hagerstown. factor in the humidity it's not crazy humid. it just pushes the temperature up 3 degrees at national, feels like it's 100 downtown, feels like 97 in gaithersburg, feels like 100 in leesburg and 106 in frederick. we'll come back. we'll talk about possibly breaking records tomorrow with a little more heat and we'll talk about when the heat breaks, a look ahead to the weekend. we've had such a mile june and many people just were not prepared for this record heat. so we sent out kristin fisher out to the national mall to see how washingtonians were faring on the first official day of summer. it is a scorcher. >> reporter: to say the least. this is so far the hottest day of the year and the longest day of the year. it's the summer solstice. there was actually supposed to be a summer solstice volleyball game being played out here tonight, but it was canceled due to the high heat. now for the volleyball players they're not too happy about it, but paramedics say they made

the right call. the summer heat can make people do crazy things. for prince george's county paramedic arbery butler, he's dealt with countless heat- related calls on his 18 years in the job knowing all too well heat is the no. 1 weather-related killer in the united states. today he's trying to encourage this land jove hills family on a scorching -- landover hills family on a scorching walk to stay inside. >> are you hot, sweating down your face? >> yeah. >> i got my straw hat on, so that helps. >> they look like they're dressed pretty well. the kids have hats on. you do have sunscreen on, sun block, stay inside and turn on the air conditioning. >> uphill in this heat are you guys dying? >> dying, hot out here. >> reporter: down on the national mall the only people really braving the heat are the cyclists and the tourists. you're from georgia and you think this is hot?

>> yeah. >> it's really hot. it's hard to focus like on the surroundings. >> at least on a bike at this time of day you can coast and pull over, take your time. joggers, i think that's true insanity. >> reporter: especially with a baby on board. >> we just bring a couple bottles of water, throw it on top of us and keep on going. >> reporter: there's a heat advisory in effect. paramedics say it's that kind of overconfidence that can get people in trouble, but if you are prepared like this volleyball player here, he planned to come out later in the day when the sun wasn't quite as high and that's exactly what you're supposed to do. one more indication that it is incredibly hot outside, the hottest day of the year, metro is now allowing riders to bring water bottles on board. you can't bring coffee. you can't bring soda, but water is going to be allowed on metro trains and buses today and tomorrow until this heat advisory is over. back to you. >> you did the right thing, too with that light colored clothing you have on there and

your trusty water. hang in there. when the weather suddenly turns this hot and human and stays that way for several days -- humid and stays that way for several days the health dangers are real. vigorous sweating and exercise can dehydrate the body quickly and that can turn into heat exhaustion and rapidly turn into heatstroke. the mayo clinic says knowing symptoms of heatstroke is vital, feeling faint, dizzy, nausea, heavy sweating, rapid weak heartbeat, sudden headache. you're experiencing those symptoms, you might be developing heat exhaustion. to cool off and recover, the experts say mayo clinic say get out of the sun into a shady or air conditioned location, lie down and elevate your legs and feet slightly to take the pressure off your heart. loosen or remove constricting clothing and drink cool water and at the same time consider rinsing yourself with cool water as well. if you continue to feel worse, even after trying these steps,

this is an emergency, call 911. across the area cities and agencies are trying to help keep folks cool. the d.c. government is keeping public pools open until at least 8:30 of night through friday. it's also opening up some cooling centers around town. you can find the closest one by calling 311. the city of laurel, maryland, is extending its pool hours. it has a cooling center open at the laurel armory community center and metro has waived its no drinking policy on buses and trains, but as kristin noted, it's only for water. we've also told you about the heat can affect your body, but it could also be taking a toll on your commute because the high temperatures are there. mark and vre commuter trains are under heat-related speed restrictions. you need to expect delays and they could be longer depending how far you have to ride. we want to know how are you beating the heat and is the

weather affecting your day? join the conversation ongoing on our wusa9 facebook page. we are following some breaking news out of prince george's county. a metro transit police officer has shot and killed a man on lory lane in new carrollton. our surae chinn is live on the scene with more on the investigation. what do you know? >> reporter: well, lesli, metro says the transit police officer is lucky to be alive. right now they are deep into their investigation. you can see all the police cars here. behind that police are saying the suspect is still in the middle of the road. metro says the detective who is a six-year veteran came to the neighborhood to talk to people and witnesses say the officer came out with a gun and chased after the officer. it also appears the suspect rammed the officer's car which metro says is consistent with the radio communication from the officer. there was an exchange of gunfire and witnessed heard four to five shots.

