in five minutes kristin fisher takes us to space. right now howard takes us to the commonwealth and our focus on virginia's weather. >> it is a quiet morning across virginia. a trace of rain for the entire month. the lawns have gone from green to brown and crunchy. temperatures in the 60s in many areas to the lower 70s. the shenandoah valley the the cool stuff. closer to town we have temperatures in the upper 60s. we will have cloudy skies and a few breaks and sun and a couple of showers with highs in the low 80s. >>> pour the coffee and drink it up. enjoy the ride, folks. 66 eastbound right now tracking zero problems from route 50 to 123 and beyond. let's go ahead and move it over to some more traffic. 395 northbound from duke to seminary, looks like from 95 to the 14th street bridge a 20- minute commute and we are flying southbound on the gw parkway. from the key bridge or from the beltway to the key bridge lanes are wide open. 9 news now will be right back. in the 1930s, farmers planted nutrient-rich soybeans... to replenish the b

kristin fisher is live from the wilson building. >> reporter: hi, jessica. good morning. well, in just four hours at 10:00 a.m. marion barry will be here speaking to reporters over what went down the past 4th of july weekend. a park police officer patrolling anacostia park on the 4th of july was flagged down by a woman in a car. >> the woman stated somebody in another car was harassing and stalking her. >> reporter: the woman was political consul stant donna watts a friend of marion barry. barry was arrested 45 saturday night. >> the only charge is a charge of misdemeanor which is -- is stalking which is a misdemeanor. >> the best word to describe mr. barry at this hour is betrayed. he adamantly denied the charges. >> reporter: he paid $800 to buy her an opera jacket at the same time he was trying to repay tacks. >> mr. barry has over a period of time lended his friendship and his support to the accuser, miss donna watts through her many stages of instable. >> reporter: this barry's third run in with park police since his i misdemeanor drug charges in ' 92. >> i have had

in five minutes kristin fisher shows us great ideas including a hot new sushi spot.right now a hot forecast from howard. >>> this morning a lot of fog in couple of spots but otherwise a much quieter morning than yesterday afternoon or evening. look at the temperatures as you get ready to step out b@the doo readings in the 50s in culpeper. 57 to 66 in fredericksburg and 64 forebelvoir. looking at highs in the mid to upper 80s with an outside chance of a thunderstorm. angie has the virginia traffic. >> that's right. it is all about you. keep you posted on the situation on 95 northbound at the fairfax county parkway. an accident is cleared. delays are not. looking at 31 minutes from the prince william parkway to the previous scene. on 66 eastbound. that delay is starting to break apart nicely from 50 to 123. drivers are at speed as well and come fly with me. southbound on the gw parkway from the beltway to arlington no incidents or accidents along the way. 9 news now will be back with more weather, news and traffic just for you. vo: since 2006, walmart has sold over 260

it is kristin fisher's birthday, everyone. >> angie is late on that. >> i know. whatever.elebrating an accident on the bw parkway heading southbound at 295. drivers are backed -- backed up to annapolis road. >>> watch for thunderstorms this afternoon. a few shower and storms mid- 80s. hot tomorrow with an isolated storm. track on-line at wusa9.com. >>> as for wall street things are looking lower. a small loss is predicted a the opening bell. >>> and getting a caffei

she's an astronaut the the mother of kristin fisher. dr. fisher good to have you with us. not only are you an astronaut bethe din inioctof being the first mother inio space. talk about that. because you flew your first mission on. look at you with little kristin. >> oh, yes it was a hectic time of my life but kristin says being the rsfit fimother in spa i owe it all to her. >> your crew found out when you were going to be a mom. >> i found out i was assignedded to my crew two weeks before i delivered isn.ti it was a challenging year to n.y the least. >> and kristin's dad is a doctor. you are a doctor. he was an astronaut also. how challenging was that just going off and leaving your young daughter and flying in to space? >> it was very hard but i was fortunate. we had a wonderful young lady who is still a wonderful family friend who was taking care of kristin and my mom came and helped the last six weeks. i had a lot of good support your next mission was cancelled because of the challenger disaster. >> i thought of the danger but being part of nasa to me was worth it. i th

jennifer: the only place to buy a sofa bed. >>> i'm here in the web center with kristin fisher she has an update on the hero central project. >> good morning. most of our hero central stories are of course about people but the one i'm working on now is about a dog. not just any dog. check fathis out. right here. this is tazo, a black german -- oh, no that did not work out. that was not the picture i was going for. here we go. in just a th thright here. is tazo a black german shepherd anan d ann bachursear and rescu dog with the sedc fire departme . mert. i'm sure he's been a heroon previous occasions but we ar tr ngthat awful metro crash o fo last month. i the scene and he s the scene and he was part of a rs itegh onfirefighters ne ne people from that wreckage. in fact, in this picture, you can see those demolished inthre t here partner chris hopaner ch foreground. we're not e rtonly alilso hongribem.hie he will also be the a thof a fu byfunightot by the washington mystics. equinox restaurant and the og tatyl plil kee ac it will take place during a ta washington mystics game tonight. a

