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>> to cindy mcginty, who doesn't know the word defeat. if he thinks that about me, then i certainly can put one foot in front of the other and keep going every day. it really does inspire me. >> reporter: a lasting mark of the legendary senator, hundreds of families came to know as simply ted k. sharyn alfonsi, abc news, bloomfield, connecticut. >>> and one final note. it wasn't only voters that got the senator's attention. he was often a reading buddy to an 8-year-old washington, d.c. girl. while renee says the senator gave her an autographed book for her birthday. and she sent him get well cards when he got sick. her teacher said kennedy was like a gentle giant. >>> coming up next, flu fears. some schools aren't waiting until fall for a spike in swine flu. >>> and football fansinal fly see what michael vick can do after two years away from the see what michael vick can do after two years away from the field. i'm from ille, north carolina, ...and i smoked for 29 years. the one thing about smoking - is it dominates your life, and it domin

. >> reporter: a day after the 9/11 attacks, cindy mcginty thought she was on the verge of a nervousreakdown. >> i honestly felt like a zombie, for lack of a better word. i could barely stand up. >> reporter: her husband mike had been killed inside the trade center. she was home in massachusetts, with the couple's boys, ages 7 and 8. >> my phone rang, and there was this big, booming voice on it. >> reporter: it was senator kennedy, calling to express his condolences. given his own history, he had lost his own brothers to very tragic events. he lost many members of his own family. i just thought, it must have brought back memories for him. >> reporter: it was a difficult call he would make 176 more times, calling to offer his help to each of the massachusetts families. >> and i needed his help immediately. >> reporter: cindy's husband mi served 12 years in the navy, but the navy wouldn't send and honor guard to his funeral because she couldn't find his discharge papers. >> i couldn't handle this. i thought, senator kennedy said to call. i have a problem, i'm going to take him up on hi

. >> the debate over healthcare found its way inside mcginty's mail bag. patricia urges us all to remember the old add damage about that free lunch. don't tell me those folks sheiking for healthcare realize it has a cost for all of us? some of those protesters want to continue their lives without a price tag attached. this isn't some kind of freebie handout to have health insurance. i agree on many aspects of reform. it may mean a lesser quantity of liquor, lottery, and cigarettes. we'll have more later on in the broadcast. now to our other top stories tonight. hell on the highway. a woman set on fire behind the wheel with her young daughter in the backseat. plus, a local judge blows off some steam by letting the air out. and supply and demand. a new list of places needing special attention because there's not enough water. >> i'm dave, at 39th and t northwest. a location that is on a list that was obtained by 9news now where the fire department are paying special attention to water issues. >> taylor street northeast are two more of the locations the dc fi

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check it all in the mcginty's mail bag. >>> i might be mr. hilton. that would be all right. >> exactly, exactly. we are looking at 93 today. we were 97 yesterday. so we are going in the right direction. everything is going down. the temperatures are going down. and the chance for thunderstorms is increasing. here's your forecast first. the next three days, we have temperatures in the 80s. mid 80s tomorrow. mid 80s essentially thursday and friday. showers and thunderstorms possible each day. we get a frontal system close to us, it will play cat and mouse with us and keep us with a chance of showers for a while. tonight, partly cloudy, muggy, a few thunderstorms are possible. low 68 to 76. still kind of tough in the city. mid 70s. let me show you live doppler 9,000. there are a couple storms we are watching. most of which are well to the north of us. montgomery county is clear. prince georges county is clear. dc, and also loudoun county and fairfax. but off to the east, we have a pretty good storm. this is what is going to happen in the next hour. most

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send your e-mails to mcginty's mail bag. mailbag@wusa9.com. 9news now will be right back. fa 3f?f?f?in the in the mail bag tonight. building in subway access to phone users. the cell phone proposal he says is nuts. bad enough drivers are falling asleep but now to hear yakking on cell phones and people stabbing each other to get to wi-fi. this from our good friend karen in alexandria very concerned about the direction the health care reform debate is taking. i had always hoped that the public option would survive to compete effectively with private health insurance so that once the general public was eased into it and over time had gotten over their fear it would have eventually dominate the business and become the insurer of overwhelming choice. apparently i'm in the minority and obama will be caving to the venom of the town hall meeting. what we end up with after this debate? seems to me like same old same old. or a bridge to nowhere. you may be speaking too soon, karen. no doubt the battle is confusing and frightening but the final outcome still very much in doubt from where i sit.

send them to mcginty's mail bag. the address, mailbag@wusa9.com. >>> and topper shutt is here with that first forecast. top, how does it look outside? >> not bad. it was 91 today. a little more humid, but actually comfortable evening. here is your recast first. for tostnight, partly cloudy. not quite as cool as it was last night, but not too d.urertw tempureserghnow t. wndoto bi down to 8888 88 in ti. in t ou d 80s out toward winchester. upper 80s in cumberland and 89 in fredericksbu this is the late lasatellite ie urof our friend, danny. you can see him well south of bermuda. located 700 miles southeast. we'll come back and talk about which way danny is going and if it matters if he stays a tropical storm. derrick. >>> thank you top. senator edward kennedy once said this, though much is taken, much still abides. why those words may ring true for the kennedy legacy and the future of america. stay with us. óçfa fa >>> welcome back. ted kennedy was in the senate longer than most americans have been alive. part of a fam

