the boy that could reach that much. they didn't know how many. i'll have to come out there, they would need to help take care of them. and that is nothing i do about it. so i have to do, via my hand to do that on the board. >> but the police officer thought he was putting himself and others in danger. and today, the judge, they saw both sides. and they continued the case, telling them that they will dismiss it if they have no more violations. >> you can do it again and watch that out there. >> i would do it, yes, absolutely for anybody. >> i'm bruce johnson, peggy cooper, the first interview and the fire atthrostdeyed their mansion and the priceless art collections last week. >> i'm not really prepared to even think about, well, the fire. >> they were on the scene, ripping away the rubbles. sot fire investigators, they could begin to look for a cause at last wednesday's place. they promised a separate grove as to why firefighters were not able to get a look from the fire hydrants to save at least a

part of the structure. >> they were not aware of the low water pressure, the problem in this area when they arrived on the scene to fight the fire on wednesday night. but we have learned from sources that they have gotten four complaints about the water pressure here. and that in each case, they say that the complaints stwere resolved. the the former dc school board president and noted art collector, they d open their home over the years to thousands he lol ofand national figures. and just as many liticad anl social causes. >> i will miss the opportunity that they have provided for them. and for people in d.c. because it wasn't just, well, it wasn't just our house. where this station, they are unable to respond to more than 80 emergency calls since friday. not unusual because it has been happening sin april. that's when the career staff was removed from the county fire chief. now that staffing has been removed from the adjacent station. >> well, i'm shocked that a station on the neighboring station, close to us, such as capitol heights, they would

lose the career staffing. because we don't have all of them. >> when you already have the staffing problems at the heats, why would you remove the staffing at capitol heights? >> because there are other nearby stations to add wetly koáf that area -- adequately cover that area. >> the county fire department, they are in strong disagreement over what impact the staffing issue had when the boulevard heights station, they caught fire this morning. >> i'm not happy at all. that means there's something that we're not doing and we're not able to serve the citizens in the community that we volunteer to protect. >> well, the district, they are about to get another 50 police officers, walking the beach. it's a part of the federal grant for the communities, the oriented policing. and the marriage and out there, police chief, they made that announcement this morning when they kicked off the city's all hands on deck event. >> we do know that for them at the end of the summer, that crime, they typically pick up through the last few weeks of summer. so now they happen throughout the week. if i could prevent a violent crime on a tuesday or wednesday, well, i want to prevent it on the tuesday or wednesday.

>> this week, the hands on initiatives, they are coordinating with the hundreds of events, scheduled for tomorrow's national night out. and virginia, they are getting more than $36 million from the federal government and that money will go towards a variety of housing programs. that is including $19.6 million for the community development grants and $14.2 million for the investments and the partnerships and $7.2 million for the emergency shelters and almost $668,000 for the housing opportunities for people with hiv and aids. well, virginia's council for the higher education says money from the stimulus plan, they will help stay down the at public areas and the universities. a new report out today, showing that next year, the average tuition and the fees, they will go up about 5%. that translates to about $7,948 a year. that is for the 15 four-year schools. the tuition at the community colleges, they will also be $1,781 a year. that's 7.6% increase. >> nearly $8 million took the

advantage of the bill to get their college education. and today, president obama, they helped to celebrate the new version. >> we do this because it is not just to meet the moral obligations, to sacrifice greatly out there. on our behalf. and on behalf of the country. >> we do it because these men and women, they must now be prepared to lead our nation. in the peaceful pursuit of the economic leaderships in the 21st century. the program is opened to the u.s. vets who fought in iraq and afghanistan. the government expects to pay out $78 billion in the program over the next decade. and you can find out which local schools are taking part in the new g.i. bill at wusa9.com. just click on military right out on the newscast. >> students a few years younger, they went back to school out there at the elementary school today. and these schools, they operate a modified year round calendar. and now, as they found out, now, this unique education format,

there's not enough money. >> it's the first day of school the at dogwood elementary. one mom and part-time teach e -r says her kids are ready to go back. >> two weeks ago they were like i'm kind of over the pool. the fact they can have the year round learning, i believe they are learning more and retaining a lot more of what they are learning. >> reporter: at least for the past five years, the school in western virginia has run every nine weeks from august to june. in between, there are breaks lasting one to two weeks called intersessions. they may opt to attend the richmond and intermedial classes. >> we have a class offering the math, maybe a certain unit like geometry or number sense. >> reporter: despite the benefits, the principal says that a tighter school budget may signal this year to be the last for them to run on the modified calendar. the school system pays $2.6 million to run intersessions at the seven schools. >> when you are having a modified calendar for only seven

elementary schools, and there are so many more elementary schools, they have to look at all of those difficult choices of the pwupgt cuts and -- budget cuts. >> the the year right-hand schedules benefit their -- yearround benefits them learn. >> we were talking about possibly having to go to a regular calendar next year. if i have a regular job, it would cost me hundreds and hundreds of dollars to sen them into the camp -- send them into the camp or the adondial area. >> for nine news now and wusa9.com. >> the school officials, they save about 90,000 of the students that save them at the periods. so except for the longer breaks, they really are in class rearround -- yearround. >> they will weigh in on the two big transportation projects. starting their day at the metro, talking about the proposed metro line, collecting them to the area at the metro station. then, it's off on the marked train to baltimore to talk about those cities and the redline projects. the the governor's office says that they will be announcing

