speddometer. he didn't have the probable cause to charge for speed. reckless takes those things into consideration and that's why she was issued that citation. >> reporter: the sheaf said even though the officer did everything properly, the internal investigation found that karen toles should be given a reckless driving charge. lesli. >> at this point, she is already giving up her county car, we'll see what happens now. >> a small community in calvert county is on edge after a mysterious illness claimed the lives of three people. >> they were all part of one family living in the same house and there are fears that whatever killed them could spread to others. >> this is all unfolding in lusby, maryland, that's where we find scott broom who is talking to members of the affected family. scott. >> well, it's so unnerving to

people here because it's bizarre, and it has been so deadly. so far, the common denominator is the house behind me where all the family members have been. two of them died just yesterday from this illness and a hazmat team has been here to figure out what happened. at mid afternoon, calvert county's hazardous materials team suited up two members on four res pir respirators to enter the house and identify the mystery microbe that killed three since thursday. the two latest deaths happened yesterday according to relatives. they are the 58-year-old son and 51-year-old daughter of 81- year-old ruth blake. the first to die of the same illness in this house last week. another adult daughter remains hospitalized in washington. all were caring for mrs. blake as she became critically ill

with a pneumonia-like illness. the county's health officer issued an alert. >> i think this is highly unusual. and that's why it is clearly newsworthy. but i think what we want to say now is that as far as we can tell at the moment, this has been confined to these four individuals and we have no evidence that this spread beyond this family group. >> i just concerned. it's a really big loss to the family. >> members of the blake's extended family say they have been contacted by health officials. some like blake's nephew say they have been checked by doctors for symptoms. >> you have a large family. everybody is concerned. >> she is my husband's cousin. >> more distant relatives scattered throughout the community are worried. >> i don't know a lot. i'm trying to find out so i can take precautions for my family. >> calvert county school officials notified parents to be watchful for any signs of illness. >> it's upsetting to think

there's something out there that we don't know what it's all about. >> but at this point, doctors believe this unusually deadly bug appears to be confined to a single unlucky family in mourning. now according to family members, there is one family member still in the hospital at the washington hospital center. they have just conducted a press conference there and they have given us late breaking information. two of the family members who died apparently had signs of influenza a, according to doctors at washington hospital center. mrs. blake, the 81-year-old woman who died first, they have not determined her cause of death. the state health department and the u.s. centers for disease control are involved in this investigation trying to get to the bottom of it. bottom line, it is contained within this family and there's a lot of anxiety. there have been no children affected by this and so far,

school officials are not taking any significant precautions. they are just watching and they have let parents know, just in case. reporting live, scott broom, 9news now. >> hopefully we'll get even more answers as the cdc investigates. thank you. if you are among the thousands of people who blow past stopped school buses every day with impunity, brace yourself for a change. montgomery county council members voted unanimously this afternoon to join a handful of jurisdictions around the country and install traffic cameras on school buses. bruce leshan is live in rockville with more on what this means. bruce. >> yeah, lesli, in that handful of jurisdictions that have gone for these school bus traffic enforcement cameras, it usually happened when a car comes zooming past a stopped school bus and hits and kills a

child. montgomery county council wanted to do something before anyone got hurt. >> i'm saying to myself, this car isn't going to stop. >> 21 years as a bus driver and through it all, bob raged helplessly while drivers rip past his stopped bus. >> did you take the picture? >> threatening the children racing to get on and off. >> how they got between those signs and that telephone pole without hitting something, i don't know. >> for six of those years, he lobbied to install traffic cameras on his bus to keep the kids safe. >> i had one september, 123 cars that i had recorded with tag numbers and turned it in. >> low definition pilot cameras have already captured it. one after the other ignoring the law that you have to stop for a stopped bus. >> all it takes is the student drops a piece of paper and goes

chasing it. and right out into the traffic. >> but now, the bus driver's dream of a way to stop the cheaters has finally come true. the montgomery county council has authorized new automated high def cell connected cameras that will shoot video of license tags. send the images to police who will send the car's owner a $250 fine, but no points. >> if you pass a school bus, you're going to be caught. you're going to be fined. and we're going to stop this dangerous act from occurring. >> now when it comes to speed cameras and even red light cameras, there has been push back from people complaining about, you know, money hungry local government, but valerie, the county councilwoman who authored this plan says when it comes to kids and school buses and safety, she has heard very

