daylight shooting. as many as seven young people are shot as they stand near a metro station in northeast d.c. it's been a quiet start to the hurricane season but things are beginning to heat up with two new named storms. and more heat and humidity. it will be another typical summer day in the washington region. good morning. welcome to "news 4 today." it is sunday, august 16th, 2009. i'm keith garvin. the news is just ahead. first let's go to chuck bell upstairs in storm center 4 for a quick look at this morning's weather. >> good morning. you're still smiling from your day off, aren't you? >> it was a good one. >> welcome back to work. welcome to sunday morning, everybody. if you're up this early you've got a big-time head start to day. clear skies outside for us. first thing this morning it will be a very pleasant day today. temperatures a little bit warmer than yesterd but not completely intolerable on the humidity scale so that is welcome news. tempato ures tget your sunday started we're 71 here at nbc 4 in northwest washington, 71 degrees in annapolis, 66 in beautiful prince george's county this morning. 65 in mt. vernon and springfield and quantico. 63 in manaas. 63 degrees in damascus, maryland. dew points low to mid-60s right now. it will be a touch humid. th ae ises a little bit of fog out there as well. jugs like yesterday morning. frederick, maryland, visibility under one half mile. that won't last long. the sunshine will burn it away. hot temperature. around 92. keith? >> sounds good. thank you. it is a busy summer weekend for d.c. police officers who are dealing with multiple shootings. the first incident left seven people injured. one victim is just 14 years old. it happened at a bus stop in broad daylight. just hours later, police were called to a new scene, this time i ir f i ncident happened nc st tt evening ocas l he t 4100 block of minnesota avenue northeast. police say seven young people were shot at a bus shelter just outside the minnesota avenue metro station. none of the victims' injuries is believed to be life-threatening. investigators say at least one gunman opened fire on a large crowd at the bus shelter. they also believe many of the people in the crowd had just attended a go-go party just a few blocks away. then just before 11:00 last night, a young man was found sh multiple times in northwest. police say it happened in the 100 block of jefferson street. the victim was pronounced dead at the scene. there are no reports of arrests in either case. in prince george's county, the search is on for a suspect who fired at an off-duty police officer using a flri rifle. policearound ndou ntlitees yayrd cnclinton yestery thyorsas he tn. orities say the o county police was in h visleeh at the hit.ved, that thewes ir t he pt.dolhie he told pole gh ol tmi sint be eshe might be the result of a dispute with a family member. aotomac river outing came to an abrupt stop after a boat ran aground onto some rocks. were four were on board the vessel. they apparently misjudged how shallow the water is in the area north of bowie number 90. the prince george's county fire department sent two rescue boats to help dislodge the boat and escort it back to shore. no one was hurt. there's a proposal on the table to increase rates on the dulles toll road. t traise the toll next yearye 25 cents at the ain toll plaza and ramps, but it doesn't end there. the toll is eec gted too up incrementally after last year. the mon g wyeldoudoldarow the o trnsarexpameionex iain trgndd aarow virginia and toward irosvent he tlin tol road. airpfft ols tiaic want to hear iautom ybo abothis. they are accepting facdbee k online through september4th. there will also be three public hearings on the issue. a few simple questions designed to keep you safe when flying the next time you book a flight. you may have to provide a little more personal information. darcy spencer tells us what the thinking is behind the changes. >> reporter: starting today when you make an airline reservation you may need to provide your gender and date of birth as well as your full name. it's all part of the transportation security administration's security flight program. >> better to b safe than sorry. i would rather have somebody ask me for more information and know they're doing what they're supposed to to keep us safe, when everybody's traveling, especially with people with families and little kids. like to see them do more due diligence a little bit so i think it's good. >> reporter: secure flight is a behind the scenes watch list. officials say it's an important tool for those with a no fly status don't get boarding passes. it's aimed at making it safer and easier for travelers. >> i don't think it's a big deal. probably takes an additional 15, 20 seconds so i don't think it's a big deal at all. and to ensure safety, i think it's a good thing. >> reporter: the additional information is also supposed to prevent misidentification of people