hello, everybody. i'm bruce johnson. get ready for the monday morning rush hour. big changes in store for metro riders. in but hours a new service will affect about 110,000 riders on the green, yellow, blue, and orange lines. matt jablow has all the information you are going to need. >> reporter: this man has spent a lot of time standing in crowded metro trains. >> whether you have a long

commute from virginia to here in largo, you're standing up for almost an hour. >> reporter: so has bridget barnes. >> do you find yourself standing during train rides? >> most definitely. >> reporter: so has marie davenport, which is why, like a lot of metro commuters, they're all looking forward to rush plus -- metro's new plan to make commuting faster and more comfortable. >> this new plan sounds good to you. >> absolutely. >> reporter: according to metro the plan will improve service on the green, yellow, and orange line by adding six trains to each of 21 stations during the morning and evening commutes. for example, metro says the orange line between vienna and largo town center will have about 18% more capacity, or 2600 more seats per hour as a result of three additional trains in each direction during both the morning and evening

rush hours. >> i think it's a great idea. >> reporter: riders we spoke to said if the plan works it will provide long overdue relief from their long and difficult commute. >> do you think it will help? >> anything would be better than now. >> reporter: it will result in less trains during rush hour on the blue line which could result, despite what metro says, in tougher commutes for some blue line riders. it all starts monday morning. matt jablow, 9news now. the key figure in one of this country's worst riots is dead. rodney king was the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by police ignited a race riot that left 55 dead and more than 2,000 injured. >> reporter: rodney king's

daughters spent father's day in tears. the two hugged each other outside the home where king was found dead in his pool just hours earlier. king's fiance, cynthia kelly, found his body. she spoke to officers and told them she was outside with king in the early morning hours. she headed back in, and when she returned king, an avid swimmer, was at the bottom of the pool. paramedics tried cpr but within an hour king was pronounced dead. they describe his death as an accident. johnny kelly was king's friend for 30 years. >> rodney had a lot of nightmares and panic attacks. the way he would handle those things was by drinking. >> king was drinking the night los angeles police stopped him in 1991 leading to this infamous video. the officers involved were acquitted. king pleaded for an end to the violence. king spent the last decade living here in this i will

alto, california home. neighbors remember him as a friendly and mellow guy who mainly kept to himself. >> very quiet, withdrawn. he didn't interact with anyone. >> reporter: king struggled with addiction but police found no signs of drugs or alcohol at the house. >> can we all just get along? that's how i would like to be remembered, after i'm dead and gone. >> reporter: the coroner will perform an autopsy monday morning. cbs news, i will rialto, california. >> you can't help but remember those images. we found rodney king's death the topic of conversation at d.c.'s landmark rest rant, the chili bowl. >> i just remember hollywood boulevard was on fire.

it was the weird -- the weirdest thing to wake up and see that many buildings on fire. >> reporter: former d.c. mayor sharon pratt was in office at the time. >> do we have problems with an increasing diverse population, particularly the el salvadorian population. >> reporter: police shot a salvadoran man following a cinco de mayo celebration in 1991. >> nobody wants to think of a riot as the precursor to good. you should not have to go there. but without a doubt it was a wake-up call to the city. >> reporter: people unleashed their rage to the streets in northwest. rodney king will always be linked to the l.a. riots and the dialogue it sparked about race relations. in his death, it continues to be a conversation.

>> it brings back a moment like you never know the impact you make. it was a moment in time, but it made a difference. those are the moments we have to look and say, okay, how can we become a better community. >> why can't we just get along? and i think that holds true today. why can't we just get along? >> reporter: former mayor sharon pratt said the riots triggered open dialogue, and at least in d.c. the relationship between the government and the latino community improved. former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky will soon get to tell his side of the story. the defense could begin calling witnesses as early as monday. prosecution witnesses include eight young men who say the former pep state assistant coach sexually abused them as

children. sandusky's defense strategy includes showing how the stories of the victims changed over time. it's not clear if the defendant will take the stand but a judge did rule on friday that sandusky's team can disclose information about a personality disorder to explain why he wrote letters to some of those young boys. looting has become a concern as crews battle a massive wildfire in northern colorado. today deputies arrested a 30- year-old denver man on theft and impersonating a firefighter charge. the sheriff's department says the suspect was driving through the fire zone with phony firefighter credentials. >> he had a vehicle with government plates on it and had firefighting type of equipment, and was purporting to be involved in this fire. it was actually some of the fire personnel that spotted him. we don't know where he got in and how he got in yet. >> meantime, the fire has

