on that. bruce. >> yeah, anita. they thought this was resolved many years ago, now they are demanding answers and threatening to reopen its investigation. you might not have even noticed these emergency exits. they are concrete with plates on the top. but in a crisis, if you're trapped in a tunnel, they could save your life. metro exits blocked and locked screams the washington examiner. after looking back at thousands of inspection reports on metro's emergency exits, the problems could leave riders stuck under ground in a crisis and the problems either took too long to fix or were never fixed at all. >> that concerns me. they allowed it to go as long as it's gone. >> inspectors found bushes, a hive of angry bees, and a locked emergency exit door at

congress heights. they found an exit sign that would have pointed fleeing passengers in exactly the wrong direction at capital south and at medical center, the ground around the exit is sinking. >> we are working to improve safety. it will be a never ending job, we have to continue to pay attention to it. >> the commission complained repeatedly about the blocked exits. it complained in 2007 and again in 2010. metro promised the inspector's reports would be moved much more quickly up the chain of command. but now the commission says it turns out that promise has never been fully implemented. >> you are never going to get to everything. you will never have a perfect system. there will be risks. you need to get where you're going. if it was major safety violation, i guess you would reconsider. >> he just hired a fire

marshal within the last month to make sure that these safety issues are paramount, but the safety commission that oversees metro still wants to know why the agency, the transit agency promised years ago that it had procedures in place to deal with this and did not. derek. >> got to move forward. hope they fix it now. thank you, bruce. a woman whose motorized wheelchair was stolen is a lot happier. not because she found it, but a stranger came through with a wonderful gift. >> i'm peggy fox where the woman who owns this wheelchair has been searching for the right person to give it to. she found her on channel 9. >> who would steal a wheelchair? >> she couldn't believe someone would steal her expensive motorized wheelchair. >> it's more than the chair.

why would someone steal a handicapped person? it doesn't make sense. >> summers had rheumatoid arthritis since she was a kid. she upgraded to this chair that gives her more lift. she tried to find somebody to give her old wheel their to, but couldn't, so she waited and looked for a sign. >> it will be all cleaned up and ready to go. >> i sent it on to the weiss's who are thrilled. >> it restores your faith in humanity. >> her new chair is like her stolen one, only better, because it has a seat lift. >> there's more than a million opportunities to do good, why not do it? >> peggy fox, 9news now. >> the attorney for george zimmerman is asking for a new bond hearing for his client. zimmerman is a neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the death of trayvon martin. a judge revoked zimmerman's bond last friday saying he lied

about the state of his finances. zimmerman returned to jail yesterday. today, pennsylvania supreme court denied jerry sandusky's request to delay the start of his trial. the court ruled the sex abuse trial against the former penn state assistant can begin with jury selection tomorrow. now memory could come into play for a key witness. that is former assistant coach, mike mcquery. he saw sandusky sexually assault a young boy in a locker room shower in march of 2002. prosecutors say the actual date is february 2001. >> the jury is going to be asking itself if mike mcqueryis making up a story, could these other witnesses be making up a story as well? >> sandusky is charged with abusing ten boys, he denies all the allegations. the department of justice says it plans to monitor tomorrow's recall election. governor scott walker and tom

barrett made their final pitch. activists are also descend on this state. walker's move to curb collective bargaining last year, which made him on an enemy of unions and ana hero to the tea party. >> the issues go across borders. these just aren't wisconsin issues. >> 2/3 of the $6 million that walker raised came from out of state donors. >> president obama is urging the senate to -- he says right now, women earn an average of 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. republicans say the bill, which is by maryland can place an undue burden on businesses. >> the economy and economic records were the hot topics on the campaign trail today. danielle nottingham has more from the white house. >> president obama's campaign is spending about $10 million

on a new tv ad targeting mitt romney's record as governor of massachusetts. >> instead of hiring workers from his own state, romney outsourced call center jobs to india. >> romney campaign says it would happily compare the president's record with the 4.7% unemployment rate in massachusetts while romney led the state. >> he inherited a $3 billion projected deficit. turned it around without raises taxes, balanced the budget, and put $2 billion in the rainy day fund. >> out raising campaign cash. mitt romney is in the pacific northwest. president obama is teaming up with former president, bill clinton, in new york. president clinton recently sent signals that attacking romney's time in the business world is not a good strategy. but the white house claims the two men see eye to eye on president obama's reelection. >> president clinton has

completely supported president obama's approach and has thoroughly endorsed obama, president obama as someone who has the right vision economically for moving this country forward. >> it's an approach that has not worked. >> he's a president in love with the sound of his own voice, but hasn't been able to follow through. >> president obama and clinton are highlighting two different fundraisers, including one on broadway. danielle nottingham, cbs news, the white house. >> england's queen elizabeth is going ahead with plans to attend a big concert tonight. part of the celebration of her 60 years on the thrown. but her husband, prince phillip, will have to miss it and tomorrow's event. he has been hospitalized with a bladder infection and will be under observation for a few days. the daring plan that went totally wrong when a would be bank robber got himself stuck in a very tight place.

