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9news now in hd sis brout h to you by verizon fios. "this broadcast realtime captioned by becky lyon." this is 9news now. good evening, i'm derek mcginty. anita is off tonight. seems you can't even watch the news these days without hearing crout a teacher violatg inviola edtrust to never harm your kids. yesterday celipo charged a liwr coach charged with online solicitation. what can you do to keep your kids safe from predators when some of their teachers could be moonlighting as the bad guys. britney moorehouse joins us with some answers i hope. >> the truth is sexual harassment is common at every state of education, whether the offense is an inappropriate remark or physical abuse.

bottom line for parents, keep talking. parents and kids are getting caught up in the excitement. buzz words in here. markers, notebooks. but parents might also want to keep a communication checklist. >> there is not one typical dialogue or one conversation. it is an ongoing conversation. make sure your kids are talking consistently. >> reporter: a facility where young pictures of workers decorate the walls here so children understand these adults were kids once. while sex abuse may not be a hot topic in your home it is here. >> sex abuse happens often. a perpetrator doesn't look a specific way or behave a specific way. a perpetrator is anyone. >> reporter: including a trusted mentor. it is important that kids need to understand they don't have to do what they are told. >> train your kids to have that gut instinct. if something is wrong, there is something wrong.

>> reporter: if there is something wrong. >> that pause before you react to something could make our break because oftentimes the first time a child says something to you it is more just let me see if my mom will listen and then i'll give you more later. >> reporter: it is that listening part that is key. >> i think the most surprising factor for me consistently is parents who aren't supportive of their parents and who don't believe their kids. >> reporter: as for teens that get mixed up with adults in special friendships. those teams are often groomed with flattery and adoration. >> thank you so much for that. schools are not the only place there has been some bad behavior. police have been going undercover trying to opst an upswing in lewd behavior in frederick county. this maryland park is supposed to be a get away for families with kids but a weekend operation at the park resulted in sex-related charges against

eight men. >> in the past what they would do is come here and meet and leave the park. and while we don't consider that a problem, whether it is same sex or opposite section but this year we found out they were coming to the park, meeting, staying in the park and going to locations like the restroom or the trails or the shelters and performing sex acts that's when we figured it was time to step in. >> investigators say the gamble park game popular through the internet. they say word about the enforcement effort is spreading the same way. once metro shuts down crews will make repairs to a crack in a rail. the crack led to delays on the redline. crews were making a quick temporary fix and trains had to share one lane. it should be back in service in time for the morning rush. a lot more police will be

on patrol. they are on the lookout for a fire bug. overnight the arsonist set fire to more than a dozen bails of hay all across that region and even torched some mailboxes. >> that could spread to so much more and create so much more damage and you wonder how far will they take it? will they do it to the homes? much nor disturbing. >> obviously police want to catch that perpetrator before anybody gets hurt. so if you've got any tips to pass along, please contact the montgomery county police. topper is here with the 9 forecast first and we can only hope tomorrow won't be quite so warm. >> good news or bad news. won't be as hot but will be just as muggy. still some showers and storms in the forest overnight. here is your forecast first. partly cloudy skies, muggy. shower or thunderstorm possible. even patchy fog by dawn

70s. winds north-northwest at 10. look at this satellite picture of bill. a massive huana category 3 destined to become a category 4. it will affect us over the weekend. we will talk about our prospect of thunderstorms for tomorrow and the rest of the week coming up. >> thank you. prince george's county public safety employees could be celebrating. a federal judge is ruling against the mandatory furloughs they had to suffer tonight. the county says if it doesn't have any luck with an appeal it may have no choice but to institute massive layoffs instead. digital correspondent andrew stack spoke with the union reps for their reaction. >> reporter: as vice president of local 1619 andrew thought his union had its collective bargaining agreement wrapped up last summer. but then -- >> the county approached us with a dire fiscal emergency.

