hurry up and then we called 911 and then they come really quick. >> reporter: authorities say several shots were fired in the late morning attack. police say a suspect was arrested at a nearby grocery store. a local reporter was on the scene and reports what he heard. >> they did not know who the suspect was, although that he was of larger build, possibly wearing khakis and a hasn't. >> reporter: a honda was towed away as part of the investigation. now the task gets underway trying to figure out why. >> officers are talking to witnesses trying to gather as much information. again this is a very tense situation. >> reporter: some survivors say faith helped them get through a horrible experience. >> i'm a christian because i believe that god protects me. so i was okay of. >> reporter: according to its website, oikos university offers degrees in theology, nursing and asian medicine. i'm mary ellen hopkins reporting. turning now to campaign

2012, maryland, wisconsin and the district will hold their primaries tomorrow and that means 95 delegates are up for grabs heading toward that republican convention. danielle nottingham has more on that story. >> reporter: mitt romney is reaching out for every last vote in wisconsin. >> thank you, please. >> reporter: he's hoping to get a boost from popular congressman paul ryan. >> we have an opportunity to give good wisconsin hospitality to this gentleman on my right shoulder of. >> reporter: rick santorum enjoyed some famous wisconsin cheddar and he worked to get the cheesehead vote in appleton. >> if we can get a good vote out of wisconsin, a loud confident vote from conservatives, then we can go into this race and win this. >> i'm rick santorum and i approve this message. >> reporter: santorum launched a new ad that appears to criticize president obama on healthcare, but is actually an attack on romney. >> what if i told you the man i'm talking about isn't him? it's him. >> reporter: santorum insists he is the best candidate to

challenge president obama in america's heartland. the contest in wisconsin tuesday is shaping up to be his last chance to prove it. danielle nottingham, cbs news, the white house. newt gingrich spent his day campaigning in maryland. ron paul did not have any events on his schedule today and for the record, d.c. does have 19 delegates to the republican convention, but only 16 will be up for grabs tomorrow. the other three are considered unbound delegates. voters also go to the polls for the district's democratic primary tomorrow and an editorial in the wash post calls for voters to use the -- washington post calls for voters to use the opportunity to start cleaning house on our city council. our bruce johnson talked with some of the incumbents and their challengers today. >> people feel like they constantly hear about things that are inappropriate, illegal. >> reporter: that's sekou biddle. he has the washington post endorsement but has already lost one at large race against vincent orange. >> an opportunity to make change on the council.

>> reporter: the laws came before the incumbent d.c. councilman had to explain irregular campaign contributions in the form of money orders from businessman jeff thompson whose home was raided by the fbi. >> you've done everything correctly? >> oh, yes, absolutely. >> reporter: councilman vincent orange wasn't returning our phone calls today. his counsel and campaign offices said they could not reach him. the federal investigation into alleged corruption in d.c. government has everybody down here on edge these days, even those city officials not up for reelection including the council chairman kwame brown, mayor vincent gray. they'll be watching for signals from voters tomorrow as well. >> they just want to see something fresh and new. >> reporter: the washington post likes tom brown and the ward 7 democratic primary. >> we actually get down to real business, improving and protecting the quality of life of ward 7 and d.c. residents. >> reporter: but it's a crowded field and the incumbent is favored, yvette alexander. >> i've been successful for them and they want to keep the progress going. >> reporter: what about that

washington post endorsement of somebody else today? >> the residents of ward 7 will have the final word. >> reporter: ward 8, jacque patterson and others are trying to unseat the biggest name in d.c. politics. >> i'm voting tomorrow for marion barry. >> they love council member barry, but it's time for a change. they look at the economics and unemployment rate. >> i really love people. i like what i'm doing. i care about the underdog. >> reporter: by phone from the wilson building today marion barry predicted a win tomorrow adding it's just a question of by how much. bruce johnson, 9 news now. >> we are also hearing tonight of a potential problem for natalie williams' campaign. she's challenging marion barry in the ward 8 city council race and wtop reports that williams is being sued by the parents of a young girl who claims that that girl was sexually assaulted while working for williams' modeling business. our calls to williams' campaign have yet to be returned tonight. we should note williams is a former employee here at wusa9.

you can learn more about all of our local races at www.wusa9.comful that's where we've got a voter guide for the d.c. and maryland races. new information tonight about a deadly police shooting in culpeper. today the special prosecutor in that case filed the paperwork asking that a special investigative grand jury be impaneled. james fisher wants that jury in culpeper county circuit court. an unidentified culpeper police officer shot and killed patricia cook in february after she refused his orders to stop. the woman convicted of killing a vacationing virginia couple in ocean city nearly 10 years ago is asking for a new trial. erica siefert says her original lawyers failed to highlight her mental instability at the time of the crimes. siefert and her husband benjamin were convicted of killing the couple. currently she's serving a life term in prison. a trash truck hit and killed a pedestrian at a busy intersection in washington d.c.

