batman movie. >> i just talked to police officers. they say we may have a number of people dead inside the theater. >> reporter: aurora police refused to comment on report that the suspect, 24-year-old james holmes, had his hair painted red and called himself the joker. police said he was dressed head to toe in body armor and wore a gas mask during the attack. jennifer seager said the suspect pointed a gun directly at her face. >> i just jumped forward into the aisle and curled into a ball and waited for him to go up the stairs. >> reporter: holmes fired an assault rifle, shotgun and at least one handgun during the attack. some of those shots went through the walls into another theater. the man in a blood soaked shirt and a child in a batman costume were among hundreds who made it out alive. corbin dayton was sitting in the second row. >> i felt the cap from the bullet burn my leg. >> reporter: the university of colorado confirms holmes was dropping out of a graduate program in neuroscience. police found explosives in his car and his nearby apartment.

>> his apartment is booby trapped with various incendiary and chemical devices and apparent trip wires. >> reporter: the survivors include a 3-month-old baby. >> she got shot. when she got shot, it was just god watching over us. >> reporter: the suspect's family is cooperating with police and says their heart goes out to the victims. and colorado's governor called the rampage the work of "a very deranged mind." the suspect is due back in court monday. theresa garcia, back to you. >> police have no motive and say the suspect does not have terrorist ties, but president obama said the shooting still underscores how our time here is limited and it is precious. >> michelle and i will be fortunate enough to hug our girls a little tighter tonight and i'm sure you will do the same with your children, but for those parents who may not

be so lucky we have to embrace them and let them know we will be there for them as nation. >> there's not one of us that doesn't read or hear this story, certainly anyone who has children and think about it being your child in that movie theater. your cousin's child or your neighbor's child and that reality makes the pain and the grief too intense for words, but we can't let it keep us from our lives. >> u.s. movie theaters are reviewing their security procedures in the wake of this mass shooting. the head of the movie theater chain where the shootings happened is speaking out about the massacre. cinemark's ceo timothy warner said there's nothing his team could have done to prevent it. >> we haven't had any security incidents at this theater. obviously the person made a

well organized and has an assault weapon that would probably overpower any security that we would have had. i mean it's obviously a very deranged gunman that had access to very high powerful weapons. >> even so, movie theaters all over the place, especially around here, taking some action following in the steps -- or following those shootings in colorado. some are searching moviegoers' bags. others have extra cops stationed around outside. scott broom joins us live from the majestic theaters in silver spring with reaction from people actually going to the movies. scott. >> reporter: that's right. montgomery county police maintained a precautionary presence outside this theater through much of the day today. they just retreated. the movie theater has been showing dark knight rises of 15 minutes all day long and a lot of moviegoers i talked to said pulling it from theaters now would be the wrong thing to do.

>> batman wouldn't be scared of him, so i shouldn't be either. so it's the case of going on and keep doing your thing. >> reporter: donnie storms, a batman fan with a thoughtful view of the day. >> this is one of those things if you live your life in fear, the people who committed those acts have already won. >> reporter: montgomery county police were assigned to keep a precautionary eye out. >> kind of glad they're making sure people feel calm. >> it really helped me out knowing i can enjoy a movie and feel say. >> reporter: chief tom maker. >> we have no information of my threats. we're not concerned about what occurred out in colorado, but i think that the public does have some concern and so we want to address that by increasing the number of officers in the area. >> reporter: there was no sign today events in colorado slowed the steady traffic of fans coming to see the dark knight rises here in silver spring and warner brothers have no plans to suspend the screenings of the film nationwide which

netted a record $30 million from its midnight showings despite the tragedy. however, this trailer for the upcoming release of gangster squad has been pulled. ironically it features a shooting scene inside a crowded theater. >> it didn't have anything to do with the movie. >> i think people can make a distinction between fantasy and reality. >> reporter: here in silver spring theatergoers acknowledge tragedy but they aren't stopped by it. >> just coming out was kind of weird to see it, but in light of what happened yesterday i can understand why. >> reporter: in addition to montgomery county police outside theaters here, gallery place theaters downtown was checking bags today and amc theaters, a big nationwide chain, has just announced this afternoon that they will ban all costumes and masks nationwide for theatergoers coming to their theaters. reporting live in silver spring, scott broom, 9 news now. >> times, they are changing, thanks, scott.

