this is 9news now. hello and thank you for joining us. i'm jc hayward. a woman and a teenager are dead. a third victim has been hospitalized after a horrible crash. investigators are on the scene at the university boulevard and

piney branch road in silver springs. our jessica doyle has been covering this story all morning. she joins us now live from silver spring. jessica. >> reporter: hi, there, jc. apparently a fun night on the town for three young women turned deadly. now family members and friends are in mourning. a horrible accident early this morning killed two young women and seriously injured a third in silver spring. >> at approximately 3:09 this morning, officers from the third district were dispatched to the 600-block of university boulevard in silver spring for a personal injury collision. upon arrival, they found the vehicle that had left the roadway and ended up in a resident's yard. >> reporter: the driver, 22-year-old jenice richards and 19-year-old tamara johnson died at the scene. passenger 18-year-old desaleen jones was sent to washington hospital center for treatment. >> investigators are marking the roadway, seeing the path of

travel and trying to determine more about how and why the vehicle left the roadway. >> reporter: the nissan came down university boulevard and evidence on the scene indicates, as you can see, it ripped up the grass on that embankment, potentially hit that wall and wound up facing the residence. there are even parts of the car in the tree above. >> we believe that they may have been coming from a club in dc. >> reporter: before dawn, distressed family and friends gathered at the scene awaiting details from police. karl morris is tamara johnson's uncle. >> she just graduated from high school. >> i love her so much. i just hate to see this happen. >> reporter: with the bodies still inside the vehicle, members of the collision reconstruction unit pieced together details about this fatal crash. police have not determined if speed or alcohol were factors in this crash. >> she invited me to go with her to a lounge in dc and she said

she was going out with a couple of friends and she had been there before and it was nice and i should join her, but i ended up not going. >> i was just with her the night before. and to hear that, it hurts me so bad. >> reporter: the car has been removed from the front yard and the bodies removed from the vehicle. both lanes, both sides of university boulevard have since been reopened to traffic. reporting live in silver spring, i'm jessica doyle, jc, back to you. >> thank you very much, jessica. rockville pike is now opened. it reopened around midnight after a deadly crash involving a metro bus. the bus collided with a pickup truck yesterday afternoon on i355 near elsmere drive in bethesda. 49-year-old antonio andura of silver spring was killed. 10 other people were injured. we spoke with one person who was arriving on the bus at the time

of the accident. >> i was ready to walk in. all i knew is that the bus -- there was a loud noise and then we were careening from the road, and i didn't even see anything really. >> a crane was called in to get passengers off the bus. police are still investigating. metro has not released the bus driver's name, but officials say that she was a 13-year veteran of the agency and she was also injured. a man accused of slashing women shoppers in virginia might have fled the country. he has surfaced in peru. and now they're trying to extradite him back here in order to stand trial. police issued a warrant for his arrest in september. they believe that he used a razor blade or a box cutter to slash nine women while they shopped. fortunately, no one was

seriously injured. dc is writing record amounts of parking tickets compared to other cities of a similar size. according to triple a mid-atlantic, nearly 2 million parking tickets have been written in the district of columbia over the last 14 months. triple a believes that at this pace the city will shatter the amount of parking tickets collected in fiscal year 2010, which was just over $80 million and a jump of nearly $10 million from the previous year. >> a lot is motivated by the profit margin. >> and i understand that for safety purposes that fire trucks and everything. but they're making a killing. >> our news crew found evidence of triple's claim that they're writing the tickets before the meters expire and then printing out those tickets the second that the meter runs out. and the last few months an average of 5300 parking tickets

were issued each day. let's turn our attention to campaign 2012. a shakeup has occurred in one campaign just days away from the iowa caucuses. and it's happening just five days before the nation's first presidential caucuses. terrell brown has more details. >> reporter: michelle bachmann hits the campaign trail in iowa without one of her top organizers. >> in 2010, i was running for the state senate. congressman paul came and actually did three separate events for me and i felt like he was by my side. i had to separate. now it's my duty to be by his side. >> reporter: bachmann called back. >> he told me he was offered a large sum of money to go to work for the ron paul campaign. >> reporter: and the latest poll out of iowa puts ron paul in second place in the gop race for the white house. >> thank you.

