neighborhood watch captain shot him dead. george zimmerman claims self- defense. local police let him go free. the president says state and federal authorities are now investigating the case. >> i think all of us have to do soul searching to figure out how does something like this happen? >> reporter: this is the street where zimmerman spotted martin and started following him. the neighborhood watch captain said he fired the gun after the teenager attacked him. a source close to the investigation tells cbs news that zimmerman's face was bruised and bloody. but trayvon's parents say their son was not violent and only wanted to get away. >> he saw this guy as a stranger. of course he's going to try to run. >> next month, a grand jury could decide if zimmerman should be charged. trayvon's parents released this statement about president obama's comments. they thanked him for lending the support of federal agency and said they are humbled that he would take time out of his

busy schedule to talk about their son. in sanford, florida, danielle nottingham. >> thank you. the man convicted of killing the manager of a georgetown strip club was sentenced to 35 years in prison today. accused of pouring gasoline over the front of the club and the manager, vladimir, and lighting a fire. he later died. prosecutors say he was angry about being ejected from the club and this all happened in november of 2007. he is already serving time for a previous conviction. and the man convicted of killing an intern for a former d.c. council member was sentenced to more than 36 years in prison today. omari was convicted of killing alante. the body of the 18-year-old student was found near st. elizabeth hospital back in may of 2010. a stolen car, a police chase, a fiery crash. tonight, two d.c. teenagers are dead and two others hurt.

montgomery county police say they spotted the teens in a stolen car early this morning. they pursued them for a mile and a half down connecticut avenue where the teens allegedly crashed into a tree at chefly chase circle. bruce leshan spoke with the grandmother of one of the survivors. what did she have to say, bruce? >> anita, her grandson is ricco richardson who just turned 18. she told him to stay out of trouble. told him this joyriding has got to stop. but tonight, ricco is badly burned in the hospital and two of his friends are dead. >> i take pride, because i feel for the other boys. >> tears and pain in four homes across d.c. maxine miller said she spoke to the men. >> that's all i said to them. i said just stay out of trouble. >> but they did not. montgomery county police said

they spotted the four driving in a vehicle stolen this weekend in forest glenn and after a short chase, police say the driver crashed the stolen toyota echo into a tree at chevy chase circle and within minutes, it was engulfed in flames. police insist the pursuit was well within protocalls and officers acted heroically, pulling the driver and passenger out of the fire, but they could not get to the 16 and 14-year-olds in the backseat. >> one officer broke the glass on a rear passenger door in order to get the rear passengers out. when he did so at that point, the flames became more intense, another officer had to pull him away. they were unable to get the rear seat passengers out. >> the two teens who were killed were under court supervision for a nonviolent offense. and ricco richardson's grandmother was in the care of d.c. youth rehabilitation services after a previous

arrest on car theft charges. she says she spoke to him in the hospital. >> he was crying, you know, he said he's sorry. i said ricco, come on. this has to stop. too many kids are dying. you know, even though you wasn't driving, but it was still wrong. he said mom, sorry. i'm sorry, mom. >> reporter: montgomery county police insisted they were planning to break off that pursuit right there at the d.c. line at chevy chase circle. the 14 and 16-year-old so badly burned that the medical examiner will have to use dental records to positively identify them. but there is a facebook page up from a northwest d.c. mom who says words cannot describe the loss of my son, my nephew, in a deadly car crash this morning in chevy chase. please pray for me and my family.

