the dover mortuary has also been accused of mishandling the remains of fallen troops. man there tried to stop it, but he paid a price and david martin has his story. >> reporter: it is a dream and solemn sight: flag-draped caskets coming home from iraq and afghanistan. but unseen is an even grimmer fact. many of the bodies inside those caskets have been blown to pieces. as chief mortician at dover air force base in delaware, bill zwicharowski prepared those remains for remains for return to their families. >> it's a hard job. in addition to the stress, the daily stress, we here in a zero-defect mission and we can't make a mistake. >> reporter: but there was a mistake in april, 2009. soldier'uary lost part of a soldier's ankle. the commander, colonel robert edmondson ordered an internal investigation. >> i explained what i thought was wrong and then i asked the questi question, you know, "are you going to notify the family? and if not, why not?" and i think th and i think that was a question that really hit a nerve. >> reporter: swicharowski hit another nerve when he ca

this took place at the visitor's center in dover, tennessee. it's 50 minutes. >> the purpose of today is not really to give the down and dirty blow by blow of the battle. i've been asked to give a few random thoughts about the 150 years that have passed since the battle and the importance of the battle. and i'll focus my remarks on that. for more detailed analysis of that of course my book i'd love for you to buy that. but there's some others out there, too, dr. cooley wrote an excellent book on the battles of the south and the short film that's involved here and the interpretation with the rangers. by all means seek those out for the blow by blow. we'll have more of the macro level for this here. it is exciting to be here for the 150th anniversary. as historians we look back and we think 150 years is a long time. but really it isn't. we're talking -- may depend on who we are. great grand fathers, maybe great great grandfathers, just a couple generations have really passed here. but obviously the world has change add great deal in the last 150

yeah, there are no railroads here in dover, tennessee. but in order to get troops here, you need a railroad. if you're going to bring them from bowling green, you get rail. you take it by rail to clarksville up the river, get on a steamboat and come down. so railroads are in use. the same for supplies. grant is going to use the railroads for supplies. they all come down by boat or railroad to cairo, illinois and brought up here. so railroads. it's kind of neat. we mentioned the telegraph. the telegraph is still fairly new in the united states here at that time, too. and telegraph lines are strung up all over the place. grant, for instance, is going to communicate by two major means with hallot in st. louis. give a note to a guy. gets on a steamboat, goes to st. louis. here you go, general. the general has a telegraph line from cairo, illinois. and there is that guy with the little key. he is tapping out messages back and forth to st. louis. kind of neat. so i think it's really neat that they made a movie about fort donelson, it would take

grant's army lived on those supplies for several weeks after capturing dover. all the confederate supplies were. middle tennessee, lost. western tennessee, pretty much gone after that very quickly because the confederates couldn't hold it. they withdrew without firing a shot. eastern tennessee wasn't nice to the confederate army either, so in one swoop all of tennessee is gone in essentially a two-week campaign. again, is there any oth especiallyto brigadier general. from the army very quickly after that. this battle will put him on the glide path to success here. he has a lot of competition out there, but he has one thing going for him. he almost loses a lot of battles, but hen thend. and he's going to do -- you know, belmont, learning -- this is back in december of '61. he almost loses his shirt physically at belmont. he learns his lessons there. comes here. he has more learning to do, but he's learning his trade. and he's learning it through success. the confederates on the 15th come this close to pushing him back to the river and defeating him. but he sprin

right now we have humidity up around 100% in easton, dover, baltimore and in winchester as well. we will continue to look for basically foggy conditions, in fact you can see across the eastern shore we have a third of a mile of visibility in dover and six tenths in ocean city. those areas likely to have the most fog. 74 tomorrow. morning cloud cover and it'll take a while to burn off the fog . >> new tonight doctors may not make house calls but the hartford county sheriff's office does when they see a spike in crime in places like belaire, forest hill they send out an office booth. they robo call neighborhood to hear what you have to say about what you need to stop crime. last week hundreds showed up. >> we are concerned about burglary problems in the area and it gave us the opportunity to see where we are, what the status of the investigation was and also we gave them crime prevention information. >> this program has been halling for months ands sheriff's department seeing good results. . >> we are watching -- make sure you watch good morning maryland because it could change by

southward, low 60s, more 50s to the east in wilmington, dover and york. temperatures should reach in the low 60s. it will be a cold start. clouds increasing through the day. i think a decent start. oxford 63 and 61 in chestertown site of the big conference. clear across maryland and clear across the east. as we look out to the north and west, we do find a small system beginning to get its act together. it will bring the chance for showers into early saturday for at least a few hours. then the cloud cover from the system could actually stay in the area through saturday, so maybe not a lot of sun saturday but the rain will be done by midday at the latest. almost a chap stick kind of night and temperatures falling. overnight we expect to go to 37 under clear skies as the winds diminish. tomorrow your two-degree guarantee. 62 but clouds building late in the day. these showers not for your friday evening but rather for your daybreak early saturday morning. the showers will relent. we're looking at a decent sunday. next week warming up again, back in the mid-70

