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. this is 9news now. >> and the president should never use his bull pit to attack a police officer. it's not good, it's unseenly. >> law officers lash out at the president after a controversial case in massachusetts. >> he was asked about the case at the end of last night's news conference. doctor gaits is a renowned scholar at harvard university. last thursday he was arrested for disorderly conduct after a neighbor reported a break in at his house. it turned out to be just gaits himself who was having trouble getting in through a jammed door. now, the charges were later dropped. last night the president says the officers acted stupidly.

>> a politician who should know better. the president comes out and says something based on no information, no knowledge and no investigation. and yet basically it would appear that there's a white police officer and a black subject and now we have a racial component and that comes from the bully pull bit of the white house. >> i support the president of the united states. i think he's way off base wading into the whole issue. >> well, today the president clarified to say the sergeant is an outstanding officer but he thinks cooler heads could have prevailed in the situation. we asked the white house about the comments but did not get a direct response. in the meantime, the sergeant was hand picked by the cambridge police department to teach new recruits about avoiding racial profiling. but he's a rogue cop and he's demanding an apology. >> it was the fault of a policeman who couldn't stand a black man standing up for his

rights right in his face. >> well, what are your rights in a situation like this. when we sent gary nurenberg out tonight to find out what you can and can't do, gary. >> you're not going it like the answer. because the easy answer is that there's no easy answer. laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction with little black letter law on how hard a time you can give a police officer in your home. a constitutional scholar. >> stupid is a kind way to describe what the officer did. >> a veteran police officer who says the sergeant's arrest was justified. >> the professor continued to increase, ration up his tirade against the sergeant and say passively offensive things including things about the officer's mother. the officer warned the subject repeatedly. he decided to engage in that behavior. after repeated warnings, the officer arrested him. >> do you have to do what a police officer tells you to do when you're in your own home? >> no. but you run the risk of the officer raising the level of the

confrontation. >> what should you do when a police officer gives you orders? >> what i advise everybody is that if you know your rights and you know that an officer he is wrong but an officer is ordering you to do upon paying some kind of penalty, you should do it and sort it out later. choosing to raise the level of confrontation with a police officer is almost always a bad idea. if they're violating your rights, you've got remedies. but if you raise the level of con fron tation, there really -- confrontation, there really is a chance there will be an encounter and the citizen is worse off. >> my selection is go a along with the officer. >> it's hard to be a constitutional scholar when an officer is yelling commands at you and it's hard to be a constitutional person when you're troying to balance your safety with the citizen's

rights. what are your rights? it may take a court to figure it out later. >> like you said at the top, no easy answers. thank you, sir. meantime an update now at a story we first brought you at 5:00 today. 9news now has brought you the identity of the man struck by lightning danny shanz was struck by lightning. he's also a competetive bass fisherman. we're told he's in serious condition. lightning is being blamed for starting this fire. it happened just after 6:00 p.m.. fire crews needed about an hour to get the flames under control. no one was injured. tonight's stormy weather triggered plenty of flash flooding. check out the mess. that's in northeast dc. first responders helped a driver get out of the car caught in the high water. now we go right to topper and your 9 forecast first. topper, hopefully these storms have moved out of here for good tonight. >> they're moving so slowly. we want to start with the

lietning. a tremendous amount of lightning with these storms. look at the lightning across the area south of town atge cyntou s the potomac river. even up to the north as well. now, l me shoou y yeiv doppler 9000. very heavy rains with these storms. >> the is very heavy storms. iits moving painfully slowly off to the easasdst tarowar roue four. ands thi is a veryvyea hm aor f eryt isor momtg tyuncoxi e hd and montgomery county and h over towards ltvebadsimear leme talk about the forecastoneh then for tonight. what we're looking at partly cloudy skies. muggy. thunderstorms and showers still possible. lows 65-70. we will come back. we'll have some pretty cool video of the lightning and the row cent storms and we'll also -- recent storms and give you some lightning tips. some breaking news out of the maryland area tonight. a private helicopter has crashed on to the median strip and at least one person is dead.

