lots of showers up toward ohio. that will be coming in tonight with a chance for showers. today we'll see the clouds increase in the afternoon. and the chill this morning. 30s in manassas and fredericksburg. easton 41. 43 in la plata. if we can get the clouds to hold off long enough, we can make 70 in manassas and culpepper. a really good start to the week let's find out about the morning commute monday. don't like the stats with the increased accidents. >> reporter: no and here's one northbound on the bw parkway north of route 202 but before route 50. you can see the flare set up in one lane. luckily it is against the rush hour flow. you still want to be aware of it. we'll show you where it is on the map. again northbound side with only one lane getting by.

southbound it done seem to be attracting too much attention early this morning. let's go over to the northbound side of i-95. looks great from dale city. traffic forming into wide bridge. a live look, looking fine. no big deals to report as you head into springfield. we'll go back over to the maps, all the crossings are type. a live look on pennsylvania avenue here at the willard hotel and the normal rush hour flow. back to you guys. police at the university of maryland say they are not sure if the student was serious or was just looking for attention when he threatened to shoot up the campus and but they didn't take any chances. they arrested that student. delia is live in college park. >> reporter: good morning andrea and mike. police had to act quickly because of the nature of the threats. they took them very seriously. they learned about the threats on saturday morning and by sunday morning an arrest was

made. police officers caught up with 19-year-old alexander song of howard county. he had no weapons on him and we are told a check of his dorm room also came out clean. this is what a former student read online. i will be on a shooting rampage tomorrow. hopefully i will kill enough people to make it to national news stay away from the mall tomorrow at 1:30. of course those were the words posted online by alexander song, referencing a shooting rampage that was to take place here on campus on sunday. even though police first learned about those threats on saturday, arrested song sunday, students here on campus did not receive their e-mail text alert about this incident until last night at 11:30. many say that is simply way too late. they spent all day worrying

after seeing police barging into a dorm without any explanation. so they want some more explanation as to why it took so long. we are still waiting from police as to why their response was delayed, apparently, in this case. coming up in my next live report, we'll have more on who alexander song is. back to you andrea. today the defense begins this case in a pair of lawsuits over the 2007 shootings at virginia tech. 31 students and a professor were killed. the family say -- families say the school did not properly warn students. it happened two hours inside the classroom building. the trial begins today for dr. karen murphy, the veterinarian from bristow,

virginia, charged with leaving her two-year-old son in a minivan for several hours on a hot june day. murphy says she forgot to drop off the boy at daycare. he died. murphy's lawyers are calling it a tragic accident. prosecutors agree but say it wasn't the first time she had left the boy in the minivan. the cost of your commute might actually go down. the senate approved restoring benefits as part of a massive transportation spending bill. democrats are hoping the house is going to follow suit. today we are urging the house both democrats and republicans to take that same deduction that we passed in the senate for mass transit, put it into their highway bill and we can restore the deduction. next year and also retroactively.

the benefit allowed commuters to set aside a benefit for $230 for taxes. the average price of gas in our region jumped 2 cents a gallon. dc area $3.85. up 24 cents from just a month ago. nationwide the average is now $3.80 a gallon. jessica doyle is watching what little money we have left in your money report. this is a scam that goes after people who go to church. really terrible situations. scammers are targeting the elderly and low income church goers. and now the irs is promising free money by urging targets to claim fraudulent tax refunds. the nationwide scheme reaches victims through flyers and online. it claims taxpayers can receive

nonexistent refunds and other credits for which they don't qualify. then the thieves collect big fees for bogus services and run off to the within i. -- with the money jobs for 35-24-year-olds jumped to 35 million in february. their unemployment rate fell to 8.7%, the lowest level since january of 2009. our partners at usa today report younger workers were hurt more. since many employers laid off entry levels first. it could take awhile to get your hot little hands on the new ipad. apple already sold out. app sel now telling buyers that orders will not ship for up to three weeks. in the u.s. and canada, all ipad pre orders will ship on march 19th. that is three days after the on sale dates.

but customers who placed anorder very, very early on, their ipads will be ready friday. some people are struggling this morning with time change. so i kia -- ikea is offering free coffee. it will be giving out coffee at college park on the green line and on the orange line. >> why is ikea handing out coffee at metro stations when you are not allowed to take it on the train. >> i guess the big gulp applies. 6:07. still ahead, the noisy road work is going to begin tonight in northern virginia. an american soldier accused of killing at least 16 people

in afghanistan. in five minutes, reactions from here and washington and from around the world is that going to be a great spring week around here. howard has your money forecast right after the break. you are watching 9news now. need any help?

