and this is just shaken us all up. >> now the pilot of that other plane is still in the hospital tonight recovering from his injuries. and people are still bringing in pieces of those two planes. one broke apart on impact in midair and bruce leshan reports because one pilot worked for the ntsb and the survivor for the faa the canadian transportation board took over the investigation. >> it was in a perfect glider fashion. >> reporter: jim flanagan still shaken by the plane that crash- landed in his cow pasture. >> in on the southeast side of it. and -- if we can kick the field goal, it's right through the uprights. and he left the wings as you can see the white residue. >> reporter: he's shaken as well at what the pilot told him. >> he told me he had hit someone in midair. >> i in part because the -- in part because the pilot of the

pitcher told them -- piper told them he hit something but how and why these two aircraft were in the same place at the same time exactly in the middle of the giant blue sky that's in the center of this investigation. and investigators are going to be looking at these holes in the piper, this distinctive square hole here with red paint around it as well as the jagged tear right here. investigators are also going to be looking at site lines, clearly those two pilots didn't see each other. and both this piper and the beachcraft have wings that are placed down below the cockpit. >> once we ascertain the angle to which they came together then we will start to look at what would be the field of view from the pilot's perspective. >> reporter: the pilot of that beach craft never had a chance. investigators say the tail break e broke off on impact -- broke off on impact and here it is at least a piece of it.

right in jim flanagan's cow pasture without the tail there's no way to fly the aircraft. what's amazing is that the piper pilot could land with this piece of tail. attached to his aircraft. in summer duck, virginia, bruce leshan, 9news now. >> the surviving pilot just got out of the hospital and immediately headed to flanagan's farm to thank him and his wife for helping him after that crash. a veteran culpeper police officer sits in jail tonight charged with murder. a special grand jury indicted officer daniel harmon wright in the death of a woman earlier in year. peggy fox is live in fauquier county. peggy? >> reporter: well, anita about four months since patty cook was shot and killed by a culpeper police officer. now that daniel harmon wright has been charged with murder and is here in the fauquier county jail, many are saying justy is finally served --

justice is finally served. >> his initial reaction was shock and horror. he was on the verge of nausea. >> reporter: dan hawes escorted his client culpeper police officer daniel harmon wright jail after a special grand jury indicted him for murder and three our counts. he is charged in the shooting death of 354-year-old patricia cook in her jeep in a catholic school parking lot february 9th. >> she had been warden, around in the religious school and refused to identify herself. >> reporter: they wound up in a confrontation. he told investigators she caught his arm in the window and was dragging him when he shot her six times. special prosecutor jim fisher says it didn't happen that way. >> the terms trapped and drags were used. these were not descriptors that i would have used. >> and she's being held there. he can't -- he can't free himself. >> reporter: harmon wright's attorney says it's true. he wasn't dragged. he says it was his hand that was caught in the window and that he'd stepped up on to the

jeep's running board as cook started driving away. >> she wasn't armed. was she? >> no. >> then how was its self- defense? >> she hit a light pole or a -- what was it? was it a light pole? telephone pole. now if she had been slightly to the right of that pole and he was still attached to the window he'd have been crushed. >> reporter: his mother, bethany sullivan is also charged relating to forging public documents and an attempt to purge her son's personnel file of negative information. >> i thought -- like hey you know, i can believe it. >> reporter: price wonders if her compliant against harmon wright could have been altered. this is a hospital record showing an injury to her wrist that she says she suffered when harmon wright pushed her in 2008. now daniel harmon wright has been suspended from his job without pay. his first hearing is in culpeper circuit court next friday. reporting live in fauquier

county. back to you lesli. >> all right. thank you. how badly do you want a burger? apparently it wasn't the food but the cash this guy was interested in getting from a drive-thru in hill crest heights. >> i'm scott broom outside the mcdonald's on branch avenue in prince george's county. where police have released a most unusual surveillance video. >> i don't understand how would somebody think to rob a mcduendes' through the drive- thru but -- >> it starts with a brick being used to break the glass. the suspect grabbing the window frame and throwing it to the floor. flush flush then climbing in to confront a terrified cashier who has been working in the window. it's a tape police want you to see. >> if you look at the surveillance tape you can see the suspect's face and we know there's someone out there that can identify this individual. we're just asking for the community's help. he picks up a metal cup object and he threatens the cashier and demands money. and in fear of her life, she

opens the cash register and gives him an unspecified amount of o money. >> reporter: in hill crest heights maryland, scott broom, 9news now. neighborhoods do all sorts of things to get drivers to slow down on the local streets but new traffic calming measures in jones bridge road are upsetting the residents and drivers tonight. according to the examiner at least half a dozen drivers have hit them so hard, they blew out their tires. and neighbors complained the island's not marked and it's hard for drives to see it. montgomery county is looking into the problem. mcduffy is the newest member of the d.c. city council. he was the new council member for ward 5. he won a special election last month to replace harry thomas jr. heading to prison after pleading guilty to embezzling money from the city. new at 6:00 tonight, another thumbs down from dwight

d. eisenhower's family about designs for a memorial to the 34th president. the architect submitted some modifications to his design this month at the family's request but on the website today, eisenhower's granddaughter susan posted a statement thankings them for their work but says the family doesn't support the use of metal victims in the memorial. the world's first commercial supply ship is fueled up and ready for a flight back to everth. >> it will capsule called the dragon is scheduled to be released from the international space station early tomorrow morning. and then it will splash down in the pacific a few minutes before noon tomorrow. >> big deal. well, tonight at 7:00, saving the lives of infants. a new study shows how a simple supplement could keep infections from killing the very young. we'll tell you about it on 9news now at 7:00. >> and still ahead in this half hour derek, getting ready to say a final farewell to the godfather of go go.

