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riley says the 66-year-old retired police officer at the wheel collapsed on to the steering wheel just before the crash yesterday afternoon. he says one of the parents sally currie actually tried to grab the wheel and steer the bus back

on the highway, but the unconscious driver was right on top of it. >> i looked over to the bus driver and all of a sudden slumped over. >> he slumped over. >> he slumped over. he had a seizure or a heart attack and we had a bus driver look out and then felt a smash and heard smash and then we were just clipping and rolling down the trees and bush off the hill. >> maryland state police are still waiting for the results of an autopsy on that charter bus driver joseph claybaugh. rahm emmanuel is expected to step down so he can pursue the job he wants mayor of chicago. he'll be off to chicago over the weekend and start touring

neighborhoods. pete rauch among those expected to perhaps be the likely replacement. and tonight the shocking suicide of a college student whose sex life was broadcast on 9 illustrating once again how the internet can be used to torment others. two others are charged with invasion of privacy after police say they used a web cam to capture 18-year-old tyler clememta having sex with another man. then he jumped off a bridge into the hudson last week. they found his body this morning. a new jersey gay rights group is calling his death a hate crime. they say it's a more widespread problem. >> what gay and lesbian kids most fear rejection by their family and rejection by their friends, judgment from their preachers and their teachers. >> studies show nine out of ten gay, lesbian and bisexual students are bullied in school, and they are four times more

likely than heterosexuals to kill themselves. from dressing in drag to posing nude for his 80th birthday, tony curtis truly a defiant one. >> tonight the 1950s matinie idol is being remembered. he passed away last night at his home near las vegas. he was nominated for his film the defiant one. but he was most remembered playing a woman in high heels opposite marilyn monroe and jack lemon in some like it hot. and curtis wasn't shy about talking about his good looks that made him a star. >> he had all that dark hair and blue eyes, a nice figure running around jumping girls. a lot of energy. how can you not go for me? i even went for me. [ laughing ] >> so humble. curtis was married six times. first to mary lee, mother of jamie lee.

my father leaves a legacy of great performances in movies and his paintings. he will be greatly missed. tony curtis was 85. still ahead tonight, a health alert. >> it's just unbelievable. it hurt so bad. >> how can you beat the back pain blues? a new option promises relief with a much shorter recovery. that's coming up. topper. well, we stepped outside. moderate rain here in northwest. so grab your umbrella at least early tomorrow. here is your wakeup weather. the good news showers are possible. but nothing heavy. that is really good. temperatures in the 60s. winds out of the northwest instead of the southeast at 10-20. that is a drying wind. . we'll come back in and

a health alert for anybody battling back pain. if you're at the point where you're thinking surgery, there is a procedure out there that involves serious decisions, less blood loss and less time on the mend. >> reporter:

this 79-year-old woman has been dealing with back pain her entire adult life. >> it hurt so bad going down my legs. >> reporter: years as a nurse always on her feet strained her back to the point she couldn't stand up straight anymore. >> the curve started developing and getting worse. it's just unbelievable how much pain you can have when you've got those nerves. >> reporter: she was diagnosed with degenerative disk disease and scoliosis or curvature of the spine. but having open back surgery worried her a lot. she didn't want to be laid up for months. and the doctor told her about x lift, a minimally invasive procedure. they access the spinal column through the patient's side. they make only a one inch incision cutting through less muscles. >> and you come down here and you work in this space here so you're far away from the nerve. and what you do is you actually remove the disk and then you put a spacer in here to kind of jack

open this space so that you create room for the nerve. >> reporter: the procedure takes from half an hour to two hours. hers was on the higher end because the doctor also fixed her scoliosis. as for recovery time, most patients only report it only takes 6-12 weeks. >> i really am doing just about everything that i want to do at night. >> reporter: in the past, the patients eligible were very limited but now the procedure is an option for many more people with back problems anywhere along the spine. tomorrow morning on 9 news now at 6:12 a.m., what one chiropractor calls spine hygiene tips. how to take care of your back so you can avoid hurting it in the first place. in tonight's consumer alert, a big safety warning for parents and their kids. a giant toy maker known as fisher-price recalling 10 million products that could pose a choking hazard for young

