good evening, i'm lesli foster. that severe weather is still hanging around. tony pann has the update. >> the atmosphere is still conducive to produce rotation in these storms but as of right now there are no warnings in effect and not even a watch in effect. all clear for the moment. that's not to say something couldn't be faed issu ov ere th st ho stay thay uwi s.t' kelole oka okat live ledothpp. thgsprinare etty quiet arounda th . e we just have light rain in the western suburbs around fairfax. promed thprpted thpt rn inwa lagsurhost has now weakenedttli t.lebi little bit. tadupdsarowup tup

right now this storm issono producing r. we e erth is reveso meweather. there isrm s s wnutdoso n rnlaheryma mendngrs down in southern maryland keth and moving hwest through e have the potentl iaose thhave the potential so me t arsome rotation. if'll keep an eye on those.me ou ye watching down in ith us outhifstay with us. if things ssued, warngs issued, we in llbreak k in prompt but are nd pp hag.ty not a t loen in tcherovo lot happening. switching over tut vegiu anyo in e e ar nong there are no ontcins heffec e t, t don'me don't watch in reone h wain eath oe n ster or over on the eastern shore but that doesn't mean our severe weather threat has diminished just yet. in just a few minutes we'll look at live doppler 9000 and the seven-day forecast. right now montgomery county police are trying to figure out what touched lyad sh nglyadoovoti ooting involving one ei ow sh s ot r eiran.ow shots rang out around 003: this: morning on eainrn ons eagle'nest road or eagle's nest court in germantown.

digital correspondent lindsay mathis is on the story and she joins us from police headquarters in rockville with the latest. >> reporter: it all started early this morning when someone called 911 and hung up. now, one man is dead and two montgomery county police officers are on paid leave. >> he has been identified as hernandez. >> reporter: lucille bauer says one officer fired his gun twice at hernandez. one of those bullets killed him. she says police found two weapons near hernandez's body, a knife and what appeared to be a gun. >> the knife is a carving knife with an 8 to 10-inch blade. the gun is identified as a bb pellet repeater air business which is a replica of an authentic semiautomatic weapon. >> reporter: bauer says they do not know whether hernandez fired the bb gun and they do not know what could have prompted the initial 911 call or even who made it. >> we ruled out a burglary, we

ruled out a domestic violence incident and we do not believe the subject shot himself. >> reporter: the incident has shaken this once-quiet community. >> it'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. >> reporter: police say they are trying to gather even more information about hernandez. >> if there is anyone in the community, anyone who knows mr. hernandez who could provide information to help us advance this investigation, we ask that they call the montgomery county police major crimes division. >> reporter: there was one other officer at the scene. anna hester did not fire her weapon but the two officers are on paid administrative leave during this investigation. in montgomery county, i'm lindsay maskis. president obama has taken his health care reform message

on the road. right now he's meeting with people at bristol, virginia, inside a kroger supermarket. earlier today he addressed about 2,000 people in raleigh, north carolina, and he took on critics who say he wants to socialize medical care. >> nobody is talking about some government takeover of health care. i'm tired of hearing that. [ applause ] i have been as clear as i can be. under the reform i've proposed, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. if you like your health care plan, you keep your health care plan. >> the president has also tweaked his message a bit. he's putting more emphasis on protecting our access to good health care by uncluttering the insurance process. five republican senators have said they will vote to confirm judge sonia sotomayor to the u.s. supreme court. the senate judiciary committee voted yesterday to approve sotomayor and just one republican joined democrats to

support her. the full senate vote comes next week and sotomayor is expected to easily win confirmation and become the first hispanic on the high court. the cuz mother accused of -- d.c. mouth accused of killing her 4 chipper has been found guilty. banita jacks could be life in prison when she's sentenced. audrey barnes who sat nearly every minute of the two-week trial joins us with more. >> reporter: the judge says this was a lonely assignment, one of the most challenging and difficult he's faced in his 32 years on the bench. but this seasoned veteran says he had no trouble with one thing, finding banitta jacks guilty of starving, torturing and killing her four daughters. it was a case of child cruelty that rocked the region. the decomposing bodies of four little girls, ages 5 to 16, found in their home. their mother, by her own admission, the only one who had access to them.

