slow going if you're headed out 50 and slow going north up towards baltimore. there is a flood watch in effect for the metro area. i don't think this is right. i guess it. is they say expanded. it was just from hagerstown martinsburg west. it's now been expanded. we'll come back and tell you the tale of two seasons. this kind of a tornado outbreak experts say is what they see about five times this year. this round began this morning in huntsville, alabama. >> reporter: meteorologists believe it was a tornado that shredded these homes outside huntsville, alabama. >> devastating. it's heartbreaking. don't really know what to think to tell you the truth. >> reporter: the first round of friday's wicked weather tore off roofs, snapped signs and flipped trailers in the tennessee valley. it's believed it was two tornadoes each with winds of 130 miles per hour. >> oh, my god.

>> reporter: from louisiana to ohio, from missouri to south carolina golf ball size hail fell and damaging winds pulled down trees and power lines. tens of thousands of people are without electricity. forecasters warn conditions are likely to get worse, especially after sunset. >> this is just going to be an unfolding event unfortunately for the rest of the day. i would say if you have to run an errand, go ahead and do it now and make sure you're back within the next couple hours. >> reporter: warm air from the gulf of mexico colliding with low pressure from the northwest is setting off the storms. the severe weather comes two days after a massive system in the same region unleashed more than two dozen tornadoes killing at least 13 people. forecasters expect today's tornadoes to travel fast, but stay on the ground for a long time with the potential to cause more damage. terrell brown, cbs news, new market, alabama. >> as we do start to see some thunderstorms tonight, let us know about any damage in your neighborhood. you can file your storm report

complete with pictures or video at www.wusa9.com. essentially says that she must be paid to have sex, what does that make her? it makes her a slut, right? makes her a prostitute. >> a whole lot of reaction today about those words from rush limbaugh directed at a georgetown university student and today even the president himself decided to weigh in on it. joining me here in the newsroom to talk about that is our own bruce leshan. what did mr. obama have to say? >> he had a whole lot to say, but we're kind of getting that secondhand. what rush limbaugh had to say was really almost embarrassing to even talk about. he called sandra fluke a slut and a prostitute on the air because she wanted access to contraception at georgetown university. today president obama called the third year law student and even the president of this catholic university said that rush limbaugh was way out of bounds. it started last month when an all male panel was first up for

a house hearing on contraception and sandra fluke was denied a chance to speak. days later congressional democrats provided a forum. >> i attended jesuit law school that does not provide contraceptive coverage. >> reporter: limbaugh suggested that fluke wants taxpayers to pay for her birth control. >> it makes her a slut, right? makes her a prostitute. she wants to be paid to have sex. she's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. she wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. >> reporter: and he went even further. >> if we're going to have to pay for this, that we want something -- then we want something in return, ms. fluke, and that would be the videos of all this sex posted online so all of us can see. >> a lot of women unfortunately have heard those types of words and historically they've always been used to try to see lens women and especially women who are speaking -- silence women and especially women who are

speaking out about their reproductive health and needs of. >> reporter: even the president of the university that fluke was criticizing accused limb limbaugh of vitreal. if we allow hatred to stand in for civil discourse in america, we violate the sacred trust that has been handed down through the generations beginning with our founders. and the president in his call to fluke apparently expressed the same sentiments. >> well, he expressed his support for me, thanked me for helping to amplify the voices of women across the country. >> reporter: this really began as a national debate on religious freedom, but the ground has shifted and now more people are talking about this right to contraception and the polls suggest that this is no longer a debate that is playing well for the gop among the swing voters who will decide the next election and that may well be part of the reason that the president called this woman

publicly and allowed his staffers to talk publicly about it. the white house, the obama administration think they're on the high ground here. >> moving into the political arena. thank you. right now about 100 teachers are in the streets protesting plans to freeze their pay for the next three to four years. our kristin fisher is with them in dale city. >> reporter: these teachers have come from all over prince william county and they have been out here in the rain for over two hours now. they've got another hour to go. just look at how many of them are out here. there's almost 100. they're on all four corners of this intersection and they're trying to garner public support to get the superintendent to change his proposed budget. nearly 100 prince william county teachers rallied in the rain for something that they haven't seen in years, a raise. how long has it been since you got a raise? >> it's been three years. i'm a fifth year teacher and i

