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fo rce s rangra out around 3:00 on eagles nest 00 gleaes nest court in germantown, maryland. our 9 news now digital correspondent armando trull has been following this story and he is joining us with more information. armando? >> well, j.c., a lot of questions remain. among them, why would police officers open fire on a resident of this complex, killing them. what did he do to deserve that? detectives don't know if it was one officer or two who opened fire on the man. one thing we know is a long- time residence described as peaceful and quiet, last night it was anything but. >> i'd say it was 3:00 a.m. or so. just awakened to rapid pop pop noise. >> reporter: a male resident of this apartment complex in the 12,000 block of eagle nest court was shot and kill by montgomery county police early this morning. neighbors say it was a chaotic scene. >> i could hear some sobbing

and crying and, you know, just nervous chatter going on. and. >> reporter: how would you characterize the chatter. >> it was a female's voice and she was hysterical. >> reporter: two officers responded to a 911 call at 3:00 a.m. after whom ever dialed hung up immediately. the confrontation happened in front of this small patio. >> when fire rescue arrived on the scene, officers were performing life-saving efforts. >> you could hear the hysterical female voice an the male voice say get the sharpest object you can find. i'm putting on a mask, something like that. >> the subject was pronounced dead at the scene. a gun and knife was found next to his body. >> reporter: now montgomery county detectives have ruled out several scenarios including burglary, soaplessic violence and suicide. reporting live in germantown, armando trull for 9 news now and wusa9.com.

a truck overturned on the beltway this morning and it is still affecting drivers. the accident happened just before 7 a.m. in alexandria. between the eisenhower avenue and van dorn street exits. a fire began when a tanker truck overturned after an accident between the truck and several other vehicles. and we're told one person was injured. very soon dozens of montgomery county police cars will have video cameras. the so-called dash cams. the county council accepted a federal grant to put cameras in 100 patrol cars. they will be installed in september and the police department is seeking more grant money hoping to have cameras in all 800 patrol cars within three years. the federal government is funneling more than $1 billion in stimulus funds to police departments around the country. but several big cities, including new york, will not be getting any of that money. the billion dollar program is

aimed at helping police departments avoid layoffs and hire more officers. but it focused on cities with big budget problems and soaring crime rates. >> it is a compliment we got left out. it is not a compliment that i like the results of, but i like the recognition that we are doing well. >> reporter: houston, seattle and pittsburgh were on the list of cities that will not receive federal dollars. a 19-year-old career officer with the alexandria police department will soon have his career come to an end. the city's police chief, david baker, says he will retire on friday. he was arrested in arlington county on saturday night. he faces drunk driving charges. baker has been alexandria's police chief for the last three years. the city manager says he thinks

baker is making the appropriate call. >> we are disappointed in the decisions made by chief baker the other night. but we also can't lose sight of a stellar career as well and that's what we are trying to balance against the mistake made. >> baker failed a field sobriety test. his blood alcohol tested at .19 on saturday night, twice the legal limit. he was supposed to be in court today but that hearing has been pushed back to august 14th. right now federal agents are said to be in pakistan searching for an 8th man connected to baa-ussed terror a- cell. the alleged leader, daniel patrick boyd was arrested on monday in north carolina. he's been charged with conspiracy to murder, kidnap, maim and injure persons abroad. boyd went to t.c. williams high school in the mid ' 80s. his carolina neighborhoods

reacted to his arrest. >> everybody in the neighborhood is just shocked. they are just going through the house and probably bringing things out. >> just don't know in this day and age. you just knt n' t who your neighbors are. >> reporter: boyd's mother still lives in the washington area with her listed address at a condo in silver spring. when 9 news now called her residence a man answered the phone but refused to comment. boyd and six other defendants in the case are due in court tomorrow. 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-22 fighters and the replace presidential helicopter. the obama administration and military leaders are trying to end both programs. five republican senators have said they will vote to confirm sonia sotomayor to the u.s. supreme court.

