that the liquor store is still open and that nothing more has been done by authorities to correct your problem there. i mean really is it going to take some teen deaths to get some more action? " pam, we hope not, but tonight 9 wants you to know that we've uncovered some rather stunning new information about that liquor store in question. scott broom is here now with what we have learned. >> this place is called town square market. >> yup. >> we're familiar looking at all of andrea's video. montgomery county police told us today that even after town square market was exposed by 9 news now the sales to underagers are continuing. the store remains open tonight, all this while regulators in washington insist they have an investigation going. they're telling us very little about it. a 9 news now hidden camera investigates exposed town square market on macarthur boulevard in northwest washington blatantly selling to underagers. andrea mccarren's report and followups began airing february 1st. did the illegal selling stop? no, it did not. the store sits near the montgomery county line and according to montgomery county police, as late as last friday they busted two 19-year-olds crossing into the county after buying at town square market. this is nine days after the store was exposed on 9 news now. montgomery county police sources also tell us that back in december they wrote at least 36 citations to minors who purchased booze at town square market and crossed into the county. montgomery county police say they alerted d.c. police about the citation and that mpd shared that information with abra, d.c.'s alcohol control board. this was weeks before andrea mccarren's confrontation with the store's owner and weeks before our report aired in february. so why is the store still open? abra says they're conducting their own investigation. in an e-mail exchange today spokesman cynthia sims said at this time there's a pending investigation and the board cannot discuss pending matters. earlier she wrote that 9news must allow abra's investigators to do their job without a spotlight on them. we asked why and what exactly was abra doing about all this when first notified by police about underage buying at the store way back in december? our questions sent in writing six days ago have still not been specifically answered. although sims did tell our bruce johnson last week the agency has unsuccessfully attempted underage stings in the wake of our reports. council member jim graham told us that's not a surprise because the store is now on alert. if that's the case, it didn't stop montgomery county police from busting two more underagers crossing the d.c. line with booze from town square market just last weekend. so we continue up until this afternoon to ask abra for more details. we know they tried and failed to do their underage sting, but aren't 36 violations written by montgomery county police in december enough evidence for immediate action? if not, why not? at our last contact the agency continues to say due process prohibits them from explaining more. >> it certainly doesn't keep us from keeping the spotlight on them until they do. >> andrea mccarren and now a whole team are on it. >> absolutely. thank you, scott and andrea. well, of course, liquor stores aren't the only ones at fault here. andrea's reports have shown in some cases parents are seeming less angry with their kids when they're caught drinking and more with the cameras there to witness it, much of the reaction from others on our facebook page blaming parents who either condone, turn a blind eye or sometimes fail to punish teenagers who drink. bob ginn says where i come from parents who facilitate underage drinking are very likely to spend some time incarcerated and held liable in civil actions. there was a lot more of these comments, but what exactly should a parent do to keep their kids on the straight and narrow. matt jablow, give us some answers. >> for starters parents need to address the problem head on, that underage drinking is a serious problem that needs to be dealt with in a serious way. emily and greg who asked not to be identified thought everything was fine with their teenage daughter. in fact, better than fine. she was a straight a student at a local school and a good athlete. >> we want to trust our children. >> reporter: then they found out the hard way that their daughter had major problems, a major drinking problem to be precise, which they discovered only when they found their daughter so drunk one day she was barely conscious. >> it's probably the saddest moment of my whole life was when i found her. >> reporter: emily and greg now hope their story serves as a cautionary tale for other parents. their biggest regret? not being more proactive to make sure their daughter didn't start drinking in the first place. >> i wish i'd taken away her phone more often when she was asleep and read through all the text messages because these kids are text messaging each other constantly about where they're going to drop the alcohol off or the drugs off, you know, are your parents home? >> reporter: beth cain davidson echos those thoughts. >> kids want parents to be parents of. >> reporter: the director of the addiction treatment center in rockville. >> we're treating more 16 and 17-year-olds for alcohol abuse and alcoholism than any other age group. >> reporter: cain davidson said before your teenage children leave the house ask them several questions including where are they going, who are they going with, do they know the people well and who's driving? >> really stay on top of them. >> reporter: she says parents need to talk early and often to their kids about the dangers of alcohol and, if necessary, see for themselves if their kids are drinking. >> check up on it. go on facebook. do whatever you can to find out what's going on. >> reporter: according to the centers for disease control, people who start drinking before the age of 15 are five times more likely to have alcohol problems later in life than people who start drinking at or after the age of 21. all the more reason experts say to talk to your kids about alcohol as early as elementary school. >> the impact on the adolescent brain just reverberates through life. thank you, matt. the city of alexandria came to a standstill today to honor a fallen paramedic. joshua weissman died responding to a car fire on i-395 last week and this afternoon family, friends, colleagues and what seemed like a whole community came together to pay him a final salute. peggy fox joins us live from alexandria where the streets and the schools were shut down for today's service. >> reporter: hundreds of people came out to pay tribute. seminary road was shut down between bethel temple behind me for about a mile to the station where he worked. today we learned the young man was a fun loving person who was deeply committed to his family, friends and co-workers and passionate about his life's work. hundreds who never knew joshua weissman stood in the rain and drizzle to honor a man who gave his life rescuing others. 