. mcnabb having fun with the haynesworth soap opera. coming up in the news edge.  >> a spy with a flash drive managed to pull off the most serious breach of pentagon computer networks effort. newly released classified documents say the spy put the flash drive into a classified military laptop. it spread stolen information. pentagon will not say what country it was from and what files were stolen. it happened in the middle east in 2008. the search for a british spy turned into a murder investigation. detects found the man in his apartment in a bag. he lives away from headquarters in london. investigators believe that he could have been killed up to two weeks ago. so far, they don't think his murder is related to his job. to the economy, two days, two reports slamming the housing market, plus google wants you to pull the plug on your land line. shawn yancy is back with your fox5 top 5. we're starting off tonight brian with what may sound like a broken record. more bad news for the housing market except for the d.c. region. number 5, sales dropped more than 12% last month, the slowest pace on record. sales of existing homes dropped to their lowest level since 1968. d.c. had the fourth strongest gain among the top 20 markets. number 4, the economy may be still in a slump but more than americans are getting better about paying their debts. more americans owe less on their credit cards right now than at any time in the past eight years. number 3, may help you pull the plug on your land line phone. google unveiled a phone that allows gmail user to make phones from computers to anywhere in the world. calls from canada and the us will be free until the end of the year. number 2, more and more people will travel and take trips over labor day weekend this year than last year. triple a expects more than 33 million people to travel more than 50 miles away from home. the travel agency also predicts most people will travel by car. number 1 tonight is a traffic alert in montgomery county maryland. two new speed cameras are up in silver spring, up in new hampshire avenue near white oak middle school. they're part of an effort to keep kids safe as they head back to school on monday. brian, that's tonight's top 5. thank you, shawn. i have a friend up in boston who they're starting to get concerned about this hurricane in the atlantic, that it may hit the northeast. >> i think danielle does have to be watched . that's got to be the one they're worried about. it's going to be close to new finland, but ultimately, i think it's going to be a miss for them. bermuda has to watch, there will be big waves and the east coast will get a lot of the surf from that starting friday night from north florida, to the carolinas and into the weekend. i do think they need to watch it, and we won't know for another day or two, brian, but we're keeping our fingers crossed that it's not going to be a threat to any land mass other than a close call from bermuda. beautiful picture as we look live at the capitol, giving you an idea of what we're expecting temperature-wise the next few days. tomorrow warmer than average, up to 86 degrees. so a little bit warmer than today, but friday, we split the difference and knock the temperature back down a little bit. what's going to change it, we have a weak front coming through tomorrow and will make friday an absolutely beautiful end of the work week. warming up sunday as well, 90 degrees. nice night tonight for sure. a lot of places already dropping into the 60s. i don't think it will be quite as cool as last night was, but it will be comfortable and you can probably get rid of the air conditioning. perhaps you have to click it on again for the weekend. here's what the weekend is looking light. saturday and sunday warmer, both days humid but dry at this point. here's what's happening tomorrow, high pressure is moving in and building on top of us friday and saturday. into the weekend, that same area of high pressure will build a little bit more heat as it tries to get off the coast and begin the process of bringing more of the return flow around it. tonight we have a couple showers sinking down to the south. we have a couple clouds tonight, tomorrow morning back to sunshine, a little bit of shower activity in western pennsylvania should not be able to make it cross the mountains but perhaps a few clouds will. lingering clouds tonight, most places will be in the 60s, the district around 68 degrees, lots of sunshine tomorrow, a little bit warmer, 86 degrees and that's what we're mostly highlighting as our frontal system tries to swing on through, dry i might add. we could be as high as 82 by the noon hour and 4:00 should be 86 degrees. here's the high pressure building in right after the weak front slips on through and that's going to bring us a decent day tomorrow and cooler for friday but plenty of sunshine so a real spectacular end of the workweek. 5-day forecast, 86 as you saw, 82 for friday, saturday, sunday and monday, slow warming without the humidity for a change, and enjoy your last august weekend. we've got another preseason game coming up too, but feldy says donovan mcnabb is not going to be taking part in that. we'll hear more about that when we return. ksgo t >> good evening. donovan mcnabb and his bad ankle may be able to play a week from tomorrow when the redskins visit the arizona cardinals in the preseason finale, but head coach mike shanahan is not so optimistic. he says the chances are slim. mcnabb has been ruled out of friday's game against the jets. mcnabb watched practice again today as he has all week. he says the ankle feels better than it did when he came out of saturday's game against baltimore and still preparing as if he was a starter on friday against the jets, which he is not. he also did kidding around with mike sellers, a fellow injured skin. you can see them doing their air quotes while stretching, as you remember, a frustrated albert haynesworth used those same air quotes on saturday. >> had headaches or whatever, and so that's why i couldn't go out and practice. i mean, i think it was a little bit more than that. >> they told me it was just a sprain. you know, it's a gradual process, it's a gradual process, rehabbing, getting the swelling out, things of that nature, so i want to make sure i do the right things to get myself healthy. >> all right. now, to the backup quarterback, something that's very, very important. rex grossman will get to start on friday against the jets in place of mcnabb. he came over in the offseason from the texans and was the bears' starting qb when they went to the super bowl in the '06 season. he's happy to get the chance to lead the first teamers. >> i'm excited about it, especially to start, whether regular season or preseason. you want to put your best foot forward and go out and play your best so people know you can step in and do the job. >> do the job. the washington mystics begin their quest for the wnba at the verizon center. in their way of the championship, the atlanta dream, a team they beat four times in this season. mystics on a six-game winning streak before the game. lindsey harding nails the 3 to give the mystics the 1-point lead. but the dream would end with a 29-5 run at the break. coleman nails a jumper at the buzzer and finishes with a game high 18. mystics down just 4, but markez gets the runner to fall for the dream. the mystics upset in the opener, 95-90. the coach, far from discouraged. >> as disappointing as it was, we've always been a team that fought back. i'm not discouraged, our team's not discouraged. we're confident we can go in to atlanta and beat this team. we've done it the last two times, and so we're looking forward to friday night. nationals looking it avoid the sweep against the cubs. jason marquis was doing his best to make that happen. marquis goes 7 and a 3rd, giving up four hits and one run but they would not. a bomb to put the cubs up 3-0 and the nats fall 4-0. nats outfielder niger morgan has been suspended seven games for hitting a fan with a fall thrown into the sanz. he was in the suspension and was in the lineup tonight. i'm dave feldman. brian's back with more of the edge. >> a north carolina couple is living the high life, so to speak. they're the owners of the country's very first home built out of hemp-based concrete. it looks like any other, despite being built with the unusual material. >> i think this is really the

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more of this. >> reporter: ray locker of the investigative project on terrorism says maybe a lot more. >> it has so many things that law enforcement is paying attention to that perhaps a bigger attack will slip through. if they're worried about domestic terrorism then somebody from the outside can do something that's even worse. >> reporter: one reason why they prepare for home-grown terror attacks even as they try not to lose sight of the threat from abroad. and in the immediate future, look for increasing levels of scrutiny as we approach a terror milestone in the days ahead. the 9th anniversary of 9/11 is just three weeks from tomorrow. derek. to protect and serve. that is the usual police officer motto. but tonight one local cop stands indicted accused of assaulting a teenager. armando trull joins us live where it all went down. >> reporter: derek, it happened here in this abandoned school building. and what happened is there were a group of teenagers, about ten of them, writing graffiti on the wall when police arrived. all of them scattered. a 16-year-old suspect ran over here into the wooded area. he basically went to an apartment complex that's right behind the trees. he was followed by the police officer and then a scuffle ensued. and in the end, that teenage suspect was on his way to the hospital. the officer on his way to facing potentially career ending accusations. montgomery county police officer george sotos was indicted for assault for a 16-year-old boy he arrested in march for tagging a school with graffiti. >> he had a laceration to his head and fire rescue was dispatched. he was taken for treatment of that wound. >> reporter: police believe sotos hit the fleeing teenager with his steel baton. >> officers are used to train it in a protective defensive mode typically used at a 45-degree angle striking at major muscle groups. >> is the head considered a major muscle group? >> it is not. >> reporter: the man was charged with failure to obey a police officer and possession of marijuana. however, he had no weapons on him nor was he charged with resisting arrests. >> there were inconsistencies on how the injury occurred. >> reporter: in 2004, the officer arrested a 24-year-old woman for talking loudly on her cell phone outside the wheaton metro. the incident made news because the woman was five months pregnant at the time when she was manhandled, forced to her knees and handcuffed by sotos. and this is some of the graffiti in question in that building. now, we did give officer sotos an opportunity to speak to us. he declined. we left him some messages but it's understandable. an indictment does not mean guilty. all it means is the jury found enough evidence that the issue should go to court. and even if the officer is exonerated in court, there is a second procedure and that is a montgomery county investigation. so still an uphill battle. reporting live, armando trull, back to you. an update now on the accused serial killer wanted for three attacks in leesburg. elias abuelazam is expected to return to michigan last week. police have been holding him after an arrest on august 11th. he stabbed 18 people in three states, killing five of the victims in michigan. authorities are now trying to arrange security for abuelazam and the officers who will escort him back. a nationwide egg recall has now grown from grade a large to extra large. more than a half billion eggs is what we're talking about. a farm in iowa is recalling 170 million after tests confirmed indications of salmonella. add that to the 380 million eggs already recalled by another iowa producer. now, these eggs were sold under 20 different brand names. tainted eggs are being blamed for making a thousand people sick. but the actual number might be much higher since most cases of salmonella don't get reported. >> sometimes people just think they caught a 24-hour bug and don't necessarily equate it with a food-born illness. >> it can be much more serious and even deadly, especially for young children, the elderly, people with compromised immune systems. but at this point, no deaths have been blamed on this outbreak. new details surrounding a violent crash that left traffic at a stand still. looking live at the bridge right now, things are pretty much back to normal and moving very smoothly, but that surely wasn't the case a few hours ago. sky9 was out and over the scene when a semi truck and car collided in the westbound lanes. and as you can see, that wreck pretty much crumpled the red car like paper. rescuers had to pull a 22-year-old out of the car. they flew him to the hospital. the man suffered serious injuries, but he is expected to recover. and this just in. haitis election board says can cannot run for the president. a major sticking point appears to involve his residency. he left haiti with his family at age nine and his primary home is in new jersey. he announced plans to run after the crippling earthquake back in january. the man accused of killing chandra levi went before a court today. he faces trial october 4th and today they reveal they might have to question as many as 170 people in order to seat a jury. and we learned the prosecution witnesses will include two women joggers. he admitted to assaulting the two back in 2001. that is where when levi was killed. controversial floyd starnes has apologized for using what he calls terms of en deerment with staff and students. those terms such as sweetie, honey, are part of a pattern of alleged sexual harassment according to a group of ten male and female teachers that have filed complaints. in a letter sent out to the community, starnes promised to stop but denies he meant any harm. school officials say other allegations against him are either untrue or misrepresentation of facts. starnes will remain as principal of the school. a woman brought her eye seeing dog and she was told to leave. security told her dogs wasn't allowed. but the dog alerts her to sound. now mall management is apologizing. >> i don't want this to happen to anyone else ever again. >> we've reviewed the americans with disability act with not just security but the entire mall team. and we've also taken steps to make sure that this is addressed with our security company across our entire portfolio shopping centers. >> well, you may remember that this same mall a couple of months ago caused controversy when guards asked a nursing mother to cover up. maryland law a laws mother to breastfeed in public. students at james madison university are questioning how the school's emergency system was used this week. 19,000 of them received a text message wednesday outlining changes to the school's alcohol policy. that policy changed after this off campus party turned into a riot between students and police last spring. the text message told students to check their campus e-mail accounts for details of the new rule. while some students say they signed up for the text messages to get notifications of emergencies and getting messages like this will just make them a little less likely to pay attention next time. folks at dc central kitchen take on conserve tiv megastar rush limbaugh. you're not going to believe how this ends. plus. >> did it feel real? i was standing there daydreaming and the water. >> a 10-year-old will have quite a story to tell from his summer break. more on his close encounter with a shark coming up. top. >> well, a very nice evening. the question is can we par lay this into a nice morning? here is your wakeup weather. lots of sunshine to start. no doubt about that. temperatures in the 70s. winds southeasterly at about ten. we'll come back. we'll talk about the forecast for the redskins game. and if thunderstorms will creep in before the weekend is out. stay tuned. kç1 tonight a local dad who died in that plane crash which also killed former senator ted stevens was laid to rest. dozens packed a church to say good buy to bill phillips. phillips was a well known lobbyist in this town. his son was one of the five that survived the crash. friends and family also said goodbye to 15-year-old derek meffert. his family held a wake for him today. the funeral will be tomorrow. derek died in a car accident last week. the car's driver was also killed. a teenage girl in the back seat survived. speed and alcohol were factors in that crash. dc central kitchen president robert egger was offended when rush limbaugh call people that work at non-profits lazy idiots and economic rapists. the highest rated talk show we'll show you how it all played out. >> reporter: for dc central kitchen it is right back at you, rush. >> so when upstart talking about lazy idiots, rush, and you start talking about raping the economy, you better get your facts straight. >> reporter: the non-profit president tries to figure out who limbaugh was talking about on his radio show. >> a bunch of lazy idiots. none of them really don't want to work. non-profits. contributions as their salaries and so forth and think of themselves as good people. >> rush, this is a national law enforcement officer. the people who got together with money to build a memorial here for officers whose lives were claimed in the line of duty. is that who you were talking about? are those the idiots of the future. the kid you were talking about here you are right on the cover of their website raising money for them. >> reporter: to suggest limbaugh's brain had disengaged from their mouths. >> these people are rapist in terms of fitness and economy. >> reporter: limbaugh never mentioned any specific charities, but the people here are offended anyway. >> we buy food for the homeless. we're not lazy. we're sure enough not ignorant. i don't know what made him say stuff like thafrjts i think it's awful because we put all of this effort down here. >> reporter: tens of thousands have view ed egger's. >> we have one word for you. >> which we cannot show you. full disclosure here. wusa9.com corporate gave $5,000 this year to the dc central kitchen. and egger says the youtube rush response has already brought in more than a thousand extra dollars of donations unsolicited. police have caught the folks who labeled themselves as the modern day bonnie and clyde. >> the night mare that started on july 30th is finally over. >> they arrested the pair. they found the couple at an arizona campsite last night after a park ranger spotted the suspect's car. when swat teams moved in, welch drew a gun but then dropped it. the woman was lying on a sleeping bag outside and tried to run for a tent. >> he made a statement if he had gotten back to the tent there was a gun there and that he would have killed the officers involved. >> he escaped from prison last month with who other inmates. officials say welch helped from the outside by throwing a pair of wire cutters to the men over a security fence. all three back in custody. a california man is behind bars for calling 911 more than two-dozen times. >> hello. >> yes, this is the sheriffs station. >> the reason why was the 411 system would not give me the information that i required. >> okay. well, police say he called the dispatchers a total of 28 time. sometimes playing music on the phone. his girlfriend says he suffers from bipolar disorder and just forgot to take his medication. she says for some reason he wanted to get the phone numbers of rap stars jay-z and snoop bog but when 411 didn't give them out he went to 911 instead. no word if he will face any charges. and caught on tape in wisconsin, a mother using her child to help in a brazing shoplifting spree. check this out. security cameras caught the woman stuffing items right into her purse. she later serves as a lookout as her son tries to break into a display case. well, he does end up getting a wallet out of there. but altogether police say they walked out of the store with more than 500 bucks worth of stuff. >> i find it absolutely disgusting that a parent would teach their kids to do this. they should be setting an example for those kids. not teaching them how to get into prison. >> well, police did eventually catch up with the mom. she now faces charges. the boy is being held in the juvenile facility. a 10-year-old in florida has a whale of a tail. rather a shark tail to talk about. while boogie boarding a shark came up and bit the boy on the foot. the youngster was in shallow water when the attack happened and he says he didn't even see a finn before the shark bit down on his foot. emergency crews quickly rushed the boy to the hospital for treatment. >> i told everyone i screamed for my life. oh. a shark. shark. i thought the shark would go this way for more of a meal. [ laughing ] >> okay. we can laugh because this kid is going to be okay. doctors were able to give the boy a souvenir in the piece of a shark tooth. >> all our voices get that high when sharks bite. now, our what the heck is going on, the moon is shrinking. they base this on finding the stretch marks on the surface. they call this low bait stashingz. >> we know the moon is shrinking by looking at the marks in detail. they actually reflect the crust materials of the moon being pushed together breaking and being thrust over one another. >> i know some folks getting surgery for their scars. researchers estimate that the moon has shrunk 600 feet in diameter over the past billion years, and that is a diet that is not working well. [ laughing ]. >> they suggest the moon's core is still an active molten center. not long dead as many scientists have assumed. >> don't you hate when those scars won't go away? >> you put cream on them. >> nothing happens. >> that's an important research. [ laughing ]. >> it's friday night. you have to stick with us. >> that is important. >> you need to know that. here is the weekend forecast. you need to know that. and for the most part it's pretty good. we have changed just a couple of things mainly for the better. here is your forecast first now. the next three days right out of the gate. temperatures tomorrow will flirt with 90. temperatures will be very warm during the redskins game. 89 for a high. 86 on sunday. we beef up the chance for a thunderstorm on sunday afternoon and evening. we lower the temperatures 86 on sunday and 86 also on monday. so we're looking at temperatures going down. it's a good thing. let's break down tomorrow. 7:00, sunshine. 74. mid 80s by lunch time and, again, near 90 by evening. but we've taken showers and thunderstorms and held them off until sunday. overnight clear to partly cloudy and mild. low temperatures mid to upper 60s in the suburbs and low to mid 70s downtown. pretty nice night and winds easterly at about 5-10. now saturday morning mostly sunny. very warm. 70s and 80s. winds turn a bit southeasterly at ten. air quality code yellow. that is moderate air quality which is actually pretty good. it's not as good as it gets in summer. by afternoon partly cloudy. almost hot. high temps near 90 and winds out of the south at ten. really tomorrow will not be that humid. redskins forecast, partly cloudy and very warm. stay hydrated. 83-88. those are the game time temps. so the kickoff at 88 and the game is over about 82 or 83. it's going to be very, very warm throughout the game. zone forecast all six zones are still on our website. 79 in oakland tomorrow but 85 in cumberland. mid 80s for hagerstown. martinsburg and winchester and it will be dry. 90 in culpeper but 89 in warrenton upper 80s in manassas. 89 as you head down towards andrews in charles county. no advisories for the bay or tidal potomac because there is no winds tomorrow. temperatures 85-90. waves generally around a foot and winds out of the southeast at ten. now, on sunday boaters do need to be aware of the potential for a few thunderstorms. 84-88. waves more like two feet as the winds increase a little bit south, southeast at 10-15. the beach a great weekend really. both days in the low to mid 80s. sunshine. winds off the water out of the southeast at ten. by sunday a few storms possible but, again, not until pretty much you're done going to the beach late in the day or in the evening. next seven days, 89 tomorrow. 86 on sunday. again, some storms. 86 on monday. a few leftover showers. some showers on tuesday but temps are going down. we're talking low 80s on tuesday. upper 80s on wednesday. maybe a shower next thursday. and then next friday looks very nice with temperatures in the mid 80s. and low humidity. okay. >> nice. >> very nice. >> very nice. a good weekend. the nationals struggling again. >> they actually hit the ball. >> not an easy feet to crank out ten hits and not score a run. but, gosh darn it, they manage it. plus one redskins player says albert haynesworth tanked the conditioning test on purpose. find out who. 9 sports next. ♪ [ female announcer ] why choose between delicious or 100 calories? ♪ with yoplait delights, now you can finally have both. ♪ it's the perfect parfait, with two indulgently rich layers of chocolate and raspberry yogurt and only 100 calories. yoplait delights. get rid of the "or." with my citi thankyou points when it happened... 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[ male announcer ] use your citi thankyou points for almost anything, even local charities. what's your story? citi can help you write it. it's time for 9 sports with brett haber, the best sports in town. >> you know, the best teams in baseball struggle against roy halladay, and no disrespect to the nationals but they're not one of the best teams in baseball. so you figure the boys wouldn't get more than a sniff or two against the philly's tonight. the big sniff came in the first inning. they loaded the bases with one out and of course they come up and hits into the 4-6-3 inning ender. phillies had four hits but it was enough. 1-0 phillies which is how it stayed until the 9th. nats with a tieing run on second but they whip adam dunn. nats get ten hits and don't score. that's hard to do. strasburg goes tomorrow. at the phone booth tonight, playoff bound mystics hosting the new york liberty. mystics down one. ten seconds to play in lindsey harding drives and hits that. and that is the game winner. 75-74. 6th win. now tied with new york for first place in the east. a few weeks back we jokingly suggested that the reason-albert hanz albert haynesworth kept flunking the test but the teammates believed the same thing. d'angelo hall said haynesworth purposely sandbagged the test to avoid the days in the heat. haynesworth made a public appearance today and his comments about training camp didn't do much to dispel d'angelo's theory. >> training camp always sucks but it's the end of it and the end of training camp and it doesn't make you feel good. i have to tell everybody else that i still have fans out there and not everybody hates me. >> how would he know if training camp sucks? he was barely there. and the luncheon was good. haynesworth has been under the weather this week. a stern test for donovan mcnabb. third in the nfl. >> baltimore is a team that is the defense has been playing together for a while. and they're effective and obviously a team that people are watching. >> this defense is always seems like a top two, top three defense every year. and i'm excited to see where we're at. >> football tonight. eagles and bengals. tarn owens facing his former employer and he proved that he has a little something left in the tank. how about 43 yards from palmer down to the 6th. the eagles won 28-9. and high school football starts in a couple weeks. we're looking for students to shoot video at their schools. you can apply for the program at wusa9.com. finally, we've seen baseball players lose the ball in the sun. but have you ever seen one lose the ball in his shirt? watch second baseman shawn rodriguez? where is the ball? it goes in his shirt. when they were all pullovers in the 70s, we didn't have that problem. >> we'll be right back. good night, everyone. have a great weekend. kç18?ñ÷pg

