upper 90s in most spots. 97 in andrews. 97 downtown. better in gaithersburg, still 95 in hagertown and 95 in leesburg. now factor in the humidity. doesn't change it happens much. it feels like it's 98 downtown. 95 in gaithersburg and 97 in manassas. the good news, not crazy humid. the bad news, it's hot. tomorrow, heat advisory goes into effect from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. it covers the entire metro area. temperatures tomorrow will be around 100. and heat indexes could be between 105 and 109. although frankly, we'll stay just below that criteria. we'll come back. we have plenty of code yellows ahead and they are not all for heat. we'll explain why. >> you have it right. some kind of hot. so hot in fact, it's having an effect on the evening commute. speed restrictions and they run through tonight's rush hour. trains cannot go faster than 35 miles an hour on all of the aboveground tracks. that is to help the rail cars

stop in time in case they see a heat cink in the rails. riders expect longer trip times and some delays and the heat is not just slowing down metro. both mark and commuter trains are also operating under speed restrictions. a half million dollar shoe drop today in the wake of a 9 wants to know investigation. the general service administration announced it is cutting the bonuses for 85% of its high ranking officials. investigative reporter uncovered those bonuses in the aftermath of the gsa's infamous las vegas convention. >> our investigation shows the very gsa officials responsible for organizationing that las vegas conference. were among dozens of employees receiving $10,000 bonuses a piece. we uncovered the bonuses shortly after those videos with workers bragging about easy government money. with details of 2200 square

foot hotel rooms for gsa executives and an $823,000 las vegas conference run by a man now infamous for his champagne bathtub shots. he was awarded $9400 in bonus money after officials learned about the convention, but our freedom of information act shows he wasn't alone and it went on for years. received 33,880 in a bonus in 2009. 15,500 in 2010. and another $22,000 in 2009 followed by $10,000 in 2010. of the most recent bonuses, documents show 67 high ranking officials splitting more than a half million dollars in bonus money. almost all between $8,000 and $10,000 a piece. today's announcement would eliminate 85% of that. acting administration said quote, i believe that these immediate changes will help the agency achieve better clarity

about our compensation and hiring process as we continue to bring the maximum level of efficiency and effectiveness to the work we do every day. >> there are still a lot of bonus questions the gsa will not answer. our freedom of information act request identified those bonuses of $10,000 and up. the government payroll records don't record those bonuses at all. if not for that 9 wants to know freedom of information act request, those numbers may have never come out. i'm investigative reporter, 9news now. >> now, we go to the controversy over the lengthy power outages following the storm. a montgomery county council member now pushing for the maryland governor, martin o'malley, to fire the whole public service commission. at large councilman hans has started an online petition for his cause and in it, he says only the psc can change pepco and only the governor can change the psc. he admits this storm was the worse yet, but he points to

long outages during storms in past years and right after hurricane isabel in 2003. so far, more than 3100 people have signed on to that petition. so, it is gone from hammering pepco to calling for the heads of the regulators. is it all too much? shouldn't they get a break considering how much damage was caused by that rare and powerful storm a few weeks back? or was this latest outage just a straw that broke the camel's back? weigh in at mcginty's mail bag. the address is mailbag@wusa9.com. i look forward to hearing from you. no decision on whether maryland lawmakers will be coming back to annapolis for a special session on expanding gambling. the governor met with house speaker, michael bush and the senate president, mike miller this morning, trying to see if they could reach a consensus. right after, both bush and miller said they had more work to do. >> we need some elbow grease and hard work and we need some

elected officials to humble themselves and ask and find a way to make this happen. >> try to make an assessment. where people were in the middle of the summer and it came to no conclusion. >> the two main issues facing the lawmakers, adding table games and the new casino at national harbor. they face an august 20 deadline to come up with a proposal in order to get it on this year's november ballot. now o'malley did not speak after the morning meeting, but he did talk to reporters and he is quoted by the washington post as saying, i think we are making some progress. i think there's a strong opportunity to resolve this issue and to do it sooner rather than later. even as we speak, the loudoun county board of supervisors is holding a public meeting on the agenda, whether all types of holiday displays should be allowed outside the courthouse. the on going con contention issue goes on.

