the 2014 deadline. >> we will assistant stand together united in our determination to complete this mission. >> reporter: but france plans to do just that. the french president francois -- francois holland, warnings the taliban intends to fight. >> the taliban intend to take advantage of the removal of the surge forces. >> reporter: today the nato countries will decide how they will support afghanistan in 2014. >> in these difficult economic times, we can work together and pool our resources. >> who will pay for the mission which is expected to cost $4 billion a year. the taliban issued a

statement urging nations fighting in afghanistan to follow france's lead and pull their international forces from the war this year. it seems gop presidential hopeful mitt romney is having trouble convincing every conservative in the republican party he is the man for the job. tens of thousands of conservative donors who backed his gop rivals have been slow coming to his aid. last month romney raised $40 million but only a landful of his recent continue bias came from donors to his former primary challengers. despite many protests and statements from attorney churches in our region, the naacp is publicly endorsing same sex marriage. later in baltimore the leaders will explain why. >> sue ray chin got reaction from african-american church goers. >> reporter: the most vocal are african-american clergy and it is causing a division among

black churches. some say it is pitting religious philosophy against equal rights. karen artist has talked to her 11-year-old daughter, sidney, about gay marriage. >> she is aware of it. we have friends. we are fine with it. and i think by the naacp support, maybe that will make other people be more open to it or at least think about it. >> reporter: the philosophy is not adopted by bishop harry jackson. he says same sex marriage violates scripture. >> it does not mean there is hatred toward individuals who happen to be gay. but the issue is, if you are going to stay what the standard is, based on the lens of scripture, then it has to be, for them, pretty cut and dried, pretty straightforward and that is why there is such a strong divide. >> reporter: bishop jackson and others are unwavering even by

support of gay marriage by the maryland legislature. president obama and now the naacp. this weekend the naacp says civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law. >> i would say anyone that was gay, whatever, could come to the church. if you wanted to actually join and take full membership, then you say i believe like you guys believe. >> reporter: at a time when people may be seeking guidance on the institution of marriage from their church leader, some say they are going by their value values. >> it is not who you with, it is how you treat one another. >> reporter: same sex marriage in maryland has been signed into law and takes effect next year. opponents are working to force a referendum on same sex marriage on the november ballot. that naacp press conference is set for 10:30 this morning.

montgomery county police are investigating an apparent murder suicide in silver spring. officers discovered the body of a 39-year-old man and his wife. the couple was found in a house on colgate way. a police spokesman said both bodies showed signs of trauma and a note was left in the home. the couple anames -- couple's names have not yet been released. a prince george's man is facing charges after he crashed early saturday morning. officer daniel gonzalez was off-duty at the time of the crash. officer gonzalez had a breath alcohol level of .13. he has been released on his own recognizance. the state's attorney office is reviewing the case. police in college park are searching for three suspects now wanted in an armed robbery early saturday morning. the victim was flagged down by a man who showed a handgun and

then got into the victim's car, forced him to drive to stanford street where two others were waiting. the victim was robbed of cash and personal property. if you have any information, please contact prince george's county police. we now know the names of two teenagers charged at a shooting. two people were wounded friday afternoon in the shooting, 17-year-old kevin nguyen and 16-year-old devair harris have been charged. the shooting may have been due to a dispute with one of the victims. the 16-year-old male and 18-year-old female victims were treated at a hospital but are expected to recover. a riot at a privately run prison in southwest mississippi has left one guard dead and five others, and one inmate injured.

the prison mostly holds illegal immigrants charged with reentering the united states after being deporteds. deron robby was convicted of taping his roommate. on friday john edwards' jurors spent the day considering whether the former presidential candidate broke campaign laws by using donor money to cover-up an extramarital affair. jurors did not hear from edwards or his former mistress riel hunter. our time is 4:37. we hope you enjoyed the weekend because we are in for an

overcast monday. at 4:00 3-d howard will let us know if more showers are headed our way. general motors makes another announcement about its advertising. >> the post shuttle private space flight. >> we are back in two minutes.