anita. >> what a horrific outcome. bruce leshan, thank you. traffic came to a stop near heights town this morning, but there wasn't any accident. money was literally flying around in the air. an armored car lost a few bags of cash in the middle of the road. it happened in the northbound lanes near the truck scale. some passer byes scooped up. police are now asking those people to return the money. >> one of the nation's biggest mortgage lenders is testing out a plan that would keep more families from becoming homeless. the mortgage to lease program will let people facing foreclosure transfer title to their bank. they'll no longer have to pay the mortgage, baa they can rent the home for up to three years. the program is going on in new york, arizona, and nevada, but the bank says it will all be expanded. now, when it comes to the number of foreclosed home, maryland ranks number 20, or should i say in the top 20

nationally. today, hud secretary came together to hash out options for distressed homeowner who's will benefit from the settlement that was reached earlier in the year. >> the biggest federal, strait collaboration and agreement in the country's history. >> it will be the single largest principle reduction of loans we have seen. there will also be refinancing of under water homeowners who are current on their mortgages as well. >> and for homeowners who were wrongfully foreclosed on, there's help for them as well. a restitution hot line has been set up. call 888-952-9105. anita. >> the maryland state house is now approved its version of a $36 billion spending plan. it includes an income tax increase on people making more than $100,000 a year. the next step is to iron out differences between the senate and house spending plans and the deadline is coming up soon.

the general assembly is scheduled to adjourn on april 9. no new fees and no new taxes. that's the promise from d.c.'s mayor, vincent gray. he unveiled a budget today. the mayor's plan includes additional spending for police officers and the school system. the budget also includes more than $102 million in cuts. there are three main goals here. >> one, to diversify and grow the district's economy. two, to education and prepare our work force for the new economy. and three, to improve the quality of life for all people here in the city. >> mayor gray says he expects to save money from restructuring healthcare financing and cutting back on overtime as well as proposed cuts. derek. the army staff sergeant linked to the massacre of villagers in afghanistan who charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder this afternoon. staff sergeant is accused of walking off of a u.s. military

base and killing nine afghan children and eight adults. he is being held at a military prison in kansas and his lawyer said the case will be quote, extremely difficult for the prosecution, saying they have no murder scene and no forensics. but if he is convicted, bails could get the death penalty. >> prince william county paid special tribute to its fallen heros. u.s. marines raised the largest flag as part of a dedication ceremony. that flag, 30 by 50 feet and flown from an 80-foot pole. the ceremony took place at a car dealership on jefferson david highway in woodbridge. >> the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, it is spring in the most beautiful way. >> really, we have jumped. we leapfrogged april. leapfrogged may. this is like early june. here's the deal. close to record today. the record at national was always safe. the record high at national, or

downtown, was 93. however, the record high at dulles, 83, and it is 82 so far. and if you just stop march right now, it's the warmest march on record ever. well, not ever. but on record. >> okay. >> which goes back 120 years. 80 right now downtown. 82 in manassas. it's 84 in fredericksburg. we would be quite happy with this in june, actually. i'm not buying the 88 in frederick. but 80 in hagerstown. and 81 in winchester. they had that thermometer on gravel and it's hot. too hot. showers and thunderstorms to the west of us. we're in good shape this evening. in fact, a dry commute home. i think we'll see showers and thunderstorms, but not until after midnight and before dawn. partly to mostly cloudy and warm with storms. 55 to 62. winds east, southeast at 10. we'll come back and talk about the weekend and we know it's going to be unsettled. thank you topper. it is indeed very rare for the

parents of children and molestation cases to speak out. the families of two of the alleged victims in a high profile sex abuse case are talking exclusively to 9news now tonight. the defendant is well known falls church political activist, michael gardner, who was married to a former mayor. three girls who were at sleepovers at the home last june say he molested them while they were in their sleeping bags or in a bed. the gardeners were in court on thursday. our own peggy fox was there as well. you interviewed two of the fathers. >> that's right. one of the fathers actually contacted us, reached out to us. he said they are concerned about how the local falls church news press has been covering the story. the newspaper has direct ties to the defendant and they are upset the paper has requested transcripts of a hearing that they believe should be kept private. the editor of the newspaper said gardeners and his attorney refused our request to be

