hello, i'm bruce johnson and we begin tonight with a father's loss. a prince george's county man is talking to 9news now about his 16-year-old son. one of the victims of last week's shooting inside that ohio high school. matt jablow tells us tonight

timothy hewlin describes his son as a fun loving man who was taken far too soon. >> it was touching. >> reporter: hyattsville resident timothy hewlin says the last time he saw his son demetrius was last year in ohio. >> hung out, had some lunch. >> reporter: that would be the last time he would ever see demetrius. >> he was a really outgoing, well-mannered kid. >> reporter: he was one of three students from chardon high school in ohio who were shot to death last monday allegedly by 17-year-old t. j. lane. a student at a school for at risk kids who prosecutors say randomly chose his victims. >> when i got that phone call last monday, it was -- devastating. >> reporter: according to timothy, demetrius has lived in ohio with his mother since he was a little boy. despite that they had a great relationship he said.

traveled all over the country together. and he can't imagine life without him. >> i'm a religious person. i believe one day we all going to meet up. >> reporter: demetrius hewlin will be buried in ohio on tuesday, two days before what would have been his 17th birthday. the suspect meanwhile has been charged as a juvenile with three counts of murder though prosecutors are hoping he'll be charged and tried as an adult. matt jablow, 9news now. turning now to else where, search teams are still going door to door tonight in rural areas across the south and midwest. they're trying to rule out more victims as the death toll climbs at 39 from last week's storms temperature national weather service says the four tornadoes that ripped through the state of kentucky were the worst to hit the region in 20 something years. susan mcginnis is in indiana tonight in one of the hardest hit areas. >> reporter: the pews at st.

francis xavier church in henryville were packed for emotional services. parishioners wiped away tears and hugged each other. by day's end the pews were overflowing with donated clothing. outside the church, smoke and gyms rolls out the barbecue to see grateful crowds. >> lot of times in these situations people don't get any hot food. so we decided to come down and cook for everybody. >> reporter: nurse penny mitchell drove five hours from chicago to help. >> miss neil? >> reporter: she went door to door checking on residents like june new who said she feels blessed in the midst of the devastation. >> there's a lot left. look around you. there's a lot left. >> reporter: but the death toll rose on sunday, 15-month-old angel back cock who was found alive in a field died of her injuries. a curfew remains in effect from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. officials fear looting and want to keep people safe from things

like downed power lines and gas leaks. the downtown area of hard hit west liberty, kentucky was off- limits to most people sunday so crews could clear debris. paul ferguson's family survived but his house is gone. >> i watched it hit this. and then i watched it -- i watched this tree come down. last night. i dropped to my knees and started praying then. >> reporter: communities are vowing to rebuild, working oz hard as they can to -- as hard as they can to put things back together. susan mcginnis, cbs news, henryville, indiana. >> there were nearly 300 warnings and kentucky suffered the most fatalities with 21 dead. indiana has lost 13 people. there were three deaths in ohio and one each in alabama and georgia. some of the saddest news don't comes from indiana. a toddler who was found in a field by rescuers after the tornado, that little girl has died. 14-month-old angel babbitt was only 14 months old, her parents

and two siblings were killed on friday when the mobile home was destroyed. she was taken off life support and passed away late this afternoon. >> angel has been reunited with her parents. we want to thank god for all of you for all the many thoughts and prayers that you have provided. god will bring you and all of us out of this. >> at least 20 people were with angel when she was taken off life support including two sets of grandparents. the sunday morning members of a baptist church in tealike plains, tennessee couldn't even get down the street. they moved church to another location and decided after worshiping they would put on their work clothes and help out their neighbors. >> everybody's just pulling together as a family. i mean we're a town but really we're kind of acting like a family right now and taking care of things. >> we never expected we'd have to do this in our own backyard

