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like. doesn't change the temperature. did you notice that? temperature was 99. heat index was 99. it's not that humid out. it is just darn hot outside. tomorrow heat advisory goes into effect for most of the metro area. toward leesburg, culpeper, essentially east of i-81. includes gaithersburg, all the way to the bay and the beaches. 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. that means heat indexes could be 105 to 109. i don't think we'll meet that criteria tomorrow because it's not going to be quite as hot tomorrow. a little more humid. we'll keep you posted. in any event, take it easy. an early isolated thunderstorm possible. lows 72 to 80. 80 downtown. winds westerly at 10. we'll come back and declaring the next three days code yellow. it is not all for heat. >> thank you, top. an explosion. family violence shattered the calm of a neighborhood earlier
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today. >> one of the victims is a former librarian from eleanor roosevelt high school. >> this happened early this morning on sea grape court in waldorf. scott broom joins us with the latest on the situation still unfolding. scott. >> reporter: well, still unfolding because the husband and wife in this tragedy are both hospitalized tonight and neighbors are actively praying for them. that librarian is 51-year-old janice proctor wills. according to her neighbors and family here in the neighborhood. she was shot by her own 33-year- old son in this unexplained spasm of family violence. from sky 9 this morning just after dawn, charles county authorities in an armored vehicle prepare to assault the home where the shooting happened. once inside, they found the body of 33-year-old shay proctor who had apparently shot himself with a handgun after unexplainably wounding his
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mother. the suspect's myspace page, this photo confirmed by friends as the family all together in happier times. >> they found a man and a woman. >> the spokesperson says the couple was shot inside the home and fled outside where they collapsed. and left a bloody trail across shocked neighbors yards. >> we saw a lot of police officers running with guns. >> at some point, the emergency services team went inside the house, they found a 33-year-old male in an upstairs bedroom. he was deceased and had a self- inflicted gun shot wound. >> both wounded victims were rescued by first responders and are hospitalized. neighbors said jeff wills is regarded as an outgoing truck mechanic who has a side business, landscaping neighborhood properties. >> great person. great personality. never have any trouble around here. >> online, the dead suspect called himself always real. but rarely showed himself outside the home and didn't appear to have a steady job,
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neighbors say. >> when you don't see him and they don't come inside the house, something is wrong. >> investigators say they are still searching for a motive in this shocking and mystifying incident. of family violence. >> relatives of the will's family are here tonight. they have just given us a hopeful update. they are saying that janice proctor wills looks like she is improving rapidly and may be released in the next couple of days. her husband, a little more serious condition. still critical tonight, but very hopeful. there are prospects for him to recover after this terrible, terrible family tragedy here in waldorf. reporting live, scott broom, 9news now. >> that at least is some good news. thank you, scott. >> the aviation community in montgomery county is mourning the loss of a local legend. an instructor pilot was killed yesterday in a plane crash near davis airport. another pilot on board was taken to the hospital with critical injuries.
