but some believe that it runs even deeper than that. speaking about their relationship for the first time as usual. he didn't hold back. he said that they have been trying to iron some things out, going as far as saying that last year, he did not quote on quote "treat him like a man." believing that those problems are behind him now and he looks forward to a more productive 2009 with his head coach. so they are trying to patch things up. meanwhile, a bit of an injury scare today at the end of the second practice. the rookie runningback, they had pw-b carded off the field -- to be carded off the field. we thought it was a bad situation, just cramps from the heat. unlike last year when we lost them on the very first snap of the training camp, everyone is relatively healthy to today. we'll have much more from training camp coming up at 11. they are joining me every day from 5 to 6. for now, i'm live, back to you. >> loving it. thank you. the fans and the players,

no one else looks forward to the training camp. and while the coaches and the fans, they seat big plays on the field, the business owners, they see big arll signs. the convention and the business association, they say that it is their chance to showcase what they have to offer including restaurants, hotels, and 21 wineries. but with the economy down, with the redskins fan, it's the guilty pleasure. >> i'm still up here, spending money, putting gas money in, coming down here, so now we'll have a report out this year. >> they will pay my rent and i'm still coming to a game or a practice. i'll be home for them and the redskins money. how about that? >> i miss getting my nails done, you know, to make sure we get out here to the redskins game. >> let's hope that they live up to all the love. last year, 75,000 fans attended the week of the redskins training with 28,000 people attending the fan appreciation day. and bringing in nearly $1 million in tourism dollars. now, a quick check of the weather. they are here with your nine forecast first. not a bad day. >> an okay day, the humidify

went down -- the humidity went down. certainly not the active weather like we saw last night with the tornado warnings and such. let's take a look at what we expect over the next couple of days. tonight, relatively quiet. a little less humid. still a slight chance for a shower or thunderstorm. certainly no severe weather. now tomorrow, a different story again. we'll see another one of those systems come in. that will create the thunderstorms. some of them will be strong on friday. we'll talk more about that and check the seven-day forecast when i come back in just a few minutes. derek? >> thank you, tony. now to the other top stories, a system meltdown and a massive blaze. is there not enough water pressure to fight the fires in parts of the district? help wanted. and the volunteer firefighters, they desperately needed it in one local town. plus, the budget bust. local lawmakers, scrambling to fix the busted budget. >> a tobacco shop in northwest, where the owners say that raising the cigarette tax won't help d.c.'s budget.

>> the city council wants to raise the cigarette tax to $2.50 per tax, one of the highest taxes in the country. in virginia, it's only there are 1. >> it won't generate the money that i think that they will generate. people going across the river and buy their cigarettes that way. >> reporter: they want to raise the gasoline tax to $.25 a gallon. >> that's not how i would like to adopt the budget. that is if they certainly want to do that. if they come with the budget, then yes. >> they approved cuts to summer school and the freeze on the funding. a vote on the plan is expected tomorrow. >> i'm scott broom at the fire house at capitol heights where the mayor of this town, they are asking the residence to step up and be volunteers. as paid firefighters, they are being asked to step out to save

money. talking about being aggressive in the town and bring more volunteers. >> it is a tough cell for them to come to work and where they are really busy with the 6200 calls per year. >> and there will be no reduction in service. and they will be able to be covered by the surrounding companies. they will still cover the emergencies here, just from a mile and a half further away. up in northwest washington at the burned out home where the former school board. >> it is a shame to make a mistake. a home out there and a shame that they have lost. >> but who made the mistake to allow the mansion to burn out there because of the low water pressure? unlike in 2007, when there are similar problems in the apartment building out there. this time, d.c. fire, they are not pointing fingers.

>> i think that it is good to make sure that we're on the same page. >> an earth to test that and the water that they promise to deliver to fight house fires. even though that they have complained of the long water pressure, they say that this is not one of their real problem areas. >> first off, we need to find out what happened here. >> but that is little comfort for the neighbors. >> it is terrifying to think that you might stand out there to watch it burn for two hours or the sustained pressure. >> again, the homeowner, they recently came to the house to feature in oprah's o piesurct e the fr the features. they say s athi thome is like m hi t thmuseum. they also dominated their resume, on the commission. and the kennedy center, board of trustees. even founded the duke elington school -f ot arts. well, the council member, they are joining us now and weed would like to also notice that, well, to note that we have the council member here canceled at the last minute. however, there's a lot going on in the city that we have to

