back to school for several area schools. an cash for clunkers the federal program which helped to temporarily revive the nation's auto industry goes away this evening. good morning. thanks for joining us. it is monday, august 24th. angie goff is here and she will have the traffic in just a moment. howard bernstein is back with us. good morning. >> good morning.

a lot quieter now than a few hour ago. >> especially in saint mary's. >> had severe thunderstorm warnings there from five to 6:00 a.m. but that is all done. i was talking to a friend here at wusa9.com in the chat room and an old friend found me on facebook and she lives in england now. school starts september 7th but they go to july. they have six weeks off. some people are complaining about sc olhoolstarting up. let's talk weather. an area of showers and storms pushed through from virginia in to southern ndma . la over to the beaches. a lot more activity is sitting off e.sh ak tt, newessifsh you have the e orms 74. and storms. 74 in inup to north up to nort 59. chicago 63. theyure 55 thlahour. ce. yni . really nice. fall fall-like temperatures to the north and west and decent weather this week until the

weekend. 74 mostly cloudy now. we will be 80 at noon. 5:00 there's a chance of a thunderstorm 85 with the highest chances south and east of washington. 9:01. almost 9:02. good morning, angie goff. >> hello mom and dad. we are taking back to school pictures. if you visit my blog at wusa9.com, i will tell you how to submit them. they could be on tv. talking about the traffic, 270. looks like at falls road we have crash activity taking away the left lane for drivers but overall volume is light approaching the scene. to the outer loop. we have an accident at connecticut. it is not impacting the flow of traffic. everybody is remaining at speed around the beltway. in maryland to the maps, route 4, route 5, 301 crane highway. right now an incident an accident-free zone. take it to virginia and show you 395 northbound. drivers are zipping by from the beltway all the way to the district. and then finally we will wrap

it up with 95 northbound from fredericksburg to the mixing bowl. no incidents along the way. we are looking at a 40-minute commute. over to andrea. a number of school systems are back open across our region including here in the district but some renovation delays at one school have parents concerned about their children's learning environment. armando trull is live outside of john boroughs elementary in northeast with more. armando? >> reporter: john boroughs is supposed to be a showcase for the turn around that mayor fenty has instituted in dc public schools. the school has been totally renovated. the classrooms pristine but the pta president says it is the not the appearance what concerns them but the things you can not see. pta president says the air at john boroughs educational campus is not safe because of extensive construction. >> i have a 6-year-old son who

would be going today but i don't want to expose him to the toxins that is in the building right now as we speak. >> reporter: they say that it is safe. they say it has been cleared. >> by whose definition. >> did the epa or osha come in and do an air quality control test? unless we get that from them it is not safe as far as i'm concerned. >> reporter: but school and district officials at this time agree. >> principal senior the school safe. >> yes, it is safe. >> would you bring your children here? >> yes i would will. >> reporter: what's the code situation. >> we have met all codes and it is safe. we would not be here if it were not. >> reporter: most importants don't seem concerned. >> i definitely feel safe. i have always had faith they would have everything ready and i don't believe their goal is to cause any harm for the children. i feel it should be just fine. >> reporter: andrea, nevertheless the pta president is handing out face masks to

parents who will take their children to school. the school told them they will release a copy of the report basically clearing the air here at john boroughs elementary. back to you. teachers give home work but teachers in the district have their own home work assignment. michelle rhee released a guide that outlines her expectations for teacher performance. among the guidelines teachers are advised not to waste more than three minutes of school time because of poor planning and advised not to let more than five minutes of bad behavior per hour. fenty and rhee used the first day to highlight things in the system including the system going green.

