against dc councilman a marion barry. good morning, everyone. kim martucci is in for howard and angie is here with traffic and she will be up later. here's kim. let's get started. >> we are ready to go. straight up 5:00 and you are with the right team this morning. let me help you with the fore . a check outside, it is comfortable. you are going to notice the temperatures and the humidity on the low side. across maryland a pair of fives, frederick, gaithersburg. hancock, maryland 77. as we check out the conditions across northern virginia waking up to 57 manassas. 66 fredericksburg and the high for spots vain that 79. that feels great. 83 purseville. 81 fairfax. everyone is partly cloudy. seven day looking in to the weekend next. here's angie with the drive. >> it is thursday. we are so much closer to the

weekend. we still have to get through the day but we will make it easier. how about a smooth ride on 95 northbound where we have no delays dumb fries to the mixing bowl. we will hop on to 395 northbound and check out this trip. as we switch the camera over we are finding lanes wide open duke to the district. checking out eastbound 66. here's the shot for you. a nice, quiet commute from gainesville through centreville making the way to dc and over on the outer loop, this time in maryland, we want to show you drivers are zipping by north of the district. live shot at university and here's route 4, route 5 and 301 and this is an accident-free zone. andrea, over to you. >> thank you. marion barry is due in court later this morning but at that hearing federal prosecutors plan to drop the stalking charge against the dc councilman. the latest legal issue for the former mayor. armando trull is joining us live outside of superior court

with more. good morning. >> good morning, andrea. mr. barry says he's not going to let the matter drop. in fact he may pursue other avenues because he said u.s. park police held him for hours without being able to contact his attorney and he is very angry. marion barry will get yet another one of his many days in court. >> on behalf of councilman marion barry, his family friends we'd like to say our hearts are full tonight with thanks. >> reporter: that is because this time around the ending will be happy. >> we are grateful the office of the u.s. attorney has seen fit to not proceed in charging mr. barry for any criminal violations surrounding the july 4th event. >> reporter: events that led to stalking charges being filed by u.s. park police after a bizarre altercation between barry and his form per girlfriend in anacostia park. >> the arrest of mr. barry should have never taken place.

>> reporter: for the alleged victim, former barry girlfriend, donna watts the ending is not so happy. >> i hate the fact that i'm going down in history as one of the many women who he thinks he's defeated. >> reporter: the arrest also brought to light a $60,000 no bid contract that barry awarded to donna watts. now barry said it was done above board and legitimately but some dc council members want an investigation either by the county or by the attorney general peter nichols. stay tuned the reality show has more episodes to go. the question is when will all of us get tired of it. armando trull for 9 news now and wusa9.com. we have now learned the names of the men killed when a suspected drunk driver hit their car tuesday night. the car plunged through a guardrail over the outer loop and dropped 200 feet in to some trees. both men inside were killed.

the crash happened on the maryland side of the american legion bridge. police have also identified the other driver involved. virginia state police took her in to custody when she crashed after crossing the american legion bridge. court records she service driving with a suspended license and without insurance and she was involved in an alleged hit and run crash earlier this year. another video of a metro worker texting has surfaced on youtube. this time the video shows a metro bus driver. someone posted the video on tuesday. metro says at the moment it has no way to identify the driver. metro previously suspended a driver after a video showed him texting. a strain of rising foreclosures is so bad it is now taking public works crews off the streets in some places.

one example is district heights in prince georges county. that's where the city is sending public works crews on to private grass and cut blithe. >> we have to keep the city clean and we will do it. somebody will pay later but for right now the citizens is what counts. >> reporter: since may the district heights code inspector has written up 33 foreclosured homes for cleanup. they aim to place liens on the houses to recover the cost before the mortgage holders can sell the houses. five after the hour. time for the first living smart report of the morning and digital correspondent jessica doyle is here with a preview of the day on wall street after yesterday's up and down day. >> it was a crazy day but looking good this morning. investors waking up with the urge to buy. futures indicate a nice pop for stocks at the opening bell. that is after a roller coaster of a day yesterday.