interviewed. wanted to speak out publicly for the first time. we agreed to protect their identity. >> take one day at a time and try to be as normal as possible and you know, every time you get to where things seem to be normal, you have another hearing like this come up. so it's a tough thing. >> defendant michael gardner and his wife, robyn gardner, a falls church city council member and former mayor prove would be a victory against child molestation charges. the falls church news press for which gardner was a recent columnist, unseeld a transcript from a december hearing. it contains information about the mental health of the three alleged victims who were 10 and 9 years old at the time. >> are you worried about character assassination? >> no one should have to go

through and i do worry, of course, someone is entitled a defense, but boy, there are lines that i fear could be crossed. >> alleged incidents happened at the gardner's home during two sleepovers last june. i sat in the courtroom for the preliminary hearing where the three girls were each detailed. one said she woke up to the sound of somebody opening her sleeping bag. another said quote, he touched me inappropriately on my chest, stomach, and vagina. he asked if it felt good and i said no. the court released the dna report. one of the most critical pieces of evidence for the prosecution is the comparison of michael gardner's dna to dna found in one of the alleged victim's underpants. a match between the underpants and michael gardner is 20.7 times more probable than a coincidental match to an

unrelated caucasian person. >> we are so proud of our children. this is one of the most difficult things that anybody could go through and they have done an amazing job. >> now a local dna expert explained to me that 1 in 20.7 means he is the only match on this planet. but there's other dna evidence the defense will try to use to its advantage. gardner was found not to be a match to a few sperm found on one of the girls pa jama pants. it's unrelated to the case and we have found an article in the canadian society of forensic science about a study that found it's likely for sperm to be transferred from one clothing item to another in the washing machine. that may be the prosecution's explanation of that dna evidence if it's allowed. >> wow. peggy, this will be continued

in court. we'll be following closely. >> thank you, peggy. >> tough to listen to. moving on to snapping the perfect picture of the cherry blossoms. lots of people trying to do it. then a little later, no fanfare on the anniversary of the signing of a moe mentous healthcare bill. a look next at the plan as it heads to the supreme court. and up next, a commuter alert about a major local road that will be closed all weekend. you need to hear this one. 9news now continues after the break.

a commuter alert for you. especially if you are driving in northern virginia. there's going to be some demolition work there and westbound route 50 will be closed between courthouse road and 10th street. that gets started at 8:00 a.m. the roadway will reopen sunday night at 8:00 p.m. washington boulevard might be a good alternative, by the way. it should be smoother sailing on metro. that's because the agency is stopping track work for the cherry blossom festival. metro says it expects a dramatic increase, particularly if the weather stays this good. more than a million people are expected to check out the cherry blossoms at the title

basin this year. they are in full bloom. >> while you are not allowed to touch those delicate flowers, many will try to take them home in picture form. photo journalist shows us the new backdrop. >> reporter: a personal picture postcard in the digital age. photographers capturing the blossoms in national memorials. >> new is dr. king and to be able to capture him with the blossoms. >> that's right. for the first time since 1943, there is a new background for the delicate blooms. >> i'm shooting from a distance and trying to frame it in such a way that i get the blossoms and the king memorial. >> pretty good focus. >> a unique experience this year. >> it is just the right light. >> i like the light that shining on the side of the face. >> a special tree. >> i focus on him and focus on the tree and i think i got some

pretty good shots. >> or special people to make that special shot. >> trying to get a picture of martin luther king's head with the cherry blossoms around it. >> with all the planning. >> i just have to wait for the people's heads to be out of the way. >> that special picture can remain elusive. >> your eyes are closed. keep in mind, only this year can shutter bugs take this picture. >> white light around each individual blossom and they are just glowing with light. so pretty. >> behind the lens at the title basin, greg, 9news now. >> what a final shot there. very nice. i would have chills, except it's too nice out. >> can't have chills with temperatures in the low 80s t. will be tough to see the blossoms this weekend. it will be spectacular. >> spectacularness will go away. >> yes, certainly. let's start with a live look outside to our live weather

