>> reporter: in washington kristin fisher, 9 news now. >> i never get tired of looking at them. >> no one does. >> it's just too nice and the best way to do it, bike,man. >>> here's the deal. let's put things in perspective and talk about the festival and why you think it's going -- and i think it's going to be closer to the 24th or the 25th. here's the deal, though. in terms of averages, first the estimate again is march 24th to the 31st. average is early april, the 4th and 5th. the festival now runs like forever, march 20th, it does, until april 27th and the main enemy is wind, okay? we've had years where we've had peak blossoms that have lasted 17 days. so if it doesn't get too hot or too cold, at least too hot and/or windy, we're in pretty good shape. here's our live weather cam by michael and son. there's the white house. temperatures have slipped below 60 even downtown, wow, that's tough, isn't it? it's 59 now, winds out of the north 14. they'll settle down later on and the pressure is rising 29.87 inches of mercury. a little drier air moving in. 18 to 29 days in february we're

both were released after paying a $100 fine and our own kristin fisher was there outside a sundanese embassy when it all went down. >> it is my first arrest. thanks for asking. let's hope it's my last. >> reporter: george clooney just minutes after bailing out of jail. he told a crush of reporters he got arrested to bring awareness to the crisis in sudan. >> you never know if you're accomplishing anything. we're trying to bring attention to a moment in time that is actually important. >> reporter: that moment is the start of a rainy season in sudan, a time when the region is unreachable. today clooney and hundreds of protestors gathered outside the sundanese embassy and accused the country's president of using food as a weapon. they urged the u.s. and other countries to act before it's too late. >> immediately we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world of. >> reporter: this event causing major disruption on massachusetts avenue. police blocked off one lane and the sidewalk was almost entirely impassable as hundre

. >> i'm kristin fisher about a block away from gmu's campus where two masked men barged into the home of five sophomores with guns drawn. >> get on the ground. i'm going to kill you, stuff like that. stuff nobody wants to hear. >> at first, they thought it was a joke. >> when the gun was pointed at your face, they mean business. >> they took $3,000 worth of laptops and cell phones. >> they turned away from the group,. >> fairfax county police were on the scene less than five minutes later. they brought in a canine unit and a helicopter. but the suspects still got away. now police are trying to determine if they had been here before. they are both of college age, around 20, and police had already been called here back in november after a fight broke out on this front porch. >> you don't figure something like this as retaliation, but it's an extreme measure. >> in fairfax, kristin fisher, 9news now. >> coming up on 9news now at 7:00, the wizards host the lakers tonight. lots of folks can come to see the lakers play, but ronnie has been on both teams. we'll hear how he is reaching out to

it happened during a heavy rainstorm last september, but as kristin fisher tells us, the rain was not completely to blame. and tonight, some say those homes shouldn't have been built there in the first place. >> we loved this home. >> they have been watching their landslide away for the last six months. they are living temporarily in fredericksburg, but they come back once a week to check in on their condemned property. >> there is question whether the homes are in jeopardy of falling into the landslide itself. >> when i came here six months ago, these stairs were attached to the main home. now take a look at them. it's amazing what will happen in six months. you can see that they have literally been ripped out from their concrete foundation. >> two homes teetering on the brinks. stafford county, and their insurance company have conducted their own studies to figure out why. all three came to the same conclusions. the land itself failed. >> in my personal opinion, i believe that the land developer who developed the land in the first place and who has ignored us is the one that is resp

as kristin fisher reports, the rain was not completely to blame., some say those homes should have never been built there in the first place. >>> we love this home. >> michelle and daniel have been watching their landslide away. they are living in fredericksburg, but they come back once a week to check in on their condemned property. >> there's question whether or not the homes are at jeopardy of falling into the landslide. >> when i first came here, these stairs were still attached to the main home. now, take a look at them. it's amazing what will happen in six months. you can see that they literally been ripped out from their concrete foundation. >> two homes teetering on the brink. their insurance company have each conducted their own studies to figure out why. all three came to the same conclusion. the land itself had failed. in fact, it was never stable enough to support a home. >> in my personal opinion, i believe that the land developer who developed the land in the first place and who has ignored us is the one that is responsible. >> that d