an even bigger surprise, rick santorum moved to third place. he campaigned in iowa more than any other candidate and says he knew his ship would come in. >> it shows that we've made progress. it shows that the people of iowa are getting down to the tough decision of who they're going to support. >> reporter: mitt romney is at the top. 25% of the republicans polled in iowa said they would vote for him. the former massachusetts governor has been drawing big crowds. >> i get the impression that you think i'm a pretty good candidate. >> reporter: and as for one time front runner newt gingrich, he has plummeted to fourth place. the nation's first primary will be held in new hampshire on january 10th. still to come when 9news continues, find out why learning your breast cancer risk should be one of your new years

resolutions. and we'll give you more information on that diplomatic dog fight between the united states and iran over the country's threat to block a key source of oil for the rest of the world. melwood and wusa9 salute all that serve at home. >> hi. i'm amanda solonmay ier. i want to say happy holidays to my family in virginia. i miss you and i'll see you soon.

iran says it has video of a u.s. aircraft carrier near the persian gulf. it shot the photos during naval drills and it will continue surveillancing the area. we explain what this has to do with the u.s. oil supply. >> reporter: this is a u.s. aircraft carrier spying on its war games. the iranian military is carrying out a 10-day exercise. the u.s. has warned iran not to interfere with traffic in this strategic oil route. the u.s. is not in a position to tell iran what to do. people say they approve of their

military's actions. this man says you will know how strong our country is by wanting the latest military drill. iran threatened to close the strait after the european union agreed to tighten sanctions on iran over the nuclear program. 1-sixth of the world's oil supply comes through the strait. a u.s. naval sports person says any disruption of the waterway will not be tolerated. coming up next, olga breese has our forecast. stay with us.

do you know your individual breast cancer risk? given all the contradictory studies on the benefits of the early detection, it could be important in deciding when or if to schedule a mammogram or to do

a breast self examination. our andrea roane has more on why learning your individual breast cancer risks should be one of your new years resolutions. >> reporter: 24-year-old claudia gilmore didt want to survive breast cancer, she wanted to get a cancer diagnosis because her grandmother and father carried the breast cancer gene mutation, she knew her personal risk was high so she had a mastectomy. >> i can't believe i did it. i reduced my risk by 90%. i can't even like -- it was just -- it was such a surreal moment. >> reporter: on the other hand, debbie fornwealth had no family history and thought her risk was average which is why she had annual mammograms. >> they said look for a marble or a lump. mine actually felt like a piece of clothesline rope. it was about this long and this wide. >> reporter: doing that self

breast exam helped her find it in an early stage. but women continued to get mixed messages on when to have screening mammograms and if breast self exams were worthwhile. a study from canada said for asiment matic women, she -- asymptomatic women, they should avoid screening. for clinical routine exams, don't bother. the guidelines could cost women their lives. cancer specialists from the cancer center at johns hopkins find faults with the directive on self breast exams. >> i do believe that self exam is an important part of a woman's routine. and that is because she knows her breasts best. >> reporter: but she does agree with the reasoning behind

the mammography recommendations. >> those are high risk with family history of breast cancer, the guidelines need to be quite different. but for the public at large, perhaps two to three years is sufficient to discover new breast cancers. >> reporter: before making any decision on how or when to screen, every woman should resolve in 2012 to learn her own individual risk for breast cancer. make that appointment now to have a serious discussion with your primary care doctor or gynecologist. have a healthy and happy new year. i'm andrea roane. >> you can get much more information about the fight against breast cancer by going to our website wusa9.com. just look for our health section under the features tab on our home page. all right. olga is here to give us the great forecast, right? >> well, we got to get through a chilly thursday first.

it's dry today. it's been cold all morning. and we're still struggling to get out of these 30s. so we're doing our best and the sun is just trying to get through that layer of clouds, but i think the clouds are going to win out for the remainder of the day. here is how we look for your day planner for today. overcast skies are with us to keep. we'll definitely see our temperatures to begin to adjust slightly into the late afternoon, but don't expect too much of an improvement. most of us should make it just above 40 degrees. i'm forecasting about 44, 45 degrees for most of the day today and we will also see the opportunity for some cool down later on tonight as the skies begin to clear just a little bit after the 7:00-hour we'll become partly cloudy as we head into your friday morning. so here is how the forecast is looking for the short-term. satellite and radar gave us a little bit of a break this morning. we had some sunshine coming on through, but right now the clouds are starting to overtake. the precipitation you see out to the west is not making it past the mountains, so we're not expecting any moisture in our forecast for today. we will see a cooler temperature for at least the remainder of

today and for tonight. but with our southerly wind flow, we're going to see a bit of a warmup as we head into our weekend forecast. fantastic for new year's eve and new year's day. but, yes, at last the cold air will make a return as we head back to work and school on monday. so here is how we're looking across the board right now. temperatures in the 30s. 38 for great fall. about 38 for arlington. you get the picture. we're shy of the 40-degree mark. for most of us it is feeling like the middle 30s at reagan international airport. the winds are out of the south at five miles an hour. future cast wants to bring in a little moisture. it's not making too much forward progress. even into the early morning hours of friday, we still have overcast skies and not too much precipitation making its way in. maybe a possibility for a sprinkle west of the beltway late on friday night. forecast for today should be about 41 for gaithersburg, 47 across manassas but most of us middle range 40s will be the case into the afternoon.

