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to you by verizon fios. this is 9news now. "this broadcast realtime captioned by becky lyon." essentially i'm being screwed. >> this man took his car in to be prepared but instead got taken for a ride. i'm anita brikman. >> i'm derek mcginty. what should you expect from your car dealership? one couple is reeling after their vehicle was stolen. >> it was returned a wreck the month later and the couple says they may be stuck with us. digital correspondent britney moorehouse has the latest. >> we made the first payment on ve cle and it wasn't in our possession. >> reporter: after the vehicle was stolen from the dealership they say they are no better after even though the vehicle was found. elizabeth wise takes us back to the day she brought her brand- new vehicle to the dealership for a radio repair. an hour later the general manager appeared.

>> i've got bad news. a car was stolen from our lot today. it has never happened to us before. o . carveurhayo e er>>portur: >> reporter: by the time polic recovered the car the suspect had taken on an crime spree. >> the trash that was int. i bodily fluid stains in the back seat. rear bumper missing. he robbed a jewelry store. >> reporter: naturally the dealer's insurance company is covering the loss but the wises say when they heard this. >> we are only legally obligated to fix the car and give it back to you. >> reporter: they said they had to search online to find the exact model for the general when he said he couldn't and when he agreed to give them a replacement it amounted to $70 a month more. >> they are not offering the types of terms we got on our car we already bought. they say they can't help us, they can only be so generous. >> reporter: off camera the general manager said what he is offering the wises is a fair deal. >> they were offering a higher

payment. >> reporter: britney moorehouse, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> the wise family bought their toyota from a different dealership. legally the easton dealer is only required to repair the stolen vehicle and return it to them. now to the frustrated, angry and sometimes even scary health care reform battle. this was the scene at a town hall meeting this afternoon for health care. >> why not go into an area that is more effective like tort reform and closing the borders. [ applause ] >> $99 trillion in debt. how are you going to look at my children in their eyes and tell them they are going to have a better future with $99 trillion. >> why you haven't been more aggressive in exposing the insurance company front groups that have been out there using

tactics and propagations of big campaigns like the big lie about the so-called -- >> people packed the theater to listen and be heard and there were 500 people outside and they had loud opinions as well. >> everybody should have health care. we should never have a situation where somebody says i'm sick, i need care and i don't have the money. >> my father, mother raised me you better get a job, better get an education. you better earn money because it is a tough world out there. nobody is going to pay your rent, buy you a car, buy your food. >> there were 23 health care town hall meetings all across the country today. all of them were spirited. president obama will hold two more of those town halls this

week in colorado and montana. >> as we have been seeing over the last few days a lot of misinformation out there. several different versions of the reform bill are out there and not all the bills contain the same provisions. tonight we break some of it down for you. >> i guarantee you i will be one of them that will be thrown away. >> reporter: frustration was evident among democratic lawmakers holding the session. >> people putting out information that is totally false. >> reporter: separating fact from fix isn't easy. four different versions have been approved by congressional committees. we searched for answers on three drafts available. on abortion. >> what is the position on tax funded abortions which will increase the death of preborn infants by 30%. >> would the government pay for abortion? that is unclear. two of the bills don't address that question at all. one version requires that one health plan in each region

cover the procedure. on illegal immigrants. >> illegal aliens will not be in this bill at the end. >> reporter: would millions of illegal immigrants be covered through health care reform. it ea r.e bithlldot.r. ese billthdoes state only individuals lawfully present in the u.s. can qualify but republicans say there is no verification system to ensure illegal immigrants won't apply and if one family member is eligible for health care, so would everyone else in the family. on the cost. >> how are you going to look at my children in their eyes and tell them they are going to have a better future. >> i am not going to vote for any bill that adds to the national debt. >> you have already. >> would health care reform pay for itself? as of now that is doubtful. the president says costs will be covered through savings and efficiencies but the congressional budget office can't quantify those factors and it is estimated health care reform would increase the deficit by 239 billion over ten

