. >> we are the dating service of derek jeter's ex-girl friends.ou're a derek jeter cast-off -- >> it's the dating service of derriek jeter's ex-girl friends >> this baseball great has 3,000 hits. he also has 3,000 ex-girl friends. >> how could i ever get a girl that dated derek jeter? i'm just a computer programmer. >> you're also not very attractive. >> see, anybody can date an ex of derek jeter's. >> every day for three months i'd pray he'd call. that's when i knew i was ready. now i'm with him and he's okay. >> what are the monthly fees? >> this is not actually a real thing. this is put together. >> what? oh, no, and i thought i had my weekend set. >> this was put together by a comedian named owen weber. >> this has been matching his ex-girl friends with incredible success. >> they give you a free jeter mask so your first mask you can hold it up while you're at dipper so that way they feel like they're out with derek jeter. but the best part is the tag line. he hey me a shortstop, but you can still have his seconds. >> is he really all that? >>

we will be at yankee stadium with david wright and the mets and derek jeter and the yankees.g, leading the american league in hits and the yankees come in to tonight's game, 1 out in the a.l. east, octavio dotel. take over for the tigers here. we will deal with cano, teixeira and ibanez, not an easy inning. valujet flight 592 jose valverde is getting ready. had a bad back and worked on mechanics as well. he is getting loose, 7-7 in save chances for the yankees in his career. >> we had a look at unexpected stars. giants, starter on the all-star team next week. another guy, so impressive, and the first thing you think of when you see him, what a gifted body gincarlos stanton has. it carries through the opposite field. there are very few people in the history of the game, in my experience, that i have seen that are able to carry that ball through to the right center field like stanton does. >> 12 home runs in may. 21-8 record. and the n.l. east is bunched up like the a.l. east. marlins won again. miami 30-23. same record as the mets. washington 29-21 to start the day. that pitch

anita. >> thanks, derek. >> you want to respond to something derek says, just watch any let's be real commentary. head over to the web page. it's part of our home page wusa9.com. just roll over features. >>> okay. so at congressional they're going to have misting. they're going to have localities of water. >> good. good. -- lots of water. >> good. good. tomorrow won't be crazy hot. it won't be crazy humid either. but then friday, saturday, sunday, we'll be flirting with crazy hot. i call triple digits really hot. let's look at the cam from michael and son. the high was 89. right now 77. still a few leftover clouds. we're going to clear out. dew point manageable in the 50s. not quite as spectacular as it was earlier. 56. winds out of the south and southwest at 6. winds raising. here is the deal. we're looking at need your shades tomorrow. you're going to have a sunny commute. coming down that spur. no doubt about that. hot but not crazy humid tomorrow. so still manageable. i don't think the humidity will bump the temperatures up that much. in other words, the heat index will not that b

anita. >> thank you, derek.o respond to something derek says or just watch some more of his let's be real commentary, head over to let's be real web page. it's part of our home page on wusa9.com and roll over features. >>> what are you doing? >> it's happiness. >> sugar is happiness. >> chocolate is anyway. i don't know. i'm just saying. >> i can see a little bit of chocolate versus a big old thing of sugary soda pop. >> oh, no. stick with chocolate. >>> all right. on a serious note, we have a severe weather out look tomorrow. a slight risk of severe weather which could be moderate and we have declared friday a severe weather day. let's look at the weather brought to you by michael and son. 85 was the high. it didn't feel like it because the humidity was so low. the dew points are in the 50s. that's great. when they're in the 50s, you can open up the windows. but don't open them up all the way. you might get a little chilly by the morning. winds east, southeast at 9. the pressure steady 2.9 inches of mercury. by

