>> they'll take this newer model dodge charger and park it either on the side of the business or in the back of whatever business they're targeting. >> reporter: this videotape and there could be more was taken inside the shell station which is located in the 13800 block of annapolis road in bowie. customers were inside forced to get on the for that with the cashier. >> you hear about the holdup here over the weekend? >> i heard something vaguely. >> reporter: the gunman hit the mcdonald's on ritchie road in capitol heights. doesn't bother you at all? >> no, but that's the way we live. >> reporter: they robbed the 7- eleven in the 7400 block of central avenue in capitol heights and a second 7-eleven on watkins park drive in kettering, the chesapeake market in bowie their last target hit at 4:00 sunday morning. now quickly about the three street assaults in southeast washington, three robberies i should say, one assault. that happened at 31 chesapeake avenue in southeast washington. there's another robbery 18th

street southeast and yet a third pedestrian robbed at 15th and mississippi avenue in southeast washington. district police are handling those cases. we should report in all three cases like in prince george's county they're looking pore two gunmen -- for two gunmen allegedly driving that dodge charger. back to you guys. >> bruce johnson, thank you. it is a deadly shooting that still has more questions than answers. tonight the husband of a sunday schoolteacher who was shot to death by a culpeper police officer is filing a $5 million lawsuit against that officer. our peggy fox first broke the story and tonight she's got an interview with that woman's husband in a story only seen on 9. >> remember back on february 9th patricia cook, 54 years old, winds up sitting in a church parking lot in her jeep wrangler. a police officer is sent to investigate a suspicious person. she is unarmed. the police officer shoots her some six times. now gary cook has lost the love

of his life. they had no children. she was his family. this lawsuit is not so much about the money, but about justice and making sure it never happens again. >> i know what i've gone through and the pain, the anger, the frustration, the fears. i don't want somebody else to have to go through this. i don't want somebody else to have to go through what i did. i mean it. >> gary cook has a hard time talking about his deceased wife patrick a who was shot multiple times by a culpeper police officer. she was unarmed in her jeep wrangler sitting in this school parking lot annex. >> in the chest, in the leg, in the arm, twice in the back and in the head. >> i've had my tears. i've had my cries. i'm at point now i'm angry and i want justice for my wife. >> cook has failed a $5.4 million wrongful death lawsuit against officer daniel harmon- wright also known as daniel

sullivan. he was sent to investigate a suspicious person in that parking lot the morning of february 9th do. you believe he had any reason whatsoever to shat your wife? >> no reason whatsoever. i mean the deadliest thing that she had on her and the state police investigated to point it out was a ball point pen. >> at first virginia state police said the officer fired at cook because she had rolled up his arm in the window and was driving away dragging him, but cook says that couldn't have happened because the 2007 jeep wrangler has crank windows. eyewitness chris bupell says the officer's arm was not caught. >> the window was halfway up. he said stop or i'll shoot and i really didn't think he was going to do it, but she got the window all the way up and that's when he shot. >> reporter: the lawsuit says harmon-wright attempted to bully and coerce mrs. cook into complying with commands by raising his voice threatening to shoot her. >> why the man should feel to draw a gun on an unarmed middle aged woman going shopping is beyond me.

>> cook questions why harmon- wright's patrol car allegedly had no working dashcam and hopes this special grand jury will soon indict harmon-wright not only for patricia's sake but for others. >> she wouldn't harm a soul. i want to find out what happened and i want justice. >> a special prosecutor fauquier county commonwealth attorney james fisher has been appointed in this case and a special grand jury met about a week and a half ago. we understand that they listened to nine witnesses, not all of them saw the shooting but had information about the shooting and possibly also about officer harmon-wright. mr. cook questions whether he was just a loose canon. that's why this happened. hopefully we'll get some answers soon. >> we do still have a lot of questions even after all this. thank you. talk to not all about raising taxes in maryland where the legislature came back in for a very rare special session today. it is a lawmakers' second try at trying to pass the state budget without what the governor calls doomsday cuts

