thank you for joining us, i'm andrea roane. j.c. hayward is off today. we begin with a plea deal stemming from the tragic death of a two-year-old boy.

veterinarian karen murphy left her toddler in it a hot van last july. charges were reduce and murphy pled guilty to misdemeanor child neglect charges. prosecutors agreed the death of the boy was an accident. >> i couldn't see that the felony would serve justice. she would not have, she wouldn't be able to practice medicine any more. we wouldn't be able to use her at the animal shelter. and to hut her -- to put her in the pen ten try or subject her to the penitentiary i don't feel was appropriate in there case. >> murphy did not receive jail time but still has to serve three years of probation and complete 400 hours of community service. a university of maryland student is undergoing psychiatric evaluation after posting an online threat, promising to go on a shooting rampage at the school. campus police say the web message from 19-year-old

alexander song claimed a shooting spree would kill enough people to make it national news. >> reporter: students returned to classes today shocked yet relieved. there is no longer a threat. >> i was very scared. i thought of the virginia tech thing. >> reporter: 1-year-old sophomore alexander song arrested for posting threats about a shooting rampage at college park. a former student who chats with song online read the post saturday and quickly called police. they ready will be in a shooting rampage tomorrow on campus. hopefully i kill enough people to make it to national news. stay away from the mall at 1:30. >> i would not think that would happen here. especially like a lot of the kids are all, i guess a lot of pressure. >> reporter: song was an honor student and a member of the exclusive gemstone program for science and technology research. the howard county teen was arrested on campus sunday morning without incident or weapons on him.

police say a search of his dorm room came up clean as well. >> i think they did the right thing in the situation. >> reporter: police notified students via e-mail 11:30 sunday night, 13 hours after song's arrest, and after, police say, rumors started circulating around campus and frantic parents called police. >> are they hiding something? why was it at night? >> reporter: police tell us they informed students on a case by case basis. however now they say they think they could have told students sooner about this incident. so now, they'll review their policy and consider using social media as a better tool. in college park, 9news now. >> police say song is charged with disturbing the orderly conduct of university activities, that is a misdemeanor. he has been suspend and is banned from campus. the defense received its chance today to present evidence stemming from a pair of lawsuits over the 2007 shootings at virginia tech. 31 students and a profess tore

were -- professor were killed the school says it believed the first initial murders were from a domestic dispute and did for the want to cause a panic on campus. trustees at penn state say a failure by the late football coach joe paterno to follow-up on a sexual abuse allegation against former assistant jerry sandusky quote constituted a failure of leadership. that ultimately led to his firing in november. a report issued today by the trustee says the board decided to fire coach paterno after learning details of his testimony before a grand jury. the board decided to fire paterno by phone because his home was surrounded of media. the coach died of lung cancer in january. police want to find two people of interest in a shooting inside a columbia heights restaurant. a man was shot in the chest inside the i-hop on everybodying

street northwest. he is expected to survive. police want to talk with a man and woman seen leaving the restaurant just after the shooting. and district police have shut down a northwest washington restaurant after a tabbing there this weekend. police say a fight broke out between two men at the island cafe. one man was stabbed in the stomach. he is expected to survive. police chief lanier ordered the restaurant to remain closed for up to 96 hours pending a review from the city's liquor board. this weekend marked the one year anniversary of one of the area's most notorious crime. jaina murray was beaten to death inside the lou lemon store in 2011. her coworker, britney norwood, was convicted of the crime. murray's brother and sister-in-law came to dc to mark the milestone. >> we ran the 8 k, race down in

dc to 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 and visited her gravesite in houston. we are less than 24 hours away from two more gop presidential primaries. the focus is on the south and rick santorum is hoping a strong showing could be enough to make it a two-man race. >> reporter: mitt romney is celebrating his 65ing birthday on the campaign trail in alabama. >> i want to say thanks to you forgiving me this birthday present. >> reporter: one of two southern states holding republican primaries tomorrow. >> i think it is time to send a president to washington who can fix things in this country. >> reporter: rick santorum is sending time in mississippi. the other state where republican voters will head to the polls. a new cbs news new york times poll shows santorum leads the