the senate judiciary committee voted yesterday to approve sonia sotomayor with one republican member joining democrats in supporting her. the full vote could come next week and judge sonia sotomayor is expected to easily win conformation and become the first hispanic on the high court. a big day for the burgundy and gold fans because redskins players are reporting to training camp today and practice will start tomorrow. sara walsh is joining us from redskins park in ashburn with a preview. >> reporter: hi, j.c. training camp is upon us. as we drove in they were putting the final touches on the complex and putting up souvenir tents that fans will walk through tomorrow morning. jim zorn will address the media at 12:30 today and players are trickling in. they don't have to be together until 3:30. they will hold a team meat meeting and after that should be in meetings throughout the evening.

the first practices a you said being tomorrow morning. some of the big story lines we will be keeping an eye on throughout training camp, of course, jason campbell and how he responds to a tumultuous off season where his team pursued other quarterbacks. and of course the big addition of haynesworth. and we are keeping an eye on the michael vick scenario as the team here says they are not interested in that but we have heard that before and seen players arrive. tomorrow training at 8:30 a.m. fans are invited to come out to that. time to get the schedule set. 3:30 is the first team meeting. we will talk to fred smoot in a minute. we are live at training camp. day one, back to you in the studio. >> thank you. still to come, when 9 news now continues, shock and heart ache in one new england neighborhood. police would like to find

who murdered a pregnant woman and took her unborn child. also ahead, investigators continue their search for evidence and answers in the death of michael jackson. we'll be right back.

police in boston have a grisly murder and kidnapping to so much they are looking for someone who tore a fetus from a mother's womb and then stuffed the woman's body in a closet. a neighbor called police after smelling a strange odor coming from darlene hayes' apartment. >> according to medical personnel, given the late stage of pregnancy this infant was viable and it could perhaps survive. it may be alive as we speak now but the baby would be in dire need of medical attention. >> reporter: right now, police are looking for the father of hayes ' daughter. she filed a restraining order against him after he allegedly assaulted her. officials appear to be closing in on michael jackson's doctor. because for the second time in a week, authorities raided dr. conrad murray's medical

records. this time at his home and office in las vegas. we have more from los angeles. >> dr. conrad murray was at his las vegas home as a team of agents descended. >> we didn't call think doctor's office and tell them we were coming. >> reporter: murray's lawyer says they seized yes phones and a computer hard drive. he says murray assisted officers. >> whatever they needed at the residence they took and whatever they needed here they took. >> reporter: investigators armed with search warrants came to conrad murray's medical offices. among the items targeted are medical orders, orders for medication. anything that could tie him to the powerful anesthetic. >> the idea that a physician would be using it outside of a hospital session is almost unfathomable to me. >> diprivan is given by an iv drip and reququ es extensive

moritongngequipment. dr. murray reportedly admitted he gave jackson the anesthesia hours before his death. >> if i have diprivan i will put on the death certificate homicide. >> he is facing anfrhe re oma charge of involuntary manslaughter to second degree implied malice murder. >> the investigation could not be closer. i think it is literally in his backyard. >> no charges have been filed. the detectives are careful not to call dr. murray a suspect. they are waiting for toxicology results. and they could be out askerly as today. howard has our forecast. sun is trying to break through the overcast. the overcast is helping things as far as keeping temperatures down. as far as the allergy update it is down, as well. everything in the low category. look at live doppler hd and talk about the storm potentia en 9 news now at noon

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some of the rain this afternoon could be heavy. some energy is coming this way. the atmosphere is pretty juicy. doesn't feel as humid as it was early. temperatures are a little warmer. it was a real sticky morning out there. sort of sticky right w nobunot last e onat:3ok wke one of of my at ch chregulars regula up, mark washburn. lo okthat inhe captured there. captured there. me. -m thisthiso me. this was waiting mer enme i got in. i was excited to see this when i inopened the e-mail. >>quiet. lme soig ht raquiet. tatalking aba t avouhey showers or thunderstorms righ t die meimate metro things are clmeououdyt ere with a thfew breaks tryin ctoto come out. we will zoom in and give you a quick tour before we hit the computer. quiet here in washington. to the west we are seeing lighter showers in loudoun county and up and down the i-81 corridor. this is where we see the rains.

