mental handicap and the mental capacity of a six-year-old child. >> natalie williams serving as a spokesperson for the victim and family of the alleged attack. >> the teacher was out of control at this time. >> the family says he grabbed the basketball and threw it at the face of the teenager. >> he then picked the child up, threw him into the bleachers, as the child attempted to get up, the assaulting teacher grabbed him once again and threw him back into the bleachers for a second time. >> family spokesperson, natalie williams says the teachers aid identified only as mr. davis attacked the mentally handicapped student in the gymnasium in front of other teachers. the family says other students and teachers pleaded for him to stop, but he kept on. >> this teacher assaulting teachers out of control. he comes around and then proceeds to hit the student once again in the back of his head in the front of his head first, then to the back of his head.

>> the family wants to know why their child was not taken to the nurse's office. why security did not respond, and why the school failed to notify the parents immediately. >> you can't imagine that something like this can happen at a school nowadays, but just surprised that nothing has come home from this. >> prince georges county of public schools chief communications officer tells 9news now, the case has been referred to tell the welfare authorities. lesli. >> they hadn't heard anything from the school. is that the case? did anything go home at all? >> no. the school district did send home this letter informing the parents of a change in leadership that principal is on personal leave for an indefinite amount of time, but again, no -- >> did they explain why? >> no word whether or not if it is a direct result of what happened. the alleged incident. all right alex, thank you for that. well the catholic church

sex abuse scandal hits close to home. retired cardinal was scheduled to celebrate the latin mass on saturday at the basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception. now he has been replaced. agreed to find a replacement. advocates for victims of sexual abuse objected because he wrote a letter in 2001 congratulating a french bishop for shielding a priest convicted of raping minors. court records reveal there may be romantic relationships linked to basketball players. tyrone hall is accused of shooting to death brandon carol and wounding teammate, ellis heartridge. they were once involved with the same woman. according to police, hall says he shot carol and heartridge during a confrontation. a public viewing for murdered principal bets. more than a thousand of people

are expected, including seven bus loads of his students. audrey barnes is live outside of the pierce funeral home with more. audrey. >> reporter: lesli, this will be a very emotional night for people who knew and loved brian bets. he would have celebrated his 43rd birthday next thursday. and everyone gathering here is having a tough time believing that someone so good has died so soon. >> the first one to arrive was jennifer, brian bet's only sister. many, many more are expected. the family grew up not far from here in manassas. old classmates are having a tough time dealing with the loss of their friend who was so outgoing, they always knew he would do great things. >> brian was just one of the most loving, understanding, caring, energetic people we have ever known. >> bus loads of kids will be here. so will bet's former students

from montgomery county. he was trying to make a difference, what he has been doing his entire life. >> you heard people from shaw talking about how special he was. not surprising. >> not surprising at all. he was one of the most caring people that i've ever known. >> break your heart? >> oh, yeah. absolutely breaks my heart. >> homicide investigators are pouring over every aspect of brian bet's life. they are going into finances, looking on facebook, anything they can to lead them to his killer. his private funeral service is tomorrow morning. there is another opportunity for the public to say good-bye to this beloved principal. that will be on saturday, may 1 at the high school at 11:00 in the morning. the public is invited for one last chance to say good-bye. lesli back to you. >> now to a day long police standoff. it is over in bowie, maryland.

it started on chestnut avenue, where authorities try to capture a man wanted for attempted murder. he reportedly ran the sheriff's vehicle while trying to escape. the suspect eventually ran into a house on 9th street after a long standoff. police fired tear gas into the home. they found the suspect hiding in the basement. there were no serious injuries. new at 6:00, probags for starving a baby. a woman convicted of starving her one-year-old son to death gets a suspended sentence and probation. prosecutors say a religious cult convinced ria to starve her baby because the boy would not say amen after a prayer. on top of that, her plea agreement contained an extraordinary provision, if her son is resurrected, the plea would be withdrawn. more now on the child abuse case of dr. earl bradley. his trial date has been set for early next year. bradley is charged with raping or sexually abusing more than 100 children who went to his pediatric office in delaware. jury selection will begin on

february 14. the trial will start on february 21. tonight, the search continues for 11 people still missing after an oil rig explosion off the coast of louisiana. that rig was still burning this morning after being rocked by the blast late last night. most of the workers either escaped or were rescued by the coast guard. seven were taken to the hospital. now there is concern that rig could topple into the sea. >> it will be a huge salvage project, the size of this rig is incredible. so, it is going to be a massive recovery. >> once the fire is completely out, coast guard teams will begin cleaning off the wreckage. >> air travel is slowly returning to normal. they reopened air space, after the amount of ash in the air dropped to safer levels. the volcano is still active, but it is no longer sending ash miles into the air. a cartoon is sparking outrage. one group says the creators of

south park had gone too far, they are calling for a protest. we'll tell you more straight ahead. but first -- first look at a police surveillance video in a police beating case. a video that went missing. when we come back, we'll get into exactly how it was found. i'm meteorologist, topper shutt. scott was east of us, he is under showers. we'll take you out with live doppler. down toward the southern part of maryland, that's going to cross into huntingtown, soon. we'll talk about a strong finish to the week.