even though i don't know who they are, i pray every day. >> in rockville, kristin fisher, 9news now. >> that is one grateful lady. if one of those good samaritans is watching our news, tell them, call the montgomery county fire and rescue. the number is 240-777-2474. anita. >>> tomorrow, voters in louisiana will head to the polls in the next republican presidential primary. candidates are fighting for 46 delegates in the bayou state. instead of campaigning on the issues, the pennsylvania senator was doing damage control. yesterday, he suggested that the country would be just as well off reelecting president obama as choosing mitt romney. but today, he said that comment was misconstrued. >> i've said repeatedly and will continue to say, i'll vote for whoever the republican nominee is. barack obama is a disaster. but we can't have someone that agrees with him on some of the biggest issues of the day and that's the problem with governor romney. >> okay, well the latest poll shows santorum's comments haven't hurt him with voters in louisiana. he leads romney and newt gingrich by 24. >>>

if this was wider and clearer, the kids would feel safer. >> in fairfax, kristin fisher, 9news now. >> coming up tonight at 7:00, funding fights. loudoun county asked for more time to look at phase 2 of the dulles metro rail project. we'll tell you what that could mean for the future of the silver line. that's at 7:00. >>> still ahead in this half hour, spring has sprung. so naturally, it must be snowing somewhere. we'll tell you where it's falling. topper. >> nice, i know. i know. we'll take you out with the almanac. as nice as it's been all day. 70 officially at national. 59 was the low. averages are still 59 and 39. record high today 89. we'll come back and talk about when the 80s return. we'll also talk about a price we may have to pay for those 80s. >>> but first, a local business owner takes her case all the way to richmond. the dog fight details are next. >>> an update on that arlington rumor. the federal appeals court heard arguments. arlington county told her to cover up that mural on the side of her business because it amounts to an ad, but the mural is simply artwork, compl

in spotsylvania i'm kristin fisher, 9 news now. >>> some areas hit hard by tornadoes last week are now dealing with snow. a blanket of wet snow is covering the indiana town of henryville. a tornado friday devastated that town. indiana officials say the snow will slow the clean-up effort because it's making things slippery and concealing some potential hazards. >>> parts of kentucky are also getting snow. the national weather service issued a winter weather advisory for much of the state. >>> in north carolina three children from the same family were sucked from their home by a tornado but survived with relatively minor injuries. their mother latonya stevens says she has no recollection of the tornado. she remembers being on the second floor of the home sitting in the hallway and the next thing she knows she was still sitting down but only one of her four children were still sitting beside her. >> i just held her and i started rocking and i started praying and i didn't know after that. i just started screaming. >> you can see the incredible damage that tornado did to her house. the torn

if this was a lot wider and clearer, the kids would feel safer. >> in fairfax, kristin fisher, 9news now. >> loudoun county says it needs more time to decide if it's going to help pay for phase two of the dulles metro rail project. reports county leaders ask the metropolitan washington airport authority today for another 30 days to take a look at the project and mwaa granted that request. the county board of supervisors says it wants the extra time since the board has seven new members. phase two would run from reston and dulles and two stops in loudoun county. those two stops would be scrapped from phase 2 if the county decides it has to pull out. the picture perfect weather, you knew it had to end some time. the sun never got out there today. are we looking at fog again tonight? >> i'm afraid we are. we have breaks in the clouds. some breaks in the clouds, fog is going to develop again tonight. we are looking at temperatures that are pretty nice and in some cases, as warm as they have been all day. 69 downtown. 69 in fredericksburg. 64 in gaithersburg and frederick and leesburg and

i'm kristin fisher, 9 news now. >>> the d.c. primary is april 3rd and if you want your vote to count, listen up. this monday is the mail-in deadline to make any changes to party affiliation. independents, you cannot vote unless you declare to one of the three official parties, that is, the democrats, republicans or statehood green. you can make these changes by filling out a form and mailing it into the board of elections, but it must be postmarked by monday. officials say in the last primary almost 4,000 voters cast ballots that were not counted because they were not registered properly. check your status. go to our website www.wusa9.com and look under local news. >>> coming up d.c. students have the option of going to any state school they want to in the whole country and they'll pay in-state tuition, but we look at how many are actually taking advantage of that opportunity. >>> but first the latest on the trial of the former rutgers university college student connected to the death of his roommate. stay with us. >>> in new je

