bruce leshan, thank you for that. and you can keep watching the rescue mission live on our website, wusa9.com. just click on the banner right at the top of our home page. >>> d.c. school chancellor michelle rhee and the presumptive new mayor vincent gray have reached an agreement. michelle rhee will leave the office at the end of the month. bruce johnson is here with the story. not a ton of surprises here. >> maybe the timing is a surprise. michelle rhee's contact isn't up until june of next year, but what is clear is she is leaving d.c. and leaving reluctantly. >> the best way to keep the reforms going, is for this reformer to step aside. >> reporter: gray said education reform would continue. to underscore the point he introduced the deputy, kiah handerson as interim chancellor. >> we cannot and will not revert to the days of incrementalism in our schools. we must have a powerful chancellor who will move school reform forward and tick take it -- take it to the next level so all stake holders are invested in the proc

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in alexandria, bruce leshan, 9 news now. city lawyers, by the way, have tweaked the language and now they say discipline would apply only to profane, threatening or assaultive behavior. the city council will take a look at the proposal at a hearing tomorrow. >>> meantime a commuter alert that may mean a big headache if you are near tysons corner this weekend. route 123 will be closed in both directions. that starts in 2 1/2 hours and that is so crews can demolish the old bridge that carried the northbound lanes of the beltway over the road. traffic was shifted to a new bridge earlier in the week. route 123 will be open or they say it will by monday at 5:00 a.m. >>> now check out the evening rush. patranya bhoolsuwan is in the 9 news now traffic center. >> thank you, derek. we have a couple of incidents to talk about and it is pretty bad. so you want to listen up. southeast southwest freeway, eastbound at capital. this is where a multivehicle crash is blocking some lanes in dc. so a good spot to avoid. west of town, gallows a

i'm bruce leshan. the story is coming up. two governors, two different approaches. even in good times bob ehrlich didn't make education a priority. he increased college tuition by 40%, cut school construction by $200 million, and ehrlich voted to eliminate the department of education while serving in congress. but in the toughest of times, martin o'malley has made record investments in public schools, new school construction, and o'malley froze college tuition four years in a row. with martin o'malley, our children always come first. >>> right now, new at 5:30. >> safety officials are using female crash dummies to simulate crash scenarios involving women. >>> and doctors are prescribing a popular video game to help their patients get back on their feet. >>> who would have dreamed a dozen guys in dresses and pig snouts could raise $100 million and cheer the redskins to two super bowls? family and friends buried grandpa hogette ralph campbell today. new at 5:30. bruce leshan reports he really was one of the originals. >> probably fitting for anything redskins, laughte

i'm bruce leshan. story is coming up. >>> folks thought they were getting a great deal on a vacant home but now be out of luck. >>> a mass overdose sends a dozen college students to the hospital. police are investigating whether they could have been slipped the date rape drug. >>> a young mother makes a life- saving decision after a home dna test reveals she carries the breast cancer gene. >>> the paperwork problems could crush the fragile recovery in the housing market. thousands of people looking to buy vacant houses have to worry the deals will fall through as banks go back through their foreclosure records. new at 5:30, bruce leshan has a look at the impact around here. >> as we get closer you can see how the brick is starting to pull from the house. >> reporter: nick thought he found his client the perfect fixer upper in potomac. a home he could afford in a good glade fixer upper would be a gentle term for this property. >> reporter: the bank agreed to unload it for $470,000 and he was hoping to c

supreme court. >>> bruce leshan talked to them and the grieving father that sued them. >> we are yelling theater. it's on fire. >> reporter: they have done it so many times now, counter protestors have figured out how to drown them out. on one side three members of the westboro baptist church outside of arlington. on the other, a dozen members of a motorcycle club doing their best to silence them and block their view of the hearse carrying -- brendan loony. >> this is a place for the family to mourn the loss of their son. >> reporter: few people outside of their tiny kansas church do understand. >> if a widow came to you and said, plea