humidity levels now again up over 60, 70, 80% in dover. this is one of the reasons we have a real recipe for more nothing. this is looking at the current humidity plot if you look closely -- northeast maryland. that could mean the densest fog could be in that part of the state. the trend across the area partly cloudy skies and a couple of showers way west of us toward charlottesville virginia, here is the overall trend quiet in the east. web somewhat sunnier weather just west of us will shift over us tomorrow and that will mean decent sun, as high as 80 or so after the fog burns off. this main weather maker, crawling across the center of the country, bringing heavy rain, heavy rain bands to alabama and tennessee. timing wise for us, this will take its time coming in and as it has for all week long. no impact, just a warm south breeze ahead of that front. that could mean that -- temperatures will push 80 or higher tomorrow. then the clouds thicken up saturday, chances for hit and miss showers through the day. best chans on sunday as that ma

cool their dover, the humidity still high. yes this will set the stage once again for potential fog to develop out there overnight into tomorrow morning. keep that in mind for friday morning. 70s this evening for the next few hours looking good. warm. we will talk about how the weekend unfolds, there are big changes coming up. >> thank you. >> a 1-year-old dog found on the side of the san diego road with a gun shot to the chest is getting a new family. the shelter named him chance. he is still recovering from gun shot he is headed home to a new family. they saw his story and just had to help out. his previous owner saw the story on the news but -- police still don't know who shot him. >> this should be a family member. this is like a child. this is a defenseless creature. to have someone know something and not report its it's galling. >> his new home comes with two children, 6 and 3. >>> a cat in boston is still alive after falling the 19th floor of an apartment building yesterday. workers say the cat named sugar only has a bi

dover, 76. winds south, southwesterly. it's a warm breeze. at one point we thought with the humidity on the rise that we could see at least a few pop-up showers. we're beginning to see early indications south and southwest of baltimore. could we see some blossom into a few thundershowers. this evening 0-- 70s, variably cloudy. much more on how long this warm stretch continues. it's coming up. >>> we all struggle with our budgets when the economy gets tough. it's no different for the people who create these states. republicans from the house of delegates introduced their alternative to governor martin o'malley's budget. >> it's a major factor. we have cut over billions of dollars of the budget. >> he sits on the house appropriations committee. house republicans say the budget is not being cut. it increases every year. today they offered up their alternative budget it. would cut more than a half million dollars from the budget. the governor's budget -- the republican budget does not rely on teacher pensions. the government wants to keep monetar

. >> the investigation into mishandled remains at the dover air force base mortuary has lead to disciplinary action. they will discipline two supervisors accused of retaliating against workers to try to expose wrongdoing at the facility. a third supervisor has resigned from the air force. the whistle blower's actions have led to significant improvements at the mortuary. still ahead on abc 7 is at 6:00 how one thing is to blame for the spike in consumer prices that has taken a lot of money out of our pockets. >> the latest report on getting somewhere by plan on time is looking up. >> three more big election events on the republican scheduled. >> no arrests this weekend in the race for the white house. >> the official caucuses for misery will be held. -- missouri will be held. 69 delegates are up for grabs in puerto rico. >> the republican race is taking a detour off the mainland. sunday is the puerto rico primaries. mitt romney and rick santorum are fighting for every single one of them. earlier this week, rick santorum stepped into hot water when he said if puerto rico once to gain statehood

dover air force base is only 61. you get to the 70's as you get closer to the bay and across the bay. gaithersburg, almost 80 degrees. rainy and cloudy, with temperatures in the 60's. east winds are holding the high temperatures short in atlantic city. here are these thunderstorm cells off to the west. the trajectory is to push them to the south. there are the east winds. here is the cold front. the warm air has been pushed a little farther west. we are right under that front right now. those of you in northeast maryland and eastern shore may not warm up quite as much as everybody else. the real rainmaker is going to be this cold front in iowa and illinois it, coming out of the great lakes. this is a little complex that warmed up in the warm air. this will be ahead of this cold front to the west of us. a big chunk of the nation is very warm in the noon hour today. or cloudiness and rain chance is to the west of us. some of that is going on right now. it might get a little closer to us. we might want to favor these mi

dover at johns hopkins children's center dave us a key to key -- to the johns hopkins center. it was so heart warming it receive this key from the hopkins children's center. it's the key to helping our kids. >> all right. >> on her resume it will say finished second in jeopardy's college championship. graduated from goucher college. senior sara barts is having a great year. bart was one of 15 players selected from 12,000 who applied for the competition. today she basked in the glory of being honored by our local government. >> i'm surprised it's still going, but i'm glad that everybody is so excited about it and it's been a lot of fun. now bart is a philadelphia native and always dreamed of being on jeopardy. she will graduate with a major in history and $50,000 in her pocket. >>> we'll find out how it will shape up with wyatt when we come back. it's oysternomics 101. you start with a u.s. senator named ben. by helping restore thousands of acres of oyster beds, he kept hundreds of oystermen on the job... which keeps wholesalers in business... and that means more delivery compa

