county police officials say it is too soon to tell who that dead person is or how they got to the bottom of the well. >> this has now become a challenging recovery operation for them for several reasons. first of all, it's dark. and we have to move along the well, that requires a lot of equipment, manpower. there will be the potential area for them and this will be a long drawn out recovery process. >> reporter: as you just heard back from julie parker, we understand it could be as late as tomorrow night. tomorrow night before they will get that body out of the well. who knows how long after that for them to be able to identify who that body exactly is. so still a very active scene on out here as you just heard, police and crews will be on out here throughout the evening into tomorrow. we're live in fort washington, ken ken, 9news now. >> as you say, they do not make their jobs any easier.

>> ken, thank you. and also out of prince george's county, they have indicted the former corrections officers on charges related to the death of the inmates, ronnie white. back in 2008, white died in jail after being charged with first-degree murder in the death of the prince george's county police officer. and today, the 48-year-old anthony macintosh was charged with rights under the color of law and with the connection of his death. charging the former corrections officer, allegedly finding him unresponsive in the jail cell and didn't get him help. they are charged of covering his up -- for covering up his death. the man responsible for shooting at military targets across virginia pleaded guilty today in federal court. the 23-year-old, a former marine reservist, record one of the five attacks on tape. surae chinn has more on the man that the fbi calls a home grown terrorist.

singing along with the background music shouting. meaning allah is greater. all during the shooting attack in triangle, virginia. >> that's the military building. >> reporter: and seconds later with his .9 mm pistol, he shoots at least 17 rounds on his first pass of the museum. he would go on to attack four other military sites including the pentagon. no one was hurt. but last june, he was caught at arlington national cemetery, about to move on the grave markers of the fallen military personnel who served in iraq and afghanistan. and he had a backpack full of nitrates and an ingredient to make a bomb. the fbi believes that they caught him, just in time before more violence would escalate, especially after what they found in his closet.

they had nine components for an explosive device. >> reporter: today's plea also demonstrated that the violent home grown extremism is present in our community. he faces 25 years in prison and more than $120,000 in restitution. at the federal courthouse, i'm surae chinn, 9news now. in the meantime, sentencing set for tomorrow in the highly publicized lulu lemon murder case. brittany norwood stands connected of first-degree murder for brutally killing her co-worker jana murray in bethesda. prosecutors want the judge to sentence her to life in prison with no chance of parole. norwood's family is asking for leniency. asking the judge to leave open that possibility. we'll have full coverage of the sentencing tomorrow on 9news

now. tonight, the republican presidential candidates will take the stage before the florida primary. so far the hot topics in the sunshine state are immigration and the economy. the candidates tried to sell voters that their ideas are best on the issues. newt gingrich and romney are the favorites in florida and they are campaigning neck to neck. the former massachusetts governor is taking aim at president obama. >> i think every american should be angry. how can you run a campaign this dishonest and have any credibility running for presidency? >> and all four remaining republican candidates will be there at tonight's debate. but rick santorum decided to follow ron paul's lead and not stay in florida until voters head to the polls indication tuesday. president obama has been campaigning out west today. his focus has been on keeping clean energy. the president showed off a natural gas refueling station,

which is in las vegas and an environmentally friendly ups center. also announcing plans to sell the new oil and gas drilling leases in the central gulf of mexico. >> today i'm announcing that my administration will soon open up around $38 million acres in the gulf of mexico. >> okay, so why the focus in energy? and that they have pounded away for rejecting a cross-country oil pipeline, that would have delivered canadian tarzan oils to the e refineries down in texas. and hundreds of protesters, they stormed the pepco service center in northwest washington this afternoon. they say that they are fed up with the utilities poor service record and they want the company to stop raising rates. >> reporter: i'm kristin fisher where earlier today nearly 200 customers and protesters are trying to get through pepco's

front doors. nearly 200 pepco customers are calling on the company's coe -- ceo to come on outside. they will go in and get him if it weren't for the dozen d.c. police officers that are blocking every entrance. >> we want him to take the $42 million rate increase off the table to address the fact that they have made over $800 million in profits and now they need more money. they think that's a bit much. but they did release a statement. saying that they need the rate hike to keep up with that and the investments and the liability and the advanced technology. >> and the rain, they made it a little more gloomy than some