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much more in a second fromview see. thank you for being here. i'm gurvir phindsa. >> and i'm steve chenevey. you can feel it cooler out there this morning. >> reporter: can't complain about that. the humidity is improving, and it's going to be a beautiful day. back in the low 80s. >> sounds good. for the first time in weeks, the coolest temperatures in weeks around here. more coming up. all right, looking at the numbers and temperatures. wbi marshall, now 71 degrees. remember yesterday we were still in the 80s. nice improvement over the conditions we have had over here recently. satellite radar, a few showers popping overnight. activity and the clouds with it to sea. there will be a few clouds as we wake up and get out the door. then the sun will win out. highs should be in the low 80s. comfortable around here for a change. saving money on the air- conditioning. noticeably cooler than yesterday. 10 degrees cooler than yesterday, and 15 to 20 than the day before. winds out of the north and west at 5 to 10 miles an hour. more details on the 4th of july weekend in a minute. >> sounds good. the humidity factor is huge here. thank you, todd. >> yep. what is happening on 395 from julie wright. >> reporter: not a lot has changed and i don't anticipate it will. it's a big cleanup to take part. it's a jackknifed tractor trailer. it was just over the overpass. they have to straighten it out but now clean up the debris and the fuel spilled on the highway. 395 now shut down. you can exit at excel and ride it back to north of the accident scene. also to help facilitate the issue, the hov restrictions have been lifted according to vdod but you have limited access to the hov lanes and limited access to them. you can't get back out until you reach the pentagon. that could reach your commute as well. duke street, you can use it as a work around. until further notice, 3895 remaining closed now. this is a live shot of the traffic from the capital beltway,way, and it's trying to close working your way up to duke street. hov lanes again lifted but again lifted access to and from the hov lanes. no problems to report around town. 95, 295 quiet out of laurel. that's a check of your fox 5, on time traffic. a verdict in the three men accused of covering up the murder of robert juan, and an acquittal of all three. stacey. >> reporter: that's true, all three men accused of killing up for the real killer of robert juan has been found not guilty of covering up charges. the three men continued their refusal to speak publicly even after the verdict. the judge said she did not believe their story about an unknown intruder committing the murder but the judge said she has to rule on the evidence rather than the intuition and said the prosecution simply had not proven their case. >> i think the court's verdict reflects just a lot of time that the judge spent over the evidence, over the testimony, and although whenever you have a homicide, anyone's contact must be regarded as suspicious, it never reached proof beyond a reasonable doubt. >> robert juan was found stabbed to death in the the dupont home of those three men. his wife still has a wrongful death lawsuit pending. in the meantime, the attorney for joe price will join us later this morning to talk about the verdict later in the 8:00 hour. the other big story we are following this morning, president obama declare and emergency in texas as hurricane alex approaches the mexico- texas border. it could make land fall some time tonight. the category one storm is expected to fall away from the bp oil zone. details are being worked out but the state department says 12 countries and the international organizations helps with the gulf spill. japan providing skimmer, and canada with a containment boom. the vice president visited the area and said there's a plan to reopen the fishing waters close in the wake of the bp spill. supreme court nominee elena kagan will be back in the hot seat today. senator sessions grilled her about the ban on military recruiters. at harvard while -- recruiters at harvard while she was there. she said she wanted to make sure they complied their policies. >> i know you're an outspoken leader against the military policy. i know you acted without legal authority to reverse harvard's policy and deny those military equal access to the campus. >> barring any unexpected gafts, elena kagan is expected to win the senate approval. general petraeus will be taking over jen stanley mcchrystal. yesterday on the hill, petraeus testified it will be years before the afghan forces it fullly take over. bill clinton may have ruffled a few feathers at the white house. a move by mr. clinton that will likely not make mr. obama very happy. of dealing with more than just mail. we are back after this. it's 5:07.  this morning a candidate in the colorado democratic senate primaries is getting a big endorsement. bill clinton throwing his support behind andrew romanoff. that puts him at odds with president obama who strongly backs michael bennett. he advice the him during his presidential campaign. he said colorado is better place pause of romanoff's leadership. fellow mail carriers thought kevin coat mace be buying and selling their cottics -- narcotics on the job. police followed him and he stopped at the house of another postal worker and he left with their cottics -- with narcotic and pain pills. >> it has been weeks science anyone has seen kyron on june 4 june 4th and now his father is divorcing his step mom who was the last person to see him when she dropped him off at school. guys, after weeks of heat and humidity. we are getting a break. all the step tails on -- all the details on your forecast. not so good, the traffic. a like look at 395. julie wright with all the details on your traffic coming up right after the break. what's all this? big news! we have another way to help you save. oh, really? how? by bundling. if you get your homeowners and auto insurance 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[ chuckling ] home and auto together. it's like peanut butter and jelly. oh, or like burgers and fries. or pickles and ice cream. unicorns and glitter! no? bundling to save you more. now, that's progressive! call or click today. we are back at 5:15, and it is time for a check of our weather. >> it is getting better and better out there. i mean it's going to be a beautiful day. right bright sunshine, low humidity. temperatures back in the 80s far change. >> yeah. >> the humidity out of here makes a huge difference. >> all the difference in the world, doesn't it? >> yeah. it takes some getting used to after dealing with it. >> i think steve can get used to it very quickly. >> let's get to it nothing but a good news report. i want to start with the holiday week end and the 4th of july. that's a big one. >> i know. people have outdoor plans, and i have been workologien this all morning, guvir. >> yeah. >> i hear you. >> there it is. sunny warm, looking beautiful. back into the low 90s by sunday. why do you look like you're in a state of confusion. it will be beautiful here for the 4th of july. temperatures on the warmer side for saturday and sunday. not the case for today. today not dealing with the 90s for the first time in nine days. dallas 90. bw marshall, 92. all kinds of records falling for the month of june, including the warmest june ever. 18 days where the temperature hit 92, but we will have a nice break today. let's not worry about it for this hour. 21 degrees. we lost a couple of degrees the last few minutes. leonardtown, waking up to 68 and 72 in annapolis. it will be strange with the highs only in the low 80s. dew point in the upper 40s and lower 50s it will be a fairly comfortable for the end of june. there's the cloud cover and the showers with an area of low pressure developing aiowa long the delmarva peninsula. it's possible a few of us could see a sprinkle. mostly sunny skies, and again a quiet weather pattern for the next several days right through the holiday weekend. it's going to be a good looking forecast into the 4th. lots of sunshine, cooler, less humid than yesterday. winds out of the north and west at 5 to 10 miles an hour. tonight, perhaps open the windows, and sen joy the air. upper 50s outside of the beltway. thursday and friday looking beautiful. highs in the low 80s. we warm up this weekend but we stay dry. outdoor plans plans and picnics, should be dry with the highs in the low 90s by sunday. that's weather. that's cooperating, i don't think traffic is cooperating. julie has the latest with. that. >> reporter: the last few days major incidents on the highways. today not deny this. 395 northbound as you approach axel road. you can go no further than axel road if you're going northbound. police hope to have a few lanes open in the next 5 to 10 minutes but right now the traffic is being diverted. you can ride the ramps to go north of the accident scene. to the top north, that's the hov lanes. the important thing ability that the hov lanes have been lifted to leaveuate the -- to relieve the tieups. again, limited access to and from the hov lanes once you get into them. you cannot dump out of them into the pentagon. pick out your alternate route carefully. there's always the option of the duke street. we are told they hope to have some lanes open here within the next 10 to 15 minutes. we will definitely keep an eye on this for you. we have reporting that the block off at university boulevard jammed up because of the overnight construction in play. nothing to report from college park and bafesda. changing in the pool practices after a 6-year-old drown. fox 1's taryn gray houston has the -- karen gray houston has the details. >> reporter: kids love to swim, they get excited about it, and they not i thissing about safety when they -- thinking about safety when they jump boo the water. these kids have adults to think about it for them. >> we have the responsible counselors that will get in the re they have bathing suits to keep a closer eye on the children. >> reporter: even having adults is not a promise. three life guards were on the grounds when a 6-year-old died while swimming in a pool. >> we should be at a zero tolerance at our pools. a number of issues stem from the basic upfront issues. >> reporter: the emergency bill calling for an appropriate review of number of life guards to swimmers and they want the availability of automatic defiblators for each pool and they want to install an automatic drowning system in the public schools but would that guarantee no problem? ? >> i have not notice thed no problems -- the no life guards problem. >> reporter: harry thomas says one thing he wants to look into, new high-tech life saving devices. soft the device may be applicable to detecting people on the bottom of the pool. >> reporter: karen gray houston, fox 5 news. >> we are awaiting the findings of the investigation of the drowning. we will take friday on the show. every week in july. >> our first stop, leesburg. if you're in the area or want to take a road trip we would love to meat you at -- to meet you at the historic courthouse lawn on friday from 6:00 to 10:00. up next though. ♪ [music ] >> okay, we are going to take a break and come right back. - ( music playing ) - now's the time to invest. in lumber. in rubber. in bellies. and precious metals. it's time to put everything you have into your 10k. your 5k. and even your 1k. and, of course, you can never go wrong with futures. kaiser permanente. thrive. [ chanting ] >> librarians are typically known for telling people to be quiet, but they came to washington to make noise. >> dozens of librarians are calling on congress to pay attention to what librarians need across the can unitary. -- across the country. the name steinway goes with pianos. >> not one, two two, -- not two, but 28 of the best made pianos in the world because of a huge donation. ♪ [music ] . >> reporter: before you can make beautiful music, you have to do some heavy lifting. en a loading dock -- on a loading dock at george washington university, they had to see it to believe it or in this case, hear it to believe it. >> it's overwhelming me. it's absolutely inspiring. >> reporter: a donor blessed gw's department of music with 278 new pianos. >> we thought it was just great. thank you very much. >> reporter: they are not just any they are steinways. the retail price $60,000 to 120 thousands dollars. karen is the chair of the department of music. >> i would like to say it's american craft at the best. >> reporter: it's arguably the most famous name in pianos. as for the name of the donor, you won't hear. that the donor has chosen to remain unanimous. >> the donor said i would like to go ahead and fund the purchase of the steinway grant and he said i would like to fund all eight grants they needed and we said we would like to become an all steinway school, and he said i would like to fund that. >> reporter: all of it? >> all of it it was a magnificent gift. >> sometimes you don't know why or when or who. that is one of those. >> i'm perfectly content with that. >> reporter: the largest one is this one. the message from the professor, students better be resting up over summer break. >> we do expect them to practice well enough to come to their lessons and rehearsals very well prepared. >> reporter: with instruments like this, they will expecting an encore. in foggy bottom, beth parker. fox 5 news. we still have a lot more for you this morning on fox 5 news. the big troubles this morning on the road that could affect your commute. north 395 shut down. an update from julie. stay with us. beautiful start to your wednesday, june 30, 2010. a live look at the nation's capital, and the humidity, man for the time being, it's out of here. >> definitely feeling better than what we have had for the last few weeks. checking to get an idea of where we stand. the clouds across the area. the sunshine will definitely be a -- it's going to win out here today. i was trying to think of a nice way to put it sunny day, very present. high temperatures in the low 80s, and the humidity for a change in the pleasant range. >> yeah, you know the temperatures being up in the 90s is okay as long as the humidity not there. >> yesterday's daytime high was 92 but it didn't feel so bad because the humid was not 98 -- humidity was not 98%. 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. frederick down to 61 degrees. winn chester, you're -- winn -- winchester, there's clouds across the area. what is going on here, the frontal system with an area of low pressure growing along the frontal system. you can see the showers into the carolinas. that will move out to sea as the area of pressure is drug along with it. we will turn mostly sunny by late morning early afternoon, the highs in the low 20s. over-- 80s. overnight lows in the 60s. we expect to be dry through the weekend it will be a good looking seven-day forecast. cooler than yesterday. 8 it degrees, and less humidity as well. i will have more details on the weekend forecast. with he have a warmup in store. when it will arrive in a few minutes. >> trouble on the road this morning. checking with julie to see how things are going. >> we are keeping an eye on the mess on northbound 395 at edsall road. if you're traveling northbound on 39 5, they allowed some traffic to squeeze by with the two left lanes. a portion of 395 has now been reopened for those of you trying to get past edsall road. we have two left lane roads getting by. some of the traffic being diverted to the north it will be well north of the activity, but that's the big change. we now have two left lanes getting binorth of edsall road toland mark. again the hov rules have been lifted on 395 and 95 to help seize the tieups -- ease the tieups but once you get into the lanes you can't get out until you get into the pentagon. pick your alternate routes carefully. this is the ma backup to edsall, and now two lanes are getting by to the left. elsewhere, highing out of hyatttown, overnight road work with traffic squeezing by to the right. thatst a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. our top story this morning a decision has been made in the trial of the three men accused of covering up the murder robert juan. the judge acquitted all three on the obstruction of justice charges. stayty c -- stacey cohan has more. >> reporter: the judge said it had to be based on what was presented in court more than what she believed in her gut. they were charged charged charged with cover up -- charged with covering up the person who murdered juan. she said there was not enough evidence to convict them of obstruction of justy. she said my focus -- justice. she said my focus on the moral certainty is probably cold comfort to those who loved robert juan, and i'm extremely sorry for this. >> we all understand and accept the judge's verdict. it was thoughtful, it was well reasoned, and you know we can only hope that further evidence continues to come to light. >> reporter: although robert juan's widow was clearly emotional for the three defendants, the prosecutors admit they don't know who killed robert juan or why. in the meantime katherine juan, the widow, has filed a $20 million wrongful death lawsuit against the defendants. i'm stacey cohan, back to you. >> the attorney for joe price will be joining us later in the studio to talk about the verdict at 8:00. tomorrow, three alleged russian spies are expected to be in federal court to learn if they will continue to be held in custody. the three suspects were arrest sunday in alexandria where they have been living. all are accused of using fake identity to get fake information from washington insiders to send it back to moscow. court documents say national security was never at risk. president obama declared an emergency in texas as hurricane alex approaches the land. it's moving through the webb gulf, headed for the mexico- texas border. it could make land fall later tonight. skimming operations for the oil spill are on hold but the storm is not affecting the work at l -- at the well side. -- well site. japan is providing oil skimmers and canada will provide containment booms. vice president joe biden visited the area yesterday. he said there are plans to reopen fishing waters close in the wake of the spill. should be another marathon day of questioning in the confirmation hearings of elena kagan. elena kagan facing tough questions yesterday. jeff sessions grilling her about the ban on military recruiters at harvard lawsuit. she said it wasn't about protesting the don't ask-don't tell policy that she opposes. >> all i was trying to do was ensure that harvard law school could also comply with the antidiscrimination policy. a policy meant to protect all the students of our campus including the gay and lesbian students who may want to serve if the military. >> senator sessions say he doesn't believe her and she is going on with the white house spin on the incident. the senate already confirmed general petraeus as the new general in the war of afghanistan. he is taking over for general mcchrystal who was forced to resign after he made statements about the president to rolling stone bag magazine. -- stone magazine. the teenager who tried to sail around the world by herself and talking about her adventure, what she had to say, next. a warning about a popular diabetes drug and how could be linked to a deadly problem. more about the market if you can stomach this from yesterday. more at 6:20. were just like you and me. with hopes. dreams. challenges. today, we do more than just walk the same streets. for a moment, we get to walk in their shoes. preparing us for what lies ahead. down our next road. be part of the story. colonial williamsburg. dc teachers have a new contract. the dc city council unanimously approved the deal. the teachers had gone without a contract for two years. it includes a 21% pay increase. the chancellor is also given more power to remove the poor teachers from the classrooms. the teenager who tried to sail around the world is back home and talking about her adventure. abby sunderland was saved a couple of weeks ago. she was trying to become the youngest person to sail around the world. >> i'm living proof things don't work out has arizona you plan. you can only plan as -- plan so far in an adventure. i hope i have inspired some people. >> she hopes to write a book about her journey that ended earlier than she thought. we have a follow up to the health alert we brought you yesterday. warnings about a popular diabetes drug, and how it may be linked to your heart problems. the community may be look -- the commute may be looking better this hour. we will check with julie. that's coming up. it's 5:41. ioas8. welcome back. we are starting to get the sun up earlier. 5:44 right now. the best thing you're going to find when you walk outside it will feel good come faired to -- compared to what we have seen. who would have thought 70 degrees feels good? >> fantastic when you're not talking about the 80s at 5:00 in the morning. we are talking about low 60s in places like frederick. thatst a great start. the dew points are in the 40s. winds out the north at 10 to 15- miles aen hour. there's a few clouds out there to start the day, but it should be a mostly sunny afternoon. a nice one. the temperature trend over the next few days, let's get to it. for once, the trend is our friend. the next few days below average. the average daytime high now, 87. of course weapon have -- of course we have spent the better part of the last two days above. that warming up back into the weekend with the highs in the upper 80s to 90 on saturday and warming up for the 4th of july. 71 in washington. 6 is 1 in gaithersburg. in the 50s in frederick. 59 in frederick at last look. great start. martinsburg, you're at 60. winchester, even the warmer spots not bad. leonardtown, 68. temperatures later today as i just showed you in the lower 80s. should be plenty of sunshine, and lower humidity. all the makings for a nice looking afternoon as we enjoy the last day of june here. satellite radar, cloud cover and showers developing here. it's weak one off the delmarva peninsula. we have overnight rain and all of that pushing off the coast. with high pressure to the north and west, we should see a mostly sunny day today, and it should be really nice for the next couple of days. the high pressure anchors across the washington area. that's hurricane alex. looking impressive here for the june storm, and the first hurricane in the atlantic since 1995. it's been about 15 years, and it continues to push off to the west, northwest at 7 miles an hour. should make land fall later tonight or first part of thursday morning along the northern border of mexico and texas. bringing 6 to 12 inches. it will be a soaking rain as if moves across texas over the next 24 to 36 hours. today, sunshine, low humidity. winds out of the west at 5 to 10-mile the an hour. overnight -- 10 miles an hour. overnight, fantastic. we warm up by the 4th of -- by the 4th of july on under. it should be dry. headed out to the fireworks on sunday evening, the conditions should be perfect. that's a look at weather. let's get to traffic. julie wright with a series of messes but things are quieting down? >> reporter: i wouldn't say quieting down, but better news along 395 at edsall road. the incident with the jackknifed tractor trailer has cleared. all lanes have been reopened. northbound 395 as you travel in the direction of edsall road. the ax happen -- accident lifting the hov rules. this is the aftermath, the affect afterwards, the hov lanes out of woodbridge and and this is the main line out of the prince william parkway. both crawling at this point. we have all lanes open. thatst good thing, but you know we got the word out earlier enough that people started to flood the hov lanes and got an early start on 495 that is jammed now. the traffic headed up to springfield. by contract the beltway running smoothly no problems to report. route 4 with the outer loop getting by. that's a check of your fox 5 on time traffic. in our health alert this morning, an experimental drug is offering hope for skin cancer patients hlp4032. it targets the jean that -- the gene that affects melanoma. it could get fda approval as early as next spring. dc is the only place in the country where the obesity rates dropped over the last year it has fewer obese residents than any other state except colorado and massachusetts. maryland was 28th. virginia in the middle of the pack. will a popular diabetes drug be pulled off the market? that's the question after showing avandia may be causing heart attacks. melanie is breaking down both sides of the debate. >> reporter: this pink pill is causing confusion. does it lead to heart attacks and deaths or not? >> i would like to read and see a couple of studies that were done so i would be comfortable. >> reporter: in 2007 after a review of clinical trials and reports adverse events, the food and drug administration required a black box warning, the agency ice strongest -- agency's strongest. it says it can lead to increased lewd and there's an increased risk of heart attack. dr. gandia says she stopped prescribing it a few years ago after seeing troubling side effects. >> leaking, fluid retention, the shortness of breathe. >> reporter: the safety will be reviewed again in july and conflicting studies are fanning the controversy. one says it may protect the heart. >> we have other medications that have been on the market for awhile. >> reporter: some have found success through the lifestyle changes. >> you have to change your eating habits, and you have to exercise. exercise is the number one cure. >> reporter: but most will need to rely on effective, safe drugs for a lifetime. melanie alnwick. >> if you're concerned do not stop taking the drug without talking to your doctor. the maker of the drug said their clinical tries did not find any increased -- trials did not find any increased risks. the iphone with a new carrier? that's coming up next. the nationals flashing leather as they try to snap their losing streak. the highlights after the break. s. all right taking a look at sports right now, the nationals looking to break a five-game losing strike in atlanta. josh willingham with the nice catch in left. two on for ryan zimmerman, hitting-run ground rule double it will bounce out. 3-1 nats, willingham will add the two-run homer in the game, and the gnats go on to win 7-2. the birds trying to jump start their offense in the 7th 7th. raja davis is. there he is gone by a long shot. the a's beat the o's, 4-2. the washington wizardses making another move yesterday. acquiring a forward from the new jersey nets. the wizards also traded ross to the nets and got an undisclosed amount of cash. he averages a career high of 12 points and 7 boards last season. the move is consistent the as the wizards try to put together a team to deal with the future. many other team prefer the financial flexibility ahead of the controversy. lindsey harding with the triple ball. the hook and then the foul, the mystic win 68-65. improving to 10-8 on the season. wimbledon now, serena williams, no problems winning 6- 5, 6-3. her sister did not do as good. he was stunned by the lowest ranked woman left in the turnment. venus going down in an hour and 25 minutes. 