which are looming in a few short days if they can't make a deal. scott broom is live in annapolis where the protestors on both sides of the argument are giving those legislators an earful. >> reporter: they are. you're a high income earner in maryland, you're probably watching this holding onto your wallet. on the other hand if you've got a kid in college, you might be rooting for the legislators to hurry up and pass a tax hike. at the university of maryland students face a near instant 13% tuition hike without this deal. >> it really, really sucks. >> reporter: 500 public employees are looking at layoffs before the end of the month in a round of so-called doomsday cuts across state government. it's that or sock high income earners with a tax hike and squeeze more out of tobacco, too. these are the examples that brought tea partiers out early. >> that's what the tea party is all about is taxed enough already.

>> it's no big deal. >> reporter: but the president of the senate called the tax proposal no big deal. >> you know, it's a small amount to pay for living in this great state and this great country. >> there's only 16% of the marylanders who are asked to pay more and they're the ones hurt the least during the recession. >> reporter: that speaker maryland house of delegates mike bush who is lining up his troops to vote more taxes which enrages the republican opposition. >> there are many citizens who believe they are taxed enough. >> reporter: examples of the bottom line include a couple making 175,000 a year who would pay more than $250 more per year, a couple earning 1.1 million could pay nearly $3,200 more. on income tax hikes of between 1/4 of 1% up to 3/4 of 1%. taxes on cigars and smokeless tobacco would go up dramatically as high as 70%. so the question tonight is what's it going to be, higher taxes on 16% of marylanders or

steep cuts on higher end, local schools and public employees? the senate is right now debating this. there will be rallies on both sides this evening. we're out a teachers union hall. the tea partiers are here later tonight and we'll see if the legislature can get this done. they hope to do it in three days or less. reporting live in annapolis scott broom, 9 news now. >> if i remember correctly, the governor said he wasn't going to bring them back in unless they already had a deal and we're still waiting. thank you. a fallen tree caused massive headaches for morning rush hour drivers. that tree fell on the southbound lanes of connecticut avenue near the chevy chase community center and country club. southbound connecticut shut down for hours. there was also rubber necking delays in the northbound lane no, word whether today's wet weather is to blame for the tree going down. >> top, when does the rain move out of here? we're done. >> well, we're not done. i would keep an umbrella handy a couple more days. let's look at live doppler 9000. the silver lining is -- well, two. we need the rain and nothing

severe is going on now. we do see some rain essentially out 66 up 95 up the parkway up 270. you'll have a wet commute going home. it will take a little longer to get there, so just allow a little extra time. if your windshield wipers are on, your headlights should be on. we'll zoom in. we do find heavier rain around rockville, up 270 and out 355. all this will head across to 28 in colesville, eventually new hampshire avenue and georgia avenue around wheaton. it will be with us a while. we'll come back and let you know when we'll dry out and talk about the end of the week. it could be a nice change of pace. >> that would be good. a man with tattoos on his face and blood on his hands, he's under arrest tonight in spotsylvania county. this is rowland-smith, ii. police say he stabbed a woman at the econo lodge on jefferson

davis highway after she caught him cheating on her. smith had blood on his hands and a knife upon arrest. that woman was taken to the hospital. smith is being held without bond. the atf is offering a $5,000 reward to catch an arsonist in importantly. the fire was set at a house on 57th avenue and riverdale on the night of february 24th. seven firefighters were seriously hurt. investigators are looking for anyone with information about the case and if you call, you can remain anonymous. this next story has been captivating the nation. tonight doctors are fighting to save the life of the georgia grad student whose body has been invaded by a flesh eating bacteria after a zip line accident. despite what she's enduring now, her parents are trying to stay optimistic. 24-year-old elm copeland is in a battle -- amy copeland is in a battle for her life after a flesh eating bacteria entered her body into an open gash suffered in a zip line accident. every time she's awake she has to be reminded why she's unable

to breathe on her own confined to a hospital bed. >> she asks where is she and wanted to know how long she'd been there. >> her parents say the medication she must take caused the memory loss. copeland fell from a homemade zip line may 1st. she was left with a gash in her calf that required staples and allowed the flesh eating bacteria to get inside her body. it's a particularly aggressive form of this bacteria that lives in the water and only rarely causes infections like copelands. doctors were forced to remove one of her legs and part of her abdomen. >> the doctors are doing the best they can to try and save as much of her extensions or her hands as they possibly can and literally it's day by day or even hour by hour. >> amy's father has started a facebook support page for his daughter and says he plans to celebrate the day when she's able to breathe on her own. >> we really don't see the suffering side of it. we see the miraculous survival.