the 44-year-old suspect was found dead in the road and metro says the man was a person of interest in an attempted abduction of a 25-year-old woman at a d.c. metrobus stop. that victim says the man was impersonating a police officer. >> he's a good dude. his father just passed away. his sister just passed away. he was trying to find a job to help his wife take care of his family. that's all. he's not that type of person to be out there running around with no gun jumping nobody. what they're telling you, that's crazy. >> we are very, very thankful, grateful that the officer, the detective, was not injured or killed today. >> reporter: now metro routinely investigates crime throughout the region when it involves the transit system. so this is not out of the ordinary, but the last time there was a police involved shooting involving a transit police officer was back in 2008 with fairfax county. back to you.

>> surae chinn, thank you. jurors at the penn state sex scandal trial will not hear from the defendant himself, jerry sandusky. the defense rested today without ever calling the former football coach to the stand. defense attorneys had hinted that sandusky will tell the jury his side of the story, but it didn't happen. instead several character witnesses came up to tell the court that sandusky is a great old family guy, he's got a great reputation, but closing arguments are set for tomorrow and jurors could have the case by the end of the day. joining us now former new york prosecutor now criminal defense attorney jim shallock is here to delve deeping into these developments. >> it was stunning. eight young men testified they were assaulted and in effect some of them raped by him and he didn't take the stand, yet he could give television interviews. if i'm a juror, i'm saying to myself you can talk to television, but you're not going to tell me you didn't do it? i think it was a big mistake,

stunning. >> is there any reason you can think the defense would think we're better off without him on the stand? >> they probably felt he couldn't withstand cross- examination. there may have been other acts or things that once he took the stand would have allowed the prosecutor to ask him about. obviously they felt he couldn't withstand cross-examination. >> let's talk about the trial as a whole. that prosecution has devastating witnesses. we were sick to our stomachs practically here in the newsroom listening to some of the things that these kids said sandusky did to them. did the defense make any headway in discrediting some of that? >> i don't think so. they brought on character witnesses, but nobody punched a hole in the story that these eight young men said. i think sandusky's only hope, only hope, is to get one juror to say not guilty, a hung jury. >> put yourself in the place of that defense attorney making a closing statement tomorrow. what can you say to produce that hung jury? >> you've got to focus in on a jury you think you're

sympathetic with, focus in on one or two jurors and argue reasonable doubt. he couldn't have done this because he's such a stellar person, such a pillar of community. he couldn't have done it. just keep harping on the fact that he's a hero in that town and heros don't do this. >> when you heard from his wife and some of the others, did that make any impression that perhaps maybe there is some overreach here by the prosecution? >> sympathy. obviously they're trying to get the sympathy of the jury on their side, feel sorry for in guy, married for so many years, adopted six children. he couldn't have done it. derek, they only need one and he's not convicted. >> a lot of people have complained the defense -- or not complained but suggested the defense had been very weak. was this a case of not having much defense and just doing the best you could with what you had? >> absolutely. people say why didn't he plead? i don't think the government offered a plea. they probably said you plead actuality charges, you go to trial. he's in deep trouble in my opinion. >> you think he's likely to be convicted on all counts.

>> i do. >> jim shallock, appreciate your time as always. >> thank you. former d.c. councilman harry thomas, jr. is now at a federal prison camp serving his 38 month sentence. thomas pled guilty to stealing $350,000 from step youth programs. he will serve his -- city youth programs. he will serve his sentence at a facility in montgomery, alabama. the 51-year-old could be released as early as february of 2015. a murder suspect is in custody tonight after a tense standoff that lasted hours today in southeast d.c. police say the suspect turned himself in this morning after a deadly shooting in the middle of the night. the victim is jarohn brown of southeast, 24. a s.w.a.t. team arrived in the neighborhood around 17th and r around 6 a.m. police escorted a mother and daughter outside of the apartment. other people were also let outside, some of them in handcuffs.