now banita jacks has been convicted of starving, torturing and kill can all four. >> we're pleased with the verdict. >> reporter: but prosecutors say it won't erase images of what the children endured for months. >> there's no joy in coming out of this courthouse. >> reporter: jacks was found guilty of 11 of the 12 counts of murder and child cruelty she faced. the evidence showing the three youngest girls were strangled with a ligature. judge frederick wiseberg said he couldn't rule that 16-year- old britney jacks, who he said was likely intensely depressed because of her mother's mental and physical abuse didn't stab herself. he found jacks not guilty of premedicated murder in britney's death. >> he found her guilty of felony murder, which is first degree murder. >> reporter: the defense attorney says they will appeal. >> whenever someone is looking at life in jail, it's a difficult case. >> will you try to get less than life for banita jacks? >> i'll try to get as little

time as possible. >> reporter: banita jacks will be sentenced october 16th. she showed no remorse when the verdict was read. her only emotion was when she argued with her attorney to try to get her sentencing pushed back until november. >> audrey, thanks to that. dozens of montgomery county police cars will soon have dash cams. the county council has accepted a federal grant to put 100 cameras in patrol cars. they'll be out starting in september and police hope to have cameras in all 800 of their patrol cars within the next three years. the mess is cleaned up, but everybody is still talking about a truck that overturned and caught fire on the beltway this morning. it happened at the height of the morning rush in alexandria between the eisenhower avenue and van dorn street exits. one person was hurt. at least some of the suspected stolen goods seized in a raid yesterday at a secondhand dealer are back in the store they were allegedly stolen from. digital correspondent scott

broom is live from prince george's county police headquarters with this follow- up. scott? >> reporter: well, as this raid in cheverly was unfolding, there was a worker from walmart standing by that had a bar coding device. he was checking the inventory numbers and bingo, it does appear that police found at least six hd tvs that had been stolen from that nearby walmart store back in june. the tvs were taken back by walmart. they were among hundreds of items seized by prince george's county police when they raided the maryland computer exchange on landover road in cheverly yesterday afternoon looking for suspected stolen goods. the tvs had been stolen from walmart by shoplifters who bolted through fire doors to waiting getaway cars between june 24th and june 28th according to prince george's county police. police are investigating now how maryland computer exchange got the tvs. investigators were back at that shop again today scouring the store for more items.

they are trying to match up the stolen goods reports from around the county. all of this part of a crackdown on pawn shops and secondhand dealers promised by county executive jack johnson. there have been no charges in this case. a lawyer for maryland computer exchange called it all a publicity stunt. he said his client bought all of this merchandise legally, whether it was stolen or not, because he checked the i.d.s of sellers and he reported the purchases to a computer database maintained by the county that police can check for stolen items. regardless, police say stores like this one get their attention because they say there were a large number of items inside the store that were still in their original packaging, indicating they were stolen. the investigation continues now and police say the warning goes out to pawn brokers and secondhand dealers all around the county that they are watching carefully and that trading in stolen goods will not be tolerated, whether or not the pawn brokers or dealers

know that they are stolen. reporting live at prince george's county police headquarters, scott broom, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> thanks, scott. there's been a hiccup in the cash for clunkers program. some car shoppers say their trade-in vehicles qualified for a rebate last week but those same cars don't qualify this week. what happened? well, the epa made some last- minute changes to how it is judging the fuel economy rating of the old gas guzzlers. thanks to those weeks, '86 models became eligible but 78 others are not leaving some dealers to back out of sales they have already made. still to come when 9news now returns, shock and heart break grip a new england town after a pregnant woman is murdered for her unborn child. and later, see how a group of brave boy scouts save their troop glleader intre. we'll be back.

police near boston have a grisly murder and kidnapping to solve of the they are looking for someone who tore a fetus from its mother's womb and stuffed the woman's body in a closet. a neighbor called police after she smelled a strong order coming from darlene haines' apartment. >> the medical personnel, given the late stage of pregnancy, that 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. >> right now police are looking for the father of haines' 1- year-old daughter. she filed a restraining order against him after he allegedly assaulted her. an update now on a d.c. girl quarantined in china for

nine days with the h1n1 flu. the 16-year-old girl is out of the hospital. she was one of nine students in her tour group diagnosed with the virus, but she was one of the last ones or the last one, i should say, released from the hospital. she's now rejoined the group at a beijing hotel. out with the old, in with the new. if you're ready to trade in that old cell phone for the latest and grfateadsteage g t od the market, he asm se somart neho tollcethat. yo carrier. many of them will recycle or refurbish your phone. ge t d haofrid t tolphon through the postal system. th mae acpostal system. thmaacile k braprtsm ogu lendc sendse your phone back charge. char. try ge the e the phone tour favorite charity. but before you do that, make sure you terminate your service plan and erase all of your personal information. still to come when 9news now continues, coming home early. why some u.s. troops may get to leave iraq sooner than expected.