derek mentioned it.ee times more expensive. >> three times. >> that does seem like a lot of cash. >>> a great weekend, summer like weekend. hot tomorrow but not humid. a little more humid on sunday. let's start with a live look outside. high temperature 85 today. the second day this month we've been above average, but the low this morning was 60 which is below average. that's a nice tradeoff when the air mass is dry, it heats up quickly, dries off quickly. 74 right now. dew point 67. winds out of the south at 7 and the pressure is steady 29.59 inches of mercury. here is the idea, we're looking at a summer like weekend. hot but not humid on saturday. now, hydrate and remember the sunscreen. because when the humidity is low, we feel comfortable when we're moving around. so if you have little league games, make sure the kids are hydrate and you have sunscreen on. this is the most intense sun we get this time of year. and more humid and hot again on sunday. not quite as comfortable on sunday. overnight clear

lets go live to derek valcourt. he has more on three victims that were hurt when the tornado hit there. derek, what a -- mess behind you. >> reporter: mess is an operative word. check out this building, siding, the roof, the doors torn right off. and some places were hit harder than others. >> reporter: people began capturing pictures of the tornadoes that popped up. one of the strongest hit near falston where keith matthews was hard at work inside a auto detail shop, a shop reduced to a pile of rubble. >> he had one widow in his shop. he opened the behind, there was the tornado. he could not sidestep. he was under the wall. >> reporter: friends rushed to help keith. he is now in the hospital recovering. >> i'm happy, i'm not planning a funeral. >> that's actually the floor that's on its ends. and my desk is actually under there. if i would have been under there, i would have been dead. >> reporter: he and others now left to clean up and rebuild what the tornadoes tore down. >> you can see we are standing in what's

derek's in our studio.amazing story. >>> and then look who else is in our studio, a certain 3-year-old red furry monster. >> aww! >> aww! >> elmo is on a quest to join us in london at the olympics. >> yes, a mission. >> he's on a mission. >> we're going to talk about elmo about that coming up. >>> let's go inside with natalie at the news desk with a check of all the headlines. >> good morning, everyone. president obama wraps up a two-day west coast trip today with a fund-raiser in los angeles and a speech on the economy at the university of nevada-las vegas. the president appeared with celebrities and members of hollywood's gay community at two events on wednesday. meantime in texas, republican rival, mitt romney, focused on the recent uptick in the nation's jobless rate. >>> we are now hearing from a woman who once dated the canadian man accused of killing a student, then sending his body parts through the mail. nbc's michelle kosinski is in berlin where the suspect is now in custody. good morning, michell

>> i really wouldn't put a time line on it, derek. it all depends on how the crew design responding in this traffic that's out there. >> this is just round one, and this is folks trying to get home on a normal rush hour day, and you add a little rain and these other elements, and you've got a recipe for a mess to get home. dan, thank you for keeping us updated. a lot of folks are at home right now watching us, telling us their storm stories. robin ellis cunningham says she's watching us in the basement. a good place to be. >> a good thing. >> i've got another person who told us she's stuck in the library. we're sorry about that but glad you're safe two. people wrote us from west virginia saying it's cloudy and breezy and they want some of the action. so be careful what you ask for, right. >> all of this is on our wusa 9 facebook page. >> you don't want this kind of action. this is a big deal. >> after a mailed winter and no real action to speak of, this is the one thing that's getting topper and the crew all -- >> worked up. >> worked

back to you kai. >> okay, thank you derek. derek i'm watching you and photo journal itself bob merkel as you're talking about that. as we look over here at this office building, probably not 200 feet from here, look at that. sparkle base is zooming in over there. half the bricks are taken off that office complex. it gives you an idea of the power of this storm. you can see meteorologist bernadette woods with me here. it givers you an idea of how random and destructive tornadoes can be. >> it really is amazing. the longer we stand here the more you can see. first you see the trees but then you see individual bricks pulled off of buildings and thrown to another side of the region. as derek was showing you, the siding that was on a building pulled off and wrapped around a tree. it was pretty amazing what mother nature can do and that's why we don't want to mess with this. this is the latest. 10 confirmed tornadoes. take a look at the map. they spread across the state. we have them from hartford county, to queen anne's county. we

