...making good jobs even bettert save money. live better. walmart. police involved shooting. police investigate a deadly shooting by one of their own officers. metro offers advice to riders complaining about delays. health care delay, counsel forces president obama to apply the brakes telling him a bill will not be approved before the august break. good morning, all. i'm andrea roane. thanks for joining us. today is wednesday, july 29th. angie is here and hopefully improving news about that overturned truck on the beltway and howard is starting us off. people have been talking about sprinkles.

>> we are in a lull now. shower and thunderstorms overnight. right now it is quiet although it is steamy and this afternoon, especially when upper level energy arrives in to the soupy air mass we expect showers and thunderstorms. some of which could be rong to severe. look at lith is morning. very quiet. we had some ontiac bay sicaca north of nd70i-70 a athe west virginia p.j. and in the met -- panhandle. and the ti actyviis tylifting north. on the weather computer a batch of showers to pennsylvania an an west virginia. hey heed of that energy. it will break out and give us mslater oristh aerftlater this r i i tothe evening. we're at 77 xestpaontupatuxent fredericksburg 78. winchester 73. even hagerstown is 77. we are looking at temperatures by noon in the low 80s. mid-80s for highs with scattered showers and storms. could be an active afternoon. we will watch that carefully.

an active traffic morning. with more on that -- >> sure has. thank you very much. it has been a very busy morning. actually we will begin with a shot. this is taken right before 7 a.m. this morning. we have a tractor-trailer fire. this is on the inner loop of the beltway at van dorn street. crews were on the scene to put it out. meanwhile all lanes were shut down. that situation has improved over the last couple of hours. here we go. i believe we have a live shot for you. we know that one lane is getting by on the shoulder. inner loop is blocked but all lanes are getting by but backed up to the wilson bridge. that's thuation for now. you may want to consider using metro. we're hearing thatter general it was taking 20 minutes to go a mile. here is our shot on 66. jammed nutley to the billionway. and 395 northbound. a little better here.

things are breaking up from duke to seminary. good news there. 270 southbound. still slow from shady grove to montross road. and on the outer loop happy to say there's no incidents or accidents on this part of the beltway. a live picture from you. from 95 to georgia we are flowing along. a busy morning at that. over to andrea. police are in germantown, maryland are surgerying for answers after one of their own shot and killed a man this morning. it happened at 3:00 a.m. on the 12,000 block of eagles nest court. 9 news now digital correspondent, armando trull , has the latest. >> reporter: good morning. well, montgomery county police say around 2:40 they got 911 call. but whoever called hung up immediately. then two officers were sent to the scene. a man and a woman. and then they said soon after shots rang out. and a man, who lives in the apartment complex, was shot and killed by at least one of the

officers. they are not sure if one or both officers shot at him. we don't know if that man threatened the officers. they did tell us near the body a knife and a gun were found. with us this morning is richard cohen. he's the next door neighbor to where the shooting took place. good morning. what did you hear. >> i was lying in my bed and all i heard is one big gunshot and i thought it was like a power outage. >> you didn't even realize it was a gunshot. >> i thought it wasn't and i wasn't sure and i figured the safest place was to be in my bed. >> when you woke up you saw a lot of police activity. what did you see. >> i saw a lot of police activity and then i realized there was a gunshot and i talked to my neighbors and knew them for a long time and they

were never loud at all. >> you saw the body. >> i saw where it was lying. i didn't see the body. there was a boarded a jay sen to where the body was. >> that is what police were using to block the scene. the body was found in front of the garden of one of the apartments. there are several scenarios that police have ruled out in the case. >> as we begin the investigation we ruled out a burglary and domestic violence incident and we do not believe the subject shot himself. so it is still under investigation as to what caused shots to be fired here this morning. >> wow. that's very scary. this is not why i moved up here. i moved from pg county to montgomery county to avoid stuff like this. but i guess it happens everywhere, huh? >> reporter: that's the situation here in germantown. all of the neighbors here say they never expected something like this to happen in their neighborhood and right now montgomery county police are