talk about, council member, first of all, this incident last night, this is again, what happened two years ago and in out there. a lot of people thought that this was fixed. >> yes, i thought that it was fixed, crippling my amount of timement let me say that my prayers go out to the family. and when your house goes up like that and for someone who has done so much in the community, well, you know, that is just a tragedy. clearly what residence want to know if their house is on fire and if a fire truck pulls up, if there is a water supply to put up the fire. >> that is a key question. >> just a few minutes ago. they had a press conference, talking about have very issue. they were at that press conference. to make sure that once again, we're on track in terms of protecting the neighborhoods out there of the district of columbia in the sense of the water supplies and water

pressure, thank you. >> obviously they were there for good reason. but it is obvious, we don't have any answers yet, do we? >> no, no answers yet. i just think that it is unacceptable. they don't make a difference ho you are or where you are. that is just a basic function of the city. and whether it is out there or the city, they need to resolve that. not only do you say that it is resolved, but you need to know for sure. >> watching this unfold for the next several weeks. that's how they all feel about that being raised in the middle of the recession in d.c. that is exactly what's coming before the council. how are you going to vote on this increase and what's your reactions to the prospects when they are struggling? let them commend all of them doing a great job bringing them to work through that to the

rehab, balancing this budget. and with when i talked to residence, what they don't want, they don't want to make sure about that and the trees are cut. they want to make sure that they are safe and they have quality schools. and they do not want to see the city cut core services. as you know, the budget reductions, they are not all in the tax revenue and the tax increases. they have to have a balance out there. to balance that on cut to our middle income and low-income residence. >> the fact is that the washington post, they posted the area saying if they go through, then that is going to also affect the policeman's retirement program as many as 300 cops will lead the force.

some of them i support the increase for them and on the cigars. those are the areas that are important for them and with people tweeding back. they tell me that we have a balance approach and they cannot cut all key services for them. there has to be some revenue enhancement. you know that they are tough decisions. >> fair enough. you're raising taxes on cigarettes, for example. that is just something that the folks can drive right across the maryland and virginia border at a much cheaper price. are you worried that is going to hurt sales in the city and to sort of the opposite effect of what you want? >> i believe in smoke free. you know, they are smoke free and a healthy environment and people thought that all the restaurants were going to collapse; which has not happened. these are tough times. we have to make the tough choices. you cannot do it with cutting all core services. none of them want that. we're not going back to this day, giving us a balanced approach to look at reasonable, well, revenue increases that will balance this budget. >> so you're going to vote yes

on the pwuplgt tomorrow and for these cuts as we have mentioned? >> they are going to come up one by one. some that give you heartburns. and you know, all of that. >> which one? >> any time that you touch education, we give you heartburn. let's be clear. the property tax, they will give you heartburn even though that two cents, they may bring in a revenue of over $40 million. still not an area that you're prepared to go to. but i think that you'll have to go there. that's the good question for some of the tax increases that i see, being proposed out here. i don't think that me of those won't be on the table. >> you're looking closer. thank you for coming in tonight. we appreciate your time. new tonight, the interrogation tapes from the case. for the first time, see it from a woman accused of killing her fo ?f @

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fish. his 79-year-old mother will retain custody of the children. they will be raised in the same home where he spent most of his childhood. the deal between all of them and the singer's wife of three years and the mother of the two oldest children, they now get visitation, but nothing else. >> this is not a money deal. this is not about money. there is no situation better for these children than for them to be raised under the loving care of mrs. katherine jackson. it is that meeting between president obama and hug ru -- henry gates and the police sergeant. now, as you know by now, they invited them over for beer and talk and a little white house tour. and they were hoping to put the rest of the racial controversy

over gate's arrest earlier this month in their home in massachusetts. and later this evening, we could find out just how things went and they are telling us that they plan toed hold a news conference, and that will happen in about, well, 20 minutes. >> from the crumbling, they will have a fancy newed building this fall. they will take your tour just ahead. they are back with that full forecast. so keep it right here. b@b@ fa

for the first time, we're hearing from the woman convicted of killing her four daughters. taking a copy of the tape. and that is a chilling look into the girl's last day alive with the mother. and they spent much of the day listening to the tapes. joining us with more that could have been interesting to say the least. >> that is how many were out there and how they might have died. tonight for the first time, you'll hear them tell their version of the horrors on sixth street. where they found them living

with the rotting corpses of the children. deshovelled and obviously the mother of four was being interviewed by the season homicide detectives, wearing a white jump suit and eating the first food that she claimed she had for days. right away, she brings up trouble with the oldest girl, britney. and they started hanging out with the wrong crowd. >> she wanted to be in the school. and the home by itself. >> raoeufplgt >> to . at razy >>. or r. dep just crazy. >> repor d cthe trial, they presenteevidence of jack's anger over britney's anger and her interest in ic e. until she died. >> did you ever worry about her setting that out there? >> four girls in her word, who just went to sleep.