police searched a white car marked with bullet holes parked near the intersection of dover and east pacific for evidence. investigators say they don't know of anyone who was hurt in the shooting and no word yet if any arrests were made. just wednesday evening two men were shot and killed in this neighborhood. 24-year-old vadell chew of fairfield and 18-year-old bernard knight of palo alto. a african american man 6'1" with dread locks he drove off in gold mercedes was scene running from the scene. they have expanded the search for more than one shooter. we will stay in touch with fairfield police. we are live in fairfield i'm tara moriarty. >>> your time now 6:02. oakland police investigating two shootings that left three people wounded. latest one happened after 10:00 last night. it started with a confrontation at 42nd and international. man was shot in the parking lot. now police say the man's friends put them in their van. they drove him four blocks away to a gas station. that's where they called the police. the man was rushed to the hospital. he's listed in stable condition. so far no ar

weather the last couple days, 72 the high today in baltimore. 73 in washington ; 72 in easton. 71 dover. widespread well above average temperatures, talking about temperatures running more than 20 degrees above average. winds to near 40. so, kind of our one weather problem the high winds and we are tracking a line of showers pushing in to garret, points west of cumberland. we will cross the area, should be in here after ten. the rest of the evening from the 70s to the 60s but it'll stay warm and windy. we will talk about how cooler it'll be by saturday and how fast we bounce back. that's coming up. >> thank you. it may be beautiful but the largest so la r flare has hit. sounds scary. jamie with a look at if the problems predicted happened. >> reporter: just kidding. so far the storm seems very strong but hasn't caused the disruptions scienckists said were possible. the outburst hit other planets, the field at about 6:00 and while radio communications at the authority and south pole were cut collect electronics were most fine. no gps information outages happened though sciencists say som

dover at nearly 100% humidity. you can see where the fog impacted temps today, only in the maryland and southeastern pennsylvania, in new york where we were trapped in the 60s. look how hot in pittsburgh, charleston, west virginia in the mid-80s. nearly 80 in richmond. those areas had the sunshine. you can see where the clouds were holding tough, this section around maryland, including all of our state, tough to find the sun. as a result temperatures held down. all eyes shifting to the weekend. you can see tremendous rain, tornado reports across the deep south. that is going to be a very slow moving system. for now the south breezes continue. mainly south of us. the main system you could see just really taking its time to cross the country but it does appear we'll continue to see a strong fetch of moisture out of the gulf of mexico. this could be quite a bit of rain as we move toward sunday. just a slow, slow mover. here it is for you, down to 57, mostly cloudy many your two-degree guarantee tomorrow, 74. patchy mo

over 20 in the dover airport. we're clearing out. the winds are staying up and the storm system now off shore. high pressure spotting in out of the west with a squeeze play with low pressure off shore. we have a clockwise flow of the high pressure. you get those air masses and both systems working to pull that cold air in from canada and points north of us. 34 in charlotte now. unusual for this early part of march. our trim will feature some changes here. more sunshine tomorrow. a few clouds in the afternoon, but that disturbance looks weakened to the north. i don't think we get so much as a flurry and then wednesday, sunshine really pushing into the afternoon and into thursday, it looks really dry and a decent scenario. that winter disturbance we're dealing with today off shore is still dragging in cold northerly winds. overnight, 25 into the day tomorrow. 47 with early clouds in the afternoon. we clear out tomorrow night as temperatures drop to 30 degrees. we're below freezing again. and then the frosty night goes away. up to 60 on

right now of temperatures 0 at dulles. 62 patuxent river. 68 in dover. 67 in hagerstown. winds are from the south, southeast. for the most part it will be a steady flow out of the south keeping things warm. so far we don't have the humidity but we think the humidity will increase as we work into the day tomorrow. that will help a couple of thunderstorms. right now we don't have much thunderstorm action to the west. as this line centers over hoyer state, temperatures shoot up to the mid-70s. we are certainly in a very warm air flow, and there is going to continue even after that line of showers potentially moves through the day tomorrow. we still stay warm. this is not going to be a true cold front passage until at least the end of the week. take a look at the trend here. timing wise any precipitation should wait until morning. a few hit and mills showers. the better chance is we'll stop at 6:00 picking up with the inhouse computer model an a line of showers, thunder showers, so we will be watching for that tomorrow afternoon but for now it will be quiet. overnight 52, inc