it happened this afternoon at the intersection of 14th street and columbia road. >> reporter: in columbia heights a d.c. police major crash unit is investigating a deadly accident. the deadly encounter happened shortly after 3 p.m. in the side alley off columbia road. >> waiting in the alley as the trash was being picked up. >> reporter: witnesses tell 9 news now that it involved this garbage truck and someone walking behind it. >> after the trash was picked up the van -- the trash truck started going in reverse. >> reporter: the silver gray sedan was next to the garbage truck. its driver told police that he saw the victim tangled underneath the wheels. [ speaking spanish ] >> reporter: his wife says her husband then got out of his car and waved the garbage truck down. >> after a minute or two everyone got out of their cars. people came out of the building and recognized that there was a man had been struck lying there

in the alleyway. now that jetblue pilot charged with disrupting a night last week made his first court appearance today. clayton osbon was asked not to enter a plea during the 10 minute hearing, but prosecutors are asking the pilot be held without bond. a judge is expected to rule on that bond issue in another hearing thursday. osbon was caught on tape screaming about religion and terrorists as he ran through the cabin last tuesday. passengers had to restrain him until the plane made an emergency landing in amarillo. it has been nearly a full year now since the potomac river went flooding into the washington harbour and not the waterway, the development down in georgetown. our kristin fisher went to find out how those popular businesses are doing today. >> reporter: over the past year there's been big improvements, but there's still a lot of work ahead for restaurants like tony and joe's, nick's riverside grill. the race is on to be fully prayingal in time for summer.

>> the way -- operational in time for summer. >> the way i learned that was on the yahoo web page. the picks was my restaurant with a chair floating around the interior. >> reporter: that's how nick cibel found out his restaurant, nick's riverside grill, was under 7 feet of water. the property managers at georgetown's washington harbour had failed to raise the floodgates sending water pouring in from the potomac. >> it was a mistake. it wasn't malicious and we've taken the high road throughout this whole process. we did not file any lawsuits. >> reporter: they've lost millions in revenue and over 100 employees. >> so we were concerned for their families as well as their livelihood. >> reporter: nick retained about 20 employees to man the outdoor patio at nick's and its neighbor tony and joe's. while the insides were completely gutted. >> we are in what is now going to be nick's riverside grill of. >> reporter: in the last year nick switched from running restaurants to running a construction site.

>> electrical, plumbing and mechanical all occur at the same time. basically it's the guts of the haitian. >> reporter: he's hoping it will be ready in five weeks, mid-may, which is typically their busiest month of the year. this is like extreme makeover restaurant. >> well, we have a really hard working crew. honestly it's been a struggle, but we've always been of the sort that something food always comes out of something horrible -- good always comes out of something horrible. >> reporter: the something good is that this entire washington harbour complex is getting a $20 million upgrade which includes turning the fountain into an ice skating rink starting this winter. the ultimate goal is the water front will become both a summer and winter destination. kristin fisher, 9 news now. anny is in for topper. nice and sunny today, but we can get rid of that windy hope. >> yeah. we'll seat winds diminishing later tonight -- see the winds diminishing later tonight, but we'll see clear skies and

temperatures falling. we've got a frost advisory posted north and west of town which includes loudoun and montgomery tonight and tomorrow morning. farther north there's a freeze warning in that turquoise toward the mason dixon line. the wind gusts are a bit breezy generally out of the north, 18 miles an hour in gaithersburg, 20 in frederick. tonight get ready, clear, breezy and cold. jacks will be needed. we'll talk -- jackets will be needed. we'll talk about your seven-day forecast when i come back. still ahead tonight a rare look inside a military research lab. >> and a big wave batters a yacht during the race around the world. see how the coastguard had to step in. we'll show you the pictures coming up.

the coastguard has rescued two injured sailors from a yacht which was crippled by a huge wave saturday during a race around the world. that rescue boat reached the

battered yacht about 200 miles off the coast of california. the injured sailors are a 50- year-old woman with a broken rib and punctured lung and a 29- year-old man who has some sort of pelvic injury. they were receiving medical attention on board that coastguard cutter. two other sailors suffered less serious injuries. they invented the joystick and the gps. no, we are not talking about appear, but the u.s. navy. today the military opened their doors to give us a rare look into one of their research labs. the 50,000 square foot facility includes environmental test areas that replicate a desert, jungle, a highland forest, even coastal waters. they even test their latest robotic inventions. photojournalist greg geist takes us in. >> reporter: behind each door is a different environment. >> we have desert. we have tropical. >> reporter: each tailored for a scientist testing the next generation of artificial intelligence. >> this robotic arm system is able to dig through the sand

