a wall of people and they say please slowly evacuate the station, which makes everyone feel panicked. >> metro's headache comes on the heels of a troubled weekend for the passenger system. >> it was a long ride. it was kind of terrible, i must say. >> on saturday afternoon and again early sunday morning, a computer software glitch brought 44 trains across the system to a stop. >> took me at least three hours to make it home. >> there is concern on our part. that's why we are working around the clock, 24/7. that's why we have taken the necessary steps to increase our staffing. >> metro says it is investigating the computer failure that left controllers without the ability to see moving trains on a map expugn able to control switches remotely to route trains. >> now metro insists the computer failure was not a safety issue and that passengers were never in danger. now coming up tonight at 6:00, hard to believe, but until now, there have never been federal

safety standards for rail agencies across the country. we'll tell you what is on tap for all of the passenger trains across the country, including metro. back to you. >> one thing we do know is this isn't over yet. thank you, andrea. >> another hot and humid day out there today. are we in for another round of storms tonight? that's the question. topper is on the terrace with the answer. >> pretty nice here in northwest. it's hot and humid, but we have a couple thunderstorms on live doppler and any storm that develops is going to be heavy. let me show you live doppler. you can access this on our website. we'll zoom into this one storm up in montgomery county. they are moving southeast, almost parallel to the river. nothing severe with this storm, but there's some hefty rains. see the rain? that's rain fall rates of an inch per hour. past pennsylvania toe potomac. it does spill over to great falls if you are headed out

route 7 in fairfax county. so again, nothing severe with that storm, but that's going to slow traffic down no doubt about that. other storms down in southern maryland are heavy, too. this is south of la plata. now, we'll widen the radar out a little bit and put this into motion and show you where they will go in the next hour. again, general movement off to the south and east. this is going to move through bethesda. good news is, it will weaken a little bit. see it turning green. so, it's going to weaken over the next hour, but get ready for a wet commute in parts of the metro area, especially inside the roadway and east, west highway. 94 right now. 90 in leesburg. this is not the hot stuff yet. you factor in the humidity, feels like it's 99 downtown and 98 in leesburg and 98 up in frederick. for tonight, early thunderstorm possible. then partly cloudy and muggy. lows in the 70s.

we'll come back and talk about the prospect of hitting triple digits and the prospect of more storms. >> thank you, topper. well, our 9 wants to know report have exposed pepco and bge billing you for their outages and the anger which could prevent it from happening again. there's no movement at the maryland state house to outlaw those service charges. here's our investigative reporter. russ. >> hi anita. maryland customers still don't know how much they'll be billed for those first 24 hours. pepco lost all of their revenue from the storm power. but estimates vary from around nickels to dimes dimes to around a dollar. it could be against the law. >> today, downtown bethesda is back to full power. and although our report went viral online, about maryland, pepco, and bge customers being billed for 24 hours of income, many here are just now learning about it. >> so you are going to get a bill for that? >> no.

>> really? >> state senator says our story could change the law. >> people were in the dark. your story lit the lightbulb. >> constituent reactions from our report could influence the maryland state house. plans on introducing legislation in january to ban such practices. >> lightbulb went on. people said, oh my god. i'm paying these people for not giving me electrical service? >> why should you pay for something when you don't have it? >> should be no charge. >> yeah. i need to call them. i'm upset now. >> even though customers are only paying for the first 24 hours of lost revenues, even though it could be less than $1 a customer, utilities shouldn't be able to charge. >> 500,000 pepco customers, a million pepco customers, you're talking real money. >> at maryland state house last year, introduced a similar

amendment outlawing outage bills all together, but it failed on a tie vote. >> we reached out to all 22 state senators who voted against that amendment. only three responded and one said in retrough spect, he would have changed his vote. now a smoke spokesman said they are used to invest and he believes the public service commission, not the state legislature should be looking into this. pepco would not comment, saying they haven't seen the proposal. >> how soon could these changes take effect? >> it is too late. this is something that wouldn't go into effect until next year. so any storm until then, you're going to be paying the bill. >> individually, it's small. a lot of it is principal. >> we don't know how much. but a quarter a dime, maybe a dollar. >> russ, thank you. lesli. d.c. mayor, vincent gray is refusing to say if and when he knew a well funded shadow campaign had worked to get him

