>> it's g.p. and the fergs epilogue. [meow] [laughter] craig: you think that that astronomer was on the level? geoff: i didn't trust him, pal. craig: why are you talking like that? you never talk like that. geoff: this is the voice i always use when i do this segment. craig: no you don't. you talk in your normal voice. you were going like -- you sound like that wilford brimley thing that you were doing. geoff: wilford brimley. diabetes. talking like wilford brimley? nut munchers! craig: what did we learn on the show? geoff: we learned a lot actually. [laughter]

craig: we learned what happens if you say no to a lady in denmark. say goodbye to your glove collection. geoff: we learned that, yes. craig: i also have -- michael told me to keep this really short. [laughter] yeah. [laughter] you want to go out after? geoff: yeah. craig: let's go to that restaurants, squealers. we'll see you at squealers,

it made a huge impact i think on me. >> new at 11:00. remember scared straight? tonight we take local teens inside a shock trauma unit to meet the young victims of drunk driving crashes. also, one neighborhood with four house fires. is there a local arsonist on the loose? plus, an ad at a metro

station tells the president to go to hell. only on 9, the filmmaker behind the sign talks. but first, new at 11:00, the heavy rains may have proven deadly for at least two people inmontgomery county as firefighters had to rescue two drivers after their cars got stuck in the high water. >> it happened along barnsville road between cropper and peach tree around 8:00. thankfulfully both drivers are safe after that water rescue. we spoke with one of the victims right after they were saved. >> reporter: how deep was the water? >> almost to like -- not halfway up my door, but pretty close. >> reporter: how long did it take them to get you? >> 30 seconds to a minute. they were on a cowl to someone else. >> reporter: were you scared? >> yes. >> i'm scared for her. for a look at what we can expect overnight, let's get right to chief meteorologist topper shutt. >> mainly good news.

i'm going repeat myself, do not cross a street or road that's flooded. it comes up very quick and goes down very quickly. we still have some showers north of town, especially up towards frederick and to the west of us, also. we'll zoom into this storm back toward flint hill. rainfall rates an inch an hour. we already had flood warnings earlier. this is a big storm from urbana back to 15, all drifting off tolt east at a pretty good clip. that's the good news. we will widen back out and put this in motion. for the most part we are going to see these storms weaken, then move off to the east at 20 miles per hour. so we are going to be done with the rain and showers very quickly. so the same system that brought us flooding tonight spawned tornadoes last night and this morning from kansas to kentucky, killing nine. 40 miles southwest of topeka a tornado touched down last night at 10:30 in harveyville,

kansas. the line of storms marched east ward. another tornado touched down short before 2:00 a.m. near branson, missouri resulting in one fatality. the line of storms continued to move east between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. another tornado hit buffalo, missouri, just northwest of springfield. in the predawn hours a cold front spawned the deadliest tornado of the night in southern illinois. the tornado in harrisburg, illinois killed six and damaged or destroyed 300 homes and businesses. >> i'm just glad that it happened at night. no one was at work. this would be horrible for people to have been in this building when it happened. >> reporter: the national weather service estimated the tornado as an ef-4 with winds between 166 and 200 miles per hour. so far we've had about 154 tornadoes although all of these have not been confirmed. the month of april, may, and june produce the most tornadoes. back to you. >> thanks, topper. authorities in prince george's county say last week's

blaze in riverdale that injured seven firefighters was no accident. it was intentionally set but what's even more shocking is that it's happened on the same street several times before. ken -- ken molestina is live in the neighborhood. >> reporter: let me show you why neighbors are worried this might happen again. take a look. that's the house where the firefighters were hurt. we know that the arsonist began the fire in the basement. the home directly to the left of it also was set on fire, believed to have been the work of the same arsonist. >> attention all units, 6334, 57th avenue. he vac you wait the building. >> reporter: it was the last command firefighters heard before they were overcome by a fireball and sent to the hospital. now we're learning the fire was the work of an arsonist. >> this cowardly crime is

unconscionable to me. >> reporter: fire officials are talking tough and vowing to find whoever did this. >> i want to say to those who are responsible, that you can be assured that will you be apprehended. >> reporter: of the seven firefighters, 22-year-old kevin o'toole is the only one who still remains in the hospital. he's got burns to most of his body. >> they just look around, which house can they go inside. >> reporter: this resident says he's seen vandals come in and out of the vacant homes that have been set on fire. investigators say they have not ruled out any possible systems. however, proof of vandalism in these vacant houses exists. here's another example of one of the many vacant homes on this block. this house fell victim to an arsonist several years ago according to fire officials. it's been sitting empty and boarded up since then. just so you know, this house is just down the block from where that fire broke out injuring the seven firefighters. >> that night we got scared with all the flames around the house. we got scared. i just took all my family out