topper. >> 83 and 69 will go in the books. >> record high for the day 98 set back in 1991. you might remember that. record low 44 set back in 1844. i doubt you remember that. the cold front moving in, beryl moving out and the weekend. >> but first major work to be beltway this weekend, why crews think traffic could back up from virginia into maryland. we'll tell you coming up next. [ breathing heavily ] we hurried.

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back now with the commuter alert about some major work on the beltway. crews will be repaving the through lanes on the inner loop between the wilson bridge and telegraph road. they're going to start closing the lanes tomorrow night and plan to have them completely shut down by friday night at 8:00. they will reopen monday morning. so local lanes will stay open through the weekend. a supercute 6-year-old is creating quite the buzz at the scripps national spelling bee.

>> sure is. lori anne madison correctly spelled dirigible earlier today but she didn't make it past that. still; the girl from woodbridge, virginia has made history has the youngest person ever to qualify for the national spelling bee. earlier this morning, at the preliminaries held at the national harbor she bravely shared the stage with contestants twice her age and spelled her word confidently. >> dirigible. d. i. r. i. g. i. b. l. e.. dirigible. [ applause ] >> she means it. >> yeah. >> lori anne misspelled the second word the evening but she has plenty of time to come back to the national spelling bee. tomorrow is the semifinals with about 50 contestants. >> she can help in the newsroom. still to come to you treatment there might be a cleaning fairy out there somewhere? find out why it was not so

pleasant for one family coming up.

♪ tonight, fans are remembering bluegrass legend doc watson. the north carolina native was known for the flat picking and finger still technique. watson -- style technique. he went on to win several grammy awards. doc watson was 89. well, what's 14,500 people walk through the doors of the washington convention center tomorrow to pay their respects to chuck brown. no one else will be allowed in. city officials say tomorrow's funeral for the go go legend could be one of its largest ever. >> this is bruce johnson. ♪ cliff jones with so world

entertainment. he's the one of many artists preparing to salute go-go legend chuck brown tomorrow. ♪ >> his depth should change some lives, should change some people's mindsets with the music business. >> the people performing here at the washington convention center tomorrow for chuck brown's funeral tell me this town has never seen the type of musical sendoff we're going to see tomorrow. add to that the fact that much of the world still don't know much about go go music and tomorrow could end up being one for the history books. paying homage to chug brown will be a host of local stars like divine, sugar bear, donny simpson. the chuck brown bands will also perform. >> gospel, jazz, blues, go-go. and especially go-go. will send chuck off in a manner that's fitting of a king. >> bruce johnson, 9news now. >> we'll be streaming the funeral live at wusa9.com. our on air coverage begins at noon. i'll see you then.

and you can leave your remembrances of chuck brown on facebook. just search r. i. p. godfather of go-go. an ohio man is fighting a littering ticket. he says he got when he tried to give money to a panhandler in the wheelchair and the cash fell to the ground. john davis says he reached out and the money dropped on the ground. police gave him a $344 ticket. here's the deal. cleveland officers say it's illegal to solicit or give money. a woman from ohio is also in trouble. she broke into a home and did some cleaning and left a bill. the family thought a cleanings service sent the wrong person to the wrong address but the woman told them no mistake and you better pay up. >> our jaws just dropped to the ground. i said what happened you know? did you get the wrong house? she said no. she said i do this all the time and i'm like what do you mean?

she goes i just stop and clean your house. >> the woman in question is named sue warren and we're told she does in fact run a cleaning business. so far no charges have been pressed here. but last month, in a separate matter, warren was charged with criminal trespassing. a waiter in houston got quite a shock last weekend when two customers left him a whopping $5,000 tip. the generous payment couldn't have come at a better time. greg rubar's car was destroyed recently in a severe storm and he'd been talking cabs and buses to get to work. a couple of the restaurant regulars heard about the troubles and decided to help in a big way. after finishing their $27 lunch, they handled him an envelope with $5,000 cash. >> he just said here and said you know we're still going to come in and not tip you for a while. he said this is for you and this is enough money to buy you a nice car. >> he will buy a new ride. >> there are good people out there in the world.

