her. you didn't see us walking around your car? >> no, i'm not going to lie, i didn't see you all. >> reporter: the best way is still the very obvious. don't leave any valuables in plain sight and leave your windows up instead of down and always be aware of your surroundings. if you have any information regarding these particular robberies, prince george's county police are asking you give them a call. i'm ken molestina, 9news now. this has been going on since late february. jack taylor toyota was hit three times. police believe two steal the cash and two others are lookouts. if you recognize the suspects in the video please call alexandria police. another child is dead after a gun accident. this time, in maryland. the sheriff's office says a 13- year-old boy may have shot an 11-year-old girl with a hunting weapon. the girl was taken to the

hospital. according to delmarva now the girl has died. neighbors of the family of the 4-year-old who accidentally shot himself in the head have been showing their support by leaving flowers and teddy bears. police say kyrell mcneil of woodbridge found a gun. the stepfather works as a security guard. no charges have been filed at this time. he was told to step aside and come back to the council. you've been given that courtesy at the post office right? that move got a man stabbed in silver spring yesterday. apparently another customer in the new hampshire avenue post office thought that man cut in line. so police say the suspect waited outside the post office for the man and stabbed him several times. the employees pepper sprayed the suspect and investigators say that may have saved the victim's life. the suspect ran off but was quickly captured. police have released a picture of the man who may have kidnap cal ripken's mother. police say this is the person who took violet ripken right there on the screen.

she was taken from her aberdeen, maryland home on tuesday morning. investigators won't say what store the picture was taken from. she was found unharmed down the street from her home in the parking lot of a grocery store. the person who found her says police didn't know just how close they were to her. >> i saw somebody waving a white sweater out of a car window. i stopped and asked the woman inside if she needed help. she said that her house was really close to her but somebody had left her in the car. and that her feet were bound. remembering the roadblock i asked her if it was all right if i got the police. >> so far a motive has not been released in this case. the fbi and state police are assisting authorities in aberdeen. hundreds packed the church in aurora, colorado to say their final good-byes to 23- year-old micayla medek, family and friends cried and tried to comfort each other. 11 others were killed last week

at the point showing of "the dark knight rises." -- midnight showing of "the dark knight rises" last week. some are still in critical condition this morning. the man known as victim two is suing penn state. investigators say that he is the young man that former graduate student mike mcqueary saw in the shower with jerry sandusky back in 2001. in the statement the man's lawyer says he wants to hold university officials accountable for quote -- egregious and reckless conduct. the victim is not named in the statement, as proof his side released messages left by sandusky two months before he was arrested. >> i was just calling to see -- i didn't know if you had any interest in going to the penn state game in saturday. i'd appreciate it when you get this message give me a call. and i'll talk to you later, thanks. love you. >> it says he cannot comment on pending legislation and sandusky of course convicted of 45 counts of child sex abuse

last month. he could be sentenced as early as september and he could be spending the rest of his life in jail. it's called operation log jam. a federal crackdown aimed at stopping the flow of synthetic drugs that includes bath salts and designer marijuana. the feds have raided sites from san diego, california to tampa florida and arrested 91 people and seized $31 million in cash. and dozens of weapons. so look at this. this is what four tons of marijuana looks like. see that big pile of bricks right there? u.s. coast guard pulled over a boat near mexico because of suspicious activity and they caught the boat and found all of that pot. the drugs are worth about $8 million. several people were arrested. the coast guard says so far, it's confiscated 50 tons of marijuana worth $90 million. it's a big day for international sports. the olympics now underway in london. >> the opening ceremonies are

still over 11 hours away but there are few olympic athletes already on the fold now. -- field now. security has been beefed up and 1200 british troops have been deployed and government officials don't want to leave anything to chance in this. they want to have a presence but not to be oppressive. they want the focus to stay on the athletes. twitter says traffic not to blame for yesterday's outage. the social networking company is blaming systems failures. twitter says it's working to resolve the issue. this is the second mass outage for the site in five week. now some are calling twitter's reliability into question. mitt romney will be in london to cheer on the u.s. olympic team. >> he got a few boos though because of the comment he is made about the organizers of the games. susan mcginnis explains. >> reporter: before the lights go on at the olympic stadium for today's opening ceremonies the u.s. team will start the day with a breakfast with first lady michelle obama. when mitt romney wakes up, this is the headline that will greet

