edge, titled levation. the train accident happened a short time later. 21 cars of the 80 car coal train derailed. the two girls were found dead at the scene after one tweeted earlier in the evening about drinking in ellicott city. >> we have video information that we're down loading and looking at. >> investigator is now leading a team to determine exactly what happened and why and refusing to speculate if the train derailed during an emergency stop, perhaps to avoid the girls on the track. >> a whole lot more than just a hard stop. the weight of the train, all these kinds of things. >> up there on that train track, there's no plates for them to go. when a train comes. >> residents say the tracks are a frequent hangout for kids. >> everybody chilled on and hung out on right over there.

basically get away from all the scenery over here and don't worry about police messing with you. >> reporter: the ntsb just finished giving us a late briefing this afternoon. the investigators told us that the two operators on the train and a fireman who was on the train did not notice the derailment until it occurred. there was an automated emergency braking system that kicked in and they were not clear about why that system kicked in. howard county officials have reported to us this afternoon, sadly, that the girl's bodies were found under a huge pile of coal. beside the tracks and ne to an overturned car. reporting live, scott broom, 9news now. >> so sad and so many questions left, scott, thank you. we continue our live team coverage from james madison, university, that is where elizabeth nash was a student. >> andrea mccarren is on the campus tonight. >> today was move in day here

at jmu. normally a day of excitement and new beginnings. but early this morning, word began to spread that one of the sorority sisters was dead. >> it should be an exciting time for students to come back to school. t the loss of elizabeth is truly tragic. >> a sign paying tribute to elizabeth nass hangs outside her sorority house. she would have returned to alpha sigma alpha within days. >> our hearts go out to elizabeth's family and friends. i can't imagine what they are dealing with right now. >> nass and 19-year-old rose mayr, a nursing major at university of delaware were spending a final evening tother before returning to their respective universiti nass posted this photo minutes before their lives abruptly ended on a railroad bridge suspended high above ellicott city. minutes before she died, nass tweeted about her get together

and 11:40 p.m., 22 minutes before the derailment, she posted, drinking on top of the ellicott city sign with rose pedals. that was her friend's twitter handle. and just one day before, nass tweeted their upcoming plans. once more before i leave for school. you, me, handle of bernettes. plans to take public transportation weren't enough to keep those two young women alive. coming up tonight at 6:00, we'll hear some thoughts about nass from the sorority president. in harrisonburg, virginia, 9news now. >> and here's some more details on the derailed train. according to the ntsb, two locomotives were pulling two coal cars. the train weighed 9,000 tons and 3,000 feet long. that's more than half a mile. it was going 25 miles per hour at the time of the detrailment, which left 21 of 80 cars off the tracks.

>> police in prince georges county announced the arrest of a man in that crash monday that killed a police officer up oni- 95 in beltsville. there are still plenty of questions about the crash itself. we're going to get some answers from bruce leshan. >> absolutely. i have pride in what he did. >> morris' friends on the force taking sol lis that he died doing the job he dreamed about for years. >> he was little man on the big campus. he was going to be the big man one day, and he's the big man on campus now. >> morris and his partner were following a green acura with two men inside. they were suspected of trying to break into a car at a laurel gas station. it is unclear if the acura driver swerved and forced the police cruiser off the road, but we do know morris was ejected from the cruiser that he suffered severe head trauma and that he died at the

hospital. overnight, d.c. police found the acura on st. louis street southeast and questioning the one man that they found inside. >> i think the single biggest problem that we are all facing around the country, especially in major cities and suburbs around that is people that are stealing or robbing, breaking into cars to take property and resell it. >> and that could very quickly turn dangerous. >> yes, it could. >> police insist that they are still trying to determine if morris was wearing his seat belt. the other officer survived. also unclear is whether the officers had permission from commanders to pursue the acura. at the 23-year-old's laurel home, police from across the region gathered to comfort his family. his friends say morris was the kind of officer who tried to do everything by the book. >> he loved being the police.

