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triumph rise from rubble of an earthquake. chance of rain during your morning commute. also, a disturbing story. police enter a residence in disarray to find a baby dead. this is 9news now. "this broadcast realtime captioned by becky lyon." i'm bruce johnson. thank you for joining us this sunday night. a baby boy found dead in a house in disarray. police were called to the home in laurel, maryland. 36 hours later no word on what may have caused the 6-week- old's death. >> reporter: the tiny body of the baby boy where an autopsy might determine when and how he died and if it happened in one of the apartments behind me where his body was discovered on saturday. >> came home yesterday morning and we saw probably six or seven cop cars. there were a lot of people
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moving around there. >> reporter: anna rundle police say they responded 9:17 saturday morning. >> more and more cop cars were coming in and out. >> reporter: officers found the body of the 6-week-old baby boy. an adult woman was with him but police haven't said what her relationship to the dead infant was or if she has been arrested. >> it is really sad. my prayers go out to the family. it is awful. >> reporter: police say the home was in disarray but they are not sure if it contributed to the baby boy's death. there are still many questions that remain to be answered including did little joel live in one of the apartments and if he did not why was his body discovered here. 9news now. a tree crashes into a car in north west dc. it happened in the 4300 block of argue argylle.
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tree removallal crews were called in to haul the downed tree. this should be the year that yeardley love graduated. today she got a standing ovation. >> we are celebrating her achievements as the member of the class of 2010. >> reporter: a day that was supposed to be complete joy for the yeardley family instead was a day left wondering what could have been. her cousin accepting yeardley's diploma. >> bachelor of arts. yeardley love. [ applause ] >> reporter: deafening applause. >> it was very hard to see but it was very touching. >> reporter: thousands gathered on the lawn at uva to celebrate graduation but also pausing to remember four classmates who
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should have been here today. >> please join me in a moment of silence to honor these students and their families. please be seated. >> difficult. not ending it with everyone you started with. >> reporter: as these young men and women received their diplomas a part of them is missing wishing one of their dear classmates were sitting with them. >> she is in our hearts and thoughts. >> reporter: yeardley's ex- boyfriend fellow senior and lacrosse senior has been charged with her murder. a show of solidarity of violence against women. >> this could have happened to almost anyone i know. it is really terrifying. >> beautiful young woman who had everything going for herself. there is no reason she shouldn't be here. >> reporter: in charlottesville, surae chinn, 9news now. >> george hugely is due in
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court on june 10th. the attorney says the death was unintentional. bad news for drivers that take the bridge to work on monday. rain prevented crews from completing work on the bridge. transportation officials say this means traffic will be limited to one lane in each direction for the morning commute. they hope to complete that work by mid-week. a metro bus collides with another vehicle in north east washington. it happened around 1:30 p.m. today at the intersection of new jersey and rhode island avenue. rescue personnel had to cut the door off the car in order to get the driver out. he was taken to a hospital. the bus driver was also also transported. no word on what caused the accident or their condition. unsuspecting diners at a cheese cake factory were victims of a credit card skimming operation. it cost the diners $117,000. cheese cake factory that was
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targeted is located on wisconsin avenue in north west dc. a former employee, nicole ward, had been accused of recruiting two servers to help scam the diner's credit card numbers for a fraud ring. ford was arrested last week. the two servers were identified in court records only by their initials and have not been charged after cooperating with the police. it started june 2008 and ran through may of 2009 according to court documents filed in alexandria forecast. tonight louisiana officials say they are taking matters into their own hands to clean up part of that oil spill in the gulf of mexico. they plan to create a makeshift chain of sand barriers that would skirt the state coastline and they plan to do it without waiting for federal assistance. that word comes tonight as oil pushes 12 miles into louisiana's marshes. the beaches in grand isle are
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closed all week. >> we like to crab and fish on the beach. it is heartbreaking. >> b.p. from beginning have given us a schedule that they said that they could meet. they have not been met. we now have new schedules for what they expect to happen this week. that next step in trying to stop the massive oil leak could come as early as tuesday. engineers plan to shoot mud then cement into the hole that lies beneath the surface. b.p. officials say that mile long tube siphoning oil has slowed down. space shuttle atlantis preparing to head home. completing its final voyage. astronauts closed the hatch this morning and unlocked from the international space station. tomorrow they will inspect it
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and head home tuesday. those drop-sized cribs could become a thing of the past. legislation this week to ban it. it would have to be removed from day-care centers. 7million have also been recalled in the past five years alone. when the hardware malfunctions the dropside rail can become partially detached. babies can get caught in it and suffocate. >> he was put in for a nap when the side rail of his crib detached. he rolled between the gaps and with his face pressed up against the matress our son suffocated. >> no daycare center, no child care provider, no hospital will be able to have dropside cribs because we cannot tolerate one more infant death. >> at least 32 infant an toddler deaths have been blamed on dropside cribs in the past decade. the cribs are suspected in another 14 deaths and hundreds
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of injuries. we had some intense thunderstorms last night into early this morning. dulles setting a record for daily rainfall. 2.29 inches. our wakeup weather says we could be looking for spinkles and mist and fog developing overnight. still very mild. i'll let you know when all this rain is gone and when we warm back up where we should be this time of year with the full forecast in just a few minutes. back to the shaken streets of haiti. through the eyes of local doctors see the hope, strength and will to sur vive. blap . rising from the rubble. coming up next.
