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bill cahir decided to join the marines after 9/11. he leaves behind a wife who is pregnant with twins. ren gray houston has a loker look at the loss of a hero. >> reporter: the alexandria street where bill cahir lives has lost a patriot. >> we are stunned. >> reporter: he was killed by enemy fire in southern afghanistan. friends are expressing condolences on internet htbsites and neirsheyt e are a close-knit group and are devastated. >> when it was tird ithird tour you get hema deimmune because it through two. >> reporter: two tours in iraq and now afghanistan. a sweet behind a een, renee, couple and she's pregnant with twin girls. >> reporter: he starts out as a journalist for the express times paper in pennsylvania. then owned by the new house newspapers, deborah howl was washington bureau chief. >> he loved being a ror tep er loved being a marine. >> reporter: at 34, he was old to enlist in the marines but it was after 9/11 and no one could talk him out of it. >> and i said bill, you could get killed. and i said, i know that. but h

sergeant cahir died thursday, a memorial has been set up to benefit the twins through herbert bank inpolice are issuing two citations after a crash saturday night, even though police say he didn't cause the accident. the olympic gold medalist pulled out an invalid michigan driver's license after the accident. police also cited him for failure to establish residency in maryland. investigators say the other driver was ticketed for running a red light. >>> if you need metro this weekend, the fort totten station is out of commission. metro will offer free shuttle bus service between the brooklyn, fort totten and tacoma stations to help out. track circuit repairs could cause delays on the orange and red lines. the weekend forecast s >>> meteorologist chuck bell standing by. chuck, what's the temperature up to about now sm. >> it is 73 degrees right here at news4 high on the hill in northwestern washington, it's a beautiful day, there's a live look if our city camera. looking down at 1600 pennsylvania avenue northwest, the white us e. the obamas on vacation, enjoying it, i'm sure, beautiful