the mortuary director at dover air force base tells the "washington post" high-ranking military leaders rejected his fromme cremate the bodies and bury them at sea. he did not reveal the names of the individuals. families of pentagon crash victims thought their loved ones were buried at arlington national cemetery. turns out the remains had been dumped at a landfill. >>> police in anne arundel county looking for a man they say was recording video of women in the bathroom with his cell phone. a woman said it happened to her sunday at the panera bread on richie highway in glen burnie. she told police the man put a cell phone in the stall while she was in it and tried to record her or take pictures. he ran away. she reported the case the next day. >>> union members are calling for an executive to resign. members voted overwhelmingly to have executive john leopold and james terr toe step down. leopold was said to have used security video tapes to arrange sexual encounters. >>> a maryland will woman will learn if she will be formally charged with trying to extort money from a new york yankee

dover. thank you for the support. successful event every year. >>> coming up a rare sign in a yard sale. find out it's worth millions. >> we'll tell you what he bought. first what's ahead right after abc 2 news. >> coming up on nightline potential game changing report of apple's factory. new surveillance about the explosive shooting of trayvon martin. that's coming up tonight after abc 2 news at 11:00. . >> you probably walked around the thrift store looking for good deals. zack walked into a store in columbus, ohio. he saw the signature of picasso sticking out. when he got home, he noticed the signature was real. it would be worth $10,000. >>> check out these fellows. these will be worth about 2 bucks. you got the balloons and cherry tree. she took them last friday and those trees aren't as quite as beautiful today. just be careful going down new york avenue. they got more out there for the sears portrait. >>> chilly night and spots. there will be frost northern maryland. we've seen this movie before. here we go agai

then south just to the south in to dover, off the eastern shore, that is where it's a little bit more at times. we are seeing picking up half an inch in some places, we do have flood watches up we will be talking about, coastal flood advisorys for baltimore and to the south anywhere off of the bay, really, that's where the coastal flood advisory, stays until 7:00 a.m., we have flood watches. that's to the west, central maryland, western maryland, anywhere from montgomery county, and howard county to the west and through virginia and the shenandoah valley, flood watches up until tomorrow morning as well. now, temperature as little bit cool outside, if you are headed out, you are going to want to wear the jacket. chilly rain, 46 degrees, humidity is up. 93%, visibility down to just about half a mile. if you are headed out, make sure that you keep your eyes on the road, because with the rain out there, you are making the drive in treacherous commute. annapolis, see the rain moving in, the heavy clouds started off as a dee decent day. here comes the rape, and just as quickly as it moves i

sunshine pushing temperatures up to near record levels we have got 86 in frederick. 81 in d.c. 80 in doverall time record in baltimore, 82. maybe we pop to 81 at the top of the hour. very warm with almost no wind. see what will help cool things off. we'll talk about how temperatures will change. that and much more at 5:00, which is ahead in just a minute. stick around. >> being polite, being diplomatic, that really is the secret weapon. >> most dogs get really excited when you say, you want to go for a walk? dpupt a treat? not this little guy. >> do you want to go flying? huh? you want to go on the plane? little brodie here is a flying enthusia enthusiast. he runs full speed out to the plane. he gets his wish. he's up there high in the sky, flying along with the family. >> this entire family, they all fly. >> they all fly. dog included. >> does he stick his head out the window? >> he goesz with us everywhere we go. we got out by the airplane and he jumped right in and now you can't get anywhere near the aircraft without him freaking out. >> if you hit turbulence, does he get nervous? >> he

near 100% in dover. no wind, more dense fog, patchy dense fog in areas around maryland, give yourself extra time as you head out the door in the morning. once the fog burns off we should see a warm afternoon up close to 80 degrees. we will talk about how things will change significantly by sunday, it's coming up. >> thank you. hours before the doors even opened these are just some of the people lined up to seat hunger games. this is the imax crowd. by 9:34 other theater was sold out. it's a huge thing. it's the kids fighting to their own death. >> this is just crazy. we came here because we wanted to get here early to get in here and not -- we are excited for it. >> they sold out 12 to 14 theaters here and according to the ticket site fandago tickets are selling at a rate of 10 a second nationwide. 3,000 show times have been sold out. >> that's crazy. >>> there is no way this town, this state will ever forget william donald schaffer and the man who collected and kept everything had a night in his honor.

look at salisbury, dover zero and one in frederick, four in hagerstown and four in winchester, culpepper 1. we have the follow out there. but we're mild this morning. the temperatures close to 60. edgewood, you're at 61. so the air is soupy and saturated. good morning, manchester, 56 there. this is what we're looking like on the satellite and the radar. and we're in the clouds at the ground and above. that will be the scenario as we go through the rest of today as well. and then things will start time prove as we go more into the evening like we saw yesterday, a carbon copy pretty much. we zoom out and look what the is going on across the nation. and that area of rain is possible to move to the east as we go into the weekend. and it could break apart by then. but we're looking at wet weather as we go into the weekend. but future trend picking up on scattered showers in possible. and we will be seeing plenty of sunshine moving into the afternoon as well. that will help fuel some of the scattered showers that we could be seeing. but the hour-by-hour forecast brings us to about 73 as we go

