out of them. >> good morning. it is great to be back and to see you. it is almost 00 's. ree hethwe 00ather. it is a bit muggy e.ts a outsid t ouout there. it is 76. yeah. leighsburg 82. it could be city erckki and tcrse. hing the satellite-radar combined. a little later today, definitely bethe afternoon, you folks in western maryland, we will be firing up the storms. we are working on 93. good morning. >> good morning. we are working on keeping you posted. hold on. just had an issue with my earring. excuse me. this car fire on 95 northbound. here's the situation at powder mill. we have an accident blocking the right lane. crews are on the scene. please use caution heading this way. take it to the outer loop where we see plus five minutes to make it from university to georgia avenue. on 66 eastbound, this is not an incident-free commute so far.

right now we are definitely slowing down approaching the fairfax county parkway and we have a disabled vehicle pushed to the right shoulder. moving on to 395, tracking minor slow down that is starting to set in from duke to seminary and then finally wrap it up with a drive through the district. here's inbound new york avenue and it is checking out great from the times building to bladensburg toward florida and beyond. andrea, over to you. get ready for another day of dangerously hot weather. cooling stations and pools around the area are ready for the influx of people trying to beat the heat. 9 news now digital correspondent, armando trull is one of the first in line at the wilson aquatics center in northwest washington. good morning. >> good morning, andrea. in fact, i am the first in line. the stores have just opened but so far the only people inside are the people who work there. they are a little bleary eyed because the pool opened three hours earlier than normal. it is one of the ways the district is trying to help people who are trying to beat the heat. >> i really want to be an ice

cube today. >> no kidding. the temperature hit the century mark yesterday and while today won't be as hot you may still want to be an ice cube because the mercury will be in the the low to middle 90s if you are doing anything like this outdoors, drink plenty of water and pace yourself. >> i'm not pushing myself too much. so i feel it is pretty safe. >> reporter: many pools are keeping longer hours. >> they will be extending pool hours from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at 13 hoe cases in the district. >> reporter: there are alternative ways to cool off at many parks and outdoor venues. and i can't recollect a couple of reminders for folks if you are staying home, make sure you run the air conditioning today. if you don't have air conditioning make sure the windows are open and fans running and if your home is still too warm you have options. go to the cooling centers in the district and other municipalities they are

offering, go to a mall, public library they offer safe, secure cool spots where you can have drinking water and facilities and a place to rest and don't forget, pets and children are susceptible to extreme weather. so do not leave them in a locked vehicle and make sure they have plenty of fresh water. reporting live, armando trull for 9 news now and wusa9.com. ever cross the bay bridge when traffic is running in both directions on one span? it gives a lot of drivers the white knuckle sweats. for a year now, aaa has been urging maryland to end two-way traffic on the bridge span. a year ago a young woman feel asleep at the -- asleep at the wheel. a truck flew off the bridge killing the driver. >> the authority still uses two- way traffic on the bridge without the barriers needed to separate the traffic. so that you have this very small margin of error. if someone comes across the

lane you have a potential crash like last year at this time. >> aaa says 70% of all crashes on the bay bridge occur when a single span is carrying two-way traffic. today friends of a leesburg man are coming to grthipwawis his sudden death. investigators believe that carter delany was fatally mauled by his two pit buwi terriers. answer autopsy will determine what happened but his injuries appear to be related to a dog attack. his body was found side of his home. right now the dogs are held by animal control. someone out there has brought animal cruelty to a new low. here's the victim of that cruelty. someone stuck this pit bull pup in a plastic bag and sealed the opening with duct tape. they threw her in a dumpster behind an apartment building in southeast dc but the pup managed to chew open a hole and stick her head out. neighbors heard her and called police. animal control took in the dog

and discovered even more abuse. >> whether or not it was a dog fight or she was attacked by dog she has puncture wounds all over her head and neck. >> what a good girl. >> reporter: they are trying to find out who did this. officers named the pup trooper and vets are amazed at how well she is recovering and how gentle she is considering her ordeal. an update on problems that continue to plague metro. metro says it told the ntsb about a march incident where a train overran a platform. it happened after the automatic train control system malfunctioned at the potomac avenue station. the "washington post" reported the ntsb didn't find out until last week. today, the ntsb confirmed metro did tell investigators promptly after the june collision between two trains. >> our records indicate that an employee notified the ntsb on june 23rd, the day after the accident at fort totten.