we are hearing some horrifying accounts now of what happened inside that theater once the suspect opened fire. aurora resident jennifer seager says she was just sitting in front of the theater when she came face to face with the shooter. >> i was in the second row in the very front and he came into the right and i was the first person in the aisle and he came in and i honestly thought it was just a part of the show. i didn't honestly think he was a bad guy or anything. he just threw a can of smoke or something and he didn't say a word. he just threw it and it exploded and there was smoke everywhere. everybody just thought it was a prop and then at that point he shot a gun into the ceiling and then everybody knew it was real and they started panicking that the point and from straight from ceiling he took a gun and he pointed it straight to my face. he was literally 3 feet away from me. he was wearing a gas mask and he looked like he was from a s.w.a.t. team or something. i was terrified and didn't know what to do. so i jumped forward into the aisle and curled into bail and waited for him to go up -- a

ball and waited for him to go up the stairs. at that point me and my friends crawled in the aisle and tried to escape. all you hear is gunshots and people screaming and there's babies and moms there screaming their heads off. any time somebody would try to run, he would just shoot them, you know. they would try to escape and he would just shoot them and there was dead bodies everywhere. as i was trying to escape, i noticed that everybody was running back inside because he was shooting people trying to exit the exit as fares that goes. and so we were -- as far as that goes and so we were just trapped in there. eventually everybody got out and when i was trying to get out, i was coughing out that tear gas. my eyes were watering. i was terrified. there was a dead girl. she was like 14 years old and i was just terrified. i was like why her? i'm 22 years old. why did you spare me? she had her whole life ahead of her. it was the most tragic thing i've ever had happen to me in my whole life. >> another eyewitness described the shooter looking like "an

assassin ready to go to war." investigators say james holmes bought a ticket to the midnight showing of the latest batman movie and went in the theater as part of the crowd. he had an ar15 assault rifle, shot gun and two .40 caliber glock handguns. holmes is believed to have hurled a gas canister into the theater right before opening fire. tonight his family in california says their heart goes out to everyone involved. probably no one can understand the fear and terror of those people in colorado like the survivors of the virginia tech massacre five years ago. our peggy fox sat down with some of them. it had to bring back so much just palpable anxiety for them. >> i think many survivors of mass casualty situations feel a sense of guilt, survivors guilt, but not collin goddard, a victim of the virginia tech shooting, a survivor. he said he never felt guilt only lucky to have survived being shot four times, but he

lost many friends and the horrific shooting gave him a sense of purpose, to stop gun violence. sadly, he says, though, nothing much has changed in getting guns out of the hands of dangerous people. >> as long as guns are being sold in such a lackadaisical way without a concern for the greater good, people are going to get shot. >> reporter: collin goddard now works for the brady campaign after surviving the virginia tech shootings five years ago. he was hit multiple times by seung-hui cho who was armed by two semiautomatic handguns he legally purchased. the aurora suspect james holmes had four high powered weapons. >> these are high powered military weaponry we sell to the civilian population in america. because of that people can literally walk in and in seconds shoot tens, 20, 30 people. >> reporter: goddard says the general public shouldn't be able to buy weapons like that. since the virginia tech massacre some laws have changed to keep known mentally ill

people like cho from purchasing guns, but only if they're buying from a dealer. >> we don't even require people to go through a background check of time they buy a gun here. that's insane. people need to know about. that. >> reporter: in most state private gun sales including those at gun shows require no background checks. >> what upsets me is when people say now is not the time to talk about gun violence in america. now is not the time to talk about solutions for whatever reason and if now is not the time, when 12 people are dead, dozens more injured, the whole community being turned upside down, when is the time to talk about gun violence? when is the time to address this issue? when is the time our elected officials are actually going to do something for our public safety? if not now when? now is the time. >> goddard says there are several bills that would address those issues sitting in congress, but the support is not there to pass them. >> frustrating to say the least. thank you. so what would drive a doctoral candidate in neuroscience to carry out this

