but tonight, democratic leaders are backing away from suggestions they might punish the republican congressman, who called the president a liar during his speech last night. still, there might be fallouts from representative joe wilson's outburst. bruce will san has more on that. >> reporter: adjacent and nervous joe wilson trailed a pack of cameras down a congressional hallway. they demanded he apologize to the president. >> leadership is something they wanted me to conning tact the white house and state that my statements were inappropriate. i did. >> reporter: the gop had clearly planned some protest at the speech. they had signs and there were lots of boos. >> the reforms i'm proposing are not applying here for them. >> you lie. [ booing ] but wilson insists his shout of you lie, was just his emotions getting the better of him. the president accepted his apology. >> i'm a big believer.

and that we all make mistakes. >> reporter: democratic leaders in congress are eager to move on. >> he embarrassed himself, it was a sad day for the institution. but well, let's keep our eye on the big issue which was providing quality affordable health care for the american people. >> the delegation campaign within hours, some 5,000 individual contributors put together 200,000 dollars for joe wilson's opponent, rob miller. the guy who's running against him in next year's elections. >> the media could always be helpful but not giving all the attention to the loudest or shrillest voices. >> fat chance. on capitol hill, 9news now and wusa9.com. congressman wilson suggests the whole thing might shore up his base, telling south carolina television stations he's been getting all kinds of wonderful calls from con stitch wents congratulating him for, "expressing our frustration." >> apparently there were fireworks outside where the

president spoke last night. u.s. capitol police arrested the 28-year-old joshua bowman. they reportedly found an unregistered gun and some ammunition in his car. they say that he approached a security check point near the cannon house building and told officers he wanted to park his car. center women in northern virginia, watch your back. somebody is trying to kidnap them ifair oaks. cks happen or thratahas erppen or ratherat ckta attack happened last night, ju ha mile from a similar incident over the weekend. they are live it from fair oaks with the latest. >> well, police say that last night's incident happenedded while an 18-year-old was doing something very simple. just out here taking out the trash when they grabbed her at knife point. police, they say it happened around 10 last night when the women were taking out the tkpwar back near the -- garbage near the apartments here in the fair oaks area. the 18-year-old woman struggled with the attacker and was able to break free.

residence say that this is disturbing because it is the second similar type of incident for them and within a mile of each other just this week. on sunday, a 56-year-old woman was getting out of her car and walking her dog at a complex when a man tried to talk with her. when she ignored him, that's when police say the man grabbed her. and these two incidents have put residence on edge. >> last night, i was on the computer talking to some friends and i heard a helicopter going over and over and over again. i commented to my friends that the police, they must be looking for somebody. >> well, it scares me a lot. and i know i usually heard it happen at 8:00. so you know, i usually take her out around 8. so now i have been taking her out earlier. >> and police, they are hoping to put together a composite sketch by tomorrow. but for now, they only have a vague description to pass along tonight. and they say they are looking for a hispanic man in his late 20s, five foot three inches tall. and also 130 pounds. if you have seen him, go ahead,

call police. reporting live in fair oaks, 9news now and wusa9.com. all right, now to a metro worker who is fighting for his life after being struck by train. this latestnencpe apine d thnntl nenepeutd in the tunnel south ofrere agan national airport on the yellow blue line. the worker apparently was separated from the rest of the maintenance crew when he was hit by a train coming out here. the latest incident in a summer of problems for the rail system. >> it has been a very challenging summer for the transit agencies because of so many of the events that happened. the usual occurrences. and it is just, well, yeah, it's been challenging. >> and the only thing we could tell you about the workers condition is that they were unconscious and in serious condition when he was flown earlier to that start. >> that's a deadly hit-and-run crash, flying over the scenes here, happening just before two this morning on route 7 near river parkway. the driver rear ended a dump truck and fled leaving his

injured passenger. medics rushed the 26-year-old, adam to the hospital. but he did not survive. police arrested the driver, the 25-year-old justin schuback. charged with driving under the influence and felony hit and run. tax liens on 5,000 properties were headed to the auction block. but now that process has been hotted for now. one of them complained in court that the city did not include all properties that owed back taxes. the city listed with more than 1200 due in overtaxes. they will review the judge's order and reschedule the auction for october. cutting another 100 to -- $100 to $200 million from the budget could soon be a look. o'malley says they do not know if they need to do that in order to break even. they could come next week when the revenue estimates are revised by the state board estimates. the federal government has

