commuter delays. headaches for local commuters. presidential elections, afghans stay away from the polls out of fear of militant attacks. and line of succession, ted kennedy asks leaders of his home state for a speedy replacement process. good morning. i'm andrea roane. it is thursday, august 20th. angie will have the traffic for us. >> no showers in the immediate area yet. you are good to go. you can leave your umbrella bet bu bur t latelater y ouonwi lled ne it. a check numbers. we have ernumbs.

atthave nu been sitting c'sn or ommon thread for clt anwinchester. in garrt county64. you guys have rain showers knocking the door. unt'les okthloe . let's look at it on the satellite and radar loop. this has been the game plan basically every day. we start to percolate bubbles of convection in the atmosphere. that will be the case again today. and out here to garrett county is where a batch of rain is starting to move in. allegheny county heads up for you. our weather, the scattered showers and storms. we will take you near 90 this afternoon. and the sinn set 7:56. tonight, i think they are going to be ongoing around the dinner hour. overnight we willstt arto see t things settle wnwatching hurric category three storm, 830 leom aw fromfr san juan, maryland. we he talk about where it is going and if it will affect our

weekend weather. for those that plan to hop on the capital beltway, a couple of things to tell you about. our traffic report this morning. beginning with the outer loop, this disabled vehicle is taking away two left lanes for drivers. they are getting by to the right. taillights are stacking up. backed up to the 270 spur. no fun there. move it to 270 southbound. we are jammed as we switch that camera over. i can show you from father hurley. we will skip over to the graphics and show you out in college park where we have a report of crash activity on route 1 and cherry hill road. and in northeast dc, a crash activity in north capital where it meets michigan avenue. wrap it up on 66 web eastbound. now over to andrea.

breaking news out of northwest washington, firefighters have successfully rescued a window washer in northwest. the worker became trapped inside the atrium of the building in the 1 a hundred block of -- avenue after the scaffolding collapsed. the technical rescue team brought the worker down shortly after 8 a.m. not he was not injured. construction caused problems for commuters in prince georges county. several lanes were closed along 95 between baltimore and washington. crews closed the lanes so they could do construction on the icc, the 18-mile icc will connect u.s. route 1 with 270. all the lanes reopened an hour ago, shortly after 8 a.m. presidential elections are happening right now in afghanistan. people have been flocking to the polls in some parts of the country while voters living in rural areas appear to be

staying away from the polls. is a closely watched election as troops have become more involved in fighting with the taliban. happened karzai is expected to win. the war in afghanistan is not worth fighting. that's the finding of a new "washington post" poll. 51% of the 1,000 people who were polled said the war was not worth fighting and 47% said it was. the cia reportedly spent several million dollars on an unsuccessful program to kill top members of al-qaeda. the new york times reports that the private military contractor blackwater usa was hired to help, plan and conduct surveillance for the program. blackwater usa changed the name after it came under heavy criticism for the role in a shooting in baghdad that left 17 iraqi civilians dead. we have a story developing in massachusetts today.

senator kennedy has written a letter to state leaders to ask a change in the law to allow a speedy replacement for his position in the senate. the law was changed in 2004 to require a special election for vacancies. the letter was sent on tuesday but kennedy aides insist his condition has not changed, but questions came up last week when the senator missed the funeral for his sister eunice kennedy shriver. the state of virginia is making the biggest budget cuts in modden history. governor kaine originally called a special session to address a u.s. supreme court ruling which could affect prosecutions and convictions. once lawmakers approved a temporary plan to address that topic they changed their focus to the revenue short fall which is estimated at $1.5 billion. political experts say it could cae inth e ange in the e'atp sttos office. >> it is bound to help the

republicans as they run an tr recapture the govet sh ofwer po t years. everything has theie it is time for the change theme. that's how the party out of power gets in power. >> reporter: now that he knows the short fall governor kaine will announce the budget cuts next month. some democratic activists say it could be disastrous. the president hinted that he could live without the public option in the health care reform plan in order to get something passed before the end of the year. the liberal democrats progressives, members of the congressional black caucus are screaming cloudily about this an dr. dean is leading the

charges as well saying this is not possible. is he hurting the president's efforts at getting any reform through. >> the meeting definitely needs to be taken behind closed doors right now. what we are seeing is $1.4 million spent per day on health care lobbyists. they outnumber people on the hill right now 6-1 on the hill right now an we are starting to hear these things come through because the president is growing increasingly skeptical about passing, getting something, even a bill written with a public option. >> now robert gibbs said the president wasn't backing down on the public option but it also says the white house is sort of confused. what's going on the west wing? >> it is amazing. i said it before and i will say it again and i will say it next time. president obama ran as close to a possible perfect campaign as i have ever seen.