>> so generous. >> that's fantastic. >> i did like they said we're not going tip you for a little while. >> we took care of that for a minute. >> maybe a year or so and i couldn't do the math but $27 bill and a $5,000 tip? that's impressive. >> it sure is. >> a cold front to the west should move through dry and say good-bye to tropical storm beryl. a very early season tropical storm moving off the north carolina coast. let's start with a live look outside. it is our live weather cam brought to you by michael and. so this is a new one it's high atop gannett our headquarters in mclean and looking west to the beltway. right now temperatures 82. dew point 61. that dew point will come down even further as the front goes through. now the winds are still out of the south at 7 and the winds will turn northwesterly too after midnight and that will usher in some much more cooler and drier air. in fact spectacular air. the satellite and radar, there's what's left of beryl still producing pretty good rain along the coast of north carolina. there's the front to the west

that has to go through us. i think move through dry here. i think in the immediate metro area it's going to be dry. some more clouds coming back in though later tonight ahead of the front and then clear out again after the front gross through. 82 great falls, 79 now in bethesda. 81 arlington and very nice evening out there. 82 in stirling and 82 leesburg and 81 for the friends in manassas. here's the deal a cold front will move through tonight clearing and cooler tonight. mostly sunny and pleasant tomorrow. just beautiful on thursday. friday, some heavy thunderstorms are possible. and beryl, what's left of beryl moving offshore off the north carolina coast. so for tonight, a clearing breezy and cooler. open the windows 58 to 68. winds become northwest 10 to 15. give the ac a rest. mostly sunny and pleasant in the morning. 60s and 70s. air quality code yellow. i thinkened up being code green but either way it's pretty good for us. mostly sunny in the afternoon

and beautiful. grab your sunglasses. high temperatures in the low 80s. and the winds out of the northwest at about 10. so we'll break it down to start kind of cool and i mean 58 to 68 but then by noon 75 to 80 and then by evening 78 to 83. under mostly sunny skies well just beautiful. next three days, clouds come back on friday. showers and storms possible probably by as early as lunchtime. temps around 80 and could be big in the afternoon. 267s drop a little bit in the upper 70s on saturday. next seven days temperatures in the mid 70s on sunday and a couple of showers possible and it stays unsettled and temperatures in the mid- to low 70s tuesday, wednesday and thursday with some showers and that area of low pressure will throw a shower our way from time to time and drop temps next week. >> it will be good actually because it was such an overdry to the heat last week. >> our bodies weren't quite used to it. i was hot last week. >> yeah? this is pretty good football weather although

kristen berset is not talking about your find of football. right? >> reporter: no, it's the other find of futbol guys. the soccer find. fedex field has been pushed into a pitch. -- turned into a pitch. next in sports ben olson will join me livement that's right after this -- live. that's right after this. ♪

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we got breaking news now out of temple hills where firefighters just got the flames under control. at a house in the 5300 block of lorraine drive. can't really see the house so

well but there's a lot of equipment there and police say they also found a woman in her 40s shot and killed at that home. the fire is being investigated as suspicious and we'll stay on top of this and bring you more information tonight on 9news now at 7:00. we are live at fedex field not for a redskins' game but for a soccer friendly between usa brazil over 6 no thousand fans expected to -- 60,000 fans expected to pile in for a rare chance to see them compete against each other. joining me live here at fedex a guy that knows this game all too well. d.c. united head coach ben olson also a former player for the u.s. national team. ben, bring you back some great memories for you? >> wonderful memories, i was saying it's nice to be out here rather than inside not have all the butterflies. it's a great great chance for the people in this area to see an unbelievable team in brazil. and of course the usa you know

test themselves against it is best. >> now even though tonight is just a friendly, can we still expect some great soccer out of -- out there on the field? >> well, throughout. you know we're preparing -- absolutely, you know we're preparing for our qualifier and this is a big deal for the preparations as a country to get to the world cup and brazil always plays great soccer. they entertain like no oh team in the world and it's a great opportunity for the community of d.c. and -- to see some great stuff. >> i was just telling you over 60,000 fans coming tonight. i mean -- they say soccer may be isn't as popular but i think the crowd here tonight shows it. >> soccer is doing just fine. you look around here, soccer is doing just fine. and you know once we get 60,000 at d.c. united games i think everything will be perfect. >> but hey you guys are doing great too. first place you guys just won in richmond. what's been the difference this year for united? >> we've got some good players, it's not coaching that's for sure. we have got better players and

i think a better mentality. we're in a good run right now but we have a long way to go. we have to get better. we have two-thirds of season left and we need to make playoffs and hopefully bring some trophies back to the area. >> i think the fans will enjoy this. you have a nice little break right now too right? >> a nice break we're shutting down and go to local soccer games. >> ben olson, thank you so much. >> thank you very much. >> enjoy the game. all right, also coming out venus williams dropped at the french open one day after her sister. we'll have more on that tonight at 11:00. live from fedex field, i'm kristen berset. back to you guys. >> a great day to be out there for sure. >> they enjoy this friendly exhibition. >> friendly exhibition. 6,000 people? that's excellent -- 60,000 people? that's excellent. soccer is good. >> very happy today and not yesterday when it was boiling hot. that's it for us, the cbs "evening news" is next. >> at 7:00 derek is here with our area's only local newscast and don't forget to join andrea, mike, howard and monika tomorrow morning starting

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