here's kristin fisher. >> reporter: good morning. yesterday's memorial service to michael jackson will go down as one of the most watched events ever, second to the inauguration of president obama. we did not see the same kind of overload like on the day he actually died in which sites like twitter completely crashed but the numbers are coming in and pretty staggering. look at cnn.com. they are reporting global web traffic was 19% above normal during the memorial service at times as high as 33%. this one reported 9.7 million video screens. antob@ put that in perspective, cnn's viewership record for a full day is 27 million video streams. that is three times as high and that was set in january on president obama's inauguration day. keep in mind these are only the numbers for one side. it will take several days to compile all numbers from websites around the world. so it is not looking like any records will be broken in terms of web traffic but it is a differenstory on facebook. michael jackson's facebook page had just 80,000 fans and

i'm kristin fisher with what's hot on the web. without a doubt the top story on the web is the news that north crease korea's leader has cancer. andrea has told you about that story this morning but on the web it is one of the top trending topics on twitter and the number one story on most news websites around the world. here's the story on the bbc's website. laght now this is the most pud poanr most e-mailed story on this site. north korean leader jim i don't know ill has life-threatening pan key yakic cancer. it is being confirmed by ytn. they say they got the information from intelligence officials with the south korean and chinese governments but at this time no anconfirmation fro either country. now, this news comes one week after a massive cyberas acwak launched on government websites for both the u.s. and south korea. i apologize about this site. the text seems to have gotten a little scrambled. right off the bat people blamed the north korean government for the cyberattacks. over thewe ekwanew evidence emerged strengthenin

. >>> time to say good morning to kristin fisher in the web center with something fun for us to watch. >> you have got it. good morning, everybody. it is friday. so i have to start with a fun viral video. what you are about to see is a video posted on youtube. it wasn't created by amateur videographers like much of the content on that site. it is actually part of a global campaign campaign for a major company. see if you can guess what company this ad is for ♪ [ music ] ♪ [ music ] ♪ all right. so we have roller skating babies. is it an add for diapers, roller skates, any guesses over there? >> i have seen it so i know. >> well, actually, guys, this is an ad for evian bottled water. why? their slogan is live young and the brand director said the company was trying to sell water drinkers a dream. it was created by a special effects team in london and if you look at this, they took real babies that could barely walk and put them in a green screen before they became the digital roller skating babies. did it work? is this an effective ad. i don't know if it makes me want to grab a bottle

kristin fisher has the story.us what we are talking about. >> fox dropped the ball big time last night. anytime you watch a major league baseball game on tv you see a close shot of the pitch and then it cuts to a shot of home plate so you can see what happened to the pitch. makes sense, right. only problem is that didn't happen last night at the all- star game when president obama threw the first ceremonial pitch. look at what happened last night. right here you see the president walking out. here we go. he's about to start to -- lined up. he throws it and then what happened to it? you have to no idea who caught it. did the ball make it over the plate. isn't the fun of the first pitch to see what happens d faan e atwhkind of arm the president has? i'm not the only one who thought that. this story has got the blogs and the twitter folks on fire. they say fox screws up obama's first pitch. they are not pleased and look at all e thattweets coming in. people were mad, andrea. this is from diana mcdougal. she wrote how

until noon. >> kristin fisher has an update here on hero central. good morning to you. >> good morning, andrea. as you know we are a few weeks away from the start of a new school year and that means the tuition deadlines are coming up quick. a nightmare for so many family and especially in this economy. families are having a hard mefuu dsto rom omfrfort washington, maryland. last week she send me an e-mail saying she needs a hero. r accepted toaccepted to enstunsoevsiivn in er orbaimlte and in a falci idimin some financial aid but fl he a running out idi' qum quoting fomeisr innng out meoualt iout of ideas of what to do. meanwhile my son is looking at me each day with an eck presentation on his face like what am i going to do? if you have any advice or suggestions, let me know. that is from chery fort washington, maryland. that's what we will do. hi tougris morning i with a meg called the called the school counseling group incorporated. reth aseeybare he d d inc enbe esfalimi since 1979. get this, cheryl's question is, towaway to secure byy by thurs

now over to kristin fisher with what is hot on the web. >> good morning, jessica. by now you probably know that yesterday, brace yourselves, the president had a beer and not by himself. he was joined for happy hour at the white house by henry gates and the officer who arrested him. it is being dubbed as beer diplomacy by the president in an attempt to get rid of the racial tensions that erupted after gate's arrest. this is all over the web. i want to show you how it w -lo morng.g. in start with the drudge report. bartender or cin. efhibartender websites nall websites this morning. the huffington onpost, their headline, happy hour but no itsu thmm eyavsummit. they have reactions there and once again there's the same ure. i'm telling you, you wi ov and bbc.com's website. their headlineisliobama hosts ra cerow beer mm unsube it, summit, betingo arst tngo notice a trend. on gawker.com. check it out. they took it e onstep further. and even livelive blog r ontii be beer reconciliation summit. scllov rehe and they had screen grabs e cablcable ne outlets were saying. cable