am frozen at a second year teacher's salary. >> it takes three years to make up for our child acidify sit and we're not getting paid the amount -- child's deficit and we're not getting paid the amount we're worth. >> reporter: if the budget stays as is, it could be four more years before these teachers get a raise. >> just recently moved. i'm not able to live in this area by myself, the even remotely. my friends have purchased houses. they're starting families. i not can't do any of the above because i can barely support myself. >> they feel like they don't have a platform. they don't have someone to advocate for. this. >> reporter: the superintendent has said there's simply not enough funds for salary increases. >> we're teaching the kids who will pay for your social security. >> reporter: they want more money from the county but the board of supervisors says the school system gets a greater cut of the county budget than most other systems in the d.c. area. this back and forth is all the more frustrating for teachers who say they just want to be paid to do what they love.

>> just professional, respect us, let us be able to afford to live here or else you're going to lose us. >> reporter: now prince william county public schools just sent me an e-mail that said they empathize with the teachers' concerns and remind them that the budget process is not over yet. the budget will not be finalized until april 24th, so they've still got about six weeks. >> thank you. laurel police say a camera on a metrobus caught a hit and run accident on tape. this happened yesterday. you can see the pickup truck driver swerve onto a sidewalk near route 1 and 198 and hit a pedestrian. the driver then took off. that pedestrian was critically injured. police are looking for a ford f250 pickup with a supercab and extended bed. the truck has green writing on the side. a north carolina dispatcher charged in the deadly bus crash will be brought to virginia to face charges. the skyexpress crash happened on i-95 near richmond last may.

you may remember this. four passengers were killed. investigators say that dispatcher told the bus driver to keep driving even after the driver said he was just too tired to do so. the dispatcher has now waived extradition. both he and the driver are charged with involuntary manslaughter. prices at the pump, up another cent in the last 24 hours. the national average of $3.74 is 29 cents higher than it was a month ago and tonight we're wondering if how you drive can really make a difference in your bottom line. we sent our scott broom out to do the gas test today. all right, scotty, where are you? >> reporter: okay. i'm in new carrollton beside the beltway and today i took a nice little trip over to the eastern shore down to cambridge, maryland. it's about 176 miles round trip. on the way down i drove just like grandma, 55 miles per hour on cruise control. on the way back i drove let's

say a little more like the jerk my wife is more familiar with. >> i think you drive too aggressively. >> reporter: that's the beautiful mrs. broom and the dog who takes her side always. >> if you drove slower and less aggressively, you would get better mileage. >> reporter: okay, honey. let's see how it goes. i started today at this 7- eleven in new carrollton, regular gas 3.69 a gallon pumped into my trusty 9 news now honda crv. >> the way gas is going up every day it almost gets to the point you need a loan. >> when i drive the limit, the gas does last a little bit longer. >> reporter: you sound like my wife. off i went down u.s. 50 and over the bay bridge for a day on the eastern shore. now to do this drive it was cruise control set exactly at 55, no jackrabbit starts and stops along the way. yes, there were times even the big trucks were passing me like i was sitting still and yes,

there were tailgaters in the mirror. once in cambridge it was to the wa-wa on u.s. route 50 for a fill-up and to log the statistics. here is the tale of the tape. drive nothing faster than 55 with cruise control it was 76.3 miles down. it took me one hour and 30 minutes. i used 2.53 gallons of gas which at 3.69 a gallon cost me $9.37. the honda crv's performance, a very respectable 34 miles per gallon. >> i told you so. >> reporter: all right. so yes, mrs. broom was right, but how right was she? when i come back at 6:00, we'll take the trip back here and let me tell you i drove like a jerk, unnecessary lane changes, pushing the speed a little bit and i want to tell you i got back about 15 minutes earlier and at 6:00 i'll tell you how much gas it cost me and you'll be the judge as to whether or not it was worth it.