elected in 2010. now federal prosecutors say the illegal campaign spent more than $650,000. our bruce johnson has been following this thing from the beginning. he has the latest on what this means for the mayor and the political fallout. >> this is not going to go away. it is heating up. the mayor has not taught the prosecutors. they have gotten win conviction directly in connection with the shadow campaign. they want to talk to vernon hawkins. that's a name you'll hear a lot of in the next couple of days. >> vernon hawkins hasn't returned our phone calls and he wasn't answering at his home today. vernon seen here was a major volunteer operative in the vincent gray campaign. today used the word, mess, to describe the official campaign that was put together and funded. hawkins was the field operations manager for the unofficial effort where shadow campaign charge with helping

get out the vote. much if not all of the money came from businessman, jeff thompson. the illegal funds were channeled through harris, who last week pleaded guilty for her role in the shadow campaign activities. >> tell us why you did it. >> you support vincent gray? >> alabama avenue, most, but not all of the people we talked with say mayor gray knew about the shadow campaign. >> how could he not know what was going on in his campaign? >> you think he aught to resign? >> yes. >> i don't believe it. >> you don't believe it? >> not yet. >> i'm waiting to see what the result is going to be. >> you don't think he should step down? >> no. not at this time. >> prosecutors are prepared to offer immunity for his cooperation. the fbi has been talking with his attorney to arrange an interview. >> now the mayor isn't talking publicly. but privately, he is telling associates that the first he heard of the shadow campaign was on june 10 in a private

meeting. she brought invoices in from that shadow campaign. she wants them transferred over to the campaign. the mayor is telling associates that he made a phone call to his attorney and we haven't been able to confirm exactly what robert bennett and his attorney did with that information. legal observers are telling me that if the mayor has a story to put out there, if his attorney didn't contact federal authorities, he needs to say that. if he is not saying that, they have some problems. >> he needs to tell people what is going on. there are three council members who is called on him to step down. has that number changed? >> you have one waiverring right now. he met in private and urged the mayor to stay more and make himself available for questions. we'll see. >> not clear how soon that may or may not happen? >> no. the u.s. attorney is going to have the next say and say after that. i don't think anything is going to happen next week. >> bruce johnson, we know

you'll stay all over it. back into the studio. president obama continuing to attack his republican rival, mitt romney. romney is down south today. he is raising money for his campaign, but the president was back on the campaign trail in cincinnati and he accused romney of sending jobs overseas as he was head of bane capital. running a negative campaign so he doesn't have to talk about his bad record on the economy. >> there's a new study out by nonpartisan economists that says governor romney's economic plan would in fact create 800,000 jobs. there's only one problem. the jobs wouldn't be in america. >> what does that say about a president whose record is so poor that all he can do in his campaign is attack me? >> louisiana's governor is helping romney raise some money today. jindal has been mentioned as a possible running mate and today, top adviser says that vp announcement could come as soon

as this week. lesli. still ahead, new information on the tragic series of events that led to the death of a man during an armed robbery. >> u.s.a. is in town. basketball that is. a will the of star power. kobe, lebron. we'll have a full report coming up in a second. new reaction and fallout to former penn state football coach, joe paterno's role in the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. we'll be back.

family members of the late joe paterno disaguy with some of the findings from that special prosecutor's report. led by former fbi director found that paterno covered up child sex abuse. that family says paterno called for a quote, thorough fair and transparent investigation. the family adds that the late penn state coach was stunned by the charges against sandusky, quote, like everyone else. the fate of the joe paterno statue outside penn state's beaver stadium is up in the air. many called for the removal in the wake of the child sex abuse scandal at the school. and the university has come under increased pressure following the special investigator's finding. the university's board of trustees and administrators say they have not decided what to

do with the sculpture. >> over the weekend, the artist of the famous inspiration mural removed the halo from joe paterno and painted a blue ribbon to present child abuse awareness. he would not remove paterno from the mural as he did with jerry sandusky, he was going to do something to change it. >> the countdown to the olympic games is on. opening ceremonies a week away. >> the u.s. team has been practicing all weekend here in d.c. tonight, they take on brazil in an exhibition right down at verison and we found dave owen live. dave. >> reporter: what's going on? more than just a basketball game out here tonight. president barack obama will be here. vice president joe biden will be here. and by the way, you might be wondering why we are outside of the verison center where the women are about to tip off against brazil inside. that's why we are outside of the arena. it's been quite a scene. we have been canvassing the

