the bullets flew through the back window of a home on frederick douglas place southeast. the bullet stuck a young girl in the back. she was treated and released from a hospital. >>> busy morning for you guys once again keeping an eye on things here and afar. >> luckily, things have calmed down from where they were yesterday when we had a tropical storm hitting the coast. that has dissipated. this morning, hurricane bill, it is well out to sea. the good thing about this image is it does include a pretty good amount ofthe atlantic thocean aan y cou see bill is nowhere near us so we're in thec going to worry about that at s point. we do have clouds in over u u this morning so willbe a mix of clouds and sun again today similar to yesterday. current temperatures at the area airports, reagan national, 75 degrees. i will tell you it is a warm, muggy morning. you do feel it this morning. dulles international at 73 degrees. bwi at 72 degrees. partly l.i.e. sunny skies. scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms. you could get a about the of a downpour if you get one of those th

it happened in the 1800 block of frederick douglas place southeast. sarah similar monday is joining us live from the scene with an update. >> reporter: the neighbor is pretty quiet right now but that certainly was not the case earlier this morning. police are telling us that shots rang out here on frederick douglas place southeast a little after 12:30 this morning actually going through the rear of a house, a window and hitting a 13-year- old girl in the back. we understand at this point that police are telling us the good hereis that she has been treated and released. this all unfolded at about 1:30 this morning. we are not sure at this point the motive behind the shooting but detectives were here on the scene earlier looking for whoever may have been behind the shooting here. police say several shots were fired into the rear of the house hitting that 13-year-old girl at least once. at this point, police are not sure if she was a target, if this was another shooting that was going on in the neighborhood and she happened to be in the mind of fire. at

it happened this morning on frederick douglas place in southeast d.c. sarah simons is on the scene with our top story. sarah, good morning. >> good morning, allison. it does appear we do have some developing situation behind us. if you take a look, there has been a number of police cars driving through the neighborhood. we just saw this man that was down on the ground and an officer that appears to be taking him into custody. and welso see this man that is running through the neighborhood right now that police are chasing after. we do not know though if this situation is related to the shooting of a 13-year-old girl this morning. but as you mentioned, there are many neighbors who say this is really the last straw at this point. the good news being though that the 13-year-old girl was treated and released. but of course this is obviously still unr investigation and a very active scene out here as police continue to look for someone. again, the people you just saw, we're not sure if this is related to the shooting from earlier this morning, but police say

yeah. >> and he met frederick douglas. and he had never met an intellectual equal in black face, as it were. he had never met anybody. he knew a few. you know, he knew billy the barber in springfield. but that's not a relationship of equals. he had a val laet in washingtona very good man that he cared about. but that's not frederick douglas. and he blew his mind. and he looked him in the eye, he was a towering intelligent inte. the last speech that lincoln gave, we forget that the emancipation proclamation included a provision that black men could fight in the civil war. and he -- lincoln believed, he called them his black warriors and he believed that the tide of the war turned because of his black warriors. so in the last speech that he gave april 11, 1865, at the white house, comes out on the ball corner, the north had won, balcony, the north had won. and many it, he says all the appropriate things. but he says he's thinking about doing something which we would say was revolutionary. he's thinking about asking congress

this happened around midnight on frederick douglas place near alabama avenue. police tell nine news several shots were fired at the home. the girl was hit in the back and taken to a nearby hospital, treated and released. right now police aren't sure who fired the bullets or why. >>> slamming the brakes on a plan to ease your morning commute. those hot lanes along t 5 and 395 in virginia are on hold. digital correspondent armando trull is live in springfield with the story. armando? >> reporter: andrea, good morning. this is the portion of 95 an 395 where those hot lanes were going to be built, but now the state of virginia, which was planning to sell bonds in order to pay for the construction, says swinging the deal is too expensive so the hot lanes are on deep freeze. construction on the high occupancy toll lanes was scheduled to begin in 2010. new lanes would run from spotsylvania county to the pentagon and would have been built on 9 a 5 and 395. car pool commuters, buses and motorcycles would get to use the lanes at no cost. but cars with fewer than three oc

. >> you can go to frederick douglas house the anacostia museum and you are touring anacostia you maynot be comfortable driving because you don't know it. the tour bus is free and owned by the smithsonian institution and speaking of the anacostia museum, the founding father john kinnard passed away and they are honoring him at the ame church. you can call me. it is at 4:00 at cochran and 14th street northwest and a lot of folks will come because the city is honoring him. imagine a gentleman founding a museum that the smithsonian adopted and made part of their museums. >> he and his wife are such an integral part of the washington area so this is wonderful. the fact they are having the tribute to him. the address is at 1615 corcoran street northwest. it begins 4:00 p.m. and they are honoring john kinnard, the founder of the anacostia museum. it is interesting that you bring up we should go to the mom. because many of us who live in the metropolitan washington area don't get a chance to get to the mall. we have friends that come in and they go and we work. but now is this time to take a

she was hit by bullets in her home on frederick douglas pace. you saw the bullet holes there in the walls. several of them came crashing through. jonneisha gaithers had just goal gotten out of the shower when had the shooting started. >> she had her towel on, on the bed, playing a game. next thing i know she came running in, saying her back was burning, this and that. and when i turned her over, there were two bullet holes. >> her mom says her daughter is now afraid in her own home. police are still searching for the shooter. >>> his fiancee said yes, now he is saying sorry. maryland delegate cardin apologized for involving a boat in his marriage. the proposal flap comes at a time when baltimore is seeing increased violence in the harbor. he used poor judgment he said and plans to reimburst the county. >>> and looking at the budget again, lawmakers say tim kaine will outline plan to cut 1.3 billion from the strapped budget. it will be the fourth time they had to scale back spending. it is not clear what programs they will cut. >>> and battle ove