>> reporter: and an order for ten days worth of furloughs for all employees aimed at saving cash strapped prince george's county $17 million. >> the county's position from the get-go last year was that if we didn't furlough employees or we didn't reduce our salaries that they would, in fact, lay off employees. >> reporter: so unionized employees fought back with a suit alleging mandatory furloughs unconstitutional. today nearly a year later the district judge agreed saying "the county's actions violate the contract clause of the u.s. constitution." williams went on to say police and firefighters must be paid back wages. ty "to comply with ly"tmpcoth mp t opweiothn will have massive wiffll be llbe filing an appeal toremedy this irresponsible decision." >> the county'stiit is shameful

do to again sit back and make these kind of threats and not look at other alternatives. >> are any firefighters worried they will lose their jobs? >> many are. that is still a reality. >> reporter: in prince george's county andrew stack, 9news now and wusa9.com. oh, the bottom line on today's ruling, prince george's county could have negotiated those furloughs through the employee union but judge alex williams ruled that the county did not have the right to order the furloughs unilaterally. more financial woes down in virginia. governor tim kaine will reportedly announce 1.3 billion in cuts to the current budget and this will be the fourth time in less than a year that the governor has had to scale back the appropriations. no details yet on exactly where those cuts will be made. let's hope john cardon's marriage goes better than his marriage proposal. cardon is a democratic state delegate from baltimore and the

nephew of senator ben cardon. he is in hot water for using taxpayer dollars while proposing to his girlfriend. he used a police chopper and on duty officers to stage a fake police raid while on a private boat. it was all meant to throw his girlfriend off since he popped the question. he apologized and has offered to reimburse the city. state lawmakers have not ruled out an ethics review. >> if he does not reimburse the city we may decide to take other steps. if we find there is something illegal that happened. >> you may want to know that cardon's girlfriend did say yes. this evening the white house is saying the president intends to stand his ground on his health care reform ideas. it says his goal is to foster choice and competition in the private health insurance markets by having that public government run option. the secretary of health caused a bit of a stir over the weekend when she said the

government's role running a universal coverage system was not "the essential element" of the overhaul. today the white house set the record straight. >> we have a goal of fostering choice and competition in a private health insurance market. the president prefers the public option as a way of doing that. if others have ideas we are open to those ideas and willing to listen to those details. that's what the president has said for months. >> republicans and southern democrats are almost universally opposed to that public option. what's in your wallet? chances are a credit card with an interest rate that is about to go up. some credit card companies are raising rates in advance of a slough of new consumer protections. bruce leshan shows what's in it for you. >> reporter: it used to be a wave of credit card officers now offers, now it is new

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welcome back. i'm meteorologist topper shutt. here is your forecast first. next three days around 90. wednesday, thursday, friday. good news is we will have good chance for showers and thunderstorms. we actually need some rainfall. best chance will be wednesday and thursday. still a chance on friday as the cold front sweeps across the eastern seaboard. weekend surrounds me. forecast in detail. overnight. partly cloudy muggy. chance of a shower or thunderstorm in overnight. low temps in the 70s. winds will turn west-northwest at 5 to 10. patchy fog possible in the

morning. 70s and 80s by morning. slight chance of a shower. light winds. by afternoon, though, that's where the bulk of the precipitation will be. showers and storms. hot again. not quite as hot as today. 98 at dulles today for a record high. 90 topping out at tomorrow. winds southwesterly at about 10. let's talk about bill. already a very, very strong storm. winds 125 miles an hour. category 3. should be a category 4 by thursday. want to review what the categories are and i will post it on my website on my blog at wusa9.com after the show. track is still pretty consistent. category 3, 8:00 p.m. sunday. well offshore. this is a very, very powerful storm and very large storm. we showed you the satellite picture earlier. one thing we look at is this is what we call spaghetti plot. each line represents a computer model. the closer the lines are the more confluent, agreement

amongst the models and more confidence we have in the path. these models are dead on for the storms. either way we are still not talking about a direct hit on the eastern seaboard, but even if it takes this track or this track we are still talking about some heavy surf and pretty big rip currents on our coast this weekend. trying to squeeze out one more weekend of summer saturday and sunday. bad for swimming, pretty good -- actually could be very good for surfing. even the surfers need to be advised of rip currents. tomorrow 90. slight chance of a shower on saturday and then cooler sunday, monday, and tuesday. i'll walk back to the desk. let me showppler dor le really quickly. a couple of storms i want to ow you. ow you. emthwill beet typr em pretty heavy. noer srne ev inwabuyegst t sis is a monster little storm. the west ofean n crossing georgia avenue and

kind of ush ushere inthe northwest. next hour the m storruns right wn east/west highway.look forn fokea hra erin there in the next hour. >> thank you, appreciate it. in tonight's living well seg. baby, oh, baby. a woman pregnant with 12 boys, six boys, six girls. the woman is in her 30s. she is married and she decided to undergo fertility treatment. doctors right now monitoring her around the clock as you might expect. you all know about the concept of play dates, right? play dates are not just for little johnny any more. there is a new way for you big folks to play and digital correspondent james hash shows us all about it. >> reporter: remember this or how about or maybe this?

