good afternoon, thank you for joining us. i'm andrea roane in for j.c. hayward. the circumstances surrounding a shocking discovery in calvert county remain a mystery at this hour. the body of an infant was diss

covered in the trunk of a car that was parked outside a trailer home near prince frederick, maryland. scott broom is following up with investigators today. >> reporter: the infant's body was found in the trunk of a car off this trailer car in rural calvert county. according to investigators the residents here called 911 right away after discovering the remans after what has been described as a stillborn or newborn infant. in the trunk of a car that was parked here at about 6:40 last night. according to one neighbor, the car had been parked here in the same spot and did not appear to have been driven for many weeks. today calvert county sheriff mike evans said the residents here made the discovery while quote cleaning out the car. >> upon arrival by law enforcement it was discovered that still or newborn baby was located in the trunk of the car that was being cleaned. detectives are waiting for preliminary autopsy report. >> reporter: investigators say until they know a cause of death, and how long the body

may have been in the car they have no idea whether this is a homicide case or not. there have been no arrests. the couple who live here have elementary aged children but they are not available to talk to reporters today. in calvert county, scott broom, 9news now. sheriff's officials are planning is 2:00 press conference to update us on new information. police investigating the death of an infant have charged two women. 3-month-old samples' body was found yesterday in bristow, virginia. police say the home had an unlicensed day care and it has since been shut down. an autopsy is being conducted perform to determine how the child died but right now there are no signs of foul play. maren of manassas and merenzez of woodbridge have been charged in the death with child endangerment. a d.c. man remains in critical condition at washington hospital center after a shootout with police this morning. it happened an the 8100 block

of eastern avenue on the silver spring d.c. line. delia goncalves says the man was apparently shot just steps from his front door. >> reporter: large portions of the 8100 block of eastern avenue remain shut down as police comb through the scene gathering evidence and bullet casings trying to figure out what happened in this morning's police involved shooting. >> all you hear is a bunch of gunshots. >> reporter: she quickly dialed 911 only to discover many of her neighbors also called police. as they all watched the scene unfold outside their windows. >> one of my neighbors said that he had a gun. and they saw him shoot at one of the cops and then they saw the cops shoot into him. >> reporter: here's what the police are telling us happened. when the three megacounty police officers happened -- montgomery police officers arrived at the scene. >> they encountered an armed subject, shots were exchanged and subject was hit. and one officer was injured.

>> reporter: that officer an eight year veteran was treated and released for a hand injury. the other two officers, a rookie cop who just graduated the academy two months ago and his training officer, they were not hurt. in the daylight hours the police searched the suspect's home just feet from where investigators gather evidence. the three montgomery county police officers are on routine leave pending an internal investigation by montgomery county police. d.c. police are looking into why the man was out her in the first place. in northwest washington, delia goncalves, 9news now. the maryland senate is debating a bill to ban smokers if lighting up with children inside a car. similar proposals have failed eight times since 2007. this year's version would make it illegal for anyone to light up inside a car with a child 8 years old or younger inside. the debate over it looks to be just as heated this year. >> parents are more concerned about their children than we will ever be.

they have an invested interest in what happens to their children. this is another intrusion of government on their private lives. >> guarantee you if these 3- year-olds had a lobbyist down here and they'd be marching on annapolis demanding we pass this law. >> six other states include california, louisiana, and arkansas already have laws banning smoking in cars with kids. the republican candidates for president are campaigning in the south. mississippi and alabama hold primaries next week and both newt gingrich and rick santorum believe it's an opportunity for them to gain some ground on mitt romney. danielle nottingham reports. >> reporter: mitt romney is in mississippi trying to connect with southern voters. >> morning y'all. [ laughter ] good to be with you. i got started right this morning with a biscuit and some cheesy grits i tell you. delicious. >> reporter: romney has received the endorsement of mississippi's governor but four years ago he lost badly in the southern primaries. rick santorum hopes that will

work to his advantage when voters in mississippi and alabama head to the polls on tuesday. he won in tennessee earlier this week with the help of religious conservatives looking at seven of the super tuesday states 37% of evangelicals supports santorum. >> first and second in mississippi and alabama on tuesday. i think that will be a -- a big, big win for us and hopefully get this race down to two candidates. >> reporter: to make this a two man race, ron paul and newt gingrich would have to drop out. paul's pledged to be at the convention and gingrich says southern voters will revitalize his campaign. gingrich won in south carolina and his home state of georgia. and believes he'll do well on tuesday. >> i think we can win a victory of extraordinary proportions, this is a very, very important primary. >> reporter: ron paul is skipping the south and instead campaigning in kansas. >> hello. >> reporter: where voters will caucus on saturday. paul has jim tressel to win a

