closed. and the one that happened just a couple of days ago, we have some promising leads on that and hopefully we can bring that suspect to justice. >> reporter: despite that arlington police chief doug scott is well aware of the public concerns and the work his department is now tasked with. mainly calming worries among residents. >> i hope like everything is going to be fine you know. but that is a scary thing you know. >> reporter: i'm ken molestina, 9news now. >> police say there's no connection between any of these murders or violent crimes. if you have any information on the stabbing or any of the murders, you're asked to call arlington police. in prince george's county a man is in jail accused of sexually abusing three young children. investigators say michael brochu sexually abused a 10- year-old boy in his home between august 2011 and june 30th of this year. detectives tell 9news now they also believe he abused a 6-year- old family member and another 8- year-old boy who were in his care. the deadly fire at a house

in capital heights has claimed a second victim. 15-year-old ricky cole died yesterday afternoon as a result of his injuries. his 5-year-old niece jade buffalo died wednesday. her father remains in the hospital with severe burns and fire investigators say an improperly plugged in air- conditioning unit is to blame for the fire. d.c. police and members of the gay lesbian and transgender community held a rally last night stand up against hate crimes. the show of solidarity is in response to a recent attack on a gay couple. this rally held near the site of that attack. the 1900 block of third street in northeast. organizers asked neighbors to get more involved in this fight against intolerance. >> think about one thing you can do next week to fix this problem. whether it's volunteer with a local organization, donating to a cause, getting to know your neighbors. >> the attacks took place on july 22nd and one victim

suffered several broken bones and no one has been arrested. maryland lawmakers are in annapolis for a second time this summer for another special session. this one is aimed attending the political paralysis over gambling in the state. >> yesterday lawmakers took the first step to approving a bill which could put a big vegas style on the banks of the potomac. scott broom has more on debate from annapolis. >> reporter: on the plate here in the special session of the legislature is whether or not to allow a very big vegas style casino on the banks of the potomac river at national harbor. barely a mile across the d.c. line. at national harbor developers and county executive baker want a vegas stale casino. yet another expansion of gambling in maryland. an expansion that requires an act of the legislature and the approval of voters in a referendum in november.

maryland senate went into session in an attempt to settle this issue once and for all. >> and so daunting task. >> reporter: the senate president mike miller, the state's most powerful gambling supporter, is playing it cool. >> if this bill passes, what you're seeing in the obama, romney ads are nothing compared to the ads you will be seeing in prince george's county if this bill passes, because the people in west virginia do not want this bill to pass. because they want the maryland money to continue to flow to west virginia. we need to keep it here and build schools with maryland money and cut taxes with maryland money. thank you very much. >> reporter: the forces at play are powerful. the developers of existing slots casinos in maryland and competitors from out of state are opposed. saying another casino in prince george's county would hurt business. >> this is our community. >> reporter: meanwhile china groups in prince george's county are still opposed. >> plenty of light does not include casinos in prince

george's county. [ applause ] >> reporter: if the way is cleared here at the special session towards gambling at national harbor, and if voters approve in november, the earliest you could be playing blackjack there would be in 2016. in annapolis, scott broom, 9news now. >> taking a look at the latest from campaign 2012, both president obama and his republican rival mitt romney are taking a day off of traveling. the president will host the annual dinner honoring the islamic holy month of ramadan at the white house. romney scheduled to be working at the boston headquarters with three weeks remaining until the gop convention speculation with his running mate is growing. louisiana governor bobby jindal and florida senator marco rubio are said to be on the short list along with virginia governor mcdonnell. microsoft developed a surveillance system for new york city. it analyzed video camera

footage, 911 calls, radiation detectors, license plate readers and palls all the data to one smart processing hub in realtime. while heinousing the new domain -- announcing the new domain awareness system it will help inprove the crime fighting ets and also said it will be available to law enforcement agencies arnold the world. 30% of all sales of the program will go to the city. time right now 4:35. and here's a look at other things making news now. lawyers for the man accused of the shootings in colorado say their client is mentally ill and they need more time to assess james holmes' condition. those words didn't sit well with some survivors of the attack. >> it doesn't give him the right to do what he did. i don't care how mentally damaged he is. >> he appeared wide eyed and dazed inside thursday's courtroom hearing. the former ph.d. student is accused of opening fire at a mint showing of --