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temperatures in the 60s today and 70s will be with us much of the week. your 7-day forecast is just ahead. a live look on the beltway at route 50. that is the inbound side of route 50 heading for the beltway and the new carrollton area. watch out for the weekend after route 202. more on area roadways coming up again at 6:17. andrea and mike. the prime minister of japan vows to rebuild areas devastated by a triple disaster just one yes. the somber anniversary is one of the stories making news in this morning. the prime minister led a memorial yesterday. parts of northeastern japan have been abandoned because of radiation here. ceremonies were held near there sunday as well. the uss enterprise is on its final military mission.

the nuclear powered aircraft carrier deployed from norfolk yesterday with more than 4000 crew members. eastern texas got exactly what it needed, plenty of rain. about three to five inches this weekend. houston was on track for a drought. the rain did bring some minor flooding, though. protesters scheduled across afghanistan today following a shooting spree that left 16 people dead. the suspected gunman, an american soldier. >> he is in custody right now. the shootings happened in kandahar province. greg black has reaction to the shooting. >> reporter: president obama called the killings tragic and shocking. he called afghan president karzai to express condolences. >> the afghan people can withstand pain, collateral damage. but murder is something that

they totally abhor. when that happens, they really want justice. >> the military says the suspect is from joint based lewis mccord in washington state. a coffee shop is planning a vigil today. a worker and soldier gave his take. >> if this guy is traumatize and is a time bomb waiting to go off. they are actually there to help them. a distance learning professor for troops in afghanistan, believes multiple tours of duty are taking their toll. >> i saw how many of them are on their third or fourth or fifth tour of duty. and i said what can you expect. >> senate majority leader harry reid is also weighing in. >> our troops are under such tremendous pressure in afghanistan. i think we are on the right

track to get out of afghanistan just as soon as we can. i'm greg black for 9news now. american combat troops are scheduled to leave afghanistan by 2014. the timetable though, may be sped up after what happened on sunday. it is 6:14. howard is here with our weather first. you are going to love the weather forecast. hp w x if you want to follow me on tweeter. you know venus and jupiter have been in the western sky. you might not see it because of the clouds rolling in, but over the next few days they are going to get really, really close. temperatures running more like may as opposed to march. here's a look at your bus stop forecast this morning. readings definitely on the chilly side. a few low 50s in the next couple of hours. jacket weather for sure. this morning i would be wearing

shorts and a sweatshirt at the bus stop. low 60s by 1:00 and then this afternoon we'll make a run for the upper 60s, maybe even 70s in a few spots south and west of dc. as far as our weather headlines, showers are moving in tonight. the average 54 degrees, with 70s the rest of the week. more like may than march. the allergy count running a little ahead of schedule we have showers into ohio and kentucky. some of that will be arriving after dark tonight. temperatures down in the 30s. manassas and leesburg, columbia the cool spot of 35. college park 37. reagan national we are beating that by 10. 47 degrees. good visibility on our michael and son camera.

humidity of 56%. here's our storm system. this classic comma shape over the weather textbooks. we have the moisture coming in through the great lakes back down to the gulf coast. tonight we'll see some of the showers sweep through the region. in advance of them today, we are going to see the clouds start to get closer to us as we head into the late afternoon hours. we are overcast and some of those clouds might be east of 95. tonight we are looking at some showers here after dark during the overnight. especially south and east of dc. also the threat for an afternoon shower. temperatures tomorrow will shoot into the mid to possibly upper 70s. 69, rather pleasant. tomorrow 77. a threat for an afternoon shower or isolated thunderstorm. wednesday really nice. mid 70s. a tickle in my throat there

monday. you may have to do weather for me. a threat for showers, possible thunder late friday into saturday. st. patrick's day we have the sun trust rock n roll marathon and half marathon. we are going to be out there for that. i have been warned already. >> do it rain or shine though, right? >> if you are planning to head around town, we had a couple of early morning incidents. that is because we are all dealing with sleep deprivation. southbound 270 looks okay out of gaithersburg. let's take a live look outside. here's what it looks like heading for the beltway. i think you are going to be fine, no problems to report. back over to the maps, this time we'll head into virginia. a live look first of all 95 here at the fairfax county parkway.