destroyed at least 181 homes, more than 1600 emergency responders are now working on the fire which is about 45% contained. fire investigators say the blaze was sparked by lightning. a car plows into a goodwill store in mason city, iowa. police say the driver accidentally stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. fortunately nobody was hurt but the damage was significant enough to force the goodwill store to remain closed today. volunteers and employees spent the afternoon patching up the mess. police pulled a dui suspect out of his vehicle after a wild and dangerous chase through the l.a. area this weekend. the suspect kept police at bay for about an hour. officers tried to pull the man over after he was spotted driving erratically. he then drove on the wrong side of the road at speeds up to 120 miles per hour. after swiping at least two vehicles, the chase ended when the vehicle came to a stop in hollywood. the man is now under arrest,

facing several felony charges tonight. still to come on 9news now this sunday night -- >> reporter: woodward and bernstein did what reporters are supposed to do. i just couldn't assume they checked it out. >> 40 years ago today a bungled d.c. burglary changes the course of american history. and get this, a woman moving furniture in her apartment is trapped for days have after a dresser falls over. we'll have that story. and bruce you will want to grab the umbrella as you're heading out the door for monday. clouds are moving in. we could see some overnight showers. here's your monday wake-up weather. temperatures starting out in the 60s. we'll talk about the big warm- up and the rise in humidity in that seven-day forecast. stick around. 9news continues after the break.

a portland, oregon woman has some good neighbors to thank tonight for saving her life. virginia was moving furniture in her apartment when a dresser fell on her, trapping the 67- year-old woman for four days. neighbors thought she was

unusually quiet, and when her newspapers started piling up outside, they got worried, and called the cops. the cops then kicked the door in and found the trapped woman under the heavy dresser. >> hadn't seen her in a few days, hadn't heard much noise up stay, but she's pretty quiet anyway. i'm shocked. if she was really in there four or five days, at her age, called the cops. the first thing they said was, we think she's dead. >> the woman was treated for injuries to both legs. mitt romney is refusing to say whether he would overturn barack obama's policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay tin country. the republican appeared on "face the nation" this morning. >> we'll look at that setting as we reach that but my anticipation is we'd come into office and say we need to get this done on long-term basis,

not this stop-gap. if the president felt serious about this he should have taken action when he had a democrat house and senate, but he didn't. i saved these sorts of things for a few months before the general election. >> the president announced on friday that the country would no longer d port some young illegal immigrants. the political party in greece that favors a bailout for the financially strapped country has won today's national elections. the new democracy immediately proposed forming a pro- coalition government. more fallout this weekend over the ouster of the university of virginia's president. student and faculty leaders want more information about the removal of president sullivan. the school says the statements

have been abstract, unclear, and at times difficult. >> i am still really in shock about the fact that this powerful visionary is not part of our lives. there's a moment when you kind of draw the line in the sand, and you say, this is what i believe, and if it makes me weak, i don't care. i am going to say what i think. >> a meeting between uva's faculty senate and the school's governing board is now set for monday. it began in the early morning hours of june 17th, 1972. five men working for richard nixon's reelection campaign were arrested, trying to break into the democratic party headquarters at the watergate complex here in washington. that bungled break-in some 40 years ago today essentially led to president richard nixon's resignation from office. >> in the beginning a lot of us

just couldn't imagine that this was going to be something that amounted to anything. >> the watergate break-in remains the biggest political scandal with the biggest consequences in u.s. history. >> i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> these are people that were willing to do anything to get elected. they were bugging offices, they were -- think in the end the constitution prevailed. >> bob woodward and carl bernstein are today both famous and rich from backs, movies and speeches. >> the clues, and then in the first week that one of the burglars was connected to howard hunt, a former cia man who was a consultant in the nixon white house. >> reporter: all week long they've been offering reflections, journalism insight

while attending events in town marking the 40th anniversary of watergate. >> you realize that the spying and sabotage and hostility towards all of the enemies, or perceived enemies was the way of life in the nixon white house. >> they found the watergate break-in was only part of the scheme launched by the nixon re- election campaign. >> what's striking is how angry and happy nixon is at being president. he wanted to use the power of the office as an instrument of personal revenge. >> after his resignation from the appreciation den see will you recall that richard nixon was pardoned by his successor, president gerald ford. it was all captured in his own words in the white house tapes. still ahead on 9news now tonight, a man would took a strike from lightning lives to

talk about it. and we're going to look at a mostly muggy week ahead. the forecast when we come back.