>> we added 18 pre-k classrooms. and two of those early childhood classrooms are here at cook. so now we have total of 8 pre-k classrooms here for the 2009, 2010 school year. >> reporter: and chancellor rhee spoke about a backlash rate program at the school which will provide each student with spanish emissions -- immersion classes. are in maryland, stents heading back to classroom l s.as and in northern cull, rappahanock, faulkier, culpeper and spotsian ya start classes today. new questions are raised a man arrested for drunk driving allegedly hung himself in a cell. they say morales say he crashed

his suv in to a pole in bladensburg and later found him hanging by his shirt from the cell door and was pronounced dead at prince georges county hospital. president obama and his family are taking time off for vacation. they arrived in martha's vineyard yesterday. they are renting a 28-acre estate from a family of republican donors. no real break from the job, though. he will get a briefing from a national security official and is expected to keep in touch with lawmakers about his health care plan. we are 11 hours away from the cash for clunkers program. it goes away at 00 tonight. the program provided americans with $4,500 rebate for trading in their old cars for newer, more fuel efficient models. as of friday, dealers sold a half million vehicles bringing in $2 million in rebates. cash for clunkers helped at

least temporarily to revive the industry. >> the government has done as much as they could have done for the industry and now we have to get the economy going and they have to restructure and sink or swim. >> reporter: auto recyclers are wondering when they will cash in from the deal. right now watch bruce leshan's story and watch why recyclers aren't sure about the program helping the environment. the story is on the district news page. back now to president obama's vacation. many news organizations are reporting during his time away he is planning to visit senator kennedy who's being treated for brain cancer them key subject would be kennedy's passion, health care reform. in our area, jim moran is planning to address that topic tomorrow night at a town hall meeting and congressman moran is joining us now. always good to have you here. >> good to be here.

>> a lot of republicans are talking about senator condition did missing on the hill for this debate. do you think he will push to stick with the public option? >> of course he will. honestly don't think the absence has led us to the situation we are in. his committed reported his bill under chris d.o.d.'s leadership and he doesn't need to convince president obama to keep the public option in. he needs to get the people on the senate finance committee to do something contrary to what their constituents want. and i don't think that is possible as persuasive as ted can be. them reality is the senate finance committee won't include a public option, period, regardless of who talks to the president, ted, whoever. but that's not the end of the game. they then have to compromise in conference with the house. the house has the public

option. speaker pelosi insisted it stays in. i think it should stay in. i don't think this is a matter of ted's absence as much as we miss him greatly. >> reporter: the public doesn't seem to understand what these bills are all about. and in fact we seem to be getting mixed messages from the president. on face the nation, robert gibbs said the public option is on the table. health and human services secretary says it is not essential. isn't this lack of direction contributing to the problems we are having right now? >> there's a lack of understanding. there's no question about it. the public option provides competition for the private sec for and it will reduce costs as a result. but it dunn mean that we still can't cover everyone. we can provide a system where that is affordable for everyone. we can expand medicaid and medicare. we can prevent insurance

companies from prequoting people because of preexisting conditions or dropping them when they get answer cancer on an expensive illness. we can make major progress without the public option but we need to be fiscally responsible for this an a public option will save a lot of money. today $720 billion a year is spent for health care but doesn't go to the delivery of medical care. medicare only spends 3% administrative costs. private insurance companies spend 30%. that's the difference. that's what we are trying to squeeze down so that this one- sixth of our economy goes in to making people healthier instead of corporate profit and administrative costs trying to decide who to cover and who not. it is perverse the way they decide that. >> you are hosting a town hall meeting and i understand you have invited howard dean.

>> howard dean will be there. the only town hall meeting i'm aware he is actually doing we asked him quite sometime ago before he became so prom nen this debate but i in the he cares a lot about this and cares a great deal. it will be at 7:00 at south lakes high school in reston. and if they want to call my office, we can give directions. south lake high school is easy to find. we expect almost 3,000 people. that's why we had to have such a large -- is this going to be a shouting match? >> well, i prefer not to shout. i'm going to try not to shout but i think it will be raw cuss and we certainly intend to hear from people who don't agree with my position and i hope that they will be articulate, thoughtful and not so disruptive as they have been orplaces. >> reporter: one last question, the president's poll numbers have been dropping on his

