an assault vest, pouches to hold ammunition, and a knife. the company said it is shocked and appalled hole him may have used some of their gear in the massacre. >> police are investigating several other packages that were shipped to james holmes' home and the university of colorado where hole him was a graduate student. the colorado shooting has reignited the gun control debate. members of jesse jackson's rainbow push collision were at magic johnson's theater. they are calling for lawmakers to be proactive to prevent the next massacre which includes reinstating the country's ban on assault weapons. >> weapons are intended for mass destruction. there is no need for an assault weapon to be in the hands of your everyday citizen. >> the ban on assault weapons expired eight years ago. new york mayor michael bloomberg says president owe bam in and mitt romney need to

end their carefully guarded silence on gun control. it is 4:31. here are some of the other stories making news now this morning. harsh punishments for penn state. the ncaa will announce corrective and punitive measures against the university at a 9:00 a.m. news conference today all in connection with the jerry sandusky child abuse sex case. the university will be spared the so-called death penalty which means it will not be suspended for a year or more, the football program won't. penn state could be on probation, a loss of football scholarships banning post- season bowl games a hefty finest mated between $340 million to $-- $30 million to $60 million. the onpaterno statue was removed yesterday morning. the university president said the structure if it remained would be a recurring wound for anyone who is a victim of child abuse. some students say the statue was taken down too soon, however. >> they're just making

everybody upset by doing this. i mean, what's it really doing for the college or for ncaa? >> i think it will help out a little bit but it's sad getting rid of memories. >> paterno's family has objected to the move saying tearing down the statue of joe paterno does not serve the victims of jerry sandusky's horrible crimes or help penn state heal. local reaction to the removal of the statue was missed. >> he was an old man. in his mind, this thing wasn't even a reasonable thought, a child being molested by a friend of his. >> if you know something, you have to do something, okay. that's my opinion. should the statue have come down? absolutely. >> reporter: what about the library? the name on the library? >> well, yes, i believe so. ultimately the buck stops with him. >> certainly football revenue pays for a lot of other programs. it will impact more than just a football team. it will impact all the other

sports on campus basically. a lot of them don't generate any revenue or any profit off of what they do. they're dependent on the football program. >> reporter: any remorse for the kids who are play something. >> yeah. obviously they're a victim as well, right? they're impacted by what happened at the university many years before they arrived. >> white house press secretary jay carney says president obama believes removing the paterno statue was the right thing to do. paterno's name is still going to remain on the campus library. he has donated several million dollars of his own to get it built. two officers have been placed on leave in anaheim, california after a deadly police shooting there. yesterday protesters burst into the anaheim police station during a news conference being held by the chief of police. he says a 24-year-old unarmed manual was shot after a foot chase. what led one of the officers to shoot the suspect is still under investigation. that didn't sit well with some

citizens. they threw rocks and bottles at police. officers fired rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd. a pickup truck crash in south texas killed 11 people and injured 12 others. investigators say the driver of the truck ran off the road and crashed into two large trees. they say all 23 victims, including children were in this one vehicle. more information is coming to light about the 2010 campaign of d.c. mayor vincent gray. according to "the washington post," the gray campaign obtained a database with names of nearly 6,000 public housing residents. it targeted in get out the vote efforts. the post says the database appears to be an unare a rised use of private -- unauthor rised use of private information. gray said it wasn't needed because of already published contacts in the community. meanwhile 9news has learned that mayor gray is meeting privately with the leaders of

ward 5 democrats. ward 5 has a health of middle class african-american voters and chairman of ward 5 confirms the councilman will be at this meeting. a majority of d.c. voters feel mayor gray should step down because of a shadow campaign that spent more than $650,000 to help get him elected. at least three people were hurt after a portion of a deck at a loudoun county home collapsed. a spokesman for loudoun county fire said this collapse happened around 4:40 yesterday afternoon on loyalty road. about two dozen people were on the deck at the time. he says none of the injuries appear to be life-threatening. 4:35 now. prince george's county police department needs your help. they're trying to find leander cooper, 573-year-old man last seen around 7:00 yesterday morning when he dropped his wife off at the washington hospital center. cooper suffers from dementia

and has high blood pressure. he was driving a 2006 chevy trailblazer with maryland tags 725m494. if you have any information, please call the prince george's county police. 301-749-5064. more teens are saying no to getting behind the wheel. coming up, why that could mean bad news for automakers. >> at 5:57, customers at a mall come face to face with a bear. >> that doesn't happen all that much. howard bernstein is back. he has your monday morning forecast coming back in just two minutes. keep it here.