little pushback. they are hoping to get these cameras installed in a whole lot of these buses in time for the start of the next school year. lesli. >> that sure would be a good thing, at least to have an added layer of protection for the kids out there. thank you. >> lesli a cleaning crew helped defuse what could have been an explosives situation. right now the home is up for sale. kristin fisher is joining us live where the owner is living in afghanistan. he is far off, kristen. >> reporter: i moved outside fairfax county police headquarters because right now there are so many questions in this case. fairfax county police are still trying to determine exactly how dangerous this explosive device could have been if detonated. they are also trying to figure out exactly who put this device inside this vacant home and why. now, both the realtor and

neighbors say that the owner lives in afghanistan and he lived there for years. it was his son that was living here when they put the home on the market. as far as neighbors new york city neighbors know, it's been vacant ever since. found this explosive device and called police. the bomb squad entered the home yesterday evening and found what's being described as an unusual looking box. it was taken from the home, disarmed, and investigators are trying to figure out how bad it could have been. >> it's hard to say at this point exactly how dangerous the device was, but certainly if a few things could have happened and you put everything together, then it can be a dangerous situation. >> fairfax county police were at that home until 4:30 this morning. almost 12 hours after the investigation started. this is still a very active investigation. right now, both the realtor and investigators are focused on trying to make contact with that homeowner in afghanistan. they are also looking at trying

to contact anybody else who might have lived in that home where this device was found. derek. >> kristin fisher, thank you. well, today is super tuesday. the day when voters in ten states, including virginia, are heading to polls and caucuses to choose the republican candidate for president. mitt romney is trying to cement his front runner status while rick santorum is working to keep the bid for the republican nomination a two-man race. danielle nottingham is in stupenville, ohio. >> anita, super tuesday's results could make or break the gop candidate's campaigns. the front runners spent a lot of time and money here in ohio. it's a crucial swing state and in this primary could be a big setback. voters in ohio are casting their ballots for a gop presidential nominee. ohio is taking center stage among the ten states holding super tuesday contests.

the head to head battle between rick santorum and mitt romney prompted some democrats to weigh in. voting for santorum after supporting president obama in 2008. >> it was not much change, you know. unemployment is terrible. >> mitt romney will vote in the massachusetts primary later today. this morning, he appeared via satellite at the national conference for apac. a pro israel lobbying group. >> i'm sorry my super tuesday travel schedule prevents me from being with you in person. >> as you may know, this is a somewhat important day in my life today. >> 419 delegates are up for grabs. that's more than 1/3 of the total needed to clinch the gop nomination. newt gingrich rallied supporters in huntsville, alabama. voters there won't go to the polls until next week, but he is focusing on the south. >> we are going to carry georgia by a big margin and do

better than people expected. >> it looks like we'll have a good time today. >> ron paul is holding campaign events in idaho and north dakota. two states where he is trying to capture his first win. the state awards 63 delegates. in ohio, danielle nottingham, now back to you, anita. >> a lot to watch. now for a state that has been tabbed a battleground in the november election. turnout today for the presidential primary in virginia is really pretty light. one of the main reasons only two of the four remaining candidates are on the ballot. peggy fox is live with more. peggy. >> anita, it's like virginia has been left at the alter. that's how one political analyst described today's primary. with rick santorum, both virginia residents not on the ballot because they didn't get enough signatures to do so. while this changes the

significance of virginia's primary, it in no way has any bearing on virginia's role come november. >> for six long hours, young republican, 18-year-old, stands outside a polling place at centerville, high school, trying to drum up support. >> is it a boring day? >> well, so far there haven't been too many voters. i hope that will change. >> inside, voters read books. this morning before work, there were more voters at the polls and if you ask jay who is running for the chair, it was downright exciting. >> they are pretty pumped up. people are working. >> the primary is good practice for the party in getting votes out for the general election come november. >> regardless of who is on the ballot, all the candidates are better than what we have. so people are coming out for that. >> with mitt romney and ron paul, the national spotlight is ignoring virginia.