position on the health care and the economy. dick morris was on a talk show and he was saying the president's inability to get ahold of this is dragging down the entire democratic party. st, especially when it comes to the seniors on the issue of health care and you could lose seniors as a solid democratic block for generations to come. your reaction to that? >> number one, dick morris is not credible. number two. this is tough. if he wants to lead he's not going to be able to please everyone. you know, if you want to follow and do what you think the majority of people want, you can be you can keep high poll numbers and not get anything done. this is a big thing to get done. he is coming up against entrenched interest. people who could afford to pay millions of dollars to lobbyists who can organize thousands to disrupt town hall

meetings. he has done a good job. this is what elected him to do. if he gets this done he will be re-elected and he wants to get it done and that's what is important to the american people, not the poll numbers. >> we will have information on the town hall meeting the representative is hosting at orrow on ourvewebsite at wusa9.com. nyfyryxy0fa

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to release partial results from the hotly contested election. our next guest is back from afghanistan where he assisted in monitoring the elections. eric is the founder of democracy bash. welcome back. >> thank you. >> we hear the reports of vote rigging. we heard the reports of all of the violence during the election. tell us your experience about the security, your safety, and about vote rigging. >> it is too soon to tell able the vote rigging. there is an elections complaints commission headed by an international person, canadian expert and we have to wait and see their investigation about the vote rigging. we did feel that administrative problems on election day where the vote were held do not seem serious enough to affect the credibility of the process but there were places where people were not able to vote easily because of violence and a threat of violence that intimidated people, and that created some opportunities for

fraud and there was an absence of comprehensive voter list which creates opportunities for fraud. we have to waite and see. there has not be partial results listed and the process is ongoing. >> you said this is the first time your country has -- your company has monitored an election during a war. >> this is the fierce time that anyone has had to organize in the face of these issue an the face of conflict in parts of the country and that was daunting for us and very difficult. we did have a large number of international observers. the largest group of americans, more than 60 people and we did send many people to the south, which is the active conflict part of the country. and we were able to learn a lot but certainly restricted in movement and it was -- that was a serious issue for how we collected information. >> reporter: preliminary results will be announced

tomorrow, but glen could you want of our organization beliefs it is a mistake and believes it will heighten conjecture and urgency with the process. what does he mean and what do you agree. >> he i think what he meant is they should have been releasing preliminary results all along. we were concerned there haven't been enough transparency in the process. no information about in the result of the election. in most countries you would have preliminary results, media or sources doing their own count. in afghanistan no information about what the results have been. and the election commission has chosen to wait until tomorrow, five days after the election day to release any results at all. we think it would have been better if they had released partial results all along. >> reporter: as we discussed last time in your book "free and fair," you say it is not just the august 20th vote but whether the election process

continues to the listening-term development of organizations, institutions and the democratic process in afghanistan. are we seeing that? >> it is too soon to tell. what happens often election day is not the only test of whether there is democracy in actual and we hope it is a step in the direction of development of a democratic institution and democratic habits in afghanistan and the fact the election took place makes that a possible but we will not know for sometime whether this has been a positive step and those institutions will take root in that country. we certainly hope so. >> because of the violence in the south how likely will there be apronoff election. >> that depends if either candidate has more than 50% of the vote. as of tomorrow we will have an indication of. that people don't know how close the vote has been and whether there will be a runoff in early october or not. >> thank you very much. if you have to go back a safe journey to you.