but first, here's a preview of the cbs evening news. >> reporter: lawmakers reach a compromise on health care but the majority of people we polled think reform will not help them. we'll have the new numbers tonight only on the cbs evening news. fa ?f

@ @ i never thought it could happen to me... a heart attack at 53. i had felt fine. but turns out... my cholesterol and other risk factors... increased my chance of a heart attack. i should've done something.

now, i trust my heart to lipitor. when diet and exercise are not enough, adding lipitor may help. unlike some other cholesterol lowering medications, lipitor is fda approved to reduce the risk... of heart attack, stroke, and certain kinds of heart surgeries... in patients with several common risk factors... or heart disease. lipitor has been extensively studied... with over 16 years of research. lipitor is not for everyone, including people with liver problems... and women who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant. you need simple blood tests to check for liver problems. tell your doctor if you are taking other medications, or if you have any muscle pain or weakness. this may be a sign of a rare but serious side effect. i was caught off-guard. but maybe you can learn from my story. have a heart to heart with your doctor... about your risk. and about lipitor.

u.s. coast guard helicopters are searching the shores of the turks and caicos islands for survivors of yesterday's boat rescue. 70 haitians are still missing when a boat carrying about 200 of them capsized. most of the victims were rescued. they were trying to escape the poverty in the western hemisphere's country. 60 people were hurt in this bombing in spain. it is believed a separatist group is behind it. the blast from the car bomb left a huge crater in the ground and sent glass flying everywhere. this is the eighth bombing carried out by separatists this year. president obama says u.s.

combat troops now serving in iraq will be home by next fall, but some soldiers may leave the country even sooner. defense secretary robert gates made the announcement on his last day of his visit to iraq, and 5,000 troops could head back ahead of schedule. the woman who called police to the home of a black harvard scholar is speaking out today, happy that she's been vindicated. that's because newly released 911 tapes prove that race was not a factor when police went to henry louis gates' home on a burglary call. gates was trying to get into his home when he got into an argument with police and was charged with disorderly conduct. lucille whalen says she's just relieved everything is out in the open. >> what has made me feel better is that the truth is out and that i feel good about. >> president obama has invited professor gates and cambridge police sergeant james crowley to the white house tomorrow for a beer. a houston boy scout troop is being praised for rallying together during a very serious

situation. their scout leader's blood sugar skyrocketed and he collapsed during a hiking trip in colorado. the boys sused eir ouscting skills and they got their sick leader off the mountain. they made a stretcher out of tree branches and carried him down the mountain. >> when they were carrying me, not one of those scouts ever complained that i was too >>. huhhandsce rt. >> the scout master says he lost about 15 pounds after spending a couple of days in the hospital. he's now doing hufine and i bet he's pretty proud of what those young boy scouts learned and what they were able to do in a tough situation. >> they were well trained scouts. >> absolutely. good job. weather-wise for us, it's been kind of rough in a few areas this evening. the interesting thing to me is there's no tornado watch in effect. >> okay. >> i just don't understand that. i'll say it again, i don't know why the storm prediction centering is not doing that because obviously the atmosphere is conducive to create the rotation the storms.

let's start by taking l ak a . live doppr 00 in arniins effect at this me . ste ms that did prompt the warnings are stjuow nst crossin ute river out of virginia in nto hern maryland. we just have light rain around the city at the sopresent meti u ti the e onthe onthat prompted the tornadg wainrndoin ouarnd fredericksburg. it's movi, la inhe g adarup heading up towards la plata and waldorf. therer noindication at least gh rit w that this thing has somerotation in it, bue th closer it gets to the bay, i think there's a better chance of that happening. we have a bay breeze coming in from the southeast and the winds coming in from the west right above that. that's what's causing the rotation in these storms. so we'll keep an eye on this as it moves up into charles county, towards waldorf and brandy wine. we have some other strong storms down in southern maryland, this moving out over the water. if you're watching down there, there's some tremendous heavy rains going d thanperhaps small no warnis ngarno wnings io ofof these eiiton . or the e north of benedict rt