kind of horrific attack? dr. mary ellen o'toole is a former fbi profiler who has spent her entire career studying criminal minds. thank you for coming in tonight. let's get this out of the bag here. most people seem to think when this happens, somebody simply snaps, but we know that that is a myth and that as profilers and investigators delve deeper into this, that they're probably going to find a long chain of clues that somebody missed. >> absolutely. this is not the kind of behavior where someone just snaps. this is behavior which indicates great deal of planning that probably went back days, if not months, and the planning was very detailed and it's very analytical. it's just the opposite of someone who wakes up that morning and gets all the items that they need to carry out an assault like this, absolutely not. this shows some very comprehensive planning. >> just thinking about what police say he was wearing. they say he had a ballistic

helmet, a ballistic vest, ballistic legging, a groin protector, tactical gloves, a gas mask. does this suggest someone who really had given this some deep thought? >> it does suggest someone who has thought about it ahead of time. they pant sized about going in and -- fantasized about going in and killing a large number of people. he thought about where he was going to do it and it sounds from the current reports of this case that he may have even seen himself as playing a role, the role of similar to one of the characters in the movie playing that night. so this has a lot of implications just in terms of what he thought he was going to accomplish and who he was. basically he stole center stage last night from that movie and my sense is that was part of the motivation for him doing this in the first place. >> because he stood in line, sat down like everyone else. at some point he got up and came and enacted what we now know was a horrific attack.

he had an ar assault weapon. he had a shotgun. he had a .40 caliber glock. what does that tell you about him? >> that tells me that he came in with weapons that were extremely lethal and that combined with the planning tells me that this was someone who was very mission oriented. he came in with weapons that he knew would kill or the very least injure people. so he wanted maximum lethalness and he had a pool of people that were basically trapped in this room that couldn't go anywhere. so he had the ability to kill maximum number of people that he could and he had the weaponry to do it. >> a sad day for aurora, colorado, and for the country for sure. doctor, thank you for coming in and giving us some insight. >> you're very welcome. in the wake of the shootings warner brothers canceled tonight's paris premier of the dark knight rises. the film's stars and director were all expected to be there.

warner brothers issued a statement and they said both the company and the filmmakers are deeply saddened to learn about this shocking incident. for continuing coverage of the theater shootings including the latest and the place to leave condolences for the victims log onto our website www.wusa9.com. click on the check it out section. we'll be right back.

another round of summer storms brings another round of flooding. for the third time in eight days rhode island avenue near third street has flooded. >> residents have seen this before but never in such a short amount of time. our surae chinn is live in the bloomingdale neighborhood. >> reporter: some folks didn't even have a chance to clean up from wednesday's storm when another round ephraim came in through here last night. that's -- round of rain came in through here last night and that's the case with this family. you see the sandbags still out in the basement level, all the muck and sewage still in their basement and this is becoming a weekly occurrence and residents in the bloomingdale area of northwest d.c. are sick of it. youtube video shows rain and raw sewage bubbling up, the pressure knocked off the manhole cover. it's what happens when there's too much rain too fast in a century old storm drain system. >> the tub was rising. the toilet was rising while it was doing. that. >> reporter: we're talking

about raw sewage coming up. >> yes. it's really bad. >> reporter: in a nearby business the such pump in overdrive and can't handle the gushing water. >> this is all sewer. you can smell it, too. >> reporter: for the third time in a week the folks on rhode island avenue and seams place northwest have had to clean water and sewage out of their basement. last week we showed you pictures of people walking and driving in knee deep water. >> we've had these before with no flood. that's what we want to know, why now? >> reporter: that's what d.c. water crews are trying to figure out. they are actually walking underground to investigate. they're also cleaning out storm drains, but they're finding nothing unusual. >> three in eight days is certainly an alarm bell and we're fully deployed to try to figure out what the problem is. we have not identified it yet. >> i feel like we're in a third world country and this isn't the nation's capital. we have to figure this out. >> reporter: d.c. water is

