>> good evening, i'm lesli foster. we have got new unsettled findings tonight from investigators on the metrorail tragedy. the ntsb says there were additional electrical malfunctionings occurring at the crash site going on for as many as 18 months before the crash. scott broom joining us live with more. scott? >> reporter: lesli, a malfunction going undetected for a year and a half does not sound good but today metro officials said there was no evidence that the malfunction reveal today led to what everyone has been looking for which is trains being missed by controllers. >> they are not saying this is a definitive smoking gun, this might be a piece of that puzzle. >> reporter: metro general manager facing tough questions. why were the 18 months of malfunctions in a train detection circuit discovered after the tragedy on the red line that killed nine and not

by metro beforehand? one answer, the malfunctions apparently weren't bad enough to cause an actual system failure. >> it had some fluctuations in it. like the lights in this room or the lights in your house at times they might glow a little brighter and a little dimmer. they have not been able to find any evidence that that particular -- the new one, the one since december 7th has failed to detect trains. >> reporter: he has ordered an intense review of the data to be sure. the news about the second malfunctioning circuit on the section of track between fort totten and takoma is in addition to a previous focus by ntsb. for riders this is another indication that delays due to cautious train operations will continue into the foreseeable future. data from all the systems' 3000 circuits are now being reviewed twice a day instead of once a

month. it may a reason why the anomalies went undetected. crews are working on two of the four switches today. the take home message in the general manager's opinion the system is safe. the investigation is not complete. it sure has revealed some important clues. scott broom, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> scott, thank you. the president is taking his plan for health care reform on the road. today he held a town hall meeting in ohio. he wants to win back the growing number of americans who are skeptical about his plans to overhaul our health care system. >> as badly as i think it is necessary, i won't sign it if that reform adds even one dime to our deficit over the next decade and i her majesty mean what i say. >> they set an august deadline. top democrats say they will take up the issue in the fall. the u.s. senate stopped

funding the pentagon's next generation jet fighter program. both the president and defense secretary agreed the program for the f-35 should end. the jet you see here is the f- 22 fighter. just two days ago the senate terminated its production. the savings to taxpayers about 439 million. right now emergency room doctors are treating a golf pro who was injured when lig ghin stck right next tom. hi ened earlier this afternoon at the congressional country club in bethesda. that's where bruce leshan is with the latest. >> reporter: for anybody that knows him and is worried about him we can now share the name of the golf pro. he is danny shands. the good news is looks like he will be fine. everyone knows a golf course is the last place you wants to be in a storm but a nasty fast moving lightning packed cell caught the golfers by surprise. >> lightning hit right over my head and i was just trying to get off the golf course and i just heard a guy got hit.

that's all. >> scary. >> scary stuff. >> golf pro danny shands was on the driving range when a bolt slammed into the ground right near him. >> i saw michael. >> reporter: rescuers say danny was awake, alert and talking. >> we were here and it was beautiful. >> storming. >> bad thundering and lightning then clears up. >> reporter: the club was unhappy about the publicity but its members are happy the pro is okay. med bicks say his vital medics say his vital signs were okay. they took him first to suburban hospital but then transported him on to med star's burn unit mostly just a precaution. with these kind of lightning-

caused or lightning-related injuries it is possible that you have internal injuries that are not visible right away. so they want to check him out very carefully. >> quite a story to tell, bruce. thank you for that. topper is here now with the forecast. are there more strikes possible tonight? >> there are. though warnings out right now, lesli, but there are thunderstorms producing heavy rain. and some lightning strikes. this is over the past hour now across the metro area. we notice a lot to the north. up 270. one m crstorososd there. and down to the ersouth and eas a couple storms south of andrews and over to cal vert county and extreme southwest sections of prince george's county. we talk about this all the time. if you hear thunder you can be struck. remember when thunder roars go indoors. that's our new slogan. five times hotter than the sun. seek shelter inside. if you are caught outside you don't want to be the tallest object in the landscape, crouch down, get to a low areand cr

s llof wn on the ba your feet. tonight partly cloudy and meggy. soto ss tohefty. quick look s at doppler. one storm pushing through here the north west producing ra injust a while otag her storm on the east anside of gaithersburg headed across 29 d these e anthe orstms down to the south headed down 4 into southern maryland. we will come back and track those in a little more detail and talk about the weekend. lesli, back to you. >> all right. first a quick update on that attack in rock creek park. a man assaulted a woman who was jogging yesterday morning. u.s. park police say they have now identified a person of interest but so farther releasing few other details. flies, beetles, bugs all took center stages at the murder trial of banita jacks. the dc mother is charged with killing her four daughters and keeping their decomposing bodies in the family's rowhouse. today utpreccaoss ored forensic toto the stand. they described buw gshad gs

ravaged their bodies. at least one chhad was killed nine months before officers discovered the girl's remains. bc police are looking for a gunman that killed one an sent another to hospital. it happened around 2:00 a.m. this morning in southeast. no word on the condition of the victim who survived or a motive. today family, friends and former colleagues of the most trusted man in america paid their final respects. hundreds packed the church to say goodbye to cbs news legend walter cronkite. best friend of 35 years mike ashford spoke at today's service. >> i was always asked what's he really like? and i would answer he is just the way you hope he is. he was always, i thought, the same guy that most of america guessed he was.

