of beatdowns on that station. greg g.: coming up for most of you, your local news. then dave has ryan reynolds and music from dirks bentley. that's followed by "the late late show with craig ferguson" on cbs. for our entire march madness broadcast team, i'm greg gumbel, thanks for watching, everyone. gumbel, thanks for watching, everyone. we'll see you tomorrow. [the captioning on this program is provided as an independent service of the national captioning institute, inc., which is solely responsible for the accurate and complete transcription of program content. cbs, its parent and affiliated companies, and their respective agents and divisions are not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any transcription or for any errors in transcription.]

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. this is 9news now. it certainly would not be march madness without upsets and it was certainly david over goliath earlier as bcu moves ahead against wichita state.

but come tomorrow afternoon, all eyes will be on the georgetown hoyas as they take the floor against belmont in ohio. our dave owens is in columbus tonight with the team. >> reporter: well, guys, so many teams come into march madness looking to make history. georgetown wants to erase history, as in recent history. the last couple of trips to the tournament have not been kind and they're tired of hearing about it. >> it does get tiring to answer that question. but, i mean, it's -- i think people are going to ask because it happens two times in a row so they're expecting it to happen again. >> they were better. i'm going to be flat out honest. they were a better team last year. they were more prepared than we were. i felt like we came out a little too lax. and i think that is what really heard us. >> you realize everyone is good and the numbers next to the name mean nothing. nothing. we've learned that the last couple of years. >> reporter: georgetown's road starts with a tough one. belmont. just who are these bruins and why are they such a tough

matchup? we'll explore that a little later in sports. from columbus, dave owens, 9 sports now. >> thank you, dave. and so the question tonight, who brought cinderella to the big dance this year. it turns out it was the same date from last year. bcu busting up some brackets with the upset win over wichita state. the rams took the lead late and then they survived a late run holding on to win by three. this is the 35th time since the field expanded to 64 teams that a 12th seed as upset a number 5 seed. that is my pick for the game of the night. if only bcu had been on my bracket because we started a friendly bracket. i'm up against dave owens, kristen berset, lurch from the sports junkies on wajk and all news new as well. do you want to know more about

it, go over to wusa9.com. click the tv anchor challenge. see how you're matching up. new at 11:00, right now police need your help to find a 9-year-old boy. prince county police issued an amber alert for wuilbert garcia. his mom picked him up and she does not have custody. she had maryland license plate number 8 ag-0407. if you have any information, the police want to hear from you. tonight only on 9, the mother of heather mcguire speaking out. the 37-year-old had been staying at a friend's home when her estranged husband broke into the house, beat her and then forced her into other hen car. he then shot her in the head and dumped her body into the middle of connecticut avenue. he later turned the gun on himself while surrounded in police inside a home in

rockville. only our kristin fisher spoke with the mother today outside the montgomery county crisis center. >> i wish i could have been there for her. i can't imagine the terror and the pain that she went through by herself. >> reporter: jillian kenny shook with sadness and anger as she remembers how she learned her daughter had been murdered. >> i spoke with the police. they said they were going to meet me at my work. and i had the feeling that it was going to be really bad. >> reporter: it wasn't just bad. it was the very thing that joanne and her entire family had feared would happen for 8 years, ever since they met the man they now call a monster. an ex boxer with a long history of abuse and violence. >> it's just unbelievable. this person had threatened her life so many times. he had threatened my family. >> reporter: in one protective order, he told her i don't need a gun.

i can just snap your neck. he stalked her, physically abused her, possibly even tracked her whereabouts with a gps device on her van. the same van where he shot and killed her. this mother of six would have been 38 on sunday. now her family is preparing for her funeral. >> for what she had been through, she was the most courageous person that i've ever known. plus she loved her children more than anything in the whole world. she had a lot to offer in her life. it shouldn't have been cut short. >> reporter: joanne says she beliefs the judicial system failed her daughter and now she's fighting to get custody of three of her children. if you would like to help all six of those children who lost their mother and father, go to our website wusa9.com. there we have information about the heather mcguire memorial fund.

