through the windshield. >> it like explosion. >> reporter: juan sell god owe had no idea what hit -- delgado had no idea what hit him saturday night. all he knew immediately was that he was in a lot of pain. >> my nose, i couldn't stop the bleeding. >> reporter: the blood was coming from a huge gash on his forehead split open by the deer's leg. it took 50 stitches to close, but juan is the lucky one. his best friend and wife's cousin 26-year-old rodolfo villatoro who had been sitting in the passenger seat was not moving. >> they pulled him out of the car and they start cpr. >> reporter: because rodolfo showed no signs of life no helicopter was sent juan says. >> he was such a nice friend to have. every time i used to go anywhere he would go with me. >> reporter: rodolfo immigrated from guatemala five years ago and has been living

with them since. in addition to working two maintenance jobs, he also helped take care of juan and his wife's two children. >> i kept my distance and everything, but it just happened. i couldn't do anything. >> reporter: the accident happened on route 9 just west of leesburg on their way to the charlestown racetrack. juan, a bus driver for alexandria dash, says he was going only 40 miles per hour when the deer hit them. the top of the xterra looks like a bomb hit it and the seats are covered with long white hair from the animal which died on the scene. there was a third man in the back seat. the three of them were headed to the charlestown races. he was injured more severely than juan and at last check was in intense save care at fairfax hospital -- intensive care at fairfax hospital. the prince george's county county fire department is praising neighbors in temple hills who rescued a fellow neighbor from a burning home. that fire broke out last night on beaumont street. before the firefighters could

get there neighbors gene ward and demetrius handen helped chris muster rescue his elderly dad james who was trapped on the second floor. james is generally confined to a wheelchair. his wife made this frantic call to 911. >> i've got fire in my house. i have the upstairs on fifth help me! >> i told him grab my shoulder and hold the walls and i pulled his feet two steps at a time and we got a chair and got two more people to take his hands and sat him in the chair, carried him across the street. >> another neighbor darlene townsend provided first aid. father and son were taken to the hospital with cuts and smoke inhalation but are expected to be fine. the cause of that fire is under investigation. the northwest d.c. liquor store exposed by 9 news now for allegedly selling alcohol to underage buyers was back open today after the arrest of the owner saturday night. scott broom has reactions from the town square market. >> you guys are like bombarding

us for no reason. >> reporter: actually 9news has a very good reason. town square market on macarthur boulevard in northwest washington has been exposed for its alleged underage alcohol sales. >> dozens of teenagers buying alcohol. >> reporter: first documented by reporter andrea mccarren earlier this month. >> the whole time we were down think don't think i swan of age person go in that place of -- i saw one of age person go in that place of. >> reporter: in january store owner dan ki kim denied it all and threw mccarren out of the store. he kept on with business as usual. finally saturday night metropolitan police arrested kim after district officers busted a 17-year-old virginia high school student who allegedly bought alcohol and was in possession of someone else's id. today the store was back in business. the angry clerk telling me district police have no problem with town square market. >> if the cops have a problem, then they would have closed us down. >> there's an administrative

process. >> reporter: d.c.'s deputy mayor in charge of public safety paul quander told us the question of shutting down the stores will be in the hands of abra, d.c.'s alcohol regulation agency. >> but we have sent a very clear signal with the arrest of an individual who was observed breaking the law and the administrative process will run its course. >> reporter: quander told us this afternoon abra is moving as quickly as possible even though 9news first alerted d.c. authorities to the situation at the store in early december. in the newsroom scott broom, 9 news now. one week from tomorrow voters in both arizona and michigan will head off for the polls for their state's primaries and candidates spent this presidents day trying to swing voters their way. both rick santorum and mitt romney were in ohio today. 66 delegates are up for grabs on super tuesday in the buckeye state and the latest poll shows santorum with an eight-point lead over romney nationally and now the former pennsylvania senator shifting his campaign's focus to president obama.

>> because of the mismanagement of the president's policies overseas, because of his mismanagement of the persian gulf and our friends in the state of israel. we see a tension in rising prices. >> ohio is considered a must win for the republicans no gop candidate has ever won an election without first winning the ohio primary. two weeks from tomorrow the voters in virginia will make their pick for republican presidential candidate, but a poll shows they're not so happy about the choices. just two of the candidates mitt romney and ron paul qualified to make the ballot in the primary and according to a poll by christopher newport university, only 38% of registered republicans and independents were satisfied with those choices. 57% said they'd like to see the other candidates on the ballot. maryland voters may get the final say about the state's so- called dream act at the polls november. an anne arundel circuit court judge dismissed a lawsuit aimed

at keeping it off the ballot. advocacy groups argued the measure was not subject to a public vote, but the judge disagreed. the law would allow some illegal immigrants to pay some in-state tuition at state colleges and universities. the maryland senate could take final vote this week on a bill to legalize same sex marriage. montgomery county state senator brian frost says it should pass committee tomorrow and that would send it to the senate floor. the legislation already made it through the house of delegates. the maryland senate passed a similar bill last year by a four-vote margin. well, today hundreds of women locked arms and stood silent in protest outside the virginia state capitol building. they were rallying against a handful of bills working their way through the general assembly that could put severe restrictions on a woman's right to have an abortion. among the bills in question, one that would define an embryo as a person and make it a crime to destroy it.

