shocking than ever. electronic controls on the track did not detect a stopped train and failed to alert an oncoming driver. nine were killed. how bad was that failure? >> the blips were carried over multiple days, periods of time that a train was not recognized. >> reporter: and yet somehow he said no one saw the problem on metro's master control board seen here in pictures provided by the transit agency. >> unless you were staring right at that point on the screen you would not see that it was blinking. and those are some of the changes, of course, that the ntsb has asked us to put as we go forward into a new system. >> reporter: he announced a system design has is being used. back live now you're looking at the tracks here between tacoma

park and totin park where the trains are still on manual moving slowly, 10 miles per hour, while the investigation continues to unfold. he pointed out if there are any confidence problems it is not turning up in the ridership numbers. they have stayed steady in the wake of the accident. in fact, there was one day last week where metro had its 11th busiest day in history. people still are riding the trains despite all of these issues. reporting live from near port totin station, scott broom. >> metro says it won't have to close the tacoma station because they won't be working at the site. it is unclear when investigators will return to the tracks at tacoma. a young girl was spotted by friends at the bottom of the upton pool on wilson boulevard. four jumped in, pulled her out and life guards performed cpr.

by the time paramedics arrived the girl was conscious and breathing and is being treated right now at an area hospital. a follow-up to a story we told you about earlier this week about two u.s. supreme court rulings that are jeopardizing criminal dui prosecutions in virginia. tim kaine announced he is calling lawmakers into special sessions to address the issue. >> in the aftermath of both of these decisions by the court most states have been wrestling with, okay, how do we make sure that court proceedings that are now going forward in which this kind of evidence needs to be used. >> the session will be held august 19th. now back in june the supreme court ruled prosecutors must make forensic examiners available for defense cross- examination about lab reports or evidenceevidence and that clud es blood alcohol tests. also this inrnmog governor tim kaine anunced missing medical

records were found. a former employee at the school counselling center apparently had the records, tim kaine says they will be released as soon as possible. gun control advocates scored a rare victory on capitol hill today as the senate rejected an amendment to allow guns to be carried over state line. the measure would have given people with concealed weapons the right to carry their firearms into other states. it is an unusual setback for gun control opponents who opponents. jim west is one of those democrats. >> the violence we see in our streets and in our neighborhoods must be addressed but very little of that violence has ever been caused by those who seek permits to carry. as i mentioned before the people that are perpetrating that kind of violence already have their guns. >> despite west's support it failed by four votes. it would force states to

recognize permits from states with few restrictions. president obama will try to win back the support of congress and the american people on health care reform. as joel brown reports, despite his urging lawmakers, they may not be able to meet the deadline of having a finished plan before leaving for their august recess. >> reporter: president obama has a lot of convincings to do. opponents in congress painting health care reform as a budget breaker that is being rushed through. the president will attempt to retake control of the debate. >> i have no interest in creating a bad bill. that doesn't serve me. and it certainly doesn't serve the american people. >> reporter: he will have his work cut out for him. polls show declining support for president obama of his handling of health reform. some are urging him to back off his deadline for getting a bill through congress before the august recess. >> this is too important to be rushed. we need to take our time and do

it right. >> reporter: as the legislation ran into trouble on capitol hill president obama found himself on the defensive and forced to take an even bigger role in trying to get a bill to the white house. >> there is no way around it. >> reporter: speaker nancy pelosi says the house will meet the president's deadline. >> i have no question that we have the votes on the floor of the house to pass this legislation. >> reporter: but the bigger battle is in the senate where it is more likely there will only be an agreement to keep the talks going after the august break. tonight the president aims to get them moving faster and convince more americans he is doing the right thing. joel brown , cbs news, the white house. >> you can watch the president's news conference tonight with us at 8:00 p.m. right here on wusa9 and live on the web at wusa9.com. the university of maryland medical center announced today it is going to be participating in human trials for h1n1 flu vaccines. maryland's school of medicine