33-year-old joshua weissman lost his life after falling through a 20-inch space between two bridges as he attempted to reach a burning car. it was a 30-foot fall. alexandria fire chief adam field rushed to the scene. >> i'll never forget the moment looking over the side of that bridge and seeing josh. he was a fighter. you've heard that. we had time with josh after wednesday night that by rights we should not have had. >> reporter: joshua died a few days later. his station's fire truck cared his body from funeral to burial at ivy hill cemetery. joshua's brother gabe said he was born to be an emergency responder. >> josh did a fine thing and he did a lifetime of fine things and he surrounded himself by fine people and i'm lucky to be his brother so i can bask in the glow of the life that he lived. >> reporter: gabe weissman read a eulogy from his brother's wife rebecca. the two met as volunteer firefighters in central new york state eight years ago and married in 2005. >> i'm going to miss the sound of his voice and especially his laugh. >> reporter: a fellow paramedic talked about josh, his quirky sense of humor, commitment to the job of had his life love of life -- his love of life. >> a wonderful storyteller. he is not here to do that now, so it's up to us to pass on his stories. no worries, josh, what we'll take it from here. >> reporter: entire alexander -- joshua, we'll take it from. here. >> reporter: the entire alexandria fire department was able to attend the funeral today and burial because prince william county and stafford and other departments showed up to backfill two 24 hour shifts until 7 p.m. tomorrow night. peggy fox reporting live. >> thank you. the there was no testimony today in the yeardley love murder trial in charlottesville. one of george huguely's defense attorneys is ill. the trial is expected to resume tomorrow. the prosecution has wrapped up its case. now it is up to the defense. huguely, a former university of virginia lacrosse mayor, is accused of killing his -- player, is accused of killing his former girl friend. huguely has pleaded not guilty. his attorneys argue this is a manslaughter case. it will be life in prison without parole for the underwear bomber. umar farouk abdulmutallab received the sentence in a detroit courtroom today after pleading guilty four months ago. the nigerian man admits to trying to blow up a detroit airliner on christmas of 2009. the device did not work, but it caused smoke and flames and the nigerian man was badly burned. coming up next andrea mccarren will join us live with the next frightening chapter in her teen drinking series right after the break. hear one local officer describe how he busted an underage drinking party right after a gang rape. we are going to talk to andrea mccarren about her series and the strong reaction to it. >> any luck finding a car? 9 wants you to know montgomery county police say it is no longer unusual to see breathalyzers used with teenagers blowing more than two times the legal limit driving while intoxicated. andrea mccarren joins us more on this disturbing news and some unsettling figures to say the least. >> that's for sure. today's e-mails are any indication, there are similar problems across the country. as of 3:00 this afternoon we already had received more than 2,700 e-mails and our wusa9 facebook wall has been just exploding with your posts all day long, more than 500 at this hour. we do want to warn you, though, today's story is very difficult to watch, but it is important. it's a look at the realities of destructive teenage behavior from some of the people who know it best. for many police officers this are images they find hard to forget. for corporal nick augustine it was an underage drinking party on new year's eve. >> i go into the back room. i see a female passed out on a bed in vomit, her clothes mangled and condoms sitting around her. >> reporter: the teenager had been sexually assaulted. police called the homeowners. >> we called the parents, notified them of what happened, that we need them to come and take care of their child and they said we catch the come. we're at a new year's eve -- can't come. we're at a new year's eve party. >> reporter: they told police they could come in a few hours when their party was over. >> they were upset with the police that we were disturbing their new year's plans for that night. >> seven out of 10 teenagers feel it's consensual to have sex with somebody that's passed out. that's rape. >> the girl had to be transported to the hospital because she could not be left alone because she overdosed on alcohol. >> it's bad enough with the date rape drugs, but now all of a sudden you've got people who are dosing girls to the point where we want you to get to the point where you're about to pass out or pass out and that way we're all going to have sex with you. >> reporter: what it amounts to is gang rape? >> yes, that's it. >> the blood alcohol concentration of the kids we're seeing now is just unbelievable. they should be dead. >> reporter: in recent months he has personally watched as three teenage girls were each transported to the hospital with alcohol poisoning, the oldest was 16. >> it's scary. these parents have forgotten that their kids can die. >> it's hard to get the attention of these parents till they actually have a police officer come to their door one morning and say that their child was killed in an alcohol- related tragedy. >> reporter: he knows firsthand what it's like to make a death notification, what it's like to tell a parent that their child is gone forever. >> i had one woman who this was her second child that had been killed in a fatal collision and it's just -- she knew right when i was at the front door what i was there to say and she didn't want to let me in the house because she knew what i was there to say. >> reporter: most of these tragedies and much of the heartache are preventable. one of the things we have learned over the course of our reporting on this issue is that good kids can make bad decisions and all it takes is one split second move to change a family forever. >> very profound statement. you've got more