>> you surely couldn't ask for better weather on a holiday monday, clear sunny skies, no snowstorm out there, right, top? >> it was pretty nice, temperature managing to make it to 50. it's a little chilly now. let's start with temperatures, 46 downtown, but 30s in many suburbs, alexandria 36, gaithersburg mid-30s, frederick 37, so a little chilly. for tonight we'll say clear to partly cloudy, cold, a one to two blanket night, lows 26 to 36, winds becoming light. we will come back and talk about a little touch of spring before we snap back to winter. we'll show you a couple pictures where it did snow over the weekend. coming up honoring history, people all over d.c. celebrating the life and legacy of some of our most famous presidents, but first prices at the pump, more pain out there and the cost per gallon just keeps going up at a record rate.

prices at the pump are increasing once again and setting some new records in the process. right now the national average for a gallon of regular is up six cents from last week to

$3.57 and aaa says that's the highest ever for this time of year. here in our neighborhood a gallon of regular runs 3.76 in d.c., 3.65 in maryland, 3.54 in virginia and experts say the rising trend is not over and prices could indeed top the $4 mark over the summer. okay. this next story is a tad dicey. so if you got some young children around, you may want to turn down the sound for this one. all done? okay. the number of teens and kids even younger seeking sex change operations is on the rise. that's according to a new report in the medical journal of pediatrics. now it says children's hospital of boston alone has seen a fourfold increases in these cases since the late '90s. according to the report, kids and their families are sent to psychological counseling until they're 11 or 12 and then doctors prescribe puberty blocking drugs. they say that allows kids to mature and decide if they actually want a permanent sex change. proponents say withholding treatment could actually be

more harmful to the patient. however, some doctors say treating kids before the age of 18 raises serious ethical questions. sex change operations or treatments for kids? are children under 12 or younger capable of making a decision about gender and what effect could this have on their social life or school? weigh in on mcginty's mailbag or join the conversation on our facebook page. we'll have some of those comments in mailbag later. it's a nice start to the week, but will it last? it is, after all, still february. topper has the full forecast. up next it's presidents day. how much do d.c. people know about the folks who have lived or live at 1600 pennsylvania avenue? the poll results when we come back. ♪

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breaking news out of land over maryland where one person died after a car crashed into a kentucky fried chicken store. sky 9 over the scene now. this is the intersection of sheriff road and mart in luther king. investigators tell us the person who died was a customer in the restaurant. four others were hurt. fire officials say none of their injuries is considered serious. we've got a crew on the way to the scene. we'll let you know more as soon as we've got more information. on this presidents day rousing birthday cheers for george washington at his estate at mount vernon. thousands gathered this morning for a wreath laying ceremony

and what was billed as a surprise 280th birthday party. characters from the 18th century mingled with the public and the visitors got hayne the scenes look at the washington -- a behind the scenes look at the washington family kitchen. the city of alexandria celebrated washington's birthday today as well with the largest presidents day parade because alexandria was once home to our country's first president. so we figured that made it a perfect place to dispatch our own bruce johnson looking to the answers for some presidential trivia questions. >> the parade. >> reporter: the place to take in a presidents day parade. alexandria, virginia, founded back in 1749, presidents mug graces the $100,000 bill. >> there is no $100,000 bill. >> reporter: woodrow wilson. if you want to try presidential trivia, this is the place. who was the first president to

play the saxophone on the arsenio hall show? >> got to be bill clinton. >> reporter: how many states are named after a u.s. president? >> there's washington state. >> reporter: the tallest president. >> abraham lincoln. >> reporter: thank you. too easy. the heaviest president was howard taft. who was the first president? >> george washington. >> reporter: who's the first after ban american president? >> obama -- first african american president? >> barack obama. >> reporter: how many of the u.s. presidents signed the declaration of independence? was it two, four, six or none? >> oh, my. >> we should know this. we're teachers of. >> reporter: the answer is two. >> i was going to say that. >> reporter: four presidents have been assassinated while in office, link on, garfield, mckinley and ken -- lincoln, garfield, mckinley and kennedy, six presidents survived attempts. what u.s. president won a pulitzer prize for his book profiles in courage? was it roosevelt, grant, kennedy or eisenhower? >> kennedy.

