fl. ng ay flooding. we say it all the crosa street cross a street that is flooded. back to the computer. the forecast, a flood watch until 2:00. shower and thunderstorms will taper off. some have locally heavy downpours. 66 to 72. may luck out for the skins game. we will talk about that in a bit. back to you guys. like last week the weather could play a huge role in the preseason games. we have the latest on conditions there. >> they are a little sloppy. the players aren't the only ones tested this preseason. so after sitting through a soaking last saturday, tonight could be worse. we want to show you what s it looked like when we arifed. a heavily soaked tarp. they have yet to pull that off the field. they will play this game, even

in a downpour if need be. of course unless there is lightning. it could make interesting for a redskins offense that has to get it in gear. the players are still in search for the first preseason touchdown. >> i would love to have scored. i want to see a sustained drive and push it in when we get to the three yard line. stay together, work hard, fight, literally fight to scrap for everything that we can. >> reporter: again the game kicks off at 8:00. you can see behind me the tarp is still on the field. coming up in the show, dave owens will look at the most heavily scrutinized player of all of washington, jason campbell and how he is dealing with the criticism. we are dry right now at fedex field. >> thank you. the los angeles county

coroner officially ruled michael jackson's death a homicide today. in a written statement the coroner confirmed a high dose of the anesthetic propofol kill the singerment toxicology tests revealed that other drugs were in his system including an antianxiety drug. murray said that the gave jackson propofol the morning he died. thousands are honoring ted kennedy. he will be laid to rest next to his brothers at arlington national cemetery. we have more on the enormous outpouring of emotion since his death. >> members of the ken day family saw a moving tribute in this sea of people. >> i don't think there anybody that would be more pleased with public outpouring of affection than this extraordinary tribute other than teddy. >> reporter: thousands stood in line to pay respects to senator kennedy. jane and lynn said they are

proud he represented their state for so long. >> universally he stood for everything that mattered to me. >> i never felt so represented by anybody. he fought for all the associate justice issues that are close to my heart. >> reporter: rick wrote a message in a condolence book and called the crowd a testament to the lives he touched. >> he left the world a better place than he found it. a compassion he had for people. >> reporter: here at the kennedy library they cut off the line this morning early so everyone waiting would be able to see his casket before the evening service. >> kennedy's widow victoria and his only surviving sister jean greeted morners. jesse jackson praised him. >> he used every ounce to make the biggest impact. >> reporter: many will share their admiration for kennedy from his niece caroline to his

colleagues in the senate. wit johnson, cbs news, boston. >> tonight's memorial service begins at 7:00. senator kennedy's funeral takes place tomorrow morning at 10:30. his body is scheduled to arrive at andrews air force base tomorrow afternoon. his motorcade will travel up independence avenue and stop at the steps of the u.s. capitol around 4:30 and then the private burial service at arlington national cemetery is expected to begin at 5:30. in some ways president kennedy chose the final resting place for himself and his two brothers. bruce leshan has more on that part of the story. >> before john kennedy's assassination, arlington was largely known as a military cemetery but the gravesites of the martyred president and his brother president are the most visited sites in the garden of stone monuments to merge's fallen heros. on veteran's day, just before his death,and was grounds and was startled by the

view. >> stopped at the location behind me, looking over the expanse of washington, d.c. and makes the comment about how beautiful and peaceful he is and how he could spend the rest of his life here. two weeks later he is assassinated. >> reporter: ted kennedy will be buried 100 feet from robert and his grave will be graced with a cross the same as bobby. >> my mother wrote senator kennedy a letter and he made sure we got the funding needed. in my family he is a hero. >> reporter: the capitol will be one of the few places where washingtonians can say a last good-bye to the man who spent nearly a half century in the senate. after a brief prayer, his motorcade will travel down constitution avenue and across memorial bridge to the cemetery he visited so often to pray at

his brother's graves and to pay tribute to the massachusetts troops who gave their lives overseas. >> each and every time you could see in his eyes, and his words that he truly knew what arlington meant. not just to his family but to america as well. >> there was of course a fourth condition did brother, joseph, who died in a particularly dangerous bombing run in world war ii. his body was never recovered but they say there are no plans to add a marker for him. back to you. >> bruce leshan, thank you to much. we laugh will have live coverage of the funeral. you can also visit a special section at wusa9.com. see all of our reports and leave your comments and memories on the senator's life. in other news now, some are calling it a house of horrors. more details are surfacing about the abducted girl in northern california who spent

