television, american bandstand had performers like james brown and stevie wonder. he became an entrepreneur in the process. he hosted several game shows and became a commercial pitch man. dick clark productions created thousands of hours of television. particularly award shows, such as the golden globes, the daytime emmy awards and the academy of country music awards. he appeared on many of the shows, most famously for years ringing in the new year as the host of dick clark's new year's rockin eve. clark was unable to host in 2004 after suffering a stroke. he made a highly anticipated return in 2005. it was his first television appearance since the stroke. >> we are getting closer to midnight and everybody looks to

one spot. >> clark's youthful appearance earned him the nickname, america's oldest teenager. he agreed. >> the minute you grow up, the minute you mentally atrophy, you are old. >> clark felt rock and roll lasted so long because it has so many forms. he survived by embracing each new wave, ensuring the enduring affection of generations of americans. manuel, cbs news. >> and a spokesman says clark died wednesday morning at st. john's hospital in santa monica. just one day after he was admitted for an outpatient procedure. tom heart runs on the potomac productions. he worked with dick clark and tom, welcome to our broadcast. first of all, i have to get your thoughts when you heard the news today. >> i was really disappointed, shocked, dick has been ill for a number of years, so knew he wasn't the same, but you never really wanted to face the

reality of his death. and so just heard it a few hours ago. so i'm glad to be here with you, derek, and sharing some moments and thoughts about the great dick clark. >> now you worked with the man. have you noted on your documentary, not to mention other tv shows. what was he like when you were working with him? >> the same way. he was all about his business now. he really made you exceed expectations and work as hard as you could to perfect whatever was coming on television. he was very layed back guy. i remember his office in burbank was like a living room. he had dogs running around his office. his pet dogs. his wife worked with him and a big sofa chair and a relaxed environment in his work space. he had teams of people that worked with him for many years. i worked with him on five or six projects back in the 90s. >> okay, let's talk about the credit he gets for breaking down racial barriers in the

music. was this something that happened because times were changing or something that was important to dick clark if. >> it was a little bit of both. dick clark was an open person. the key thing about dick is he broke down racial barriers, music barriers, cultural barriers. he really had friends across the board in the entertainment industry. and he was a very progressive guy. he and james brown were very close, whitney houston was a personal friend of his. and others, you know, from country music to r and b to hip hop. i worked with him on three occasions during the american music awards and that gave me an opportunity to work closely with him with a lot of musical artists, including country music and all generas. >> toward the end, dick clark had the stroke in 2004. you mentioned he was never quite the same after that. and as time went by, people began to say, maybe he should give it up. there was something about him that wouldn't let him stop

doing the new year's rockin eve. what was it that he didn't want to let go? >> intertwined with the entertainment business. that's what drove him to get up every morning. that's what motivated him. he didn't need the money, he just enjoyed the business. that propelled him to the young age of 82 and the rockin eve was something that was his landmark program and he was there every year. >> and you thought maybe he felt if he let it go, that might be the end of it? >> yeah. if he let entertainment out of his life, he had nothing else to live for. >> you worked with him on this james bond documentary. you know it's going to be at the brand-new howard theater. >> isn't that interesting? on april 29, we are showing a film that dick clark featured in prom prominently and coproduced with me. we teamed up together. he gave me great musical archive. so we have james brown's

greatest performances. they were very close and i was honored to work with him. this was in the early 90s. from there, we worked on the olympic games. yes worked on the world cup, the soccer tournament, we worked on the country music awards, the golden globes, he was easy to work with and brought great entertainment to america. >> we appreciate your insight. >> derek, good to see you again. >> absolutely. >> hope to see you at april 29. >> we have to note with a sad heart that dick clark passed away. he had a heart attack. he was 82 years old. >> a legend. the battle is done. just one day after senators voted to kill it for the third time this year. >> i'm peggy fox in richmond where late this everyoning, the senate took a revote and this time approved an $85 billion two-year budget. they did it with one democrat

siding with republicans. >> i made a mistake. >> senator chuck wanted a do over after he felt he made a mistake by voting against the budget on tuesday. after supporting the budget in a conference committee, he was convinced by fellow democrats in the evenly divided senate to vote against the plan to hold out for more money for the dulles rail project. >> the state has done practically nothing for dulles rail and it's being supported right now but the local governments, and by the commuters. >> the state has committed $150 million to the phase 2 of the rail line which is to run from reston to dulles and beyond. but concerns over a government shutdown got to colgon. >> i got a call in prince william very concerned about the budget because they have teachers to pay and pensions to pay. >> peggy fox, 9news now. >> the house of delegates passed the budget, so now, it heads to governor bob mcdonnell and the governor just released this statement.