as kristin fisher reports, it's happening at woodrow wilson high in northwest d.c. >> money is importantyone and if i can get money for doing something good, then might as well do it. >> reporter: alaina jacobs is a junior at woodrow wilson high school. if she scores well on the upcoming cas, the annual standardized test, she'll get a $50 gift card from the school. >> i was pulled out of class one day and my administrator said hey, alain arks if you get an advance or -- alaina, if you get an advance or position on your standardized reading test in math, we'll give you $100 of. >> reporter: that's two $50 gift cards for two good scores, but the offer is only open to sophomores and juniors. >> i think it's kind of bribing, but if they can do well and score high, i think that's what it is because we didn't have it at all in the 10th grade. >> as students we're kind of lazy. so we don't really want to do anything, but if you give us incentives like money, we're going to do it. >> reporter: now while most students love the idea of getting a $50 gift card, many parents don't feel quite the sam

. >> kristin fisher was there for the heroes' welcome at the airport. >> proud to announce the arrival of flagship liberty from new york city carrying our most precious -- our recipients of the medal of honor. >> reporter: 16 recipients landed in washington to a crowd like you've never seen at reagan national. some people came to pay their respects. >> this is our history. you know, all three of us came to pay homage. this is why we do this. >> reporter: others just happened to be here. waiting for another flight. >> it's awesome. it is. it's great. those guys are heroes. i mean they're the real deal. >> because it was just so awesome that so many people were standing there and you could look in their eyes and tell that they were there because they truly mean it in their heart. >> reporter: their stories are the stuff of hollywood movies. >> if you have seen the movie "forrest gump" you know what i did to earn my medal of honor because i am the real "forrest gump." >> i ended up by myself and i took out three machine gun nests and killed 14 of the enemy. >> reporter: but as the luncheo

kristin fisher, thank you for those details. derek. >>> anita, is getting caught drinking underage youthful indediscretion or more damaging? georgegeorgene is going to set the record straight for you. >> it's rampant. it's happening all the time. and it has to stop. >> alcohol and drug use may be rampant among teenagers, common sense is not. especially when it comes to social media. >> don't put anything on there you don't want everybody to know about, including family, grandparents, employers, colleges. >> as an experiment, we logged on to facebook and plugged in local high schools. within minutes, we found photos like these. teenagers partying with alcohol visible or in many cases, the bright plastic cups often use to disguise it. >> do not allow anything to be taken that you don't want everybody in the world to see. no matter how many blocks you have on your own facebook, only my friends can see this. reel, you may make a friend mad and your friend may cut and paste something that you did and post it on his wall that he opens

and kristin fisher was among the hundreds here at reagan national with a hero as well. >> the crowds went on out there at the flagship area. carrying all the precious fuels for you. and the recipients of the medal of honor. >> reporter: 16 medal of honor recipients landed in washington to a crowd you have never seen at reagan national. and some people, they came to pay their respects. >> this is our history, you know, all three of us came to pay view to it. this is why we do it. >> reporter: others just happen to be here, waiting for another flight. >> it's awesome. it is. it's great. and those guys are heroes. i mean they are the real deal. >> it was just so awesome that so many people were standing there and you could look in their eyes and tell that they were there because they truly mean it in their hearts. >> reporter: their stories are the stuff of hollywood movies. >> if you have seen the movie forrest gump, you know what i did because i'm the real forrest gump. >> i took out three marine cities, killing 14 of the enemies. >> reporter: but the american airline sponsored lunche

derek. >> kristin fisher, thank you. >>> well, today is super tuesday. the day when voters in ten states, including virginia, are heading to polls and caucuses to choose the republican candidate for president. mitt romney is trying to cement his front runner status while rick santorum is working to keep the bid for the republican nomination a two-man race. danielle nottingham is in stupenville, ohio. >> anita, super tuesday's results could make or break the gop candidate's campaigns. the front runners spent a lot of time and money here in ohio. it's a crucial swing state and in this primary could be a big setback. voters in ohio are casting their ballots for a gop presidential nominee. ohio is taking center stage among the ten states holding super tuesday contests. the head to head battle between rick santorum and mitt romney prompted some democrats to weigh in. voting for santorum after supporting president obama in 2008. >> it was not much change, you know. unemployment is terrible. >> mitt romney will vote in the massachusetts primary later today. thi