. >>> i'm here with kristin fisher with more hero central news. good morning. >> that's right. good morning. we have a new feature on the hero central home page to let people who want to be a hero connect wi co y. in unmm their community. ed you oine starrellte have tosam 9.wuco goto wusa9.c button 0 our main page. this is what will hero e hero see zoom in llwizoom in you n testteziara r p codeto a e p of the itnear you. 01ad20, 6. type it in and that is atwh20 will pop up the do good channel and it is wusacom partnering opartner "usa today" and what it does is it connects people with causes and the various ways they cakemamake a difference in their community. when i apopped in that zip lis came up and it shows you the charities closest to you and the ways you can most easily get lvvoededin your community. if you are interested in to doing that, a new feature on wusa9.com and you have you have an idea for an upcoming hero central story, e-mail me at u.s. wusa. i want to share one more site with you th moisrning. here it is right here. you can find this on our technologyse ctn.

kristin fisher has that angle of the story. >> whether the president is pushing the health care planson or on-line he g indo the same thing and that inis white one white on on health in rmsu here you can read the president's full remarks of yesterday's town hall in north carolina or you can get the cliff note and yge house e house is also t.sted quick read fact eesh itis a eistf ot gh health in nse ra umcoecer on and the ese thary e keenesemel wt itn'ldbe the obama administration if they didn't ask for your this stli . this list ohee n retht wh here on the whushoe , blogushoe the brfim.ngoo r eyat th have done is thasked you to weigh in on e thdebate e like facebook and twitter. on twitter they have a special grouorta hh hasoug toast h the debate and the hash tag he. it is a here is a pod si gnfollowed by hcip. if you do charser fo charth atfor that group on grp ouon twitter. this is what will pop up. they veei rhasaeceyofths ndou tweets past 48 hours and past 4 i wanted to share two with you this morning. yo to gothe u white house blog one more time, th he av posted of course e some

i'm in the web center with kristin fisher. what's the latest on the hero central project? morning. when we started this project i thought we would be getting a lot of e-mails from people who would nominate people as heros in our community and we are getting a lot of those e-mails but i'm surprised how many i have been getting about companies who are helping out their neighbors in need. it is pretty interesting. i want to show you one example. take a look. i am talking about the eye doctors of washington. they just gave away a free rasilaeye treatment. they held a contest on their website called changing the way people see the world. right here. they asked people to send in a video of them spreading goodwill in their community. well, they posted those ossivid on their website and let people vote. the winner with 476 votes was dc resident beyond lowe. here's her video right here. she was nearsighted and resistance to wearing contact lenses and now is contact free and has 20/20 vision thanks to the eye doctors of washington who say they are now her heros. yesterday i went out

. >>> and kristin fisher is here with another great hero central story for us. od morning, kristin. >> good morning. if remember a few weeks ago i did a story on the miss senior dc pageant. i love that story. guys the ladies are back. but this time these women are helping even some more senior citizens by starting the girlfriends club. & jesus loves me ♪ ♪ >> reporter: she is almost blind and jamie is bedridden. >> i'm so glad i met her because she and i can encourage each other. >> reporter: but once a week she visits jamie at the nursing home in washington. >> there maybe some residents here who do not have friends or family to visit, and that's where we come in at. >> reporter: this is the girlfriend's club. it is a group of volunteers who mentors to seniors in nursing homes. >> you would be surprised at the number of seniors who just have nobody. you think cancer is a killer, heart disease is a killer. loneliness is a killer. >> reporter: former miss senior dc founded the program on valentine's day 2008. >> our signature color is red and you know us by one st

kristin fisher has the clip people are talking about. good morning. >> reporter: hello.morning. well, you know, any time anything goes even slightly wrong in a presidential press conference, it is a story. but it's especially a story if that something is the teleprompter for president obama. sorry you're looking at the screen right now. that's for a story coming up in just a second. but the story we're talking about right now is the president's beloved teleprompter malfunctioned again. this time while he was delivering remarks yesterday on the economy in the white house. take a listen. >> in the first month of my administration, to pull our economy -- [crash ñ] >> goodness. sorry, guys. >> reporter: what you couldn't see was one of the teleprompters right in front of the president scam crashing to the ground. but the president didn't miss a beat. there you can see the smashed teleprompter on the floor. granted the president did have a second teleprompter to fall become on and a printed out speech just in case. so it's not the most newsworthy clip, but i guarantee you you