still to come on 9news, one of the country's most successful former university presidents says the uva board made a big mistake pushing out teresa sullivan. hear what he has to say. >> plus maryland's gambling task force has to decide whether or not building that other casino right up in prince george's county prince george's county plus this. >> president obama intervenes in the battle between republican lawmakers and the attorney general. i'm on capitol hill with the latest.

former egyptian president hosni mubarak's medical condition is still unclear tonight. officials in a cairo hospital say he is in intensive care slipping in and out of a coma. egyptian media reports the ousted president went into cardiac arrest and had a stroke on tuesday. mubarak's lawyer says that is not the case. he tells the new york times that mubarak had a blood clot in his neck, received some treatment to remove it and is now in stable condition. the former egyptian president has not been seen in public since june 2nd. wikileaks founder julian assange is refusing to leave the ecuador's embassy in london. he took refuge there last night in a last ditch effort to avoid extradition to sweden. la he's wanted in that country on sex -- he's wanted in that country on sex crime charges

and is now asking to be granted legal asylum. >> really running away and seeking asylum in ecuador is his last shelter. >> british police stand guard outside the embassy ready to arrest julian assange if he steps aside, but as long as he's inside he's beyond the reach of british law. on capitol hill a republican head panel just voted to hold the attorney general of the united states in contempt of congress. that committee wants documents the white house is now using executive privilege to protect. here's more on the showdown. >> reporter: the justice department has been in negotiations over these documents for months, but today more confrontation as the white house steps in to keep them under wraps. >> mr. jordan? >> reporter: the house panel voted to hold the u.s. attorney general in contempt of congress. >> the ayes have it. >> reporter: republican

chairman darrell issa called for the vote after attorney general eric holder did not turn over subpoenaed documents from a justice department investigation into operation fast and furious, a botched mexican gun running sting. >> the department of justice has fought this committee's investigation of step of the way. >> reporter: the attorney general and the chairman met tuesday but could not reach a deal. then holier asked the white house for executive privilege -- holder asked the white house for executive privilege to protect the documents and the president granted it. >> the president's seasonal average executive privilege creates even more questions. >> reporter: the committee has been investigating fast and furious. during that time the department has turned over 7,600 documents related to the operation. >> i think we're actually involved more in political gamesmanship as opposed to trying to get the information they say they want. >> reporter: the house panel spent hours in a heated debate before a vote along party lines

with republicans voting for contempt and democrats voting against it. >> it shunt be a political witch hunt against -- shouldn't be a political witch hunt against the attorney general of our country and our president in an election year. >> reporter: some republicans called for holder's resignation. the attorney general says he still has the full confidence of the president. the measure now goes to the full house for consideration. >> if the committee votes to hold the attorney general in contempt that, means the full house considers the charge. a working group is studying the expansion of gambling in maryland and showed up three hours late for its last scheduled public meeting today. the group consists of lawmakers and ad advisoriors to governor martin o'malley. he -- advisors to governor martin o'malley. he said he will call a special session next month, among them whether there should be table games and whether national harbor should be home to a new

casino. some frederick lawmakers are pushing their city as a possible site for gaming. there will be a county board meeting tomorrow, so a lot of competition where these new casinos might go. maryland's board of works unanimously approved a deal to bring new slots to western maryland. that $10 million deal allows lakes entertainment to buy the rocky gap lodge and golf resort. once it buys the resort it could put a facility with about 1,000 slot machines there. the resort at the rocky gap state park is one of five approved maryland casino sites and right now only three are open. we are talking about how hot it is and it's when it lasts over several days people start getting in trouble. >> right. heat advisory is posted tomorrow, but two days is a nice way to break into it because we have been lucky so far. we are looking at temperatures well into the 90s, but the humidity is actually in check. let's start with a live look outside, our live weather cam brought to you by michael and

son. temperatures 97, dew point 65. when the dew points are in the 60s, it's not bad, relative humidity 35%, not a killer. so we've got a break and it's sort of a double edged sword. the drier it is, the hotter it can become and the more humid it is, the lower the temperature, but the more uncomfortable we become. winds calm, pressure 30.03 inches of mercury and steady. that's why i believe miami never hit 100 because it's too darn humid. 97 now, 91 in gaithersburg, 99 frederick and low 90s also in leesburg, 95 in fredericksburg, 92 up in hagerstown and we're looking at 93 at andrews. if you factor in the heat index, only feels like it's 100 i say that because 105 and 109 heat index is the criteria for a heat advisory. we're not making that. we talked about that yesterday. feels like it's 97 in gaithersburg, feels like 98 in leesburg and feels like 96 in manassas and we're looking at