18 years with her pastor and as teri okita reports we are now hearing from the alleged kidnapper herself. >> reporter: phillip garrido and nancy head to court on friday in an investigation involving the kidnapping and rape of a minor. authorities say the couple kept 11-year-old jaycee lee dugard in a secret backyard compound of sheds and tents for 18 years. she was never seen or heard from and even gave birth to two children, feared by phillip garrido in that hideaway. but in a jailhouse interview, 58-year-old phillip garrido spins a different tale. >> wait until you hear the story of what took place at this house and you're going to be absolutely impressed. it's a disgusting thing that took place with me in the beginning but i turned my life completely around. >> reporter: the house and compound are less than 200- miles from jaycee lee dugard's home. on thursday her mother saw her for the first time in two decades and met the grand daughters who are now 15 and

11. >> jaycee lee dugard feels guilty for bonding with this guy. she has a real guilt trip. >> some say that phillip garrido became a religious fanatic and say people will be surprised when they learn how he straightened out his life. >> in the end this will be a powerful heart worming story. one that your going to be impressed and your going to hear the most powerful story from the witness, the victim. >> reporter: the victim is a young innocent jaycee lee dugard from many years ago. she is now a 29-year-old woman left to sort through more than half of her life kept in captivity. cbs news, los angeles. >> authorities say a neighbor reported a backyard encampment at the suspect's home but the investigating officer dismissed it as a routine code violation. back in our area, prince georges county school officials say they never considered delaying opening day. despite knowledge of a looming

crisis that left nearly 8,000 students with no schedule of which classes to attend. at the end of a difficult week, scott broom reports there are still students waiting for final class assignments. >> reporter: it began on monday, the first day of school. 20% of prince georges county high school students turned up with no assigned schedule of classes to attend. by week's end, the unscheduled students had been moved from cafeterias and gyms in to temporary classes, but the battle is not over. >> right now we're at 1,273 students who we are still working around the clock to get their schedules done. >> reporter: now anger from parents at revelations that school officials knew of the brewing crisis long before school started. >> here we had some issues with the timing of the scheduling. >> reporter: chief technology officer wesley watts junior on thursday pointed to the $4.1 million computer system called school max. saying installation of the system caused delays in the scheduling process all the way

back in may. then software glitches and patches ate up more time. schedules usually furnished in early august weren't done until the last minute. >> at that time it was the week before school, the thursday and friday before school. we found out this issue on the first day in terms of the number of students who had holes in their schedule. >> reporter: on thursday, another computer crash had guidance counselors working out schedules behind. in hindsight the superintendent say he would not have delayed the opening of schools because 80% of students did have a valid schedule. but now by week's end it is clear the scheduling crisis slow everyone down. in upper marlboro, scott broom, 9 news now and wusa9.com. the school max system is used in lore districts including los angeles and puerto rico. the body of a man found rock creek park. police reported a jogger spotted a body in the water around 11:00 this morning.

the identity of the man and the cause of death remain under investigation tonight. police say there are no apparent signs of foul play. a maryland man is facing animal cruelty charges for allegedly throwing a chihuahua off a bridge. police say 34year -old david beard got in to an argument with the dog's inners outside of their frederick county home. they say beers grabbed the 4- pound dog, threw the dog of a bridge. zoe was never found and beers is due in court on september 17th. are you feeling lucky we are one drawing away from possibly the largest lottery jackpot in the country's history. danny continues to cit is but it is causing rough surf along the carolina beaches.

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incorrectly in ' 65. they want today check to see if other mains are at risk for the same problem. nasa is preparing for the midnight launch of the discovery. two previous attempts were put on hold. if tonight's launch does not go as planned. nasa has another opportunity on sunday. springfield, virginia, native pat forester is a member of the discovery crew. right now firefighters are battling three huge wildfires in california. near near the seaside community is where theres debit dents of 1500 homes have been evacuated. the other two fires are burning in the mountains. one of them is threatening hundreds of homes are. residents are urged to evacuate. >> no help there. >> they need showers. they don't get any wind. may get a little break by sunday but not good. >> i was in a shower and thought if that happens at the

skin's game tonight, it was a downpour. >> i think somebody is living right but fedex is okay right now. it may not be rain-free but i don't see a deluge coming. go to this first, all right. this is the sur ever outside of hatteras. hatteras is now kind of -- the storm is 300 miles south. it is moving north. tropical storms still. and they have a tropical storm watch in affect from the cape lookout northward and probably pretty simple since there is a tropical storm bearing down on it. it will curve back out to sea but probably give tropical storm force winds for a while. let's go to the next three days. 85 tomorrow, not a washout. scattered showers and thunderstorms. sunday not bad. a shower is possible. the front has to go through tomorrow, might generate a shower, 84. monday is down still like you wouldn't believe. now looking at rain and showers