so i'll see you then. scott broom, 9 news now. >> you don't need me to tell you this, scott, but your wife knows right, okay? so you need to listen to your wife. she'll never steer you wrong. >> reporter: you ladies ganging up on me just like the lady at the gas station. you all sound the same. >> we'll see you at 6:00. no matter how you drive you can always find the best gas prices at www.wusa9.com. click on pump patrol. some local park service workers are being credited with helping to save the life of a fellow worker tonight. prince george's county fire investigators say they got a call about an unconscious person at watkins regional park in kettering yesterday afternoon. turns out it was a park service worker who had gone into cardiac arrest. jim worthington and some of his fellow workers sprung into action. they had to wait for the emergency workers to arrive, but they didn't wait to help. >> i got him comfortable, watched his breathing. he stopped breathing. we pulled him out onto the

floor and i got down and started doing chest compressions and rescue breaths. >> i want co-workers like that. an external automatic defibrillator was quickly applied and when the paramedics got this they took the patients to the hospital and firefighters say this incident demonstrates the need for community involvement in cpr training and the need for nose trusty aeds -- those trusty aeds. a nursing mother runs into trouble at airport security, the problem tsa had with her breast pump. later d.c. students have the option of going to any state school they want to in the country and paying in-state tuition. we'll tell you how many are taking advantage of the opportunity. but first you've heard of going into the mind of a serial killer, but what about walking in his footsteps? it's a tour some say ain't right. that's up next.

a walking tour that revisits some of jeffrey daumer's gruesome crimes is causing an uproar tonight. groupo is featuring up the tour that features a visit to the milwaukee bar where the serial

killer met some of his victims. the families of some of his 17 victims are furious and are trying to put a stop to this. president obama visited with 27 wounded service members at walter reed national military center this afternoon. the president awarded eight purple hearts while he was there. the visit comes two days after the president hosted iraq war veterans at a gala at the white house dinner. the troops he visited today are from both wars in iraq and afghanistan. 10 states including virginia will hold primaries tuesday and the race for the republican nomination will be one of the key topics when newt gingrich and ron paul join bob schieffer this sunday on face the nation and bob joins me now with a preview. we talked about how disastrous it would be for mitt romney to lose michigan. he didn't lose, but did his narrow win leave perhaps a super tuesday window for your two guests to crawl through? >> i love that. i've never heard it quite that said way, derek, but that sounds pretty good to me.

i tell you this. i think mitt romney is going to have as hard of time in ohio, which is one of the big prizes on tuesday, as he did in michigan. that thing out there, it's narrowing, but right now rick santorum has a just tiny bit of a lead. i think newt gingrich is looking pretty good in his homestate of georgia which will be another of the big prizes on super tuesday. he may win there. santorum is looking pretty good in tennessee. so i think the bottom line here is a lot of us maybe three months ago thought that this thing would be wrapped up on super tuesday. i think it's not going to be quite that super. i think this race is going to go on for a while and nobody's got a lock on it yet. >> you mentioned rick santorum and there are those who think he actually gave away michigan rather than mitt romney winning it. >> well, you know, i think this trying to run on campaign of

bashing jack kennedy and being against birth control and somehow questioning people who want a college education, that might be a view, but i'm not sure it's a view of very many people and you're right. santorum might have hurt himself with some comments like that, but, you know, while he was making comments like that then you would have mitt romney allowing his wife owning a couple cadillacs and a couple other things there. so everybody made some fumbles at michigan, but it was close. >> it was close and bob, we'll look forward to your comments from ron paul and newt gingrich with you on face the nation this sunday. >> i think it's going to be fun. >> thanks, bob schieffer. what is in store for our weekend, my friend? >> kind of the tale of two seasons, spring-like tomorrow, winterlike sunday. we slip a snowflake in on sunday. >> that's one lone snowflake. >> it may be actually. we have one in on monday, too.