99 in fredericksburg. so it's hot, no doubt about that. one more very hot day, heat advisory until 10 p.m. tonight. another heat advisory goes into effect tomorrow from noon until 10:00. unhealthy air quality once again tomorrow. so if you have a respiratory problem, you need to be inside pretty much the whole day and a record high is possible tomorrow. i think we have a better chance tomorrow, record high at national and dulles 98, a little lower than today. got a shot at that. otherwise clear to partly cloudy, muggy tonight, nothing on radar now, lows in the 70s, light wind westerly at 10. by morning it's going to be downright hot by lunchtime, 75 to 94, winds westerly at about 10. by afternoon mostly sunny and very hot, some thunderstorms, high temperatures 9599 and winds west, northwest at -- 95 to 99 and winds west, northwest at 10. highs tomorrow 98, 99 manassas, 97 leesburg, 100 pushing is in

frederick, probably 98 or 99, 95 hagerstown and 98 also in culpeper and upper 90s in fredericksburg. so one more super hot day, no doubt about that. keep your shades closed. we talked about this yesterday or your curtains especially on the west facing of your house. exercise in the morning or indoors. do not exercise in the evening. wear light colored clothes and check on the elderly and don't forget the pets either. let's break it down. it's going to be warm to start, 72 to 80 to start, 88 to 94 by lunchtime. you're walking to lunch tomorrow, it's going to be tough, 95 to 99, slight chance of an isolated thunderstorm by evening. now the next three days our 9 weather alert code goes yellow, yellow, green, 98 tomorrow with some symptoms, much better chance of storms friday, 92 -- storms, much better chance of storms friday, 92, saturday looking fire, temperatures in the under 80s. next seven days -- looks nice,

temperatures in the upper 80s. the next seven days, monday showers and thunderstorms, temperatures in the mid-80s and look at this accident only 78 -- at this, only 78 next tuesday. then the practice round at at&t, 80 degrees, chance of a shower, nothing really bad. got tickets to give away. go to our website www.wusa9.com. like us on facebook. you have until saturday and then we will announce it next monday and it's pretty easy to win. it's sweepstakes, not a contest. >> just in time. thank you, topper. you just got some breaking news. >> from prince george's county a short time ago. councilwoman karen toles learned her fate for going excessive speeds on the beltway, scott broom live with details on this high profile case, got a lot of attention, scott. >> reporter: it sure did. she said she was not guilty of this followup reckless driving charge, but the judge found her guilty of reckless driving on the beltway back on february

22nd of 2012. karen toles, county council member here in prince george's county, all of it caught on videotape. we saw the in-car camera video that's being distributed now to the media. so presumably we'll be able to show you a little later this evening, in-car camera from a police officer on the beltway pursuing her according to the camera speed at 108 miles per hour as she is flying up the beltway northbound towards branch avenue and then she gets off at branch avenue, stops at a stoplight, sirens and lights clearly on as you can see in the videotape and she continues on up branch avenue after clearing a stoplight at avenue 80 miles per hour. for all of that in this case the judge found her guilty of reckless driving but gave her a fine and probation before judgment. that is an important distinction because it means she gets no points against her driver's license and she will keep her driver's license after this very i'd call it an

egregious incident if you look at videotape of her flying up branch avenue at 80 miles per hour. karen toles, council member, has not spoken to us after this. we just talked to police. they stand by their case and so did the judge. live outside the prince george's county courthouse, scott broom, 9 news now. >> no points, okay. thank you. coming up an unusual sight on the national mall, hundreds and hundreds of school are on display. we'll tell you why. >> but first a gunman claiming ties to al-qaeda takes hostages at a bank in france, the outcome of the standoff when we come back.