area in and around the verison center. take a look. >> this is like seeing an all- star game. it's awesome. >> all the way from minnesota. they didn't know where the verison center was. did you find it? >> we found it. thank you. >> it's right behind you. >> exactly. >> great all the time. you know, all through the playoffs, all through basketball, and charity work. i chose to wear his number to the game today. >> i've been a kobe fan since jordan retired. it's like the biggest day of my life getting to see him play. >> shortly before 5:00. here's the interest. look at this line. it's going all the way back here. go u.s.a. go u.s.a. but you have to go all the way back here. a little lebron, all the way back, and look at this, guys, hey, if you are all the way back at the end of this line, you got a long ways to go. >> yeah, certainly a long way

to go. crunch time and you can see that line is forming. the people i talked to, they were spending $120 to $150 for these tickets. much more coming up. i'll tell you what, derek, these guys are rock stars, especially the men's basketball team. we'll tell you about that in just a little bit. we are live outside the verison center. back to you guys in the studio. >> it is dream team part two. thank you, dave. it's one of the busiest days at london's airport. athletes started arriving today for the olympic games. members of the u.s. and new zealand yachting teams and finland sailing team were among the first of the 16,000 athletes expected to arrive in london under heightened security. >> it's been great. london is obviously ready and excited. >> it's pretty smooth, really. >> it was easy. really quick. don't have to think about anything. >> now an army of 1,000 trained volunteers who speak 20

different languages are on hand to greet the olympians as they show up in london. topper, lesli. >> we were going to talk to you about the weather from outside, but the rain drops -- i don't do rain. >> it's a bad enough hair day. with rain it's really bad. i got your back. we have a couple thunderstorms on radar. we'll start with a live look outside. this is brought to you by michael and son. temperatures are toasty, but not as toasty as they are going to get. 94 right now. dew point 69. the dew point barely in the 60s. that's barely bearable. winds calm and the pressure 29.86 inches of mercury. okay, let's talk about live doppler 9,000. we are looking at, well, some storms. few and far between, but there's a couple that are heavy. not severe, but heavy. they will affect the evening commute. this storm we're tracking now as it moves, straddling the river in montgomery county side and fairfax county side.

down 193. head toward mcclane. the red, 1 to 2 inches per hour. coming around 410, east west highway, heading out to connecticut avenue and especially further west out toward river. it's going to be heavy rain. this is going to drift into town, so get ready in northwest. headed for the airport, too. we'll back the radar out. big storms in southern maryland. a handful of them. this is south of la plata. headed into northern st. mary's county and southern sections of calvert county. now we'll talk about where they will head in the next hour. they are going to weaken and continue to move off to the south and east through d.c., headed for the airport and eventually moving through southern maryland down toward leanardtown and into the bay. so, everyone the boaters need to be aware big storms are possible through the early evening hours. not a bunch of lightning. so once these go past, there's nothing behind it. there's no other mechanism to kick off anymore storms

tonight. 89 in bethesda. 92 in arlington. 94 downtown. 90 in rockville. and 89 in vienna and fairfax. we're looking at, you are going to get hotter. isolated storm tonight. triple digits possible tomorrow. more storms tomorrow evening and still very hot on wednesday. maybe triple digits two days. we'll be flirting with 100. partly cloudy and muggy. lows in the 70s and talking mid to upper 70s downtown. a little uncomfortable. tomorrow morning, partly cloudy, hot by lunchtime. 72 to 94 by lunchtime. air quality code orange. that's unhealthy. if you can car pool tomorrow, refuel up, we would appreciate it. some thunderstorms possible. and those that develop could be heavy. high temperatures near 100. winds westerly at 10. the next three days, code yellow. got to do it between the heat and thunderstorms. 99 tomorrow. 100 on wednesday and 94 on thursday.

