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clinton's recent trip to north korea. jim webb seeking release of an american held in myanmar. here is gary neurenberg. >> reporter: lead to go an -- leading to a release of. >> i think it is a very bad deal. >> reporter: critics fear it will use the release for propaganda purposes. >> senator webb gave them a lot of time in the face, he was all over the television and news media in myanmar legit. >> reporter: webb met with su chi who has been in prison for 14 of the last 20 years. he did not convince authorities to release her. >> she will not be able to take

part in the election and not able to campaign for her party that won the elections in 1990. so we can't take this as an opportunity to think the government is giving us anything they are not giving us anything. >> reporter: except for this man. gary neurenberg 9news now and wusa9.com. >> senator webb is expected to speak with the reporters about the experience in just a few hours. just one week before afghanistan's presidential election a deadly car bomb attack. it happened outside the main gate of nato's headquarters in kabul. tonight at least seven people are dead and more than 100 have been hurt. heavily guarded area is also home not u.s. embassy and afghanistan presidential palace. the taliban claimed responsibility for the blast. >> anybody that is willing to kill innocent afghans is not thinking about the good of the afghan people.

>> the first explosion was the first major attack in kabul since february. militants have been warning afghanistans not to afghans not to vote next week. president obama was on the road this weekend holding a town hall in grand junction, colorado, tonight. he talked about how health insurance companies will have to work under yearly caps to cut out of pocket expenses, co- pays and deductibles. he said the battle between special interest and health reform is not new. >> when jfk and then johnson tried to pass medicare they said this was a government takeover of health care they were going to get between you and the doctor much the same argument that is being made today. these struggles have always boiled down to a contest between hope and fear. it was true when social security was born, when medicare was created. it is true in today's debate.

>> president obama also criticized the media for its coverage of previous town hall meetings. he says the media has covered the rucus but has not shown how many meetings have been shown across the country. gearing up to handle cases of the h1n1 viruses. sick students will be asked to wear masks and determine where they keep sick students while waiting for sick students to pick them up. they are waiting for the centers for disease control on when vaccines will be available and federal health officials are expected to begin shipments in mid-october. students moving in at howard university are discovering something new at their schools. digital correspondent lindsey mastis tells us about heightened security on campus. >> reporter: it is the last

thing on her mind. but her dad is preparing to give her the speech. >> oh, lord have mercy. >> reporter: howard university police department has been preparing for this day by upgrading and adding new security features . the police chief says they have a new notification center. >> since virginia tech a lot of universities have gone through change of systems. if we have a big emergency we can notify people. >> reporter: they installed dozens of these emergency call boxes so with one press of a button help is on the way. >> some will be equipped with cameras recording 24/7. >> reporter: students can sign up to a service where police would have access to their cell phones gps. >> last year we had a missing person. it turned out okay. however with the gps capabilities, yes, in a case like that it would have helped us. >> reporter: that is something this girl's dad likes to hear.

>> that would make me sleep at night. >> reporter: and before he leaves her he will get a lesson in safety. >> one, two, three, four, five, this is the speech. >> reporter: i'm lindsey mastis at howard university, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> get this, the gps service also let's students set an alarm if they are walking across campus or going out for a run they can set a timer. if they don't deactivate it police will be alerted. >> and they should. and it was move in day today for 1500 american university freshmen armed with suitcases, bedding and even a few books, new students made their way to their dorm rooms. after a meet an greet with the resident assistants they will participate in a discover dc tour to get them acquainted with their new home away from home. classes start at the university on august 24th. parents and students were out in full force this weekend

stocking up on back-to-school supplies but despite aisles of notebooks and glue sticks analysts say shopping is down 8% from last year. this year's back-to-school shopping season is predicted to be the most dismal in more than a decade. shoppers are buying but very cautiously. >> i watch very carefully because in this tough economy everything is tight. >> i will go shopping for christmas. if you go to toys r us during christmas and it is crazy there it is that's what our back-tk school season is. it is our christmas. >> they are down about 5.5%. more cuts for maryland. the governor is recommending cutting close to $250 million in state help to local governments . the move is part

of a plan to cut $750,000 in spending this summer. he made the announcement today at the maryland association of counties summer conference in ocean city. he says the cuts will affect local health departments, police aides, comiewpt colleges , comiewntd community colleges. the first time the h3n 8 virus. experts say the flu is generally not life threatening. humans cannot get the virus but they can pass it on to dogs if they have been in contact with infected animal. the fairfax county animal shelter has quarantined 26 dogs with suspected symptoms and those symptoms include wheezing, coughing.

doctors should call their pet's veterinarian if they notice any symptoms. >> still ahead. firefighters trying to gain the upperhand against massive firefighters in california. we will have the very latest. 40 years after woodstock and the hippies are back. that's coming up. 3f?f?f?f (announcer) if you think all batteries are the same, consider this: when a tornado tore through holly, colorado, air life denver took to the air... their night-vision goggles keeping them safe on a perilous flight...