investigating. so we still don't know exactly what transpired to cause that man to die. reporting live, armando trull for 9 news now and wusa9.com. >> thank you, armando. as angie mentioned earlier, part of the beltway was shut down for a while this morning because of a truck fire. it happened just before 7 a.m. in alexandria between the eisenhower avenue and van dorn street exits. the fire began when a tanker truck overturned. one person was injured. traffic began to move at 8 a.m. the inner loop began at the same time, although it was limbed to a sing lane. police are searching for a suspect in the fatal stabbing in charles county. it happened 10:30 last night on the 900 block of -- lane. two men were walking home from work when they were approached by two other men that demand their cell phone and money. the victims tried to fight off

their attack and when was stabbed. he was taken to southern maryland hospital where he later died. a 19 year career with the alexandria police department will soon come to an end. the city's police chief, david baker, says he will retire this sunday. the 58-year-old was arrested in arlington county on saturday night. he peaces drunk driving charges. he has been alexandria's police chief for three years. the city manager say he thinks that baker is making the appropriate call. >> we are very disappointed in what happened and the decisions made by chief baker the other night, but we also can't lose sight of a stellar career as well and thisaway we are trying to balance against the mistake made. >> reporter: he chief failed the field sobriety test. his blood alcohol was twice the legal limit. he was supposed to be in court today but it has been pushed back to august 14th. virginia governor kaine is urged to reopen the shooting

investigation. the victims families believe it has too many inaccuracy and omissions and they want more about the records of ccho's records. a month after the deadly crash and the morning commute can still be a slow one on the red line. metro has advice, take the bus. metro has been checking signals since the crash and that's causing delays. a metro spokesman is reminding commuters that the bus is another option and sometimes can be faster than the train. metro says delays could go on even after the investigation ends. today marks ten days since a local teenager was put under quarantine in china. she tested positive for the h1n1 flu virus. she is 16 years old an lives in

northwest washington and was quarantined on a cultural trip inona chg alth wichina along w teens. nine tested positive but only leanna remains under quarantine. her mother is begging for her children. >> she is actually a kid whose pretty sunny disposition and even keel. the fact she's been sobbing her heart out over this quarantine in isolation in the hospital is just a dagger in my heart. >> reporter: her family is in constant contact with her over the phone. 9 news9 news called the chinese embassy every times to request a comment but received no response. >> reporter: there now appears to be little hope that lawmakers will reach a deal on reform before the august break. it isn't stopping president obama from pushing his message. he will which campaign for his goal to provide every american with health care insurance by holding town hall meetings in virginia and north carolina. support for health care reform appears to be split across the

country. >> this the state of wisconsin alone there is 13,500 medical bankruptcies annually and most of these people started with some sort of medical insurance. >> what happens when the government steps in to sort of run a health care plan, if they decide what they will pay for a certain procedure and if that isn't the market price the doctor chooses not to provide that procedure. >> reporter: and there's a new wrinkle in the health care debate. some law make pers want to impose a 10% excise tax on cosmetic procedures g including tummy tucks, nose jobs and botox. they say it will would help to pay for the health care reform. soon dozens of police cars will have dash cams. they have accepted a federal grant to put cameras in 100 cars. they will be installed september. the police department is seeking more grant money and hopes to have cameras in all 800 cars within three years. today the house is

scheduled to debate the $636 billion pentagon spending bill. the white house is threatening a veto if it includes funding for f will have 22 fighter and a replacement presidential helicopter. the obama administration and military leaders are trying to end both programs. five republican senators have said they will vote to confirm judge sonia sotomayor to the u.s. supreme court. the senate judiciary committee voted on tuesday approve sonia sotomayor with one republican member supporting her. she is expected to easily win confirmation and become the first hispanic on the high court. a man with ties to our area is accused of being part of a terror cell. investigators say daniel boyd, who went to high school in alexandria, was the leader of a group that plotted terror attacks overseas. university of maryland law professor michael greenberger is here with more. he is also a former justice department official. professor, thank you very much.