over to kristin fisher. >>> thank you, angie. good morning, everybody.ories on our website is about the metro train operator caught texting on the job. the operator has been suspended without pay for a week but that hasn't stopped some from sounding off on our website. i want to show you comments we were getting in yesterday and this morning. >> anyone who drives a metro train and texts should be fire. when i heard it is the driver of a blue line. i ride that line. it is my life you e armessing with and not to mention countless other ves, as well. another one from sam 1974. he wrotes, the way the economy is someone else who is just as experienced could do the job. these employers are too lax on their employees. very sad. i tried to find some sort of positive comment out of all the comments on our website couldn't find a single one there, nor could i find a positive comment on twitter. it was getting a lot of responses on twitter. here's one that stood out. cox wrote saw a thing on channel 9 last night about video of a metro driver texting while driving,

kristin fisher explains why. >> i was driving and all of a sudden i see this light goes off in my carngine light and i'm thinking what is that. >> reporter: it is a bad feeling for any driver, especially if you are unemployed like karen cook so she brought her car in to chevy chase acura in bethesda. >> i remember her very upset. kim holtz gave carolyn the bad news. >> so my beautiful acura, 2003's transmission was diagnosed as failing. >> reporter: a transmission would have been a $3,000 repair, but the dealership told her it could be something as simple as a sensor. she got a second opinion in falls church and they confirmed it was thence sensor. >> she came back and she had tears in her eye and i was like, okay, she tugged on my heart rings a little bit. she told them about the car. >> it went from $3,000 to zero dollars and i drove away a happy customer. >> now she is back to thank her heros. >> oh, my gosh. hi, mike. how are you? >> i have to say you guys are the absolute best. my car is running so beautifully. >> positive feeling to be able to help somebody's situation but what

kristin fisher is here with the latest piece of good news. >> that's right. good morning, andrea. a great story because it shows that it doesn't take a lot to be a hero. it is the story of a one woman's kind act and it started a trend in a coffee shop near kansas city. digital correspondent john peppetone shows us. >> it started a week ago at this drive-thru window. the customer wanted to pay for the next customer's drink in addition to her own and it continued on ever since. >> since that customer paid it forward at the steamin' bean, 1,000 others are followed. even though the drinks have been free they are paying for the next customer. the owner says it seems no one wants to break the chain of good deeds. >> it is hard times but people are wanting to be part of something knowing their five cents or a dollar goes to the greater good. it may not hey change the economy but simple gesture. >> customers are donated more money so if someone in need takes advantage of a free drink there's money available to keep paying it forward. >> yeah, sure. >> in a week's time that has amounted to

our digital correspondent kristin fisher is live at the wilson building where barry's attorney just wrapped up a news conference. kristin? >> reporter: well, j.c., perhaps the biggest news to come out of this press conference is that dc council member marion barry did not say a single word. the only person who took questions is his attorney fred cook. here's their side of the story. they say, barry did have a relationship with the plaintiff donna watts it ended six weeks ago. his attorney says watts invited council member to his her home on the 4th of july and then watts changed her mind and decided not to go with barry to annapolis. it is unclear how hours later both ended up in separate cars in anacostia park. barry was alone but according to his attorney, watts was with her ex-husband. that's when police say the flagged down an officer. barry was then arrested on a misdemeanor stalking charge. >> we believe the charge is baseless. we believe the charge stems from a personal relationship that had gone horribly wrong in a lot of ways and has resulted in one party to the relationship striki

time to say good morning to kristin fisher. she's in the web center.hat do you have their morning? >> reporter: we're talking about reality tv, andrea. you know, washington has become a real hot spot for reality tv shows in recent weeks. but without a doubt, the show that's creating the most buzz on the web now is mtv's "the real world." they started filming at the end of june, and ever sin the cast's every move has been heavily tracked on line. i want to show you right now. take a look. the washingtonian.com has just launched yesterday -- they launched this realworlddcwatchthemap. if you click on it, this is what pops up, a google map. what they do is they have readers send in emails of sightings of cast members and crews. and if you scroll down, you can get a list of just where the crew and the cast have been over the past week. you see this past weekend they were at the fly lounge on saturday night hanging in the vip lox. gazuza, somebody went to church, st. luke's episcopal church, at a rock climbing wall. they are literally being tracked on a ma p

