this is 9news now. >> i'm rushed because i get letters every day from families that are being clobbered by health care costs and they ask me, can you help. >> the president defending his urgency to reform what he says is our broken health care system. >> he insists it can be down without adding to the federal deficit and without government controlling the medical care we get. but republicans and members of his own party are not supporting. >> americans may be wondering what is in this for me? >> that was the message president obama tried to tackleo

of icpubl plans sponsored thpun e sulliounmi nsns that are uninsured. it would offer a r leopt peha tsetylofo people that lose health insurance and it would de nied covege f orpre-existing medical conditions or being dropped if they become too sick. and he tried to allay fears about how to pay for it you will. >> i consider to insist that health reform not be paid for on the backs of middle class families. >> reporter: the president maintained two thirds of the sweeping overhaul can be funded by eliminating waste and redirecting spending on medicare and medicaid. the rest could come from higher taxes or surcharges on upper income earners. >> that's what reform is all about. how can we make sure that we are getting the best bang for our health care dollar. >> reporter: when asked repeatedly about sacrifices americans might have to make in the health care choices they have now, the president side stepped the question and insisted right now insurance companies and sometimes doctors make decisions based on how much money can be made.

>> having a public plan out there that also shows that maybe if you take some of the profit motive out, maybe if you are reducing some of the administrative costs you can get an even better deal and that's a good thing. >> right now the health care bill is sitting in the house and senate. the house measure does say a government commission would decide what is and is not medically worth covering in the public plan and it also leaves the door open for those standards to be impose on private insurers as well. >> so what do doctors think about this? we picked a physician without knowing what he might say and we sent gary neurenberg out to find out the diagnosis. >> you can't really group all doctors together. there is know uniformity opinion about what should be do. >> this is emily, may i help you. >> reporter: this doctor has been treating patients in maryland for many years.

>> the system is broken. we need to do something. >> he has some worries about what congress might impose. >> we definitely do not see someone overseeing the physician telling you where you can send a patient or what type of care. i think that's a concern. >> reporter: he sees few new doctors going into primary care. >> so if we are going to have all of a sudden 40 million americans who now have health care, who is going to take care of them. >> reporter: he knows reform won't be painless. >> if it involves physicians making sacrifices, drug companies making sacrifices, attorneys making sacrifices, insurance companies, everybody has to give if you want to fix the system. >> we have a wonderful health care system here and we can have a better one if more people can participate in it and that's what we should be striving for. we should -- politics aside, let's fix the thing. >> can we do it in an

affordable way? >> well, we can't afford not to. >> reporter: with all the controversy about what congress should and shouldn't do we asked the doctor what scared him the most. his answer? >> that congress does nothing and the same system continues. >> thank you, gary neurenberg. we appreciate that. we know that a lot of you watched tonight's news conference at wusa9.com. so, let us know what you think of what the president had to say by leaving your comment on our story right under the headline. the maryland human school of med will lead experiment with h1n1 testing. it will begin in august. >> let me say how honored we are to play a very prominent role in the global race to defeat this new public health threat. >> the trial is going to evaluate two different strength of the swine flu vaccine that will help determine how much is needed to help people build up

resistance. a successful vaccine can't seem to come soon enough. tonight we are hearing about a man in canada who died after contracting the h1n1 virus even though he was take tamiflu. he lived in quebec. he started take tamiflu after his son contracted the virus. a man snatched a woman off a jogging trail forcing her into the woods and assaulted her. it happened about 7:00 a.m. this morning. >> we are hoping maybe somebody was jogging or walking in the area may have seen something and can give us a call and put the last pieces of puzzle together. >> u.s. park police say they still consider rock creek park to be safe. nonetheless they are urging people to jog with a companions. on to 9news now follow-up. on capitol hill a rare defeat for the national rifle association. the senate shot down a law

today that would have allowed gun owners to carry their concealed weapons across state lines. two virginia senators crossed lines to vote for it. guns, drugs and daycare. not a good mix to say the least. but police say they found lots of weapons and pot at a private daycare down in eastville, virginia. officers were investigating a neighbor when they spotted 74 marijuana plants in the backyard of the daycare. more searching turned up a sawed off shotgun, rifles and handguns. police arrested the sun of the elderly woman who runs that daycare. >> i don't think she knew what was going on. i don't think she had anything to do with it. >> in fact, officers have not brought charges against the suspect's mother. her day-care center is once again open taking in children. get ready for some more delays on metro's redline.

