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no big deal. >> talk about intimidation tactics tar and feathering property destruction all kinds of things like that i don't advocate any of that. >> reporter: he does believe in intimidation as a tactic and writes about it in one of his blogs. he and his wife read healthcare bills at their leisure. >> my job could be in jeopardy. do they understand why people are offended? >> yeah, i mean of course we would never physically do that to somebody. >> reporter: but would samuels do it again. >> yes, i would have no equal qualms of doing it again. i got e-mails about the lynching thing and all that. >> reporter: senator ben car

died will be in salaries burrito hold a healthcare forum for invitation only crowd. >> congressman chris van holland put out a installment condemning hanging effigys of federal lawmakers. he won't be just warming a seat on capitol hill. martinez is resigning to go back home. he announced last december he will not be running for a second term. the republican governor charlie chris will name a replacement but will not take the seat himself. he was already one of the candidates in next year's election. sonia sotomayor will be sworn in tomorrow as the 111th justice to the supreme court. justice john roberts will administer the oath. he will be sitting in the judicial oath before a small

gathering of friends and family. the senate confirmed her yesterday. after a .32 year ban d. c. residents can lawfully keep guns that their homes. the attorney who took that case to the supreme court wants to be able to carry his gun on the street. >> reporter: attorney allen gur a a may have his hands more than the supreme court if this new law goes into effect. the d. c. council has the say how laws are regulated on the street. >> i don't believe that you'd find wide spret support on the council. >> reporter: d. c. councilman david ca tanya it would become a hurdle for any proposed expansion of d. c.'s gun laws. >> you ought to be able to carry guns throughout an urban area like this even more dangerously you ought to be able to carry concealed weapons. >> reporter: more than a few people on the streets of the

northwest mirror his point of it view. >> we have plenty of good people carry guns if you take it off the streets entirely i think you are more effective in controlling crime. >> reporter: do you feel it's less safe on the streets than the streets in germany. >> yes. some parts of of the city, yes. i would feel very unsecure here. >> reporter: david ca tanya is looking beyond this latest suit to next year's argument or the year after that. >> this issue is not particularly settle ldz by the supreme court. so we have inherent police powers of a statute here in the district of columbia that have been delegated to us by congress. >> reporter: ca tanya also says his bigger concern at the moment is d. c. borders. he said historically guns have flooded into the district from maryland and virginia but we're at a 40 year low for d. c.'s

murder rates he would like to see it stay that way. an drew, thanks very much. there is a link between the massacres of virginia tech and northern illinois university and an man who killed 3 and many sodini also sold weapons to the virginia tech and northern illinois shooting. that company tgfcom incorporated issued a statement calling sodini a socially stunted mad man. muhammad was sentenced to death masterminding if ?iewp era tack in 2002. muhammad and his accomplice killed 10 people in the fall of 02. malvo got the life sentence. eunice kennedy shriver sister of john of f kennedy is

in the hospital. they have gathered at her side at cape cod hospital. her son-in-law california governor arnold schwarzenegger is also reportedly there. she lived in potomac for decades she also founded the special olympics. we know there are major problems with the water system in the district. problems that could hamper the efforts of firefighters doing their job. proof of that last week when the home of former school board president burned down. firefighters said there wasn't enough pressure in the lines to get water on the flames. a report was released confirming the problem. >> the hydrants do not put out enough water to be able to combat a fire of that size. >> the mayor says there are other areas of the stip with similar water pressure woes, but officials don't know exactly where they all are. they say they will test neighborhood by neighborhood to find the trouble spots. metro says it is working hard to fix the track circuits

on the red line and that women mean more delays for us when we ride the rails. metro plans to replace ought all of the circuits between taco ma stations over the next month. that is where we know a crash killed 9 people and injured 70 more back in june. starting tonight the trains will share a single track between those two stations every night after 10:00 p.m. that work is just the first in a long line of starts in the next few days for metro riders. belt way drivers and tyson's corner commuters. don't worry we're here to help you navigate around it all. trains are using a single track on red line between medical center and friendship high station. crews are working on tunnel repairs there. they are using one track on the orange line between the west falls uva station. those repairs are scheduled to wrap up by sunday midnight. crews are changing a switch at the pentagon station. the trains will share one track