the plan roots for each line. well, humid but not all that hot today. >> yeah, actually, it's nice to have almost nothing to talk about, jerry. after an active week last week, a nice quiet start. that is this week di onmonday. there mpesureyteatth, are tht o bad. mid-80s as theyed bao g nt ie t. llg ck into the lo80s now. 83 degrees officially downtown. 82 out there. then i'm going to call it a comfortable night. dropping into the 60s in most areas. we don't expect any precipitation. the humidity will go up during the day on tuesday. temperatures, climbing into the upper 80s and low 90s over that stretch. there's a chance for some thunderstorms during the middle of the week as well. we'll talk about that and check the seven-day forecast when e come back in just a few minutes. >> thank you, tony. baby pictures can be found across the internet. coming up, one mother's warning after she found her son's image online. stkphr-frpblgs hout world of nascar is trying to go green. and i'll have that story coming up.

welcome back. 14 local post offices are on the list of 1,000 that could be closed to save the postal service some cash. the agency is struggling as fewer people send letters and businesses. now, here is how it breaks down. they are looking at a total of nine officers in d.c. nine in maryland and 19 in virginia. and that includes an office in rockville and one over there. and one in silver springs. the closest virginia branch in danger is the one out there. you #k see the whole list on wusa9.com. well, the web is turning to the go-to method of sharing your family news and photos. but one mom, they learned the hard way. we're all just a click away from the security problems. i saw that out there. and they all started when she pokes at her son's baby pictures on the family's blogs.

>> that is the 7-month-old, they were busy tasting toys when their mother got sauce peurbs e-mail. >> out of the blue. some girl, they e-mailed us and they said i think that you should know that someone, they are using their pictures in an adoption scam. >> it sounded hard to believe. but they did some investigating and they found this ad on craig's list. about a cute baby boy, available for adoption. but no pictures. so now, they e-mailed a list of the yahoo address and got this in her inbox. >> that's a picture that they send you 1 a picture of jake. it was horrifying. >> well, i never would have thought that in a million years that i would have the emotional reaction that i did. >> and the e-mail claimed her son is canadian born and living in an orphanage. she discovered if you hold that over their pucktures, shoeg the address for her family's blog.

>> even though that he's not harmed. i think in a way, he's being sort of violated. >> well, that expert says you should always be careful when you post pictures on the web especially with children and be careful not to post any photos. telling what school they give away or giving a birthday. there is a website out there too. sort of the google for pictures. they will look for it online and a link on our website. just click on links. well, coming up, running on empty. saving cash for clunkers. plus, tony is back with the full forecast. stick it right here. fafa ens adi t

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the house voted last week to give that initiative another $2 billion after the initial $1 billion fund that came close to just plain old running out. >> now, we were told that this program, theyed would last for several months as they turned out, running a lot of money in a week. now, we take another, well, $2 billion, they could take that program through september. and that it is a good thing. >> a good month that you'll do, well, $250 cars or so. that is 3 cars in a week. they are looking at what could be, this is 100 cars, easy this month. >> well, nearly a quarter million cars, sold in the first week of the cash for clunkers program. >> and regardless of the future, the program, they are seeing it. that is at least so far. and they have a program to help boost sales, 1.6% last month. compared to july, the year before. chrysler, they say that the program, they did not quite get into the box. but they did help keep sales steady at $1.9% -- 1.9%.

do you think that it sa good boost to get them out there? or just good money to go there? just maybe a waste of your tax dollars. and that is the hague bag on wusa9.com. we'll reach your responses today on the air tomorrow. >> and you may seem like a tremendous gas guzzler. but now, some of nascar's top drivers, they are looking at more than just a checkered flag. all right, they are showing us how they are living green. stphr-frpblgts nascar's image is not kpabtly green. but the racing individual is turning oh that newly release out there. >> kind of the fire breathing and the loud exhausts. you know, smoke, the kind of the atmosphere to enjoy the competition, still respecting the environment. >> the raceway, they just broke ground on what will become the the largest solar farm at any sports facility in the world. what used to be a parking lot, generating enough electricity for the racetrack and twice that much for the region.