released a draft report outlining steps for cleaning up the chesapeake bay. among them, tighter rules about storm water runoff from cities and suburbs and tighter regulations of the poultry farms. it is all aimed at limiting the kind of pollutants that end up in the waters, the epa, they will announce more details in november. when we return, before you make a call and send big money on phone renovations, we've got ways to help you get what you want for less. that's coming up next on living smart. a woman who lives here at the georgia apartments in civil springs says thieves found an unusual way to break into her apartment. i'm lindsay,ville this story. >> i'm topper, we'll take that out as you might expect they took temperatures down a little bit. pretty comfortable for them going out there for the books. averages still 81 and 64678 you could still get hot. that's the record high for you, 44 the record low. we'll come back and talk about when they roll in. we'll show you the live doppler 9,000 and when the agrolls

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residence are on high alert tonight. three times in the last week, residence returned home to the georgian apartment to find someone else has been there first. digital correspondent has the story a. >> reporter: it was a week ago on wednesday that megan came

home to find her apartment ransacked. >> i opened up the door and there were papers all over the floor, everything was really just deshovelled. >> reporter: guess how the thieves got in? >> a huge two and a half foot hole that had been punched in through the wall. >> it has been patched, but you can see where it was. megan says on the other side of this wall is a vacant apartment. >> and this apartment was actually unlocked and the door was left ajarred for several days in a row. >> contractors were doing work inside the vacant apartment. in another case, they were home on september 1 with her door unlocked when someone walked in. >> i heard a noise on the front door. and then all of a sudden this man came inside my apartment. and at which time i screamed and the man ran away. >> reporter: the property manager, travis says that the apartments had surveillance cameras at the time of the burglaries, but they did not record. and he says thatting management will now update the

equipment with cameras that do. as for the contractors doing work? >> they could be gone for 10 minutes and just go get the materials that they are making sure they lock the doors. we put lock boxes on the doors as well. >> for megan, the damage is already done. >> you know, i had six years worth of photos on these laptops. we don't know how to get those items back. >> in silver spring, 9news now and wusa9.com. again, lock your doors. the manager says that they were able to steal from one of the apartments in a third break-in because the door was simply unlocked. the national mall is known as america's front yard. and today they got some much need tlc. the local volunteers stepped in to clean up, sprucing up the area around the constitution gardens and the lake. so we want to keep that all

out of the water. >> reporter: congress has approved some emergency spending from the stimulus funds to get those improvements done. dozens of rescuers work for hours to get a dog trapped from the case. pulled from a tube this morning. they tried to lure them with food and water eventually they just needed to dig to get to them. the dog was not hurt. the space shuttle discovery is less than an hour from landing another the kennedy station. >> this is the final leg of the 13 day mission to deliver supplies to the international space station. they needed to navigate around a small piece of the space junk before setting their course for home. the next shuttle launch is for november. lift off, lift off on the flight of the rocket and a new cargo ship that is headed for the international space station. as they head home, they launched their rocket to deliver the equipments to the international space station. more supplies could be shipped

using other rackets. they are planning to retire their space shuttle fleet late next year. we'll see if they need to bo to california or -- go to california or what. we're looking at the potential i think we'll say the potential for some rain and showers tonight. and we just got new information for them. they may actually go north of us. either way though, we salvage a decent friday and saturday. here's your forecast first. the next three days right out of the gate. maybe a shower early. not a bad day. then maybe a shower late on saturday, upper 70s, not a bad day. very nice on sunday with temperatures back into the low 80s. so we're in pretty good shape over the weekend it looks like. now for tonight, we'll keep it in. windy and cool issue rain and showers -- cool, rain and showers. low temperatures, low 60s in