handing out sandbags. one place at rfk, but also close by a couple blocks at second and bryant street northwest. d.c. water knows the urgency. they've been out here all day. the a man fix is 13 years away, $3.6 billion solution, put d.c. water is helping -- but d.c. water is helping and working with d.c. residents for drawer fidget i'll talk about that coming up at -- a temporary fix. i'll talk about that coming up at 6:00. >> the thing about it is this is severe weather alert day. that means there are probably moratoriums on the way. i guess that's bad news for the folks down in the bloom dale neighborhood. >> it doesn't look good -- bloomingdale neighborhood. >> it doesn't look good for them, especially later tonight. we are expecting some areas of flash flooding. in fact, we're under a flash flood watch for the entire d.c. metro area continuing until 11:00 tonight. this means we're expecting more storms and they could produce locally heavy rainfall and flash flooding could be a

possibility. live doppler 9000 hd, right now we're actually in between storms. we did see light rain and showers come through, but a lot of that has broken up. we're drying out a little bit here. a lot of this has moved off to the east and seeing areas of light rain in some spots, but i'm going to broaden this out to show you what we're watching. this line of storms here coming into western virginia, this is the next front we're watching that could bring us pretty good storms and rain. it may fall apart as it goes over the mountains. so it may not be severe, but we could see some strong storms come this way. here's a look at your live picture of the live weather cam brought to you by michael and son on a drizzly day, cloudy conditions, 77 degrees, still muggy, though, dew points in the lower 70s. the winds are picking up east, northeast around 16 miles per hour. right now temperatures, a lot of us holding in the 70s, 75 arlington, 74 bethesda, beltsville, davidsonville also at 74 degrees. temperaturewise we've lost a lot of heat. so temperatures continue to be

on the decline, again flash flood watch in effect until 11:00 tonight, more showers and storms arriving. i would say at maybe 9:00 or 10:00 or so. cooler and unsettled for saturday, but the warmth returns sunday for the end of your weekend. here's our futurecast. we can see more scattered showers and storms for tonight. tomorrow still a bit unsettled but not as wet. how much rain could we get? here's one rain potential model, maybe 1 to 2 inches by late tonight and early tomorrow morning. here's a look at your forecast tonight. cloudy, muggy, showers and storms, some strong, lows in the upper 60s, northeast winds 10 to 15 miles per hour. overnight lows 69 downtown, 66 leesburg, 70 in culpeper. tomorrow cloudy and muggy to start the day. there's a little moth going through. showers and storms possible, temperature starting out in the 60s and 70s and for the afternoon we'll be a little cooler with a shower or storm possible, highs 79 to 82 degrees.

your next three days, our 9 weather alert code is yellow tomorrow with the unsettled weather, high only 80. sunday 87, only a stray storm possible, monday 94, so the heat is back on. check out your next seven days. so only stray storms possible into tuesday, but we'll be hot by tuesday into around 93 degrees. we'll stay in the lower 90s for the rest of the workweek and only a chance for some stray storms by thursday and friday next week. so today keep posted to us and also our website www.wusa9.com. we'll let you know if any of those watches turn into warnings throughout the evening. back to you. >> thanks. still ahead the presidential candidates shift their focus from the campaign to talk about the deadly theater massacre in colorado. >> but up next the man accused of plotting to use remote controlled model planes to bomb the pentagon and u.s. capitol enters a plea. we'll be back. ?gw?qyjw

a maryland soldier has been killed by a roadside bomb in afghanistan. sergeant daniel rodriguez lived in baltimore. he was 29. rodriguez served with the new york-based 10th mountain

division. this was his second deployment to afghanistan. both rodriguez and another soldier from puerto rico were killed wednesday when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in ganzi. a man accused of plot being to blow up the pentagon and capitol using remote controlled model planes pleaded guilty today. rezwan ferdaus appeared in federal cot today. prosecutors say the 20 since- year-old -- court today. prosecutors say the 26-year-old massachusetts man is expected to get a 17 year sentence. new details are coming out about the man who blew up a bus filled with israeli tourists in bulgaria, this as funerals are held for the five people killed in the attack. investigators say the man tried to rent a car days before, but he was turned down because his id looked suspicious. authorities still haven't identified the man. the militant group hezbollah is being blamed for the attack. there is a new push on the