>> amy copeland is a graduate student in psychology. her parents say she really want to get back to writing her thesis when she's able. just two days after the washington capitals were knocked out of the stanley cup playoffs coach dale hunter is out and kristen berset is here with the reason and reaction. i guess we should note he quit. wasn't fired. >> yes. we want to make that clear. it was his decision to walk away. he quit. it's no secret dale hunter misses his life back in london, ontario and we knew there would be a good chance he'd leave after this season, but after changing the culture of this capitals team and getting a taste of some victory, many hoped that that wouldn't be the case, but ultimately the pull to return to his family and his family business was just too great to ignore. hunter owns a junior team in the ontario hockey league. his brother took over as head coach when hunter replaced bruce boudreau last november. in hunter's six months here he established a more defensive style of play guiding the team

over the defending champs and one goal shy of the conference finals. we will hear from hunter and gm george mcphee plus the players and their reaction on hunter leaving later in sports. >> sad to see him go. coming up an american university graduate gets her diploma as her boy friend gets down on one knee. i think she said yes. >> reporter: closing arguments in a 30-year-old murder case, i'm bruce leshan. could the wrong men have been in prison all this time? >> up next we may soon know whether john edwards will take the stand in his own defense of that campaign finance corruption trial.

the defense went to bat today in the john edwards finance campaign corruption trial and the focus shifted dramatically from his affair with rielle hunter to federal campaign finance law. the chief financial officer for edwards' president al campaign took the stand. she said edwards played no role with the campaign contributions and added that he did not attempt to influence her report. edwards could get 30 years if he's convicted in the case. the chief accuser in the roger clemens perjury case took the stand today. brian mcnamee is clemens' former strength coach and testified at clemens' request he first injected the former pitcher with steroids in 1998

while they were both with the blue jays. clemens is accused of lying to congress when he denied ever using performance enhancing drugs. this is clemens' second trial in the perjury case. last time a mistrial was declared. they've spent nearly three decades in prison for a horrible murder they say they did not commit. >> today lawyers for seven d.c. men told a judge in closing arguments of this unusual innocence hearing that the evidence against them just fails to fit together. bruce leshan is live at d.c. superior court where the hearing was supposed to crap up today but i guess it's going into -- wrap up today, but i guess it's going into tomorrow? >> reporter: that's right. there are a whole lot of moving parts here. one of the questions, did prosecutors withhold eyewitness accounts of a couple potential lone suspects, different suspects? did police beat a confession out of a mentally retarded teenager and does the physical evidence run completely counter to those confessions?

the jury acquitted two testimonies in 1985 after deliberating for more than a week. now the men who went to prison want a judge to vacate their convictions or grant them a new trial. >> 27 years, i mean being incarcerated and i'm really feeling for something i didn't do? >> reporter: catherine fuller, mother of six, was beating, robbed and sodomized with a pole in a garage off an alley at h and eighth street northeast. now in closing arguments attorneys for the men convicted told a judge the pieces of the puzzle just do not fit. >> little pipe like, a little hard thick. >> reporter: cliff yarborough recan'ted his confession, testified that detectives beat him and his lawyer says there is no evidence that the tiny cleaning lady was attacked with a stick, nor stomped as many witnesses described it. defense attorneys say prosecutors withheld eyewitness accounts pointing to two other

