. hello. thank you for joining us. i'm jc hayward. a group of skateboarders are being called heroes today. a three-abipartisan fire erupted early this morning trapping people inside their

homes. -- three-alarm fire erupted early this morning trapping people inside their homes. our jess come doyle has more. >> reporter: three teens were long boarding around 1:00 a.m. tuesday when they thought they heard firecrackers but soon realized people were in trouble. >> a lady was screaming. there was a fire. >> we ended up taking down -- kicking down some of the doors and going in there and getting some of the ladies out. >> reporter: when william brown and tommy pasadrill heard people were trapped inside the units, that he ran to help without giving a moment of thought to their own safety. >> it was really intense. >> it was more like the heat of the moment. i didn't think it through. somebody told me there was people in the house. >> reporter: cameron who also helped alert people to the fire said everything happened quickly. >> in the unit closer to the fire, the flames reached across

the entire face of the building, had gone up [ inaudible ] >> reporter: the singed frame of the building shows how fierce the fire was. and more than property could have been lost in this three- alarm blaze. >> i think -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: while the fire department wants to reward the young men for their bravery, the heroes say no thanks is necessary. >> i mean, i appreciate it but, i mean, it's -- anybody else would have done it. >> i just feel like anybody else would do it. if i was in a situation where people could pull me out of a house and it was burning, then i would be really, really grateful. >> reporter: jessica doyle, 9news now. >> investigators say that the fire caused more than $1 million in damage. no one, however, was seriously injured. the cause of that fire is being investigated. we are also following a lengthy police standoff in falls church, virginia. officers have been at a home on

hillwood avenue near cleve drive since 4:30 yesterday afternoon following a domestic phone call. authorities say that a man is armed. he's inside the home. he is alone. a negotiator is talking to the man but right now there's no word on what's being discussed. the university of virginia's governing board is meeting later today to discuss and consider the reinstatement of ousted president teresa sullivan. sullivan became the university of virginia's eighth president and its first female leader. some board members say that sullivan has not acted quickly to address issues, such as funding. her abrupt firing triggered mass protests. virginia governor bob mcdonnell has told the board to either resolve that issue today or they should resign. republican presidential candidate mitt romney is in the critical battleground state of

virginia. he's hoping to convince voters that he is the best candidate to turn around the economy. danielle nottingham reports that president obama's campaign has just launched a new ad in that state attacking the republicans' business -- the republican's business record. >> reporter: president obama is hitting the money trail in atlanta and miami looking to raise more than $2.3 million for his campaign today. >> i'm barack obama and i approve this message. >> reporter: he's also launched new tv ads attacking republican challenger mitt romney for sending american jobs overseas while he worked for bain capital. the ads are airing in ohio, iowa and virginia where romney is campaigning today. the romney camp calls the ads misleading arguing they confuse outsourcing with off shoring, a business practice that puts support staff in foreign markets in order to sell u.s. products in that country.

>> if you're a worker whose job went overseas, you don't need somebody trying to explain to you the difference between outsourcing and offshoring. >> reporter: both campaigns are bracing for thursday when the high court hands down its decision on the president's health care reform law. >> it's going to be up to the next president to either repeal and replace obama care or to replace obama care. >> reporter: mitt romney spent monday fund raising out west. his campaign reported raising more than $76 million last month, but the independent political action committee supporting him are posing an even bigger money challenge to president obama. danielle nottingham, cbs news, washington. arizona supreme court success is good news for prince william county leaders. they spearheaded a crackdown oil legal immigration over the last few years. county board of supervisors chairman corey stewart believes that the county's laws would withstands a legal challenge.

>> no one in prince william county is judged on the color of their skin or what language they speak or anything like that. what we do is we check the immigration status of every single person who is arrested and we haven't had a single case of racial profiling. >> it is believed that about 12,000 people, many of them illegal immigrants, left the county after the law took effect. we have some other important rulings from the supreme court. the justices said that juveniles convicted of murder cannot be automatically sentenced to life in prison without parole. that affects laws in 29 states. maryland's new congressional map was upheld. it was redesigned last year and it is seen as favoring democrats. and a headline for one ruling the court didn't make on monday. the justices will announce their ruling on president obama's health care reform law on thursday. a man linked to a serial