hill to enact a thanks suburban commuters in our area love to hate. republican darrell issa is calling for a hearing regarding the good old commuter tax. that means folks who work in d.c. but live outside of the city would have to pay taxes when they drive in. issa says the district is the only place in the country with the restriction against such a tax. the smithsonian's national museum of american indian here in washington is holding its annual living earth festival this weekend. live music and a cookoff between two native chefs among the highlights and a farmers market featuring native owned farms and a hands on activities on the third floor for the kids. coming up the deadly theater shooting in colorado has a lot of people upset. we'll have some advice how to calm your jittery nerves the next time you enter a dark theater. >> president obama and mitt romney take a time-out from the campaign trail to address the

colorado shooting massacre. i'm danielle nottingham at the white house with their reaction coming up.

we have breaking news, pepco has just won an $18 million raise from maryland regulators. you heard it, the order at about 5:15 tonight rejects $50 million of pepco's original request. the maryland public service commission specifically denied $8 million for costs related to

what it called pepco's past failures. police say a total of 71 people were shot in an a roar ra, colorado movie during -- in an aurora, colorado movie theater during the midnight showing of the dark knight rises. among the wounded two air force airmen and one navy sailor. another sailor is missing. officers arrested 24-year-old james holmes whose apartment 4 miles away was booby trapped. police say he was wearing body armor. he used an assault rifle, shotgun and a glock handgun in the attack. investigators say they're confident he acted alone. the shooting spree in colorado forced president obama and republican challenger mitt romney off the campaign trail of sorts today. >> but both were using their already scheduled events to express condolences to the victims. danielle nottingham with more from the white house. >> reporter: president obama took the stage in ft. myers, florida, to talk about the deadly shooting spree in colorado instead of the campaign.

>> there are going to be other days for politics. this i think is a day for prayer and reflection. >> reporter: the president asked the crowd to join him in a moment of silence. >> michelle and i will be fortunate enough to hug our girls a little tighter tonight and i'm sure you will do the same with your children, but for those parents who may not be so lucky we have to embrace them and let them know we will be there for them as a nation. >> reporter: both the president and mitt romney's campaigns ask colorado tv stations to pull their negative ads out of respect for the shooting victims. mitt romney canceled his new hampshire campaign event and spoke to supporters about the shooting. >> ann and i join the president and first lady and all americans in offering our deepest condolences for those whose lives were shattered in a few moments. >> reporter: congressman mike coffman lived near the movie theater where the shooting

happened. >> my community won't be the same after this in aurora, colorado, and i don't think america will be the same. >> reporter: new york city mayor michael bloomberg challenged both presidential candidates to show leadership on gun violence. >> it's time i think that we hole them accountable and say okay -- hold them accountable and say okay, you want our votes. what are you going to do? >> reporter: flags were lowered at the white house and u.s. capitol to honor the victims. danielle nottingham, the white house. >> the president signed a proclamation-oing the victims of the tragedy in aurora, colorado, and he ordered all u.s. flags to be flown at half staff from now until sunset next wednesday. ben fernandez heard the alarms go off in the theater next-door to where the shootings took place. he and his girl friend opened the exit doors and saw police yelling and telling people to get out. >> this is a scary situation. i mean i have a son and, you

know, she's just a young girl just like the first thing we see when we come out of the movie theater is this very eye opening i guess you could say. i don't know. it was scary. a young girl just with bullet wounds in her leg and blood all over her. i don't ever want to see something like that again. >> police say there were four showings of the movie at the time of the shootings and all of they were sold out. after a chilling account like that we've heard about how to talk to your kids about the shootings and about the fear people of all ages may have the next time they go to the movies. join us to talk about ways to handle the situation is dr. william lawson, professor and chairman of the psychiatry department at howard university. thank you for being here. when we picture a movie theater, we go in, we're closed in, it is dark. even that in some cases can be anxiety producing for people. after something like this how