>> reporter: metro says because the incident on march 2nd happened at low speeds this was not a close call as the post reported. the train operator prevented a collision with the train about 500 feet away by hitting the emergency stop button. an unrelated incident, this one deadly, has led to metro to order a safety stand down. a unack worker was hit and killed ba avgrel spreader sunday on e orange line. the safety stand down means for the next four days most feackers will focus saon ty procedures and put maintenance work on hold. metro said this should not affect passenger service. it is time for another living smart report. and those overdraft fees the banks are charging you are proving profitable but it is at your expense. jessica doyle is here to show how to avoid these fees and plus, facts and figures on how much is being spent on publicity for the president's health care reform plan. >> talk about waste. we are talking about the issue

of waste on health care. the industry is wasting $1.2 trillion a year, half of the total 2.2 trillion that the u.s. spends a year. the findings come as part of the latest report from price pre icwaterhouse cooper wh nts as waste, the report identified 16 areas but the term maybe in the eye the beholder. they e cited doctors dering too many tests. st is idsa ortohecost t system $210 billion a year. doctors argue that testing is a medical necessity. critics say that doctors are ordering tests to prevent possible lawsuits or to increase their own income. good news for struggling local mortgage giant fannie mae and freddie mac. they aren't penny stocks anymore. freddie mac hit 25 cents in september. now it is 1.69 after reporting the first profitable quarter in two years. fannie mae also rose as much as 50% to a dollar a share. big banks are making money

hand over fist on fees. when you bounce a check the industry will collect $38.5 billion in overdraft fees this year. the average fee is up to $26 this year and larger banks are 5. ehe $3 r chnkking r account to id yeci an overline line of credit and you will draw on those funds if your checking goes to zero and you won't bounce a check. remember to repay from your new deposits in to your checking account. no more bounced check fees. >> please, they are high, aren't they? >> yes. time to check on maryland's weather. we go to kim martucci. >> good morning. every morning at this time at 6:08 we focus on maryland's weather. virginia you are coming up in the next 20 minutes. so let's get started. the satellite-radar loop. thunderstorms are held at bay but western maryland will be the first to see the storms fire up probably by noon. as we look to the north and

west, hagerstown, you are probably the coolest location because you have increasing cloud cover and thunderstorm threat first. that's why the 89 for you. urbana 91. take you to mechanicsville, partly cloudy most of the day, 93. your thunderstorms a little later in to the evening but you folks in gaithersburg, certainly by the mid afternoon and high of 92 with the weather comes the traffic for maryland. angie is on the duty. >> hello, kim. hello, everybody. real quick want you to know southbound on the bw parkway that's where we have an accident. it is right at 175. we know that it is off to the right shoulder. we are opening the cameras and show you the east west highway at colesville road. turning it on. looks like zero traffic and finally another shot of local roads for you. shady grove and 355. looks like everybody is free flowing. that's a quick look at traffic. now over to andrea. it may be tough to get up and go this morning but as best selling author and motivational

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. welcome back. here's kristin fisher with she hero central segment. we will be highlighting an unusual hero tomorrow morning. i drove to a farm in southern maryland and this is not just any farm. it is called villa del alpacas. this is a special farm because it e onis one of only ur buy i of maryland. which means it is fabeen around over 200 ar mo the time it was a tobacco farm and check out the pictures back in the

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o tailf whtathey are so easy to take care of tomorrow when the story airs at 6:10. like i said it is an unusual hero but angel e-mailed me and said these animals are truly my heros will you do a story on them how could i say no? especially when you get to hold a one day old baby alpaca. it was adorable. i mean how can you not love a baby animal? angel e-mailed her story in. if you have a story story idea for an upcoming hero central segment, i'd love to hear about it. e-mail it to heros@wusa9.com. and this story will air right here on wusa 9 at 6:10 a.m. tomorrow. back to you. it is 6:14. looking at other stories making news this morning, two people are hospitalized after they came in contact with a suspicious powder at a raytheon plant in rhode island. officials are not saying what