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first to derek ward in tyson's corner where they seem to really be getting hammered. derek? >> yeah, indeed. it's steady now and heavier than it was maybe about half an hour ago when we talked. not as much lightning, certainly some thunder off in the distance, but certainly a steady, heavy rain. again, not a lot of winds at this point, they picked up a bit, but not to the point where they're driving the rain any other direction than vertical. take a look behind me at the traffic. that seems to have moved along now. it is the southbound traffic that is bakd up. northbound seems to be going pretty well. again, as i said earlier, we're on a down grade. not going to see much ponding water here. it is ponding down the hill and it has to go somewhere and hopefully at the bottom of the grade there will be sufficient but 123 and other routearound here. the key to folks traveling in this area now. have your lights on. you, obviously, will have your windshield wipers on and expect heavy rain and not a lot of wind or lightning, but definitely reason for caution. you might want to make

in football, derek mason makes his retirement official and he walks away from the game as a raven.aking his announcement in owins mill today. even though mason played more years for the tennessee titans he said his heart is in baltimore so he wanted to depart from the game in purple and black. though his time with the ravens was brief. it was impactful. mason is the team leader. he thanked the ravens for letting him come back one year after they cut him to say goodbye. >> i would like to thank the organization, you know for allowing me to have an opportunity to hang up my cleats here. it's an amazing place. >> the amazing place moves forward with mandatory mini camp tomorrow. all healthy players expected to participate including veterans in this fourth week of offseason work outs on the look out for ray rice who may not participate as he negotiates a new long term contract. sometimes it's business before practice. we'll see who will be out there tomorrow. >> they may be practicing >> they may be practicing ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> it was a messy good time in south america this week

and thank god derek fisher is here. what an easy name to pronounce -- derek fisher.>> you're 65 years old. [ laughter ] are you not sick of basketball? >> no. >> huh? >> no, i'm not. >> what's next for mr. mario jumper. >> you huh? >> what's next for mr. mario jumper? >> what's next for my jumper? >> mr. james harden, why -- why the beard? why not only mustache? huh? >> what'd you say? >> why the beard? why not only mustache? mustache is more sexy. let me ask you, are you a hatfield or mccoy? >> what? [ laughter ] >> beard or mustache? i mean, beard or mustache? >> beard. >> beard? why? >> i don't know. i just like the look. >> look at my mustache. it's more sexy. [ laughter ] >> it's thicker, and i like the beard better, though. >> yeah? >> yeah. you should get one now, man, because it's kind of creepy, you just got the mustache. >> all right. beard or mustache? >> i like the mustache. >> me too. >> yeah, i like your mustache. >> look, it's class. it's nice. it's all clean and everything. >> yeah. >> and the beard is like messy, huh? >> messy, yeah. >> when you drin

derek valcourt is in fel urt, with the sentence for derek? >> : barry landau, log years prison. both e have and prosecutors are hoping this sends a meage to anyone who would trto steal and sell history. >> reporter: 64-year-old barry landau said nothing as he le court, sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in the theft of more than 4,000 rare historical documents, written by abraham lincoln, benjamin franklin, carl marx, and fdr, among others. >> mr. landau was mask raiding as -- masquerading and reity, he s stealing >> repo: th were arrested july 2011, after workers at th marylandoricstsociety spotted them trying to steal documents. prosecutor sas i land -- -- prosecutors say landau would distract historians while his assistanstuffed them in jackets. the documents athis home, valued at over $1 million. >> what they d terrible. >> reporter: many of the angry historians, tricked by landau came to see sentencing for the man they call -- >> a thief and a liar. >> reporter: not enough to change the future for the man who admits to stealing parts of history. >> reporter: la

