a record label based in linthicum, maryland. >> reporter: label 56 is based in linthicum, maryland, but the person who owns the record label lives here in baltimore. >> ♪ where god and family rule our lives ♪ >> reporter: wade michael page was a member of two white supremacist bands, definite hate as seen here and end apathy where he was the lead vocalist and played guitar. end apathy describes its music as a sad commentary on our sick society and the problems that prevent true progress. it's myspace page features photographs of wade page and band members playing in front of a nazi flag. in an interview that has since been taken down from his record label's website, page said he had been part of the white power music scene since 2000 when he sole everything he owned and left his home in colorado positive a motorcycle to get more involve -- on a motorcycle to get more involved. the owner of page's record label didn't answer the door at

his baltimore home this afternoon, but issued a statement via facebook saying his label never sought attention by suing shock value. label 56 added that it didn't want -- by using shock value. label 56 added that it didn't want a tragedy in wisconsin and it has removed all product from the band from its website. the statement from label 56 concludes please do not take what wade did as honorable or respectable and please do not think we are all like that. in baltimore andrea mccarren, 9 news now. >> for his part, president obama said today that he is heartbroken by the shootings. he says violent events like this one are happening with too much regularity and he says he plans on looking at ways to reduce the violence but stopped short of calling for any new gun control laws. there is no evidence page's guns were obtained illegally. now we want to take a moment to address the word sikh. you've probably heard several

pronunciation over the years. we opted to go with sikh based on how we heard it pronounced based on members of that residence community and law enforcement on the scene, but sikh is a widely accepted pronunciation in this country as well. in fredericksburg one of the largest and oldest churches in the area was broken into over the weekend and now a member of the military faces charges. >> reporter: i'm peggy fox at the historic fredericksburg baptist church. the 157-year-old building survived heavy damage during the civil war and now it's been attacked again, but leaders are most surprised by who did it. >> he pushed his way through these doors. >> reporter: once he broke his way inside the church he tried to get out through a stained glass window, but the plexiglass on the out wouldn't budge. >> -- outside wouldn't budge. >> he pulled the closet door off the hinges and threw the door through the window. >> reporter: police were in the area looking for a man who just tried to kick in the doors

of a hair salon and butcher. they heard glass breaking at the church and saw the door come through the window. when the suspect climbed out he immediately surrendered but then began spitting at the officers and continued to spit until after he was placed in the patrol vehicle. 22-year-old edmond toby barr whitehead, a second lieutenant in the royal british navy was arrested and charged with burglary, destruction of property and assault on an officer. >> we're in the -- try to be in the forgiveness business and we certainly forgive him for doing this. he hasn't done anything that cannot be restored. >> reporter: three of the employees of the company that runs the parking lot at the smithsonian's udvar hazy center are under arrest tonight accused of stealing at least $400,000 in parking fees since april of 2009. the two women and one man each face up to 10 years in prison if they are convicted. that parking lot holds about 2,000 cars and visitors pay $15

a vehicle to park there. documents obtained by the washington examiner show the board of visitors at university of virginia spent more than 125,000 bucks on food and travel over the past year. what's the big deal? well, turns out that's more than the boards of the other state colleges in virginia. according to the examiner, the uva bore's biggest expense? -- board's biggest intents? its annual retreat. last year they reportedly spent $34,000 for its two day trip in alexander yeah. owners of a maryland casino are planning to return about 1/3 of their slot machines to the state. they say revenues have gone down ever since maryland live! opened up in june in anne arundel county. this news comes days before maryland lawmakers have a special session to talk about adding a sixth casino to the state and expanding gambling to include table games. tonight at 7:00 on 9news feeling the bite? virginia decides whether or not the group who sent a voter registration form to this dead

dog will face punishment that, story at 9 news now at 7:00. still to come in this half hour right in time for county fair season, a warning about some of the animals you might encounter. top? >> i'm meteorologist topper shutt. we'll show you the a manic and not bad for early august. -- almanac and not bad for early pay the, although we did hit 93. average is 88 and 71. guess what? averages are coming down now. 106 is the record high, the second time we've hit 106 in recorded history. last time was july 20th in 1930. we'll come back, we'll talk about the frontal boundary, where it's headed and talk about ernesto and some news about the eastern shore. >> also up next president obama signs a bill designed to help some military families.

seven minutes of silence, no communication, no visuals, that's what the people supporting the latest mars rover mission had to deal with this motion while they waited to find out if that landing was successful. >> descending as expected. >> you remain strong.