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kristin fisher is live at davis airport where the ntsb a investigating. what can you tell us? >> reporter: investigators have been out here all day long. a few hours ago, they moved the plane wreckage from the crash site to inside the hanger here at davis airport and they are hoping that the wreckage will provide some clues as to exactly what happened. 79-year-old frank schmidt was a local legend in the aviation community. he had nearly 19,000 flight hours and he had been an instructor for 40 years. >> i think frank was the best instructor i ever had. >> one of the best pilots i have ever had the opportunity to fly with. >> which is why what happened here at davis airport is so hard to believe. a pilot, mechanic, watched it happen. the small beach craft took off and crashed 300 feet past the runway. >> there was some sort of
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catastrophic engine failure. >> ntsb is still investigatorring and it will be a week before their investigation is complete. >> we will be going through each component system, look ago the the engine, the fuel system, the flight control system. all those things. >> both men already board were certified, experienced pilots, but frank was the instructor, they need to figure out who was flying at the time of the crash and was the fatal error made by man or machine? >> it's my honest opinion that the airplane got frank and not the other way around. >> other pilot is still in the hospital. but alive. frank's legacy will live on in his students. >> i'll try and be half as good as he was. that would be excellent. >> frank died doing what he loved. in an airport he loved, doing what he loved following his life's work. >> now another factor that
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ntsb investigators are looking at as a possible cause is the heat. you know, it was about 90 degrees out here at the time of the plane crash yesterday and just like extreme temperatures are tough on cars, they are tough on airplanes. especially an airplane built in 1964. lesli. >> kristen, thank you. arlington police are looking for the people who may have seen a man who was struck and killed by a car. this is the video that a metro bus had that shows passengers looking at the man as they get on board. it happened on a dark street hours after that massive struck on june 30. now police say edgar was struck by a car as he crossed the street where the light was out. police hope that some of these passengers will contact them with more information. a major milestone today for the dulles rail project. the final piece of track bed on
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aerial guideways was put in. joins us live for some of the play by play. peggy. >> if you have driven through tyson's corner, you have watched this track bed go up. when it's up in the air, it's called an aerial guideway and it's three miles long. a little ways that way where the project hits the dulles toll road, the last piece was put into place. there wasn't a lot of action to it, but kind of like watching a sunset. it was cool to see. higher concrete segment on the right? it is slowly, very slowly being lowered into place. the prosees takes about 40 minutes. >> everything has to fit together. at the end of the day, we have to run a train across there and there cont be anything in there. >> it is the final piece of the concrete and steel track bed or guideway for phase one of the dulles rail project. >> guideway is connected from end to end. all the way from the existing
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guideline. >> 12 miles of phase one has been under construction for more than two years now. it includes three miles of aerial guideway constructed of more than 2700 of these reenforced concrete segments. each weighs up to 40-tons and was custom made on the grounds of dulles airport. >> most of this work has been over a long active roadway and they have had to work many night shifts and that type of stuff. a lot of this work, people didn't see happening because it was done in the middle of the night. >> instead of using traditional cranes which would have meant stopping traffic, they use these horizontal cranes, which are self- propelled and walk themselves along the track. this particular one has walked more than a mile to lay the track bed into place and now has just layed the final piece. >> applause went up when that final piece was finally plush with the rest of the guideway. >> whether people appreciate the beauty of an aerial
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structure, i'll leave that to the individual. but for us, it's a beautiful thing today. >> that horizontal crane, the bright blue and yellow thing, will take four weeks to dismantel. now the project can focus on laying down all the tracks and then tieing into metro. the silver line, at least to wheelie avenue should open at the end of next year. reporting live along the dulles silver line, back to you. >> at least that crane didn't have to walk back to dulles airport. thank you, peggy. we don't know if maryland is going to hold that special session on gambling. the governor meeting with the house speaker, michael bush and the senate president, mike miller today, but they couldn't come up with a deal. as of now, we have two unresolved issues. should a sixth casino be added at the national harbor and should there be table games? like blackjack and other things? >> try to make an assessment.