and dig out any ieds that it finds. >> reporter: this is the new autonomous research center at the naval research lab in southwest. >> the computer takes the information from the sonar range finders and attempts to detect and avoid obstacles such as the walls in this room. >> reporter: where rooms of specialized equipment -- >> we can basically bring a video game technology into the real world. >> reporter: -- allow researchers to simulate many real world scenarios. >> this is a real great lab to test this type of technology because it allows to us have sand of any type we may want to bring in. it allows to us generate wind and dust storms. >> reporter: without leaving the building. >> now our scientists can be working on a lab bench and literally a few hours later if they had a problem, they can go down into that environment and test it immediately. >> reporter: here the emphasis is on machines that think for themselves, a reasoning process called autonomous. >> the fire is out in compartment 3. >> reporter: lucas, a 6-foot tall robot, sin structured to

extinguish a fire. -- is instructed to extinguish a fire, then hits the blaze with water, a laboratory where devices are so smart they're sometimes a bit suspicious of the very scientists who created them. >> there must be a misunderstanding. >> reporter: at the naval research lab in southwest, greg geist, 9 news now. still to come tonight after an unusually warm winter, april brings a freeze? kind of odd, isn't it? let's ask anny about it. she'll have the forecast. >> but first kentucky and kansas getting geared up to battle it out for the national title tonight, a preview of the ncaa finals next.

wusa9 is the only place you can watch the ncaa men's final kentucky versus kansas. they tip off 9:23 p.m. our kristen berset has the preview. >> two of college basketballs

winningest programs face off. between the two of them kentucky and kansas have 29 final four appearances and 10 national titles, but the path for this year's squads throughout the tournament have been on opposite sides of the spectrum. kentucky is a very young team sporting three freshmen and two sophomores that include national player of the year anthony davis. a win means coach john calipari finally gets his first career national title, but he has some history with kansas. four years ago when he was coach at memphis, his tigers squad lost in the championship game to the jayhawks, but this kansas squad is different than what we're used to seeing. they're not as talented and a lot scrappier. their tournament has been filled with impressive escape acts rallying from behind to beat pursue, nc state and ohio state. not many people are giving the jayhawks a chance at an upset. >> we got one game left, you know. that's it and so we're going to go out there and play that exact way like it's our last

game and in 40 minutes anybody can get beat. >> this time of year one game left, who would you be playing if they weren't really good? >> we know it's going to be a tough game. we know it's probably going to be the hardest game we played all season. not, they wouldn't be here. they're here for a reason. it's not by mistake. they beat a lot of good teams. >> my whole team is how die get my team to play at -- do i get my team to play at their best and combat what kansas is going to do to us? remember you can watch the championship game tonight at 9:00 here on wusa9, but before the tournament started we challenged our radio partners at the fan and wnew to a bracket challenge. let's just say the results weren't in our favor. derek mcginty leads the way for our station with 36 points, but that's where he'll stay because you picked duke to win it all. really? >> it was a dumb move on my parted. you can see where i had

kentucky at first and crossed -- on my part. you can see where i had kentucky at first and crossed it out and put duke, but i didn't expect duke to lose to lehigh in the first and second round. >> i picked kentucky to win it but i had florida state in the championship game. they lost way back in the round of 32. you can go to www.wusa9.com to see all of our bracketses. bracketses-- brackets. march madness, as we know is a huge moneymaker for the networks, but never for the students who play the games. >> they're selling the athletes' work, their name, image and likeness, taking all that money and keeping it themselves. >> that man is an attorney michael housefeld and calls it plantation mentality. joining me to talk more about this is mike wise, a columnist with the washington post. it's great to have you here. as you likely know, there has been a lawsuit filed against

the ncaa. they want the students who have the money making sport to get at least a percentage of the income. what do you think? >> as big as the nfl players suit against the nfl for harmful plain injuries might be, this could be as sweeping if it comes to fruition. the former player of the year from ucla was enlisted essentially as the lead plaintiff in this suit and which now includes oscar robertson and bill russell. they're saying basically money has been made off their images for video games, memorabilia and things down the road. personally i've always thought this. syracuse university is a cash register and it fills the athletic coffers of that university and there's no reason why a player that plays on those teams should not profit. it's a special athlete. it's not just a regular student who goes to school. >> so you're okay with the idea that the athletes who play in the money making sports which is basically only two, men's basketball and men's football. >> in some places, for instance, tennessee women's