him in today's papers -- romney has upset many in london with a couple of gaffes one where he questioned whether britain is prepared for the games. >> mitt romney he wants to know whether when we're ready, are we ready? >> reporter: another blunder romney publicly revealed a secret meeting with the head of britain's intelligence agency mi 6. >> i appreciated the insights and perspectives of the leaders of the government here and opposition here as well as the -- the head of mi 6. >> reporter: the slipups cover shadowed a day of meetings with top british leaders including a meeting with prime minister david cameron who publicly criticized romney for his comments about britain's preparedness for the games. romney will have a chance to make up for his mistakes in israel tomorrow. just ahead of the trip president obama will make a move to strengthen ties between the two countries. the president will sign a bill

today giving israel more access to u.s. military equipment. romney criticized president obama earlier this week for hurting america's relationship with israel. >> president obama is fond of lecturing israel's leaders. >> reporter: romney will attend fund raisers and meet with israeli leaders on saturday and sunday. >> that's one of the issues that will probably come up during the presidential debate. the list for dates of the debates has been released. president obama and mitt romney will talk about domestic policy october 3rd in denver. their october 16th meeting in hempstead, new york will be a town hall and then october 27th in boca raton, florida, they will focus on foreign policy. still ahead this morning yet another automaker recalling thousands of vehicles. >> yep. and we're also going to tell you which vehicles are considered the most dependable. thanks for watching on this friday morning. this is 9news now. parents this year i'm going to teach your kids

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it is 4:40 on this friday morning. we're happy about friday yes. and it's not going to be 100 today. it will be in the mid needs. hot and a little humid and a net for a couple of storms this afternoon and could be a couple of strong ones south and east of town. high again about 95. 96. the full weekend forecast and that seven day coming up in about five minutes. right now monika samtani with timesaver traffic. a look at the 14th street bridge northbound 395. this is a good example of the length of 395 from the beltway to this point and all the anacostia and potomac river crossings look like this incident-free. jess? thank you monika. i am watching your money. not a lot of fanfare for facebook's first profit report as a public company. the social networking site lost

$157 million last quarter and revenue growth slowed but it's what facebook didn't say that really got investors. the company offered zero guidance for future earnings. after the bell another report from amazon.com, profits sank 96%. they spent more on expanding its operations and that squeezed its profit margins. and starbucks is warning the profits this quarter and next year will come in below expectations. the coffee chain blames weak consumer spending in europe. the trio of disappointing reports could hammer the stock market today. checking the numbers it was such a good day yesterday -- this after the european central bank vowed to keep the euro intact. probably going to see a pullback this morning. not as many young women are anxious to have babies and the reason here?

the poor economy. according to demographic intelligence the nation's birthrate is at its lowest point in 25 years. the fertility rate not expected to rebound for at least another two years and that could affect birthrates for years to come. marketers tracked these things because they affect sales of thousands of baby products and we're talking diapers, cribs, minivans and bottles and that kind of stuff. another vehicle recall to tell you about this morning. ford recalling 484,600 escapes for a problem with the cruise control cable. the throttle can get stuck in the open position. the model years affected dun all the way through -- 2001 all the way through 2004 with three litter v 6 engines. they are investigating whether it caused the death of an arizona teen this year. jd power and associates ranked the most reliable cars on the road. the toyota prius on top as the most dependable compact car. it's based on the reports of

owners on 3-year-old cars and this year we hear about how 2009 cars are doing. alsoen top -- on top was the ford fusion. people love that car. for entry premium car the lexus es 350 and the lincoln mkz. they were tied up. the most reliable minivan is the toyota sienna. it got a perfect score. from jd power. >> that's really interesting. >> i've never seen a perfect score before. >> i haven't either. i haven't either. i know a lot of people who have the ford fusion and are thrilled with it and they've had it for the last few years. >> it's been selling like hot cakes. they can't keep it on the lot literally. still ahead myths and misconceptions. that's what one woman has been fighting for a long time now when it comes to aids and hiv. >> coming up at 4:51. what she's doing to make sure everybody knows the real dole about the disease -- deal about the disease. you're watching 9news now.

