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crowding the first two rows of the courtroom lawyers have been questioning jurors for hours. huguely is in the courtroom for the first time since the alleged murder. he is thin and intense. in a blue blazer that appears two size says too large. his 6' 2 -- sizes too large. his 6' 2 frame nowhere near the 209 pounds he carried when shared the uva lacrosse field with love. love's mother softly cried as she watched. the entire love family is wearing pink scarves in her memory. it took four hours for attorneys just to ask three jurors if they had heard about the case and had made up their minds. it has been nearly two years since a roommate found love in her off campus apartment clad only in her panties face down on her pillow in a pool of blood. george huguely, v, scion of a wealthy old chevy chase family
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allegedly admitted to detectives later that morning that he had kicked down his ex girl friend's door and beat her head against the wall until blood flowed from her nose, but huguely's high powered charlottesville lawyers insist it was an accident with a tragic outcome. their medical expert has hinted that love died not in the attack, but from a seizure brought on by a fatal combination of adderall and alcohol. the horrible bruising on her body, that they've suggested was caused by paramedics trying to resuscitate her. the judge was hoping to seat a jury by the end of tuesday. at this point that seems terribly optimistic. in charlottesville bruce leshan, 9 news now. in prince george's county police announce arrest no. 3 in the murder of an alexandria man lenny harris. that third suspect is tyrone
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lewis. he was the man photographed using harris' atm card hours after harris disappeared last year. police found tyrone lewis already behind bars in virginia on an unrelated charge of stealing a car. investigators say robbery was the motive for harris' murder. lewis they believe was the mastermind. >> so i'm announcing today a warrant that has been obtained for the arrest of tyrone lewis. while this investigation continues all of the men responsible for the kidnapping, robbery and murder of lenny harris are now in custody. >> police say they are still looking for the person who made an anonymous phone call that led investigators to harris' body at the bottom of a well in ft. washington, maryland. meantime earlier today family and friends gathered to say their final good-byes to lenny harris at mount calvary holy church in northeast. a reception was held in harris'
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memory at the charles houston recreation center, the last place harris was seen alive in september. 9 wants to know what is the government doing about a local liquor store selling alcohol to underage kids? last week our andrea mccarren did a story on the town square market on macarthur boulevard in northwest and in her undercover investigation her camera captured video of teenagers just walking out of that store with booze. >> reporter: for several weeks we watched and videotaped dozens of teenagers pieing alcohol at town square market in northwest wash -- buying alcohol at town square market in northwest washington without identification. >> i'm 18. it is very easy. we've been buying here for almost two years of. >> reporter: in those two years have you ever been asked for id? >> like once. >> reporter: night after night with the help of a 23-year-old 9 news now staff member we interviewed the young buyers using a hidden microphone. i heard this is the place to like go they don't id. >> it is. not when it's crowded. >> i'm just looking for a place
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to buy. >> either way. you can get it. >> really? >> we've been coming here for years of. >> reporter: most told us they were 16 years old. some were even buying for their younger friends. >> we alerted the metropolitan miss to this store two months ago -- police to this store two months ago when our investigation again and the alcohol control board. we asked d.c.'s police chief for an interview. she's not taking us up on that. we also asked to talk to someone from the alcohol board. they put in a no comment. mary cheh has not been available either. town square market is in her district. however, d.c. council member jim graham is talking and he's here now with andrea mccarren to address the issue. >> councilman graham chairs the human services committee which oversees d.c.'s alcohol control board and council member graham, first thank you so much for being here with us and talking. do you know if town square market has even been on the radar and, if, so why has
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nothing been done? >> well, i think they have been on the radar, but at this point i suspect without knowing for certain that the owners and operators there are pretty much clued into the fact that they're at risk of losing their license and so i suspect these objectionable practices have been suspended, if not entirely eliminated. >> as a resident of d.c. when you look at the video we've shot, the interviews we've done, what's your reaction? >> i consider this to be very serious. i think abra does as well. we have a very good sales to minor program in d.c. federally funded, but has kids who look like kids going and trying to buy, going and trying to be served, we're actually very proud of the fact in about 10 years of effort our noncompliance in that program is done to under 10%. >> that's a good number, but on the other hand, i've gotten more e-mail about town square market from school principals, from parents saying wait a minute. how come the store is still in
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operation? what die tell these people? >> well -- do i tell these people? >> well, we got to change that situation your reporting has indicated a notice force and serious situation that's got to stop. as a direct result of your reporting on that, they've stopped for the moment. they've at least ceased it for the time being, but we've got to make sure this doesn't go back into operation because clearly it's widespread. it's easy to buy. these kids are getting away with it and this is not anything we want to support here in d.c. >> and the last question, i have gotten a lot of tips in a variety of jurisdictions, but a couple other stores in d.c. that allegedly are selling liquor to underage kids. what kind of assurances as the person who oversees that board can you give them that there will actually be some kind of action taken? >> i can assure you 100% if we take a different approach, which is before the publicity