the substance is. raytheon is a supplier for the u.s. department of defense. police in paris are trying to keep allied on violence after protests broke out. they are outraged over a killing of a teen by police. the 18-year-old was killed fleeing police on sunday night. dozens of beach goers in hollywood, florida work to save a pair of beached whales. the mother and her calf somehow got stuck. unfortunately neither whale survived. good morning. >> good morning. great to be here. >> 6:15. >> coolest time of the day. >> it is nice. >> great to be here. rather be home instead. >> with the ac on. >> no heat advisories but it will be steamy. so of course never leave your children in the car locked with the windows up and your pets, too. leave a lot of water for them and get them in a cool place. maybe take in a movie or head

to the mall. take me with you. it is great to see you. a check on what is happening as we prepare. it has been hot around here. yesterday we hit 97 both at dulles and reagan national airport. 97 at dulles actually broke the record. today's record for dc is 101. i'm happy to tell you that have not in danger, but we had a couple of thunderstorms yesterday late in the evening and last night, especially across fairfax county. so there is patchy fog be mindful of that. most of us in the 70s this morning. a tip trip to the lower 90s. slightly cooler than yesterday's 97 but still another day with some steam in the air which is kind of like gasoline for the thunderstorms, which we expect later in the afternoon, probably by 3:00 and certainly for your drive home. lows tonight around 70. the thunderstorms will be probably keeping you company when you go to bed. hopefully you will get some sleep and tomorrow not as many

storms and cooler tomorrow. here's how it looks on the satellite-radar loop. this is the most stable time of the day in the atmosphere. the sun has been down several hours. it is like turning the heat off the stove and the boiling water settles. when you have thunderstorms at this time of the morning, west of pittsburgh you know there is juice in the atmosphere. when we push this toward us, combined with the heat of the day, turning the heat back on the stove, we will probably get heavy thunderstorms and downpours around here. now, talking to my buddy in perryville, he was telling me the temperature is already 78 out there. he has a northwest wind and it has been his observation when we get this type of atmosphere, where we have a trough east of the shenandoah valley they get robbed of the thunderstorms. we'll have to see if they survive the trip but in the coastal plain and around dc where we are 75 we are likely seeing the storms fire up with 93. tomorrow not as many and cooler and 87. there's the picture.

-- there's the pick of the week, thursday. 85. we have this moisture coming in off the atlantic ocean. some steam coming up. a lot of water vapor in the air. this is the spark for those storms and it will close in on us later today the witching hour, so to speak to fire up the thunderstorms 3:00 to 7 p.m. and when they fire visit us at wusa9.com. we have great new tool in addition to doppler 9000. it is called interactive radar. it allows you to zoom in to your neighborhood and you can do it on any storms an the country if you want. here's the seven day. yep, tomorrow will be cooler like i mentioned. not completely dry. make your plans for thursday. if you want to get outside or wash the car. even friday won be too bad. as for the weekend, it is

50/50. if you have any travel plans and need to get in touch with me visit me at my blog and hop in my interactive chat room and i will give you a specific travel forecast. angie has the traffic. what's up? >> that's right. while you are on-line, check out the twitter feed, oh my goff is any name. i track the tieups that could slow you down. southbound bw parkway past 175 is where we have crash activity causing that redness, that jamup over to 100 so far. so we will keep our eye on this and keep you posted. moving over to 270 southbound. no problems so far from germantown to the split. to the inner loop we go in virginia. looking at our realtime sensors on average. drivers are moving nicely and at speed as they make their way from 95 past braddock to 66. 395 northbound. we are looking at a ten-minute commute to make it from edsall to seminary. that is just volume. to wrap it up we give you 95 in

virginia. we are looking at ten-plus minutes to make it from the prince william parkway to lorton. that's a quick look at traffic. over to you. breaking news this morning. at least one boston television station is reporting that eunice kennedy shriver has died. president kennedy's sister has been in critical condition since at least a week when family members gathered by her bedside. she suffered a number of strokes in recent years. she is known as the founding force behind the special olympics. again reports out in the last few minutes that eunice kennedy shriver has died at age 88. next when 9 news now continues, if you think it is too hot, imagine going through the day wearing shoulder pads and a helmet but first it is time for the signs of now question. we are asking how much blood does the human body contain? it is six quarts, one gallon or

