here's the day planner, upper 70s by 9:00 this morning and mostly cloudy skies all day today. by noon lower 80s and by are 5:00 temperatures will be in the mid 80s. here's a look at the current conditions right now. temperature in downtown 76 but you go outside the beltway ask cooler and upper 60s in leesburg and gaithersburg. 70 manassas and 67 la plata. and martinsburg you're in the upper 60s. here's a look at your highs for today. 87 in downtown. so close to our seasonal high in the upper 80s close to 90. 84 leesburg and culpeper get to also 87 degrees, here's a look at the timesaver traffic with monika pretty in pink. thank you so much and i'm just happy it's friday and i think commuters are too. we had a rough week especially what happened yesterday. we had so many accidents all day long and this morning it's very, very calm. especially coming out from the west no problems from manassas to centreville as you head over to the beltway.

the beltway looks great between tysons corner and the american legion bridge. a live look outside right now and show you what it looks like planning to head to the beltway north of town no problems to report here at new hampshire beltway. to the maps this time if you're coming in from the north no problems on 95 between baltimore and our beltway. same storien route 29 and route 32 and bw parkway as well. and another live look heading over on the southbound side of i-270 this is at shady grove road. nice and light. oh, very nice if you're heading for the beltway. coming up in my next report, we'll go to virginia at 5:09. back to you guys. d.c. mayor gray says he will not keep calls for his resignation. >> we are learning now about when the mayor found out about the shadow campaign which funned hundreds of thousands of dollars into the 2010 bid for mayor. delia goncalves is live outside with the latest. >> reporter: good morning mike, you know mayor gray has stood firm and he is not speaking in

regards to details of this case. but many sources within the wilson building certainly are talking about the investigation. and have confirmed to 9news now that mayor gray immediately reached out to his personal attorney as soon as he learned about this shadow campaign. we're told the mayor was absolutely shocked when he learned back in january of this $653,000 in money that was secretly funneled to his campaign, he -- we're told had no previous knowledge of this money. though, we are also told by sources it paid a portion of the money -- a portion of the money paid for his escort vehicle that he was driven to campaign events. campaign consultant harris faces two years behind bars for her part in the scheme but says jeff thompson actually funded

the plot. >> harris wants the mayor to help her get the invoices, in other words to cover up the shadow campaign's illegal activities, gray told associates he was surprised and it's the very first time he had gotten wind of the shadow campaign. >> reporter: now, we've also learned that delegate eleanor holmes norton released a statement calling -- the latest on this case very deeply disturbing she says. that's a quote. we also have learned that the mayor has reached out to the nine refraining councilmans those who have not come out publicly and asked for his resignation and reached out to those members and asked for their support. we'll have that side of the story coming up at 5:30. mike, andrea back to you. >> all right, delia goncalves reporting live from outside the wilson building. a dispute over a spare tire leads to murder. that's what prince george's county police say happened last night in brandy wine, maryland. two men started arguing over this spare tire at a home along cross road trail when

investigators say one pulled out a gun and shot the second man. that man died and police have taken alleged shooter into custody. james dunning was found dead in his home in south carolina. he is the former sheriff of alexandria, virginia. his wife nancy dunning was killed more than eight years ago. her death remains an open homicide investigation. authorities in south carolina james dunning -- say james dunning appears to have died in his sleep and his death is not suspicious. workers at a capitol heights nail salon are accused in dealing in more than polish and acrylics. the place star nails on marlboro pike. they wrapped et up by arresting five nail technicians all charged with theft. police say the women were buying stolen merchandise and then selling it overseas things like shampoo and tide detergent. well, somewhat of a little surprise in campaign 2012. vice president joe biden got booed when he was speaking at the naacp convention in houston.

