we need to attack our problems -- not a woman's choice. [ obama ] i'm barack obama, and i approve this message. hello, thank you for joining us. i'm jc hayward. we have breaking news about a family tragedy. it's topping our newscast this afternoon. the calvert county sheriff's office is investigating a murder-suicide in owings,

maryland. scott broom filed this report from the scene. >> reporter: investigators and rescuers are still pouring over this scene on the 1800 block of candlelight lane here in the fairview subdivision section of owings, maryland, in calvert county. we know there are three people dead. a man, a woman, and a child. and that a 12-year-old child survived this incident and was taken by helicopter to shock trauma in baltimore. it was an apparent explosion of family violence. we know that one of the people who died, one of the adults, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. this occurred after somebody called for help from the house. when the sheriff's department here in calvert county showed up in full special operations mode, and attempted to make entry to the house, there was gunfire that broke out when they finally got inside they found the man and woman dead, a child dead, and, again, a 12- year-old survivor who has been rescued and is battling for his life. in owings, maryland, calvert county, scott broom, 9news now.

>> we'll have the latest information, of course, on our website throughout the day, wusa9.com, and on 9news now beginning at 5:00 p.m. the house is scheduled to vote on legislation today that with ban abortions after 20 weeks in the district of columbia. the measure was introduced by a republican lawmaker. representative trent frank says the bill is required because late-term abortionists unable to practice elsewhere are coming to the district of columbia. the legislation has 222 co- sponsors and was approved by a house committee earlier this month. abortion rights advocates say the bill is attempt to roll back a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. d.c. delegate eleanor holmes norton is vowing to defeat that legislation. a tractor-trailer hauling produce overturned and left

cucumbers and other food scattered on the roadway near the van doren street exit. the accident tied up traffic in the area. the truckdriver was traveling with his son in the vehicle. >> we were inside the trailer that flipped on its side. i guess something hit the red car that ran into this green truck, and it hit us, and we swerved out of control and flipped on our side, and everything pretty much fell over from there. >> the tractor-trailer was hauling food to new jersey. two people are being treated for nonlife-threatening injuries. the driver of the car that caused the accident has been charged with making an improper lane change. a minor earthquake rattled louisiana -- louisa county in virginia this morning.

a 2.4-magnitude earthquake hit around 12:45 this morning. the epicenter was about 80 miles southwest of washington. the region has experienced dozens of aftershocks since a 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck last august. police are looking for the gunman behind a deadly shooting that occurred in the district. it was one of he three shootings actually in the city last night and two children were wounded. the homicide happened just before midnight on brooks street at 47th street northeast. a man was shot tin back. he was rushed to the hospital where he later died. so far, the killer has not been found. a move is underway to bring slot machines to virginia. democrat louise lucas will bring up a bill next year to allow gambling in the state. the bill would only allow casinos in places where 40% of the land is exempt from property taxes. only two virginia cities fit that bill.

lexington and portsmouth. lucas represents portsmouth in the state senate. a man arrested for allegedly growing marijuana at his home in anne arundel county says that he did it for medicinal purposes. police say they found $50,000 worth of marijuana and two dozen guns at the home in gambrills. they put it on display yesterday. charles vincent dominic is facing variety of charges. he is free on bond. he says that he wasn't going to sell any of the drugs. anne arundel county police have a different opinion. the. >> the plants were between five and six feet tall. a large amount of marijuana, too much for single consumption by one individual. >> police say the guns and the drugs were found within 1,000 feet of a high school. and that puts it in a special enforcement section by police. police in frederick, maryland are cracking down on

panhandling. police say they arrested two men in the downtown area yesterday after they approached an undercover officer for money. at least five arrests have been made since last week. police say that they are responding to multiple complaints from residents in that area. let's turn our attention now to the olympics where there are some questions about the performance of a chinese swimmer. she won the gold medal by finishing the final leg of her competition swimming faster than her male olympic counterpart. u.s. swimmer ryan lochte. the 16-year-old athlete denies taking performance-enhancing drugs. we have more now from london. >> reporter: missy franklin couldn't hide her excitement after she shot past the competition to win the 100- meter back stroke. her parents cheered as their daughter finished first, just 14 minutes after swimming a qualifying race. the teenager from colorado says

she's dedicating all her races to aurora, after the deadly theater shooting. franklin's teammate made at sweep for the u.s. in the back stroke. the family rushed to congratulate him. >> oh, matt! >> reporter: mom couldn't keep her hands off the gold medal. >> i've turned on the tears now because i've just been a basket case. it's great. >> reporter: fans are saying this is the next best thing. they're coming to parks around london to watch the excitement on the big screen. >> everyone casually watching. it's fun. >> reporter: olympic crowds are growing, so people who can't find hotel rooms are camping out instead. >> this place, it looked perfect. >> reporter: british police say the games are safe and rung smoothly but they did arrest a teenager accused of insulting is and threatening to drown

dive err tom daley. his father died of brain cancer a year ago. cbs news, london. >> here's a check of the medal count so far. team usa and china are tied with 17 overall medals. china has more gold, though. japan is in third place, followed by italy and france. still to come with the news continues, drew peterson is going on trial for the death of his third wife. more than eight years ago.