years. finally, on congress. >> are you willing to drop your congressional health care and be stuck with this one? >> would members of congress be participating in the government plan? no, just 75 republicans and no democrats have signed a pledge to participate in any government-run health care plan they pass. >> another question you may be pondering. the way things are now why does medical care cost so much? let's say for a hospital stay. hospital stay your final bill covers a lot more than the price of the actual medicine. the american hospital association says overhead costs to run a medical center, pay administrative staff and utilities are built into the bottom line and operator margin covering the cost of new medical technology and replacing worn-out equipment and you are also paying a subsidy to help cover the uninsured and underinsured patients who aren't able to pay their bills. you can read more about all of

this on the reform debate on wusa9.com. a vial containing an order world war i chemical mustard gas was dug up in a neighborhood. during word war i the army used an area to test chemical weapons and crews have spent the past several years trying to find those buried ammunitions. they say this latest discovery posed no danger to the public but has put the cleanup effort on hold for now. the weather forecast. topper is here with the 9forecast. feeling a little cooler tonight. >> little better. we are going in the right direction, let's put it that way, anita. forecast first. aernight still chan er owsh an thunderstorm althoug the threat has diminished a little bit. not as owmuggy. mid-60s in the suburbs although downtown we are still talking about low 70s for low temperatures. winds tug inh rternostealy at t 0 to 10. tempghnot to. o not too bulot w

anin70s.as m saedfr erk. we in manassas. we will ma oma at live dplopok t 9000. couple showers on there. cooler air ahead on the weekend when we come back. >> thank you. tomorrow the kennedy family will hold a public wake for eunice kennedy shriver. it will take place near the kennedy compound. a private funeral mass will take place on friday. mrs. shriver died yesterday. she was 88 years old. more problems for the mayor adrian fenty tonight. his nominee to the contract appeals board won't be sworn in as planned. he was recently disbarred for his roll in a fraudulent real estate day. a week later the maryland court of appeal disbarred him and today he was notified in writing he is no longer meeting the requirements for the dc contract appeals board. it has been nearly two

months now since nine people tragically lost their lives in that metro train crash and now one dc blogger wants the metro general manager fired and he is using an online petition to draw attention to his cause. digital correspondent andrew stack joining us from the webster with more on this bizarre blog campaign. andrew. >> reporter: you bet it is, derek. ispeonti tipetition is the ywhaw op heise st. op heis trying toto cato by petitioning metro's board of directors. >> what he is expectly not doing is taking responsibility, number 1. he is not saying this happened on my watch. >> reporter: dave rides metro's redline every day and says metro's inability to point a finger at a person or thing responsible for the june crash can only mean one thing. >> is john the man that should be running the system at this point this time when a lot of work needs to be done? i'm sick of excuses and i want there to be some actual results

and some real change. >> reporter: other riders on the redline have varying opinions regarding the petition. >> now the attention is focused on him he and all metro officials need to step up and really give this attention and greater transparency so we can all be reassured. >> i'm not sure it is individuals, i think it is the whole metro organization. >> reporter: metro spokeswoman said metro general manager john cato serves at the pleasure of the metro board and the petition isn't worth a response from john cato. reporting several obviously false names among the initial 80 petition signatures from hulk hogan and i am nuts. it is unclear who added these names but it is clear the poster of at least one was deliberately trying to undermine the petition. as for john cato, they may be saying it is not worth their time to comment on this petition but they do say he

cares deeply for the metro riders and personally road trains over the past week to see what they are going there. andrew stack, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> thank you, andrew. we have got a deal for you. all you can supply for $599. you'll want to stick around for that one. nasa and things that go bump in the night. are we sitting ducks? you won't want to miss this story. we will be back in two minutes. f karl, don't you have friends coming over? yeah, so? it stinks in here! have you smelled this chair? or these curtains?