kristin fisher joins us live from the title basin and a paddle boat.een chilling, taking in the scenes today. i guess somebody has to do it, kristin. >> reporter: it was actually a long walk over here with a lot of heavy equipment. so it hasn't been all relaxing. i tell you what, this morning, look what a beautiful day it turned out to be for the first day of the cherry blossom festival. this festival brings in $130 million every year. and that money comes from tourists staying in hotels, eating in restaurants, riding in paddle boats, and parking illegally. >> came back and we have a $50 ticket. >> reporter: these are two of the hundreds, maybe thousands of cherry blossom visitors that will get parking tickets during the festival. >> i'm not so happy right now. >> just a warning. 68,000 parking tickets issued over the last cherry blossom festival period. please, tourists, beware. be warned. >> reporter: anderson with aaa says last year there were more parking tickets than during any other time of the year. >> do you give out more tickets during the che

kristin fisher has been following this story from day one. kristin, where did things go wrong?that maryland's judicial system is to blame because by all

kristin fisher joins us live from the scene with the latest on the police investigation. kristen. >> anita, this is a neighborhood that is home to many gmu students. in fact, you can actually see the campus from this backyard and this is the same backyard where these students were playing soccer just a few days ago. but when they went inside, they forgot to close the back door. that one mistake could have cost them their lives. >> one of the scariest things that have happened in my life. >> just sitting around studying for midterms when two masked men barged in with guns drawn. >> get on the ground. you know, stuff like that. stuff nobody wants to hear. >> ski masks, face paint, you know, the whole deal. >> at first, they thought it was a joke. >> what is this? i'm in college. is that real? in the long run, when the gun is pointed at your face, you're like, oh. >> the two men did mean business. they took about $3,000 worth of laptops and cell phones. but pat and anthony say the men were ill prepared. >> that was the goofy thing. they didn't bring a bag or anything. he was

kristin fisher joins us with the latest on this. kristin. >> reporter: this assault took place close to two fairfax county public schools. one, woodson high school, which if you go to your left, is on the other side of these buses. and every day, hundreds of students, even employees are using this path to get to and from these schools. >> my heart was in my throat because i had walked this this morning at 5:00. >> reporter: this public school employee walks this path almost every day. >> i don't like walking in here myself, even broad daylight. >> reporter: she wants to remain unanimous, but she is speaking out. >> i hear this blood curling scream. i mean scream like horror. >> the screams were coming from a 16-year-old woodson high school student. fairfax county police say she had just entered this path when a man approached her from behind, grabbed her neck, and assaulted her. >> to hear her scream like she did, you knew she was horrified. >> reporter: that employee and several lacrosse players got there just in time for the man t

kristin fisher has been out there all day and joins us live with the latest on the investigation.. >> reporter: we now know that the father and daughter did not live in this anondale home. this is where the 13-year-old girl's mother and grandparents live. and what we know, i'm sad to say, is that apparently it seems that one of those family members likely heard three gun shots, walked outside, and then found that 13-year-old girl and her father dead in an suv in that driveway. >> it went bang, bang, bang, very quick. three times. >> doris kinder heard the gun shots around 1:00 tuesday morning. she and her husband, donald, live two doors down. >> it's the worst thing. i can't believe we lived here with that happened. >> john jackson and his daughter, 13-year-old alexis, dead in an suv parked in this driveway. fairfax county police are calling it an apparent murder suicide, but they are still investigating who pulled the trigger and why. john jackson is a former sergeant with fairfax county police. he left the department in 2010 after 16 years to a waste removal company with his bro

in alexandria kristin fisher, 9 news now. >> thanks, kristin, wow. >>> a heartbreaking story from southern prince george's county tonight. a 17-year-old girl suddenly collapsed and died during her p.e. class at surrattsville high school. >> medical examiner still doesn't know why. bruce leshan is live in clinton where the teenagers' friends and family are trying to figure out how it could happen and deal with this unexpected tragedy. >> reporter: the students here were sobbing as they released balloons in the memory of tekau rasayon back here right on the field where she died. her dad tells me he felt like he had been shot in the back when he walked into the emergency room at southern maryland hospital and saw doctors desperately trying to resuscitate his daughter. >> this was my baby, man. >> reporter: tekau's father is struggling to understand her sudden death. >> i saw them doing chest compressions on her and then you go in and you see your baby lying there and then you take a peek and you see her pupils completely dilated. >> reporter: one of his last memories of his daughter waltzing