>> let me close -- my friends. [ booing ] by saying -- >> actually the booing was because he was going to close. >> going to close. >> his speech. they didn't want him to leave and they actually liked it apparently. he was well received. you may remember wednesday mitt romney got booed when he said he would repeal the president's health care policy. more on campaign 2012 in the next half hour. it is time for the latest your money report of the morning. >> indeed it is. here's jessica doyle with the headlines, come on 7s. >> i know right? we are at six day loser for wall street. been a rough week. rough couple of days. see if we go to 7 today. we're rolling the dice and hoping it's actually going to come up better than we expected and investors have been selling on concerns about slower growth around the globe. for the dow and s&p 500 this has been the longest losing streak since mid-may. checking the numbers --

u.s. airways says it is now a creditor of the parent company american airlines. amr. u.s. airways is trying to force american into a merger. in a filing u.s. airways says it supports amr's request in bankruptcy court for more time to draft a reorganization plan. but it's also saying it could change its mind. the arm doesn't follow through on the promise to seek alternatives like a merger. stay tuned on that one. new scam warning for you this morning already thousands of americans have fallen victim to this one. you get an automated phone call from a nonexisting utility program that will supposedly pay up to $1,000 to help offset the power bills during the heat waves then victims provide their personal information. this is reportedly spreading so quickly in part because the victims are sharing the program on places like facebook and twitter. thinking they have the greatest deal ever. they want to share it with their friends and --

>> oh boy. >> instead they get the personal information stolen. >> keep your information to yourself. >> absolutely. and there's nothing like something for nothing really. >> that's a very clever scam. >> what do you have for us? we are going to budget more for our vacations that you're planning coming up and i'll explain that for you coming up in the next 30 minutes. >> okay thanks jess. a bomb scare forces an international flight to turn around. that story is coming up. >> plus, a city wide alert issued in los angeles overnight after occupy protestors clash with police. >> and i head in sports former redskin and penn state football player lava arrington reacts to the report on the penn state sex abuse scandal. we'll be right back. ?gw?qyjw

good morning, time now 5:09. on your friday morning happy friday everyone. we to see some areas -- do see some areas of showers and light rain popping up right now generally west of town. here's a look at the live doppler 9000 hd. and you can see most of it is out in the potomac highlands and western virginia. most of this should stay out to the west of town but maybe a stray shower could come in here in the beltway. especially if you're on the western portion of the beltway. so for the rest of today temperatures getting into the mid- and upper 80s by late this afternoon we'll stay mostly cloudy. temperature now 76 under cloudy skies. here's a look at your timesaver traffic with monika. good morning. good morning anny. on the northbound side of 395 i'm happy to say it looks like this length from the beltway to

the 14th street bridge. and into the downtown area. all the potomac and anacostia river crossings all running incident-free. more traffic coming up once again at 5:17. back to you mike. thank you monika. here's what's making news now. syrian activists are reporting -- the worst massacre in the conflict so far. they say more than 220 people have died after syrian's mill share shelled the village of hama and independent journalists have not been able to access the area. police have cleared a delta plane bound for madrid which returned to jfk airport last night. a passenger discovered strange wiring in one of the plane's bathrooms. the pilot returned but a security check turned up no explosive devices. police, angela's police on a city wide alert now. about 200 demonstrators took to the streets during the monthly art walk downtown and at least one police officer has been

injured and several people have been taken into custody. my team is better than your team. we'll show you the 2012 u.s. men's olympic basketball team tuneup game at 5:24 in sports. >> we could now. they're all old. 5:31. lawmakers propose luge fines for ewe it -- huge fines for utility companies when it comes to the response after the epic storm recently. >> next at 5:15 it's getting hotter and anny hong's seven day forecast. we'll be right back.

