. lionel richie and friends rock the house tonight. but we're digging through documents revealing massive tax troubles for lionel. plus brush fires ripping through virginia. topper is tracking those and the drought. also 9 wants you to know about a government official collecting huge bonuses while employees have been dying on her watch. this is 9news now. but first breaking right now a possible breech of national security. we're getting reports out of

columbia that a dozen secret service agents guarding president obama have been relieved of their duties and sent home after allegations of personal misconduct. >> those allegations not pretty. it said that misconduct involved prostitutes. the secret service would not confirm or deny those reports but did say other agents have replaced those sent back to the united states. president obama is there for a summit with other world leaders. and there's a big development tonight in the gsa scandal and it's all from a 9 wants to know investigation that you're about to see. tonight we're exposing a gsa death list and $24 million in bonus money. >> all of this in the wake of that vegas boone doggleand the administrator's resignation. they have handed out bonuses to officials linked in trouble. >> reporter: good evening. tonight we're talking about officials that denied a list of

workers at a gsa office that shares space with a plant where they make parts for nuclear bombs. >> we're here to talk about the list and the bonuses. >> reporter: meet the gsa commissioner mary roy. year after year, she's accumulated 10s of thousands of dollars in bonus money. >> it's heart-breaking. >> reporter: barbara rice worked at the kansas city headquarters building. she created the gsa death list to warn officials of fears they were being killed by toxins. >> i have pages here of the deaths. >> reporter: she watched as mary roy not only denied the lists existence but despite one list after another raked in years of bonus money. >> i'm outraged. >> reporter: does this show a pattern? >> it's absolutely a pattern. >> reporter: the chair of the house says the bonuses we're exposing tonight will change his

gsa investigation. in 2010, the inspector general first accused regional commissioner marry roy's office of providing misleading information and doing damage to gsa's credibility in an audit of health and safety conditions at gsa kansas city headquarters. >> i have breast cancer. >> i have severe copd. >> i had a fast growing cancer. >> reporter: gsa continually denied knowledge of the death list that i first uncovered as a reporter at kansas city's khbs tv in 2009. >> how many of you are ill already or are representing somebody who has already died? everyone. >> i had a thyroid tumor that was approximately the size of a small football. >> reporter: roy's office continued to deny the list. >> still we don't have any answers. and i have added six more people to the death list in the last month. >> reporter: despite gsa's denial, a freedomn act request identified this

e-mail from roy sent out months before our investigation titled heads up. it was a political warning to top gsa officials in washington about fears of cancer and toxins. barbara rice's gsa death list was attached. with rice's help, my investigation identified more than 450 sick or dead workers at the kansas city building, including those on the east side where the department of energy makes parts for nuclear bombs. now more than two years later, congressman denim says the gsa death list will get national attention. >> we're not only going to go after the health and safety issues of gsa, but we're going to make sure that we hold them accountable. >> reporter: a second inspector general report found roy's office hired a publicity firm at a cost of $234,000 to respond to questions regarding toxic substance health risk. that year roy was awarded bonus money again. in fact, according to a freedom of information act response, every official who either sent or received a copy of that death

list received bonuses over those two years. $22,000 for roy. $32,000 for her boss anthony costa. in all, in 2010 alone, gsa issued $26 million in bonuses. mary roy appeared at this congressional hearing into the hiring of the publicity firm right next to martha johnson. >> did you do anything wrong in this contract? >> we did nothing wrong. >> we have taken this as an opportunity to do a lot of improvement. >> reporter: according to the inspector general at that hearing while under oath, the gsa officials provided misstatements of fact. johnson resigned last week and hasn't returned our calls. mrs. johnson. no one answered the door when we went to her annapolis home. according to this letter from

senator claire mackaskel, martha johnson gave her one more bonus. >> after spending $234,000 on a publicity firm, you believe you deserved a bonus? >> reporter: spokes women for both johnson and roy say the women do not want to comment about our investigation. and tonight an official inside the obama administration tells me that one of the officials in our story, the one that received the highest bonus, he has now been linked to that scandal in las vegas and he has joined the other gsa aids who have either resigned, been fired or put on administrative leave. he's on administrative leave. in the newsroom, 9news now. new tonight, dc police have released video of a man wanted for shooting a store manager in the back. they say this is the man who walked into a right aid store in the 1400-block this afternoon, robbed the place at gunpoint. you can see the suspect standing