four people taken hostage this morning by a gunman in a bank in toulouse, france. the man claimed it was all for religious reasons. he released one hostage before the police got in there and got him. french media reports the gunman has ties to al-qaeda. the hostages were unharmed. the company involved in japan's nuclear disaster last year accepts blame. tokyo electric power company

admitted it was not prepared for the accident caused by the earthquake at the fukushima plant. today one of the company's executive officials said think did several key things wrong including withholding information from the public and giving the impression the situation was not as serious as it really was. >> we have all reasons for these points. however, we recognize these points should be improved. >> pepco also admits it was slow to disclose plant data but said it was largely due to the concurrent power outage caused by the earthquake. this nuclear disaster is considered the worst since chernobyl. coming up a virginia judge decides whether or not a jury was right to say virginia tech was negligent in the 2007 shooting massacre. >> but first 9 wants you to know about a year long 9news investigation into the safety of late model jeep grand cherokees on our roads right now.

tonight at 11:00 death by fire. auto experts say this is what has happened to dozens of people who died in 1993 to 2004 jeep grand cherokees. the issue concerns the placement of the gas tank in the popular suvs. it is a story our consumer team has been visiting for more than a year -- investigating for more than a year. >> she was pretty young when she left the house at age 18 and jumped on a plane and went on the other side of the ocean. >> reporter: stacy meyer returned home from england a

year older and her family was happy to finally have her back. on a warm july day in 2007 she read some spans from her bible, then set out to -- passages from her bible, then set out to go exercise and take a friend to breakfast. >> the friend she was going to pick up, she walked out the door, drove up the hill and about an hour later had the accident. >> reporter: a driver having a seizure lost control on a wisconsin state highway and slammed into the back of stacy's 2001 jeep grand cherokee. >> they ended up smashing into the guardrail on this side. >> reporter: according to police accident reports and witness statements, the jeep burst into flames. >> we're a family of five. now we're a family of four. >> the people that are lucky survive, but there's absolute tragedies. >> that clarence ditlow who heads up the center for auto

safety here in washington that petitioned the national highway traffic safety administration to investigate the gas tank placement and fiery crash deaths linged to those 1993 to 200-- linked to those 1993 to 2004 jeep cherokees. coming up at 11:00 you'll hear more about why the center believes these vehicles need to be off the road and you'll learn more about how the government expanded its probe into the issues. the fallout continues tonight over thouing of university of virginia -- the ousting of university of virginia president teresa sullivan. wvir in charlottesville reports esteemed computer science professor bill wolfe submitted his resignation to the interim president and he wrote in his letter he did not want to be associated with the institution as poorly run as uva. virginia governor bob mcdonnell has spoken out about the ousting saying the school made a mistake not being open with the community and newly released e-mails often some insight into the secret

maneuvering that led to the forced resignation of uva's popular leader. the e-mail suggests leaders of the charlottesville school board of visitors were worried teresa sullivan was too slow to push higher education online, all of this still relatively mysterious as to, why but you talked to somebody, one of the most respected former university presidents in the nation who says this is a mistake. >> yeah. steven trexemberg was a university president, 20 years in d.c., and he says he's never seen anything like this. he says it's uva's board of visitors that ought to resign. >> says that the three persons involved which fired teresa sullivan at university of virginia did so capriciously and inappropriately. >> strong words from steven joel trexemberg in an article just out in the prestigeous chronicle of higher education. >> the process they used to effect their will was totally

irregular and inappropriate. i've never heard of a board holding a secret meeting where three members get together, decide they're going to replace the president. >> a friend of presidents and spiritual leaders, the author of numerous books on higher ed and the man who built gw into one of the largest landowners in downtown d.c. trexemberg is perhaps uniquely qualified to weigh in on the mysterious ousting. >> no transparency, no bill of particulars, no complaints that they're willing to publish, it's quite absurd and injures mr. jefferson's university. they really frankly ought to step down. >> trexemberg says sullivan is well regarded and celebrated in the small community of presidents at world renowned universities. >> two years seems to me time to have started, but not time

