♪ what did we learn on the show tonight, craig? ♪ [meow] craig: are you ready? are you ready? i thowled have done that one when morena was here. she would have loved me. -- should have done that when morena was here. she would have loved me. geoff: that was awesome. craig: you know what? i think i kind of embarrassed myself in front of morena baccarin. geoff: oh, yeah, you did. craig: why?

geoff: it was great, though, when you did the whole mouth organ thing. craig: are you being sarcastic? geoff: no, i was like i know what he is doing. craig: i wasn't doing anything. geoff: yeah, i know, man. i got it. craig: all right. you ready? i haven't done this in a while. in fact, ever before. are you ready? hee-hee-hee. geoff: oh, stop. stop. craig: good night, everybody. good night.

it started like this -- >> he's been selling to underage children. >> after weeks of investigating, 9 news now reporter launched a series of reports on underage drinking by outing a store selling to kids as young as 14. >> in those two year, have you ever been asked for id?

>> like once. >> and then the threats started. >> she says she has been stunned and heart broken to find herself subjected to online name calling to foul for tv and threats that the cops took so seriously, they posted a police car in front of her home all weekend long. >> and now with media around the world buzzing over the reports, we bring local parents to the next frightening chapter 9 wants you to know. here is the startling trend, police say it's no longer unusual to see breathalyzer teenagers blow .20 or higher. >> that is more than two times the legal limit. what is happening around the corner from your house. >> reporter: it is happening everywhere, yet so many local parents think bad things simply cannot happen to their good kids. tonight, a look at the

realities of destructionive teenage behavior from some of the people who know it best. >> reporter: for many police officer, there are images they find hard to forget. for this police officer, it was an underage drink party on new year's eve. >> i see a female passed out on a bed in vomit, clothes mangled and condoms around her. >> reporter: the teenager had been sexually assaulted. police called the homeowners. >> we notified the parents and we need them to come and take care of their child. and they said, we can't come, we're at a new year's eve party. >> reporter: they told police they could come in a few hours when their party was over. >> they were upset that we were disturbing their plans for the night. >> seven out of ten teenagers feel it's okay to have sex with somebody passed out. that's rape. >> the girl had to be

transported to the hospital because she could not be left alone. >> now all of a sudden, you have people dosing girls to the point where we want you to get to the point where you're about to pass out or pass out and that way we're going all going to have sex with you. >> reporter: gang rape? >> yes. that's it. >> blood alcohol content is the worst thing now is just unbelievable. they should be dead. >> please, please, oh my god. >> reporter: in recent months, he has personally watched as three teenage girls were each transported to the hospital with alcohol poisoning. the oldest was 16. >> it's scary. we need parents, i mean, they have forgotten that their kids can die. it's hard to get the attention of the parents until a police officer comes to the door and say their child was killed in an alcohol related tragedy. >> reporter: he knows what it

is like to make a death notification, what it's like to tell a parent that their child is gone for forever. >> one woman, this was her second child killed in a fatal collision. and she knew when i was at the front door what i was there to say. and she didn't want to let me in the house because she knew what i was there to say. >> reporter: most of the tragedies and much of the heart ache are preventable. >> and we continue to be flooded with calls, email, tweets and facebook posts in response to our series of reports and we do welcome your feedback and story ideas. if you have information you would like to share, go to our website and click on 9 wants you to at the top of the page. >> thank you. and don't forget to check out cbs this morning right here starting at 7:30. we will be a live guest talking about the national attention her stories on underage

drinking have generated. that's at 7:30 tomorrow on cbs this morning. now to the late breaking news out of baltimore, a semi- truck carrying ink has flipped over on 95 and it has shut down the entire interstate. look at the mess on the highway. this is down to i-895 below. we don't have word yet on injuries, but the traffic is expected to be blocked for hours. we will bring you an update as soon as we know more. and the traffic is moving along 95 in prince georges county after a freak accident turned the interstate into a parking lot. it seems a flock of dead birds was behind the grid lock. we have to tell you, some of the video in the story is graphic. >> reporter: it was right around 2:15 this morning when dozens of dead birds crashed onto 95 northbound just north of the exit for the inner county connector.

we know that they were starlings and we think we know what killed them. >> reporter: scores of dead birds by the side of the road tell the story of an unusual happening today on i-95. >> they move in one large mass. >> reporter: according to the department of natural resources, as many as 200 starlings were perched on power lines near 95 when they suddenly started flying down toward the road. >> they probably got together, formed a flock and flying around and probably ran into a tractor-trailer on the side. >> reporter: though it doesn't happen often, it's not unheard of for large numbers of birds to be killed at once. ten years ago, hundreds were electrocuted and about a thousand people lost electricity when a power surge went through the lines that the birds were perched on. and today's incident was wasn't the fist time a large number of birds made news. >> it just get dark, pitch black. >> reporter: last month, residents were complaining