but governing he is woeful. he lost control of the health care debate and the mistake he made is turning over the crafting of the bill to the congress. >> i wouldn't say he lost control so much as it is time to refocused. the president wants to be open to input and in some ways it is time for him to take back the power a little bit and for lack of a better phrase be a little more like bush. he wanted to do it in his way and he just wants too many people contributing to the process and it is time to refocus. >> did you hear what she says she wants a democratic president to be like a republican [ laughter ] >> the president has always said that he wanted voices contributing to the discussion. now, we know republicans have been extraordinarily disruptive. they have come and had groups go in to town hall meetings with a disruptive source of

outbursts instead of being productive debater and contributing to the discussion in that way. it is now time for the president to get on track and say this is how it is going to be. >> john boehner says that's the way the president has been acting all along. >> of course he say that. >> but everything he has done with the town hall meetings suggest the opposite. >> is it too late to gain that control. this seems totally out of control. people angry, screaming, yelling, not making sense well heard congressman frank talking to a woman yesterday but no one is really discussing a concrete issue or concrete bill, which we really don't have. >> republicans need to sit back and shut up and let the democrats continue to go down this path. >> why shouldn't the republicans be part of the plan? even if they are not working with the administration. we don't hear a plan from them either. >> that's a problem. >> while they are continuing

with the disruption of the democrat president's plan they have no plan of their own. and now we see that no plan is better than a bad plan. so the democrats need to get leadership together and figure out the message going forward and stick to that. >> here's the problem with that. i think as a result of how obama handled the health care it will impact the result of these governor races coming up in virginia and new jersey. watch it. >> as they say the party in power is usually the one that loses during the administration of whoever the president is, whether it is republican or democrat. >> but don't give them additional help with that. because before this health care debate i think the democrats were assured to win these governor seats. i'm not so sure anymore. >> reporter: the administration said they never intended the public option portion of the health care reform plan to take the spotlight as it is. is that an ingenius statement? it seems like that was a hallmark. how do you insure people who

are uninsured and people who don't have cobras if you don't have a public option. >> they have always intended there to be access and the president bush is getting all the health care providers on board with what the president wants. i think the problem might be in language and less in the intent. >> reporter: we are not just talking about governor races, there are congressional races in 2010 and we said all along if nothing happens in 2009 we have lost the scope. do you feel it is slipping away? >> absolutely not. i think there is time. we somewhere just under 80 days before governor -- at least the governor's race in virginia and there's time to get on message and have victory this november. >> the problem for the obama administration is he is trying to please everybody and alienate everybody in the process and now that the public option is back about he has put himself in the corner, republicans are no way to going to support that and there's -- this is going to be an all

democratic bill seriously. >> the republicans get back to the point. they have no message and they have no message. >> but we are not governing, either. that's the difference. >> in the absence of that there is an opportunity for democrats to refocus. >> can the democrats hold on to congress in 2010 based on what we are seeing right now. >> i think they can. allison got it right. republicans have no message and nothing to say and short of that the democrats will screw up all they want and they are doing a great job but if we don't have a message the democrats win by default. >> we have to let it rest there. thank you very much. good to see you again. we'll be right back.

the scotticish government the lockerbie bomber is dying from prostate cancer and they have released him. he was sentenced to prison for the ' 88 bombing of the flight over lockerbie scotland which killed 273 people. he will now be allowed to return to libya to die near family. the white house says the united states deeply regret gets the decision. don hewitt the creator of 60 minutes has died. he had been suffering from pancreatic cancer. he was 86 years old.