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let's get this sting operation into effect. let's go by and try to purchase. see what happens at that point and then we can cover the story from that different angle, but i think we can do that. >> i agree with you and we did contact abra before we shot a frame of video along with mpd. >> right. let's handle it differently and i can assure you that abra will handle it differently if you work with us? thank you so much, councilman jim graham, for being with us. also tonight, derek, i want to alert you to a story every parent will want to watch with 13 agers. we met dillon lewis in -- with their teenagers before he went into surgery after he had a drunking crash. >> i wanted to live and fight. i wanted to stay hire and i did that. >> reporter: -- here and did i that. >> reporter: driving drunk on a -- and i did that. >> reporter: driving drunk on
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a cold january night he hit a telephone pole and flipped over. >> some people don't get this lucky. they tonight get this second chance that i got up. they don't get to waning after their drunking car accident. >> reporter: we -- wake up after their drunking car accident. >> reporter: we met 21-year- old at shock trauma in baltimore hours after he was brought in by ambulance, minutes before he went into surgery. after tonight's 11 p.m. we will be hosting a live web chat with dillon, hope you'll join us. derek, back to you. >> thanks so much. two bills that would have fined virginia drives for having an opened alcoholic bev -- drivers for having an opened alcoholic beverage in their car have died. the state law required alcohol be transported in its original unopened container with the seal intact. violators would have faced a $25 fine. however, those bills fail on a split 7-7 vote in the senate courts of justice committee today. a northern virginia couple heads to trial next month all because their children were late for school a lot. mark dennicor and his wife were
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charged with a class 3 misdemeanor because of their children's excessive and chronic tardiness. the children go to the waterford school in loudoun county. nine tardy to school in about 30 times this year and that -- they've been tardy to school in about 30 times this year and that in the state of virginia turns it into a crime. >> i don't think it's fair for the county to basically make up laws and try to enforce them in order to intimidate or bully parents into compliance. >> we're not trying to punish children here. that's the last thing we want to do. i think we wanted to work out with the parent how to alleviate this problem. >> if convicted, the parents face up to a $3,000 fine. should parents face criminal trouble for consistently bringing their children to school late? the school says it hurts the child's learning and disrupts the day for the other students or should parents be given a few minutes' leeway just to account because sometimes things happen in the morning? we'd love your thoughts.
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send them to mailbag at wusa9.com. we've all enjoyed this warn winter, but could we be in for some -- warm winter, but could we be in the form of some payback in the form of these little ugly monsters known as stink bugs? one vending school at a university sell the so-called morning after pill, where it's happening and why coming your way next. ♪
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run county council member jerry walker says he's -- anne arundel county council member jerry walker says he's going to have a bill to establish english as the official county language, information distributed to protect public health, safety or public rights would be exempt as will anything used for trade or to promote tourism. walker says this is a series of bills he plans to fight illegal immigration. anybody 17 years old or older can buy an emergency contraceptive plan b over the counter without a prescription, but a university in pennsylvania has been making it even easier to buy the so- called morning after pill. shippenberg university sells plan b from a vending machine inside a room at the campus health center. >> the machine is really used as much for pryce as anything else if a person wants to come in -- for privacy as anything else if a person wants to come in. >> the university pays $25 for
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each dose. about 375 doses are sold every year. the school has about 370 female students. so should medications like plan b be sold in vending machines? it is over the counter. side effects are usually mild and this does provide some anonymity for the buyer or should it only be sold at drugstores where buyers can consult the expert, the pharmacist, if they need to? you don't need to have an expert degree to e-mail mcginty's mailbag. send your thoughts to mailbag at wusa9.com. our warm winter weather just keeps on going, but you might not want to pack up the heavy coats just yet. the cold is coming back and topper explains when coming up. but first voters in two more states about to cast their ballots for republican presidential candidates, a preview of colorado and minnesota caucuses coming up next.
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that lawsuit over virginia's republican presidential primary ballot is officially dead. newt gingrich asked a judge to drop him from it today and he was the last of the four plaintiffs to do. so gingrich, rick santorum, jon huntsman and rick perry had all sued over the state's signature requirement to get on the ballot. now this means virginians will just have rumor and ron paul to choose from when they vote march 6th. meantime tomorrow voters in colorado and minnesota will hold their caucuses for the republican nomination. a total of 76 delegates are up for grabs and the candidates are spending the last few hours battling for that support.
