the ladies are gone. betty white left after pouring chocolate all over me. [laughter] not for the first time. [laughter] and joss stone didn't even take her money. which leaves me with 50 dollars in quarters. what can you do with that, craig? i'll tell you what you can do with that. there is a guy down in carolina [laughter] who stands by the side of the road. and they do say for a shiny quarter, he will make any man feel like a woman. [laughter] happy valentine's day, everybody. we'll see you tomorrow. good night. captioned by the national captioning institute

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right now, a former deputy is in court after a lawsuit alleges this accident left the victim brain damaged. plus, topper is tracking a new weather system that could bring showers. but first tonight, three years and no answers. the emotional story of a local mother and the daughter who

vanished. no chocolates or roses today for a grieving mom in southwest d.c. who is flooded with bad memories every valentine's day. >> they'll ma butler's daughter, pam, an analyst at the epa disappeared three years ago and is yet to be found. the investigation into pam butler's disappearance continues but there is still no real sense exactly what happened to her. >> valentine's day is a hard day for me thelma butler says valentine's day will never be the same and who could possibly blame her for feeling that way. >> i feel sad when the valentine's day comes. >> exactly three years ago, thelma was supposed to have valentine's day dinner with her 47 year old daughter pam. >> a very sharing and caring person. >> but pam never showed up prompting a search for answers that continues to this day. >> its been so hard, just very very hard. >> pam butler was last seen on february 12, 2009, a few days

before she was actually reported missing, heading home from work in northwest washington she picked up her mail and went inside her house and that was it. >> horrible, disaster. i can't think sometimes, i just break down and cry. >> surveillance cameras showed pam butler entering her house that night but she's never again seen leaving it though technically butler's disappearance is considered a missing persons case and d.c. police say they've long believed pap was probably murdered. according to cops, the prime suspect has long been pams ex- boyfriend, jose rodriguez, but there has never been enough evidence to charge him and he continues to insist that he had nothing to do with pam's disappearance. >> is she living? could she be somewhere held against her own will? >> pam's mother says even now, she often prays that her daughter will somehow be found one day, but with each passing year, each passing valentine's day, she's well aware that that

becomes an increasingly remote possibility. >> do you still hope that you'll see her again some day? >> oh, my god, yes, i do, but i feel like it's fading away. i really do. three years, i just feel like it's fading away. >> matt jablo, 9 news now. >> should you have any information about pam butler's disappearance, d.c. police would like to hear a call from you. 202-727-9099. blindsided and violently knocked to the ground causing a brain injury. a local man says that is the treatment he suffered at the hands of a lowden county sheriffs deputy and the whole thing is caught on tape. as our ken molestina reports, that man is now fighting back. >> reporter: take a good look at this police video posted on youtube. the man in the dark shirt in front of the officer with his hands up is carlos garcia. the lowden county deputy running into the shot is terry daniel. >> terry daniel runs up to carlos, never sees him coming,

has his back to him and pounds him on the head and drops carlos to the ground. >> victor glassberg is representing garcia. they claim deputy daniel abused his power back in november last year when he viciously knocked garcia to the ground leaving him with permanent injuries. garcia, his friends and family were leaving a bar in sterling getting into a cab when this all began. his defense team says there has yet to be any explanation as to why deputy daniel felt the need to do this. >> we do know that what happened that night did not justify his use of violence against mr. garcia. >> this side by side come par it son shows garcia before he was roughed up by the cops and shortly after when he was booked into jail. >> he has traumatic brain injury, severe intimate memory loss. glassberg insists there was no need to hit garcia. they say the video clearly shows he was not a threat, but lawyers say garcia was later charged for assaulting an

officer allegedly before deputy daniel arrived and knocked him out. >> if that had happened he would have been arrested immediately. he would have been cuffed and he would have been in a cruiser. >> i called the lowden county sheriffs office to ask for their version of the story but never heard back. we understand daniel is no longer employed by the sheriffs office and lives in another state. was it an unintended death or murder? forensics at the uva lacrosse murder trial testified today the injuries were caused by trauma and a sudden snapping of her head, not contributed to by cpr, as paramedics tried to revive her. we have all of the details from the courthouse. >> reporter: a late night at the courthouse as the prosecutor tries to wrap up his case. an expert testifies that george ugley had dna under his fingernails that was compatible with yardley love's dna and that yardley love had dna under