sunday night's 60 minutes broadcast will be dedicated to hewitt. you can watch it here starting at 7 p.m. newly discovered records show virginia tech gunman cho denied having suicidal thoughts 18 months before the massacre. cho's family agreed to release the details of the files. a production playing at the olney theater center takes you in the life of one of the greatest criminal defense lawyers of all time. it is called "a passion for justice. " the star of the one man show is here with us now. paul good to have you on 9 9 news now congratulations on the show which has been here and in your mind and you have been living with clarence daro since 2000. >> yeah. >> we have had one man shows. henry fonda did one, why did we need something else? >> i think there are two

reasons. daro is timely as resident as ever today. in fact if you look at the headlines, in terms of capital punishment, race relations, professor gates. it is as if he had one foot in the present and one foot this the future and other portrayals really show him as the icon, as the saint, as the person you admire that you don't really identify with. and this doesn't set out to demystify him but sets out to show an actual human being and i think he becomes more heroic as a result of that. >> when we think of clarence daro we think of two high profile cases, the scopes trial, leo poland and lobe trials but there is more to him. how did you find out more about him than what we have seen elsewhere? how much research did you do to pull this together? you are not only the star but the creator developer of this.

>> it is a production that is continuing to evolve because there is much more material about daro that continues to come out. the way this particular presentation evolved initially there was the henry fonda version of clarence daro. i was in rehearsals for that and luckily nielsen pulled our rights on that and we thought what would the do? and we feud a flawed contradictory daro and human, accessible daro and in this presentation we let the summations breathe a little more and they have more power and potency. they become arguments and summations that actually resonate on an emotional an intellectual level as well. >> reporter: where did this passion for justice come from inside of daro? his father was an abolitionist and his mother worked for women's rights. >> he is actually been quoted

several times as saying, i'm not here to use the law to protect my client. i'm here to protect my client from the law. he happened to be able to channel his gifts, his empathy to his fellow man through the law and so he was able to actually do what you would want a representative to do to actually represent someone, to actually become them and he had, he was a social reformer, he was a philosopher. he was quoted as saying behind every lawyer is the rack of a poet and we had all kinds of dynamics about him and the law is where he would channel his gifts. >> you teenage about the law and how he practiced and what he dealt with. the cases he took. does the dialogue, does the dynamic of the show change night to night, an issue in the paper. does it inform the production as well? >> it does. because in this particular one, unlike other one-person shows

where, say there would be an imagine jury the audience actually becomes injuries for certain summations and just like the relationship between an actual advocate and a jury, there's a conversational dynamic. the audience does contribute to which direction the play will go on a particular night. whether the summations will be allowed to breathe more, whether they will be truncated and it is immediate and spontaneous and i have three hours of material that doesn't come out. but the audience will help to contribute and dictate to which direction we move on any given night. so it has a liveness to it. a mallability that a lot of one- person shows don't. >> amazing an criminal defense attorney like daro what could have been the difference in cases and no knows with the dna and cia concept now how things could have changed. >> a lot of the law, the rules were changed because of the way he practiced law back then and

you can't get away with the things he did then but they are fascinating pieces and he would sometimes mesmerize juries for hours on end just by standing there, talking to them and communicating with them and a lot of these summations, wonderfully theatrical and powerful riff and he would deliver them extemporaneously with these people and aware that it wasn't just about what was going on here. yes it was about his client but there was a bigger picture. he had that larger-than-life picture. >> thank you for being here. it is on stage at the olney theater center until september th and tell your mom hello. >> i will. >> kim has an update on the forecast it. >> is cloudy and we are in the 70s. great to have you with us this morning. a lot of 70s on the map. this is nice. a slower pace approaching the 80s due to that cloud cover

around. here's how it looks from the satellite advantage point, 22 miles above the ground we can see a deck of clouds but no rain drops falling yet. western maryland had a few earlier and looks like thunderstorms are already brewing across west virginia. you know the drill. we did this yesterday. and we will do it again today. we are setting the stage for scattered afternoon thunderstorms with some locally heavy downpours. temperatures approaching 90. average high is 85. tonight, some thunderstorms will take you through the dinner hour and the commute home needless to say. and probably starting to quiet down once your head hits the pillow. as we focus on the time lams tower cam you can see the clouds from last night and this morning, starting to push out of the way. we have haze out there and temperatures, as i mentioned, are working toward the 90- degree mark at 5:00. the air quality is code yellow, which is in the moderate category. here's how we compare to other regions. frederick is nearly 80.