the good news is we're looking at nothing severe tonight or tomorrow morning in terms of the thunderstorms. let's take a live look outside, this brought to you by michael and sons, our weather cam at the capitol. this some rain making a slow going for the friday evening commute. really is, it's just going to be slow, so allow extra time. temperatures upper 40s to around 50, winds east at 8, pressure falling 29.89 inches of mercury and looking at steady or slightly rising temperatures tonight. look at the lighting now down towards charlottesville south of fredericksburg, but this next batch that's moving up into fredericksburg now will have the rumble of thunder and heavy rain. we'll keep you posted but don't think we'll see anything severe in the metro area. heaviest activity by far now is between d.c. and baltimore. if you're going up 95 or you're going up 29 north, you'll find some pretty heavy rain. everybody has something whether be it light or moderate rain

across the metro area, but there's the heaviest rain now north of laurel past 32, but even wheaton has light rain, rockville, potomac. it's going to be a slow go, really is with wet roads everywhere. we'll widen this back out and some big time rain just moved through the immediate metro area 45 minutes ago. that's now crossed the bay over towards queenstown. we'll put this into motion. what's going to happen the next hour, a bit of a break and more activity down towards the south will work its way northward and that could become heavy in the next hour or two. the flood watch has been expanded. montgomery county north and west, loudoun and fauquier county north and west. temperatures pretty uniform, mid- to upper 40s, 46 bethesda, 45 gaithersburg and reston and essentially they'll sit here until we get the warm front late tonight or early tomorrow. temps don't move a bunch overnight. a tough commute home. rain and thunderstorms tonight, flood watches now north and west. windy and warmer saturday,

breezy and colder sunday. it's going to remind us we are indeed in the month of march which can be spring-like or winterlike. mostly cloudy tonight, breezy, low temps around 50, winds becoming south, southwest at 10 to 15. tomorrow morning showers and storms end early, 50s to around 60 and by afternoon really not a bad day. maybe a shower, but tell you, what becoming partly cloudy, breezy and warmer, 60 to 65, i'll put up with a slight chance of a shower for temperatures in the mid-60s. we'll take that any day. let's talk about the breakdown. showers and thunderstorms ending early, 48 to 54 and then 55 to 60 by noon and then 59 to 64, maybe a sprinkle by evening but all in all a pretty good deal. now the next seven days it stays cold for a while, got the flake sunday, the flake on monday, temperatures in the 40s sunday and monday. tuesday we rebound a little bit back up to about 50 and then 60 on wednesday, more rain and showers possible on thursday and then we're looking at temperatures in the 50s

thursday and friday. so again no severe weather here, apparently three dead in indiana again with this second round of storms. >> okay. crazy day. still to come tonight something lighter, cats and dogs living together, say it isn't so. is that kitty giving a massage? and up next. [ screaming ] >> you got a beautiful town here. >> the lorax may speak for the trees, but some environmental groups don't like what he has to say, more about the controversy coming up.

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ham. >> you remember that, don't you? remember when jesse jackson did that on saturday night live? yes, i do. >> today would have been dr. seuss' 108th birthday and as has become tradition in u.s. schools, libraries and daycares, they honor the author every march 2nd with second read across america day. now this is the early childhood center, one of them in beltsville and folks are reading to head start and we're told cat in the hat, the infamous cat and the hat also made an appearance, too. today a movie base on the dr. seuss classic the lorax starts running in theaters. >> yeah, but some critics say an ad campaign that came along with it looks like something you'd see on saturday night live. mazda is teaming up with the film distributor universal to use images from the film to sell an suv and that has some environmentalist and children's groups saying what are you doing? mazda says it's trying to

encourage reading and promote its environmentally friendly technology and sell a couple cars on the side. tonight a hawaii mom feels humiliated, embarrassed and angry after her last trip to the airport. amy strand says the tsa asked her to prove her breast pump was the real thing. she claim the agent said she couldn't take the pump on board because the bottles in her carry-on were empty. >> i asked him if there was a private place i could pump and he said no. you can go in the women's bathroom. i had to stand in front of the mirrors and the sink and pump my breasts in front of every tourist that walked in that bathroom. >> the tsa is now apologizing saying this was a mistake. the agency recently changed its screening procedures to allow women to carry breast milk onto planes without testing it. it sun like any other program in the -- is unlike any other program in the entire country, but how many d.c.

students are taking advantage of getting in-state tuition at the state college of their choice? the an is coming up. plus a vibrant -- the answer is coming up. plus a vibrant woman's fight against a disease she didn't know she had until the damage was done. a health alert of major importance in the d.c. area. shock trauma, coming up other teenagers talk to other teenagers badly hurt from drunk driving crashes. [ male announcer ] this was how my day began. a little bird told me about a band... ♪ an old man shared some fish stories...