good morning and welcome back to 9news now. coming up on 5:14 and we're happy to it will you if i don't

already know it's friday. start of the weekend. and it's going to be hot and humid. >> yeah, we're going to get hot and humid especially by sunday into early next week. if you dent like this enjoy the -- loan like that enjoy the -- don't like that enjoy the next couple of days here. mostly cloudy conditions to start the day here. i think most of us in the beltway should be dry for the commute. here's a look at the live doppler 9000 hd. again you can see the green that is where we have the light rain and some showers. most of it in the potomac highlands and in central virginia. a look at the day planner for the rest of today so for most of us especially inside the beltway it will be mostly cloudy for this friday. temperatures in the mid- to upper 80s by late this afternoon and this evening and we should be general little light for today. right now temperatures in downtown 76 degrees. arlington lower 70s. fairfax good morning to you at 69. centreville around 70 degrees and up north you're at mid 60s

and alexandria you're at 72 degrees at this hour. a live look at the michael & son weather camera. it's cloudy out there. temperature of 76 degrees and winds are calm and the dew point though in the lower 60s so the humidity still very tolerable. for most of us it should be a dry morning commute and still seasonable temperature-wise and for july pretty good. and an isolated thunderstorm possible generally west of town. west of interstate 81 once again. and we're going to get hot over the weekend. and a better chance for some scattered showers and thunderstorms for both saturday and sunday. and we'll see that in the 9 futurecast again today generally cloudy conditions out there. maybe a little few breaks of sun here and there. tonight you've going out for dinner and we've got plans it's pretty good. cloudy conditions. now tomorrow late morning early afternoon, a better chance for some scattered showers and thunderstorms but also you'll notice the heat also go up a little bit and then the humidity especially by sunday. so here's a look at your highs for your friday afternoon. 87 in downtown.

couple of degrees shy of the average high close to 90. 87 also for manassas and 85 in fredericksburg. 85 in frederick. 78 winchester. and pax river you should get close to 90-degrees. going to the bay this weekend to do some boating? well, for tomorrow partly cloudy and highs around 86 to 90 and a chance for some scattered showers and thunderstorms. waves no more than a foot. sunday, hotter, 90 to 95. and a slight chance for some scattered showers and thunderstorms as well. let's head farther east to the beaches for saturday, if you're going out to rehoboth, ocean city, bowie, chance for showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon or early evening and highs 80 to 85 degrees. for sunday 82 to 86 is the high with some scattered showers and storms a better chance for that on sunday. water temperature not too bad. upper 60s in the lower 70s. your next three days today is is a green alert but saturday and sunday yellow alert because of a better chance for showers and storms especially in the

afternoon. check out the next seven days so we're going to be in the 90s by the weekend. the humidity also will be on the rise. so if your sunday and monday then boy do we get hot once against. tuesday upper 90s and not the best weather for baseball but we can deal with it. and by wednesday temperatures around 100 degrees. here's a look at your timesaver traffic with monika. good morning. you know and i was at the castles' home opener last night and a beautiful so nice night for that. if you're planning to head outside right now, nice morning to commute. at least because there's no major incidents to report i'm happy to say. 66 the dulles toll road both look great. no problems as you head inbound from sterling or even from manassas all the way to the beltway and here through the corner there may have been some leftover construction but that's -- the only reason why you're seeing the yellow and orange here and that should clear up shortly as well. on the inbound side of i-66 nice and light through centreville. in fairfax station there's a paving operation it's

northbound on route 7100 at the burke center parkway and they're alternating traffic through there until about 6:00 this morning. back to the maps no problems onth 5 from dale city to springfield. otherwise the lanes are open. i'll be back in a few minutes with more traffic at 5:25. back to you. the usa olympic men's basketball team destroys the practice opponent. >> and the washington alsos set a recordpy -- castles set a record by holding down the fort. >> but best we want to take another look at our question of the morning -- >> bun of our facebook friends -- one of our facebook friends mo santana wrote -- >> log on to the wusa9 facebook fan page and leave your response. we'll reveal the answer during the 6:00 hour. we'll be back.

