and another across from nbc. they are among the lowest flowing hydrants in the city. thfipare detirtment says it is aware of the issue and is creating balance for places like this one. firefighters were on hand today in another low flow area. oregon knolls. two hydrants aren't working. >> they are trying to put together a plan to have adequate water pressure here to fight a fire, not using our hydrants. >> i'm surae chinn in richmond where a special session is being overshadowed by lawmakers dealing with major budget cuts. instead the focus of lawmakers a $1.5 billion shortfall. >> there won't be anything in state government that at least won't get analyzed. >> government job losses? >> it is likely there will be more. >> reporter: governor tim kaine made the official announcement today at the joint finance committee's meeting at the state capitol. he says the state's estimated

revenue is down by nearly 1.5 billion for the two-year budget that ends in june. >> we are starting to make reductions that will not be easy at all and will mean some change in the level of services. >> the significance here isn't just the $1.5 billion, it comes right after a $3 billion shortfall in the last session we were dealing with. >> it is bounds to help the republicans. >> i'm audrey barnes. prince george's county fire an police departments aren't exactly celebrating a judge's decision declaring furloughs unconstitutional. the ruling could mean layoffs for both. county officials say they are appealing the ruling which would force them to refund $17 million to some 5900 employees. they are threatening massive layoffs if the ruling stands. union leaders who took the county to court over the furloughs says layoffs would jeopardize public safety. >> we are answering 40 to 50,000 more calls than we did

10 years ago with less people. and it would be a detriment to the public to lay public safety employees off at this time. >> reporter: they are going back to court to stop a second round of furloughs which got underway this pay period. >> we are expected to be in contract negotiations and we hope that we can come to some final resolution in this with last year's and this year's potential furloughs and layoffs. time now for a quick look at that forecast. popup storms moving through our part of the world. what's going on out there, top? >> things have quietened down. forecast first. for tonight leftover storms. muggy again. wow. lows in the 70s. even downtown. even in the burbs talking low 70s. todownlow to mid-70s. winds sout ureres--dscl ou . mperures -- clouds temps down. 82 downtown atbut temps down. 82 downtown wn frederick.

nmin manassas. montgomery county, prin activity popped up in the last a ty popped up in the last ti couple of hours. hak ncand e errdbo thborder into pennsylvania headed toward adams county. we will come back and talk about those storms and we will talk about hurricane bill category 4. we will tell you where he is headed. >> thank you, topper. newly discovered records show virginia tech gunman seung- hui cho denied having homicidal thoughts to a school counselor 18 molv hehe committed that massacre. his family agreed to release the details of those files . the records were discovered a few weeks ago. back in april of 2007 cho killed 32 students and faculty on the blacksburg campus before killing himself. deadliest day in baghdad since u.s. troops withdrew two months ago. close to 100 people killed in a string of bombings that

targeted government buildings. more than 400 others are hurt. the prime minister believes sunni rgsuints are su responsible. tonight we learned that grew up in our area ne was killed in afghanstan. he wentto schod leilguau stwe roadside bombing. he was 23 years old. the national cold war museum wants to make a permanent home in virginia. executive director says the museum has more than $3 million of cold war relics. the museum could share facilities with an existing museum in maryland. powers is the son of gary powers who was shot down back

in 1960. a 76-year-old black man is beaten and a white man is charged. police say it all happened yesterday when the man was fishing with his wife at a baltimore city park. they say the suspect, 28-year- old calvin lockner has a tattoo of hitler and uses the last name hitler as his nickname. a security guard called police right after. >> they hit him from behind with a bat. knocked him on the ground. kicked him. his left eye was shut it was like a golf ball. >> he suffered severe head trauma, loss two teeth. as for lockner he is being held without bail. washington, dc, is the easiest city in wha le a job in the entire country. that b coing rda to acinrdto a e

ed indeed. jacksonville, baltimore, salt la cd itcaany annew york thsurv tye theyrv found there are six v job posting for every unemployed postings r thfoe r the city. george mason analyst contributes those good marks to growth in the federal government. >> there are more federal jobs available now than there have been in recent decades. >> in addition to the federal government the job sectors with the most openings right now are health care and education. his vision became the blue print for broadcast journalism. a look back at the life and legacy of don hewitt. should go bloggers be held responsible for they at they po online. i'm lindsey mastis. that story is coming up. 9news now is brought to you by your honda dealer.