75 quantico. across the chesapeake, easton is 77 and one degree cooler than that in the greater winchester area with that 76. i'm watching these thunderstorms off to the west. the bulk of the energy will be coming through on friday and saturday. ahead of it, though. we're in the warm sector of the storm and that's where we can see these little arrows from the south indicating the warmth and moisture off the gulf of mexico. so it is a steamy air mass. on for hair. yeah, i know. extra hair spray today, everybody. here's the latest on hurricane bill. now a category three storm with winds of 125 miles an hour. notice the computer models con to bend it up to the northwest and eventually north. where does this put bill over the weekend compared to us? it keeps it in the atlantic ocean. however we are expecting strong swells from this and probably some rip tides. you want to plan your vacation around this possible if you are heading to ocean city. there's the seven day, i'm

saying sunday is the day to go for being outside this weekend. lower humidity and lower temperatures 85. now, back to andrea. >> thank you, kim. montgomery county could be facing tough choices involving budget cuts. just when some thought the worst was over. here now is ike leggett. good to have you with us. >> good to have you back. >> end of july you said to help balance the county budget, employees maybe laid off or told to take unpaid leave this year. your reaction to the prince georges ruling the federal court saying that their furloughing of union workers was unconstitutional. >> we are reviewing that to see what application it would have in montgomery county and jurisdictions outside of the state of maryland. and hopefully we will have some responses to it soon. that's just one of the options that we will have to exhaust in terms of resolving the challenges we have before us. we are not sure at this point in time what the impact will be in montgomery county.

>> reporter: specifically dealing with union workers but even under that, taking that option or any option off of the table, how detrimentals that to you as you try to balance the budget? >> it restricts the options you have and right now we have exhausted a large number of options already and clearly in this approach it will be very difficult, if we have that option off the table. certainly that is not the only option but it will certainly have a damaging impact if we cannot exhaust and outize all the options. >> you are anticipating bad news from the governor. the will detail the cuts to the jurisdictions that he will be making to balance the state state's budget. >> it is bad news because the governor has fewer options himself. he looked at a very difficult budget situation for a number of years and certainly he announced last week in ocean city that all the local jurisdictions throughout the state of maryland will absolve

$250 million. montgomery county will take a portion of that obviously. you have to keep in mind in montgomery county we reduced short falls thus far of $1.2 billion over the last three budget cycles. to have an additional am on top of what we already anticipated which is $370 million will be very, very difficult. >> reporter: you said to 9 news last week that one thing you will promise residents you will not raise taxes to balance in the budget. in light of the bad news and what the ruling could mean to the county can you afford to keep that promise? >> i will. we will not raise taxes. i made that commitment last year and we will continue it next year. it means of course we will have to make reductions in programs and services but i think that is better than to raise taxes at this point in time. there are other suggestions i have talked about in past so you can look at those options to help but taxes will not be

part of the budget that i will make. >> do you think the council will be more receptive in light of what is happening. >> we have always said that we will have to. because i think when are you look back at the logic in the opposition to this and the kinds of things you have to do to avoid it to reduce our budget, to layoff people, reduce programs and services when you have the amounts of money we are talking about that you can get from the insurance company subsidies from the federal government and medicare and medicaid it doesn't make sense to me and people are realizing it. >> we talked to professor greenberg and we were talking about the ruling an he brought up things about, jurisdictions needing to keep employees, help employees maybe longer on their jobs in order to deal with the h1n1 flu virus. do you have the money? do you have the plan in place in montgomery county for

businesses, for government operations to make sure this doesn't get out of control in the county? that's going to cost money. >> there are three things i want to do in montgomery county. first of all is public safety. that would be part of that. second ensure our education system is top rate and thirdly have -- when you are trying to deal with this it is one of the things we will fully address. >> did you see a light at the end of the tunnel anytime soon. >> there maybe a light but some think it maybe an oncoming train. we will get through this. i'm fairly optimistic given the help we have received in the past in working together locally and understanding we will have tough times we will get through this. i think we will come out better at the end end. >> we hope you are right. >> thank you. >> thanks for joining us. we'll be right back. it's a revolution in pain relief.