but it's good because our community is really coming together. we can't just go home and have our regular lives because folks are in need. >> as bad as everything was it's good to see stuff happening. makes you feel good inside. >> the pastor says the church typically goes on relief missions but now they had to help their neighbors at home. the national weather service says a tornado did touch down there and tore a path of destruction for 14 miles. closer to home a multiple vehicle accident including a police cruiser. it involved a police cruiser and a metrobus and a vehicle fleeing police. it's left several people injured. the incident began when prince george's county police tried to stop a vehicle near the southern avenue border with the district. police say that vehicle took off and crashed into an suv and a metrobus at pennsylvania avenue. a police cruiser responding to that accident was then struck by the vehicle trying to get away from police. the suspect was arrested on the

scene. eight people were transported to hospitals. >> there was a collision on the intersection that involved a metrobus and at least four other vehicles. >> how many people were hurt and how seriously? >> at this time as far as i'm aware there are no life- threatening injuries. the suspect was injured as well as at least six other individuals. >> the driver of the car that police tried to stop has been charged with fleeing and eluding police. a fatal stabbing in southeast washington leaves a man dead. the suspect is a volunteer for the ward 7 d.c. council campaign of hay vis jr.. the killing happened in highwood drive. it followed an argument over the dog defecating on the suspect's lawn. robert leroy wright died at a hospital. police arrested one 56-year-old

ellsworth cobbert. >> it's very sad you know, and that's the thing. mine people are shocked. well all are. i've talked to people all over hill crest and we're just very, very shaken by the news and it's just unfortunate. i heard what it was over was about dog droppings or something in the yard and for something, a young man to go out and walk his dog and not come over something like that, it's just terrible, this is a tragedy. >> tonight he has been charged with second degree murder. family and friends gathered tonight to remember a 2-year- old girl who died after a fire in her district heights home. mariah hood was sleeping you have stairs when the -- upstairs when the fire broke out at this house on hill mar drive. the toddler was rescued and rushed to the hospital. shedded two days later. -- she died two days later: three adults and two juveniles survived. tonight there was a vigil. the fire was caused by cooking

left unattended and investigators say there were working smoke detectors in the house. an 18-year-old is found shot and abeen donned in the middle of the road and this evening prince george's county police are asking for your help. this happened friday might at term it will -- night at temple hills, maryland. they found 18-year-old delonte mccray lying wounded in the road. he was taken to the hospital where he later died. anyone with information about the case is being asked to contact prince george's county police tonight. families of september 11th don't want unidentified human remains to be placed in the memorial museum at the world trade center and tonight they're asking for a hearing. the families also speaking out against what they called the desecration of the remains from the pentagon and shanksville, pennsylvania crashes. partial remains of victims were incinerated by a military

contractor and sent to a landfill. children find the body of a missing 13-year-old east baltimore girl. the teen left home saturday night to go roller skating and never returned home. earlier today the girl's brother and her friends were searching for her in the neighborhood when they found her body buried beneath some trash on cliff view avenue. an autopsy is scheduled for monday. the search for a 4-year-old boy in carlsbad, new mexico has now is recovery mission. that's about 270 miles south of santa fe. police believe they found the body at the bottom of a deep hole in a neighbor's backyard. samuel jones was reported missing last night. today detectives found a 14- inch wide hole in the neighbor's yard and they think it may have been an old well and they found what they think is the boy's body at the bottom. >> we initially began with rescue procedures. unfortunately, it was discovered that the -- conditions inside the hole were

not survivorrable. the amount of -- survivable. the amount of oxygen. >> there are at least two natural gas lines and a utility line in the area. it could take until sometime tomorrow to recover the body. coming up next on 9news now, this sunday night -- >> i will take no options off the table and i mean what i say. >> strong words this weekend from president barack obama for iran. we'll have the details when we come back. and the presidential inaugural may be almost a year away but get this -- hotel rooms already filling up fast. we're going to have that story. . and you'll need your winter coats as you're heading out the door for your monday morning. what can you expect? here's a look at the wakeup weather. mostly cloudy skies. we had as chance for snow showers especially to the south of us by 9:00 it will be cold. 35 to 40 degrees. we'll break down the snow when we couple back.