>> walter cronkite was 92 years old when he died. a separate memorial will be held within the next few weeks at new york's lincoln center. it sure is hard to keep a secret in washington but former long-time dc news anchor managing to hold on to one for five years. the late michael jackson stayed at his leesburg home for nine days in 2007. he wanted to get away fowh enhe was accused of child molestation. walter says now that the pop star is gone he can talk about how his family hosted the icon. jackson's assistants happened to see walters featured in a magazine. michael jackson and his family enjoyed the dance theater and studios. walters will not reveal how much he paid to rent the home. jackson wanted to stay longer but the walters were afraid their secret would be revealed so they told him he should leave. when 9news now returns. making the transition from

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back to day-to-day living. that's what inmates are getting ready to do. today's alexandria's detention center is launching a program to help the inmates adjust. derek mcginty shows us how it works. >> reporter: keith is getting out of jail in september. try to find a job. brace himself for disappointment. >> being rejected. getting turn down because i

have a felony on my record. that's going to be a little difficult for me. >> reporter: alexandria's detention center is looking to raise the odds for people like keith. launching a program for inmates no more than 90 days from freedom. >> they will know where to get services such as food, clothing, shelter. >> reporter: these inmates don't expect that first job to be executive vp but they do need to earn a living in a world where few are willing to give them a second chance. >> i want 0 give back to society. >> we find job accounts that are friendly. target sometimes hires. penguin. >> reporter: the goal is once they are out of jail they are out for good. >> we want to promote self- sufficiency. >> reporter: derek mcginty for 9news now and wusa9.com. >> keith is getting out of jail

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mr. gates was given every opportunity to stop what he was doing. he controlled the outcome of that event. >> re event. >> last night president obama was asked about his arrest. >> i think it is fair to say number 1 any of us would be pretty angry. number 2, that the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. and number 3, what i think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there is a long history in this country of african-americans and latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. >> gates was arrested after someone called and told police two black men were breaking into a home. it turned out gates was having a hard time getting into his own home because the door was stuck. it appears the war of words

is heating up between hillary clinton and north korea much the communist country has ridiculed her saying she has no understanding of international manners. this all started after the secretary warned north korea to give up its nuclear program or face sanction. now to fireworks of a different kind in the sky. boy, one golfer is pretty lucky. >> really lucky. and we talk about it and talk about it but lightning is much more dangerous than tornadoes and hurricanes and blizzards and that's why. we are looking at big thunderstorms moving out of the area. there are no warnings but still some big storms. we will track them for in a moment. next three days upper 80s tomorrow. slight chance of a thunderstorm. today really was our best chance for widespread activity. 91 on saturday. couple of storms. 90 on sunday. showers and storms in all night. won't be one of those cases where when the sun goes down the storms die out.

it will die out a little bit but there is enough energy in the atmosphere to keep them going at least until about midnight. low temperatures 65 to about 70. live doppler 9000 and we will pinpoint the activity. most of it is just east if you draw a line through dc, just east of us. but still, some heavy activity. down toward the northern neck. tornado warning out in north cumberland county this side of the potomac just to the south and west of reedville. nothing confirmed now. doppler indicated. moving offshore. just thought i'd pass that along. that's in umberland county. way, way south of us. generally moving to the east. this will move across pretty much columbia then just south of baltimore then this storm moves across in st. mary's county. we know doppler indicated 1 to 2 inches of rain per hour so keep that in mine. maybe some small hail. a reminder you can go to our website wusa9.com. go to the weather tab and then

click on interactive radar and you can track these along with us. this is where the storm is now. dc. north west part of town. where is it going to go? moving south and east. crossing the beltway. then out toward upper marlboro. again, it will have heavy, heavy rains with it. we will track a couple more storms now one up to the north and we are looking at this storm again no hail but this is a lot of rain. around colesville, 29. new hampshire avenue. where is it going in the next hour? right across new hampshire right to the north of beltsville, over towards laurel. crossing 95 and crossing u.s. 1. back to the computer we go. we will talk about temperatures. those areas that received rain are cooled off. 77 in frederick, 79 downtown. 86 though in manassas. 81 in baltimore. tomorrow morning, should be quiet. partly cloudy. warm. 60s and 70s. winds north west at about 5 to 10. and then by afternoon partly.