only handmade ron paul signs can be seen, but romney supporters are worried about a grass roots push for paul. >> i'm concerned that we're not going to get the best candidate. i'm concerned that we're going to be hijacked. >> political analysts say don't under estimate the old dominion. >> i think virginia is going to be terribly important in the national election. whether or not mcdonald is the vp candidate or not, we have really active republicans, cuccinelli as attorney general, mcdonnell as our governor. bowling trying to ascend through the governorship. they are going to campaign hard for the top of the ticket. >> obama won virginia. >> he has to work harder to win it next time, i think. >> the discussion tonight about the primary here in virginia will be wrapped into the national discussion in terms of what states and who won what state. now here in virginia, there are 49 delegates and it's winner

take all. polls are open until 7:00. anita, back to you. >> thanks a lot. president obama tried to steal thunder from today's contest. highlights of this afternoon's presidential news conference are just ahead. kind of chilly out here right now, but we'll stalk about that and milder air around the corner. we'll have details.

president obama held his first news conference of the year this afternoon. >> he answered questions on a range of subjects, including ones about his republican  rivals. randall reports from the white house. >> in his first news conference of the year. president obama faced questions

about iran's nuclear program. tensions are growing. after israel threatened to attack iran and prevent that country from building a nuclear weapon. >> we have a window of opportunity where this can still be resolved diplomatically. that's not just my view. that's the view of our top intelligence officials. it's the view of top isreali intelligence officials. >> he took aim at the republican candidates whom he called too casual about the war with iran. >> what we see about folks who have bluster and big talk, but when you ask them specifically what they would do, it turns out they repeat the things we have been doing. >> he also said u.s. military action against syrian president, bashar assad would be a mistake. the president's aids say it's a coincidence that he held his news conference on super tuesday. rising gas prices were also

mentioned. the president is looking at quick solutions. >> i want gas prices lower because they hurt families. >> he took a question about criticism mitt romney has leveled at him from the campaign trail. >> what would you like to say to mr. romney? >> good luck tonight. >> the president will be back on the road wednesday in north carolina talking about his economic plans. >> president obama also ruled out plans to help homeowners, including a way to help people with mortgages insured by the housing administration pay smaller fees. well, it was kind of nice outside, but a little chilly. >> it was one of those days that looked great from the inside. you go outside, it's still chilly. >> you need it tonight, too. not as cold tonight, but still worth a coat. let's have a live look outside. very nice. live shot of the capital brought to you by michael and

son. temperatures are, you know, a little chilly. 47 downtown. dew point 28. remember the dew point this time yesterday, dew point 25, sorry, were in the teens. winds have turned out of the south at 15. between, you know, a little more humidity in the atmosphere and winds out of the south and south southwest, it will not be as cold. temperatures will fall until midnight and level off. 46 in bethesda. 47 downtown. 49 up in college park. 47 in reston. and 47 in sterling and out toward herndon. here's the deal. warming back up, it will happen. not as cold tonight. it will be chilly at the bus stop tomorrow. and the kids may fight. see our temperatures in the 60s tomorrow, but remember in the morning, it's going to be cold. it will be milder. a milderrish on wednesday and warmer on thursday. might even touch 70. for tonight, clear skies, breezy, not as cold. a 1, maybe 2 blanket night.

winds out of the southwest at 10 to 15. lows tonight, outside the beltway will be below freezing. looking at 31 in gaithersburg and 32 in rockville. don't think we'll see any 20s. mainly in the 30s. 33 in college park and 33 in reston and also in fairfax. tomorrow morning, mostly sunny, still breezy and chilly. and then by afternoon, looking at sunshine, a warmer breeze, high temperatures up there. 60 to 65. winds out of the southwest at 10 to 20 and also gusty. now the next seven days, almost 70 on thursday. some clouds come in late and we could see a shower late in the day. looking at, not a big system coming our way, friday some showers, a little cooler. temperatures around 57 or so. and then colder on saturday. another bright, but brisk day. remember, turn your clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed on saturday night.