>> games are for everybody. >> reporter: the group is bringing back some old ideas for a new twist in dc night life. >> come out and just be a child again. >> reporter: the formula is simple. take one part people who are a little tire of the traditional bar scene, throw in some favorite games from their childhood, add a bev beverage or two and stir. >> i want to get out and meet people but just not the way i have had to do it in the past. kind of got a little stale. >> reporter: while the play date concept is new to dc it is not new. it started in atlanta and has spread to nearly two dozen other cities so far. play date dc metro offered a sneak peek at the concept at next door on u -- yew street. >> you want to have fun with your friends. >> if you're getting tired of

the bar crawl maybe it is nighttime to think about it. >> do they have the robots? first play date is this friday night in arlington. i like hungry hippos. >> battleship is always a favorite. >> you've got to be smart to play. >> and a little bit of luck. >> hungry hippo you just have to eat them. >> what do we have tonight? nationals? >> we have a little bit of everything. steven strassburg is signed. current title holder has a chance to win tonight's game. meanwhile the redskins not immune to a little embarrassment. what they did to brian orakpo. the latest from training camp is next. 3f?f?f?ffa l-l-l-

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now 9sports with sara walsh. the best sports in town. with the record breaking signing of steven strassburg, talk around nationals park centered on the franchise's future but lately the present has been pretty sweet for washington, nats winning 11 of their last 14. tonight hosting colorado. top of the 8th tied 2-2. gonzalez homering to right. rockies go up 3-2. but in the end the nats would answer back in the 9th. cristian guzman singling. rally. ryan zimmerman at the plate. runners on the corner. rally just ended. nats fall 4-3. steven strassburg signing a 15 behind 4 million deal, four years. he will arrive on thursday. press conference expected friday. he will not make a big league appearance this season. his debut likely 2010.

while fans can't wait neither can his teammates. >> this is where it starts. he is going to be foundation for our team in the future. so it is exciting and starting now we are playing better ball an i think we will be really good in the fecks couple of years. >> orioles taking on the rays. up 2-1 in the 4th. no longer. two-run home run. the os fall. brett favre joining the minnesota viking conveniently just days after they broke camp. he arrived in minnesota this morning immediately hitting the practice field. espn reports he will get a two- year, $25 million deal. he is expected to start in minnesota's preseason game against the chiefs on friday. >> as a lot of friends and family have told me, you won't know unless you take the

changes. everyone who i have talked to, former players, coaches, just people in general said if you were to go back this is a perfect fit. >> brett favre signing means the vikings have a new starter and some folks in indianapolis had overtime printing up number 4 brett favre vikings jerseys. the quarterback's mom says she has still got to get hold of one of those. we are not trying to make excuses but when the redskins' offense faulterred they were playing the best defense. the only d better than baltimore is coming to fedex field. the steelers. the redskins offense should be better. the preseason debut of clinton portis and santana moss on the line. if you're looking for a tough test, washington is going to get it. >> they are a tough team. they are defending super bowl champs. another challenge for us to

come out and play. an experience you can't get in practice. this is an opportunity for us to go out and learn on the field. >> the training camp fund not for the rookies. today the expense for brian orakpo. he said he has been running off the field to avoid torment. >> i learned being a rookie sucks. that's the main thing. but got one season to go through and next year the next guys will get it and i will be first on board. >> you know what, i like it. no discrimination. finally how about this road trip. dc united. amelios tying the game up in the second half. check this out. he hit something else besides the ball. he is bleeding. he left the field. the game tied up at 1-1 in the second. i hope he is okay. >> that wasn't the ball. >> didn't the redskins just play the steelers last season?

>> it did not go well. >> that's what i remember. >> did not go well. >> thanks, derek. bring that up. >> we will be right back. fa

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