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good evening everyone. thank you for joining us. a break tonight from the downpour across the area earlier this evening. the heavy rain and powerful winds had knocked out power in some neighborhoods. strong winds also toppled trees across the region like this one. and in bethesda trees were knocked over along river road and springfield drive. and in northwest d.c. the trees came down along massachusetts avenue and macomb street. >> things have improved greatly since earlier this evening. we picked up two or three inches of rain in some areas

causing localized flooding problems and severe weather wthwiind gust m50th60, iles an g ur buthe r h60waeavyn ais the story early leoklolis t a veppe r t'leoklo at live doppler 9,000 see what is going on now. all is quiet. therilare l a couple of showers up in the northern part no. nne l ar deundecoty hing of any significance but weashe adinto tomorrow morning, we can vehegi tou all clear as far as flooding and severe weather goes. let's switch over to the weather computer and see what we can expect over the next few days. it will be quiet as we go to the beginning of the workweek. it will be cooler and less humid. chance for a shower tomorrow but certainly nothing like we have seen over the last couple of days. when we come back in a few minutes we will give you the latest on hurricane bill and of course we will check out the seven-day forecast, see what is going on all the way into next week. you know fans were thanking you because the rain phoenixly stopped and what a game it was. the redskins put points on the board for the first time this season and thanks to former mizzou star chase daniel they look like a team for the first

time. and sara walsh we're 8er to talk to you about that. >> the storms have lifted and so have the redskins preseason spirits. i am not sure you want the best quarterback appearance of the night from the guy toughest job to make the team but the redskins are thrilled taking on the defending champion steelers. third and 10, jason campbell firing one to chris coolly for a first down. the redskins settle for a field goal, 3-0 washington. the steelers had a long dive of their own. second-goal from the redskins 3. willie parker takes the toss, bounces out and gets in for the touchdown. redskins down 10-3 at the break. in the second half redskins still down 7. third and goal from the 3. 4th string quarterback chase daniel floats a fade to marco mitchell and the game is tied. after forcing a fumble fred davis turns around and scores

the inwithing touchdown. the second from chase daniel. the 'skins win this one 17-13. >> how you score points against a team like this makes you neil good but just one victory so, we got to get better. >> a good team like this so, you know it will be a challenge but in preseason, you know, got to take -- >> we glad to get a win and put points on the board. long ways to go though, long ways to go but i'm happy with the victory. and i am here with the star of the tonight's game. chase daniel. two touchdowns. you didn't get in the baltimore game. tell us what tonight was like for you. >> a blast. a treme come true. i haven dreaming for this day since i was 6 years old. to have it come true and do pretty well at the same time is something special. >> it is tough to get in there when you have never seen nfl action and these numbers 6 of 8, 58 yards and a 134 quarterback rating. you said you will take that. >> yeah, any day for your first start in the nfl and going out there, starting the second half i was a little nervous but we

got a great drive together, sustained a drive, 15 play drive we scored on to marco mitchell. he made a great catch. special teams came through. it was great. i know it is exciting for you but this is an july hill battle as the 4th string guy. how do you pull back. >> you don't think about it. you think about what you have to think about and that's the plan. if you're worried about what other people think of you or what the media thinks or what the coaches think you won't go out and do your job. that is all i did tonight was just go out there and play catch with my receivers and run the ball a little bit, sustain some drives, run some clock and we won. >> congratulations. your first nfl experience two touchdowns. we will have much more coming up later in sports. thanks to chase. back to you in the studio. and thanks to chase making mu students very proud tonight. tonight meanwhile, a weakening hurricane bill is still churning up rough assess creating dangerous rip tides and closing beaches up and down the sea board. the category 1 storm is expected to past the mainland

off new england and reach canadian waters by tomorrow morning. meanwhile tropical storm hilda has formed far out in the spask. hari sreenivasen has more. >> hurricane bill blew by saturday morning. >> some people were worried about coming out here but i don't see any flying palm trees. this is just a windy day, but it is pretty incredible just to, you know, take it in as an experience see what nature provides. >> reporter: the storm caused flooding on the island, and cut power to several thousand people. >> we have got no electricity. >> reporter: but bermuda was mostly spared from bill's peek winds. that says also watching the storm as the space agency prepares for the -- liftoff of the shuttles discovery to the international space station early tuesday. >> we should see thunderstorms more inland as we get into tanking and as we get into launch time. >> even though hurricane bill is hundreds -- hundreds of miles off the coast all along the eastern seaboard, surf's

up. >> the crashing waves are giving surfers some wild rides. >> i am liking the waves. a lot bigger than how it usually is. usually 2 feet to 3 maybe. >> the conditions are not favorable for swimmers. fears about potentially deadly rip currents prompted officials at many beaches to prohibit swimming. >> fun to watch but you wouldn't dare go in it. you go in for the rived your life you go out to sea. tropical storm warnings were issued for the massachusetts coast including are 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 sreenivasen, cbs news new york. ocean city was closed to swimmers today because of dangerous search conditions. r -- rehoboth conditions were 10 feet high. expert says the weight of the waves is enough to cause injuries. >> they are limiting no activity in the ocean. some are not allowing surfing