poll over republican primary voters with 34%. romney trails just behind with 30%. newt gingrich and ron paul are still far behind, but the poll also shows that most republican voters, 73%, expect romney will eventually win the nomination. >> this primary is very, very important. >> reporter: tomorrow's primaries are critical for gingrich, who is resisting calls to drop out of the race. >> at some point it become irrelevant when he is in the race. i think this race is going to become a two person race. >> reporter: gingrich maintains he will pull out wins over social in the south -- over santorum in the south. >> he represents being a team player on a washington team. >> reporter: santorum has momentum with a win in kansas over the weekend. but still lags considerably behind romney in the delegate count. >> rick santorum said today he predicts he will get the

nomination if the race is still undecided by the june republican convention. long before he was known as tricky dick, former president richard nixon was a man in love. the nixon library is preparing to release love letters he wrote to his wife-to-be, patricia ryan. the water gate -- water gate scandal would later bring down the nixon presidency. he resigned the presidency in 1974. some call it an unforgivable crime. a u.s. soldier goes on a deadly shooting spree in afghanistan. we'll have the latest reaction.

welcome back to 9news at noon. the taliban is vowing revenge after an american soldier went on a deadly shooting spree in afghanistan. 16 were killed, including several children. the soldier is currently in custody and defense secretary leon panetta says a full investigation is underway. danielle nottingham has more. >> reporter: president obama called the killings tragic and shocking. the white house says he called

president karzai to send condolences. >> the afghan people with stand pain and collateral damage, but murder is something, something that they totally abhor, and when that happens, they really want justice. >> reporter: the military says the suspect is from joint base lewis in washington state. a coffee house near the base, operated by veterans, is planning a vigil today. >> if this guy is traumatized being sent overseas and basically a time bomb waiting to go off. things like there don't show the people of afghanistan that we are actually there to help them. >> reporter: a distant learning professor for troops in afghanistan believes multiple tours of duty are taking their toll. >> i thought of how many of them are on their third or fourth or fifth tour of duty.

and i said what can you expect? >> reporter: senate majority leader harry reid is also weighing in. >> our troops are under such tremendous pressure in afghanistan. it is a war like no other war we have been involved in. i think we are on the right track to get out as soon as we can. >> reporter: i'm greg black for 9news now. as we just heard american combat troops are scheduled to leave afghanistan by 2014. and the suspected gunman in the afghan massacre was based outside seattle washington. it is one of the largest military bases in the u.s. and one of the most troubled. it has come under fire for the behavior of many of its soldiers. some say it came as no surprise this latest gunman came from that joint base lewis mcchord. >> it had trouble both when it was over in the afghanistan with the kill team of the rogue

soldiers targeting afghan civilians and also trouble on the home side when soldiers were coming back. >> the military newspaper stars and stripes also dubbed lewis mcchord the most troubled base in the military, we'll have more, right after this,

how would you like it if a team of skilled workers came to your home and made all repairs for free? i know what you are thinking. that is exactly what rebuilding together does. we are featuring them today on

hero central. rebuilding together at washington, d.c. makes free repairs for low income homeowners. especially veterans, the elderly, disabled, and families with children. they also renovate community facilities that serve their target population. >> what we do is perform free repairs at community facilities all around the city. many of them focus on services to the homeless community like the one we are working on today. where homeless families are served, they have a place to wash their clothes, so we got them a new wash and drier, they have a place to get a meal. >> today volunteers from the washington nationals are working at shirley's place. a homeless hospitality center that offers showers, food, and a comforting environment. >> this is something we look forward to with the nationals every year. we do this once a year, out in the community and really get a lot of personal satisfaction out of doing this type of project.

>> skilled workers are building shelves, installing cabinets and even adding a play area for children. walls are being painted, and shirley's place will have a fresh new look. >> i'm really glad they are doing a lot of restoration, even though it is a beautiful place in the beginning, i'm really excited about the children's area and i'm sure my daughter is going to be really excited, too. >> she comes here every day. you or your organization can actually sponsor a project. rebuilding together of washington, d.c. will work with you. they will match you up with a needy homeowner and guide you, step by step. i can assure you it will be a meaningful volunteer experience. >> our files bulge with thank you notes of saying thank you, i can now stay in my home. there is no place like home.