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>> i think tuesday will be a good day for us. i think that's going to help hopefully reset the race a bit. >> i'm afraid based upon the president's even standard he has failed. he does not deserve a second term. >> voters in missouri will also cast a ballot in that state's primary tomorrow, but there are no delegates at stake there. instead that will be decided by the missouri caucuses in march. we got some good news and bad news tonight about those nasty old stink bugs. remember the storms we had back in the late summer and fall? they literally drowned a lot of the stink bug population, but as scott broom tells us unfortunately the survivors are already out and because of the warm weather. >> unfortunately my house has become an experiment. >> reporter: nobody wants to see stink bugs back less than doug inkel of rockville. >> they're still alive. >> reporter: or polly lowe of urbana. >> stink bugs, oh. >> reporter: and now the bad news. the bugs are out early according to university of
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maryland entomologist mike routt. >> when we have very mild winters or above average temperatures, these guys are going to become active much quicker. so what we're expecting and what i'm seeing in my house is the stink bugs are on the move already. >> reporter: this disappointing development after the good news that the bug population appeared to have been badly beaten back or flooded out by the 16 inches of rain brought by hurricane irene and tropical storm lee last september. some scientists speculated that may mean less bugs in 2012 perhaps. others speculating the warm winter is giving them a head start towards an epic comeback. >> if our winter stays warm, i think what we're going to see is stink bugs earlier and perhaps larger numbers than we've seen let's say in 2011. >> reporter: the upshot of all this is nobody really knows what's going to happen with the weather or the bugs. this is all new science and it's unfolding right before our
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eyes. at university of maryland scott broom, 9 news now. >> there is still hope we will not be stinkified come spring. top, you think they may be gone. >> compared to last year they migrated to other parts of the country. >> let's hope they don't come back. >> 52 today, another gorgeous day and even milder tomorrow. after that temperatures will begin to go down slowly and gradually. let's start with live look outside, our weather cam brought to you by michael and son, looking at clear skies, temperatures in the 40s, nothing crazy cold. 46 is still above our average high. we'll still ahead of the game. dew point 27, pressure now 30.10 which is still steady, winds out of the southwest at about 7, so a light jacket for tonight. satellite picture radar combined, we see some clouds, a little moisture coming out of the plains in colorado into kansas and nebraska. that's sort of the beginning of a little clipperlike system that's going to roll through
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here wednesday. we could see light rain or snow wednesday much like saturday. temperatures will be above freezing at the surface, so we do not anticipate any problems. we have a little system passing to our south. 43 bethesda, 45 in rockville, 42 laytonsville and temperatures in the low 40s in springfield, 39 reston and 48 in fort belvoir. the air is fairly dry but not as cold as last night. in fact, milder tomorrow and then cooling down. sunny tomorrow for the morning commute, so grab your sunglasses and a little bit milder. we're looking at not much wind either. tonight clear and not as cold, a full snow moon, if we had any snow. lows 28 to 38. check out my blog at www.wusa9.com and it's a rap of the snowmageddon, what a great storm. tomorrow mostly sunny, a bit breezy and chilly, jacket, 30s and 40s. by afternoon the winds die
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down. mostly sunny, pleasant, high temperatures near 55 and winds out of the northwest at 5 to 10. we'll break it down. clear skies to start, 28 to 38 and 46 to 51 by noon, quite nice and sunshine by evening, 52 to 56. the next three days temps go down, 54 tomorrow, lower wednesday to 403 of because of the clouds and chance -- 43 because of the clouds and chance for light rain or snow. then we return mostly sunny thursday, kind of chilly, temperatures in the mid-40s. next seven days on friday temperatures essentially mid- 40s with sunshine and a little bit cooler, low 40s on saturday. a little system comes through hire saturday night into sunday morning, snow flurries possible. then temps dip back into the 30s for highs sunday and monday next week. nothing big. we'll see you in a minute. we want to hear what you think. send your e-mails to mcginty's
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in the mailbag tonight andrea mccarren's series on underage drinking continuing to provoke a reaction including this intriguing thought from john in virginia. while we were living in europe my father introduced me as a teenager to beer, wine and brown liquor. i found out right away how much i could handle and how stupid you get so quickly. after returning to the u.s. i didn't need to prove how much i could drink without falling down because i already knew and didn't need to go there again. perhaps kids need their parents to help them understand how powerful alcohol can be to stop this nonsense. it's an interesting point. i'd only ask if you'd think your reaction would be so common sense if you'd had the tendency to be an alcoholic and then that first drink could have been the start of something tragic. then the story we had on urinals in the men's room in germany shaped like the famous
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lips rolling stones logo but mo writes if this keeps the urine off the floor please send one to my house. my husband and son are poor shots. i'm thinking you may be speaking for female spouses everywhere. include your name and where you're writing us from to mailbag at wusa9.com. that's our report for tonight. have a great evening. we're always on www.wusa9.com. we'll see you a bit later. bye bye.
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