nearly half of india is in the dark. it's day two of a massive power blackout. the outage affects hundreds of millions of people in eastern india as well as the capital of new delhi. the government is saying that the grid failure is causing more blackouts than yesterday's outages. opening statements are scheduled today in the trial of drew peterson. the former police chief has been charged with the murder of his third wife, kathleen savio. she was found dead in her bathtub in 2004. peterson is also the sole suspect in the 2007 disappearance of his fourth wife, stacey. prosecutors believe that peterson killed her, too, but he has not been charged. scientists in arizona studying the effects of dust

storms. this time -- this time-lapse video shows one of the storms rolling into the airport on sunday in phoenix. scientists are working to come up with a model that will better predict when a dust storm is about to hit. well, mitt romney is on his way back to the united states after a three-country trip overseas. the pre sumentive republican -- the presumptive republican nominee was greeted with applause at the university of war saw, one of the final stops on his overseas trips. the republican white house hopeful received a warm welcome in poland, a country that is sometimes been at odds with the obama administration. >> in a turbulent world, poland stands as an example and a defender of freedom. >> reporter: but romney's foreign trip has been filled with controversy. at his first stop in london, he questioned whether the city was

ready for the olympics. in israel, he told jewish donors their culture makes them better off economically than palestinians. reporters shouted questions about those comments after romney visited poland's tomb of the unknown soldier. that drew anger from romney campaign spokesmen rick gorka. >> show some respect here. >> we haven't had another chance to ask him questions. >> this is a hell lee site for the polish people. >> reporter: romney's trip was designed to show his readiness to be a world leader but the obama administration is criticizing some of his remarks overseas. >> one of the challenges of being an actor on the international stage, particularly when you're traveling to such a sensitive part of the world, is that your comments are very closely scrutinized. >> reporter: romney's campaign is gearing up for his return to the u.s. and hinting that a vice presidential selection may be coming soon.

the campaign unveiled a new smartphone app that will tell supporters romney's vp pick. tara mergener for cbs news, washington. still to come when 9news now continues, the jackson family feud. we'll be joined by an expert taking a look at some of the legal issues. howard. jc, we've got the heat, the humidity, some showers and storms starting to pop. we'll look at live doppler nine,000 in just a moment but we'll get a look at the allergy update and, once again the grass pollen not behaving. it is in the high category. leaves and mold are moderate. we'll look at radar and have that seven-day forecast for you when 9news now at noon returns. over the next four months, you have a choice to make.

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i'm barack obama and i approve this message. we're now going to turn our attention to what some is calling the jackson family feud grandma drama. i have attorney debbi hines here with an update. last week the children were taken out of their grandmother's guardianship and put into the hands of tito's son. so this is just a terrible situation. what is happening now? >> well, the latest is, i think they've worked out an agreement with mrs. jackson's attorneys, and so the agreement that they've worked out, which would have to be approved by the court is that she would share co-guardianship with t.j. jackson, which is tito's son, and she would take care of the children, be responsible for their welfare, and that he

would take care of the day to day housekeeping chores, the huge staff that they have, he would be involved in that aspect but that has yet to be involved by the court. >> when we say jacksons, we're talking about the michael jackson family. i understand the estate has released a guest list. only certain family members are able to visit. what is that about? >> yesterday the estate released a statement saying there are certain members, they're in the saying what, that have been prohibited to coming into the house where michael jackson's children live. and that's because of all this drama that's been going on in the last two weeks of taking katherine jackson out of the house for 10 days, the children not being able to speak to her, and just a lot of things that have just been happening so they're looking at what's in the best interest of the children. >> all of this is surrounding michael jackson's will where he left all of his assets to his children and mother, and claire tee, and he left nothing to his

siblings. and, of course, now we're getting reports that his estate is worth over a billion dollars. >> right. and so that, i think, is what's generating all the buzz and the activity with his seven siblings and wanting to figure out some way that they can gain access to the money. bottom line, it's about greed. >> isn't that unfortunate. i guess it happens in so many families, and when you have a lot of money, then you are going to have situations like this. poor katherine, the mother of michael jackson, how upsetting this must be to her, that her children are fighting each other. >> and that she's in the middle, because she's in the middle between her children and her grandchildren. but i think that her interests are lying as it seems with her grandchildren. she's the guardian, she's recently been removed but only on a temporary basis so she has been the guardian ever since make mike passed. >> so they will be talking to the children very soon and more than likely, as you said, she