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welcome back. a live look at the jefferson monument. another beautiful day out there. is there life behind bars? michael vick's life was in jeopardy after his prison term and other -- others face conflicts. what is the key to surviving life after prison. a criminallologist is out with a new book called beyond bars rejoining society after prison. thanks for joining us to talk about your new book. >> thank you. >> we see the scenes all the time in the movies. prisoner is released from prison. the family and friends are waiting outside of the gate but that isn't the typical situation that a lot of prisoners face. what is typical for that process when they first get out of prison. >> many prisoners are lucky if their family or friends are waiting for them at the door of

the prison. most likely they maybe given gate money or a bus ticket and they have to make their way back to their city from where they came or where they are going. they may very well be dropped off from a prison van to a halfway house. many things are uncertain in the first 24 hours, week or month. they are faced with a number of challenges. number one finding a place to live. number two, finding a job and suitable employment and reconnecting with loved ones. if those loved ones are close by. if they haven't completely written them off. they have a lot of obstacles in front of them they must deal with on a daily basis. >> reporter: what's the number one hurdle that eck cons face when they are getting out of prison, when they are facing a new world. >> getting a job is a major hurdle and increasingly more difficult in tough economic times. in particular when a person applies for a job now, the

employer will do a background check, a criminal background check. most job applications have a box that asks have you been arrested? have you been convicted? what's the nature of your crime? what that will kill an application from the get-go. in this book we talk about strategies to deal with those shortcomings. and it is also very difficult for convicts while they are behind bars or in a halfway house to apply for jobs. most jobs these days are advertised through the internet and the web. there's a lot of a application process done through the internet and they don't have access to the web. they have to depend on friends and family to bring that information to them and we say, hey, listen, this is a time for you to be creative. don't worry about applying to regular jobs, minimum wage jobs which most excons get. we say it is time to go in to business. here we are talking about lawn care business, dog walking, pet

sitting. we are talking about small scale farming. working flee markets. there's a lot of opportunities where an excon does not need to depend on somebody else to give them a job and so we talk about how to negotiate these kinds of challenges. so that an excon can make a decent living and navigate those hurdles. >> reporter: the economics of what happens with an offender, an exoffender often times leads them to crime again. that's one of the things we see with recidivism and crime. are there any things the prison system can do when the prisoners are inside to help them navigate the economic times ahead of them? >> no question about it. there are programs in our jails and in our prisons that can train convicts for their life beyond bars.

basic simple getting a ged, that sort of thing. but the problem is those kinds of lab taytive type of programs are in short supply. and because in a criminal justice system, particularly after 9/11 we have cut back to bare bones kinds of programs in our correctional facilities we see less and less of these each day. so it is very, very difficult for an individual who's behind bars to take advantage of these programs because those programs no longer exist or they are operating at a bare bones kind of fashion. so it is very difficult behind bars, but if there are any programs behind bars, take advantage of them while you can. >> beyond bars is the new book. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. thank you so much. now throw it over to angie who has an update on your traffic. >> thank you, jessica. i want to remind you i invite you to join me on-line to connect and get your personalized traffic report. find me on facebook, shoot me an e-mail, follow me on

twitter. talking about the traffic on the outer loop. better news at the american legion bridge, the disabled vehicle is out of here. congestion is breaking apart nicely. moving to 270. on this interstate heading southbound one slow ride father hurley to montross and that is thanks to earlier accidents that are out of the way. going to inbound new york avenue. a heavy commute all morning. looks like we have a good amount of volume between the times building and bladensburg road. virginia, what's up on 395? looks like we are stop and go, a solid delay from 495 to the 14th street bridge. we are estimating this drive time at 20 minutes. let's round it out with the capital beltway. time in virginia. on the inner loop from braddock to 66 we are below speed and on the outer loop van doren to eisenhower using our brakes, as well. and that is because we have some construction we are dealing with. that's the latest look at traffic. 9 news now will be right back with more news foyou