we return today light saving time. milder on sunday, but showers are possible. better chance around 60 and 66 also on tuesday. we had a little snowfall yesterday. and a very nice picture. tom did everything, no, he did everything right. well, very nice job. thank you very much. if you want to send something into us, go to our website, wusa9.com. click on the weather tab and you have to include your name, location, and a description. so yeah, one of those nights that looks great, but it is a little bit brisk. >> coming up, the winner of the $336 million power ball jackpot finally comes forward. up next, find out where your metro stop ranks. the least and most dangerous stations. 9news will be right back.

the deanwood metro station has been deemed metro's most dangerous. the washington examiner reports the station had 67 crimes classified as part one or serious crimes. the list includes assaults, burglaries, rapes, and car thefts. number two on the most dangerous list, anacostia on the green light. that's followed by suitland and college park. now when it comes to the safest, five stations had no reports of serious crimes. on that list, arlington cemetery, eisenhower avenue, and virginia square. an 81-year-old new port, rhode island woman said she will take the lump sum. >> the lump sum is pretty good. luis is the winner of the powerball jackpot. it is the sixth largest jackpot in u.s. history. white says she kept winning, or she kept the winning ticket in

a bible after she realized she won. >> i want to say that i am very happy and i'm very proud and this will make my family very happy and we are truly blessed. thank you. >> love this part of the story. so, she bought the ticket at a new port supermarket where she stopped to buy some rainbow sherbet, the lump sum payment is $210 million. still ahead tonight -- >> my daughter got arrested for marion? >> a father's pain after discovering his daughter's secrets. >> we are going to pick her up. 12k3w4r-9 9 wants you to know, the parents. that's coming up. >> we have already told you about an fbi raid on the home of the local d.c. businessman in conjunction of the campaign.

those same agents conducted a raid on this apartment building on massachusetts avenue. i'll have that story coming up.

new fallout tonight from that fbi raid on a businessman with strong political ties. on friday, the home and offices of jeffrey thompson were raided by the fbi and the irs. thompson has some big

government contracts. he contributed big dollars to d.c. mayor, vince gray, and bruce johnson is here to tell us more. >> i think it's fair to say a lot of legislators are feeling the heat on this. prohibit jeffrey thomas and people like him from giving money to these council members. anybody who has a city contract would be banned from contributing money. >> now it's all in the press and certainly the fbi paid attention. >> d.c. councilman is the only elected official who has not received a campaign contribution from businessman, jeffrey thompson. >> what i'm hearing in light of the raid is the same thing i was hearing before. is that the city council had really lost the ethical ground. >> dave wells and mary introduced a bill that will ban future corporate contributions and prohibit anyone with a city contract from contributing to political campaigns. >> oh yeah, i think everything should be on the table. >> you play by whatever rules

you are given. if you change the rules, you play by those rules. >> late last year, are going to have to vote on the measure again because last friday, the fbi and irs as part of their probe into illegal campaign contributions raided the home of jeffrey thompson. he has given d.c. politicians 3/4 of a million campaign dollars and thompson holds city contracts. >> i'm going to fight as hard as i can to make sure that it doesn't go anywhere. >> why? >> because you got to have money to run campaigns. >> the fbi raided the office apartment of one jean harris. as part of his probe. >> jean harris is 75 years of age. dating back to when marion barry was mayor. she received $20,000 from the vincent gray campaign for

consulling work. >> harris has done outreach and public affairs work. sources confirm the fbi and irs were inside our 5th floor apartment for hours and like jeffrey thompson, jean harris has been unavailable for comment. and jeffrey thompson's firm chartered help has confirmed to an elected official that all of this federal investigation is about campaign financing. >> wow, so very quickly, bruce, how many votes did this bill get last time? >> well, everybody voted against it except for wells. he is standing by himself on this. that may change. not sure, you'll have enough votes. >> we know marion barry is not in favor of it. back to you. in montgomery county, young people serve as jurors and sentence their peers who are caught drinking or committing other crimes. cameras have never been allowed in this courtroom until now. as you'll see. some of the minors asked us to blur their faces, others did