cam. this is brought to you by michael and son. you're looking east. essentially sort of south down wisconsin avenue. very nice evening. it's like summer. 80 right now. hard to believe we skipped april and may. winds easterly at 7. pressure falling a little bit. and the dew point 55. that's always a rough indication how cool it can get at night. so not that cool tonight. in fact, downtown, it can hold in the 60s. all right, satellite picture radar combined, thunderstorms through chicago and ohio and back into the southeast. there's a very slow moving cold front. and it has taken four days to go for the plains, to eastern tennessee, and probably take another two days to go through us to clear us completely. so because of that, we're going to have waves of thunderstorms and showers around. especially tomorrow morning, again tomorrow afternoon. we're okay tonight. except for cumberland and the mountains and west of i-81.

after midnight and certainly by dawn tomorrow, a different story. showers and thunderstorms will be developing. look at the temperatures. 85 in rockville. are you kidding me? 80 in bethesda. 8 # 83 in great falls. 83 in college park. 81 in beltsville. so, here's the deal. unsettled weekend. a nice way of putting it. some showers or a thunderstorm tonight. but after midnight, it does appear we'll have a wet saturday morning if you have an early tee time, probably wet. certainly west of town. it's not going to be continuous rain all day. some could be heavy and some could be severe. we will keep you posted on that. all right, tonight some showers starting to develop. about 7:00, 8:00, primarily west of i-81. we'll put this into motion. not much happens at 11:00, a few showers out in garrett county. but then look what happens. we get to 2:00, 3:00 in the morning, we see storms trying to develop in a line in western

maryland through west virginia and then 6:00 in the morning, you were wet in gaithersburg and leesburg. still technically just cloudy downtown. that change is in a hurry. by 10:00, now we are seeing yellows and oranges. those are pretty heavy rain falls. big thunderstorms possible. so some heavy downpours also possible with these storms as they roll through. then we see a break. we see a big break over the bay and another line developing to the west. so, that is going to be the pattern. a couple hours to jump out and do things and then take cover again in the afternoon. so partly to mostly cloudy tonight. warm with showers and thunderstorms late. lows 55 to 62. tomorrow morning, showers and thunderstorms. temperatures, the good news is, it's going to be mild. temperatures in the 50s and 60s and winds out of the southeast. variable clouds, another wave of showers and thunderstorms. high temperatures around 70. you lose 10 degrees, but above average. next seven days looks like this. temperatures around 70 saturday and sunday.

and right now sunday could be a little dryer than saturday. now we get into monday, gorgeous. sunshine, temperatures mid 60s. gorgeous as we get into tuesday. what would we do with ourselves? that's going be crazy. and back in the 60s wednesday and thursday and friday. >> we can turn the air- conditioning off for one day next week. >> i think we can. >> do you really have yours on already? >> i don't. >> me neither. >> thanks top. all right, still ahead tonight, two women, one car, and a fight in a parking lot. we'll show you what happened next. >> and mobile shopping is taking off. next, we show you how to keep thieves from pickpocketing your virtual wallet.

a simple tap on your smart phone has made it more convenient to pay your coffee, groceries, any every day expense, but the trend raised new concerns for consumers. about how to keep their money safe and secure.

>> a new technology can take shoppers from the mall to the coffee shop to the gas station and they no longer have to thumb through their wallets for a credit card, dig for bills, or even count out coins. tap your smart phone and pay the tab. but, moving to mobile payments raises questions about keeping those transactions secure. >> mobile phones become more pref prevalent and the methods increase, it's important to look at the hurdles facing its implementation. >> concerns to those that plague search engines and social media sites. how much personal information are you ready to hand over to retailers with each transaction. >> is that something i want? is that something i can opt out of? what are the controls? i think these are all unresolved questions. >> but the convenience could make this all digital approach worth the trouble. >> for example, the information that you put on your mobile wallet can be

encrypted in a way that would make it harder for thieves to use that information than if they just had your credit card. >> adopting an option like google wallet remains far away for a lot of consumers who are not ready to cash in their real wallets. coming up on 9news, the republican presidential candidate set their sights on louisiana ahead of tomorrow's primary. >> and then later on, a will the of folks dream of building the perfect paper airplane, but probably not quite this big. i'll show it to you. up next, two years after the president signed his historic healthcare reform bill into law, the battle over it is far from finished. a look ahead at the supreme court cases. that's next. ♪