s she wain her home in frederick douglas southeast.hen she was hit by a stray bullet. >>> the nats barely beat the midnight deadline to ink their top draft pick something they failed to do last year. straussberg signed for a record- breaking $15 million. >> not bad for a senior in college i believe. >> hey, education pays off, right. >> he will finish it someday i'm sure. not next year. he's coming to the show. >> he could make an re is onseas cofobeupis of seas. we had leup storms in the mountains. winchester 1500. niisor mor ng isquiet but this afternoon we will have a couple of thunderstorms . ep thkeat in mind. but a buem a few than yesterday. it than yesterday. it and 77 d 77 reagan national. 67 winchester and 76 on the bay in annapolis. a real sticky out there. look at a warm day. low 90s with a few afternoon thunderstorms and code yellow moderate air quality and you even wore a fuchsia skirt. >> you didn't wear fuchsia pants. >> i don't have any. stbound we ems to report from eastbound we are tracking the taillights through cent

it happened around midnight at a home on frederick douglas place. they have that story. >>> the one is up in here. they would have been in bed up in the area with three of the bullets that came through the wall. four months ago, there was a shooting. and a bullet came through here. and now she was one step out there and they just went past her. police say that it does not appear that they were hit when the shots were fired. no arrests have been made. >>> two montgomery counties now where the fire investigators have teamed up to catch the person or people who set more than a dozen fires overnight into that area. huge bails of hay were targeted. but someone also torched the property outside the homes too. and that is the digital correspondents out there live. with the latest. >> they are keeping a close eye on huge piles of bail hay and stray that were torched overnight like this one here. in the meantime, this is a no hydrant area. all of them were a particular concern to residence and fire crews. >>> by daybreak, more than a dozen of huge piles and

we have fort mchenry, uss constellation, the home of frederick douglas. the list goes on and on and on. >> reporter: and now it's been designated as a national heritage area. that means the city's historic and cultural attractions will receive money over the next 15 years through the public parks service. >> upon the roads and the streets, and they did great things. >> but if they just knew that there is a connection between them and what happened here, then i believe that the violence and things that we experience today by some of our young people would vanish. >> reporter: the celebration took place at the baltimore square market in baltimore's historic fells corner. ♪ a national heritage area is defined as a location or region that has a distinct flavor and density of historic, cultural, and natural resources of national significance. another highlight of the event would be the unveiling of baltimore's new water taxi landing signs. they'll provide information to residents and visitors about related attractions. and baltimore joins 49 national heritage

police say that eight stray bullets were fired into the home on fredericks douglas place last night. we'll have more on this story coming up for you on nine news now at 6:00. >>> and now, an update for you on yesterday's deadly stabbing. prince george's county now charging the 45-year-old cruz of college park with second-degree murder. they have gone undercover to try to put an end to some encounters in a park out there. the state park, they are suppose to a getaway spot for mifalyfa ds. instead, police say it has beme laa por pu otspfor some rather otldboand lewd ts rele fntpaldlyd paapntly fueled by the internet. fopaot m is t br following the developments in the wake of eight arrests. they are a mountain top getaway busy with family and kids and people hiking with dogs. >> i found this place a couple of weeks ago and just loved coming up here. >> we want them to enjoy themselves here. >> all of that is threatened. now, police say that by new developments with an old lewd problem. >> the individuals come here, cruise to the park. they would come here and meet at the park and leave

i think a great deal about frederick douglas. i'm going to leave you with a quote by him.w many favor progress but deprecate agitation. they want to rain without thunder. they want the majestic ocean without a terrible roar. progress always comes at a price. the ability for you to guide the system toward gives me places to learn and other places to learn. so i hope that the odds were helpful. i really think you for the work that you doing a great deal. so thanks. [applauding] >> questions or thoughts? that was ridiculous. i don't agree with that all. that's actually a good provocation. [inaudible] >> what is going on at the gates foundation? >> the foundation has a c ollege-ready strategy which was redesigned two years ago. pressed very hard to bring a group of people. i absolutely that i was -- fell for the recruitment. the word that i the is the effective teaching work. it is working to build measures teacher effectiveness, a basket of them, which one is student achievement over time. and to help systems use this measures to fundamentally rethink how we hire and how we f

douglas. and he fell in love with frederick douglass. he met with him more than any black man. lincoln never had a meal with a black person. lincoln did not spend 24 hours if his whole life with black people of high intellectual caliber. but he revered frederick douglass. in fact, after the second inaugural which most of us don't know, never had so many black people ever attended a public event in the united states. and douglas report in the second and noggle memorial and you can see it chilled on the wall, this amazing paragraph about perhaps god is exacting a life, one life for each lash that the slave house fell on his or her back. it is an amazing figure, very powerful figure. but the times in london reports the black part of the audience was saying amen, and called to respond. so douglass goes back to the white house. in those days you could just walk into the white house. two guards are standing at the door. douglas is the only black person trying to get into the white house because that was not cool. these guides say no way get out of your. and lincoln cesium and choose