captions by: caption colorado, llc (800) 775-7838 comments@captioncolorado.com good evening, everyone. thanks for joining us. powerful storms are sweeping across our viewing area, heavy rain and flood watches in effect in many areas. there are some scattered power outages. strong winds have toppled trees across the region. here in bethesda, trees were knocked over along river road and springfield drive. not too far away in northwest d.c., the trees came down along massachusetts avenue and mccomb streets. despite the weather, it is a big night in town for sports fans. the kirensds, naonals, and d.c. united are all playing at

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it has been downgraded to a category one. it was swamped and imhas swampe bermuda with flooding. here is a look at ocean city, maryland. hari sreenivasan has the latest on bill. >> reporter: hurricane bill blew by bermuda saturday morning. >> some people were nervous about coming here even. i don't see any flying palm trees. this is just a windy day. it's incredible just to, you know, take it as an experience to see what nature provides. >> reporter: the storm cut power to several thousand people. >> we've got no electricity. >> reporter: but bermuda was mostly spared from bill's peak winds. nasa is also watching the storm as they prepare for the liftoff of the shuttle "discovery" to the international space station early tuesday. we should see it near launch

time. >> reporter: even though hurricane bill is hundreds of miles off the coast, all along the eastern seaboard, surf's up. the crashing waves are giving surfers some wild rides. >> i'm liking the waves. it's a lot bigger than usual. >> reporter: the conditions are not favorable for swimmers. fears about potential deadly rip currents prompted many beaches to prohibit swimming. >> it's fun to watch, but you don't dare go in it. you'll be in for the ride of your life. >> reporter: tropical storm warnings are issued for the massachusetts coast including martha's vineyard. president obama and his family are scheduled to visit sunday. bill is also forecast to make a direct hit on canada's maritime provinces sunday. hari sreenivasan, cbs news, new york. the redskins faithful are heading to fedex field right now for the second preseason game, but what will the sloppy conditions mean for the starters playing time tonight? let's go out to the stadium.

hi, sarah. >> reporter: we are not on the field but here in the tunnel because let's be reel, we're getting out of the elements. weather is a major concern for the game slated to kick off again the steelers at 7:30. the field crew started to roll up a heavily soaked tarp. rain is not the issue. lightic? a concern. a couple of minutes ago, they started to allow fans to come into the stands. players are starting to warm up. so this game is ready to go at 7:30. no tougher task than tonight which is against the defending super bowl champion steelers. if anyone knows how tough this team is, it's jason campbell. he was sacked seven times in a 23-6 loss to pittsburgh a season ago right here at home. the 'skins offense still looking for are the first preseason points. they will not come easy against the steelers. >> i just want to as a group score some points and get a feel for the end zone.

>> we took a lot of criticism from last week from everybody, the head coach, the fans, everyone. so we know we have a huge challenge ahead of us. even though it's a preseason game, and a lot of guys think it's a practice, we still want to have a good game against the steelers. >> reporter: this is an extremely tough preseason schedule for the redskins. last week, baltimore who went to the afc championship game, next week, new england. it doesn't get any easier. santana moss just came off the football field behind me. we'll have much more coming up in sports including who is in and who is out. we take that as a good sign that we saw santana. for now, back to you in the dry studio. >> same for you. of course we've got to root for a win and hope no one gets hurt in the rain, right? >> reporter: that's the biggest thing in the preseason games. you don't want anybody getting injured. that's something they will look at this evening. >> thanks, sarah. a sports triple header in the district tonight along with the redskins, the nationals and dc united are all playing home

games. does that mean long lines and extra waiting along the metro? gary neuronburg reports you have to know where you are going. >> reporter: the t is go together right stop. they wanted to go to the football game but got off at the armory before someone spotted them and so they got some help. they turned around and started again. for some, it is a two fer. >> i am going to a tailgate so i have to come here and go to the other stadium so it would be quicker to metro. >> being away for 15 mines so one train can go one way and the opposite way. it took a long time. >> reporter: not quite smooth sailing on the other line, either. >> i think i spent a half hour going three stops. >> it took a long time to get from chinatown to stadium armory. it took a half an hour. >> we are less than 48 hour as way from the first day of school, by the way, for d.c.