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protesters gathered outside the department of health and human services. they were speaking out against the government's mandate that employers cover the cost of contraception. thousands of americans reportedly took part in the stand up for religious freedom rally all across the country. that protest comes on the anniversary of the president's signing of his historic healthcare overall into law. in the last two years, the fighting over the measure simply hasn't stopped. >> single worst piece of legislation has been passed in the time i have been here. >> you note that the white

house is not celebrating obama care today. they don't have any big ceremony going on. the president isn't giving speeches and that's for a reason. most americans want to get rid of it and we are among those americans. >> and next week, the u.s. supreme court is set to hear arguments on the constitutionality of that reform, jan crawford has a preview. recognizing his political future and legacy could well depend on the supreme court, the president is marking the anniversary of his healthcare law by releasing emotional web videos, arguing his signature achievement is a success. >> right now, you have choices about who is going to fight for you. are we going to roll back healthcare that promises you having more security? >> when it passed by vice president biden, it was euphoric. but that's not how critics and most americans view obama's

healthcare legislation. it remains a political lightning rod. >> it's time to repeal obama care. >> and a rallying cry for the republican presidential candidate. >> every person up here understands obama care is a disaster. >> i'll repeal obama care and return rights to our people. >> it's a threat to the very essence of who america is. >> it's also a law a majority of americans have never supported. a new washington post poll, 52% oppose the law, 41% approve. and 67% think the supreme court should either strike it down completely or at least repeal the part that requires them to buy insurance or pay a penalty. that's a big issue before the justices. 26 states and a small business group are arguing the law is unconstitutional. that the federal government can't force you to buy insurance anymore than it can force you to buy broccoli. that argument has struck a cord with conservatives. an opposition to the law is one of the issues republicans will

hope them win the white house and control of congress. >> politicians get it right this time. repeal obama care now. >> and critics continue to rally the opposition. more than $262 million has been spent on healthcare issue ads since the bill became law, with negative ads outspending positive 3-1. despite all that, democrats are confident of their chances in the court. >> we knew what we were doing when we passed this bill. it is on clad constitutionally. >> that was jan crawford reporting. maryland is getting ready for whatever happens with the supreme court cases next week. today, the state announced the launch of a new website to help residents navigate the healthcare reform policies. it is designed to help you figure out the health benefits or will become available under the new reform law. president obama wants the president of the college to be in the next head of the world bank. kim is a surprising choice for

the job, but by some accounts he's a prominent figure in the global health world with extensive international experience. kim would replace robert zellic. the men who believe they will be the best option to beat president obama this fall are making their cases to louisiana voters tonight. that state's primary is tomorrow and joining me now to talk about campaign 2012, nora o'donnell. she's sitting in for bob shaefer and of course, the big question, norah, did you think the words etch a sketch would be linked? >> good day to you, derek. usually it's my four-year-old twins that are talking about a etch a sketch, not republican presidential candidates. but mitt romney's top adviser got into trouble when he said that when the general elections start, it's going to be like an etch a sketch. you can erase everything that happened before and push the reset button. it wasn't just democrats that pounced, it was also the other