children. this would be the biggest recall of the year. included in it, 7 million tricycles. those trooiks have a key near the -- trikes have a key near the seat. >> if the injuries are of the same type, you realize there is a problem. >> they're pulling the recalled items off the shelf. but if you want a list of all of the recalled toys, you can go to the mattel website for more information. could the u.s. postal service literally run out of cash. the answer seems to be maybe. especially because they turned down a request for a $0.02 increase in the cost of a first class stamp. the usps has long-term structural problems that have nothing to do with the cost of mailing a letter. the post office is about to announce billions of dollars of losses for fiscal 2010. add that to continually dropping mail volume in the u.s., and you have an agency in big trouble. for some perspective and common terry, we turned to derek and

let's be real. >> well, anita, by now everybody has heard the gloomy numbers. mail volume down by double digits every year. $4 billion in losses last year. maybe 7 billion this year. but tonight some things about the post office you may not have known. for example, they've already cut 36,000 workers over the past couple of years. why don't they get rid of the saturday delivery and close those empty post offices to save you more money? it's against the law. the u.s. postal service actually is congressional approval to make moves like that, moves by the way that any private business would take for granted. and they are semi private, right. no taxpayer subsidies go to the postal service. and as for all of the junk mail we hate, businesses get to mail the stuff for cheap because, well, that's the way your congress and the business folks like it. look, i love to hate on the post office and the long lines, et cetera, just as much as everybody else. but let's be real. we better figure out how to bring this thing into the 21st

century or we may be figuring out how to make due without it. >> can't make due tonight without an umbrella. >> no. the good news is, anita, we're going to have another shot of rain. but i don't think it's going to be nearly as bad tomorrow morning for the commute. the heavy activity should be out of here by 3:00 or 4:00. let me show you totals so far across the metro area. national 3.54 so far. and we're still adding to it. 3.63 at dulles. these are all daily rainfall records. and we're looking at the 9.41 in potomac river. and 9.43 in blue oaks virginia. so we're talking some record rainfall with these totals. and, again, we're going to add to them for another couple hours. overnight flood watches continue overnight. an additional 1-4 inches. low temperatures 58-64 and winds out of the northwest at 10-20. let me show you live doppler 9000. and we'll show you where the

heaviest activity can be found. for the most part it is east of 95. there is a batch around leesburg kind of crossing the river into upper montgomery county. and even where you don't see the yellow, it's pretty good rainfall. this is rainfall rates of one inch per hour and, of course, over to the east a ton of rainfall rates. three-quarters to an inch per hour. and this is where it's going to get hit again late tonight. down into calvert county. these folks have will are had 12, 13 inches of rain -- have already had 12, 13 inches of rain. you can access this on our website wusa9.com or download other weather app. we're going to show you how much rain is going to fall. we're going to take it back to fairfax county. now, again, essentially east of i952-4 inches of rain. i think you're still going it see about a half and inch to an

inch before all is said and done. look at this collapsed wall. this is in annapolis. this is the sea wall here. it is just gone. and this wall is just made of not just a few planks of wood. this is actually bricks and blocks courtesy of sam in annapolis. sorry about your wall, sam. all right. remember we want pictures. e-mail them to us at photos at wusa9.com. or just track us down at facebook. or if you send us a tweet, please hash tag it with dc flood and we'll get them on the air. we want to show you this because this is good news for the folks fighting. the winds are now turning northwestward, so all the water that's been built up on the west side because of the southeast winds can now recede away. so i think the coastal flooding is pretty much over for you folks around anne arundel county and calvert county. round two critical time about 4:00 a.m. bulls eye. sorry. still east and south of town. wet commute tomorrow, yes, but no heavy rain. and we're going to dry out