kristin fisher introduces us to kazo, a search and rescue dog with dc's fire department. >> reporter: it's the deadliest crash in dc metro's history. nine people dead and nearly 80 others injured. >> it was quite a dramatic event. >> reporter: sergeant christopher hole and his partner kazo were on the scene. the is a live victim search dog and trained to find people buried in debris and can tell the difference between the ones already dead and the ones still alive. >> we go for the live victims first. we want to help the viable victims and be able to find those victims as fast as we can, extricate them and get them to the hospital and come back and look for the deceased victims. >> reporter: the day of the metro crash, kazo was the only search and rescue dog on the scene and helped to find the nine victims but kazo is only one of four with the dc fire department. >> go up there. get a cookie. >> wilson and his partner have been a team for two years. >> working with rue was a life changing experience like having kids. basically where every i go he goes. >> he can smell if an accelerant

kristin fisher, 9 news now and wusa9.com. >> what a great group of women. >>> do you know a hero or need on to wusa9.com and click on the hero central button. tell us all about that person. >>> pope benedict xvi will have to area what cast for a month. the 82-year-old pontiff waved reassuringly to well wishers outside of a hospital in italy where he yond went surgery today. doctors set his fractured wrist. the pope was injured after he fell at his vacation shall lay. doctors say he would suffer no long-term affects and would be back to playing piano and writing once he wrist heals. >>> now a serious health scare for a woman trying on clothes in a kohls store in houston, texas. she says she was pricked by th us ree ed syringes left in a pair of shorts. >> makes me kind of think twice about just trying on clothes before checking them out first. >> we are going through the pants and making sure that everything checks out all right. we just want to be sure the entire store is safe after this. >> reporter: the sheriffs department took a report but the woman's family says there is no ongoing o

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the first mother in space in 1984 and she is here with her own daughter kristin fisher. great to have you with us. as one of the few with the right stuff your memories of ' 69 and that lunar landing where were you when it happened. >> it was the last summer i spent living at home and we got to watch it together an it was a special moment. >> is that the moment you said i want to do that. before they were all guys. >> that reinforced it. i wanted to do this since the moment i saw al shepherd and watching his flight. >> did you write a letter to them and say i want to be part of this program? how did it happen? >> no. i figured as i got older there weren't a lot of women astronauts around and i one a pilot so i figured the dream was going to go to somebody else and all of a sudden nasa was recruiting people as mission specialists and i had the right credentials to apply and applied one day before the deadline and was fortunate enough to be in the first group of women selected. >> when you were selected was it a phone call, telegram or what. >> a phone call, one of the most

kristin fisher dressed for the occasion in our web center shows us what it is about. >> what, it is casualof course you had to bust out the snuggie. and that is what this is this ridiculous blanket with sleeves and this has been on the mark less than a year but already about 5 million of these guys have been sold which means, of course, there's sure to be some spinoff and you are not going to believe the latest product to hit the market. so put down your coffee. take a look at this video. >> your dog needs to go out but it is a cold, chilly night. a pet sweater could help but they pull and they are tight and putting them on can be a battle of wills. how do you keep your dog warm when they are feeling a chill. now there is snuggie dog. >> that's right. it is the dog snuggie. i'm not joking you don't make this up. for 14.95 plus 7.95 in shipping and you can have one for urdog. it comes in various si s. g. here's is anwethe bsite. seriously. this led me to -- i had a few questions erthe were there were other bizarre snuggie pin spinof on the market. >> and this inis peekaru. an ped knekar t i

here's kristin fisher in the web center. >>> thank you so much good morning, everybody. just when you thought you heard everything there was to hear about the social networking site twitter think again. the wailing wall in jerusalem is a holy site in the jewish religion and for wrenchciries people have stuffed prayers written on tiny scraps of paper in the cracks of that wall. now people are using twitter to se a prayer to that ancien holy site. think i'm joking? check isis the twitter account. this ise thd any e way wait wor tweet their prayer a allegedly th antreerri ped out and taken to the wall injoall te ts negothatteippeople have gone tipsidein the o crin. the how did this get started? a 25-year-old israeli omright e ths wereeko ag he ee weeks ago ayhes she d ans was irspined spby the ittering revolution taking place ng in iran. now we all know iran and israel may not be the st be liofes bu t that is nice to see what that is what inspired this american to start this site. if you scroll down i of course ndprme s ay eredntfio they were going tobe posted on the n weer

kristin fisher is live outside of the wilson building with more. >> hey, jessica. we are less than an hour from the press conference with marion barry himself. he will be speaking with reporters here at the wilson building at 10:00 a.m. over what happened on the 4th of july. >> reporter: a park police officer patrolling the anacostia park on the 4th of july was flagged down by a woman in a car. >> she stated another person was stalking her. >> the woman was political consultant of marion watts. >> the only issue is the charge of stalking which is a misdemeanor. >> reporter: he describes the accuser as his close end. >> the best word to describe mr. barry at this hour is betrayed. he adamantly denies the charges. >> barry and watts made headlines last april after he paid $800 to buy her an opera jacket at the same time he was trying to repay taxes. >> mr. barry has, over a period of time, lended his friendship and his support to the accuser, miss donna watts through her many stages of instability. >> reporter: this is barry's third run in with park police since the