we will be at yankee stadium with david wright and the mets and derek jeter and the yankees.g, leading the american league in hits and the yankees come in to tonight's game, 1 out in the a.l. east, octavio dotel. take over for the tigers here. we will deal with cano, teixeira and ibanez, not an easy inning. valujet flight 592 jose valverde is getting ready. had a bad back and worked on mechanics as well. he is getting loose, 7-7 in save chances for the yankees in his career. >> we had a look at unexpected stars. giants, starter on the all-star team next week. another guy, so impressive, and the first thing you think of when you see him, what a gifted body gincarlos stant has. it carries through the opposite field. there are very few people in the history of the game, in my experience, that i have seen that are able to carry that ball through to the right center field like stanton does. >> 12 home runs in may. 21-8 record. and the n.l. east is bunched up like the a.l. east. marlins won again. miami 30-23. same record as the mets. washington 29-21 to start the day. that pitch i

is bankrupt right ok derek i had germany and you know i mean u.s. fiscal policy maybe worse than greece but the u.s. has a wealth backing its debt is completely out of order compared to even proportionally to what greece has backing its debt so when you're buying a dollar you're not just betting on u.s. fiscal policy you're betting on the capacity behind the currency and in that respect you know europe is not even an integrated market the u.s. is much stronger position than europe even though i agree with martin completely that u.s. fiscal policy is terrible ok mark you want to jump in there. but i was going to add also that it's worth noting that a very large share of chinese an asian holding all of us assets are in agency securities fannie and freddie's and certainly while they've got some problems with those agencies there's also really mortgages and housing and housing backing those debt in the way that there's some real collateral behind it that's not to mean that china is going to come here and start foreclosing on american homes but it does m

derek valcourt, wjz eyewitness news. >> quite a development there, derek. thank you so much. and henson has also been fined $1 million in a federal civil lawsuit. it was filed by the maryland attorney general. >>> a woman is held prisoner inside a baltimore county apartment for months. now, her captors are punished. denise is in the newsroom with the sentence in this case. >> a reisterstown couple receives decades in prison for beating and starving a woman for months. prosecutors say they kept the victim locked inside a bathroom on brook bury drive, in order to collect her disability payments. now, jermaine smith bay will spend 50 years behind bars. while his accomplice, kimberly king. they were arrested after they brought a woman to the hospital with severe injuries. >> according to our media partner, the baltimore sun, the victim sat in the courtroom, while her captors were sentenced. >>> more accusers in the jerry sandusky sex abuse trial. they deliver powerful, tearful testimony against the former coach. >> reporter: three more accusers describe jerry sandusky's alleged s

derek will see you at 7:00. have a terrific night.

. >> thank you, derek. >> let's turn to topper. there are storms out there bubbling and boiling our way. >> they are. if you're around the immediate metro area, it's pleasant. the breaks in the clouds, sun northwest. but that said, here's a look at live doppler 9,000. we have been tracking these for three hours now. right now, nothing severe. you are going to get hammered with rain fall in winchester. an inch per hour over the next 40 minutes or so. they will roll into front royal. so we're not done with the storms just yet. the front back to our west. 77 downtown. 79 in manassas and 79 in leesburg and 79 up in frederick. some of those numbers as high as it's been all day. we'll come back and talk about when the front will clear us and let you know when the code weather alerts are for the next three days. >> thank you, topper. still ahead, more gripping and disturbing testimony at the sex abuse trial of jerry sandusky. plus, it is the end of an era. a pizza pioneer going out of business in northwest d.c. those stories and a lot mor

i'm derek mcginty. tomorrow, the tournament kicks off right here and today was the proam. the amateurs finishing up in the next 30 minutes. as everyone knows, tiger woods is the man. he was out there early today doing his thing. he'll be out tomorrow afternoon at 6:00. we'll take a welcome at tiger earlier this afternoon where he teed off. looking smooth and sweet as always. as we know, tomorrow when the main event gets started, tiger woods not only has to overcome all those determined pros, but a course, which has been redesigned, especially for this tournament and the heat, which is going to be rough on everybody as well. anita, talk about the tournament plans to handle all of that. we like to welcome him here to our set live at the course. thanks for being here. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> let's talk about the big 800 pound gorilla. triple digit temperatures, thousands of people. first of all, how do you handle it in terms of the fans and course itself? >> let's start with the course first. the course is healthy and we, as you know living here, we've h