the more traditional displays, somebody put up a skeleton santa hanging on a cross. however, others have threatened to sue the county if it decides to allow traditional religious displays. >> now, we get to the race for the white house and the continuing bitter assault by the candidates. mitt romney spent his day launching a new line of attacks against president obama in a critical swing state while the song remain the same for the president hammering romney's business record. danielle nottingham with the blow by blow from the white house. >> mitt romney fired up supporters at a campaign stop outside pittsburgh. working the use of president's words against him. >> president obama attacks success and therefore under president obama, we have less success and i will change that. >> romney ramped up his own attack, telling the crowd president obama funneled federal grants and loan guarantees to alternative energy companies that belong to big democratic supporters and

donors. 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. the president argued that his opponent believes prosperity comes from the top down. >> i believe in fighting on behalf of working families and giving them opportunity. >> danielle nottingham, cbs news, washington. >> the obama campaign following romney up to pennsylvania with a one-day tv ad, slamming the former governor's refusal to release more than two years of his personal tax returns. an outburst of family violence sents a woman and her husband to the hospital after being shot by her son who turned her gun on himself. this went down early this morning. leaving the neighborhood in shock. >> i'm scott broom in waldorf

where a former high school librarian and her husband were shot and wounded by her own 33- year-old son. 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 unexplain belie wounding his mother, janice proctor wills and his stepfather. from the suspect's myspace page, this photo confirmed by friends as the family all together in happier times. >> really nice guy. >> neighbors said jeff wills is regarded as an outgoing truck mechanic who has a side business landscaping neighborhood properties. >> great person. great personality, wonderful family. never any trouble around here. >> the dead suspect, 33-year- old shay proctor called himself always real. but rarely showed himself outside of the home and didn't appear to have a steady jobs.

so tonight rings the gunman is dead and his mother and stepfather are both hospitalized with serious wounds. in waldorf, scott broom, 9news now. still to come, a man simply fed up with having a dead yard because of the drought goes extreme to bring back the green. but first, the fda reverses course and issues its first ban on the chemical used in dozens and dozens of bottles and food packages. ♪

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we are back with a health alert and the first government ban of a controversial chemical found in bottles and food packages. the fda announced baby bottles can no longer contain bpa. some studies have shown that the plastic hardening chemical could change the behavior of children under the age of 3 and animal tests linked it to greater risks of cancer. a 180-degree turn from march. back then, the agency said there wasn't enough evidence that the chemical caused any health concerns. chemical manufactures insist that bpa is safe. now, what may be a major breakthrough in helping those with alzheimer's. earlier results show that a new treatment could actually slow down the development of this disease. it is an antibody treatment. it's called gamguard. and it targets a protein that forms plaque on the brain.

through an iv every couple of weeks and researchers are out with results of a small study. four people who got the treatment saw no decline in memory, thinking skills, or daily functioning. >> those who got the most effective dose in the initial study were effectively unchanged after three years. which is an unexpected and happier result. >> so far, no fda approved drug slows the progression, but gamaguard is one of three antibody treatments being tested. those tests are on going. and may be months or years away. >> we got a week off, but the triple digit heat is back and the storms could be back as well by tomorrow. topper brings us all the details in a minute. but first. >> a major milestone means you might want to take a picture of these bright yellow and blue trusses. i'll have the story coming up.

the dulles rail project hit a major milestone today. the final piece of the concrete track bed was fit into place. peggy fox was there and shows us how you move a 40-ton piece of concrete. >> see that higher concrete segment on the right? it is slowly, very slowly being lowered into place. the process 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 can't be anything in the

track. >> it is the final piece of the concrete and steel track bed or guideway of phase one of the dulles project. >> all the way from the existing orange line to the station. >> the 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, precast concrete segments. each weighs up to 40-tons and was custom made on the grounds of dulles airport. >> it has been over active roadways 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 happened in the middle of the night. >> instead of using traditional cranes, which meant stopping traffic, they used 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 structure, i'll leave that to the individual. but for us, it's a beautiful thing today. >> peggy fox, 9news now. >> all right, the other big construction project in northern virginia, the 495 express lanes could create some big delays for you tonight. starting around 9:30, vdot will close down interstate 66 east. that's right at nuttily street, right outside the beltway. exit 62. crews will be installing an overhead sign for the express lane. drivers will have to detour on to the distributor road, all lanes on i-66 will reopen. >> head's up anybody heading out to frederick this week. do not be alarmed. if you hear something like gun shots. the city is using a bird gun, hopefully to scare off flocks