of here. >> reporter: neighbors are now left hoping authorities will catch whoever is responsible before it happens again. >> i'm not sure would did it, but i know some people, they go inside a house, whatever they want to do. >> reporter: fire investigators say this neighborhood has had four different arsons dating back to 2008. they're asking anyone who knows anything about this arson to give them a call. live in riverdale, ken molestina, 9news now. thou to a figurative fire down in the metro system where a local congress member is insisting that metro take down what he believes to be an offensive billboard that tells the president of these united states to to to hell. >> metro says free speech legal decisions prevent from the doing that. gary nurenberg has the story. >> reporter: derek and anita this is hardly a conspicuous location. at the very end of the platform just before orange line trains disappear into the tunnel for new carrollton it is likely

that most metro riders won't even see the sign. it's dark, black and white on the top, barack obama wants politicians and bureaucrats to control america's entire medical system. depo to hell, barack. the sign promotes a movie called "sick and sicker," a documentary playing at tea party get-togethers and is available on-line. >> profanity, obscenity, the kind of crudeness that this represents is just wrong. >> reporter: democratic congressman james moran says children shouldn't have to see that and wants it removed. >> it doesn't marty whether it's a democrat or republican. it's not about politics. it's about appropriateness. and they simply shouldn't have ads like this, that everyone has to see. >> in a government-run medical system, everyone is going to suffer and die. old people, children, middle- aged people. because when the government attempts to run the medical

system, there's never enough medicine, there's waiting lists, there's shortages of drugs. so better that children be offended than children die. >> reporter: some metro riders agree. >> i think it's free speech. i don't really care for his approach to the medical system, but, you know, i'm perfectly okay with the free speech. >> reporter: some metro riders disagree. >> i think it's kind of harsh and i think they should take it down. >> reporter: metro issued a statement saying advertise hag been ruled by the court protected by the first amendment and we may not decline ads based on their political content. >> like it or dislike it, if the idea was to generate buzz for the movie, it worked. derek and anita. >> all right, gary nurenberg, we thank you. now to an update about that story on the speeding prince george's county council woman. >> she's not take any questions. >> she's a public official. >> but she's not seeing anyone today. >> not seeing anyone today.

prince george's county council member karen tolls confronted by 9news and refusing to answer questions about the warning ticket she got allegedly for going 105 miles per hour in a car issued by the county. now, it all happened back on february 22nd near branch avenue. she was only ticketed for making an unsafe lane change because the police officer chasing her did not have radar or a calibrated speedometer that could match the high-speed his in car camera logged during the chase. >> the officer felt that did he not have enough probable cause to issue the violator a ticket for her speed. preliminarily, we don't believe that this police officer afforded anyone any special treatment. in fact, we do know that he issued adds 90 citation. >> prince george's assistant chief of police said the incident is now being reviewed under the direction of the county's new attorney general. tolls he released a statement saying she would give up a county car while she takes a driver's education course.

teaching math to third graders using word problems? nothing new. what about using word problems that talk about animal mute tie lags, terrorist training camps, and baking people in ovens. there's one disgusted parent looking over that oven question. >> she then put the people equally into nine enormous ovens to bake. how many desperate people were in each 0 van? it's the holocaust, it's too horrific to even think about, that this is the kind of learning tool we're giving to children. >> these math problems were assigned 0 to third graders at a d.c. charter school. some parents told us they're shocked at the language, the images, rotting corpses, blood- suck vampires. it goes on and object. sources tell 9 news the third grade teacher did not want to give her students the worksheets but was ordered to do. so no one is talking about this but center city issued a statement saying it will be looking into the matter.

derek says it's obvious word problems have changed, but not that much. >> you know, an knit twarks i was in school i hated word problems. but the ones i recall went something like this. al's father is 45, he is 15 years older than twice al's age, how old is al. boring. instead, straight from the third grade at trinidad city charter school we get this. till the tiger had many hungry children to fade. she caught 169 africans, 526 americans, and 196 indians. she then put the people equally into nine enormous ovens to bake. how many desperate people were in each oven. well, now you've got my attention, but perhaps at the cost of a good night's sleep. now, i've heard of trying to make word problems relevant, but is this what somebody thinks of trinidad center students? graphic violence, that's the way to reel them in. now, the teach diser say somebody ordered her to assign these morbid math puzzlers.

