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delegates heard a longer than expected speech from former president bill clinton. >> that it was. now, what never happened before, a former president formerly nominating an incumbent? >> reporter: a detailed criticism of the obama administration, president clinton gave his party a reminder of what was the good old days. as you saw, president obama showed up this evening to look the place over, but the night belonged to bill clinton. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: they still love him. huge ovation. he started with distinctions between the parties. >> we're all in this together. it's a far better philosophy than you're on your own. they think government is always the enemy. they're always right. and compromise is weakness. >> reporter: he credited the president for turning the economy around. >> he inherited a deeply damaged economy. he put a floor under the trash.

he began the long, hard road to recovery and laid the foundation for a modern, more well balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses and lots of new wealth. >> reporter: he criticized republicans for untruthful ads about medicaid and welfare and gop economic plans won't work. the day started with a decision to abandon the 65,000 seat outdoor stadium acceptance speech scheduled for thursday. they blame possible thunderstorms and danger. so no big extravaganza like 2008. nominee obama will be inside instead. >> all of those delegates opposed say no. >> no. >> reporter: the convention session started h that surprise vote when organizers assumed it would be easy to amend the platform to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and reinsert the word god in the platform. >> i guess -- >> you have to listen to what

they're going to do. >> reporter: they voted rule the amendment passed and moved on to an evening of obama praise and romney criticism. >> we know that every issue is a woman's issue. >> reporter: big maryland night. the gains for women in the last four years. hoyer on the economy. >> president obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second great depression. >> reporter: a video featured alexandria's pt city brewing off the ground because of an administration small business loan program. >> our president has fought for small business owners, and now it's time to fight for him. >> reporter: great falls businessman and vietnam veteran ed mar appeared in a video. >> increasing the budget to $140 billion. >> reporter: it is worth reminding you that president clinton's speech tonight was a nominating address on now on the floor they're going through the role call. when it's over, barack obama

will formerly become the nominee of his party. he gets the podium and what he'll say, well, we'll be back in 24 hours to let you know. >> we'll count on you, gary. thank you. as gary mentioned, some obama supporters are upset and they may have mother nature to blame. he was supposed to deliver his speech tomorrow night outdoors holding 70,000 people. but it's been raining this week in charlotte, so convention organizers decided to move the president's speech indoors to the time warner cable arena. it only has 23,000 seats. >> this is really a public safety decision. based on making sure we didn't put any of our supporters in harm's way. >> but what about all of those obama supporters who stood in line for hours to get the tickets? the president will speak to them directly tomorrow on a conference call. charlotte had some rain earlier this week. is it really a concern? only one guy to ask. topper shutt. >> i think they're more concerned about lightning and

very strong winds and some severe thunderstorms. they could roll the die and get away with it but they want to take the safer road. let's look at the satellite picture. we'll zoom into the thunderstorms. there is a big line of heavy duty thunderstorms from kentucky back into tennessee. this could roll in there tomorrow, probably before the speech. but, again, their main thunderstorm with lightning and heavy rain. these are hefty storms pulling out of kentucky at this time. right now it's quiet in charlotte. we'll zoom up to us. we're kind of quiet too. we're looking at perhaps some fog overnight, especially in southern fauquier county where you saw the showers roll through earlier tonight. the good news is for your wake up weather, it's going to be dry tomorrow. 68-76 by 5:00. in the 70s. just humid by 7:00. and 76-83 with partly cloudy skies by 9:00. we'll come back, we'll talk about the potential for more storms here and look ahead to the weekend. >> thank you, topper. new tonight at 11:00, the secret service investigating the

reported theft of republican presidential candidate mitt romney's federal tax letters. a letter demanded a million dollars in ransom to prevent those papers from being disclosed. now, the senator claims the returns were stolen back in august during a watergate style break in at the company's offices in franklin, tennessee. a federal judge has ruled officers in arizona can enforce a controversial state immigration law. under that law, once they've targeted somebody for a crime, they can ask that person about the immigration status to see if they're here illegally. it has been at the center of a court battle over the past two years. opponents have been arguing it would lead to racial profiling. fairfax county police raided a suspected dog fighting ring in alexandria today. as matt jablow reports, one man was arrested and a number of dogs were seized. >> reporter: over the course of three hours, fairfax county

police executed a field search warrant at 4511 tipton lane. male and female adult dogs and puppies. officers also took out various items often used to train fighting dogs. treadmills, harnesses, heavy chains and a device used to force breeding. the suspected ring leader right now faces one charge of being an unfit animal owner, but more charges could be added as the investigation continues. as for the dogs, their fate is now unclear. >> pit bulls unfortunately are filling a lot of the shelters in the area. >> reporter: michelle yu is director of behavior and training at the washington animal rescue league where she occasionally rehabilitates pit bulls. many pit bulls that were trained to fight can be retrained not to. >> they lack a lot of socialization. they're sometimes a little less confident.