seven suspects are now in custody and authorities are looking for an 8th. you said this is a fascinating, very interesting and disturbing case. >> it is very fascinating because the facts are so mixed. i thought there was an excellent article on this in the "washington post" post today and what really caught my attention is this gentleman, daniel boyd, was well embedded in his community and all of his neighbors vouched for him and one said i will be shocked if anything more is nonbut he certainly has an unusual life. he had actually gone the afghanny pakistan area, he was charged in afghanny court an sentenced to have a hand and foot removed and he got that overturned on appeal and he had been assembling all of these automatic weapons and dealing with field exercises in rural, virginia county. you can well understand, i mean the laws are the laws and i can

certainly understand why the fbi would be watching this person, be concerned about it, but i think embedded in several articles about him today was an admission by law enforcement officials that he was not a threat to this country. so it raises a lot of questions. >> reporter: one of the questions is, why wasn't he considered a threat to this country? did he belong to any formal group that we understand and what were their end goals? who were they trying to get at? >> the writing on the story is that he was not affiliated with al-qaeda but he was affiliated with groups that believe in jihad and he openly expressed support for 245. he traveled abroad to either try to make contacts with terrorists or to get training. in fact the interesting something his two sons are involved in this with him. the laws are the law and checking all of these weapons,

involving yourself in a terrorist movement, even if you don't actually go forward and conduct something, skirts the law. of course he's been charged and he will have to have a defense. so all the facts aren't before us but it raises an interesting issue. >> reporter: it also says how many other daniel boyds are out there that the government and fbi and cia see doing what he was doing but because they don't believe he's a threat to the u.s -- >> it is interesting because the fbi had him urn observance for some time, in fact many years. it appears from the stories being written about this that they actually nod without have intervened except they were worried he was going to leave the country with his two sons and they felt that at that stage they had to do something. the fbi is obviously watching who he's affiliated with to see if there is a larger web.

again, it is in some sense a dilemma because you don't have an open violent threatened attack to the united states. however, assembling automatic weapons, doing field exercises, going abroad. >> he was helping a boy scout troop according to his wife and stockpiling weapons and guns because it is legal. >> whatever his motivation is, i'm very sympathetic to the government in this case. congress has written laws. certainly if the packs alleged are true he is going to have some trouble on his hands. of course all we have now is about indictment. he hasn't had a full defense yet. >> he will be in court tomorrow and of course we will have more on that story. thank you very much for being with us. >> you are welcome. the united states post office is in need of an overhaul and a former new york giant is set to go before a grand jury. you are watching 9 news now. we'll be right back. fafafab@fa@

police arrested two men this morning. police say two robbery suspects fled the scene and ran from to a home this morning. authorities responded to the home but the two suspects refused to come out. both were finally taken in to custody around 3:15 this morning. former new york giants receiver plaxico burress is scheduled to appear in court this morning. he will testify about what

happened the night he shot himself in the leg at a new york nightclub last year. he faces up to 3 1/2 years in prison on weapons charges. burress has pleaded not guilty in the case. a judge could rule as early as today in the case of banita jacks. the woman is accuseof killing her four daughters in their southeast washington row house. attorneys made their closing arguments in the bench trial on monday. police are hoping you can help to bring a missing 13-year- old girl home. nancy was last seen on tuesday at her house in indian head, maryland. her family says she's been known to hang out in parts of the district specifically along longfellow and kennedy street in northwest washington. if you have seen her, please call police. a u.s. postal service has been red flagged as an agency in trouble them government accountability office has added them to the list of high-risk federal agencies in need of change. they are facing a potential loss of $7 billion. blame it on a steady drop in