is one of eight federally funded support vaccine and treatment evaluation units. university officials say these units can rapidly enroll a whole bunch of volunteers with the studies to deal with emerging health concerns like the h1n1. prosecutors will rest their case in the bonita jacks trial. today it played out about a sad script from a novel about kids slipping through the cracks. audrey barnes now with the latest. >> reporter: the signs were there that 16-year-old britney jacks needed help. her grades dropped from as to fs the next quarter. then her attendance plummeted. it is a case one homicide detective said he found so disturbing he told his supervisors he couldn't do it any more. a social worker noticed that britney jacks stopped coming to

school in march. when phone calls and letters to home went unanswered she went to the home on 6th street with the special education coordinator and dc police officers. she said jacks was hostile andd agitated. there were two other girls in the home. that visit triggered a barrage of phone calls to police, court, dc child and family service agency to try and get someone to check on the welfare of the kids. a sergeant did go to the house three days later. he says he never asked about britney unaware that jacks even had a teenager. he called the social worker to say the kids were fine. marshalls discovered britney's corps in the house along with her three little sisters. in one report after the bodies

were discovered the sergeant said he believed there was a teenager at the house. a few days later he said there wasn't. sergeant, are you still haunted by this case? in court the prosecutor asked him to explain. and when she did that the sergeant took a deep breath and then he said i was tired, i was burned out, my wife threatened to leave me, i told my supervisors i didn't have the heart to do this any more. six dc social workers were fired as a result of this case and there was major reshuffling in the department of child and family services as a result. now, the prosecution is expected to wrap up its case in this trial tomorrow and then the defense will take over. lesli, back to you. >> just more heartbreaking by the day. audrey, thank you for that. the maryland board of public works has unanimously approved $280 million worth of budget cuts to help close a $700 million shortfall. health care and higher

education absorbed the brunt of the cut backs including reducing medicaid payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers by $34 million and cutting $40 million from state colleges and universities. the prince george's county council approved a 10-day furlough plan. they are proposed to help close the $13 million budget gap. at least three of those days off without pay must happen in the first three quarters. the county council will revisit it quarterly to see if the full ten days will be necessary. cutting the ribbon on the board's new election offices in gait gaithersburg today. it will provide more training facilities. it had been located on twinbrook in rockville for more than 20 years. today announcing a summer crime initiative targeting

burglars and shop lifters selling stolen items on county streets. >> we are thought going to let you rob from the hard working people of prince george's county and the businesses that work and pay taxes and hire people and build a life for themselves and other family people's families and robbing from them and selling these goods. >> jack johnson unveiled a sign that reminded people they were taught better than to shop lift. just last week police reported a 14% drop in county crime this year but the number of burglaries was up by 4%. . country's first grandmother is encouraging our kids to read a lot this summer. >> there is a house, a napping house, where everyone is sleeping. >> you have to be able to see the resemblance there.

>> first lady michelle obama's mom read the napping house during the lunch hour at the education plaza in southwest dc today joining education secretary arnie duncan. it comes on the heels of president obama's call for more americans to do more to serve in their community over the summer. >> looked like the rain held off for the reading session but we will see it at some points tonight. meteorologist topper shutt on the terrace. >> we have thunderstorms west of town primarily. same pattern as yesterday. some will creep into the metro area. we will start e thwn a little t 7:00 p.m. ist.ated thunderstorm possible. kind of warm too. upper 70s, lower 80s during the game. i understand ofatthtickets arev at ailable. for tonight partly cloudy. a bit muggy tonight. isolated shower or thunderstorm here. lows 66 to 72 and winds so to at. l y at 5 up leof shs erowsher

dethrmun thunderstorms etpretty close no cumber . ermblaland. we will come back and introduce a very cool product for you web users. it is free and i think you are going to love it. that's all i'm going to say. >> there was a bright star in the sky. it was as dark as night. >> still ahead. millions witness a once in a lifetime solar eclipse with both excitement and some fear. investigators raid the ndn's physician. what they were looking for is coming up. fab@b@