a tennessee man is one of the few people that can say he tack a lightning strike and lived to tell about it. he was rolling up the windows of his pickup truck when a sudden surge sent him flying to the ground. >> let's just say i wasn't hit by a bolt but what they have told me was that i you could. it went through me and ended somewhere else. >> he was treated at the hospital and released today in time to spend father's day with his son. let's just say mr. allgood is a lucky man. >> no kidding. the chance of getting struck by lightning in your lifetime is 1 in 10,000, according to the weather service. i'm glad he wasn't hurt because those can be deadly. >> absolutely. >> we've been talking about this major warm-up. some of the warmest temperatures we're going see all year, bruce.

it's coming. then the humidity and heat are on. here's a look at your michael & son weather camera. 6 degrees outside, dew point mid-50s, so that's still comfortable. here's a look at doppler. most of the action is still out to the west as expected. we can see lightning bolts associated with some of those storms. right now even cumberland, you're getting some shower activity, and the yellow indicating some of the more moderate to. only a slight chance for a little shower here and there. probably by tomorrow morning. cumberland, you're the warm spot on the map at 70 degrees at this hour. ma nasa is 64 degrees, these

temperatures are going to really -- we're going to drain some heat from those locations from the south, especially come tuesday and wednesday. our satellite picture showing us a little bit of shower activity and storm activity to the west of us, so we'll see a little bit of that potentially impact us overnight. it will be generally a. showers are possible for the morning commute. i don't think it's really going to be bide. then we're looking to be hotter and humid midweek. the mug geese are going to. you can see some showers to the north and west of us. maybe a little shower activity in the afternoon. by the afternoon i would say. so you may hear some rumbles of

thunder. a little peek of sunshine here and there. overnight becoming mostly cloudy, better. partly to mostly cloudy, some showers are possible. air quality is code green which is good. temperatures will start. mostly cloudy and mild with a shower and trpd. i've given stomped. tuesday only an isolated thunderstorm, otherwise near 90. 93, partly cloudy condition, and it will feel humid. so. thursday is even hotter, mid- 90s. what i want to mention, bruce, with the humidity returning by then, we're talking he frptdz. looks like it won't last

railroad 0 fopped. check on the elderly. >> got it. anny, thanks a lot. hundreds of people took advantage of today's great weather. the weekend festivities continued today for much to see in the water and up in the air. tall ships and warships were on -- precision and death defying acts for a second straight day. for many, it was. we were on the pier yesterday, fells point, but we're obviously rate here. >> fowmentdz. >> beautiful day, beautiful people what better way to spend

father's day. >> the tall ships and warships will leave the. we'll preview sports plus next. stay with us.

my question is like everyone. what's wrong with tiger woods? >> i don't know, he starts to show promise, then facilitiers. when he did win a few weeks ago, he isn't that consistent. we'll talk about that tonight at sports plus. but, webb simpson, he became the 9th consecutive first time major champ. lots of champs this year. the 26-year-old two under on the day, able to hold on to win his first major title. tiger woods, on the other hand, faltered after another promising start. woods has yet to win a major since 2008. he held a share of the lead to start the third round but shot a 75 on saturday. today he bogeyed four of the first six holes with a double bogey on three. he needed a miracle just to contend today. >> today i just got off to a horrific start. just never got it going early, and unfortunately, put myself

out of it. >> we've got highlights and analysis from the rest of the field coming up. the nationals today struggling again against the yankees. the bronx bombers came to town and brought out the brooms. what concerns davey johnson more than the sweep is the continuing slump of ryan zimmerman. more in sports plus. the redskins wrap up mini camp, their last practices until training camp opens at the vend july. we'll take a look at the progression of robert griffin iii. plus, we'll introduce you to an inspirational wounded warrior. dan hernandez suffers from injuries we can't physically see. a traumatic brain injury sustained in iraq. now he uses golf as his therapy, and with his wife by his side, he dreams of going pro. we've got his story, inspirational, and he's a darn good golfer. >> you've got lots to talk about. >> you want to recap? >> after a great father's day today, tomorrow looks pretty

good. temperatures upper 70s, low humidity, maybe a shower or isolated storm. tuesday, getting warmer, upper 80s, near 90, then get ready for the heat and humidity, near record breaking heat for those days. so some of the hottest temperatures we've seen all year. >> we got spoiled this weekend. >> keep in mind, big changes to metro. you might want to get out a bit early for the commute. get updates on-line at wusa9.com. tune in monday morning, 4:25 for next 9news now. stay tuned for sports plus next. bye.