to have affected much change. it takes three minutes to make a three minute egg and if you say to sullivan i want a three minute egg, you got to give her three minutes. >> reporter: but he says there's no question uva will weather this crisis. >> when people talk about blunders in university governance, so it will be part of the higher education narrative for many years to come, but the university of virginia is much too strong an institution to be brought down by this sort of mistake. >> trexemberg says boards clearly are supposed to hold university presidents accountable but he says they have to do it in a so unand responsible way and he says this -- in a sound and responsible way and he says this is anything but that. >> transparency would have gone a long way as to what's the decision making process, why did you do this and they're not getting any of those answers. >> yeah. and when you have secrecy, all sorts of conspiracy theories develop. >> thank you.

back to you guys. a virginia judge said no today to a request to overturn a finding of mention on the part of virginia -- of negligence on the pat -- part of virginia tech. at the same time the judge reduced the penalties drastically. the families were originally awarded $4 million apiece, but now it's down to 100,000 bucks. the parents argued the university waited. >> long before alerting the campuses of the first -- waited too long before alerting the campuses of the first two shootings. there's an unusual display down on the national mall, not a classroom, it's 857 desks all set up, one for of student who dropped out each hour of every school day. the college board is asking folks to sign petitions urging our presidential candidates to say more about education reform. >> it's one of these statistics

that is jarring. it's shocking in and of itself, but you can say 857 kids drop out of school of hour of every school derek but then you come to the mall, you -- day, but then you come to the mall and see this visually depicted and it really drives it home. >> the college board says it's not actually endorsing any presidential candidate, but it does want to make a point. another delay could be coming to the d.c. streetcar program. the city was just getting ready to restart the project. it would have put some streetcars here along eighth street northeast all the way to union station, but councilman marion barry tells the washington post he filed a resolution to delay the project by at least 45 days. he says streetcars are not needed and he says that $200 million price tag is too high. two years agent city stopped work on part -- years ago the city stopped work on part of the project which would have run through anacostia. drivers ran into unexpected

delays today on the bay bridge. the bridge was closed 40 minutes for four huge now cargo cranes could pass through. those cranes were taken to the port of baltimore. they will be used to handle new large ships that are expected to use the panama canal once a widening project is finished and that is expected to happen in 2014. still ahead tonight we've all had that moment when we hit something on the road, but just wait until you see the debris that surprised one driver. top? >> temperatures in the upper 90s, but still no rods officially. we'll come -- records officially. we'll come back and show you the records. we're looking at 97 downtown, 91 leesburg, 909 frederick, 95 in -- 99 frederick, 95 in andrews. we'll come back and talk about the heat advisory extended today and look ahead to the weekend. >> and a former tsa agent turns the tables on one screener and ends up in trouble with the law. >> don't forget we're always on

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caught on tape, a groping at a tsa checkpoint but not the way you might be thinking. an airline passenger is facing two misdemeanor charges tonight after a confrontation with a tsa agent. it all went down at ft. myers, florida airport in april. the confrontation is what was

captured on videotape. carol price says she was furious about the patdown she received. so price, a former tsa worker, gave the supervisor a patdown in return. when price tried to leave, she was arrested. the tsa insists the patdown that she got was done according to procedure. >> that's why you just need to keep your hands to yourself. >> leave it alone. >> always the rule no matter how old you are. ever driven down the street and hit something and hope it different cause any damage? that happened to a man in massachusetts and when he finally stopped to see the damage, he was in total shock because the object he hit with his car was a machete and it was still lodged in the front right there. >> i get out at the store, walked around the front of the car expecting to see a broken headlight or some type of damage and sticking straight out is a 2-foot long machete. >> where did that come from? the drive didn't know how he would explain it to -- the

driver didn't know how he would explain it to police, but he is very fortunate the machete landed in his bumper. you may have heard the food at the smithsonian is pretty darn good, but is it award worthy? maybe. so we'll tell you. >> but first who's your daddy? a look at the maryland company on the cutting edge of answering that question, a topic in tonight's health alert.