the winning streak is over on wall street. for the first time in more than a week stocks lost ground. dow finishing the day down 34

points to close at 8881. nasdaq was up 10 points and s&p 500 lost half a point. authorities have raided the houston office of michael jackson's personal physician today. he is the doctor that was with the singer when he died suddenly last month. >> reporter: police officers from houston, los angeles homicide detectives and more than a dozen federal enforcement agents raided the office of michael jackson's personal physician dr. con rad murray taking with them a computer hard drive and documents but no drugs. murray's lawyer confirm investigators are looking for any evidence that could lead to a charge ofman ofmanslaughter. >> reporter: dr. conrad murray has not been named as a suspect. murray was with jackson when

he died. murray's lawyers say they were surprised by the search today. he said murray has been cooperative with investigators. there have been two autopsies conducted on jackson 's body. one by the l.a. coroner, another one a private one ordered by the family. although there have been many reports about jackson using a power anaesthetic, the official records have not been released. >> the result of the l.a. county coroner's autopsy is not expected until next week. and the second autopsy results are also pending. funeral services will be held for legendary newsman walter cronkite. they will take place in mid- n. r manh dyanooney is one of dyth scheduled speakers. u cayowatch live coverage of

his funeral on wusa9.com beginning tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. we want to take you now to the international space station where shuttle endeavour astronauts wrapped up their space walk. one astronaut had a problem with his space suit. as a result they were only able to replace two of the four batteries on one of the space station solar panels. the other will be replaced during a fourth walk on friday. millions of asians turn their eyes to the sky this morning as dawn suddenly dipped to darkness. the rare solar eclipse was mixed with excitement and fear as the must-see event swept across asia. it started in india where total darkness descended just after the break of dawn. >> a bright star in the sky. it was as dark as night. >> a huge path of the asian continent was swallowed in

darkness darkness darkness. >> no wonder some people found it a little bit spooky. >> absolutely. topper is here with a cool new tool on the web. you were talking about that before the break. this. >> this is the interactive radar. you can go on to our website wusa9.com and track storms and enin and snow all u ac roe ssthe ssretiun country and right roac rhrboyogh eiroacd. ooyour neighborhood. let's gow. no go to wusa9.com. avw.nowe go to wusa9.com. the front here. yocan go to the weather tab an e down to interactive radar. we put this into onmoti. this is called mofutust . fu u hit the fu reoncastttbu and hit play and it will tett ll you which way the gog going and cloud cover. >> is th is the local view right th now and you can of course pan and move t to hessun tvecoy tr

t hetoou t t out toward cumberland and deep creek. everything is fairly ld in terms of intensit caalrentn il the storplwam to ntiswhere the storm isr othvegoe lf co se you can do that. e ar pretty excited free ty is free ctiv intee ivradar and compliments our live doppler 9000 pretty nice as well. next three days for us, looking like this. showers and storms possible. probably the best chance will be tomorrow. we will talk more about that in a minute. 86 both thursday and friday. 90 on saturday. we will keep saturday dry at least for now. tonight, partly cloudy. a bit muggy. isolated shower or thunderstorm. lows 56 to 72 and winds southeasterly at 5 to 10. mid-80s. temperatures pretty nice. pretty much 84 everywhere.

plains 83. 82 out towards winchester. little cooler to the west because of clouds and showers. tomorrow morning, partly sunny. 60s and 70s. by afternoon partly sunny and warm pretty good chance of showers and thunderstorms. high temperatures 84 to 88. winds easterly at about 10. here is our 9 microcast. 10:30 p.m. tonight. not really a big problem. showers in the mountains that are dying out. by thursday we talked about this yesterday. computers are pretty emphatic about driving almost a line of thunderstorms through us tomorrow afternoon and into tomorrow night. by lunchtime tomorrow couple sprinkles here and there. but by the evening and late afternoon pretty good line of showers and storms possible. really from north of frederick through winchester back to fredericksburg through lunch hour unfortunately. it may take until 10 to clear the entire metro area. that's our best chance for showers and thunderstorms again tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow

night. zones for you. showers and storms possible. mid-80s college park and downtown. pretty good chance of thunderstorms. next seven days. 86 thursday and friday. better day for thunderstorms will be thursday. hot over the weekend. 90 on saturday. keep it dry. 90 on sunday. isolated thunderstorm possible. monday, tuesday, wednesday, flirting with 90 kind of. nothing really terribly hot. isolated thunderstorms possible each day. >> looks like a pool weekend. >> do you like the interactive radar? >> oh, yes, very cool. >> you can see where it is going. >> it is key. right to a golf course, your house. >> it is always a golf course. thank you, topper. still ahead tonight. a park ranger spends a decade uncovering the lost names of soldiers killed in the civil

war. every day about 30 women in the u.s. learn that they have cervical cancer. that's why i chose to get my daughter vaccinated. i chose to get my daughter vaccinated when her doctor and i agreed that the right time to protect her is now.

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145 years ago this month 40 union soldiers died right here in dc during washington's only civil war battle, the battle of fort stevens. >> a national park service ranger made a discovery that would change his life and the life of those 40 men forever. our digital correspondent has the story on this special report. >> reporter: just off georgia avenue in north west washington ranger ron harvey walks into one of the smallest cemeteries in the entire park service. battleground national cemetery. >> we are standing on the battlefield quite literally. if it wasn't for these men right here dc might have fallen. this is extremely holy ground. >> reporter: he began to question the names ten years

ago. >> i wanted to find out more about these names when i started reading the headstones. i knew they were killed during the battle. that's all i knew. once i start researching, five headstones kept giving me problems. the names weren't adding up. >> reporter: for the past decade he has been trying to find out who really died during the battle of fort stevens. >> i would wake up in the middle of the night wondering about this guy, that guy. i drove my coworkers nuts. >> reporter: last summer it paid off. >> i was able to find out who they were. >> reporter: he found the five names. >> finally to have them recognized. i got pretty weepy. so, yeah, hopefully they will rest in peace and their stories, their lives, their names will never be forgotten

again. >> so what's next for ranger ron? he says his next mission is to find the descendents of those recently identified soldiers and tell them what their ancestor did during the civil war. do you know a hero? need a hero? log on to wusa9.com and click on the hero central button and tell us all about that person. a new report shows america is extremely vulnerable to a cyber attack and find out which federal agencies are most at risk coming up. plus. >> my son's very question was could he continue with his career? >> a u.s. airman goes in for a routine gall bladder surgery and ends up losing both his legs. more that coming up. >> brought to you by . . .

welcome back. let's reset some of the top stories in the news now. metro manager john cato says a washington report is overblown and the system is safe. the circuit problems can be found in six other locations in the metrorail system.

he says if metro were unsafe he would shut it down. tonight president obama will try to win back the support of members of congress and the american people on health care reform. he is holding a prime time press conference at 8:00 p.m. tonight. house speaker nancy pelosi says the democrat do have the vote to pass health care legislation in the house. authorities have taken an image of a computer hard drive and 21 documents from the houston clinic of michael jackson's personal physician. dr. conrad murray's attorney says los angeles police are looking for evidence of manslaughter. murray was at jackson's home and tried to revive the singer the day he did. identifying problems with the u.s. government's cyber workforce revealing problems that could ultimately put the country's security at risk. here is digital correspondent lindsey mastis. >> reporter: trying to get sensitive u.s. government

information and they attack. >> almost daily. >> reporter: matt stier says viruses can shut down entire websites. >> recently we saw that the ftc website was shut down because of a cyber attack. >> reporter: north korea attacked south korea and american websites. they found serious problems with federal cyber security. according to this report there aren't enough people in government with the expertise to protect against a cyber attack. the department of justice agrees. >> we have a big problem d faweo problem. enoug >>reporter: the recommendation is that barriers be d removeso o the best cyber experts can po. on get into top tisi it encourages . the vegontmern develop s it own cyber security training programs and do more recruiting. >> it is very, very strategic