the amount of mail being sent as more people use e-mail to communicate. right now we are communicating face to face with howard bernstein. >> a steamy wednesday morning at that. this afternoon watch out, shower and storms. likely some will be strong to severe and we get the feeling being outside how juiced up the atmosphere is. once we get the upper level energy to come in this afternoon should be enough of a kick to get the storms going. temperatures mid to upper 80s. tomorrow low 90s with an isolated storm. so as we look at the forecast first, warm and sticky. scattered storms this afternoon. 84 to 88. south winds 10 to 20 miles an hour. average high is 89. evening thunderstorms and muggy. most of us in the low to mid- 70s although a few spots in the upper 60s. then tomorrow, partly sunny and hot and humid with isolated afternoon storm will reach above that 90-degree mark. this morning we had showers

push through. even some thunderstorms off to our south and east. right now we have cleared out for the most part but a little shower activity in western maryland. look at this to the west. that will be heading in this direction later on. here we go. you see the mostly cloudy skies out there. clouds are pretty high. a little hazy. temperature at 77 at reagan national this hour. south winds are nine a miles an hour and the dew.is 70. that's a miami dew point, new orleans dew keli gets like uta at, ut at is why , oppressive. 80 oppressive. 80 at patuxent river, 81 cambridge. 7 culpeper and cumberland and as we said in town 77 degrees. what we expect for the afternoon is a piece of energy. you can see it. coming across here. right there across kentucky in to ohio. as this gets closer to us and to that real juicey air mass it will fire off shores and -- showers and storms and that's

why the storm prediction center has us under a slight risk of severe weather for this afternoon. talking damaging winds, hail and even a threat with enough spin in the atmosphere for an isolated tornado but we will see how unstable things get later on. and then we will stay once this passes around tomorrow and be in better shape, although it will warm up. southwesterly wind. the seven-day forecast, mid to maybe upper 80s today. talking showers and storms. some severe. tomorrow an isolated thunderstorm in the heat, 92. over the weekend we may clear out on saturday. so that saturday afternoon and evening and paul mccartney is saturday night at fedex you have to keep it dry and legg mason family day. that has to be great, too but it has a chance of storms. the recession is over and the economy is recovering those are the words of wells fargo chief economist. he says it is time to look forward instead of backwards.

is it time to celebrate? let's talk about housing numbers we saw coming out. dc just registered two months in a row of gains in terms of housing prices. some people are saying we hit the bottom for the housing market, what do you think. >> i think it depends on what part of the country you are in. new york city, washington, d.c., boston, philadelphia, larger cities throughout the country, things may have bottomed. do i think they will go up radically, i don't think so. but if you take a trip to las vegas, southern florida things have not improved. it maybe worsening. you can see prices have not bottomed out. houses that were once on the mark now down to 300,000. beautiful four bedroom houses still on the mark. an over supply and i think it will take time to weed these things out.

>> talk about the stock market. we had a run. up so far 40%. do you think we're topping out or do you think there is room to run. >> i think it depends. with the stock market does it looks out six to nine months and people are saying things are getting better. there is a stimulus package out there. maybe housing will level out or unemployment rates will start to fall for a while. and numbers have come down. so companies give expectations for numbers. they have taken significantly down. 30 to 40%. when the company starts to give guidance that is favorable to wall street, the stock market will rise. what happens now is the companies have to feed the number and raise guidance. second quarter was great, third quarter a sedent cart. can it continue and people will say is the economy getting better, maybe. i don't know if we will have the big run but we will have to

wait and see right now. >> so much has to do with the economy and how the fed is governing the economy. new poll shows the federal reserve public approval rating is lower than the irs. the president has a choice whether or not to reinstate ben bernanke in january. some say it might be larry summers. he's on the short list. what do you think he should do. >> i think ben has done a good job and it is tough for the fed. we spent a lot of money on the war and speculation and a lot of money on the previous administration, not to blame the bush administration, that continued in to the obama administration. we are spending a lot of money and have had deficits and a housing bubble. the stock market was over bought and things are fallen off. it will take some time and to blame it on the fed is an error. >> reporter: where do you think there are some investing prospects for folks looking to make money in the stock market in this next couple of months.