hello friends. happy friday. 4:45. what are you doing up so early? glad you're here though. not going to be 100 today? >> no, 95. 96 but not 100. >> it feels like spring. >> you're pushing it high deck. you know yesterday we had a couple of thunderstorms really up in pennsylvania and new york. they got hammered. now a lot of damage out there. >> we were watching and i was watching the weather channel and i was watching us last night and it looked like all the lightning strikes were going to come down here. did you get anything at your house? >> a couple of sprinkles this up in upper montgomery county. >> we didn't get anything either. >> some of the far northern and western suburbs did. but we dodged the bullet once again. and that's okay. we've taken enough hits from mother nature. >> oh, yeah. >> this year alone. let's get going if morning. we're doing really -- this morning. we're doing fine. a little bit on the muggy side. temperatures into the low 80s here by 8:00 and that's at national. still 70s in many of the

suburbs. by noon 92. a mix of cloud and sunshine today and this afternoon a couple of storms pop. best chance of having any problems well south of washington. temperatures by 4:00 will actually drop to 89 or so thanks to the thunderstorms and 85 by 8:00. but think the early afternoon high could be about 95 degrees. this morning, we're seeing a lot of the action dissipate and even here in west virginia you'll notice the heavier showers and storms but even that's starting to loosen some of its strength this morning approaching elk? . this stuff will be falling apart over the next few hours. temperatures in the 60s in oakland and garrett county. the rest of us in the 70s and even near 80. richmond though 84 degrees to the south this morning. very muggy there. it is 77 at patuxent naval station. the michael & son weather camera, good visibility, generally clear. the flags are blowing a little bit outside the capitol. so a little bit of a breeze southwest at 7 miles an hour.

with that 78. still, boy that dew point is way up there. kind of stickie with the humidity at 76%. here's the pick picture. intact into part -- back into parts of the mississippi valley the mid mississippi valley and you can see most of the storms now have died down. we're going to crank up the daytime heating ask with that a up can of years -- a couple of years we'll watch for severe weather. one is in the ohio valley and the other one to the south and east with the main threat today damaging wind gusts once again. and any of the stronger storms and you'll notice southern maryland. the eastern shore as you go from east and south down fredericksburg south of the northern neck. you guys are under that slight risk area for severe weather from the storm prediction center. that means just in a more favorable location to have any storms that could be strong to severe as opposed to the rest of us. that doesn't mean we can't get a strong storm outside of that area but those are the most likely areas. the futurecast this morning.

randies pating a cub -- rain diss kating a couple of showers here by noon. we get into the middle of the afternoon, now we're starting to see a few showers and storms pop in the shenandoah valley. near the mason dixon line. but south of town here 6:00 you'll notice the showers and storms again this is a computer depiction of the future and it may be here, it may be there. but the idea is that south and southeast of town the better chance of showers and storms. a few more storms again on saturday afternoon and again on sunday a slight chance of storms, a yellow alert today and tomorrow. right now sunday green for isolated storms and you'll notice temperatures today 95. 70s tonight and a few upper 60s. 90 on sunday. as we head to next week, actually -- quick look at the beach forecast by the way. got to throw this in. 95 today and even a couple of storms here possible over the weekend too as temperatures by sunday. sunday that should be will be in the mid 80s. all right, let's take a look at the rest of the seven day

forecast. i wish there were two saturdays in the week. wouldn't that be awesome? 90 on sunday and next week upper 80s and still a threat for thunderstorms monday through thursday. 78, monika take it away. our world two saturdays. so good. really good. but you know what? it's friday and that's good too. that's because traffic is very, very light. and i have good news for those of you who travel on the west side of town. that construction's been cleared up on the inner loop here at i-66. everything's been reopened and you're good to go really no delays to speak of as well. a live look outside on the northbound side of i-95. nice and clear as you leave route 644 heading for 395, and the 14th street bridge. we'll go back to the pipes this time to -- ma'ams this time to southern maryland. looking good on route 4, route 5, route 301 and route 210 from accokeek. live across the river here, nice and light no issues here company alexandria and oxon hill. back with more traffic coming up. jess and mike? today is the last day of

the international aids conference. the organization is trying to enlighten and raise awareness but some people still have preconceived ideas about who's likely to be hiv positive. >> chances are you probably wouldn't put a soccer mom in that category. anita brikman has more on a woman who's been fighting stereotypes for more than two decades. >> people are living longer and healthier and better lives with 30 approves drugs to treat and manage hiv yet we still have a disease that most americans don't think is really our problem. >> reporter: dawn knows it is. she believes she contracted the virus that caused aids during a rape when she was 19. she got the diagnosis in 1988. >> stigma of course was enormous. when i was diagnosed my doctor said don't read anything. it's too confusing and don't tell anyone because this is going to ruin your family's life. >> she's here for the international conference as founder of the well project that focuses on women with hiv.

