department cannot assign more officers to protect the corridor, then private businesses should start hiring offduty cops to do the job. that after four women were hit by stray bullets. most recently, right near 11th street. here is bruce johnson. >> the district's corridor has become a major tourist and entertainment attraction. early saturday morning, two women suffered nonlife threatening injuries when they were shot near 12th and u. innocent victims hit by somebody's stray bullets. >> you have to be concerned not only for the welfare of the people that it happened to, but for the reputation of u street. >> contacted one of the women injured here on u street. she declined to do an interview, but she worked with nbc. she says she is going to be okay. that second woman, according to a published online report, works for the washington post. a week ago saturday, at 11th and u, two groups of men were arguing, gun shots erupted and

two more women were hit, both of them in the leg. they will recover, say police. three men were arrested after a gun was thrown from a car. >> we require more police officers than i think sometimes we get from mpd. so all over the city, areas like this are using the cost reimbursable program. >> d.c. councilman says if police want to sign more officers to u street, then private businesses should hire their own offduty d.c. police. there is city money that would pay for half the cost of bars and nightclubs. >> our business contributes lots of taxes to the district. >> the owner of this 7-eleven says she can't afford to hire offduty police officers. she can't get the same subsidy offered to bars and restaurants. >> we hire anywhere from 10 to 15 employees, somebody is probably going to go. >> six years ago, february 2006, damon ward, a local architect was hit by a stray

bullet and killed. he was stepping out of a nightclub. he was hit by a bullet that came from a group of people that had been arguing over a parking space. >> my son was an innocent bystander. he did nothing. he was not a part of it at all. and that could be anybody. >> bruce johnson, 9news now. >> to arlington where they are working with the police to try and identify a man who shot and killed a jewelry shop owner late friday night. his name was tommy wong. he was right inside the capital jewelers along columbia pike. the cameras give us a good photo. there are similarities to a jeweler along f street in d.c. last month. ocean city is a popular get away destination this time of year, but police have a warning for women who were there looking to leave their troubles behind. the same man may be responsible for several sexual assaults in

poorly lit areas outside of bars. the most recent attack, saturday night, when a man struck up a conversation with her on her way out of the bar and forced her to the ground and tried to assault her. >> three attempted assaults that happened in the past month. >> police say not to walk alone and don't drink too much and travel in places with lots of other people. if you have any information, the police want to hear from you. >> and if you have not heard the word, sequestration yet, you need to. it is meant looming cuts. as peggy fox tells us, those cuts will happen if congress doesn't act. >> it was never really meant to be a policy. it was meant to be a hammer. >> virginia governor kept his speech nonpartisan, so the looming sequestration cuts are

the result of congressional republicans and democrats unable to compromise. >> this is a pathetic way to legislate. to have this hang over everybody's head and lead people to a decision. it's just unbelievable. >> i'm here because we are concerned about jobs in our industry. more so we are concerned about the security of our nation. >> a year ago, congress passed a threatening measure. it was meant to put pressure on the super committee to come up with a plan. the super committee failed and those cuts are coming january 2 if congress doesn't act. >> as long as the other sides put revenue on the table, then we'll have a balance of spending cuts and revenue and this problem will evaporate. >> because of the high number of federal jobs and defense contractors, the washington area would be hit hard and could lose 161,000 jobs, according to economist, steven fuller. >> when you start cutting back federal spending, if the cuts come here proportional to what

we get now, 21% of all of the cuts will come out of our economy. >> even though the sequestration cuts don't take effect until january 2, there are reprecushions. they are required by law to notify their employees working on federal projects. if they plan to lay them off, some 60 days in advance. so those notices may be going out soon in the next few months. if congress doesn't act. peggy fox, 9news now. >> the state of virginia did end the 2012 fiscal year with $129 million than they expected. rick brown tells the associated pres, revenues were up 5.4% and 55 million of that surplus came from sales tax collections. 33.5 from individual withholding and 32 million from corporate income tax. virginia may not be finished boosting its bottom line. the senator is planning to introduce the bill that would