>> i think consumers are keeping money in cash and cash is king right now so look to green technology, solar and wind power. look at technology. anything new and cutting edge and maybe health care and people say what stocks should we own. look at an industry that has some new technology, whatever the case maybe and those are the industries that i will perform. >> we heard it here first. one local airport is getting more money to beef up security and dc public schools are preparing to undergo a massive change. keep it here. (announcer) when verizon brings 100% fiber optics straight to your home

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welcome back to 9 news now. this a live look at reagan national airport which is about to get another security upgrade, thanks to that federal

stimulus package. national received more than $7.5 million the money will pay for closed circuit television systems. fall, 13 schools across the district will undergo a renovation, not physically but of the curricula. mayor called them based catalyst school. >> reporter: it is a school that has a science, technology, engineering and math curriculum, has an arts integration curriculum or a world culture curriculum. >> reporter: school chancellor michelle rhee says the new curricula are part of the school's strategy to offer programs and initiatives that make parents want to send their children to public schools in the city. now to angie with an update on the rush hour. we are half way through the 9:00 hour and keep you updated on the situation on the capital beltway. you are looking at a situation here before 7 a.m. this morning where we had the

tractor-trailer overturned on the inner loop at van doren. it was on fire. crews were working the scene the last couple of hours. some good news. we know right now we have the left lane of traffic getting by. this is video from earlier this morning. on the outer loop all traffic is getting by but heavy approaching the scene. on the outer loop you are slow from the wilson bridge area. this is 66 eastbound. below speed tracking taillights from nutley to the capital beltway. next going to take it to another part of our beltway, the outer loop north of the district, we are also crawling along i would say from 95 to georgia. maybe i'm going to estimate this at 15 minutes or so. 270 southbound, better news here. we are all clear from 118 germantown road to 495. no incidents or accidents to report and i want to throw in there on the bw parkway we are seeing a jamup from 198 laurel all the way down past the beltway to dc 295 because of an earlier accident that continues take away the left lane for

drivers. remember, you can always follow me on twitter, oh my goff is my name. i tweet to keep you updated and have the tieups that can slow you down. over to howard. >> thank you, angie. a special invitation for you to attend a star gazing party at the hottest spot in town. it comes from nasa goddard space center who has activities planned for this saturday night and with me is andy from goddard visitors center. >> i have been there and love what you do and this is a big even on saturday. >> it is. it is a moon gazing party in a lot of ways. we launched lro this last june and it got up to the moon, making orbit. we started to get data back and we are ready to celebrate and say we are back. >> the reconnaissance orbitar. >> why are we going back to the moon with this first, without the men. >> it is a reconnaissance mission. we need good maps before we

send people back we want to make sure we know elselations and -- elevation and high resolution imagery and this is an awesome mission. >> we can do better than what they had in ' 69. >> last time we launched the moon was in ' 98 and that you specifically looking for hydrogen. has been a long time. we have technology to get good stuff. >> you have all sorts of events plan for kid and adults. >> there will be a lot of activities for kid and a panel 0 with a lot of top scientists and engineers. we will talk about past and future exploration and current exploration and it will be a lot of fun. if we get a clear night like we hope to get we will do some star gazing. >> telescopes up. >> that's right. even a laser that can hit the spacecraft and we will know where it is. >> i think a lot of people don't realize how much goddard

