discovered problem. he called the new finding another piece of the puzzle but not the smoking gun. and as we know metro runs on money and on capitol hill right now lawmakers are preparing to vote on a bill that would give metro plenty of it. $150million this year alone. it would be the first installment on a 10-year federal commitment. >> obviously the terrible accident, the tragic accident that took place recently where nine people were killed an many more injured lent a new urgency to getting the job done. and the legislation instructs the washington metro system to make sure that the funds are spend first and foremost to improve the safety on this very important rail. >> and speaking of safety. metro is working with a company in annapolis called air inc. to design a backup for the main control system that is supposed to prevent crashes. federal safety investigators say metro needs continuous

backup because the system it has right now is simply not adequate. lightning strike. a man nearly killed by an intense storm that blew through other area. the science of murder. prosecutors map out a time line of when and how those four girls died in their home. near drowning. what started as a fun day at camp turned into a near death experience for a little boy. i'm peggy fox at the national conference center in loudoun county where a 6-year- old boy nearly drowned today. he was attending a day camp with dmv sports. just after noon one of the two live guards on duty spotted the child on the bottom of the pool in the deep end. the life guard dove in, pulled him out and began cpr. >> he was having difficulty breathing at that time. again, he did have a pulse. but because of his condition again he was transported very quickly to the hospital and he

has been sense flown to fairfax. >> the boy is in critical but stable condition. although we have been told he has been able to move his arms. the general manager of the conference center says it is the first such accident to happen with the sports camp. >> reporter: i'm audrey barnes. the prosecution is wrapping up its case against banita jacks. the dc mother accused of killing her four daughters. two final witnesses relied on evidence of bugs, crime scene photos and weather conditions to try and pinpoint when the girls died. dr. william rodriguez, an expert witness, says he believes 16-year-old britney jacks was killed in early spring of 2007 probably around april. he said he was certain she was stabbed in the abdomen and torso. the other three most likely died in september within days of each on or about. all three girls ages five, six and eleven were strangled with the same type of thing. i'm bruce leshan in

brettesda where golf pro danny shands has quite a story to tell. he was hit by a lightning bolt. he was on the driving range or golf course itself when one of these sudden storms pulled through packed with lightning. a bolt hit either right near him or hit something else right near him and he was hurt but he was awake and alert and conscious and one of his buddies actually brought him in a golf cart down to medex and he was transported to suburban hospital and now he is at med star where they are checking him out. >> i just heard a guy get hit. that's all. >> scary. >> very scary. scary stuff. >> reporter: it looks like shands will be all right. the average lightning bolt is 15,000 degrees and carries 200 million-volts of electricity. scary numbers from bruce

leshan. lightning. very hot. very dangerous. >> more storms now on the way, derek and we can't emphasize that enough. in fact, we will start with the lightning right now. this is in the lasturho and we do have memo re anstorms moving town. y larey rlwest of t 66 andwnalso the atothe southeast of leesburg and more storms exiting southern maryland. if you hear thunder you can be struck by lightning. five times hotter than the surface of the sun. seek shelter inside and crouch down if you're outside on the balls of your feet away from trees. you never ntwa to make yourself the tallest waobject in the landscape. tonight, partly cloudy, muggy. 65 to 70. flood warnings up to the north in klanfr in county. we lookinat thesstorms -- not a warning on these orst. they are very heavy and we will zoom . in thinstorms themselves are move towards chantilly eventually noofh ofvienna.

this storm is hammering fax irfa enna. isthnawitodor ve otowas wa ndale. there will berain there an av prthe erinpr e 1ly in tofo 2 of to 2 inches per hour. we will come back. we will talk about possibility of more storms throughout the night and look ahead to the weekend. derek. >> thank you, topper. the former director of virginia tech counselling center who has been accused of taking the virginia tech shooter medical at the same time. dr. miller was very surprised to find he had the documents regarding mr. cho. he found the documents in the evening and brought them back the next morning. miller maintains he packed up cho's records along with some other students while he was packing up his personal stuff. an update now on that attack in rock creek park. a man assaulted a woman who was jogging yesterday morning near bingham drive. now, u.s. park police say they have identified what they call a person of interest. so far that's all saying. today we talked ying. today we talked to joggers who h

said even if the suspect is behind bars, they want to keep taking precautions when ever they are out on the trail. >> we would never run here by ourselves. we don't come after dark and we don't go alone. >> police say those are very good safety guidelines for all joggers. maryland's governor martin o'malley met with cabinet today. focus on fixing the budget deficit. at this particular meeting the governor was telling residents, don't worry there are some things we will not cut. >> we are not going to release people early from prison before their sentences are up. we are not going to cut education. and we are not looking to engage in the sort of massive layoffs of needed state workers. >> he went on to say if the president's recovery and reinvestment act the state would be under water. president obama took his pitch for health care reform straight to the people and he has got his work cut out for