through that station between 10:00 and midnight from sunday to thursday. metro is suggesting you leave yourself an extra half hour to 45 minutes if you have to travel through any of those projects. now to the roads starting tomorrow v dot will enpetlrmany e oscly a section in the piewp through 123. etheyxpect to have a new pattn inth place by is this is part of a plan to exs ndtro ought tolls dues. k that's quite duenough w here's one mere. monday renight a year long repausing proje will start onthe belt way. traffic wi reduced to one lane between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. week days. it will also be one lane between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. sundays and thursdays. you can stay ahead of the word work at wusa9.com. an update tonight on the

state of the wilderness battlefield in orange county, virginia. now you may recall the fight over wal-mart's plan to build 138,000 square foot supercenter right near this civil war battlefield. nut we're hearing the central virginia battlefield trust just secured the rights to buy 93 acres of that battlefield in question. that section is right near the intersections of routes 3 and 20. we're hearing the land being preserved is south of that intersection while wal-mart wants to build northwest. orange county's board of supervisors will hear a hearing august 24th on the wal-mart proposal. history lessons may get trumped by health this school year. we'll look at plans to keep the flu in check. after a beautiful friday we're going to turn up the heat over the weekend. we'll show you the 7-day forecast in just a few minutes we'll take you the ea k br r pe60d s anlow 70s. 73 downtown. 64 in monday as sus weather is

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s. %c1. good evening everyone. i'm tony pan it's going to get hot over the weekend. mini heat wave coming up on sunday and monday. we'll make the transition tomorrow into the heat upper 80

to around 90 on saturday with maybe a thunderstorm. on sunday and monday the actual temperature will be in the mid-90s and the heat index will approach a hundred both days. i don't think i have said it yet this summer a little unusual for us in the summer of 2009. tonight it's still very nice. partly to mostly cloudy skies pleasant conditions. temperatures going to drop to near 60 in some of the cooler suburbs. mid to upper 60s in the city. we're going to stay dry even though the clouds have increased tomorrow there is a slight chance for shower or thunderstorm at any time during the day. not just in the afternoon. but i'd still only put a 30% mark on it. that means there's a 70% chance it won't rain to start the weekend. upper 80s to around 90. south wind at 10 to 15 miles per hour. here's the weather set up. we've got high pressure off to our northwest and that's keeping us dry but you notice a big increase in the cloud cover. the debris left over some thunderstorms that developed in the great lakes . we set the loop back here you can see the

storms go through the chicago area head to detroit bump into the air of high pressure and they fall apart. that disturbance may make it in here with a couple of showers in the morm a thunderstorm developing in the afternoon but generally dry conditions to start the weekend. 73 at the top of the hour national airports look at the dew point only 48. very comfortable. that produces a relative humidity of 55%. temperatures in the 60s out west. 66 in winchester, 68 at bwy. if we expand the view we see heat in the plain states. 86 in kansas city but only 67 in chicago. obviously there's a boundary and that warm front is going to make it through tomorrow. that jet stream will push up to the north and get into the heat by sunday. as we make that transition again there's that slight chance for a shower or thunderstorm. the 7-day forecast looks like this. the two hot days or sunday and monday. 95 with heat index near a hundred. another front comes in monday

and tuesday. the heat goes bye-bye. high temperatures will be in the mid 80s by the middle of next week high near 86 on wednesday. so, that's been the case for most of the summer. you know, it comes to visit for a day or two and that's it. it's gone. >> that's not bad. >> i don't think you can call this a heat wave. >> thanks tony. >> well, an autopsy shows cocaine use contributed to the death of t. v. pitchman billy mace. the 50-year-old bearded tv personality died of a heart attack in his sleep after going to bed at his home in tampa the night of june 27th. that medical examiner's report is out and it says mace may have used cocaine just a few days before he died, and that it did contribute to the heart disease that ultimately killed him. in living well tonight gearing up to go back to school with the threat of h1n1 flu. today the federal government announced new guidelines to help curtail outbreaks in the nation's classrooms. they include cover your cough

wash your hands frequently. keeping children ill children from school. if your child gets sing they can head back to class 24 hours after the fever breaks. >> there are so p.m. event waments we can't map for. we can't plan for when the wave of influenza will come. we can't plan for the severity and we can't plan for when the vaccine will be ready or how much there will be. >> the c cd hopes to have the h1n1 vaccine ready to go by mid october, but school starts as know in the next few weeks. you can learn more about the fed ram response plan at wusa9.com. click on living well. virginia state police are investigating a deadly fire at a boy scoucamp scinvirginia. this happened gh t innit at camp shenandoah in augusta county. fire got going in a building that houses the camp's trading post. the victim was an adult. the authorities have not yet released a name. 107 scouts were at that camp when the fire start.