midnight showing of the latest "batman" movie on july 20th. he's due back in court on august 16th. the 2012 drought in the u.s. is causing food prices to rise around the world. the united nations says the index rose 6% last month which tracks international food prices. severe drought conditions in the midwest pushed corn prices up nearly 23% in july. the u.s. is the number one exporter of corn, soybeans and wheat. the national september 11th memorial and museum achieved a milestone. more than four million people have visited the sit since et opened -- site since it opened last summer at the world trade center. there's 170 countries represented. our time is 4:36. the cool trend will continue today. but it comes with a round of showers. at 4:39, howard will let us know how long and how strong they're going to be. >> cool down sounds good. at 4:40 one of the largest

investment banks at the center of the 2008 financial crisis receives a pass from the justice department. >> at 4:49 another round of track work to slow down the weekend commute. we'll let you know which lines will be affected and where. >> we are back in two minutes with a look at your weather first. thanks for watching on this friday morning. this is 9news now. m din, sunday morning on "biocentury this week", hear what bipharmacy ce oz. are saying about patient centered drug development. watch "biocentury this

it is 4:39 on this friday morning. get the rain gear handy. we got showers and storms lined up just to our west. they'll be coming in this morning and probably get a second, third, maybe a fourth round of some showers and storms today. it's going to keep temperatures down a few peeks of sunshine and highs in the mid, maybe upper 80s. i'll be back with the full weekend forecast in five minutes. right now beverly farmer is in for monika samtani with timesaver traffic. howard, right now your ride

complicated in virginia by a crash. it's northbound on 95 trying to get out of dumfries into dale city right near the way station and northbound it's in the left side of the roadway blocked there. camera shot kind of blurry there from vdot but the left side still blocked. so just waiting for tow trucks on i-66, between marshall and the plains to separate wrecks with details coming up in the next timesaver traffic at 4:47. jessica? thank you beverly. the time right now 4:40 and i am watching your money. here's today's headlines. the justice department decided it will prosecute goldman sachs or its employees in relation to the 2008 financial crisis. the doj issued a statement and it says -- it could not meet the burden of proof to show the company engaged in any illegal activities. the investigation began when a senate sub committee said that goldman sachs deceived investors about risky mortgage securities in order to shift risk from the company's balance sheet over to its investors.

the treasury department is set to release the budget report for july and when it comes out later this morning we're expected to learn the government has a deficit of $975 billion for the first ten months of the fiscal year. that sounds pretty bad but get this, the figure is lower than the $1.1 trillion deficit for the same period last year. maybe a small sign of improvement. and there's signs the job market is improving. 6,000 fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week but the job crisis in greece is getting worse. the unemployment rate there has jumped to 23%. u.s. investors continue to watch greece's economic problems very, very closely and now checking the numbers from wall street -- some games already charge you for a sub sacramento kings to play. and now -- subscription to play. and now every app on facebook can sell you a subscription as

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good morning and welcome back to 9news now. 4:44. we have some exciting news to tell you about. it has nothing to do with weather. we want to congratulate a member of our morning crew. a valued member. delia goncalves if you've been watching you know she's been carrying a little extra weight

around. she delivered a baby girl about 11 hours ago. there she is. very pretty. arrived at 6:25 yesterday evening. weighing 8 pounds, 4 ounces. she was 20 inches long. mom, baby, dad darrell, big sister are all doing mean and congratulations and we hope that they're all sleeping but if you're watching, delia we miss you and congratulations. >> good morning. >> she is very efficient and she was here late morning yesterday and by dinner time she's having a baby. >> apparently only was in labor for about an hour and a half because reporters get it done on deadline. every time. right? >> we got to get it. >> got to get it done. >> get her done. caused a power outage in parts of the shenandoah valley here. a few thousand out there and the line of showers and storms headed right towards us right for the morning commute. i am the bearer of bad news. i apologize for that. here's the day planner and start you off on this friday morning with showers and storms several rounds of them today.