overnight asian stocks kicked off the day with losses. the nikkei down 1.3% while the hang seng lost 0.1%. the dow opens at 8178 after adding 14 points. it traded lower in the session. the nasdaq added just a point and the s&p was down 1.5 points. ben bernanke's future as the head of the federal reserve maybe in question. the "wall street journal" reports the treasury secretary timothy geithner is expected to play a key role in advising president obama on whether to reappoint bernanke when his term expires in january. the top economic adviser and a former treasury secretary could be a leading contender for the job. 180 homeowners in maryland are getting refund checks in the mail. that's after the state found their mortgage services company violated rules about applying penalties for prepaid mortgage loans. aqua loan services is refunding

$674,000 to the homeowners. they thought they were getting ahead of the game and got stuck with a prepayment penalty. today we are saving folks $6,600 a year when they are buying life insurance. >> very good. that's in 30 minutes. president obama is meeting with seven other leaders of the world's biggest economies. the topics are global warming and the recession. digital correspondent susan roberts has more. >> reporter: eight of the world's most powerful leaders are reaching out to five of the fastest developing nations. the g-and g-5 will try to find common ground on a host of issues including global warming and international trade. president obama will lead the climate discussions. yesterday the president and other world leaders agreed to do what they can to keep the world's average temperature from riding more than 3 1/2 degrees. they pledged to cut green house

gas emissions but wouldn't get developing nations on board with the plan. the economy will be high on the agenda. the developing nations are expected to complain they are the ones feeling the brunt of the crisis. >> the economy is very volatile. there is a sense there is no exit strategy at the moment. >> reporter: progress could be complicated by the absence of the chinese president who withdrew talks to attend violent ethnic clashes that have killed 1 a 0 -- 150 people and wounded a thousand. world leaders appear to be on the same page when it comes to iran. they will give iran until september to accept negotiations over nuclear ambitions or face tougher sanctions but teheran appeared unfazed by the threat. they vowed to carry on with their nuclear program. susan roberts, cbs news, washington. president obama has nominated dr. francis collins to head the national institutes

of health. he is known for helping to unravel the human genetic code and finding common ground between science and a belief in god thanks to his book "the language of god. " he calls him one of the top scientists in the world. prosecutors may have gotten the man they need to convict former illinois governor rod blagojevich. that story is coming up. and authorities carry out the largest raid on dog fighters in u.s. history. and more on the problems discovered with security at many of the federal buildings around dc. it is nine after the hour. you are watching 9 news now.

in the news, authorities arrested 30 people in the largest dog fighting ring in u.s. history. they rounded up suspects and seized 200 dogs.

the dogs will be treated for other physical problem and evaluated to see if they can be adopted. this morning trains are moving through northeast baltimore. that wasn't the case last night when a natural gas leak shut down amtrak and all other train traffic in the area. the leak happened under a bridge on north point road. it took several hours for bge crews to make the repairs. a former top aide to blagojevich is now cooperating with prosecutors in the corruption case. john harris was once blagojevich's chief of staff but he pleaded guilty on wednesday admitting he took part in a plan to sell the senate seat vacated by president obama. harris is expected to testify against blagojevich. a struggling musician gets back at the airline that "done wronged him "on-line. that's coming up on the web. and are we still in the clear. >> we are protected from rain.

so far so good. we made it to thursday. i have the weekend forecast locked an loaded. you are with us at 5:12 this morning.

steady rains in south carolina last night.