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people often believe they are invincible, but tonight 9 wants you to know about a program at the university of maryland shock trauma center in baltimore that helps them to understand they're actually not so in vulnerable. andrea mccarren tells us more about it. >> 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 typical teenagers, but many didn't leave that way. where do you think i'm going to put these? down your throat in, your butt. trauma handshake. >> reporter: allie is a tough talking intensive care nurse. >> you're saying don't you dare put your fingers up there. if those don't work, that's a spinal cord injury and that's a big problem. >> reporter: she is not sugarcoating this tour for juvenile offenders. >> this is the first place you come if you are in an accident, shot or stabbed. >> reporter: they're here at the 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 bored. >> let this be a wakeup call because i never want to see any one of you guys here as a patient. >> reporter: off to room 2 where they meet dillon, a young drunk driver who just hours before almost lost his hand in a crash. >> i am left-handed, by the way. 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 do you think that's what i'm going to 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 that tree at about 60 miles an hour. >> trauma hits you right away. everything is going fine until it's not. >> reporter: the tour is not

spended to frighten but to serve as a -- 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 my 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. you breathe through that. god, i hope not. you tell me what that is. no, it's not. it's the other end. >> it is what i expected and like a lot more. it made a huge impact on me i think. >> reporter: in just two hours young lives appear to be changing. >> seeing him just right the day after with an injury like that and how he regrets it so bad the day after is pretty -- really eye opening. >> i never want to come here 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 of hopefully an experience that stays with them forever. andrea mccarren, 9 news now. >> i know it's going to stay with me. if you'd like more information on the trauma prevention program or just want to schedule a tour, go to our website www.wusa9.com. click on the special coverage banner and you'll get the details. now live pictures of the damage in the midwest from tonight's tornado outbreak we were discussing, just hard to fathom. this is henryville, indiana just north of the kentucky border. the national weather service describes the damage there as extreme taking a sky view of it and as you can pull out, you can literally see what looks like a church there or another older structure, the roof completely gone and as the camera pans you can see the swath that tornado tore through that town. three people died in indiana today from the tornadoes and storms, no word if any of them

were in henryville, live pictures of the aftermath again where it looks like this storm just went through. over the years congress has appropriatelied $311 million to help pay tuitions -- appropriated $311 million to help pay tuitions for d.c. students across the country called tuition assistance program only available to district residents. advocates call the program a huge success, but 9 news now has learned the number of students that actually graduate from college is far below the national average. bruce johnson investigates a story only seen on 9. >> it's not just a program about my child, but it's for the city's children. >> reporter: that's michelle seabrook at the district's tuition assistance office because she and her husband are about to send their second child off to college out of state. >> whereas many of them otherwise would not be able to attend. >> reporter: it's not just a program for the low income. any d.c. family earning $1 million or less is eligible. the u.s. congress put more than $300 million into the tag

effort. let's talk about the graduation rate. >> the national average is 58% and remember that's all income levels in every state. we're at 48% of. >> reporter: just under half of the more than 18,000 students that graduated in four to six years. >> 10% below the national average. >> reporter: how do you view that? >> you have to remember, it's not an excuse, but we have a large low income population. >> reporter: the grant money ranges from a few thousand dollars up to $10,000 you can use that money at any private university in the city including here at george washington university. you can also use that money at any public university throughout the country if the student can get in. students in the district's only public university udc are not eligible for tag funds. >> basically ignored udc as a state university for the district residents of the district of columbia. >> reporter: the udc faculty say many of the d.c. students who fail to finish using tag