at the cash register taking money out of it while more customers walk in. now, before leaving, police say that man shot the store manager and the victim suffered critical injuries. police are now offering up to $10,000 in reward money to anybody who's got information leading to an arrest and conviction. an update now on the beating in baltimore that went viral on the internet. police say aaron parsons turned himself in today for the st. patrick's day attack. somebody was videotaping when this mob of people beat, stripped and robbed the man. parsons has now been charged with robbery, assault and other offenses. his lawyer says he will plead not guilty. no word yet if any other charges or arrests have been made. also new at 11:00, beware of tainted tuna. a yellow thin tuna product used to make sushi is being linked to more than 100 cases of salmonella in 20 states and in the district. 12 of the people had to be in the hospital but no deathses have been reported. the tuna is sold at restaurants

and grocery stores. the company that makes it, moon marine usa is now voluntarily recalling more than 58,000 pounds of the frozen raw fish. this is a little different. police officers who want more oversight and they're suing the city government here in dc to get it. >> yep. it's about something called the police officer's standard and training board which by law is supposed to meet twice a year. but as gary nurenberg tells us, that board has not met since 2007. >> reporter: the board was designed to set training and recruitment standards. >> it has to do with quality. we want the highest quality. we want the highest standards. and the law put that in place and currently the law is not being followed. >> reporter: so the union filed suit to demand the city follow the law and have the board operate. the union fearing a repeat of mass police hirings in 1989 and 90' that resulted in convicts becoming cops. >> they lowered standards and it costs in terms of our reputation

and the quality of persons the department hired. they did a lot of damage to the police department and we're headed down the same road if we don't follow what the law says. >> reporter: the chairman of the city council committee that oversees police says the union never raised the issue and he says don't blame the current administration. >> what we saw over the last four years, the previous mayor was that there was a deliberate effort to not appoint anybody any of these boards. a lot of these boards, the membership just dried up and the boards became non-existent. this is just another one of those boards that was a victim of the previous maryland administration. >> reporter: we have had a new mayor that's been in office for almost a year and a half now, and that continues. >> yes. i'm not sure i would say it continues, but they were polled by the abandonment -- by the previous administration and it's very hard to fill all of the boards at one time. >> reporter: the city tried to get the lawsuit thrown out of court this week, but the judge says forget it. the suit goes forward.

the one that chairs the committee says it may be time to reexamine whether the board is even necessary. everything, he said, is on the table. anita. >> i'm sure you'll keep us posted. thank you. new tonight, the northbound ramp from river road on to the beltway finally clear. a two-car accident had drivers at a stand still for almost an hour during the evening rush. this is what the scene looked like shortly after the crash. montgomery county police say an suv ran into the back of another vehicle causing one of them to turn over. six people ended up getting hurt and three of them suffered life-threatening injuries. no word yet exactly what caused the crash as far as the suv. well, george zimmerman's lawyers hoping to get his client out of jail as he waits for his trial, which may be months away. in a surprise court appearance today, his lawyers questioned whether the judge overseeing the second degree murder case may have a conflict of interest. her husband works with an attorney who had contact with zimmerman. the 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer says he did

shoot 17-year-old trayvon martin, but he says it was in self-defense. zimmerman has a bond hearing schedules for next friday. a defense attorney says a man facing murder and hate crime charges in tulsa was not motivated by race. 19-year-old jake england went on a shooting rampage killing people and all three were black. they thought it was to a venge his father's shooting by a black man two years ago. two have confessed to the crimes. a dry weekend weather. you and i will like it. firefighters will not. they're trying to get a handle on wildfires that have grown to historic numbers. more than 20,000 acres already burned. fires that have been growing for days. crews from 23 states have flown in to help. topper is here to look at where the drought is the worst and he has tips to keep all of us safe.

