hawaii toe -- hi tony. >> yeah, the same temperatures expected on monday. but first this afternoon, the high temperatures, they are 96 today. and the national airport, that was not a record. the record of 102 set back in 1930. the average high temperatures, 87. and well, i do believe that we're going to have a dry monday morning commute. it'll be hot with the high temperatures expected on monday. once again, that will be near 100. the record high tomorrow at national is 98. and set back in 1943. so now that's a little more out there. i don't think we're going to break that record, but we'll come close and of course the air quality will be in the range. there is a chance for a couple of thunderstorms on monday afternoon -z a well.

but a stronger chance later on in the week. that's going to take care of the heat and move it out. we'll let you know when that happens when i come back. and for now, we'll send it inside for bruce. >> thank you, tony. we are continuing to follow that deadly midair collision above the hudson river. divers, they have suspended their search tonight. earlier today, they recovered seven bodies. nine people died yesterday after a small plane and a sightseeing helicopter collided in new york and new jersey. earlier this evening, crews located the helicopter wreckage. tomorrow, they will continue to look for the plane. the water is murky and the current is strong which makes it tough for the divers to see underneath. the top priorities for them is reconstructing the accident sequence. and according to at least one aviation expert, the faa, they could have prevented the tragedy. >> they could make them operate at the lower altitude than them coming through the area. if you're at different

altitudes, you'll never have anything like that. and just like that, the department of transportations, releasing their relief on the safety of the on demand flight industry. according small planes and they found that in 2007 that began in 2008, commercial air carriers, they had no enger death. contrasts duriha ng thenpadeath odntrasts during that same ripe, there l faonta er33fatal demand accidents that resulted in 199 people being killed. at the freeway airport in mitchellville, maryland, pilots practiced a simple rule to avoid the tragedies that just crashed over the hudson. it's a visual flight rule that you could see and avoid. most of the pilots we have talked to, they say that it is a rule that works well out there to keep pilots and passengers safe. >> i feel confident that it is enough. but there is always that one crazy circumstance where two planes could be in each other's blind spots and they'll never see anything coming until they hit. so it is never 100%.

>> it's exactly what you do when you're out on the road. you see and avoid other cars. as long as everybody does what they are suppose to do, it is more than safe. you're safer flying a car than you are driving to the airport. >> the pilots use tools and instruments such as radars to detect the other aircrafts nearby. the aircraft owners say is that in the past 10 years, there were 70 small aircraft collisions. the county virginia man is killed and a 17-year-old daughter is injured when their homemade rc airaftcrashed into ke. the state police say thththr e plane appeared to have lost power and then crashed about 100 fsrdhos ofrerein e tycoth dae er idas being treatemary a hospital. federal otyfeictyia, lsthey , are investigating the cause of this crash. we have breaking news at this hour. a metro worker is instruct by a vehicle used to perform

maintenance. it happened just over an hour ago on the orange line between the west fall search and the metro station. the spokesperson tells nine news now tonight that the worker, they were air lifted to the hospital. the service between i have yen that and the church -- vienna and the church have been spotted. they are arranging that for passengers at those stations. meanwhile, metro told the national transportation safety board just last week about a march of two metro trains due to a failure of the automatic train control system. and the story in the washington post today, they paint a picture of the close call saved by the quick thinking of the train operator. but they are telling us that tonight, metro believes that the incident has no connection to june's crash on the redline. in a story the washington post said that the day was saved by a train operator who hit the emergency stop session when they overran the platform at the avenue. and an internal report called the march 2 incident because

the train, they had only 500 feet from a train in front of it. the problem turned out to be a bad relay in one of the older series, the 1,000 rail cards. while the june 22 crash, also just focusing on the automatic train patrol system. the problem in that incident appears to be the circuits on the rail. metro's chief of safety makes this point in an e-mail article ng to thpost saying that this was an isol emnt acofplwhentht replacement of one component, that proved to be the edneed fix. this incide, thntey separate and apart frju ne 22 22 accident. the two incidents are not related. >> as you can imagine, hearing yet about another instance involving the metro automatic train system is not sitting well with a lot of riders. >> yeah, i do worry about it. >> i'm kind of scared. they should always be involved and know about that to be well informed of anything that could be life threatening. >> metro's response doesn't mention that the train operator apparently prevented a collision and does not address the issue of failing to notify the incident until last week.