funds elsewhere end up here at the northwest main campus. >> students are not ready, not all students are ready to leave home. >> i think it's fair to say almost 50% of your students graduating is pretty good. it's not good enough for us. so we've been working the last year and have a lot of time and effort into retention programs. >> reporter: critics argue that roughly half the tag money or more than 150,000,050 tax dollars may have gone to d.c. students who did not finish college in six years. bruce johnson, 9 news now. on saturday march 10th the tag office will conduct a smart college fair to help tag students pick the schools where d.c. students have had the highest graduation rates. that college fair will be held at trinity university in northeast and starts at 11 a.m. still to come tonight we told you last year about how your baby monitor could put you at risk and tonight good news for thousands of families who use them. top? >> the rain has left a little bit here. we'll come back and have more live reports for you from the

tornadoes in kentucky and indiana. we'll show you radar for us, live doppler. good news, heavy stuff is through with. bad news is we're not done. we'll come back and talk about that and the expanded flood watch.

tomorrow the national kidney foundation brings out the glitz and gambling chips to help raise money and awareness for kidney disease at their annual casino night. the washington d.c. area leads the nation with 700,000 people affected. we talked with one local woman about her battle with the devastating illness she didn't know she had. karen bailey is an active 37- year-old who owns her own consulting firm. she also spends many hours helping causes close to her heart like reelecting d.c. council member muriel bowser but a recent obstacle has karen rethinking her busy lifestyle. in june she was diagnosed with kidney disease. >> even with the diagnosis that my kidneys were functioning at 20%, i was like trying to justify sitting up here and trying to say i feel fine. you can feel fine, but really i didn't because a lot of times i was exhausted. i would go, go, go, go until i dropped. >> reporter: and there were

other health concerns. for years karen overlooked her high blood pressure problems, a leading cause of kidney disease. >> it was very irresponsible, but i was hike oh, i'm healthy. i'm -- like oh, i'm healthy. i'm fine. i still exercise and work out and there's nothing wrong with me. >> reporter: now karen is on dialysis waiting for a kidney transplant she helps her story can help others slow down and listen to their bodies. >> i really want to say to people that it's really important to monitor any type of, you know, signs that something is not going right in your body and if you have medication, especially, you know, to help with the hypertension to take that daily. >> that's the deal, hypertension or high blood pressure is a key warning sign of kidney disease. so is having to go to the bathroom a lot more often, especially at night, blood in the urine and puffiness around the eyes or swelling in the hands and feet. if you want to help the fight here in the national capital area tomorrow night at 8 p.m.

we'll be oatmeal mon auditorium in downtown -- at the mellon auditorium in downtown d.c. the king of motown meets students from our own duke ellington high school. we take you to smokey robinson's class. first be ready for some potential problems at our local airports tomorrow. we'll tell you why there could be some passenger confusion up next.

back now with a consumer alert about a big airline merger. we are hearing that the integration of operations for united and continental airlines could cause some major confusion for passengers at reagan national airport. starting tomorrow united will operate out of several terminals. make sure to read the message boards closely for your gate. starting at 1 a.m. the two airlines will take down their computers to integrate everything and that means you won't be able to check in online for three to four hours. so if you're trying to check in for a flight tomorrow at any airport, you actually might have to do it in person. that's something you want to know. now an update on a problem with baby monitors that our consumer team told you about last year. we exposed how your video

monitor could inadvertently put your child and your home at risk. since our story aired all the moms in our story are now eligible for money from a class action lawsuit. video baby monitors use public air waves to transmit signals that allow you to see your little one's every move. most parents have no idea those signals go beyond the walls of their home. >> that's very frightening. i have it so that i know my kids are safe. >> reporter: whose room is this? >> this is ella's room. >> reporter: melissa richardson is never sure what she'll see on hermon tore. watch what happens when we -- on her monitor. watch what happens when we turn that twice on downstairs. we mounted a baby monitor in a loudon county sheriff's deputy vehicle and drove through melissa's leesburg neighborhood. within seconds we got an eyeful. >> looks like a draft toy and a blanket. >> there's apparently a bedroom with a bed and you see several pillows and a lot of detail. >> reporter: this is a crib on the left side of your screen. you can see this crib clearly,