it is 4:38. we have a bit of drizzle out

there. warmer today. highs expected into the low 90s. a threat of an afternoon storm or to. i'll be back with the seven-day forecast and we have more heat to discuss. right now here's monika with your timesaver traffic. howard in clinton, you'll find lanes closed with an accident investigation and cleanup. here on the outer loop at new hampshire avenue, traffic moving well into silver spring. more on traffic coming up once again at 4:49. >> thank you, monika. more on our top story this morning. in a few hours the suspect in the colorado theater shootings will make his first appearance in court. >> 24-year-old james holmes is going to be arraigned on charges of murdering 12 people and wounding more than 60 more. police believe he had planned these shootings for months. manuel gallegus reports. >> reporter: amid the chaos in the moments following the shooting, 24-year-old james eagan holmes almost got away. wearing tactical gear he slipped out of the theater and looked like any other s.w.a.t. team member on the scene except for one mistake.

>> there was one particular piece of equipment he had on him that was out of place. i'm so proud of my officers that they spotted that right away and challenged him. >> reporter: authorities were able to clear out all of the explosives in holmes' apartment, including 30 homemade grenades designed to kill whoever walked in and triggered a trip wire. among the evidence found inside, a batman mask. >> we're building a case to show that this was deliberative process by a very intelligent man who wanted to do this. >> reporter: president obama spent several hours here on sunday in a private meeting with the families of the victims. he says he told them he wasn't here so much as president but as a father and a husband. >> we can all understand what it would be to have somebody that we love taken from us in this fashion. >> reporter: sunday night thousands gathered in aurora to mourn. the shooting had shaken this community. >> we'll pull together.

>> reporter: governor john hickenlooper read the name of each of the victims and the crowd yelled back. but there was one name he didn't read. that of the alleged shooter. >> and i refuse to say his name. >> reporter: the people of aurora are trying to let go of the pain. holmes is in solitary confinement in jail. police say it's for his protection. the time right now is 4:41 on this monday morning. i am watching your phone. wall street is going to keep its eyes on earnings this week. among the biggies, we've got apple out with results on tuesday. facebook reports its first quarterly earnings as a public company. that happens on thursday. we're also going to get earnings news from amazon that day. traders looking ahead to new home sales, home prices, durable goods orders and consumer sentiment it is chock- a-block this week.

checking the numbers, the dow stands at 12,822, slid 121 points in trading on friday. ugly day all around. nasdaq down by about 41 points or a loss of almost 1.4% on the day. nasdaq was down by 14 points. an interest rate riggings scandal could lead to arrests. sources close to investigation say u.s. prosecutors and european regulators are close to filing criminal charges against individual traders who allegedly manipulated global interest rates. last month's britain barkley bank admitted to submitting false information to hold down the london rate. it agreed to pay $453 million final. a treasury department report says the process for setting a key global interest rate is flawed and poses a risk to the stability of financial markets all around the world. d.c. area drivers are seeing higher prices at the pump for the third week in a row. aaa mid-atlantic says the average price for a gallon of

regular gas in the d.c. area is $3.48 this week compared to $3.41 last week. drivers still paying less than they did a year ago this time. that's when gas was costing about $3.73 a gallon. the price of gas in the region is a penny less than the national average. fewer teens are interested in getting a driver's license. that's bad news for automakers marketing their cars to younger drivers. according to a study conducted by the university of michigan's transportation research institute, the percentage of 19- yards if the u.s. who have -- 19-year-olds in the u.s. who have their licenses actually dropped just over 87% in 1983 to about 70% in 2010. researchers say virtual contact online reduces the need for actual physical contact so they're not driving to see their friends. they also say the rough economic times makes it difficult for younger people to buy and maintain cars. the number of people 70 and

older who have a license has increased. >> when i was 16, i would have had jobs to get a car. i would have figured out any way. >> facebook, you know, they just facebook their friends. i don't know. >> never would have imagined that. still ahead, this week thousands of people will be in d.c. trying to wage war against the aids epidemic. >> what it means if your child has trouble throwing a ball when 9news now this morning continues. we'll have more on that story.