then for the overnight down into the 30s. chilly start getting up and getting out tomorrow morning, but there is a payoff. by tomorrow afternoon, our temperatures gets back into the 50s. very unusual for this time of year. so in all, the seven-day forecast is looking pretty good. the next three days are not so bad. cool today. 50s tomorrow. and we're still seeing about 50 degrees as we head into saturday and sunday. forecast will feature more of a change as we get into towards the later portions of the week. for the most part, though, i think that the overnight temperatures will start to become a little bit more stationary for us. mainly into those 30s. and we'll definitely see the opportunity for some of that wentery precipitation once -- wintery precipitation once we get back into the first of january. it is now pet line thursday, and joining me here is nicki kavanaugh. who is our guest today?

>> this is max who is a little bit nervous so i'm going to pick him up. he's three years old. he is a purebred schnauzer. he is a great dog. he's best in a home with older kids as opposed to younger kids. he's very, very sweet and loves to sit on your lap. >> how long has max been looking for a home? >> just a few months really. >> uh-huh. >> maybe about 3-6 months. something like that. >> is he a dog that needs frequent exercise? does he love to play? >> he loves to play. the one thing good snouzers schnauzers is he does need some grooming. >> what if the family has other petsz in the household -- pets in the household, will that be okay. >> he's not the best around little kids. >> okay. does he have good manners? is he house broken yet? >> he is house broken. he is a rescue. so they do have their challenges.

but as far as this little guy goes, he is really very sweet and he's -- he'll make someone a really nice pet. >> okay. what advice would you give folks who are just trying to pick a family pet? what do you need to look out for? >> i think it's best to go not so much looking at what is cute but what suits your family. >> okay. >> energy level, again, whether they get along with children or other dogs is really important. >> okay. well, our goal today is to get max a home. >> yes. >> so if somebody out there really wants to bring max into the family, how can they contact you? >> you can go to all breed.org. and just shoot us an e-mail and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. >> great. you can also go to our website wusa9.com and get the information there as well. we'll be right back.

today i'm 1-on-1 with mary ludell. she is with miller and foster. the washington dc metro area is the fastest growing region in the nation. i didn't know that. top the nation on people moving into washington dc. why is that mary lou. >> well, we're in the area with the government. we're having more and more jobs that are being created, which is really helping our real estate market. >> yes. that's a good thing. now, what about the prices of home, this influx of new people? how is it affecting home prices? >> well, the home prices are very good. the inventory is down, which is helpful to the sellers. and the prices are at a very

good area at this time. >> uh-huh. >> of course you've got the mortgage rates at the historic low. >> very low. >> very low. >> uh-huh. >> yes. >> so let me ask you this. maryland and virginia also has an influx. >> uh-huh. >> virginia is known as being very friendly to businesses. >> yes. >> maryland has a very low corporate tax. so those are draws to those two states. >> that is very true. and another draw to be it maryland, virginia or dc is the sha loan limits have gone to 729,000. the good news with the fha loan limits is that you can put down 3.5%, and that's very popular with the buyers. especially first time home buyers. >> what about apartment rental rates? how is it affecting them?

>> well, what's happened in the rental market, the rental market is going up and up. >> is that so? prices? >> the prices, yes. >> oh. >> it's probably one of the strongest rental markets at this time. a lot is because some people are not wanting to buy right now. >> uh-huh. >> i think they think the market may go down more. >> what do you think? >> just forcing the prices up. >> what do you think? >> i think we're really at a good place now. >> okay. >> i really do. it's so hard to predict. >> uh-huh. >> but based on what we're seeing, your prices are good. this is the time to buy. >> all right. this is the time to buy. if you're renting, think about buying. >> you could probably pay less. >> and get a good deal. >> thank you, mary lou, for being with us. thank you for being with us. please go to jc hayward.com and

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