-- yet to win a contest and believes caucus dates give him the best chance to pick up delegates. danielle nottingham, cbs news, the white house. >> hawaii will hold its caucus on tuesday. today is march 9th. have you reminded your buddy to get her mammogram? coming you when the news continues we'll introduce you to a cancer survivor who has redefined the meaning of biker chick. national fans if you're looking the pick up a few tickets for the season the time is now. next find out how you can get your hands on a few single game tickets. we'll be back.

welcome back to 9news now at noon. our guest today wants to take you out to the ball game. the washington nationals ball game of course. and andrew pepper the team's chief operating officer and andrew. good to have you back at 9news now. >> good to be here, thanks for having me. >> you were talking about the "take me out to the ball game" promotion specifically to keep the phillies' fans from taking over the park. take back the park, how did the initiative go? >> it's been great and it's not over. fans can still go to nationals.com/ourpark and get tickets for that series. there's still seats -- plenty of seats available for that. it doesn't stop until we get to the weekend may 4th through

6th. >> that's pretty good. the thing about it is people are wondering why do we have to go through a promotion like this? i read they were infill rating the nationals park and really doing a terrible job booing our players and we've got some great players this season. >> that's a much different team and it's a different day this year. probably the most exciting young team in baseball, stephen strasburg is back and healthy. gio gonzalez the new pitcher we got from the a's, you combine that with ryan zimmerman who signed for an extra six years and all of a sudden you've got the -- >> bryce. >> bryce harper at some point right? >> this looks like a really solid team and the owners, managers, they really invested this time around and i think people were questioning how serious you were but now we can see it. >> well, i mean i think the investment strategy goes back to when they took over ownership. they invested in developing talent, drafting talent and then bringing it into the big leagues and you're seeing the fruition of that today.

not just the pipe loin now but behind it coming. the nationals were voted the number one team in baseball for the minor league system which is a big, a big step and lets you know there's more talent on the way. >> exactly and there are lots of plans on the website. i was telling andrew i was so confused but you still have time. go on the nats website and pick with your plan. this is going to be an spiting season. why are you here instead of at spring training? >> it's our on sale yesterday for single game tickets which you talked about. we got great series coming up. april 3rd, the exhibition against the boston red sox here at nationals park. opening day may 12th against -- i'm sorry, april 12th against the cincinnati reds and that game is almost soldout at this point. get your tickets, then you go into may ask the battle of the beltways with june and in june the yankees come to town for the first time. the st. louis cardinals the world champions and guess who -- >> who do we end the season

with? >> the philadelphia phillies. >> take back the park. >> go to narcotics.com the -- nationals.com and get your tickets today. it's going to be a great season and we'll be right back.

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today's buddy check 9 report. ♪ motorcycles and women? forget the image of the tough tattooed broad too up on her guy's bike. check out linda crill. >> i'm a mama, i'm a woman. i'm a good friend. >> and one of the new breed of biker babes breaking those old stereotypes. professional women, older women like linda are among the fastest growing segment of the motorcycle community. >> you feel the wind. you taste the salt in the air. you -- you see the glimmers of light because nothing is obstructed. so to me it's a way of being full out there in nature and there's just nothing quite like the rush. when you're on to bike nobody knows what you are. they just see a woman rider. >> but there's even more to linda than that. she's a breast cancer survivor. >> i found a lump that was size

of a gumball and i wasn't worried because 85% of all lumps are benign. >> but tests later doctors confirmed it was stage 1 breast cancer. good news because the cancer was detected early and less finening heading into what linda calls blind curves because of what she had already learned from rising a motorcycle. >> when you do things day after day that scare you and you survivor, there's something that comes about inside you that says look what i've done. >> the first time linda, is retired fortune 100 executive made the bike survivor connection, was seven years ago when her husband bill died of cancer and the business they built together folded. she was at a loss for what to do next. a friend suggested she register for a 2500-mile trip on a harley. she didn't know how to ride but took a crash course online and learned in 30 days. >> what motorcycling is for me, it gave me me self-i seat back and showed me -- esteem back

and showed me i wasn't a quitter. >> after eight months of healing, linda is back on the back and back -- bike and back on track. she finished a book about her journey called "blind curves." she hopes the publish -- to publish in the spring. until linda crill's memoir is published you can keep up her with through leg blog, w -- her blog, www.blindcurves.com and to keep you in check, text buddy check 9 to 25543 for a monthly early detection alert. they are sponsored by washington radiology associates. is you feel boo day for a ride -- a beautiful day for a ride, a walk or whatever. >> just a little breezy once again. decent. >> on the bike you don't care. >> exactly. but skies are thinning now. the cloud cover's thinning and more and more sunshine is what we're going to be seeing for the afternoon. that's the good thing but cooler than yesterday. yesterday we got to 74. today we're going to be close to ooh 20 degrees maybe 17