6-2, 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>> i think we all feel heart sick. the person who feels worse about it is hampered >> police chief has been charged with drunk driving in. >> moneyfor alth care, not warfare. >> demonstrators demand action. time is running out for the congressional recess. >> in the last frontier, there is hope and opportunity and there is country pride. >> sarah palin steps down as governor and look to the future. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> and our top story tonight is that a local police chief faces drunk driving charges. he was arrested after a car accident. his blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit. what can you tell us, jay? >> authorities said that they picked up chief baker a short distance from where i am standing. authorities allege that his blood alcohol level was 0.19. the man in themall truck, 58- murals chief baker has dedicated his life -- 58-year-old chief baker has dedicated his life to the law. city leaders gathered on sunday in disbelief to talk about his dui arrests. >> the community is said and and -- the community is saddened by this event. >> he was involved in a fender bender saturday night near i-66 and north fairfax drive in arlington. >> his alcohol level was 0.19%. >> which is more than double virginias legal limit of 0.08. >> said he should be punished. >> it is a good thing he was arrested. >> he just wants people to know that this is not him. a whole or any type of inappropriate behavior has never been an issue for him -- alcohol or any type of inappropriate behavior has never been an issue for him. >> he could lose his job and spent time in jail. >> i have never known him to do anything that would bring embarrassment to the law. >> in a statement from chief baker to his college, it says, in part, while i can only imagine the disappointment you feel, i have to tell you how proud i am to work beside each and everyone of you. when we asked city leaders and law enforcement where he was part to his arrest, we were not provided an answer. >> we do have some more details on alexandria police chief david baker. he began his career in law enforcement in 1970, joining the d.c. metropolitan police department and stay there until 1991. senate -- that is when he was recruited to join the alexandria police force as a deputy chief. he has been the second-in- command in alexandria before becoming police chief. some storms have moves through parts of our area tonight. you may be wondering if the worst is over. we have been tracking the latest developments. steve? >> earlier this afternoon and evening, we have been watching are monitoring the severe thunderstorm watch. it has now been cancelled for the entire metro area. we also have a severe thunderstorm warning that d tpem dqu ofbie n. rt ai earsethestam enro frl rto f beener hn.ag hagerstown.d ovn anst an inch near frederick m. leonardtown saw about half an inch of rain. we do have eight change on the way. we will have a nice summer time warm-up. along with the unity, it will feel very much like it should feel at this time of -- along with the humidity, it will feel very much like it should feel at this time of year. >>muomrsteouhou sld give themselveseom action travel time. e bosedwill be closed ben constitution a pennsylvania avenue 5 a.m. until 6p. 0 m. it is pa obe neetw u.nd n the u.s. and china at the reagan building. be prepared for those types. president barack obama continues to push for an overhaul of the health-care system, but time is running out to get that vote before lawmakers leave for the august recess. >> white house spokesman robert gibbs says that they are 80% in agreement. the last eight -- that last 20% is a doozy. as president obama is august deadline for health care reform edges closer -- >> money for health care, not warfare. >> many rally for health care today. >> they need to hear us. we want healthcare. we know -- we do not want to buy health insurance. we want healthcare. >> summer confident that a health bill will reduce some are confident that a health bill will -- some are confident that a health bill will pass. >> i am confident we will win. >> but others are not so sure. >> the only thing bipartisan about the measures shofar is the opposition to them. >> there's cops addition -- there is opposition to the price tag and another government takeover. many say it, if only ted kennedy were here. he is battng a brain tumor in his home in massachusetts. he has called health care reform because of his life. but he has not returned to capitol hill in months. colleagues say that senator kennedy is monitoring the health care debate from his home. but he is having difficulty communicating. if at all possible, he will be there for the final vote. >> sarah palin officially stepped down as governor of alaska now she is looking forward to the next chapter of her life. >> her final moments as governor of alaska, serving hot tubs to the people who elected her, -- serving hot dogs to the people who elected her, she'd stepped down. >> i felt it was my duty to avoid date of protective, typical politics as usual. >> a little known lt. gov. sean parnell was sworn in as the new governor. many are still at a loss why palin would leave office more than a year before the end of her first term. if anyone knows, they are not saying, including her husband. >> it has been an awesome experience. she ihas been happy to serve the residents of alaska. she is looking for to the next chapter of her life. >> that is the question. >> which is heading to is a lot of money and continuing fame. she is not giving up anything. she is gaining a great deal. >> her supporters would like to see her run for the presidency in 2012, trying to do with hillary clinton could not progress i do want to see a woman elected president. -- could not. i do want t>> i do want to see n elected president. >> 21-year-old specialist herbert compass died in a non- combat related incident at fort bragg, north carolina. investigators are searching for at aunman who oat a tw montgomeryty uncohogppun in center this afternoon. it happened at the briggs chaney plaza. two people were arguing when one pulled out a gun and opened fire. a man and woman were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds. nearby residents are still shocked by what happened. >> i am concerned for my safety and i am concerned about what is going on. >> there can be a lot of trouble sometimes. >> the man is said to be in stable condition. the woman did not suffer life- threatening injuries. >the holocaust museum gunman is expected to be in court this week. he is a but -- he will appear before a judge on wednesday. von brunn, who was shot by other guards, was supposed to appear last month, but his lawyer said he was not well enough at the time. d.c. is considering welfare cuts as it is trying to close a huge budget gap. residents who have not worked for at least six months or do not take advantage of health care programs could have their benefits reduced or eliminated. opponents say that it is not time to correct benefits for those who need them. supervisors could decide tomorrow night whether a wal- mart will go up near a civilwar battlefield. there will hold a hearing in the wilderness battlefield. there could be a vote afterward. historians and preservationists said that it will harm the battlefield. drivers who use the chain bridge, listen up. the d.c. department of transportation says pattern to at petern to improve t there will pretty special lane for traffic to turn right onto route 121% right now. it is expected to start monday night at 8:00 p.m. still to come, a tornado uc d down and causes major destruction. we have that twister all caught on tape. plus, the u.s. military has a new strategy for troops in afghanistan. the family tragedy occurred on a yor york highwa york hi julie loves target, it's got the supplies teacher told her to get and for a great deal. she also expects he'll 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under investigation. the strategy shift comes as violence increases in afghanistan. there have been tried to crate security by keeping the taliban away from peaceful villagers. there try to get middle east peace efforts by contract. president obama's peace envoy is in israel. history to get them to stop building settlements in the west bank, something the have refused to do. but there is word of a possible compromise that would allow them to finish building is already under construction. education officials from across maryland will gather in annapolis for a swine flu summit. health secretary john and state school superintendent are expected to be in attendance. the astronauts of the space shuttle endeavor are going to perform their fifth spacewalk tomorrow at the international space station. today, annasa managed to get in air purification program installed yesterday. there will undock on tuesday and begin their journey home. take a look at this. it is a tornado in western new york caught on tape. but twister was spotted about 20 miles east of buffalo yesterday, damaging buildings, toppling trees, and knocking out power to more than 1000 homes. the national weather service reports that the twister packed winds of more than 110 miles per hour. the path was more than 4 miles long and 100 yards wide. no one was hurt in the storm. we had some potential severe weather. >> it all depends on where you live and what you saw in the sky. earlier, we have a thunderstorm watch for a good chunk of the mid-atlantic. that has now been cancelled out. there was a ton of rent, up 4 to 2 inches of rain in some areas. looking outside right now, it remains cloudy, breezybut dry. we have just a few random showersve oler the overn rr ho s.ur the patuxent river and navalouns station had more than two inches of rain. it is currently 76 degrees. it is still stic and a uncomfortable out there. the dewpoint levels are in the upper 60's to around 70 degrees. to the west is where the cold front is finally beginning to pass through. slightly drier air is moving into the area. there will not be a whole lot of relief from the heat. the record is 103 degrees set back in 1930. it is still 79 degrees at regan international airport. there's not a whole lot of hot air and not a whole lot of clear out there. it is 70 degrees in detroit, 75 degrees in chicago. in the south and southwest, but will warm us up into the mid 80's. there is a cool front pressing to the area. we will look for to begin to stall out and begin to erode late tomorrow afternoon. but it will keep the afternoon unstable for the upcoming work week. that is why we are going to keep showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for the afternoon hours for monday, tuesday, wednesday, all the way until friday. here is the frontal system. it will be sticky and humid for us. for us, closer to town, it will be mostly cloudy and a few showers tonight. tomorrow will call for morning clouds, isolated showers, temperatures in the 60's, and 70 degrees. here is the extended outlook, holding in the mid 80's for tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. it is prettmuch on target for where we should be at this time of year. >> thank you so much, steve. stay with usay w if we don't act, medical bills will wipe out their savings. if we don't act, she'll be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. and he won't get the chemotherapy he needs. if we don't act, health care costs will rise 70%. and he'll have to cut benefits for his employees. but we can act. the president and congress have a plan to lower your costs and stop denials for pre-existing conditions. it's time to act. >> key west honored its favorite son with of their ernest hemingway look-alike contest. despite the 90-degree temperature, he were a fisherman-wat sweater. [unintelligible] >> the gentleman was a dead ringer. [laughter] simple arithmetic when it comes to baseball. you get good pitching. you get good hitting. you get a good chance of succeeding. there was some timely hitting right there. >> let's bring up the nationals. it is too narrow for the washington nationals. in the bottom of the aid eights, he comes around and scores. then we are tied. heading into extra innings, the nationals would end it in the tent. current hits 0.26. --kern hits .126. the orioles are trying to win at a squeeze out of their seri es. baltimore goes on to win 6-2. a former red sox and the most prolific base stealer in history were both inducted into the baseball hall of fame in cooperstown today. rice played 16 seasons in the majors and was the bail and bal. >> we made it. we made it. we made it. suddenly, you think, where is my wife. [laughter] to me, it does not matter that i call this year instead of dividends. what matters is that i got it. >> congratulations to both of those guys. let's talk about golf. there was an exciting finish at the british open. here is on the 16th. he makes the putt and it takes the lead. but he did not make the putt. he finishes 12 under. the one got away from him and disappears from the rough. he did not blink. roberts taps it in and wins the senior british open. washgton was in complete control. lindsey harding was driving hard to the basket. there she goes. that little slaughter is money. they had the much week -- they had a much-needed win. the team usa was absolutely embarrassed in gold cup action against mexico this afternoon. mexico was up 2-0. 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open with delays. the ka touma park metro station is re-opened but riders can expect more delays on the red line today. funeral services. walter krcronkite'samily announces funeral plans. cool this morning but it looks like another beautiful day ahead. good morning and welcome to "news 4 today." it is sunday, july 19th, 2009. i'm eun yang. the news is straight ahead. first we're going to check in with meteorologist steve villanueva up in storm center 4 with a look at our forecast. >> good morning, everyone. yesterday was spectacular. today more of the same. another beautiful day, plenty of sunshine with very comfortable humidity levels. all right. so here's what's happening. it's pretty cool out there in some spots. temperatures are in the low 50s. it's 54 in manassas. here in the district, a cool 62 degrees. that is below average. one of the reasons is the air is so dry. it's so crisp outside. dew points are in the 50s. here's the satellite image. you can see it's nice and clear. mostly sunny skies, heading into the mid-80s. tomorrow, tuesday, wednesday, that's when things start to change. we could see some showers and storms. all the details in just a couple of minutes. back to you, eun. >> thank you, steve. in the news this morning, metro' takoma station will be open today but riders should expect continued delays on the red lip. the station was shut down for most of saturday. investigators are trying to figure out exactly what led to the crash that killed nine people last month and why the system is still malfunctioning. darcy spencer has the latest. >> reporter: the takoma metrorail station on the red line re-opened at 7:00 after a 12-hour shut john. the closure happened as the national transportation safety board concluded its investigation of the dlags that claimed nine lives. >> i think they need to find out what caused the wreck so -- i don't like being inconvenienced, but i understand it, that it may be necessary. >> reporter: the ntsb conducted tests on the tracks between the takoma and ft. totten stations. shuttle buses were used to route riders around the closureclures. investigators continued to re-enact the crash. prior tests indicated the striking train began breaking 425 feet before the rear-end collision. >> i understand why they would want to do it, take the necessary precautions, just to ensure that something like this doesn't happen again. >> it sounds like, you know, everybody thought it was real sile at first. now we're all kind of saying, well, it's a big deal, and there's been more going on. so hopefully they'll resolve thoseroblems and we won't see an accident like this for a long time, if ever again. >> reporter: officials have said the train detection system apparently failed. it should have alerted the operator that there was a train sitting on the tracks and avoided the crash. since then, officials say, they've not been able to determine why the circuit failed that day and continues to fail now. >> hope they come up with some positiveresults, figure out why and what happened so it won't happen again. >> reporter: darcy spener, "news 4 today." >> now to a developing story in san francisco. two light rail trains collided last night, causing what officials are calling one of the largest casualty incidents in years. 48 people were taken to hospitals, 3 with severe injuries. authorities say one train barreled into a stopped train. it happened on the city's muni transit line. one passenger told reporters the operator of the striking train appeared to be asleep or passed out. earlier this month, a former transit worker told "the washington post" that intermittent track ccuit failures had been affecting the muni system. an investigation into a large gambling ring has been traced to a group of local police officers. that's according to this morning's "washington post." federal authorities are trying to figure out whether they took money to protect the gambling habits of some of the region's most powerful drug dealers. the post, which is quoting law enforcement sources, says those under investigation included d.c. police officials, former d.c. housing authority officer and five police veterans in prince george's county. investigators are also looking into a possible connection between the gambling ring, the officers and three killings. police are still looking for possible victims in a child pornography case. hyattsville police have charged 22-year-old aza harn itch with abuse of boys and girls. she worked for several area families as a nanny. police say she showed the children pornographic pictures and sent pornographic images of the children over the internet, using a live web cam. the mother of two of the children spoke to news 4. >> i guess you can't judge somebody by what they look like. she just didn't seem like that type of person. >> police want anyone who ever hired harnitch to watch their children to call police at 301-985-5060. a 7-year-old boy is still in critical condition after a fire ripped through his apartment on friday night. that fire kled his-y 5ear-old 5 brother. the fire started friday evening in the riverdale section of prince george's county and this weekend, firefighters went door ton oo iran effort t io trynd prevent another fatal tragedy like this one from occurri again. megan mcgrath reports. >> reporter: firefighters go door to door, checking smoke detectors and installing new ones in homes without them. the program is part of an outreach effort in communities touched by tragedy. tragic is the only word to describe what happened at the oak ridge apartments. two children, aged 5 and 7, were trapped inside a smoke-filled apartment. investigators say the kids were home alone. as neighbors tried frantically to get inside, the father came back and realized what was happening. >> he was frantic when he got here. he was running and saying, that's my apartment. that's my apartment. my kids are in there. and, you know, everybody was just -- at that point, everybody was just like converging on the apartment, trying to get in. >> reporter: investigators say the father was cooking in the kitchen and, for some unknown reason, he left the apartment, locking the front door behind him. the food started a small fire. the apartment filled with smoke. >> food on the stove, pretty much burned itself out by the time firefighters arrived, but generated a tremendous amount of smoke. >> reporter: the 5-year-old boy died at an area hospital. his 7-year-old brother is in critical condition. the father sustained minor injuries trying to break into the apartment. it's unclear at this point if he'll face charges for leaving the children home alone. in riverdale, megan mcgrath, news 4. >> and another eaydl fire th wetod enokehed if lf anif den.elmay hyeped neerda myd orng in no e thrtheast d.c ie netgersbur artments onln lcoin codre.iv fi fielte b trsreveieheanveas was ov bmeokcoy sme as he tried to extinguish the fire. authorities believe they found the body of a man who disappeared while trying to swim across the potomac river. the 32-year-old man was seen on tuesday. this morning, fishermen found a body on some rocks about a half mile from there. investigators say the body matches the description of the missing swimmer. it is now 6:07, 62 degrees. still ahead on "news 4 today," it's been a beautiful weekend, but the grass is getting a little dry. steve is back to tell us if there's any rain in the forecast. and who would have imagined the t.w. everyone wa talking about at the british open was tom watson, not tiger woods? we'll tell you why the veteran is getting so much attention. 1x y there are moments in time when the paths we take do determine our future. today we are communicating with each other as never before - and that requires a seamless network that is constantly growing better, smarter, and more secure. that's why our scientists and engineers in our labs, are taking the fastest technology in the world and making it mobile, better and faster - to keep pushing the internet further than anyone dreamed. last year alone we invested more in building america's future than any other company - improving and expanding our network, to keep you in control. and behind the scenes, that takes work by our employees, who pride themselves knowing, that because they do it right, you might not even notice. if all of that, makes your connections, faster and more secure... well, that's our business. at&t... your world... delivered. well, it was just the rfect summer day yesterday, and we are starting off with a cool morning, too. >> i can't believe actually this is morning. >> right? >> walk outside in our shorts and t-shirts and it's really crisp out there this morning. >> feels good, though. >> feels nice. it's like spring, except it's not. it's summer. >> middle of summer, too. >> today will be another great day, lots of sunshine out there. then we will start to see a change in the pattern as we head into the workweek. at least for today, another winner of a day. plenty of sunshine. temperatures in the mid-80s. humidity on the low side. so all in all u can't beat it. but then, get ready for the middle of theweek. we'll start to see a switch, with lots of moisture coming in from the atlantic. it will start to get muggier and with the daytime heating we could see some showers and thunderstorms. but at least for this morning, here's what it looks like out there. it is really pretty. hey, have a great trip. it's going to -- i thought i was tied up. it is going to be just a really pretty day with plenty of sunshine and low humidity. yesterday everyone kept on telling me how nice the weather was. so if you liked yesterday, today will basically be a repeat. all in all, pretty nice day. all right. 62 right now, 63 annapolis. looks like pax river is the warm spot. temperatures into the 50s in the shenandoah valley. that is well below average for this time of year. dew point depressions, they are lower than yesterday. even though the dew points were low yesterday at this hour, they're even lower today. so with those northerly winds, we're getting a reinforcing shot of really comfortable weather. dew points are in the low 50s. in fact, upper 40 on the board this morning. 62 degrees here in the district. a bit warmer down the road in raleigh. a cool 55 in cincinnati. 61 right now in chicago. so basically regionwide we are seeing temperatures below average thanks to that really dry air. now, we are clear. we're going to see lots of sunshine for today as high pressure dominates our weather pattern. however, there is a frontal band offshore and a wave of lower pressure will start to ride up that front. it will bring us some showers and thunderstorms as we head into the workweek. here's future cast. you can see that area of high pressure right ther this will be the main player for today. again, creating that northerly flow, keeping us nice and comfortable, nice and crisp. temperatures in the mid-80s. then as we head into monday and tuesday, here comes that wave of lower pressure, lots of moisture coming in out of the atlantic. you combine everything together, we're going to see some showers and thunderstorms and some humid weather as well. but at least for today, mostly sunny, quite comfortable out there. low humidity. temperatures in the mid-80s. it looks like a winner of a sunday. so enjoy your sunday. 