and 72. here's the track of danny, gusts are 52. it will give us rip currents and rough seas that will occur around nicely and i think it will hit southern new england pretty hard. 40 to 60-mile an hour winds are possible. saturday is still their way of two to four inches of rain, too. that will be the day it will affect southern new england. it will by tomorrow afternoon. for tonight, for us a flood watch until 2:00 a.m. talked about that. shower and thunderstorms tapering off. winds are from the south at ten. the big picture. you can see a lot of thunderstorms developing south of us and east of 95 and setting up the boundary a little east and south of us. that's why we may keep the watch expanded south and east. to the west, it will be quiet for a while. can't take showers out of the

forecast but i can say i don't see any heavy downpours for the first half of the game. go to live doppler 9000 and we will pinpoint that for you. first thing we will do is she you a live picture now. there's the heavy activity south of town, little heavy activity exiting north, north of frederick and east of hagerstown. but this is heavy rain. nothing severe right now. these are heavy rain makers down 301 past waldorf, past four and northeast and plum point and if we put this in to motion the next hour where will the storms go, they will drift northwest ward and shady side and annapolis. upper marlboro will get heavy rain in the next hour. i don't think it will be severe. we talked a about this yesterday. the biggest threat is heavy rain and flooding. if you have a street with a river on it, don't try to cross

it. we are looking at forestville and college park. this is on the edge of fedex. it is down to thrower portion of the screen. just a sprinkle and that's it. nothing heavy. back to the computer, talk about tomorrow morning. we will start off mostly cloudy. a shower or thunderstorm is possible. 60s and 70s. winds from the south at ten. not a washout. by afternoon, partly sunny and warm. scattered showers and storms. high 85 and wind actress the southwest at ten. next seven days, 895 tomorrow. leftover shower on sunday with a cold front. the last front it has to go through and i apologize this monday and tuesday went downhill, looks like the front will go through on saturday and stall our our east and seth up rain and showers on monday and tuesday with highs in the low 70s. bust out of it on thursday and friday within highs in the low 80s. maybe the first day of school. doesn't look so good next week. >> so we ablame -- we blame

you. >> i look at it, like that is bad. big change. >> maybe umbrellas at the box office. >> maybe not too much summery stuff. the cash for clunkers program, no doubt about it was a big help for area auto dealers but was the opposite ld we'll explain why when 9 news returns. fab@

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program obviously very popular with consumers and auto dealers, but it had one unintended consequence. >> because it hurt the charities that depend on vehicle donations and jessica doyle explains. >> this is mel wood's conservatory and this is where we operate our horticultural program. >> one piece of the operation benefits a community funded in part by vehicle donations. they dropped sharply after cash for clunkers kicked in. jay thomas says for july and august. >> in the neighborhood of between 100 and maybe $120,000 lost for our program. >> reporter: melwood vehicle donations dropped 16% in july alone. volunteers of america saw its donations drop 13% nationwide so far for august and the impact could continue. the cash for clunkers program took 700,000 older high-energy gas guzzlers off the road. the same profile of vehicles

that typically get donated. >> we're afraid that people who may have donated in the fall months would have rushed to qualify their car for cash for clunkers, which would make it a lighter fall. >> reporter: goodwill of greater washington is predicting a drop up to 20% in donations this the last three months of the year. >> car donation charities have their concerns about the future but there is a bill moving through congress that is leading to optimism. >> that bill would raise the limit for a minimum charitable deduction on a car from $500 to $2,500. >> reporter: allowing consumers to get a bigger tax break. that might be just the incentive they need to donate the old car in the driveway, if they haven't already turned it in during cash for clunkers. the bill entitled hr 571 would reinstitute some of the tax benefits for vehicle donations. since that irs rule change donations have been cut in half even before cash for clunkers.

jessica doyle, 9 news now and wusa9.com. >> all right. a virginia teen is honored for an international charity project. learn what motivates him coming up in our hero central report. talk about heros, almost every week senator ted kennedy read to students at a dc elementary school. we will meet the little girl he read often when most often whe news now returns. 9 b@fa