the swat team arrived surround a house at 59th and dover.hey were arrested. >> nine students caught cheating have been suspended from the high school. a possession person said one of them was able to get ahold of a classroom key and the final exam for two courses. it was shared the students. they say the students admitted to cheating. >> only on two a bay area cancer patient is receiving his last treatment tonight. john fowler is live in san francisco with how a health policy can make the difference between life and death. >> right now on the 11th floor at the ucsf medicine terai young man is getting the last chemo therapy round his insurance will cover. about two hours ago the 38-year- old arrived for three weeks of thinker pay. he has had brain surgery and several rounds of chemo for a rare type cancer. >> like a roller coaster emotion, angry and upset and -- depressed, that was made worse by not know what would happen with my medical care. >> reporter: his insurance will max out leaving him without coverage. >> the fact that issue has to

temperatures in the 70s and nearing 80, 50 at the inner harbor. 48 annapolis, off the coast, 52 cambridge. 47 dover. a chilly night, but we have some warm temperatures in store. we will show you that and more on the 7 day coming up. >>> the odds are steep. you've heard the comparisons, you are likely to be hit by lightning, get in to a wreck. slim chances are not stopping a mad rush to get mega millions lottery tickets. brian kuebler is live with how the stakes got higher today. >> reporter: late this morning, mega millions announced the jackpot went up $100 million, to $640 million. that is not exactly a surprise if you've been to businesses that sell the tickets. millions of people in states including here in mailed are cashing in on a dream. the odds are more than just steep but it isn't stopping people taking a chance. >> we are going to get a new building for our shop. >> $50. $50. >> only one way to win and that's play. that's how we do it. >> reporter: the odds are technically 1 in 176 million. the baltimore orioles stand a better shot at winning the world seize than you do winning the jackp

then a pentagon briefing concerning the dover mortuary. president clinton and former secretary albright. tomorrow on washington journal, alison black discusses the 90 day extension of the transportation program and the impact it has on states and their employees. maneesha mithal talks about the agency's report on online consumer privacy. mark matthews discusses the future of the international space station. >> life sunday, our founding fathers, civility and conservative politics. your questions for richard brookhiser. he will take your phone calls, e-mails, and tweets sunday on "booktv." >> now, president obama at a fund-raiser in vermont. he talks about some of his accomplishments during his first term and his plans for a second term. he made four campaign spots, two in vermont and two in maine. this is about 35 minutes. [cheers and applause] >> hello, vermont. [cheers and applause] thank you. thank you. thank you. this is a good crowd here in vermont. it is good to be at uvn. it is good to be in vermont. [cheers and applause] now, out of

the debate was actually threw out both in dover and at any of our medical professionals. to do the best we could for dignity and care for the remains. but we wanted to determine if these were remains or biological. it was a range of people. >> next question. >> i just wanted to ask the air force general. there was an interesting detail about some of the decisions about who was going to be stationed at dover and the decisions about how long that period of time they would stay there. i wonder if you could go through the time and how those decisions were made as to who was going to be at dover, how long they were going to be there, and maybe if you could talk about plans for the future for dover airport base. >> what i was going to say is a lot of the employees have been there for a number of years. the command position we have swapped out and will continue to do so on a rotating basis. >> many of the airmen that were there were on deployments so there was a discussion back and forth about how long they should be there and who should be there. i was just wondering if the dec

this is video of the casket as rivalling on monday at dover air base of two u.s.ilitary advisors who were killed while sitting in their office at the afghan interior ministry. at least six u.s. service members have been killed by afghan security forces in retaliation for the burning of copies of the quran at a u.s. base. >>> it was once their strong hold but now rebel forces in syria are retreating from a neighborhood. they have been under attack by government troops for the past month. rebels say they have run out of weapons and call humanitarian conditions there catastrophic. hours after the withdrawal, the government granted permission for the red cross to enter the area tomorrow to deliver food and medical supplies. >>> meanwhile, britain announced it will close the embassy in damascus over the concern of lack of security. >>> democrats say it is a victory for women's health, republicans say it is a loss for the first amendment guarantee of religious freedom. tara joins us from the news room with a close vote on the controversial contraceptive amendment. >> re

the relative humidity values extremely high 100% in dover now. over 80% in annapolis.hat makes it feel not just warm but this moisture will help fuel these showers and storms as they come in through the day tomorrow. on and off type showers, we have been seeing that with this system. and you can see the core of it actually weakening through the night hours but probably pick up a bit ramp up through the day tomorrow. warm, humid air continuing to surge in out of the south. behind this system, wrapping into it will be some cooler air and a lot will arrive early next week even after the weekend but again with so much humidity, there will be showers on and off through the day tomorrow and a lot of cloud cover. we won't see a lot of sunshine until maybe sunday afternoon. timing, you see showers hit and miss through the day tomorrow. on and off. a large cluster of rain looks like it will pass just south of us tomorrow night. but this is a computer model projection so this may end up being a little further north. heavy downpours saturday night before it all clears out sunday