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a last resort. not the next option at a time when sanctions are squeezing iran. >> iran's leaders should have no doubt about the resolve of the united states. i have said that when it comes to preventing iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, i will take no options off the table. and i mean what i say. >> president said that loose talk of war has undermined world security. with more than 400 delegates at stake, republican presidential hopefuls are pulling out all stops in the ten states that will hold primaries on tuesday. the delegate count looked this way tonight. mitt romney is at the top with 203 delegates. rick santorum is the distant second with 9 # delegates and santorum says he can do better if the field narrows. that of course means if newt gingrich bows out. gingrich has 33 delegates right now. ron paul is in fourth place

with 25 delegates. 1144 will needed to secure -- are needed to secure the nomination for president. the election hasn't been decided but already people are making big plains to be in washington -- plans to be in wa for the presidential -- washington for the presidential inaugural event. armando trull reports tonight the hotel rooms are going, going, gone. ♪ >> reporter: this is how they roll at the willard hotel. this weekend it was a parietal exhibition but the willard has been hosting presidents and presidential inaugurals since 1850. >> henry willard was a very savvy man. he thought this would become the residence of presidents and it has. >> reporter: those lucky enough to snag a presidential suite at the willard will get nothing but the best. >> the dining room is oval shaped as is the oval office. >> reporter: it's not cheap.

$10,000 a night with a four night mine mum and just up the street at the may flower hotel it gets you the same rate with equally posh digs. it seems that overbooked hotels is a washington, d.c. tradition. >> this is a wonderful sketch of the willard's hotel for the lincoln inaugural. >> is that a child sleeping if a drawer. >> that's a child sleeping in drawer. >> reporter: now the district hotel is not the willard and not the may flower and on some of the online websites only a one star rating. but it's only $399 night for a room with a queen size bed and breakfast is included. so if you're part of the 99%, that can't afford $10,000 a night, the occupy d.c. encampment if it's till there may be your only option for inaugural weekend. but remember, no sleeping is

allowed. in the district, armando trull, 9news now. >> and the hotels are not saying who's booking all the rooms, democrats or republicans. d.c.'s primary is april 3ed and if you want to your to count, listen up. tomorrow is the mail in deadline to make any changes to your party affiliation. independents cannot vote unless they declare to one of the official three parties. officials say nearly 4,000 ballots were not counted in the last primary because the voters were not registered and you can check your registration status by going to the website, wusa9.com. click on campaign 2012 at the top of the page. vladimir putin claims victory today. he's declared himself the winner of a third term. he appeared to have gotten about 350% of the vote but the opposition claims tonight there were violations including

carousel voting. that's when voters are bussed around to cast several ballots. coming up on 9news now this sunday night -- >> pressure's huge. so we're -- yeah, i mean this is -- a revenge game i guess. we got to come out and do better. >> okay you recognize that face? carrying the puck zipping around the verizon center but it wasn't the caps on the ice. why some members of congress were on skates. and should we prepare for a cold and wet back to work monday? anny has the forecast coming up.

back to school, back to working back to everything to believe -- work tomorrow, back to everything tomorrow. what's it look like? >> nothing crazy though. i think the four wheel drive is still not going to be able to show what it can do with some good snow. we have a little bit of a chance for soft brief snow showers tomorrow. not impacting the morning commute and that's the good news for you folks who don't want to deal with it first thing monday morning. right now temperatures 38 degrees and partly cloudy skies. not as windy finally the winds are out of the west at 8 miles per hour.