not. andrea mccarren takes us behind closed doors and shows us the impact of illegal behavior not just on the teens, but their families. >> i want the best for my daughters. it's really hard. >> a father's anguish after getting a late night phone call. >> fortunately, we're going to the station to pick her up. >> his teenage daughter was busted. >> the phone call was horrible. i mean, i was just like, wait a minute. what? my daughter? got arrested? for marijuana? >> i did. >> and that is how claire ended up here in a montgomery county courtroom. >> did your parents know that you were smoking marijuana over this two year period? >> no. it clicked with me that i can't continue doing this. >> she is just one of many teenagers on trial. >> i'm not a frequent drinker. >> where did everybody get alcohol? >> alexandria's small gathering of friends when her

mother was out of town transformed into a big party busted by police. >> a lot of people have older siblings who will openly buy it. >> when my mom found out, she was really disappointed. >> kenny is a high school student, too. facing his second alcohol citation in seven months. >> i guess the question is, how long a program is it going to take before you take it seriously? >> i really do feel like i'm done with drinking. >> what compelled you to drink again? >> the young jurors asked tough questions. >> you say most of your friends drink and this is your second time, so do you think that you should find some new friends? >> it's a comparison between my life and theirs. we aren't that different. they made a mistake and it makes me want to not do it. >> parents that aren't always home are always there for their kids. that's obviously a big part of it.

>> in kenny's case, the jury doesn't buy his remorse and hands him an unusual sentence. >> a letter of apology and attending an extracurricular activity at school. >> it's not okay to drink when you are under 21. it only causes problems. >> it sounds like you wrote that down and that's your script. you start believing that or you're going to have a third offense, not a fourth one, and you're going to be an adult. >> it's sad to see the people that truly don't understand. >> release to the custody. >> respondents are the teens on trial, but their cases leave a lasting impression on the jurors. >> you don't know what else to do for them. >> remember, claire, she was the first teenager whose father eloquently described his heart ache over his father's arrest. she was sentenced to community service and a program to help build self-esteem. for more information, go to our

website, wusa9.com and click the special coverage heading at the top of our home page. >> coming up, a fight breaks out in a courtroom after family members try to take the law into their own hands. but first, what is black and white and 100 years old? up next, america's favorite cookie celebrates a century of twisting and dunking. and we are always on at wusa9.com. stay with us. we'll be right back after the break.

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for cotton clothing and plan to use more blended fabrics in their pieces. >> it has been a century since the first person twisted, licked, and dunked the oreo turns 100 today. the cookie started on march 6, 1912, when the national biscuit company of manhattan sold its first oreos to a grocer. and on its 100th birthday, the famous chocolate wafers are sold in 100 countries. a statement says in a world that has become far too adult, a couple oreo cookies and a shared twist, lick, and dunk is all it takes to set your inner kid loose. which of course leads us to the famous question. how do you eat your oreo? so we have to open them up. i have oreo double stuff. you have the classic. >> classic is good for me. >> classic is the direction

you go. >> we have chocolate oreos, we have to dunk. >> get your milk, you have to dunk. how do we eat them? we dunk them and we take them out. >> i don't do the twist and lick. i just bite. >> i have never been a person to mix my milk and my oreos. >> can you do it for today? >> much better dry. >> i thought you were a dunking kind of guy. very disappointing here, derek, now you get to read. >> coming up, we have something caught on tape. it's a snowmobiler that sets off an avalanche and nearly burr his him. he could have used an oreo. but first, a watchdog group puts coke and pepsi in its cross hairs. the signature color of those sodas and whether it's dangerous. we'll be back with that story.

the food and drug administration is responding to on going pressure from a d.c. based consumer watchdog group about the safety of caramel coloring in soda. last night we told you about new chemical analysis. they say reveal high levels of the cancer causing chemical,