stabbing spree in michigan and an unsolved murder in leesburg, virginia, was sentenced to life in prison. he is an israeli native charged with three murders and six attempted murders around flint, michigan. all of the victims were men, most of them african-american. labor unions in maryland want governor o'malley and top state lawmakers to open the way for more casinos. they say it would provide thousands of jobs for the state. prince george's county wants a casino built at national harbor in oxon hill. however, last week a special committee in annapolis could not reach an agreement on recommending that the general assembly meet to consider what would be the state's sixth casino. >> voters are saying it's not good enough for our elected officials to throw up their hands and say we can't figure out how to get this done, especially when so many jobs

are at stake. >> the d.c. trade building council represents 15 local unions. it says the casino at national harbor would be one of the largest union construction projects in the country. still to come when 9news now continues, life is slowly returning to normal for residents living in the bladensburg area following friday's violent storms. find out how you can get help if your home was damaged. >> florida is under a state of emergency as debby drenches the state and is causing flooding in many areas. i'm drew levinson in tampa. that story coming up.

today i'm one on one with dr. tony baum. how does one cope once an athletic career comes crashing down n. just a few moments -- down. in just a few moments, we're going to talk to one particular athlete who made an incredible, amazing transition. but first, i have chevy chase psychiatrist dr. tony baum with me. you've done sports psychiatry. what have you found that happens to a lot of athletes once they leave the sport? >> well, unfortunately i think many have -- [indiscernible] -- so much are wrapped up in being an athlete. particularly if they're a professional athlete, they may have spent years honing the skills to the detriment of

developing other areas whether it be socially, intellectually or finding other passions or find something other career so that they may find themselves young adults having had a brief athletic career because athletic careers often are brief. pro baseball players' careers can span one to six years on average. profootball players obviously with the kind of devastating injuries they have have brief careers. if you take a gymnast, their pro status would be maybe aspiring to the olympics and they sometimes are washed up at the age of 14 or 15. but they've spent so much time and energy at that, that when they do retire, sometimes forced retirement through injury, they often are left with little else and haven't developed these other areas. so sometimes the consequences can be dire. people can think depression,

alcoholism. >> even suicide? >> even suicide. >> what tip can we give to young people who have this dream of being an athlete? we have 30 seconds. >> i've encountered professional athletes who have taken this on and counseled younger athletes. that's also a role that i take on to try to develop other areas at the same time and sometimes to council an athlete that maybe it's time to leave their sport. that's not always the most popular advice to give but i found that sometimes it's the most fruitful. >> so they should be well rounded and think of life not just as that sport but have other interests. when i come back later, i'm going to talk to an athlete who made an incredible transition. you'll want to hear his story. thank you, dr. baum, for being with me. howard has the forecast coming up next. it's nice today but there's serious heat in the center of the country. i'll tell you when that moves into our neck of the woods. we'll go to break with a look

at the allergy update. it's gone up significantly since yesterday. we have grass pollen in the high category. everything else is moderate. i'll be back with a hotter forecast when 9news now returns.

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facebook. i'm jessica doyle, 9news now. florida's governor has declared a state of emergency as tropical storm debby brings destructive weather to the state. the storm is at least one day away from making landfall. drew levinson has the latest now from tampa, florida. >> reporter: relentless rain from tropical storm debby flooded the streets of jacksonville. >> hard to get around town. a lot of people broke down blocking the roads. >> reporter: the storm is stalled in the gulf of mexico. debby brought high winds and pounding surf to florida's gulf coast yesterday. forecasters predict the slow moving storm will cross the state this week before it heads into the atlantic by friday. even as far south as here in tampa, debby is causing flooding. tampa bay has overrun its banks putting bay shore boulevard and the surrounding roads under water. a car is submerged in the floods and smoke is rising from

an exposed wire underground. power companies are warning people to stay away because the water could become electrified. >> pretty much on pins and needles. >> reporter: john hopes the water will reside and not reach his townhouse. >> high tide is coming in and we're keeping a close eye on it but time will tell. >> reporter: the storm has already claimed one woman's life after a tornado hit highlands county sunday. family members say she was clinging to her baby so hard when the twister struck she broke its ribs. the infant survived. >> i can picture her holding the baby, not letting her go, just to know that my daughter was holding her baby so tight. >> reporter: the storm is expected to make landfall tomorrow. drew levinson, cbs news, tampa. there could be enough storm damage in prince george's county to qualify for federal aid. county emergency managers will continue assessing the damage from friday's storms at least 20 homes and apartment buildings are now condemned.