republican that are running for president. newt gingrich and rick santorum have been walking around on the campaign trail with an etch a sketch in order to make fun of mitt romney. so we are going to talk to rick santorum on sunday on face the nation and in fact, he mentioned that voting that has been happening tomorrow in the state of louisiana. rick santorum is way up in the polls. >> he is way up in the polls. everybody expects him to win that. how much does it matter when some of that flow of inevidentability is around mitt romney? >> it will give rick santorum some momentum. but certainly it looks like mitt romney will become the ultimate republican nominee. but it's going to take him a while to accumulate enough of the delegates to clinch the nomination. so rick santorum will continue to be a thorn in his side and raise questions about whether mitt romney is a true conservative as rick santorum has used that particular phrase. so, we still have a battle going on right now and rick

santorum certainly got in hot water recently when he suggested that it might be better to stay with what we have now, meaning barack obama rather than vote for mitt romney. a will the of republicans were not happy with their fellow republican, rick santorum, after saying that. >> you mention battles, and newt gingrich reminds me of a boxer that has been hit and nuked around. what is holding this guy up? why is something holding him up? >> well look. newt gingrich has only won two states. he has failed to sort of really bring together a lot of that conservative support that has been behind him, especially in the south and spread that in other states where there have been primaries and caucuses. he told cbs this morning that he was going to stay in this all the way to tampa. we'll see if he has the money to do that, but he clearly likes being a player out there and contributing to the debate and he still raising questions about mitt romney. i think what you're seeing now is a number of larger republican figures, such as

former governor jeb bush, senator jim demint who is a senator, gave some support to mitt romney and mitt romney is trying desperately, his campaign, to get other republicans to jump on board to try and wrap this up early and make it seem like he is the inevitable republican nominee. >> we thank you. we look forward to seeing rick santorum with you on face the nation. >> that's right. >> president obama said the nation lost a true champion of equality with the death of payton. the well known civil rights attorney with ties to the district died yesterday at johns hopkins hospital. back in 2008, payton was appointed the sixth president and director council of the naacp defense fund. before that, payton was a long time partner in a prominent d.c. law firm. most notably, he was the lead council in the law school affirmative action case. >> still ahead, some star

power coming to virginia. we'll tell you what the actor wants to do. topper. >> only downside of this gorgeous weather is the pollen count and here it is. trees in the high range. gas and weed and mold spores in the low range. we'll come back and talk about the pollen is going to go down over the weekend and we'll tell you how. >> thanks top. but first, two women get into a fight. you can't do anything these days without it all being caught on tape. no matter how embarrassing it might be. that's up next.

caught on tape tonight, what the cops call a case of road rage in california. investigators say two women got into a fight in a store parking lot and you can see the pedestrian screeching into that van and hitting the driver several times. then the driver runs down the other. pins it up against the wall. amazingly, the pedestrian really wasn't hurt too badly. the driver, however, is under arrest tonight. >> okay. up in the sky, not a bird, but it is a plane. >> probably not one you'd expect. it is an 800 pound paper airplane. it measures 40 feet long, 45 feet long, a 24-foot wide

wingspan, a 12-year-old designed it in pema. air and space museum in tucson, arizona, and the museum built it, used the chopper to bring it into the air and let it fly. we're told this paper airplane got up to 98 miles an hour. >> diving straight down into the dirt. anyway, still to come -- >> that's what they always do. >> still to come, former d.c. council chair, harry thomas, falls behind on his repayment of city money that he misused on himself. but first. >> hundreds of thousands flock to mexico to greet the pope on his first visit. i'm monica with the story.

thousands of people greeted pope benedict xvi as he arrived to mexico. as he began his trip, the pontiff condemned mexico's trouble with drugs. the story from mexico. >> reporter: the people you see me are performing a human chain that is going to go from the airport where the pope is landing to leon and that's where he's staying tonight. pope benedict walked with a cane as he boarded a 13 hour

flight. it gives the 84-year-old a sense of security. the pope's three-day visit with the security of a country, caught up in a brutal drug war that killed $50,000. pope benedict said a lust for money is fueling the violence and he promised to unmatch the evil of drug trafficking. drug cartelled declared a truce, saying they won't attack rival gangs during the pope's trip. but a massive security operation is in place just in case. 13,000 police as well as soldiers are on guard to protect people and the pope. it's an international event, this officer says, with never seeing something of this magnitude. >> reporter: followers are starting to fill the streets, hoping to catch a glimpse of the pope. tens and thousands are expected to come, but many believe that pope benedict won't get the same reception that the last