temperatures are going to go down on thursday, but the storm chance increases on thursday. next seven days, cold front is going to roll through thursday into friday. maybe left over storms. temperatures in the upper 80s. maybe a left over shower on saturday. not concerned about that. nice, upper 80s. we'll take that below average and know 80s on monday. so few and far between, but those that develop will be hefty. coming up, why you soon may be able to check out who is checking out you on your facebook page. >> and construction crews checking out the top of the mormon temple today. ?gw?qyjw

sky 9 was over the mormon poem it temple. it can be so prominently from the beltway t. will be closed for cleaning. the building near connecticut avenue was the first mormon temple built in the eastern united states. sky 9 was also over jesup, maryland, where a prison is being torn down by the inmates

themselves. the baltimore sun reports by using inmates at the maryland house of corrections to take the prison apart piece by piece. this could save the state millions of dollars. the prison was closed in 2007 after a string of violent incidents. the public will have a chance to tour the facility on august 4 and 5th before the deconstruction is complete. and some boundary stones that are steep in history have now been restored. the original stones george washington ordered in 1791 to mark the new federal district are the first and oldest federal monuments. the stones are located at eastern avenue northeast. many of the stones fell into disrepair during the mid 1990s. >> today, the montgomery county planning board took up a proposal to bring light rail to chevy chase lake. the service would run through chevy chase and reunit jones bridge road. the planners say the rail

service with rush hour traffic along connecticut avenue. the proposal got calls for the creation of a new town center with high-rise office and residential buildings. also a new public park, bike trail, and pedestrian crossings. and there was a ground breaking ceremony for a major new development. you remember the old mall. the project will feature hundreds of thousands of square feet of brand-new retail, office space, residential units, even a hotel. all less than a quarter mile from the metro. maryland governor along with county executive and other local leaders were all in attendance. some opponents of the proposed costco gas station at west field wheaten mall launched a new effort to defeat the plan today. montgomery county councilman, mike mark and an environmental activist want new legislation passed to restrict the location of new megafueling stations. now el ridge says the proposed costco station would be the busiest gas station in the

entire county and would pose an environmental and health risk to people in that area. maryland lawmakers are asking you to consider donating your hotel reward points to help wounded warriors. the program is called hotels for heros. it's an expansion of a program enabling travelers to donate frequent flier miles to military families. six hotel chains are participating in the program. the goal is to reduce travel costs for wounded veterans and their families. >> still ahead, a teenager who lost his arm to an alligator looks ahead to life with a prosthetic limb. he has a positive attitude. there was a father of three being mauled by two pit bulls in the middle of the street. he was able to get up and get to safety thanks to one person. i'm peggy fox coming up, i'll tell you who that person was and i'll have the story.

we have new information tonight on a pit bull attack in arlington. today we're getting a firsthand account of how the family was able to fight off the two dogs that were in on this attack. >> this happened yesterday afternoon in the intersection of walter reid drive and south oakland street. peggy fox is live from the neighborhood with the very latest. >> we were able to catch up with max after he was released

from the hospital this morning. he is going to be okay, but he has been pretty severely injured. you see the pit bulls had him down in the middle of the street. what saved his life? the actions of his son. >> start biting into the side. >> 62-year-old max is covered from head to toe with at least 14 dog bites after being attacked by his neighbor's two pit bulls. >> this is the worst part. >> he has trouble walking because his calf muscle was injured. both arms were mauled and the dogs almost bit off part of his ear. >> i never imagined dogs -- i thought they were friendly. but these dogs were really trying to kill. >> he had just come home from shopping when they found the dogs playing in their yard. they got out of the pickup truck to tell the dog's owners when they attacked.

>> they came out of the house. i see my bed on the floor over there. >> his oldest son heard his little sister screaming and came running to find his dad in the middle of the street being attacked by the dogs. >> they are trying to kill my dad. i have to do something. >> he did what he does so well on the soccer field. he ran and the dogs chased. >> i made a quick -- the car was right here. i made a quick circle around the house and went through that little alley and went back inside. >> his dad was able to get back inside the pickup with one dog still biting. while he was able to grab his sister and run into the house. >> the dogs got off of him because you distracted them? >> yes, one tried to chase my neighbor that was right there. >> his mom is overwelmed describing her son's bravery. >> i couldn't imagine.