supreme court and kristin fisher is live outside the high court. professional live standers, i thought the economy was on the rebound. >> reporter: i know, only in washington. now you know that anybody who wanted one of these precious public spectator tickets to get into these supreme court healthcare hearings, they had to wait in line overnight unless they were willing to enlist the services of one of d.c.'s professional line standing companies. now this practice is not new, been around for 20 years, but many people have never even heard of them. >> d.c. is kind of a crazy town. >> reporter: mark gross weaves his way through crowds like a pro. he got his start as a bike courier, but 20 years ago i started linestanding.com. >> our clients are industry associations, lawyers, lobbyists, anybody who's concerned about what's going on on capitol hill. >> reporter: to reserve one of these professional line sitters just go to their website. type in your name, the time of the hearing you want to attend and its location, on capitol hill. for an extra fee yo

. >> that was kristin fisher reporting. you have heard a lot about underage drinking in maryland. nine wants you to know, virginia is stepping up its efforts to curb the dangerous problem there. peggy fox is our reporter. >> this is a picture of my son taken a few days before his death in 1997. he was in college. >> john was a student at rad ford, this is the car he was riding in when it crashed, killing him, the driver, and the driver of the other car. >> i spoke to him saying he would never get into a car with a drunk driver, but that's when he was sober. >> he has been working to stop underage drinking. he is helping the united prevention coalition with its new campaign to increase awareness. >> parents do not take under age drinking to be as serious as it is. parents take drugs to be terribly serious, but fact of the matter is that under age drinking causes more deaths, more injuries than all drugs combined. >> captain bruce ferguson says a state grant of $200,000 will help police crack down on people who sell alcohol to minors. >> if they do a shoulder tap operation, where th

. >> i'm kristin fisher outside the u.s. supreme court and this is the line to get inside on tuesday and wednesday to hear oral arguments. the people at the front have been waiting since last friday. >> i arrived friday at 2:00 and i've been here ever since. three nights on the pavement. >> reporter: supporters and opponents waited outside for days in the cold and rain. they want different outcomes, but they all want the same golden ticket inside the supreme court. >> today's case only for regular seats. this will be for the entire argument. >> the number one is important because this is the number one issue for the organization i represent the national clergy council. the implications of this case for religious organizations are enormous. >> next one for monday today. >> i'm on vacation. i don't know when i'll get a chance to hear oral argument before the supreme court again. i'm looking forward to it. >> kristen fish, 9news now. >> joining me now to talk about this case, a professor at georgetown's law school case. i don't

in alexandria kristin fisher, 9 news now. >> prosecutors do say this is the 16th human trafficking case in the eastern district of virginia this year alone. >>> a fire has burned at least three townhomes in a residential section of andrews air force base. the names broke out this afternoon and with all the -- the flames broke out this afternoon and with all the wind we've had those names spread quickly from one house to the homes next-door and also a natural gas line ruptured. firefighters got help from the prince george's county firefighters no, reports of injuries, the cause of the fire still under investigation. >>> heavy hearts today at surrattsville high in prince george's county as students there are mourning the death of tekau rasayon who collapsed and died during hers p.e. class wednesday. bruce leshan -- her p.e. class wednesday. bruce leshan with the story. >> reporter: the students here were weeping as they marched back on the track here. her dad said it felt like he had been shot in the back when he walked into the emergency room at southern maryland hospital and saw doctors

today the national park service announced their annual blooming forecast and kristin fisher has the predictionsk bloom in the tidal basin. >> reporter: the cherry blossoms will bloom early but not too early. it's looking like the best weekend to see them is going to be the last weekend in march and that's about a week earlier than usual, but you can see why. just look up here and you can already see that the green is starting to poke through some of the buds. >> there's been a lot of speculation about the warm weather and that speculation is correct. >> reporter: rob defayo has been predicting the cherry blossoms peak bloom for the last 20 years. >> i've been right 16 out of 20 times of. >> reporter: with that kind of record people pay close attention to his annual forecast. >> going to be sometime between march 24th and march 31st. >> reporter: it's the first time in his entire career that his peak bloom prediction hasn't gone into april. in fact, it's so spring-like around the tidal basin that many people came here today thinking that the blossoms might already be out. >> we came out today ho