this is a police station in mourning tonight, but we have just learned that officer morris was not, not wearing his seat belt. we are trying to get details on the suspect and the charges against him. derek, back to you. >> bruce leshan, thanks. trying to cloud over this afternoon. a lovely day earlier and a few showers are starting to pop up. topper on the terrace with the forecast. top. >> you know what, good news. all the showers right now are south of town. so i think it's going to be okay for the nats and braves. let me start with live doppler 9,000. most of which are south of fredericksburg. we had a couple pop up earlier in southern st. mary's county. right now, unless you are going south of fredericksburg, we don't see anything. it looks like a dry commute home. speak of the game, temperatures generally in the low 80s. a few clouds, but i think we'll

stay dry. winds out of the southeast at 10. another huge game for the nats. for tonight, shower or thunderstorm possible, mainly south and comfortable. lows 58 to 68 downtown. we will come back, tropical storm isaac just formed. we'll tell you where he is headed. >> thanks, topper. despite pressure from his own party, republican president is not dropping out of the space. it all stems from his controversial remark about rape and abortion. >> missouri republican is holding his ground and staying in the senate race. tuesday afternoon on the mike huckabee radio show, he said he is standing on principle. >> i misspoke one word and all of a sudden overnight, everybody decides, well, aiken can't possibly win. >> the congressman's comment about women and rape has been costly. >> it seems to be first of all, from what i understand

from doctors, that's really rare. if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to shut that whole thing down. >> mitt romney quickly distanced themselves from aiken. >> i can't defend what he said. i can't defend him. >> a growing number of republicans are calling for him to step down. aiken also lost a key source of campaign funding. $5million in advertising set aside for the missouri republican race will be spent elsewhere. two weeks ago, aiken won a primary to challenge democrat, claire mccaskill's senate seat. she faces a tough reelection bated l and wants aiken to stay in the race. >> ultimately at the end of the day, the republican primary conducted and a candidate was selected and now it's time to move on and for the voters to decide between aiken and me. >> a source close to aiken tells cbs news he may reconsider and drop out in the coming weeks. then he would need a court order to get his name off the

ballot and costing his party valuable time. cbs news. >> well aiken says he still does have voter support and enough to keep him alive in this race. a washington landmark should be back in business by the end of this week. we're talking about the reflecting pool right down in front of the lincoln memorial. if you've been down there, there has been construction going on for the last couple of years and the pool has been off limits since then. the pool is expected to be refilled by this weekend. by the way, this construction plan costs about $34 million. >> coming up, a marathon swimmer's attempt. only on 9, a grandfather saves the day. after his one-year-old granddaughter gets a piece of fruit lodged in her throat. the wild fire in northern california is now burning across 30 square miles. i'm in shingletown, california. that story coming up.

turning now to the war in afghanistan. by u.s. general. the joint chief of staff was sleeping and he wasn't hurt. general demsey was visiting afghanistan. afghan security forces killed ten u.s. troops in the last ten weeks alone. general demsey took another aircraft to continue his tour. firefighters in northern california starting to gain ground on a wild fire that covers 16,000 acres. hard to imagine. >> huge, thousands of people forced out of their homes and many are calling shelters home. crews are trying to keep the massive wild fire. burned through several homes, along with dozens of farms.

now forcing thousands to evacuate. >> it's so scary. you don't know what to grab and you get here and forget things. >> debra is staying at a community center the red cross converted into a shelter. she lost the house to fire 15 years ago and hopes her current home survives. >> we lost everything we own. it's like, oh my gosh. nobody should have to go through this twice. >> fast moving fire covers more than 30 square miles. extra crews are being brought in to help keep the flames under control. about 1900 firefighters are working on the edge of the fire trying to box it in. officials say it is 35% contained and they expect to continue making progress. that's good news for katherine. she evacuated over the weekend and is hoping to go home soon. but worries what she'll find when she gets there. >> i cried. >> it's mostly just fear of not knowing. >> shifting winds are helping firefighters keep the flames away from homes. evacuees hope the weather

continues to cooperate. cbs news, shingletown, california. >> now that fire in northern california is just one of dozens burning in several western states. >> diana, the latest quest to swim from cuba to florida is over. she was pulled from the water this morning as winds and waves threw her around. jelly fish stings, hypothermia, and sharks. >> the whole crisis mode because they were assessing the threat out there. we had every member of the shark team in the water. we had extremely difficult and changing currents, which was making navigation very, very, very difficult. even with all of our high-tech equipment. >> her fourth attempt to swim the waters. she told reporters it will probably be her last. she was pulled from the water 50 miles short of her goal. >> it's not like she was

almost there. >> true. >> she had 50 miles to go. >> you think so? >> it's doable. >> those jelly fish. >> no, never. >> we have tropical storm, isaac. >> where is he? >> he is 500 miles away. but we are going to show you where we think he's going to go. this could be interesting as we get into the ladder part of the weekend. looks like it's going to become a hurricane. category one hurricane. this is just from the mass hurricane center. right now, this track, they are taking it essentially, actually south of the dr and south of puerto rico and to the northwest over cuba. it will be a category 1 on sunday. now if you look at the spaghetti plot, each model being a line, there are models taking it here, there are models taking it there. what the national hurricane center has done is picked their favorite model and blended a couple together with this track.