>> alejandro used a pair of crocks to beat back the dogs at one point. there is an investigation underway to determine what happens to the surviving pit bull. police officers had shown up yesterday afternoon and they shot one pit bull that started attacking them. according to police. also the investigation is looking into whether there will be any charges against the owners of the pit bulls. that's the very latest in arlington. i'm peggy fox, back to you. >> one resourceful young man. thank you, peggy. derek. >> well, lesli, prince georges county superintendent william height will be leaving his job. height is giving up $125,000 worth of severance in exchange for getting out of his contract a bit early. he resigned two weeks ago. he is accepting a job running the philadelphia school district. the prince georges county school board plans to select an interim school superintendent. wants to make sure needy

students get the supplies they need in time for the school year coming up. the event is called the drive for supplies. last year, nearly 12,000 pounds of school supplies both new and gently used were distributed to needy families and nonprofit organizations. today's kickoff event took place at richard montgomery high. >> more families across the country are cutting back on spending more college. that is the key finding of a new study from sally may, which is the country's largest student lender. parents and students are opting for less expensive schools and more students are living at home just to keep the price down. in all, the study found more parents of students are making college students based on the cost than they used to. >> a new report finds an increasing number of people are turning to youtube. particularly of times of natural disasters. a review by the research center's project for excellence in journalism found that viewership for tv news still

out paces viewership of youtune. but, it concluded the online video sharing site is a digital environment where people are turning to professional journalism, mingled in with citizen content. facebook is making changes that could soon make it easier for you to find out who has been looking at your profile. the latest change involves a shift in privacy settings. that would allow users to track visits to group pages. there's speculation that it could be applied soon to your personal profiles as well. we have new information tonight in a bizarre armed robbery early sunday morning. it ended with an innocent victim run over by a car, but it wasn't driven by one of the attackers. all this happened early sunday on oat street in fairmont heights. other victims described what happened. scott. >> yeah, they described this victim, completely innocent

guy. bradford, 30 years old. a bunch of guys enjoying the evening on saturday night when some armed robbers walk up and it's a wild west style robbery with people on the ground. pointing guns and while all of this is happening, mccoy just walks right into the situation. here's what one of the witnesses described tonight. >> mccoy was a comcast cable installer with two children who just got out of his work truck and walked up as three gunman ordered a group to the ground to rob them. as the robbers turned their attention to a woman sitting in a car and ordered her out, too, she hit the accelerator and fled. running over mccoy and killing him. george coalman was one of the victims on the ground, still in disbelief. >> it could have been me. i'm glad i stayed to the side, you know. i don't know why. it happened so quick. and asked for keys and everything. and she just panicked and took off. and happened to be up under the

car. >> and one of the robbers get out of all of this? it was just mayhem out here. they gave up on the robbery and ran for the comcast work truck that mccoy had gotten out of. they jumped in that and fled. that truck has since been recovered. mccoy unfortunately, did not survive. the woman who was driving the car, she just panicked. a bizarre tragedy during a wild west style armed robbery and police are looking for tips tonight to try to find the robbers who started it all. reporting live, scott broom, 9news now. >> what a sad outcome. thank you. coming up, a link between nail polish and a risk to women's health. topper. >> one storm misses here in northwest. if you are down toward the arlington area, grab the umbrella. we'll show you live doppler 9,000. a couple storms running through parts of d.c. headed for the national mall, we'll come back and track a few more for you and talk about big time heat

rolling in and when. >> thanks, top. trapped by a raging river. emergency crews rush in to save a teenager stuck on the rocks. and don't forget, we're always on at wusa9.com. stick around, we'll be right back.

caught on tape, rescuers responding to a teenager stranded in a swollen river. this 14-year-old boy got himself trapped on the rock by these rushing waters in the kern river over the weekend. that's in bakers field, california. search and rescue crews are out there and they were able to pull him to safety. he wasn't hurt. despite the fact that he has a life vest on now, but earlier he did not. >> crews in british columbia searching for four people believed to be buried under a huge landslide. look at that. that was caught on tape. taking down those trees and everything. searchers are having to use extreme caution because the land is so unstable. three homes were crushed by the landslide as well. >> also caught on tape, a tornado rips through a town in poland. one person is killed after twisters hit the area. trees were uprooted. buildings damaged and power

lines down. a teenager who lost his arm in an alligator attack is now back at home. >> fred walked out of a hospital yesterday about a week after an alligator bit his arm off while he was swimming with his friends next to his home. the self-proclaimed out doorsman can't wait to get back to the life he loves. >> it feels pretty good that a lot of people are chipping in to help me out with my arm so i can get back to doing what i love. >> i'm more proud of my son right now than if he has had a doctorate degree. he is a very, very special son and very brave young man. >> here's my arm. langdale will be back in the hospital in two weeks to have his stitches taken out and fitted for that prosthetic arm

and shriner's group offered to donate it. >> efforts to get rolling on a special session in maryland are on the governor's agenda. and also ahead, a drug to present fbi infections. that is in tonight's health alert.