>> thank you. now to howard with an update on the forecast. just spoke to randy nelson, an old friend of ours at bethany beach who says it is storming out here. the stuff in northern maryland moved off shore. a thunderstorm this afternoon in one or two spots. mid 80s. tomorrow upper 80s with sunshine and low 90s a hot day on wednesday with the threat of an afternoon thunderstorm. so this afternoon we will put it in writing. mainly south and east a better chance of an isolated thunderstorm. otherwise partly sunny with highs in the 80s. clear to partly cloudy. a patch or two of fog, especially to the shenandoah and out to culpeper. those spots cooler and more foggy with 60s to 70s in town. the storms we were looking at early. they have been moving quickly off shore and pulling away. they are going to see quickly- improvitg ndcoions also. a couple of nddscl oule ftthe

. here now. 74 here. 72 co. quas ssd antiquan 73 came bridge. 60s in the northern shenandoah valley, winchester and frederick at 58 degrees. our dew point is 6 of last week as we went in to thursday, friday and saturday, low 70s. but the northwest wind at 9:00 it feels more comfortable out there. here's the big picture. showers to the west and a decent ridge out here that will help us with good weather for tuesday and wednesday. still a little frontal boundary line off shore. that is helping to separate at least the warm sticky weather from somewhat cooler and drier weather. a nice morning across the midwest but with northernly winds the rain chances will be slim every the next couple of days. as we look at the computer modeling not much around here. most of it to the south and north and well to our west. the next seven days we will see changes. we get hot through wednesday, 91 with an isolated storm.

look at thursday and friday. a chance of a storm. 86 and down to 82 and then the weekend a threat of tropical moisture with low pressure approaching from the south st we haveco . st wemo have more coming up after this.

welcome back to 9 news now. this is 9:26. you are looking live at the jefferson memorial. the state of maryland has given up on an effort to buy back crabbing licenses. they hope the reverse auction will reduce the number of waterman licensed to catch blue crabs and reduce the number of people with licenses and increase the population for full-time fishermen. some who haven't caught crab in

years say the licenses are a valuable reminder of their roots. you facould find your route titrcoonuc nscotiucon near tyso th ifwi lllt stee lbeams in e isasphis ashee is scheduled to keta ke three weeks. ra vers can pe mpct closures on rathe beltway and 123. it will go from 9:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. we will kick things off with 270 southbound. here's the shot. an accident in the local lanes a falls road is clear. all lanes getting by fine. the outer loop. crash activity at connecticut. but off to the right shoulder. everyone is at a great pace from new hampshire to georgia. 66 eastbound slow nutley to the beltway. that's just volume. we will check on the inner loop. going to a live shot from 95 to 66. a little below speed on the outer loop using those brakes

from van doren to eisenhower. finally wrap it up with 395ened sunny skies from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. i'm going to give it a wink because everything is a-okay. before we go a 9 news now click to share with you. say happy birthday to loyal viewer chris thompson and we will have that click coming up later. perhaps at the end of the show. back to you. it is restaurant week in the district. starting today close to 180 area restaurants are participating in thog edthe dicontou three course fixed price meals. lunch $ a-- di ernndier $35. to get the most bang for your buck pick what is typically a very exance pave birthday. dc is a good place to see a concert. the city has broke machine to sub hub's top list. dc's best selling acts bruce

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many parents of young children prepare them academically for the first day of school but sometimes parents forget some simple advice that could make a difference between a great first day and disaster. with us today for a moms like me.com segment is brenda hyde, publisher of family magazine. thanks for joining us. of course after this seg. she will be on-line, on moms like me.com to answer questions. hope you join us there. concerns, first of all we know as parents we are concerned when our kids go off. i will never forget my son going off to preschool. marching along and me in tears. >> it is a scary thing for parents, isn't it? >> it is. we are letting them out of the nest. they are out on their own ' we don't know what will happen. particularly when it is your first one. >> you don't want to transfer those nerves to your child. so what do you do. >> you really don't want to

transfer that. any anxiety or don't cry cry in front of your child. you need to make it a positive experience for them and by making it a positive experience for them you will internalize that and it will be more positive for you. but the best way to avoid that anxiety is to be prepared and do things you have control over. so that you are prepared for that first day and then the child will be prepared also any like what you said you did for 32 years made cookies for your kids when they came home from school. >> warm cookies the minute we walk in from school on the first day. >> we know we are nervous as moms but the kids are nervous, too. in your magazine you have the responses of preschoolers and what they were concerned about an maybe some things parents may not realize they are concerned about. things like how will i get to school. all the basics. how do i find my classroom. what if i have to go to the restroom. what will lunchtime be like. how do i get home from school. should you address each one of