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welcome back. firefighters are battling a massive fire in santa cruz mountains this weekend. the blaze has already blackened close to 8 square miles of wilderness. it is one of more than half a dozen fires burning in california. hundreds of residents have been ordered to leave their home. metropolitan washington airport authority wants your input on raising rates on the dulles toll road. they will hold three public

hearings on whether to increase the toll. they are accepting comments online through september 14th on their website. the company behind the madison square garden is eyeing washington as a site for a new entertainment venu. the executive says they talked to them about what is going on here. we will check out tomorrow's washington examiner for the complete story. tomorrow night on "60 minutes" michael vick sits down for his first interview since leaving prison. it was taped before the quarterback signed with the philadelphia eagles. james brown asked vick if he felt after two years behind bars he was still ready to play. >> two years is not a long time. i still run just as fast and throw the ball just as far as i did before i left. still have the same quickness.

i know how i feel when i'm in tip-top condition. i train now and i never trained before. >> you can see this complete interview sunday night at 7:00 p.m. right here on wusa. 40 years ago, folks, a generation came together for woodstock. today baby boomers are joining with a much younger generation to mark the anniversary of the music festival. our story now from bethel, new york. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: harry was just 15 when he heard there was a big music concert coming to upstate new york. >> said you go to woodstock don't come back to this house. >> reporter: he went anyway and he never looked back. >> highlight of my life basically. this was all wall-to-wall literally this close. >> reporter: he was one of 500,000 people, a sea of sweaty hippies celebrating peace, love and above all music.

somewhere in that crowd was ralph who now calls himself gypsy. he wants to be here even after death. >> i want to be here forever. >> reporter: four decades after joe cocker got by with a little help of his friends, baby boomers and their kids are coming back to the garden trying to recreate the age of aquarius. a lot less in the air and the hippies are driving toyotas. >> do you know who richie haven. >> i know the name. can't put it together. >> reporter: but the old and

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art mural. participants painted a wall in the edgewood community at the rhode island avenue shopping center. the finished product is larger than a football field. >> a couple of months ago this concept was introduced to us by staff, actually, to further engage in our summer youth employment program so we decided that the best way to engage youth were not only to place them in 16 of our nonprofit arts organizations but to also have them partake n inprar aoj t rehein ward 5. >>the newly installed mural is called from edgewood to the edge of the world. look at how colorful that is. >> extremely cool. amazing how you can work up close like that and get it right and you have to step back to see what it really looks like. >> picture perfect also today. >> beautiful day. >> minus the humidity and some

other things. but, hey, it is summer. >> it is summer in dc. the tropics have even come alive. two tropical storm. anna and bill. when the conditions are right everything starts to go at the same time. so we will talk about the tropical storms in a second. three-day trend. hot the next couple of days. summer heating continuing for the beginning of the week. high temperatures hanging around 90 degrees all the way through monday and tuesday. tonight it is actually fairly comfortable. dew points low to mid-60s. temperatures dropping into the mid-60s in most of the eas. much partlyly to mostly sunny skies during the day on sunday. nice close to the weekend. could be hot, a little humid but like we said summer. high temperature near 90. sunrise tomorrow morning at 6:23. right now national airport, comfortable dew point of 63. produces a relative humidity of

69%. 73 in winchester. culpepper down to 68 already. 72 at vwi. everybody will settle into the 60s tomorrow morning. high pressure sliding down the east coast giving under the circumstances a little bit of a flow off the ocean. that's why we had fog the last couple of nights but not as much tonight. still a stalled front off the coast. keeping the thunderstorm activity well off shore and away from us. we take a wider view and we can see thunderstorms in the midwest but this big area of high pressure, a little heat dome in the eastern part of the country will keep things quiet for us much the jet stream has moved up into canada. we often get our stretches of heat. that will be the case through the beginning of the week with temperature around 90. but the thunderstorm activity will all be pushed off to the west into the great lakes and back into the plains states. before we get to the seven-day forecast let's talk about the tropics. dc right there at the top of your screen so you can get your