that chopper apparently brought down some power lines as well. traffic is stopped in both directions. we'll have more when we know more. tonight we'll look at what the president said about health care reform. there are three congressional bills in the works right now and many questions surround questions including what sacrifices might americans have to make. brittany morehouse looks for answers tonight. >> reporter: it's a simple question he about a complicated topic. >> what kind of pain, what kind of sacrifice. >> reporter: what might americans give up in the name of health care reform. >> there is going to have to be some sacrafice. >> reporter: during yesterday's press conference, we never really got an answer. and today. >> many americans may be wondering how does my family or my business stand to benefit from health insurance reform? so i want to answer those questions briefly. >> reporter: so essentially we're getting the upside. >> it has the potential for really radically reducing the number of uninsured people in america. >> reporter: the professor with the health care policy expert.

he says perhaps we're not hearing president obama talk about the down side because a lot of it is buried in bills. secondly. >> he acknowledges that there are serious sacrafices then that may jeopardize the ability to pass. >> reporter: so what might those sack ri foiss be. -- sacrafices be. we've heard about the tax on the wealthy. >> we hope there can be greater health care efficiency. can there be hardship from that? from the perspective of hospitals and doctors. >> reporter: and for medicare. >> right now the manage care plan gets extra money. they're talking about reducing some of those subsidies. >> reporter: and for the average person. >> it's believable that some patients think, gee, i really did think that i needed this particular type of operation or this surgery. and now my insurance plan is saying, gee, i don't think that's necessary. >> reporter: brittany morehouse, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> the professor says, on the other hand, if we do nothing,

the whole country will sacrifice. some put the numbers of uninsured rise fring 46 million to as -- rising from 46 million to 66 million people. schools will need to compete for a share of the $5 billion in stimulus money. and tomorrow the president will lay out the process for states to apply for money for school reform. president obama says states will need to toughen their academic standards, find better way to recruit and then keep effective teachers and track student performance just to be considered. and this website is your destination to comment on maryland's budget plans. the governor is urging residents to log on and their their thoughts on the state's financial situation. they're troying to cut as much as -- trying to cut as much as $750 million by labor day. and the governor says that could include some furloughs. log on to wusa9.com. click on the links to get to the comment site. new tonight, some good news for a transit agency that could certainly use it. metro. this evening the house passed a bill that would give metro $150 million this year alone.

it would be the first installment on a ten-year federal commitment. the money from metro was contained in a huge traps and housing bill o -- transportation and housing bill. last month's deadly metro crash has prompted a new call for safety standard. maryland senator has introduced a bill to establish federal standards specifically for subway. we have them for buses, trains and airplanes but not subway systems. new guidelines could cover everything from rail car crash tests to rest periods for the train operator. well, did michael jackson's own doctor kill him? new tonight court records reveal jackson's personal doctor is the one that called the paramedics the day jackson collapsed and died. yesterday federal agents raided his clinic in houston. do you think you'd be able to spot a disease toting tick if you saw one.

tonight this woman shared a community forum where the cases of lime disease are skyrocketing this summer. andrew stack was there. >> reporter: molli hamilton suffered symptoms for offer a year before she realized. >> i thought i was dying. i couldn't function. i couldn't get out of bed. >> reporter: now molli takes an assortment of 35 pills per day as part of an antibiotic regimen. >> about a year and a half ago i had some kind of insect bite on my hand. but i didn't know then what a bulls-eye was to look for it. and my hands swelled up. >> reporter: one of the tail tell signs is this rash in the shape of a bulls-eye. >> and part of the reasons cases here have quadrupled isn't just because of the plentiful forest. it's also because of the size of the ticks. quite often people who have been bitten have no idea at all simply because they are so small. >> i pulled a tick off my husband a couple weeks ago. >> reporter: is that it right there? >> no.