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i'm meteorologist topper shutt. if you can't sleep tonight you can go outside, get away from light and look up at the sky and the meteor shower occurs every august as the earth goes through the belt that was left behind with the dust and rock. this was taken this wisconsin yesterday. they had better weather. 1:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. nothing else to do, get away from lights. you might see a little bit of a

show tonight. >> all right. back to the computer. next three days temperature wise we are in pretty good shape. holding in the 80s through saturday. 84 on thursday. 86 on friday. 88 on saturday. pretty warm though on saturday. we do have showers or a storm each day although notice thursday we have f tandit it back a little bit. only a few storms now on thursday. that will have a change from 7:00 p.m. we have the weekend in front of me. 66 to 72 tomorrow. winds north easterly at about 5 to 10 miles per hour. live doppler 9000. few an far between. most of the activity south and east of town. that's where the front is stationary right now just west of the ocean resorts. we do have a couple of showers just to the north of town and these might actually move southward over the course of the next hour, hour and a half. few and far between. one north of i-70 showing signs of headed to the south right

now moving pretty much due south. will probably just graze clarksville and maybe even roll into alany. it is pushing southward next hour. it will be in alany. laytonsville or 108 get ready for heavy rain. back to the computer. we will talk about temperatures. pretty nice. 70s. 73 alany. out to the west winchester 71. woodstock 71 also. tomorrow morning partly sunny and warm. slight part of a shower. we toned down the chance for showers and storms tomorrow. 60s and 70s. then by afternoon partly sunny and warm. high temperatures near 85 and winds north easterly at 10. storm in the forecast. if you want to get ahead of those storms check out our pepco.com. pretty cool stuff. satellite picture and radar combined. we will zoom in and you can see

most of the activity hugging the coast and that's where the front is. still some instability in the west. few thunderstorms dissipated earlier. up into pennsylvania. that should stay there. but that said, we still have thunderstorms in the forecast for a while. in fact, next seven days. 84 tomorrow, couple of storms. 86 friday. temps going up too. not quite 90 on saturday. pretty close to 90 on sunday. 90 on monday. tuesday, wednesday, will be around 90 and less chance for a shower and thunderstorm just out for fun we think five out of seven days is plenty. if you are a golfer which i am going to blog about the tornado that hit whiskey creek golf club end of july. if you're a golf fan pga starting tomorrow. it will be hot in minnesota. >> no rain? >> no rain. >> that meteor shower should be nice. >> anytime between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. if you're not busy. >> if it fits your schedule.

>> speaking of things in space. nasa now trying to keep tabs on some asteroids that could ruin your day. >> ree : thporte thalalnuannu p meteor show.share share jeobcts loe.g okfo inis looking for em. an image and then 35 minutes come back and take another image. then they take those three or four images and compare them. the stars won't have moved but an asteroid, that's enough time for an asteroid closer to the earth to have moved in the image. that's how you detect them. >> reporter: while nasa's search appears to be going well with the larger ones finding the numerous small ones remains

a prckm.le b si size of the lincoln memorial could ruin a city the siis no erthno waof stpi ng them. at least not yet which is why johnson says it is so important nasa keep looking. >> the earlier we find these objects the more time we have to deal with them. and chances are that if we continue robust detection program that we will find these objects decades, if not centuries before they are an actual impact threat. >> that's reassuring. johnson says if the dinosaurs had had a space program like ours they would still be around. >> there you go. and we wouldn't be here. ever think of that? frequent fliers. all you can fly. fly all you want for a month for $599 running from september

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people and get that feel back. >> real hits we are looking forward to. live coverage from preseason game number 1 in baltimore starts tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. brett haber and i will be live and our post game coverage right outside the locker room starting at 11:00 p.m. michael vick visiting. he was at the chicago airport prompted the bears to say they were not interested. he instead was in town to speak at a humane society event. for the nationals three times was not the charm they were looking for when they sent jordan zimmerman for a third opinion regarding his elbow. reconstructive surgery is necessary. it will happen next wednesday. the loss of zimmerman means other guys have to step up and tonight craig stamon did. garrett anderson solo blast in

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