>> yeah. stable. stable. >> jeff is good. touchdown confirmed. we're safe on mars. [ cheering and applause ] whoa! yea! >> talk about excitement, that was the reaction at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in california when the word came that curiosity touched down without a problem. and within minutes scientists were seeing their first photographs from the third rover to touch down on the red planet. these up ages represent a decade's worth of work for nasa scientists across the country and even here in maryland. as kristin fisher reports, one of the most important instruments on curiosity was designed at nasa's goddard spaceflight center in greenbelt. >> reporter: hundreds of scientists and spectators gathered at nasa goddard to

watch curiosity live up to its name. >> it's really just getting our curiosity as human beings, as we look at the universe and look around us, what else is out there? >> reporter: melissa treanor is just one of the goddard scientists that spent years developing the instrument at the core of curiosity's mission. >> sam is sample analysis at mars and if is basically the chemical -- it is basically the chemical laboratory that is on the curiosity rover. >> reporter: the sam instrument built here at nasa goddard is one of the main reasons that curiosity is so different from previous mars rovers. spirit and opportunity could only look at the soil, but curiosity can actually dig in and take real soil samples. >> spirit and opportunity, those rovers were really geologists. so now what curiosity is is much more of a geochemist. it has the ability to scoop up the robs, take them and really break them down. -- rocks, take them in and really break them down. >> reporter: to do it takes

serious sensors designed by another locally based entity, atk headquartered in arlington. >> atk was responsible for helping develop the suite of sensors that will collect the samples collected by the robot arm. >> reporter: there will be two years to try to find carbon- based organic molecules, evidence that life could have existed on the red planet. >> now the actual real adventure begins now that we're safely on the surface. >> even though the rover landed, it will be a few more months before curiosity can start collecting soil samples using that instrument built at goddard. president obama has signed a new bill providing new health benefit to marines and their families exposed to contaminated drinking water at camp lejeune between 1957 and 1987. health officials believe as many as 1 million people might have been exposed to the tainted groundwater at the base. president obama says the united states has a sacred and moral

duty to protect its men and women in uniform. today is a somber anniversary for the u.s. military. 1 year ago 25 members of the navy seal team six, five members of the u.s. army national reserve and a civilian interpreter along with seven afghan command overs died when their helicopter was shot down over afghanistan. the taliban took credit for the attack saying it shot down the chopper with a rocket propelled grenade. and 67 years ago the u.s. brought the world into the nuclear age by dropping the first atomic bomb. an estimated 144,000 people died in hiroshima as a result. today the buildings where that bomb dropped on nagasaki still sands and now there's a movement to turn those places in the desert into a national park. >> you really can't understand what conditions they were

working under unless you come out to the place where history really happened. >> it's need to be a much more balanced approach that addresses the health and environmental consequences of the production of nuclear weapons in this country. >> history isn't always pretty, and i think it's important that we don't lose this history or lose the ability to reflect on that huff. >> a bill working its way through congress would open up some of the sites, but you would have to be a u.s. citizen to visit and no cameras or cell phones would be allowed. still ahead two candidates and lot of contributions, who came away with more money in july? we'll tell you up next. i got the chance to start my own business.

i know what it's like to hire people and to make ends meet. from those experiences, i had the chance of running the olympics. the games were in real trouble. there'd been way too much spending. and in massachusetts i found a budget that was badly out of balance. our legislature was 85% democrat. and every one of the four years i was governor, we balanced the budget. i want to use those experiences to help americans have a better future. we believe in our future. we believe in ourselves. we believe the greatest days of america are ahead. i'm mitt romney and i approve this message.

the fundraising numbers are in for july. president obama and the democratic national committee raised $75 million last month for his reelection campaign, but that pales in comparison compared to the $101 million brought in by the republican national committee. 98% of the donations to the democrats fell into the category of $200 or less. if you had trouble logging onto wikipedia this morning, you're not alone. the site was down for two hours after the cables were accidentally cut near the company's data center in florida. the company is still investigating to find out why that happened. 12 cases of swine flu in hawaii, indiana and ohio have headlight departments across the country issue -- health

departments across the country issuing a warning. >> reporter: i'm scott broom at howard county, maryland fair where a new alert about the swine flu has moms and kids taking basic precautions. it's called swine in you for a reason. the strain of flu is commonly passed from pigs to people. >> my kids love the animals, but they also like to lick their hands. >> reporter: the u.s. center for disease control has reported a dozen cases of swine flu in recent weeks, all linked to contact with pigs at fairs from hawaii to indiana, good reason to take some common sense precautions. >> enjoy the fair wherever you're going, whatever county or state you're in, but try to avoid touching pigs, particularly if you're in a vulnerable population group and if you do touch pigs as part of a 4-h project or whatever, make sure you wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water afterwards. >> reporter: thus, the hand washing station right outside the petting corral here at howard county fairgrounds. >> i think it's very important. there are lots of germs in

there. >> what is unusual, it's happening during the summer. >> reporter: scott broom, 9 news now. a fire alarm blared more than 15 hours at a public housing complex in the pittsburgh area. it went off sunday evening and it was not shut off finally until this morning. the building president said the housing authority didn't have a key to the room where the alarm's control panel is located, but he apologized and said it won't happen again. a siren going off continuously from sunday until this morning. >> at least car alarms give up after a while. >> i know. that's enough to make you pull your hair out. >> we actually have news about the eastern store, not good news. we've been talking about the drought. they've been under severe drought since early spring, but now the maryland department of environment issued a drought warning for most of the eastern shore, the only exception cecil county. so now a drought warning for the eastern shore. if you've been over there going to the beach, you've seen the corn.