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welcome back, everyone. let's recap the stories in the news now. a flash flood watch is in affect now for our entire area. thunderstorms this afternoon already caused some streets flooding in our area, and more storms and heavy rain are expected through the evening. the man accused of kidnapping a girl 18 years ago and fathering two of her children just appeared in court. the suspect's father, manuel says his son is absolutely out of his mind. phillip garrido allegedly kept jaycee lee dugard and two children captive in a makeshift housing behind his home. >> reporter: and a private memorial service will take place tonight for senator edward kennedy at the kennedy presidential library in boston.

public viewing of the flag- draped casket ended this afternoon. a funeral mass will be held in boston tomorrow morning and senator kennedy will be buried tomorrow morning at arlington national cemetery. meanwhile, a local girl will be forever known as senator kennedy's last reading buddy. >> when he could no longer come to see her every tuesday he sent a dc elementary school student a letter. ken mcleod has the story. >> the very shy soft-spoken third grader showed me the book ted kennedy gave her as a birthday gift. >> he asked when my birthday was and he would say that's pretty close. >> reporter: it was so much more than that. almost every tuesday as part of a literacy program everybody wins kennedy came to brent elementary school and read to students, most often lorne. >> he didn't want the hoopla and attention but he would come through the back door and his dogs often waiting for him.

>> he didn't really share much about himself. >> reporter: but they did share books and friendships and sometimes playing rock, paper scissors to decide who would read the next page. she wrote get well cards when he was sick and has cried a lot since his death. >> she has taken it pretty good to be 8 years old and i let her read his book and look at his picture and we talk about it and tell her she can talk to me anytime. >> reporter: it seems the booming voice settled softly in the ear and heart of one young girl. >> you see this big man on tv and he's going at it with other senators and people on the hill and he comes in and he was a gentle giant with the kids. >> he was a very busy man so he had to read the time that he had. >> reporter: and now the flag outside of her school has been lowered for the big voice that will read to lorne no more.

in washington, ken mcleod. >> reporter: the life and legacy of senator ted kennedy will be the focus of this week's face the nation. joining us is the host and chief washington correspondent bob schiffer. after so many years of covering the goings on at the capitol you must have so many personal memories of ted kennedy. >> i was thinking i have spent a good part of my professional career covering one kennedy or another. i was in dallas at the assassination of course of john kennedy when i came to washington my first assignment was to try to track down and get interviews with the people who were with senator kennedy out at chap quitic. on that fateful night i had just come to work here when that happened and then i came to know senator kennedy throughout the years. interviewed him many times. it's amazing when i look back at it how much of the time reporters of the last half of

the 20th century how much time those of us who covered politics covered it with the kennedys. so indeed i do have many memories. i asked bob doll on friday. i said how is this this man could make these so partisan speeches and he could make a good political speech, say the things he did and still retain the great relationships that he had with republicans and conservatives and senator dole told me he said, you know, he could make those speeches but he said he could convince you that he wasn't really talking about you [ laughter ] >> i think when you come down to it that may be it. he never let it get personal. >> he stuck to his guns but didn't make it personal with his opponent. >> that's why he built up so many friendships. i truly think if you took a secret vote in the senate senator kennedy would have been elected the most popular. >> and who's going to be joining you to talk about this

as well? >> we have all of his friends. we have john mccain for one who will be with us. we have orrin hatch, both of them very conservative republicans as you know. we have dianne feinstein and we will talk to barney frank who is one of his massachusetts home state congressman. so i think we will have a lot of fun, among other things. i hope we will get to hear some of the great political stories that came out of this career that he had, this master legislator who is respected and liked by so many on both sides of the aisle. >> all right, bob. a show not to miss. thank you so much. you can watch face the nation this sunday morning at 10:30 following cbs sunday morning. police are stepping up patrols near the site where two virginia tech students were murdered. 199-year-old david lee mettler and heidi lynn childs were discovered at the campgrounds inside of jefferson national forest. the forest is a popular hiking

area for tech students. investigators say it appears both were shot. one was found inside of a car and the other outside. investigators have not released any information on suspects or a motive for the killings. a dozen students are recovering from quite a scare in atlanta. the 7th through 12th graders were on the school bus when a shirtless man jumped on board and took control. they say eric pittman overpewerred the driver and abandoned the wheel as the bus started to go down a hill. >> kids were jumping off the bus as the bus moved down the roadway and i seen, they had uniforms on and i didn't know what was going on at first. i seen a young lady that said help us. help us. somebody hijacked our bus. >> reporter: most of the students were able to jump off the back of the bus birth crashed. two ended up suffering minor injuries. pittman is in custody. police have yet to announce what they will charge him with. in tonight's hero central