her fingernails that was compatible with george ugley. in fact, she said, it was hundreds of millions of times more likely that dna was a mixture of the two of them than a mixture of one of them and some other unknown subject. also testifying, a neuropathologist who described this snapping, rotational injury to yardley love's brainstem where you're breathing and your heart beat is controlled. the lead medical examiner testified that the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, those brain injuries. 9 news now. >> the bitter debate over extending payroll tax cuts have come to an end for now. it seems house and senate negotiators reached a tentative deal that delivers about $20 a week to the average worker. the two sides hope to send the legislation to president obama as early as this week. under this plan, the payroll tax cut would be extended through the end of this year.

jobless benefits for the long term unemployed would be renewed and doctors would be saved from a big cut in their medicare reimbursements. now to the latest on the deadly police involved shooting out of virginia. last week, a culpeper police officer shot and killed 54 year old patricia kukin a catholic school parking lot. officers say the cops arm was caught in the front window of cook's jeep and he was shooting in self-defense as she attempted to drive away, but a culpeper town spokesperson says the officer did not have his blue lights on. former fairfax county police officer ted siebert says if the lights had been on it would be a sign he was detaining the person. otherwise that driver would be free to leave after being stopped. >> what is he investigating? if it's just what we call a suspicious person, then he doesn't have justification to use force to maintain the contact. so if a person wants to roll the window up, they can. he can't be sticking his hand in the window.

he can't try to pull somebody out of the car. he can't open a door. >> an eye witness tells 9 news the officers arm was not caught in the window. patricia cook's husband says he believes some kind of excessive force may have been used and he's looking to hire an attorney. the officer was responding to a sus push us person call at the time of this incident. a georgetown man accused of stranging his 91 year old wife is headed from jail to d.c.'s psychiatric hospital. a judge says the man is not mentally fit to stand trial. the judge plans to revisit that decision after doctors give this man another evaluation. he is 47 year old albrecht mooth. police say he killed his wife last august inside their home and doctors say he suffers from ha loose nations and he claims the angel gabrielle told him to deny himself food while in jail. well the governor of new jersey has ordered state flags to fly at half staff saturday when family and friends pay their final respects to whitney houston. the singers family is planning

a private funeral and burial in newark where houston grew up and at this point, there are no plans for a public memorial. whitney houston died last weekend in her room at the beverly hilton hotel in california. the coroner expects it will take eight weeks to get the results from the toxicology tests. until then, no ruling on exactly what killed houston; however the coroner has ruled out foul play. 9 wants you to know that fairfax police charged five juveniles with public drunkenness. this happened last friday night following a basketball game. four of the kids were arrested after mcclain high school. >> the other at a nearby fast food restaurant. we tried to contact the principals of both schools to see if any disciplinary was being taken against those students but we were unable to reach them; however we did some digging and according to the student rights and responsibilities booklet for fairfax county, any student on campus or at a school sponsored event does face some consequences regarding alcohol.

minimally, a first time violation for possessing or being under the influence shall "result in suspension from school for a minimum of five days and a maximum of 10 days and suspension for 30 calendar days from all student activities." well it is just this kind of behavior that police are seeing as a disturbing trend. they call it pre-gaming, or teen tailgating. >> come on over here a minute. >> montgomery county police officer bill morrison has a factor spotting pre-gamers. teenagers and young adults who get intoxicated or high before high school sporting events or on this night before a concert at a popular local venue. >> we don't want you to do that. >> no. you didn't ask me to sign anything. >> young lady, relax. >> i'd just like the cameras on please. >> well here is the problem you have. you're out in public.