forecasters predicted up to four inches of rain and the flood watch could turn in to warnings because more rain is forecast there today. >> all of the rain we are not getting here. >> we are so lucky. it was so beautiful walking outside this morning. >> you are going to get another day. a few more clouds than yesterday. we should not get any rain, though. we will hold off on that until sunday. >> okay. i can deal with it. >> for five days beautiful weather. we'll take it. great to have you with us. hope you will join me at my blog and my live web cast. go behind the scenes with me on the laptop an i answer your weather questions all morning. i'm in a good mood because weather has been cruise control. look outside and show you the satellite and radar loop. we have partly cloudy skies. i'm following rain drops across west virginia but i'm not concerned about them. around here we should dry. the thing that will be different today compared to yesterday is that we will have a northeasterly wind trying to push iglyhtcooler air in and

a few more cloud cover in patches. other than that i don't think much trouble. 65 is our starting point. it is 58 in baltimore. 62. good morning, southern maryland. the game plan, partly cloudy, refreshingly comfortable with 50s and 60s. this afternoon partly cloudy and nice, lower 80s and tonight partly cloudy and mild, 60s. so kind of the same old same old. air quality in the good category and by lunch a pair of sevens. so nice i hope you can get outside and take your lunch out and enjoy the nice weather while we have it. it is the middle of july and we haven't been flirting with 100- degree heat and humidity and those code red days and what not. they have been absent, too. good news for new england. they are drying out today for a while at least. thunderstorms over my shoulder coming to the central great plains but again we are kind of sandwiched in this beautiful dome of high pressure between a big upper low to our north and all of that activity across the

carolinas. we have been enjoying nice high pressure cell today the winds will be coming off the ocean northeasterly. slightly cool for what we normally have this time of the year. a trip in the lower 80s. normally the high for today 88. but i'm not complaining. no, i'm not, angie goff. look at my seven-day forecast. as we head to the weekend we will warm things up on saturday, 89. on sunday a few scattered thunderstorms and we'll keep one or two leftover in to next week. the forecast is in your in box by 4:00 in the morning. if you follow me on twitter my i.d. is weather kim. here's traffic angie. >> we are broadcasting behind the scenes at channel 9's website at wusa9.com. we are talking about meeting anna kournikova. we will have more can you during the morning buzz. talk about the lights being out as we go to the graphics. this is at connecticut and bradley boulevard.

we know there are defective lights so treat it as a four- way four-way stop. volume is light right now. over to 270 and show you a live shot from 121. we are a okay to the spur. in virginia tracking a trip on 66 and here's the head lights past 28. building a little okay but overall toward the beltway in great shape. moving along here's the inner loop in virginia. we'll take you there and show you drivers are moving fine past annandale to the american legion bridge and end with a trip through dc, northeast in particular. new york avenue volume building but no delays from the times building to bladensburg road. over to you. a new report from the government accountability office says there are a number of problems with the federal protective service and private security contractors. on ten separate occasions gao investors were able to slip bond making materials in to federal buildings.

inside the buildings the investigators walk in to a bathroom, assemble the materials in to a small bomb and wonder through the buildings. >> in all ten cases gao investigators were able to get through metal detectors, get through x-ray machines and go and assemble their bomb. >> it is simply unacceptable that we have such a poor level of security at busy government buildings that are obvious targets. >> gao officials say their investigators were only stopped once and even then they were able to talk themselves out of trouble we learned more websites being hit by a powerful attack. the stock exchange and nasdaq were targeted. although the attacks did not disrupt market activity. and this morning police in south korea report they have confiscated computers that may

have been used in the attack. with more on what is happening on the web, here's kristin fisher. this is much more like the story you reported. this is a viral video. i am sure we have all had issues with airlines and our luggage but what if you are a struggling musician and some baggage handlers break your guitar. that's what happened to dave carroll of nova scotia when he flew on a united airlines flight last spring. he spent months trying to get the airline to pay for the repairs but they refused. what does he do, he wrote a song and took the fight to youtube. >> united you broke my taylor guitar ♪ ♪ united united united ♪ some big help you are ♪ you broke it you should fix

it ♪ ♪ just admit it ♪ i should have flown with someone else or gone by car ♪ ♪ because united breaks guitars ♪ ♪ >> well, david carroll's united breaks guitars is now the most popular video on youtube. he posted it on monday and has already been viewed a half million times and even received a response from, you guessed it, united. a spokeswoman for the airline told them this has struck a chord with us and we have contacted him directly to make it right but he says the damage has been done and he has paid for the repairs. his message to united now, no hard feelings. >> but they could give him the money. >> i'm sure they wouldn't mind it. >> i'm sure he wouldn't. a struggling nationals rookie tries to turn things around. and plus we will show you whether team usa walked away