>> reporter: what president had a pet mockingbird named dick? was it jefferson, fillmore, eisenhower or nixon? >> has to be nixon. >> reporter: virginia is the birthplace of the most presidents at eight. 31 states and the district of columbia have never claimed a native son as president. who is the best looking president? >> best looking? probably kennedy, obama. it's a tie. >> reporter: bruce johnson, 9 news now. >> i think those younger presidents may have an edge there. in 1943 franklin roosevelt made the first presidential flight. richard nixon was the first president to visit all 50 states and bill clinton set a record for the most trips abroad, 133 of them. wow. okay, top, we've been trying to give you a tough time teasing you a bit about the snow which we thought was coming our way but hate friday we found out it wasn't. >> it did snow 2 inches in southern fauquier county. if you were in gaithersburg, you didn't see anything.

>> didn't have to be that far out. >> raleigh saw 3, 4 inches. it was a bizarre little snow. let's start with the pictures. thank you, everybody, for sending them in. this is from morrisville in southern fauquier county down 17. bob and glenda anderson sent this in. we appreciate it. it was a beautiful snow. everything stuck to the trees and gave it that postcard look. so thank you, appreciate it. here's a live look at our live weather cam with the capitol in the background brought to you by michael and son. down to 46 at national but deceiving because most of the burbs are in the 30s. the pressure continues to rise at 30.30 inches of mercury. we have 42 rockville, 40 bethesda, but plenty of 30s, 36 laytonsville, gaithersburg, 37 reston, college park 37 now and also in beltsville. here's the deal. returning milder, winds diminish tonight.

you'll need your sunglasses tomorrow. even milder wednesday and almost warm on thursday. we had the pitchers and catchers check in for spring training today, going to feel like baseball season by thursday. clear and partly cloudy tonight, cold, one to two blanket night, 26 to 36 and winds will become light. still one of those nights where i think if you're right around inside the beltway and even inside town only 35 for a low, maybe 34 in arlington, but 29 rockville, 28 gaithersburg, 30 in college park, 29 bowie and right around 30 in reston, but 20s out toward sterling and herndon and also leesburg. tuesday morning mostly sunny, a cold start. you will need a coat, 20s and 30s, winds southeast at 10. by afternoon not bad, partly cloudy, breezy and milder, a few clouds come in late. we have a weak system approaching tomorrow, but highs 50 to 55 and remember that southwest wind is a mild wind. so that's a good thing. we'll break it down. 27 to 37 to start, generally

clear, sunshine at noon, 48 to 53, breezes picking up a bit and by evening 50 to 55 with a few clouds rolling in. so breezy and milder. the next three days keep going up, wednesday 57 with sunshine, thursday maybe a morning shower but the afternoon we climb to 60. next seven days it has to come to an end at some point in time, the old reality check. that will be saturday, a little stronger system comes in friday with rain and showers. we're in the 50s and then blustery saturday, mountain snows, temps here low 40s, but back to 60 next monday. >> you can't be mad about it. it's just kind of odd. >> if is odd,y. >> we'll be back -- it is odd, yes. >> we'll be back in a minute. we want to hear what you think of send your e-mails to mcginty's mailbag, mailbag at wusa9.com. 9 news now will be right back.

50 to 70% off. you've seen the deals online. now one of those sites is opening a storefront in d.c., how local business owners will earn your cash. >> tomorrow's sweet success, a tasty treat from d.c., part of the oscar celebrations in los angeles. in the mailbag tonight goo gobs of reactions on our wusa9 facebook page to the arrest over the weekend of the owner of that town square market for allegedly selling booze to minors as was first documented by andrea mccarren's report on underage drinking. esther mae writes good for you. we applaud andrea and it's too bad it took so long for that liquor store owner to be arrested. sure hope he gets more than a slap on the wrist and this from reggie. ditto. i would also home the county seeks warrants for any parents

that allow kids to drink as a right of passage. this ain't the '60s. also on our facebook page we're getting reaction to the story regarding the number of young kids convinced they want to change their gender. erica writes god made you the way you are. leave the way you are create ad loan because you weren't meant to be another sex -- created alone because you weren't meant to be another sex, but that idea doesn't sit well with maria. why is it so hard for people to believe they are born in the wrong body. would you abandon a person you love for the one character you consider to be a flaw? jessica says how awful would it be if you the parent let your child change their sex and that child grew into an adult and realized they made a mistake? i would never let my child have an irreversible sex change until they were at least 18. this isn't an issue of support. it's about protecting your child from what could be a mistake due to emotional immaturity and insecurity.

jessica, it's a good thought and i think no one would disagree with that part. i wonder how others feel. mailbag at wusa9.com. don't forget to include your name and city. that is our report. i'll be back here tonight at 11:00 along with anita brikman. don't forget log on any time you like to www.wusa9.com. have great evening. we will talk to you a bit later. bye bye.

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