the school says we're looking into it. hey, i've got a word problem for them. a local charter school sends a list of 20 freakishly violent math problems home with a bunch of eight-year-old kids, and when asked about had no idea how that possibly could have happened. here's the question. how long should the parent wait poor some answers? anita. the pressure is certainly on. thanks, derek. still ahead tonight -- >> it made a huge impact i think on me. >> this is the shock trauma unit where victims of gunshots, stabbings, and car crashes fight for their lives. >> tonight, we take local teens bedside to talk to other young people badly hurt in drunk driving crashes. >> i never want to come here ever again. i don't want to do

young people often think they're invincible. >> 9 wants you to know about a program at shock trauma in baltimore that's helping them understand they are not. andrea mccarren is here to tell us more. >> reporter: what an amazing program. we went on a tour of the trauma center with a group of juvenile offenders. they showed up with all the bravado of tiply cal teenagers, but many didn't leave that way. >> where do you think i'm going to put these? down your throat, in your butt. >> reporter: ali is a tough talking nurse. >> if those don't work, that's a spinal cord injury, and

that's a big problem. >> reporter: she is not sugar coating this tour. >> this is the first place that you will come if you are in an accident, if you are shot, if you are stabbed. >> reporter: they're here at university of maryland shock trauma center in baltimore because they got caught with drugs, alcohol, or committing other crimes. >> if i hear one person giggling, you're out. >> reporter: one 14-year-old stole her mother's car. she said because she was barred. >> let this be a wake-up call because i never want to see any one of you guys here at as a patient. >> reporter: off they go to room two where they meet dillon, a young drunk driver would almost lost his happened in a crash. >> i am left-handed. this is the hand i write with. it was in so much pain. i didn't want to open my eyes. >> reporter: all dillon remembers is waking up at the side of the road covered in blood. >> i'm 21, so i could go easily buy a bottle whenever i want it, but due think that's what i'm dog do when i get out of here? no. i'm going to go give my mom a

hug. >> i was lucky to survive. >> reporter: the teens also meet kyle, a former high school wrestler whose drunken car crash left him in a coma for three months. >> i hit a tree at 60 miles per hour. >> trauma hits you right away. everything is going fine until it's not. >> reporter: the tour is not intended to frighten, but to serve as a reality check. >> the last thing i want to see is one of you all here as i'm cutting on your chest and i have your heart in my hand. >> hat off, please, sit up straight. >> reporter: there's a classroom session, too, where the teenagers learn about medical equipment that could be used on them if they're ever brought here. >> pick one. pick it up. do you breathe through that? god, i hope not. you tell me. no, it's not. it that's on the other hand. >> it is what i expected, an like a lot more. it made a huge impact. >> reporter: in just two hours, young lives appear to be

changing. >> she and him just the day after, injury like that, it's eye opening. >> i never want to come here ever again. i don't want to do anything stupid. >> reporter: as one nurse told us, nobody packs a bag in the morning and says, i think i'm going to have an accident today and end up in shock trauma. but for this group of juvenile offenders who still have plenty of time to change the course of their lives, it was hopefully an experience that stays with them forever. andrea mccarren, nine -- 9news now. >> if you'd like to tour for your young people, go to wusa9.com, click on the special coverage banner for details. a recovery from severe brain injuries caused by falls. badly injured patients in the u.s., denmark, and germany who were given this drug got better faster than those would got a

dummy medicine. after four wakes more people in the flu drug group could give reliable yes or no answers. far fewer patients would got it remained in a vegetative state. >> amazing, but what does a flu drug to have do with helping your brain? >> actually this is really cool. it has been around since the 1960's, and doctors figured out how it could do this by accident. they were giving to the patients in a nursing home who got the flu apted made parkinson's symptoms better in the people who had that disorder. they figured out it with on the dopamine system in the brain, and since then it's been used in all kind of brain injuries, but this is the first double- blind study that show, hey, this really helps. u.s. troops with severe brain injuries should start getting it now. >> love it when you have good news. >> yes, it's a nice one. >> absolutely. >> top, let's see what the weather is doing out there. >> we're getting through everything. we'll have a live look outside. this is the corner of wisconsin

and van ness. this cam brought to you by michael and son. temperatures have gone up. the new high is now 54. winds calm, pressure on the fall at 29.70 inches of mercury. here's live doppler. we have a third round of showers with a few embedded thunderstorms that have yet to move through. these will move through well before dawn tomorrow. we'll zoom interest a couple of these. some of these will produce some pretty good rains. this is around the plains, around 66, stretching over to aldey, almost to 50. we're look at heavy rain with that. don't see any wind, don't see any hail with that particular storm but some pretty heavy rain. we'll move to the north. another area of embedded heavy rain. just to the north of clarksburg, and earlier tonight clarksburg and leightonville got hammered. that's where the water rescue was. now we have something between urbana and damascus. this is going to push off toward 70. so we're almost done with the