85 degrees, mostly sunny. for monday and tuesday, a little bit cooler as we start to see a bit more in the way of cloud coverable. the humidity starts to increase as southeasterly winds start to bring in some moisture. we're going to see some showers and thunderstorms every day this week. won't rain all of the time, but at least we have that chance with so much moisture in place, all we need is a little daytime heating, and boom. >> after june i never thought i would be saying this, but we need the rain, right? >> we actually do. we're above average for the year but we could use some more rain. >> in sports, the nationalers swept by the cubs. tom watson tries to make history. here's lindsay czarniak with more in your sports minute. >> hey there. good morning, everybody. your sports minute on this sunday morning begins with the nationals who are still searching for their first win under new manager jim riggleman. last night against the cubs, the nationals did jump out to an early 4-0 lead, but former national alfonso soriano spoiled the party. soriano hit a three-run home run in the sixth inning. it was his first homer in 133 plate appearances. the cubs beat the nationals 6-5. the orioles on the road in chicago. baltimore first baseman ty wigginton made a costly error in the fifth inning on a routine play. the next batter for chicago was jermaine dye and he nailed a two-run home run to left. the white sox edge the o's 4-3. in golf at the british open, second round co-leader steve marino, who's from fairfax, had an up and down day at turnberry. he's now 1 over for the tournament. meanwhile, 59-year-old tom watson leads the way by just one stroke at 4 under par after three rounds. in soccer news, d.c. united hosting colorado. bryan namoff scored his first goal of the season in style. the black and red come back to beat the rapids 3-1. that's your sports minute. on this sunday morning. i'm lindsay czarniak. have a good day. >> next, "rerter's notebook," an inside look at the stories affecting your community. we'lleac bn ik 15 minutes with the stories affecting your community. >> good morning. welcome to "reporter's notebook." i'm pat lawson muse. we start with a pocketbook issue this morning. these are tough financial times for many people and for local governments, and the district has recently missed a 1 on $03 million payment owed to 60 of the city's charter schools. that's put the schools in a pretty tough spot. it's left some teachers without a paycheck this past week. the mayor has directed the city's chief financial officer to take about half that money from the city's cash reserves. the rest will be paid once congress gets its hands on a copy of the city budget. council chair vincent gray says take the whole amount from the cash reserves. just how much difficulty does this present for charter schools, and how much difficulty is the tcity having because it t paid this bill? >> you got a couple things working here that are systemic. one being that the district doesn't have control over its budget. it has to go through congress still. eleanor holmes norton, the delegate, has still not been able to get a budget economy. this is a wrinkle in the process where you have to go through the hill to get your own city taxpayer money. that's the first thing. the second thing is it shows that the budget projections that they continue to make in the district are rosier than what really they get in actual dollars. the third thing is that charter schools are just stepchildren are the school system, and they get what is left over once the schools -- the public schools get what they're supposed to get first. >> jerry and jim, the charter schools have been having problems all along. this is just another problem, isn't it? >> well, it's a very big problem. i mean, if you look at the ranks, among the ranks, the teacher's not getting paid. a week's pay is a lot today in this economy. and then there's uncertainty as where this money is going to come from, lik adrian says, might go to congress first. vincent gray has stepped up and said, listen, let's pay these people because these people have bills. it's not only teachers, but you have services that come into the charter schools. so, the money -- the $103 million is badly needed. >> as adrian's pointed out, it's illegal for them to do anything, per se, until krs -- >> congress has the budget. >> also, some, some suggested there may be a slight against the charter school system a little more than just them being stepchildren, per se, in that the mayor tried to cut 26% of their budget in the last cycle, which the city council restored. so, for me, the larger question is, how are we missing these payment deadlines? now, there is some suggestion that the charter system expedited their calendar this year, but apart from that, everybody's got to be on the same page. >> part of that package, jim, is the mismanagement again -- have to go to mismanagement. evidently the office of finance because we always hear them not being able to pay the bill. they've been paying this bill for some time, and all of a sudden now we don't have the money for it. >> you shouldn't be running any kind of municipal government having to dip into cash reserves for general operating expend. >> that's right. >> right. >> so there is something wrong in the system where we see this at the end of the year when they knew full well that they had to make this payment. >> well, just might add one other point. some school leaders question why they didn't know anything about this. >> until the last minute. >> until tuesday. >> right. until the very, very last minute. >> why would that be? >> well -- >> you don't know the answer to that question. t's talk about -- >> neither do they. >> well, i think the buck stops with the mayor's office. as jerry pointed out, mr. ghandi has financial responsibility for the city's coffers but the mayor has to take this one. >> let's talk about these questions surrounding d.c. council probe into the city's rules for granting contracts in the wake of mariobarry's arrest. the questions follow allegations that barry may have misused public funds by giving his girlfriend a $5,000 a month contract after they started dating. council member barry maintains there was nothing inappropriate about the contract that he gave donna watts-brighthaupt. the council has given washington attorney robert bennett authority to investigate the whole thing. city leaders say the council members can put family members or their friends, people that they he personal relationships with, on payroll if they are qualified. what do we know about the contract that watts-brighthaupt got, and what does the investigating attorney need to find out? jim. >> well, the question that's being asked with regard to this contract is where are the deliverables? what is it that she did for the money? now, earlier adrian -- we were talking, and adrian pointed out that she said every time she tried to present a finding or some product, she was mistreated and they did not receive what she had to deliver. that hasn't been said. the larger question becomes the district of columbia for many, many years has had an environment of entitlement for certain people. if you're on the inside, you can get certain favors. now, some say that marion barry's not the larger issue here. vincent gray has initiated an investigation, and they've brought in mr. bennett, very well-known attorney and investigato investigator, to try to make some findings regarding the procurement process and the letting of these contracts. but it becomes that if -- you can't take this out of the per view of marion barry because the mayor of columbia is when this whole environment began. that may be the secret to his success and why he continues to be re-elected, because he's responsible for creating the black middle class in the large -- >> i don't think he started that, but i think that started when municipal government started way, way back when. let's go to boss shepherd. >> no, in the district of columbia. >> but, but this is not about marion berry, per se, where we always have these little dustups where he has personal problems and da, da, da. this goes way beyond him. this goes to the issue of council earmarks. each member of the council gets a huge pot of money which they get to use at their discretion. doesn't have the kind of oversight that maybe it should have. i think that's what's going to come out of this thing that marion has waded them into, is a bigger issue. dorothy brazil with d.c. watch for years has been talking about why does council have all those earmarks and what are they doing where they give them out to this person and that person. it's really opened a can of worms. >> adrienne is absolutely right. we have said it time and time again about accountability in the district government. and this is a perfect case of the lack of accountability. nobody's watching anybody over the shoulder. it's been going on since always back into marion's tenure when he was mayor. you find people that looked out for their friends, as jim is alluding to. but the fact is that out of this -- >> we've seen a lot of other council members do it, too. >> exactly. out of this probe, pat, that the counsel's going to have to do, if vin sent gray is serious, they're going to have to come up with some type of system for accountability on people being hired under these contracts. this is not the only contract issue. we've had a lot of serious contract issues in the district. >> in fact, the chairman watts has wanted the council to implement some new requirements for nonprofits that get city contract,s, city dollars. let me ask you -- sort of o the beaten path question about this. in the midst of this whole investigation, marion barry has alleged that maybe there's a vendetta against him because he was the sole no vote on the city's gay marriage recognition law. what do you make of that? >> well, it was more than a no vote. he originally was a supporter of the measure. >> right. >> adrienne. >> no, marion always blames everybody else for whatever happens to him. that's just his modus operandi. of course, there's going to be some pitch pushback from people who have become more powerful or have a certain constituency against another one. >> there's an old familiar term in d.c. it's political. that's what marion barry is saying. it was political. and they've used that term for 100,000 years in the district of columbia politics. >> now, whatever that -- the politics may be, i still find it curious, if it's true, that he was detained for two hours before he was arrested and for four hours before he was allowed a phone call. that is unacceptable, no matter who it is. >> we have to take a break. we'll be right back. welcome back. as the investigation of metro's red line crash continues,  metro's implemented a zero tolerance policy that prohibits bus and train operators from using their cell phones to call or to text while they're operating their vehicles even if they're empty. the policy comes after video surfaced of a metro train operator texting at the controls. the union says this isn't a systemicpr b m,leut we have heard a lot of passengers claiming that they've been witnessing distracted behavior on the part of bus and train operators. is zero tolerance timely? is it too tough? >> i think what the times indicate is that the average person is walk around with a camera on their telephone so you need to be on your game. if you are driving -- >> no matter what you're doing. >> you cannot beeading a book while driving a bus. or the red line or anything else. no, we should point out that no -- there's been no indication that the operator of that tragic train was doing anything other than her job. >> in fact, her phone was found in a backpack. >> exactly. >> but it raised the issue of safety. >> it did. >> the whole issue of safe day, pat, is the fact that for too long organizations, companies, institutions have been dancing around,ancing around safety. for instance, it's not only bus drivers. we find people flying airplanes on cell phones. we're finding people on the trains. even people that are in service taxicabs. cathy lanier, the police chief, has said she's upset over the police using cell phones driving through e street with the sirens on. until this country or our communities come to the task of setting down the law or some type of law about the use of any kind of electronic or whatever distraction there is while people are operating these vehicles, until something is done about that, we'll forever dancing around safety. >> that cat's out of the bag. in this new generation, art, they text -- i can't even talk to my son unless i text it. i got to learn how to do that. no, i understand that. i think the main thing that has to be done with the zero tolerance is they had to set down the policy. the policy had been lax. people had taken advantage. now it's very clear. if you do this, you're out. so, once you set down the law, then somebody breaks the law, then they suffer the consequences. this accident, tragic as it is, has really shined the light on there. i think we can hope that this will make us all safer in the long run. but bus drivers, jerry's right. if you're out on the toll road or anywhere else you see people doing things that will just blow your hair back. >> we see them move across the nation in states, various jurisdictions to restrict the e of handheld devices while driving individual motorists. so, obviously, public transportation, it's a no-brainer. moreov moreover, it seems to me that if this does not happen then we'll have more accidents. the last point is the union representatives for the metro driver is very leery about the idea of them being monitored 24 hours. >> quick question before we go. there's an ambitious proposal to build an extensive rapid bus system around the washington region. it's gotten the green light. the council of governments has voted to seek $300 million in federal stimulus funds to have this rapid bus system which would rival the metro system. sounds like a great idea. >> coming out of c.o.g. the director of transportation for c.o.g. has come up with this proposal. a lot of people don't like the idea. if you're driving -- i know in the city itself, right now we're having enough problems with these so-called, quote-unquote, bicycle lanes. it's nice that ople can use bicycles to get back and forth, but the fact is, pat, if we put more lanes -- bus lanes out there, plus the bicycle lanes, my goodness, you -- i mean -- >> you don't like the idea. adrienne? >> it's a good idea in theory because you want more people on public transit. you don't want them in their cars, especially as we're trying to help the environment and all. the question is how is that going to really work, because it's going to clog up -- excuse me, make the congestion a lot worse. we love our cars in this area. >> any final word on that? >> well, the very idea would obviously reduce the energy's carbon footprint which seems to be a good idea according to science. >> big deal. >> it is a big deal. >> thank you, all. thanks for your participation and thank you for watching. that's "reporter's notebook." "news 4 today" continues right now.m, updating our top stories, 48 people are injured when two light rail trains crash in san francisco. one train ashed into the rear of the other at a boarding platform. four people have what appear to be severe injuries. the takoma park metro station will be open today. a stretch of the red line near the station has been shut down nearly all day yesterday as federal investigators try to reconstruct the crash. they're trying to figure out when the driver of the striking train could first see the stopped train. metro says riders can still expect delays on the red line today. and a 7 bo-year-old boy is clinging to life after an apartment fire claimed the life of his 5-year-old brother. a memorial has formed outside their apartment. the fire started friday afternoon. good morning and welcome back to "news 4 today." i'm eun yang. we begin this half hour with a look at today's forecast with meteorologist steve villanueva up in storm center 4. >> good morning, everyone. it is going to be another wonderful day today. yesterday was spectacular, plenty of sunshine out there and very comfortable conditions. today more of the same so enjoy it because we are going to start to see a change as we head into the workweek. 62 right now. temperatures in the 50s in the shenandoah valley, the low 50s. that's because dew points are very low. the air is really crisp and comfortable. so just a few louds drifting through today, mostly sunny skies, more clouds offshore. eventually those clouds will backtrack and bring us a chance of showers as we head into the workweek. for today, mostly sunny, mid-80s. looks pretty nice out there. all the details in just a few minutes. back to you. >> thank you so much. funeral arrangements have been made for tv legend walter cronkite. his long time chief of staff says his funeral will be thursday in new york city. he died friday night in his home with his family by his side. he was 92. for nearly two decades, cronkite followed the most important stories of the 20th century. his colleague dan rather says cronkite never lost the drive he had during his early days as an intrepid war correspondent. >> he never ceased being a reporter. i touched on this before. i think the public recognized this. walter loved reporting. he loved the news. passion for it. >> cronkite will be buried next to his late wife, betsy, in the family plot at a cemetery in kansas city. in lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations to the walter and betsy cronkite foundation. kimberly suiters has more now on tributes here in washington. >> dallas, texas, the flash -- >> reporter: a giant of journalism, called affectionately by his audience as uncle walter, known as competitor to a former nbc news bureau chief. >> i saw him the most really at the space shots because that was really one of his first loves. he was almost child-like in covering the space program. he was like a little kid. he was so excited by what we were doing. >> reporter: and when neil armstrong took that step -- >> oh, boy. i'm speechless. >> i remember him saying on the air, golly. that was a word you hardly ever heard a journalist say. >> reporter: davis remembers walter cronkite for what he did not say as much as for what he did. but the most memorable moment of lost objectivity came over the vietnam war. >> to say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, if unsatisfactory, conclusion. >> president johnson, knowing how trusted walter cronkite was, said if i've lost walter cronkite, i've lost the people. that was pretty much true. >> reporter: whether it was watergate, the civil rights movement, walter was always there. his broadcasting roots reaching back to washington, d.c. >> he started here as a news director at channel 9, the wtop. and then went from there to cbs, but his impact in washington was enormous because whenever walter came to town, walter was the guy that most people tried to emulate. >> reporter: for more than four decades, walter cronkite delivered the headlines. this weekend on display at the museum, the passing of the most trusted man in america was the headline. >> his sign off, "that's the way it is" was something people remember today. >> and that's the way it is. that's the way it is. that's the way it is. >> reporter: kimberly suiters, news 4. >> one of the biggest stories he reported on was the space program, of course. here's an interview he did with nasa tv years later. >> 1969, i'm sure, is going to be perhaps the one historical date that children 500 years from now will recognize. >> apollo 11 commander neil armstrong says cronkite enjoyed the highest ratings because his passion earned the trust of his awed yins. cronkite died just three days before the 40th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing. a number of events are planned on monday to commemorate the anniversary, including an all-day retrospective at the national air and space museum in southwest washington. 40 years later, the crew of the space shuttle "endeavour" went on a space walk of their own yesterday. two astronauts ventured out to do some construction work. they're installing an outdoor platform for japan's space lab. this is the first of five space walks scheduled for the two-week mission. the next space walk is monday. this morning, two u.s. defense officials are confirming the man seen on a video posted by the taliban is an american soldier who went missing last month in afghanistan. the video shows the soldier with his head shaved and the start of a beard. it's the first glimpse the public has had of the captured soldier. senior pentagon officials have not released the soldier's identity. he is interviewed on the video in english by his captors, and is asked his views on the war, which he calls extremely hard, his desire to learn more about islam, and the morale of american soldiers, which he says is low. the fight to fix americans' broken health care system is getting more heated by the day. president obama has been consistently advocating for reform, trying to push his plan through capitol hill. but as the effort grows more intense, so do those who oppose his ideas. mike viqueira has the story. >> reporter: the president left this morning for camp david after making yet another pitch for his plan. >> think about what doing nothing in the face of ever-increasing costs will do to you and your family. >> reporter: health care reform, the signature issue of the obama first term, now threatened in congress. the president responlding this week by keeping the heat on, trying to shore up support. >> we are going to change health care reform. >> reporter: the plan moving through congress now would create a government-run option for insurance, require all americans to be insured, and force most businesses to either offer a plan or pay a fee to the government. >> no longer will you be without health insurance even if you lose your job or change your jobs. >> reporter: total cost, $1 trillion paid for in part with a sur tax on americans making more than $280,000 a year. $350,000 for couples. but now news that the plan isn't completely paid for, and in a blow to democrats, this week the congressional budget office said the bill now moving through the house would actually result in higher costs. democrats say they'll make fixes. >> we need to do more by way of reform. we need to do more by way of cost savings. >> reporter: but republicans aren't on board. >> i do not see any republican support at all at this time for the house bill. kes couldn't thtasn be higr ttha wtvi me raikeiquei rt repog.in refomothr n ea og. helth car h rerm debsue,e o b treune in to & ateat eepr"e thess" lat e this morning. it begins at 10:30. as many as 65 americans are being held in quarantine in china. a school in oregon has confirmed that a group of students and teachers is being held at a hotel in beijing after one student tested positive for the swine flu. school leaders say the student was treated at the hospital and has been released. the bbc is reporting that several dozen british students are also being quarantined at the same hotel. it is now 6:39, 62 degrees. still ahead on this early sunday edition of "news 4 today," tragedy at the tour de france. a woman watching the race killed trying to cross the street. plus, try explaining this to your insurance company. a giant hot dog creates a gaping hole in the side of a house. how it happened. stay with us. if we don't act, medical bills will wipe out their savings. if we don't act, she'll be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. and he won't get the chemotherapy he needs. if we don't act, health care costs will rise 70%. and he'll have to cut benefits for his employees. but we can act. the president and congress have a plan to lower your costs and stop denials for pre-existing conditions. it's time to act. this weeke'll hear from big businesses about how things are going and the head of the federal reserve is sharing his two cents on the state of the economy. cnbc's michelle caruso-cabrera takes a look at the week ahead in business. >> reporter: the bottom line is the bottom line on wall street this week. a dozen major companies tell us how the recession is affecting their business. american express, at&t, caterpillar, coca-cola, dupont, merck, 3-m, all of them expected to report that profits fell last quarter. boeing and mcdonald's are among those who will say that profits actually went up last quarter. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke updating congress on the state of the economy, where we might be heading. we might get some additional insight on that from a pair of economic reports that come out as well. eggs is ting home sales and consumer sentiment. there's a final hearing this week on the sale of delphi. the federal minimum wage is rising to $7.25 on friday. the watergate hotel made famous in the nixon years may be auctioned off this week. its owners cannot pay down their loan. starbucks will tells t market a new kind of coffee house in seattle this week it's going to stay open late, serve beer and wine as well, plus feature live entertainment like music and poetry readings. think jack care oh back and his bistros of the '50s and about '60s. cool man, cool. >> $8,000 bridal gowns afor jus a few hundred bucks. you're witnessing a civilized search for the perfect dress. all sales support the making memories breast cancer foundation. there were about 1,000 dresses but your dream dress could still be there. the sale continues today from -- at the weston arlington gateway. now 6:44, 62 degrees. coming up next on "news 4 today," we'll xxxxxóxoxoçgñ1ñcñc   a family in wisconsin is cleaning up after the oscar meyer wiener mobile rammed into their garage. police say the driver was trying to get a view of nearby lake michigan when she accidentally stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. oops. the wayward 27-foot sausagen wheels damaged the garage and the deck above it. tho one was home at the time. the driver was not hurt. so we can get a good laugh. you can't say -- how many people say the wiener mobile crashed into your house? "there's a hot dog in my garage." >> an oversized hot dog trying to sweez queeze in my garage. >> good morning. >> what's going on? >> not much. this weather, i'm loving it. >> spectacular weather for this time of year. it's just unbelievable. today's more of the same so we're going to see another beautiful day today, lots of sunshine, low humidity. but it's going to start to change as we head into the workweek. enjoy your sunday. by the time we get to the middle the week, the humidity will return and then we're going to start to introduce some daytime heating, enough instability will be in place where we can have some showers and thunderstorms pretty much every day this workweek. but not today. look ahow beautiful it is outside as we look across the potomac and down on the mall. it looks great this morning. plenty of sunshine and nice and comfortable. in fact, some would even call it crisp out there this morning. i think that's the word eun yang used. so, 62 degrees, mostly clear. the wind out of the north at 5. the dew point 54. that is the key to this weather. it's the really low humidity, really comfortable weather. all right. the big picture looks like this. again, 62 degrees here in the district. a bit cooler up towards buffalo, 58. miami, nice and warm at 82 degrees. it's once again really hot out toward phoenix. 96 right now. and that's early in the morning. later today back into the triple digits. you can see the heat basically pushing all the way up toward great falls, montana, almost 100 degrees today in boise, idaho. meanwhile, on our side of the coast it's the opposite. you can see hour temperatures are much cooler. it's all thanks to the jet stream. we have a big ridge of high pressure out west, a trough of low pressure sitting on top of us. this allowshe heat to build in the four corner states and the cool weather to spill southward from canada. eventually, though, the jet will start to lift up toward the north and this will allow some humidity to push back into the region. so on satellite we are clear. there is a little bit of moisture offshore, all tied to a frontal band. eventually a wave of lower pressure will ride up this front, bringing us a chance of some showers and some -- some showers and some storms as we head into the workweek. but for today, high pressure will dominate again, bringing us a beautiful day. lots of sunshine and with that northerly flee we'll continue to reinforce that lovely weather. here comes the wave of low pressure. starts to push in late monday, stick around tuesday, bringing ushowers and storms. with the daytime heating each day this week woe could have a round of showers and thunderstorm. for today, mostly sunny, comfortable, low humidity. just a really pretty stuff. then we start to see a change as we start to head into your monday and your tuesday and your wednesday. temperatures, in fact, coming down a little bit on monday and tuesday with the extra cloud cover. and with the chances of showers and thunderstorms. each day we're going to have at least a chance of a shower or storm. the humidity really starts to pick up with the southeasterly winds. we're going to have a persistent onshore flow which will persistently bring in lots of moisture. >> okay. dry, hot, all gone. >> yep. >> thank you. well, a woman was hit and killed while trying to watch the tour de france. cyclists rode past the woman's bod oi the side of the road. the victim, a 61-year-old, had been trying to cross the street. police say a pack of cyclists had just passed her but she did not see an officer following the riders on his motorcycle. the officer hit the many would. his motorcycle hit and slid two more people. they are expected to be okay. here's lindsay czarniak with the rest of the morning's sports headlines. >> good morning, everybody. your sports news on this sunday morning begins with the nationals who took an early four-run lead last night after two innings but it wasn't enough. former national alfonso soriano made the difference. after missing friday night's game with a swollen finger, he hit his first home run in 133 plate appearances. a three-run shot in the sixth that led the cubs to a 6-5 win. back at nationals park. start in the bottom of the second. the nationals lead it 3-0. nick johnson at the plate with a man on. gets a hit up the middle. it would be enough to score nyger morgan. the nationals take a 4-0 lead just like that. it looked. never muff for the nats. johnson went 3 for 4 with one rbi. in the sixth, nationals up 4-2. zimmerman with bradley up, and he strikes him up. bradley so mad he breaks his bat. very next pitch, though, to former national alfonso soriano. he swats it high and deep to right. a three-run home run, his first homer since june 7th. the cubs are able to take a 5-4 lead because of soriano. bottom of the eighth now, the nationals trail 6-5. here's josh willingham at the plate with two outs and the bases loaded. chops it to third. ramirez comes up with it. short hops. derrek lee with the sensation at pick at first. the cubs beat the nationals 6-5. they are now 0-3 in the jim riggleman area. >> good things happen to good people. good things ought to happen for these guys. i don't know if it's going to be tomorrow or, or three days from now, four, five. who knows? maybe next week. we're going to try to make it happen tomorrow. we felt we were going to make it happen tight. it's going to happen. you know, i'm not going to quit and nobody in there better quit. >> jim riggleman keeping it positive. hey, we're in chicago, orioles against the white sox. cruising along until now. the os lead it in the fifth. 