suspects. 1 committed a startlingly similar sodomy murder just blocks away, another killed an eyewitness just a week before the men went on trial. >> when you argued it, did you have any doubts about these guys' guilt? >> i did not. >> reporter: jody goodman argued the prosecution case on appeal decades ago and she says there are plenty of reasons to doubt the motivations of men who are recanting their testimony now. >> those people sometimes feel guilty. they want to undo what they did. they regret what they did. >> reporter: now the prosecutor just got a brief chance to talk to the judge. she says the government's case remains overwhelming and she says the judge should have full confidence in the jury's verdict all those years ago. she didn't get a chance to wrap up. she should do that tomorrow and the judge may take a while before deciding what to do with this case. >> either way we'll know

something tomorrow. bruce leshan, thank you. you may soon be getting a text message from the federal government. a new program starts today. a partnership between the government and wireless carriers can notify all of us of dangerous weather and other emergencies. the wireless emergency alert service is free. you don't have to sign up. you'll get a text on your phone if there is an emergency in your area such as a tornado, flash flooding, hurricane, blizzard or other natural disaster. sounds like a great idea, top. >> it's a great idea. it's gps-based, so you won't be bothered if you're traveling to chicago with warnings here. >> if it's not in your neighborhood, you don't need that information. >> correct. >> we do need to hear when this rain is going to be donna. you're tired of it already? >> yeah, man -- done. you're tired of it already? >> yeah, man. my lawn liked it. >> tomorrow into wednesday. let's take a live look outside our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. the streets are wet, so look for a slow commute home, 67 now

downtown. in fact, most folks are in the 60s now, winds out of the south at 10, dew point stands at 63. temps won't fall that far tonight. live doppler 9000, it's mainly wet across metro area up 95 out 56 up 270. we'll zoom in a little. thankfully most of it is light to occasionally moderate. we'll zoom in a bit. see a little heavy activity around great falls and between rockville and also olney. going to the activity around great falls you see some yellow, moderate rain, nothing crazy, will slow you down on the way home. you're headed out 193 or route 7 past drainsville and great falls, you'll have some slow going. we'll go back up north and east. this is a little heavier activity around rockville extending toward 28. this is moderate rain. we'll back the radar up a little bit, back off this, kind of widen out.

there's sandy spring and 108 and there's 97. put this into motion over the next hour. you can see most of these are moving almost due north, north, northeast, get ready for olney, roll down 97, sandy spring 108 anddurwood as well. 66 in reston and sterling. one of the warmer areas! park 71, 68 belts veil and mainly in the 60s up 270. -- beltsville and mainly in the 60s up 270. keep the umbrella handy. more sun wednesday, a really nice change on thursday. here's our futurecast. later on tonight we'll have a break. you might be able to walk the dog at 9:00 or 10:00, but more showers back in the mountains. we'll put this in motion and stop it around rush hour. it's going to be wet again with showers and thunderstorms moving southwest to north easterly morning. then we get some breaks in the clouds, probably a little sun

top but more showers and storms develop -- tomorrow but more showers and storms develop late into the evening. hose 58 to 64 tonight. next -- lows 58 to 64 tonight. next seven days, more showers and storms, 81, sunshine thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, mid-70s on sunday, maybe a few clouds monday but still very nice with highs around 80. >> you are the man, topper. thank you. coming up a northeast u.s. city takes an extraordinary step. they banned texting while walking. >> we'll see how that goes. >> up next how does your savings account compare to your debt? for many americans not looking too good. we'll be back.

this year nearly 75,000 maryland families learned that their homes may go into foreclosure. wells fargo services 22.4% of those mortgages. the maryland consumer rights coalition is calling on the bank to quickly roll out a principal reduction program and other steps to help get those families on their feet. last week you'll recall bank of america began issuing write-off notices across the country.

a report by the university of michigan shows a lot of lower middle income households have a negative net worth. the study finds one in five households carry much more unsecured credit card and student loan debt than money in savings and other liquid assets. it was yet another marvelous weekend for the avenirs, the film taking in another 103 -- avengers, the film taking in another $103 million over the weekend. disney estimated the film has already earned a billion dollars in ticket sales worldwide. that's just 19 days. the tim burton film dark shadows came in a distant second and think like main hanging in there at third. -- a man hanging in there at third. talk about early success, facebook founder mark zuckerberg turns 28 today. it comes on the week of the much anticipated facebook public stock offering.