the suburbs. 10 to 20 and a little on the gusty side. showing you doppler 9000, still dry for most of the commuters. but there's some growing area of light to occasional rain just peeking out there to charles county now. this will move up to the north end of the west. in fact, already up towards here, seeing light rain, st. leonard and them and of course a little heavy activity across the lower area. we'll put this into motion. for the next hour they will move through here. get out towards clinton, getting pretty close to see the ball game. probably some showers there before the game is out probably the next two hours. again, nothing heavy with this batch. but steady progression, north and west with the light productively. we'll talk about the temperatures. lows tonight, very comfortable. 57 at great falls. a lot of folks will be in their 50s tonight. going up to 70. you'll go further up to the 70s. in the mid-50s for them. 60 out there and we're looking

at probably mid-60s downtown. temperatures right now, not bad at all. upper 60s, low 70s. 79 at nationals. 68 out here. a little cooler as you might expect by the bay. upper 60s for ap napless -- annapolis. tomorrow morning, becoming breezy, cooler showers are possible. 50s and 60s, but not a bad morning. west winds partly sunny, breezy, cool. slight chance of showers. high temperatures, low to mid-70s. winds will persist out there at 10 to 15. they will have a little chill to the air. also it's a dry wind, drying us out pretty quickly. radar combined, we'll zoom in to this little system. watching this all week. it has been a tough one to track, very happy that it is not january, believe me. because well, you have been waiting and waiting for our little burst. we'll wait and wait again a. i think that'll occur tonight throughout the late hours tonight and then as quickly as it moves in, it's going to move

out fast by tomorrow morning can p p certainly by tomorrow afternoon. zones for you, all six zones still on our website on wusa.com. you can track the radar in addition to live doppler 9000 online, interactive radar. 73 charlestown. a low to mid-70s for springfield. but mid-70s for stafford. a pretty nice day out here downtown. a little cooler by the bay. low 70s in annapolis and here's a small craft advisory for most of friday morning. next seven days, 72 on friday. some showers early. maybe showers late on saturday. but still, not a bad day. upper 70s to take that. low 80s on sunday. low to mid-80s on monday and tuesday. they are really for the prince george's county fair that runs through sunday, looking preutty nice. then maybe some showers next week with a front. showers and storms on wednesday into thursday. >> tkpwez what? >> what. >> we get to see what all this money is going to buy us.

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in two of the four preseason games, they did not play at all. in the other two, they got a little more than a sniff tackling one tackle and no sex. which means when he takes the field on sunday, it will essentially be the burgundy and gold unvailing for him. of course, what albert is capable of is no secret for sure and nearly 500 tackles in his seven seasons to go along with 128 quarterback pressures, and starts in the last two

probowls. he's widely considered to be the most dominant defensive tackle for football and his coach cannot wait to turn him loose. >> i think that he'll be a big impact for our football team. but you know, i expect it to be that way but at the same time you wait and see. i mean, we all have expectations of something that we have purchased, whatever. you come home and it is not what you think it was. you open up the box and you're not certain. you need to wait and open up the box. >> i cannot wait to open up the box like christmas in the morning. the thing is that they might have the second best defensive line in sunday's game. the giants are pretty good. there's a concern that he could spend much of the afternoon on his wallet. last year in the two games against the giants, jason got the sack five times and the giants front 7, they have not gotten any worse, they still have that out there and antonio pierce which means the skins offensive line, they better be on point.

when you're trying to be the power house, you do not lose to one team. the last time they lost to a caa team was 1971. and they are not about to overlook the dukes and do it again. >> they are pretty good, good players. obviously we need to come out here and you know, prepare that we're playing any 1a team.

>> they are a good team, they are experienced. you cannot take them lightly for sure. because well, this is a very good team. he said that this year will be personal for them as they try to discredit the critics who say that they have passed that crime. with with two weeks left for the cup, tiger woods finds himself in a strange position. second place, tiger got passed by them for number one last week. in an effort to pass him back, tiger is doing something he normally doesn't do. he's playing three weeks in a row, opening round of the bmw. and tiger missed just two fairways all day today. this is for birdie. and he got to three under par just two off the lead. a lead that is held by fairfax, virginia native, steve marino, finishing with this birdie, just out there tied for first place. and half the u.s. open today, the williams, they visited that and they have made it into the doubles final.

whatever you do, don't grab the guns if you're falling. because they look like they were getting ready to, you know, fire back. >> yes. just going that fast either. >> and was it me or did she not look happy? >> not at all. >> all right, well, that's it for us on 9news now at six. the cbs evening news is next. we'll see you for the area's