>> cruising through public parking lots, we quickly come upon a car that's idling, inside, four young adults drinking alcohol and allegedly smoking marijuana. >> everyone in the vehicle has drug paraphernalia because they all had pipes and marijuana. >> the charge is $500 and you get something in the mail. >> two of the women have children at home, under the age of three. most aren't upset about being caught. only that their arrest might make them late to the show. >> the arrest didn't bother them other than the fact it would interfere with them going to the concert. >> their main concern was getting at the concert on time. >> one of the women urinated outside the car in a public place. >> this is a ticket. >> and that's not uncommon, but it is behavior that can earn them a citation, $1000 fine, and a seven year spot on maryland's sex offender registry for exposure. after the concert, we watch as officer morrison issues another young woman a citation for

urinating outside her car. >> did you actually see me do it? >> yup. >> well i couldn't hold it any longer. >> you've got to go inside. >> she tries to talk him out of that ticket. >> do you understand being a girl? >> it doesn't work. >> on another early morning in downtown bethesda, an officer stops a car load of four young men who have a small amount of marijuana well as paraphernalia. police told us they all had extensive criminal records and they were upset not by the traffic stop but because it ruined their plans to drink at a local bar. >> and 9 wants you to know we're trying to do our part to put an end to all this pre- gaming and underage drinking. if you have a story tip you'd like us to check out go to wusa9.com, click on 9 wants you to know at the top of the page. still ahead tonight, claim your cash rolls on, and if you see your name on the screen, there's a check already waiting

for you. one family just got over $1000. you could be next. plus, telling the tails of love. meet a retired colonel with an unusual new career, as a romance novelist. that's coming up. and i'm meterologist topper shutt. 56 today and really not that cold right now. here is your wake up weather. you'll need a light coat no doubt but 36-44 at 5:00 and 34- 42 at 7:00 and manly in the 40s by 9:00, under partly cloudy skies and we'll come back, talk about the breezes increasing on wednesday. we'll also talk about not one storm on thursday, but another storm, perhaps more potential storm, a winter storm

so what do you get when you combine a defense contractor, a retired air force colonel who works in the space program and a kid who ended up with advanced degrees in physics, engineering and national strategy policy? >> well actually the answer on this valentine's day is pretty

obvious, at least down in hay market. gary nurenberg says it's a romance novelist. >> the grand staircase looks like the setting for a romance novel, a long way from the streets of puerto rico where a little girl had a dream. >> my goal in life was to become an astronaut. >> studied hard. >> i have a three masters and a phd besides my bachelors. >> in what? >> physics, astronomy, engineering and national strategy. >> while studying joined air force rotc to improve her chances of realizing that dream and then trouble with the astronaut physical. >> so they disqualified me. >> 25 years in the air force working on the space program and other engineering challenges, retired now in the private sector doing similar work for a defense contractor, writing and reading serious science. but she has a teenage daughter. >> i think i have read every twilight book about 25 times and i have seen every movie a

million times. >> so her own romance novel tomorrow never comes was born, a surprising tail of terrorists, romance and love for your country, with lots of science. >> it's a lot of action and there's a lot of physics about tsunamis and other activities, nuclear weapons and so forth, so i actually apply my physics and astronomy and science knowledge. >> a heroin who just might be in love with a terrorists. >> she gets it a position she can actually help save america. >> air force colonel, space expert, defense contractor, all those science degrees, romance novelist? >> we should always be expanding our knowledge and our brains and our hobbies and interests. we can just stay and do one thing in life, there's so much that you can do. >> so we asked this retired colonel, this row nans novelist for valentine's day advice. long list on it, but be nice to your co-workers, derek and anita. >> we try, gary, we try.

over $2 billion in unclaimed cash and property right for the taking being held from local treasuries and comes from inactive bank accounts, stock dividends, insurance pay outs, refunds, and if i read your name you have something coming to you whether you know it or not all you have to do is claim it. we here at 9 news want to help you get that money or those valuables. all you have to do is log on to wusa9.com and look under our consumer section and find out how to file a claim. i keep waiting for my name to pop-up. >> me too. >> i think i might be a little giddy. so what's the deal my friend, rainy, sunny, rainy, sunny? >> you're talking about thursday, right? you aren't even talking about the weekend? >> it's going to be really nice, right? >> it is going to be very nice and we're going nice day bad day, but you know what? even the storm on thursday will be wimpy. you could probably if you were