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people were in the middle of the summer and came to no conclusions. that was about it. the breakfast was delicious. >> okay. good breakfast and all. lawmakers have until august 20 to come up with a deal to pass legislation to get the gambling proposal on to the ballot. police down in tuscaloosa, alabama, say they arrested the gunman who opened a fire outside a bar hitting 17 people. >> police in alabama say they have captured the man in this surveillance video. he is suspected of injuring 17 people. four of them critically. in an early morning shooting ram pain outside a bar. >> we do have a suspect in custody at this time. it is a gentleman who went to the jasper area and made contact with law enforcement up there and he indicated that he was involved in the incident. >> police say the gunman opened fire with a military style assault weapon and may have been targeting someone
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inside the bar. >> the individuals were very blessed that they were not killed. >> the bar caters to students at the nearby university of alabama. three students were injured. witnesses say it was a chaotic scene as bullets and flying debris hit victims. >> all you see was sparked and people ducking and glass busting. >> police say the suspect may have wounded another person in the separate shooting earlier in the night. cbs news. >> police are not releasing the suspect's name until the exact charges are filed. >> despite being the focus of an investigation of a shadow campaign, mayor vincent gray tells bruce johnson he still plans to finish his term. we'll have the latest. top. >> well, blazing heat continues across the metro area. it's not that humid. we'll check live doppler 9,000 and tell you when the big storms will roll into the metro area. and on days like this, a reminder to never leave your child alone in a car can be a
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i'm out here in the circle to talk about the dangers of leaving children in a hot car. did you know that a child could die from heatstroke on a 72- degree day? on a day like this where temperatures are going to be closer to 100 degrees, the chances of an unintentional tragedy are considerable higher. joining us to talk more about this is kate, she's the president of safe kids. i know we have done stories about this year after year, tragedies where children are left in hot cars. how does this happen? >> there are three ways that this happens. one, driver, a parent can forget that they put the child in the car. their routine might be different and they forget. it's completely unintentional.
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second, a child can get into a car on their own. kids love to pretend they are driving. they get in and they get trapped. they can't get outside of the vehicle. and lastly is when someone intentionally leaves a child in a car. they might be running an errand thinking i just got the baby to sleep. and they are longer than they expect and the temperature is hotter than what they anticipate. >> earlier today, we took a thermometer. we put it in my car. it's been in there more than an hour. the temperature was 96.6. i'm going to check the temperature now. take this thermometer out. the temperature reads almost 148 degrees. heatstroke. that's a very significant possibility with temperatures like this. it's incredible. we have all opened the door when a car has been parked. we feel how hot that is. so for heatstroke for kids, if you left your child in that backseat in that car seat and the temperature is going up
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like this, 20 degrees in as little as ten minutes or more. that child has severe problems. their body temperature is going to go up at 104 degrees. their internal organs start to shut down and at 107 degrees, children die. there are three things we say you can do. avoid the situation by never leaving your child alone. create a reminder, put something in the backseat that you need at your final destination and three, take action. anyone can take action. if you and i were walking by a car, we would dial 911 immediately. and that's what we want you viewers to do. if you see a child alone in a car, call 911. emergency responders are trained to handle the situation. they'll send help and you can probably save a life as a child. >> and every second counts. >> kate karr, president of safe kids, thanks so much for coming by and we're going to have more on the look before you lock campaign and other resources from safe kids on our
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website, wusa9.com. back into the studio. actually, we are not in the studio. we are out here on the sweltering weather deck. >> boy, you really feel it. you feel the heat walk you the minute you walk out. >> it's not humid. it's the only silver line i have for you. after tomorrow, the heat breaks. >> that's the real silver line. >> i didn't finish what will happen with the heat breaking. we will start with a live look outside. usually it happens with severe storms. it probably will. we're looking at a live look at the white house. down to 99. dew point 60. relative humidity humidity 68%. that means what you see is what you get. it's 99. that's what it feels like. wouldn't take much to put it up higher. winds southwest at 7 and the pressure 29.83 inches of mercury and steady. there are showers to the west. back into west virginia, parts of ohio and kentucky. i think tonight they are going to stay to the west. i don't think they are going to get into garrett county. we'll keep the chance of an isolated storm tonight.