them? >> we get involved in the academics and worry about how they will be academically and we forget this is a new experience and a new building with new people. so common questions are what you need to think of so they are confident and calm when they go in there and then the academics will come. think about visiting the school in advance if you can. if you can walk to your child's classroom. show them with where where the bathroom is, make sure your son or daughter knows the difference between boys and girls so they can avoid embarrassment of going in the wrong way and walk through the classroom and talk about the area of the classroom. what they will experience there. i thought one tip was really nice about opening a milk carton. find out what your school serves so your child is not sitting there and doesn't know how to do it so if they need to learn to open a milk carton you can do that. or carry a tray of food.

go to a cafeteria and let them load up the tray. >> let them experience as much as possible. >> my daughter will be going to a new school. so i will have to be doing some of these, getting her familiar but there are differences in the schools in of coursely where the cafeterias are and the more you can take the child in there and alleviate those anything she may not be expected or may not know will help, won't it. >> it will help you, as well. you will know the answers have been giving to them and they are not going to be scared. a lot of times we are scared because they are scared. >> how do you keep them safe without scaring them? what should you do as far as following the rules. >> one of the biggest concerns i would have in terms of safety is going home on the bus. we had what incident last year. the child could carry a card which has their name and

address. if your child is in any way impaneledded, put a picture of yourself on it. there is no way for a child to remember every bus stop so talk to your child about look for the neighborhood and look for me. look for mommy. don't get off the bus until you see mommy. >> in fairfax county they have shortened a lot of -- or lengthened the bus routes and cut out the stops. my children have to go to another bus stop. so a lot of new things is happening because of budget cuts. what about car pools if you have another parent or baby- sitter picking up your child? >> of course you are going to know that person and know them well enough to understand how well they drive and how safety of seat belts and those things. the biggest danger is at the school getting out of the car and going in to the school or coming out of the school and getting back in the car. you want to make sure they know

not to dart in to traffic. if they see your car down the parking lot. they don't come to you. you come to them and you can drive through that car pool lane and practice. practice letting them out. drive in a circle. come back and pick them up. that way they understand the safety and tell them the why of that safety so they understand how dangerous it can be getting out and coming back. >> we go over that a lot in my house and the people in cars condition see you. you are little. i just don't think you can say it enough. >> right. little children sometimes don't think -- they are little children. so you need to constantly reinforce that with them. in fact, we had -- we had a routine in our car pool and see you later alligator they knew that was mommy loves you and

when they were coming they were careful. >> that's the key to be prepared. you will be on-lines on moms like me.com and answering questions if you have one. head over to howard with a look at travel weather. >> sour fa so good at least the last couple of hours. early this morning we had strong thunderstorms move through the northern neck, southern maryland. through the beaches at 6:00 or 7:00 but it moved away. life is improving across the washington metro region. bigger picture. bill, remember bill? all the swells over the weekend. our area beaches, have bill going way away. no more a problem. good fetch of moisture here. tropical moisture coming off shore. thankfully here and not here or we would be talking a lot of rain. should be quiet the next couple of days.

the travel forecast for today in boston 81. new york 87 a beauty of a day in chicago 80 degrees. new orleans 87 with sunshine and atlanta 85 and orlando is pretty good as well partly sunny and 92. the western part of the country heat. phoenix 103. seattle looking great 74. salt lake city 82. denver 85. kansas city sunny and 86. if dallas, still hot and 98. locally 100 in parts of west texas, western oklahoma and southern texas, as well. we will be back. going to e thkitchen momentarily. you are watching 9 news now at 9:00. (announcer) back to school means back to busy mornings.