legalize gambling in the commonwealth during the next legislative session. the limited focus would allow slot machines and table games in areas where at least 40% of the land mass is exempt from local real estate taxes. >> the last couple of days it felt nice. they had a will the of lot of heat and humidity. >> we got a couple thunderstorms on radar. the good news is, our chances will increase. bad news is, there could be big storms. let's start with live doppler 9,000. i zoomed in a little bit. we have a big storm over leesburg. they are moving northwest. this is headed. another storm over by the bay, north of annapolis. this is actually headed back over toward bwi airport. temperature wise it's great. 84 downtown. high was only 89. 82 in leesburg. 82 also down in fredericksburg. so for tonight, we'll say isolated thunderstorm. otherwise mild low. we'll come back and talk about

some of that heat and humidity returning in just a bit. >> thank you, top. a rally calling for racial unity. now this is all coming after a black couple was turned away from getting married inside the town's first baptist church. the pastor says some told him they oppose letting black folks get married in that church. charles and tiandra wilson had been a member for more than a year when the pastor approached them two days before their wedding. that pastor still performed the service. should that pastor have made that call or do you think he should have stood up in the first place and said hey, everybody who is a member here can get married no matter what color they are? share your thoughts at mcginty's mail bag. or you might want to share your conversation on the wusa facebook page. still ahead, spoiler alert, well not exactly. but we will take a look at

strategies to avoid learning the results of the olympics before you want to know. like if you want to watch them tonight, for example. but up next, some good news for commuters trying to cross the anacostia in the morning or any other time of stay. stay with us. special interest groups where did the obama stimulus money go? solyndra: 500 million taxpayer dollars. bankrupt. so where did the obama stimulus money go? windmills from china. electric cars from finland 79% of the 2.1 billion in stimulus grants awarded through it went to overseas companies. [ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message.

typically we like to issue commuter alerts about things that make your life more difficult. tonight, one that will make it easier. a new ramp opened today from southbound i-295 to the 11th street bridge in d.c. this new bridge is expected to ease the rush hour traffic coming into town. a 51-year-old man was killed yesterday afternoon in new york. doug schneiderman was killed when a pickup truck crossed the center line and hit his car head on. his wife and his 16-year-old daughter, rachel, were also seriously hurt. so far, no charges have been filed. branches of the american civil liberties union want to

know about how police are using the automatic license plate readers. they sent requests to state police and individual counties today asking what happens to the data those readers collect. maryland has 320 of those readers in use. it is unclear how many are being used in virginia. requests were sent to state police and 15 local police or sheriff departments. still to come, topper is back with a check on your forecast. up next, those chilean miners are making a move to make money off that tough experience. we'll tell you how. ♪

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can you believe it? sunday marks two years since the accident that trapped those 33 chile an miners. now they are looking to capitalize. the rescue workers registered a trademark on the miracle 33, and they will start selling mugs, t-shirts, and commemorative medals. that will happen at airports across chile. everything is not gold and glorious. organizers are being strongly criticized for letting hundreds of seats remain empty inside olympic stadiums. >> we have been waiting outside, we have not been able to buy any.

>> people using seats, by all means, let us in. >> most of the tickets were given to olympic officials and athletes family and friends who end up only sticking around for a short time at the games. in some cases, british soldiers have been brought in to fill up those empty seats. now, however, there is a plan to make about 3,000 of those tickets available, but get this. it will only be online only to british residents. also, a decent amount of anger on this side of the pond this weekend. from folks who found out about the result of the games before they wanted to know them. we are not really giving out any spoilers tonight, but bruce leshan is trying to make amends for our efforts over the weekend. >> we are story and we won't do it again. >> tons of apologies at wusa9.com. >> we thought we were doing people a service, phelps just lost this race. >> sent out bulletins by e- mail and facebook any time news broke about the olympics.

>> what was the reaction? >> very negative. >> it got dozens of threats to unfriend us in return. never again. >> we will post to facebook, but give people the option of whether or not they want to see the results. >> fun gnu thing, though. >> a beef brisket. >> at the food trucks where people like their meals hot and fast. >> i got the cheese steak. >> olympic fans fall into two different camps. >> they can put it live on their cable network and then they could play it on prime time if they want the ratings for a replay, but it's more important to get the broadcast live. >> those who blame nbc for taping the most popular event and broadcasting them later. >> absolutely. they can put it on live in the middle of the day. i'd watch it. >> those who really do not want to know until the evening. >> oh no, i watch it at home. >> if you have enough time during your day to be watching twitter and facebook and the