4mi. >> the fda should ban products that contain more of this cancer causing contaminant than the agencies own regulations would permit. >> executive director tells 9news cspi found unacceptable levels of 4mi in pepsi, coke, diet pepsi, and diet coke. the chemical forms when ammonia is used to create that caramel coloring. >> i suspect people would rather have a clear beverage than a cancer causing beverage. >> fighting back, saying research simply doesn't support the claim that the amounts of 4mi in colas are dangerous to humans. the american beverage association released a statement that says in part, this is nothing more than cspi scare tactics and their claims are outrageous. cspi claims to be operating in the interest of the public's health when it is clear its only motivation is to scare

the american people. first petitioned the food and drug administration in february of last year, about the safety of this additive and the agency said it had no reason to believe consumers are in danger. the beverage association also points to the fact health agencies in europe and canada have allowed caramel coloring to remain. >> the state of california did put 4mi on its list of carcinogens about its dangers reflect what california deemed acceptable levels. this debate is nowhere near settled. the fbi is giving it another look. it's not a bad idea to moderate soda consumption. derek. thanks, anita. a courtroom brawl in springfield, massachusetts, and like everything else, it is caught on tape. the murder victim's family could not hold back their emotions as their daughter's exboyfriend and accused killer was led in the court. out of nowhere, the victim's

father and stepfather go after the suspects. others are shouting at them. officers had to handcuff and arrest the two men and the courtroom was cleared. the hearing for the suspect was held a little while later. >> also caught on tape, a snowmobiler sets off an avalanche and he's down there for more than 20 minutes. that avalanche happened just as tyson black got to the top of the peek. tyson almost always wears an avenue lag beacon, but for whenever reason, he decided not to wear it. his girlfriend watches in horror as his friend frantically push through the snow just trying to find him. >> i couldn't believe it was happening. i just kept running through my mind, this is not happening. >> where is he at? where's he at? >> i don't know where he's at. he doesn't have a beacon on and i'm probing and i can't find him. >> wow. that is scary and frantic

stuff. but 23 minutes after that avalanche hit, the rescuers hit. tyson's helmet. two minutes later, they had his head out. took another ten minutes to dig him out alive and other than a banged up knee, he was okay. wow. >> the longest minutes of his life. >> what is amazing is they are prepared with the beacons. >> usually. not in this case, but i don't know i would go back out there. >> they have a vest that you can pull and it inflates if you have a skier. >> that's what happened a couple weeks ago in washington state. saved a woman. >> when you are buried in snow, if you are trying to get out, you could be digging down instead of up. you don't know. all right, we're looking at a beautiful day. a little brisk, but milder air is on the way. we're looking at temperatures in the 40s. 49 was the high today. 47 down. dew point is 25. notice the winds out of the south at 14. that's a good sign that will

pump up milder air and especially on thursday. 46 right now in bethesda. 48 in rockville. 47 in great falls and reston. 47 around sterling and also toward herndon. manassas was not here. we are checking in last hour at 47 degrees as well. springfield also 47. so, warming back up, not as cold tonight. chilly at the bus stop tomorrow. milder on wednesday. so it's a spring day. going to be in the 60s tomorrow. so just want to keep that in mind for the kids and warmer on thursday as the warmer air really rolls in here thursday afternoon. so clear, breezy, not as cold. a 1, maybe a 2 blanket night. lows in the 30s. winds southwest at 10 to 15. lows downtown and inside the beltway, we think above freezing. but gaithersburg 31. maybe 33 in college park and in bowie. out to the west, 33 in reston and sterling 32. 30 in leesburg. and down toward manassas.

we will be below freezing far enough west. for the morning, mostly sunny, breezy and chilly. 30s and 40s. winds southwest 10 to 15. by afternoon on wednesday, very nice. mostly sunny, breezy, milder. high temperature 60 to 65 and winds out of the southwest at 10 to 20. occasionally gusty. that's a warm wind. that's a good thing. next sendais, 68 on thursday. clouds come in, maybe a shower thursday night. a couple showers on friday. models are trying to dry us out by friday afternoon. we'll keep you posted. either way, it will get cooler on friday, back in the upper 50s. brisk on saturday, but sunshine 50. move your clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed saturday night when we return today light savings time. showers possible, but the bulk of the day okay. a better chance for showers and some rain on monday. temperatures around 60 and back in the upper 60s with sunshine next tuesday. headed out tonight, grab a coat. >> good advice. >> more redskins players,