>> okay. we'll talk about it at 7:00. >> still to come in this half hour, all eyes may be on next month's olympic games in london. we'll take you to the british tradition making headlines across the pond tonight. topper. >> we're looking at a very nice evening. we have a break in terms of temperatures today. here's the almanac. our average high is 81, 82. the low was 62. the low is close to the average low. record, 99. record low, 44. we'll come back and we will talk about our 9 weather alert. what that means and we'll also talk about when the next time you need your umbrella. >> but first, honoring those who fought in the battle that changed the tide of world war ii.

four veterans from the battle of midway were among those taking part in a

commemoration at the navy memorial today. that historic battle took place 70 years ago today. the u.s. sank four japanese aircraft carriers on the first day of the three-day battle and it's thought to be the turning point in world war ii. enterprise is sitting on a barge in new jersey tonight waiting to finish its journey to the deck of the uss intricepid. it was supposed to be taken tomorrow, but what we're hearing is some bad weather this afternoon will push that back to wednesday. it will become part of the permanent collection at the sea, air, and space museum. her signature voice was once described as equal parts grandma and freud. the iconic dr. ruth hit as milestone to celebrate its sex therapist turned 74. the late night radio show called, sexually speaking. since then, she has become a leading advocate for people speaking publicly about their

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the city of london is gearing up for the 2012 summer olympics. for a small number of residents, they much more important. with the shin kicking championships taking center stage. all that is required is courage and two feisty feet and i'm guessing a high pain threshold. the idea is to kick opponent shins until one competitor is brought down. the harder the kick the better. back at home, fairfax county police are searching for a serial animal slasher. in one month, two attacks on farm animals at the frying pan farm park. now as kristin fisher reports, the community is coming together to catch the person responsible. >> reporter: henry the human

meets henry the cow. >> did you pet the cow? >> yeah. >> reporter: the toddler is careful not to get too close, but it's the calf that has a real reason to be afraid of people. last week, someone cut henry across the head. they slashed two goats and a chicken. >> of course initially they were traumatized because what happened was horrible. they are on the mend. >> reporter: henry had to have eight stitches and eight staples put into his head. he is doing much better. you can see he's eating more. he seems less skiddish around humans and he is expected to make a fullrecovery. >> the attack happened one month to the day after horses were stabbed. >> at this point, other than the proximity, we don't have a will the of physical evidence we can talk about that would link them. however, logically, it makes sense that we'll be working both of them. >> fairfax county police had few leads, but now the community has come together to

fund a reward for anyone with information that leads to an arrest. >> we have had an outpouring of donors to a total of 7,500. >> police and park staff are working together to work with park security. >> we don't want to divulge actions that we have taken. >> actions that could include cameras, night patrols, anything to keep the animals and visitors safe. kristin fisher, thenews now. >> if you know anything about these animal slashings, call 1- 866-411-tips. an update tonight on the fight over 117 trees on virginia tech campus. we told you about the plan to cut down the trees to make way for a new practice facility for the school's football team. more than half of those are more than 300 years told.

a 15 person panel recommended the school shift its project to a nearby lot instead of cutting down trees. so far, no decision from the university board. a once in a lifetime shot to see a stellar sight. that's tomorrow at about 6:00 p.m. our time. venus will pass between the earth and sun. the transit is known as the rarest predictable event in astronomy. the last time it happened was in 2004. before that, it hasn't happened for 122 years. the next time is due to occur in 2117, but we're talking about tomorrow, topper. >> we are. hopefully the clouds will cooperate. it's going to appear as a small black dot against the sun. you can't look directly into the sun. however, frederick county is opening up its earth and space science lab for viewing. university of virginia will be handing out solar viewers. again, weather permitting. this only happened 53 times