it's a nonprofit. she says it's a pivotal moment for two reasons. the approval of an over the counter hiv test anybody can guest at the pharmacy, and a new use for truvada an aids drug that can actually help protect high risk people from infection. >> we really truly can move now to an hiv free generation. >> reporter: dawn is herself living proof of the power of antiretro viral drugs, not just in keeping people alive but in stopping the transmission of hiv from mother to child. she had two healthy hiv negative girls. >> so now i have an 8 and a 10- year-old and i'm you know, a minivan driving soccer mom and i'm standing on the soccer fields next to lots of people who look like me and some people who don't. but most people would not know that they're standing next to an hiv positive soccer mom. if we look around the country, there are 100,000, 200,000 of us standing sidelines and at pta meetings being an important

and critical part of the society. >> reporter: anita brikman, 9news now. >> she says her greatest purpose is to normalize hiv and make us aware this is not just someone else's problem. it is time to take our first look at the question of the morning -- >> hmm. take a guess. go to wusa9's facebook fan page and leave your answer there. we'll reveal the answer to the question in our 6:00 hour. we'll be right back.

4:556789 your weather first --

4:55. your weather first. temperatures are going to climb pretty quickly today and level off this afternoon into about 95 for the high. 1:00 temperature 92. we'll have to watch out for a couple of storms late this afternoon and early this evening and could be on the strong side as well. let's go to monika now with the timesaver traffic. thank you so much howard. here is a live look at the heart of rockville, route 355 and route 28 and watten parkway where everything converges. things are looking great. no problems to report through rockville heading toward the district on 355. i'll be back with more traffic coming up. so do you remember the balloon boy hoax from back in 2009? now, pieces of that balloon are available in trading cards. the current owner of the balloon bought it from a lawyer of the parents who pretended their 6-year-old was on that in a runaway vessel. they paid $500 for it and the current owner now has a deal with tops trading cards. >> why? okay, take a look at the

pizza shop in howten. louisiana and they say they have a ghost in their restaurant. the owner says pizzas are just vanishing and things are being moved around. she says one time a bottle of tabasco sauce hit her from behind when she was inside alone. she says surveillance video proves she's right. take a look there. it allegedly shows the poltergeist. i don't know. i think we need ghost adventurers. >> if i come back as a ghost i will be in a pizza place. >> katherine jackson is back home with her grandchildren and a judge ordered community service for russell brand. >> edward lawrence has those stories and more in eye even entertainment. >> reporter: infighting to regain custody of them. a judge appointed her grandson temporary caregiver for michael jackson's three children. katherine jackson says the ruling was based on a bunch of lies. katherine will have to go to court to be reinstated as

guardian. actor russell brand has struck a plea deal following a confrontation with a photographer in new orleans in march. brand will have to perform 20 hours of community service and pay $500 court fee. if brand completes the service by august 31st his case will be dismissed. ricki lake is back on the small screen. production is underway for her syndicated talk show. "the ricki lake show." >> it's great to come back with the same genre, now just i've grown up a little. >> reporter: it premieres september 10th. jay leno is parting with a hot new set of wheels. auctioning off the first edition fiat 500 for charity. it has just 800 miles on it. proceeds will go to injured war veterans and their families. the winner also gets a tour of his personal car collection near los angeles. dreamworks is taking its how to train your dragon live spectacular on tour across north america. the live show is based on the

popular movie about vikings and flying dragons. that's your eye on entertainment. edward lawrence for cbs news, los angeles. happy friday morning. s in 9news now at -- this is 9news now at 5:00 a.m., i'm jessica doyle in for andrea roane. >> i'm mike hydeck, good morning we're glad you're here. just a suggestion, put it in the coffee mug. has traffic in just a moment. mr. bernstein, what do you think? >> by mike hydeck. >> why not? >> you can put fruit. >> ice cream for breakfast, pizza for lunch. >> frozen yogurt? >> i love you. >> greig yogurt. >> weather-wise, yeah. that's creepy. i do like it. that's good. weather-wise, we've got a warm morning out there. a little bit humid. and a little bit uncomfortable in here also. let's show you the day planner here on this -- >> good day howard. >> day planner on this friday morning. >> it was funny. >> thanyo