public schools. kristin fisher has the latest on back to school prep. >> reporter: hi, surae. many are all set for the first day of school. one school in the district parents say will not be ready by monday. volunteers at emery elementary school took a break during d.c.'s annual beautification day. thousands of volunteers helped out at over 100 schools in the district putting on the finishing touches for the first day of school. less than three miles away, there is a much bigger project taking place at john burrows elementary. >> reporter: it's brocationen. >> reporter: lacy would like to go to the first day of first grade on monday at burrows elementary. lacy's mother is having second thoughts. she's one of many parents angry at the district for not finishing a summer long renovation project on time. >> the work started late so they are traying to squeeze three months of work into a

four-week time period. >> reporter: unfortunately, our cameras were not allowed inside the school. the vice president of the ward five council on education was able to get inside on friday and shoot some video. take a look at what he saw. >> what you will see is ceiling work, plumbing work, the floors have to be cleaned. they are still putting down tiles. >> 48 hours, school will be opened. there are big, gaping holes in the side of the building. >> i want them to hurry up and fix it. >> reporter: their biggest concern is safety. >> that sign notice of asbestos project. >> reporter: the ward five council on education and all of the concerned parents are now calling for an air quality control test to be made public by monday. >> this d.c. school is not ready. and we will not allow our children to go in with conditions like this. we just won't. >> reporter: the d.c. office of facilities modernization is the d.c. office that's responsible

for the renovation. they say they are aware that a few parents parents from burrows elementary are concerned about the final work being done at the school but go on to say that all schools will be completed in time for the of morning. surae, let's hope so. still ahead on 9news now, time is running out to make a cash for clunker deal. and doctors and nurses at a california hospital are celebrating a new arrival today, but it's one that requires no diaper changes. we'll findreutmo on mowhy isth is so special. th

. welcome back. car buyers hoping to take advantage of the government's cash for clunkers rebate have just over 48 hours left to make a deal. the government is pulling the plug on the program as of 8:00 p.m. monday. so far, nationwide, 489,000 clunkers have been traded in for $2 billion in rebates, but the government has been slow to pay some dealers and major automakers are stepping in to front money to the dealerships until the government pays up. transportation secretary ray lahood says the government will make good on the rebates for all sales made before monday's

deadline. okay. doctors and nurses at a california hospital are celebrating a new arrival today. listen. oh, yeah, weighing in at 7 pounds, the new bundle of joy is samantha. she's the hospital's new robotic baby. the $35,000 robot can simulate everything a real baby can do. samantha will serve as a teaching tool for students and staff at the medical center's clinical skills lab. >> we can practice anything that goes wrong. we can actually do that in our lab and duplicate it and not have that problem in the future and people can react to it. >> reporter: sill a.-antha is the first robotic baby but they already have four adult robots. a lot of rain out there, tony and fans are hoping the faucette will be shut off by kickoff time. >> i don't know about by kickoff but the second half should be solid. we'll talk about that and give

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all three stadiums in our area are waiting to wipe down -- >> i can't take that kind of pressure. it will be a while. let's just talk about the 'skins game. everyone's been calling the weather office. the first half of the game will be wet. the second half might be. might be are the operative words there. >> bring towels and plastic bags. >> all that stuff. i don't think from will be any severe weather. t'lestart by taking a t' lookat live doppler 9000 because that's what evodyby s y ntto see. the heavy rais of us. we talked about it at the top the show. i think the annapolis area will get hit rd over the next ho s. urrd sohours. so t'leomzos he tinre. if you have plans if you te leaving the city in the next few minutes ivdreaing stbounin over the bay bridge, that heavy

nod of rain will travel along 50 and over the bridge over on to the eastern shore. if you are watching us around annapolis, davidsonville, anywhere along the western shore, the bay here, there could be minor flooding going ho for the next couple of urs.s. the rainfall , te achndin , n in inch and a half per hour in that cell that's moving through there. this is part of a bigger system that's coming through, but the back edge is now into the western suburbs drying up around royalton, front royal moving to the northeast very slowly. so like i said, at the game, it could take a couple of hours for things to clear up. i think it'll clear from the south to the north, so those of you watching in the southern and weern bu up for you first then up for you first then on the cityoratth sw. s it'chitt afr that. le weather coteut mpe th aloher computer anokd e thrainfall to48 e ur hour tot we've had a lot of rain the last couple of days. nearly 1.75 inches in annapolis with the cell going through there 1.28 at onainati alrport.