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a man suspected of murder has been found dead via suicide. the police say jenkins apparently hanged himself. and police are investigating a reported burglary at lindsay lohan's home in the hollywood hills. police say the possible break in allegedly happened on sunday. lohan starred in parent trap, mean girls and freaky friday but better known for her problems with the law. tarantino's world epic won the battle at the box office this weekend. the film about american soldiers plotting to bring down the leadership of -- took in the top spot. here's howard. >> our next segment takes the cake literally. let me tell you about this. i'm here with lara, a wedding cake artist. not just wedding cake and you are aware of that. >> we are in tysons corner.

>> she's teaching me things about making wedding cake. this stuff, i seen it on tv i don't want to say hideous but you have to focus because you have one chance. >> something like this can take hours of work and it does hurt your hand after a while. >> i have been making a little cherry blossom. it is a cherry blossom cake and it is covered in fondant which is a sugar frosting that we lay on the cake and you are piping with royal icing which is what you find on sugar cookies. >> i did the yellow and she did the flower and i'm doing the yellow dots. >> how long did it take you to become an expert on this. how many did you have to go through before you felt confident. >> you learn and practice and

keep going and we have been doing this, we have been open for six years now. and i have been doing this almost ten years and i got my start working at cake love with warren brown in dc. and then went to an went to lacademie cuisine and read a bunch of books and got to this point. >> so to buy a fine cake or a wedding cake what should they look for? what would you tell them. look for this or what that. >> when a bride comes in she has to know what her venue and colors are. a lot of times a bride has in mind what she wants. every cake is custom made and we work with the bride to come up with a cake to fit to the wedding. >> how do you know you are in a good shop. >> when they meet with us they do a tasting so they taste the cake. from there they know and they see our portfolio and know the

caliber of work that we do. and so a lot of times -- look at this cake i have been working on. >> you are doing a great job. looks great. >> a lot of times we will look at an invitation, inspired by an invitation they use at the wedding, a swirl or piping or something or look at the bride's gown, sometimes pick up a lace piece of the bride's gown some we try to make it blend in with the wedding so it is not an odd piece in the corner. >> on the tv shows we see elaborate cakes. do you do that as well. >> we did fighting irishmen a 3- d piece. we do culture. for grooms cakes a lot of grooms takes. we have done steaks and dogs. >> what do you do for your favorite. >> the steak cake. and in the corner i put a

little bit of raspberry and when you cut through it looked like he was stabbed. >> and do a wedding cake that is a stack of pumpkins. >> tysons corner. >> not at the mall. >> outside of the mall and we are by appointment only. and we have a website that has a lot of pictures and tons of different ideas. >> it is a beautiful cake. we might talk her in to cutting it and lets us taste it. i will let you look at the seven-day forecast one more time and finish my cherry blossom pollen. back in just a moment.

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time to check the numbers on wall street. people from home depot clapping an it's because green arrows are up. dow is up 30. nasdaq up 2 1/2. and s&p up almost three. here's a look at what is on tap for the rest of the week. will ben bernanke go. a top business leader weighs in tomorrow. and a road map to discuss in dating that will lead you to one of these beautiful wedding cake and our mind over money panel will have free financial advice on friday. outside chance of a storm this afternoon. 85. heat it up tomorrow afternoon and sec half of the week becomes unsettled an maybe a little tropical moisture over the week. we will watch that carefully but looks like we will have unsettled weather and that may be a nice way to put it. temperatures around 80 and this

cake is unbelievable. >> speaking of cake, i feel we need to cut a slice and give it to chris thompson who is turning 40 something, he says and he is havinghis birthday today. and we wanted to say thank you for watching and thank you for your service. his citizens helping heros. this is waat the walter reed celebration. obviously he hat a -- had a couple of hands from redskins. >> we have linked it up. this is awesome. thank you. >> thank you. >> howard will be back at noon with j.c. hayward. and we will be back tomorrow morning. see ya. explain.

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