to our national security and we have to find people who have skills, very specific skills that help us deal with it. >> reporter: in washington, i'm lindsey mastis, 9news now and wusa9.com. president obama revealed plans to report a cyber star back in may. so far no names have been announced. the president met at the white house. during a press conference following the meeting president obama says the u.s. is on schedule to have all our troops out of the country by the end of 2011. however, he says america's involvement with iraq is not over. the u.s. will play a vital role in rebuilding the nation. >> the united states and iraq have known difficult times together now both of us agree that the bonds between americans and iraqis in war can pave the way for progress that can go forged in peace. >> the president of iraq will

be visiting the death toll stands at 34 this month. today a vigil is planned for the safe return of a soldier from idaho that was taken prisoner last month in eastern afghanistan. a 20-year-old airman goes in for routine gall bladder surgery and ends up losing both his legs. now lyfa mimembers nt know went wrong. this is from our whsi ststern at io with the story from travis air force base near sacramento. >> reporter: he entered the hospital on july 9th for what was supposed to be a routine gal bladder surgery. >> there wasn't something we didn't know until we met yesterday. >> reporter: the air force says a doctor in training was

performing the procedure when the surgery went horriblely wrong. >> i wasn't aware that a resident was going to be doing part of the surgery. >> reporter: surgeons on travis air force base tried to repair the severed valve. >> why was his quality of life not more valuable than that? >> reporter: we are told it took travis 8.5 hours to transport the 20-year-old airman to the uc davis center in sacramento. >> we were told had it been within a six-hour period the limbs could have been saved. he might have had muscle damage or damage but nothing to this degree. >> why did it take so long to get my husband help? why did they wait so long? >> reporter: a spokeswoman from travis air force base refused it talk about the specifics of the medical procedure. but lieutenant holly hess did say this a serious medical

condition did occur. we are conducting an exhaustive review with experts outside of the medical center as well as an eternal investigation. >> it wasn't what we wanted to hear by any means and from some of the decision makers over at travis i felt like we were almost -- >> reporter: colton reed remains in critical condition but he is improving. his wife is trying to remain positive. his mother, however, is heart broken. >> i want someone do know that my son's first question was air force, question mark. we have it in writing. my son's very first question was could he continue with his career? >> this case is now under investigation by the base. a national hospital accrediting commission and the u.s. surgeon general. the animal rights group peta has released evidence of elephant abuse. the video was taken by a peta

investigator who posed as an employee. in the videos elephants are struck with the ends of a bull hook. peta filed animal complaints in six states. the circus disputes the allegations. hot dogs are hazardous to your health and should have warning labels. they want to require makers to put warning labels on their product. the cbs evening news is less than an hour away and katie couric is joining us live from new york city with a preview. hi. >> hi, lesli. coming up, the government asks for thousands of volunteers to test a new h1n1 flu vaccine but a similar nationwide vaccine effort back in 1976 left more than two dozen americans dead and a lot of people also got sick. so what will be different this

time. plus, president obama makes a prime time plea for health care reform as some members of congress go against his plan. we will have a reality check. growing problem in this country. teenage girls some as young as 11 being lured into a life of prostitution. we are going to go inside an fbi sting operation that is trying to rescue these lost girls. so all that coming up tonight only on the cbs evening news right after 9news now. lesli, back to you. >> you are covering a lot of ground tonight. katie couric. see you then. if you're looking to save money on insurance costs.