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but the real fireworks will begin tomorrow. tomorrow evening, and probably for the rest of the week. good chance for storms each evening. 99 in college park. 99 downtown. 100 in alexandria, 102 in springfield. 96 in fairfax. 101 in rockville and 97 in leesburg. you factor in the humidity, it stays 99 downtown. so again, pretty dry air mass. what you see is what you get. 103 in leesburg. feels like it's 97 in manassas and feels like it's 100 in culpeper and 102 up in baltimore. so i'm not saying it's cool, it could be worse. so, one more scorcher tomorrow. isolated thunderstorm tonight. triple digits possible again tomorrow. and then strong storms wednesday and strong storms again on thursday. so for tonight, early isolated storm possible, otherwise partly cloudy and muggy. 72 to 80. 80 is the low downtown. tomorrow morning, partly cloudy, hot by lunchtime. 74 to 94 and then by evening,
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well partly cloudy, hot again. scattered storms, some heavy, some severe, highs near 100 and winds out of the northwest at 10. the next weather alert code days, yellow, yellow, and yellow. for tomorrow, with the heat and thunderstorms, 99. for strong storms, it's going to be yellow and strong storms on friday code yellow. notice the temperatures go down. 92 on thursday. next seven days, i think on saturday, we are in pretty good shape. i'll keep a chance of a shower in. 90 on sunday. kind of spike up a little bit on monday into the mid 90s. maybe an isolated storm and back into the low 90s on tuesday with an isolated storm. it is tuesday. i have to look at this carefully. that's a scorched mountain. this is neighbor mountain in virginia and you can see where the brown is, where the fires were. a lot of that mountain was on fire two weeks ago and joann martin did a great job of sending this picture in.
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so the park remained open, but a ton of smoke out there. you want to submit something, go to our website and please include your name, location, and description. >> my only question is, how come my front lawn looks like that and there was no fire. >> your lawn will come back. i think. >> all right, the first couple's kiss during last night's team u.s.a. basketball game is getting a lot of talk today. how does it compare to other famous kisses in recent memory? >> up next, if you think d.c. parking meter fees are high now, just wait. why the price to park is about to go up in parts of town.
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through september. no, you don't get paid. get some exposure. auditions will be held until 7:00 tonight and some of the best tonight at 11:00. >> all right, get ready to pay more to park in the district. here's why. let me tell you about the plan. on most days, meters around national's park charge you $1 an hour. on game days, the prices jump to $8 an hour. $8. now, the program is expected to expand from south capital street to h street corridor, meters there would go from 75 cents to $2 an hour in the evening. start saving. northeast has gotten a makeover. today mayor vincent gray and other city leaders held a ribbon cutting ceremony. now the ceremony took place next to the neighborhood library. this project aimed to improve the look and the flow of this very busy road in northeast. >> lesli, the potomac nationals minor league baseball team is going to stay where it
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is. they made some plans for the washington nationals class a affiliate to build a new stadium at the new stone bridge. that is east of the i-95 at opits boulevard exit. the new stadium which would seat 7,000 people and a commuter lot paid for by the department of transportation, expected to be done by 2014. still ahead tonight on 9news. viral video of subway riders coming to the defense of a woman who says she was being groped. look at this. i'm danielle nottingham in washington. coming up, mitt romney pushes back against president obama's attack. >> this is bruce johnson. even the d.c. council members who are not calling on vincent gray to step down are convinced that he knew something about the shadow campaign. i'll have that story coming up. ?gw?qyjw
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new information tonight in the shadow campaign story that surrounds d.c. mayor, vincent gray. supporters of gray are planning a rally, more council members are calling on the mayor to come clean about what he knew about this shadow campaign. and our mayor gray is telling our bruce johnson that he still plans to fulfill his duties and stay on the job. is that likely, bruce? >> that is recently this afternoon, don't know. the mayor said so, but of course we aren't able to talk to prosecutors. they talk to us after they got an indictment or a plea bargain. mayor gray was keeping a full