segment, we have the amazing story of a local boy's effort and some big-time recognition. do you remember what you were thinking when you were 10 years old? probably nothing like one arlington teenager did. and when he was that age, digital correspondent, kristin fisher has his story. >> winston duncan was only 10 years old when he took a trip to africa. what he saw changed his life. >> i saw an older woman and young boy and they are walking down the street and they both looked tired. i thought why not give them bikes. everyone has an old bike. bikes can be used everywhere and that's where it started. >> i thought he was pretty silly really. and then he sat down and explained to me, very reasonable that there was no infrastructure -- and i'm not sure where he got the word infrastructure but there was no infrastructure to support cars in africa so he was going to send bikes to africa.

>> what we do is we get old and used bikes from people who donate them and disassemble them and put them in a big storage container and ship them to africa. >> that's it. >> four years later the boy with the bike sauce week away from his freshman year in high school and every year his charity has grown with him. >> to put it in perspective. the first year we had 250 bikes and the last collection we collected 1,000 bikes. so it has really grown. >> reporter: and people have taken notice. >> last night he actually had to deliver a speech alongside the likes of mia farrow and harvard professor henry lewis gates junior. it is part of the sullivan foundation africa rising award celebration at the kennedy center. kristin fisher, 9 news now and

wusa9.com. >> good for him. do you know a hero, need a hero, log on to wusa9.com and click on the hero central button and tell us all about that person. well, you don't have to spend big bucks to get a decent pair of athletic shoes. coming up in living smart how to get a a kick stononart e th right fit.

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on our website. one couple's loss could be your gain. why one bakery is giving away a wedding cake for free. and the quarterback situation is looking interesting. >> what's up? all eyes on one particular redskin tonight. coming up in ten minutes we will look at jason campbell and is su he is facing this upcoming season. r42rpp

welcome back. so what wants cake? a cake designer is giving away what was supposed to be a wedding cake and for reasons we can't disclose the couple that was supposed to tie the knot tomorrow called it off for irreconcilable differences. now it can be someone else's cause for celebration. >> this is what the design looks like. >> reporter: the cake needs a home. for now it sits in clara gold's refrigerator. she and her team worked through the night to bake the five tier

cake. >> we finished baking it at 5:00 in the morning and i got the news at 9:00. she has had weddings called off before but none this late and now she is donating it to someone deserving, a good deal considering the kets cca $1,500. >> the cake dunn look like much now but she says just think of the possibilities. >> it is a white canvas. you can do whatever you want with this cake at this point. the only thing is that it is round. this cake isn't decorated yet. so whoever wants the cake has an opportunity to design it any way they like because it is just iced and ready to be, all the frills to be placed on it. i hope the person who gets this cake has a great time and enjoys every single bite and it is for a good cause, whatever the cause maybe. >> it will make someone very happy. it is a lemon pound cake and can last up to a week. if you have you have a celebration deserving of this,

go to our website at wusa9.com. >> gorgeous. 9 news now at 6:00 is 15 minutes away. here's what we have for you tonight, on the 46th anniversary on the march on washington. we have learned a piece of civil rights history is coming to dc. plus, you can have one of 46,000 refrigerators being recalled tonight in your kitchen. and a local artist trying to make it big lends her voice to a child's fight for survival. that inspiring story tonight at 6:00. >> all right. danny? >> danny. danny will provide some interesting stuff for southern new england stuff. rough surf at the shore. rip currents are bad. good news for us, though. i think in terms of the weekend not a washout. won't be shower free but not a washout. the forecast first, the next three days, scattered showers

and storms tomorrow, 85. leftover shower on sunday with a front 84. and then monday it went downhill. showers and rain and high temperatures holding in the low 70s on monday. not a great day. danny, yes. here's danny. going to take a track off shore. winds 40 miles an hour. so a minimal strength tropical storm. so minimal strength and it will brush southern new england and give us rip current and rough surf. advise it is going swimming. if the life guard closes the beach, stay out. it not worth it. talk about the showers and thunderstorms. good news. tonight the flood watch continues until 2:00 a.m. showers will be tapering off, though, lows 66 to 72 winds from the south at ten. here's the big picture. fair amount of lightning with these storms across in to the delmarva, but for the most part this is the heaviest activity by far in to southeast southern