>> we are underway. >> any time that they drop at their top racing series, they will plant trees, almost 20 acres a year to offset onthat carbon dioxide. they are stepping up the recycling program, refining, 180,000 gallons of used oil and used tires. >> you might change the tires on your cars every 30,000 miles or so. but the average nascar race, they are going through 2,000 tires every season. and those tires, they are now shredded and reused and the message is slowly reaching nascar's die hard fans. they have followed the sports for 30 years and they say that they are rubbing off. >> just the way that it is. whenever they do that, that's what nascar fans do. >> the driver, they say that nascar steps are just the beginning. >> there are 43 things to accomplish at lot. but the 70 million fans out there to do at lot more. >> for all the drivers, the need for speed is still paramount, but keeping it clean is now a part of the challenge.

for the record, they took the checkered flag in today's pennsylvania, that race was postponed yesterday because of the rain. well, some thieves, they must have thought that they were pretty slick when they patched the theme in las vegas. they installed that fake atm machine right outside the huge conference all weekend. the idea, taking huge amounts of cash from tourists by skimming their atm card numbers. unfortunately for the robbers, they also put that machine outside the largest conference of the hackers in the world. it didn't take long for them to notice that the atm had the wrong coloredded lights and the glass was too dark. now that machine is in the hands of the cops and the search is on for the crooks. you don't do the electronic fever yet in front of the group of computer geeks. >> right. they spotted that one. >> that's funny. >> the weatherwise, not much to talk about. what do you think? they were really active.

two nights when they produced the thunderstorms around the region. now a little break today. a nice quiet start to the workday. let's start with that trend first. the next couple of days, they will go up, along with the temperatures, making it to 91. tomorrow, the best chance for rain if you're planning, i believe, they will come in on wednesday. clear to partly cloudy skies for the rest of tonight. and pleasant. low temperatures, they will drop into the low 60s in some of the suburbs. that's really nice for the finning of august. up around 70 in the city, winds lite and variable, coming up at 8:17. during the day tomorrow, partly sunny skies. a slight chance for an afternoon thunderstorm. most of the day will be dry. with the high temperatures, they are between 88 and 93 degrees. right now, we do have a little bit of the cloud cover out there this evening. tired of seeing them out there. just the fair weather clouds. no precipitation. and to talk about that tonight. that's kind of nice. couple little showers, popping up over the beaches. but we're going to stay dry in the metro area. it will p fairly comfortable. they are in the lower end of the

60s. not bad. the dew point, 61. topping out there at nationals. 83, the temperature, producing the relative humidity in the comfortable range of 51%. and other temperatures, generally in the low to mid-80s in the warmer spot. but it's 86 out there. and 82 there at the naval air station. watch the little system coming in across the great lakes. this is really just a piece of upper level energy to swing through here in the afternoon tomorrow. that'll give us our slight chance for a thunderstorm. but there's a stronger front behind that which will come through on wednesday. then as we head towards the end of the week, a difficult call with the temperatures. that is the jet stream, they will move a little further to the north. and some hot air, they will move in out of the southeast. but we'll be right on the edge between the two air masses. that could mean a couple of thunderstorms. but it also means that the temperatures, the forecast, they could be, you know, either way, off by a little bit. we'll go 90 here. but i wouldn't be surprised over the weekend if you wound up in the mid-90s. they move to the south. we could easily wind up in the

low-80s. just playing in the middle right now, near 90s into the weekend. once again, the best chance for rain this week will come up on wednesday. thursday and friday, looking fairly quiet at this point -fp -l so now, you know, we'll see what happens this weekend. we could get the first real heat wave of the season. or we could wind up with 82, 83 degrees. kind of hard to tell right now. >> that's a big range. >> yes. >> so i have left the door open for lots of things. >> all right, thank you. from the weird news, let me know sometimes in the heat of the summer, your hands don't have enough support. they feel kind of naked out there. >> yes, they do. tired of chasing the gloves. try this one. >> well, they are amazing, aren't they? they are light, comfortable. giving your index finger just that touch of support and confidence. we found this on youtube. maybe usually a box or that

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well organizers, they are postponing a homecoming celebration for michael vick, the southern leadership conference center has planned on celebrating the homecoming on saturday. but vick told him that he has a commitment to the humane society that same day. we don't know the nature of that event yet. just one more, one more question about the return of michael vick who after serving two years in prison now had some commissions to get hissed old job if he can in the nfl. they say that there is something wrong with this picture. just watch 60 minutes and i'm confused as to why drunk drivers who kill humans get less time in prison than michael vicks serving for dog fighting charges. i love my dog, but i'm just asking why. well, the heart of your question goes to intent. drunk and drivers are guilty, certainly of wrecklessly bad decision making, but most of them were just trying to get

home. they didn't mean to hit anybody. and vick on the other hand, ebb joyed what -- enjoyed what he was doing, doing it over and over againment putting a side to balance, human like verses dog like, it's a different sort of crime. and now, that is vick who wants to know if there is something different. and the point of attire is raised. every evening when you watch your show, there's a gentleman who stepped in from the camera behind the scenes. walking over to your anchor desk and talks to you and whoever else is sitting with you as the broadcast end. we get to see a full view of the standing gentleman with his big polo shirt and jeans. if he'll be on camera, can he wear a suitable attire or a uniform? >> well, really, a uniform? don't you remember being 22 or 23 years old, walking in an entry level job, having little money and just trying to make it. and you want to put on a tie for 10 seconds on camera? let's be real. there will be plenty of suits and ties in their future. in the meantime, let them enjoy

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