normal slow stuff heading into springfield. to the 14th street bridge it has been incident free this morning. but before i go, i have a commuter alert. get ready for noisy work at the springfield interchange friday night. this is going to be noisy. they are trying to keep it as quiet as it can. if you hear noise, that is what you are hearing. this work will close part of the inner loop at night. get back on the beltway toward tyson's corner. this is all part of the express lanes project. they are saying it could add 15 to 20 minutes to your ride for the next three weeks. >> and noisy on top that have. >> they can't really avoid it. >> our time is 6:18.

we'll get another check on our question of the morning. what is the one thing institutes have from their childhood? a teddy bear, baseball card or story book? >> story book she writes. by the time they have kids, there won't be any paper books. >>

welcome back. your weather first here at 6:22. jacket weather this morning but a very spring like week ahead. you are going to love the temperatures today. check them out. we have 30s out there right now. by 9:00 here in washington by noon around 60. upper 60s at 3:00. we may even get to seven in a few spots. mike, over to you. >> good times, good times. you love college basketball,

this is your time of the year. the field of 68 is set for the men's ncaa basketball tournament. it was revealed right here on channel 9. we are going to start out in the midwest and that is where georgetown is take go on bell pontchartrain. you can see georgetown right here. on you in the east, this is going to be played in pittsburgh. virginia ended up with a ten seed. they are take go on gonzalez saga. out west, this is going to be played in omaha. uva ends up taking a billy donovan's florida team. v cu will be taking on wichita state. one of the interesting gyms in the south, mississippi valley state and western kentucky, president obama is going to be

there with prime minister david cameron, they are going to be going to that game in dayton, ohio. propertity cool. the women are to be forgotten. their field will be revealedton. the your of maryland could get a number one seed. george -- georgetown and west virginia will also make the tournament. late scores an unassisted goal. caps win it. that makes it three wins in a row. dc is now a point back of the lead in the southeast division and four points ahead of winnipeg for the eighth and final playoff spot. the caps visit the islanders tomorrow. all right. coming up on 6:25. in ten minutes we are going to help you find a job with our

get hired segment. right now monika has a quick check of the commute. >> reporter: things are looking fine here. a disabled vehicle blocks the ramp from route 450. more on area roadways, once again coming up at 6:30. you are watching 9news now at 6:30. we'll be right back.

there is the place you can always get your weather first. balmy, 47 degrees. thank you for starting your monday with us. i'm andrea roane. and i'm mike haiduk. good morning howard. >> reporter: good morning. if you are going to be out for more than a few minutes, grab a jack. definitely a chilly start. but a nice, pleasant afternoon. lots of 70s, going to feel more like may than march over the next couple of days. this afternoon clouds are going to start to increase. around 60 by noon with a 5:00 pmtemperature of 68. maybe even 70 in a couple of spots today. notice the high clouds overhead. clear skies here in northwest. showers out to the west. 36 manassas.

reagan national 47. a nice, pleasant afternoon with an increase in clouds. everybody else should be the upper 60s maybe even 70. i'll be back with a warmer 7- day forecast. in a few minutes. right now to monika with timesaver traffic. the ramp from route 450 to the inner loop of the beltway, that is a disabled vehicle. doesn't seem like it is causing too much of a back-up. we'll take you over to the maps. no problems on the beltway. just the usual slow spots this morning. here at 66. as usual leaving route 50. we'll take a live look at the dulles toll road. if you are leaving the airport looking fine. inbound this morning too the beltway lanes are open.