i don't think it's going to be raining all day. but keep the rain gear handy and it is going to be tough to get the outdoor plans in. i think some peeks of sunshine that will help keep temperatures in the mid 80s and maybe upper 80s with the south wind at about 10, maybe 10 to 15 but the threat of storms will be with us you'll see all day long. even though it won't be an all day rain. although there's a decent amount of rain coming in right now from west towards the east. east of town i know it's been quiet. last night heavy thunderstorms and i had an inch and two- thirds up at my place in clarksburg during the evening hours. and you see all of the rain coming up not as much lightning right now. seeing a little bit down just north of culpeper but switching over to live doppler 9000 hd, loudoun county, leesburg this is coming into you. headed up into frederick county lighter showers into montgomery although up to dickerson and poolesville you may get clipped by that. farther south south of aldi we have another patch of rain moving north and east. in fact to fauquier county back

to culpeper and rappahannock and look at the yellows and reds here. this is moderate to heavy rain. little bit of lightning and thunder mixed in as well and all of it lifting north northeast at 30 miles an hour. so prince william county, boy, this is going to get to you here over the next 30 to 60 minutes and then eventually fairfax the district closer in to the metro area and pension may be a -- prince george's county may be a little while still. even further south we go south of culpeper now. you see mod rain rains here and this is trying to get over to i- 95. so you get the idea. if you're not wet now, you're going to be coming wet over the next couple of hours. 80 if town. where it's -- in town. where it's still dry. but out to the west where we had heavy rain overnight temperatures in the upper 60s now on the i-81 corridor. it is 73 in gaithersburg. looking outside on the michael & son weather camera, got to point it to the west southwest hoping to catch a little lightning but not that much activity going on at the moment. as far as the lightning is concerned. 80 degrees and cloudy officially at reagan national.

another very sticky steamy morning with the humidity at 79% and a south wind at 8 miles an hour. here's the beg picture with the area of rain coming up at us out of southwestern virginia and western north carolina. another batch of rain in ohio and there's actually another front in ohio. lots of energy and instability in front of it and i hope that will limit the severe threat for later this afternoon because the atmosphere just won't have time to en90s. looking at devil -- energize. looking at the sunny brackets and into the this afternoon -- afternoon and lesser action tonight but the weekend looks a little mixed. saturday morning could be some showers and going to the beach, saturday i think it is going to be showering on and off all day. 87 today with the showers and storms and tonight we're back in the 60s and 70s with 87 tomorrow. a good looking sunday. good look monday as we turn hot and a couple of storms by

tuesday. 4:48. beverly farmer over to you. howard, we've got an accident cleaning up on northbound 95. travelers out of stafford, quantico, making your way into dumfries the crash clean-up is right at the struck scale at the way station here between dumfries and dale city. still getting by along the right side with relatively friday brief delays. over to 66 in now inside the beltway, 66 falls church and into rosslyn lanes are open and pavement is dry. but 66 out in fauquier where you saw all that red and yellow on the radar? there's been an accident westbound at the pet exit at the planes at the 35 exit marker. eastbound there was a tree across the road at the 25-mile marker and a crash so cleaning that up. traffic is only getting by on the shoulder. we're getting word of the commercial fire on route 29 lee highway and gainesville close to route 15. shutting down at least southbound 29 so if that's your way up to 66, that's a trouble spot too. maryland beltway picking up all the road work, no problems to report right now as you make

your way in either direction through silver spring between new hampshire avenue, university boulevard all the road work out of the way and a good pace there 270, 95 and maryland the bw parkway checked in all right. that's a look at timesaver traffic. back to you. thanks. you have to add some time this weekend, metro riders you can expect another weekend of delays due to track work. the medical center in bethesda stations on the red line will be closed beginning at 10:00 tonight. and the closures will last through sunday. shuttle buses will be provided but red line riders should add an extra half hour to the trip. there are also be single tracking on parents of the orange -- parts of the orange, blue and green lines. passengers at dulles airport you have a new tool to get through security quicker. a new video system calculates wait times at the main terminals east and west check points. the information will allow passengers to select the lines which are moving the quickest. the wait times are displayed at the check point mezzanines and

on the airport authority's website. dulles is the first airport in the country to employ this new technology. making more people sick. the centers for disease control report that 145 new cases this week have been reported that is up from just 29 last week. most illnesses are in children. and they are mild. the cdc says the flu is spreading from infected pigs and so far people are not spreading it to each other. health experts say anyone attending state or county fairs should wash their hands if they are around pigs. high levels of iron could raise your risk of bowel cancer. according to british researchers it can activate a faulty anticancer gene. a new study in the lance et finds the benefits of cholesterol lowering drugs

