here is derek mcginty with hero's central. >> we have people that receive lunch.e have worship. ♪ i once was lost but now i'm found ♪ >> reporter: they call this street church and the reverend, rector, runses it. the mostly the homeless. when they started the street church six years ago that building housed a 300-bed men's shelter. back then dozens of men would leave the building, walk across the street to the park for lunch and a sermon. >> it was the idea that you give them the incentive to come to the worship by providing the lunch? >> well, it works like that. yes, it does. >> reporter: reverend charles acknowledges it is hard to focus on the spiritual if the physically is famished. >> do you come for the sermon or food? >> the food more than the sermon. >> reporter: but this 53-year- old man, syd, also treasures the community of caring people. >> it is the comradery of it? >> yes. >> it was the answer to prayers. >> 68-year-old christine has been a street church volunteer since the early days. >> i don't have to go by and look the other way and they look the

derek mcginty nine news now. >>> the gannett foundation has helped the church feed homeless in downtownyou want to get involved go to wusa9.com, click on hero central. >>> whether time 6:15, howard bernstein is here. he says enjoy today. >> i may get yardwork done today after work. i don't want to wait until the middle of the week. >> it's going to get hot. >> once again mid to upper 90s will invade the region with humidity as well. wednesday and thursday humidity high. we start with mid-80s today, a couple degrees above average. average high is 82, 83. your momslikeme.com bus stop forecast this morning, my kids yesterday just -- how many more days of school do i have? we have 11, i forget how many it was. eight, eight that's right. >> not enough, not enough. 64 to 72 our sunrise occurred at 5:43. and we got just a touch of fog toward frederick and the mountains of west virginia. 70 at 9:00, upper 70s by noon with northeast winds at 7 miles per hour. low 80s by 5:00 with a high today around 85. so really a good start to the week and we're talking about warm conditions today in the weath

derek mcginty gives us a wrapup of today's testimony. >> just the numbers we heard are mind blowing. earl bradley could have faced 470 counts for allegedly abusing scores of patients over more than a decade of time. but the prosecution boiled it all down to a 24 count indictment, alleging rape, assault, and sexual exploitation of a child. he was escorted to the courtroom this morning where his fate will be decided by a judge. a primary piece of prosecution evidence, graphic video. more than 13 hours of it allegedly of bradley sexually abusing kids. the judge rejected defense easts to have that video suppressed and today as detective testified, he said that the video features the abuse of 86 children and was filmed from december 1998 to december 2009. that is just days before bradley was arrested. detective scott garland called the rapes violent and brutal. he said nothing could have prepared him for watching that video. bradley was arrested in december '09 after a two-year- old girl told her mom that the doctor hurt her when he took her to a basement room of his office after an exam.