former and current, speaking out about that bounty investigation surrounding the team and the new orleans saints and a couple other teams. not a bounty system. kristen berset is here with the latest. >> thanks guys. with the latest developments here in studio to talk with me about it, we have danny and holden at the fan. holden, i want to start with you. you chatted, what was his response to everything? >> didn't get a chance to chat. $100 for a nice hit, sack, but nothing as far as injurying players. as far as joe gibbs paying other players, not true. cash, i would say incentives to make a nice play, that happens. >> and gibbs originally denied knowing anything about bounties, but he did come out and say he did pay the players for a big hit, but it was a

bonus and not a bounty. >> people are getting caught up on the bounty. i'm supposed to be offended. if you make an illegal hit, you get a penalty. these guys can't go bethe beyond the mound. i understand, here's a couple hundred bucks for something you did well. you are gouging eyes, nobody thinks twice about that. i think everyone is over reacting. >> when all this is said and done and the redskins, if it is proven they had a bounty system, what kind of penalties could they see? >> it's interesting. i don't think you can look at saints and redskins in a different light as far as the penalties and what they should pay. except this is roger goodell. that's the number one thing i'm looking at. i do expect a heavy penalty on the saints. anything more than a fine for the redskins, i'd be surprised. >> timing is what the major issue to me. they are worried about

lawsuits. they are worried about things to come in the future. if they can't demonstrate, we tried to clean this up, they may be harsher than we think they are going to be. >> and the nfl said they will make a decision before owners meeting starts at the end of march. about march 26. i want to switch gears, because thursday is the deadline for the colts to decide what will do to peyton manning. what do you think? should the redskins go after payton? >> a lot of -- i don't see why the colts are going to hold on to peyton manning. start building. you have a new team right now. i expect him to be on the open market. i'm hoping it's one of those situations where mike shanahan is throwing smoke on one end. even if you believe he is healthy, you are necessarily stopping your rebuilding plan

that you started last year. congratulations for doing that. washington redskins organization, you don't bail on that after one season. go get a bunch and make a run. >> so, the deadline is thursday, so he could be released in the next couple of days. appreciate you guys coming in. we'll send it back to you. >> i love the description of the ninja cloud. yeah, very, very sneaky. >> coming up on 9news now, welcome news from the pump. it's hard to believe this, but gas prices actually fell today. you're going to want to hear about this. and a team effort. political opponents come together on the soccer field to form an unusual alliance. we'll talk about it. >> but next, shorter e-mails. we'll introduce you to a high- tech company that will help you clean up your inbox.

does this sound like you? your e-mail inbox so out of control, you have given up on sorting it out. a baltimore thinks it has the solution to your woes. >> the clutter in your inbox can mount up quickly. thousands of messages, who has the time to read all of that? >> something many, many people are experiencing right now and even more people are going to be experiencing that over the next couple of years. >> baltimore startup thinks this is the solution. their product short mail is the

hybrid of twitter and traditional e-mail. every message limited to 500 characters or less. allowing for direct messages and possibly less of them. spam e newsletters and other messages have to go somewhere else. >> limiting the 500 characters really only allows e-mail from people who are intentionally sending you stuff that complies to stuff. >> short mail defeat its own purpose of cutting the clutter by adding one more account to check? >> we think we changed the way it works, which is interesting. there hasn't been a lot of innovation. >> short mailers can e-mail anyone with an e-mail account, but if that person replies with a message, they'll get a link back telling them to cut it back. >> short mail isn't your only option. here's another one. it's a service called unroll.me.com. the service promises to unsubscribe you from unwanted e-

mail subscriptions. it may find new ones that you do want and organize messages in one place. like having a personal assistant for your e-mail. 9news now. >> sounds good. the creators of short mail launched their service last summer. they plan on adding support for platforms in the future. >> this is 9news now. >> super tuesday. the largest drive yet that could lead to the white house. >> none of the candidates will be delivering a knockout blow. >> but voters in the caucuses could dramatically change the landscape of the campaign for the gop hopefuls. gary has the latest. >> what you said is right. don't listen to the spins from the losers. this is a big and important day. ten primaries and caucuses that choose 419 delegates. >> the contest stretched from mitt romney's massachusetts in the east to i can see russia from here, alaska in the west. super tuesday'