since 2,000b.c. >> a black dot. pretty cool. >> you have some changes to tell us. >> we had a severe weather alert day on friday. wow. and that was code red. well, we'll have 9 weather alerts now. see if it's green or yellow or red. it's green, no worries, keep your plans. commute should be fine. if it's yellow, you may have something like wet roads or, you know, something that will affect your plans maybe for part of the day. maybe wet roads in the morning, morning fog, you may have to adjust a little bit of your day. and of course if it's red, well, watch out. that means life threatening and that means severe weather is occurring or imminent. so those are the three codes, green, yellow, and red, i think it's going to help us all understand everything. all right, let's look outside. it is brought to you by michael and son. we are inbetween two systems, so it's really nice.

73, mostly sunny. dew points in the 70s. with dew points in the 40s, that's a good hair day and open the windows, turn the ac off, open the windows all the way. that's how dry the air mass is. satellite pictures. we see showers and thunderstorms going through kentucky into tennessee. around the tennessee valley. we see showers up in new york state into pennsylvania. these are the clouds that will roll in later on tonight. we're good for the next six, seven hours. late tonight, we could see some showers, nothing heavy, but a couple sprinkles are possible. that will be the trend on through the rest of the week. nothing crazy heavy, but showers are possible. the showers showing up just north of adams county and franklin county. temperatures then, 70 in rockville. that is fantastic. 70 bethesda. if you go out tonight, you'll want to take a jacket. temperatures fall quickly when

the sun goes down. the air mass is dry. 70 in great falls. 69 in reston. 73 in college park and 70 also in beltsville. so, cool and unsettled. showers possible late tonight. some showers possible tomorrow. but i think it's going to be wetter on wednesday. and warmer on thursday. some storms are possible on thursday. we're not talking about anything heavy at this point. for tonight, partly to mostly cloudy. lows in the 50s and winds east, northeasterly at about 10. all right, next three days look like this. we're looking at green tomorrow, maybe a shower. we'll go yellow wednesday and thursday with showers possible. maybe some wet roads. and a few storms on thursday. next seven days, maybe a left over shower friday morning. then nice near 80 and heating up over the weekend. temperatures, mid 80s on saturday and flirting with 90 on sunday and monday of next week. so, we were hot memorial day. we were cool last weekend. we'll be hot again this weekend. >> it keeps going like this.

>> so the wizards are going to keep their leader. >> there is some consistency there. it's not a big surprise, but we were wondering when it's going to officially happen. randy announced he will stay in d.c. we'll tell you what we have ultimately the deciding factor in his decision. plus, a new look in college park. the terps going high-tech at the stadium. sports is next.

now, 9sports with kristen berset. the best sports in town. >> oh, from interim to the man. the washington wizards announcing randy will return as head coach next season, doesn't come as a total surprise, but it had been a month and nothing had been finalized. has been saying witman is their man. they avoided words like playoffs and winning. focused more on continuing to rebuild. whitman was encouraged by his team's inspired play at the end of last season. >> for a team to come out and battle like this team did, that showed me a lot that these guys have a lot of heart. the decision to me, i love to go forward and see where we can take this. >> thomas' time in d.c. was short lived. the caps traded the goalie to

pittsburgh and get a 7th round draft pick. brought in for that veteran experience, but he hurt his groin mid way through the season. well, the caps are set. capital and field at bird stadium, under construction. the university of maryland putting down new turf. but the rumors out there are that the new field won't be the traditional grain. rather black or pewter. the school has denied that they chosen a color. i went on campus today, talked to some terp fans to get their thoughts on the changes. now the nationals may still be in first place in the nl east, but they no longer hold sole possession and are slipping right now. the nats lost four of their last five games. capped off by a promising start against the braves yesterday. after back to back homers to start the game. the nats blew a 2-0 lead. there is no need to worry.

the team is moving in the right direction. >> you see that and they want to compete and everyone trying to catch a win, you know, it's a positive thing. >> a lot to do with it also and a lot of fun being out there. we are a good team and keep it all going. >> last year it was the players, now talk between the league and referees have stalled, prompting the nfl to hire replacement referees in order to have them trained. the two sides have been in negotiations since october without much progress being made. finally tonight, back to the nats game. they did have some fun in the dugout. first, his first of his career. he was all smiles. his teammates are ignoring him. and they ambushed him. giving him the silent treatment. and players were down in the tunnel. they laughed when he came in. >> good job. that's all for 9news now. derek will be back at 7:00.

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