. >>> right now it is time to say good morning to kristin fisher. she is in the web center to tell us what people are talking about. >>> good morning. imagine this. you are 15 years old an doing a two-week summer internship at morgan stanley in new york and your boss asks you to write a report on how consumer -- teenagers view the media. which what if they published it on-line? that's what happened to matthew. and his report has become a big hit on the web and the talk of the financial world. look at the headline on forbes.com. they are calling him wall st reet's king wizard. this is forbes. the number on the times on- line. they are saying twitter is for old people. work experience whiz kid tells bankers. so right here is a picture of that whiz kid from the u.k. and this, rit here, is his record how teenagers consume the media. it is impressive enough to have a article publish by morgan stanley at 15 and what is more interesting is what he had to say and nothing generated more headlines than what he said about social media. here it is right here. h

. >>> well, let's go to kristin fisher. she's standing by in the web center.at's happening on the web? >> well, andrea, this is really cool. one of the most important and ancient books is now available on-line in its original form. i'm talking about the oldest- known bible in the world. it was written 1600 years ago and contains the oldest complete copy of the new testament. it was discovered in an egyptian monastery, 160 years ago. but now, thanks to an international collaboration called the codex sinaiticus project. it is available with anyone with access to the internet around the world. go to this website and i will have a link on my blog gofish@wusa9.com and here you can learn more about the bible. right here you can learn more habit the project but the real gem is here on see the manuscript. click there and this is what will pop up and you can view in great detail every surviving page of this bible, all handwritten in greek. you can go through the passages. i just clicked on psalms and what it will do is you can zoom in and see the original text in greek

van doren and vine street the alexandria section of fairfax. 9 news now digital correspondent, kristin fisher is live at the scene with more. >> reporter: good morning. i'm standing right on van doren street where it interneck -- intersects with eisenhower in alexandria. just over my shoulder you can see a bunch of police officers rerouting traffic. that is because traffic on both sides of the street have indeed been shut down due to this water main break. i want you to look at the video we just shot a few minutes ago. now, as andrea was telling you, this water main broke 7:30 this morning and crews are now here on the scene trying to get the roads clear and get this water main bra fixed, but as you can imagine this break happened just about less than a half mile away from the capital beltway. it is causing quite a bit of problems for commuters on the monday morning drive to work. we have seen quite a few people walking about as they try to make their way in to town. if we can look at this live shot you are seeing right now. this is where the actual water main break occurred. it is about two

kristin fisher is live at the wilson building with the latest. >> reporter: in five hours, at 10:00 a.m., marion barry will be here at the wilson building speaking to reporters about what went down over this past 4th of july weekend. a park police officer, patrolling anacostia park on the 4th of july was flagged down by a woman in a car. >> the woman stated somebody in another car was harassing and stalking her. >> reporter: it was a political council woman. >> the only issue is the charge of stalking which is a misdemeanor. >> barry describes the accuser as his close friend. >> the best word to describe marion barry at this hour is betrayed. he adamantly denies the charges. >> reporter: he made headlines last april after he paid $900 to buy her an opera jacket at the same time he was trying to repay taxes. >> mr. barry has over a period of time lended his friendship and his support to the accuser miss donna watts through her many stages of instability. >> reporter: this is barry's third run in with park police since his drug charges in ' 92. >> we have had several calls today and the b

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now over to miracle league kristin fisher who's standing by in the 9 news now web center. >> good morning. i have three viral videos hot on the web this morning and they are all about animals. can't go wrong with that. start with a clip in england. check out these baboons attacking a car. apparently staff was getting sick of visitors not properly securing their vehicles before they headed to the baboon section. so they sent in this demo car with a roof box. mug gang in to the baboon section and well, you can see what happened. andrea, they then posted this video on-line and you can see luggage absolutely everywhere. i don't know about you but if i was a visitor i would not drive in to that area with an unsecured roof rack. >> i get it. >> so there's a warning from that zoo. moving on the video of the world's second largest aquarium has been viewed nearly a half million times on youtube. there it is right there. this is it. it is called the perosia sea and located in japan. it is the size of three olympic size swimming pools which is big enough to hold four full- grown whale sharks and thi

