we have gotten hammered today by round after round of severe weather. this one shot in olney, maryland. montgomery county. heavy rain, lightning. most of the ground is now saturated. one woman managed to dodge a major league bullet when a tree uprooted and fell nearly crushing her inside of her car. >> it fell in such a way that it didn't come down fully. there's a branch holding it up. so, it's very fortunate for her and, you know, for all of us. >> reporter: fortunate indeed. there were similar problems further south in berryville. look at the mess. the rain and lightning split a tree down the middle and much of the ground is saturated. so a strong wind could cause big problems. topper has an update and there is more to not, is there nothing. >> it is unbelievable. they epng mico. rnno wamiings on the storms yet ai n.ey are heavy

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thers been a steady stream of traffic coming and d out of there. the rain has cleared out and the traffic is smooth for no hopefuy llwewi get it moving. wi if you are going to the beach get up-to-the-minute alerts at wusa9.com. tonight, football players talk for the first time about a frightening scene yesterday during practice. about 15 of their number and their coaches at kent island high suddenly falling ill right there in practice and we still don't know what caused it. brittany moorhouse has the latest. >> within five minutes everyone started to drop to the ground and throwing up and getting sick. >> reporter: a dramatic end to what would have been an ordinary practice. >> it was hot outside and we went over and got water. and once we started to drink water everybody started to throw up. >> the twins relived the moment they knew something was terribly wrong, 45 minutes after practice began. he was rushed to the hospital

in an ambulance. >> they were checking my blood pressure the whole time, checking my pulse. >> reporter: meanwhile his brother was taken to anne arundel medical center. >> they were not freaking out that bad but at anne arundel they were quarantined in the er and stuff. >> reporter: 24 hours later and hospital workers are calling the cause probable heat exhaustion that is not convincing to players because two coaches an an injured athlete got sick sit thong sidelines. nevertheless they stayed out of the heat today. as for the water it is being tested. >> our coach, he already ordered 50 cases of bottled water and until they find out we will be drinking the bottled water. >> if they don't find out. >> i guess it is another story. >> not as far as mom is concerned. if they don't find out that is not good. we need to know. >> reporter: 9 news now and wusa9.com. >> the proctor family says they are impressed how the coaches have handled this and the boys say they will get out and practice the heat again if they

had a chance to do it. monday it is back to class for dc public schools but some parents at john bur are boroughs elementary school are outrage because they say the school doesn't seem to be ready. one parent shot this video of the inside and it speaks for itself. look at this bathroom. the modernization facilities has been overseeing a summer long renovation at the school but the project was supposed to start as soon as school got out in june and parents say they didn't see work until three weeks ago. >> there were no ceiling tiles anywhere in the ceilings when you enter the building. you had electrical wires hanging. there were no lights in place. it basically looked like a brand new renovation project had just started yesterday when i went in there. >> reporter: the school system issued a statement and it reads, in part, our construction crews are putting the finishing touches on several project and in most cases are doing deep cleaning

of the facilities. but nowhere in that statement did it say that school would not start on time. a followup on a judge who deflated a tire on a woman's car because she was parked in a restricted space at the courthouse. police in la plata have issued him a citation for a misdemeanor, tampering with an automobile. now they told us he let the air out because leaving notes on the windshield doesn't work. he has been suspended on sitting on criminal cases until the matter is resolved. a police officer has been indicted on charges that he lied under oath in court. her name is deena hoffman and the case involves a man that was arrested last year for drunken driving. at the trial the officer testified she found him behind the wheel of his car but check out the video. it shows hoffman approaching from the passenger's side and when she goes to look she finds him in the backseat.

today we spoke with the defense attorney. >> i asked her, okay, now isn't it true when you first arrived there that he was in the backseat on the passenger's side. her answer, no. >> well, the judge dismissed the case against her. as for the officer she's on leave pending the outcome of her trial. look at a robbery in progress. a clerk using his cell phone camera to take this video. two men prying open an atm, grabbing the cash and speeding away in a blue truck. this happened yesterday at the chevron station at burrows and minnesota avenue in northeast. minutes later, police say the same pair robbed a nearby liquor store. it appears the bandits were using firefighters equipment, a tool similar to a crowbar and the hoods they were we'ring, the prince georges county fire department says similar gear was reported missing from a fire engine that went in for repairs last april.

political columnist robert novak was remembered today as a man who was committed to faith almost achen ann his craft. people paid their tributes to him today. he died after battle with brain cancer that was diagnosed in july of last year. he was 78. the country's first homeland security chief said he was pressured to boost the terror alert level. tom ridge served under president bush and he said that former bush cabinet members, defense secretary donald rumsfeld and attorney general john ashcroft pushed him to raise the levels before the 2004 presidential election. he details his account in a forthcoming book called "the test of our times "and he wrote in the book, i wondered is this about security or politics. if you have been wondering about the cia outsourcing missions in afghanistan are true another former intelligence officer is saying yeah, they are.