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good morning, time now 5:21. happy friday everyone. we start with live doppler 9000 hd. we do have some showers and some light rain out to the west of town. out toward leesburg, warrington and front royal. will this make it into the beltway? there's a slight chance of stray showers coming through here but for the most part it should be mostly cloudy for the rest of today. temperatures mid 70s by 8:00 this morning.

by noon 84 degrees. and highs should top out generally in the mid 80s and by 8:00 temperature will be 84 degrees under mostly cloudy conditions. here's mike and andrea. good morning guys. thank you anny. the report on the penn state child sex scandal found top university officials failed to properly investigate after hearing about the allegations against jerry sandusky. >> former redskin and nittany lion la rash arrington found dug -- lavar arrington found out during the trial that he knew one of the victims. we have more this morning sports. >> well, good morning everyone. bill o'brien man has a tough job. he's the guy tasked to lead penn state football out of the darkest moment. he has a deal on the field and maybe he'll do well but the stain from the off the field behavior of his predecessors is going to be around for a long time. louis freeh and his team of investigators releasing a thorough scathing report yesterday which outlined a culture ovine global by four of

the most powerful people at penn state. what now? the ncaa punished schools before for a lack of institutional control and local sports reporters discussing yesterday whether the ncaa should step in here. >> there's no precedent for this. there's no -- playbook or rule book. the ncaa goes we've never given a violation. because nobody has ever done this before. we are in up charted territory. >> based upon the rules of the ncaa in terms of what quantifies or qualifies for a -- a sanction or a probe of the program, i doubt they had anything like this written for it. so i don't know how they can discipline them based off of that. >> world team tennis yesterday. the castles showing off a bit of bling and then their banners too. how about that? taking on the sport times at castles stadium down by the wharf. there's the championship banner looking good but i tell you

what. they were cruising early. paes with the pay-off. but it would get tight late. castles win 20-18. it's a record 19 straight wins. it's a wtt record. they take it 20-18. finally usa men's basketball in town this weekend. they've got an exhibition against brazil on monday. dominican republic last night. williams doing a little damage sneaking inside. usa up 25 and then the home boy kevin durant channeling the inner jumping jack. it's a blowout. the republic didn't come back last night folks, good old usa. that's a quick look at sports. all right. nats open this second half of the season today in miami. have a great friday everybody. we are learning more about when an aide told mayor gray about the illegal shadow campaign. that story is coming up. >> plus, what a couple of local lawmakers hope to accomplish by proposing huge fines for both

pepco and bge. here's monika with an update. >> no problems to report on 270 southbound and no delays yet as you come in from frederick past 121 and all the way down to rockville. i'll have more traffic coming up in a few minutes at 5:29. you're watching 9news now, we'll be right back.

good morning and welcome back to 9news now. i'm andrea roane happy friday. >> yeah it is friday. that means it's pizza day. because it's friday. sure. >> in that? >> every day is pizza day in our house. that's just another excuse. good morning. how are you? here's traffic in just a minute and anny hong in for howard and it's 76 and not too bad yet. >> not too bad yet. exactly. yeah. temperatures today because of the cloud cover will really only be close to the seasonal high in the upper 80s. so it will be a pretty nice day for july. then yeah temperature and the humidity are going to be going up over the next few days here. here's a look at your live

doppler 9000 hd. and the potomac highlands out to the west and central virginia we have some light rain and some showers at this hour. most of those should stay out to the west. for the rest of today should be mostly cloudy by noon near 84 degrees. by 5:00 in the mid 80s and we should top out generally mid upper 80s. outside the beltway upper 60s in leesburg and gaithersburg and down to the south of us in fredericksburg at 70. tappahannock at 65 and la plata good morning to you at 67 degrees. the highs for today average high is 89. a little bit below that. 87 downtown and 85 in annapolis. culpeper getting up to 85 and winchester upper 70s and leesburg 84 and good faith burke around 86 degrees, bring the umbrella today? maybe it depends on if you're really worried about the hair. guys no, women yeah. so here's a look at your traffic with always fabulous hear. good morning monika. even in the humidity. i don't think so.