over to kristin fisher. >>> today is the funeral for long-time cbs evening news anchor walter cronkite. it will take place this afternoon in manhattan. now the legendary news man is no longer with us a lot of people are asking who is the new most trusted newscaster in america. that was the sub of a "time" magazine on-line poll and look re s ltsuisthnt results this mo w w, the title no thaterwaw lt a'uscanete, stwser kihahapassed d tecaws, ermicoming in e vote is the daily show's ilstewart. t owno hnkrerowo ce itd ul feel about an d ann ch oor ocom central ll. anpoia d brn williams 29and and charlie gibson charlie gibson at 19% and katie courictake ara to keta a look ma isp. y is map. every state evat thu yosethin i green has voted jon arsts t ewha ica sticeast most trusted newscaster. that's a lot of states. you can see g ngsta roicurinav n iowa. e shcomes in with 65% of the vote in iowa but almost everywhere else e you g in eegoing is see inarjostewjot dominating poll. let's look at our area. in virginia, samererendthhe the jon stewart tas t the state 38. 38%. over in ret he, ghri, he

let's go to kristin fisher for the latest. >> reporter: you have got it. well, you had it right, michael jackson's memorial service was the top story on the web this week but the other big story is the cyberattack on u.s. and south korean websites. in case you missed it the attacks started on the 4th of july and are still going on today especially in south korea. in total it hit 26 websites in both countries. these are not small websites. look and you will see what i mean. one website hit in the attack is the white house's very own website. some other websites hit were the state department, the secret service, and the new york stock exchange. these are all very big websites, very important to the u.s. government. now, nobody is saying for certain who's behind or what country is behind these attacks, but without a doubt north korea is the prime suspect. the week.com here is wondering what we should do about the big attack allegedly by pyong yang. that is a question they are trying to tackle on-line. some websites like this one here, the right perspective sa

. >>> we say good morning to kristin fisher and wish her a happy birthday. she tells us what's hot on the web today. >> thank you so much, and ya. good morning, everybody. twitter users, beware. a single tweet has become the sole basis for a large lawsuit. what happened is a chicago woman posted a comment on twitter complaining about her moldy apartment. now her management company is taking her ettocourt. take a look atth isbecause this is hefe t ofnding tweet that is cainofg l alof this problem. on , y than12am wrdae otin response to a friend, you should come home e y way. who says eepi ngin a moldy aptmenwas d bad for you. that's it. that's the enrempcoany company h ai f the m ai is fis sealanwar sehe toher to 50 grand plus court costs just th at letwng t. 'sda silengtweet. amanda aclet cohas been deactivated. tried to find it and has been shut do e th omewntif the time of the t she only had 20 go. we will have to we will have to wait and see how it plays out in court. moving on, the new iphone 3 gs saves the day d anansolves the crime. iphone avenges burg

. >>> kristin fisher is joining us with the story of a local company doing good. >> that's right. this is a story about a local company that saved a maryland resident thousands of dollars. carolyn cook sent sent me an e- mail nominating two employees at a bethesda car dealership as her heros and here's why. >> i was driving and all of a sudden i see this light go off in my car, this check engine light and i'm thinking what is that? >> reporter: it is a bad feeling for any driver but especially if you are in between job and unemployed like carolyn cook. she she brought her car in to chevy chase acura. >> i remember her very upset. >> the service representative gave her the bad news. >> 0 my acura 2003's transmission was diagnosed as failing. >> reporter: it would have been $3,000 repair. she got a second opinion and found it was a malfunctioning sensor. >> she came back and had tears in her eyes an she tugged on my heart strings a little bit. >> she told her manager about the car and he agreed to waive all fees. >> they ended up to replace the sensor and what went from a $3,000 car

. >>> we say good morning to kristin fisher. she's the web center talking about what is hot on the web this morning. good morning. >> reporter: one of the big stories on the web is the video taken allegedly by the taliban of a kidnapped u.s. soldier in afghanistan. the taliban allegedly posted that video on-line. they posted it yesterday and since then it has generated just an outpouring of support on all of the social networking sites, especially facebook. andrea has already showed you a clip of the video this morning. here it is, right here. if you do a youtube search for that video this is what will up. keep inmind, this was posted just yesterday. in 24 hours i want to show you guys how many times this has been viewed. there's not just one clip. there are several clips. here's 12,000 views. 18,000 views. 21,000 views. 23,000 views. i goes on and on. there are 1,050 results if they are video. you can see the numbs are really starting to add up. the reason i bring this up, people are fond responding to this on facebook and twit