a gambling person leave your umbrella at home. let's start with a live look outside. this is our live weather cam, and there is the capitol and really a pretty nice night. in fact i had to raise overnight lows tonight. it's still 45 downtown and the dew point is 31, wind is calm, wind will pick up a little bit after midnight, pressure continues to go up at 30.01 inches of mercury and now the clouds are hanging tough and they hang tough most of the night. here is a look at the satellite picture and radar combined. most of the moisture is now north of us and there really wasn't that much in the first place. seeing breaks in the clouds in central sections of west virginia and breaks tomorrow, in fact a pretty nice wednesday. here is the deal. mild wednesday, breezy early, so that will make the low 50s feel a little bit cooler, dry commutes a.m. and p.m. wednesday and possibly even on thursday. grab your sunglasses for tomorrow and grab your umbrella thursday, if you want to play it safe but really the latest guidance has very little rain in here and with the next storm on thursday, so overnight,

mostly cloudy and chilly, a couple sprinkles possible, that's it. one blanket night and 34-42, so no one gets below freezing tonight. we're in mid february, really? winds become northwest at 10- 15. tomorrow morning, becoming partly cloudy, breezy and chilly, you'll need a light coat. 30s and 40s and northwest wind, a little bit of a chill in the air so at the bus stop keep that in mind. by afternoon, very nice. partly cloudy and mild. light coat still a good idea. high temperatures low 50s and winds calm down northwesterly at about 10, so most folks make it into the low 50s and i think everybody will make it to 50 and 52 in gathers burg, and 53 though in arlington and downtown, 52 in college park and 52 in buoy even out to the west looking at 51 in leesburg and also middleburg, so we'll break it down. 34-42 to start calling that chilly because that's about all it is. 47-52 at noon, that's mild and by evening partly cloudy 49-52,

a light coat will take care of you. now the next three days so here is what derek was talking about. nice tomorrow and showers on thursday and then nice on friday. lower temperatures a little bit friday, little breezy too, temperatures around 50. now the next seven days, here is the deal. 90% of the models, computer models are guidance we look at develops a storm, a storm in the southeast over the weekend and now about a third of them are bringing it close enough to us to bring snow and maybe even east of i-95 so we're still watching the coastal storm and don't be again lulled into a false sense of security. could be 54 saturday and snow on sunday. it's not that uncommon, whatever falls is more likely won't be around long because we're going back in the 50s for president's day and tuesday. so i don't know what it is about president's day but you can go to our website and look at my blog. we've had major storms. likes to snow on president's day weekend. if you're getting discouraged about d.c. area sports there's always george mason. >> there's always george mason. college teams are doing great.

george mason, a fight for number one tonight. wait until you see this exciting finish that had us screaming in the sports department. plus, danny o'brien comments for the first time

george mason in a pivotal game against bcu as they head down the stretch to the big dance. the patriots in a three way tie with the rams for first place in the caa. two words for you, buzzer beater. nine seconds left, here is bc. there's a first head coach, paul hewitt. virtual bonds makes the three pointer brings mason within one. watch this, three seeks left so down two. scores his shot. >> wow. >> hits it and it was nothing but net for that one. george mason beats bcu 62-61. big win for them.

tony bennett and virginia at clemson, they didn't have as much of a good time. tied at half time but clemson pulls away. young with the outlet to rod hall gets the flush and uva loses 60-48 and they've lost three of the last four. >> the wizards two and 10 on the road this season have yet to win back to back games not surprising statistics there but with the momentum they have after sundays route of detroit they might be able to get their second straight tonight. john wallin taking on the portland trailblazers and here he is taking it himself, getting it, well there he is, getting the drive and lay ups and wizards go up by nine and then jordon crawford finds the dunk, and pretty good at it too, wizards lead at half 58- 46. >> good news for caps fans, mike green on the fast track to getting back in the game after a long work out on ice this morning and green said he felt good. he hasn't felt this good in a long time. caps gm says if everything goes well tomorrow and thursday,

green could return this weekend. >> for the first time since deciding to leave the university of maryland football team, danny o'brien released this statement: this is a very difficult decision one which i did not take lightly. i will forever cherish the friendship of teammate, academics, support staff, fellow students and professors. i certainly wish nothing but the best to the team next season and for years to come. >> second night of the westminster dog show. the state dog of maryland, the chesapeake bay retriever, named coupe, beautiful coat. local dog from leesburg, a terrier named heidi, there's the classic mop dog. can imagine cleaning that thing? >> is that the formal name? >> this is the best of show. >> no, no. >> look at all that hair.

that's best in show? >> that's best in show. his face kind o