on watch lists. >> that was darcy spencer reporting. the government officials say that this program will be fully phased in by the end of next year. the new security measures go into effect the same weekend one of india's biggest move i stars was reportedly detained for two hours. it happened at newark's airport after immigration officials spotted the word khan in .s name. the bollywood superstar was on his way to chicago when he was held for questioning. customs officials d ieny the clm and say he was questioned for a little over an hour as part of a standard process for screening foreign travelers. coincidentally, khan was heading to chicago to promote his new film about racial profiling. up next on "news 4 today," grab the sunscreen. it's going to be a sweltering sunday. chuck bell's full forecast coming up next. and he dominated in college. the nationals betting he'll do the same for them. details of a record-setting offer coming up. their canvas is a concrete wall. 100 artists creating one massive work of art in northeast. they are painting a mural in the edgewood neighborhood. when they are done, the mural will be longer than a football field. artists of all ages andarying talents are taking part. if you would like to have a look, just hop on the train. you can see it from the rhode island metro station on the red line. nothing like some good constructive, creative art. >> i thought for a minute there that i was involved because you mentioned artists of varying talents. typically that's what i hear when my artwork is involved. >> a wide range there, good and bad. >> it's a good thing i have computers to help with most of my drafting. >> you're creative in the meteorology department. that's right. >> good, creative -- >> i can make up the forecast like you wouldn't believe. boy, we have a good one for today as well. sunny, hot, going to be just like august out there, so be ready for a little taste of summertime in washington. temperatures today, i think, back into the 90s once again, and we might have our longest stretch of 90-degree days summer comg summer coming up. outside right now, a beautiful day tside is under way. sunrise is at 6:23 this morning so you still have 13 minutes to get outside and watch a sunrise come up. you need to do that a couple of times every year. right now here in downtown, our current temperature's 72 degrees, a lig southeasterly wind at 3 miles per hour. dew point high but not uncomfortable just yet. 66 degrees. so far august a degree and a half warmer than average and one inchsu of rainfall, drier than average. so we do need some rain. not to mention some cooler temperatures. all right. temperatures around the area for this morning to get your sunday started, 66 in baltimore, 66 in fairfax county this morning, 65 degrees in loudoun county, virginia. 72 in hagerstown. mart tins burg down to 63, one of the will cooler spots. culpepper as usual one of the cooler spots on the map at 1 degrees. the weather is starting to get more active -- not here. we'll be socked in with high pressure for the next couple of days. but the tropics have really started to get active right now. high pressure in karnlg of our weather. two named systems already now in the central atlantic. ana, a-n-a -- i was told that a-n-n-a would be anna, and a-n-a is ana. this is tropical storm bill. bill is the one i think we'll need to watch more carefully. bill has a much more favorable environment for strengthening here. but of immediate concern is now tropical depression number four just west of tampa, florida, first thing this morning. it's only a tropical depression at this point, but the national hurricane center thinks it will take on tropical storm strength. if it does, we'll have claudette. we'll have ana, bill and claude net the tropics at one time. this may come onshore as a tropical storm here sometime during the day on monday between mobile, alabama, and apalachicola in florida. if you're traveling down to the gulf coast or anywhere down toward atlanta or birmingham we're going to need to keep a close eye on that. doesn't look like it will make hurricane strength but nonetheless could bring copious amounts of rain to portions of the northern gulf coast. for us, just high pressure and hot weather around here for the next couple of days. 92 is our forecasted high today. 94 tomorrow. 