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public schedule today, including this appearance in southeast where he was promoting small business development. he says it will mean more services than jobs in the city's poorest areas. >> i'm going to guess those residents feel they have more to lose than anybody else if you don't make it. are you going to make it? >> i'm here every day, bruce. >> mayor gray is fighting for his political survival and according to some, maybe his freedom. federal prosecutors complete their probe into a $650,000 campaign that was run off the books to help gray defeat adrian fenty. jeanie clark harris has taken a part in the case. and prosecutors want to talk to haw kin, the long time associate to gray who sourced his point to his field operations manager for the shadow campaign. >> are you concerned about what vernon hawkins might say to federal investigators? >> i have said that everybody should tell, you know, they should say whatever is on their
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mind. >> three d.c. council members called on gray to resign. nine others say they are willing to wait the outcome of the federal probe, but they feel the mayor could explain what he knew a lot sooner. >> i think the mayor has to explain himself. our city has been damaged. at this point, he has not been charged. i think he is in a pickle. >> today i talked with one of the council members who are not calling for vincent gray to step down. he is convinced if he is not charged, not only will he finish out this term, but he will seek reelection. >> when can people hear from you? >> i think we know there's an on going pending investigation. i said that so many times now and we want to let that continue. >> and you are confident you are going to be okay? you're going to survive this? >> i set out to serve four years and i am looking forward to serving four years. >> we should point out that
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the nine council members not calling on the mayor to step down, most, if not all of them say they think the mayor knew something. of course, they also add the question is, when did you know it? how much did you know, and lesli, what did he do about what he knew? >> he's going to get some support tomorrow. >> there's going to be a rally. some of the ministers, those that supported him and some other people. the mayor is not saying he had anything to do with calling this rally, but it's safe to say he didn't discourage it. >> we know you'll be all over this story. thanks. >> on the national stage, mitt romney working to get the upper hand on president obama. he launched a new line of attacks in a critical swing state. >> for days, the president has been hammering romney's business record and today was no different. danielle nottingham with the latest. >> mitt romney fired up supporters at a campaign stop outside pittsburgh. working to use the president's words against him. >> president obama attacked
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success and under president obama, we have less success and i will change that. >> romney ramped up his own attack, saying president obama funneled grants to alternative energy companies that belong to big democratic supporters and donors. >> that capitalism does not create jobs and does not create jobs here. >> romney is working to get back on the offensive after days of attacks from president obama on romney's business record. tuesday, the president traveled deep into gop territory. >> hello texas. >> to target some of the country's wealthiest donors and his latino and gay supporters. at a fund raising stop in san antonio, he again pointed to romney's time as ceo of bane capital. >> i don't want pioneers of outsourcing in the white house. i want somebody who believes in insourcing. let's bring those jobs back home. >> president argued that his
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opponent believes prosperity comes from the top down. >> i believe in fighting on behalf of working families and giving them opportunity. >> the obama campaign also followed romney to pennsylvania with a one-day tv ad. flaming the former governor's refusal to release more than two years of his personal tax returns. danielle nottingham, cbs news, washington. >> now at this point, even some republicans have been calling for the former massachusetts governor to release those tax returns, but romney says in compliance with the law and he'll put out his 2011 return when he gets the paperwork together. >> president obama and first lady, michelle, were caught on camera showing a little love last night. >> the obama's took in team u.s.a. men's basketball against brazil at the verison center. and they ended up on the kiss cam, not once, but twice. look at malia. the first time the president was camera shy, but he got another chance and the second