tonight's health alert starts with a milestone in the 30 year battle against hiv. food and drug administration approved trevada. it is also on the market as a treatment for people who are hiv positive. but this is the first time a drug has been shown to cut new infections in high risk people who are hiv negative, but whose partners may have hiv. tooth decay among kids has been on the rise. it's the most common chronic

disease among children. parents may want to be more vigilant about which filling the dentist uses to fix those cavities. >> how are you doing? good. >> she's only seven, but she has already had a couple cavities. now a new journal looks at what is in those fillings. fillings made with bpa may be linked to behavioral and emotional problems as kids get older. >> those children have a higher risk of depression or anxiety or other social psychological issues. >> dental fillings have been popular because they are the color of teeth. but research linked the chemical to hormone disruption. the chemical is used in plastics and canned goods. thought to have it banned in baby products. but researchers stress more study is needed. it's unclear how much bpa is in any of the fillings and whether it gets into the body. >> i wouldn't avoid dental

filling material all together because of this one potential risk. >> she looks great. no cavities. >> pediatric dentist says there are bpa free options out there which is what her practice offers. >> the reason we come here so the kids are having safe products being used on them. >> still, dentists say the best advice is to avoid cavities and cut down on the need for fillings. >> now we're going to talk about another group of chemicals that lesli and i covered. all kinds of beauty products, air spray, nail polish, a will the of skin cream, shampoos. they are everywhere. >> and manufactures, some of them will say these things are safe, but some scientists can disrupt the system, which is a big problem. they should be eliminated. >> there are a lot of groups.

a study out of boston finds women with the highest levels in their bodys are more likely to have diabetes and those that don't have diabetes were more likely to be insulin resistant. >> we know now that the good news is, there are products out there, personal care products on the market that are marketed as bpa free. >> take a look at spectacular images. this was found inside a 1982 time capsule. unused album cover for iron maden. these are images of a solar flair. that's less interesting. it produced a storm, that is interesting because it hit earth over the weekend. top, which produces a magnetic storm? >> a solar flair or iron maden. >> iron maden, obviously.

>> i thought that was their thing. anyway, we digress. really. a couple thunderstorms out there and not very many, but those that develop are hefty. we'll start with a live look outside and temperatures, well, got up to the mid 90s today. this is brought to you by michael and son. we got rain and storms reported at the airport. dew point 72. that's miserable. let me tell you. humidity way up there. 66%. winds north, northwest at 24. got dust with that storm. i just tweeted about these storms. any storm we get the next few days could have strong, gusty winds and brief heavy rains. no exception right now. 29.87 inches of mercury for the barometer. we'll look at live doppler 9,000. this storm is weakening. we talked about this a half hour ago. some pretty good rain south of alexandria, headed towards the airport. moving off to the south and east. it will cross 210 and head toward brandy wine. by the time it gets there, we won't see any reds, which is 1 inch per hour.

you will get some sprinkles and our yards could use some sprinkles. further south, big storms here between lexington park and st. mary's city and north of holly wood. we'll put this into motion. these continue to move off to the south and east and in fact, move into the bay. boaters need to be aware that some big storms are possible. southern bay over the next hour. they weaken a little bit, but still, they could have some strong, gusty winds off the coast. all right, we'll show you a wide view. once these go through, that's about it. there's nothing up stream. so we'll have this pattern tomorrow and really again wednesday. now where it rained, it's cooler. 81 in bethesda. 81 in vienna. still 93 in old town and 83 in arlington. so, we're looking at, it's going to get hotter. isolated storm tonight. triple digits possible tomorrow. afternoon storms again tomorrow. and still very hot on

wednesday. tonight, early thunderstorm possible. then just partly cloudy, muggy. lows in the 70s. winds will turn north, northwest at 10. partly cloudy, hot by lunchtime. 72 to 94. 94 by lunchtime. by afternoon, partly cloudy, very hot, thunderstorms possible. highs near 100. now the next three days, we'll go code yellow, yellow, yellow because of the heat and storms. not quite as hot on thursday, but also a better chance of thunderstorms. next seven days, the front creeps through here, maybe some left over storms, but temperatures going down. upper 80s on saturday and sunday. maybe a sprinkle on saturday, but not bad. back in the low 90s on monday. so mid 90s today. get ready for upper 90s. >> break out your hat. you know what i mean? it is not every day than an event can claim to have both the president and the vice president in the audience. >> tonight at the verison