a maryland company is really on the cutting edge of science when it comes to very early pronate testing. scientists there developed -- prenatal testing. scientists there developed a blood test that could answer the question who is the father without risky invasive testing. the test has become a powerful new source of knowledge for one group of women, the victims of rape. >> what happened to her? >> came out of a building at one darkened of the campus. all she remembers is a hand being put over her face and the

next thing she knew, she was getting up and she knew she'd been raped. >> a mother describes the horrible night her college aged daughter was raped. she asked to us conceal her identity and her voice. >> reporter: and she ends up pregnant from this assault? >> yes, she ended up pregnant, but she didn't know whether it was from the assault or from her boyfriend. >> reporter: it is a heartwrenching dilemma that thousands of women face every year, already victimized by a sexual assault they face a pregnancy with uncertainty as to who the father may be. >> there's 30, 40,000 rape victims that get pregnant. 5% of rape victims get pregnant. we started getting inbound calls from patients. >> reporter: a columbia, maryland, company has developed an early paternity test that can determine the father of an unborn child as early as eight

weeks gestation. >> we take a blood sample from the pregnant mother which contains a mixture of both fetal and mother's dna and we sequence the feet dna and compare it to the potential father. if it's a match, it will be a perfect match. >> reporter: this past may the doctor's group reported in the new england journal of med that 20 markers give positive markers of reliability for a perfect match. the tests reveal the results in a week. >> reporter: this was someone else's child than her boyfriend? >> yeah. they could tell that from the blood samples they had taken. >> in that young woman's case she ended up experiencing a miscarriage and did not have to deal with the decision of whether to continue the pregnancy when the rapist was, in fact, the father. dr. delon says this blood test can be valuable in many situations in which paternity isn't certain. he charges between 950 and $1,650 depending how early the test is done in the pregnancy and how quickly a woman needs those results. there is breaking news out

of san francisco tonight. firefighters there are battling a three alarm fire at pier 29. look at that smoke. this thing got going just before 5 p.m. our time. the pier is part of an area being rebuilt to host next year's america's cup yacht race. the building is believed to have been unoccupied, but nearby buildings were all told to evacuate. it was the people in the buildings told to evacuate. >> right. >> no injuries reported so far. a little hungry? the restaurant at the smithsonian's national museum of the american indian could come out a winner this weekend. the mitzitom native foods cafe is the first museum restaurant to be nominated for a rayyy award. the restaurant is a finalist in the casual restaurant of the year category. i have been there. it is good. >> and the rammys are a fun award. down to lorraine, ohio, where the most wanted criminal

in the county is a candy thief. the reeses cup bandit is looking to strike again, but the clerk recognizes the bandit, leaps into action literally and failed miserably to stop the guy with a handful of reeses. the suspect had stolen 400 bucks worth of the peanut butter delights. he's described as only 140 pounds, we can assume he gets bigger every time. >> my favorite line in the story, the peanut butter delight, yeah. >> i love those. they're so tasty. >> we don't like his tactic, though. not good. >> because we have to say that. >> they are just so good. >> the numbers are in, no record highs. you can relax. 98 at national, fell 1 degree short, only 94 at dulles. let's start with a live look outside, our live weather cam

brought to you by michael and son. it's actually a pretty nice evening, although temperatures are still in the 90s, but the dew points are in the 60s which isn't too bad, relative humidity 35%. that's doable, but we still don't want anyone exercising in the evening. exercise in the morning or indoors. winds are calm, pressure steady at 30.03 inches of mercury. right now 97 downtown, low 90s in gaithersburg, still 91 in leesburg and 99 in frederick. i do often not read that number because that thermometer is set on top of gravel. so it skews very high. it's more likely 91 or 92 in frederick. 93 manassas and 94 down in fredericksburg, 95 toward andrews. you factor in the humidity and it only pops it up to 100 downtown, feels like 98 gaithersburg, 96 manassas and 98 in fredericksburg. so here's the deal. very hot one more day. heat advisory tonight until 10:00, again tomorrow from noon until 10:00.

