. this is 9news now. tick tock, tick tock. still no decision tonight from the maryland state house on a bill that would expand casino gambling in the state. the house of delegates has that bill right now, and they're making changes before sending it back to the senate for its final approval. >> this has been one highly contested debate, and it's still racing on even at this late hour. ken molestina is live in annapolis right outside the state house where tonight, ken,

we're still not sure what's in the cards. >> reporter: we still don't know. and there still hasn't been any move out of this building behind me. earlier today i heard this process being described as the sausage being made. and if you know anything about the way sausage is made, you know it's not the prettiest sight. well, at the center of all of this is a big pot of money coming to the state of maryland that everyone wants to get their fingers in. >> i don't think we're looking good to the people of maryland in the way this process is working. >> reporter: the senator opposes the bill but he's very clear on another thing. this is process of getting everyone to agree isn't easy. >> i'm not sure what the house has done. it's a mystery. >> reporter: the biggest change to the bill is an amendment that would allow all to have five gaming machines. it's a move that would benefit all of the rural communities that would benefit from a piece of the pie. >> i think we're talking about

the details on how did this become a law. >> reporter: hundreds of jobs will be created. they're lucrative projections that the state of maryland is in need of. >> i think the general sense and the general theme will still be the same. >> reporter: prince george's county senator says the bill the senate gets back isn't much different than what they sent across the hall for approval. all of the politicians are looking for is the say in the piece of what is promising to be a pie made of dollars. >> we don't expect to be home until later tonight. we have important work to do and we're going to get it done. >> reporter: back out live here, here is what is going to happen next. once the house approves and amends the bill, they're going to send it back to the senate. the senate will either accept it or reject it. more than likely they will accept it. at that point it will get sent up to the governor for his signature and approval and it will go to the voters in november.

we'll see what happens out here in annapolis. we're live out here in annapolis. parts of our area saw some severe weather earlier tonight. topper shutt joins us now from the weather center. anything left to worry about out in the sky. >> a little south and west. we still have a flash flood warning until 11:30. baltimore got hammered earlier tonight with a possible tornado, and we still had severe weather to the north and south of us. right now the heaviest storms are south and west of us. just west of fredericksburg. and these are the same clump of storms that left four to five inches of rain around harrisburg and rocking ham county. heavy rain up from madison to orange. now, what we'll do is we'll give you a little wider view and show you where the storms are going to move in the next hour. they're not going to move very fast but they're going to work off to the east and north so they're going to head towards woodbridge and stafford and

cross i95. they'll weaken a little bit. wakeup weather looks like this. i think we'll have a dry commute. 68-76 and then 68-74 by 7:00 and in the 70s by 9:00. we'll come back and talk about a yellow alert tomorrow for more storms. we'll tell you when they're going to roll in tomorrow. new tonight, prince george's county police have officially ruled the death of cheyvonne phillips to be a homicide. she disappeared after dropping off her child. a few days later, they found her body in a creek in fort washington. the medical examiner has since conducted an autopsy and prince george's county police want to hear from anybody who may know anything about what happened to her. the city of laurel now facing a $3 million lawsuit after a city police officer was caught striking a man he already put in handcuffs earlier this month, striking him three times as a cell phone camera captured all of the action.

gary nurenberg is here with the tape and the story. >> reporter: the man police arrested in the early morning hours of august 5th had returned to a bar in which he had objected, assaulted a security guard before the police arrived and assaulted him. it's what happened before that that prompted the lawsuit. the parking lot of the bar and grill as captured on the cell phone camera, he captured a suspect handcuffed on the ground before he was led to a police car by two officers. and then -- >> i was like oh, oh. i couldn't believe it. i couldn't believe it. i couldn't believe it. >> reporter: the officer on the other side of the suspect begins yelling profanity and strikes him evidently three times. watch again. [ bleep ] . >> reporter: the washington times quotes the officer as saying he was trying to keep the suspect from spitting on