the initial offering would value the company at nearly $100 billion, more than disney or ford. it would net zuckerberg himself more than $17 billion. that's a birthday present. windsor castle put on a celebration fit for a queen last night. hundreds of horses and dancers performed at the grand finale of queen elizabeth's diamond jubilee pageant. the queen was accompanied by her husband prince philip and other members of the royal family. still ahead our cameras are there again as cops bust an underage drinking party, this time in the woods. >> plus this year's list of most popular baby names. can you guess no. one? >> taylor, morgan? >> reporter: i'm kristin fisher at american university where over the weekend two seniors graduated with a whole lot more than degrees. i've got video of this surprise graduation day proposal coming up.

graduation day. most college students walk away with handshake and diploma, but yesterday an american university student also had a little bling on her finger. kristin fisher is here with this graduation day proposal that's totally gone viral. >> this youtube video has been viewed almost 10,000 times in less than 24 hours. it's easy to see why. they're one of the cutest couples with the cutest story. they both graduated from american university this past weekend. that's where they met four

years ago as freshmen. this is the moment that sam miller on the left has been waiting four years for. >> it's such a big decision that you're sweating bullets. >> the 22-year-old met sarah cooper on campus a week before their first day of college. sam says he knew she was the one just three months in. >> there's this sense of complete thans comes with finding the person that you want to spend the rest of your life with and when i looked at her that day, i just felt that sure, it's cheesy. >> i'm laughing. i believe you. >> you look at her and you see a wife, you see a mother, you see a best friend and you see them at all stages of their life. >> but sam had to wait, mom's orders. >> my mom was just like she put her foot down, no engagement until after graduation and he took it literally. >> so sam waited but not a second longer than he had to. >> everything takes over and the words kind of flew out of my mouth. i had no idea what i was saying. >> something about i have a question for you and i waited

long enough. it was just like this -- i don't know how to describe it. it was phenomenal. >> one yes and four kisses later the two walked off stage with a diamond, diplomas and the entire au community cheering them on. >> to be up on stage and have them cheering, it's so amazing to be able to share that with them and it's closure for us. we home it's closure for them that good things happen and love does exist and if you open your heart, it's so easy to find. >> they've only been engaged one day. sam and sarah, of course, have not yet set a date, but they are planning on settling in the d.c. area. >> i've got chills through this whole story. >> it's so cute. sam has a job with a p.r. firm in town and sarah is hoping to become a teacher. they want to make d.c. their home. it's where they met and want to grow old together. >> i liked what he said about seeing her at all stages in her life. a lot of young people don't think about that. >> she's 22 and he's 19. >> crazy. good stuff. president obama is trying

to court women voters. today the president delivered the commencement speech to 600 graduates at the all women's barnard college in new york city today. >> indeed we know we are better off when women are treated fairly and equally in every aspect of american life whether it's the salary you earn or the health decisions you make. >> the president personally asked the school for the speaking opportunity back in february as the national debate over birth control and health issues started heating up. news week's newest magazine cover is causing a bit of a controversy. the magazine shows president obama with a rainbow halo over his head, the cover declaring mr. obama the country's first gay president. a conservative and openly gay blogger andrew sullivan wrote the online story about the commander in chief's decision to support gay marriage. 9 wants you to know about a story at 11:00 tonight involving a disturbing trend

among teenagers. you're cameras are on the scene once again as police busted up yet another underage drinking party, but this one was different. it was in the woods and the differences don't end there. andrea mccarren is here with a bit of a preview. this is just bizarre. >> it is, derek. we keep hearing young girls are drinking more. this is the first time we've seen it. an anonymous tip leads us on a wild walk through the woods wading across a creek under a bridge. >> they started approaching and they start running. >> teenage partiers leave behind a backpack and beer cans in their rush to get away. >> we had a younger female hop the fence. we had to go after her. >> police surround the woods on all sides so the teens have no place to run. under arrest, six teenage girls, students at frost middle