if you're thinking of heading out the door right now i think it's good to do because things are looking great outside open the beltway. all around the metro area including the north side of town no delays yet as you leave college park into silver spring. a live look outside right now. as you're planning to head over on the south side of town no problems to report across the wilson bridge and 270 looks good as well. see if we can go to the live shot, here we go here's the wilson bridge. down south across the river. back over to our maps this time we'll head over to the other side of town. no problems to report on route 50, coming in from annapolis to the beltway. and inside the beltway through cheverly both the bw parkway and route 50 are incident-free into northeast and a quick live look coming off the bay bridge on route 50 not bad at all this morning. coming up in my next report, to the west side of town in a few minutes. this afternoon the d.c. council is going to discuss a committee about the aftermath of the epic storm two weeks ago. council members are going to talk about pepco's reliability and the restoration efforts.

>> 66,000 pepco customers in the district lost power in the storms. members of the public will be allowed to submit their testimony. and people in maryland will get to voice their opinion on how their utility companies performed during recent storms. the public service commission will hold eight public hearings next month and it will accept testimonies through september 10th. after that, the pse plans to question the utilities about their response to the storm. two maryland state senators are now calling for pepco and bge to each be fined more than $100 million for the long power outages last week. senators brian frosh of montgomery county and james rosapepe of prince george's county sent the request to the public service commission. both want to use that money to create a surge reserve fund to pay for more workers to help. the lawmakers say it will encourage utilities to change their behavior and modernize infrastructure. now to more on the

investigation into d.c. mayor vincent gray's 2010 campaign. when did he learn about that illegal shadow campaign that funneled hundreds of thousands into his coffers? 9news now reporter delia goncalves is live with what we know today outside the wilson building. >> reporter: good morning mike, several sources are talking about the investigation inside the building and confirming the 9news now that gray was indeed absolutely shocked when heifers learned about the secret money back in january. that was when the meeting was called and we're told gray reached out to his attorney immediately after the meeting concluded. convicted felon and campaign consultant harris called the mealing asking the mayor we're told to accept invoices for the illegal $653,000 and asked him to submit them to his campaign. essentially she was asking him to cover up the crime and he refused. the checks were signed by

businessman jefftonson who has not been charged yet but the home and office were in fact raided by the fbi. three council members asked for the resignation of the mayor but the mayor has reached out to the others asking for their support. >> i think there's an urgent need for him to make a full statement but i think the city is really crying out for that clean of clearing of the air. it should be a formally convened press conference. >> the one piece i would add right now is tokened of think of the metaphor. just kind of sit down in the boat. >> reporter: delegate holmes norton also believes the mayor should make some kind of statement in regards to the investigation. adding that it is deeply disturbing she says so who is the next campaign aide to go down by the federal authorities? we'll have that coming up at 6:00. you'll have to hear what our sources tell us. mike andrea back to you. >> thank you delia. live at the wilson building

this morning. an investigation is underway into a deadly motorcycle crash in montgomery village. rescuers arrived at east village avenue in double head road before 10:30 last night. they found an injured man on a honda motorcycle lying in the road when they got there. police determined the driver hit a curb and then hit a tree in the median. the 46-year-old man died a short time after rescuers arrived. montgomery county police are asking anyone with information about this crash to please give them a call. a d.c. police officer has been assigned to quote over duty -- other duties after making a threat against michelle obama. according to the "washington post," the officer worked as a motorcycle escort for white house officials. now the officer in question was allegedly overheard making the threat against the first lady and even showed a cell phone photo of the firearm he intended to use. we are apreaching 5:35 and it's time now for the latest your money report. >> jessica doyle is pack and all eyes are on -- back and all eyes are on jp morgan.

i wonder why? >> yeah. well, ceo jamie dimon is going to be speaking this morning and he's doing to be talking about just how big the trading loss disclosed back in may has grown to and what he's done the protect the bank in the future. now dimon has appeared before congress twice to explain the $2 billion trading loss. several government agencies have also -- launched investigations into jp morgan chase. some are saying the loss could be as big as $9 billion. here's some good news for you this morning. mortgage rates hit another record low this week. according to freddie mac the average rate on the 30 year fixed is down to 3.56%. those rates have matched or hit record lows in 11 out of the last 12 weeks and guess who's working on the refie right now? this girl here. >> themes up. >> you will need the monthly savings to pay for the airline ticket nowadays. the airlines reporting corporation says the price of airline tickets rose nearly 6% during the first half of the year.