bearings. two tropical storms. anna and bill behind it. bill looking a little more impressive but actually both of these storms exact same wind speeds. 40 miles per hour sustained winds. barely temperatures. anna over the next couple of days is headed to southern florida. if you have plans to miami in the middle portion of the week you will want to listen to what will happen. bill is forecast to come up towards the southeast coast of the united states into the bahamas or somewhere in that area by sometime this weekend. so we will be talking a lot about the tropics. one of those stretches again where we got to put a chance for a thunderstorm in the forecast every day once we get beyond tuesday. beginning of the weekend. doesn't mean it will rain all day each one of those days and temperatures will cool off a little bit by saturday next

weekend and back into the mid- 80s. tropics finally came alive. >> any effect here? >> still that possibility. still too far down the road. >> sara, some decisions to make for the nats, right? >> certainly getting hot for them over in the front office because they are under deadline. ahead in sports. good news for the current nats tonight but same can't be said for a future national whose standing is in jeopardy. the latest on the steven strassburg signing. will it even happen? players getting back to work for the first time since that outing. those stories are next. its incredible deals. and with her daughter starting middle school tomorrow, connie's got some high expectations.

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that's when things get messy. the nationals team president admitting it is a real possibility steven strassburg may not sign with washington now. the nats have already offered him a record breaking contract. the washington post reports could be worth 14 and 16 million. but it may not be enough for steven strassburg's agent scott borris who is known for squeezing out top dollars. he went on to say tonight if he wants to begin his career right now and do so with the largest contract ever given to any drafted player in the history of major league baseball we can help him accomplish that. but if this is about changing the whole way an industry does business then we won't be able to reach a deal. better news for the nationals right now. in cincinnati. adam dunn facing his old team. nats up 1-0 after his home run. top of the 4th nats up. bases loaded. three-run triple. nats go on to win it 10-6.

there are two ways to look at that first preseason game. one, it doesn't count, or two, this team could be in some trouble when it actually does. the redskins hit the practice field this morning for the first time since that shutout in baltimore and as dave owens reports there is plenty of work to be done. >> reporter: less than 48 hours after being thoroughly outplayed in their first preseason game the skins were already back to the grind even without having viewed thursday's game film yet. >> the hard part is to go out there and practice without having seen video. but to their credit i really had a sense that our football team practiced with real purpose today and they were trying to get better. >> reporter: brenan was one of those players trying to get better. colt brennan was sacked three times and picked off once by the ravens. >> i was a little disappointed because i wanted to come out and kind of show how well i progressed. it is frustrating from that point. >> reporter: one positive sign

from the morning session santana moss back in the mix after nursing a tender hamstring. halfwards he said his goal is to play next saturday. >> if i wasn't planning on doing it. >> reporter: jim zorn was asked what he expects out of these next set of practices after the steelers game and he said two things. one that the tempo improves and that the pace with which guys do things. in other words, the intensity increases. >> full speed nfl game is different than full speed practice. >> reporter: the same can be said for full speed nfl tackling. an area the skins struggled in at times against the ravens en route to yielding 500 total yards. >> good contact out there. got to make sure you get the game tackle and wrap it up. >> reporter: at redskins park, dave owens, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> thanks, dave. the newest quarterback michael vick hitting the practice field for the first time today as a philadelphia eagles. did some seven on seven red

zone work. afterwards vick felt great and stayed to work extra the last to leave the field. the quarterback the redskins wanted to badly this off season made his debut with the bears. jay cutler. this interception. fourth quarter game tied at 13. 7-yard touchdown. 27-20. soccer. today's mls game between dc united and toronto should have been a pick me up for one of those teams because both were coming off losses to real, madrid. 30th minute. game still scoreless but duane giving toronto the lead with his ninth goal of the year. united still down one in the 66th minute but a first goal of the year.

united falls 2-0. more soccer. first round in the playoffs. freedom hosting sky blue fc. freedom down 1. 78th minute. collision with the goal keeper but that would leave a wide open net. 85th minute. tie score. breaking the tie. first goal of the year for francy el. tiger woods is 14-0 and leading into the final round of the major. he entered thb@day with a four- shot lead at that pga championship giving a shot back here on the fourth, short par putt. tiger falls to seven under. that would open the door for padraig harrington. on 14 for the birdie and a share of the lead and he drains it. 3 under 69 for padraig

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