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time he puckered up and gave his wife a big kiss. >> and that got us to thinking some of the other celebrity kisses in recent memory. >> there are several to choose from. prince william and kate middleton's royal wedding balcony kiss last summer followed in the footsteps of prince charles and princess diana. >> and who could forget these famous kisses on mtv. michael jackson and presley and britney spears and madonna. >> then there's the mother of all political kisses. then presidential candidate, al gore, planted on his wife, tipper, during the 2000 presidential campaign. >> it was just awkward. >> that is weird. >> it was weird. okay, it may be the most anticipated new movie of the summer. the stars of the dark knight rises walk in the red carpet for last night's premier up in new york city. christian bail, as you have to know by now is back as batman
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for the final installment. and anne hathaway joins the cast as cat woman. >> i'm so proud to be, have taken any part in this film and the fact i have taken part in such an iconic role. i don't know what to say about it. very exciting. >> very nice to have been fortunate enough to have a beginning, middle, and end. we never assumed we would be lucky to make any more than one. >> the film picks up eight years after the dark knight movie a. new criminal has shown up. he is overwelming, forcing bat minnesota batman to come out. opens in theaters on friday. >> i want to see it, too. coming up, meow mr. mayor. find out how this feline ended up as the mayor of one alaskan town. a terrifying fall and a
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caught on tape, a new york bus driver catching a seven- year-old little girl who fell three stories from a building in brooklyn. check this out. his name is steven st. bernard. he was walking home and observed a commotion outside the building. this was on monday. a long video shows a little girl standing on top of the air conditioner. yelling get back inside, but she doesn't. went the wrong way, landing right in st. bernard's arms. >> i ran over there, hoping
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that you wouldn't fall and when i got to see you still standing there. i positioned myself. hopefully i would catch. >> i was really, really glad he did catch her. she had minor injuries and tore a tendon in his shoulder. that was no easy grab. >> wearing it like a badge of honor. home video of riders subduing a groper on the new york city subway has gone viral. this video was shot last week. a woman yelling about a groper on the train. that's when two riders came to her side. they wrestled the man to the ground and kept him there until the police arrived. and you can hear the people cheering as the 30-year-old bronx man is arrested. this video by the way has gotten over 500,000 hits on youtube. >> also caught on tape, dash cam video after police chasing a two-year-old. come on. the chase is in florida and hit speeds up to 90 miles per hour before the car slammed into the side of a bus.
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an officer got the toddler out of the car. he appeared okay. they took him to the hospital. the driver, as you can imagine, faces a whole lot of charges. now to the story of a bear that just can't stay away. >> you said it nicely. i call him the gangster bear. >> find its way back to the neighborhood after it was tranquilized and relocated. the bear was first spotted in a tree by a six-year-old boy. fish and game officers came out and tried to subdue him. it took darts to get the bear out of the tree. >> i surprised my grandma and my mom. my uncle sieve saw the tranquilizers, but he didn't look up and see the bear. >> he looked so tiny and cute up in the tree and then when he came down, he was huge. >> yup, and that bear is apparently no stranger to glendale. remember this video? that's the same bear caught back in april, caught by a news chopper scaring a man who was texting and walking in the same
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neighborhood. >> you shouldn't text and walk at the same time. >> now you know why. >> a bear might get you. the approval ratings for one mayor in alaska have never been higher, but it's not actually a person. it's a cat. the cat voted mayor of the town. write in candidate 15 years ago. the town is a historic district. his job is symbolic than functional. but still, he can be demanding. he only drinks water from a wine glass with catnip and takes long naps. >> only a cat would accept that name. power corrupt. still to come tonight, redskins training camp just nine days away. we'll hear from darrell green, his thoughts about the team this year. >> but first, what do green tea and gold have to do with stopping cancer? the surprising health alert is next. ♪
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gold dust to the cancer site. the treatment shrank tumors. the tiny size of the particles allow them to stay close to the tumors when they can be zapped by radiation. what may be a major first in the fight against alzheimer's. we have the details tonight. four patients who were given an experiment tall iv therapy have seen their disease stabilize. for at least three years. >> 71-year-old joist williams suffers from dementia. >> she would maybe forget things that she ordinarily would remember. and might have been confusion about things. >> the local resident took part in a small study where researchers gave her an antibody treatment. the result presented at the alzheimer's association international conference showed she and three other patients saw no decline in their memory, thinking skills or daily functioning. >> those that got the most effective dose and the initial