police say that derek ran and pulled out a gun prompting the officer to shoot. but many who visited the memorial out here were skeptical about that version of events. his mother says that he was probably walking home from the mcdonald's right nearby. she believes he was profiled and is worried about other teens out here. >> i'm worried about the status quo in south city, that's what i'm worried about. i don't want to see another kid shot or labeled. >> reporter: derek gaines' mother says she doesn't even believe he had a gun. but police say they did recover his gun. but they didn't say what kind it was or if it was loaded. south san francisco police and the san mateo county district attorney's office are now investigating. in south san francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >>> pleasanton police asking for your help in identifying a woman recently found dead in a trash can. this is a sketch of the woman found on dublin canyon road. police releasing a picture of the earrings she was wearing at the time. investigators ran her fingerprints through a nationwi

derek valcourt shows us, there's still a long way to go in fallston. derek? >> kai, there is a long way to go. that's because there was simply so much damage done to this area. damage to buildings. and of course, damage to a lot of trees. this one uprooted. it's huge. and there are a lot of them like this around here. just waiting to be cleaned up. >> reporter: along bel air road in fallston, businesses took a beating. company signs missing, bent or broken. shattered glass, needing repairs and too many damaged roofs to count. >> all of a sudden, you could hear like debris hitting the building. >> reporter: fallston pharmacy, one of many businesses here, with tarps temporarily covering the damage. >> water was starting to leak inside. so that's what they're working on fixing now. >> reporter: the f1 tornado, captured in this photograph, lifted and demolished this. snapped hundreds of massive trees, ruined cars, knocked out power, and sent auto shop owner with broken bones after the tornado crushed him under a fallen concrete wall. >> reporter: the tornado's st

derek valcourt, wjz eyewitness news. >> derek, thank you. camden yards will dedicate a statue of murray later this summer. >>> the university of maryland gives us our first look at plans for the terps' brand-new football field. byrd stadium is the first project of its kind in the country. it features a synthetic field with heat-reducing technology intended to protect the players' health and despite much speculation on the color, the field will be green, as we see with red, white, black, and gold end zones. i'm telling you, you need that kind of field today, if the players were out for some preseason workouts. >> that's right. and they'll be out there pretty soon. still ahead at 5:00, overweight america, the new way you can get your kids moving as maryland combats childhood obesity. >> he was hitting may head against it. i thought my head was going to explode and i was going to lose consciousness. >> george zimmerman recounts his struggle with trayvon martin. >>> and why a key member of president obama's cabinet is stepping down. >>> cooler w

let's go out back to tyson's corner and derek ward, oh, it looks bad out there, derek. >> what a difference a half an hour makes. this just started. we had some pretty intense lightning and thunder here. as you can, obviously, see, the rain has picked up. let you take a look at the traffic northbound 123 is blocked. now, i don't know if that's just regular traffic slowing or if we have some incident down there. but we used to be able to see the horizon from here and completely obscured now and looks like we are pretty close to flash flooding conditions. now, we are on a downgrade. so, we're fought going to get any ponding water or pooling water here. i'm sure at the bottom of this hill, they have some issues. be aware of that if you're in the tyson's corner area where they have one of the heaviest cells moving through here and now the winds have picked up and picking up as we speak and, of course, as we said, we have brilliant lightning and pretty loud thunder coming through and wind-driven rain. no telling how long this will last but we're definitely in the thick of what we call round one