basketball and connecticut. >> two or three sports make some money. those are only students under this lawsuit that would profit here. >> and i'd be okay with that. they raise money for the university. they enable more than even donors to put on a new business wing at the campuses. so i have no problem with it. >> it's interesting, though, the ncaa wouldn't give us someone to interview but did say in a statement hey, look, we give out a lot of scholarship money to these young people and even have $60 million in funds to help them pay personal expenses if times get tight. why isn't that enough? >> i think at some point you got to come to the conclusion that a stipend is the only way to go. i don't know how you monitor all of that, but there's just so many billions of dollars that go unaccounted for and they go right back into the ncaa's pocket and at some point chris webber was walking down the street in michigan and i remember he told the sportswriter at the time, see that jersey in the store with my number on it? he goes i'm not seeing $1 of

that $85 he knew then chris weber was going professional the next year. at some point there has to be some kind of compensation for these guys. >> who knows? if there were maybe we wouldn't see so many of these so-called one and done athletes so anxious just to get to payday. >> you'd like to see it happen. >> appreciate the conversation. once again you can see tonight's championship game here on wusa9. cbs coverage starts at 9:00. while you watch the game think about downloading the connect tv app on your ipad or laptop. our parent company gannett is teaming up with a company to provide realtime stats in a unique second screen experience. you can download it at the app store or connecttv.com. >> anny, what's it looking like? >> sunny skies, warmer temperatures. right now temperatures are 60 degrees under plenty of sun, still a bit breezy north, northwest, winds at 10 miles per hour, but those will diminish tonight. the other weather story is the

cold conditions, especially north and west of town. a frost advisory is posted for montgomery, club and frederick counties. you see those areas in the perrywinkle. in the turquoise blue farther north is a freeze warning for tomorrow morning till 9 a.m. right now in downtown it's 60, 55 gaithersburg, 61 martinsburg, culpeper 61, fredericksburg at 63 degrees. high pressure giving us lots of sunshine not only today but through tomorrow. then we could see changes come this way on wednesday, but for tonight it's going to be cold, then warmer, frost advisory overnight, sunny and warmer tuesday, showers possible by wednesday afternoon and then cooler for your thursday and friday. the futurecast shows us the showers are coming in from the west on wednesday of wednesday morning we should be fine. we'll see a mixture of some clouds and sun, but the clouds will thicken. we'll see those showers possibly by afternoon. better chance of those showers

will be to the south of town. that's pretty much it. this is not a big weathermaker for us. we definitely can use the rain. tonight clear, breezy, colder, grab a couple blankets, lows 34 to 42 degrees, north winds 10 to 15. overnight lows in downtown 40 degrees but look north and west, down to mid-30s in frederick, hagerstown freezing. if you're in these locations, it's going to be a cold start for you tomorrow. tuesday morning sunny and cold, grab a jacket and scarf, temperatures in the 30s and 40s, not as windy, northwest wind 5 to 10. in the afternoon those winds will shift and come out of the southwest. we'll be a little warmer tomorrow, sunglasses needed, high 66 to 71. in western maryland 63 for cumberland tomorrow, 67 winchester, 66 hagerstown, lots of sunshine. it's going to be a really nice spring day on tuesday, close to 70 downtown and lower 70s for

annapolis. here's how your next seven days shape up, warmer wednesday, lower 70s, a chance for some afternoon showers. then thursday and friday we cool back down into the 60s. as we look at easter weekend, saturday hooks food, even sunday in lower 70s. die -- looks good, even sundayed in lower 70s. die have a rain -- even sunday in the lower 70s. i do have a raindrop that may occur in the evening. let's get to our weird news file because tonight yet another reason to think before you drink. to alberta, canada, where a man arrested for being drunk in public apparently decided no, that's not bad enough. i want the whole thing on youtube forever. so while under arrest in the police car he begins to belt out a pretty famous song by the group known as queen. see if you recognize it. ♪i see a little silhouette of a man scallamoos, will you do

the fandango. thunderbolt of lightning very very frightening. galileo galileo galileo figueroa. manifico ♪ >> interestingly drunk man was using this song and other tactics to try to convince the cops he'd done nothing wrong and they ought to let him go and despite his obviously inebriated condition, he gets through the entire song, about six minute. we don't know if they got him any leniency, but we do hear he's trying out for the next american idol maybe. he could. >> we want to hear what you think. send your e-mails to mcginty's mailbag, the address mailbag at wusa9.com. 9 news now will be right back.

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that's our broadcast. i'll be right back here after basketball along with anita brikman and tonight giving student athletes a louder voice, we will take a closer look at that lawsuit against the ncaa, what the ramifications might be and why they're doing it. don't forget log on any time to www.wusa9.com. it's always there for you. you have a great evening. we'll see you after the big game. bye bye. -dad, why are you getting that? -that's my cereal. is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. is it a robot? no. is it a jet plane? nope. is it a dinosaur? [ laughs ]

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