>> i wish i had better news. here is the deal. look at how large an area is abnormally dry. essentially the eastern seaboard. we didn't get any snow. that's one reason. there is a drought now. you can actually call it a drought. anne arundel county and actually a severe drought across the bay into the delmarva. but right now the immediate metro area just abnormally dry. our water table is fine. the problem is our soil and vegetation is extremely dry. consequently we have big fires. the closest is in shenandoah county and page county. the fires we just showed you were down into southwestern virginia, allegheny county and craig county. that's the deal. very dry for us. a drought to the east. now, what can we do? we already know we're in a drought to the east. we had no snow melt. we're 4-5 inches below average for yearly rainfall. if you're going to go camping, use caution. make sure you're allowed to make a fire. some counties banning that and don't throw cigarettes out the window. hopefully mom taught you that

anyway. don't do it this weekend. we'll come back and talk about the forecast and baseball weather as well. thank, you topper. perhaps you caught some of the lionel richie concert before the newscast. if lionel picked up a nice paycheck, he might have to turn it over to the irs. he reportedly owes uncle sam $1.1 million worth. if he doesn't pay up in a timely fashion, the government can sees his assets. still ahead tonight, a bizarre accident with a flying mattress shalt ers a family's -- shatters a family's vacation. tornadoes blow through oklahoma. join us on facebook and watch the stories coming up next.

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center.com. 20 years ago this month, los angeles erupted in rage and destruction after the jury acquitted police officers in the beating of rodney king. >> what if zimmerman is found not guilty. a whole lot of people, including

me, have been calling for justice, accountability for the life of an innocent young man cut short. but what if that justice does not include a guilty verdict? it's hard to imagine anybody rioting, but i can imagine the potential outrage in some quarters. still our justice system does not come with guaranteed verdicts. instead we have something far better. a guaranteed process. was the judge fair. did the jury hear all of the evidence? was the defense attorney competent? those things don't happen, then the system has failed. now, i realize a lot of you are absolutely sure that zimmerman murdered this armed boy. self-defense? come on. in our system, it's not what you know. it's what you can prove. just ask casey anthony. or even old oj simpson. both cases involving the tragic murders of innocence and verdicts that went against the prevailing public's sentiments that said they were guilty. both juries said at the time the prosecution didn't prove their

case. now, a lot of people were very upset about that. i, on the other hand, and in some ways, take comfort from it. anita. >> thank you, derek. a fluke accident, a terrible injury leave a father scarred for life. the victim igor stacho. while he was strolling down a sidewalk, a mattress and metal flank flew off the back of the truck and hit him in the head. he suffered severe skull fractures and spinal injuries. >> he's constantly in pain. even if he's on pain medication, every single move is just incredibly hurts. >> he has been transferred from the hospital to a florida rehab center and he does face a long road to recovery. the driver of the truck never stopped. the police are trying to track them down. well, folks in oklahoma have spent the night picking up the pieces after a tornado blew through town.

and the warnings gone out across the country's mid-section. watch out. you could be next. now, the tornado that hit normand touched down near the university of oklahoma campus. no widespread damage. only my nor injuries minor injuries. they have predicted severe weather from texas to south dakota. >> do you know where the spc is. >> oklahoma. it's unusual for them to put out a high risk 24 hours before. they have done that. severe weather saturday, sunday. kind of where you think tornado valley is. for us, a different story. little like may tomorrow. little like june on sunday. let's take a live look outside. very nice evening. not nearly as cool as last night. temperatures are -- we're a little better. this is a live shot brought to you by michael and son. temperatures still in the downtown. 53. clear skies. it was in the 20s earlier.