i need more money so that they could do what they need to do. from what i have seen, they do what they can do with the funds that they have. >> i'm having an optimistic attitude, but you know, you want to be cautious. >> nine news now on wusa9.com. they immediately investigated the march incident and dispute the washington post claiming that the trains were dangerously close. u.s. mailboxes, they are disappearing from the street corners across the country because of the postal service, they say that they are not sending enough letters. in an effort to curve the $7 billion loss this year, the postal service says that they will get rid of mailboxes averaging less than 25 pieces of mail each day. >> the same as any other corporation out there or business. we're trying to reduce our cost to better other areas of the postal service. we don't send letters, we don't write the letters like we used to. >> they rely on letters and diaries to reconstruct the past. in what we're talking about are

these letters, they won't exist in the future. >> in addition to the mailboxes, the postal service is looking to close 700 post offices, being considered that their friendship, they are hiding the post office and the deer with the post office out there in the silver spring center post office. that is nearly 1,000 cars that have been sold in the past 30 days. there are no more hybrids left. they need to close it had weekend because they ran out of cars. vehicles are now being sold on good faith because they are still awaiting the government funds from the cash for clunkers program. >> well certainly you have an impact on the profitability. we're counting on the money to come in. you need to have faith on the government. if you don't have the government, then what do you have? >> two groups that are not seeing a big increase under the cash for clunkers program. and the used car dealerships in the auto repair shops.

president barack obama, they are in mexico tonight with the meeting for them during the two-day session. the three leaders, they are expected to discuss the economy on the h1n1 flu epidemic coming up with the joint plan for them handling the cases during the upcoming north america flu season. the healthcare reform debate is getting hotter and uglier. they were out on full force in the new community care center for the poor in north austin, texas. they are calling the legislation socialism and some have gone so far as to the group president. the obama area and hitler is the agenda. i put the ward nazi on it because i believe the bill has seen the healthcare and i think that any time you decide that they are out there, it is a form of the selective breathing, they are uninformed. i think that they are afraid of what they don't know and what they don't understand.

the republican parties, they are doing it best to promote that kind of ignorance. and the propaganda that keeps people in fear. >> well, if you think that it was heated there, then check out this scene at the healthcare town hall meeting in des moines, iowa this afternoon. >> it reads like something that was brought up in the early 1930s in germany. it is not good on this free country. >> a lot of the people that were here, they have no clue in making comments that, you know, sure, they are going to be afraid. because people's live styles are going to change. >> i think a lot of the fear is being stoked by those who don't want to change the system. >> even though that tempers flared. the senator said that the meeting went well and that people have legitimate concerns these days. still ahead on nine news now, the high-tech worlds that are saving lives by keeping local police officers out of harm's way. plus, the nine lives of them. we have a preview of the new hbo

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members of congress and the black status quo. >> no one is going to put me out either. >> because that is the reason. >> the documentary, the ne lives, they have their moments. and there is a good effort to exam how he got himself elected into every political effort that they saw. >> thank you. >> and how he was elected mayor for the forth term after serving up the prison sentence for the cocaine election. >> like they thought. >> that was it. >> the most moving element in the piece is the interview with the late area. >> i'm just sitting there in a state of shock because well, i don't know this man. >> the former mayor discuss their drug use, but nothing deep. no revealing personal inventory taken by barry. >> i was snorting cocaine and i said to myself, i'm not that typical kind of cocaine user, i just do a little bit of everything. and they need to move that way.