charlestown, harpers ferry seeing a couple of ght sprinkles there and wood stock and new mark over luray you have got it. amisville, warrenton most of it is to the west and even front royal a few sprinkles. the forecast first, almost firsted to 84 this afternoon. some showers and thunderstorms. tomorrow we are back the heat, isolated storm and upper 80s on friday with the threat of afternoon storms. warm and sticky. scattered thunderstorms developing. 80 to 85. the cloud cover has temperatures down a little bit. i lowered the temperatures from the forecast. south winds 10 to 20 miles an hour. mainly evening thunderstorms. muggy tonight. once the storms en, some in the upper 60s but most of us lower to mid-70s, partly sunny hot and humid. and tomorrow we back up to the lower 90s as winds turn

southwesterly. here's the visible satellite imagery. if you are in space looking down this is what you will see. the breaks if fredericksburg and southern maryland over to the delmarva. but the cloud cover is thinning a little bit. the more sunshine we get the less stable the atmosphere will be. on the flip side the clouds are keeping things more stable. rain here and thunderstorms backrehe because upper level energy will roll in mid to lat afternoon. looking at the time lapse. a lot ofcloud cover with a few brea so far here in washington. a little haze in the air. temperatures are holding at 79 degrees. winds are south at ten. keeping the humidity up. the dew points are mike like and the relative humidity is 74%. temperatures where the sun has been out, webster field 85. cambridge 84. easton 84. georgetown, delaware up to 89 degrees. on the flip side, cumberland tr

rsgetown a 80an thewen'vehaedt s th year, up to 92 in easton and saint indigos. 83 in manassas. the energy that i keep talking about. we can see it on the bigger satellite picture across the ohio valley out of ohio, kentucky, little tiny twist here and i expect showers and storms to be developing and moving toward us. a much wetter day. and they are expecting cool as the front gets closer with the energy is when our chances of thunderstorms for this amp and evening will be going up. here's our seven-day forecast, 84 today. the chance of thunderstorms this afternoon. some strong to severe. 92 tomorrow and then friday in the 80s with late-storms in to early saturday. we clear out saturday afternoon anunev senday. thrsuns toderm s

possible. unsettled. j.c., back to you. guess what will be in the mail next week the aarp, the magazine. you should be receiving it and guess who is on the cover, bruce springsteen, turning 64. but there an article in the magazine that we want to talk about today with gabby, the editorial protect -- projects manager of the magazine and he says we aren't getting enough of the sunshine vitamin. >> we aren't. you know, for many years doctors knew we needed vitamin d for our bones but now they find we need it for other tissues and organs and are not getting enough sunshine. that's how your body produces vitamin d and we have been told for years to cover up to avoid skin cancer and now they are finding out we are not getting enough. >> reporter: what is it contributing to? what illness? >> they are finding out new things every day but cancer heart disease, weak bones, all

kinds of things can happen if are you don't get enough vitamin d. >> how much sunshine do you need each day. >> not too much. you don't want to go out and bake in the sun but 10 to 15 minutes a day and then you can go ahead and put the sun screen on. >> reporter: in this article it talks about if you can't go out for ten or 15 minutes what you can do to get it through your diet. it is incredible. >> you almost can't get it. you would have 0 to eat 40 servings of cereal or 35 servings of orange juice. so you can you want the sun exposure a little bit. if you can't get out and of course there are supplements you can take vitamin d supplements. >> you want 1,000-milligrams p -- i'm sorry, 1,000 ics of it in your cabinet. >> you need it, vitamin d the sunshine vitamin. thank you for joining us. look for the aarp magazine in

the mail next week. join us at 5:00. have a great day. keep the umbrella handy. bye-bye. b@