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former president bill clinton was on his way to deliver a speech to graduating students at yale university today when a car struck his van on a conneticut highway. the career ended the van carrying the 63-year-old clinton on the merit parkway. state police say traffic was at a standstill because of a second accident nearby. mr. clinton was unhurt and was able to speak to reporters about the crash. >> it was one of those deals where everybody in the passing
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lane slowed down and we all slowed down and one person didn't. happened to be the person behind us. but we are fine. >> mr. clinton made it to yale on time to make his graduation speech. more than 100 students receiving diplomas today from america law school. attorney general eric holder delivered the commencement address. holder told the graduates they are entering the job market in a time of economic uncertainty and unprecedented threats to national security but he says they should view the challenges as an opportunity to be an active part of a solution. >> and justice is not inevitable. even our most stubborn and complex problems are not intractable ones. they can, in fact, be solved by the same forces that created them. human beings. man made problems are susceptible to man made solutions.
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>> five of today's graduates were students who returned to the law school to complete their studies after leaving back in 1960. 60-foot pine tree came crashing down onto a garage of a colorado springs family this weekend. it was all caught on tape the 6- year-old son noticed a crack in the trunk of the tree and notified dad who called the fire department. the family was warned to get out of the house. >> i was backing my car out right here. >> i can't believe that. wow. >> 60 seconds. i'd be crushed. >> wow. >> the homeowner says he just finished moving his vehicles when the tree fell down. nobody was hurt in this incident. britain's dutches of york sarah ferguson has been caught in a string investigation. terrell brown explains the sting is likely to cause a lot of embarrassment to prince andrew and the royal family. >> reporter: a british tabloid newspaper has released this video of the dutches of york
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apparently plotting to sell access to her ex-husband prince andrew the new of the world reporter poses as a wealthy businessman. sarah claims she can introduce the reporter to the prince. >> 500,000 pounds to me. >> reporter: according to the newspaper prince andrew, the second son of the queen and fourth in line for the thrown, knew nothing but on tape ferguson said she discussed the deal with her former husband. ferguson reportedly started the deal at a hotel here in new york. she was described by the tabloid as being desperate and out of money. but this sting could be serious for the royal household. >> the truth is, it is worth for monarchy, for prince andrew
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and seriously jeopardizes british trade because it undermine's prince andrew's position of uk trading and investment. >> reporter: ferguson's spokesperson confirms the recording is authentic. >> sarah is scheduled to receive an award in los angeles for her charity work. museums across the country giving free admission to military families this summer. the national endowment for the arts is part of the program called blue star museum. washington area gallery of the arts. dunbarton house and museum of art. in tomorrow's washington examiner maryland agencies started letting state employees with same-sex spouses enroll for health benefits. still ahead on 9news now. tonight we return to haiti with two maryland doctors four
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months after the earthquake. medical supplies still in short supply. also, showers. are they behind us. back to work forecast is coming up.
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since that devastating earthquake in haiti. tonight we return to that country and see it through the eyes of two doctors from potomac, maryland. a pediatric emergency room physician. we gave them a camera. hope and need in haiti. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: this is a town 70 miles north of the devestation in port-au-prince. this is the hospital nicknamed the mayo clinic of haiti run by an american charitable organization and has been serving the people in this rural area for more than 20 years. after the earthquake the area was flooded with the injured. >> they had to take care of over 400 patients plus their families. >> the people in this town were incredible. women would come in and cook all day long for the patients.