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in sports the visitors to rfk stadium had far more serious things to worry about in their country. despite the coup they played on. it was scoreless until the 75th minute when davies passes to dc you knowed for his first goal in international play. usa a added a header minutes later for a 2-0 win. stage five of the tour de france, another wind swept jaunt along the coast of the mediterranean. lance armstrong is less than one second behind the leader. today's stage goes in to spain ending up in beautiful

barcelona. nationals rookie pitcher ross debt wilier is in the middle of a bad streak to say the least. over the fast few starts an era of 12. he the double over the wall gives the rockies a lead and the rockies continue the offensive explosion. nationals lose 10-4. ouch. manager talks about what the starter did wrong. >> i don't know if he was intimidated by the altitude and he didn't throw enough breaking balls. i didn't see it. perhaps he didn't feel he could throw strikes but still need to throw it to see if he can get a feel for it. one of the great traditions of baseball, making the rookies feel like first graders. he is forced to wear to the bull pen wearing a pink dora the explorer backpack and had

to wear it on the plane home as they left for the road trip. the washington capitals are trying for a win hosting the aces and the kastles fell 21- 15. they are 0-4 but today head to boston where williams will join the team for the first time this year. we also got a first-hand look at the rock on anna kournikova's finger. more on that in the buzz. and why people in one northern virginia community are afraid to drink their water. after spending $787 billion has the recession become so bad that congress may need to pass a second stimulus package? we'll find out. it is 5:27. what's on the road. >> we are traveling on the gw parkway and finding nothing but green cars from the beltway and beyond telling us the drivers are moving at speed. a realtime look at over roads

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prosecutors maybe dropping a stalking charge against marion barry but he may pursue a case of his own. kim has a fabulous forecast. she is starting to feel like the forecasters in hawaii. >> or l.a. >> it is that good. it is nice. and if you are like bret the cyclist in my live chat room, he loves this weather for riding his bike to work every day. so it has been a dream come true. great to see you. get outside and look around. here's the numbers. 50s and 60s in the middle of july. that is open the window weather with 55 at winchester. partly cloudy skies on the way today. i think most rain drops should be to the south and west.

we will work on 81 this afternoon. warming up to 89 by the weekend. good morning, how's the traffic. >> good morning. the traffic is looking mighty fine. we are actually going to begin with 95 northbound in virginia where my buddy chas lives in stafford county. he is in the chat room and from 234 past lorton to the beltway you are looking at a smooth commute. 395, we are great past duke street seminary to the 14th street bridge. the beltway is fine. a live shot from colesville road where drivers are in the clear and we will end with this maps 95 and the bw parkway out of baltimore all the way down, all we can see is green which means we are all good. now over to andrea. >> thank you. this morning, marion barry is scheduled to be in court on his stalking arrest last saturday. but federal prosecutors have decided to drop the case against the dc councilman.

>> reporter: it maybe good and bad news for the controversial former mayor. the stalking charges against marion barry will be dropped today for lack of evidence. >> we are thankful to the u.s. attorneys office for seeing through it and making the right decision. >> reporter: however, marion barry may not be willing to drop the matter as it pertains to his treatment at the hands of park police after the 4th of july arrest in anacostia park. >> he was held almost two hours before being arrested and he was held for almost four hours without having an opportunity to contact his attorney. mr. barry has said he has every intention on elevating these concerns. >> reporter: the alleged victim, former marion barry girlfriend donna watts said she never wanted to press charges against barry but had this to say.