a veteran foreign service officer says he's being unfairly fired from the state department after writing a book critical of policy in iraq and posting a blog item about the secretary of state hillary clinton that is so vile we can't come close to saying it on television. here is gary nurenberg. >> a terrible station. >> reporter: peter van buren says his job was helping. >> it was assisting citizens that got into trouble. if you were abroad and got into trouble, were a victim of terrorism, i was the one that was sent out there. >> reporter: tough duty at times recovered the bodies of people killed and wrote a book about it releasing information. >> the waste of lives, the waste of money was so extreme and the lies that were being told in washington that i decided to risk my career and speak out. >> reporter: his publisher recommended he start a blob. >> and the blob grew to the

popularity as it has now and they got angrier and angrier at me. >> reporter: he called michelle bachmann insane and was so vile commenting about hillary clinton's remarks we can't repeat it other than to say it looks rush limbaugh look gentile. >> i work for you, the people, and i have an obligation to tell you what goes on inside your government. if i didn't tell you what happened in iraq, who could. who could? >> reporter: now the state department is trying to fire him. >> they have stood up for the rights of bloggers in syria, iran and vietnam while at the same time saying i as an american citizen don't have my first amendment rights simply because i work in her building. >> reporter: a spokesperson says we cannot comment on mr. van buren's specific case or any other employee except to say

the claims of retaliation in this case are without merit. gary nurenberg, 9news now. an update now on a story you saw first on 9. a local priest who denied communion to a woman at his mother's funeral said he did it because she openly introduced another woman to him as her lover. the father says barbara johnson openly confessed her sin so he withheld the communion. she forced the issue on him just moments before the funeral. now, she says he is lying and she never introduced her partner, let alone called the woman her lover. he has been placed on administrative leave. a new anti-smoking ad campaign is getting ready to launch nationwide. and when it does, it should raise a few eyebrows and perhaps even turn a few stomachs. and that's exactly what it's intended to do. matt jablow has details. >> i'm going to get ready in the morning. >> reporter: get ready to see a lot of terry hall whose long

time smoking habit led to cancer of the larynx. >> my fingers started to go piece by piece. >> reporter: roosevelt smith is about to have his 15 minutes of fame as well. >> even when i was having my heart attacks, i still smoked a cigarette during the heart attack. yes. >> reporter: smith and hall are two of the people pro filed in a new graphic ad campaign designed by the centers for disease control to get people to stop smoking. >> advertising works. showing the reality of people's lives and what smoking does to your ability to live out your life as you want to live it, that's maybe the most motivating thing to get a smoker to quit. >> reporter: the ad campaign is expected to cost $54 million, a small amount according to the center for disease control compared to the $27 million a day that tobacco companies spend promoting their products. they help it helps persuade 50

million children to not smoke. 9 out of 10 began smoking at age 18. >> from every person that dies from smoking, at least two new young smokers take their place. >> reporter: the ad campaign officially begis on monday. matt jablow, 9news now. >> whoa. wow. 440 thousand,000 million americans die from smoking related illnesses a year and two tobacco companies issued statements. neither address the cdc campaign but both acknowledge smoking is dangerous. there is a campaign to get a new movie's audience rating from an r down to a pg 13. it stretches all the way into cyber space. the movie is called bully, a brutally honest documentary about kids bullying other kids and it is meant to be viewed by kids. but that r rating could get in the way. the movie got that r because of

the f word that is used by bullies. lee hirsh is the director. >> the f word conveys the brutality of the bullying. it's important. it's not over the top. there has been many films with far more usage of the f word than this that have been given a pg13. >> an online petition to get the rating changed has drawn hundreds of thousands of spourters. coming up next -- supporters. coming up next, crooks stealing the same equipment that helps catch them. plus the warmth and stink bugs. we'll tell you how to get rid of them. >> lady bugs are coming back. why not. 82 was the record high today. 84 at dulles. here is your wakeup weather. temperatures still above average. 56-62 at the start. 55-60 by 70s and in the 60s by 90s. we'll come back and tell you if you're going to need your

umbrella. we made changes on the weekend forecast. we'll tell you about those too.

dazed and confused but somehow able to walk away from one nasty hit and run.