welcome back. keep the rain gear handy. we have drizzle and spa and a few showers as well. maybe a thunderstorm this afternoon with highs in the mid-70s. i'm already looking ahead to the coming weekend. right now monica is in with timesaver traffic. >> reporter: southbound 395 a live look at an accident on the

shoulder before duke street and obviously traffic is light. northbound 3-9d 5 is also good between the beltway and the 14th street bridge. coming up in my next report, we'll go into maryland. time for the first your money segment of the morning. jessica doyle, facebook was supposed to take off like a rocket right? >> so much for that. it is going to finish pretty much where it started on friday. the company, of course went public friday with an offering price of $38 a share. it jumped 11% but that sank down by the end of the day 23 cents higher than it opened. that surprised a lot of investors on wall street, analysts were expecting a big jump, on the big day, which has been the pattern with a lot of previous internet stocks. so this frenzy over facebook didn't do much for the stock market which has been in a big

slump. the dow dropping at 11. checking the numbers it is down about 6%. 12369 lost 73 points in trading on friday. nasdaq was down 39 points. one of wall street's biggest concerns is unemployment, but the labor department says the labor market, rather is showing some improvement. unemployment fell in two-thirds of the last month. in many states the jobless well below the national average. nevada continues to report the highest unemployment rate at the nation. in just a few days ago, we told you about general motors pulling its ads from facebook. now it is leaving the super bowl . it says it simply cannot justify the cost. this year the company spent more than $3 million for a 30 second commercial and the price is going up for the next game. >> it is interesting right?

>> you wonner how many -- wonder how many will follow its lead. >> i'm going to see who is in charge of the advertising budget for gm. it makes me wonder if there has been a change there. >> right not standard operating procedure as before. and congratulations to mr. zuckerberg. he is married. he is probably not worried about what happened with the stock. >> probably not. he had a big weekend. a warning about children being poisoned with laundry soap. >> plus your weather first, when we come back.

good morning, 4:44. if you are just waking up, i was in st. michael's maryland, gorgeous, ran a half marathon there and bumped into a family that just switched to watching us in the morning and we are really thankful for that and we

wanted to say good morning. we are glad they are joining us. >> amazing how many people are up at this hour. you need to know that it is a little wet in spots this morning. got a lot of drizzle. some areas are just plain old sticky. then we have some showers as well. we'll look at radar in just a moment. at the bus stop obviously we are talking threat for showers and drizzle, temperatures are comfortable, in the 60s. it is a muggy morning out here with sunrise real early. sets at almost 8:20 right now. our day plan soldier going to be a cloudy day with occasional showers and thunder possible. winds northeast to east as we head into the afternoon, with a mid to late afternoon high of about 75 degrees there at 4:00 p.m. so it is not going to be raining constantly, but may be tough to get stuff done outside. this morning fairly quiet west of town, but you can see the

flow coming in off the atlantic. showers coming in from the east southeast to the northwest. offshore, quite a bit of lightning showing upright now in that area of showers and storms. locally, we have been watching this area of rain coming out of charles county and even over toward colonial beach move north and west. live doppler 9 hd. around springfield where 395 and the beltway come together. look at this from woodbridge in eastern fairfax county now. down toward quantico, this is all moving off ward the west northwest. down toward manassas, you can be seeing this rain head your way in the next 20 to 30 minutes. and showers may sneak in heading toward national airport. temperatures this morning running uniform in the low to mid-60s. cool spots like winchester and

easton at 63. annapolis 67, locally we are not seeing that much change. when you have the low clouds and the humidity, very uniform temps, 63 in arlington this morning in college park. you see the clouds outside the capital on our michael and son camera. 67, drizzle and light showers, winds east-northeast at 13. had our first tropical storm of the season if you call it that, over the weekend. alberto. look at this thing, a tiny little guy moving off to the south. not really concerned with alberto. alberto may just be absolute associated by the bigger weather systems throwing the moisture off back to the west. this is going to be the case the next couple of days, for us, going to see the occasional showers and storms for several days, in fact here's your forecast. 75 today, tomorrow 7 after

falling into the 60s tonight 80 on wednesday, more showers and storms. even thursday that his -- has a chance if storms. we could be in the upper 80s saturday and sunday. 4:48 monika samtani, happy monday morning. you are in great spirits i see. >> reporter: why not. you have to get to work and you are going to have bad hair but hey, it is the start of the week. a car spun out and hit a tractor trailer, police are on the scene, northbound 95 at route 610 so keep that in mind for your travel plans. the beltway is fine, no problems to report on 270 coming from frederick to clarksburg and down to the point where the lanes divide, a live look at shady grove road. the roads are a bit wet. it may slow you down just a