4:46. if you're just waking up, we're glad you're joining us. look who's back. howard bernstein. pictures on facebook. cruised to baltimore. much more convenient than flying. >> what was the highlight? >> just being somewhere new, seeing new stuff. it was all very cool. >> the food is great on the cruise ship they say. how was it?

>> it was quantity over quality. it was g. i don't know about great but it was good. just a lot of it. >> chocolate fountains? >> there's a ben & jerry's on board. let's get you moving. we have a couple of sprinkles. a little on the muggy side, too. the muggies are here with the high humidity and some sprinkles. bad hair day. monika, i can hear her screaming in the back already. we have temperatures which are going to be warmer than they had been. had an usually cool weekend. if we get enough sun, we'll be in the low 90s. a couple of sprinkles early and a couple of thunderstorms early this afternoon with winds out of the southwest for the most part at 5 to 10 miles per hour. want to show you the big picture. we've got some showers and clouds across areas, especially west virginia and ohio. see how the stuff is moving towards charlottesville and i- 64. locally maybe tougher to see. we've got some sprinkles here. on live doppler 9000hd from montgomery county into howard county especially, look at the stuff moving east from

clarksville. this is approaching the area where 32 and 29 come together. also toward 95, 295. this will be coming across jessup, laurel, up toward columbia and clarksville. you'll watch out for that temperatures this morning, they're certainly muggy. the low to mid-70s with high humidity everywhere. some 60s, though, out in western maryland. in cumberland 60 and oakland 64. looking outside, that's the capitol behind just a wet lens on the camera. 75 degrees on our michael & son weather camera. 75 at a south wind at 6. only two degrees shy of the temperature. relative humidity way up there at 94%. nationally probably heard about the heat going on in the midwest. once again very hot from nebraska through kansas city, st. louis, chicago, even detroit today will be 102 degrees. we'll have to watch this heat because little pieces of it are going to break off and move east the next couple of days. here's that ridge of high pressure once again in the middle of the country.

storms forced to go up and over the ridge through south dakota and minnesota and iowa. then in the southeast, we've got some scattered showers and storms. got some pretty bad drought conditions across areas in south central georgia. so hopefully we can squeeze out some rain for them. and for us the ridge still west with that northwesterly flow giving us the threat for a few showers and storms. here we are through midday. still looks pretty quiet. then this afternoon some showers and storms develop. 5:00 you'll notice them around harrisburg, maybe back toward frederick, in toward winchester coming through early this evening. overnight, i stopped this at 4:00 a.m. isolated showers overnight. quieter in the morning. midday tuesday got another batch of showers and storms in southwest pennsylvania. looks like it will be visiting us for the mid to latter parts of the afternoon here on tuesday before clearing out tuesday night and then wednesday looks fine. in fact, wednesday looks like we'll drop just a few degrees. as we look at the forecast for the next three days, got the yellow alerts for the afternoon

storms today and tomorrow. 93 today. 94 tomorrow. wednesday a good day. green with 89. so wednesday is probably going to be the pick of the week because by thursday, remember the heat in the middle of the country. that's going to shoot in here, 98. chance of some afternoon thunder. mid-90s on friday. chance of some afternoon thunder. a few storms saturday 91. sunday right now looks dry with a high around 89. it is 4:49. monika samtani stepping in with timesaver traffic and a smile. yes, and a smile. even though it's monday and it's muggy, we have to start off our week with a smile. if you plan on heading over to clinton southbound route 5 the accident investigation and cleanup has been finished and everything is reopened southbound on route 5. let's take you over to our maps. on the southbound side and northbound side of i-95 actually, no problems coming in from dale city to woodbridge into springfield. your lanes are open. we'll take a live look in springfield on the northbound side of i-95.