it's even smaller than that. >> reporter: mull li put it in a o -- molli put it in a bag. >> i don't know where it is. >> reporter: she is one inside of the community center. >> a good first step in bringing everybody together to discuss what the problem is and how we need to take proactive measures to eradicate this problem. >> reporter: in potomac, andrew stack 9news now and wusa9.com. >> to protect yourself, especial low out in the hat, where a hat. tuck your pants inside your boot or shoes and wear light colored clothes so any ticks you pick up are easy to spot. we'll keep you posted. scientists make an exciting break through in stem cell research. it sounds like science fiction but they're not. we're going to talk about it next. plus aor ma knownking for making dams come tough nee hear about it. we'll tell you about it.

and i'm meteorologist topper shutt. here is your forecast first. the next three days tomorrow a couple of storms. 87. and we may embark on a streak of the 0s saturday and sunday. not upper 90s but around 90 saturday. maybe a stond a and a couple of storms possible on sunday also around 90.

weekend either side of me, we are looking at the forecast for tonight overnight in detail. partly cloudy, muggy, some showers and thunderstorms. low temperatures 65-70 and winds easterly at about 5-10. let me show you live doppler 9000. the storms are not severe. they have all kinds of lightning with them and they have some very, very heavy rainfall. rainfall rates 1-2 inches per hour. this is a live picture now mainly moving towards baltimore one batch. another batch down south. this batch will move further south and east and eventually down st. mary's county. and those will move up into baltimore and over towards mount airy. we'll zoom into these storms and we're looking at rainfall rates 1-2 inches an hour. tremendous amounts of rain crossing over 301. and we'll put this into motion. the next hour it's going to traverse right down to the south headed. it's going to kind of move down 235 in the next couple of hours. so the heavy rains will continue right through leonardtown as we

go into the midnight hour. after that, i think we'll have a little bit of a break. all right. back to the computer we go. we will talk about lightning. okay. here is the deal. if you can hear thunder, you can be struck by lightning. so seek shelter inside your car or prefrly inside of a -- preferably inside of a building. if not your car will do. if not, crouch down outside. partly cloudy and warm to start. 60s and 70s by afternoon. slight chance of a thunderstorm. high temperatures 85-90. here is a look at the nine micro cast. just a couple of showers north of town. but notice no big storms like we had tonight. and the computers did a very good job with these storms a couple days ago saying they would move through. saturday i think friday night and saturday night will be okay. if you have plans outside, i wouldn't change them. by saturday night we may see some thunderstorms develop off to the west and mountains but they should stay to the west of us into the midnight hours as we get into sunday. all right.

next seven days, 87 tomorrow. isolated storms. and then we're looking at temps right around 90. saturday and sunday a few storms. low so the monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday. and, again, with just a few thunderstorms, nothing particularly widespread. but good for the lawn and not a washout. >> okay. >> all right. >> all right. >> people were saying it's time to get a little bit of rain on the lawn. thanks a lot, topper. well, scientist in china have overcome a major hurdle in stem cell research using non-embryonic cells to make an entire mouse start to finish from a petri dish. they use skin cells to act like cells to act for the entire block of our body. it's generating a lot of excitement because it side steps the controversial destruction of embryos. . [ music playing ] sometimes en

a bona fide hero can't save the day. today we meet a woman who has devoted her life to helping inner city students. and while she'd rather be pushing on to victory, tonight she's grateful to be leaving on a legacy. >> the past few weeks has been the toughest. >> and that is saying something, because for the last 13 years her life has been running the hoop dream foundation. nothing do with basketball except a one-day benefit tournament that started it all. >> it provides support, internships. >> because the students needed all of those things and more. kay was a teacher at dc's high school where she said she was inspired by young people who had so little but tried so hard. she wanted to do more. >> we ran a career prep program, a year-long sat prep program, a scholarship program.