at the tidal basin, i'm kristin fisher, 9news now. >>> we have a reaction to a story you saw first onlyn 9news now. we told you about the violent matt problems. the third grade teacher who handed out the homework is now out of a job. the math homework problems dealt with morbid and horrific topics like death, terrorists and putting people in ovens. the c.e.o. of center city public charpter school says instead of using the resources provided, the teacher downloaded them off the homeschoolingparadise website. >> it doesn't follow anything we do. i found them to be violent and racist. >> the teacher claims she was told to give the students the assignment but the school says that was not the case. and even if it was, it's an order she should have disobeyed. >>> a modesto, california teacher left his wife and kids and quit his job to move in with his 18-year-old former student. 41-year-old james hook resigned as a teacher and club leader at james eknox high school after investigations were launched into his relationship with a former student. she's a senior and used to be a student in his cl

only our kristin fisher spoke with the mother today outside the montgomery county crisis center. >> i wish i could have been there for her. i can't imagine the terror and the pain that she went through by herself. >> reporter: jillian kenny shook with sadness and anger as she remembers how she learned her daughter had been murdered. >> i spoke with the police. they said they were going to meet me at my work. and i had the feeling that it was going to be really bad. >> reporter: it wasn't just bad. it was the very thing that joanne and her entire family had feared would happen for 8 years, ever since they met the man they now call a monster. an ex boxer with a long history of abuse and violence. >> it's just unbelievable. this person had threatened her life so many times. he had threatened my family. >> reporter: in one protective order, he told her i don't need a gun. i can just snap your neck. he stalked her, physically abused her, possibly even tracked her whereabouts with a gps device on her van. the same van where he shot and killed her. this mother of six would have been 38 on su

our report now from kristin fisher. >> reporter: so far investigators identified 10 victims in this case ages of 16 and 18. two of the girls were even beaten or cut with a knife when they tried to quit or refused to participate. these girls were recruited in school, at metro stations and especially on facebook. take a good look at this facebook page. it claims to be the profile of a girl rain smith, but fairfax county police say it's full

live outside the commerce building, kristin fisher, 9news now. >> kristin, thank you. >>> now to another story. wrong place, wrong time. a 31-year-old mother driving on a road she travels every day is dead after she gets caught up in the middle of a street race. tonight we have an emotional appeal from her husband demanding justice for his wife. >> this all happened yesterday on randolph road in silver spring. >> matt jablow has the details on this hit-and-run investigation. >> reporter: this busy stretch of randolph road was the scene of yesterday's accident that killed a young mother. tonight montgomery county police are still looking for the driver or drivers that caused the accident. >> i am destroyed. >> reporter: less than 24 hours after his wife was killed, jorge martinez was pleading for the public's help to find the person or people responsible. >> i beg you, i beg you to please cooperate and help the police department. >> reporter: 31-year-old nelvis garcia, a wheat ton resident and the mother of three young children was killed when according to police two cars were apparently

plus -- >> i'm kristin fisher in rockville and this is where a woman had a heart attack two weeks ago she's on a mission to find the good samaritan that she thinks saved her life. her story is coming up. >>> but first, music is soothing to the soul. in tonight's health alert, we discovered it's also very good for the body. it will explain what that's about up next. >>> in tonight's health alert, music and its benefits following organ transplantation. researchers looked at heart transplants in mice and found that opera and classical music influenced how the immune system responds and reduces organ rejection. let's hope this works in people. other types did not have the same effect as opera and classical. >>> imagine hearing the echo of your own words or the sound of your heartbeating inside your brain. one woman says it was a painful reality for nine months. the crunch of potato chips used to be deafening for carrie. she could barely talk to her husband and watching tv was painful. her voice and her heartbeat echoed loudly in her head. >> oh my god, a living nightmare. it really was. t

one of the last 9/11 search and rescue dogs still alive called annapolis home and as kristin fisher reportsgot a groundbreaking new treatment to help her live out her life pain free. >> reporter: the plaque lab from annapolis, she spent -- the black lab from annapolis, speck spent the last 10 years as a search -- she spent the last 10 years as a search and rescue dog. >> they credit them with finding 70% of the human remains. so that helped a whole lot of those families actually get closure. >> reporter: heather roach is red's owner and handler. >> the last few months, she'd like to be a couch potato, but she can't even get on the couch anymore. it would be nice with her arthritis if she could do those kind of things that she misses of. >> reporter: today she brought red to the burke animal clinic for a free stem cell treatment, compliments of med vet america. >> this is a small something we can give back as a clinic to them, sort of saying thanks for what you guys have done for us. we're just taking fat from the side of red and then we'll spin it down, process it, extract the stem cells fr