1-0, ramirez grounds it, izturis fields it. goodhrow to first. ty wigginton has some issues. it goes off his glove. that's an error. wigginton knows it. says that's my bad. wouldn't you know? very next batter, jermaine dye takes the off-speed pitch to left. gone and out of there. a two-run home run. ouch. dye's 21st of the year. the orioles lose by one, 4-3 is the final. 59-year-old tom watson joked yesterday that some doubters who thought he had gotten lucky to lead the british open after day one now might be saying, this old geezer might have a chance to win the tournament. watson is your leader heading into today's final round after shoots a 1 over 71. we are in scotland where 29-year-old steve marino has also become quite a story. started the day tied for the lead. his second shot of the day on the par 5 7th hole from just over 230 yards out, an incredible shot, curls up nice and close to the pin. marino would tap it in for eagle but he triple bogeyed 15, now 1 over for the tournament, five shots back. here he is, your leader tom watson putting for birdie. an incredible putt. the gallery shows incredible support. it would give watson a share of the lead. then watson's second shot from the edge of the fairway on the par 5 17th. look at this. gets the nice bounce right there. bounces and rolls, rolls on to about 15 feet. just close to the pin. it sets up an eagle attempt. watson, however, would miss the eagle, but he would be able to tap in for birdie. tom watson leads the british open at 4 under after three rounds. to soccernews, last night, d.c. united taking on colorado at home, and united made this one fun to watch. we're in the second half. game tied at 1. christian gomez with the corner kick, serves it up. watch close. bryan namoff dives and heads it in. one of the best goals you'll see all season. namoff's first of the season as d.c. united came back to win it 3-1. first game of the soccer doubleheader, the washington freedom hosting st. louis. second half, no score, 74th minute, freedom in blue. watch the bottom of your screen. she gets it and she is gone. deflects off a defender and in for the goal. it's her first goal of the season. the freedom get the win, 1-0. the new york liberty had won four straight games against the mystic until last night. lindsey harding came to the rescue nailing two free throws with eight seconds left to give the mystics the win. we are at verizon center. look who showed up, mike sellers in the house. first quarter off the liberty miss. mistakes guard lindsey harding grabs the rebound. she is off and running. no one can get her. drives to the bucket and look at that, throws up the off-balance shot and it goes. and the foul. harding went for a game-high 23 points. the mystics edge the liberty 68-67. current san francisco 49er and former maryland star vern object davis is coaching his brother in preparation of his rookie season in the nfl with the miami dolphins. yesterday, the brothers hosted their first football camp for kids on the field of their alma mater. vernon and dante davis helped coach the fundamentals. they could have had all the basics and also tookhe chance to compete with each other. as the brothers prepare to head to their separate nfl training camps, they said, you know what, we really relish some good family time together. >> it means a lot to me to get out here. during the season we don't have time to do anything like this. i won't see him for a long time. so, it's -- it feels good to be able to be out here with him and have some fun. >> we do this all the time. even in the house we're doing this. it's just -- i'm used to it. >> to be out here with the kids and making this difference today? >> yeah, it's fun, good to be home in d.c. this is a family, you know, atmosphere. >> vernon and dante davis both taken in the first round also of separate nfl drafts. that will do it for your sports on this sunday morning. i'm lindsay czarniak. have a great day. >> we are back in two minutes with this morning's top news stories, plus sports and news 4's "viewpoint." stay with us. stlaear... when companies were laying off hundreds of thousands of workers... walmart was creating 30 thousand new jobs... all right here in america. st save money. live better. walmt. when the paths we take do determine our 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and paas-te atimcisoes t we n'00t be 1% satiieund evl amtibey erer qanasty hy liua rdli haffoleabltrah vecole.ge . save money. live better. walmart. . save money. live better. walmart. good morning and welcome to "news 4 today" at 7:00. it is sunday july 19th, 2009. i'm eun yang. let's get started with a weather update from meteorologist steve villanueva up in storm center 4. good morning, steve. >> good morning, eun. good morning, everyone. it is going to be another beautiful day today. yesterday was spectacular. today just as nice. we are going to start to see some changes as we head into the workweek. enjoy your sunday. right now 64 degrees here in our nation's capital. a bit cooler in the shenandoah valley with temperatures in the mid-50s. the air is very dry. look at the dew points. they're in the 50s. that is very comfortable. we do have a few clouds moving across the region but not enough to block the sunshine. mostly sunny for today, really pretty day. temperatures in the mid-80s. then we'll cool it down a little bit for monday and tuesday. we'll see more clouds. the humidity starts to uncease. each day we do have a chance of showers and storms. more weather coming up later on. in the meantime, back to you. >> thanks so much, steve. in the news this morning, the takoma park metro station will be open today. a stretch of the red line near the station had been shut down nearly all day yesterday as federal investigators try to reconstruct the crash. they're trying to figure out when the driver of the striking train could see the stopped train. metro says riders can still expect delays on the red line today. federal investigators are looking into allegations that several local police officers provided protection for drug deers. that's according to today's "washington post." citing sources and police documents, the post says the fbi is focusing on five veteran officers from prince george's county as well as d.c. police official and a former housing authority officer. the investigation centers on whether the officers protected drug dealers at high-stakes illegal gambling games. authorities believe they found the body of a man who disappeared while trying to swim across the potomac river. the 32-year-old silver spring man was last seen tuesday near the old angler's inn in potomac, maryland. this morning fishermen found a body on rocks about a half mile from there. investigators say the body matches the description of the missing swimmer. those are the top stories this morning. next is channel s4'vi "ewpoint." we will back in a few minutes with an update. >> good morning. welcome to "viewpoint" on this sunday morning. i'm joe krebs. today we're going to be getting our guest viewpoints on the topic of law and order and crime and justice in prince george's county because our guest is the assistant state's attorney for prince george's county, glenn ivey. thank you for joining us. let's talk about, first of all, the crime rate in prince george's county. this year a downturn, most -- overall crime is down about 14%, property crimes down about 14%, violent crime down about 10%. what do you account for --hy do you think that is? and what do you think it means? >> chief hylton and police have been working very hard. the county executive put more police officers out on the street. i think those two things have helped. you know, the crime rate's been going down for the last three years or so in prince george's county so that's very good. and the homicide detectives have been doing some great work. we've had homicides down 16%. we had a string of about -- i think about 34 convictions in a row at the homicide case level. so it's been a good stretch. >> but do you think that's because the police are actually able to prevent crimes from occurring, or is there something else going on in prince george's county that is reducing the crime rate? for instance, during these tough economic times, a lot of people would expect the crime rate perhaps to go up. >> yeah. >> but it's going down. so why do you think that is? >> it is counterintuitive. typically crime goes up during summer months and during resessions. we're having both right now. the department has been doing a great job on that front. i do i think there's some intervention and prevention efforts. we need to expand them more, but a lot of people in the faith community have been working very hard to try to reach out to youth and get to them before they get into trouble. we need to continue with that. the school system has expanded some efforts as well. >> one area where apparently crimes have gone up are residential burglaries. >> right. >> any explanation for that? is that related to the economy, do you think? >> itould be speculating but that's probably the case. seem to be property-related. the connection with the recession is not lost on us. there's definitely a correlation. but, you know, overall i think crime's definitely moving in the right direction. it's heading down. we've got a lot more work to do still. no time for a victory lap yet but things are moving in the right direction. >> what is the effect in prince george's county now in looking at these statistics, is it less or more the impact of gangs? for a long time, gang activity has been a big particular problem, especially among young kids in the schools. >> it's still a source of concern. i think we had a homicide conviction recently, in fact, where a bloods member killed a man for no apparent reason in front of his pregnant girlfriend, and then shot her. that resulted in a conviction. he got 80 years in jail. but we still -- we're still seeing gang activity and groups like the bloods and crypts are becoming more active in the d.c. area. of course, m.s. 13 has been a presence here for a while. >> are you seeing gang activity increasing in prince george's county, if not necessarily criminal activity but gang activity, more kids, more people joining gangs because they mean something special? >> there's clearly a growing gang presence, i think, especially in the jails. and i think that there are definitely national gangs that are trying to infiltrate the washington area or expand their presence here. i know that the police departments in the region are working hard to sort of push back on that and the federal government's gotten involved. we had that prosecution we did with the federal prosecutors in maryland. i think there were 23 m.s. 13 members who were convicted. so i think those kinds of things help. but we've got to definitely remain vigilant. i think an expanded effort from the federal government to support our efforts is going to be critical. >> now when we talk about the bloods and the crypts we think in terms of gangs that are very heavily involved in drug activity, buying, distributing, bringing drugs into the country, selling it, distributing it. >> right. >> and killings and violence in connection with that. is that what today's gangs are about? is it drug activity, or is it frequently more a social activity? >> well, it's a combination of things. i think there's clearly a social aspect to gangs. even the smaller groups, whether you call them crews or posses or whatever, they tend to be very socially oriented with strong bonding between the members. they tend to be good friends. times they grew up together and the like. they tend to be family members connected with it, girlfriends and that sort of thing. different gangs are involved in different types of violent activity, although they're all involved in violent activity at some level. some, you know, are sure to focus more on prostitution, some more on drugs but it's -- you know, it's clearly a problem. and we need to keep working hard against it. >> you mentioned chief hylton. earlier this week he held a news conference with the county executives to talk about the crime statisticing. he said at that news conference he did not invite you to be present at that news conference. do you know why that would be the case? is there some friction between your office and his office? >> well, not that i know of. we had a meeting last week. i think it was thursday, as a matter of fact. i thought the meeting went well. we covered some ground. i think our office and his department are working closely together. by the way, i've never attended one of these crime stat announcements so people really shouldn't read anything into that. >> okay. but he seemed to say that a lot of their problems were with the judicial system, that people were being arrested and put in jail and released very quickly and that they were not being tried and convicted of these crimes. >> well, he didn't say that part, but i do share his view about the judicial system. i've had a lot of concerns. i haven't been quiet about them. sometimes people get released on bond that are disturbing. we had a case a little while ago where a first degree murder suspect was released on personal re cognizance to go home with his mother. that's deeply troubling and i think it's troubling to the community. we need to reverse that trend. there are also cases where i'd like to see stiffer sentencing for defendants that are convicted. not just on the murder cases but also carrying a gun, using a gun, armed robberies, rapes, a lot of those sentences aren't as long as i think they sudden be. >> let's take a break now. we'll come back and talk more. ñn welcome back to "viewpoint" on this sunday morning. we're talking with glenn ivey, the state's attorney for prince george's county. i have to ask you about pbably the most controversial case going on in the last year or so in prince george's county, and it's in your office because the decision has been made at least up to this point not to seek an indictment in the case involving the death of ronnie white. he, of course, is the person who was accused of murdering a prince george's county police officer by running him over with a truck and he was put into jail a. a couple days later he was found dead in a jail cell. still nobody has been charged. the medical examiner, i believe, ruled it was a homicide. >> right. >> nobody has been charged with his murder. where does that case sit right now? >> right now the department of justice is reviewing the case. they took it over about a month ago, i guess, at this point. they're going to take a -- i would assume a fresh look at it an review it top to bottom. i welcome that. i think it's a good step. the fbi's already collected all the documentation from us and the maryland state police, taken it down to d.o.j. for them to review. i think that's a good thing. they'll run into some of the challenges our grand juriy had. smo mar no mosharks on the body, nobody heard anything. there will be some challenges in working through that. but i've got confidence in the department of justice. that's why we reached out to them. >> he was in an area under guard by jail guards, two or three people who had -- who were the only people who would have had an opportunity to know what happened to him. do you believe that they're just not being forthcoming, or are they lying, or do they truly not know what exactly happened to him? >> well, that will be the chak for the department of justice to take a look at. we reviewed and interviewed some some of them six times. we did polygraphs. we really -- i think the maryland state police really tried everything they could think of to try and sort of break the case. and i supported their efforts on that front. maybe the federal and law enforcement forces can find a way to do it. they have a different set of tools that they can use legally to prosecute the case. but it's a troubling case. there's no question about it. you find someone dead in your jail, it's deeply disturbing. i know the community's concerned about it. they should be. i share that concern. and i'm hoping that the department of justice can help us find a way to bring it to closure. >> well, you've been very close to this case. you've seen the evidence. what do you believe happened? >> well, i'm trying to reserve judgment. i'll defer judgment to the department of justice on that. at this point, what's critical is what do they think they can show with the evidence that they can present? with me, the challenge was what evidence do i have to prove that a specific individual killed ronnie white? i think that's where we came up short. hopefully the department of justice will be able to find a way to close that last gap and bring this to some sort of a prosecution or closure. >> as police officers, frequently say, they know what happened, they just can't prove what happened. are you at that stage where you know what happened but you can't prove what happened? >> yeah, the proof is the issue. because when you go to court, you have to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. >> right. >> that means you have to convince 12 people on a injur j a specific person killed that individual. that's the challenge. hopefully the department of justice can make that step. >> right. but you personally believe you know what happened? even though you perhaps can't prove it beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law? >> well, i mean, i think i do, but we need more evidence to be sure. again, the critical thing is, you know, what does the jury think? ultimately if we get a conviction at that stage, what does a judge think, and what kind of sentence would he impose? >> any idea how long the justice department investigation is likely to take? >> that i don't ow. i think it's critical to give th the time they need to do it right. there shouldn't be a rush to get through it. i think they need to make sure they do the best job they can and to take the time that it needs. >> okay. at the stage it is right now, since you did not seek an indictment, you're not foreclosed from seeking an indictment once you feel like you will have the opportunity to get enough evidence to -- >> absolutely. if we get additional evidence, i think that could really make all of the difference for us. and it could come from the department of justice investigation. it could come from the civil case. there were two lawsuits filed, i think. the mother's side of the family filed a lawsuit and the father's side filed a lawsuit as well. we'll take the evidence anywhere we can get it from to try and bring this to a prosecution. >> because a lot of people -- some people are saying, well, why didn't you charge them with something so that might force somebody to give u some evidence or at least somebody might be convicted of a lesser crime? but you -- you're -- your tactical decision is not to do that because you want to save the possibility of charging somebody with murder. >> right. the issue there is double jeopardy. if you pick a small offense and charge it, you might get a conviction out of it, but it prevents you from charging for the bigger offense, in this case a potential homicide. we really don't want to do that. you don't want to immunize someone from a murder prosecution in a rush to get something smaller taken ce of. we'll give the department of justice time to take a thorough and close look at this and do the work they need to do. and then if there's something we can do to help close that out or if they're going to do it, that's what we want to do. >> okay. need to take a break right now. when we come back i want to ask you about a very interesting recent u.s. supreme court decision that might affect prosecutors. stay with us. good morning. i'm eun yang, updating the news. a 7-year-old b is still clinging to life after an apartment clapd the life of his 5-year-old boy. a memorial for the boys has formed outside the oak ridge apartment complex in riverdale. the fire started in their apartment yesterday afternoon. the authorities say their father was cooking, then for some reason left them home alone. the father and several neighbors tried to save the boys from the burning building. the father was injed and remains hospitalized. also this mornin athnoer deir fhily tes weekend took the life of an elderly tn.ma peap hned yesterday morning in ap northeast d.c. in t petersbg apartments on lincoln drive. brsieve the man w bas overcome by smoke as heri ed to ex tin wish the fire. a tribute to walter kron cite is now on display at the museum. the tv news legend died friday night. he was 92 years old. now back to "viewpoint." >> good morning. welcome back to "viewpoint" on this sunday morning. we're talking with glenn ivey, the state's attorney with prince george's county. i want tosk you about a case that came out of the supreme court this recent term that ruled that no longer will prosecutors be allowed to present just written reports on lab exams. for instance, i gather on fingerprint analysis, on perhaps dna analysis, maybe even medical examiner analysis, cause of death. >> right. >> ghana natural says. that the actual expert who did the exam has to be present in court to testify to this. first of all, how big of a change is this for prosecutors, and what effect will it have on prosecutors? >> well, it depends on the state. that's already in place in maryland by statute for some time. i believe the district also follows that as well. the places that are going to have real trouble with it are states that didn't have it in place, especially very large states where the experts will have to travel -- like say, in text 10 to 12 hours to get to a courthouse from the state capitol where they do their lab work. the other issue, too, is just the logistics. if you've got analysts who are coming to court to testify, that's time they're not actually doing lab analysis on whatever the forensics are. you're either going to have to hire more people or you won't be able to test everything. sometimes those are the challenges we run into in maryland now. sometimes you can't test all of the drugs so you have to triage what you're going to test and what you aren't based on the seriousness of the case. so, it's a huge opinion. i think it's going to have not so much a big effect here but in some states it will be very dramatic. >> so, in the state of maryland you're saying it really would have no effect because there's a current statute that requires the expert to show up in court? >> yeah. certainly for drug analysis and the like, dna analysis, yes. it's going to have some impact but it's not as big for us as other places. >> okay. let's talk about other prosecutions you've had recently in prince george's county. what, if your mind, have been the most significant prosecutions you've had? >> we've had a fair number recently of cases. a lot of homicides that have been coming through the court system. we had a pizza delivery man who was basically ambushed in the temple hills area. they called him up to lure him down. then they took his money and killed him that resulted in a conviction. i believe that was a 60-year sentence for one of the people who was involved in that. by the way, these tend to be very young males, late teens, early 20s, the bloods case i mentioned earlier was another example of that. it's pretty disturbing. when we do have young people that do get off track, they seem to get way off track. i think we have to find ways to try and reach out to them and pull them back in before they end up in the criminal justice system. >> you're at that other end of the criminal justice system. once the case gets to you, the crime has been committed, somebody's been charged. your job is to prosecute them. can the state's attorney's office in any way get in front of that whole process and help prevent that crime from ever occurring in the first place? >> well, we participate in a variety of programs that are aimed at reaching out to the community to reduce crime in a variety of ways. the reading together program is one we've been working in conjunction with the prince george's county school system to get volunteer tutors for second grade students. we're recruiting again for the upcoming school year. this will be our third year. it's been very successful. we need to expand the numbers of people involved. the safe sunday program we've worked on to reduce domestic violence by reaching out through the faith community, that's coming up in october again. and i think this will be our seventh year there. been growing by leaps and bounds every year. >> okay. how does that fit into the mandate of the state's attorney's office to get into those kinds of programs as opposed to sticking strictly to prosecuting the crimes that come into your office? >> well, i have no budget for any of those programs. we do a lot of outreach programs along those lines. there was an outreach effort at fairmont heights high school and a variety of other places we participate in or sponsor and run. but that doesn't matter to me. we have to find a way to do it. the reading together program's all volunteer. the project save sunday effort has been all volunteer through the faith community. we want to get out and educate people on how they can protect themselves or to put people back on track. another one we do a lot with is the mortgage fraud effort, reach out to seniors to learn how to protect themselves. >> we need to take another break. we will come right back. welcome back to "viewpoint" on this