aally, derek ran into somebody who had a can of it, huh? >> several cans of it, actually. >> the focus on the guys that went to the khaki shorts store. >> derek can get away with that. here's the deal. it's 104 at national. >> did you notice it's been cooler? it dropped by a degree. >> all right, let's start with current temperatures. excessive heat warning until 9:00 p.m. if you're an exercise nut, you don't want to exercise at all in the evening. it's 104 downtown. 100 in manassas. 102 in frederick. 100 in culpeper. it jumped the mountains to get to 86 in oakland. if you factor in the humidity and get a heat index. today unlike yesterday, it does boost the temperatures. feels like it's 112 downtown. these are dangerous heat indexes. 1099 in gaithersburg. feels like it's 112 in manassas. now here's the deal. tomorrow, we're going to dial it back a little bit. we'll say 99. thunderstorm possible. sunday here at congressional, 96. an isolated thunderstorm possible. while that is -- still dangerous. you still need to do the same things we hav

derek, wjz eyewitness news. >> thank you. funeral for the victim is set for saturday morning at life church at baltimore's brooklyn neighborhood. for more information you can log on to our website. >> the wife of george zimmerman is being charged with lying to a judge. prosecutors say that shelly zimmerman lied about her finances during a bond hearing for her husband. george zimmerman was granted $150,000 bond for a hearing and released. the judge revoked the bond after state's attorney says the couple lied about how much money they raised from a website. george zimmerman pleaded not guilty in a shooting. >>> live in the news room with more on a bizarre case. >> reporter: can explosion came from land triggering a rescue effort. two calls came within five minutes using the same radio transmitter the coast guard is offering a reward leading to an arrest. >> they're making a false distress call. there's a maximum penalty and reimbursement to the coast guard for the coast of the search. >> a huge wild fire in colorado continues t

>> one of my favorites, derek. if you want to respond or watch any commentary again, head over to the web page, wusa9.com. just roll over features. >>> and speaking of dads with several children, how was your dad's day? >> excellent. golf and watching golf, and dinner with the girls. it doesn't get better than that. perfect, perfect. >> beautiful weather. >> 71 today. by wednesday, we'll look back on these temperatures fondly shall because we're talking about serious heat by wednesday and thursday. a live look outside. our live weather cam. sit brought to you by michael and son. looking at temperatures still 70 at national. dew point 62. temps have not moved much really sins about 5:00 this afternoon. winds out of the southeast at 8. that's what's kept us cooler and cloudy. pressure, a 30.11 inches of mercury and it is on the way up. here's the deal. it's going to be warmer tomorrow, but tomorrow does not begin the heat wave. that would be wednesday. tomorrow actually will be seasonable with temps back in the 80s.

me, dave, derek, mike, bringing you complete behind the scenes coverage of the at&t national.ne in wednesday through friday night at 11:30 for our special clubhouse report. nationals in action tonight taking on colorado. big night for ryan zimmerman. this single in the 5th is zim's 1,000th hit. the rockies making sure he has a nice souvenir to remember. same innings, four batters later, moore blasts to the left. right now nats are on top 14-5. right now it's a -- yeah, right. 14-5. it's the most runs for the nats in over a year. birds hosting the halos. a rough night for baltimore. top fit pujols hear the crack of the bat. that's the 12th of the year. birds fall 7-3. and across the pond, serena williams avoided the same fate as her sister. serena won her first round match on the same exact court her sister venus got booted from. wimbeldon in the first round. they have won nine of the last 11 titles. the williams s

uh-huh, derek? >> they say everybody loves a winner.ound myself at a nats game and somebody invited me. i went to be polite. it was the home series against the hated philadelphia phillies. take back the park. something about all those enemy jerseys in our stadium and i got all, we must protect this house. next thing i knew i was talking trash to the philly fans. that's right, you get back up eye of 95. nats won big. i'm hoarse from all the yelling. if you didn't know any better you would have mistaken me for somebody who actually cared. baseball is still boring, right? just because we get to watch some guys named strasburg, gonzalez, harper, zimmerman and we have a team in first place, that hasn't changed anything has it? all i know is the post summertime sports phase got a lot more interesting than it used to be. i probably wouldn't be waiting for another invitation to get back out to nationals park. maybe it's never too late to begin to understand and to appreciate a sport that folks in other towns like philadelphia might take for gra