has done with hubble space telescope. they are now with the lro and the things you are able to see. you are able to see the original apollo stuff left on the moon from the landings. >> that's right. just got those back the other week. this is before we were in our final orbit. we were able to see the shadows and lunar modules. when we get closer we think you will get good ones. you can see foot paths and where the rovers went. >> i want to see the picture of the american flag still there 40 years later. >> people keep asking that. that is a pretty mall thing to get. >> if if you get footprints you can get a flag. >> i don't know if we will get individual footprints but you can see a bath. it is -- path. it is a half foot resolution. maybe if we get a good shadow maybe we will be able to see it. hard to say. >> we are talking about goddard

and what they are doing with the lro and this is free and open to the public at the visitors center. what do you think the future is, we have questions of where things are going given budgetary concerns. where do we go from here and what is goddard's role in the future of exploration. >> i don't know that anyone knows the answer to. that barack obama recently appointed the nealson -- augustine commission and they are trying to make decisions about that. they are holding public forums. if you are interested go to the nasa website and learn more about it there. they have a panel of awesome, amazing experts who are going to make decisions about that in the coming months that will decide what we are going to do and how we will pro seed. >> it must have been nice as we go to have another servicing mission to the hubble. at one point that wasn't going to happen. >> we love that at goddard. we love hubble up at goddard and it was great to see those guys do it. just pull off this really challenging mission, just to a

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congressional act, wiping out all federal speed limits would only have temporary affects. imagine suffering from a chronic disease, only to be told the condition doesn't actually exist. we're talking about chronic lyme disease. dr. daniel cameron will be testifying at a landmark hearing tomorrow. he is president of the international lyme and associative diseases society. welcome to 9 news now. first the definition, is what is lyme disease. we understand it is like the most heavily infected tick bourn disease. >> yes. ticks are everywhere. all over the country. and when that tick bites it can transmit a bacteria. an it can cause lyme disease. that tick can contain a number of other types of bacteria and if you catch the disease early that's great. but increasingly more and more people say, well, i didn't get better. i'm still sick month and years later. how come i didn't get better. >> reporter: what is the

controversy? why aren't people getting better if they are suffering with what we think is lyme disease. >> well, in modern medicine you would think with an infection you should get better. shouldn't have to have a followup. but as a doctor and i have been in practice for over 20 years, more and more patients are actually sick five and ten years lair and they need treatment. and there are treatments out there. i have been treating quite successfully people who have been sick. sometimes it takes an antibiotic, sometimes more than an antibiotic but it is working. >> talk about what you will be telling the people hearing the testimony you are going to deliver tomorrow. >> as i practice, there's a society that says well, don't treat. and they took away some of the treatment options that i use every day. the idea has been also a problem is those guidelines are used by some of the managed care insurance companies and

those managed care companies cut off coverage for some lyme patients. >> oh, my goodness. >> so this testimony is to layout what is evidence for treatments, what is a severity of someone with chronic lyme disease and really getting back to a dialogue to solve these problems. >> reporter: tell me what are the symptoms someone would be experiencing if they had lyme disease before we get to the chronic level, something that can be treated, observed, dealt with. >> when you first get sick, it can be like a flu-like symptom. you might think you have mono and might turn out to be lyme. could be a headache, joint pain. you could be really sick with a fever sometimes. so it is really important to be thinking about lyme disease. also if you get a rash and they say it is a bug bite, spider bite. that is a skin infection, might be lyme disease after all. but very important if you look

at lyme early because you don't want to get in to chronic lyme. get to the doctor and follow up with the doctor. just because they told you it is one thing, go back too the doctor again. >> you were talking about coinfections that complicate the treatment. is there a specific blood test or anything that will definitively say you have lyme disease. >> there is a test. certain blood tests are helpful. it is just they are not reliable enough. you have to still be a doctor. you have to look at what the symptoms are. you have to look at and make sure there are no other diseases. follow them carefully because if you don't be on top of the doctor you might not clear an easy treatment. you might end up in trouble and then they get caught up with some other diagnosis. >> reporter: dr. daniel cameron, thanks for joining us. he has published developed treatment and guidelines for lyme disease and you can read bt it on his website and we will have a link to that on our website at wusa9.com.