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welcome back to 9 news now. it is 6:23. the signs of now question asks, how much blood does the human body contain? the answer is a, six quarts.

heat and football can be a deadly combination. ever since the vikings korey stringer died from heat stroke during training camp in 2001. nfl teams do everything in their power to keep their players safe except cancelling practice. because the nfl is like the postal service they always deliver. 9 news now sports director brett haber explains. >> somebody has the ac on. somebody turn it on, please. >> it is hot out here. a lot of sweating. so a lot of people are watching, drink a lot of water. >> don't expect it to be cold. >> reporter: the heat was the story today, all 106 degrees of it and the skipper from seattle where chilly rain is the norm was loving it. >> this heat is wonderful. you know, it is going to be hotter this afternoon. we can't wait. >> reporter: zorn's prize rookie who played college ball in sweltering texas couldn't agree more. >> i'm coming from triple-digit

weather down south. this is my kind of weather. >> reporter: the ice tub was a popular spot today. so were the water stations and even the geese went looking for shelter. >> a little shock. it is pretty humid. >> reporter: while the rest of the teammates braved the elements the kickers did, well, what kickers do. >> these guys they don't practice. they don't do much. >> as long as they put the ball through the upright and inside of ten we are good. >> reporter: one redskins lineman sees it as a chance to audition for life after football. >> 9 news with the weather. down below the dixon line, the mason dixon line it is hot. >> at redskins park, i'm brett haber. >> reporter: and still to come when 9 news now returns, secretary of state hillary clinton unloads on a college student. we have a question that ticked her off and the response. here's angie. we are live from northwest dc. here's a look at 7th and h

streets an we are finding no problems along the way. more shots that you use in the morning to get where you need to go. i will have them coming up. what's the weather like outside? takes a meteorologist out there to let you know. i'm in it and it is humid. i will let you know why you need to grab the umbrella. when the storms will fire up. you are watching 9 news now good morning. ou hdreds on car insurance. what you might not know is that you can contact geico to see if you could save on homeowner's and renter's e susncratoo. nc for more information call 1-800-947-auto or check the yellow pages for an office near you. [tires screeching]

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meshowers are firing up we will get them to survive certainly on the mountain tops and across the shenandoah . valley hopefully survive the trip. they will be herellby mid afternoon. all righty. before that time we will sneak in a high of 93. this is hot but certainly not the recordg rein akheedheat we saw yesterday ofhe97. the seven-day forecast is a few minutes away. it is 6:31. time for traffic with angie. good morning. it is time to tell you about the things out there that could affect your commute. we have a few beginning with an accident southbound on the b we w parkway approaching 32. drivers right now are jammed from route 100 down to the scene. i'm estimating anywhere 15 to 20 minutes to make it through. nice and green might be the best alternative. a live shot for you at the outer loop. everything is moving nicely here past university but on the inner loop, this just in. we are tracking it through our cameras. a tractor-trailer fire and that

is near the saint barnabas exit. expect delays heading out that way. 66 eastbound, if i can get that camera i can show you the drivers are slowing down from the fairfax county parkway as they make their way to route 50. using brakes from 123 to the capital beltway and finally wrap it up with a metro alert for you on the orange line. we know that we have major delays going on and this stretches between new carrollton and also the stadium armory and that is because we have train issues outside of the landover station. andrea, over to you. more on the breaking news we brought you in the last half hour. eunice kennedy shriver has died at the age of 88. she was well known as president kennedy's sister but made her mark by establishing special olympics. karen brown looks back. >> reporter: although she livedded in the shadow of her more famous relatives, eunice kennedy shriver had a long list of accomplishments of her own.