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news legend. he created "60 minutes." don hewitt dead of pancreatic cancer at the age of 86. this sunday 60 minutes will dedicate its entire show to its creator. cbs news white house correspondent bill plant worked with him. thank you for talking with us today, bill. >> my pleasure to be here. >> people like to throw the word legend around. what sets don hewitt around from a lot of other talented news folks? >> there was this guy in the control room when i first joined cbs of the new walter cronkite evening news, 1964. he was always yelling and screaming but he had great ideas. he was full of ideas. some of them were lousy but a lot of them were great. above all, he understood that television was about pictures. and that really was something that a lot of us didn't get back toward the beginning.

he came in 1948, television really was infant and he helped bill the idea that pictures meant just as much as the words and that's how he built the success of "60 minutes" as well. >> he talked about tell me a story. came down to those four words when it came down to news magazine. why do you think that formula was so hard to duplicate? >> you know what, it is because it is so simple. and it remains today almost exactly the same as it was when it started so many years ago. there is a person framed in the camera very close and that person is telling you something. and the reporter is asking questions. sometimes very tough questions. and you kind of get the idea. and they edit it so there is a storyline. that's what hewitt was really good at. you should have seen him in the edit room. people would put together a piece, worked hard on it for

days. then it would go to be screened by the boss. and he would tear it apart. no, this goes there. this goes here. and it would always be better. >> don hewitt is also credited with the idea or coming up with the idea that news could make money. you could make the argument that's a good thing and a bad thing. >> once said in 1978 news division first reported a profit or break even, no good will come of this. >> is there a don hewitt story that particulars out for you personally, bill? >> several. but i think my favorite one is when we were all covering -- i was a junior reporter covering one of the first moon shots, i guess, and hewitt was on the line, you could hear him loud and clear in every direction saying, no, no, i said the moon. i mean, you know, only don hewitt. >> bill plant, thank you.

we appreciate it. a tremendous loss but a tremendous career. >> pleasure. >> once issunday "60 nu isay "60 s" tewill owshowspl ia tribute to its creator. sunday night, 7:00 p.m., right here 9news now. he was nearly beaten within the inch of his life. today the mayor attacked with a metal pipe breaks topperer ll be back with the forecast. keep it right here. 9news now is sponsored in part by popeyes. gó

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welcome back. people who post messages online anonymously may no longer have the right or the ability to keep their identity secret after a judge ruled in favor of a model who sued google to learn the name of an anonymous blogger. lindsey mastis, digital correspondent, has that story. >> reporter: making headlines.

the model sued google and won. she now knows the name of an anonymous blogger who posted nasty comments about her online. but should internet companies ever reveal anonymous bloggers' identities? >> you say something against someone, you should be able to back up what you said. >> it is not fair. they probably wouldn't say what they wanted to say if they were unmasked, identified. >> reporter: many bloggers want to remain anonymous so they can say whatever they like online. it is kind of like talking behind someone's back. but if they are identified it would be the same as saying the same statement to someone's face. >> every time you write something anonymously you open up the possibility that someone will recognize that is your voice or those are facts you have. >> reporter: a blocking expert with new media strategies says bloggers should not expect to stay anonymous especially after this ruling. >> only if you are actively seeking to make trouble on the

internet would i worry about being exposed. >> reporter: but he believes kohn should have ignored the blog post because many people don't take anonymous blogs seriously anyway. in washington, i'm lindsey mastis, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> kohn reportedly contacted the woman responsible for the blog and has forgiven her but still is planning to sue for defamation. barrett tried to break up a fight and was beaten with a metal pipe and lost several teeth, arm is in a big cast. towed he told what happened. >> we don't want to jeopardize in any way that criminal case but i think it is fair to say that things got very, very ugly, very, very quickly. >> police are holding a suspect but so far no charges have been

filed. cash for clunkers consumer alert in tonight's living smart focus. be aware if a car dealer asks you to sign a contract that says you will pony up 35 to $4500 rebate for your clunker if the government denies the claim. a federal advisory states customers are not required to sign those sorts of agreements. consumer advocates are asking federal officials to crackdown on dealers who participate in that practice. they say the dealers are taking advantage of car buyers. stormy weather. >> quietened down. got a great e-mail from a guy in lower end of maryland. he said you saw wall clouds and three funnels. that was an earlier tornado warning for st. mary's county. >> no reports of a touchdown? >> popup storms right now out to the west. next three days. scattered storms. 91 tomorrow. those that develop can be