sunday morning. we're talking with glenn ivey, the district attorney for prince george's county. you talked about community involveme involvement. let me ask you about how that relates to trials, especially with regard to intimidation of witnesses. prosecutors have a lot of problems trying to prove cases because wilts are afraid to come forward. how much of that are you seeing in trying to bring cases to trial? >>ell, it's a fair amount especially in the homicide cases. i would guess we have it in at least 60%, maybe 70% of our cases have to deal with it. >> what can be done to fix that? >> well, there's a couple of things. one is sometimes we have to relocate people. we'll pay or the police department will pay to move people out of a dangerous area, especially if they live near the perpetrators of the crime to another area so they are away from them and safe from them. also, there's a new law that's in place that we just used effectively. if they do something to prevent a witness from testifying, either they make them unavailable or afraid to come or kill them or something along those lines, we still get the testimony in. we just had a case recently -- i think we're the first in the state that's been able to do that successfully. the trial will be coming up for that in the fall. so, i think that's going to be a huge point to make to people out there in the community, that you can't silence these witnesses. we're going to get the testimony in one way or the other. >> let me ask you about a case that occurred -- well, about a year ago the mayor of berwyn heights had his home raided by prince george's county sheriff's department. they shot both of his dogs. it was a huge mess-up. i understand that this past week a man in prince george's county had his home raided when police came in with a warrant to search his home, looking for a gun. turns out the gun had been turned in 30 days before. so there was no gun in the house. but they came in with this warrant to look for a gun that wasn't there. >> uh-huh. >> the question is, how does that happen? how does -- how do the police go about getting a warrant to do that kind of s.w.a.t. team search of a home before it happens? >> i don't know the particulars of that case you mentioned there, but you have to -- the police have to get a judge to sign the warnt and the judge has to authorize it as having probable cause to go into the house. >> they have to go through your department? >> well, yeah, usually they'll bounce it off us to make sure it's legally sound. then they go to the judge to, you know, get him to sign off and approve it. and there's an affidavit that lists out the specific facts that they had that demonstrate probable cause, why they believe this evidence is in that house. so, it's actually pretty good process that's in place, but there are times when they, they go do a search warrant and they don't come up with something. the issue on the dogs case i think was a little different. that was the amount of force that was used in executing the warrant. we knew there were drugs there so it was appropriate to go in. the question, i think, that was raised was the amount of force that was used. >> let me ask you, we just have a couple minutes left. let's ask about glenn ivey himself. what are glenn ivey's plans for 2010? is glenn ivey going to run for county executive or some other office or what are you thinking about? >> i'm still thinking about it. i haven't made a final decision. at this point, i have more than enough to keep me busy in my current job, and i'm enjoying it. i like serving the people of prince george's county. it's been a real challenge. it's a blessing that i've been trusted with the authority to do it. i'm going to do the best job i can. >> but last time around there was a lot of talk you might run for attorney general in the state of maryland. you've thought about other opportunities and other possibilities of ways to serve. are you activelyhinking about maybe another way to serve in prince george's county, or in maryland, or elsewhere? >> well, we'll see. you know, it's -- the speculation that i've been kikted with has been great. i guess it's kind after backhanded compliment. attorney general, lieutenant governor, obama administration, whatever. but we'll see. i'll make a decision, you know, in the near future. and i'll let everybody know. >> okay. let's -- we have an opportunity now to put on the screen that tell phone number for the reading together program, 301-952-4844. very quickly, what is that program again? >> it's a program where volunteers are -- become tutors for second grade students that elementary schools have identified as needing additional assistance. in the first two years, the student that's participated have jumped up to third and fourth grade reading levels. it's a very successful program. >> that number is for people who want to volunteer? >> that's right. or if you're just interested or if you are part of a group that might have people who want volunteer, give us a call. >> all right. glenn ivey, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you for joining us as well. now we'll send you back to "news 4 today." hope you have a terrific sunday. chilly morning, but it looks like another beautiful day ahead. funeral services, walter cronkite's family announces funeral plans as people across the country pay tribute to the news man. and hot dog crash. a giant hot dog creates a gaping hole in the side of a house. good morning and welcome back to "news 4 today." i'm eun yang. the news is straight ahead, but first we're going to take a look at the weather with meteorologist steve villanueva up in storm center 4. good morning, steve. >> good morning, eun. good morning, everyone. it will be another great day today so get outside and enjoy. it is going to be beautiful. lots of sunshine, temperatures in the mid-80s and very low humidity once again. but things will start to change as we head into the workweek. 64 right now, 55 i man an as, 57 culpepper so temperatures are cooler in the outlying areas because the dew points are so low. the air is crisp this morning. a few clouds are moving across the region. the bulk of the cloud cover is still offshore. eventually those clouds will start to backtrack and push back into the area starting tomorrow. not today. today looks great. mostly sunny, 85 degrees, a little bit cooler for monday and tuesday. we start to see more clouds out there and each day we do have a chance of a shower or a thunderstorm as some moisture starts to push bacinto the area. more weather in just a few minutes. back to you, eun. >> we'll see you then. thank you. the nation is mourning the loss of legendary tv news man walter cronkite. he gave up his anchor seat at cbs years ago, but his memory lives on in the hearts and minds of many americans. brian moore reports. >> reporter: it shouldn't come as any surprise walter cronkite's death is front page news around the country because to many americans, he was the news. >> it really felt like you could tune in to him and he would be -- he would tell you the truth. >> reporter: did you news museum in washington, a quickly arranged exhibit honored the legendary anchor man. outside, visitors remembered him and his story. >> i was in eighth grade when president kennedy was killed, and i remember that announcement. >> president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. >> reporter: when cronkite declared the vietnam war unwinnable -- >> to say we are mired in stalemate -- >> reporter: americans believed him. >> i think he really made a difference. >> reporter: in 1973 he was called the most trusted man in america as watergate was swallowing president nixon. president obama was just a child. >> he was someone we could trust to guide us through the most important issues of the day, a voice of certainty in an uncertain world. >> what a moment. man on the way to the moon. >> reporter: for decades ago this week, cronkite brought us the one story that left him speechless. >> boy. >> reporter: man landing on the moon. >> july 20th, 1969, is -- i'm sure is going to be perhaps the one historical date that children 500 years from now will recognize. >> reporter: perhaps those ildren will also remember the man who brought us the news. brian moore, news 4. >> one of walter cronkite's favorite subjects and one of the biggest stories he reported on was the space program. here's an interview he did with nasa tv years later. >> 1969 is, i'm sure, is going to be perhaps the one historical date that children 500 years from now will recognize. >> apollo 11 commander neil armstrong says cronkite enjoyed the highest ratings because his passion earned the trust of his audience. cronkite died three days before the 40th anniversary of that 1969 moon landing. a number of events are planned on monday to commemorate the anniversary, including an all-day retrospective at the national air and space museum in southwest washington. 40 years later, the crew of the space shuttle "endeavour" went on a space walk of their own yesterday. two astronauts ventured out to do some construction work. they were installing an yaut door platform for japan's space lab. this is the first of five space walks scheduled for the two-week mission. the next space walk is monday. this morning, two u.s. defense officials are confirming the man seen on a video posted by the taliban is an american soldier who went missing last month in afghanistan. the video shows the soldier with his head shaved and the start of a beard. it's the first glimpse the public has had of the captured soldier. senior pentagon officials have not released the soldier's identity. he is interviewed on the video in english by his captors and is asked his views on the war, which he calls extremely hard, his desire to learn more about islam and the morale of american soldiers, which he says is low. now to a developing story in san francisco. two light rail trains collided last night, causing what officials are calling one of the largest casualty incidents in years. 48 people were taken to the hospital, 3 with severe injuries. authorities say one train barreled into a stopped train. it happened on the city's muni transit line. one passenger told reporters the operator of the striking train appeared to be asleep or passed out. earlier this month, a former transit worker told "the washington post" that intermittent track circuits failures had been affecting the muni system. investigators are trying to figure out exactly what led to last month's deadly metro crash and why the system is still not up to speed. they closed down the takoma metro station for most of yesterday as part of the ongoing investigation. darcy spencer explains. >> reporter: the takoma metrorail station on theed line re-opened at 7:00 after a 12-hour shutdown. the closure happened as the national transportation safety board continued its investigation of last month's train collision that claimed nine lives and left dozens injured. >> i think they need to find out what caused the wreck, so i don't like being inconvenienced, but i understand it. that it may be necessary. >> reporter: the ntsb conducted tests on the tracks between the takoma and ft. totten stations. shuttle bus us were used. investigators continue to re-enact the crash, testing to determine when the metro operator might have seen the train stopped on the tracks. prior tests indicated the stopping train braked 425 feet before the collision. >> i understand why they would want to do it, take the necessary precautions, just to ensure that something like this doesn't happen again. >> it sounds like, you know, everybody thought it was real simple at first. now we're all kind of saying, well, it's a big deal. there's been more going on. so hopefully they'll resolve those problems and we won't see an accident like this for a long time, if ever again. >> reporter: officials have said the train detection system apparently failed. it should have alerted the operator there was a train sitting on the tracks and avoided the crash. since then, officials say, they've not been able to determine why the circuit failed that day and continues to fail now. >> hope they come up with some positive results to figure out why and what happened. >> reporter: darcy spencer, news 4 today. >> the fbi has traced a high stakes gambling ring to a group of local police officers. according to this morning's "washington post," authoritying are trying to figure out whether they took money to protect the gambling habits of some of the region's most powerful drug dealers. those under investigation include police officials, housing authority officer and five police veterans in prince geor's county. documents show phone records, surveillance and other evidence link most of the officers directly to the ring's leaders, but it doesn't end there. investigators are also looking into a possible connection between the gambling ring, the officers and three killings. a woman was hit and killed while watching the tour de france. cyclists rode pass to woman's body on the side of the road. the victim had been trying to cross the street. police say a pack of cyclists had just passed her but she did not se an officer following the riders on his motorcycle. the officer hit the woman. his motorcycle then slid and into hit two more people. they are expected to be okay. now here's lindsay czarniak with the rest of the morning's sports headlines. >> hey there. good morning, everybody. your sports minute on this sunday morning begins with the nationals who are still searching for their first win under new manager jim riggleman. last night against the cubs, the nationals did jump out to an early 4-0 lead, but former national alfonso soriano spoiled the party. soriano hit a three-run home run in the sixth inning. it was his first homer in 133 plate appearances. the cubs beat the nationals 6-5. the orioles on t road in chicago. baltimore first baseman ty wigginton made a costly error in the fifth inning on a routine play. the next batter for chicago was jermaine dye and he nailed a two-run home run to left. the white sox edge the os 4-3. in golf at the british open, second round co-leader steve marino, who's from fairfax, had an up and down day at turnberry. he's now 1 over for the tournament. meanwhile, 59-year-old tom watson leads the way by just one stroke at 4 under par after three rounds. in soccer news, d.c. united hosting colorado. bryan namoff scored his first goal of the season in style. the black and red come back to beat the rapids 3-1. that's your sports minute. on this sunday morning. i'm lindsay czarniak. have a good day. >> 7:40 is your time. 64 degrees. still ahead on this early sunday edition of "news 4 today," it's an education at your own pace. an online university exploding in popularity among adults who are changing careers. if we don't act, medical bills will wipe out their savings. if we don't act, she'll be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. and he won't get the chemotherapy he needs. if we don't act, health care costs will rise 70%. and he'll have to cut benefits for his employees. but we can act. the president and congress have a plan to lower your costs and stop denials for pre-existing conditions. it's time to act. the "today" show is coming up next here on news 4. jenna wolf juoins us live with preview. >> coming up this morning on "today," the taliban releases video of an american soldier captured in afghanistan. we will bring you the latest on his condition. plus, incredible travel deals you can get right now as the airline industry slashes fares. we will tell you how to find them. you won't believe how far you can actually go for your money. then, this is great, when kelly met kelly. a woman who went looking online for people who share her name, and we all do it, but she got a lot more than she bargained for. she got herself a husband. we're going to meet the happy cup live. when airline baggage handlers broke a musician's guitar, he got revge on youtube. we'll show you the viral video that actually made an airline apologize. all that and more when we see you later on "today." eun, back to you. >> thank you so much, jenna. well, the down economy has forced many americans to rethink their career choices and that has led many to go back to school, but not every one has the freedom to attend a traditional college, which is why one unique university aimed specifically adult students is making dream become reality. >> reporter: since angie was a little girl, this is where she's always wanted to be. >> raise your hand if you can hear me. >> reporter: a classroom in miami teaching second grade. >> why don't you grab the paper? >> reporter: but getting here meant going back to colonel lemg while juggling a job and two kids. >> i didn't want to do that to my family. i didn't want to just leave them. >> reporter: angie was exactly the student 19 governor had in mind when they started western governors university 12 years ago. what "time" magazine calls the best relatively cheap university you've never heard of. at $6,000 a year, an online, nonprofit, fully accredited university. already among the biggest providers of math and science teachers to inner cities. we talked to the university president online. >> we actually have seen an increased rate of growth probably just in the last three or four or five months. we think due to the recession that people coming back to school. >> reporter: in fact, the online student population has expded from 500 students in 2003 to 14,000 today. here's what's different. rather than requiring students to physically attend dozens of classes, instead they work from home. at their own pace. when thetake exams, they do it at local test centers. if a student demonstrates complete command of a subject matter, he or she can test out of that subject and graduate that much more quickly. in sacramento, scott saunders needed a degree for a promotion. >> for me, i had 15 years worth of computer experience in various capacities, and so i was able to, you know, sit through examinations with very little studying. >> reporter: he earned a bachelor's degree in two years, then delivered the commencement address in salt lake city. >> i never really liked school. for nearly 20 years i was in and out of community college. >> reporter: nax wide, 20% of higher students taj online classes. the biggest for-profit schools include university of phoenix, kaplan and ash forward university. but for angie gonzalez and others like her -- >> i'm very happy i was able to do it. i'm happy that western governors university was there for me. >> reporter: the dream of 19 governors has become her dream fulfilled. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >> a family in wisconsin is cleaning up after the oscar meyer wiener mobile rammed into their garage. police say the driver was trying to get a view of nearby lake michigan when she accidentally stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. ouch. the wayward 27-foot sausage on wheels damaged the garage and the deck above it. no one was home at the time, and the driver was not hurt. that's because she had the whole hot dog protecting her. >> that would have been some view. >> i wonder if you have to wear a helmet when you drive that wean are mobile. >> a wiener on your head? anyway, good morning. >> hi. >> weatherwise, it's nice outside. >> certainly is. >> your forecast is coming up. ñ ♪ the art of getting dirty. the art of getting clean. new powerfully formulated wisk®... is better on tough mud stains than tide total care. wisk®. powerfully clean. perfectly priced. look at that. some residents were treated to quite a show last night. they didn't have to leave their homes. what ur a seeing is video of strong lightning storms that hit the albuquerque area. the storms were part of a series of warnings issued by the national weather service that included flash flood advisories. oh, my gosh. i don't think i've ever seen anything like that. >> look at all that lightning. >> one strike after another after another. >> that is all the monsoonal moisture. >> is that what that is? >> the daytime heating and that happens. >> that's why you're the meteorologist. >> a big problem out there is you get a lot of lightning strikes without rain, which leads to forest fires and wildfires. >> see? you're so -- this is why you're the scientist. >> if you ever watched -- maybe "kids jeopardy." >> good morning. it was a beautiful day yesterday. >> it was yesterday. >> are you ready for another pretty day? >> absolutely. bring it is. >> bring it on. well, good luck because it's here. good for us. good morning, everyone. yeah, it's going to be another pretty day. yesterday was spectacular. lots of sunshine out there, very low humidity, really comfortable weather. today more of the same. i mean, here's what it looks like as we look across the potomac this morning. it is very, very pretty out there. in fact, some would call it actually crisp thismorning. temperaturewise, here's what's happening. currently 64, mostly sunny. the wind is out of the northwest at 9. the dew point, that's what's driving this beautiful weather. it's at 54 degrees. the humidity is very low for this time of year, keeping things very comfortable. all right. so here's the situation. all right. temperaturewise, again, 64 here in the distct,8 at dulles, 56 right now in martinsburg. still in the 50s into our western suburbs. everyone today heading up into the mid-80s. dew points are even lower than they were yesterday. yesterday came down big-time compared to the day before. this morning, they're even lower. we're getting that reinforcing shot of very comfortable air. dew points are in the 50s. 64 locally, 66 down in road in raleigh, 55 in sfat at this so regionwise, temperatures are a little bit cooler than average this morning. we are mostly clear. lots of sunshine out there for today. over the next couple of days, here's the basic setup. high pressure will be dominating out in the atlantic. the turn flow around this area of higher pressure will start to feed in a lot of moisture over the next couple of days. then we're going to get little disturbances in the upper levels of the atmosphere that will swing across the area, bringing us showers and thunderstorms throughout the workweek. it won't be a washout each and every day, but each and every day we could have some showers and thunderstorms. so here's future cast. for today, high pressure in control. another pretty day. then a wave of lower pressure starts to come up the east coast, gets here later in the day on monday, bringing us some showers and storms lasting through tuesday. for today, mostly sunny, comfortable, low humidity. temperatures in the mid-80s. all in all, again, a wonderful, wonderful day. get outside and enjoy. 85 the forecasted high for today. and then each and every day we do have a chance of showers and storms. again it's not going to be an organized rain, not a big batch of rain. just some showers and some thunderstorms that will pop up thanks to that daytime heating, thanks to some weak disturbances, the humidity returns. so it will start to feel a bit more summer-like, eun yang. >> we will enjoy our day today. >> yes. >> thank you, steve. in sports the nationals are swept by the cubs and tom watson tries to make history today. here's lindsay czarniak. >> good morning, everybody. your sports news on this sunday morning begins with the nationals who took an early four-run lead last night after two innings but it wasn't enough. former national alfonso soriano made the difference. after missing friday night's game with a swollen finger, he hit his first home run in 133 plate appearances. a three-run shot in the sixth that led the cubs to a 6-5 win. back at nationals park. start in the bottom of the second. the nationals lead it 3-0. nick johnson at the plate with a man on. gets a hit up the middle. it would be enough to score nyger morgan. the nationals take a 4-0 lead just like that. it looked good, but it's never enough for the nats. johnson went 3 for 4 with one rbi. in the sixth, nationals up 4-2. zimmerman with bradley up, and he strikes him out. bradley so mad he breaks his bat. very next pitch, though, to former national alfonso soriano. he swats it high and deep to right. a three-n home run, his first homer since june 7th. the cubs are able to take a 5-4 lead because of soriano. bottom of the eighth now, the nationals trail 6-5. here's josh willingham at the plate with two outs and the bases loaded. chops it to third. ramirez comes up with it. short hops. derrek lee with the sensation at pick at first. the cubs beat the nationals 6-5. the nationals are now 0-3 in the jim riggleman era. >> good things happen to good people. good things ought to happen for these guys. i don't know if it's going to be tomorrow or, or three days from now, four, five. who knows? maybe next week. we're going to try to make it happen tomorrow. we felt we were going to make it happen tonight. it's going to happen. you know, i'm not going to quit and nobody in there better quit. >> jim riggleman keeping it positive. hey, we're in chicago, orioles against the white sox. baltimore starter cruising along until now. the os lead it in the fifth. 1-0, ramirez grounds it, izturis fields it. good throw to first. ty wigginton has some issues. it goes off his glove. that's an error. wigginton knows it. he says, hey, that's my bad. wouldn't you know? very next batter, jermaine dye takes the off-speed pitch to left. gone and out of there. a two-run home run. ouch. dye's 21st of the year. the orioles lose by one, 4-3 is the final. 59-year-old tom watson joked yesterday that some doubters who thought he had gotten lucky to lead the british open after day one now might be saying, "this old geezer might have a chance to win the tournament." watson is your leader heading into today's final round after shooting a 1 over 71. we are in scotland where 29-year-old steve marino has also become quite a story. started the day tied for the lead. 5 under. his second shot of the day on the par 5 7th hole from just over 230 yards out, an incredible shot, curls up nice and close to the pin. marino would tap it in for eagle but he triple bogeyed 15, now 1 over for the tournament, five shots back. here he is, your leader tom watson putting for birdie. on 16. an incredible putt. 30 feet out. knocks down the long putt. the gallery shows incredible support. it would give watson a share of the lead. then watson's second shot from the edge of the fairway on the par 5 17th. look at this. gets the nice bounce right there. bounces and rolls, rolls on to about 15 feet. just close to the pin. it sets up an eagle attempt. watson, however, would miss the eagle, but he would be able to tap in for birdie. tom watson leads the british open at 4 under after three rounds. to soccer news, last night, d.c. united taking on colorado at home, and united made this one fun to watch. we're in the second half. game tied at 1. christian gomez with the corner kick, serves it up. watch close. bryan namoff dives and heads it in. one of the best goals you'll see all season. namoff's first of the season as d.c. united came back to win it 3-1. first game of the soccer doubleheader, the washington freedom hosting st. louis. second half, no score, 74th minute, freedom in blue. watch the bottom of your screen. she gets it and she is gone. deflects off a defender and in for the goal. it's her first goal of the season. the freedom get the win, 1-0. the new york liberty had won four straight games against the mystic until last night. lindsey harding came to the rescue nailing two free throws with eight seconds left to give the mystics the win. 68-67. we are at verizon center. look who showed up, mikeellers in the house. first quarter off the liberty miss. mystics guard lindsey harding grabs the rebound. she is off and rning. no one can get her. drives to the bucket and look at that, throws up the off-balance shot and it goes. and the foul. harding went for a game-high 23 points the mystics edge the liberty 68-67. current san francisco 49er and former maryland star vernon davis is coaching his brother vontae in preparation of his rookie season in the nfl with the miami dolphins. yesterday, the brothers hosted their first football camp for kids on the field of their alma mater. vernon and vontae davis helped coach the fundamentals. of football to campers on the field at dunbar high school. the guys covered all the basics for the d.c. kids and also took the chance to compete with each other. as the brothers prepare to head to their separate nfl training camps, they said, you know what, we really relish some good family time together. >> it means a lot to me to get out here. during the season we don't have time to do anything like this. i won't see him for a long time. so, it's -- it feels good to be le to be out here with him and have some fun. >> we do this all the time. even in the house we're doing this. it's just -- i'm used to it. >> to be out here with the kids and making this difference today? >> yeah, it's fun, good to be home in d.c. this is a family, you know, atmosphere. >> vernon and vontae davis both taken in the first round also of separate nfl drafts. that will do it for your sports on this sunday morning. i'm lindsay czarniak. have a great day. >> that's "news 4 today." thanks for joining us this morning. the "today" show is next. we will be back in about 25 minute force