>> marion is a competitor and of course it is never his fault. he's never wrong. and he's slippery. >> reporter: the arrest brought to light the fact that marion barry gave donna watts a $60,000 no bid contract with the city and that is causing concerns among council members. and one is asking for an investigation either by the council or the district attorney general peter nickels. a lot more to go on this matter. 9 news now and wusa9.com. police in manassas, virginia are searching for a man they say is targeting teenager girls. on two occasions the suspects have tried to abduct a 16-year- old girl. investigators say he grabbed the girl by the arm and tried to force her in to a van. both incidents happened within a month of each other near the wellington community center. police handhood out flyers

warning residents of the predator and to be aware of their surroundings. residents of one community say they are afraid of their water. homes along persimilar monday lane were built next to an old land fill. five years ago the epa studied the soil and found high levels of tce, a toxic chemical can lead to increased risk of cancer and liver problem and they say cleaning it could take up to ten years. >> water cleanups are never quick and easy. >> what they are doing now seems to be a waste. >> reporter: the epa says the site is one of the most contaminated in the country and has been designated a super fund meaning it is a top priority for the government. this morning martin o'malley is scheduled to moderate a panel on the h1n1

flu virus. the discussion at the national institute of health will include the u.s. secretaries of education, homeland security and health and human services. the focus will be on preparedness and response ahead of this fall's flu season. more than 2 million americans have lost their jobs this year and now five months after congress passed the $787 billion package of tax cuts and spending there is talk the economy needs a second stimulus. watch dog agencies.out so far only 11% of the stimulus package has actually made its way in to federal, state and local projects. the federal agencies have to receive bids for contracts and then they have to analyze those bids and they have to write checks to those people that won the bids and that all takes time. most republicans in congress opposed the first stimulus package and appeared dead set against the second. it also appears the white house is not eager to fight that

battle again. time for another living smart report and digital correspondent jessica doyle is back with the new white house policy on hiring illegal imgrants. >> on this issue it is looking like what is old is new again. the obama administration is taking a hard line on contractors who try to hire illegal imgrants. it has decided to continue a bush era program that affects 170,000 contracting businesses. starting september 8th, companies must check whether employees are entitled to work in the u.s. through the government's e-verify program which compares names and social security numbers. if workers are found to be in the u.s. illegally, contractors are supposed to fire them. well, your next bottle of water may come with more information on the label. researchers and congressional investigators are recommending that bottled water be labeled with the same information that municipal water providers need to disclose. they say we know less about the bottle we drink than the water

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today is tie shawn's fourth birthday. in his first month of life he weighed less than four pounds, 200-pounds. so far the only cub born to the parents. his name means peaceful mountain. you can link to the panda web page through wusa9.com. just look under they are water cooler heading. mother nature may rain on nasa's parade as the agency tries to launch a space shuttle. that story is coming up. plus, a massive power outage snarls traffic in the second largest city. hopefully nothing that bad here. angie, it is 5:38. what do you see. >> we are traveling above 50 westbound where we are without delay. 9 news now will be back after this break. stay with us. it is 5:38.

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in the news now thousands of chinese troops and police officers have moved in to maintain order today in the city. three days of violence between ethnic groups killed at least 156 people. the government had imposed a curfew and military helicopters are flying over the city. emergency officials scrambled early this morning to restore power to the west side of los angeles.

a transformer exploded shutting off the lights and in the brent wood and west wood as well as other communities. traffic backed up when major intersections went dark. the countdown is underway for the "endeavor." nasa hopes to spend the shuttle in to space on saturday night. but the forecast is not promising with possible thunderstorms. a plan was postponed last month because of a fuel tank link. the web is heated up over the texting story. and in the fight against breast cancer one weapon that can detect a problem years before other screening methods. and we have a thief on the weather terrace. i will tell you about my eyewitness report next along with the weather forecast this gorgeous thursday morning. you are watching 9 news now. time to get up.