but they can be placed after some rehabilitation. hand feeding. working with the volunteers. going out for walks. doing the things normal pets do. >> reporter: back to the case today in alexandria, police have not yet named the suspect. but we do know that he had been arrest and released recently on another unrelated charge. >> let's hope for the best for those dogs. thank you, matt. she was out for a leisurely swim and soon became the target of a rabid beaver on a rampage. now an elderly woman is recovering at a local hospital from the bloody encounter. it happened tuesday night and today animal control officers confirmed the beaver tested positive for rabies. it attacked the woman near the shore and wouldn't let up. a pair of fisherman who saw the commotion managed to kill the an ma with their paddles before pulling the -- animal with their paddles before pulling the woman to safety. >> she is screaming help me. help me. aisle get out of the water. she's like, i can't, it's got me. get out. please hurry. and i got there and the other

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in tonight's health alert on the same day the nfl kicks off its regular season, new research is out showing professional football players may face a greater danger of alzheimer's and other brain disorders. kevin spent seven years in the nfl. now at age 43, he is battling als. recent studies suggest head injuries on the field may lead

to neurological problems years later. this research in the journal of neurology looked at 3400 retired players who spent at least five years in the nfl and found they were three times for likely to die from a degenerative brain disease. >> never have i thought that my mental or cognitive abilities would be impaired by playing this game. >> now turner is trying to make sure other athletes know they could be putting themselves at risk when they play the game. some former nfl players are suing the league, accusing the league of hiding the information. the national zoo has received $400,000 to study the health of giant pandas. ford motor company is sponsoring the research. some of that money will also be used to upgrade the zoo's panda cams which means it will be easier for you to watch the pandas online.

a lot of eyes on majon right now. zoo vets say there's a chance she may be pregnant. and the democratic national convention goes on in charlotte, north carolina. we are joined now by martin o'malley who knows a thing or two about what it's like to step up on the podium. governor, i have to ask you, tell me how it feels when you step out in front of that sea of people looking at you saying, hey, inspire me? >> well, i tell you, it is a very humbling honor. and it's also really ex hill rating to be able -- exhilarating to be able to look out and have the sense of history to see the signs of the 50 states and realize what an important moment this is as we select our president for the next four years. so i'll tell you one other thing, derek, it was great relief to have that talk end and be able to walk off. it was like being done with four final exams all in a span of about five minutes. >> i can only imagine.

>> now, governor, i have to ask you about what happened over the weekend when they ask you the now famous or notorious, however you want to look at it, are you better off now than you were four years ago. you answered in a way that i thought was honest. you said, no, but that was the answer to the democrats wanted you to give. i wanted you to know how long was it before your phone rang and who was on the other end of that call? >> well, you know, i didn't even really realize i it said it. i was answering the wrong question. i was answering the question are we better off now than we were before the recession. and we're not better offnow than we were before the -- off now than we were before the recession. but we're better off than we were four years ago. our country is creating jobs instead of losing jobs. in our state of maryland, we recovered 30% of the jobs we lost. so we need to keep moving forward. we need to keep doing the things that work that create jobs and expand our economy. this is hard tough work.

it was a very deep recession. but we're coming back from it. we are doing better as a country because we're creating jobs again. >> you know, you did hear earlier tonight from the ceo of car max, and is that part of your effort to debunk the gop charge that you didn't build that? >> any successful entrepreneur will tell you that their business is built by collaboration. by lots of people working together to create a unique and good product or service and push it out there on the marketplace. so in our state, we were named number one state in america for innovation and entrepreneurship by the u.s. chamber of commerce. and most entrepreneurs i talked with know that government needs to do its job if we're going to have a private sector that can create jobs with innovation, with research and development and be able to transport goods across roads and bridges that

are in repair. >> all right. thank you for your time. we appreciate it. >> derek, thank you. >> all right. you know, part of the storms really mess things up for them. >> again, odds are they could probably have gone and gotten away with it. but they don't want to chance that with 60,000 people in there. >> outside. >> i would not want to do that. we're looking at the same air mass. it's essentially the remnants of isaac coupled with a couple of frontal boundaries. let's start with the michael and son weather cam. this is looking down wisconsin avenue towards bethesda and we're looking at pretty good visibility here. there is fog elsewhere. high is 90. we're still 80. dew point in the 70s. not very comfortable. winds are calm. humidity 81%. pressure rising to 29.84 inches of mercury. satellite picture radar combined, we'll zoom into the storm one more time. there is a frontal boundary that stretches essentially from north of the metro area across kentucky, back into west central tennessee. and this is stationary when it goes red blue, red blue.