would like. yes, the good news and the silver lining here so far is the low heating bill, which is good. 55 in fredericksburg. here is a look at live doppler radar. everything is light. most of the showers are pulling away from us. and up along the line into northwestern counties, pointing north here for them and out towards winchester off of i-81, which is all moving away from now. however for tonight though, mostly cloudy, windy, mild. showers will be back. maybe some thunderstorms after midnight. and temperatures, they will be rising for you overnight and gusty. now we'll come back and talk about whether or not you could salvage half of tomorrow and take a look ahead to the weekend. >> thanks, top. they have given the okay to all the transit agencies and

the proposed fair tax hike. a $0.25 increase on parking lots and the elimination of the controversial rush hour surcharge. metro will be holding a series of public meetings before putting the increase into place. heads up for the metro riders on the redline this weekend. starting at 10:00 p.m. tomorrow night. metro is closing both the cleveland park and the woodley park station for the entire weekend so crews could work on replacing the track circuit. metro will run a shuttle between them and the dupont circle. the stations will all reopen at 5:00 a.m. monday morning. hundreds of blackbirds take aim in one neighborhood. plus, people with disabilities are now forced to close. what is behind that decision coming up next.

the annual top ten list out of the most dangerous places in the southeast. four of them are in virginia making the list. the chesapeake bay, the virginia mountains and the southside. they point to pollution, development, and mining practices for putting each of these spots on the list, which says that each place, they will be facing "immediate potential threat this year to the environment." the state of virginia has reached a settlement with the federal justice department over the way that virginia provides care for people with

developmental disabilities. they will be scattering it across the commonwealth. they saw essentially the warehouses for the disabilities. instead, they will be boosting fundamental services, remain in their own communities in their homes. and some families, they worry that the new services will not be adequate in what they need and others, as the family of the 8-year-old, they say that the agreement is a giant step in the right direction. >> it is a landmark. it's historic. it's an enormous step forward for virginians, particularly the virginians with the disabilities. >> of the $2 billion that it will take to implement the settlement, about half will come from the feds. the money that they could save by closing most of the care centers will be bringing the total cost to an estimated $4 million spread out over about ten years. it looks like rain, rain, and more of the same to wrap up the workweek. and when our weekend will be a washup. that's what we would like to know. topper's full forecast is

coming up. but first, the scene right out of the birds movie. and places out in maryland, why these blackbirds are swarming this area next.

the lengths that people will go to to get rid of birds. people are shooting off a loud air cannon in order to get rid of a large swarm of blackbirds.

we got an e-mailed from a concerned parent who says that birds have been flocking near her home, that is, twice a day every day and it has been months. so we sent scott broom to check out the problem at firsthand. here is what he found. >> reporter: take a look at the skies right around dinner time and you can see what people here on this side are complaining about. >> will they migrate back around here. there they will fly over there. >> reporter: some residents have been taking cell phone video of this because it is just so hard to believe. >> and when they fly, it just gets pitch black. >> actually, it is like a scary movie. >> yes. and all of them are sick and tired because of what the birds leave behind. >> i love that and that is a great car wash. >> the birds are attracted by a group of tall trees moving in from the abundant areas here. and what is going on here is a well documented migration and the rooster behavior among the

common species. and now as seen in the uncounted youtube videos, that they have gathered in massive flocks to migrate in the fall. typically they have moved through our region, except when it has been as mild as this winter has. and they speculate jim mccann who spoke by phone in western maryland. >> they are heading southward. and sometimes they will be lingering in this area during the mild winters. they need to stick around. >> reporter: and youtube also abounds as to how to get rid of the flocks, the most common method used by the professional is the pyre pyrotechnics. they are taking cell phone video to remember. in some extreme measures, they could be considered a health hazard, but that's not one of the situations here. it's just a hassle for the people in waldorf. i'm scott broom, 9news now.