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there's been a police involved shooting at new jersey avenue and c street in northwest. a 35-year-old man was transported to the scene. we are told that the gun was fired, northwest, i should say. we are told that the gun was fired by a capital police officer and entrances to the u.s. capital have been sealed off while the investigation continues. we have a crew on its way to the scene and we'll have more information as soon as we get it into the center. >> problems on the red line are starting. the transit agency began trying to turn an urgent safety recommendation into reality, but it is easier said than done. digital correspondent has more. >> regular riders don't call it the redline anymore, they call it the slow line. >> it takes longer. i know they are driving safer. they aren't driving as fast. >> here's one reason why. metro employees stationed along the section of track where the tragedy occurred. human safes to make sure one train is on the rails at a time. >> do you trust the electronic system? >> no, i trust the people more. >> i am scared being on the train. this is the redline. >> all of this because the computer system separates and controls trains, mysteriously continues to fail in the area of the crash. even after replacement of suspect switches. in some tests, trains on the track simply are not detected. and urgent recommendation issued monday says metro should immediately develop electronic train controls to continually monitor trains on tracks and alert drivers when the system fails. metro general manager held the first meetings today to shop for a solution. costs and time frame still unknown. also at the congressional hearings, revelations from the u.s. department of transportation that that agency has very little to say about how local transit agencies regulate safety on the rails. leaving them pretty much to regulate themselves. on the metro system, scott broom, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> meanwhile, the latest estimate of losses to insurers due to losses is up to $100 million. that's according to bloomberg.com. police are searching for a loudoun county real estate agent indicted in a $50 million mortgage fraud scheme. police say 42-year-old diana used her job to target people with bad credit. she is accused falsifying documents. then she would accept larger commission. victims defaulted on those inflated loans and mortgage companies lost millions. >> the sad part about it is, their credit is ruined, they are bankrupt. they are foreclosed and that's the way it worked. >> the mortgage companies that are out $50 million as well. that's something that gets passed on to anybody that owns a home. whether it is insurance rates that go up. >> police say more people could be involved with the scheme and they e continuing to investigate. they believe she fled the country and working to try and locate her. >> now after weeks of trying and trying, we are taking you live to florida state canaveral and now shuttle endeavor finally lifts off. >> lift off of endeavor, completing and fulfilling japan's hope for an out of this world space laboratory. >> roger, roll endeavor. >> this is mission control houston. endeavor is being completed. it is now going into a head's down position on its flight to the international space station. flying 400 miles per hour. one mile an altitude and 7 miles from range from the kennedy space center. endeavor's engines are startling down as it passes over. >> it's been a long time coming after weather delays. endeavor is on its way to dock with the international space station. the crew will off load and install the final section of a giant space station. >> the three engines on board are throttling back up. endeavor flying at 1100 miles an hour, and 10 miles down range. >> always amazing to say. >> and tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of man's first trip to the moon. apollo11 lifted on july 16, 1969. four days later, neil armstrong left the eagle landing to become the first humans to walk on the moon. for more on the historic apollo mission, you can go to our website, click on moon landing memories at the bottom of the page. now to mcclane, virginia, where we are nearly 24 hours into a police standoff. a suspect is held up inside a home in the 7700 block of fisher drive. that's where we find seray chin live at the scene and tell us more. >> frustration has definitely set in here in falls church. now going as you said, 24 hours into the standoff as officers try to communicate further with this man held up inside. here you see officers right here at this command post. you see the yellow tape. they are all talking about the situation on hand. now everything right now on the stand by mode at this hour. the tense situation began at 6:30 last night when a domestic dispute turned violent when he shot his exgirlfriend in the head. the armored vehicle parked in front of the house on lyle avenue swarmed police. you can see, virginia state police utilizing their high- tech robot. the man has been in the house since last night and it has been putting residents on edge. >> i've lived here 12 years and i've never seen anything even remotely like this before. i always would tell everyone what a safe neighborhood it is to live in, you know. a lot of people around here didn't close their doors. >> and again, back here at the command post, as officers come in and out, there's also a woman inside that police cruiser. don't know exactly who that is. again, right now stand by mode and of course everyone wanting a peaceful resolution and of course they want to do and take care of everything before another night fall sets in. live here in falls church, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> thanks for that. now to a rather amazing story of survival from ocean city. an 11-year-old boy who was in cardiac arrest after a sand tunnel collapsed. dave is in the information center with all the details. dave. >> lesli, ocean city beach patrol captain told me this afternoon that the 11-year-old boy was reluctant at first, but now has once again enjoyed the sand back at 37th street. things looked grim as the child dug a tunnel out of the sand and became trapped. >> a lady responded, came up and said a kid was buried in the hole. i sprinted over to the hole. >> bystanders delayed a minute or two, because no one realized the young boy was in trouble. he credits a 12-year-old girl which sounded the alarm. he was trapped under the sand. she was right. >> a couple other guys helped unbury the kid. we pulled him out. he was unconscious. he was not breathing. he did not have a pulse. he was very blue. i stard cpr on him. >> the beach patrol in a defibulator. >> it didn't assess there was a shockable rhythm. thlife guards continued with cpr and within approximately a minute, we got a lse and the patient started breathing again while we had the patient still on the beach. >> i was very happy. i was happy all the training we have done on beach patrol helped to do that. i was very happy. >> the beach patrol says this is a good warning on the dangers of children or adults building tunnels in the sand. the patrol advises visitors not to dig holes deeper than the knees of the shortest person in the group. > the pictures were taken by the captain. the boy started to come, he looked and complained of sand in his eyes. lesli. >> all right dave, thanks for that. still to come on 9news now, these people came to washington today to plead to save their attackers. we'll tell you more on that story just ahead. plus, the life and times of president abraham lincoln. the curtain went off on a new museum today at fords theater. it's another beautiful summer evening. things are going to change as 'l go heinto t ekwe d.en y l ecchk see chdan-ve st. t,firs we'll take you to e fiea brbek wium nrsum e th of the hour. s.der paudlylo cy ie er mpteatures generally in the mid 80s. stay tuned, weather is up next. @ we want to update you on the breaking news from capitol hill. a police involved shooting at new jersey avenue and c street northwest. a 35-year-old man was transported from the scene. we are told the gun was fired by a capital police officer. entrances to the u.s. capital have been sealed off while the investigation continues. here's what an eyewitness saw. >> a lot of security was pushing us all back. so i couldn't see if the tires were being shooting out of the vehicle or the inside. >> he said they were going at a fast rate of speed. how fast do you think they were going? >> if i would guess, going around 50, 55. >> again, we have a crew headed to that area and we'll bring you more information as it becomes available. >> the curtain went up today on the new museum at fords theater. a $3.5 million transformation of the facility leads visitors on a historical journey. it includes the diary, and other items connected to the murder of our 16th president. >> we have the gun that killed lincoln. we have the suit that he was wearing the night he was shot. we also have some great art artifacts. pins and buttons from his 1864 election. it is a really great, new expanded story we are telling here. >> after a visit and coming to the ford's theater, visitors are invited to cross the street and go to the peterson house where president lincoln died. >> a man who lost an arm to a shark is now asking congress to help protect the creature that attacked him. he is not alone. shark attack victims hit capitol hill today. they lobbied congress to strengthen laws against illegal shark fishing. >> who better to speak up for sharks than those of us who have lost so much? >> a lot of people may see sharks as vicious killing machines. we see them as a vital part of the ecosystem. >> 73 million sharks are killed each year. most are caught for their fins. this type of fishing is outlawed in u.s. waters. a bill under consideration would raise the stakes if violators are caught. now to some tips for your back to school shopping. in tonight's living 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get gold bond pain relieving foot cream. maximum strength medicine stops pain fast. gold bond pain relieving foot cream. finally fast relief for painful feet. a resort home belonging to the woman behind the largest embezzlement in dc government history is being auctioned. the u.s. marshal's office is selling the two unit property belonging to harriette walters to the highest bidder. the minimum bid on the home on st. thomas is just over $212,000. and walters managed to steal more than $48 million from the dc tax office before she was caught. she was sentenced to 17 years in prison. >> the pentagon says it will not ban smoking by troops in war zones. the move comes despite a recent study recommending a tobacco free military. military leaders say the troops are under enough stress and making enough sacrifices from the fighting and the two wars. defense secretary, robert gates does not want to add to that stress by taking away one of the few outlets the troops have to relieve it. >> to minnesota now and some people there are cleaning up from not one, but two tornadoes. those twin twisters hit yesterday in the towns of swiz falls. they flattened homes, tossed cars into the air and turned barns into scrap. the tornadoes came, one neighbor headed for the safest place he could find, downstairs. >> i was in the basement. i was wondering when we were going to see skylight, i was sure the house was going to go through. >> despite all the damage, there is good news. no one was seriously injured, which is pretty amazing when you look at those pictures. >> that's a testament to the increase in the skill of the forecasting of tornadoes. there have been a lot -- there has been a big decrease in the amount of deaths in the last five or ten years because we are doing a lot better in getting the warnings out. twenty minute sometimes, that's good. >> it saves lives. >> that gives you plenty of time to head down to the basement. here, things have been quiet. there hasn't been anything for us to talk about as far as severe weather goes. the temperatures haven't been all that extraordinary except when you think the other direction, when you think extraordinary this time of the year, you would think i was discussing hundred degree temperatures, but no. the last couple of nights, the temperatures have been in the 50s. it felt like september, last night we were in the 50s. things are going to change a little bit. the average high right now is 89. it is typically the hottest part of the year. yes, tomorrow will be warmer and more humid, but that's what it is supposed to be like. then it is going to cool off as we go into the weekend. specifically for tonight, partly cloudy skies, a slight chance for a shower or thunderstorm late tonight at midnight. this evening already dry and pleasant. low temperatures will drop into the 60s. a south wind at 10 to 15. during the day tomorrow, mixture of sun and clouds. warmer, more humid. a chance for a shower or thunderstorm. i put a 30 or 40% mark on that. a lot of people are rooting for rain to come in. it has been dry. don't count on it. there will be some storms around. this is not going to be a big coverage event. high temperatures in the upper 80s. southwest wind at 10 to 15. right now, we have some high, thin clouds out there. partly cloudy we'll call it officially. there's no precipitation. so we'll stay dry through this evening. late tonight, this system, this little disturbance could trigger widely scattered shower, maybe a thunderstorm around here after midnight. our best chance for rain will be tomorrow afternoon over the next 24 hours. right now, 86 degrees. top of the hour. dew point is 59. that's pretty good for this time of the year. yesterday, the dew points were running in the 40s. 59 in the dew point department is a good thing. that produced a relative humidity of only 45%. outside right now, other spots, a little warmer down to the south. 88 in fredericksburg. same thing in haggerstown. and 86 degrees at the top of the hour at bwi. span the view a little bit. look off to the west. see some warm temperatures here in the southern plains. it has been a hot summer for the folks in the southern plains and some of that heat will be sliding eastbound. so that's why we jump the temperatures a little bit during the day tomorrow. in addition to that, we could see some activity up stream. our weather is coming from the west to east, remember, some thunderstorms around kansas city and st. louis and back into parts of kentucky. so that system is the one that will eventually give us a chance for shower or thunderstorm tomorrow. the cold front itself will come through on thursday night. when that happens, it will stall off to our south in an area of low pressure will develop on that front and come through friday night and saturday morning. that's when i think the best chance for rain will come in. so if you are rooting for rain at your house, only a 30 or 40 percent chance on thursday and friday. friday night and saturday morning with that area of low pressure, we should get good coverage on it. there's a slight chance of a shower. notice the temperatures again. upper 80s to around 90 tomorrow. yes, that's warm. over the weekend, back into the low 80s on saturday and sunday. again, our normal high this time of year is 89. that's what it should be like. this is typically the hottest part of the year and i don't see any change in the pattern. >> we could get used to this. >> a sweet summer here in dc. >> all right, thanks for that. and dave owens is live at nationals park where they would love to be able to call the second half of the season sweet and starting with some changes, hey dave. >> lesli, how are you doing? by the way, for tony, i give him a gold star, because it is beautiful. great weather, great baseball weather if they were playing tonight. but the all quiet right now. but it is certainly not been a quiet day for the front office. we are going to talk about the new man for the nats and we are also going to talk about some football. a lot of stuff going on the day. new raven fans, one of uryo heavy hitters got hurt. we'll talk about it coming up next in sports. let's get to a press conference to get the latest on the police involved shooting on the capital. >> at which point the suspects produced a weapon. the officer gave verbal commands, demanded subjects put the weapon down, show the hands. the suspect did not. the officers fired and the suspect was shot. at this point, we have recovered a weapon. my understanding is that the suspect is dead. i'll be back in about half an hour or so and i'll be able to brief you and give you other details and answer whatever other questions you have at that time. >> all right, we will recap that in a minute. let's go now to sports and dave owenss at national park, dave. >> not as important as what is gong on there at the capital. let's talk about the nationals of course coming into the season, manny acta calls this his most talented team and you might believe that. nick johnson was back. zimmerman was back. adam dunn came aboard. it never seemed to materialize for this ball club. they struggled coming out of the gate. worst in the league in pitching. worst in the league in defense hitting. bottom quarter of the national league. today the team announcing jim as the interim boss after firing acta late sunday night, early sunday morning. and he addressed the media for the first time today. >> the manager, his impact is in the clubhouse behind the scenes creating an atmosphere where players can succeed. it's more of the atmosphere they create. >> after all, again not his first rodeo, he had been this way before, the manager of three previous teams. the cubs, padres, and mariners. he is also a local guy, too. he went to high school in rockville. he attended frostburg state. he is a local guy and happy to be back in this area now as the interim manager. talking about putting your stamp on the team immediately. he is holding a practice today and while that is not totally unusual, teams sometimes take the day off between the all star break and getting back to that thursday game. the coach says these guys need to work and the players certainly understand. >> as the bench coach, i'm sure it's not going to be too much different. it's very professional, you know, does things the right way. i'm looking forward to it. the wake up call for everybody, you know, check ourselves in the mirror and go out there the second half and do our best. >> and the all star break certainly good news for ryan zimmerman who played in last night's game. also batted twice in the number nine position, flying out twice. he and the rest of the circuit losing. ravens locked up. six year, $63 million contract. makes him the highest paid linebacker. so it had to be the team's designated player for the last couple of years. the mystics taking on san antonio this afternoon. lindsey harding for the bucket. harding had 18 points, but it was becky who scored 21. san antonio edging the mystics 79-78. the mystics dropping to 6-6 after a 4-1 start. our top story of the day, guys, the nats introducing jim riggelman as their new manager. that's going to do it here from nats park. back to you guys in the studio. >> dave, thanks for that. just to recap our top story. capital police shot and killed a man on capitol hill after he brandished a weapon and witnesses reported a wild scene on the hill and hitting the ground to get out of the way of numerous gun shots. derek mcginty is going to have an update at 7:00. but if you are headed that way and you see a lot of activity, that is the reason why. of course, it is a beautiful day outside. >> let's take one more look at the seven-day forecast to put a smile on your face. it is going to be a beautiful evening. slight chance for rain after midnight. 30% chance of a shower or thunderstorm on thursday and friday. temperatures fall into the low 80s over the weekend. best chance for rain again friday night and saturday morning. >> not a bad forecast. >> there you go. thanks for that, tony. that's it for us. the cbs news with katie couric is next. president obama supports a drastic overhaul on healthcare. what that means for you and yo

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traffic. we start with kim. it is great outside. very comfortable. the middle of july and it's really hard to find this type of weather but somehow it found us. the numbers show refreshing 60s and even 50s in winchester. 70 dc. 72 fredericksburg. we really span all the temperatures we could for this time of the year. the satellite-radar loop. plenty of sunshine today. partly cloudy later in the afternoon. wow, our highs today going to warm up to 85. air quality is yellow, which is moderate. i have the forecast that looks in to the weekend when i see you next. >> good morning, everyone. ready to kick off the 5:00 hour. happy wednesday to everybody out there. 270 live from 121 not tracking the delay yet. it usually starts around 109 area. 95 and bw parkway, clear to powder mill and beyond. moving in to northeast dc. right now no delays to report on inbound new york avenue between the times building and bladensburg road. 395 northbound is looking great. shot past duke street to the 14th street bridge. the volume is light. to wrap it up, 95 northbound in virginia past backlick to the mixing bowl lanes are wide open. over to you. tomorrow dc councilman marion barry is scheduled to appear in court over his arrest in though stalking charge. in a late night news conference, barry spoke more on the relationship with the woman. >> marion barry made two clear points through his spokes person last night. number one the woman accusing him of stalking is mentally unstable and the fact he hired her as a contractor was in fact legal. his spokesperson said that barry's exgirlfriend, donna watts was seeing a psychiatrist and her allegations of stalking against him is a product of mental instability. >> miss watts should not be believed. her allegations against mr. barry are simply not true. they are lies. >> reporter: miss watts crashed that press conference and denied those accusations. >> i only heard a little of what she said and what i heard was not true. >> reporter: they say that watts had been awarded a $60,000 no bid contract for a project in ward 8 but said it is legal it. >> is not unusual or is it illegal for council members to award contracts to supporters or family members who qualify or can provide the services that are required. >> reporter: barry's spokesperson says the fact the former mayor and watts were romantically involved is irrelevant to the contract process and offered this explanation why watts was given the award. >> miss watts was about to lose her house, her car and due no to instability of finding employment, mr. barry did do this primarily not because of miss watts but because of mrs. watts rye children. >> reporter: andrea, the actual money received by miss watts is $15,000. she didn't get the full 60,000 and as far as dc law is concerned they say no public official can use their position to benefit a member of their household. there is nothing in there that says anything about a girlfriend. armando trull for 9 news now and wusa9.com. millions around the world watched michael jackson's family and friends bid farewell to the superstar. his brother germane sang one of michael's favorite songs and his 11-year- old daughter paris brought the crowd to tears. >> ever since i was born, daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine and i just wanted to say i loved him so much. viewings of the service and vigils for jackson were held around the country. jackson's family has not announced where the singer will be laid to rest. you can see more from the memorial service on our website at wusa9.com. click the banner at the top for a photo and video gallery. in other news, an autopsy will be performed on a high school football player who collapsed and later died during nditioning session at norse high school in germantown, maryland. the family of 16-year-old edwin jack miller say he was in excellent shape, but he showed signs of heat stroke and dehydration. officials attempted cpr to save miller. the voluntary preseason conditioning session has been suspended indefinitely at northwest high. this morning, police have a driver in custody after a deadly crash on the beltway. it happened last night on the outer loop just before the american legion bridge. police say an suv rear ended a car. the driver of that car lost control and went over the guardrail. the car plunged 200 feet down in to trees. both men in the car died. police say the suv driver kept going but crashed on the other side of the bridge where virginia state police arrested her. investigators believe alcohol was a factor in the crash. it is time for our first living smart report of the morning. jessica doyle is here and earnings season kicks off this morning. what can we expect. >> alcoa is an aluminum producer and first component to kick off earnings season. analysts are thinking overall earnings for s&p 500 companies are expected to be grim this quarter. they are looking for a drop in profits of 25 to 30%. as for the markets, stocks in asia dropped after more losses, down 2% yesterday. the dow starts this morning at 818 -- 8164. the future of internet radio may be secure. a handful of on-line stations have reached an agreement to head off a crippling increase in rates. it comes after two years of negotiations. how would you like to fill up your tank for free today. that's what residents of alexandria can do. insurance company allstate is footing the bill for the free gas giveaway in a shl station in alexandria. it is located at 4670 duke street. residents can get the gas until 9:00 this morning. why would alexandria get this free service because the city was listed as the city with the most improved driving record in the allstate survey. a nice free perk for alexandria residents. >> we like free perks and more safings coming up. >> we have saving people $400 while they pay off their car loan. >> pay off the car loan and mortgage and we will be set. >> that's right. less than an hour ago, president obama landed in rome, italy. he flew there for after meetings with russia prime minister and president. president obama will travel to the city of the earthquake for a g-8 summit. sarah palin says she is a fighter, not a quitter. designate announcing her resignation. she say the unconventional move is the right thing to do. >> it is not a matter of quitting but progressing it is unconventional way and that catches people off guard. it is out of the box and unconventional. it is how we are as alaskans and certainly how i am. >> reporter: they caught up with palin on a fishing trip. she says she will continue to work in public service after she leaves office on july 26th. vice president biden administered the oath of office to franken, the democrat from minnesota. they have thrown him a seat on the judiciary. it didn't end like the landing in the hudson but a flight here did land safely after running in to a flock of birds. that story is coming up. a district hopes a new center to help people find affordable housing closer to their jobs. you are watching 9 news now. b@ in the news now, a connecticut man is in custody this morning after a tense hostage standoff involving his ex-wife. police say the woman escaped the home but officers did not enter because the man claimed to have booby trapped the home with explosives. the flames forced the man to come out and surrender. a southwest airlines flight had to return to bwi marshall airport after hitting a flock of birds. the 737 jet landed safely and airport officials say there appears to be no engine damage. the passengers were put on another plane. mayor fenty helped to open a housing resource center in washington, d.c. on tuesday with an official ribbon cutting. mayor fenty is billing it as one-stop-shopping for low to moderate-income families and individuals trying to find places to live in the city. a new warning will be attached to painkillers which have been on the market for decades. that story is coming up. a muddy mess after an unbelievable amount of rain and it happened not too far from here. >> good morning. i'm getting ready to show you the seven-day forecast that looks in to the weekend. it is jump day. i'm ready to go. are you? stay with us. fios guy! where ya headed? ah, just installed fios in the whole building. now everyone has the fastest upload speeds. and we're giving them a mini netbook. well, i'm sticking with cable. so's ted. 