about large numbers of starlings and black birds hovering above the neighborhood and leaving their mark below. >> they do what they do. >> reporter: today's flock 5 also left a mark -- flock on 95 also left a mark and left some people saying, they don't just flock together, but sometimes perish together as well. autopsies will be performed on some of the dead birds tomorrow and they should know pretty much right away if they died of blunt force trauma caused by flying into a truck. 9 news now. and while the department of natural resources says they are pretty sure the birds died if flying into the truck, it's possible they died from a disease and that is why they're performing the autopsy. more than 85 students at george washington university have come down with the virus. it's an illness that causes severe vomiting, diarrhea and muscle cramps and it's very

contagious. so far, there's been no link as to why the disease is spreading so widely. but a student and an intern here says she thinks she might have an idea. >> i don't know how i got it, i know being at school, you catch 100 surfaces a day, touching elevators but the sons and desks -- -- elevator buttons and surfaces. >> they plan to step up the sanitation efforts. congress is on track tonight to approve on friday an extension of the payroll tax cuts. looks like the election year deal will cost about $150 billion. >> that is money that would have gone into the social security trust fund. at a time when finances are in peril, is it wise to take that

money away. we looked into the question. >> reporter: forget the partisan work era of 2011 for now, in an election year, politicians are unlikely to raise taxes. >> the only social security trust fund from the real world is congress can borrow from it. >> reporter: even if the pub is worried about social security. >> you have people that they're never going to get the paychecks. that's not true. >> reporter: but under the pending deal, they plan to take money from the general fund and then borrowing to replace that money. >> and now a system that is complicated transfer of money, money under a pea from one place to another, nobody understands it and it's going to hurt confidence more. >> reporter: so short-term,

long-term question. >> the extension itself doesn't hurt, but that doesn't mean the trust fund isn't in trouble. it is. the finances are going broke day by day. >> reporter: a new budget office study projects the social security trust fund will be depleted in 24 years. the fix will likely be unpopular and therefore unlikely in an election year. >> thank you. tomorrow he will be laid to rest. he is the paramedic who died last week suffering a tragic fall while responding to a car fire on 395 in arlington. the visitation for the seven- year veteran of the fire department is about to wrap up in less than an hour. his colleagues are rallying around his grieving family. >> his family is our family. we are doing everything from the upper end, all the departments getting together doing mutual aid. >> that's one of the reasons we're here, to take care of family and make sure that every

need is met. >> his funeral is tomorrow afternoon. all city schools will let out early. and police say commuters, you can expect traffic congestion near king street ask seminary roads during the funeral procession. the murder trial of the former university of virginia lacrosse player accused of killing her. today a doctor testified for the defense saying she could have suffocated while she lay face down in a pillow. but prosecutors argue she died as a result of a beating at the hands of her exboyfriend. it was the worst crash in metro history, two trains colliding, metal and flesh, nine people died. well that was back in june of 09. and now for the first time, metro and the three equipment makers are admitting the crash

was their fault. >> here we waited 2.5 years for them to finally come out and say this. in which we have known since day one. >> reporter: metro has reportedly settle lawsuits in seven of the nine deaths. a spokesman said they'll not have any impact on the operating budget. they have insurance for that sort of thing. the deadly police-involved shooting. that investigation will now have a special prosecutor. back on february 9th, a police officer shot ask killed a 54- year-old. now the cop claims he shot in self-defense after the arm got stuck in the window after she was trying to drive off. still ahead tonight, supermom to the rescue. how she stopped a run away bus from crashing. plus, claim your cash.

if you see your name on the screen, there's a check already waiting for you. also, how fans of whitney houston can pay tribute from anywhere in the world. that's coming up next. 55 today. another day above average. and your wake-up weather. you might want to bring your umbrella to work. and then 35 to 42, maybe a couple sprinkles by 7:00. better chance of sprinkles by 9:00. upper 30s to 40s. we will come back and tell you how wet for the morning and evening commute on thursday. and an update on the

whitney houston's fans around the world that want to say farewell will get to watch her private funeral online. the associated press will be the pool camera for the saturday ceremony in new jersey. she died in beverly hills in a hotel room on saturday just before the grammy parties. her cause of death has not been

determined. a doctor once said f you have a sinus infection, take medicine for seven days and it will get better or wait a week and do nothing and it will be fine. and now a study suggest the latter is true. the study out today, researchers looked at more than 160 people with sinus infections given some antibiotics and the others a placebo. after three day, all patients felt the same, no better or worse. i have to say, i was blown away by the results. and you probably are too. as someone with a lot of sinus infections. most of them are viral in nature so the antibiotics don't work. >> but let's be real, i have been there, it hurts like nothing else. what are you supposed to take? >> well, you saw the desk. this is called a netty pot.