this is where people want to stay. they don't want to be removed and go to a nursing facility. they want to stay in their house. what we do allows people to stay. j.c. hayward 9news now. this year, rebuildling together dc celebrates its 29th an versery. to learn more about sponsoring a project, go to j.c. hayward.com for details. people living in houston are mopping up after a very wet weekend. severe thunderstorms led to minor flooding. there were reports of weather related flight delays at bush intercontinental and hobby hair port. remember how bad the drought was last summer in texas and it has been a rather wet winter into spring now for them. >> probably all of that rain washing away some of the al genes in the air in texas. >> reporter: around here we have had mild conditions, really starting yesterday. i know it was a chilly day on saturday but the allergy count

has just come in. this week, i think these numbers are only going to be getting higher and higher. looking at the tree pollen, cedars, saipaia -- cypress, juniper. each number is sort of the high, medium low, for the category. 33 trees is medium, while 631 mold is low. again that is considered low and grass pollen just a little bit of that. the weed pollen is absent to -- today. the day planner 64 degrees by 1:00. a couple of high clouds. generally a decent amount of sunshine. upper 60s, maybe even near 70 in a few areas. winds out of the south, 10 to 15. in the evening the clouds are going to thicken up. and tonight we could see a couple of hours approaching by 9:00. i think maybe toward 11:00, 12:00, might have a better chance for showers to be moving in. so our weather headlines, showers tonight, dry through

the day. a chance also tomorrow of an afternoon shower and even an isolated thunderstorm and much more like may than march. as temperatures will be in the 70s for the rest of the week. the average high is 54, will be a good 15, 20 above that. this morning it was cold, no question about it. especially up in frederick, leesburg, manassas, martinsburg, 45. even cambridge, 39 degrees. sunshine today what a nice recovery. we are now in the upper 50s and low 60s out there. 63 over at andrews air force base. a little bit cooler onshore breeze at the naval academy. fredericksburg, 68. going into the 70s. a gorgeous day out there. plenty of sunshine, 59 degrees at reagan national. while it looks mostly cloudy, these are high, thin clouds all thanks to this storm system here. by the way, this is a neat

feature. follow this cloud coming around the base. that is going to bring maybe 80 miles per hour win gusts to the central washington oregon coast. we have the showers moving up into the great lakes. these showers extend down toward the gulf of mexico. this moisture is going to head toward us tonight even tomorrow along with warmer temperatures than even what we are dealing with today. the futurecast here come some of those clouds by 5:00 p.m. some of those showers not too many of them. after midnight, look at the showers east of i 99. we'll be dealing with that overnight. a few showers early. this will sweep south and east of us. a nice break for lunch time and potentially a few more showers pop tomorrow afternoon. really very spring like out there with temperatures way above average. don't take things out. we could still get frost or freezing weather. i mean, it is early in the season. we are not into the heart of the growing season despite the temp. 50 to 55 tonight with the

showers. tomorrow 77, the afternoon shower. isolated thunderstorms can't be rolled out. mid 70s wednesday, thursday and friday. friday and saturday, a chance of showers come back. i know we have the big sun trust marathon saturday morning. could be a couple of raindrops around then as well. we'll be back in a moment. you are watching 9news now at noon.

welcome back to 9news now. pass over starts in justify a few weeks. on april, april 6th in fact. if your recipes could use just a little bit of spicing up, we have the ticket for you, tim is here, welcome, he is with rose of metroplex kahn na. i think people would say jewish tradition and mexico don't mix but it goes back many years done it? >> yes this is the tenth year

rose metroplex kahn know is celebrating pass over. >> what are the ingredients today? >> today i'm making beef brisket tacos, so i have beef brisket that we braise with onions, and cooking juice that we -- jus that we add in here. >> is this a serving or what you are preparing now for like a family of four? >> this, i would say is maybe half of a serving. so we are just going to have three tacos on the plate. >> okay. >> i have a salsa, also we'll use made with pomegranate and we have braised red torpedo onions. >> you were saying it has been

ten years you have been doing this. jews have been in mexico since the 15th century. as you say you are making tacos but the spices, do they differ from where the jews came from? or how do you decide what spices you are going to put in your mexican jewish dishes? >> you know, we have a culinary advisor, jonathan wax man, who is jewish, he has lent his expertise to our pass over. so he has chosen has been narrow chiles for this dish. >> what other dishes are you preparing? >> we are going to have a red snapper fish, and a couple of more items that will be determined. >> and this will be on menu throughout the hol bay? >> yes it will. can't wait to taste this. and again, we have a new rose

of metroplex kahn na opening up -- of mexicana. >> howard, come on in. thank you, tim for being with us. we have the recipe on our website, wusa9.com. we hope to see you again tomorrow. have a great afternoon. enjoy