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good morning, time now 5:38 on your friday morning. we are live out here on the weather terrace. and it does feel really nice once again. a very nice start. we have cloudy skies out there and some areas of light rain out to the west of town in warrenton and front royal. maybe heading into winchester and leesburg. to the beltway? there's a slight chance we

could see a stray shower or some light rain come through. here's a look at the day planner, temperatures in the upper 70s by 9:00. by 6:00 around 85 degrees and we'll generally stay mostly cloudy. highs for afternoon current temperatures rather, 76 downtown. 68 manassas and 68 degrees also in culpeper and orange. so highs for today 87 in downtown and 86 in gaithersburg. here's monika with your timesaver traffic. good morning. good morning. it's great to show light traffic here at the wilson bridge it's a good example of the beltway all around town. no problems here between oxon hill and alexandria is we're looking good on 95 through 95 and virginia as well. but you may want to make other plans if you're trying the use metro to get to national airport this weekend and that's because the reagan national airport and crystal city stations will close tonight at 10:00 p.m. shuttle buses will be provided between the braddock road and pentagon city stations while crews do some track work this weekend. everything is expected to be

back open by monday morning. i'll be back with more traffic coming up once against at 5:48. mike? metro officials now addressing the safety issues that came up during last week's heat wave. the extreme heat caused one track to buckle derails two cars -- detrailing two cars on the groan line. another -- green line. another car lost power before they decided to basically just evacuate themselves and start walking down the tracks. the general manager says metro will take some new precautions like slowing down the trains during the heat and he also promises to keep passengers more informed. a shelter is opened at bladensburg high school for people displaced if their apartments. the buildings at river dale towers lost part of the roof weapon it hit two weeks ago. but then fire and um zeh came back out wednesday night because of a water leak and evacuated 65 apartments. county inspectors now cleared residents in 43 units to return home. people living in the other 22 that are still considered

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good morning and welcome back to 9news now. it is 5:45 and always happy to say it's friday. happy to have anny hong here and she has our weekend forecast. >> happy to be here. good morning guys. yeah, we're looking at some areas of showers and light rain at this hour. not really making it into the beltway but out towards the west and on warrenton and leesburg some light activity you may see. here's a look at the live doppler 9000 hd, actually know first i'm going to show you the day planner. mostly cloudy for today and temperatures near mid 80s by lunchtime. by 5:00 85 degrees and now we go to doppler with some areas of showers and basically most of it is out to the west out the leesburg and warrenton. and maybe even manassas. right now temperatures 76 in downtown. 72 in alexandria. arlington good morning to you. 72. vienna upper 60s and rockville

69 degrees. and out in bowie we're at 70 and college park also at 70 and columbia coming in at 70 degrees as well. so it's a really nice start to your friday. a live look at the michael & son weather camera. sky finally a little lighter out there. temperatures 76 degrees. cloudy skies at reagan national. the winds are calm. dew point in the lower 60s and humidity still tolerable and that humidity though going up especially sunday and monday. so for most of us it should be a dry morning commute. unless you're out to the west of town. pretty good for july. isolated thunderstorm possible this afternoon and better chances being west of town and then we get hot over the weekend. and yet we even have triple digits on that seven day forecast. so here's a look at your 9 futurecast and cloudy conditions for today and again most of us should be dry. but pack that little umbrella just in case you catch yourself in a shower. tomorrow better chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms. that will be probably coming in late morning, early afternoon. by tomorrow night a lot of it