welcome back to 9 news. it is the 9th of the month. have you called your buddy today? that call reminding your buddy of the monthly breast self exam, annual mammogram or regular doctor's exam could be a lifesaver especially if a breast tumor is found at the earliest stage but there is an fda approved screening method that can warn women up to ten years before any other procedure that a cancer may be forming. >> please rotate to the other. >> reporter: she take her health seriously and she

practices early detection. >> i was one of those that got a mammogram every year. >> reporter: but mammography misses 15% of the time and can only find a breast lump after it starts to grow. >> can you put your hands above. >> reporter: seeking early detection for the prevex of cancer she found breast mammography on the internet and this doctor in northwest. >> right now you are looking at athermal image of the patient. >> they are designed to look at different things and pick up different information. if a tumor is present mammography will see it but thermogravity tells what it is doing. >> thermography is an image taken by the temperature of the surface of the body. it can look like colors or black and white. if the woman is in the process of developing a tumor on the way we can actually start to

see the images become less and less healthy. >> thermography uses no radiation and no intravenous injection and poses no health risk to the patient and since there is no direct contact the procedure is painless. >> i'm seeing hot spots and increase in heat relative to last time. >> reporter: finding a hot spot warrants closer attention and necessary lifestyle changes. >> a lot of women have lumps and bumps and cysts and these things often can start to clear out as women do things that are good for them. so the texture becomes more normal. the appearance becomes more normal. chances are she is becoming healthier in every way. >> reporter: mammography has been around since the ' 60s and approved by the fda in ' 82 but it isn't a matter of either or. based on his patient results, dr. wren believes wider use of

thermographyed a an adjunction to mammography could result in a 90% drop in the breast cancer rate. >> i loved it. to me that is what health ebb and medicine is all about, not waiting until you are sick. >> thermography is for women of all ages but the best candidates are younger women with dense breast tissue, pregnant women and others that want to limit exposure and women with implants. for more information on breast thermo graphy we have a link to dr. wren and the nih website. t. you will find information on my a buddy blog. >> and we can friend you on facebook. >> yes, there, as well. >> on the terrace yesterday, it is lunchtime then critter, the squirrel decides to climb the apple tree, we actually have an apple tree out there.

made a huge ruckus, got an apple bigger than its head. it is being all cute eating the apple. there's some of the live pictures of our apples. now this happened when he stole one yesterday. so we don't have video of that. do you know what type of weather we are missing right now. >> i guess, hazy, hot and humid. >> you are right. look at a picture sent to me on- line. this is where he was vacationing. from john this is bermuda. the bermuda high has been strangely absent and we have been enjoying oddly enough lower humidity and humidity. bermuda is nice but in the summer, around here they can keep the high pressure i'm kim martucci. the time is 5:48 an we have partly cloudy skies. no rain in sight. temperatures are comfortable across maryland we have 50s. coming down 270 from frederick.

65 in the district and 60 at andrews air force base. the high today in waldorf 80. northern virginia not going to leave you out. fredericksburg is 64. the high for king george 87. 80 in amissville and 82 in arlington. so pretty comfortable weather. you can thank the nurse'sly winds off the ocean. keeping things comfortable and tolerable for this time of the year. as we take a look at where the rain is, we showed you the video from south carolina. that batch heading to the ocean and that is going to stay out of reach. if you are catching a flight, heads up, the heat is really oppressive in south carolina. pretty much upper 90s to 100- degree range. 84 atlanta, and 64 in boston. pack a light jacket. the seven-day forecast we will be in the lower 80s today and tomorrow. a little more sunshine tomorrow. over the weekend we are still on track to get up to the upper 80s on saturday.

a couple of scattered thunderstorms on sunday and then next week still looking good with middle 80s. keep in mind the average high is upper 80s. anything below that feels pretty good. see if our roads are moving along with angie goff. >> they sure are. are you up and at it. are you moving along? do you have a nice cup of coffee? we will begin with the traffic on the outer loop in maryland. we have a clear commute from new hampshire to georgia avenue. on interstate 270, we are heading southbound. volume is building between 118 germantown road to 370 and before that a slow go from 109 to 121. in virginia eastbound 66 we are tracking head lights before route 50 where this drive is incident free. on 395 live from duke street. drivers zipping by making their way to seminary and finishing with our trains metro we are still experiencing some delays on the red line between takoma park and photon on the.