school and quints orchard and gaithersburg high school. yes, you heard that right, a middle school as well as two high schools represented there. the teenagers told police they'd been playing spin the bottle as a drinking game. the breathalyzer tests done on these girls showed just how drunk they were and you will be shocked when you hear some of the bac levels, more than twice the legal limit for adults for intoxication. >> these girls are just out there on their own partying. >> poof school on a friday afternoon. >> whoa. we -- after school on a friday afternoon. >> whoa. thank you. back to you, anita. this is national police week and today the federal government paid a long overdue tribute to a black law enforcement officer lynched in a white mob in 1883. william henderson foote's name was unveiled at the bureau wall. foote was lynched in mississippi while working for the treasury department's bureau of internal revenue. law enforcement officers made a run for it today in

memory of fellow officers who have died in the line of duty. these officers and survivors took part in the 16th annual law enforcement memorial run from philadelphia to washington. prince george's county's leg of the run started this morning in college park. county executive rushern baker and other area leaders participated in a memorial service to honor fallen officers. still ahead turning the pain, the local organization helping parent -- page, the local organization helping parents help their children succeed in school. >> up next evacuations ordered after one of five western wildfires explodes to 10 times its original size overnight. >> don't forget. we are always on at www.wusa9.com. stay with us. we'll be back in a minute. [ male announcer ] this was how my day began.

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gladiator grew to about 3,000 acres overnight. there was a rededication today of the journalists memorial who died in the pursuit of news at the museum. 70 names were added and the memorial now holds the names of 2,156 reporters, photographers, broadcasters and news executives from around the world dating back to 1837. you know the old saying about being scared to meet somebody in a dark alley? there's a lot fewer of them around now, alleyways in washington getting brighter thanks to these brand-new fancy lights. city leaders installed one of the last fixtures in the project today in the mt. pleasant neighborhood. mayor gray says these new lights will last longer and cut emissions and should save on maintenance and energy costs. apparently many of us around listening when the flight attendants tell to us put away our electronic devices. a new air fare watchdog poll published by usa today found one in four of us admit we

don't always follow instructions to put away the phone, ipad, laptop. the faa says using those devices during takeoff and landing could cause potential signal interference. one city in new jersey is cracking down on texting while walking. officials in fort lee have begun to issue tickets up to $85 per offense. the measure was implemented after a rise in pedestrian- related accidents. 7-eleven is rolling out a line of low calorie slurpees. it's the first time it has ever released new locale flavors across the nation. the first flavor will be santa's sugar free mango. an 8-ounce serving will have 20 calories of slurpee light. a regular coke flavored slurpees has 65-calories in an 8-ounce serving. isabella is out, sophia is in. according to the social security administration sophia is officially the most popular baby name for girls. isabella is now second place.

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tonight's health alert is about something practically all young children in the united states use. i'm talking about baby bottles, sippy cups, pacifiers, but parents may not realize there are dangers there they don't know about. bigad shaban reports. >> reporter: 22-month-old morgan sheryl has a chipped tooth. >> she reached for me and felt forward and hit her face on the

ottoman in front of our couch and her bottle happened to be in her mouth at the time. >> reporter: a new study in the journal of pediatrics finds over a two decade period more than 45,000 children under age 3 went to the hospital for injuries related to the use of baby bottles, pacifiers and sippy cups. that's approximately one child every four hours. >> the vast majority of the injuries in the study were falls that children experienced and over 70% of the injuries were injuries to the area around the mouth or the mouth itself. >> reporter: the study also found 2/3 of the injuries were to children who were 1 year old, churn who were just learning to walk and -- children who were just learning to walk and maybe tripping with these products in their hands and mouths. about 2/3 of the injuries involved baby bottles. the remaining injuries were divided evenly between sippy cups and pacifiers. morgan's mom no longer lets her daughter walk around while drinking and switched to bottles with a rubber top instead of hard plastic. >> i don't think she may have chipped her tooth if she had