for us tonight at 11:00. >> we sure do. we're bringing you a heartbreaking story of a typical suburban teenager whose life ended way too soon and now his parents want every child who thinks using drugs is harmless to think again. for most of us it's impossible to fathom the death of a child. jim and cindy glass help us to understand. >> discovering your child dead is like finding yourself dead. >> he's the first thing i think about when i wake up, the last thing i think about when you go to bed and i think about him pretty much all of the time and it's ruined our life. >> so how did this young man's life unravel? in a way that has become increasingly common in the suburbs and we will tell you all about it tonight at 11:00. let's get over to topper who is tracking this storm that may make our weekend a little rough ever than expected. >> it's been hit -- rougher than expected. >> it's been hitting on the weekend. >> it loves to snow a lot on presidents day weekend. >> we don't need one of those big storms. >> it may be the biggest so far this year because it's not much of a stretch. let's start with live look outside on our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. we have some clouds, but the rain showers are actually ending quickly, most of which are now across i-95 pushing across into the bay. we'll show you that in a minute on live doppler. temperature 46 at national, been kind of sitting on 46 all afternoon, high was 47. dew point 42, wind south, southwest at 6. they'll switch and become northwesterly later on and the pressure 30.06 inches of mercury and actually beginning to rise. want to go over these snow points again. there will be a coastal storm here sunday. this is not one of the cases where we have to wait for it to magically develop off the north carolina coast. this is going to start in the gulf of mexico. we'll be able to track it as it moves across the southeast and gets to a point off the southeast coast. so it's coming. keep your saturday night plans. it's just going to be light rain maybe after midnight. looks like everybody will start with rain. it should change to snow late morning on sunday or early afternoon, obviously changing first in gaithersburg and d.c. and maybe in la plata late and midafternoon. critical times, try to stay off the road between 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. on sunday. the atmosphere can support snow and it can reduce visibility and make things a mess. just try to stay home sunday evening. satellite picture radar combined, this actually is the energy for the storm and this is good news because it's generating some rain in west texas. that's fantastic. that storm will dive into the gulf of mexico and move northeastward. in the meantime most of this activity is now east of i-95. we'll be in pretty good shape after the next couple hours. in fact, here's live doppler 9000, some showers into southern prince george's county and calvert county. this will move across the bay very quickly and a couple showers across i-70. temps, 44 rockville, 43 bethesda, 43 arlington, 44 reston, 46 college park. temps pretty uniform when you get clouds and showers. the lull before the storm, showers end early tonight, still a wet evening commute, breezy and mild tomorrow and still mild on saturday with fading sunshine. it's still a pretty nice day, probably see a halo around the sun with those high clouds coming in saturday. we'll put the futurecast into motion tomorrow morning, mainly sunshine, clear skies across the metro area. we get into friday night, a few high clouds. we get into saturday morning early some high clouds start to move in and that's the beginning of the storm. for tonight showers ending early, partial clearing and chilly, a one blanket night, lows 34 to 40. next seven days, great on friday, even saturday okay, just high clouds coming in, then rain saturday night, rain to snow on sunday, temps around 40 but falling in the afternoon. that's going to make accumulations very tricky. we'll keep you posted, nice on presidents day and we're back in the mid-50s tuesday, wednesday and thursday, more showers wednesday, more rain on thursday and speaking of thursday it's your best shot day and i'm dying for snow. i had to pick a shot of snow. this is actually the 2010 blizzard and the caption on this is where's my car? it's kind of through the trees, but you can barely see it. michelle sent this to us. what a great picture, brings back fond memories. you want to send us a best shot, go to our website www.wusa9.com, click on the weather tab and please include your name, location and description. so that's it. rain showers moving out, a nice finish to the week and then we'll worry about our coastal storm over a holiday weekend. good timing, i guess. >> you just love looking at pictures of snow. >> topper needs that for positive reinforcement, right? >> yes. still ahead the controversial way new jersey's governor plans to honor whitney houston on the day of her funeral. up next caught on tape police need your help looking for a man they want to question about an attempted sexual assault. deal chicken is working hard to find only the best deals in town. here's today's deal just for you. 50% off tickets to wilderness at arena stage. caught on tape a man police call a person of interest in an attempted sexual assault. surveillance video captured the hispanic man in the 3200 block of 16th street northwest, a very close-up look at his face. attack happened around 2:45 monday, january 16th. the victim was not hurt. anyone with information is asked to call d.c. police with a tip. we have some breaking news for you coming out of los angeles. right now l.a. firefighters protected by the cops are battling a blaze in an east hollywood house where several people were reportedly shot. police responded to reports of a shooting after 4 p.m. our time and now we are told there are multiple victims who have been shot. they don't know how the fire started. los angeles police are looking for the shooter and have evacuated the area. obviously this is ongoing. we'll bring you more information as it comes in. to new jersey where a crash involving a school bus and dump truck has killed an elementary school student. as many as 20 other students were hurt. the crash happened in chesterfield this morning. investigators say the bus slammed into a utility pole after colliding with a dump truck. the truck ran off the roadway after the crash. investigators are still trying to find out how this all happened. the child who died was the daughter of a new jersey state trooper. it is a great car debate. do you buy,