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many people in this part of the world can't get enough of it. i'm talking about old bay seasoning and we have a chef that will share the right amount of spices. i understand this is a big year. >> this is the 70th anniversary of old bay. we have been around a long time and we started in the chesapeake, maryland area but we are worldwide now. people around the world love their old bay. >> we think of crab cakes. >> crab cake and shrimp and crabs are what the blend was designed for. the first was delicious shrimp and crab seasoning. not real catchy so it was change. the name and seasoning stuck and you can see in part of it

has a lot of uses. we it on wings, ribs, grab cakes. >> potato chips. >> popcorn, french fries so many uses that you can use old bay for. >> today you are making gazpacho nacho. >> it is getting hot and people don't want to heat up the kitchen. this is a good appetizer or soup. let's walk through it. >> it is simple, too it. >> is simple and we want people to enjoy the summertime and not spend a lot of time in the kitchen. we are fresh tomatoes and cucumbers. it is summer and the produce is wonderful. >> farmers markets. >> you have got that right. >> fresh onion. >> we will add that little olive oil. >> we have recipes on old bay.com if you are a recipe man

or woman but i like to wing it. >> you put oil in there. >> little oil and little red wine vinegar. you want to chill this for 30 minutes before you serve it. it will let the flavors marry. top it off with a little jumbo lump crab and serve it with tore see ya, peta chips, little old bay on top and you have a fantastic appetizer. >> ten minutes between chopping up and mixing. >> it couldn't get simpler, honestly it couldn't. when you think of old bay, people are passionate about old bay. when you talk to somebody about it their eyes light up and they really get happy about it. >> i loved -- lived in louisiana for a while. and people are passionate about their cajun spices. and so here old bay. >> we have stories of people doing an old bay wedding. some guy got an old bay tattoo. that is commitment. >> did they send you pictures. >> if you go on-line to old

bay.com all kinds of stories. >> the other recipes. >> everything is on old bay.com. it is separated by shrimp, crab, fish, other, whatever you are in the mood for we can definitely hit that. even on a sunday morning brunch, if it is not sunday and i know it is not brunch but here you go. >> kevin, we have the recipe also on our website. >> bonn appetite. thank you for coming in. here's a look at entertainment news today. the winner of the first season of "survivor" richard hatch was jailed on tuesday just hours after an interview with him aired on nbc's today show. hatch has been serving the remainder of a prison term for tax evasion under home confinement. but a spokesperson says he was taken in to custody because the interview violated the terms of his house arrest. the black eyed peas have made chart history. they have held the top spot for

20 consecutive weeks. the sing bomb bomb p.o.w. topped the chart and replaced by i have a feeling which has been number one forking aweeks. the articling con county fair is underway. it is one of the few fairs with free admission. it has great food, rides and a lot more. the fair runs through monday. when we come back, we will check in with wall street and kim will have a check on the seven-day forecast. ?ñ??

time to check the numbers on wall. and the street does not like the unexpected jump in jobless claims. you can see the dow is off 24 points. the nasdaq down 3 and 3/4 and the s&p off almost two.

here's a look at what's on tap for the rest of the week, rather tomorrow on 9 news. what do the latest figures about the housing mark mean for the local economy. dr. stephen fuller weighs in and a major political announce from airlock aol county council member and back to school looks on a budget. join us tomorrow for 9 news at 9:00. here's our seven-day forecast. you know what ladies a lot like yesterday. a little more cloud cover than yesterday at this time. so maybe it will help us stay cooler. but some thunderstorms will be brewing an they will be with us, especially tomorrow and then hopefully early on saturday. sunday we should be clearing out. i will be here the rest of the morning until noon. i'm at my live chat room at my blog. a special shoutout to john paul who says i look especially nice today. he gets a shoutout for that. >> thank you. i just posted on my blog and talk about how you can connect with us on lynn and on

facebook. come and join us on wusa9.com. >> we're covered. >> spare time on your hands. >> absolutely. the news continues 24 hours a day at wusa9.com. as kim said she and j.c. will be back for 9 news now at noon. all of us will be back bright and early tomorrow morning starting at 4:55. i'll see you and you and we'll see you, as well. have a great day. (announcer) back to school means back to busy mornings.

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