or boogie boards with small areas allowing no one in. in our case we allow people on the beach. we don't want them in the water where it will be dangerous to them. nearby bethany remained open to swimmers except for 45 minutes when a small storm passed through. well, it happened again, just two weeks after passengers were stranded on the tarmac at a minneapolis airport, for almost six hours, passengers in new york faced the same fate. more than 100 sun country passengers were headed from new york city to the twin cities friday. but their 11:00 a.m. flight didn't take off until after 6:00 p.m. travelers were initially told that construction would cause an hour delay. later, they were told weather would cause an even longer wait. >> frustration level was -- was kicking in. there is a lot of young kids, a lot of older people on the plane that were getting agitated. >> passengers said after three railroads the flight crew brought the -- after three

hours the flight crew brought the food cart out but they had to pay for the item. sun country ceo says they regret the delay and will issue refunds. we're less than 36 hours away from the first day of school for d.c. students. christian fisher reports one school is racing against the clock to open on time. >> reporter: volunteers at emory elementary school took a break saturday afternoon during d.c. public schools 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. but less than three miles away, there is a much bigger project taking place at john burrows elementary. it is broken. lacy joseph would like to go to her first day of first grade on monday at burrow's elementary but lacy's mother is having second thoughts. she is 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 trying to squeeze

three months of work into a four-week time period'. unfortunately our cameras were not allowed inside the school. but 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, there is a -- there -- the floors have to be cleaned. still putting down tile. >> 48 hours, school will be open. near a big gaping holes in the side of the building -- >> want them to hurry up and fix it. >> but their biggest concern is safety. >> that sign, notice of asbestos project. >> the ward 5 council on education and all 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. >> now the d.c. office of public education facilities modernization, is the d.c. office that is responsible for

this renovation. they say they are aware that a few parents from burrow's elementary are concern beside the final work being done at the school but they go on to say that all schools including burrows will be completed in time for the first day of school monday morning. >> let's hope so. back to you. yeah, we do, too. as college students head back to class, university officials and health experts are worried about dealing with the h1n1 virus. at the university of colorado, boulder, eight isn't it true suspected of having the -- are -- 80 students are suspected of having the virus and school hasn't even started yet. many students are moving into dorms but not worried about getting sick. >> i have a good immune system. so, hopefully, that will help me out. >> i had read about it but not really thought about it that much. you don't really think you're going to get it. it just seems more like a far away thing. >> probably more worried about him doing well in school than about the swine flu.

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streets named in his honor today. his 73rd birthday. the party for go-go legend chuck brown is still going strong end to as gary nuremburg shows us. >> there has always been a chuck brown way. his fans know it. >> the chuck brown way like a little jazz, with -- topped off with a bit of go-go. >> this is sheer soul, how he place his music means a lot to native washingtonians. >> the chuck brown way is living life to its fullest. >> shaking it a little bit is the chuck brown way. >> there has always been a chuck brown way. now there is "a chuck brown way" at the 900 block of 7th street named in his honor saturday. a street. chuck brown. do they go together or what? the man essentially made d.c.'s go-go sound happen. 73, a unique sound.

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is the humidity is going to go down. >> that's what i like. >> yes. it -- it has been tropical to say the least. not just because of a hurricane but partially because of that. i will show you how bill is interacting with our local weather in a second. we are getting some influence from the hurricane. but since the weather is quiet right now start with the three- day trend first and see there is the nice weather we were talking about at the beginning of the workweek. humidity is going to go down along with the temperatures. overnight tonight mostly cloudy skies. chance for a few rain showers still but nothing like we will earlier tonight. areas of fog might develop as we head into tomorrow morning. low temperatures range from the mid 60s in the cooler suburbs. the western suburbs to the low 70s around the city. a mixture of clouds and sunshine, on sunday, to close the weekend. a 40% chance for showers still in the forecast. most of you will have a dry sunday. but there is still going to be a couple of showers roaming around. high temperatures between 81 and 86 and northwest wind at 10 to 15 miles an hour.

let's look back and check out some of the rainfall totals over the last couple of days. this is a 48 hour total. the one that stands out obviously is annapolis. 3.4 inches. most of that fell toni . 'satwhy there was a flood warning in effect for an arun del county. -- anne arundel county. we have had good soaking rains here over the last couple of days and we will get a chance to dry out as we go to the beginning of the workweek. set the radar loop back couple of hours. all the heavy showers and thunderstorms moving through and now all of that has di 's the ated and moved tof of northeast. again a slight chance for a shower as you head into tomorrow morning but no biggie in that department. 67, right now in winchester. 74 downtown. 73 at bwi. once again everybody will cruise back to the upper 60s on average by tomorrow morning. here's the weather set-up. a front stalled just off to our west on the west side of the front, less humid air mass on our side of the front. it is still warm and sticky. we had an area of low pressure zip along that front earlier this evening. that was the trigger mechanism for the showers and thunderstorms but all of this is stalled. there is nowhere for it to go,