i'm bruce leshan. the story is coming up. >>> bunch being bug rude to passengers could cost cabbies their jobs in one city. administrators trick some students in to eating healthier. >>> and high-tech phys-ed. using games to get kids moving in gym class. we know cabbies in some areas can be rude but in alexandria? the city of alexandria is mulling other a law that could subject rude cabbies to termination. >> you don't need to be poll light. just comes natural. you should be poll light to each other. that's the way i look at it. >> thank you. >> mild mannered mohammad is having a tough time figuring this out. he and his co-workers wonder if you can really pass a law requiring people to be poll light. >> are you always poll light to everybody? >> you have to. >> even when they yell and scream at you? >> it is part of our job. >> reporter: turns out the city has long had a law allowing it to discipline cabbies who are repeatedly and egregiously rude and discourteous to passengers and now they want to ext

we have been looking at the ads for o'malley and ehrlich in the maryland governor's race, bruce leshan reports not all of them are false but not all of them are true either. >> remember this prompt, martin o'malley taking on bg and e to stop the rate hikes. >> never happened. your bill went up 72%. >> the first attack ad is true and false. o'malley took on bge. he failed to stop the rate hike but clawed back $2 billion from the company, including $300 checks for rate payers. >> what bob ehrlich been doing the past four years, he got paid $2.5 million at a lobbying firm. >> that is true but if you are left with the impression he is making $2.5 million a year it's false. ehrlich has made 2.5 million total in the last three years. working for a huge law firm. o'malley and his wife will earn $1.2 million over four years. >> i thought i knew bob ehrlich but then i found out. >> he raised property taxes on every maryland family and business. >> he increased college tuition by 40%. >> technically that is false. the board of regents sets tuition rates but maybe it is close enough. ehrlich cut

at harper's ferry, bruce leshan, 9 news now. >> the natural resources police say they are not closing the potomac but are urging people to stay off of it until october 4th. >>> the rain is gone. the sun finally came out. topper shutt is on the terrace with totals for us. >> reporter: we have the official totals and hard to believe this time yesterday was pure rain and flooding, but here we go. officially at the airport. these are all daily rainfall records. 4.86 at national. 4.74 at dulles. 10 to 15 inches of rain in california, maryland, depending on your exact location. over 11 inches in seven that park and smithsburg four inches. a report from sue in round hill. she had seven inches in loudoun county. so everybody got a good dose of rain. i think it will help with the fall colors. that's the silver lining. temperatures right now are spectacular. low to mid-70s. 70 gaithersburg and 70 in frederick and low to mid-70s toward fredericksburg. a nice night for high school football and a lot of games are on tap. satellite picture radar combined the rain is pulling away in to new england.

. >>> i'm bruce leshan at arlington national cemetery where a navy seals funeral was disrupted by a christian church that preaches hate for america. they have done it so many times now, counter protestors have figured out to how drown them out. op one side, three members of the westboro baptist church outside of arlington. on the other, a dozen members of a motorcycle club doing their best to silence them and block their view of the hearse carrying navy lieutenant brandon looney. >> the protestors don't belong here. this is a place for the family to mourn the loss of their son. >> on the supreme court website is a summary of the issues in the case and chief among them is the first amendment speech trump the freedom of religion and peaceful assembly, and does the family's right to have a peaceful funeral trump the right to protest here. >> and the u.s. supreme court is scheduled to hear arguments on wednesday about the protests. >>> and mayor fenty is laying down the law before he leaves the office. today he issued an order halting most city hiring and spending and that takes effect on wednesd

bruce leshan was in the courtroom and is live at the courthouse. >> the prosecutors pointed right at ingmar guandique and said his was the face in the shadows. his was the last face that chandra levy saw after she went jogging in rock creek park on a beautiful spring day in may of 2001. close the chapter the u.s. attorney said, find him guilty. >> are you okay? >> i'm all right. >> reporter: susan levy is back in dc hoping for justice for her daughter chandra. prosecutors say that ingmar guandique had a pattern of attacking women in the park and they put on the stand two other women with remarkably summit stories, except prosecutors say they survived to i.d. their attacker. one woman was in tears as she described how ingmar guandique grabbed her from behind as she was jogging in the park and that he choked her. that she fought him off by digging her fingernails in to the soft tissue below his tongue but chandra levy may not have been so lucky. the year her body lay out in the woods, washed away almost all the forensic evidence they cannot say for sure how she died. >> it is case that