friday afternoon. satellite picture, radar combined, look at the second plume of moisture rolling through. once it's rolled through, that's it. we'll slowly dry out tomorrow afternoon and actually be rewarded with a very nice saturday. but look at the heavy rains still pushing through all of the metro area. all right. friday morning showers ending. 50s and 60s. and then by afternoon we're looking at partly cloudy skies. actually a very nice friday afternoon. 70-75. next seven days, nice on saturday. 70. nice for the terps game. chilly over the weekend. more showers on sunday. nothing heavy but kind of a nuisance. showers on sunday, monday morning and again on tuesday. >> got it, top. thank you so much. let me see her. 63, 64 hours redskins kickoff. >> i actually think that donovan is going to get cheered in philly, because i think the number of total muks up there is overstated. you have a few. but the moouks are loud. >> they are loud mukz. number five going to be happy when this week is over. but until it is, the drama builds about his return to

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it's time for 9 sports with brett haber, the best sports in town. >> ted leonsis took over the wizards and today he got his first fine and it was a doozy. he was jacked $100,000 for comments he made yesterday about the future of the nba collective bargaining agreement. he told them the nba will have a hard salary cap just like the nhl and the commissioner told ted to zip it. at redskins park today mike shanahan says clinton portis will start against the eagles on sunday, although portis is still unclear as to why shanahan benched him in the second half last week. also the skins will not need a new punter.

he saw a specialist about his hip yesterday and he's just fine. as for donovan mcnabb's return to philly, this game is about more than football and revenge. it is really a referendum on two cities that have hated each other since john adams moved the president's house from their city to ours. and so when donovan returns this week, we bring you the tale of two cities, dc and philly. two towns enter one town leaves. first category worst treatment of an outgoing quarterback d.j. jason campbell. he saw the skins try to give his job to jay cutler and sanchez and finally ship him to oakland. philly donovan mcnabb, the eagles tossed him out like yesterday's paper and the philly fans basically said good rid enz. advantage here, philly. eagles nation really never appreciated mcnabb, but at least they shipped him to a decent

franchise. the redskins sent campbells to the radars where coaches punch each -- raiders where coaches punch each other. next best indigenous food. philly the cheese steak. the hundred year tradition. dc ben's chili bowl. advantage dc. pat's is perfect but ben's is the best chili east of cincinnati. the cops and protestors ate there. best monument to american history, philly has independence hall, the liberty bell and the hall of benjamin franklin. dc has, really, we're really going to discuss this, dc has everything. let's not embarrass philly by even debating this. best fans, in dc we show our fashion by making the stands bounce. in philly they show their

passion by throwing snow balls at santa, vomiting on the fans next to you and misbehaving so regularly that they had to install a prison inside the stadium. advantage dc. we get drunk and throw up where you're supposed to in the parking lot. not the stadium. big time local corporation dc has aol. cutting edge internet service provider and nimble pro var. philly has comcast who makes it a policy to show up four hours late to your cable service appointment and who in a few months will complete their purchase of [ bleep ] as a cbs employee i'm not even able to say that name advantage dc. finally philly has michael vick who has risen from the ashes from his prison term to reclaim his fame as most electrifying quarterback in football. dc has donovan with the leadership skills that can

finally push the redskins over the top. advantage, this one is a push. if i were making a superbowl run this year, i would want mcnabb. but the up side on vick appears to be limited. there you have it, in the final analysis philly may be a bigger city, but in this tale of a tape and in this weekend's showdown, it's advantage dc. because as those guys are about to find out, one town's trash is another town's treasure. >> so what do you think? do they boo them or they cheer them when he comes into phillies stadium? >> i would say there will be a lot of cheers. >> hopefully more cheers. classy. >> i think they'll cheer for him because they'll remember all of the great things he's done and