the other one. for those of you in the northern suburbs, all l is quie out west, all is quiet as well. let's switch it over and take a look at the three-day trend the next couple of days. temperatures in the upper 80s to around 90. just a slight chance for a thunderstorm on thursday. best chance for rain will be on friday. mostly cloudy skies for the rest of tonight. chance for showers and thunderstorms. obviously some of those could be strong. it's going to be muggy with a low temperature near 70. partly sunny skies tomorrow. i'd only put a 20 or 30% chance on the precipitation for thursday with high temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s. here's the situation. got this area of low pressure traveling up into western pennsylvania. then that bay breeze, that's what's creating the rotation and the lift to create the thunderstorms. there's plenty of humidity, the dew point is 68 so a lot of moisture in the atmosphe for these storto work with. 82 to whewith. 82 oforof the hour at national airport. 78 in fredericksburg. everybody will settle back into

the upper 60s and low 70s by tomorrow morning. as we go into the weekend, the forecast doesn't change much. i think the best chance for rain will be friday and sunday. thursday and saturday look like the best days out of those four, just a slight chance for a thunderstorm tomorrow and on saturday. at this point if i was going to pick one of the weekend days, i would probably pick saturday. all right. summer's over, but we're excited. >> i know. you know why training camp is exciting to me? because we have no idea how good this team -- they could be 12-4, then again they play in a tough division, who knows, they could be .500 or worse. there's a month left in summer, but not if you're a football player. training camp starts tomorrow. redskins players reported today. sara walsh with a live report from ashburn as the month-long drama begins to unfold. 9 sports is coming up. fab@ b@

well, if you thought today was steamy in washington, try going through it with a helmet and 25 pounds of pads and two-a- day practices that would make a team of oxen pass out. do that for a month straight and you've got redskins training camp. the prayers reported this morning. sara walsh is live at redskins park where a multitude of story lines have begun to unfold. >> reporter: hey, brett. the question is how good can malcolm kelly and devin thomas be? very haven't even suited up for one practice yet and already jim zorn thinks one of them

might have taken antwaan randle el's number 2 position. randle el is entering his 8th season in the league, his fourth with the redskins. a year ago he had 543 yards and four touchdowns but in his three seasons as a red skin he's totaled only eight. kelly and thomas combine for just 14 a year ago. >> we're going to have a few guys in the mix for that flank position. santana moss will be our extra receiver. right now antwan, you can see his enthusiasm, he's going to have to try to fight hard to keep that position at the flanker and he's easily our third receiver, but is he our second receiver? >> reporter: those questions will be answered. and the biggest loss on this team happens on the o-line and we don't mean that -- we mean it because mike williams has lost the weight of an entire

jonas brother. going from 450 pounds to 342. after sitting out of the league the last two seasons, he is vying now for a starting spot. >> there's some things that are a little rusty, but it's there. you know, it's kind of like uncovering an antique. once you polish it up a little bit, it's worth some money. and so -- and that's exactly what i set out to do. there's some things that need to be polished up, but the value is till in there. >> reporter: that is a lot of weight lost. over 100 pounds in just five months. if you go into my blog, skins uncensored, we'll tell you what williams was visualizing to motivate him as he was losing that weight. i have to warn you it's kind of disgusting. that's on wusa9.com. we are live out at redskins park. brett, back to you in the studio. >> he's lost one jonas brother. if he can just lose one more miley cyrus he might be close to being in shape. don't forget 9 sports will have wall-to-wall training coverage starting tomorrow morning.

brian mitchell appead i th live reports from the park along with reporting from sara. each day feature stories and uncut interviews on our website, wusa9.com. most players loathe training camp, though you can bet plaxico burress would have happen anticipate traded in two a day for what he did today. he testified before the new york grand jury investigating his gun charges stemming from the november incident in which he shot himself in the leg in a manhattan nightclub. the d.a. is seeking two years jail time. about yours thought getting on record with an apology might limit that time. >> i'm truly remorseful for what i've done and what happened and what i did. i just want to thank everybody, family and friends, fans, for their support. >> down a level, the all acc team was announced today, linebacker alex wujiak and another. a day after suffering his first defeat in four years, michael phelps wasn't sulking he was back in the pool

channeling his anger into a 34th career world record. day 4 of the world championships in rome, phelps swam the 200-meter butterfly in a minute 51:51 shattering the previous mark by half a second and he eclipses the great mark spitz who had 33. the nats have a chance to go where they have not been all season, a five-game win streak. they won their fourth straight last night with an 8-3 spanking of the brewers. they have scored 38 runs and allowed just 12. garrett moss pitches. finally tonight, speaking as a dad, i love my children and i love baseball, but this fan in texas proved that you can love both at the same time. watch him catch the foul ball with his baby son in his other arm. that is paternal multi tasking at his best. look at the baby, hysterical crying. but there's an explanation for that. he's from dallas. they're all cry babies. >> oh, boy, oh, boy! >> hey, it's redskins