him in. cleveland, ohio, a suburb there, the president admitted today he will have to push back the deadline that he himself set. >> we just heard today that, well, we may not be able to get the bill out of the senate by the ends of august or beginning of august. that's okay. i just want people to keep on working. just keep working. >> and while the lawmakers are working in washington, the president was working the crowd in ohio hoping to win back a growing number of americans who were becoming skeptical about his health care overhaul. the president says he hopes to sign the bill by the fall. >> today the world of journalism said good-bye to a legend. remembering the contributions of walter cronkite. legendary news anchor many people call the most trusted man in america. family and friends held a private funeral service for him in manhattan this afternoon. some of the biggest names in television news were there including his two successors, katie couric and dan rather.

he will be buried in missouri right next to his wife. a public memorial will be held in two weeks at lincoln center. we will be back. closed-captioning on 9news now is brought to you by geico. qqx qqxxb@

welcome back. let's take a home now to talk about a parent's nightmare. word comes your teenage daughter has been exposed to rabies and she is on a trip to africa hundreds of miles from the hospital she desperately needs to help her. well, that is exactly what happened to our own digital correspondent scott broom and he joins us to talk about it. i can only assume because you are here things worked out okay. >> everything worked out okay. it is such an irony because rabies exposure happened here in the united states. here is a map that shs ere wh

she was. a small village called >> no phones, en kya phones, no anything? >> no anything. the maryland department of health notifies my wife on monday your daughter has been exposed to a horse in harford county. there she . you can see how close her hands to the horse's mouth. rabies transmitd by saliva. that horse has been euthanized. >> people think you have to be bitten. not true? >> well in this case the close contact exposure was enough to sound all the alarms. >> you get the alarm. what next? >> we have to contact her and the department of health here in maryland went to town. of course, i'm making all these phone calls as well. but they called the department of state, the statedcaatllment o called embassy inembassy in kenya. woe embassy in kenya goes to nd arkin ds the amedication she needs in ta inhospital in

nairobi. the kfully her host and adult ap chroneon t a toipphget d one and find l a ss ed gme messaged. >> it met geit by today? >> sht go 36ab36 ag heflew to nairobi. the embassy had arranged it. i can't thank the people there enough. she got her medication. and she is flown back and last i heard there was a phone call right before they went back into the small village. >> as a dad who has covered parents going through tragedy and awful things what was your emotional reaction? >> i tell you what, obviously very anxious but i kicked into reporter mode, started calling people, keeping every phone number, every person i talk to. but turned out i didn't have to because the department of health in maryland, these

individual officials along with a lady named ruth branson, they help citizens overseas and that's exactly what they did. believe me i'm very thankful. >> scott broom, my friend, we are all thankful. >> all right. the local family who says they hid michael jackson. and topper will be back with the full forecast. stay with us. b@

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.

even an entry level job can be tough to get these days. but if you do get one as of tomorrow it will pay better. federal minimum wage going up by 70 cents. lindsey mastis talks to some of the folks getting a raise. >> reporter: people make minimum . people make minimutera w thrate go from 6.55 to 7.25 an hour. general manager clinton terry

says that's fine. >> as everything goes up, the cost of living and such, they need to make more money. >> reporter: this is the final wage increase approved by congress. raising the federal minimum wage from 5.85 over two years. at the time there was no recession. >> everybody is starting to feel the crunch and therefore everyone kind of pays for it. >> reporter: he says he won't be able to allow much overtime but most importantly he is keeping menu prices the same. >> probably just more absolve it. it will take a good six months before you can figure it how much of a hit it takes. >> reporter: many business owners say they knew the federal minimum wage was going up so they prepare. george says they started paying employees more awhile ago. >> we knew at the beginning of the year about the minimum wage increase so basically what we did is started hiring people at minimum wage already. >> reporter: and again. >> we are not making any changes on pricing. >> reporter: in old town alexandria, i'm lindsey mastis, 9news now and wusa9.com.

keep in mind employs in maryland, virginia, are the ones getting the increase. minimum wage in dc is actually already more than the increase. these workers make 7.55 an hour. in a town where few people can keep secrets former news anchor del walters guarded a big one until now. he said his leesburg home was a hideout for michael jackson. digital correspondent surae chinn with that story. >> reporter: it was a difficult time for the king of pop who could not escape the media. his entourage was on the hunt for a hideout but were running out of ideas. >> they were just exhausted of possibilities and stopped for a bite to eat at a safeway and saw the magazine. >> reporter: it just so happened the walters were ed ur aton the cover of the washington magazine about great places to live. >> del calls me and says guess who wants to stay at our house? i said who? he said michael jackson. i said yeah he should bring the pope and elvis too.