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study were effectively unchanged after three years. which is an unexpected and happier result. >> gama guard is given intervenously every two weeks. right now, this are no drugs approved to slow the progression of alzheimer's disease. gama guard is one of three antibody tests currently underway. >> if these three trials are successful, it will certainly change the course of future research and i think clinical practice. >> an estimated 5 million americans have alzheimer's and that number is expected to climb to 16 million by the year 2050. williams continues treatment even though she is no longer in the study. >> i don't expect her to revert back toward normal. but she is not gone downhill rapidly. >> experts say her case is encouraging. they won't know how effective the treatment really is until the result of a larger trial come out next year. >> now of course they are
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working on trials. gama guard comes from the blood of healthy young people. it is already used to treat immune system and blood disorders. tonight at 6:30, dr. john will speak to that local couple you just saw. dr. and mrs. sterling williams about their first-hand experience with this treatment. lesli. >> certainly seems encouraging. thank you. this should come as no surprise to anyone fortunate enough to live near a body of water. it's good for you. this according to a new study by researchers in england. they found that the closer you live to the sea, the healthier you are. generally more active and you have less stress in your life. >> cool, we could use pretty. >> can we do that? >> actually, not to go crazy over climate, but water is a factor in terms of climate. in the winter, it keeps you warmer and in the summer, it keeps you cooler. >> obviously we are not close enough to the water. >> no, we have to have our head in the water.
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no records, we hit 100. but no record highs at national or dulles. let's start with a live look outside. it is our live weather cam. except for the fact that 8 million degrees. 99 right now. dew point 60. that's nice, i'm telling you. relative humidity only 28%. we'll show you the heat index in a minute. and winds out of the southwest at about 10. so temperatures 99 downtown. 95 in gaithersburg. 99 up in frederick. looking at 97 in leesburg and also fredericksburg. you jump the divide. our friends in garrett county, only 82. let's take a temperature. we'll advance it. it is still 99. sot humidity is not adding any discomfort to our already hot air. feels like it's 102 in leesburg. 97 in manassas. feels like it's 100 in fredericksburg. now we're looking at the possibility of a little more humidity tomorrow and that's a heat advisory posted between 11:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m.
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one more scorcher. isolated storm tonight. i'm about to yank that. triple digits possible tomorrow. and strong storms wednesday and strong storms again on thursday. for tonight though, an early isolated thunderstorm. otherwise partly cloudy and muggy. low 72 to 80. we're talking 80 downtown. north and west of town, if you're lucky, low to mid 70s. winds out of the west at 10. by morning, partly cloudy and hot. 74 to 94. by lune itch time, low to mitt 90s. and really, we get into code orange, it's a good chance and good opportunity for everybody to car pool, refuel after dusk, and telecommute if you can. by afternoon, hot again, partly cloudy. highs near 100. scattered storms, some heavy and some severe. winds will turn out of the northwest at about 10. so we'll go ahead and break it down for you. it is darn right warm and 72 to
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80 by 6:00. and by evening, some storms crop up. 96 to 100. next three days, keep code yellow because of the heat and storms. so, 99 tomorrow. heat and storms. 92 on thursday. strong storms. 88 on friday. that's the good news. but strong storms again on friday. next seven days. the front should go south of us on friday. keep a slight chance of a shower south of town, but pretty nice. 90 on sunday. pretty nice weekend. we can deal with that. 97 on monday. afternoon storm hot and back to 91 with an afternoon storm on tuesday. not as hot. one more scorcher and we may end the week with fireworks. we'll keep you posted on that. >> thank you, top. the nation's capital is certainly hosted its fair share of big names in recent days. >> but none can match the star power at castle stadium for their charity classic. kristen berset is live with a hall of famer you might know. hi kristen.
