them from behind and hit them in the head with a clawhammer. >> oh, they caught him? that's good. >> reporter: police blanketed the area after the attacker killed the retired nurse from den all inned gary dedriches and allegedly -- denver named gary dedriches and allegedly assaulted two other people in 24 hours. officers on gallatin street heard a woman cry out in pain and ran toward her. >> she observed a female on the ground suffering from obvious head injuries. >> reporter: down the alley a pair of eyes. >> the officers made eye contact with the subject. he began running through the alley and was pursued by the officers. >> reporter: they chased him 4 blocks and they say he tossed aside a black backpack, inside a bloody clawhammer. >> from the back that was discarded by the suspect in this case was a clawhammer that is believed to be the weapon involved in this assault. >> reporter: we were expecting michael davis to go before a judge here at superior court this afternoon, but he did not

make the cutoff. so the first chance we will get to get a look at him will be saturday morning. in d.c. bruce leshan, 9 news now. in reston it wasn't an attack on people but on horses that is drawing some attention tonight. >> reporter: i'm kristin fisher at the frying pan farm park in herndon where somebody has stabbed three horses used to rehabilitate kids with special needs. >> it's a nightmare. it's something beyond possible. i survived war in croatia and it's the kind of similar. you cannot accept it. >> reporter: davorca suvak runs the spirit open equestrian program. >> you can see whoever did it did it several times trying to find out the best way to hurt the animal. >> reporter: whoever did this didn't just hurt these three horses, but they also hurt all the special needs children that ride these horses every day. >> they're waiting for the moment to come back here weekly and sit on their back and be big and be strong. i hope that she's going to be

ready to serve her kids again as soon as possible. >> reporter: fairfax county police are working the case, but so far they have few, if any, leads. in herndon kristin fisher, 9 news now. on to an update, a former anc commissioner in d.c. has been sentenced to jail for using more than $28,000 in city funds for his own personal expenses. he's 42-year-old william shelton. he was chairman of the anc in ward 5b. he pleaded guilty to fraud earlier this year. today the judge gave him 30 days in jail plus 150 days of home confinement and ordered him to repay that 28 grand. oh, i god! >> today marks one year since a massive tornado devastated tuscaloosa, alabama. in the six minutes that twister was on the ground it killed 53 people and destroyed more than 7,000 homes. city officials say that left 1.5 million cubic yards of

debris, debris that city is still struggling to clean up. >> most tornadoes hit a house, skip a house, hit a house. this thing was taking everything out, you know, 1/2- mile, mile wide. >> the ef4 tornado destroyed about 13% of that city. that line of storms also spawned a deadly tornado in southwestern virginia the same day. four people died when twisters tore through washington county last april 27. today governor bob mcdonnell planned to visit the area to see how the recovery is coming along. and the clean-up still underway in la plata, maryland 10 years after the tornado hit there. the tornado cut a 24-mile path across charles county killing three people and taking out some homes and businesses. our scott broom is there live. >> reporter: residents here celebrate la plate day because

from devastation came what -- la plata day because from devastation came what they're calling a stronger community. meet butch arben in front of his home. >> to this day we never ever found a single shingle on are a truss from the roof. >> reporter: and his wife penny. their house was flattened by the la plata tornado april 28, 2002. insurance rebuilt the house, but memories are everywhere. >> stuff just seems to come up from the ground. >> reporter: when it rains little artifacts are exposed like today's surprise. >> this is my wife's great grandmother's toy tea set. >> things like this are the trish awes, it's the little bitty old things -- treasures, it's the little bitty old things like your grandmother's tea cup. penny has an antique doll salvaged from the wreckage. >> in honor of the 10 year anniversary she's dressed up like dorothy from the wizard of

oz. >> reporter: dusty the cat, a survivor, is still around and here's what they're thinking 10 years after that disaster. >> people are basically good and it's so unfortunate that it takes some sort of disaster to bring that to the surface again. it's there. >> from the minute it happened our church group was here and they were here helping us find what we could find in debris. people we didn't know kept coming and wanting to help. we lost some things, but they were material things and in the end it's okay. >> reporter: it seems like a lesson the whole town has taken, tomorrow a celebration for what's been gained rather than a memorial for what's been lost. a commuter alert from the d.c. department of transportation. in about two hours crews will start to close the hov lane as long the 14th street bridge. both the north and southbound lanes will stay closed until tomorrow around 3 p.m. for repaving. about an hour after that work begins the virginia

department of transportation will shut down one of the busiest intersections in northern virginia. crews will also be repaving lee highway and gallows road and that intersection is expected to stay closed until sunday afternoon. and if that's not enough for you, the arlington cemetery station on metro's blue line will close at 10:00 tonight. free shuttle buses will help you get between the roslyn and pentagon stations until everything opens up monday morning. coming your way tonight at 7:00 on 9 news now racing to the rescue, an elderly man falls on the metro tracks, but somebody jumped out to pull him to safety just as the train was bearing down. we will talk to one of those heros. >> sounds like a great story it. ended well. still to come the showdown over student loans. top? >> we're looking at a very nice evening, a little on the chilly side after the sun goes down. here are the numbers, 64 and 50 going in the book. averages are 70 and 50. we'll come back and talk about