things are looking great, although monday morning you've already got all of this volume leaving route 644 to the beltway and 395 things look great to the 14th street bridge. let's go back over to our maps this time all the way north to the southbound side of 270. no problems as you head in from frederick to clarksburg and the point where the lanes divide. we'll take a live look at route 109. traffic moving well leaving hyattstown down to rockville. i'll be back with more traffic at 4:56. back to you. 4:51 now. the 19th annual international aids conference is right under way now in the district. this year's theme? turning the tide together. tens of thousands of delegates from more than 195 countries are here and they say the goal is to march toward the end of the aids especial dependic. we have more on why d.c. has a lot at stake. >> it was a very traumatic experience. for me i think i was in the sixth grade at the time. >> reporter: kevin lost his uncle to aids, part of the startling statistic according

to d.c.'s department of health 80% of h.i.v. patients in the district are black men. >> the family doesn't really talk about it a lot. when something like this comes up. he died way too early. he was in his 30s. >> reporter: the rally reminds people of the urgency for action while it empowers others. >> i have nothing to be ashamed about. h.i.v. and aids is still affecting and infecting people. >> reporter: for a quiet reflection, people are visiting the aids memorial quilt, a reminder of too many lives lost. >> a lot of people have forgotten that all these people died. >> reporter: mark was told he was h.i.v. positive 17 years ago this month. >> i was told that i was going to get infections in two years and die in five. that luckily did not happen. >> it connects me with these people who have died. it reminds me that it's just as deadly a disease it ever was. >> reporter: but there's exciting new research and drugs that gives those living with this deadly disease hope. >> drugs are what's keeping me

alive right now. in other medical news, children with weak motor skills are more likely to be in poor health. that's according to australian researcher. their study found kids who aren't as good as throwing, running and catching are more likely to avoid physical activity. enactive children are up to seven times more likely to be unfit. 4:53. time for the question of the morning now. according to a study out of berlin, people look younger when they do one of these things. is it a, whiten their teeth, b, smile, or c, exercise? >> here's what you can do. log on to the wusa9 facebook fan page. leave your response. it will make you look younger. we promise.

welcome back. 4:55. almost 4:56 on this monday morning with your weather first. we have a little bit of drizzle and sprinkles in a few spots. it's a warm, muggy morning. a mix of clouds and sunshine. should make the low 90s with a chance for an afternoon thunderstorm. more details coming up during 9news now. coming in from the north no problems to report. veers meir road from connecticut. i'll be back with more traffic coming up once again at 5:00. back to you. the walls of an old hospital in florida came tumbling down this weekend. it only took seven seconds to turn the seven-sorry memorial center into a pile of rubble. materials from the 45-year-old building are going to be recycled. the land will be seeded for grass and put up for sale.

love this story. a bear cub in pittsburgh was maybe looking for a deal. you see the video right there. look at him. maybe he's looking for build-a- bear. i don't know. he's in a mall. the young bear got into the mall and ended up roping around a sears store. that sent shoppers running for safety. wildlife oiferls were called in and tranquilized the cub before taking -- officers were called in and tranquilized the cub before taking the bear. >> the softer side of sears. here is today's eye on entertainment. >> reporter: the twilight saga dominated the teen choice awards. the franchises are in -- earned 41 trophies since it launched in 2008. >> i really loved every step. so thanks. >> reporter: taylor swift was

also among the night's winners. warners brothers isn't bragging about the "the dark knight rises" box office numbers. the studio is waiting till later today to say how much the movie made opening weekend out of respect for the victims of the colorado theater shooting. box office insiders say it was on track to earn $160 million. fresh off her emmy nomination, sophia topped the list of forbes highest paid actresses. she earned an estimated $19 million in the past year. reality star kim car dash aian is hot on her heels -- kardashian is hot on her heels. the spice girls are going to perform at the olympics. they'll reunite on stage at the closing ceremonies. it's been four years since they performed together. >> i just thought i heard something upstairs. >> out on dvd tomorrow, the horror thriller "silent house." elizabeth olsen stars as a young woman locked inside her family's house. it is edited as a single

continuous shot. that's your eye on entertainment, teresa, garcia, cbs news. you're watching nine fine now at 5:00 a.m. happy monday. i'm jessica doyle in for andrea roane. >> i'm mike hydeck. we're glad you're here. >> you're making me giggle again. >> howard bernstein is back from vacation. could to see you. >> good to be seen. hello stove who was on the boat -- hello to those who were on the boat with me. you get a lot of local folks, king george, west virginia, pennsylvania. it was all good. damp and muggy this morning. we have the humidity way up. there had been a few areas of drizzle, light sprinkles. overall i'm expecting a warmer day than we've seen. the last couple had a nice, nice break. here's a look at your day planner. we're first going to show you the lens covered with some droplets there this morning. temperatures will riefs into the mid and -- rise into the mid and upper 80s by lunch time. highs today in the low 90