passengers have had hefty waits already since the deadly accident june 22nd as crews are trying to get to the bottom of the cause. today metro assured passengers that takoma station will be open over the next couple of days with regular hours. but leave yourself an extra half hour for any trips. the trains are still traveling at reduced speeds and metro said it is unsure how long those delays will have to go on. >> $1 billion to get high mileage gas hogs off the road. chrysler says it will match funds. that's the plan or is it? the cash for clunkers program as it has become known began about three weeks ago but 9news now has learned so far not a single car dealer in the nation has been certified to participate. digital correspondent andrew stack has more. >> that's exactly right. the demand for cash clunker program is exceedingly high. one maryland dealer concedes up to 80% of his calls are from

people that want to trade their car for a prius. they haven't received the papers yet. it started july 1st. >> the last two weeks i would say 50 or 80% of the people i talk to they are asking for this program. >> reporter: or the fact gus has row after row of high mileage hybrids lined up for it. >> it is kind of frustrating because we want to help the people out as much as we can. >> we have got customers here asking for cash for clunkers. >> reporter: not a single dealer in the entire united states will be officially registered until friday. >> we don't have all the paperwork. there are certain things they will have to sign. >> reporter: at the earliest the first sanctioned deal would happen on monday. >> we may find out they don't have that documentation and then the customer or dealer will be out that rebate under a transaction they have already committed to. >> reporter: the bottom line

for now, anxious customers will have to wait a few more days to finalize the deal. >> a lot of them are coming back to buy the car from us hopefully starting on monday. >> and this program is set to end november 1st. tonight i asked the department of transportation if they might push back that date because of all the delays. they told me that is highly doubtful. andrew stack, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> thank you, andrew. your digital music, pictures, books may not really be yours. >> more on that plus a taste of summer in the middle of the city. coming up on 9news now. >>i'm meteorologist topper m i access from the home page. just go to weather and click on interactive radar and this is great stuff. you can move around. gou n caan ywn rehe rethe country with isth. you can track the msthorstl oria oralhb odyol your neighborhood all ige y wato grandma's s livewain she lives chicago or all the way to los angeles, it is free.

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here is your forecast first. i'm meteorologist topper shutt. 86 tomorrow. thunderstorms pretty good bet tomorrow. 86 on friday. a chance of a couple of storms. and then we are going to dry it out on saturday. temperatures once again around 90. we hit 90 today. third time this summer an only the fourth time this year. so we are still well ahead of the game so to speak. tonight, partly cloudy. a bit huggy. showers out. all gone. low temperatures 66 to 72. and winds southeasterly 5 to 10. 75 in vienna. down 95 towards fredericksburg also 75. tomorrow morning partly sunny and warm, dry. 60s and 70s to start. by afternoon, though, partly

sunny and warm. categorical tomorrow storms. most of the storms have been west or north of us the past few days. by lunchtime a couple of sprinkles down to the south maybe down towards charles county and st. mary's county but for the most part we will watch a line develop. you folks have been hit with storms really all week but this will be a pretty good line out in the mountains. but unlike today and tuesday and monday the line is going to move eastward as it flows to northward. so some of the activity will get into the media metro area. by midnight tomorrow looking at showers and storms through much of our western suburbs. again, you have to take this with a grain of salt but still pretty good chance of storms tomorrow. it will take probably all night to get all of the storms out of here. maybe a leftover shower on friday but for the most part main activities tomorrow and tomorrow night. we will look at temperatures now. zone forecast quickly. a chance for a shower or thunderstorm particularly in

the afternoon here. 85 martinsburg. downtown mid-80s. again, chance for a shortly and mid-80s on the bay. storms not until probably after sunset. next seven days. 86 tomorrow. good chance of storms. 86 on friday. some storms. and then 90 over the weekend. we will keep saturday dry for now and isolated storm possible on sunday 90 then really we are kind of in a summer-like pattern. about time. temps around 90 monday, tuesday, wednesday and a couple of storms possible but not going to water everyone's lawn. did you like the interactive radar? >> yeah. you can take it all the way to chicago. >> yeah. >> cool. >> even l.a. >> even l.a. >> and grandma's. >> very cool. thank you. taking a dip to cool of this week isharder said anth done. they are banning swimming in

pas of chesapeake bay. bacteria levels in the water. that ban willbe lifted once the bacteria levels go back down. >> if you're heading to the shore hot dogs can be a popular pick along the boardwalk but one group says you shouldn't eat one unless it has a warning on it. they are suing the companies to force warning labels. they cite a study that regular consumption of processed meat can increase your chance of cancer. the cancer project is an offshoot of a provegetarian organization. virginia is one of 29 states where a batch of recalled lettuce was sold. they are recalling 22,000 cartons of romaine lettuce. it is wrapped and has a lot

code of 531380. it was harvested between june 25th and july 2nd. again, if you have any of this lettuce throw it out. do you keep all your pictures on a website? maybe you download books or perhaps you get all your music from itunes. if so you may not own what you think you own. here is britney moorehouse. >> reporter: it may appear like a typical summer read. no justin thorpe could be reading one of hundreds groups he carries on one kindle. >> probably an hour commute i have every day. >> reporter: during that commute he can take notes and download them. >> fantastic. >> reporter: but he hit a time- out when he heard that amazon remotely erased some books from various devices. >> it was definitely something that didn't make me happy by any stretch. >> what strikes me about the kindle story is the fact people are surprised. >> reporter: the internet law group in arlington points to