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>> reporter: hey guys, yeah, it's their charity classic and joining me, a guy looking to run the table tonight. former redskin and hall of famer, darrell green. darryl, how good are your tennis skills? >> my tennis skills are good. do i look like i'm lying? >> yes. yes. very much so. you came ready to play when we first saw you. exciting event tonight. all the proceeds going to charity. why did you want to participate tonight? >> this is the second annual and you know, i don't know why we didn't do it in the transition period. but this is what mark is about. he has been about charity all along. this whole strategy. you know, they say jump for charity, i'm there. we will support families where they lost their loved ones in the military. d.c. education, public education fund. and we are going to support the
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strength for homeless. for me, i have been here my whole life. 30 years. this is what we do. this is what our community should be doing. >> they call you the ageless wonder, you're looking great. how are you staying in shape? ten years out of the nfl. how do you stay in great shape? >> thank you very much. i walk. walkfithealth.com. i monitor what i do and i do it with other people, walking, jogging. i mean really, i can't do it like i used to do, as you will see later. but i can walk. i feel good. you get your stress levels down, you lose your weight. you know, good heart rate, take care of yourself. it can be simple. hopefully folks will check me out and see how i do it. >> i got to ask you about the redskins. lots of buzz surrounding this year's team with rg3. what are your thoughts for this year's squad? >> i think i said last year
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during the season, i said this isridiculous. it was a joke. the last ten years has been a joke. and it's about time that they step up to the plate. i think that this is showing that they are serious about it. maybe they heard me say that. not. >> you got some motivation in them. >> to get rg3. he was one of the top two best athletes. that to me is serious and a will the of other good changes this year. so we have to see what happens. but in the meantime, you know, i'm going to try to play tennis and see if i can get my game on and in the fall, we'll see what happens. i think they will be better. >> well, we are looking forward to that with the redskins. we're looking forward. darryl is playing alongside some folks from the white house and politicians. so it's going to be an interesting match. some of the castles and head coach is going to be here. darryl, thanks so much. good luck tonight. >> come out and see us.
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>> guys, we'll send it back to you in the studio. >> thanks a lot, kristen. still ahead, fallout from a 9 wants to know investigation into bonuses at the gsa. then, a little later on, the debate over the future of the statue of joe paterno. that debate takes the sky. how they are helping with security during the olympics. i have all the details coming up.
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british lawmakers are grilling the chief of the security company that failed to recruit enough people for this summer's olympics. >> now, british authorities are getting help from the world's largest international police organization. >> there will be unprecedented security when the olympics get underway. the police organization will be keeping an eye out for trouble. >> the biggest threat people face is the possibility there's some unknown trained terrorists. >> based in france, the organization gathers intelligence for 190 member countries. police departments worldwide rely on data base of fingerprints, photos, and most wanted people. we were given a first-land look hand look. >> these people are compiling
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data bases on fugitives and terror suspects who shouldn't cross borders. they are also keeping track on lost passports. the staff monitors events. they work with police to prevent criminals from getting on airplanes. he says he'll work closely with british authorities to make sure they know who is out there. >> we have a major event support team that will help identify people who are nonnationals about who may not know anything. >> and armed with a wealth of information, authorities hope to keep the upper hand against anyone who tries to cause trouble. monica, cbs news, leon, frank. >> officials say 33 million passports are currently in their lost or stolen data base and authorities are making sure they have not fallen into the hands of terrorists. this is 9news now. >> today's stifling temperatures mean heat
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restrictions on local rail lines and a code yellow alert. let's get to topper. he's on the weather terrace and he's feeling the heat. >> good news, bad news. no record highs today, but we hit 100 degrees for the sixth time this summer. let's start with the official highs and the records. 102 was a record high downtown. and we only hit, we hit 100 today. 100 was the record in dulles. 101 at bwi. they just missed it. they topped out at 100. still toasty. that said, it is still 99 right now. 93 in gaithersburg. 97 in manassas. but watch this temperature. we're going to factor in the humidity. it has gone up to one degree. it feels like 100. the humidity is not adding that much discomfort. it is just plain hot across the board. tomorrow, heat advisory goes into effect from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. that means heat indexes tomorrow could be between 10
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