93 tuesday and 90 on wednesday. that would be four days in a row, and thursday 90 would make five days in a row. our longest stretch of consecutive 90-degree days this whole summer has been three, last week. >> we're getting off easy. we have so far. >> so far. >> it's ana, not anna. >> ana. i was corrected. >> you don't want to upset hurricanes. >> you call someone the wrong name, they will slap you in the face. >> thanks, chuck. >> all right. >> the nationals make a push to lock up their potential ace of the future. here's hakem dermish with today's sports minute. >> good morning, everyone. your sports minute begins with baseball. the nationals have offered number one overall draft pick sfb strasburg a record-setting contract, yet team president stan kasten says there's a very real possibility strasburg won't sign. meanwhile o the field, the nationals' offense erupted for ten runs last night against the reds. elijah dukes went 2 for 4. the nats down the reds 10-6. orioles hosting the angels. l.a. put up a five-spot in the third inning. in golf at the pga championship, tiger woods has a two-shot lead going into today's final round. tiger is 14-0 when leading after 54 holes at a major tournament. in football, michael vick made his eagles practice debut. vick worked out as the number three quarterback in the afternoon practice. the 29-year-old vick is eligible to play in the eagles' final two preseason games. that's your sports minute. i'm hakem dermish. have a great day. >> next up, "reporter's notebook," an inside look at the stories affecting your community. we'll be back in 15 minutes with the latest on the top stories. for now, he's pat lawson muse. >> good morning. this is "reporter's notebook." i'm pat lawson muse. on the notebook this morning, metro. it has been a rough summer for the metro system. deadly accident, bus and train operators suspended or reprimanded for operating their vehicles while distracted. a 21-year-old metro veteran killed on the job. now there is a push to get rid of general manager john catoe. a petition circulating on facebook and on local blogs is calling for catoe's termination. question to you all this morning is how serious is this effort, and is john catoe becoming a scapegoat for all of the problems that metro is experiencing? >> the answer could be yes and yes. he is, obviously -- he's the obvious scapegoat because all of this has happened. he's the head of the metro operation and we've had all these problems, deadly, serious problems. is question is, how has his watch been? has he failed? there's a debate about that. on the other hand, he inherited the system that had these problems in them before he got there, and tight budgets, less oversight, it all came up in a cropper one time and had really caused a problem. >> i think ultimately, this comes down to what the national transportation safety board determines ultimately was the cause of that wreck and when did they know what, when? there's been some confusion about the reporting of -- they said, well, there have been problems reported in march. then they said in june. now they're saying they knew shortly after the accident that there were problems with that automatic braking system. then there's another report of a person in a near miss having to deploy the emergency brake, keeping the operator of that train from crashing into another car. there's a public relations problem because operators have been seen reading, talking on the phones and those issues don't necessarily reflect catoe's management but it's his responsibility to correct them. he's instituted a zero tolerance policy. we'll see how the public responds. i think a lot of what happens will be -- as long as there's no sligt of hand in hiding inspection reports and inspections that were failed to be carried out, i think he'll probably survive this. >> the board seems to like catoe. jim graham likes him and also the metro board. but the question here is money in many ways. we can sit here and pick out a lot of things that happen in a system. but when you don't have enough money to correct the problems that have been going on for years, then you're going to run into these snafus later down the line. we were talking about his contract. his contract is just about up in another year, 2010. so whether he's going to be renewed or not it seems as though the board likes him, but the blog that you're talki about, pat -- >> petition. >> petition, rather, i -- >> petition on facebook and on local blogs. >> we kind of figured this was going to happen when the accident happened because whenever something like that happens, the leadership catches it. >> but here's the next question then. in your opinions, how would catoe leaving metro help metro? >> i think jerry points to some key issues. money is, obviously, a big, big problem, and dave can speak to what's going on in terms of capitol hill in terms of the allocation for the continued support of metro. but again, look at what it is, jerry. if you have -- you can't say it's routine for a train to run into the back of another train and nine people to be killed. that's not a routine occurrence. you don't want that on your watch. i don't care where you are or who you are. there's some serious things going on here that require some attention. and if those allocated funds that are available were not attended to braking problems that are still in deployment, that's a big, big deal. >> how culpable is catoe in what me knew about before the accident, what they knew, how prepared they were, how culpable might he or might