that could become interesting for south florida as we get into sunday, monday, or especially monday and tuesday of next week. good time, good time to down load our 9 hurricane tracker. it's free. go to our website. if you have or weather app, you can go to the information button, turn off the radar and satellite and turn on the tropical track. it's kind of cool. live doppler 9,000. some showers and storms, but they are south of town. i think it will be dry for the nats game. pretty heavy, but south of our friends in fredericksburg. can't rule out a sprinkle, but much quieter tonight than last night. live look outside. it is our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. and we're looking at temperatures very manageable. 84. pretty good deal. look at the dew point in the 50s. any time dew points in the 50s in august, you should jump for joy. relative humidity below 40%. winds calm, the pressure 30.03 inches of mercury and steady.

temperatures are very nice. 85 rockville. but 80 in bethesda. 80 in vienna and 70s. 78 in fairfax. 79 in reston. 82 in college park and 81 over in bowie. so, headline should stay dry for the nats. can't rule out an isolated shower. but the storms are south of town. very comfortable. wednesday looks okay. you shouldn't have to change any plans for wednesday. for tonight, shower or thunderstorm possible. mainly south. comfortable. 58 to 68 for lows. winds easterly at 5 to 10. now by morning, partly sunny and mild. temperatures in the 60s and 70s. dry commute for your wednesday morning. and by afternoon, partly sunny and warm. shower or thunderstorm possible. primarily south of town. and storms are going to be few and far between. a much better chance of seeing a shower in the metro area than a thunderstorm. highs about 85 and winds

easterly at 5 to 10. all right, let's break it down. some of the kids go back to school and they might need a sweater. 76 to 81 at noon and 82 to 87. a slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm in by evening. but primarily south of town. next three days, guess what? we're going to do green, green, and green. shower or storm. 87 on thursday, shower or storm. maybe a shower on friday. temperatures in the upper 80s to near 90. not enough to alter your plans. looks like this. we're looking at temperatures going up a little bit as we go into the next few days. upper 80s. we get into saturday, near 90 on sunday. we have nice and a couple drops on saturday and sunday. the most part, the weekend will be nice. do not cancel those tee times. all right, we didn't get to this last week.

this was sent to us by eddie in smithburg and this was taken two weeks ago. it looks like a funnel cloud, but it's really not. it is a tremendous amount of rain and downdraft, but there's no rotation and it's kind of cool. looks ominous. >> that is the hammer of god. >> that is run for the seller. so, eddie, nice job. you want to send us something, go to our website and yes, include your name, location, and a brief description. >> you should have him caption your pictures. >> that would be funny. >> the beltway's new express lanes getting their first cars even though they will be open to traffic. i'll explain what that means. >> up next, we'll tell you what low cost carrier will break some fines because they broke the rules. ♪

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a whopping $90,000. that's the total fine for violations under the passenger bill of rights. the dot says jet blue did not follow a new rule that requires them to tell passengers every 0 minutes that they have permission to leave a plane if that flight has been delayed more than 30 minutes after a scheduled takeoff. in this case, transportation officials say the aircraft did not depart until three hours after boarding. the passenger bill of rights went into effect in 2010. and they are among the most popular vehicles out there, but they also top the national insurance crime bureau's list of the most stolen cars as well. and for the fourth straight year, the 1994 honda accord takes the number one spot. the honda civic and acura also crack the top ten, but there is a sliver, or a silver lining. no models made after 2006 made the list and car thefts are at a 44 year low. and the rumors are growing that the iphone 5 will be unveiled