officers and bystanders. citing the potential for multimillion dollar litigation, the mayor denied a 9news now request for an interview but did say there's an internal police department investigation, the results of which will be forwarded to the state's attorney. >> it just seems like that's something you might see on tv in a movie where the police rough a guy up or whatever, do you know what i'm saying. >> reporter: he says the three punches were uncalled for. >> you had him up. two officers got him. one on each arm. he's handcuffed. i don't think he needed to be hit up side the head like that. >> reporter: you saw one punch. >> yes, sir. i was like oh. >> reporter: and then you saw two punches. >> i was like oh. >> reporter: and then you saw three. >> and i was like i don't believe this is real. this is 2012 tdo 12. do you know what i mean. if you're handcuffed, you're handcuffed. you have him. you don't have to beat him down. >> reporter: he says he likes laurel police. he calls them good guys. this officer. >> he probably had a bad night. you can't hit no handcuffed

dude. >> reporter: can't hit no handcuffed dude in the age of cell phone cameras without the prospect of a multimillion dollar lawsuit. the cost picked up by the taxpayers. anita. >> thank you, gary. tonight a touching vigil to remember the lives of two men shot and killed in arlington last week. ♪ i am on the battlefield ♪ ♪ for my lord >> dozens of people came out to remember them at the hhh vp memorial garden on lehigh way. friends and family condemned the senseless violence that marked the third and fourth homicide of the year. they were found dead inside their apartment on north culpeper street. it looks like virginia state employees will be getting bonuses at the end of the year. that's according to a couple unnamed officials. they apparently saved enough money during the first half of the year to make the one time 3% bonuses happen. governor bob mcdonald is

expected to make a formal announcement tomorrow morning. the board that runs local airports is coming under fire yet again. reports of lavish trips overseas by members of the washington airport authority have prompted a letter of the u.s. transportation secretary, the mayor of dc and the governors of maryland and virginia. they all say they are "gravely concerned about what they call a lack of accountability" and they're talking about terminating former board members who had gotten jobs at the airport. it's already implemented many of the changes. >> those are easily fixed things. they should have been done a long time ago. shame on the board for not doing it until now. >> members of congress are moving forward with changes to the law that created the board in the first place. changes addressing these accountability concerns. well, the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal could take a further toll on penn state.

the board has told the university it questioned the school's compliance on government policies and on integrity. penn state "remains accredited while on warning for now". but soon it must submit a monitoring report and address the school's ability to pay financial settlements. well, new tonight, leaders of ecuador are denying reports that they've granted amnesty to the controversial founder of wikileaks. he has been taking refuge in he can ecuador. a ticking tomorrow bomb. that's the way relatives described a man who gunned down two people in texas a&m yesterday. this all started when a constable went to serve eviction papers to thomas caffal. he shot and killed the law man and then started shooting at others in the area. a bystander died in that attack.

four others hurt. they were eventually able to kill caffal. the stepfather told the reporters he was crazy as [ bleep ] . at one point we were worried he was going to come up here and do something to his mother and me. the race to the white house. mitt romney and president obama had different views on what should power the country in the next four years. >> reporter: mitt romney is lashing out against the democratic ticket for what he says is an increasing negative campaign. >> this is an election in which we should be talking about the path ahead, but you don't hear any answers coming from president obama's reelection campaign. >> reporter: romney pointed to a remark made by joe biden during a campaign stop in virginia tuesday. the vice presint told supporters, including hundreds of african-americans, that the republican ticket would unshack will wall street and shack -- unshackle wall street.

>> unchain wall street. they're going to put you back in chains. >> reporter: they had no problems with the vice president's comments but romney does. >> his surrogates have made wild and reckless allegations that disgrace the presidency. >> reporter: earlier it was campaign rhetoric as they toured key swing states. president obama promoted renewable energy during a tour of an iowa wind farm, about 20% of the state's energy comes from wind. it's an industry the president says the republicans would deflate. >> 37,000 american jobs are on the line if the wind energy tax credit is allowed to expire, like my opponent thinks they should. >> reporter: romney promoted fossil fuels during a stop in ohio and promised independence from overseas oil by the end of

his second term. >> republican vice-presidential candidate paul ryan stumped for the gop ticket tonight in las vegas. coming up on 9 news at 11:00, find out which one of your breakfast favorites could be as dangerous as smoking. plus a follow-up to a 9wants to know investigation. find out which website shut down tonight for providing minors with fake ids.