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that you remove the premium you were paying. >> reporter: if you are driving your car less because you're unemployed that should lower your insurance and save you money on your auto pilot. if you have installed safety devices in your home or car. >> make sure they are maximizing all the discounts they qualify for. >> we highly advocate not to have credit insurance. it isn't protecting you as a consumer, it is protecting those people you owe money to. >> here is another tip. review every policy you have and ask your agent to shop your rates. jane did this and she saved $200. for more insurance money saving tips log on to our website wusa9.com. actor kiefer sutherland is allegedly off the hook for head butting a fashion designer in a

new york city nightclub. the charges against the star of the hit t.v. show "24" are being dropped because the designer wouldn't cooperate with the investigators. they issued a joint statement saying they had resolved their differences after the altercation. oh, there he is. bruce springsteen, aretha franklin. they are going to help celebrate 25 years of the rock'n' roll hall of fame. there will be two concerts october 29th and 30th to mark the rock hall's silver anniversary. other acts speculated to appear include metallica and crosby stills and nash and friend. >> a local rock sensation. >> if you haven't heard of it

you may be too tall. peggy fox has the story. >> reporter: it is 10:30 a.m. on a wednesday and rocknosaurus is playing. music written for kids by three men. they call their songs family music because parents like it too. >> we have been coming pretty regularly for the past couple of months. great way to get out of the house and have some fun. >> they have all the cds and they sing it every single day. ♪[ music ] >> the three men created the band three years ago. their popularity has sored and this past weekend they played the 9:30 club. >> i have only seen my heros and musicians i adore on that stage. so to actually be on that stage with my band mates was a real thrill.

>> the crew goes back a long way. two of them have known each other since kindergarten and all three went to school together in fairfax county. >> then i can go home. >> never changed a diaper. >> the three have produced three cds and hopes to go national appealing to that very special peggy fox, th peggfox, 9news now an wusa9.com. >> you can hear more about today's concert on our mom's website. momslikeme.com. we can check that out, lesli. >> sure. just take a day off and go at 10:30 a.m. in the morning. >> there you go. >> sounds good. fast forward to 9news now at 6:00 p.m. about 15 minutes away. here is a look at what is new tonight. the president is preparing to

address the nation tonight. but coming up at 6:00 p.m., some you are your neighbors offer to take the president's proposal, or take on the president's proposal to overhaul health care. plus, nearly new for next to nothing. we have got some ideas coming up in living smart. and find out what happened when a couple of guys tried to make a rather big door-to-door sale. you'll see it coming up at 6:00 p.m. >> first, topper, weather getting steamy. >> little bit. >> couple of storms out to the west. best chance for storms for everyone is tomorrow evening. >> okay. >> kind of file that away, if you will. forecast first. next three days right out of the gate. 86 tomorrow and friday. we have thunderstorms both days but the best chance would be tomorrow. 90 on saturday. we will keep it dry for now. heating up a little bit over the weekend. tonight partly cloudy skies. little bit muggy. isolated shower or thunderstorm possible. 66 to 72. winds southeasterly at about 5 to 10. live doppler 9000 very quickly

you can access this along with the interactive radar on our website at cowusa9.m. we are looking at some showers again out to the west of us. and primarily these are going to move to the north-north east. get ready for showers and storms in winchester. beltway, immediate area should be quiet this evening in terms of your evening commute. i think it will be a saerdienff story though tomorrow. i really do. we are looking at a pretty good chance of storms tomorrow. we will put this into motion. storms headed towards upperville. paris, virginia. some horsweand thunderstorms possible tonight. just one quick shower much heaviest activity to your west, though, on the other side. temps not bad 88 in fredericks. 90 in leesburg. about average. tomorrow morning partly sun, in, warm. 60s and 70s. by afternoon, partly sunny and warm. showers possible. good chance toward evening.

highs 84 to 88. next seven days. 86 tomorrow and friday. we are looking at 90 over the weekend. chance for a thunderstorm on sunday then we are kind of in sort of the pattern if you will of showers and storms possible each afternoon. high temps monday, tuesday, wednesday right around 90 through the middle part of next week. >> sounds good. >> got a theme going here. we don't really ask brett what he will talk about we just asked him what did you do today? >> i went to visiting day at my son's camp, at the day camp and the parents got to do whatever the kids were doing. >> so what did you do? >> among other things i played dodge ball which i haven't played since i was 10. this is going to sound cruel. i nailed some kids right in the melon. >> and you liked that? >> first of all, the balls are soft. it doesn't hurt anybody. >> did you throw it really hard? >> i got some necks snapped from the kids. they loved it. i owned some of the disappointment that i had from when i was a kid.