a section of newton street in bladensburg was one of the areas hardest hit by the storm. some residents say that things are quickly returning to normal. >> home today. >> very good except they're working on this so that's the last thing. 70% better here than friday. >> prince george's county authorities want residents to contact them if their home was damaged. the phone number to call is area code 301-583-2230. >> that was quite a microburst that hit them friday evening. i was working and some areas didn't see much and other areas got hit. also frederick county saw some damage but that was incredible what happened. pretty localized area but still 20 homes is 20 more than we need. >> it was powerful. >> it was. not so powerful is debby in some regards. other regards we just saw drew levinson down there. i want to start with debby

because debby is still dumping buckets of rain across north florida and southeastern georgia. here's the radar loop from those areas, the doppler radar all kind of put together to give you the big picture. debby still spinning in the northeastern gulf of mexico but not the most impressive storm. on the latest advisory from the hurricane center, you probably see those wind there is in the top bar. they are down to 40 miles an hour. so debby certainly is having her issues. she's going to encounter land which will further weaken debby to probably a tropical depression as it goes across the florida peninsula during the day on wednesday. emerges east of daytona beach thursday morning. then it's probably going to strengthen a little bit in the atlantic off the southeastern u.s. coast and then as it makes a little bit of a turn to the northeast as we head toward the weekend and early next week, we're going to have to watch the whole east coast including our beaches for the potential for some waves and maybe some riptides here. if you're headed that way, keep that in mind. the rest of our day with the day planner looks fantastic. a little bit breesesy but sunny

-- breezy but sunny, low humidity levels. we'll get to the 70s, mid 70s this afternoon. it's been a bit breezy. latest winds gusting to 30 miles an hour in manassas. d.c. and baltimore gusting to 26 miles an hour. still a nice day after a cool morning. we got down into the 40s in cumberland. 51 in frederick. 62 here in town. 64 on the bay. right now look at this. low to middle 70s across the board. still 57 in garrett county in late june. looking outside on our weather camera in tysons corner, nary a cloud in the sky. wind good gust to 25, near 30 in spots. the thing we'll have to watch the next couple of days the heat right in the middle of the country. 105 to 110. this is going to expand toward us a little bit tomorrow. by thursday 90s. friday potentially we'll be seeing a little white near us.

we could be in the 100-degree range. the forecast 28, breezy, dry. -- 82, breezy, dry. fire danger so please be dave. 50s and 60s tonight so open the windows. warmer tomorrow, dry, 87. hot on thursday, mid-90s. just in time for the golf tournament, right at congressional at&t national. i think we're over a hundred friday with a chance for an afternoon storm and hot for the weekend. stick around. 9news now at noon will be back right after this.

i am one on one with a very famous chef, chef eric zebold. he works at the mandarin orient

hotel. what's interesting about you, you were a very good wrestler and actually got a scholarship to wrestle in college and you said no. you wanted to pursue another passion. that was interesting that you made that transition from wrestling, sports, to going to a culinary school. >> well, especially because, you know, wrestling in iowa was practically a religion, but you take it from the point where i couldn't eat anything because i was cutting weight all the time to the point where i'm now preparing food all the time, but, you know, it certainly became an infatuation as we were cutting weight and working out and cutting weight and going running and doing all these things to diet and make weight. and you take that same sort of

passion, energy, commitment and now pour that into my new field which is in the kitchen. >> when did you know that you wanted to be a chef? was this something, a burning desire in you at an early age? >> at an early age, i started cooking in the home kitchen. then i got a job as a 15-year- old kid that really didn't know anything and who employs more people with no talent than restaurants? but i think, you know, working in a restaurant and in a kitchen can become all consuming as well. and i think at some point, you know, i transitioned over to feeling like i had to make weight and i had to do these things to continue wrestling versus i wanted to do these things which was cooking and working in that environment. >> well, you're in a very famous restaurant now. and cause from a very famous restaurant. can i say? i'll let you say.

everybody knows. >> citizen, the mandarin royal. >> and the laundry? >> french laundry before that. >> and met your wife because she said she liked your moves in the kitchen. okay. we'll end on that. chef, thanks for being with us. come back and visit us at 5:00. have a great day. bye-bye.