that softer top on her bottle. >> reporter: the baby tooth will fall out on its own. she knows it could have been worse. >> pediatricians recommend parents try to get rid of the pacifiers by 6 months of age and transfer from sippy couples to cups without a lid , not easy to, do but it's best. it's the post nasa space shuttle era, but tonight it will be a soyuz spacecraft lifting off in russia to carry three crew members to the space station. the trio will dock with the space station for a four-month stay and join three astronauts who have been on board since december. congratulations in order tonight for lori beers pfeiffer, the winner of that new ipad and a university of maryland survival guide thanks to almost 4,500 of you who

logged onto neighbor and liked our wusa9 page for a chance to win, so great news for her. >> we like that they like us. >> they don't like your weather forecast. >> oh, yes, they do. what a short term memory you have. remember how beautiful saturday was? >> yes. both nice days and the rain didn't come till late. >> how quickly they forget. grab your umbrella and keep it handy for a while, just a while. let's take a live look outside on the our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. wisconsin avenue looking northeast. we've got wet roads. it's going to take a while to get home, 67 downtown, winds south at 10, pressure steady 30.04 inches of mercury. live doppler 9000, it's pretty much wet going 95 south toward fredericksburg going out 66 going up 270, really any of the radiating avenues north of town, georgia, new hampshire, all going to find rain. we'll zoom. in thankfully everything is light to occasionally moderate,

nothing particularly heavy. we find heavier activity in parts of eastern montgomery county on the east side of 270 kind of on the border of howard county and also heavier stuff up into prince george's county and that's really about it. you see the yellows, a couple reds, nothing severe. we've got rain out georgia avenue, rain out 29. there's a little heavier activity between laurel and bowie, everything pushing off to the northeast at a pretty good clip. temps pretty uniform, clouds and rain, great equalizer, 65 bethesda and arlington, 67 downtown, 66 springfield, 71 in college park, 69 davidsonville, still 71 in annapolis, a little warmer by the water this time. keeping the umbrella handy, wet commute home, probably a wet commute for most of us tomorrow morning, a little more sun wednesday and then a very nice change on thursday and actually friday as well. our futurecast, put this into motion. by 10:00 tonight kind of in a respite. you might have time to walk the

dog. out west, hagerstown, martinsburg, winchester, more showers, a few thunderstorms. then a batch of showers and storms moves through between 6:00 and 8:00 in the morning, thus another wet commute. unlike today i think we'll have some breaks in the clouds, a little sun tomorrow afternoon. there will be some showers dotting around around lunchtime, but a few breaks in the clouds and more showers by evening. in fact, the more breaks we see, the better chance of afternoon and evening thunderstorms. so just keep the umbrella handy. it's a little unsettled for a while. mostly cloudy tonight, comfortable, showers and thunderstorms, 58 and 64 for lows. tomorrow morning we could see showers and storms even in the morning, mild, though, 50s and 60s and by afternoon another round of showers and storms, but i think a little sun. we'll say partly sunny, high temperature 75 to 80. next seven days, more storms but more sun wednesday, 81 and then just spectacular, mid-70s thursday, friday, saturday,

sunday, pretty much full sun, a few clouds late monday, temperatures hovering around 80 by early next week. really let's get through wednesday and you're going to love me again. >> we're on board. >> we still love you even when it's raining. it seems like every day somebody out there comes up with something to honor, all kinds of stuff. >> that's right. in the course of the year we've got national hotdog day, national talk like a pirate day, scratch your nose day. >> well, today we get our little groove on kind of. today, my friends, is national dance like a chicken day. now personally i don't actually know how a chicken would dance, but you have probably been subjected to a thing known as the chicken dance at weddings or baseball games. i do recall something called the funky chicken back when i was growing up, but i think that's a different thing. >> it's a little different. we did too some research to figure out -- do some research