lawyers for an alleged police bating victim at the university of maryland have a missing surveillance video at

hand. the official scrutiny of the police department that had that video is a long way from being finished. scott broome is at the university of maryland with a first look at the video in question. scott. >> yeah, they just gave it to us this afternoon. university officials say because they released it to us, they have nothing to hide. that's proof of that, but lawyers from the student involved in this police beating case who subpoenaed this case to start with say they are going to wait for the outcome of a police investigation before drawing any judgments into this. let me show you this video. it's fuzzy, it's of events on knox road leading up to the riot police beating. university of maryland police say they just found it yesterday and they didn't give it to the lawyers at first because they thought that all copies had been erased. >> the 90 minute gap was, we believe the technicians are failed to copy that, when we transmitted with the subpoena. >> of the 15 or so cameras that we received, it was the one camera, the most important

camera that was omitted. again, they say it's a mistake, but it's a coincidence that raises enough questions that one would hope that it is thoroughly investigated. the curiosity is heightened by the fact the police officer in charge of video surveillance on a night of the beating happens to be married to one of the mounted police officers who is at the scene of the beating. university officials say she recuesed herself from handling the video once lawyers subpoenaed the tape. in the words of administrative officials, she is beyond question in their opinion. as for the video release today, it doesn't even show the beating. that happened to be captured on a youtube video captured by a student. the circumstances of how it disappeared is now the focus of a state police investigation into how the university of maryland police handled all this. reporting live at the university of maryland, scott broome, 9news now. >> lighting a fire under metro

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cortizone-10 -- feel the heal. in our consumer follow up, it is finally talk to cash in on your state appliance rebate program. maryland rolls out its program tomorrow, which just so happens to be the 40th anniversary of earth day. virginia residents will be able to reserve their rebate online beginning april 28. and the district's appliance program will start in late may. lawmakers try to get to the bottom of problems within metro at a congressional hearing today. the federal transit administration revealed their audit and offered 21 recommendations, i should say, they include complete restructuring of safety and communication at the transit agency. >> this is a dysfunctional system, isn't it? >> it needs work. that is, there is real bad blood and hostility between some operating departments.

and that's a very, very dangerous environment in which to be running. >> on top of their operational problems, metro also begins budget talks tomorrow to try and close the $190 million gap. >> are there any togetherness on the roads out there? >> not a lot of space. contemplating getting on the west side of the beltway, you may want to wait longer. take a look at this. it's bumper to bumper. anyone hardly moving beyond 10 miles an hour. we dealing with two accidents. the other one at the 270 spur. all lanes are blocked there. so very slow ride all the way up to the bw parkway. we'll take you close to two hours at this point. 395, much better. all the way down to 95. no major issues to report. just minor delays between seminary and duke here. all travel lanes are open. finally, over the key bridge as we over look this traffic. no problems here, but watch out for an accident at 28 and m.

it's still blocking lanes there. also if you are going to the game, all trains are running on time. lesli, back to you. >> a radical islamic website says it is calling for a protest, not violence against creators of south park. the website, revolutionmuslim.com posted a warning that said the show's creators risk being killed. this for airing an episode that depicted the profit in a bear suit. the author of the bear posting said he was trying to show those who offended can respond, including through demonstrations and letters. >> another piece of history has been added to the smithsonian, it's a cane that president john f. kennedy used during world war ii. ted robinson lived with kennedy on a pacific island when both were recovering from war wounds. robinson gave the kaine to the museum of history today. >> jack kennedy was a real

hero to every one of us out there. he was in terrible shape after he lost his boat and it starved for a week and was burned. >> it was world war ii and lieutenant commander, ted robinson tells the future of the future president, john f. kennedy. kennedy's now famous boat, 109; was attacked by a japanese destroyer. >> he hadn't lost his great sense of humor yet. he said, where have you guys been? i've been standing at this bus stop for a whole week now. actually, where he was, he was behind enemy lines. >> robinson would be wounded. he ended up living with kennedy on a tent on a pacific island for two months. the island's village chief gave him a cane as a gift. >> first, he used this cane