bit. now to southern maryland on route 5, route 4, route 301. no problems to report coming in from this point up to the beltway andrews air force base and we'll take a live look outside. here's what it looks like southbound. coming up in my next report we'll go over to 66 at 4:55. andrea and mike. it looks like all system go for an unmanned private rocket. but a technical problem scrubbed the launch at the last moment. >> randall pinkston has more from the kennedy space center. >> reporter: the countdown for lift off went all the way down. but the falcon 9 rocket never launched. >> lift off. we have had a doubt off. -- a cut off. lift off did not occur. >> reporter: a last second technical problem shut down

nine engines, scrubbing the launch. >> it did what it was supposed to do. this is not failure. we aborted with purpose. >> reporter: space x engineers will try to figure out what we want wrong. >> reporter: the shuttle used to be nasa's work horse for delivering supplies and crews to the nation. but now that the shuttle isn't running any more nasa is looking for other ways. >> the company has launched a falcon 9 rocket two times before. once the dragon capsule reaches the space station, a robotic arm will reach out and pull the capsule in. space x hopes to have astronauts aboard its capsules by 2015. kennedy space center, florida. an estimated 1000 space x

and nasa guests poured into the launch area in the wee hours of saturday morning, hoping to see the start of this new commercial era. right now it is pushed back until tuesday or wednesday. researchers say sleep apnea knee a, the problem you have breathing while sleeping, can actually increase a patient's risk of dying from cancer. according to the study a lack of oxygen from sleep apnea knee acan help -- can help cancerous tomb ners -- tumors grow. obese teenagers who have no symptoms of heart disease already have heart damage, that is according to a new study presented by the european society of cardiology. scientists found obese teens who showed no signs of heart disease had damaged hearts with thicker walls. more studies are needed to

determine if heart damage can be reversed if the teens lose weight. and folic acid may reduce some childhood cancers. the food and drunk administration is mandated since 1998, and researchers say since that time, certain cancer rates among children have dropped. a warning about new super concentrated pods or packets of laundry detergent. the brightly colored pods look like candy to some young children. many of them have bitten into them and become violently ill. violent vomiting, seizures, even cases where toddlers ended up on ventilators have been the results. 4:52. time for the question of the morning. a recent survey listed this as the one food americans hate most.

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welcome back. your weather first at 4:55. we have some wet weather out there, drizzle, wet streets, even a couple of hefty showers in spots. the cancer for showers and storms will be with us all day. it is not going to be an all day rain, but on and off showers, high temperatures around 75 degrees. again, i'll be back with doppler at the top of the hour. right now here's monica. >> reporter: some drizzle inbound i 66. early enough it is not causing

any problems heading to manassas. coming up a closer look at virginia roads at 5:01. mike? millions in asia and the united states watched as the range of firee clips lit up the sky. theee clips was seen in wide areas -- -- areas across asi. robin gibbs died sunday after a long battle with cancer. gibbs and his brother formed the bee gees in 1960. the band is best known for the saturday night fever sound track

album that became one of the fastest selling albums of all time. robin gibbs was 62. movie fans can't get enough of the avengers. it raked in $55 million domestically, and that made it disney's biggest movie release of all time, topping toy story 3 and pirates of the caribbean dead man's chest. so far the film has made 1. $14 billion worldwide and it is still going. battleship placed a disappointing second. >> it is just jaw-dropping. >> have you seen it? >> no, i can't wait. emma thompson takes on a brave new role in pixar's brave new animated feature called

"brave ." >> reporter: oscar winner emma thompson plays a queen in the new animated adventure. we talked to thompson immediately after she saw the film for the first time. >> it is an astonishing piece of work. i knew it was special but seeing it just blew my head off. the arts stray of it, it is a fantastic story. >> reporter: "brave "hits theaters on june 22nd. >> lil kim brought her tour to new york and philadelphia over the weekend. the tour will also make stops in milwaukee, san francisco and hollywood. >> reporter: some of hollywood's biggest human and alien stars are getting ready to storm the big apple. wednesday is men in black 3 new york day. it will have its u.s. premiere in new york, beginning with the opening of the new york stock

market. >> we have a right to fight for our country the same as every other american. >> reporter: the war movie the red tale is coming out on dvd tomorrow. >> the movie the woman in black is also being released. >> reporter: if romantic comedy is more your thing, another new dvd is, this means war, that is your eye on entertainment. teresa garcia, hollywood. good morning and thank you for watching 9news now at 5:00 a.m. also on dvd, morning glory starring our very own mike haiduk. good morning, i'm andrea roane. >> my name in the movesy ralph pollard. good morning, i'm mike haiduk, hello, let's get this back on track here. here's