and you can mix up a solution and use it to rinse out the passages. now if you're not really keen on dumping water up your nose, the other option is doing a saline solution to help relieve the pressure. >> but it's important to use sterilized water. that can give you an infection. >> exactly. you do not want to use out of the faucet. but this is a way to relieve the congestion and your body can get rid of the germs. >> i would try anything. thank you. appreciate it. well, if superman needs a couple weeks in jamaica, we know who can pinch hit for the guy. supermom. now check this out, she was standing with the kids at the bus stop. the bus comes by, but keeps rolling. turns out, the driver was having a seizer. and rhonda is standing there faced with a run away bus fulls of kids scared to death.

that is when she pulled out her supermom cape. >> i am running to the bus. and i could see he's having a seizer. >> wow. she motioned to one of the kids, open the door. she jumped inside, hits the brakes, stops the bus, everybody is fine. including the driver who had to go to the hospital. and now, well her kids have something really special to talk about. >> they sure do. >> supermom. >> unless she has like a preteen and they would be like, how embarrassing. >> there's always. that. >> always that. >> but all moms are super and she was exceptionally super. temperatures more like march. we have a wimpy storm coming tomorrow. and something is coming saturday night and sunday, could be a mixture. first things first, outside live. temperatures really not that cold. especially downtown inside the

beltway. a lot of 40s. 42 at national. pressure is steady, 30.30 inches of mercury. wins south at 6 miles per hour. the dew point is 34. all right, a look at that time radar and satellite picture, big thunderstorms along the ohio river from cincinnati back to nashville. and you think, whoa, this is intense. but like yesterday's storm, it's going to fall apart really. it won't amount to much. clouds are in place. showers back to the south and west. i think most of us will have a dry commute early tomorrow. come in late, 9:00, 10:00, a few showers. a few showers on thursday. best chance in the afternoon and evening. most will have a wet commute on the way home. low risk without the umbrella. more than we saw yesterday. fat friday, and then got the coastal weekend storm. and the storm will develop and impact us in some form of

fashion. either a glancing blow or direct hit. the cold air is limited. we'll keep you posted. cold air limited like this, a perfect track to keep the cold air in place. 6:00 a.m. tomorrow, notice clouds, green back to the west. so earlier you go, the better chance of dry roads. by lunchtime, a few showers, primarily northern charles county, up 270 and out 66. but not too bad. just clouds. another batch of showers by evening. that's why we think most will have an evening commute that will be wet. and a nice friday, it will be windy on friday. so for on the, overnight, looking at temperatures only in the 30s to around 40. increasing cloudiness. chilly. one blanket night. by morning, showers possible, temperatures in the 30s and 40s. winds pick up southeast at 10 to 15 miles per hour.

and by afternoon, light rain or showers possible. high temperatures around 50. the next seven day, great shape on friday. sunshine and 52. mid-50s on saturday. don't let that deceive you. it could snow the day after that. the track is perfect. right now, just rain maybe ending with snow or a mixture. president's day back in the 40s. and boom, back in the mid-50s wednesday. >> we like it a lot. >> thank you. we're trying to reunite people, maybe you with cash and valuables being held. the money could be from old safe deposit boxes, forgotten bank accounts and all sorts of stuff. we are running names across the bottom of the tv screenment look for the claim your cash list. head over to our website if you see a name you know. look under our consumer section to learn how to file a claim and get what is rightfully yours. a tough team tonight. >> very tough, but they have been playing great as of late. so going for three in a row.

they continue their trip out west against the clippers. tying for something they haven't done in almost four years. plus, it's no secret, he has struggled this evening and now the former

the wizards have been dominating detroit and pulling out the win. the first win streak of the season. and keep this in mind, it's been almost four nighs since wizards have won three games straight on the road. taking on the clippers tonight. in the 1st, clippers turn the ball over. dishes, looking to jam. nice one. one handed. it wouldn't be a highlight without griffin. stuffs it home. that man is good. 29-27 wizards in the second.

jones and american hosting navy. yeah, this game not close. navy turns the ball over. ahead for fast break and the lay-up. eagles win 69-47. go eagles. new information today on fi.com, manning says he actually had four surgeries on his neck, not three. and there's reports that he's developed bone spurs and will likely require another surgery. once again without a job. the buccaneers released him today. he signed the man midway through the season to fill a void that was plagued by injuries. he was due $6 million next year. he is undoubtly the face of the franchise. the overall number one pick in 2004, he came roaring onto the scene, garnering the fan base. scored about 50 goals a season. just last year, he had 32.

and his struggles this season have been well documented. the goaltending post knows him, they were teammates for three seasons. and he has his own take on the decline. >> work eggic. just has to get back to being the way he was in his younger day. and maybe not get brand up too much in the rock star status that come with it. >> he knows them well. join the mascot slap shot today. they adopted the school this season, visiting at least twice a movement today they spent time with 50 first graders to teach floor hockey in the gym. finally tonight, the rockets and grizzly game from last night. watch the ball. out of bounds, falls. that's it. little friendly elbow jabbing

there. >> they want to beat them, got to