to figure out where this commemoration came from, but we weren't able to find anything concrete about the chicken dance. >> is that topper running behind? >> no. just me. >> he was running by an accordian player apparently perfected by a meteorologist that resides here from time to time. >> i stay with the fungy chicken. that's the way to -- funky chicken. that's the way to go. the washington capitals cleaned out their lockers this morning and got more bad news. >> head coach dale hunter is stepping down as head coach. >> he did it on his own. kristen berset has more from the caps facility. she was there when the news broke. >> reporter: dale hunter said it wasn't an easy decision, but after much deliberation he informed the team today that he will not return as head coach of the washington capitals. obviously disappointing news for this team. hunter brought a different style of play, a different culture to the locker room, one that everybody really seemed to

buy into this season. mcphee said hunter made them more of a team, showed them the how to win a game. for that reason hunter said this was a very tough decision. >> i enjoyed coaching these guys here and being back to the team that i always figure it's not my team, but it's still my team, you know, and so it was a tough decision to make, but it was the right thing for me and my family. >> there's no gray in dale's life. he's very decisive and the only thing i asked dale was does this have anything to do with anything that's going on here and he said absolutely not. he loved it here. this has always been his team. it's the only team he's ever wanted to coach. >> it's his decision, but i think the players and fans were glad with what we got in this

year. we have to live with it. >> reporter: hunter will return home to london, ontario to be with his family. the caps will take their time finding a replacement. hunter will help them during the draft, but tonight expect him to return to the nhl any time soon. from kettler iceplex in arlington, kristen berset, 9 sports now. still ahead tonight a $2 million blunder leads the white house to call for more financial reforms. >> we found another victim whose stolen bike was sold on craigslist and gets, what that alleged thief we've just featured in another story. i'm anny hong in arlington with that report. >> up next helping parents learn how to help their kids learn and do better in school.

barnard college is an all womans school, so it's no surprise women's issues were front and center today as president obama gave the commencement speak at the university. >> we know we're better off when women are treated fairly and equally in every aspect of american life whether it's the salary you earn or the health decisions you make. >> president obama personally asked the school for this speaking opportunity back in february. in the 2008 election president obama took 56% of the female vote. now let's talk about some younger students. study after studies show students do better in school when their parents are actively involved and for the last 14

years one d.c. program has shown them how to help. jc hayward introduces to us turning the page in today's hero central. >> we need some more dirt, mom. >> okay. >> it makes me feel good like i'm doing something for my kids. i'm with them. >> reporter: tina best pots plants with her daughter at mart in luther king jr. elementary school in southeast washington. >> they always are happy to see me when i come into school and waving and saying hi. >> reporter: bass is a parent leader volunteering with turning the page, a group that works with d.c. public schools to get parents actively involved in their children's education both inside and outside the classroom. >> it's real important in this neighborhood because if they're not into after school activities, they will be getting into the wrong thing. >> reporter: on a friday afternoon students prepare plants for a local senior center and the parents supervise. >> what we're trying to do is

help the parents really add that value which we know they can add and they really are critical parts of school improvement. we're just helping them find that voice. >> reporter: donna steward is one of the strongest parent voices. she says through the years turning the page has taught her how to help her seven children. >> we go back to turn the page. we have workshops on math and science and reading to help me to understand when they bring me those homework packages or those problems that i've never seen or known. i wanted to know how to help them. >> reporter: stewart has just won a parent of year award from turning the page after more than six years of volunteering. now she says her adult daughter is a parent leader. >> you always talk about how much she's learned, how much she's read with her daughter in her belly and how many books she's gained from turn the page. how do we do it? our library and her daughter is very, very smart. >> reporter: i'm jc hayward, 9 news now.

>> passing it on generation to generation. turning the page works with more than 100 families at mart in luther king jr. elementary school and 500 families in the city. for more information go to jchayward.com. this is 9 news now. the white house is calling for tougher regulations for the financial industry tonight and as we'll hear the report, all this comes after one of jpmorgan chase's top executives stepped down after the bank lost $2 billion. >> reporter: the white house says jpmorgan chase's huge losses highlight the need to protect taxpayers when wall street makes mistakes. during his commencement speech at barnard college in new york, president obama called for more financial regulations. >> we know that we're better off when there are rules that stop big banks from making bad bets with other people's money. >> reporter: but traders worry about too much regulation. >> it makes it more difficult for those firms to function and