one by one. >> and you know, then the next and the next. then two days later, the next one. >> what happened to your oldest one? >> the same thing. >> he found jacks guilty of 11 counts of felony murder and child cruelty. he said, "whether it was out of desperation or hopelessness to take them out of their misery or some of the reason known only to her, she intended to kill them." >> wow, anything in particular you remember about these tapes that will take away from you? >> you know, as i see the transcript on them, page 663, i found jack's first maternal admission. they said they kept saying they didn't have any remorse, but that's not the case. she said that i did cry about it, i miss them, and i love

them. now, i have to point out that the detective who interviewed her for eight hours that she shed one tear during the entire eight hour interrogation. and at least not on court. she will be sentenced on october 16. >> chilling stuff, thank you. i appreciate it. >> well, the arraignment for james bond is now scheduled for september 2. the 84-year-old, they were indicted on seven charges. they were accused of killing the guard. they set the holocaust museum last month. four of them became out there to carry the death penalty. >> and the d.c. officials, they cut the ribbon on the city's newest schools. the schools without walls. they are the former 118-year- old grant out there. and the school counselors, >> that is what our goal is for the next five years for us to renovate and modernize every one of our d.c. buildings so that every child who comes to school

in the morning, they feel the same way. the and about wanting to be there. >> the new school, including the 68,000 square foot edition and the area for them and the smart board and the wireless area all throughout. good evening everyone. it looks like things are going to get active again towards the beginning of the workweek if you count friday as your weekend. and the chance for rain going up to 15% tomorrow morning and some of the storms, they mite be kind of strong. right now, it looks like saturday that will be the best day out of the three weekend days, particularly for tonight and partly cloudy skies, it's a little less humid than last night and still very comfortable. a slight chance for showers and thunderstorms. most of you will be dry. low temperatures upper 60s to around 70 degrees. during the day tomorrow, chance for showers and thunderstorms against the severe weather that is a possibility on friday. and high temperatures in the mid-80s, sunrise tomorrow morning. and that is at 6:08. here is the weather setup, a little pressure drop off to the

west, more of the wind shift line than anything else underway. under a slightly less humid air mass. the dew points in the mid-60s as opposed to the 70s ke li st y.erye dath ia little t bittbeer we can see some rain coming in the southwest coming up through west virginia back into ohio and kentucky and tennessee. and a chance for rain that will actually go up as we go through the night tonight. but i still wouldn't put it at a higher mark than 30%. odds are if you have outdoor plans on this thursday evening, it'll be just fine. 85 degrees atop the hour at the dew poeupt of 65. producing a relatively humid at 63%. some of the other numbers, low 80s for them and wind chester, but 83. and that is out there, same thing for the air station. they are back into the upper 60s and 70s. and the jet stream, they are off to the west and the mild air, the cool air locked up in the great lakes, one of these disturbances, they will pass by from northeast into the jet stream and that will be the thunderstorm out there during the day on friday and again,

some of those will be there and it looks like saturday will be mostly dry and an isolated storm and another chance for some more organized precipitation into the day on sunday. so saturday, they are looking like the best weekend chance. temperatures all the way through the middle of next week to stay in the same. upper 80s to around 90 degrees. so tomorrow, that will be a little bumpy again. we'll keep an eye on that. but relatively quiet they knowing. >> we're think for sunday in the morning, afternoon, i think more like late in the day. and then that would be the best chance of rain. >> they will say not a total washout. >> there you go, thank you, tony. back in just a few minutes. we want to hear what you think. send your e-mails to the address on the screen. nine news now will be right back. c#2g

president obama may have had sergeant crowley and all of them over tonight. but not everyone is ready to be out there. he says he's a retired d.c. police officer. he demonstrated he does not understand what constitutes that. it is something that many of you see peer yours don't know -- superiors don't know either. i believe that it is stupid. he screwed up. i feel like the president should not have invited him to the white house. the arrest was not legal.

>> okay. well, speaking of crime and punishment, melissa says she is truly glad to know that the redskins have no interest in signing michael vick at least for now. however, if there is ever a juncture to use their word that they would want him, they would lose me as a fan forever. i cannot see even a brief glimpse of vick on tv or hear his name without remembering his depraved cruelty. sure, he served his time and completed probation, but it would ruin football for me and my family if he ever comes back to the nfl. you know what, i had a thought and it mite be crazy, but i get it. you're furious with him, you're not willing to forgive him or offer a second chance, but you would let his presence ruin your football fun? afterall, if he is on someone's team, he's doing his thing. if you stop watching because of that, then don't the terrorists win? just asking. e-mail us. well, that is our report. i'll be right back here tonight at 11. don't forget, you can log on any time you would like to

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