over at the north side of town, leaving college park it is going to be into silver springs. a live look at 270, where you have the brake lights beginning here most of the way toward shady grove road. an update on virginia roads at 6:43. andrea, mike? britain's prince harry is wrapping up a tour of the americas with a stop in brazil. >> cbs this morning is taking a closer look into his life. >> good morning, andrea and mike. ahead on cbs this morning, as you noticed a rare one-on-one interview with prince harry. you'll notice what he was coming to terms with. plus you'll hear what he calls the worst bit, about being a child at the royal dinner table. only on cbs this morning. we'll see you at 7:00. are you having difficulty

dealing with the first work week with daylight savings time? >> i was scheduled for an early meeting somewhere and all of a sudden i realized i was already an hour behind. i had to make phone calls and say i'm coming, i'm coming. >> it is a little harder when you have to do the morning shift too charlottely. >> indeed. i'm growing accustomed, week by week. we'll see you at 7:00. time now to focus on the presidential campaign. we are 24 hours away from two more primaries in the gop rice. alabama is shaping up to be a close one. newt gingrich leads the pack with 21% but mitt romney is right behind at 20%. voters in mississippi also go to the polls tomorrow. romney holds the lead there. santorum is using these contests to position himself as the alternative to romney, hoping

to push gingrich right out of the race. i understand there is a regional deal for congress warm gingrich. but he has won two states out of 25 races so far. it is just not going anywhere for him. >> over the weekend kansas went for santorum. there he picked up 33 more delegates. it is a week before spring break and students at the university of maryland l talking about the arrest of one of their classmates. >> he is accused of making threats of violence. delia has more. >> reporter: andrea, students here on campus learned about the details at 11:30 last night. more than 13 hours after police moved in on campus and made the arrest. let's look at just exactly what led to the arrest. we are talking about the quotes

that were online. quote i will be on a shooting rampage tomorrow on campus, of course that is the student referring to sunday. hopefully i will kill enough people to make it to national news. stay away from the mall tomorrow at 1:30. here's what we know about 19 i don't think alexander song. he was a sophomore on campus and right now he is suspended, banned from college park. he was a somebody of the exclusive gemstone program where students work with faculty. police searched song's dorm room we are told after his arrest sunday morning and found no weapons inside. still, the young man has been charged with a misdemeanor crime. he now taces up to $2500 in fines and could land himself in jail. right now though, he is in the

hospital, undergoing a psychiatric evaluation. dc police want to find two people of interest in a shooting inside a columbia heights restaurant. a man was shot in the chest in an i hop on irving street. police want to talk with a man and woman seen leaving the restaurant after the shooting. this weekend a quiet reminder of a horrific crime. a year ago jaina murray was killed inside the will you will you lemon -- the lou lou lemon athletic store. her brother came to dc to mark the anniversary. >> my wife and i decided to come up to dc and we ran in the st. patrick's day 8 kdown in dc, just to kind of commemorate an

activity that jaina enjoyed and a race she has run in the past. >> jaina murray's parents sent a flower arrangement to the store. lawmakers were supposed to finish work on a budget plan but they didn't. that means they will return to the capital later this month. both parties hope to hammer out a compromise on the two year $85 billion spending plan. democrats have twice rejected republican budget plans. it is 6:36. the latest national employment report shows the job mark is getting better and we have two jobs for you to consider this morning. joining me now is the other jessica, jessica clark. thanks for having me. >> how is the local job market looking to you? >> the local job market is actually really great.

we are lucky to be in this area. you have pretty much the metro area growing and we never really were hit that hard. so it is pretty positive around here. >> which dumb is hiring? >> it is quality software services incorporated, they are harked -- head quartered in columbia, maryland. >> tell us about the jobs you have available. >> the first position is actually for a developer, standard with a lot of the skills, for any software developer position. but more specifically looking for someone with j2 ee, as well as tile, strut and more

particularly, looking for someone that has built applications. >> now what is the other job? not a tech necessarily related position? >> it is a vp or director of business development. they are looking for someone with a minimum of five years of experience in federal prociewrm, minimum two years of experience in virginia or military health system. sesand someone who has a general idea of the it environment. >> reporter: thanks so much for coming in. to apply go to job box? >> yes our go to their website as well. thanks for coming in. over to andrea and mike. ways to help combat that

jet lag feeling you get when you turn the clocks ahead one hour. >> it is dark out there now but the sun doesn't set until after 7:00 tonight. ahead, a 7-day forecast we think you are going to like. and here's what is on channel 9 tonight. how i me your mother, then two broke girls. >> two and a half men, followed by mike and molly and hawaii 5- 0 we will be right back.