kristin fisher joins us now live from the second district police headquarters were clooney was booked and released. >> reporter: can you imagine what the people already held here must have thought when george clooney just walked in? his arrest was clearly very carefully orchestrated, but clooney has been charged with one count of disorderly crossing of a police line. that is a misdemeanor and it will go on his permanent record. a sundanese woman cheers as george clooney is arrested by secret service and taken away in plastic handcuffs. >> do you understand these right as i have given to you? >> reporter: just minutes earlier clooney had marched up the sundanese embassy joining hundreds of protestors accusing the sudan president of blocking food and humanitarian assistance from reaching hundreds of thousands of sundanese citizens. >> medley we need humanitarian aid allowed -- immediately we need humanitarian aid allowed into the suzanne. >> reporter: clooney was joined by his father, martin luther king, jr., iii and several congressmen including virginia representative jim moran. >> th

kristin fisher shows us what it looked like. >> reporter: we got between 2 to 3 inches here in spots vein why and this stuff is great -- spotsylvania and this stuff is great snowball making snow, but it's only sticking to the ground and the trees. it stayed warm enough that this stuff isn't sticking on the roadway. it's the perfect kind of snowfall, just enough to feel like it's still winter but without the inconvenience. >> no bad roads or anything, that's the good snow. >> reporter: most locals love it. >> it was real pretty. >> i like it when it don't stick and when it comes and goes. >> it was just nice and cute. >> reporter: this is one of the top two, if not the biggest snowfall, this season in spotsylvania county. >> this is about the worst we've had. >> this is the most we've seen so far this year and i hope it stays like this really. >> reporter: but most spotsylvania county students wanted more snow. they wanted enough for a snow day. >> my grandson was a little upset about that. >> reporter: many sounded off on twitter. one student wrote sarcastically congrats to spotsylva

kristin fisher has been working this story for us. >> reporter: so far investigators have identifiedctims in this case between the ages of 16 and 18. two of the girls were even beaten or cut with a knife when they tried to quit or refused to participate. these girls were recruited in school at metro stations and especially on facebook. take a good look at this facebook page. it claims to be the profile of a girl rain smith, but fairfax county police say it's full of fake photographs and that it really belongs to the mastermind of this prostitution ring. >> basically say to them hey, you're pretty. do you want to make some money? and through flattery and coercion and threats of violence they would lure these young women into acts of prostitution. >> reporter: u.s. attorney neil macbride said the men relied on other women in their organization to lure em

today the national park service announced their annual blooming forecast and kristin fisher joins us from the tidal basin with predictions on peak bloom. >> reporter: the cherry blossoms will be blooming early but not too early. the best weekend will be the last weekend in march to see them and that's about a week earlier than average, but you can see why. i'm not going to touch them, all right? but you can already see that the green is starting to peek out of the buds. >> there's been a lot of speculation about the warm weather and that speculation is crescent. >> reporter: rob defayo has been predicting the cherry blossoms' peak bloom the last 23 years. >> i've been right 16 time. >> reporter: with that kind of record people pay close attention to his annual forecast. >> got to be sometime between march 24th and march 31st. >> reporter: it's the first time in his entire career ha his peak bloom -- that his peak bloom career hasn't gone into april. many people came here today thinking the blossoms might already be out it's so springlike. >> we came out here hoping we might find some

our kristin fisher is with them in dale city. >> reporter: these teachers have come from all over prince william county and they have been out here in the rain for over two hours now. they've got another hour to go. just look at how many of them are out here. there's almost 100. they're on all four corners of this intersection and they're trying to garner public support to get the superintendent to change his proposed budget. nearly 100 prince william county teachers rallied in the rain for something that they haven't seen in years, a raise. how long has it been since you got a raise? >> it's been three years. i'm a fifth year teacher and i am frozen at a second year teacher's salary. >> it takes three years to make up for our child acidify sit and we're not getting paid the amount -- child's deficit and we're not getting paid the amount we're worth. >> reporter: if the budget stays as is, it could be four more years before these teachers get a raise. >> just recently moved. i'm not able to live in this area by myself, the even remotely. my friends have purchased houses. they're starting