in early september. so, if you just have to have that new version, experts say unload the old one now before everybody else decides to do the same thing. why? well you'll get more money for one thing, most companies will guarantee the price for three to four weeks. all it takes is two weeks for an iphone to lose it value in a market saturated with everybody. anita. >> good advice. it's payback time. workers are getting extra money in their paychecks. the workers are being repaid for the money they lost while being forced to take furlough days last year. we're talking about 22,000d.c. workers affected. they will get one-time lump sum payments depending on their pay schedule. >> district has another million dollar power ball winner. introduced during a ceremony today in southeast. jackson says she was skeptical at first when she turned in her

ticket. >> checked it under one of the little machines and the machine says winner, take it to the agent. went to the agent and i'm looking and i'm thinking, oh come on now. give them my $10. it said, you're a big winner. >> lottery officials say this is the third winning power ball sold in the district this year. >> coming up, three daycare workers facing charges after police say they encourage toddlers to fight each other and then video taped it. also ahead, gang prevention or oklahoma pride in wait until you hear why one school told a five-year-old boy, turn your shirt inside out. but up next, the dramatic 911 calls of a family comes to the rescue of a one-year-old girl choking on a piece of fruit. wñ

on on 9, a little girl lucky to be alive after her grand dad came to her rescue. anny hong has the story. >> you want more coins? >> probably the most terrified thing i have ever experienced in my life. i was fearing for the worst. >> she is back with playing with her toys and big sister in

her arlington home. on sunday afternoon, she gave her family the biggest scare of their lives. >> she was just not breathing and laying there and limp. i panicked. >> she was just finishing up lunch when her parents gave her cantaloupe. one got stuck in her throat. >> she's turning blue. >> okay, can you look in her mouth and see if you can see anything. >> her dad called 911 on sunday afternoon during lunch. he relayed instructions to his father who had cpr training. >> do you want to start cpr? >> i guess so, yeah. >> okay, listen carefully. i'll tell you what to do. lay the baby flat on the back. >> okay. >> following the operator's instructions, rick performed mouth to mouth on his granddaughter. >> completely cover the baby's mouth and nose with your mouth. blow two small breaths of air. >> tilted her mouth up and did

a couple quick breaths and didn't get any reaction and did a couple more and she started choking and hacking on her own. >> he never thought he would have to use his cpr training, especially at her party. thankfully she'll be able to celebrate later. >> i hope i don't ever have to do that again. >> in arlington, anny hong, 9news now. >> what a great outcome. her parents said doctors said they did nothing wrong and the smartest thing was call 911. would have lost precious time. her parents also hope their story will encourage other parents to get cpr training. three daycare workers now under arrest for allegedly urging toddlers under their care to fight each other. police say it happened at the hands of our future daycare on south state strep in dover, delaware. and tony tells us those workers were charged after investigators say they found cell phone video of the

incident. >> after finding out cell phone video was taken here back in march. three-year-olds being encouraged to fight, parents showed up to a meeting at the dover police department looking for answers. amy says it's hard to believe what she heard. >> i've never seen any of the teachers do anything that was negative toward the children. and my son has never come home with any bumps or bruises. they asked me that today and i just, i don't -- i really don't know what to think. >> i'm just worried it could have been my son and maybe there's more times that it happened and it's not on video and the parents don't know and nobody knows about it. so that's just what worries me. >> it infuriates you. it's a variety of emotions that you feel. >> captain tim of the dover police department says the women responsible could be heard in the video of the children fighting as well. >> it's to give you the tone

of what the video was about. one child starts screaming because the other one is pinching him and one of the adults yell, no pinching, only punching. so it is not like they did not know what was going on. it's very obvious that they were certainly aware of what was going on and doing nothing. it just sickens you to think an adult would act like that. >> something crystal did not want to hear because her child was in a class of the two children being told to fight. she left shocked because she knows stephanie meyers and would never have suspected this. >> two kids were fighting and no one stepped in, as an adult, to break the fight up. i grew up with her. but love hour her to death. i can't imagine her not doing anything. >> and dover police say all three women are out on bail, but the license for that daycare center has been suspended. >> montgomery county police are searching for the gunman behind a robbery in takoma

park. it happened last night at the econo lodge. police say the suspect robbed the hotel as well as two people inside. there were no injuries. montgomery county police attempted to track the suspects, but he got away. takoma park police asking for your help solving two burglaries that happened yesterday morning investigators believe the same two men were involved in both of these cases. the first burglary took place around 9:00 a.m. in the 7400 block of carol avenue. the second one, ten minutes later in the 200 block of spring street. the suspect's vehicle was found abandoned in d.c. there are new allegations of nepotism over at the air force authority. the washington examiner reports that at least four relatives of the authorities board members were given summer jobs. all working on the dulles project. it's not all that uncommon for parents to get summer jobs. and you might see traffic out on the new beltway express