>> reporter: walters had met michael jackson before as a reporter in kansas city covering the victory tour and now he would have to decide if michael jackson would stay here in his leesburg home. well, after consulting with his minister and a family vote, michael jackson would stay here for nine days. >> it just look like he needed a place to stay. needed shelter from the storm. >> reporter: mixeonhad the whole run of te house while the walters stayed in a hotel. 14 people in all including jackson's three children stayed here. >> each child had a nanny. personal assistant. two chefs. his body guards. >> reporter: and they definitely made themselves at home. >> i think he took a liking to del's cologne. >> reporter: jackson stayed in their master bedroom. >> he slept in my bed. >> reporter: when you deal with michael jackson they refer to him as the client and the principal. >> we called him michael jackson. >> we called him michael jackson. >> reporter: michael signed various cds for them. the couple witnessed odd behavior. the windows were taped up and says jackson slept during the day and roamed the house at

night. we asked if they suspected drug use back then. >> something was helping him sleep during the day. i don't know if it was sleeping pills or drugs or whatever but something was helping him just kind of get off the world. >> reporter: the walters say jackson was a toremented soul and no matter what people thought about the complicated entertainer their's was a simple gesture. >> we wanted that to be that one period of his life where he looked back on and said i had some ofpeace. >> reporter: in leesburg, surae chinn, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> the walters say there are many more acpl esplaces jackson visited. the walters say they never signed disclosure agreements. i'm meteorologist topper shutt. next three dares a chance for a thunderstorm tomorrow. upper 80s and just a slight chance on saturday and sunday. we start to heat up. high temps over the weekend around 90. we may start a little streak of

90s. muggy and few storms tonight. some could be hefty. low temperatures 65 to about 70. winds easterly at 5 to 10. let me show you live doppler 9000. we do have a couple of storms building back to the west and these are the ones we are going to be watching now. we have a couple of storms moving eastward. this storm is exiting southern maryland in reedville. we are going to zoom in. first puts this into motion. where will the storms go? this one moves pretty much east. most of the activity is moving generally east as the cold front finally begins to work his way from west to east. we will concentrate on these storms. one downtown and one in fairfax county. this is a pretty heavy storm just south of 66. could have hail in it. moving off to the southeast. this indicates motion. headed towards 395 between dc and the beltway. and even just north of 66 you're going to find some pretty hefty rains with that.

another storm right now on our doorstep. we have been hit already once in the north west with heavy rains. other storm pulling out of bethesda into the district. possibility of some pretty heavy rains around anondale and alexandria moving to the south and east. springfield. heaviest core of rain comes down anondale into springfield and down 95. be ready for some more heavy rain. back to the computer we go. and we will talk about the brain rainfall amounts pretty impressive. an inch in frederick in these storms. got an e-mail from jim in lexington park. over an inch and a half. so some of the storms if you're hit by one, they have a lot of moisture with them and rain. tomorrow morning partly cloudy, warm 60s and 70s and then by afternoon just a slight chance of a thunderstorm. very warm. high temperatures 85 to 90. we will look at probably 90s over the weekend. satellite picture radar combined. kind of look careful you'll see sort of a front here.

it is trying to push eastward. this is a little wave off the coast. never became a tropical depression but it was interesting. next seven days. 87 tomorrow. isolated storm. then we are around 90, derek, through the weekend and into next week and we have not had many 90-degree days only four so far and chance for a thunderstorm each day but you can go back to your business and not worry about it. >> not worry too much. >> thank you, topper. >> yes. >> appreciate it. we will be back. >> we want to hear what you think. send your e-mails to mcginty's mailback. the address mailbag@wusa9.com. 9news now will be right back. fa

in the mail bag tonight president bush's speech he was there to mostly talk health care but much of the attention was the comment he made on his friend gates. the president said the cops acted "stupidly" an while some have blasted the president for that remark those folks did not write the mail bag. jay said while most of us can appreciate the daily pressures our police officer's face shame on him for arresting after proof of i. d . and residence was provided and like obama said who wouldn't be upset if this happened to them. and one viewer calling himself

a retired dc police officer added this. once dr. gates identified himself and he was verified to be the home run. that should have been the end of the situation. police officers are human too. often it is not easy to walk away from a situation where someone is yelling or screaming but it takes a bigger police officer to know when to walk away. michael vick, yesterday i and several of you said he ought to be reinstated but not so fast says this writer. even he has learned a lesson he has no respect for life. we don't need role models like him in professional sports. yes, he has technically paid his debt but he can never be rehabilitated. let him work in a fast food joint. never be rehabilitated? really. that's a tough one. how are you so sure about that? however, i am sure we need your e-mails and the address is

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