even to see temperatures in the low 06's and across the area we are in the low 50s. 48 at dover. places like hagerstown on 60 degrees on a light south wind that's going calm and with the calm wind and the higher humidity levels we do anticipate more fog to develop over night. the skies clear but that fog likely to develop at the surface and you have a calm wind and humidity at 100%, 94% in frederick now, that is in fact a recipe for fog and the dew point numbers fairly impressive over 50. fairly moist air, it'll help create fog toward day brek. this disturbance in ohio likely to slowly drift east and if it keeps it's -- intensity we could see some shower around here by early afternoon tomorrow and unsettled area over the great lakes, the overall pattern not going to change much this week. that's that warm south flow. high pressure off shore. what's interesting, at times will be in more of a true south wind that. could let us get in to the 70s. you know from friday and thursday evening when we get more of a southeasterly wind vector that changes things, we get that marine layer ef

. >>> tonight, the mortuary director at dover air force base is blaming top military leaders for dumping the remains of 9/11 victims in a landfill. he told "the washington post" he wanted the remaining buried at sea, but the military leaders decided otherwise. he did not name names. families of pentagon crash victims thought their loved ones were buried at ar ling tong cemetery. >>> tonight eight current and former service members are suing the u.s. military claiming they're tolerating a, quote, staggering level of sexual assaults. the lawsuit includes graphic charges by two form erma reason corps officers. one of the women claims she was gang raped in 2010 at the marine barracks in southeast d.c. another claims she was raped on barracks row by a superior in 2006. both women are claiming the military ended up blaming them for those assaults. >> i felt like it was me on trial. they said i welcomed the sexual harassment by wearing makeup and running shorts. >> the retaliation i experienced was horrible and ongoing. >> we own this problem. we need to fix this problem. i'll tell you the ma j

. >> some of this travel also is to welcome a family member back for the last time at dover, isn't it absolutely. we also bridge the gap between what the military does and what they can't do. a lot of times they'll fly a mom and a dad, a wife, maybe some kids, but they can't bring a grandmother and a grandfather to be there when that loved one arrives in the united states after being killed in action overseas, and we buy those plane tickets and get the family there. >> what are some special stories that you've accumulated over the years? i know there's one particular family about a -- one particular story about a family from tennessee. >> the servicemember sthepped on an ied, was blown up, lost both legs instantly. within a couple of days his wife called and said how many ;) and white. we don't have an answer to that. i said tell me why you want to know. and she said i have a family in tennessee, two young children and i have an injured husband laying in a bed at walter reed and i need to take care of both and somehow we need to keep our family together. and so they came up with a pla

later, an independent panel report on the mishandling of service members remains at the dover air force base mortuary. then, first lady michelle obama and jill biden speak about making it easier for military spouses to get state professional licenses after relocating. following his primary victories in michigan and arizona, republican presidential candidate mitt romney is in dayton, ohio, for a town hall style of an this afternoon. the state is one of 10 contests up for grabs next tuesday. it is expected to get under way at about 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> " can we win with? none of them. >> none of them? >> obama just change the entire dynamic. >> look inside the new hbo movie and best-selling book to gain the inside story of what happened in the 2008 presidential campaign. >> you know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? lipstick. >> sunday, with the co-authors. >> their expectation coming out of that speech was the she was an asset to the campaign and for the week or 10 days immediately after that, she was, and on the democratic side, there was a lot of concern as the mccai

you don't hear straight talk republican party our final comment of the night comes from a viewer in dover delaware who called in to our viewer rant line here's what he had to say about the tragic case of trayvon martin florida's so-called stand your ground law as i call it shoot first laws and gun violence in america. two what's wrong with the course is to put this into law to realize the florida flu really is no different than texans take you have to even for some ask questions later so the service will look truly for is did george is running around looking for him everywhere along with their black full human soul you can simply kill if feel better about it so this is for the concert the liberation of small curtains people a concealed weapon millimeter weapons ship from all the city if you want to hurt your long rifle you go up the woods and you know you don't be hurt in the inner city every few feel that clark is that bad become a policeman don't kill innocent little teenage boys with dangerous pegs or skills take as absolutely brilliant you know if you're going to hunt don't hunt the c

you don't hear straight talk republican party our final comment of the night comes from a viewer in dover delaware who called in to our viewer rant line here's what he had to say about the tragic case of trayvon martin for a so-called stand your ground law as i call it shoot first laws and gun violence in america. two what's wrong with the course is to put this into law to realize that florida floridians are different than texans texas to even see first i'm asked questions later so the service law lou three four is due george is one route looking for him everywhere most of their blackpool human soul you can sue can kill and feel better about it so this is farther from the political reason of smallgoods peacefully concealable weapons learn to live in the weapons should be cared for more than. if you want to hurt your lawn wife will you go up the what's in your utopian home in the inner city every few feel the club is that bad become a policeman don't kill innocent move to meet boys with this dangerous pegs askew take that's absolutely brilliant and you know if you're going to hunt down hun