>> he's right. the next story is just for my good friend, topper shutt. since we will likely not see it. one year ago today, carmageddon, which reaches havoc all over d.c. government let out, bringing traffic to a dead stop to keep that from clearing and treating the roads, which just kept getting worse. taking people about six to seven hours. some slept in their cars overnight. it doesn't look like we'll be in for anything like that, but i do think that there is some talk that we have learned lessons on this as to how to get people out of the district when something like that happens. >> i think so. i have spoken to the emergency manager. we are always against the human nature. as you said that day, you will be moving into a false sense of security. a drizzle, nothing will go on and then a 2:00 boom and everybody will be using that here.

and that is a live look for you outside and a live weather cam brought to you. and take a look at the capital. they are still looking at pretty quiet conditions for them for the district south. and now temperatures are around 52. it's not raining south of town at all. and they will be showing you the temperatures here and both of those figures will be going up. all right, big time showers and thunderstorms. and for the last couple of days, you can see all the wind damage and the flood damage from mississippi all the way over to georgia as the storm reports is here. in fact, we have one here at 2:24 in the afternoon and the heavy rain and the large tree is blocking across route 331. so that is the good news. they will stay to the south. the bad news because of the warmer air getting in here, you can see some of the

thunderstorms lift up as the warm front pushes through. right now, we are just looking at the rain north of town. everything is generally light. we'll zoom in a little bit. for the most part, you know, right along the frederick county line and parts north for you. that's where you'll be able to find the rain over the next few hours. as you get into the late night hours and the overnight hours, then that coverage will begin to expand. 50 right now in bethesda. 53 out here. still cooler to the north. the warm front has to do their work and they will. 45 out here and 46 in gaithersburg. so here is the deal for you. windy and warmer. showers, maybe a thunderstorm for you tonight. and the morning commute, that will be wet. the evening commute, it will be dry. and it will be cooler over the weekend, but still a victory for you in terms of the temperatures, believe me. 1:00 tonight, you'll see the coverage and how it begins to increase a little bit, but all light activity. put that back in motion for the early morning hours. we're taking a look at the potential anyway of the wet commute and across most of the metro area.

we'll stop it at about 7:00. still some showers. and that will be light to occasional moderate. and then by 9:00, the last shower is pushing on through. we'll begin to salvage the nice afternoon. it will turn a little cooler in the mountains, as far as we are concerned, it will be like spring tomorrow and clouds will return for you on saturday morning and feeling a pretty nice day. still for tonight, windy, showers with a light thunderstorm for you. that's kind of deceiving. the temperatures will go up all night. all right, the next seven days. if you get the flicker to work here for the next seven days. okay, it will work. hang on, stand by, please. no, no, no, it's going to work. you can see the phase. >> yes. >> and come on back here. >> i'm coming. >> all right. now, you can get there, farfetched, surely. and you know, yes. >> 60 tomorrow. believe it or not, the 50s on saturday. 40s on sunday. and one cold day. boom, monday, it will be in the

40s. >> all right, top. thank you. nice to see your seven-day forecast show up. up next, concerns over the popular breast cancer drug. how it could affect a woman's heart. doctors are looking at the potential side effects, making sure they will not be too serious. that when we come back.

next month february is heart health awareness month and a growing concern as to one popular and very powerful breast cancer drug in what it might do to a woman's heart just years after being treated. researchers at ohio state, they are taking a closer look at the drug to see what the side effects are. >> and that is partially for the red ruby color. the drug has become a mainstay in the treatment of breast cancer for decades. she has been treated with this and so is her grandmother nearly 50 years ago. even then this were questions about the impact that they mite have. and you need to get started, as soon as they will start here and to damage her heart. but how much damage has been done and just who is at risk is a question that doctors still cannot answer with much certainty. so the researchers at ohio

state jane cancer hospital are using high-definition technology to try to answer those decades old questions. normally when breast cancer patients are treated with this drug, doctors, they will keep tabs on their hearts by using the ekg's. but those have that out there. >> and by the time it changes, it manifests on that, indicating the decreased heart funs. which is already too late that the damage has been done. >> reporter: and so they are taking a different approach. during chemo therapy sessions, they are not only collecting blood from the patients, but putting them through the state of the art area, using the crystal-clear images, searching for the smallest signs of damage. >> and you can see that occurring here at very early stages. you can also see changes that you might not have the right to see as well. >> reporter: doctors insist that the drug is generally safe and only a small percentage of women might be at risk. but knowing exactly who they

are and when that could occur could help them treat women effectively. 9news now. and the research team in ohio state, they will be using the blood samples to look for a certain kind of cell that is made in greater numbers whenever the heart is injured. that will be the measuringer. that is our report tonight. i'll be right back here with you tonight at 11:00. don't forget we are always on wusa9.com. i'm anita brikman. we'll see you tonight at 11:00 along with top.

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