>> at a time, you don't know what you're doing. and i didn't know what i was doing. and you're using cocaine to pick you up and you can't, you know, you can't relax immediately. and they started taking the volumes back out there. >> they are calling the hbo documentary, the most balanced coverage that they have gotten from them. and the promotion and the women and minorities, they are awarding them. and they are still covered in that dock. what isn't there is their recent trouble with the irs. and that is their next girlfriend, the contract, they are now the subject of that council investigation. they are scheduling a lot of fun tomorrow morning on nine news. and you know, hbo, the documentary. >> for now, the planning director, they are giving up their county credit card. and the officials say that they have repaid the expenses that ought to just claim that were wrongly charged to the county in an internal artist, found that they provided adequate

documentations for them. and the officials. that is the 16 cent gallon for them according to the national survey. that is the average price of the regular gasoline, $2.64. experts say that is still $1.20 less per gallon at the same time last year. the scarerer moments -- scary moments for passengers aboard of a northwest airline flight in raleigh, california -- north carolina. a suspected bird strike caused the plane's engine to burst into flames. headed to minnesota with 153 people on board. the captain shut down the plane's left engine and landed safely at raleigh-durham international airport. one of the passengers was the 14-year-old and he is headed to summer camp. >> a whole bunch of people started screaming, fire. i look over and i open my

window and i see this huge flame coming from the engine. >> now, we thought for sure that it could have exploded at any second. it came directly overhead. the pilot shut the engine off, left wing drop. friday, he leveled it out. about three times we saw him do that. so i don't know who was flying that plane, but it was a heck of a pilot. >> the cabin mates told us to get into crash positions and the pilot, he turned off the engines and he was very calm. he did a very good job. >> no one was hurt, northwest airlines says that they are conducting an internal investigation into the engine's malfunction. in california, a stolen car fleeing from police runs a stop sign and slams into a pickup truck. tonight, four children, riding in that pickup, they are dead, along with all three people in the stolen vehicle. and it happened just outside california. the don neon was stolen 10 miles from where the crash came in. a fifth child was air lifted to the hospital with major

injuries. we're told that the children, they are ranging in age from 1 to 7 years old. the children's parents, they were hurt in that crash. tonight, they are hospitalized. every day, police officers, they put their lives on the line. but it's nice when they don't have to. and that is going to allow them and the bomb squad robot. the digital correspondents, they are telling us that they used to do that more than they realized. >> they are high-tech robots. the county bomb squads, they say they use an average of 300 times a year of life-threatening events. recently, they dispatched one of their robots in the standoff in mcchain. three people, they were inside the home including the gunman. the robots are designed for just such a crisis. >> we don't have to worry about it dying. where as a person, we do. officers can give it specific commands such as in this demonstration, it's picking up a book bag. capable of so much more. >> we're specific on what they are going to do, where they are going to come from and what they are going to do. >> when communications break

down, the robot can be instrumental. >> hey, this robot is not going to come and grab me and take me to jail, you know, i just want to talk. and a lot of the times if we can just communicate and talk to someone, we can work out the differences that they have. >> the robot is an invaluable tool with audio and visual capabilities. but they also have limitations and can't replace an actual officer in the field. usually weather, snow, ice, that type of stuff. we're going to have problems with any type of robot. >> last month's standoff lasted 24 hours and ended tragically with the shooter turning on himself. the other two people inside, including a young child walked out safely. in fairfax county, nine news now and wusa9.com. the robot cost about $240,000. they are paid for with the federal grant money. keep it right here on the o forecang mico nmit.ex t.