do we allay fears we may have the next time? >> we have to remember these kind of events are isolated incidents. this is explained to our young people and others this is pretty much being struck by lightning. bad things happen to us. i think this is an excellent opportunity for parents to help kids to understand that we try to protect them and take care of them, but unfortunately bad things do happen that none of us can control very well at all. >> so they're isolated. that's a good message for kids. how do we explain to them the why, the why would someone do this? as a parent, what do i say to my child? >> that sometimes people do things because they for want of a better word are evil. we can also say people do it because they have mental problems, they have physical problems. there are other factors. the important thing is we don't want to rush to judgment until all the facts are in and that sometimes people do things that don't make sense to us because we don't have the facts, we don't know what's going on and

that sometimes it's futile to try to figure out exactly what's going on. the important thing to recognize is that they themselves are not the cause of that person's behavior. sometimes we are truly innocent victims. >> we are. now as an adult if i'm starting to feel anxious about this, are there any ways i can allay some of that for myself if i've already had maybe issues in closed in spaces and things like that? >> one of the important things is to recognize if this is a persistent problem, there are various kinds of therapeutic techniques, otherwise just beginning to relax, take it easy, to avoid those situations as far as you can is a useful technique. ironically if you have chronic problems like this, exposing yourself to these kinds of traumatic experiences can be potentially therapeutic if done under supervision. >> exposure therapy and final message for our kid, an isolate the incident and sometimes these thing just happen. >> these things just happen and the important thing to recognize is that because they

are so rare and so uncommon, much of that time kid can feel protected and secure. >> dr. lawson, thank you. back to you guys. well, with just a week until the start of the summer olympics british security is on high alert and they are already being tested. >> but up next dramatic video of a woman being attacked right outside a shopping center. >> don't forget we are always on at wusa9.com. we'll be right back.

a violent purse snatching was caught on tape. surveillance video from a shopping center in the lost on suburb of king -- houston suburb of kingwood tuesday night shows a man grab a woman's purse, throw her down and take off. gabriella andrews was left with bruises. >> it was so quick i don't have time for anything else, just the cell phone flew away. i just grabbed my phone and i remember telling my friend i'll call you later and then i called the police. >> the attacker took her wallet and passport. another woman who happened to

be snapping a photo of her daughter took this picture of the suspect and police are still looking for him. >> hope they get him soon. in louisville, ohio, police dashcam very captured the moment a stranded car is struck by train. >> officers tried to caught railroad company to alert them that hey, there's a car on the track, too late. police say the driver who was unfamiliar with the town had driven there to pick up a friend who had been arrested for drunken driving. ironically police say he was drunk, do and he thought the tracks were a road, too and he thought the tracks were a road. now both men face dwi charges not to mention they need to buy a new car. now watch a leisurely drive in warwick, rhode island, change in an instant. a car is swallowed up by a falling tree during the storm. a passer-by helped the driver out of his crushed vehicle. he walked away unharmed. the car was totaled. luis cachone said he never saw

the tree coming. still ahead honoring some of the campus correspondents in our high school sports program. >> but first a test of security ahead of the olympics, a look at the man who tried to grab the torch is next.

the opening ceremonies for this summer's olympic games just one week away. >> it happened so fast. as we hear the report, tonight british security forces are on high alert. >> reporter: the olympic torch made a dramatic arrival at the tower of london. a royal marine repelled into the stonewall of the historic landmark. the torch will spend the night in a bowl with the queen's crowned jewels and this year's olympic medals. the latest test of olympic security drew as the torch came closer to the capitol. a man tried to capture the

torch. thousands of extra british soldiers were called in to help police the games after a private security firm couldn't draft enough guards. some of the troops will be stationed at these checkpoints here at the olympic village, but the military presence has been controversial. >> obviously not ideal because it was supposed to be the security guards, the private company doing it. so it is a bit of a shambles, but it's been sold. so as long as it's secure. >> reporter: there's another olympic hurdle. border agents at britain's airports are threatening to walk off the job the day before opening ceremonies. >> frankly, i think the union leaders calling for these strikes should be ashamed of themselves and i would call on all staff to think about what this event is about. >> reporter: some spectators have come out a week early to soak up the olympic spirit. >> i'm not worried about anything. i'm just enjoying anything that goes on during the olympics. i'll be happy. >> reporter: many fans hope the sun will come out soon. bikini clad volleyball stars have been told they can cover