this is off of dover avenue. you can see down the street from here, just down that street from us, there are the bodies of two young men on the street. entire neighborhood is standing outside of the yellow tape. some people are crying and others trying to figure out who it s one woman believes it's her 22-year-old nephew. she doesn't know who the other person is. and now, police have no information on the suspect, or suspects that committed this crime. and there is a fresh we're going have to gather more information. >> thank you very much. >> and still coming up tonight embattled head of the state fish and game commission. >> a rousing debate over his future. >>> a huge turnout over dan richards embattled president of the fish and game commission, he appeared with a mountain lion in idaho. today nearly 100 people showed up to share views. >> he didn't do anything illegal but it was ethically wrong thing to do. he was out there trophy hunting and heesz supposed to be representing us californian autos there are th

look at the eastern shore. 56 in the dover. 66 an ocean city. some of the cold ocean air will make its way across the bay to our area on sunday. it is all about when direction this time of year. that is why at reagan national airport of the winds had been more out of the south today, we would have never hit the record of 82. 77 right now in gaithersburg. 78 at reagan national airport. check out the wind direction. south east in gaithersburg, east along the bay. it is all a dance between wind direction and the effects of the temperatures. plenty of warm air through the '80s in the carolinas. shower activity diminishing at sunset. if you popping up overnight. tomorrow when the colt from a low pressure area get closer. showers and storms will be more likely. we will see temperatures in the 70's. mostly cloudy when you wake up in the morning. 58 degrees. showers should move out tomorrow night. in its place, " dreier air coming in with sunshine on saturday. -- cool and drier air coming in with sunshine on saturday. shenandoah might hit the 70's. we w

there is the back edge of the rain stretching from dover delaware down through cambridge, maryland, solomon'ss virginia, all moving to the east. skies will be clearing. western maryland already getting sunshine. 57 this afternoon for the high temperature, partly cloudy, a little breeze. tomorrow morning in the upper 20s, highs in the upper 40's. near 50 tomorrow with sunshine. then much warmer on sunday. 62 degrees with sunny skies. seven-day forecast and its units. >> its friday. today marks 35 years since one of the worst terror incidents in the nation's capital. on march 9, 1977 nearly a dozen muslims invaded three buildings in downtown d.c. and that included building and build-- include the wilson building. d.c. councilman marion barry was shot and survived along with a radio host. will the 100 people held hostage more than two days. it is 6:42, 46 degrees this morning in bowie. >> whitney houston's family and friends opening up about a sudden death. >> a story that inspired "star wars" at the mov ♪ ♪ [ woman ] i was ready for my trip, but my smile wasn't. [ female announcer ] new crest 3

there was plenty of room on the left-hand side, and no one knew dover.is just making everyone aware, and making these officers a little bit safer. >> i noticed there was a vehicle that was not moving more and it was coming in our lane. just before they struck our vehicle, which jumped over a barrier wall that was next to us and the driver struck the back of our patrol vehicle and pushed it into the vehicle in front of us. >> m. gibson help get the move over campaign started by writing a letter to the governor. >> i think they are does not aware of the law. they just keep writing by and i have not seen one of them move over yet. >> police and emergencies responders will be safer doing their job. >> now, your insta-weather forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. >> i have been keeping an eye on some rain down on the lower eastern shore, drifting to the north and norris -- north and northwest, but showing signs of weakening. it does not look like it will get up here, but we will keep an eye on it. light shares might make it up to cambridge. you ca

a couple heavy showers mostly on the eastern shore around ocean city and closer to dover delaware there. that will be pretty much the story today on and off showers this morning, making way for partly cloudy skies, and the sun will peek through later this afternoon. also some snow in the forecast for tomorrow morning. i'll tell you about that coming up in just a couple minutes. >> tornados went through towns after powerful storms unleashed on a nation's mid section. >> this -- 21 people dead. the devastation is unimagineable. there have been towns wiped out. we know children were wiped out early to try to beat the tornados. unfortunately some of them got caught up in that. i know as they go through the wreckage site they are recovering. >> we have the latest from henry, indiana. what can you tell us? >> forecasters had been predicting heavy storms to come through henryville, indiana. what happened last night could never have been guessed. as we look at images here, you can see behind me, this used to be henryville high school. what is left of it is the middle school. the roof completely

you are looking at video of the caskets arriving at dover air force base.wo military advisers were killed while sitting in their office. at least six officers have been killed by afghanistan officers after the burning of the koran at the u.s. air force base. >>> this is new video of the costa allegra heading to the docks. now a fire in the engine room caused it to drift at sea without power. he was on the verge oring everyone to abandon ship. but it could have been disaster rouse, there is no doubt about it. >> many of the people slept on the deck to escape the smoke and heat from the fire. the cruise line is offering a 15 day paid vacation. costa allegra is the sister ship of costa concordia which capsized last month killing 25 people leaving several others missing and presumed -- resumed dead. >>> one of two other women indicted in a ponzi scheme, 55- year-old jacqueline hagel sold fraudulent certificates of deposit. as of march 20009, investors lost more than 75 million. williamwise is believed to be in canada. >>> there is a new accident in san francisc