>> after 13 years and helping more than a thousand years with everything from scholarships to internships, hoop dreams is the victim of its own success. it now has to raise more than a million and a half bucks a year just to stay in business. and in which economy with the donations on the wayne, the tough decision to close the. >> we didn't want to take the responsibilities of starting everything over again and the probability we wouldn't be able to meet our commitments. >> but in a few weeks the problem will be figuring out what is next. but for now no regrets. >> i hope the peace some day will coming in knowing that there are thousands and thousands of people who really were impacted by what we did. >> and october 31st will be hoop dreams last official day in business. so sue see says they do have the resources to meet the commitments of the sunts they've already taken on. -- students they've already taken on. do you know a hero or somebody

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it's time for 9 sports now with brett haber, the best sports in town. >> of course the following news assumes there exists at least one nfl team that is willing to

endure the protest and negative press that assists michael vick. but it's true now that his career will be allowed to resume. espn reporting tonight that he met with nfl commissioner in new jersey and that he has decided to conditionally reinstate the quarterback allowing him to go to training camp but reserving the right to suspend vick for the first four games. he'll announce his decision sometime next week. it also says during their meeting vick apologized to the commissioner profusely. meanwhile another quarterback stood up and defended himself from allegations today. he he denied allegations of rape by a woman in nevada who claims that he attacked her in a lake tahoe hotel last summer. he says the charges are "false and vicious" and he will defend his reputation. all right. on to baseball and on a day when the game saw the 18th perfect game in its history, we here in

washington got another example of the imperfect game. in fact, it was our 67th imperfect game of the season. that's nine more than the padres who are the second most imperfect team. nats hosting the cardinals. they called up from syracuse to make the start and he got a firsthand look at rick inkhil. two men on. he rips the double down the line and right. another run scores there. but then topper messed everything up. he the rains came. they brought out the tarps twice. they're in the 7th right now. remember, this is a makeup game already from a rainout that happened back in may. as for the perfection, it was this afternoon in chicago white sox hurler mark buehrle who just two years ago threw a no hitter did himself one better today with 116 pitches against the rays. he faced the minimum. 27 up, 27 down. almost blew it in the 9th with

this. look at wise up the wall to bring the homerun back in and two outs later it would be over. pandemonium on the south side of chicago. the 18th perfect game in baseball's modern era. and after the game, buehrle got a phone call from a certain white sox fan who lives in a big white house here in dc. >> hello. >> yes. >> thank you, sir. it was. you surprised me by doing that. thank you very much. yep. i'm still in shock. >> yes, he was. hi w house released t rheemt ena as extraordar iins y. extraordar he needed to buy a big steak for wise. remember, it was just nine days ago that obama showed up wearing, what, a white sox jacket. they laughed at the mom genes. but his sports mojo has struck again. remember, he picked the steelers

to win the superbowl. in 28 years as a pro golfer, never won a championship. in fact, he has never finished higher than four. but now that he's a senior, it could be about to chang. funk opened with a six under 64. he had this 15-foot side door job on the 18th. he leads by two. tom watson fresh off his runner up in the regular guy's british open is three guys back. soccer tonight, semifinal usa honduras again. and, once again, they tuned him up. that's clarence goodson using his melon. they'll meet either costa rica. on we'll be back with a update ur breaking news in just a

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gkc÷qqñ we have more information now on that breaking news out of frederick, maryland. the helicopter crash. maryland state police now tell us two peopleeav hav died as the chopper crashed on to the median of interstate 70 just west of

frederick. the chopperrohtug down power lines with it. right now traffic is stopped in both directions along i70. traffic also stoppnglo a route 40. we'll have the latest on this accident coming up tomorrow starting at 4:55 a.m. . and that is 9news now for tonigh don'tlo with us. don't forget we're always on at wusa9.com. letterman up next. have a good night. fab@fab@

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