at the supreme court, bruce leshan, 9 news now. >> justice alito asked church lawyer and member margie phelps if westboro would follow a grandmother to a bus stop from her grandson's grave and describe in detail how much they love ied's and the damage they do to american troops. phelps insisted they follow no one and they stay 1,000 feet away from the funerals. >>> militants in pakistan are torching tanker trucks filled with supplies in afghanistan. they've attacked six convoys in less than a week. and as the war entered the 10th year this week in afghanistan, there was a report that hamid karzai is holding secret talks with taliban leaders to end the fighting. according to the washington post, the taliban is negotiating a deal to lay down their arms in exchange for a part in the afghan government. they are also demanding the withdrawal after all nato and -- of all nato and u.s. forces. >>> the delay of a first civilian trial for a guantanamo detainee and ruled that prosecutors cannot call their most important witness and that is a huge blow. the prosecution is appealing. detainee is c

bruce leshan is live where the president has been stopping for governor o'malley and all but one memberf the democratic slate. >> reporter: yea, lesli, there are a whole lot of democrats around the country holding the president at arms length, worried that his sagging poll numbers will drag them down too, but not here in maryland. governor o'malley, the latest polls suggest that he is up 11 points in the race. in his contest with the former governor. and sot big concern here -- sot big concern here is voter turnout in the rally designed to make sure that the hardcore democrats get out and vote on november 2. >> barack obama! [ cheering ] >> reporter: fired up enough to get out in the sun, fired up enough that three dozen people fainted from dehydration or exhaustion. >> reporter: martin o'malley is a democrat embracing the president and arguing that people are failing to give him the credit that he deserves. figures that maryland is different from the states where the republicans have won. >> and as they could take back new jersey, they can take back virginia, but they can't take back m

. >> reporter: this is bruce leshan in potomac a beautiful neighborhood, a vacant foreclosured home and a deal to buy it that has been frozen in the paperwork crisis. >> the brick is starting to pull away from the house. >> reporter: nick thought he had found the perfect fixer upper. >> it is a in rough shape. >> reporter: the bank agreed to unload it for $470,000 and he was hoping to close later this week, but then came an e-mail from the title company. >> pnc has put on all closings for at least 30 days. >> what was your klein's reactions? >> he's pretty upset. he had prepared everything with his family to have the house closed. he has contractors lined up and ready to get the work started. >> reporter: the fear this frozen deal prepa peteed tens of thousands of times could schedule. the recovery in the housing markets. a heated debate in maryland's race for governor and things got personal as incumbent governor martin o'malley squared off with bob ehrlich in the first debate of their 2010 rematch election race. the men took swipes at each other from everything from negative ads to ta

. >> reporter: i'm bruce leshan in prince george's county, where president obama remains popular enoughhat democratic candidates are still inviting him to come out and to campaign for them. and in this case, it was governor martin o'malley and senator barbara. o'malley is an estimated 11 points up in the polls. and in this big concern, it's making sure that the democratic base is still fired up enough to get out and vote on november 2. >> if the republicans, and they say they want the keys back, and we've got to tell them. you can't have the keys back. because you don't know how to drive. [ cheering ] >> reporter: people here had to wait out in the warm autumn sun for hours for the president obama and about three dozen people fainted. most of them were revived by sitting down and getting a class of water, but two had to be transported to the hospital. >> on capitol hill, on this ninth anniversary of the afghanistan war, the veterans are sending a message to congress and delivering this notice. they are saying stop sending the traumatized troops to the battlefield. >> veterans, many suff

bruce leshan is live at the embassy where they are getting ready to party. d bruce, with good reason. >> reporter: yeah. with good reason. they are suppose to start at 6:30. but folks, they are already gathering. you can see them gathering with their chilean flag and the red, white, blue. are you excited? >> very excited. >> reporter: and folks on the side, they are gathering two people, passing by. coming to check it out. and they have the chilean tv on live here. and you can see the rescue in had less than one hour. that's the translation up there on the screen. some day on this way, i'll show you the big signs. the u.s. and the world in rescuing the 33 miners. then we're going to actually come down. let me show you this book that they have, this seat that they have. this is going to be the first one that comes out. this down here is the ship form. he'll be the last miner. this is the the note that they actually sent up after 17 days without contact. saying estamos bien. we're good. we have 33 people. folks can sign this book and that it will be sent by the