it's not going to move much. there is another boundary behind that and that will clear us out late in the weekend. in the meantime between this frontal boundary and isaac, we're in a tropical air mass with showers and storms possible. any storm that develops. because air mass is so moist and juicy, it can produce some very, very heavy rains. right now we're looking at a good radar sweep. that is your best chance of havi dense fog in the morning and mr. bernstein will be here bright and early at 4:25 for that. so patchy fog early. the morning commute will be dry, except for the patchy fok, you should be able -- fog, you should be able to leave your normal time. hot and humid tomorrow. we might hit 91 tomorrow and still very humid. a few big thunderstorms. not very many. those will develop. we'll have hefty rains. that's the biggest he threat. overnight we're looking at partly cloudy skies, humid, humid, patchy dense fog. downtown we're talking mid 70s

at best. tomorrow morning, partly sunny. very warm and humid. you'll need your sunglasses tomorrow. temperatures in the 70s and 80s. and winds light. and then by afternoon, well, partly cloudy. hot and humid. scattered storms. some of those could be hefty. high temperatures around 90. winds out of the southeast at about 10. let's go ahead and break it down for you. 68-78 to start. 83-87. that's by noon. we're already mid to upper 80s. and then by evening a thunderstorm possible. 87-91. next three days, we'll keep code yellow tomorrow. we'll go down to a green for now for friday. back to yellow on saturday. a few storms tomorrow. 90. just an isolated storm on friday. 91. much better chance for storms on saturday. 87. that's where the second cold front. look what it does. next seven days, that blasts everything out of here. nice on sunday. partly cloudy. high temperatures only near 80. and then only in the upper 70s on monday and tuesday. back in the low 80s on wednesday. and those lows sunday and monday

night in the low 60s downtown. translates to mid 50s in the burbs. >> whoa. >> i think we're ready. >> we're ready. >> yes. >> because you got football. >> football. >> that means it's fall, right? >> fall football. playoff baseball. we have it all here in dc. we're spoiled. >> it's about time. >> it's about time. how good is this time of year? we introduce the playoff baseball; you all. and the nats appeared to be primed and ready. another example of curly powell at the park tonight. and

one thing that makes our day when we're on the field is watching lauren get up to bat. our daughter loves baseball. and we tried to get her on some teams, and there were some coaches that would include her but she just never felt right about it. hitting the ball and then making the other kids wait, just wasn't her idea of what baseball was. we thought she would just have to settle for being a fan; until rotary stepped in. and they built this special field. they took an idea of just letting the kids play baseball and made it fit these kids, rather than trying to make the kids fit the field. lauren forgets about what she can't do, because they've given her the opportunity to do something that we never thought possible. when these kids get to play ball, their heart is there they're so excited and they just get to feel like regular kids. on the phone i heard her telling her grandmother that she was the luckiest kid in the world.

and now 9 sports with dave owens. >> well, are the cubs really this bad? probably. the standings with show you that. still what washington is doing to the north siders pretty impressive. if baseball had a criminal code, this would be assault.

the nats hanging large numbers on the cubs during this series. six homeruns last night. how much helped did go get? that much help. back-to-back tonight. he hung two on chicago. back to gonzalez. the gonzalez stare. had a no hitter through five before the second straight night six homeruns. the nats hang 9 on the cubs, 9-1. orioles magic, could they continue tonight? how about baltimore. they scored 12 runs last night. they called this the suicide squeeze. because if you don't make it, the play is big. but toronto made it and they won it 6-4. all right, redskins fans. will you be satisfied with baby steps by your quarterback? derek mcginty says no. but hickory says you better. peyton manning, ben roethlisberger all really good. but he's ready because the

preparation has guided him and he trusts it. griffith only hurled 31 spirals. now one thing we know, griffin ain't vanilla. and they can't afford to be on sunday. rgiii looking forward to opening it up. >> i'm definitely looking forward to seeing how some of the stuff we do works out. and hopefully it will work out extremely well. >> his talent and athletic ability is phenomenal. i like the guy because he's a texas quarterback. and we stick together. >> now drew won't be rooting for him sunday. this guy has been the most horrific gun slinger in football the last two seasons. fact, brees has thrown. >> he has great mechanics. he has a great basis to throw the football. he's extremely intelligent. what i mean by that, he knows what everybody is doing on every play. if he's in the zone, he has time to look over here knowing where the hole is and where the open

receiver is. >> all right. nfl season opener. you have to love it. cowboys and giants, you think they struggle in the first half. bradshaw has legs and he knows how to use them. touchdown run here. 89-yard drive. 14-10. but tony romo, people love to criticize him, he was a beast tonight. first and 30. no problem. miles austin wins the jump ball and dallas wins the game 24-17. finally the end of a solid career today. andy roddich eliminated today. he said he would retire after the tournament and he said i loved every minute of it. roddich going out. football back and the cowboys getting a big win. >> we would have loved it more if the cowboys got beat. >> we need to be better that way. we hate the cowboys. >> it's a struggle down the stretch. >> yes. >> no. >> you have to

all right. stop what you're doing, which is probably sleeping, and check this out. >> wake up. >> yes. this is a skunk. a skunk with a male dog stuck on his head. they found the animal in the parking lot this after morning and after a few hours they managed to stop him by putting a garbage can over it. by the time the skunk specialist arrived, yes, there is such a thing, the skunk had wigeled free from the jar and -- wiggled free from the jar. >> let's look at this. not every day you see a police cruiser inside a school. it happened about 70 miles northeast of charlotte. nobody inside the school wads hurt. but what a -- was hurt. but what a mess. they tried to figure out how did this happen. >> he was trying to get to the convention. [ laughing ] >> yes. >> he didn't get too far.

>> turn right in 100 yards. >> that's 9news for tonight. thank you for a speed bump!

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