ken. >> reporter: yes, derek, this is just one of those neighborhoods that has seen so much. it's endured so much from the riots of '68 to the building of the metro station. u street is no stranger to transition. but now even some of the folks i spoke to say they're not all that hyped about having to endure yet another full year of construction disruptions. u street, you can argue there is more history here than any other street in the district. the landscape is changing. there were the riots that left this corridor in ruins. and who could forget the construction of the metro in the late 80s and early 90s. another rebuilding project is on its way promising to give it a new look. >> we're looking for it. >> reporter: this is the manager of u street's historic chilly bowl restaurant. throughout the year and all of the transformations, he has with stood the test of time and the inconveniences of having round the clock construction. >> we did survive years ago the construction of the subway, which dug the ground up for miles. we did survive that. >> reporter: but not everyone is

we're live on the eastern shore, derek valcourt, wjz eyewitness news. >> derek, thank you. one firefighter went to the hospital with minor injuries. >>> right now, colorado is dealing with its first filed -- worst wild fire in a decade. smoke has covered many tourist destinations including pike's peak. >>> it is sunny and warm here in baltimore, and the skies are calm as we take a live look outside. bob turk is updating our conditions in the first warning weather center. bob? >>> we have quite a breeze out there and very, very dry air and an increased fire danger in our region today and tomorrow and probably wednesday. showers way south and east of us right now and take a look at that, one or two just developing to the south and most of this will be gone in the next hour or two. we are not looking for rain, and it will be on the dry and breezy side. look at the forecast for tomorrow, low pressure to the north meaning a nice dry breeze and cooler temperatures may only get into upper 70s. and we may not get to 80. and the normal high is in the mid-80s, and we probably won't s

a lot of for derek norris. >>> derek norris when said with his first career home run the a's beat thegiants 4-2 to avoid a sweep. soccer 2012 england takes on italy. he reaches out with his left arm it's a huge save for italy. italy is up 3-2. it early advances to the semifinals and will meet germany. travelers championship at hartford, he has a two-stroke lead with two holes to go double bogeys 17. and bogeyed 18. game day tonight on location from the racetrack and take you inside a car and tell you what it's like to run around the track. was also inside the pits with jimmy johnson. verne: with a complete wrapup but the a's and giants. >>> out what to write one of those days in one of those cars. >>> will set up next year. >>> will see you at 630 will have a payout of millions of people for bernie made off did not.

i would say to you, we need more derek crouses in virginia. another remarkable story of a virginian. heath calhoun. heath followed in his family's tradition and joined the army. eventually went off to serve in iraq with the 101st airborne division. while on patrol his hum vip was hit by a rocket pro pepped grenade. he lost both of his legs below the knee. i met him at the governor's mansion a couple years ago and he told about the months of recovery and what he thought would be a prospect of life in a wheelchair. but heath chose a different path. he taught himself how to monoski, became a spoets persson for wounded veterans around the country and through sheer willpower he got out of that wheelchair every day, competed in multiple sports events using prosthetic legs and eventually won numerous models in track veents. that's perseverance. while at governor's mansion he told me this, i'll never forget. i was proud to go to iraq and i gave my best to my country. thapts what's expected out of americans. april mazing. [ applause ] so class of 2012,

first, derek valcourt has more. good afternoon, derek. >> most folks in the tornado's path ran for cover. for too many in fallston, there was nowhere to g around fallston cleanup is the name of the game but it will be months before things start looking like they were before friday's strong storm spawned a tornado that ripped through the pleasant hills neighborhood. >> you're standing there with one minute with your friends and the last minute devastation. >> reporter: he and his friend keith were inside what used to be a small auto shop. >> keith said get down. that's when i saw the wall twist. i saw the roof go over. keith was in the middle of the building. i saw him went down and i within the down. >> reporter: his scrapes and bruises are minor compared to keith's broken bones. >> i could see that much of keith's arm hanging out. >> reporter: he is now in the hospital. >> this was my office trailer. about 150 to 200 feet. >> reporter: john missed the storm by a matter of minutes. >> i had to run an errand. otherwi