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and they all came together and worked together. >> reporter: the hospital ran out of room in the main building then the towns people helped create this hospital village using tents. >> the area we are in now at the end of january was completely coveredded with trees. this section was clear-cut at the end of my first visit and by the time i made it back for my second they had tents 1 through 6. >> reporter: the doctor and her husband rob arrived with the tents housing patients each with their own stories of loss and survival. >> reporter: this 5-month-old was found under rubble and five people that had died including her mother. now an aunt is left to care for her. >> what are your hopes for the future when you go back to port- au-prince. >> she says she don't have no hope. >> reporter: she once had little hope. her 4-year-old son's head
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crushed, his brain exposed. he was brought here. >> thank god. it was really the white doctors that really helped him out because without them he would have been dead. >> so you saw that he wears a bike helmet. it was way too big for him but that is all we had. he could do severe injury to his brain. that's all he has had the entire time to protect his skull. >> reporter: a lot of that here, making do. patients are treated on a makeshift physical therapy board. >> we made a out of a piece of plywood and a log. >> reporter: the people of haiti have always been resilient doing a lot with very little and freely giving their
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thanks. >> reporter: 12-year-old paul. healing through his artwork and his writing. >> if it were not for god and america we would not be here. america is a good people. thank you very much. >> jamie and rob tell us that before every patient leaves the hospital they were given enough money to buy food for a week's journey back to port-au-prince. also a portable tent for them to live in because housing is still in short supply after the quake. we were down there shortly after the quake and a lot of people from this area are going down there to volunteer. >> glad you did the story because how easily we forget. it has been awhile after that disaster and they will need a long time recovery for that. >> most of it coming from this country. >> our weather overnight heavy rain. prompt being flash flood warnings. they expired a little earlier. they went to 5, 5:30 p.m. this evening. maryland did get some rain too and those storms over dulles,
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record daily rainfall. for us it looks like the rain is really starting to wind down. live doppler in a second. i think it is done for tonight. show you what i'm thinking for the chance of some rain and showers later on here in just a second. we are going to get some sunshine as soon as tomorrow afternoon but more of it tuesday. a lot more of it wednesday and this is something to really talk about too. live doppler 9000. most of the showers have died down tonight. a few sprinkles over just south of waldorf. northern virginia. maybe some shower activity right along the potomac. parts of montgomery then crossing over to fairfax county reston and sterling area. computer weather check on our forecast tonight. we will see fog developing. clear out the clouds. we have such a mild, humid ground. we have got cooler temperatures trying to build in tonight. that is going to set up for fog development. don't think it is very thick fog but with the fog that could be the mist that will hit the windshield tomorrow morning and
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keep temperatures at bay too. 60s. mid-60s for most of us. we could start to see some showers through the early part of the day but i think most of the showers are going to be done with once we get that fog to go away. this upper level storm responsible for the east flow to keep us with the chance of rain in here through at least monday evening but tuesday everything is looking good and the cold front is the next chance of rain wednesday night. quick look at our high- definition forecast. very light rain. mist i think at about 6:30 a.m. tomorrow morning. ends monday afternoon. but that could be the final round of showers with that easterly flow monday night. tuesday we start to see things breaking away. and that back door cold front coming in from the north east after a very warm wednesday. it could mean some strong thunderstorms coming in and that's really our next round of rain. i just think we are pretty much done with our forecast. so just a few slight showers tomorrow. maybe that mist in the fog tomorrow morning. just some road spray. sunshine 80 on tuesday and wednesday evening will be the next round of thunderstorms.
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after a high of 90 degrees and back down to low 80s the next day. >> thank you. now and then you'll hear somebody describe a moment that changed his or her life. our hero central report tonight. derek mcginty introduces us to a man whose transformational moment changed the lives of thousands. >> i found myself in an apartment where they had nothing. >> reporter: mark was out delivering food to the needy when it hit him. these people needed a lot more. >> they had no food but they also had no beds, no couches, no table and chairs. >> reporter: after seeing the same situation four or five times that same day -- >> i pulled over on the side of georgia avenue that day and i said i'm stopping everything else i've done i'm just going to focus on trying to create a solution. >> reporter: out of that revolution came the wider circle and today it is a few staff and a lot of volunteers collecting tons of old stuff many of us might throw away and giving it away. one household at a time. a couch, a bed, a dresser. maybe even a television. and if you can't pick it up
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yourself, they deliver. >> nobody should be living without these basic essentials. no kids should be sleeping on the floor in a region that has so much. >> reporter: this is the wider circle warehouse and while this may look like a whole lot of stuff they are furnishing homes for roughly 10 families every day so they could always use more. >> reporter: a lot more. in 2008 the wider circle helped # thousand people. in 2009 it was 15,000 and this year -- >> it is really simple. i'm a recovering addict. i'm a mother of six. a grandmother of three. >> reporter: bernadette. >> my grandchild is due june 15th. >> we are going to give you a grant of $10,000. >> that's great. thank you very much. that will go a long way to helping a lot of families.
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>> reporter: derek mcginty, 9news now. >> he says the organization can furnishing five households for $125 so $10,000 really goes a long way. wider circle also offers educational programs designed to put clients on the road to independence. go to wusa9.com and click on hero's central for more charities we are helping. coming up. a quick look at sports plus. friday's heros is proudly supported by.
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what do you got for us? >> a lot coming up in sports plus. don't go to sleep because in the standings nats and orioles are nine games apart on the field. little closer and anyone who went to the ballpark this weekend can certainly attest to that. it was rubber match game at the park. fans, well, they saw a pretty good one. roger almost leaving the yard early with this shot off the wall. that cleared the bases and ended up with the game going longer. nats win their first extra- inning game of the year. >> we are comfortable where we are at an comfortable in our own skin. we know who we are and what type of team we are. we take it game by game and things work themselves out. wouldn't be a week without
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another session of redskins otas. that's for insures. mike shanahan's system installed during the three-day camp. brian orakpo goes one on one to discuss year 2, a new system and of course albert haynesworth. hear that conversation coming up in just a couple minutes. tuesday was a big day for the wizards as the team defied the odds and won the lottery. will it be john wall or evan turner? anybody want to chime in on that? i don't know. hear that coming up. speaking out on sports plus. big show coming your way. >> i think he has got the best shot. turner is a good player. >> very good player. just not here. >> albert haynesworth. such a big guy but so hard to find. i want to find that out. >> what's it going to look like for tomorrow? >> fog and mist tomorrow morning. maybe an isolated shower but most of the rain coming to an end. we should get sunshine tomorrow
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