rest of that stuff, that you should go out and spend that doing something else more productive and watch it in prime time and you won't know. g bruce leshan, 9news now. >> i'm more concerned about that cheese steak. that is a spoiler. by the way, we want to know, you can get into the spirited debate about the spoiling on our facebook page, but from now on, we are not blasting out the actual results on our twitter feed. you'll have to come to us. if we put it on the air, we'll warn you first. how about that? >> okay. >> speaking of warnings, thunderstorm warning situation is good, but we need some water. >> i know. we have -- i'll show you one thunderstorm on radar. tomorrow, derek, the chances increase a little bit and even more so on wednesday. let's start with live doppler 9,000. before this storm disappeared, we will zoom out north and west. this is in loudoun county. not way out there, but right there in loudoun county. it's pretty hefty as you go out

route 7. rain fall rates of an inch an hour. you see green toward waterford. the storm itself, we'll put this into motion. it's drifting off to the north and to the west. it's going to weaken a little bit, but some significant rain west of leesburg. and up toward hills gln hillsburro. our live weather cam. this is brought to you by michael and son. winds east, southeast. pressure is steady. temperatures primarily 70s. look at this. 79 in gaithersburg. everybody else mid to low 80s. 81 bethesda. 83 in arlington. 83 in bowie. reston, fairfax, 82 in leesburg and 82 out toward manassas and haymarket. heating up a bit with storms.

isolated thunderstorm tonight. warm again tomorrow, but not unseasonally so. some storms tomorrow. but a better chance of storms on wednesday. so for tonight, isolated thunderstorm possible. then partly cloudy, mild, f 6 to 74. winds southeast at 10. if you're inside the beltway, mid to low 70s, but comfortable. 57 in gaithersburg. 70 in college park. not too bad. by morning, a dry commute. partly cloudy, 70s and 80s. by afternoon, partly sunny, more cloud cover, warm, scattered thunderstorms. high temperatures in the upper 80s and winds light again. green, yellow, yellow. 88 tomorrow. an isolated storm. big storms possible on wednesday, 89. big storms possible on wednesday, mid 90s. we'll keep those yellow for now. next seven days, mid 90s on friday and saturday and also on sunday with temperatures a little bit above average.

afternoon storms. monday, scattered storms. temperatures fall back into the low 90s. but any time we stay below 90, that's a victory. >> i'll take it. >> let's get to our weird news file. you know how a lot of folks love to ball up sheets of paper and toss them in the wastebasket? they have no actual game? leave it to modern science to solve that problem. we go to japan where it moves the cash or garbage when you go anywhere near it. it has battery, wheels, a motor, some sort of robotic tracking system that will focus on flying objects and move to intersect. check it out. paper, no problem. it's amazing. it leaves beer can, whatever you throw, it will do it. see? okay, now where can we see one sadly as of now? only on youtube. it has to be coming toward a

store near you. you don't want to make them all the time. >> we want to hear what you think. send your your e-mails to mailbag. mailbag@wusa9.com. 9news now will be right back. [ male announcer ] where did all the obama stimulus money go?

friends, donors, campaign supporters, special interest groups where did the obama stimulus money go? solyndra: 500 million taxpayer dollars. bankrupt. so where did the obama stimulus money go? windmills from china. electric cars from finland 79% of the 2.1 billion in stimulus grants awarded through it went to overseas companies. [ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message.

in the mail bag tonight, chick-fil-a. reaction to the company president stated opposition to gay marriage had gone over the top. especially when you saw big city mayors timing in, suggests the restaurants would no longer be welcome. but drew says it is not about the comments or even the beliefs of the company president. the issue is that the company itself made millions of dollars in donation to antigay organizations. the company that made the donations and not the

individual, it's not a personal issue. it's a company issue. the real problem is that there's still so much hatred. i wonder if you have this discussion at kkk, or to the american nazi party. except nobody cared about those donations until kathy went on the radio to say he believes in the biblical family unit. personally i dis agree with him. this issue remains an open political question. the president himself came around on it a couple months ago. was he hateful? i would argue well, meaningful people can disagree. it's not always about hate and bigotry. rarely advance the debate. all you have to do is join it. the e-mail address is mailbag@wusa9.com. that is our report. i'll be back at 11:00 along

with anita brikman. the robbery last month right here in d.c. don't forget, log on any time you like to wusa9.com. have a great evening. we'll see you later on. bye bye.

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