center, all the stars have lined up for a must-see event. dave owens is live where rock stars and superstars have converged. a lot of stars going on in this. hey dave. >> i'm not one of them. that's for sure. but hey, no disrespect to the ladies. i want to talk about the men's team. i have been following this team the last couple of days. it's amazing how fans react to kobe and lebron when they see them. they have been over at george washington university the last couple of days practicing. you want to talk about a crazy scene? take a look at this. these are the rock stars on the totem pole, it doesn't get much higher than kobe and lebron. >> we want to see lebron, kobe. >> and of course the local boys. d.c.'s kevin durant, baltimore's carmelo anthony. >> then, i like them because they are classy and humble. they don't forget where they come from.

>> it's good to get somebody's love at home. i walk around to the mall and grab something to eat and everybody says, you're going to get them next year and congratulations. >> a will the of eyes on him and the rest of team u.s.a. george washington university was ground zero for star watchers today. as they worked out in advance of tomorrow night's exhibition against brazil. >> it's very humbling to see the reception every year from fans all over. we don't take it for granted. >> they are the favorite. but the world is going to be watching to see if these nba superstars can coexist together. i guess that's the pressure of being on the men's u.s. olympic basketball team. and these guys know that. >> for bryant, who will be 34 next month. >> become a little more reflective about the opportunities that you have. but to the same in the sense of the motivation and the drive and the passion that you bring to the school. >> and the first for 19-year- old anthony davis and his

unibrow. all together, looking for one goal. gold. these fans looking for a ticket inside. >> they are the rock stars. let's get back to the women. they won the last four olympics and right now, they are leading 21-7 in brazil. we'll have more coming up at 6:00. >> more to come. a minnesota yiewment can be a beautiful thing, but now the search is on for one couple whose moment was captured on camera by a mistake. president obama switches up his attack on republican rival, mitt romney. i'm danielle nottingham in washington. i'll have the story coming up. but first, a legal clinic reaches out to help the poor and the homeless. we'll tell you about them in hero central.

all americans are entitled to due process. at least that's what the law says. not everyone can afford that. >> washington legal clinic is trying to help. j.c. hayward takes a look at the nonprofit in today's hero central. >> i was given a letter of termination by the director because i had over stayed my time there. >> in 2002, brooks and her

three children were living in an emergency homeless shelter. after one year, the working mother faced being homeless again because her time at the shelter had run out. but she could not afford to move. >> i didn't know at the time what my rights were. i didn't know what steps were supposed to be taken. >> the working mother needed legal advice and she needed it for free. she learned about the washington legal clinic for the homeless. >> i was impressed. i didn't know there were attorneys working with clinics that were in my position. >> brooks visited one of the clinics 7 intake centers and she got a lawyer. >> without a lawyer's intervention, we are not willing to tolerate. >> because of the help of the washington legal clinic, brooks was able to extend her stay at the shelter long enough to move into stable housing. >> good afternoon, how may i help you? >> now brooks works at the clinic as the first point of

contact for the homeless. i'm j.c. hayward, 9news now. >> and the washington legal clinic for the homeless also helped brooks with a mouse problem at the shelter. the lawyer fought for her to keep a cat as protection. the washington legal clinic operates with more than 200 volunteer lawyers. go to j.c.hayward .com. >> a photographer from nevada is hoping to be a hero from a newly engaged couple. >> angela was in town for a month, but she decided to take new photo equipment out for a spin. there are monuments out to take pictures of. that's when she caught these pictures of a couple. she saw the man drop to one knee and the couple kiss. oh, that's beautiful. she tried to call out to them that say, i think i have this romantic moment on film. she posted a moment on the internet hoping to find this newly engaged couple. we have the link at wusa9.com.

this is 9news now. >> a recent power outage have had people really steaming at their utilities in the last hour, we learned that one of the mayor providers is looking into evaluating sending its wires under ground. it is an issue 9 wants to know about, so investigative reporter is following this story and everybody has been talking about this. why can't we put the wires under ground? would that keep us from losing our power? >> would you believe that a utility, pepco is reviewing those questions. pepco said pepco will an analyze the cost and even complete under grounding of the overhead electric system. they had all but ruled out this as they had been considering this, using the cos at billions of dollars as the reason.