lanes in northern virginia. that doesn't mean the lanes are open. the on road testing of the tolling and traffic management equipment is now being done and drivers on the beltway are being warned, stay alert, don't follow the testing vehicles into the express lanes. the testing is being done from the interchange over to the route 23 interchange in tyson's corner. and a warning out now to drivers around frederick. there is a very good chance you'll get caught the next time you pass a stopped school bus. that's because the county has installed cameras on its buses and today the sheriff's office and school administrators were showing off that new equipment. violators could get a $125 fine. they arenot playing around. >> some military moms in virginia were treated to a megababy shower today. virginia's first lady and author, heidi, hosted the shower for 100 new and expecting moms in springfield. the author of what to expect when you're expecting. great book. she and mcdonnell are partnered

with operation home front d.c. metro for this special event for those military moms. coming up, a high school withholds the valedictorian's diploma after she gave the graduation speech. what did she say that got everyone so upset? we'll tell you about it in a minute. >> pretty quiet, but there are audiotape l of storms, primarily south of town. we'll show you live doppler 9,000. a storm south of fredericksburg. these may go into the northern neck and may clip southern maryland. for the most part, a dry commute home. the question is, will the nats game stay dry? we'll talk about that and we'll talk about isaac, brand-new tropical storm. plus, something out of an action movie. this is a real-life stunt pulled off by a woman on a moving tight rope. we are always on, wusa9.com. stay with us. we'll be right back. >> pick up my jaw off the floor.

move over nik wallenda, there's a new tight rope sensation out there. the daredevil in this case a woman carefully towing the line between these two moving trucks. the objective, walk from the top of one truck to the other as they barrel through a tunnel. line breaks, too close together, line goes slack. the stunt, which happened in crowe croatia is part of a volvo ad. >> i never black lined moving forward. >> she did do it. she did that stunt. it was pretty sick. the crew applauded her afterwards. >> if you fall over and get hurt, nobody is feeling sorry for you.

that's crazy. the daredevil performing the stunt, he is the woman's record holder. she did fall once, but she was wearing an ankle safety harness. he had to cut three tapes together. look at that. wow. >> safety harness on your ankle. how helpful. okay, a mother in oklahoma shocked to find her five-year- old kid broke school rules when he wore a university of michigan t-shirt. >> made him turn it inside out because it said michigan. >> he was embarrassed. >> that's so weird. oklahoma city public school policy bans kids from wearing anything other than oklahoma college apparel. the dress code was created in 2005. they are going to take another look at this policy. >> how old is he? >> five. >> not in a gang. okay, high school valedictorian is not apologizing to her school, even if it means she doesn't get her diploma.

the high school won't give caitlin her diploma because she used the word hell in her graduation speech. folks from all over the country are calling her dorm at south western oklahoma university saying we support you. >> i did not think it would get that big. i don't want to because i'm not sorry. so writing an apology letter that is going to be a lie, which if they are saying that my cursing was sinning, that would be another sin. so, don't want to have two sins on my hands. >> well, the principal says the request for a written apology is darn reasonable. he hopes her family will call him personally so they can resolve this. >> what is going on in oklahoma? still ahead tonight, all she wanted to do was go bowling for her birthday. why one alley told a virginia girl no. that's coming up. but first tonight's health alert. a new way to treat brain tumors that are inoperable.

we'll talk about that.

topping tonight's health alert, a radical but exciting idea using cord blood to cure autism. a california neurologist is launching an fda approved study with 30 children. they'll get infusions of their own cord blood stem cells from after they were born over the

course of 13 months, to see if it improves their behavior. the lead scientists got the idea to treat autism this way after a little boy showed dramatic improvement following cord blood infusion. >> many of us don't realize, that much like your tv that you are watching, the human brain operates off electrical currents. these currents are the power source. they are also behind a new approach in medicine. experts are using an electrical helmet that might otherwise be untreatable. >> you would never know she is under going con straint treatment for a serious brain tumor. but tucked in this backpack is a secret weapon that gives elaine back her life. >> it allows me to do everything. we go to church all the time. we go here. i'll tell you, it doesn't interfere. >> a few months ago, she was diagnosed with a dangerous type of brain tumor called a gleo