welcome back it 9news now. 6:43. good morning everybody. you just got the normal slow stuff inside the beltway at 66 and 395. 95 brake lights forming in dale city. you are going about 25 miles

per hour as you head into the woodbridge area and across the river. we'll take a live look in springfield on northbound i-95. let's go you have got the slow traffic. it looks pretty much like this. up to 14th street bridge. back over to the maps this time to suggest then maryland, where we have been running incident free on route 4, route 5, route 401. lapse are moving well between alexandria and oxen hill. howard always has your weather first but he has a shotout first. >> i have to congratulate my sons up in frederick, maryland at skate frederick, phillip, great job, and tray, who scored in dramatic fashion in overtime, you are the man.

come back victim try for the boys. weatherwise, spring is making a come back it is going to feel like may more than march over the next few days. temperatures on the chilly side this morning. jacket weather but this would be one of the few mornings i think you'll need a yak this week sunrise not until 7:23 eastern daylight time. 60 at 4:00 p.m. 68 degrees, clouds moving in southerly winds at 10 miles per hour. by 8:00, couple of showers here and there 37 in dc. culpepper in the 30s. 46 at the pax river naval air station. north of winchester.

look at the beautiful sky behind the capital on our michael and son weather camera this morning. 47, feeling like 45 with a light south southwest wind at 5 miles per hour. temperatures are really warm here in the ohio and tennessee valleys. bringing in the warmth as well. showers across indiana and ohio. again with the southerly wind. we are ta talking temperatures 15 to 25 degrees above average. >> showers moving in after dark. each by midnight showers overnight especially south and east of town. sunshine, but the threat for an isolated shower or a rumble of

thunder. some areas may get to 70. showers tonight. a warmer day tuesday. 77 a chance for an afternoon shower. wednesday and thursday look very nice. as we head toward friday and saturday, we have to reintroduce showers the possibility of thunder. we have the race saturday the usa marathon here. mike and andrea, back to you. thank you howard, take a look at this video. this is what it looks like outside at this time thursday morning. a nice and sunny drive in for the morning commute. now look live this morning. it is still dark outside. the mornings can be the downside when you start daylight savings time. you start driving to work in the dark again. you can enjoy a little sun after

dinner. some of us have a hard time adjusting. even though you just lose an hour of sleep, make sure, no matter what you get seven or eight hours of sleep per night. it helps pretty good. try to avoid excessive amounts of alcohol or caffeine,. >> i can't do that. it will mess up your body's chemistry. >> mine's already gone. >> get some sun today. one other thing you should do, when we move the clocks, replace the batteries in your polk detector. even if the batteries are still working you want a fresh set in there. mark your calendars, we fall back and regain our hour november 4ing. time to reveal our answer to the question of the morning. today's question was, what is the number one thing most adults still have from their

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monday march 12th. here's a check of the news before you go. another day of debate in annapolis over a proposed smoking ban that would make it illegal for adults to light up in the car when there is a child in the car. six other states have similar bans. the future of downtown wheaton, maryland will talk about a plan to add near the metro station. dc tops tryon tow 2-0. caps get the islanders tomorrow. learn the biggest misconceptions about what it means to be healthy. >> for what we have one more check of traffic and weather here on 9news now.

one more thing before we go. if football is over, it is still important. sometimes i think excessively in some cases. peyton manning visits a few places this weekend. he went to arizona and apparently denver. and the media followed him in a helicopter to get shots of him getting off an airplane. >> slow news day. >> remember when he left indianapolis and went to florida, it was like watching o. j. simpson again as he pulled into his condo. slow media day. hey weather wise i think we are in yes ma'am, a pretty nice week. upper 60s near 70s today. showers tonight. look at the temperatures, 77, 75, 76. toward the end of the week pour showers possible. hopefully that will not impact the marathon on saturday morning. a live look first from sky 9. it has not been a bad ride on the southbound side of the bw parkway.

just a bit of slow traffic as you approach the beltway. we'll take a live look as well planning into downtown, nice shot here and it is still dark out, look at that. and a quick look live at the camera 35 heading northbound. choppy trading so far on asian markets and european markets. as we look for direction this morning. >> greece again? >> greece is okay right now. >> sure. for the moment. >> all right. cbs this morning is coming up next. they are going to have the latest on the shoot nags afghanistan and preview tomorrow's presidential primaries. and when you are at work or anywhere else, get your news by visiting wusa9.com. we'll see you tomorrow morning starting at 4:25. until then, have