well, check this guy out. he's crossing a street down in richmond, virginia. and as we point out, he is in the crosswalk. well, a car comes along and hits him dead on. he flips over the hood, on to the pavement. the driver as you can see never even slowed down. the victim gets up, somehow manages to walk to a convenience store, called the cops. we're told he didn't suffer any major injuries. they're still looking for the driver. also caught on camera thieves stealing the camera. the security tape is rolling as the men yank out one camera after another. in fact, they took a total of 12 of them. so, yes, they have all the cameras. but police still had all of the video, including these do it yourself mug shots you see right here. here they are. so it didn't take long to catch up with those guys. well, today's weather will be pretty normal, if this was florida. but for the dc metro, it was a record high. and as we show you, folks really

were out taking advantage of it. >> reporter: isn't it madness in march when fewer people are watching these games. >> it's amazing. >> reporter: than gazing at these blossoms . >> it's gorgeous. >> i think it's absolutely beautiful. >> i cannot believe it. >> i like the colors. >> reporter: for the artists. >> i'm sitting out here in short sleeves and it's nice. >> reporter: today's weather provided a wealth of material. and if you are john hensley. >> and your age is 90. >> reporter: this early spring is even more special. >> it's beautiful. everyone should be down on one knee given thanks. >> reporter: but it is only march 15th and mother nature can be a tease. >> you can't fool mother nature. >> reporter: are you sure? take a look over here. >> love is in the air. >> reporter: but some might say don't

let your guard down yet. >> it makes me look over my shoulder and think, okay, are we going to get hit with two feet of snow next week. >> reporter: in northwest washington, 9news now. >> we're going to hope we don't get the 2 feet of snow thing. in the meantime, they are back. the warm weather is luring the stink bugs out of hiding. their annual exodus for these pesky insects came early than normal. the best way to get rid of them, suck them up in your vacuum cleaner and then toss them into a bucket of soapy water. okay. >> uh-huh. >> get rid of them like that. >> lady bugs are coming back too. >> and they're cool. >> they're okay. they're fine. >> yes. >> some of the things i've done, i've opened the doors for the bird nests. they're going to come back. the martins are coming back. >> you have bird feeders in your back yard? >> yes. they're a little ahead of schedule. if you haven't opened the doors, open them up. 82 today.

is it june? no. it is still mid march. let's take a live look outside. this is our live look at our weather cam. this is wisconsin. temperatures are cooler but they're still very nice. i mean, 56. that's about our average high right now. winds east, northeast at 10. a little front slipped through the south. that will keep us a little cooler tonight. it will drop temps a little tomorrow but more so over the weekend, and we'll talk about those changes in a minute. the front will go north of us tomorrow and we'll still be pretty warm. pressure rising 30.19 inches of mercury. we'll widen out the radar. look at the storms in northern ohio. cleveland is getting hammered. another banch of storm in the tennessee -- batch of storm in the tennessee valley. i think some thunderstorms could develop before dawn. mr. bernstein will be here

shortly at 4:25. a couple storms will make it in west of the divide in the next couple of hours. we're not going to see a lot of storms tomorrow but a chance. you might want to bring the umbrella. odds are you won't need it but you might need it. not as warm on friday as today. that said, we're going to go from the 80s to the 70s. i think we can handle that. warm friday night. almost like summer friday night. and then mainly dry friday night as well. then the back door front gets through us again on saturday. lowers temps a little bit and then lowers temps a little more on sunday. overnight then partly to mostly cloudy. warm. showers or thunderstorms still possible. lows 55-60. winds generally light. now, tomorrow morning, we could see a shower in the morning. i think the main bulk of the commute is going to be dry. temps in the 50s and 60s. winds out of the south at 10. by afternoon, variable clouds and warm. a shower or thunderstorm possible. high temps around 75. and the winds are southwest at 10. the winds don't turn southwest tomorrow, we'll probably hold

around 70. the front should go back to the north of us, though. let's talk about the zone -- high temperatures on friday. generally 75 in gaithersburg. 74 in leesburg. 74 in manassas. we're looking at 76 downtown and maybe 75 over in college park. that is still almost 20 degrees above average. all right. we'll break it down. 55-60 to start. maybe a shower or a storm at noon. pretty mild, though. 70-74. and then by evening, 73-77. maybe a shower or a thunderstorm. umbrella is a good idea but not a necessity. all right. next seven days, we drop temps a little bit. now, on saturday we're still 70. still dry for the rock 'n' roll marathon. it's also saint patty's day. maybe a sprinkle west and south of town. we'll keep sunday dried. we lowered temps a little back to 69. we kind of crawl back to the low 70s on monday.