and tito's son will both be co- guardians. it's unfortunate. thank you for bringing us up to day. we'll have you back again. >> thank you. >> thank you, debbi heinz. let's get a forecast from howard. >> jc, we are watching the showers and storms start to pp on radar so we're going to have the spotty showers and storms for the afternoon. they're not moving quickly. i know we've got some areas dealing with drought, some areas have had some showers and storms. if you get one of these don't be surprised if the puts down some heavy rainfall in a short period of time as we see temperatures climbing to the upper 80s hear. winds fairly light out of the east, maybe southeast at 5 to 8 miles per hour. they will become southerly tonight. still 83 at 9:00 p.m. we're dipping into the low 70s in town by tomorrow morning with still upper 60s north and west. showers overnight dropped an inch of rain in reedville. now we're watching the rain popping here down in southern maryland, close to home, and out to the west, boy, the showers and storms really starting to pop off the ridge tops just in the last two hours. look at all these showers and

storms. southwest p.a., west virginia, all drifting east. then in southern maryland, heavy storm near leonard down but we've got echoes showing up in prince george's county as well. want to bring you up to speed on what's going on a little closer to home where you can see some of these heavier showers back toward leonard town, west of hollywood, slow drift maybe east, up towards mechanicsville, just west of hughesville into charles county so we're watching those showers and storms. again, they're not moving very much. we've seen a couple of showers trying to pop in waldorf. even around ashburn, saw a little cell. so we're going to see this stuff pulse up, pulse down over the next few hours. temperatures now, they are in the mid-80s in many areas. we're 84 in washington with partly cloudy skies but the big heat, in the middle of the country, look at these forecast highs. pushing 108, 110, oklahoma, north texas, little rock.

yesterday they were 111. a lot of heat here. i'm telling new because some of that is going to break off and head toward us as we head toward the weekend. not going to be hundreds but well back in the 90s with this ridge here. all the heat, showers and storms, very powerful storms across parts of alabama, west florida, even coming out of michigan. so we've got the spotty showers on the future cast for the afternoon. lack at the storms in the mountains march toward the east this evening. 6:00 p.m. not everybody is going see the rain, and i know many folks need it. we're still seven and a half inches below normal since january 1st here in d.c. tonight things settle down, then tomorrow looks like the rain is going to be a little bit more weighed spread. so a better chance for showers and storms areawide tomorrow than today. then we're going to start to dry out and warm up. so about 81 today. yellow alert because some of us are going to be impacted by these storms where it may mess up an afternoon or evening plan to get outside. tonight we're dipping into the 70s and six north and west. more showers and storms tomorrow than today, 81.

another yellow alert day. but green on thursday. looking pretty good with just a stray thunderstorm, 92. friday 93, sunny and hot. then hot over the weekend. we climb to the mid-90s with a chance for mainly afternoon and evening thunderstorms. we'll be right back with more 9news now at noon in just a moment. ♪

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i'm so excited to have the opportunity to talk to the new artistic director of olney theater center. he is martin pratt. he's been in his position for two months and he's already

making some fabulous changes at the olney theater. you live in the metropolitan washington area, and if you have not been to the olney theater you have missed out. it's right outside washington, just a short drive. fabulous theater with some great productions. >> this saturday we're opening "little shop of horrors." so a lot of great things coming up. >> and you come from new york. what made you accept this position? >> well, it was exciting to me to be -- to come down into the d.c. area where there's so many other wonderful theaters had a arts organizations, but only that we have three theaters. the new theater, the historic theater that first opened in 1938, and a smaller theater and an outdoor theater. so a great opportunity to do a lot vehicles siting work. >> also in the washington area and baltimore area you have such talent i think to pick from. >> absolutely. and that was great attraction, too. >> all right, you're getting ready for your 75th anniversary which would be next year. i would imagine that you have some incredible performances coming up.

>> we do. we're expanding back to a nine- play season, opening with spring awakening. we're doing a english comedy called neville's island. hamlet with only four actors. a lot of exciting work for everyone. grace musicals, great plays. >> i don't have to tell you that most or many theaters around the country have been facing financial difficulties. but the olney theater last year had its highest ticket sales. >> that's right. >> that's incredible. >> and particular sales for next year have doubled so we're very optimistic. >> we welcome you, martin, to the washington area to olney theater. i would like to make sure that our viewers know that it is a fabulous theater. please go see one of their productions because next season, this season coming up is going to be incredible. olney theater in olney, maryland. welcome. >> thank you so much.

>> thanks for beg my guest. thank you for being with us. come back and visit us at 5:00. and, of course, you can go to our website throughout the day, wusa9.com. and don't forget jc hayward.com. interesting items there. thank you.