unhealthy air continues tomorrow and record high is possible tomorrow. in fact, a better chance tomorrow. you know what? we got the nats hosting the rays, temperatures in the upper 80s to low 90s but not a bad night for baseball, that not humid, first pitch 7:05. check it out. got to get the nats back on track. clear to partly cloudy tonight, muggy, lows in the 70s, winds westerly at 10 and for tomorrow morning downright hot by lunchtime, 75 to 94 by lunchtime, winds out of the west at 10:00 under mostly sunny skies. by afternoon mostly sunny, very hot, some thunderstorms, high temperatures 95 to 99 and winds west, northwest at about 10. so possible highs tomorrow 98 downtown, 99 manassas, 97 in leesburg and 97 in gaithersburg. so maybe some records falling tomorrow. keep your shades closed, exercise in the morning or indoors, wear light colored clothing and check on the elderly and drink lots and lots of water. we'll break it down, 72 to 80

in the morning, hot, 88 to 94 by lunchtime and 95 to 99 isolated storm possible by evening. 9 weather code, yellow, yellow and green, so we're getting there, 98 tomorrow, isolated storm, a much better chance of scattered storms friday, low 90s and maybe an early shower saturday, upper 80s, still a very nice day. next seven days, sunday maybe a passing shower, but we should hold in the upper 80s. monday frontal system approaches, good chance of showers and thunderstorms, in the mid-80s and look at this. we have cool air on the map, 78 tuesday, 80 wednesday, a few showers but not a bad deal. >> we could use a little rain. my grass is starting to look a little parched. don't make me break out the water. >> keep walking past it. >> don't make me break out the water hose. >> you have to cut it fewer times. >> there is that. still to come tonight the u.s. attorney general held in condemn of congress? we'll tell you why it --

contempt of congress? we'll tell you why it happened. >> a little later a look at the political future for the district's mayor. >> but first this year's at&t national golf tournament honors wounded warriors. we'll meet one up next.

every wednesday this month we were going to be introducing you to some of our nation's wounded warriors. >> it's all part of our coverage of the at&t national golf tournament and our own

military veteran dave owens is here to tell us more about ramone padilla. >> that's right, ladies. this is the third profile we've done. some of the themes we've seen include golf empowerment and the importance of family support. padilla embodies all that and more. did you know he once stood side by side with the world's no. 1 golf player and outshined him? pa hill da's journey is quite a story. padilla's journey is quite a story. it was almost three years ago, but he remembers it well. >> it was unbelievable. >> that's ramone padilla teeing off with tiger woods in the 2009 at&t national. >> i still remember, hit it right down the middle and my claim to fame was outdriving tiger woods while he looked a little bit left in the rough. technically i was in the middle. >> technicalities aside it was the culmination of a comeback. padilla's arm was severed by an explosive round in afghanistan. he sustained also a brain injury. the man who prided himself in

taking care of others all of a sudden couldn't do it for himself. >> it really was difficult for me to pass on all the things i used to do for my family to my wife. my wife is a trooper. she hung in there and she helped me out the whole way. >> surprisingly a golf course is the last place padilla thought he would ever be. >> i really didn't like golf growing up, but once i got back i had my first swing and i really started to like it. the game really empowered me. >> even with one less limb he plays well and it's been the mechanism to help others. >> it's a difficult game. you stick to it, you will love the game and the game will love you back. >> that's for sure. the game has certainly given a lot back to padilla. in 2010 he was invited to play in the golf channel amateur national championship. he's also heavily involved in teaching the game to other wounded warriors and, in fact, helped design a prosthesis he wears to play golf. you can see many more of the wounded warrior profiles as part of our coverage of tiger

woods' tournament at bethesda. we'll have a live sportscast beginning monday and each night during the tournament we will present a special wrapup show after our 11:00 news. this is 9 news now. these folks at sandy point state park are the lucky ones. they had somewhere to go to cool off today during all that heat and humidity and that is why the 9 weather team declared today a code yellow alert. topper is on the terrace sweating it out. >> here's the deal. it was hot enough to alter your plans a bit and that's what code yellow is all about. we've declared tomorrow also yellow. we are looking at a heat advisory. we'll show you. it's been extended now till 10 p.m. tonight. for tomorrow it goes in effect from noon until 10 p.m. as well. that just means heat indices could approach 105 degrees. they haven't made it there today. we talked about this yesterday. it's not going to make the criteria, but because it's been so cool of late we just wanted to give everybody a heads up. the weather service issued this heat advisory which is