when he was first walking. >> robbinson kept that cane for years. >> the cane remained under my bed. >> today robinson donated the cane to the smithsonian museum of american history. >> it can be tangible and real. >> it symbolizes more memories, for robinson, it's a piece of american history. that cane will be kept in storage at the american history museum. it's been one of those rainy, dreary, cold days. >> it has. it was chilly for april. we are going to bounce back tomorrow and on friday. and bounce somewhere else. that's all i'm saying. the next three days, here's your forecast first. tomorrow, very nice. we do run the risk of afternoon showers, but the bulk of the day will be nice. about 70. and 70 and mild on friday with sunshine and bounce into an unsettled weekend. showers and light rain on

saturday. temperatures in the upper 60s. now for tonight, we are looking at showers ending early, partial clearing. it will be cool, patchy fog after midnight. 45 to 50, and winds turn northwesterly at 5 to 10. let me show you live doppler 9,000. you can always access this on our website at wusa9.com. most of the activity, i-95 eastward and most of it by and large is actually north of town and east of town around baltimore. we'll zoom in, we'll show you a couple areas of light rain and showers. nothing is very heavy. a tenth to .3 of an inch fell with the system and we told you it's going to be a light system. some light activity over toward bowie, as you go up 97 toward 32, a little bit of light rain and showers. that is about it. furthest west is on the west side of 29. all right, let's go back to the computer. we'll talk about temperatures. yeah, a little bit below

average. 54 in bethesda. shadowy and 55 in college park. 55 also in rockville. temperatures pretty uniform with the rain and clouds. temperatures pretty tightly bunched. mostly sunny and cool. 40s and 50s. winds out of the west at 10 and by afternoon, a nice day, breezy and pleasant, yes, a couple showers possible, but highs around 70. pretty good deal. satellite picture, ray -- combined. here's our weak little system. we will push on out to sea tonight and partial clearing skies late and actually a nice finish to the week thursday and friday. we are in good shape. weekend does go downhill. we haven't changed the weekend much. in fact, here in the next seven days, tomorrow 70, friday 70. showers possible tomorrow afternoon and then we go downhill as we get into saturday and also into sunday. showers and thunderstorms possible as we get into the weekend. then we are looking at temperatures cool with some rain and some showers, especially as we get into monday and tuesday of next week. only in the 60s for highs.

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bruce spotted canadians coach, mortan spying from the stands. prompting gabby to pull his players off the ice. it's been that kind of series so far. spying, trash talking. the caps have now outscored the havs10-2. it has given the caps confidence, but not over confident. >> like any team that is in the playoffs, they are confident you are a good team, but we are also confident that we are playing a really good team. so i mean, there's no reason for us to have swagger, we won two games. we have to win four. and you have to win 12 more after that. >> as for the goalie, no surprise. start for the caps tonight after his 26 save performance in game three. ben roethlisberger has not been convicted of a crime, but the steelers quarterback was suspended for six games for

violating the league's personal conduct policy. commissioner goodell following the allegation that roethlisberger sexually assaulted a woman in a nightclub. it could be moved to four games, but the steelers are entertaining trade offers. in a letter to roethlisberger, the commissioner writing, you are held to a higher standard as an nfl player and there's nothing about your conduct in georgia that can be described as responsible, or consistent with either the values of the league or the expectations of our fans. meanwhile, it is 24 hours now until the nfl draft. while we think the redskins will take an offensive tackle with the fourth overall pick. while donovan mcnabb is praying for his personal safety, they still could go rogue. they are the redskins afterall. the dallas morning news predicts the skins will take jimmie with that pick and after holding a private workout with

would be number one, sam bradford last week. some believe the skins could use albert hainesworth or jason campbell in a trade to get that guy. in new york, sam bradford said he is into the skins. >> their staff was great, you know, malcolm kelly is the receiver there. played with him at oklahoma. it was good seeing a familiar face and i enjoyed my time with him. >> the nats will try to get above 500, and after three days in which the nats starting pitchers twice gave up six runs in the first unking, we are reminded once again that help is only 100 miles away. his name is steven strasburg. he made his start and he was lights out again, guys. he pitched five shutout innings, just one hit, one walk allowed. struck out five. his e.r.a. is 0.72 and the kid is learning to pitch now, not just throw. >> can't just expect to throw a fastabll by a guy every time,

especially at this level. and at the higher level, too. you have to throw all your stuff for strikes. >> tiger woods is ready to take number two after his comeback at the masters. he committed to play the placers championship in two weeks and the at&t national. i wonder how the philly fans will treat tiger. finally, a hockey coach is supposed to stand behind his bench. occasionally coaches climb on top of the bench, but not so much for boston college, who fell off the bench. should have stayed down, but he was fine. may need a harness for the next game. whatever, he's a nice man. >> got a little excited. >> he was trying to communicate and he fell down. >> okay. all right. well that's it for us on thenews now at 6:00. stay with wusa9 for the cbs evening news with katie couric  and at 7:00, derek is here for our area's only local newscast. wednesday morning, get started bright and earl