the fine print in all of those contracts most of us don't read. >> almost everything you do online today is governed by some terms of service. >> reporter: in most of the agreements any tethered appliance like kindle can be modified later to delete purchases and that includes itunes. >> 21 pages of fine print allow itunes to stop providing you service or go out of business. >> reporter: pictures can go away too. on the other hand it may be legal but makes no business sense which is exactly why thorpe is not concerned because he says amazon seems to have learned its lesson. >> i think they are figured out pretty quickly based on all of the reactions this isn't the way to go about doing it. >> reporter: britney moorehouse for 9news now and wusa9.com. >> if its defense amazon said it did not have the rights to the books it had to delete from the kindle. the books were the digital

editions of 1984 animal farm. a lot of folks say you can't make a good book into a good movie but good music may be another matter. for the past sevel yssedaes da apepeleopave been legathering t loca vacant the thsu screen. as tagidil correspondent james hash shows us they are getting their fair share of bands and musicians. >> reporter: especially when you can trade folding seats for fresh air. >> reporter: the noma summer screen shows wednesday evenings in june and july. this summer's movie theme is music and pictures. films showcasing bands and musicians. tonight's showing is scratch. a documentary chronicling the birth of hip-hop. the outdoor venue is definitely a crowd pleaser. even nature is cooperating.

>> mosquitoes haven't got you? >> not yet. >> you can bring a blanket, bring a chair and even bring a dog and for a good experience you will need to bring one more thing. >> i don't see a popcorn machine up there. >> that's why you bring your own. >> looks cool. next wednesday is the last night for the summer screen series. you can learn more about it at wusa9.com. click on metro mix. all summer long we have been ragging on the nats and their pitching and the fact that they get to the 6th inning, winning by 20 and lose by 30. no more. >> just when it is fashionable to jump on the nats they give you two days like we just had. you're going to think you're dreaming when you hear the stats. the nats have given up one run in their last 18 innings. we will show you the latest gem while one of their stars hits the dl. plus, at least i didn't wear mom jeans. did he bounce more cealniceremo first pitch? find out 9sports next. (announcer) illness doesn't care where you live...

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it is time for 9sports with brett haber. the best sports in town. so there was a piece in the washington post this morning about how the all-star break came at the wrong time for josh willingham. he had gone 0-14. he read the paper this morning and he was miffed. nats and mets at the ballpark. first at bat for willingham. opposite field. base hit. up again in the 4th with a man on. pulls one down the line in left. that's good for a double. we are going to get back to willingham in a second. what's gotten into the nats starting pitching? shutout from john lannan last night and tonight craig stamen seven and a third four hits, one run, struck out five. mets couldn't touch him.

willingham third at bat in the 5th. 13thth. willingham 4-4 tonight as the nats have a win streak for the first time in over a month they win 3-1. unfortunately as usual any piece of good news comes with a piece of bad news to offset it and tonight was no exception as rising star pitcher jordan zimmerman unexpectedly goes to the dl. on the 15-day list with what the team is calling right elbow discomfort which is exactly what you don't want in a 23- year-old pitching prospect. nats have recalled a player to replace him. speculation is zimmerman will not pitch again this year although he wouldn't give himself over to that tonight. >> not a place i want to be on the dl and everything. i want to go out there and pitch every five days and it is just something that is a little setback right now and is what it is. it will move forward and be ready to go when i come back. >> baseball this afternoon yankees wrapping up their

series against the os. 12th for him. 6-4. meanwhile if you make the trip to florida to orlando it will no longer be in fort lauderdale, not orlando for spring training. you don't probably know much about world team tennis like how # works or what the deal is with that partridge family color scheme on the tennis court but tonight's scenario for the castles was pretty easy to understand. last match of the regular season. if they win they are in the playoffs. if they lose they are out. taking on the springfield lasers at the stadium downtown. triple duty tonight for number 10. playing singles an doubles and mixed doubles tonight. they got their money. won two of the three. 21-14. meeting the new york sports times in the eastern conference finals here in dc on friday. meanwhile, after three

weeks under lock and key at nike headquartz lebron james getting dumped on has finally leaked. jordan crawford swooping in. there it is. doesn't everybody get dunked on eventually. to me that was over. big deal. finally tonight if you ever get a chance to throw out a first pitch at a ballgame whatever you do, don't bounce it. it is a shame on your ancestors and your friends won't talk to you. i was at the bethesda big train game. bear in mind the catcher is 9 years old. 4 feet tall. i did throw from the rubber. but i threw a little high. it hit his glove and i think a real catcher makes the catch there. but i want to show you my favorite part. here it is. i'm walking out. p.a. announcer is introducing me. look at my son. he is waving at the crowd when they are introducing and then gives me the flex muscle. biggest ham i have ever -- i

don't know. >> what i don't understand is he is blaming the little catcher for that 15-foot high lofter there. >> you give me a regulation sized catcher and i think he makes that. >> whatever. >> you get to wear baggy pants. >> i didn't wear mom jeans and i didn't bounce it. >> in tomorrow's washington examiner an hispanic health care center says montgomery's investigation of its finances gives the appearance of ethnic discrimination. older uld ople could be losing some benefits. you can read about it tomorrow in the examiner. b@

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