should start to die down. and is also a chance for -- sunday also a chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms as well. highs for today pushing close to 90 in some spots but most of us mid- to upper 80s. 85 annapolis and 84 in fredericksburg and 84 also in leesburg. manassas will get to arnold 87 degrees. -- around 87 degrees. go to the beach or take the boats out this weekend? on the bay on saturday, for annapolis area temperatures are 86 and 90 with some scattered showers and storms. waves up to a foot. for sunday, it will be hotter at 90 to 95 waves also to a foot with a chance for some showers and storms also. mainly in the afternoon and morning hours. heading further east to rehoboth. bowie, ocean city. for saturday a chance for afternoon showers and a thunderstorm mainly in the after 2:00 or so. highs will be 80 to 85 degrees. and then for sunday, around 82 to 86 with the water temperature 69 a better chance for some showers and storms for

you on sunday. all right your next three days tomorrow is a yellow alert day because it will be hot and a chance for showers and storms. sunday same deal. check out the next seven diazos the heat is on especially by monday and next week. tuesday the nats are going to be playing and it will be hot and humid upper 90s. wednesday, 100, thursday a front comes through and scattered showers and storms but not as hot and temperatures in the lower 90s. here's monika with the timesaver traffic. good morning. good morning and an accident now in montgomery county is southbound on connecticut avenue. at georgia avenue and an overturned vehicle in the right lane. and if you're planning to head southbound on i-95 i'm going the step out and show you what it looks like from sky 9 and an accident just past route 212 moved to the right shielder but you can still see the traffic is a bit slow getting by although all the lanes are open going to the beltway 789 once -- beltway. once you're past this you're fine. this time over to virginia where on the northbound side of i-95 lanes are open from dale

city as you head for springfield. no problems to report on 395 headed for the 14th street bridge. we'll go outside live and show you what it looks like right now. again, no problems here at the wilson bridge we're looking good across the bridge span and one more live look planning to head over to the inbounds side of route 50. here's what it looks like coming off the bay bridge everything is fine to the beltway. coming up in my next report, once again at 6:00 but first it was an exciting time here at the station the week for my well's professional -- women's professional networking organization launch network. we get together monthly to make connections and giving back to worthy charities. the time a behind the scenes look at the channel 9 studios and noon broadcast with j.c. hayward. the theme of the afternoon was breast cancer awareness and speakers included young survivors and our own andrea roane talked about her fantastic initiative buddy check 9 thank you andrea. jc shared her personal journey with the disease ask through the event we donated to the

scar project also a wonderful organization which pays tribute to so many young women with breast cancer these days. all professional d.c. women with a goal of networks, promoting small business and giving back. mike? >> we were happy that you heard about this scar project through buddy check 9 and more about that in the upcoming weeks and months. in campaign 2012 new accusations have been launched about mitt romney's work at bain capital. the presumptive republican romney founded bain a private firm. >> now there's conflicting information about when he left the firm and whether or not he was in charge when bain started outsourcing jobs and ran some companies which went bankrupt. tara mergener has more. >> reporter: president barack obama hits the road today for campaign events in the battleground state of virginia. before heading out he took time for an interview with cbs's charlie rose where he admitted to some mistakes. >> well, you know, he's been juggling and managing a lot of

stuff but you know, where's the -- the story that tells us where he's going? and i think that was a legitimate criticism. >> reporter: the president said it spared a question about everything about a presidenten candidate and they have question about mitt romney's time at bain capital. rom kneel filed paperwork with the government where he claimed to be the sole owner and ceo as late as 2002. the romney campaign says he had no input on investments or management of the company after he left to take charge of the winter olympics in 1999. at the heart of the issue, who was in charge of bain during the years from 1999 until 2001? that was the time period when bain ran companies that went bankrupt. and invested in others that shift jobs overseas. >> does virginia really want an outsourcer in chief in the white house? >> reporter: the obama campaign has been running ads for weeks hammering romney over the