when the rain rolls in for maryland day. we'll look ahead to warmer weather next week. >> reporter: mike hydek live on the university of maryland campus in college park where they are getting ready for their biggest event of the year, 100,000 people coming here for maryland day tomorrow. as we head to break, a few more factiods about the university of maryland. the school changed its name from maryland agriculture college to maryland take the college in 1916 that. same year -- maryland state college in 1916. that same year women were enrolled and in 1988 the name changed again as the state established the university of maryland systems. we will be right back.

we are looking ahead to maryland day to not on 9 news now. the school's newspaper the diamondback was first established back in 1921. we'll learn more about how the school was becoming one of the

great schools of broadcast journalism in a few minutes. >> and after calling for congress to act all week the president is vowing to veto the house version of a bill to stop interest rates on student loans from doubling this summer. the house measure that passed today would cover the cost of that by eliminating a preventive care health fund. >> but it particularly benefits the reproductive healthcare child bearing healthcare preventive healthcare that is so necessary to women. >> this is the latest plank in the so-called war on women, entirely created by my colleagues across the aisle for political gain. >> the senate is expected to start debating its version of the bill next month. this just into the newsroom, women who use the northwest branch trail in hyattsville are being warned to stay alert tonight. this comes after three attacks

along that trail in the last month and a half. one happened near the hyattsville metro station on march 27th and another near the community station last friday. it's not clear where the third attack took place on march 12th, but west hyattsville police are trying to also figure out if two other sex assault indications are related. we want to hang it one of our viewers for bringing these cases to our attention. we'll be following them tonight at 11:00. university of maryland is already celebrating even though maryland day is not until tomorrow morning at 10:00, but we have some more factoids as you head to break of the first stadium is home to several maryland teams including men's lacrosse. the team won 11 national championships when it was first founded in 1924 and it is the only major college la trots team to have never finished

with a losing record. the 1908 graduate taught english, huff, served as athletic direct -- history, before serving as athletic director and even served as football coach for two weeks in 1911 and he's who suggested they have the school named the maryland terrapins as its mascot. we'll have more on the mascot when we come back.

university of maryland sports teams have a tradition. when they leave the locker rooms at the football complex, they pat a bronze statue of a maryland terrapin that sits outside, but did you know that's not the original? the original statue was a graduation gift from the class of 1933, but in 1947 students from johns hopkins came and stole that statue which led to a siege of the building where it was being held. 200 police officers had to be

called in to keep the peace. it all ended with a big party between the two schools, but then that statue was hidden away in a carpentry shed until 1951. they it was taken out, filled with 700 pounds of cement and placed in front of byrd stadium. it was moved in front of mckeldon library in 1960 and sits there today. the one currently outside the stadium is a replica. our mike hydek on the mall to give us a preview of everything going on for maryland day. you're having great time, too mike. >> reporter: we are indeed and we could not have had a better day, absolutely gorgeous. we had learned that there is a huge archive system here at university of maryland devoted to broadcasting and we have several ties to this very university. our new general manager is a graduate. some of our staffers teach here. when they said hey, heats look at the broadcast archive -- let's look at the broadcast

archives, we had a vested interest. one of the things we are perhaps most partial to is the broadcasting archives at u of m. >> of course. >> reporter: absolutely fantastic. one of the great things is you can make your own radio drama from way back in the day like in the this 30s. this is chuck howell, the curator. this is fantastic stuff. these are obvious, right, you're listening to a radio soap oprah and somebody is walking down the hall. what's with the bad? >> this is a multi-purpose -- wood? >> this is a multi-purpose tool. it looks like this actually. >> reporter: it looks like a couple pieces of wood. >> it looks like quiet on the set. this is a tape. roll it! >> reporter: the library also has an amazing collection of those old time radios, the ones americans huddled around to hear those soap operas before they made it to those really cool tvs like this one. check out this old 9. we have something from one of the

redskins shows we used to have, a former mike cue. you can check it all out and again make your own broadcast. but perhaps the most fun again is pretending that you were on the radio back in the 1930s. >> close your eyes, everyone. >> oh, no, he has a gun. >> stop, quick! >> reporter: this is what people had to do when they created radio soap oprahs. you can make your own and take a -- operas. you can make your own and take a tape of it with you. >> we can record it and send it to you as an mp3 if you leave your e-mail with us. we promise you won't get any spam. >> reporter: is that a lot of fun or what? of course, they're continuing to try to get more scripts and memorabilia and we've got a few pieces there. what great day you'll have if you come out to maryland day tomorrow 10:00 to 4:00. expected to be possibly 100,000