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(announcer) switch to verizon fios tv, phone and internet today and get an ultra-sleek compaq mini netbook. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v people in wilmington, north carolina, are hoping for a string of sunny days following a deluge earlier this week. mud and debris are scattered in the city after officials reported 6 1/2 inches of rain in less than two hours. that tore renn overloaded the drainage system and repairs are currently underway. >> yikes. >> that has to be one of the worst things to try to clean up from. i want to remind you i'm simulcasting my live web cast at my blog right now. you want to see andrea's shoes, what she is thinking during a commercial break, come on in, i have inside connections. it is wednesday and we are already through the middle of the week. i'm rushing things along but we will get through it together. the allergy update has changed since yesterday. guess what snuck up on us. >> mold. >> no, grass. >> the weeds and mold are low but the grass is moderate. i have suddenly been sneezing. i might have to check in to a grass allergy or something. here's a check at maryland's weather this morning. we have 50s in gaithersburg and frederick. 63 in to hagerstown. and 73 for patuxent river. and the weather across maryland will be mighty fine. plenty of sunshine. we are looking at highs to range from 83 in gaithersburg, 82 urbana, 80 shady side and mechanicsville 80. my buddy babs lives there. she is a regular in the chat room. middle 60s in a lot of locations and 72 fredericksburg. then 50sin the mix. winchester does that with 57. to the west we will have 81 in straussburg. spotsylvania and warrenton in the middle 80s. just like yesterday we have the mighty fine weather with sunshine incoming. this will persist today. tomorrow a few clouds around. tomorrow the winds shift to the east and bring in ocean air. slightly cooler. a little cloudier. not looking at rain and 86 on friday. we will keep the rain across northern new england and well to our south across north florida. in between, a high pressure stand witch is where we are at. high of middle 80s with sunshine. how about the seven-day forecast? there it is. tomorrow will be the coolest day of the next seven. saturday will be the hottest with plenty of sunshine. we will take a shot at 90 degrees. city still have a couple of quartered thunderstorms for your sunday. other than that i'd say we are getting by with great weather for the middle of july. >> hey, everyone. 17 minutes after the 5:00 hour and just a reminder my behind the scenes camera is up and running. visit me at my blg at wusa9.com. talk about the beltway. a new accident to tell you about on the outer loop at clara barton parkway. watch for crews. volume light. the traffic is flowing okay. moving to the outer loop outside. this is a live shot from colesville road. no problems to report here. inner loop is doing fine, as well. to the maps and checking out route 4, route 5, 301, all the roads are accident free. over to the inner loop from the wilson bridge to t 5 to braddock, 66 drivers are clocking in at a nice pace here. to round it out we give you eastbound 66 from gainesville to centreville and beyond and lanes are wide open. over to andrea. in living well headlines stronger overdose warnings are coming for the painkiller darvocet. they say it can stay on the mark but patients will soon get pamphlets about the danger. consumer health advocates have linked them to hundreds of death from suicide and accidental overdose. u.s. health officials are testing up of h1n1 flu cases to see if people are resistant to tamiflu. the drug is the main weapon against the virus. the move is after an american teen was diagnosed with a resistant strain of the flu last month. let's see what is happening in the web center. here's kristin fisher. >> reporter: good morning. yesterday's memorial service to michael jackson will go down as one of the most watched events ever, second to the inauguration of president obama. we did not see the same kind of overload like on the day he actually died in which sites like twitter completely crashed but the numbers are coming in and pretty staggering. look at cnn.com. they are reporting global web traffic was 19% above normal during the memorial service at times as high as 33%. this one reported 9.7 million video screens. antob@ put that in perspective, cnn's viewership record for a full day is 27 million video streams. that is three times as high and that was set in january on president obama's inauguration day. keep in mind these are only the numbers for one side. it will take several days to compile all numbers from websites around the world. so it is not looking like any records will be broken in terms of web traffic but it is a differenstory on facebook. michael jackson's facebook page had just 80,000 fans and now take a look at this. he is now the most popular person on facebook with over 7 million fans now, beating out only the president. president obama was facebook's most popular person previously and michael jackson has been gaining 20 fans a second on facebook. even in death his star power keeps growing, especially on the web. >> thank you. the nationals try to get a win out west. plus, venus williams pours it on against washington's tennis team. sports is next. 5:20. 68 degrees. you are watching 9 news now. 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i saw this ad, and i said, ok, i love yogurt. and it worked. ♪ activia we may not have the worst traffic in the nation but one of the few places where congestion is getting worse. welcome back to 9 news now. i'm andrea roane. thanks for joining us this wednesday morning. angie will tell us if the traffic is worse in these early hours but kim is starting us off with a good forecast. >> nothing better than a nice beautiful shot. so many beautiful buildings around here. let's look at the capitol. the sun is coming up and the sky is getting bluer. ready to go? it is 68 degrees. let's look outside and help you get moving with the weather forecast. 63 hagerstown. garrett coun in the 50s. 80 southern maryland. over to fredericksburg, historic fredericksburg i may add. no trouble for the weather today. if you want to wash the car i you can take it through the drive-thru. you don't have to do it yourself. 38 today and 81 tomorrow and 86 on friday. the weekend forecast is a few minutes away. hey, everyone. just a half hour through the 5:00 hour. we will help you through the rest. we watch you to know about things that could slow you down. clara barton, an accident and crews are on the scene. moving to 270 and taking it outside, live from father hurley okay to the split and the same goes from those that travel from 109 to 121. northbound new york avenue, thicks are filling out a bit but no delays have set in yet from the times building to the third street tunnel. to wrap it up, let's go to 95 northbound in virginia. drivers are at speed from dumfries to the mixing bowl. that's the traffic. over to you. the recession and high gas prices have led to ' decline in traffic congestion for a second straight year, but not for us. the texas transportation institute released the latest survey this morning. researchers found while traffic in los angeles is getting better it is still the worst in the nation. the time the average l.a. driver wastes in traffic dropped from 72 hours to 70 hours. time wasted from dc drivers jumped to 62 hours a year from 59 hours and puts us ahead of atlanta for second place. the average driver wasted 36.1 hours in traffic in 2007 compared to the peak of 37.4 hours in 2005. total wasted fuel dropped from 2.85 billion-gallons in 2006, to 2.81-gallons in 2007. you can ready more about the institute's findings at wusa9.com. the story is on our front page. a metro train operator caught texting behind the wheel is back on the job after serving a five day suspension. the rider captured the video proof with his cell phone and posted it on youtube. it happened before the deadly crash on the red line. the train in question was moving near the van doren station. metro officials say they recently discovered the video and that the driver confessed. >> could this this send a bad precedent that if an operator is caught texting once i will still have any job. >> we have a policy in place and given the fact the operator lost income and was suspend for five days it should send a lesson. there are new statements from both sides in in the marion barry stalking case. he is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow. but his spoke person and the woman involved had something to say last night at the wilson building. armando trull is live from there with more. barry took off the gloves and came out swinging last night. through his spokesperson he made two point and made them in a clear fashion. number one, the stalking allegations against him were baseless and done by someone who is mentally unstable and his former girlfriend, the fact he hired her and put her on the city payroll is totally legal. >> reporter: his spokeswoman admitted that barry awarded a $60,000 no bid contract to his then girlfriend donna watts p but said this was not illegal or unusual. >> the fact that the contract was awarded to a friend or a relative of the former mayor and in this case miss watts is irrelevant as long as it was awarded properly and brought value for the money that was paid. >> reporter: barry says the allegations of stalking against him by his former girlfriend are the product of mrs. watts mental indc -- mental instinct. >> according to miss watts herself she is currently under the care of a psychologist and has been diagnosed with compulsive behavior disorder and clinical depression. >> reporter: watts herself made a cameo appearance at the press conference and denied she was mentally unstable. >> looks like scared of something, aren't they? i haven't said anything. they still have to do this. i must be bad. >> reporter: dc law says public officials cannot hire any member of their household, including spouses or children for public jobs but does not say anything about girlfriends. live from she wilson building, 9 news now and wusa9.com. security failures at federal buildings will be the subject of a senate hearing today. this comes after a newly- released congressional report saying that federal agents successfully smuggled bomb- making materials in to ten federal buildings. agents working with the government accounting office conducted the exercise. 5:35. time for another living smart report and jessica doyle is back with the start of a possible war between google and microsoft. what is this? >> it really has the making of being a full-blown battle between these two monster companies. what's going on is google is developing a new operating system for laptop computers. this operating system will run through googles web browser called chrome and will launch the second half of next year. this is their biggest step in challenging microsoft's control over people's computing experience. a report says that washington, d.c. prices for homes will be even lower in two years. 90% chance and baltimore has 90% chance of prices dropping further. they are based on significant increases in unemployment and foreclosure rates across the country. if you are buying a new car and need a car loan, one way to save is making biweekly instead of monthly car payments. you will make 13 payments a year, one extra payment. the money goes to reducing your cars loan principal balance. it means you will save a lot of money in interest. say you are taking out $25,000 car loan for five years at 7% interest. making bye weekly loans will pay it off five months earlier and add up to $400 in interest payments over the life of the loan. for more tips check out my log on the financialist that.com and get the car loan out of the way five months earlier so that is five months where you are not making car payment. >> or you can put it on the principal of the home mortgage. angie? thank you. toll road travelers listen up. how about a nice drive all the way from the greenway to the beltway? i'm here to give it to ya. more traffic and news coming up. stay with us. welcome back. we are crossing the bridge and looks like there is hardly any traffic. lanes are wide open. it is angie with the realtime traffic report coming up. in the news now an alabama man is facing drug charges after he was severely burned when a methamphetamine lab blew up. it was captured on cameras at a local motel. police say the man, his wife and a friend were making crystal meth method in a motel room when the explosion happened. international flights are now flying in and out of new orleans for the first time since hurricane katrina. aero mexico began to fly nonstop service from armstrong international airport yesterday. city leaders hope the service will help to boost business and tourism. so far only four out of a possible 2,000 people have been injured in the annual running of the bulls in spain. of the four only one was actually injured by a bull. the spanish red cross says the injured man wasn't gored but poked in the doctor yea. doctor and patients from maryland take part in the biggest transplant swap in history. it is early and gorgeous outside. a great view over the skies above dc. i have the forecast. not just for hump day but in to the weekend. it is on the way next and you are watching 9 news now. good morning. fios guy! where ya headed? 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(announcer) switch to verizon fios tv, phone and internet today and get an ultra-sleek compaq mini netbook. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v a record-breaking kidney swap. eight people getting kidneys from unrelated donors in four hospitals in one state. one of the hospitals johns hopkins in baltimore. anita brickman has more in the living well report. >> reporter: this surgeon says the last in a come mow of -- domino of operations to complete eight kidneys was completed last night and for if last recipient it was truly a matter of life or death. >> she was literally days or weeks away from dying. >> reporter: the kidney swap involved patients maryland, michigan, oklahoma and missouri. helping to find matches where none existed before, including a married couple from rockville. >> i have an old kidney which is a position to be in if you need a kidney. >> the odds are slim. >> she wasn't a match for her husband bob but she gave a healthy kidney to a man in detroit and bob got his are from an unrelated donor at johns hopkins. >> i'm not a hero i'm a selfish person. i wanted my husband back. i knew the person he was before that. it is minimally invasive. it is not that bad. i can finally stand up straight. >> reporter: the doctor says encouraging a national kidney swap program could ease the shortage we face today. >> a transplant surgeon can do 2,000 transplants in their lifetime, you know, this work that we are doing here will be responsible for thousands. it's amazing. i still remember it now because the odds were very slim that would happen. >> afterward, all of a sudden everything became fixed. >> reporter: 9 news now and wusa9.com. four of the eight transplant operations were performed at johns hopkins. dr. among says this new model has the possibility to result in 1500 additional transplants each year. to find out more about the 16 patient kidney swap anion update from one of the patient's blogs go to wusa9.com and click on living well and last year we had a couple involved in i think an eight- person transplant swap. it was amazing listening to their story and how so many people are helped. >> that's great. love these stories. first thing in the morning because sometimes it is tough to get moving but there should be no reason this morning you should feel down in the dumps because it is going to be great outside. it is already 5:46. so we're 45 minutes in to the show. hump day forecast. great to see hope you follow me on twitter. i'm weather kim. i isn't out a forecast at 4:00. it iserly but we want you to know being forewarned. today is all good. 68 is where we are at. win chester in the spotlight with 61. 50s in garrett county standard steep creek lake. one of the days i'm going to visit you. the satellite and radar loop, though trouble, plenty of sunshine incoming. this morning it is comfortable. i was just outside like this short sleeves on the weather terrace, comfortable. if you are going for a jog you are in good shape. 60s and a few 70s out there an then some 50s to the north and west. that's our wind direction, too. today a mostly sunny one. similar to yesterday. maybe a degree or da two cooler. 85, northwest winds five to ten miles an hour. step out of the way and show you the three day forecast. tomorrow a couple of clouds off the ocean and slightly cooler weather in the lower 80s and friday in the middle 80s. right now we have the northwesterly winds behind this weak cool front that slipped through unnoticed over our parts with no rain drops with them. so it will stay that way. focusing the rain again across new england, yes, they are dealing with it across maine. massachusetts should get a chance to dry out today and a heavy cluster of storms through iowa is blasting through, bringing rain to the crops. around here it is not going to affect us. tomorrow high pressure will affect us. oddly enough this is usually a fair weather system. when they bring northeasterly winds they push in more clouds. tomorrow slightly cooler weather in the upper 70s and low 80s for the high. a check on the next seven. we will spell it out the next seven days. the hottest time appears to be in the weekend on star. that means a high of 90. sunday still putting in a chance of thunderstorms and next week we will go back to the middle 80s and highs feeling comfortable with mostly sunny skies. good morning. >> good morning to you. a quick shoutout from new york city. they are visiting my blog. from duke to seminary we are filling out but no delays to report as drivers make their way to the 14th street bridge. to the maps. here's the inner loop from 95 to 66. according to realtime sensors drivers are clocking in on average at a great pace. 66 eastbound, hey, virginia, tracking the taillights past 28. no problems. though the beltway, but we keep it outside. on the outer loop past university a little volume is building toward georgia but still not seeing significant slow goes. to round it out. 95 and the gw parkway we will take you there and show you past 198 to 495 the commute is looking clear. now over to kristin fisher who's standing by in the 9 news now web center. >> good morning, everybody. a massive cyberattack knocked out several u.s. government websites and what's more it maybe linked to a similar cyberattack on south korean websites and that news of course has many people pointing fingers at north korea but at this time absolutely nothing can be confirmed. here's the story on cbs.com. it reads federal sites knocked out by cyberattack t. a widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began on the 4th of july knocked out the website of several government agencies including some sites that are responsible for figh g cybercrime. i want to take you on a walk through the sites that were hit this this cyberattack. the first is the u.s. department of the treasury. that website was hit. you also have the united states secret service, surprisingly also being a victim in this cyberattack. the federal trade commission website was hit. they started to come back on- line late sunday night, but even on tuesday internet users were still unable to get to the site 70% of the time. ony other major site hit in the cyberattack is the u.s. department of transporta . on this site was about 100% down for two days. so much so that no internet users could actually get through it. those were the four sites down over the holiday weekend and in to this week. sites were still experiencing problems. u.s. officials are refusing to publicly discuss any details of the cyberattack and it would only generally acknowledge that it did indeed occur but you have websites of major south korean government alsos an ba al s nk soparalyzed in these suspected cyberattacks. now, south korea seems to be -- these two attacks between u.s. government websites an the south korean government websites seem to be connected. and this just out, one of north korea's main news agencies is reporting that north korea maybe behind tuesday's cyberattack. that was reported on the bbc but at this point nothing confirmed as to where the cyberattack came from either the south koreans or the u.s. government. >> thank you. an official sign the latest harry potter frenzy is days away. that's coming up in the buzz. and a local professor develops a guitar that can change its pitch and tone. it is approaching 5:52. we'll be right back. one coffee with room, one large mocha latte. medium macchiato, light hot chocolate hold the whip, and two espressos. make one a double. she's fiber focused! i have two cappuccinos, one coffee with room, one large mocha latte, a medium macchiato, a light hot chocolate, hold the whip, and two espressos, one with a double shot. gonna take more than coffee to stay this focused. stay full and focused through the morning... with a breakfast of kellogg's® frosted mini-wheats® cereal; an excellent source of fiber that 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guitars, each with a different sound, each painting a different color ♪ [ music ] the sound comes from the steel strings over electromagnetic pickups. >> guitarists will take their guitar home and the first thing they do is rip off the back panel and rewire the thing. >> reporter: but they are still left with one sound. >> here's a traditional sound. >> reporter: electrical and computer engineering professor has poured $100,000 of his own money in to launching a line of guitars bill around a circuit that can impact the tone, the color of 100 different guitars in to one. >> if you give a guitarist red and yellow and blue, now they can make green and they can make purple and any color they want. so i just change it there. now all i have to do is put it back and it is ready to go. >> we are in the middle of a the worst economic recession in a half century. if you are worried about the next paycheck you are going to put off the purchase of a $1,000 guitar. it just launched and former students have sold ten of their remarkable new guitars. >> it is getting a little surreal at this point. >> it may not make you sound like jimi hendrix but may give you something else. >> 37 sexy on a one to ten scale. very, very sexy. >> reporter: and sexy sells. at the university of maryland, bruce leshan, 9 news now and wusa9.com. >> maryland is so confident it will succeed it kicked in $135,000 in economic development money which is supposed to help maryland professors turn their research in to profitable and taxable businesses. our air guitar queen over here is listening to that one. kim? >> love air guitar. >> tambourin. >> good morning. 5:57. london square was busy yesterday not just with a torrential downpour but with the cast from harry potter and the half blood partnership prince. it is the premier in london. the stars were there and they wore white ribbons in memory of the young actor in the film was stabbed to death last year. and paid tribute to michael jackson whose memorial took place in los angeles yesterday. it is coming up july 15th worldwide. i'm so there. i don't care if big ben doesn't want to go, or if he does. i will be there and i'm ready. >> looking at that rain, hope rupert is okay. he is recovering from a case of h1n1 flu. good news about the child stars from slum dog millionaire. the 11-year-old boy and his family finally moved in to a decent home. his mother, brother and older brother's wife moved in to a one bedroom flat. the $50,000 flat will be his personally when he turns 18, if he finishes his education. danny boyle provided this and is still looking for a place for the 11-year-old girl. the father is staying in she shanty. >> i can't believe the money this movie made and they still couldn't buy. >> -- >> the strings attached they starred in the movie, give them the money. >> real quick we want you to know casey kasem has done his final countdown the 77-year-old told listeners this would be his last one. he started in ' 70. >> when i lived in korea i listened to casey kasem. >> and i listened to him in jersey, too. >> and new orleans, too. >> it is time to get on with the couldn'tdown ecausei will get a rap in the ear if i t don' talkabout the forecast. temperatures are tacoormfble. peorr s