the sister of john f. kennedy was a tireless advocate for the mentally challenged. shriver founded the special olympics in 1968 using sports as a way to help empower the intellectually handicapped. that event is going strong with 2 million people in over 160 nations an the world taking part in its sports program and competition. >> by your presence you send a message to every village, every city, every nation, a message of hope, a message of victory. >> reporter: she also spent plenty of time on the campaign trail with her husband sergeant shriver who ran for vice president in ' 72 and her kennedy brother. shriver watched proudly as daughter maria's husband took california politics by storm. >> my mother-in-law is the try terminate and gives us our orders and you do this and that and maria, and she is all over

the place and very enthusiastic and very, you know, strong. >> reporter: but it was shriver's work for the mentally disabled that brought her accolades and established her legacy as a champion of the disadvantaged. karen brown, cbs news, new york. >> tributes for eunice kennedy shriver are set up by the special olympics including some here in the washington, d.c. area. we are posting those on our website at wusa9.com as well as a statement from the kennedy family on our front page. in other news, get ready for another day of hazy, hot and humid weather. local authorities want to help you cool off. they have opened cooling centers and public pools earlier than usual to help everyone beat the heat. armando trull is at the wilson aquatics center in northwest washington. armando? >> good morning. wilson aquatics center opened at 6:00 a.m. this morning. so did the "titanic" aquatics

center it is a way folks can cool off on a hot day. cleanliness is next to godliness and in her case coolness, too. >> you take a bath, shower, inside, air conditioning. >> we have more tips from folks trying to beat the heat on the hottest day of the year and will work just as well today when the temperature is in the low to mid 90s. >> drink a lot of water. >> and make sure you are find cool activities for children because they tend to be more susceptible to extreme heat. >> it is fun they are the children. i don't have a problem sitting out here watching them. it is safe. >> then there are the contrarians who drink hot coffee and want more sun. >> i actually came outside to get warm. it is so freezing with the air conditioning. >> the cold air exposure to the sun is no laughing matter so protect your skin with sun screen. the pools will remain open until 9:00 tonight. and if you are going to stay home make sure you either run the air conditioning or have windows open and a fan that is

circulating the air. if it is too warm in your home you have some options. you can go to a public library, a mall or the cooling centers in the district and other municipalities have. the best way to stay cool during dangerously hot weather. armando trull for 9 news now and wusa9.com. a possible communication breakdown had secretary of state hillary clinton a little steamed during a town hall meeting this the congo. a french-speaking university studented asked her what her husband thought of chinese business contracts in africa. her response was met with an uneasy silence. >> wait. you want me to tell you what my husband thinks? my husband is not the secretary of state, i am. >> it is believed the questioner meant to say president obama instead of clinton. in the sure whether it was the student or translator but obviously something was lost in the translation. >> reporter: time for another

living smart report. appears the cash for clunkers plan is giving a boost to auto companies. jessica doyle has more. >> we are thinking the plan could ramp up production in a big way for the big three automakers. the cash for clunkers program generated 245,000 vehicles sales in two weeks so car dealers are screaming for more fuel efficient vehicles. the "wall street journal" reports that chrysler has already added shifts and overtime at some of its plants. over at gm, production is expected to increase. ford will announce its plans early next month. how does a taxi ride in spacu? thes le idfa u?yo nasa likes the id is it is planning to use $50 million eciconmu somlutis funds to speed development of ssenr ortrspantatisp services tato space. aspiring spaceship operators for future tourism will have 45 days to submit proposals. another iphone app is causing a stir. it is a creepy.

it gives you names, addresses, and phone numbers of sex offenders living near you or anyone you know and you can get gps data on it. it is been on in apple's top ten list and disappeared on last thursday but on sunday reinstated. two versions available, one is free and one costs a buck. you can get the data for free on-line. >> all right. >> sure. and now it is time, 6:38 for a quick check on virginia's weather. let's go to kim. >> as promised, andrea, we just checked on maryland 20 minutes ago and now virginia's turn. check out the saitlltee-radar loop. all is quiet across virginia. we don't hay ve anllproblems other than sticky weather as you are getting up and moving along this morning. let's focus on the weather forecast for today, from purseville on down to spotsylvania. we will have highs probably cracking 95 in purseville with partly cloudy skies in to about

the early afternoon. some thunderstorms will be developing. some heavy downpours over fairfax. 89 spotsylvania. warrenton, thunderstorms by 3:00 and 93. here's angie with the virginia drive in to work. >> man, oh, man, this area was bustling over the tax-free weekend. i'm talking about tysons corner area. route 7 and international drive. the traffic is still volume light. we will move over to route 50 and fillmore. here's the shot through arlington. looks like the drive is okay as drivers make their way to the district. and finally, all aboard. let's fly that dulles toll road from the greenway past the airport to the beltway. it looks like we have nothing but green cars and happy to report no incidents or accidents along the way. it is 6:39:09 on this tuesday morning. more, traffic weather and news just for you when 9 news now returns. hmmm... well... naaa... yeah!