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they say they want to put aside months of bitterness and get on with their lives. jimi hendrix first known contract from 1965 is expected to fetch more than $200,000 at an on-line rock 'n' roll pop auction. the contract is among the items on display at gotta have rock 'n' roll.com. and other items include minimum peel be from the beatles and m&m. -- eminem. >> sam waterson has a message for congress. he says it is time to end what he calls pay to play politics. we welcome him to our show. thanks for joining us. >> actually congress has a message for us. >> okay. >> which is they have this bill, cure elections now act which has been introduced. was introduced in march. so really the news is that if the 80% of americans that want

campaign finance reform of some kind call their representatives, there's something they can do about it today. >> reporter: let's talk about this. you have a hearing scheduled for tomorrow. you are on captiol hill today. what would this bill do? how would it change the way politics is funded? >> well, as far as the politicians are concerned it would give them another choice between being completely free of major donors and very very probably losing, taking major donations with all of that -- what all of that implies for the expectation and the appearance of quid pro-quo. or they could have the third possibility of living on small donations and having a good honest chance of winning. and saving themselves something like one quarter all of their working hours goes to raising

money for their next campaign. so they would have 25% more time to devote to this long list of problems that we all know and keep hearing about in the newspaper. they would have 25% more time and maybe they could be freed up. as far as we're concerned, people, not politicians, it would give us all access and kind of equal play field that would mean more democracy, which is what we're -- >> well, the american public likes the idea of campaign finance reform and has for sometime and i imagine there are takers on captiol hill who say this is a great idea but is this a tough bargain to drive on captiol hill in general? >> i think it is always hard to change the status quo because everybody knows how it work and how to work it.

this would -- this wouldn't make every dishonest human being honest. it wouldn't be the millennium. but it would remove an incentive, a huge incentive to be corrupted. this is -- whether a person is corruptor not is one question but whether the system is corrupting i don't think there is any question about that. >> let's talk about big money and influence. we saw wall street over the last decade give billions to campaigns and then we saw a really fast package put together when they were in trouble. they are already donating again. do you think this type of bill will change and sever that connection between money and politics? >> well, i think it is really important to understand that the financial business is a terribly important business. and so politicians would still be paying attention 0 the needs of the financial business, but

the aexperience, and -- i don't know, what does your common sense tell you about the fact of insulin following money would be removed. it would offer an honest politician a possibility of being who he is and still staying in office. >> and being electable. >> having a chance at winning. >> we appreciate you coming in and talking about this issue. and for the record he won't tell us whether jack mccoy wins as d.a. in the next episode of law and order. >> call your congressman. we will check if with howard e if ththe seven day weather forecast looks pretty good. keep it here.

time to check the number on wall. it is down start to the day. the dow off 43 and the nasdaq down 7 1/2. s&p is off almost 1/2. and here's what is on tap for the rest of the week on 9 news now at 9:00 a.m. the mayor of ocean city stops by tomorrow. they have clean beaches in ocean city. >> i love the commercials they are doing. >> exactly. >> plus, newly installed tennis hall of famer donald dell previews the tournament and on friday mind over money experts will be here to help you with , rtgegareg,nageu ncinyo yoname it. ve us cafrcan iday. it is steamy on >>the weather terrace. not raining here because few sprinkles out of prince willia anun tyd light stuff memogont uncogoty. ower this afternoon, sh and storms could be strong to severe. seven-day forecast, mid to upper 80s today. in to the 90s tomorrow and back by friday, 80s with more thunderstorms. we are still running a deficit

-- rain deficit believe it or no. >> thank you to sam waterson for coming in and campaigning for campaign finance reform on captiol hill. >> thank you. we need it. >> that's it for us. >> the next news is at noon with j.c. hayward and howard bernstein. you can watch us before you go on the air. we start at 4:55. >> he will be tuning in. >> bye-bye.