in tonight's health alert, new research that makes you think twice about frying up the omelet. the thickness of the ka roited artery -- carotid arteries. much like cigarettes, the longer you eat the yoeks, the more damage. a teenager being called a hero after helping his disabled neighbor out of his burning home. >> it's nice to know i have a young man that's a hero. >> robert lewis was watchin tv inside his arkansas home completely unaware the place was on fire. a neighbor happened to be walking by at the time. he saw what was going on. burst inside and ending up saving lewis, his dog and his

two cats. but get this, he received a speeding ticket just one half half-hour before the fire, but the officer that wrote the ticket was the first officer on the scene. and after that daring rescue, he let him off the hook with a warning and a handshake. all right. check this out. this is not something you want to see at the airport. two planes on the ground having collided. it happened at nashville international. one of the private planes was being towed when obviously something went extremely wrong. fortunately no passengers were on board and nobody was hurt. new developments on a story we first brought you in may. it's about a wildly popular website that makes fake ids for teenagers that let them buy alcohol. the china based website idchief shut down. investigator reporter andrea mccarren explains. >> their federal police are

notoriously hard handed and wouldn't take lightly being internationally embarrass i ed by the letter. >> reporter: today the website urges customers only to use their existing fake ids for buying beers in movies. the business goes on to explain it was only trying to help poor students have some fun. >> they probably were making in the rage of 20-$40 million a year. so this is a big, big business. >> reporter: the wildly popular china-based id chief.ph has been producing ids that can pass through scanners and prevent minors from buying alcohol. >> in several states they found kids 12 and 13-year-olds old inebriated. one has to question the judgment of someone that takes the id of someone so little that they had to reach up to the counter but it happened. >> reporter: earlier with a police intern, we purchased a

fraudulent pennsylvania license for $200. within week, it made the 8,000-mile journey from china to gaithersburg, maryland. >> it looks as authentic as it possibly can be. >> reporter: the id impressed police with the authenticity and came packaged in an envelope marked bracelet. inside, a gift box and an actual red bracelet. but underneath the padding wrapped in plain white paper was a pair of fake ids. andrea mccarren, 9news now. >> okay. well, minors using the fake ids to use booze or get into bars, that wasn't the only concern on capitol hill. lawmakers were worried the false identification could be used by domestic terrorists as well. the fire behavior is what i would classify extreme. >> i think it's very frightening. people are pulling together and trying to help each other. >> tonight a wildfire about 90 minutes outside of seattle, that's it, continues to burn out

of control. 60 buildings have been torched. hundreds more are threatened. about 400 people have left their homes behind while hundreds of firefighters are trying to bring the flames under control. tonight the fire covers more than 40 square miles. wow. >> and no relief out there. it's been dry for almost months now. >> part of the same pattern. >> yes. now, here is the deal, we were lucky in the immediate metro area. not so lucky the west of town. over four inches of rain and a possible tornado up in baltimore. let's start with live doppler 9000. the only warnings we have out right now are flash flood warnings for howard county until 11:30. we do see some showers and thunderstorms to the south and west. and we'll kind of focus on these. because these are going to be slow to move eastward. they will eventually cross i95. the heaviest activity is south of culpeper. see the red, that's rainfall rains of about an inch per hour. the good news is they weeken a little bit as they push off to the north and east, so that you are going to get some rain.