hefty. 91 on friday. more storms with the cold front. cold front may take until saturday, late morning to clear our areas. consequently maybe some more showers and thunderstorms in the morning. but cooler. high temperatures on saturday in the upper 80s. >> tonight early storms. lows in the 70s. winds southwesterly at 5 to 10. let me show you live doppler. most of the activity is now finally cleared. southern maryland and northern neck pushing across the bay and eventually to probably ocean city south will be affected. we will zoom up to the north. this storms hasn't been moving anywhere so consequently we have a flood warning in effect for morgan county. west virginia the storm really hasn't moved much at all and rainfall rates are 2 to 2.5 inches per hour. please be advised of flooding up here. this floods all the time in higher terrain. if you are between bass and largent and about to cross 552. it will cross 552 in the next

hour. back to the computer we go. we thwill talk about temperatures. clouds kept temps down today. 83 gaithersburg. 84 in fredericksburg down 95. tomorrow morning partly cloudy. very warm. 70s and 80s. winds southwest at 10. by afternoon partly sunny. hot again. showers and thunderstorms. some could be hefty. high temps around 90. winds southwesterly at 10. hurricane bill. satellite picture. it is a massive storm. a textbook storm too. clearly can see the eye. 30 miles in diameter. the storm itself about 300 miles in diameter. it will miss puerto rico, miss the dominican and miss jamaica as it begins to turn more to the north and eventually to the northeast. category 4 right now winds 135 miles per hour. here is the track. what we call spaghetti plot. each colored line represents a computer model and each line

represents where that computer model thinks it is going to go. closer the lines are together the more in agreement the computers are the more confidence we have. pretty close. it is dead on here pretty much then there is some variation but not much. it will go west of bermuda and it will probably impact them in a pretty big way. also so big even if it takes this track either the one farthest to the east or farthest to the west we are still looking at rip currents, possibly some beach erosion and maybe a couple of bands of showers along the coast. will be a tough weekend this weekend in terms of swimming. lifeguards will be pulling people out left and right. thursday and friday showers and thunderstorms. around 90. saturday upper 80s. should be nice for the redskins game saturday night. weather will be nice there. we are hosting the pittsburgh team. they are kind of good. back into the 80s on monday and tuesday back up to near 90 on wednesday. >> thank you, topper.

appreciate it. weird news file. zombies taking over the planet? the question if there was to be a battle between zombies and living who would win in they even compiled a model of a zombie attack using films like shawn of the dead and 28 days later. they have concluded that a zombie outbreak no matter how remote the possibility would likely lead to the collapse of civilization and we would like to remind them that zombies can be defeated due to the fact that they are not real. >> we want to hear what you think. send your e-mails to mcginty's mail bag. mailbag@wusa9.com. 9news now will be right back. fa 3f?f?f?f

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tonight. building in subway access to phone users. the cell phone proposal he says is nuts. bad enough drivers are falling asleep but now to hear yakking on cell phones and people stabbing each other to get to wi-fi. this from our good friend karen in alexandria very concerned about the direction the health care reform debate is taking. i had always hoped that the public option would survive to compete effectively with private health insurance so that once the general public was eased into it and over time had gotten over their fear it would have eventually dominate the business and become the insurer of overwhelming choice. apparently i'm in the minority and obama will be caving to the venom of the town hall meeting. what we end up with after this debate? seems to me like same old same

old. or a bridge to nowhere. you may be speaking too soon, karen. no doubt the battle is confusing and frightening but the final outcome still very much in doubt from where i sit. now one from virginia. they have just about had it with reality shows. cbs has gone too far in allowing the reality show big brother to show indiesent hand gestures and rude and unacceptable behavior in a prime time slot. this past episode tuesday was the last time we will watch. no wonder "dancing with the stars" and singing bee are doing so well. i'm not a reality show fan so i didn't see the episode in question or really any episode, actually. so hard for me to comment on that but you can chime in whatever you like on reality shows or anything else you're thinking about. the address is at wusa9.com. please, don't forget to include

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