and then we go back to the mid to upper 70s with sunshine next wednesday and thursday. so no two feet of snow coming at least for the next couple of days. >> thank you, top. you just mentioned it. don't forget wusa is the home for the sunday trust rock 'n' roll marathon. runners will go throughout all four quadrants of the city. andrea roane anchors the marathon. if you want more information, head on over to wusa9.com. now, earlier tonight anita brikman was down at the arm re connected for the mare -- armory connected for the marathon. anita is not thinking of you. here she is. she is modeling the green tutu. we wanted to see if any of the facebook viewers could caption the photo for us. so they write who needs

tinkerbell. the new host for project fun way. and joe says, guys, seriously, does this make me look fat. [ laughing ]. >> i like that. >> i like the last one. >> pretty good. >> that's why we saved that for last. >> yes. now let's talk ncaa march madness. if you stayed up this late, you know you were watching the game. >> exactly. lots of great games. there haven't been too many upsets in the tournaments and the hoyas are hoping to keep it that way. can georgetown end a rash of early exits. plus has the clock struck midnight on bcu. we have that coming up next. whatcha lookin' for hon?

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now 9 sports with kristen berset, the best sports in town. >> georgetown's recent regular season success hasn't translated to the ncaa tournament, but they are anxious for another chance to change all of that. dave owens has more from columbus as the hoyas prepare to face the belmont bruins. >> reporter: it's about as far removed from a real practice as it gets. a one-hour preamble on stage in front of a live audience. >> how do you feel? >> anxious and nervous as heck. >> reporter: let's hope the players don't know that. either way, they have a chance

to test out the nationwide arena deck. veterans like jason clark. been there. done that. >> i think if i had to pick it, it's going to be a business trick. >> reporter: the newbies, not so much. >> when you grow up and watching this stuff and to finally be here. >> reporter: the lights may be shining on the hoyas, but can they win a first game? last year bounced by bcu. >> they were more prepared than we were. i felt like we came out a little too lax. >> reporter: this year another david and goliath matchup. >> they can put the ball to the basket. and what they do, they're very good in transition. >> they have a lot of shooters. we have to chase them down off the three 3-point line. >> reporter: you've earned today. let's use it. >> you don't want to lose so

you're going to play your heart out. every play give it your all. >> reporter: dave owens, 9 sports now. >> the hoyas play at 3:00 p.m. friday in columbus. that game will be broadcast on tru tv. you can go to wusa9.com and find out where to tune in. i guess that's today now. a 12 seed has upset a 5 seed in a tournament after last year's cinderella run. the question is can they do it again? does the slipper still fit? the rams taking on wichita state in one of the most talked about matchups in the tournament. bcu down 2. burgess wide open. with 20 seconds left, sayas floats a ball over. gets the generous bounce and that is all bcu needed. they do it again shocking the shockers 62-59 for the first upset of the tournament. >> even after wichita state took the lead, we didn't put our

heads down. we kept fighting. and then these guys really made some huge plays down the stretch, which turned out to be the difference in the game. >> john stockton rooting on his alma mater. the mountaineers seemed lethargic all game and they took advantage sending them home early 77-64. they play the winner of this game taking on ohio state. but the greyhounds dancing ends early. the wizards making moves today in a three-game trade. the wizards get nana, ryan cook and a second round pick in 2015. just hours later, the wizards take the court in new orleans facing the hornets. they never looked back. john wall having some fun tonight. behind the back layup.

he had 26 points. 12 assists on the night. they won tonight by 10. all right. this not necessarily a sight caps fans want to see. that is alex ovechkin face down. ov and mike kanuble collided. ovechkin is okay and will probably suit up tomorrow night against winnipeg. >> nana not one of the nba's wives. >> a big 6-foot 11-foot player. >> right. just checking. welcome. good night.