blase toe ma. after undergoing surgery and radiation, doctors gave e line this, a kind of helmet she wears up to 18 hours a day that bombards her brain with electrical current. >> the currents then interrupt the ability itself to divide, thereby leading to cellular death and leading to tumor death. >> the device has shown a remarkable ability to not only slow the growth of brain tumors, but in some cases, tumors have shrunk. best of all, the electrical current that kill cancer cells don't hurt healthy ones and work just as well as chemo, but without serious side effects. >> the major things that have been performed, this is equivalent to chemotherapy in terms of outcomes. >> right now, the device is being used on brain tumors, but there are plans to test it on other types of cancer. other than getting slightly warm, she forgets the helmet is

there. she is content to let it deal with her brain tumor while she gets on with life. >> much like a cell phone. this helmet plugs into the wall at night and battery powered during the day. a bowling alley company apologized to a girl. 9-year-old jojo of hampton. she fought cancer, and she now has a condition that causes repeat bone fractions. she has to wear a boot to keep her balance. last week, her family took her to a bowling alley, but the manager said she couldn't bowl because she was wearing the boot instead of bowling shoes. >> i was very sad because they should let handicapped people do it and not tell them they can't do it. >> wow. amf has not only since said they are sorry, they will use this incident to train their employees better, just the

same, jojo's family is considering going to court over this one. wow. nice weather forecast. a cool breeze coming in tonight. >> it's nice. you can open your windows tonight, don't say that too often. in fact, really pretty nice. now that said, we have to turn our attention to the tropics, we have a tropical storm io sack just formed. there's a watch already up for places like puerto rico. let me talk about the storms. i'm working on a blog for you. i haven't quite finished it for you. it's interesting. it is tied with the letter c from the most retired storms. a total of 11 in all of our history. seven of the last nine, this is interesting, has been retired since '01. we had a streak of four from '01 to '04 with iris, isabel, and ivan, all those are retired. and we had ike in '08, igor in '10, and irene back in '11.

so, new storm isaac, we'll see what he brings. right now, he is way out and he's about 500 miles to the east. but that said, we have tropical storm warnings in. a watch for puerto rico. this is the track of the hurricane center, not in stone, obviously, but it does strengthen isaac and headed across cuba as we get into saturday and sunday. and i think it will affect parts of florida as we get into monday and tuesday of next week. we'll keep you posted. a good time to down load our hurricane tracker. live look outside brought to you by michael and son. 84 right now. dew points in the 50s. that's fantastic. winds calm and the pressure is steady, 30.03 inches of mercury. right now, temperatures, there are some 70s out there. 79 in bethesda. 79 in vienna and 79 in fairfax. believe me, that's quite a deal. 80 in springfield and 83 in college park. temperatures are reasonable for this time of year and it is

comfortable in terms of humidity. so, it should stay dry for the nats. keep an isolated shower in. storms are south of town. we showed you that one storm south of fredericksburg. still comfortable. and wednesday, looks okay as well. wouldn't change any plans for wednesday. outdoor plans. for tonight, a shower or thunderstorm. mainly south. comfortable. 58 to 68 winds easterly at 5 to 10. pretty nice evening. tomorrow morning, grab your shades, dry in the morning. 60s and 70s. winds northeast. by afternoon, we'll stay partly sunny, warm, shower or isolated thunderstorm possible. but again, mainly south. high temperatures around 85. that's really pretty nice and winds easterly at about 5 to 10. now the next three days, we're going to keep it code green and why not, because it's a slight chance of a shower or storm tomorrow. 86. slight chance on thursday, 7. and a slight chance on friday, temperatures in the upper 80s to near 90.

next seven days, well, going to heat up a little bit, but nothing crazy. 89 on saturday. yes, i have to drop. i think for the most part, the weekend will be nice. 91 monday. better chance for storms tuesday. highs around 90 as a frontal boundary approaches. that will give us a better chance tuesday and tuesday night. >> you are the man, top, thank you. >> the nats win the ball game 5-4 in 13. >> and there were plenty of people in their seats when that rain delay game finally ended up just before 12:30 last night. unfortunately for a lot of them, that was after metro closed its doors for the night and that left some people stranded. metro has a standing agreement with the caps to stay open late during the playoffs if necessary. there is no similar standing agreement with the nats. if the nationals did want metro to stay open later, they would need to make a $29,500 deposit and pay an additional $29,500