. >>> an independent investigation found that supervisors at dover air force base did retaliate against employees that complained about poor management. the investigation start after reports of mishandling human remains of u.s. troops killed overseas. the office of special council says supervisors retaliated against whistle blowers who tried to expose the problems. one civilian supervisor has resigned. the air foss has begun disciplinary measures against two more supervisors. >>> what a moment for maryland national guard soldiers and their families returning home from a year long deployment to egypt. the mission, to man checkpoints throughout the sinai peninsula. 52 soldiers arrived this morning. hugs for everyone at this celebration. >>> a developing story tonight. tensions continue to rise between the united states and afghanistan after the deadly rampage from a u.s. soldier. now, he is accused of gunning down 16 civilians, most of them children. the soldier should be at fort leavenworth, the only maximum security prison as early as today. colin powell has details. >> reporter: afghan

> the air force completes the investigation into the mishandling of the remains of soldiers at the doverir force base mortuary. now, two supervisors are being disciplined. they said they retaliated against four whistle-blowing employees. another was involved in the incident but has since resigned from the air force. >>> time for a quick look at some of the stories you'll find in tomorrow morning's edition of the baltimore sun. a maryland company is becoming a favorite of designers for its concrete kitchen counters. a preview of ncaa's first round preview. and coverage of the first game in the misl soccer league between the blast. for these stories and more, read the baltimore sun. and remember to look for the first warning forecast. >>> thousands of people wait in line for hours just to get their hands on apple's latest version of the ipad. monique griego has more on what the hype is all about. >> reporter: from excitement in japan. long lines in new york and across the country in california. die-hard apple fans flock to get the new ipad. here in baltimore, people waited for hours just t

a baby alligator is the talk of the town in dover, delaware, after someone spotted it at a gas stationit may look like a small alligator, but wildlife officials say they can grow to be more than 7 feet long. little gator is now off the streets and caged in a temporary wildlife rehabilitation center. >> wow. >> i know. so we found signs of spring all over the district this afternoon. a lot of people out walking, jogging, new buds on the trees. so, question, is this nice weather going to last? >> it's going to be decent tomorrow. it's not going to be quite as warm as it's been. today turned out to be nice. >> what's your idea of decent? >> well, how about partial sunshine in the low 50s instead of 53 like it was today? >> decent. >> the general trend the next week or so is nice warm temperatures here at the end of the five-day. we have a couple days where it might feel like march for a couple days around here. >> imagine that. >> not this winter. >> let's kick off a look at our live shot. you can see city streets. things running smoothly. 24 hours ago, we had good thunderstorms that move

heavier shower around dover. south of the city around annapolis, moved through the area, just to the west of queenstown. one heavier echo. sun is back out. showers south and west of d.c. that's where most of the action is. and that will continue to move down south and southeast of the region. it appears you folks in southern maryland, this batch west of d.c. that is what we expect to see the heavier showers over the next hour or two. but baltimore region, take a look at our satellite picture. it's cleared out north of town. that front heading through the pennsylvania area this afternoon. and you can see the breaks in the cloud cover. we have clearing skies. looks like a cooler trend, compared to today's low 70s. tomorrow, only in the low 60s. kai? >> bob, thank you. >>> midair meltdown. a jet blue pilot is suspended after suffering a breakthrough. the crew was forced to tackle him. >> reporter: jet blue has suspended the pilot who caused midair chaos on flight 91. passengers say he had a mental breakdown, running

for years we kept the tv cameras from the entry point of dover, delaware for the fallen to return home. together, each of these steps has separated the conduct and horror of war from the main population. to subtract, even further, presidents like george w. bush have offered up wartime tax breaks to make sure no one gets the idea that wars cost money. i think the book needs to be read by everyone who watches hardball, the kind of argument that makes this show work best. takes apart the current argument by opening up history and shows the pattern of behavior from seeing the situation four square. we do not see what we are doing because there are those who do not want us to see it. they want us to keep doing what they want us to do and thinking

he's formerly the dover mortuary division director. he cleaned out his desk monday after he tendered his resignation, according to officials familiar with the case. an air force spokesman confirmed that keel was no longer employed by the air force and declined to comment. there were incidences of missing body parts and the sloppy handling of remains. investigators from an independent agency found that keel had tried to fire two of the whistle blowers. host: democrats line, texas. how are you? caller: thank you for c-span. as a retired teacher who worked from sixth grade to junior college, if i had to say something to arne duncan, in schools that are not doing well, i will put a social worker in those schools, and the main purpose of that social worker would be able to target the parents of children who are not doing well and try to get them together and try to form small groups that the social workers could monitor and help the parents to help their children in reading and math, and parents who can't aford child. they need to be able t