no word on exactly how it started. well, summer camp is one right of sum. yard sales are yet another. >> if you like to haggle over one man's trash which could be your treasure welcome to the world's longest yard sale. every year bargain hunters flock to five states worth of bargains to see what they can find. >> we left yesterday to drive up we were going to part way n. o coit >> 664 miles of rdmiles of >> it thh ugstrowe vi rougwest virginia, kentucky and tennessee in between. it end on sunday. you know tennessee is a long way off maybe i'll skip that one. but now a lot of redskins fans looking forward to the big scrimmage tomorrow thinking they want to see their favorite

players. >> to me i think that's a good came why waste a guy when it doesn't count. let's let him get hurt when it counts. it's been that kind of camp. better to be safe than to be entertaining. that is jim zorn's philosophy. we'll tell you who's in and who's out for the dress rehearsal. another reason to lauat the cowboys. you'at the cowboys. you'llant to see this. 9 sports coming up. ysi=

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the skins would like to see the starts jim zorn says the best way he can show appreciation is keeping the stars healthy. most of his big names will sit out the dress rehearsal. jason campbell will play and zorn says it's still going to be a good show. >> we're going to hold out certain veterans not based on injury just based on we don't need to see them scrimmage, but there's a lot of guys that we do, a lot of guys are fired up about finally getting to really have a live rep and we've see how it goes. >> gates open at 12:00, scrimmage at 2:00. usa preseason coaches pole tim tebow and the gators number one in the land. texas usc virginia techs 7. maryland and navy got two votes in the pole. if you're into long, drawn

out baseline points, this not going to be your match. andy roddick against' vo cod such. roddick on tour 614. quarterfinals in rock creek park. andy got out aceed in this match 13-7. but he served insanely well. 74% and had that backhand pass working again. andy won the first set in the breaker n. the second how about a little chip charge. there's the chip, there's the charge and there's the stab volley for winner. roddick advances to the semis tomorrow. tommy hoff taking on chilly chile fernando gonzalez. good tickets still available in the park. someone it seems has

replaced our loveable laugh able nationals with a different baseball team a month ago when they would be 5 nothing they would lose 10 nothing. now they are down 5 nothing and win 7-6. hosting the d-backs. night nightmare for collin bar is ter. cue the come back. ryan summer man he is so hottie may responsible spontaneously imuft come bust. the nats win their 6th street. somebody break these guys up. hoops tonight. mystics hosting the detroit shock only two players in double figures. elaina beer was one of them. they are now 11-9 would be the two seed in the east. when people talk about the four major american sports they are referring to football,

baseball, basketball and hockey. but you go to fed ex field this sunday and watch 70,000 people show up for the dc united game against real real madrid. they were named by see tampa as the number one global football club of the century. they won euro cups. 31 spanish league finals. they have two best players in the world. but united says bring it. >> it's going to be a real treat to go against guys like that and for people, you know, especially our fans, to see them play and to see us compete against them. >> finally tonight we'd laugh no matter who this was. their rookies hazed today with hair cuts that appear to simulate male pattern

baldness. that's a little number called the shark fin. i'm just saying. >> that's some hazing there. >> you know, you can mess with guys in a lot of ways but when you mess with their hair, that's cruel. >> is it okay if i laugh at real madrid having i player named ca ca. >> you don't say ca ca. you say ca ca. >> when you laugh at his 130 million-dollar contract. >> there you go. >> that in perspective. coming up a national music competition. up next a national musical competition where the musicians don't play a note. check it out. we'll be right back. b@fa

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all over the country flew into the nation's capitol to compete for the u. s. championship. the winner will represent if united states at the air guitar world championship in finland later this month. in washington this is for wusa9.com. lots of leo tardz going on there. >> this competition is still going so we don't really have a winner yet. >> if you're going to wear the pink leo tarred, something underneath would be good. i'm just saying. it was friendly advice. >> it's hard to disagree with th. >> i don't think anybody disagrees. i hope you're not watching in high def. >> we got to go. >> good night. (mom) i'm not going to be able to see her every day.

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