for every hour after the first. this would work out to $62 per fan. >> i know that sounds like a lot. what happens in other towns? among the systems that responded to our phone calls, the philadelphia and atlanta subway systems will stay open late for the long game, baltimore, cleveland, phoenix, they say the light rail systems stay hope to get home to fans, but in boston, san francisco, and oakland, the last trains leave between 12:10 and 12:25 and fans are warned to get on that train or else they'll have to find another way home. >> if you waited that long, you don't want to go. >> this time of year, the talk in this town is about redskins preseason. >> they have the best record in baseball. the nats are changing the conversation this year. dave owens is here with more on that. dave. >> go back to april when we heard things like, take back the park. people like me scoffed. sounds like a goofy marketing ploy by a deaf prase franchise.

deficit franchise. the nats are trying to change that. >> april 17, 2009, two nats players take the field in jerseys. the team name misspelled. it was another night in a season of indignity. there were plenty of them. washington last nearly 300 games between 2009 and 2011. only four teams were worse. >> we were too used to losing games and inventing ways to lose games. >> which makes what they are doing now remarkable. >> it's been a special year so far. you know, we are enjoying the heck out of it and trying to keep the ball rolling. >> one of the primary o stray tores of the turn around. sure, stephen strasburg were can't miss picks, but he cultivated ian desmond, traded for mike morrisson and nabbed

another. >> more times than not, the most talented team wins and that's what we have going for us. >> now they are figuring out ways to win. they wanted to pay to the past, like 1924 when the senators won the world series. could there be another world series in the offing? maybe. but something else is happening. nearly 6,000 more fans per night are coming to nats park. they are relishing the spotlight shining on this team, you can only imagine what it would be for the d.c. area if their nats made the playoffs. >> it would be the biggest thing to happen. >> say no more. >> yes, say no more. that was the 1991 season, which was the last time any of the four major sports teams from d.c. won a championship. still a ways to go. especially in baseball when the team gets tolt world series 50% of the time. but 30 games over .500.

it's still fun to think about. >> i'm going out on a limb and say they are going to make a playoffs. >> talking about playoffs. >> i think they are good. >> thanks, dave. we are minutes away from the big deadline. his decision on whether or not to stay in the senate race after making those controversial comments on race and pregnancy. that's coming up. >> then later, scientists focusing on faith come back to earth after a discovery in their own backyard. plus, a fight over where to memorialize the plans of those unidentified after the september 11 attacks.

the freedom tower is taking shape high over manhattan. but added space, the memorial to the victim of the september 11 attacks is embroiled in a new controversy tonight. >> families are some of the unidentified victims say they are unhappy for a tomb of the unknown. tony has more from new york. >> unidentified remains of more than a thousand victims are stored on the east side. as soon as next year, they'll be moved to ground zero. the plan to place them under ground has opened a rift between victim's families. >> the argument is that we were consulted. we were never consulted. i was never talked to. >> this group, mostly parents of slained firefighters says the plan for a repository inside the memorial museum seven stories down at bedrock

is disrespectful. >> the families to visit with the loved ones, they have to go through the same entrance as thousands of visitors. they have to rub shoulders with strangers from all over the world. >> they are so angry they filed legal papers to force the city to survey all the 9/11 families. >> ask them, do they agree with this plan that has been imposed upon them? >> sally's group wants the memorial plaza redesigned to include a tomb of the unknowns, but over families say the plan is not only a good plan, but it is the plan they insisted on from the very beginning. >> and they honored that. they honored that request. >> charles' wife died in the north tower. he was on the family committee that told memorial planners to secure a repository in the area encased by the walls to entour all unidentified remains of our

loved ones. he says sally was on that committee, too. >> other than people who are her friends, i haven't heard of anyone else that is complaining about what is supposed to happen. >> both sides are united in grief, but divided by the details of how to honor the dead. at ground zero, cbs news. >> a group representing the families and parents of firefighters and world trade center victims polled a thousand femmes about what they wanted to have of the remains. about 95% wanted the tombs to remain aboveground. this is 9news now. >> an apparent night of partying ends with two girls dead and nearly two dozen train cars off the track. investigators say the 19-year- olds were up on the bridge that carried the tracks. when that train came through. scott broom is live on the scene with more. scott. >> well, the bigamistly tonight