up with leggings and tops if it gets too cold. cbs news, london. mayor boris johnson encouraged londoners to stop moaning about the games and just enjoy the olympics. you know that statue of albert einstein along constitution avenue? it could have used a little bit of security itself this week because it was yarn bombed. wow. the blog dc-ist reports it happened sometime last night. somebody covered the whole bronze statue outside the national academy of sciences in bright pink, purple teal and black yarn. the artist pretty much claimed responsibility in a tweet. while einstein himself might have been mused, the national academy apparently not so much. they cut the yarn down by the afternoon. >> it's actually quite intricate if you look at it. >> it's not that bad looking, but i guess they have no sense of fun.

>> i wonder how much yarn they actually used. >> how could they do it so fast? >> mystery. >> not sure that yarn would have held up too well with all the rain we've been having. anny is in for shopper on what is actually a severe weather alert day. >> looks like we'll see more rain and showers come through later tonight. some of those storms could produce heavy down power. it looks like we -- downpour is. looks like we could see some flooding in -- downpour. it looks like we could see some flooding tonight. we have an alert until 11:00 tonight for the entire d.c. area. live doppler 9000 hd, not a lot of rain but spots in areas of thunderstorms popping up toward the northwest of us in winchester and also martinsburg and has one that just went through charlestown. we're watching these storms. could they be strong or severe? well, i think they could be strong. the severe, i don't think so because we didn't get as hot today. that's going to help us. here's a look at radar.

you can see we just see isolated areas of light rain right now and if we zoom in closer, we saw a lot of it go off to the east and now maybe fairfax and just south of aldie you're looking at a little bit of rain. i'm going to widen this out. you can see right around the d.c. metro area we're kind of in a lull, but it's these storms and showers we're watching that could bring us more rain and also cause flooding later tonight. here's a live look at your live weather cam brought to you by michael and son, kind of a misty day, cloudy skies, temperatures 77, still muggy, though, dew point in the lower 70s. right now 74 degrees in gaithersburg, 73 leesburg, south made it into the lower 80s, but we aren't talking crazy hoot. so we'll see the temperatures continue to -- heat. so we'll see the temperatures continue to decline. flash flood watch continues until 11:00 tonight, more showers and storms arriving. cooler and unis thed saturday heading into the weekend -- unsettled saturday heading into

the weekend and the warmth returns sunday. check out your 9 futurecast, scattered showers and storms tomorrow night, sunday more unsettled but not as wet. how much rain could we get? maybe 1 to 2 inches around the beltway. flooding is a concern, maybe leesburg just over an inch. for tonight cloudy, muggy, with showers and storms. some could be strong, lows in the upper 60s. around downtown 69 is the low, mid-60s for leesburg and gaithersburg. frederick around 65 degrees. tomorrow morning for your weekend as we kick it off, cloudy, muggy, a shower or storm possible, temperatures starting in the 60s and 70s with winds out of the north 10 to 15. for the afternoon still mostly cloudy, cooler, shower or storm possible, highs 79 to 82 degrees. so it's not going to be actually several degrees below average. our neck three days our 9 weather -- next three days our

9 weather alert code tomorrow yellow, sunday green and monday green 94 with the chance of an isolated storm. your next seven days, the nats play this weekend. we heat things up by monday and tuesday, near mid-9s monday with a stray storm possible through tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday, in the lower 90s. so it looks like on again tonight we should watch for the possibility of some storms that could produce locally heavy rainfall. stick with us at www.wusa9.com for more updates. back to you. all year long wusa9 honors the athletic achievements of student athletes. >> this week we pay tribute to the work done behind the screens. >> and dave owens is here with that story. >> we called him our campus corps -- them our campus correspondents, high school students who want to pursue a career in journalism. each semester we receive a lot of applications to help us out and as kristen berset explains,

two stood out. >> reporter: meet nikolai roster and lindsay webb, our latest campus correspondents awarded toyota's moving forward scholarships. >> i really didn't know what to expect going into it. >> reporter: they cooed their high school teams the -- covered their high school teams the past two seasons. >> first i thought journalism was about sneaking and getting a story here and there, but you can't do that on your own. you need people. you need the athletics department. you need family. >> reporter: both correspondents were honored this past tuesday for their hard work. lindsay of presented with a check for 3 -- was presented with a check for $3,000. >> it really was a great experience and helped me develop my skills as a journalist. i think i learned a lot through it. >> reporter: nikolai was 5,000. >> i was like i can't believe it's happening. >> reporter: but tammy from toyota had a surprise up her sleeve. >> i brought you a check from our company in the amount of