just some moderate rain. and developmentally down from woodbridge to quantico across 95, but it does appear that will weaken in the next hour. the big picture, satellite picture, radar combined, we have a frontal boundary that is actually still to our west. in fact, it's quite a bit to our west. we go a little further east and we'll zoom in a little more. we have a trough of low pressure which has actually been the mechanism for triggering these showers and thunderstorms. so because the front is still back to the west, that's why we're keeping the chance for showers and storm in again tomorrow. not as widespread as what we had today, but still there in the forecast. all right. live look outside. it is our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. 81 right now. it was 90 today. dew points bearable. 68. winds out of the west, southwest and pressure is rising to 29.86 inches of mercury. headlines, dry morning commute. isolated storms on wednesday. but those that develop could still be heavy or severe. less humid on thursday. that's going to be the nicest

day of the week. hot again on friday with late storms and some of those could be hefty. we'll probably make that a code yellow day. tonight 68. winds out of the southeast at about 10. tomorrow morning dry early. partly sunny and warm. a late shower possible. 70s and 80s. winds west, northwest at so. by afternoon, partcally cloudy and warm. -- partly cloudy and warm. 85-89 for temperatures. we're going to go code yellow tomorrow because of the isolated storms. code green thursday and code yellow on friday. 92. kind of hot. another frontal boundary rolls through as we get into friday night. next seven days looks like this. saturday looks ago. we're back in the mid 80s. but then the front kind of sneaks back up here to the north.

some showers are possible on sunday. maid 80s. nice on monday. temperatures in the low to mid 80s and lows downtown in the 60s which mean sunday night and monday night we could be in 50s in the burbs. >> turn off the ac. >> wouldn't that be nice. nice for the end of summer for the kids. >> yes. >> good stuff. redskins training camp all done. >> yes. >> so what's the verdict, my friend? >> looking pretty good right now. we're going to get more looks against chicago. it all looked the same. same players. same coaches. make no mistake about it, tuesday was different and for a good reason. and can anybody solve that nats powerful pitching rotation? the giants think they've got a clue. jordan zimmerman taking it in san francisco next.

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and now 9 sports with dave owens, the best sports in town. >> got some great debate going on here during the break about strasburg. enough of that, though. 26 days until regular season kickoff. redskins at new orleans. a lot is going to happen between now and then. we'll get a few more looks at rgiii. the roster will be shaved. a lot of guys are going to be in

the unemployment line between now and then. today, however, a day for a collective activity. that's because camp is officially in the books. it must be clear, they're still going to practice. just not twice a day. the players also get to go back to their families. veterans and youngsters. they don't always see the same thing the same way. but when it comes to camp, they agree. thank the lord. camp is over. >> it's time to start thinking how we going to be practicing for the regular season and stuff. so that's pretty cool. we'll be getting nights off. that's a good thing about it. but other than that, i enjoy coming out here every day going to work. >> it feels good. we have like 14 hours day and definitely i wasn't expecting that. but it didn't really bother me, because i'm doing something i love. >> the first major casualty of the season is chris kneel. unfortunately the back up nose guard injured his knee. after today it is the dreaded acl. wide receiver anthony armstrong has become the comic relief guy

at camp. he's made a habit out of corky uniform stuff. today he posed as the anti-rgiii. not number 10, but 01. he said he was going to rock the wig with the rgiii plat, but -- >> i had some actually. i had a sleeve. i had to take that off. [ laughing ] >> i had a skull cap as well. everything just got too hot. i didn't want to cramp up. >> all that hair too hot. okay. football players visiting football players members of dc united soccer paid a visit today. a huge redskins fan. he said he can't wait to see rgiii play. all right. it was baseball. but the scoreboard in san francisco looking mighty footballesque last night. the nats led 14-0 at one point. the giants developmentally got a safety to make it 14-2. i'm joking.

still talking baseball. it was an impressive win seeing it was supposed to be a matchup of division leaders. tonight, though, game 9 on the road strip and zimmerman -- trip and zimmerman on the hill picking stuff out of his hair apparently. brandon belt a pretty good name. belt with a bad belts one to the wall. the giants right now scoring there and in the 4th inning they're on top 1-0. on to the american league, what's all the conversation about here? red sox, this is what the conversation is about. they got two bases full of orioles. mark reynolds batter on. pitcher crime is what i call this. he homers twice tonight. they win it 7-1. baltimore tied for the final. wild card spot in the al. batter on pitcher crime. >> all right. [ laughing ] >> sometimes -- >> i'm still laughing about the reverse rgiii. >> sometimes he just leaves you speechless. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] the choice on debt...

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