below that. so significantly cooler. here's the allergy update i want to start with that because came in tree pollen nice and high. for you allergy sufferers. grass, weeds and mold all low and this is the first time i'm putting the weed category on the pollen count. the allergy update this spring. yeah. we're getting an early start thanks to the warm winter. the day planner, partly to mostly sunny skies for the rest of the afternoon. 56 by 3:00. in fact i think maybe 7:00 that will be about it -- 57 that will be about it. brisk northwesterly winds. by 5:00 p.m. still breezy the windy. 54. tonight, though winds will get heighter as we get closer and closer and even past midnight. you know 43 degrees at 9:00 with a 16-mile an hour wind. that's pushing windchills down in the low to mid-30s so outside this evening, you definitely need the winter coat. so brisk winds. gusts 30, maybe 40 miles an hour especially in the higher elevations out west. today, only in the 50s. sorry about that but at least we're going to have the sun for the afternoon. a chilly saturday. highs tomorrow, will only be

around 50. maybe staying in the upper 40s a very brisk day and then the time change saturday night we're going tentering forward one hour day educate -- to spring forward one hour daylight saving time returns this weekend. if you get in early, maybe your son has the 7:45 hockey game sunday morning, i'm talking about me. it's going to be more lick 6:45. out to the west, winds are gusting over 30 miles an hour from hagerstown down to winchester and petersburg, west virginia. 36. but they've had gusts over 40 in the past hour. and those winds are keeping temps down. upper 40s to low 50s at noon with manassas at viii along with easton and cambridge. pretty uniform temperatures when you look south and north. culpeper the warm spot at 54. 34 in oakland. timber line, all the places will be looking for skiers this weekend still. got the high thin clouds out there. some sunshine's coming down now and these clouds are thinning still though, we do have cloudy skies reported at reagan national at 50 degrees.

with a west northwest wind at 16. and the dew point is really coming down, down to 20 now as the air is drying out behind the storm system which came through us last night with those front came through with the showers around. back into texas here and so that's really helping. if you remember how bad the drought was last year. the showers continue to pull away. the high thin clouds continue to thin in the afternoon and if you're driving north into pennsylvania, new york state later you may run into some snow showers actually. colder air though is going to filter in for the west of the day and tonight. and while we start the weekend chilly, finish it milder by sunday. so today 57. tonight we're down in the 30s maybe even upper 20s. tomorrow only around 50 but we turn it around on sunday to 64. monday up to 70 and maybe some showers and still mild on tuesday and again on thursday. we're going to the kitchen. 9news now at noon returns right after this with some tasty treats.

we are getting an early start on st. patrick's day but with a little french flavor to it. i'm here with sarah dier and you are preparing for us chuquettes and it has guinness in it and it's traditionally st. patrick's day. how did banker go from banker to baker? >> it's really just one letter banking to baking, i moved on but i figured i deserved to do what i wanted to do and i spend

most of my childhood smushing chocolate and now every single day. >> we can see the smile on your face and you're enjoying what you're doing, what's in them? >> it's just a term of endearment. so i make a chocolate. some chocolate just kind of sound the same. >> the ingredients you have here very simple. >> very simple. caramel is always just sugar and cream. but i think guinness is probably the creamiest beer. so you warm the cream and the guinness together. you cook the sugar until it turns about the color of a penny. that's a good way to know that you're dark enough and it will have the caramel flavor and not just be really sweet. then you pour the warm cream and caramel in. i'll just put a tiny bit in now. it will foam up a little bit but if you do it pretty slowly, stir it together. >> if you do it too quickly -- oh, yeah. >> cay civil i try not to do that on tv. at the end you put in a little

bit of butter. not a lot. >> how long have been doing this? >> for about two years. >> two years? >> two years. >> and you're still happy doing it. >> i'm so happy doing it. it's making my day every day. >> really? now we have the recipe on our website. so people can do this little caramel chocolate concoction themselves, but people like me who prefer to buy it and make it easy, you can do that. where do you sell it? >> the first person to carry my chocolates is bradley food and beverage in bethesda and paul's in northwest d.c. and unwinds in alexandria also carries the chocolate. >> we're looking over here, howard's coming in. the magic of it's, we have the fin -- television. we have the finished product coming up. >> you can just store it in the fridge. >> little dollops of ice cream in this case. >> use it as a topping. >> then put sea salt on it. >> that a little brownie? >> that's a little brownie. >> this is good. >> you can put a little heat on it or a little pretzel.

>> potato chips. >> give it a little crunch. i love -- if we can show this the presentation of all of some of sarah's great confections here and how beautiful they look and it shows you presentation is everything. >> thank you so much. it is. >> sarah, congratulations, glad to see you're so happy. chuquette and we have it on the website. howard i'll see you on monday. don't forget spring forward. >> an hour ahead. >> the next news is at 5:00. have a great day. [ captions by: caption colorado, llc 800-775-7838 email: comments@captioncolorado.com ]