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forecast. >> should we be expecting that? >> i think that you said it right there. the typical summer for the middle of august. and that is for what? because we are used to it for now. we have not had any day like that. >> right. >> i guess that it is a little shock in the system. and i guess that in june or july when you get that first real heat wave, people, they are really reacting to it. >> yes, absolutely right. normally i like the heat, but i felt like today, they had a blanket over their head. >> like walking into a wet blanket. >> yes, a thick sponge. you feel it, you feel the humidity. and it has not been like that. and a little bit of a shock. i guess that is the system. we're going to do it tomorrow and one more day. but well, you're not going to stick around for very long. this whole summer if we do get the hot days, they will stick around for a day or so. i think that it will happen for them and by wednesday, we'll make that transition and we'll see a chance for some showers and thunderstorms. more on that day in just a second. clear to partly cloudy skies in just a second.

it'll be dry for the monday morning commute. you don't have to worry about thunderstorms. we have had them around earlier they knowing. temperatures in the 70s and obviously, well, it'll be uncomfortable overnight tonight. during the day tomorrow, partly sunny, hazy. a chance for an afternoon thunderstorm and putting a 30% mark on that. the heat index is up 100 degrees. the actual temperatures will be in the mid-90s. right now, still 94 degrees downtown at this late hour with the temperature at 68. that's why it feels so thick and comfortable. most spots in the upper 70s. still 84 out there. 75 at bwi and 81 degrees at the top of the hour. and here is the weather setup. we have the high pressure to the west and the warm front that came through yesterday, delivering the warm air. the thunderstorm was firing along that front all day today. we talk about the cluster of storms coming down pennsylvania. moving 50 miles per hour. and it missed the metro area but hammered the beaches in the western shore. but things, they are quiet now. no problem tomorrow morning.

this next front will come in on tuesday with the scattered showers and thunderstorms to get rid of the heat. before we get to the seven-day forecast, you want to check out that, no tropical development up until this point. but a big wave just came off of africa here near the island. and this has a good chance of developing into a tropical storm. if it does, then its name will be anna and the first one of the season. kind of late in the season to get rid of that seven-day forecast. a chance for a thunderstorm in the better chance for thunderstorms that are on tuesday. and that front will get rid of the heat. that will be some lingering storms on wednesday and high temperatures that will fall back in the mid-80s by the end of the week. we'll get a stretch of dry comfortable weather on thursday and friday and saturday. but big time heat today and tomorrow. and maybe a tropical storm out there in the atlanta for the first time this season sometime next week. >> where has the summer gone? it is going quickly, huh? >> yes, a preview ni sports plus. stay sports plus. stay with us. fa

you know, we are always busy on the plus. but i'm not overselling it. tonight, we're crazy packed starting with the redskins, the scrimmage this weekend, doing little to settle the issues. and they are join us to talk about who is poised to break out and who is facing a make it or break it season as they complete their 10th day of practice. for many, that means pushing through those nagging pain. >> if i'm going to go, i'll sprint. it's not about holding back. and i hate sitting out here, on the sidelines, worse than being out here in the hot sun and i would rather be doing that. >> thank you. they can hang with the best team in the world, at least for about 56 minutes, they can, after that, things got dicey for the black and red as you can see them scoring a trio of goals late in the game for that 3-0 game. and they are taking us to the fedex field for the soccer madness. and forget the yankees, forget the dodgers.

at this very moment, the nationals, they are the hottest team in the league. and the gays, they won -- guys, they won their 8th straight. the longest streak in the majors now with the 9-2 win other arizona. but why is this team saying good-bye to them? we'll explain that and have that story. and forget the football fields. the hardest hit this week was dished out by them on that area. all a part of the good, the bad, and exactly, the ugly. that's coming up next on sports plus. it's kind of a cheap shot. >> yeah. >> all right. what does it look like out there? >> one more time, tomorrow, up around 96 again with the heat index near 100. just be prepared for that. a dry monday morning commute. maybe a thunderstorm in the afternoon. a better chance for thunderstorms on tuesday. okay, well, thank you for watching. next nine news now, tomorrow morning, they are beginning at 4:55 a.m. and sports plus is next. have a great week. ówlaóo

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