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in the summer the energy helps to heat up your house so try to use a east toaster oven instead of the oven it will heat the food but not the house. re ti gops twusa usa and click on living green n ca n afa you can be a fan of living green on facebook. we will have live alerts of then stories. the obama administration is taking to cyberspace to set the record straight about the proposal to reform health care. 9 news now digital correspondent kristin fisher has been tracking it on the web. >> reporter: both candidate obama and president obama have always had a huge presence on the web. in the last week or so, the debate over health care reform on-line hasn't been shaped by the white house at all. the dialogue has been largely dictated by youtube videos of town hall protests across the

country. now, what we are seeing is the white house is directly engaging opponents on-line. yesterday the white house launched a new website to combat what they call the misinformation of health care reform. and here wee.bs bsite. it is called reality ece.chk an rmlyfoalree chsae e site re r s refo rmreally means for d anrmand your family it debunks common myths along the way. if you look at this site, you it ishise it is pretty much set up to aggressively go after attacks against the president's plan. right , i'm going to scroll down here, you can see the site features six alleged rumors about health care reform. and in chea rumor is disputed in a eaa white house staffer. i want to sh you guys one from melody barnes, the pr director of the t' domestic poliunco l. co l. itsays she isdebunking the malicious myth that reform would encourage or que ir seni s.sia for ore she is bringing this up in re sp seontoa se byby saralih n palion facebook

accusing president oba amand a health care reform of the death panel debate we have seen on the blog so chmuthis morning. let's listen to what melody barnes has to say about that. >> we have been really surprised by some of the wild rumors we have heard flying around. one of the worst that i have heard is that in some way this bill is going to force euthanasia. that is pretty hard to believe. if you want to go to the legislation and look up the provision in the bill it is actually section 1233. and when you go there you will find exactly what president obama has said. that this provision will allow people to access information about getting a living will. there is nothing mandatory about this. >> reporter: regardless of which side of the debate you are on, something almost everybody can agree on is by launching the website for the first time we are seeing the white house playing defense in this health care reform debate on-line. >> andrea, back to you. it is 6:45.

time to say good morning again to kim martucci and the latest on -- it's not going to be code red. it is still code orange. >> yeah. and air quality code yellow. early in the morning tends to be healthiest. but it will be awfully hot and steamy. temperatures in the low to middle 90s. so take common sense precautions. wear light wear light colored clothing, carry bottled water with you and don't forget about your pet and obviously the kids and if you have an elderly neighbor check in on them. take them to lunch. find rom ac. great to see you. the satellite and radar loop. quiet for now but by the mid to late morning, western maryland and certainly by the middle of the afternoon by 3:00 we will have some thunderstorms firing. a that is because finally cool front will be sneaking in

our direction now. we had a couple of storms yesterday that fired up and brought us .23 inches at reagan national airport within the last 24 hours. annapolis you picked up a nice soaking rain and so did baltimore, more than a half inch to three-quarters of an inch. but it was hit and miss. not everybody got wet. some saw lightning with like andrea did with middle 70s. taking a trip off out to leesburg on route 7, we have low 80s this morning. it is 77 in martinsburg and 75 in washington county, maryland. home of hagerstown. as we take a step to 9:00 it will be 80. 89 at noon and not long after that thunderstorms require firing up. heavy rainfall forecasted and yes, that is a high of 93 in the works for us. if you are catching a flight let me help you out. minnesota, near minneapolis will be in the middle 80s for the pga practice rounds going on and it will be around 90 in