$500 for each of you. >> reporter: over the past two years toyota has given a total of $38,000 to local high schoolers to pursue their collegiate dreams. >> any time there's some kind of message that we can recognize particularly teenagers for, i think that that's great. >> reporter: now lindsay heads to south carolina and nikolai to american university with a little extra cash in their pocket and a bright future ahead of them. kristen berset, 9 sports now. >> good for them. don't forget if you want to be part of the 9 sports campus correspondent program, you can log onto our website at www.wusa9.com. coming up some local eateries shut down, the health code again, our weekly restaurant report still ahead. >> then later even before today's shooting at a colorado movie theater a local police department has taken steps to plan for a similar large scale disaster at a school. >> but first two cable company finally make it a deal.

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it seems directv subscribers will now get their mtv back. the satellite tv provider has settled its 10-day dispute with viacom over the cost to carry 17 of the network's channels. the companies did not disclose the terms of the new deal, but

it will give those directv customers the ability to watch viacom shows on other tab healths, other mobile devices using the company -- tablets, other mobile devices using the company's everywhere platform. 15,000 children's beach chairs are being recalled. the sharp metal rivets can cut a child sold nationwide at home goods and other stores. the folding aluminum chairs come in a variety of colors. return it for a full refund. the price to fly on united airlines is going up just a bit. the air carrier announced today it will raise its fares between 4 and $10 per round trip on all u.s. flights. pets say united might have to roll back -- experts say united might have to roll back that increase if the other airlines don't follow that lead in the next few days. if you've had chinese in the shaw neighborhood recently and wonder glass of that take- out, you're not a -- wondered what was in that take-out,

you're not alone. investigative reporter russ ptacek is tracking food dangers in this week's restaurant report. >> reporter: one of the most awkward parts of my job is telling customers who have just ordered what inspectors found inside. by the time we told customers at chien dragon chinese carry -- china dragon chinese carryout they had already ordered. >> today i got shrimp with broccoli. >> reporter: how is the food here? >> whatly today was good. >> reporter: any worries today -- what i had today was good. >> reporter: any worries today? >> your presence. >> reporter: on friday the 13th inspectors found insects and gross unsanitary conditions that may endanger public health. workers handed me a phone with the manager on the line. this is the second time you've been closed, so i'm trying to understand what's going on here? he declined an interview.

in the carryout's other closure last october inspectors cited workers blowing their nose or coughing and no one washing their hands, food at unsafe temperatures and a sewage backup. prince george's county reports three closures including family dollar on barnamu suv road in oxon hill for a rodent -- barnamus road in oxon hill for a rodent infestation. the chinese carry-out and family dollar passed reinspection and reopened. if you know about headlight risks, government corruption or -- health risks, government corruption or waste, 9 wants to know. >> if you want to know what restaurants are shut down for what violation first, you can follow russ ptacek on twitter or facebook. this is 9 news now. >> we've taken a blow today. but we will get back on our feet and we will move ahead.

>> that's the mayor of aurora, colorado, looking forward as the investigation into this morning's deadly movie theater shooting starts to really take shape. here's what we do know. 12 people are dead, 59 injured after the shooting started around 12:30 this morning local time. tonight james holmes is under arrest and police say it may take several days before they can actually get into his apartment because he apparently rigged up several chemical and incendiary devices wired together on the inside. however, they are confident the 24-year-old acted alone. >> everyone was running in chaos and everything and he just casually just walks up away from the screen like nothing happened. >> reporter: chaos is the word we've heard most from people who were inside that midnight showing of the dark knight rises and the 911 calls paint a picture as to why. >> i got people running out of the theater that are shot. >> we need rescue inside the auditorium, multiple victims. >> i got seven down in th