it reads in part, with today's vote, we again follow the virginia way. i thank the republican and democratic members who work together to make this happen. i look forward to conducting an expedited comprehensive review and making amends as maybe necessary. the secret service now says three employees are out of the agency. casualties of the prostitution scandal. the secret service is investigating allegations that some agents brought prostitutes back to their hotel in columbia while handling a state visit for president obama. of the three employees now out, two are supervisors, another eight agents are on administrative leave. clean house, that's what a senate committee said, the inspector general of the gsa needs to do. wasteful spending was the topic of congressional hearings for a third straight day. and today, senators took turns grilling the gsa. the agency is being investigated for spending more than $800,000 of taxpayer money

on a lavish 2010 conference in vegas and barbra boxer urged the inspector general to clean up the place. >> so i think what's really important is for the public to understand as you said, mr. miller in your opening, what went wrong and what went right. now we have no excuses going forward not to fix this nightmare. >> two gsa officials have been fired over the scandal and the administrators resigned. ten other employees are on administrative leave as the investigation goes on. >> what a change from earlier in the week. we have sunny, hot weather. now it's chilly, but top, we needed the rain. >> we did. hard to believe we lost now almost 35 degrees since earlier in the week. here's the deal. looking at clouds right now. let me show you live doppler 9,000. if you haven't already, down load our weather app and go to your app store and search wusa

radar. north of gaithersburg into frederick and also into northern sections of loudoun county. and some pretty good activity. some heavier rain fall between front royal and winchester. kind of sneaking its way up through hagerstown. it's 54 downtown, but only 50 in gaithersburg and fred fled ricks fredericksburg. mostly cloudy and chilly. light showers continue. lows 46 to 52. thankfully with light wind. we'll come back and talk about how this might be a bigger rain event over the weekend. thank you, top. coming up, the last winners of that megamillions jackpot reveal themselves to claim their prize. first, love for pepco? help the utility to lose the title for the most hated company.

maybe d.c. customers made up with pepco. the utility which was dubbed the most halted company last year is no longer the lowest rated utility company in customer satisfaction. instead, it's now tie for second lowest. it's all according to the annual customer satisfaction index, which was out today. pepco ranked as the most improved utility company on the list. the customer review gave pepco

a score 29% better than last year. new developments tonight in a murder case against george zimmerman. the judge presiding over the case is now stepping down because of a potential conflict of interest. judge jessica recuesed herself from the case today because of her husband. he worked with an orlando attorney who was approached by zimmerman. that attorney declined to take the case and referred zimmerman to the current attorney. judge kenneth lester will preside over this case. zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder. folks who picked up a copy of the l.a. times probably took a look at the new york times and said not this. launching a criminal investigation into the latest case of u.s. troops posing with dead afghan insurgents. one photo shows a soldier with the hand of a dead suicide bomber resting on his shoulder and in another picture, troops from the 82nd airborne fourth

brigade combat team posed with the severed legs of insurgents who blown themselves up. defense secretary apologized and called for accountability. he also said troops sometimes make mistakes. >> war is ugly and it's violent. and i know that young people sometimes caught up in the moment make some very foolish decisions. >> now that soldier who gave the photos to the l.a. times say they show a breakdown in leadership and discipline that he says compromises the safety of the troops. the pictures were taken during a yearlong deployment in 2010 which that brigade lost 35 men. the rain kept it cool outside, but don't worry, topper says the air is coming back. he'll tell you exactly when in a few minutes. but first, reforming d.c. schools one year at a time. a look at the city's five-year plan comes your way up next.