>> the kids got picked up. >> they liked it. sports guy hit me in the head. it was awesome. back in the old days -- i just wanted to talk about that. when business owners would take summer vacations they would sign a shop on the front door of their shop that said gone fishing. back in june a virginia native a man and his son hung a gone fishing sign on their house. they are out to fish 50 states in 50 days. we caught up with them in iowa. >> if you had a month or a summer you could do anything you want what would it be? it always came back to i would like to take a big fishing adventure one day. >> when he first mentioned it i thought it was cool. i didn't think he was going to actually go forward with it but he made it work. >> for the past five weeks jeff turner and his son taylor have baited their hooks and cast their lines in a new state and a new body of water. their fishing adventure of a lifetime started in

pennsylvania. so far the duo have put more than 10,000 miles on their rv. >> you ought to take one of these energy drinks. >> reporter: the turners are chronicling their journey on a website with youtube video and diaries every day. >> it moved from vacation to expedition to mission. so this is not a vacation by any stretch. >> reporter: taylor will soon be a high school senior. he is sacrificing a summer away from friends to take the ultimate fishing trip with his dad. >> i'm not sure if it is a love for fishing. it is a like. i enjoy fishing. that's why we are only doing four hours a day because i don't think i have thrsstamina to do more than that. >> reporter: but at the end of the day and the end of this trip the journey is about leaving a legacy. and creating memories that will last a lifetime. >> i can't wait to be able to say that i've done it because it will be really cool to tell people that. we have highlights every day. but it is a tough, tough

project. >> they are going to be asking about it probably when i get home. be able to write it all through senior year in english class. >> i'm an average guy, average father trying to do something that may not have ever been done before. so a lot of the lessons we are just teaching people and teaching myself and my son this is what life is about. >> a lot of son time together. very cool. they are have sponsors to pay for the trip. they are chronicling the whole journey on their website. there is a link to it on wusa9.com. >> tonight in living well, a new way to protect your family from the harmful rays of the sun and it isendytr o. we will be right back. when i melt to sleep

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nicotine that's inhaled. how do you know when your spf may be wearing thin with sun screen. >> reporter: the first indicator you've spent too much time in the sun is that redness on the skin. mom and veteran science teacher patricia swanson knows firsthand that sun burns cause more than fleeting discomfort. >> got a lot of skin damage growing up. life guard and all that. and i got -- actually had skin cancer cut off my nose. >> reporter: swanson started using a simple detection device that looks more like a fashion bracelet as a teaching tool in her classroom to show students how fast ultra violate rays penetrate the skin. >> now she is bringing the uv sun beads to family everywhere. >> they contain a uv sensitive dye. they will change color. we are finding in the shade that they were a lighter -- they are like more of a pastel color. then when it gets bright we go

out in the bright sunshine without any protection over us, you'll see how bright they get. >> reporter: we asked local mom nora burke to give the beads a try with her kids. >> unbiased evidence they are in the sun too long. get out of the sun or put more lotion on. >> if we were in really bright sun today, there is low cloud cover, i'm glad there is because people forget when there is cloud cover you are getting a lot of uv exposure. >> reporter: after testing out the beads for five days nora found them to be an eye opening and handy tool. >> friday morning i do an early morning swim program and when i get out of the pool at 7:00 p.m. they are in full color. this was at the shaded end of the pool at 7:00 a.m. in the morning. i wouldn't even considered putting on suntan lotion that early in the morning. >> it ends the argument if you need sun screen or not. if the beads are covered you are getting uv and you need to protect yourself. >> a portion of all proceeds from the sale of these beads go to charities such as the skin cancer foundation.

they are available online. lesli. >> thank you. coming up next at 6:00 p.m. recent poll suggests support for the president's health care overhaul is falling off. hear what your neighbors think of the proposal. sam.we are always on at st staywith us. 9news now will continue. b@ ban jax