because from is a big hurricane in the way. that is how bill is affecting our local weather. all of this is backed up to the west so we have to wait for the storm to pull away a little further before that front can come off shore. but right now bill is still a category 1 hurricane. sustained winds 85 miles an hour. as of the 11:00 advisory from the hurricane center. and it is a couple hundred miles off the new england coast. but it is close enough because it is a big storm, to actually get some of those outer bands close to the city of boston. we have tropical storm force gusts going through boston right now. and cape cod, and some of those outer bands even getting close to the eastern tip of long island there. this is a big storm but it will be pulling away as we head into tomorrow morning and things will settle down. so as soon as the storm goes away, everything can keep going, off to the east and we have quiet weather, upstream. that's why we put that in the forecast for the beginning of the workweek. the quiet weather. so a slight chance for a shower tomorrow. dry weather on monday and tuesday, looking nice there. at temperatures jumping a little bit during the middle of

the week again. we will get up close to 90 on wednesday with a chance for a thunderstorm. but another front will go through. and knock the temperatures back into the low 80s. on thursday and friday. so overall, much better news in the weather department. we like it. 80s and no humidity. can't beat that. all right the redskins made a come back in the second week of preseason. sara walsh at fedex field. , hey, sara. >> the redskins didn't just hold their own with the defending super bowl champs be eat -- they beat them. a couple of up and coming rookies made a name for themheof act es of the action from the nats and d.c. united all ahead next. seem smooth and strong to irreversible damage. no different. irreversible loss of enamel. enamel shield enamel loss by forming against acid attack. toothpastes dentists check most. save your enamel. be gone for good. enamel shield. with the rinse.

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fedex field where the redskins leave landover with their first pre-season win. if you want to test yourself against the best there is no better challenge than taking on the defending super bowl champion pittsburgh steelers. remember, this is a team that has the league's best defense a year ago. it didn't deter the offense tonight. first drive 4th and 10 for the 'skin skins. hunter smith back to pont. it is a fake. ross cartwright barrels 50 yards down. clinton portis 11 yards on this draw down to the pittsburgh 11. they would have to settle, though, for the 20 yarld field goal and the redskins take a 3- 0 lead. it wouldn't last. steelers on second and goal from the 3. toss sweep to willie parker, busts out and dances in for the score. steelers have a 10-3 lead. the redskins had a chance the tie it before the half but todd collins would get picked off at midfield. that would kill the redskins drive and the burgundy and gold hits the break down 7. they

redeem themselves in the third. chase daniel the fade to marco mitchell for a touchdown. then in the 4th, the 'skins down 3 punting toll steelers but jay burnett would lose the ball. 'quinns recover. next play daniel does it again over the top to a wide open fred davis in the end zone giving the 'skins a 17-13 lead. that is your final, washington wins. going to baltimore, dropping a goose egg you know a lost our coaches weren't happy. we a little something we had to prove. >> they won the super bowl last year even though that doesn't matter for this season but they are a great football team. we recognize that. we wanted to do a good job against them. overall we did okay. >> it was a great night. we left there, i finally got -- i have been itching for a chance to get out there and play football. it has been awhile. i had some mistakes but did good things as well. and i am joined now by the redskins top draft pick brian oh orakpo. i know you have to feel better

about this 238 yards better than baltimore where you gave up 500. >> the coaches and players were pleased with our performance. a great team effort on both sides of the ball. i know it is nice to leave with a win and i know gregg bloch is very picky and you allowed the steelers to drive down and score early. how much do you take it back and nitpick. we're very picky. it is preseason. we have to improve on the mistakes we made. clear that up through practice and make sure we focus next time we're on the field. you as a rookie playing two positions two games in. how much more comfortable do you feel at this point. >> becoming more natural for me. you know that is the key. more repetition throughout practice throughout these games and throughout these pre-season games as well. you know is really helping me get acclimated to the defense and what they are using my ability for. brian orakpo -- expected to be a big piece of this defense. we send -- -- send it back to

dave in the studio. >> great job, sara. did hope is steven strassburg will be the future ace of the staff. john lennon recently struggled getting deep in the ball games. tonight he didn't see much of this one because of the rain delay. brewers, nats take two, third inning, 8-3 rony belliard. how do you feel to be the macaroni and the cheese. fifth home run of the season. 6th inning. brewers, 2-on. casey mcgehee. michael cameron scores. milwaukee goes on to win. check this one. this one still in progress, 11- 9 brewers on top of the nats. junior circuit, orioles at white sox, 3-0 white sox, 5th inning. you can not win when you're playing like this. wild pitching if baseball. brandon bass, jermaine dye scored. baltimore hurling two wild pitches tonight. white sox go on to win 4-1. soccer, we have been

talking bit all week. david beckham in town. l.a. galaxy take okay the d.c. united. 37th minute d.c. united corner kick, brian namoth on the doorstep but couldn't open the door. turned away by josh saunders. the game -- end in a scoreless tie zero to zero. what a day in sports. those all important pre-season games. you know i love them. they are very important. >> oh, really? well, redskins fans know chase daniel now. >> that's right. >> college fans know him, too. >> you got it. thank you for watching. we're back tomorrow at 6:30 on 9 news now. have a great night everybody. good night! lowe's has just been named 2009 energy star retail

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