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principals are asking for it. >> i think we could do a lot more if we had an extended day and extended school year. >> i think it would be chaotic to go out and say 123 schools will go to school until 5:00 every day. i think that's not responsible. so, what we're going to focus on is working with a few schools initially. >> the school chancellor and mayor admitted that some schools are going to have to be closed. it wasn't on the official agenda, but some 220 school buildings, many of them under utilized. >> we will be closing some schools, yes. there will be some pain, but i think we'll open some new programs. we'll figure out how to consolidate schools. >> and seek to improve the high school graduation rate from 52 to 75%. bruce johnson, 9news now. >> tonight, we do know who had that third and final winning ticket to that huge megamillions jackpot. the $656 million coming forward today, a retired couple from southern illinois.

meryl talked about the moment he realized he had the winner. >> after i looked at it for a couple minutes, i turned to my wife who was right there with me and i said we won. and she kind of looked at me funny. and i said no, we won. and then she started giggling. and she giggled for about four hours, i think. >> she is probably still giggling. this jackpot is more than $218 million. they opted for the lump sum payment and after taxes, it's still $111 million. so, the rain today, a bit of an appetizer, but at least it knocked down the pollen. >> appetizer is a good way of looking at it. the main course is on sunday. it could be the biggest main course since late february. we haven't had rain fall over an inch since the last part of february in terms of one event. let's start with a live look

outside. it's our weather cam. cloudy skies, but not much rain south of town and in town. a will the of clouds, brought to you by michael and son. temperatures, late march. pleasure falling since 6:00. 30.17 inches of mercury. making it feel indeed like it's march as opposed to april. here's a look at the satellite and radar. most of the showers confined either side of i-81. northern sections of loudoun county and upper montgomery county. we'll zoom in now on live doppler 9,000. watch this earlier at 6:00, this grown in intensity between wood stock and up toward winchester, either side of i- 81. see the yellows? that's heavy rain fall and this is going to go up to the north and east over the next couple of hours. everything will diminish as we get into the early morning hours. 50 right now in bethesda. 50 arlington. 53 in college park. 50 in reston. 52 in springfield. so here's the deal. nice finish to the week.

chilly with more showers tonight, but milder tomorrow. warmer on friday and yes, rain for the weekend. book your tee time early on saturday. mostly cloudy and chilly. 46 to 52. winds light and most of the light rain north and west of town. skies return partly cloudy, cool, grab your shades. temperatures in the 40s and 50s with light wind and by afternoon, well not bad at all. partly cloudy, milder, about average in terms of temperatures. high temperatures between 65 and about 70. so we'll break it down. chilly to start. 46 to 52. maybe a light jacket. 60s by noon and 66 with 71 by evening. next three days, warmer friday, warmer saturday. mid 70s saturday, will will be showers and a few storms on saturday. next seven days. that too will be an appetizer to sunday. rain and showers and maybe a thunderstorm on sunday. but i got to tell you, if this storm hugs the coast like

wintertime, we're going to have rain and a lot of it, which is good and which means the bulls eye would be the delmarva and the eastern shore. we go in the 50s monday, tuesday, back in the 60s next wednesday. >> rain comes in, gets the job done, gets the heck out of dodge. we'll be right back. we want to hear what you think. send your e-mail to mcginty's mail bag. 9news now will be right back.

in the mail bag tonight, the space shuttle discovery's final flight over d.c. yesterday made everybody ooh and aw. tonight, a nor cynical view, including from tony. while i'm proud, i would like to see a list of ten things we taxpayers got for the 30 years and trillions of dollars in shuttle work. the hobble telescope is one and the building of the space station is two. the space station is scheduled to desin grate in 2020. all this hoopla about discovery. it cost the taxpayers billions of dollars and what did it discover? what exactly has this project

done to enhance the american people to keep jobs and find jobs? is there a correlation between what the shuttle did and the billions of dollars it cost to do what it did? can anyone answer that? i don't think so. okay, well folks if it is about the dollars and cents, then you're right, why land on the moon? why explore space at all? if you believe we have a better country for taking on the challenges when it's pricey and hard, then you have your answer there. not to mention a strong gps satellite or two. and then there was this regarding some high schoolers in massachusetts being paid cash money to take and pass advanced placement courses. she is an 8th grader and has a few problems with that program. i can't believe students are being paid to take ap courses. i know, it's an ingenious idea and the school district will look better, but i think they are doing the students an injustice by not preparing them for real life. that being said, i think i may

want to move there. you know i'm thinking you're one of those young people that does not need extra incentive to do hard work and do well. when you take a break, drop us another line. the address is mailbag@wusa9.com. that is our broadcast. i'll be back here at 11:00 along with anita brikman and don't forget, log on any time to wusa9.com. we'll see you later. bye bye.

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