outsourcing issue. >> it's false and misleading. >> reporter: the romney campaign is now hitting back with its own ads -- >> the obama outsourcing attacks -- misleading, unfair, and untrue. >> reporter: the obama campaign -- >> i'm barack obama and i approve this message. >> reporter: stands by its claims. tara mergener for cbs news, washington. making news now, new evidence released in the trayvon martin case could hurt george zimmerman's claims of self-defense. documents show police had conflicting opinions about the extent of zimmerman's injuries after he shot and killed the teenager. investigators also released a string of earlier kales zimmerman made about activity in his neighborhood. authorities discovered two very well built drug tunnels running under the u.s. mexico border. both had lights and ventilation systems. one ended in san diego, the other near yuma, arizona. so far, three men have been arrested in this case. rescuers have been busy around houston, texas, their saving people -- they're saving

people in cars and pedestrians who were trapped in flash flooding. firefighters in both found two women clinging to trees. long time residents say this is the worst flooding there in decades. now here's jessica. thank you andrea. we've been combing through the day's daily deals emails and retailer websites to find you some deep discounts. and i love my friday favorites. morning viewer whitney sent me this deal. good morning whitney. mr. handyman is offering three hours of labor from a licensed insured and bonded technician $175, normally this would cost you $350 and you're saving 50%. you can cash in on this deal beginning on tuesday. in the immortal words of homer simpson -- mmm. doughnuts. this deal from krispy kreme, buy a dozen doughnuts and get a dozen of the original glazed for just 75 cents, this is in honor of their birthday turning 75 and this is a today only deal. now you can be on the lookout for black cats on this

friday the 13th. or you can dress like a cow instead. it is cow appreciation day at chick-fil-a. dressing like a cow from head to hoof that's going to get you free meal. breakfast, lunch or dinner. dress partially in cow attire and you win a complementary entree. if you have an offer you've seen or if you're a local merchant with a deal for our viewers, i'd love to hear from you on facebook. i lost my hat. moving it over to andrea roane and mike. >> boy am i hungry. >> you never looked better mike. wow. okay. >> thanks jess that's funny. okay, still ahead we're learning more about when d.c. mayor vincent gray may have learned about his aides conducting a shadow campaign for him. that's coming up. >> next in entertainment news, the squirrel, the acorn and the rest of the ice age gang return to theaters today. big office bucks i predict.

welcome back. time 5:57. here's a look at live doppler 9000 hd. couple. showers to the -- of showered to the west. most of those should stay out to the west. here's a look at the day planner for today on this side. all right mostly cloudy and temperatures around 84 at noon. by 4:00 86 degrees. and by 8:00 this evening 84 degrees mostly cloudy.

here's mike and andrea. hey guys. >> hi anny and we want to take another look at our question of the day at 5:58 -- >> our facebook friends annie wrote -- i think this person is a jaguars fan. >> log on to the wusa9 facebook fan page and leave your response. we're planing about drew brees and we have a contract. we'll reveal the real answer in an hour. in entertainment news just one big movie opening this weekend. "ice age: continental drift." the familiar voices will be joined by some newcomers including wanda sykes and jennifer lopez.

they are separated if their families after -- from their families after the squirrel accidentally caused the continent to break. >> he was the one? >> it was him. they must sail the ocean and battle pirates if they want to find their way back home. >> denis leary's voice is perfect for that. it would be nice to clear your first $10 million before 8:30 but you have to do better than to make the forbes lest of wealthiest celebrities under the age of 30. guess who tops the list? taylor swift. made $57 million in the last year. justin bieber falls to second. followed by rihanna. lady gaga, katy perry and adele. you see only guy on the list in the top five. >> come on mike let's go. >> all right. we're watching 9news now at 6:00 a.m. thank you for joining us. i'm andrea roane. >> it's friday and it's going to be a great day. i'm mike hydeck, thank you for joining us. you almost got me in trouble and