he not be in getting enough funds? i think the jury might still be out on that. i think we have to wait and see what happens. >> it comes down to one thing -- the buck stops here. he's the top man. >> terror trials. trials for guantanamo bay inmates could take place at a new high tech courthouse in newport news, virginia. there has been an outcry recently over the prospect of holding terror trials in xaen, which is still under consideration as a possible site, along with the cities of richmond and for fok. what are your thoughts? >> nobody wants them. nobody wants them anywhere near them and yet when you hear arguments presented by jim moran, who is the northern virginia congressman where the federal courthouse that has had these trials, when he takes the stage, he says there is protection, there is security. we've done it for tough terror people before. we did it for the last guy, the extra hijacker as we used to call him and it worked out all right. then there are other people who say, wait a minute, cell phones are a problem. even if these people are under tight security, and they obviously can't get out or harm themselves or anyone else, there's still cell phone traffic and things that happen around the prison, in the area. fbi director muller raised this issue which surprised me when i heard it. it isn't just a simple thing of having a trial. the question is, is there enough security in all areas? >> well, theeople of xaen are worried. you take a family living in the neighborhood of a prison where these people are supposed to be placed. naturally they will worry about it. but i don't know. i might be out on a limb about this, but a lot of this is political, dave, i think. politics simply because like obama says, they have to move these people to the federal courts, give them a fair trial. but i'm not so sure americans have gotten over that fear from 9/11 that i want them in my back yard. >> we do know that the obama administration has sent the records of at least 30 detainees to four different u.s. attorney's offices around the country, including alexandria. one of the larger questions will probably be, do they have standing to continue to hold and/or try these folks outside of a military tribunal? that question i don't think has ultimately been settled. also, as you say, alexandria, norfolk, richmond, newport news, all these places seem to be gearing up on some level for some type of federal activity regarding these dane tease yoofrnlgts it will be draw attraction, it will draw people who tend to be disruptive, people who want to make demonstrations. the crush of people. that's another thing. in addition to taking care of a trial and the incarceration, there's the outside challenge for everybody. >> logistics. >> yeah. >> but no prisoner has ever escaped from a supermax prison in the history of the united states, and i don't expect we would see that happen now. >> let's talk about the virginia governor's race. creigh deeds this past week threw abortio in the ring, criticizing bob mcdonnell's record of working to restrict a borgz. why did beads bring up abortion at this point? >> personally, myself, i think it's desperation. that race has been going on and on and on. we hear from both camps these various ideas that some way they -- i think deeds in this particular case just picked out aborgs because that's a hot issue. >> he was talking to a group of women. >> he was talking to a group of women. >> that's a real hot potato. >> i think it's deeper than that. there's a fear of a mall az on the democratic side. now obama's having a tough time selling his health care plan, selling his stimulus plan, some of his foreign policies. kind of the bloom is off the rose. some of the people that were energized for him may not be energized, especially in northern virginia. how to get them back? bring up abortion, so people are saying. the question is, he risks offending people who are anti-abortion. >> there has been talk about abortion funding within the confines of this health care debate. >> yeah. >> but again, warner nor kaine touched the abortion issue at this point in their campaigns for governor so this is a little bit of a departure in democratic circles. >> we have to take a break. we'll continue on that point right after this. stay with us. throwing the abortion i shall knew the campaign. you want to ask you about mcdonnell's proposal this week to fight crime by implementing a lifetime monitoring system for sexual offenders using gps. >> it seems to be not unlike the business as usual that his opponent was using. he's speaking to women for deeds and he's talking about what he nsiders to be one of the pivotal issues to that -- for that constituency. now he's talking to the virginia association of chiefs of police. of course he's got t give them some red meat. there's always -- there's already a registry for sex offenders. now, putting it on to satellite, what does that mean? >> electronic moni