of birds. the gun doesn't have any bullets, but it does make a loud noise. they will fire the gun every night this week at sun down. and you will be hearing lots of big booms out at harper's ferry. they are putting on civil war  artillery demonstrations. it is to commemorate the seeds of 1862. visitors will see and hear the union artillery. demonstrations start at one saturday and sunday and about the 150th anniversary. the grass is always greener. that is if you have plenty of paint. take a look at this green lawn in indianapolis. except it's not, it's just paint. from a bucket and brush. you see, indianapolis placed restrictions on outdoor watering. so, tim decided, i'll just paint my law green rather than watch it turn brown. >> if it rains, the grass grows. at that point, you aren't going to have bad spots.

>> i think it's a great plan. i'm going to do it where the lawn is horrible. he works for a local painting company. the paint he chose is actually made for grass. it won't hurt the lawn anymore the drought has. the paint lasts three to six months. that is genius. genius. in a gallon bucket. >> no wonder he works for a paint company, his lines were straight, very neat job. >> he probably taped. >> and you're right, sometimes the golf courses use paint on some areas that go brown or heavy traffic. >> i did not know this. >> 100 years, your grass will come back. >> you keep saying that. october, perfect. let's have a live look outside. 100 was the high. we are still in the upper 90s. 97. that's why we say comers exercise in the morning and not now. humidity is not bad. low 60s. it's not bad for dew point.

humidity 31%. winds out of the southwest. pressure gone down a little bit. satellite picture, radar combined, we have some afternoon storms in the southeast. that's a good if thing for them. the frontal boundary there. this front will slowly sink down and take until friday to get south of us. that's going to become the focus of big thunderstorms for us both tomorrow and thursday and to some extent on friday. right now, i took an isolated shower out of the forecast. just don't see it happening tonight. even the mountains will be okay. 97 downtown. 91 in gaithersburg. 95 in manassas. 93 in leesburg. we'll factor in the humidity and it feels like it's 98 downtown. so, not crazy humid, but plenty hot. again, no records. no records today. one more scorcher tomorrow. isolated thunderstorm, i think it's just out of the question right now. triple digits tomorrow, that's possible, and strong storms on

wednesday and strong storms on thursday. look to be likely at this point. clear to partly cloudy, muggy tonight, 72 to 80. winds westerly at 10. if there were a shower, it would be in the mountains. partly cloudy, hot by lunchtime, 74 to 79. and winds out of the southwest at 10. by afternoon, hot. very hot. partly cloudy, scattered storms. some could be heavy, some could be severe. high temperatures near 100. winds northwest at 10. so, 9 weather alert codes go yellow, yellow, yellow. because of strong storms on thursday, 92. and because of strong storms on friday, 88 degrees. next seven days, front should stay south of us friday night. i got a slight chance of a shower, south of town, maybe between here and richmond. not bad temperature rise. upper 80s on saturday. around 90 on sunday. that's average. we spike up to the mid 90s on

monday and back to the low 90s on monday. >> we'll be right back. >> we want to hear what you think. send your e-mails to mcginty's mail bag. mailbag@wusa9.com. 9news now will be right back.

in the mail bag tonight, today marks one of the most

important and historic anniversaries anybody could ever imagine. 110 years ago, an engineer named willis carrier invented air-conditioning. the wusa9 facebook page was over heated with respect from dozens and grateful viewers who talk about where they like to keep their thermometer. 76, 77 during the day. 68 to 70 at night. in the winter, 70 or below. i have this theory that it keeps the germs at bay. okay, keep on telling yourself that. yours is far from being the coolest comment. check out this from diana. i really like the cool, so during the day, 65, 70. evening 58 to 65. but jeff trigger replied, 65? some of you must be rich. 77 during the day, 70 at night. you know what, jeff, i'm with the cool people. sometimes it's worth it to pay extra for a good night's sleep in a nice chilly bedroom. not everybody feels that way.

tim adams, for example, my significant other swears that the optimum sleeping temperature is 66 degrees, summer or winter, freezing. i hope your significant other doesn't mind you using a big comforter. that's our broadcast. we'll see you at 11:00 tonight. bye bye.

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