wth 'sathy all of the flooding problems are around and standing water on the roadways. temperatures generally in the 70s will drop back a couple of degrees to around 70 because it's muggy right now. we have a stalled front right up and down the i-95 corridor and an area of low pressure traveling along that front. nothing can move because there is a big hurricane in the way offshore. this is hurricane bill. the maximum sustained winds now 85 miles per hour down to a category one moving to the north at 20 miles per hour. so as soon as it gets past parallel with us, the front will have a chance to move out. that should happen during the day tomorrow. there's nothing going on upstream. the weather should be fairly quiet as we head into the beginning of 'sthe workweek. tonight, showers and thunderstorms before midnight. then mostly cloudy, muggy with a low near 70. most of the day on sunday is going to be dry with a high temperaturer in 84. it can become less humid a lot less humid as we head into the beginning of the week. monday and tuesday will be nice

with high temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. might get near 90 again on wednesday. it is going to improve tonight. it's going to take two or three hours for the stuff to get out of here. i say after 9:00 things will get better. >> thanks, tony. hopefully, the weather will cooperate because it is a big sports night here in the area including the redskins second preseason game at fedex field. that's where sara walsh is. when's up now? >> well, surae it is raining as tony pann alluded to. we'll tell why you it matters to the redskins offense. plus, the latest on the weather conditions her at fedex field. we'll tell who you is going and who's sitting as the redskins chase the first preseason points. plus, the college preseason poll is out and it's got al'vof that coming up next. follow your lead.

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a stormy evening so far at fedex field at about 5:20 playered started to check out the soggy conditions and promptly got off the field which wh they spotted the lightning. that back and forth dance has been going on all afternoon. the fans are now in the stands. welcome back to fed fedex field right outside the locker room to get out of the elements. if they thought things were difficult in baltimore, i can't imagine tonight's opponent would be any easier. the steelers are in town and the positive is that all of the starters should be on the field. jason campbell gets his quarterbacks back. you may not see them hong but the fact that they are playing means this offense has no excuse not to put points on the board. >> i want to ask them about playing the whole game, you

know? he was like no, we want to rest you up. i was like, coach, you gonna put me in, let me play. >> i like playing so i'm always excited to practice or to play. it's never no difference to me. i look forward to everything this sport or my job brings me. >> reporter: moss and portis not the only ones making the preseason debuts. phillip dabbles and chris cooley who missed time during the week both expressed desires to suit up. muss we learned malcolm kelly will get the start for antwaan randle el. no matter the outcome at the end of the night, the redskins are intent on winning the battle of the fans in the stands because to combat those terrible towels that go everywhere with the steelers, the redskins took their own proactive solution. they are handing out 50,000 redskins rally towels and will be very handy tonight to wipe

down those seats. last season during the monday night game here, the terrible towels infiltrated this stadium and against a team as stacked as the steelers, they will take any advantage they can get. >> i think it's fun that, you know, we're doing the same thing. i just think it's, you know, a preseason game but you know what, we've got great fans. it's in good fun, you know? he's competitive. we're competitive. i don't know if there's going to be battles of the towels or whatever, but it'll be fun. >> reporter: on the steelers side of the ball, big ben roethlisberger is out for tonight's game. he sustained an injure to his foot on thursday. charlie batch likely starting in his place. college football and the first a.p. poll is out in into grabbing the top spot with the highest percentage of first place points ever, the gators getting 58 out of 60 top votes. virginia tech is seven. they open with bama.

maryland did not receive any votes but the terps open at california two weeks from today. d.c. united also in action tonight as are the nats. beckham is in town and it will be a soggy mess. the game right now on time ready to go at 7:30. we'll have the full post game reaction coming up tonight at 11:00. for now, surae, back to you in the studio. >> good to know the games will be going on. tony, by the way, happy birthday. >> oh, goodness. thank you. you had to sneak that in with 15 seconds. thank you. thanks for watching. the cbs evening news is next. 110. 11:00. . >> good night. fa