pope did. this man says a pope is like a politician. he has to tell people what his policies are before they can decide whether to support him. the late pope made five trips to mexico and drew massive crowds. about 300,000 worshipers are expected to join pope benedict at a sunday mass. many are praying for one thing. the end of violence and the beginning of peace. and precisely because of the security situation that this country is living, 13,000 soldiers and police have been deployed to this area to look after the pope. in mexico, i'm monica, 9news. >> one of the reasons for the pope's visit, mexico has the second largest catholic population in the world after brazil. metal of honor day is this sunday and today, several metal of honor recipients attended a wreath laying ceremony at arlington national cemetery. it's the highest decloration

awarded by the government. there are currently fewer than 85 living metal of honor recipients. a marine veteran from virginia will get a special honor of his own next weekend. actor gary and his band will hold a concert next saturday in martinville to honor corporate j.b. kerns. corporal kerns last both of his legs and right arm last april in a roadside explosion in afghanistan. money from the celebrity concert will go toward helping kerns build a home with accessibility technology to make his life easier. topper. >> so warm out here, you have to think records are at least within reach. >> they were. they were so close. 83 at dulles. tie the old mark. and the record high was 83. maybe a little something. it tied the old mark. let's talk about a live look outside. live weather cam. it is spectacular, is it not? >> it is. >> temperatures are like early

june. we have sunshine, temperatures around 80. winds are easterly at 7. pressure now on the rise at 29.97 inches of mercury. another summer-like night. we haven't talked about this too much, because it's crazy, but stuff i like. the last five nights, they've had a record high minimum at dulles with lows in the mid 50s. it should be in the mid 30s this time of year. all right, satellite picture radar combined, big time storms in southern illinois and parts of the midwest. and we have big thunderstorms in the southeast. this is what is heading our way. and again, some of these storms could produce heavy rain and become severe. we are okay tonight, most of the storms will hang out in ohio and kentucky, tennessee, and parts of west virginia. very little eastward movement with the whole area of the frontal boundary. probably won't get to us until sunday. we just have partly to mostly sunny skies right now. some clouds in the mountains and a few showers.

those will remain west of i-81. temperatures, still low 80s. 81 in arlington. looking at 82 in great falls. 81 in reston. 82 in college park. still 80 in beltsville. again, our average high is 59. here's the deal. an unsettled weekend. some showers and storms tonight. after midnight and before dawn. looks like a wet saturday morning. temperatures will be mild, but wet saturday morning. going to be a continuous rain all day. it will be waves of showers and thunderstorms and some could be heavy and a few could be severe. biggest threat will be heavy downpours. now tonight, 7:00, 7:45, 8:00, showers may be out toward culpeper. most of the showers west of town. nothing develops in the immediate metro area. we are good until midnight. the caps in town, all kinds of stuff going on. this may be a good time to sneak out and see them. here come the showers and thunderstorms. wee hours of the morning developing in the west and roll

through. leesburg and gaithersburg by 7:00 tomorrow morning and then you see the yellows and oranges. that's pretty serious, showers and storms and heavy downpours and they roll through, right through the metro area as we get into late morning, afternoon hours. we get a break and another line of showers and storms tries to develop for saturday night. all right, tonight partly to mostly cloudy and warm with showers and thunderstorms late. 55 to 62. winds east, southeast at 10. tomorrow morning, showers and thunderstorms. we'll say mostly cloudy. maybe a couple peeks of sun. 50s and 60s. tomorrow afternoon, warm, more showers and thunderstorms. high temperatures around 70. next seven days. we clear out nicely on monday. i mean, temperatures on monday in the mid 60s. upper 50s on tuesday. that's close to average. it's going to be a shock to us and go back in the 60s as we go into monday, tuesday, and wednesday. a shower or thunderstorm on wednesday. but all in all, wow. >> very nice. >> beautiful. >> let's get to our weekly high school feature.