unless it's irrigated, doesn't look so good. let's talk about the tropics. now florence is a tropical depression and should stay a tropical depression. here are the model forecasts, each line representing a computer model where they think florence is going to go. right now national hurricane center is keeping it a tropical depression. that said, if we get a system off the southeast coast, it could still produce rain for some of the southeast and maybe as far north as the delmarva. ernesto tropical storm, we'll put this into motion and it's going to track essentially north of belize city as we go into wednesday morning probably making landfall as a category 1 and then tracking through mexico almost over mexico city, so heavy rains are possible in central mexico. that storm actually could traverse the entire country and go in the pacific to regenerate. it doesn't happen too often. right now our live look outside brought to you by michael and son, down to 90 after a high of

93, dew point 63, pressure 29.98 inches of mercury. lots of 80s. 84 in bethesda, 87 in arlington, 85 in vienna, 84 fairfax, 88 in college park, 85 in bowie, so really not too bad. we're looking for the front just to our south, isolated storms tonight but just mainly south now of fredericksburg. tomorrow pretty nice, grab your shades, a little hot thursday and scattered storms again. tonight early thunderstorm possible south of town, otherwise partly cloudy, mild, 66 to 74, winds east, southeast at 10. by morning partly cloudy, warm, air quality moderate. that's not bad, 70s and 80s, wind southeast at 10. by afternoon partly cloudy, warm, a few isolated storms but pretty nice tuesday, high temps near 90 and winds out of the southwest at 10 to 15. next three days, we'll give it code green tomorrow in our 9

weather alert code, isolated storm 89, code yellow wednesday, 90 and 92 thursday, hot with thunderstorms as well. next seven days, good news, a frontal system comes through friday. that will give us another chance for some storms, near 90 and if all goes according to plan, that front stays to our south. we stay in the 80s on sat, sunday and next monday which actually -- saturday, sunday and next monday which actually could be a refreshing change of pace. >> that's some good stuff. just in time for a big game coming up with the redskins at redskins park. >> reporter: what's going on? a lot to get to out here at redskins park. more injuries on the offensive line, that's not good and, of course, rg3, the quarterback holding his weekly press conference today. is he ready for some football thursday? we'll see. and a man under a harsh spotlight at college park speaking, randy edsel on media day next.

and now 9 sports with dave owens, the best spots in town. sports in up to. >> reporter: i thought robert griffin, iii looked a little shaky in the pocket this afternoon, late and inaccurate and holding onto the football a little longer than he and i'm sure his coaches would have liked. it's a process. of course, the team will may buffalo thursday in his first preseason game, griffin the

naive about what he's going to see when he gets to buffalo, live action versus practice where, let's face it, out here defenders not trying to kill him. how about that. griffin admitted he's holding onto the ball more than he might in a real game just so he can go through all his reads, but on thursday night it's going to be and it's got to be different. >> sitting in your lap in practice because they stop. the offensive linemen know they're going to stop. the defensive linemen know they're going to stop. it's a precautionary to make sure you don't hurt your quarterbacks, not just myself but rex and the other guys as well. so you want to make sure you get through everything, but once it becomes live contact, you know, guys are going to hit you. so we'll see what happens. >> reporter: it's probably going to be running back by committee, but right now tim hightower is atop of the depth chart. hightower went to high school in alexandria, virginia, episcopal, started five games last season, very effective but then tore his knee ligament and

that ended his season in carolina. shannon easton is about to become the first female to ref an nfl game when she refs the packers/chargers game thursday. the normal crop of referees are in a labor dispute with the league. easton has 16 years of experience at the collegiate division 1aa level. it's time to kick off a new college football season at college park. that's what they're doing. maryland media day, year 1 of the renedil sal area couldn't have been worse, 10 -- of the randy edsall area, couldn't have been worse. randy edsall says it will. >> coming into the meeting last night it was a lot different. you could feel it in the air. you could see people more comfortable. things that i talked about last night the same things i talked about a year ago, but they get it now. >> reporter: they better get it now. it's time for our olympic

update, our daily olympic update. you not how you tell your kids put your hands over the kids because you don't want to hear me say something bad. well, put your hand over your ears so you don't hear our spoiler alert. we don't know what you to know what happened, so we're going to tell you but turn away. gabby douglas competing in the individual events did not farewell, finishing last in the uneven bars. she still has the balance beam tomorrow and the women's soccer team defeats canada 4-3 in overtime. the ladies face japan in the final. as we leave you from redskins park, some bad news, chris chester offensive guard starter injured his angle. mike shanahan saying it could be a sprain. they can't afford any more injuries up there. guys, back to you. >> got to keep the rest of them healthy. thank you. that's it for us. cbs evening news is next. derek will see you at 7:00. thanks for watching tonight. have a great one. if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.

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