maryland. calvert and st. marys and charles county. these are heavy storms. look at live doppler 9000. we will show you againful everything is east of 95 from annapolis down to la plata and it is on the heavy side. we are talking one to two inches an hour with rainfall. and a little bit of shower activity up to frederick is heavy. but from upper marlboro to clinton and brandy wine this is heavy stuff. flooding is possible with these types of storms and they will move off to the north and the east and that's going to spell more heavy rain for southern maryland. now, in tsterms of fedex, we think right now they are on the edge of the showers and should be in god shape. can't make it shower free tonight at the redskins game but for the most part if you look carefully most showers are south of fedex. go back to the computer and talk about tomorrow morning. shower or thunderstorm is possible. few scattered showers and storms tomorrow afternoon but not bad. 85 for the high. next seven days, weekend is

okay. looks like the front will go through on sunday and stall. rain and showers and low 70s. low 80s next thursday and friday. >> okay. >> less than auspicious start to the school year. >> okay. >> feeling like fall. >> yeah. >> thank you. rain could be a factor in tonight's game. >> this is football. we don't care about rain. we play -- we're like the post office. unless there is lightning and then we are concerned about the safety but we will see jason campbell for a half or more tonight. in the grand scheme of things as you know preseason games don't matter but tonight matters more than usual for damp bell. the redskins quarterback, who the team tried to relace this season has been sub par in the first two games. needs to step it up or the natives and maybe they have already will be getting wrestling. we have more on campbell's ongoing saga. hey, dave. >> after the off season he had what he really needed was a fast start. that hasn't happened. so that has left the door open

for some to wonder if this is his last chance in dc. as the skins bowed out in san francisco last year, campbell offered these words. >> really could be a good team we showed it earlier in the year. we have to do it 15 games straight and play at a high not the offense that scored the fewest points in the nfc. >> there's a lot to think about for our group and my hope and i believe this is our group will stay a group. >> reporter: somewhere in the inkwhile e it was happening he was well informed, not from any -- no manipulation, just here's what we are doing. >> reporter: the team tried to landmark sanchez in the draft. >> it bothered me because you have to stand tall and strong through the tough times in life. >> reporter: campbell would remain unflappable until sports

illustrated article quoted the quarterback as saying he felt like a piece of toilet tissue during the off season. >> may how i feel at one moment. i doesn't define the whole process. >> this is the reality of the sport. this is the reality of big-time football. jason jason! >> he is back at center but after two preseason game the natives are growing wrestlesless. >> everyone wants to talk about one for se . parents scientists are urging you to stop putting processed meat like cold cut and hot dogs in your school lunches. a world study finds that kids that eat smoked, salted or cured meat could increase their risk of developing cancer later in life. >> there is convincing evidence that it increases your risk of cancer. >> these are chemicals that

what happens to your body can raise the risk of cancer. what can you do instead, try low fat cheese and humus in the lunch. this group wants to cure kids ' taste for processed meat now. as kids return to a new school year the sports is up and going. for some kids this is a year round cycle with intense practices at younger ages and sometimes focus on only one sport. in living well, young athletes pushing themselves too hard. >> i was playing just about every day and when i wasn't i was practicing or at the batting cage. >> reporter: and his favorite part of baseball, stepping on the pitcher's mound. >> how much were you pitching. >> nearly 40 games a season. >> reporter: last year this budding athlete began to feel a sharp pain in his right shoulder when he pitched. eventually it lasted long after the game was over and he ended

up in the office of an orthopedic. >> an x-ray was obtained and his growth plate was showing signs of being pulled apart which is known as little league ear shoulder. >> it is weaker than surrounding bone and more susceptible to damage including a repetitive stress injuries. >> this could have pulled apart and he could have ended up with a fracture or done permanent damage where by this would not grow normally. >> reporter: setting the stage for joint problems, early arthritis and an athletic career cut short. so josh had to stop playing baseball for six weeks all together and ease back to his favorite sport. but he and his parents decided his pitching days are behind him. he's an infielder now. >> you have to listen to your body and make sure that you do what you know is right and if you are sore you need to tell your parents immediately so you don't end up with life-long

injuries. >> good advice. dr. miller says this type of injury isn't limited to baseball. it can happen in football and other sports. to lessen the chances of your child getting hurt, tell your young athlete to never play through pane. for specific advice on how to treat the sports injuries when they happen go to our website at wusa9.com and click on this story in living well. thanks for joining us for 9 news now at 5:00. 9 news now at 6:00 starts