outweigh the increased risks of diabetes. they were 28% more likely to develop diabetes if they had one least risk factor for the disease but they found patients were less likely to develop cardiovascular disease and therefore less likely to die. efforts are underway to make yoga and pole dancing olympic sports. i didn't know this. >> who knew? >> who knew. >> these discussions have some people wondering why other sports are already part of the games. peggy fox takes us to a local yoga studio for some reflection. >> bends your knees, roll your hips open. >> reporter: if you scoff at the notion that yoga might become an olympic sport, consider this. it may be more physically challenging than some sports already in the olympics. like. >> table tennis. >> reporter: or race walking. >> they got really into it and their form and stuff. i think it's really cool i mean. i'll try it out. >> reporter: some question why

rhythmic gymnastics or synchronized swimming are olympic sports. how about shooting? >> i'm not a big fan of guns but you know they can be my bodyguard anytime. [ laughter ] >> reporter: pole dancers may need bodyguards after their routines but is it a sport worthy of formal competition at the highest level? >> is dancing an olympic sport? i don't think it is. like -- it's more of an art form right you know entertainment form. >> reporter: the international federation of pole sports along with usa yoga are both working to getting in the official games. paula owner of dancing mine yoga in falls church would love to see her passion brought to the world stage. >> let's bring it on. if it means more people you know understanding about yoga and like getting a chance to see how beautiful a practice is, why not? >> reporter: if yoga becomes an olympic sport, it would mean

yogis competing against one another and that's really not what yoga is all about or is it? peggy fox, 9news now. >> pole dancing, yoga. 4:54. time for the question of the morning. >> that's right. and today it's -- >> log on to the wusa9 facebook fan page and leave your response and we'll reveal the answer during our 6:00 hour. we'll be right back.

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welcome back 4:56 your weather first this friday morning. we have quote a bit of -- quite a bit of rain over the west metro. that will be moving in over the next one to two hours. look for scattered showers and thunderstorms today. some peeks of sunshine as well and the more sun we see the

worse the threat of severe thunderstorms this afternoon with the highs in the mid to possibly upper 80s. we'll have the weekend forecast during 9news now at 5:00 a.m. right now here's beverly farmer with good and bad. indeed i-95 northbound getting better clearing up the crash in dumfries and dale city near the truck way station. the traffic volume is light. to the west on 66 between the plains and marshall. two separate crashes details coming up in your next timesaver traffic at 5:01. andrea, jessica back to you. thank you beverly. this election year will ferrell plays a long time north carolina congressman in a race for his political life. >> manuel gallegus has the sneak peek at the new movie "the campaign" which hopes in feet -- openers in theaters today -- opens in theaters today. >> reporter: punching a baby, womanizing, drinking, just another day on the campaign trail for southern congressman cam brady. >> let me hear a cam brady '012. oh. shove a throwing star up a

chinese -- >> reporter: will ferrell plays a bumbling north carolina lawmaker who always wins. >> i refuse to lose and i will win! >> reporter: but newcomer marty huggins a christian conservative played by zachary is his on his trail. the actors say their character's bad behavior sometimes felt like the real world of american politics. >> unfortunately it is a little bit too close to home in a way. we didn't really intend for that to happen. we were hoping to do more of a heightened reality but reality caught up with us a little bit. >> my hair could lift a car off a baby if it had to. >> reporter: he wanted his congressman to have hair like disgraced politician john edwards. but otherwise cam brady wasn't bassed on any one -- based on any one person. >> a lot of politicians are similar to my guy in that you know, they -- they sound really

good and they're very polished but at the end of the day they're not saying a whole lot o things. thee magic kingdom as its is on earth in a helicopter! they hope it offers real relief. >> reporter: manuel gallegus, cbs news, new york. >> some of the ads are really ugly. good morning and thank you for watching 9news now at 5:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. >> and i'm jessica doyle in for mike hydeck. beverly farmer is in for monika samtani. she's going to have traffic in a moment but howard bernstein has your weather first. >> it's been a loud night in many areas out to the west. and the shenandoah valley. those storms are moving closer and closer toward d.c.. so while it's dry now if you're an early commuter probably going to beat it. but if you leave 6:00, 6:30 it's going to get downhill here a little bit later. let's show you what's going on here with the day planner this morning. because we have the still dark until abou