so what we've got going on is temperatures falling down to 34 in gaithersburg. 32 at manassas right at the freezing mark. annapolis, still not too bad at 40. and hailers town you're down to 34 degrees. all right, so we have an area of low pressure a little clipper system right here dropping in some showers into parts of st. louis through tennessee. this is an organizing and coming closer to us. probably by tomorrow morning or early afternoon. in the form of some snow showers. so that's that clipper system. it will generally be skirting by to the south of us, it's going to be brief, that's it. not a big snow maker. i don't think it will accumulate here in the area. then we're talking about a milder and nicer couple of days by the middle of the week. futurecast breaks it down for you. really kind of shows you when and where it may be snowing,

monday morning, 8:45. it will be cloudy and the commute in will be fine. you can see the white and blue and purple there? that's that snow coming in. again to the south of us. 11:00 in fredericksburg getting closer, just south of manassas and then maybe around lunchtime by 1:00, we could see a brief snow shower here around the district. including the beltway. the pink indicating maybe a little bit of a mix but then by 5:00 on the evening commute, no snow. in fact the roads should dry out and maybe see the sun peeking out by lit afternoon and then high pressure is back in place for tuesday. the broad and mid-atlantic on the futurecast to show you the clipper system organizing and skirting by to the south of us, most of it is going to fall in charlottesville down to richmond. we could see a little bit of snow late in the morning and also early in the afternoon. and then that's it. by the late afternoon, it will be on out of here. so overnight what can you expect? mostly cloudy and cold, one to

two blanket night. lows 28 to 34 degrees. tomorrow morning, dress the kids up as they're going to the bus stop, it's going to be a cold one. mostly cloudy, showers and flurries possible. more to the south. temperatures at 20s and 30s. afternoon, the breeze will pick up under mostly cloudy skies. showers and flurries and also some snow showers as we're watching the clipper to the south. highs in the upper 40s and winds are out of the north 10 to 15 miles per hour. in western maryland, cumberland get to 39 degrees. winchester 45. hagerstown 43. martinsburg 44. leesburg and warrenton around 46 degrees. around downtown, average high is lower 50s. in the quite there. 47 in downtown. also 47 andrews air force base in southern in southern maryland, pax river 47 degrees. college park looking at 47 degrees as well. gaithersburg la. here's the monday breaking down. snow showers are possible around the noon hour as well. 39 to 44 the highs topping at

42 to 47 degrees. here's your next seven days. dry but chilly on tuesday. check out wednesday and thursday, those there days to -- are the days to look forward to. in the mid 60s for wednesday and thursday, bruce and get out your big bike event. friday a little cooler and mid 50s. snub a chance for some -- partly sunny a chance for some showers. >> the snow showers nothing serious, nothing to worry about? >> i mean it's going to be -- mean it's going to be brief if we get it. >> thanks anny. the verizon center today the fourth annual congressional hockey challenge got underway. the game pits members of congress against registered lobbyists. the chc partnered with the national hockey league to establish a new collar ship. proceeds from today's ticket sales will benefit the scholarship and the four dupont ice arena and hockey quest average preview of sports when

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you say you're not totally surprised this is going on. paying money? >> you do look at like high schools and colleges and they have the stickers on their helmets and they get praise for mitts, gettings money for it? that's the thing of football

but bounty gate. bounty gate is just growing by the minute. gregg williams has been accused of play paying players for big hits on points upping the ante if they knock a player out of the game. i don't agree on that bruce. i don't condone violence. he didn't do it just in new orleans but during his time with the redskins as well from 2004 to 2007. the nfl security officers are supposedly meeting with williams tomorrow before they open o formal investigation, the nationals are looking for their first spring win. today stephen strasburg made the debut against the astros. we've got highlights from him and plus the other youngster bryce harper making a case for the pitching staff though just about getting on the dirt. >> the first outing you're just trying to -- kind of get a feel for things again. throw all your pitches. different, different counts and you have these hitters off- balance and see what you're working with right away.

>> highlights of the game plus an exciting day in college basketball, maryland, virginia close out the seasons and george mason trying to punch their card to the big dance and the lady terps today making history in dramatic fashion at the acc championship. look at what. what a year for them. they have the acc player of the year. their girl won a tournament mvp. just a great year for the girls. we've got highlights of those for you. >> conflict for the nfl. now the concern for concussions but apparently they were paying for it. >> they have all the lawsuits from former players. you don't want anybody saying hey, go out and hit somebody. >> showers tomorrow? >> nows possible, it will be -- snow showers possible, it will be brief. >> sports plus is next. have a great week, bye bye.