people, tons of things to do. we hope you enjoyed our preview and we hope you come out tomorrow. this is mike hydek reporting live from university of maryland college park campus. >> thanks so much. we'll see you there tomorrow. >> the campus can handle that many people, by the way. >> that is a sprawling campus. although it may not look like what mike seasons behind him for the entire day. -- sees behind him for the entire day. >> no, no. the good news is it's not going to rain hard. it won't rain tomorrow morning. temps in the 50s, bring a jacket but nothing like last weekend's nor'easter. let's have a live look outside, lots of sunshine, that. , pretty clear skies. this is our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. temperatures, downtown hovering in the low 60s, dew points in the upper 20s, a little troublesome and the winds are calming down but northwesterly at 15, pressure on the rise 30.08 and we had a wind gust today at national over 40 miles

per hour. that's why i was picking up stick this morning. -- sticks this morning. 62 in college park, 60 bethesda, 60 in rockville, upper 50s in gaithersburg, 59 leesburg and reston, 63 down in manassas. so here's the deal. we're looking at frost possible north and west of town. there are some frost advisories out. we'll show you in a minute. winds will diminish which will allow the temps to fall. bring your plants in. if for some reason you've put stuff in the ground, water and cover them. chilly maryland day but mainly afternoon, light rain, so not a huge deal. tonight clear skies and breezy early, high clouds by dawn, cold, lows 32 to 44. winds become northerly at 5 to 10. they diminish after midnight. so lows inside the beltway you're fine. you'll stress out your plants, but it won't kill them. 35 in gaithersburg, 36 reston,

37 college park. montgomery county, loudoun county, northern fauquier under a frost advisory. outside story then, looking at average last frost, downtown 4- 23, but fredericksburg 4:28, gaithersburg the end of ail rip and hagerstown not till early may. that's why we say wait till mother's day to put the flowers in the ground. increasing clouds, cold tomorrow morning, rain possible west maybe towards gainesville, nothing in the metro area, 30s and 40s. by afternoon mostly cloudy, chilly, light rain, high temperatures 56 to about 60, winds east, southeasterly at 10. next seven days salvage a nice day sunday, maybe a sprinkle, 607 monday, mid-70s tuesday -- 67 monday, mid-70s tuesday with showers and storms and low 80s next week on wednesday, thursday and friday. it's been a whirlwind 24

hours for rg3, the face of the franchise. dave owens is live at redskins park on rg3 watch. >> reporter: day one of the rg3 era is in the books and it involves that big old building right behind me. what was on the itinerary for the 2nd pick? we'll explain coming up in sports and also the nats say we got some news, bryce, bryce, baby. here he come next. next-- comes next.

here's what we know about rg3. he spent some of the afternoon in that big old bubble wind me going over the playbook with the offensive coaches -- behind me going over the playbook with the offensive coaches. that's good. d.c., your quarterback is here and already going to work and that's the good thing. that was the itinerary of rg3 this afternoon. now it's time for the transformation meaning taking what he did at baylor, 10,000 yards passing, heisman trophy level, but griffin says he's ready. >> you have to go to the pros and realize you start down here, not up here. i just want to meat the guys, get to -- meet the guys, get to know them, let them get to know me and see if we can gel and do those types of things and i think we'll be able to. >> reporter: local teams and athletes welcoming rg3 as well. check out this special d.c. united jersey with griffin's

name on the back held up by none other than duane rosario. strasburg tweeting congrats rg3. welcome to d.c. he knows a little bit about the hype. d'angelo hall also saying congrats little bro. now it's time to get to work and win some games. you know, the burgundy and gold nation looking forward to that. going to hockey, it should have been a moment to congratulate a guy who battled his way through the nhl, instead fans went absolutely stupid after joel ward scored the winning goal wednesday night against the bruins. afterwards some of those fans tweeting racist remarks about ward who is black. ward was at practice today and taking the high road. >> i don't let it bother me at all. it's a few people that just made a couple terrible comments and what can you do? i know what i signed up for. i'm a black guy playing predominantly a white sport and it's just going to come with the territory. >> reporter: big news out of nats town. bryce harper will join the team

saturday against the dodgers. the former no. 1 pick not even 20 years old but injuries to mike morse and ryan zimmerman precipitating the move. stephen strasburg pitching that day, too. time now to announce winner of the high school game of the week, damascus at sherwood softball, two undefeated teams, highlights tonight at 11:00. before i send it back to you in the studio ryan zimmerman on the disabled list, more about that tonight. a huge sports day and sport week. we'll talk about it tonight at 11:00. >> we are a big time new sports town after this week. we turned the corner. that is it for us. the cbs evening news is next. derek will see you at 7:00. topper will have your forecast for today and tomorrow. don't forget to join us at the university of maryland for maryland day from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. topper, dave and i will be there. so is derek. we sure hope to see you. as always www.wusa9.com is always on. have a great weekend.