it will be like this until july 19th. over to kristin fisher. thank you, angie. good morning, everybody. one of the hottest stories on our website is about the metro train operator caught texting on the job. the operator has been suspended without pay for a week but that hasn't stopped some from sounding off on our website. i want to show you comments we were getting in yesterday and this morning. >> anyone who drives a metro train and texts should be fire. when i heard it is the driver of a blue line. i ride that line. it is my life you e armessing with and not to mention countless other ves, as well.

another one from sam 1974. he wrotes, the way the economy is someone else who is just as experienced could do the job. these employers are too lax on their employees. very sad. i tried to find some sort of positive comment out of all the comments on our website couldn't find a single one there, nor could i find a positive comment on twitter. it was getting a lot of responses on twitter. here's one that stood out. cox wrote saw a thing on channel 9 last night about video of a metro driver texting while driving, please. are people really that stupid? so there you have it. this story has definitely struck a chord with a lot of people in the dc area especially when you think of the deadly metro crash which took place just three weeks ago. >> kind of hard to defend the actions. thank you. a claim by researchers leads some people to wonder whether men will become

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some british scientists say they made medical history by creating human sperm. >> it is a system that is safe. it could help infertile men to have their own children. >> experts point out the cells did not constitute authentic sperm with the biological characteristics. but in the meantime this research leads some to wonder if men are no longer necessary. digital correspondent james hash asks the burning question. >> reporter: with the announcement that british scientists created human sperm in the laboratory it begs the question, will men become obsolete. >> i still need to have my husband around to put his arms around me and make me feel warm and fuzzy. >> sperm in a dish doesn't work for me. >> i have a child already so helping to take care of that child, a dish full of sperm isn't going to bathe the child.

>> raking leaves. >> taking on the trash. >> cutting the grass. >> changing oil. >> can't see a dish of sperm wielding a screw driver or hammer. >> killing bugs. >> someone i can roll over and hit and say i hear somebody outside. a sperm dish is not going to do that for me. >> men are useful. >> 9 news now and wusa9.com. >> can't get a good hug from a petri dish. >> so last night we're at the capitals stadium at the city center in dc where the washington capitals took on the aces and bombshell anna kournikova who was sidelined because she had a wrist injury but that didn't stop us from zoning in and looking at the next shot. i acted like i was taking a picture of her with these kids but it is a huge yellow diamond and columnist stephanie green

at the washington times belted out are you engaged. that's the first question and she responded and she said "she doesn't talk about her personal life. i don't normally talk about it. people are saying a lot of things. there's always something new. so we really didn't get out of her. we lost 21-15. next week with serena williams who plays for the team, they will take on the newport and beach breakers. we are hoping for a win there. >> how old is he. >> he is young and stay below the radar. >> this is great. i love jon bon jovi. i had big hair, too. see what is going on with him. he is teaming up with homeless advocates to build environmentally friendly housing center for women and men.

what is great it is for men and women dealing with mental illness or substance abuse and asked about it he said this is the issue, i don't need a scientist with a pill to cure. it takes money and determination and i can get both. love it. he is also working on similar projects in new orleans, too. >> while he is doing that britney spears is on tour with her circus tour. she will also been on tv in the fall with a new radar video and a candy shoe ad. look for that. the video is rated r but if you look at her feet, candy says if you like it, buy it. >> we will see how accurate the radar is. >> okay. good morning. does it compare to doppler 9000, which, by the way, is scanning the skies. no rain drops for you on this early thursday morning. let's get moving. grab the coffee. don't miss my forecast and angie's traffic. we have 65 degrees hoar. it is 55 in winchester and in garrett county and folks in southern maryld