he returned from a meeting with that former agent at the white house. >> neil livings stone not only served as a former intelligence officer but runs a firm providing logistical support in iraq and afghanistan. i sat down and posed the question is the cia using contractors to hunt al-qaeda and the taliban. his unequivocal answer, yes, they are and what's more they have been doing it for a while he says. >> obama is taking a much more antiseptic attitude with respect to how you get these guys but he is still doing the same thing. target these guys, kill them and move on. >> reporter: livingstone says the practice isn't new but a departure from the bush administration's tactics that used cia contractors to go after high value targets. >> they wanted one to put distance between themselves and if you will the cia and the actual act itself. and secondly they were short of

people. they had exhausted their manpower. >> reporter: so what does livingstone think of obama's shifting approach. >> my feeling is good for obama. obama gets it with respect to afghanistan. he is surging there. we're increasing our forces. he knows we have to go after the taliban there and in pakistan. and i think obama would really like to be the guy that brings osama bin laden's head home to america. >> reporter: livingstone says the cia practice of hiring contractors to carry out missions is not a new practice and he says it has been going on since the dawn of the agency and he says he and many current cia officers would like to see it done away with. >> he mr. livingstone may love barack obama but americans may be losing confidence in him. the "washington post" abc news

survey finds less than half of americans, 49% say they now believe the president will make the right decisions for the country. the people say they are concerned over health care reform and are anxious about the growing federal budget deficit. furious relatives of americans killed on board pan am 103 in ' 88 plan to mount a protest. moammar faffty will visit the united nations next month and they plan to be there to greet him. the scottish justice officials released a man because he is dying of cancer. up next, topper is back with the weekend forecast and another look at the aftermath of today's storm rampage and ng th e ermore to come? stay with us. w?w;w?

welcome back. i'm meteorologist topper shutt. we have been talking about bill l week and this is kind of cool. look at li ppdoler an we have changed the mo doif you will. these are wave heigs, 34-foot waves. remember, this iser gyenthat tegeysnerad ag dao that will toward show. even though e deare licrle bit. ok bit. look nine, ghthei, t,nine, eig footesof the of the

intheyllllwiro arlmva ll wiroll in ni ne otfowat llver the ouit wp edrienh rr bet l coutheditp ri current will be a dangousis tuat ion. show you what it looked like earlier today. in fact, some places in new york they just flat out closed the beaches already. looking at rough surf, some rip tides and the life guards said, not going to deal with it. we will close a lot of beaches. i think you will see that in the delmarva, too. at least they should any way. let's talk about bill. it is a category two. winds 105 miles an hour. gusts to 127. probably stay a category two. could be a category three. track hasn't changed. west of bermuda and east of us. looking at a tropical storm warning for bermuda. the airport is closed as of this moment. talk about wind fields now. we showed you this last night and earlier today. these are hurricane-force winds in the deep red. and these are 40-mile an hour winds in the orange. you can see it will graze

southern new england. maybe nantucket and martha's vineyard will get tropical storm winds and then it moves out. because of the track it will introduce incredible surf for us and dangerous rip currents through the weekend. next three days, shower and thunderstorms tomorrow. we beefed up the graphic. not the greatest day tomorrow. should be dry in time for the game, 85. 85 on sunday, 85 on monday. a slight chance of a shower but those days will be nice. weekend, start with the forecast in detail. overnight showers and thunderstorms. some could be heavy. some are setting up where they set up earlier. some have been hit twice and three times tonight. winds are southwest at ten. show you live doppler 9000 and we will pinpoint some of the activity. this looks familiar. it is smaller than it was at 10:30, 8:00. that's where the line set up with the heavy rain. no warnings on these but some heavy rain and probably some flooding. we could see the activity across 66 in mclean, around the

beltway up 495, over the american legion bridge in to maryland. we are looking at a good rainfall for these, one to two inches an hour. where do they go? slowly move to the east and lift 0 off to the north. get ready for more rain and we're not done with that. once that goes by more on the way early tomorrow morning and again around lunchtime and toward the evening. not done yet. back to the computer we go. tomorrow morning, mostly cloudy showers and thunderstormsable to. -- possible. a tee time it will be tough. dicey. light winds. by afternoon, mostly cloudy. not as hot. that's the silver lining. showers and thunderstorms are possible. lower temperatures 80 to 85. winds turn northwest at ten once the fronts go through it will take much of saturday to go through. satellite picture and radar combined. the shower and thunderstorms up and down the eastern seaboard. that's where we in the front and bill is well defined in term of a hurricane.