heavy batches of rain. the next two tore three hours they should be out of here. we'll widen back out. we'll see everything move across to the east. within the next hour the back edge of the precipitation is going to be pretty much to the beltway, then we're going to be in pretty good shape as we go through the rest of the night. we'll clear up quickly actually tomorrow. temperatures, 55 in gaithersburg, 54 downtown, 40s in frederick and hagerstown. look at this. it's 60 in fredericksburg. that warm air is going to get up here tomorrow in a big way. so march began lamb-like, no doubt about that, as these showers aren't going to change. breezy and warmer tomorrow. you need a light jacket early with temperatures in the 40s and 50s, he is special north of town. will you need sunglasses, too. we're looking at a lot of sunshine, especially in the late morning and also in the afternoon. here's our future-cast. by 1:00 in the morning you can see most of the showers at least on the light side, indicated by the green. most of the showers south of town and north of town. we'll put this in motion.

by 3:00 some leftover clouds. most of the shoirns oakland, the rest of the showers pushing across the bay. by 5:30 maybe a few residual clouds north of town but that is it. no showers on your way to work, and certainly no showers on your way home from work as well. we're in pretty good shape. overnight we are going to see showers and thunderstorms ending well before dawn. not greatest typier in the world. breezy and milder, temperatures 45 to 50. quite frankly closer to 50. by morning turning partly cloudy, breezy and mild. in like a lamb, 40s and 50s. by afternoon, what a great way to start meteorological spring. mostly sunny, breezy and warmer. will you need sunglasses. high temperatures around 65. that might be a little bit low actually. next seven days, another system comes at us on friday. maybe some light rain or showers friday night, but then more so on saturday. showers, rain and thunderstorms, and mild on saturday, back into the 60. yes, i still that have snow flake on there for sunday night. temperatures in the 40s, then 50s and 60 next tuesday and

wednesday. >> okay. >> in like a lamb. >> in like a lamb. >> we keep hoping the wizards will stop being so lamb-like. >> exactly. randy whitman benched three of his starters in last night's game so would that message he was trying to send translate on the court tonight? plus, find out why a decision by bud selig may give the nationals a better chance at the ♪

behind the wheel, there is no such thing as a small distraction. a public service reminder from the american academy of orthopaedic surgeons, who would rather help keep your bones strong than put them back together. speak out against distracted driving at decidetodrive.org. you would think when a team blows a 17-point lead, turns the ball over 18 times, and allows their opponents to score 33 points that team would lose the game. that is unless they're playing the wizards. randy whitman and the wizards hosting the magic tonight. fourth quarter. wizards down three. brian anderson makes that six. three of his 23 to lead the magic in scoring.

later, the wiz down five. the ball to john wall for two of his game high 33 points. but the imaginic just too much for the wizards. dwight howard had 14 points, 12 rebounds. magic beat the wizards 102-95. >> i think we ran out of gas a little bit. we missed shots. we're going to have to shoot the ball better against that caliber a team. they seemed to hit the big bucket just to kind of break your back there at the end. maryland in chapel hill. the dish and the flush. 19 points for henson. still tin first half, nick faust working the give and go with alex lynn. day ler zeller was too much. 30 for him. tar heels win by 24. adrian hot dog mcdanielf

and gaithersburg high going for their, get this 49th straight win. trojans working the senior connection. colleen marshal in tran sir, passes ahead to jackie jackson. gaithersburg wins 64-42. they will go for win number 50 on saturday in the regional times. when it comes time for the playoffs hockey, football, basketball, and baseball all have at least 12 teams competing. now major league baseball is trying to catch up. they've decided to add two more wildcard teams increasing from eight to ten. that gives the nationals a better opportunity to make the postseason, especially considering how tough their division. the nats skipper davey johnson has said if the team doesn't make the playoffs, management can fire him. danny with 106.7 the fan likes the confidence. >> this is a group that needs to turn the corner. it's fine to say, let's be patient, but at a certain point you have to put up enough w's, so i like the attitude that

david johnson is learning. they expect to win. that he could change from years past. i'm in favor. after 13 years behind the mic john thompson junior is signing off. for two hours a day the former georgetown hall of fame coach, he was funny, he was nostalgic, and today he was popping the bubbly. he was sing some bob marley as the night ended, or as the day ended down, saying his good- byes, but he just, at 70 years old -- >> had enough. >> he's had enough. he wants to try other things. he's spent almost 30 years coaching, 13 years in