now in the low 40s. winds light, pressure on the rise. 30.23 inches of mercury. all right. we will look at the radar. there is nothing on radar right now. we do want to emphasize, though, that out in anne arundel county and calvert county, please be careful this weekend with what you're doing in terms of camping and anything with fire. even cooking out. even a cookout. all right. overnight clear and not as cold. i think one blanket will take care of you. 38-48. winds light southwest at 5-10. the winds pick up tomorrow. in fact, it's going to help us bring in some milder air. it's going to be tempting. don't plant for hours this weekend. it's going to be a tempting weekend. wait until mother's day. we can still have a frost. 70s tomorrow. 80s on sunday. in fact, sunday is going to be more like early to mid june with the temperatures. tomorrow morning mostly sunny, breezy and pleasant. you'll need sunglasses. winds southwest 10-15. by afternoon, what a day for baseball.

reds in town. in fact, we have a homestand through the 22nd of april. so get out and see a couple games. 72 at 4:05 first pitch. winds out of the southwest 10-15 and mostly sunny skies. during the afternoon, partly breezy and warmer. winds out of the southwest at 10-15. so everybody makes it into the 70s tomorrow. maybe low 70s out towards gaithersburg and reston and sterling. but 75 in arlington. 73 downtown. 74 in college park and 73 in bowie. sunshine for the mountains and the coast. oakland, you're going to make 60. remember, you had snow this week. 68 in cumberland. 70s in hagerstown. low 70s in manassas and hagerstown. it looks like we'll be in the low 70s downtown. low 70s for annapolis. with the wind we have a small craft advisory for the bay and tidal potomac on saturday. we'll probably see it again on sunday. next seven days, 82 on sunday. mid 80s by monday. cold front comes at us on

tuesday. i am not optimistic. a couple of showers are possible. temperatures in the mid 70s 6789 then temps around 70 for a couple day and back into the mid 70s on friday. and if you spend any length of time here, you don't want to go into summer dry. >> no. >> it's a recipe for disaster. >> thanks, top. we have nats playing baseball. our lead story redskins. >> redskins. >> i think i said it before. they keep finding ways to stay in the news. their workouts begin monday. players go back to work. it looks like the captain may be there. the latest on fletcher's return. plus nashville's game keeps getting longer and longer, but it was another thriller nats park. sports is next.

now 9 sports with kristen berset, the best sports in town. >> it took an uncomfortably long time, but in the end it was worth the wait. fletcher is back. flesh tweeted the big news earlier -- fletch tweeted the big news earlier. he is the glue that holds the defense together. at age 36, he led the league in

tackles last season. not only have fans been clammering for him to resign, so have his teammates. some of them took to twitter tonight to express their excitement. fletch, just saw your tweet. the defense is officially complete now. hails to the redskin. and then gomes tweeted glad the best line backer in the league is still rocking burgundy and gold. nationals can't seem to get away from long games. they went 10 innings yesterday. tonight longer. 4 hours and 4 minutes to be exact. game two against the reds. another great pitching dual tonight. nationals down 1 in the 8th until the x man delivers. a solo shot to the left. just gets over the wall. we're tied up. bottom of the 13th, jayson werth earning that $100 million. coming up big. a walk off single. nats win in extras again this time with their back 2-1 the

final. orioles north of the border facing the bluejays down one in the 8th. bases loaded. wilson bettame smacks a line drive up the middle. markakis comes in. birds beat the jays 7-5. wizards at the garden tonight taking on the knicks. i have to tell you guys, we scoured the entire came looking for offensive highlight and this is what we found. crawford to wall alley-oop. wizards lose by 38 points. 103-65. okay. tonight's high school game of the week, we head to colesville for a matchup on the diamond. mcgruter visiting blake. lots of great pitching tonight. zack racking up the strike outs. look at him go. the bats just as hot as the arm.

an rbi single. blake loses 7-2. so baseball world good tonight. basketball 38 points. >> that is ridiculous. >> we'll be right back.

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exercise world. >> jenny waters is practicing to become a state champion. she thinks it's an art. she has lost 40 pounds since beginning her exercise routine. in fact, she became a pole yology expert. she became an instructor. don't laugh. >> that's amazing. >> she competes in the competition right here in arlington. it might be worth a look. >> what does kris rock say, keep your daughter off the pole. we have to say goodbye to marlene 11 producer. they are moving to chicago. >> we're going to miss her. >> we're sad. we're happy for her. bye.