too. all this exposure caused some mothers to file a lawsuit in an illinois district court against summer infant usa and babies r us. the plaintiffs claim the manufacturer and retailer did not advise consumers that some of the summer infant video baby monitors were not encrypted which allows others to view what could be happening in your baby's room. one of the moms we interviewed for our story is a wusa9 employee and received this notice and if you have, too, that means you're entitled to part of the $940,000 settlement fund in the case. >> so to find out if your model is included, turn your monitor over. i'll show you here. jeff, thanks for getting the close-up. just above the caution sign there are five digits there. ours says 02220 and ours is impacted and if your monitor is included and you want to receive a cash payment, you'll have to fill out a claim form and send it in.

for more on where to send in the form, what model numbers are affected go, to our website www.wusa9.com. let's get back to topper shutt for more on those deadly storms sweeping through the midwest, a lot of destruction out there, top. >> this is incredible stuff especially in early march. we zoomed in the radar. look at the line of storms that already pushed through louisville and now headed toward eastern kentucky and southwestern sections of ohio. there are tornado warnings all over the place. these counties in red are under tornado warnings. that means they either have a tornado or it's a doppler radar tornado indicated within them and with what we've seen the past 20 or 30 minutes we know most of them do have tornadoes in them. check this out. this is the unofficial storm reports. these are all tornadoes. this is all hail. this is all wind and flooding. so a tremendous outbreak once again, really from kentucky through southern sections of indiana into ohio and even into west virginia they're trying to

watch those extending into western west virginia. we'll keep you posted, give you some live pictures as they become available. we'll slight eastward now and look at our radar. the good news is the heaviest activity is now north and east of us. bad news is roads are wet and will stay that way through the evening commute. the real good news is we're kind of in a stable sector of air. all the severe weather is back to the west of with us that warm front. don't see that warm front going through any time soon. so we're not looking at severe weather in the metro area. we are looking at some more rain and possibly some pockets of heavier rain, but right now just some light to moderate activity from baltimore down 95 all the way to fredericksburg. you go out far enough 66 you get some breaks in the rainfall, which is good. you go out past leesburg and get some breaks also in the shower activity. so some good news for us in that we're not looking at severe weather or are we looking at any flooding now. the flood watch hasn't been extended. this is our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son, shot of the capitol.

temperatures hovering around 40 eight winds easterly at 8. that's keeping us on the -- 48, winds easterly at 8 keeping us on the cool side. 45 in bethesda, arlington, manassas, reston, pretty uniform across the area. here's the deal, tough commute home, rain and thunderstorms tonight, flood watch the entire area, windy and warmer on saturday, like winter on sunday, breezy and colder and yes, maybe a flake. mostly cloudy, breezy, milder tonight, rain and thunderstorms, 45 to 50. winds will become south, southwest at 10 to 15. now tomorrow morning everything ends pretty early. breezy and mild, 50s to around 60, a pretty nice afternoon. we got to keep the chance of a shower in, but becoming partly cloudy, breezy and warmer, 60 to 65. next seven days big contrast sunday. we're back in the 40s sunday, monday and tuesday. we're back to about 51 and yes, flurries possible sunday and sunday night and maybe a flurry possible monday and then we're

back into the 60-degree rain on wednesday, more rain and showers thursday. all severe weather for the time being stays across the mountains into ohio and kentucky and we'll monitor that carefully. >> let's hope things calm down quickly. people may fight like cats and dogs, but a new piece of video going viral on the internet shows the two actually get along quite well. >> someone with the alias alaska 1995 posted this on youtube saturday. you can seat little kit grieving the pug a ma -- see the kitty giving the pug a massage and you can even hear the cat purring. check that out. >> to paraphrase woody allen the dogs and the cats will lie down together, but the cats won't get much sleep. that brings us to this week's high school profile. i got to admit when i saw this in the rundown, i sort of wondered where you going with this? it's a little different. >> it is. competitive dance is what we're