here is derek mcginty anchoring our coverage from the river ronda. jour looking the 18th green. >> exactly. well guys, if you decide to come out, there are a ligs of rules that you need to follow. it's a good sized list. let's start with cell phones. they want to make sure if you bring your cell phones out, you can use them, but they have to stay on silent and they can only be used in the cell phone zone. you will see them, designated around the course. you cannot record video with them or take pictures during the competitive round. >> also, you might want to take note, there are other banned items as well, including radios, tv's, signs, coolers, folding armchairs and yes, very the impaired, ladders. you'll find a complete list on wusa9.com. >> if you come out here, you'll notice a major presence of u.s. military in and around the course. >> they also have a special part to play in the tournament itself. our kristen berset is here to tell us more about that. kristen. >> they got to rubble bows. they were out there with them and it truly was an amazin

derek. >> so kristen, let me be sure that we are right about this. those dogs are alive and in that junk yard? >> for now, they are not on the loose. they are in animal control's custody. they are still alive. the investigation is going to determine whether or not those dogs need to be euthanized. >> thank you, kristen. >>> prosecution calls two key witnesses today in the sexual abuse case against former penn state assistant coach, jerry sandusky. an 18-year-old man choked back tears as he recounted years of abuse. this afternoon, sandusky's former colleague took the stand. manuel has the latest from the courthouse in bellefonte, pennsylvania >> reporter: lesli, it was an emotional and tense day in court today. the prosecution tried for a one- two punch, culling him an accuser and eyewitness to an alleged sexual assault. mike mcquery told jurors he saw jerry sandusky with a young boy in a shower on the penn state campus in 2001. he testified sandusky was standing behind the boy who appeared to be 10 or 12. he heard skin on skin smacking sounds. mcque

derek? >> reporter: the mayor's budget calls for those 3 fire companies to close. a plan by the city council president would save them. >> reporter: city firefighters get credit for knocking down some of the biggest blazes, but this time, it's plan to cut their funding they hope to extinguish. they hope to block a vote to end crew 10, crew 11, and ladder 15. >> we're going to be there just as quick as we are today. >> i'm sorry, he is dead wrong on this. >> reporter: firefighters' union representatives are angered by the proposed closures. >> my fear is citizens are going to die. >> reporter: many firefighters insist response times will be affected. >> reporter: take squad 11 on the far east side. if the company that operates this engine is disbanded as planned, the next closest engine to service this neighborhood would be coming from 2 to 4 miles away. >> reporter: city council members heard an earful from concerned citizens. >> i live by myself, soy need the firehouse. >> reporter: jack young proposed slashing the mayor's budge by more than $6 million and using s

does that look like a funnel cloud, derek? >> i'm thinking it may be a hint of one. it's very ominous and scary looking regardless of how well it's shaped or not shaped there. >> topper had mentioned anytime you see those thick low-lying clouds that's a sign of severe weather. >> take a look, it almost looks as though the air force memorial is holding the clouds up. >> it does. >> either holding it up or piercing right through it, the spires going through the clouds. thanks for sending that to us. that's an interesting view. >> this is dan bauer again in ashburn, virginia, where we've already talked about the possibility of a funnel cloud. there it is. pure evidence that it's a very serious day out there. that there are funnel clouds out there, and any time, anyplace, we see a tornado warning, a tornado could touch down. >> we also had a picture from the beltway plaza in greenbelt. there we go. another funnel cloud formation. topper, you can jump in at any point. we've seen a lot of this. when does it actually then become a touchdown as far as -- is it picking up vel