thunderstorm possible. highs 85 to 90. light winds but the storms tomorrow really will be few and far between. 9 micro cast model. even by 10:00 p.m. tonight i think we are still going to have storms to go through and may take awhile. midnight we are looking at storms then we get into early morning on friday just a mix of clouds and sun again. i don't think we will see much in terms of activity on friday or saturday. we will keep the chance of an isolated storm in as humidity and heat increases. get into friday night. maybe a couple sprinkles across the bay and after that maybe we see some storms develop in the mountains even saturday. but even that looks like kind of a hit or miss deal. we are looking at a pretty good forecast. very summer like as we get into the weekend and next weekend. satellite picture and radar combined. we watched this a couple days ago off the coast of florida now moved along the coast. not tropical but it is producing tremendous rain just offshore. and as far as we are concerned most of our showers and storms to the east of us but we are going to keep them in the forecast for the remainder of

the night. 87 tomorrow then 91 on saturday. 90 on sunday. get a bolt every day. low 90s on monday and tuesday. we may start a streak here of 90s. we haven't really had that this year even into next wednesday and thursday temperatures still in the low 90s with a few storms here and there but we kind of need it. water table is fine obviously but the lawns need it. >> all right. we may not achieve baseball perfection here but alass it is good to know it can happen somewhere. >> there are two words in this town have not gone together. what a pleasant afternoon to see what mark buehrle did in chicago. rarest baseball fete there is. mark buehrle's perfect afternoon including the insane play that kept it alive. plus, was michael vick in a strip club on his first day of freedom? 9 sports details coming up.

if we don't act, medical bills will wipe out their savings. if we don't act, she'll be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. and he won't get the chemotherapy he needs. if we don't act, health care costs will rise 70%. and he'll have to cut benefits for his employees. but we can act. the president and congress have a plan to lower your costs and stop denials for pre-existing conditions. it's time to act.

and now 9sports with brett haber. emmy winner for outstanding sports anchor three years running. to put it in historical contest more people have orbited the moon than this fete in baseball. the club tonight has another member. this afternoon 31-year-old mark buehrle did himself one better with 116 pitches against the rays. he faced the minimum.

27 up, 27 down. but it almost ended in the 9th on this shot headed to the wall but look at dewayne wise bringing it back in the 9th inning. two outs later it would be over. pandemonium on the south side of the windy city. 18th perfect game in baseball's modern era. >> i don't know how to explain it. never thought i would throw a perfect game. never thought i would hit a home run. never say never in this game because crazy stuff can happen. >> indeed it can. the opposite of perfect would be the nationals hosting st. louis tonight. first appearance for collin balester. gets the call up to replace the injured scott olsen. if it is true it means one of football's most reveered criminals or it could be a lie.

ben roethlisberger going on the offensive tonight. he has been accused of rape in a civil suit filed by a woman in nevada that claims he attacked her while he was staying in the hotel where she worked last summer. ben roethlisberger's attorney denied the charges earlier this week. ben did the same personally at steelers' headquarters today. >> her false and vicious allegations are an attack on my family and on me. i would never, ever force myself on a woman. i'm going to respect the legal process and i am confident that the truth will prevail. >> meanwhile denials from another quarterback today. lawyers for michael vick say their client did not spend his first night of freedom in a virginia beach strip club. a website reported that he partied at the club monday knight alongside nba star allen iverson. just four days after he almost became the oldest major champion in the history of golf

tom watson was added again today at the british senior open. the british open runner up teed up. fired a three under 67. look who he is chasing? maryland's own. freddy funk. get in there. side door. he is the leader by two. shot a 64 today. as for the redskins training camp opens a week from today and kevin barnes is officially in the fold. the defensive back out of maryland signed his contract today. he had six picks over the past two seasons with the terps. >> as you know lance armstrong is playing the part of good soldier for alberto contador at this year's tour de france but he won't be next year. armstrong announcing today that he is leaving the team to form his own team next year. team radio shack. he will be the leader and he will be racing to win at age 38. stage 18 of the tour today.

time trial. no drafting, no teamwork. alberto contador won the stage. lance finished 16th and moved up to 3rd in the overall standings. finally tonight, it is good to have close relationships with your teammates but nelson cruz and josh hamilton of the rangers went next level. dustin pedroia fly ball. cruz will make the catch and they hug. because, you know, fellows can hug and still be manly. it is 2009. and the crowd loved the hugging. there is no crying in baseball. >> right. >> but there is hugging. >> yes. >> you can hug. >> nothing wrong with a hug. >> i think the hug actually prevented injuries had they run into each other and not hugged they could have had some things broken. >> okay. >> okay. >> that's it for us. 9news now at 6:00 p.m. the "cbs evening news" with katie couric is next. >> derek, are you okay? i was bracing. i didn't mow if you were going