this week you have somebody that might take your job. that wouldn't be a hard thing, would it? >> speak for yourself, my friends. speak for yourself. >> campus correspondents during our sports cast. want to be journalists taking the opportunity to find out what this life is all about. don't be surprised if you see this young lady on your tv screen some day. take a look. >> hi, this is for wusa9. >> casey passed path to journalism happened after a mistake. >> i got that one on one instruction and that really sparked my passion for this industry. >> casey expanded her knowledge by applying to be a 9 sports campus correspondent. >> i knew i had this great opportunity. i didn't want to waste it. i want to take this campus correspondent and be the best campus correspondent you have ever had. >> casey was there from the

season opening kickoff to the last down of the state title game. >> through each game, i felt more and more comfortable. by the end, i remember going into the stadium picking out my press pass. going down on the sidelines. i felt like a true professional. how many seniors in high school can say that they have reported from the sidelines? >> it's time for your halftime recap. >> i'm real proud of casey the way she developed this year. she took that seriously, that she needed to get that confidence and knowledge about what she was talking about. >> it was casey's impressive skills and dedication that earned her the $5,000 moving forward scholarship from toyota. >> experience was priceless. i wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. >> kristen berset, 9sports now. >> $5,000, not a bad chunk of change. next stop, arizona state's walter cronkite school of journalism. she will continue with us

throughout the spring season, but no surprise, she's a good athlete and about to start lacrosse season. we wish her the best. so great stuff. >> great shooter and great energy. >> she'll take my job, i'm sure. my days are numbered. >> all right dave. we'll see you. still to come, facebook changes up the privacy policy. some users crying foul. what it might mean for the safety of your personal information. plus -- >> i'm kristin fisher in rockville and this is where a woman had a heart attack two weeks ago. now, she's on a mission to find the good samaritan that she thinks saved her life. her story is coming up. but first, music is soothing to the soul. in tonight's health alert, we discovered it's also very good for the body. it will explain what that's about up next.

in tonight's health alert, music and its benefits following organ transplantation. researchers looked at heart transplants in mice and found that opera and classical music influenced how the immune system responds and reduces organ rejection. let's hope this works in people. other types did not have the same effect as opera and classical. imagine hearing the echo of your own words or the sound of your heartbeating inside your brain. one woman says it was a painful reality for nine months.

the crunch of potato chips used to be deafening for carrie. she could barely talk to her husband and watching tv was painful. her voice and her heartbeat echoed loudly in her head. >> oh my god, a living nightmare. it really was. to wake up, you know, i couldn't function. >> the mother of three suffered dizzy spells and ear pain. she went to the emergency room eight times, but got no answer. >> they do all sorts of tests on me and everything was fine. you know, they look at me like i'm crazy. >> finally somebody listened. surgeon quinton discovered a tiny hole in the bone inside her left ear. a rare disorder known as superior canal. >> when the normal patient has a seal there, the sound waves come in and leave when they are supposed to. >> the hole develops in a bone that separates the inner ear from the brain. the pulsing of the brain may wear away that. >> main a window.

>> relief was instant. >> not hearing that heartbeating in my own voice echoing, you know, it was heaven sent. i was so happy. >> these ear disorders only discovered 14 years ago as a result, the doctor says not all doctors have become familiar with the symptoms and people keep suffering. this is 9news now. it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this. and that everybody pulls together, federal, state, and local, to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened. >> president obama expressing his sympathy to trayvon martin's family today and insisting every aspect of the case needs to be investigated to the fullest. it was the first time the president addressed the shooting death of the 17-year- old. meantime, all across the country, the outrage over the case continues to grow. high schools across florida emptied out as students left