we are looking at the eye but for the most part it is going to remain a category two as it rolls west of bermuda. an i want pressive looking storm. to the mainland, showers and thunderstorms, another line is developing. the cold front is back to the west. again, we are not out of the woods. periods of shower and thunderstorms late tonight. tomorrow and probably another round tomorrow afternoon. so get ready for that. all right. the next seven days, here we go. 85 tomorrow. shower and thunderstorms are possible. tapering off late. and then dry for the game. and almost dry for tailgating. if you tailgate long enough, you won't care. a chance of a shower but mid- 80s in late august we'll take that. 86 on tuesday. almost 90 on wednesday. more shower and thunderstorms next thursday but that will drop temperatures again in the low 80s next friday. i have a lot of storm reports. thank you, everybody, for the

storm reports and someone was kayaking on the anacostia river. fortunately she got off in time she thought she may have seen a water spout. we have not had that confirmed. >> saturday morning is dicey. >> bad saturday morning and afternoon. going to be dicey. >> thank you. as we mentioned earlier virginiaens had had their share of storm damage as well as maryland. jimmy visited with folks in berryville who, shall we say, had their landscaping altered. >> the storm hit berryville hard and fast. >> looked like a tornado. >> sounded like the house was falling in. >> trees ripped in half, power lines blown down. >> wind got up to 70 miles an hour and i looked out the front yard here and the trees are split in three sections. >> reporter: this tree came down in ron painters ' front yard. rebecca reynolds got a water feature she didn't ask for.

>> the wind took of the tree and left a pond in the yard. >> and rebecca's favorite chair. >> can't believe it is still standing and the two flower pots. amazing. >> reporter: in berryville, virginia, 9 news now and wusa9.com. >> that was once a nice tree, one it. no reports of any injuries in berryville so happy about that. not much to be happy with about the nats. signed a new player, new manager. but nothing. >> nothing. >> what's up, everybody. good news off the note, most notably stephen strasburg and the team is trying to stop the bleeding of a 3:00-game losing streak and at redskins park has anyone claimed that number two receiver spot yet? derek mcginty wants to we will o willwetell him next in

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óçm been a good week for the nats. they sol ladified the gm situation and came to terms with the number one pick. more on him in just a minute. more on the field, the team is coming off a three game series with the rockies. adam dunn solo shot his 32nd of the year. the game is tied at one. top four, it was tied and now untied. 3-2 brewers. the former nats lopez going

work. rbi base knock up the middle. brewers score three and they win 7-3 the nats have dropped four straight. now back to strasburg, the team introduced their number one pick today in front of a few hundred fans in an outdoorer is main. strasburg hasn't pitched since the end of the college season. he will build up his arm strength again and go to the florida instructional league and the arizona fall league. >> big thing is not to rush things and really go out there when i am ready. and, you know, that is obviously their decision and, you know, i understand that completely and i'm going to go out and do my thing every day and get better. >> reporter: $15 million man right there. o's, white sox, dave trembly deep in thought. thinking up a master plan. two runs shot here. he hit two home runs tonight. orioles win it 5-1. to football, no doubt who the number one wide receiver in

redskins camp, santana holding that one down. they hope thomas or kelly will step up to be number one. both have been trying to stay on field and out of the training room. thomas was ahead of kelly at camp but kelly caught three balls for 25-yards against the ravens. so it is a toss up and kelly is not sure where he stands. >> one day, you know, i come out one practice and me and santana take the rips together and another day santa that takes the rips together. i condition tell you. >> i really can't tell you. favre debut against the chiefs. almost 40-year-old man. first quarter, favre one for four. four yards. jackson remember him? i'm sorry miss jackson, your son is for real. jackson throws it up and makes the catch. jackson who many people think

will be traded. vikings win. the cowboys open the new billion dollar stadium against the titans. fourth quarter, how about a little what hao. the former virginia whiteout, catch and toe tap and cowboys win 30-10 tonight. dc united, 70,000 flocked to fedex to see real madrid one of the most storied international clubs and more star power tomorrow. beckham is in town. he is one of the most identifiable players. he has been bouncing against milan and the galaxy. the home team says they have to take care of their own business. >> we are doing all the little things you need to do to be successful. and, obviously to have some marquee players that can hurt us so we have to take care of those but play our game and the way we play at home. >> the redskins, 21 points

tomorrow. >> score maybe two. >> go for double-digits. >> i think the defense is the strong point but they will get a couple of safety. the redskins score four points tomorrow. more 9 news thafr tee break. plus, after the show, dave is all new, christina applegate a

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