. >>> we say good morning to kristin fisher and she's talking about heros. >> you got it. hero central is what is hot on the web. this morning i will have the next heros segment. it is about a givees club who mentor seniors in nursing home who have hardly any visitors. but first i want to tellu yo about the latest on the hero central home page. here it is. to get there all you have to do is go to usa wusa and click on the hero central button and this page is what will pop up. the latest hero central stories will be here on the left side of the screen. you can see we have done stories about the ocean city beach patrol, saving a little boy after a sand tunnel collapsed on him and he went this to cardiac arrest. he's okay. up here a story about a gold medal paraolympian teaching adults how to run with prosthetic limbs and our latest story has to do with right here nationals host christmas in july toy drive. it is a toys for to thes fund- raiser and it is hoedstu by th nationals alongside the u.s. marine corps. all you have to do is brig a new unwrapped toy to the park and don

. >>> we say good morning to kristin fisher. she's showing us what is hot on the web today. good morning. >> that's right. yesterday president obama delivered a speech on the economy and one of the states hit hardest by the recession, michigan. between gm and chrysler's bankruptcy the unemployment rate in michigan is 13% and jessica doyle was talking about that a little earlier this morning. but a new story out today in the new york times says that number, the unemployment rate, maybe misleading for michigan and other states across the country like maryland and virginia. here's the story i'm talking about. part-time workers, mass unemployment woes. it argues the unemployment rate excludes all of the people who have given up looking for a job and those part-time workers who want to be g wofainrkfull time. when you take those groups in to the equation you get the broadest measure of the job market and under that definition, some states have unemployment rates that inare higher than 20%. nore t heason the story is hot on the web this morning is because of this new york times in

. >>> right now good morning to kristin fisher who's standing by in the web center. >> good morning. by now most of us are well aware of the hazards of social networking sites and chances are you have heard a facebook horror story. an employee calls in sick to work but sayser in going to the beach on facebook and their boss sees it. what if you are a spy and not just any spy but the head of britain's secret intelligence service and your wife blows your cover on facebook. it happened. take a look at this story on the times on-line. wife blows mi 6 chief's cover on facebook. the wife of this guy here who is set to take over mi 6 this november has caused tysericu breach by publishing family photos and personal details on facebook. things like where they rilive a work, where they spend holidays and a picture like this of him on vacation with his family. so in fact on the day her husband was appointed the new chief his wife even congratulated him on facebook using his code name. to make matters worse his wife put virtually no privacy protection on her account making it visible to any of t

kristin fisher told us about it yesterday. in addition to numerous federal agencies and the "washington post," the new york stock exchange and nasdaq were targeted. although the attacks did not disrupt market activity. and this morning people in south korea say they confiscated computers that may have been used in the attack. >>> five men arrested in connection with the beating death of a man in wheaton face multiple murder charges. they are accused of attacking the 20- year-old victim because he allegedly flirted with a group of women sitting on a porch in the 13,000 block of navy road. the suspects are believed to be members of a local gang. police say they are behind the murders of the wheaton man. the attempted murder of a 21- year-old wheaton man and we have just learned chief manger, who is joining us now, that man has not survived. >> this has become the sixth homicide we have had this year. we have another update on the case. we have six people under arrest now. as you reported, this victim was walking down the street.

now over to kristin fisher who's standing by in the 9 news now web center. >> good morning. we have a lot going on our website this morning. especially in regard to the helicopter crash that you guys were just hearing about. i want to show you guys exactly where you need to go to get the latest on this breaking story. all you have to do is go to wusa9.com and it is the top story right there. four killed in helicopter crash onclifouk ic onit that's where you will find the latest on thy orstas it is to sh owort comments we are getting in and i want to encourage you guys you have a yo thave a comment or question shery to post it at the bottom right here because we do a on and we sll talk ba hars wo on who it is? i'm assuming who thctvis im are. and you can see right here at s 253:25 thisrnmoing producer on ouo r produces our 6:00 a.m.pr newscast rghndt ririnow we do n was killed or the chopper belongs to. ivceny aword on e.thlieve it d.e bee ev e gech itweone bse ged. one website i want to point you to is the hero central home page. 9 news now derek mcgintedropost story story f

here's kristin fisher in the web center. >> thank you. good morning, everyone. health care debate is raging on the hill but it is also a big story on the social engaging in lyengaging in is look another the website -haenpp- haenn.in. >> health care is lock clking n n u e.casee it is definitely ca hot topic on people's minds this morning. now, a lot of debate centers around the quality of care issue. how good is the quy of the air care i would e reivceiv i had to go to the hospital? now, i'm not going to begin to predict the answers to those questions. if the president's health care plan is pushed through, but i can tell you about the quality of health care you might receive if you were to go to a hospital in your area right now. and i want you ysgu to check out this website right here on goha t got this great interactive graphic which lets you compare hospitals area on yo area on obprprob, le msar t heleattacks, heart failure and pneumonia. basically it lets you check the performance of the hospital you would go to if one the on the the emergency room. here's ho