. >>> i'm bruce leshan at the chilean embassy where everyone will remain just a little bit nervous until the last of the miners is freed from his underground dungeon. [ chanting ] >> reporter: in bethesda, chilean americans break into joyous chant outside of restaurant valparaiso. >> it's very wonderful. very incredible. really incredible. we're so excited. >> reporter: last night the athe embassy, there was dancing, celebration, and tears of happiness. and now here is mario sepulveda roaring with wonder at the taste of fresh air. the celebration is quieter now, but passers by still stop to watch as one by one the miners are delivered to freedom. >> it's just amazing. >>> and once again, 28 miners now out of the mine. so far rescuers just sent up number 29. his juan carlos aguilar. he's in the narrow rescue tube as we speak. we are streaming the rescues live at wusa9.com and we'll keep that feed going until the final miner and rescuers return to the surface. >>> well they say he was well liked by his coworkers. still somebody shot and killed larry hutchins on the job. the 51-year-old fat

. >> all right, bruce leshan reporting, thank you. >>> giving us the highlights if you want to read more, go to our website on wusa9.com. you'll find that metro audit under the extras tab. >>> round two of the debate between governor martin o'malley and former governor, bob earl lick. a lot of finger pointing and the former republican governor, bob earlic -- ehrlich in an early appoint. >> reporter: yes, absolutely. the double digit poll numbers have been out there. obviously he felt like he had to at least try to score a knockout so he came out swinging. o'malley, of course, taking those chances still. we did get to see the fire because let's face it, there are just a lot of things that they do not see eye to eye on. >> and they disagree on raising taxes. the incumbent admitted that it could happen as the final resort. but bob ehrlich, no matter what happens, he's got the furlough workers for ten weeks. i'm not going to raise taxes. does that make sense? >> the $32 million budget. we don't raise taxes. and both insist that he will be the man to create more jobs. but that really began to

." >> bruce leshan live at the courthouse. thank you. one of the three students charged with running a drug lab inside of a dorm room is free tonight. other two are in jail facing up to 20 years behind bars. these arrests happened saturday morning on the campus at georgetown university and the students were just arraigned in u.s. district court. have we learned more what was in their room. >> we sure have. police detail what they found inside the room. several items including carbon dioxide, a number of jars of green and clear liquid and we're told a homemade smoking device. dea agents say these materials were highly explosive and flammable. prosecutors say georgetown freshman charles smith and visiting richmond resident john perro in, e were running a drug lab inside of the hear bin hall in georgetown university. 400 students were evacuated from the hall on saturday morning after someone reported a strange odor. rusty payne, a smoke spokesman with the drug enforcement administration says that it is a hallucinogenic drug and though not w

i'm bruce leshan with the story coming up. >>> and we continue to monitor the rescue at the mine in chilees. this is the 26th miner being pulled up, being greeted by friends and family. number 26 is out, that means 7 are still underground and at this rate they could all be out in a few more hours. bob ehrlich says he wants to fix maryland. but he increased state spending by record amounts. ehrlich raised $3 billion in taxes and fees... including property taxes... and a 40% increase in college tuition. and now he's made over $1 billion in new promises... with no plans to pay for them... except for cutting education. cuts that will lay off teachers and increase class sizes. that's not a budget. and bob ehrlich's not the kind of leader... we can trust. >>> things still looking up on wall street. the dow finished up 75 points to close at 11,096. the nasdaq climbed 23 points and the s&p 500 jumped 8 points. >>> searchers one step closer to diagnosing autism with a brain scan. doctors at the university of utah discovered certain areas of the brain that don't communicate well with each other. th

bruce leshan is talking about a new poll about this. >> social networking may be making a privacy messor kids and teens. a new international poll shows, get this, more than t 0% of parents think their children share too much on-line. and 75% say social networking sites are doing a terrible job protecting privacy on-line. on monday, the poll sponsored common sense media will launch a campaign to teach kids how to protect their personal information and reputations, and with story after story about on-line bullying, experts say internet discretion is a good place to start. >> part of controlling this internet bullying and internet exploitation, we have to teach our kids, look, don't do this stuff. >> when people go on-line and publish pictures and they publish storied, instead of it being published to five or six people, it's an entire school, it is 300 people or an entire town. >> reporter: big round table here today in washington on this with several federal officials. they are trying to figure out how ways to increase on-line privacy for teenagers. anita? >> on-line discretion. sounds