talking about this friday. whether you believe it's a legit sport or not, it's been in existence since the '70s. hundreds of high school teams compete in. alexandria, virginia, one is about to put its name in the school's history books. wait until you see how. >> in your hearts do you belong on that stage? >> reporter: coach jennifer deflippo's bark is constant. her squad has followed those orders all the way to nationals, but a lot of teams make it. how west potomac earned a spot is the story. >> when we started the season, nationals was not even in our vocabulary. >> reporter: these are the girls and one boy who began with virtually no dancing experience and you sort of need that in a dancing competition, right? >> it's amazing to me to look back at that. it's actually kind of fun because we sort of laugh at ourselves. >> reporter: nobody is laughing now. tireless work has brought them a long way. still coach says -- >> we're definitely the big underdog. >> reporter: who qualified by

sending in a videotape. coach even remembers the letter. >> congratulations west potomac high school and i went through all of it and they're like. [ screaming ] >> reporter: boy, sweet moves. how do you get moves like this from alexandria to orlando? that's going to take one bus and a 15-hour ride. >> i'm often thinking maybe i should have flown, but no. >> reporter: come on, coach. a little team bonding never hurt, right? to make it all work parents had to spring into action. >> i started going through the local phone book and i started sending letters out to everyone i could think of. >> reporter: $20,000 later they had the money to make the trip. >> it's like a once in a lifetime experience. i'm probably never going to get to do something like that again. >> reporter: well, i guess cinderella has officially been invited to the party. >> don't stop, get it done. first time in school history that they'll be going to nationals. competition begins tomorrow. not only will they compete against teams from the united

states, guys, but also teams will this be from as far away as japan of coach says regardless outcome, her squad already winners in her mind. we were waiting for your move, buddy. what happened? >> i threw a few out there. you didn't see that with the shoulder? >> we did not see it. >> very little. >> invisible. coming up on 9 news now at 6:00 the virginia supreme court rejects another appeal from the attorney general. we'll tell you why. a judge makes a statement when he pulls a teenager's driver's license for life. we'll tell you what that's about.

if you've ever been told playing computer games will amount to nothing, you can tell the naysayers they're just wrong. a group of young entrepreneurs are out to prove you can cash in pretty heavily doing just that. our ken molestina explains why gratty could soon be currency of the future. >> reporter: a quick look around this place and you'll think you just stepped into freight house. pizza boxes line the -- a frat house. pizza boxes line the walls, but it won't take long to notice this home turned lab is the birth place of what could be the next big thing in the virtual world. >> it's a buzz and it's almost like oh, my god, now we got to get back on our grind. >> reporter: brian feldman is talking about drotti. he and his right hand man matt meyer are both university of maryland graduate.

they've assembled a team of partners and together came up with virtual currency earned by playing simple computer games. >> i think people are starting to embrace it. >> reporter: you play the games and earn the points. the points are redeemed for real life products like food or french dice at establishments who are signed -- merchandise at establishments who are signed up with grotty. >> people are spending real world money to buy virtual goods. we said let's flip that. what if there's a way to use virtual currency to buy real world goods? >> reporter: the theme of virtual currency has even been the topic of tv shows like the good wife, but these local businessmen say there's nothing fictional about what they're trying to achieve. the tech savvy bunch jumped on board with the latest website coding trends and social platforms. their push behind grotty is giving traditional currency a run for its own money. >> i think this is the closest thing that could eventually take that over, but i wouldn't say we're quite there yet.

>> again that was our ken molestina reporting. so if you want to start earning grotty, head over to our website and click on this story. we'll even give you the promo code to set it all up. this is 9 news now. round two of severe weather as tornadoes cut a path of destruction from alabama to the midwest. the furry of this wicked weather is blamed for the deaths of at least 13 people in the mid-west this week and forecasters say the fireworks are far from over. terrell brown has more on the storms beginning with the damage in huntsville, alabama. >> reporter: meteorologists believe a tornado with 130-mile an hour winds shredded these homes outside huntsville, alabama. >> devastating. it's heartbreaking, don't really know what to think. >> reporter: the first round of friday's wick weather tore off roofs, snapped -- wicked weather tore off roofs, snapped signs and flipped trailers in the tennessee valley. tornado reports are also