memphis, 99 in dallas and 86 denver. we will focus on the mid- atlantic area where again we are watching this front north and west of us over pittsburgh right now sliding to our backyard, toward the afternoon. and that is why we will be watching for the storms because we have warm steamy air ahead of it and it acts like a scoop in the atmosphere. think of these little barb and triangles as lifting the air. when you do that you get updrafts an separate charges in the atmosphere and get thunderstorms went with all of the moisture and water vapor pretty much soaking us that you can't see that is the gasoline for the thunderstorms. the witching hour between 3:00 and 7:00. we will be watching for them and you can track them at wusa9.com. look at interactive radar and track them down to your street level location. the seven-day forecast, i think the pick of the week is staying strong with that thursday, 85. over the weekend we will sneak in a few more storms perhaps on saturday and looking better on

sunday. >> good morning. we are 12 minutes from the 7:00 hour and a few things to keep an eye out for. the camera shot is bright. i want you to know the inner loop you see the blinking lights past saint barnabas. a car fire. they are taking away the lanes as needed. expect significant delays in that area right now. might not be the best bet to hop on there. the outer loop, we have tracking a slow ride if we can take it outside. from new hampshire to georgia. but why don't we take it back to the maps and show you the bw parkway approaching 32. this is southbound. crash activity out there and then drivers jammed up around route 100. i will take you to the orange line where we know that drivers -- or riders are shiring a track and this stretches between new carrollton and stadium armory and that is due to an issue outside of landover. over to andrea. >> thank you, angie. the clock is ticking and scientists know it won't be

long before the h1n1 flu virus returns in a big way this fall. testing out a new vaccine started yesterday at the university school of medicine in baltimore. digital correspondent, bruce leshan was there. >> one, two, three, take a deep breath. >> reporter: it is a race against time as the u.s. rushes to develop an h1n1 vaccine before the newly-mutated bug returns to the northern hemisphere in the fall and winter. >> we're in rapid motion here. safety and every kasi. >> that's what it is about. >> that's what it is about. >> reporter: researchers say they have been bedisedged with volunteers for the clinical trial. >> we will explore whether one or two doses are necessary. >> 67 healthy adults will get one dose now and another in three weeks the feds hope to have millions of doses ready by october 15th, but some experts suspect h1n1 will hit us again before that. >> i wanted to do it so that the people i love and care

about who might have health issues would be protected sooner than later. >> reporter: arthur volunteered in hopes of sending a message that vaccines are safe. he was in the polio vaccine trials more than 50 years ago. >> and polio was a great scourge of the united states and the world. it has been almost completely eliminated. >> even if there are no problems with testing and manufacturing the vaccine it is not clear there will be enough for everybody. at the top of the priority list is emergency worker withs, health care worker and those with the highest risk of complications. in baltimore, bruce leshan, 9 news now and wusa9.com. still to come when 9 news now continues, one big mess to clean up after powerful storms blew through a midwestern town.

taking a look at the stories at 6:54. eunice kennedy shriver has died. she has been in critical condition for week when family members gathered at her hospital bed in massachusetts. she suffered a number of strokes in recent years. she is known as the founding force behind the special olympics. reports out in the last few minutes that eunice kennedy shriver died at age 88. tokyo is reeling after a powerful quake struck this

morning. the .6 magnitude quake triggered a tsunami warning but only resulted in minor waves. no injuries were reported. they will be cleaning up this morning in kansas after strong storms moved in. 80-mile an hour winds knocked down power lines, trees and ripped roofs from homes. all people could do is take cover. luckily no injuries were reported. the temperature is 75. today's high 93. so not as hot as yesterday but we will fire up thunderstorms. by the middle afternoon. cooler tomorrow, andrea. the seven-day forecast is a few minutes away. it is tuesday morning and you are watching 9 news now. good morning.

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on the inleer loop a from the blocking three lanes and we are backed up to route. bw parkway at 32 an accident is out there. and anne arundel mills boulevard, that's where your delay starts. i say use 95. it is nice and green. 66 eastbound it is stop and go from 50 to 495. we're estimating this drive time at about 15 minutes. now over to kim. i'm here to tell you there will be thunderstorms this afternoon, likely after lunch inside 0 the beltway. now as for tomorrow we will cool off to the upper 80s. that's a cooling off and in to the week -- weekend not too bad. a lightly higher open this morning but it could go either way. we'll see. >> the "early show" is next. more on the death of eunice kennedy have live and we will have local reaction from the headquarters of the special olympics. and how to satisfy that sweet toots >> for more news,