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. >> i can't speak for derek mcginty. >> haven't you seen him walking in to the studio?nization, be proud to be a part of it. they do a lot of great things. weathererwise, we are going to ton up the heat. arriving tomorrow in to monday. it's not going to stick around long but the hottest heat wave of the temperatures, temperatures in to the 90s sunday and monday. heat indexes around 100 degrees, that's what it's going to feel like as we head in to the beginning of the workweek, keep that in mind. it's been since last up summer since we talked about heat indexes around 100. drink lots of fluids, remember your hot weather safety rules. partly cloudy for tonight. slight chance for a shower. low temperature in the 70s. if you've been outside over the last minute or two it's high. mostly sunny in the afternoon tomorrow. hot, the high temperatures ranging between 92 and 97. heat index around 100, dew points in the upper 60s to around 70 degrees. here is the weather set up now, high pressure sliding off the coast. warm front approaching from the south. rain showers developed ou

. >> i'm derek mcginty.t helicopter rescue saved rangers from an all-day hike that would have to save a man with a sprained ankles. >> britney moorehouse with more. >> reporter: one medic had to jump from the helicopter onto a boulder, the other had to hoist the injured man into the chopper. they were ready for that challenge. >> spend a lot of hours to do these missions. they are few and far between. >> reporter: it is the kind of call that gets their heart's racing. two paramedics sharing how they wound up racing by air within hours of clocking in. >> usually there is a hoist attached. >> we are able to fly and find him immediately. >> we tried to find a way to safely put him on the ground. >> pilot just hovers it above the area then i basically jumped off a few feet. >> reporter: and with just a few feet to maneuver or else he would fall off a cliff, all this with equipment on his back and trek ahead to reach their victim. >> i was just trying to find him because that is a rugged area with lots of large r

i'm derek mcginty. >> and i'm anita brikman. >>> tonight shocking new details come out of an 18-year-old bizarre kidnapping case. >> california police have arrested a convicted sex offender and his wife for abducting little jc dugar back in 1991. but now we find out what happened after that is harder to stomach. she hadn't been seen or heard from in 18 long years. >> there are no known attempts for her to reach out to anybody. >> so when she accompanied the sex offender, his wife nancy and two children in his parole meeting, authorities got suspicious. during questioning, they discovered that jc, now 29 and called alyssa, was really the 11-year-old girl kidnapped back in 1991 near her home in south lake, tahoe. and it turns out, phillip had fathered the two children with jc. >> none of the children have ever gone to school. they've never been to a doctor. they were kept in complete isolation. >> the two girls are 15 and 11 which means jc go pregnant at age 13. authorities say the three lived in a secret area behind the home. >> the back yard had sheds, tents and outbuildings where they s

>> reporter: cindy mcginty's husband, mike, died in the world trade center that day. she says kennedy's support meant everything. >> he was my guardian angel, and actually, what he did for me was show me how to put one foot in front of the other after september 11. >> couric: and while ted kennedy was one of 23 senators to vote against authorizing the war in iraq, he never forgot the men and women who are fighting it. >> this is our son, john, who was killed in iraq in october of 2003. >> john called us the week before he was killed and actually was whispering in the phone. so he wouldn't be overheard that they were desperate for any kind of armor. >> lifelong republicans joined forces with their senior senator to provide better uniforms and equipment to protect the troops. >> the parents said, "if you can do anything to make sure that other soldiers who are over there are not put in the kind of danger that my son was put in and lost, that would be the best thing that we could ever think of in terms of our son." >> i just hope senator kennedy will get credit for the t

i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm anita brikman. tonight nearly 3000 people packed inside a high school. >> attending a public formum on health care reform. britney moorehouse with a breakdown of all the action. i hear there was plenty of it. >> reporter: you're not kidding. i'm not going to lie. i didn't even make it inside this building in the early hour because there was so much going out on here. hundreds of people were unable to get inside this building. all of them standing out chanting armed with stories and opinions. >> kill the bill. >> reporter: kill the bill. health care now. >> health care now. >> reporter: two opposing chants outside south lake high school where maximum capacity is keeping hundreds from attending a town hall meeting. >> i would love to know how many people in there are true constituents of the eighth congressional district. >> reporter: charges fly that democrats organized reform supporters. >> it is interesting that some leaders allege that supporters of free market solutions are astro turf when they h

. >>> good evening, i'm derek mcginty. anita is off tonight. you can't even watch the news these days without hearing crout a teacher violatg inviola edtrust to never harm your kids. yesterday celipo charged a liwr coach charged with online solicitation. what can you do to keep your kids safe from predators when some of their teachers could be moonlighting as the bad guys. britney moorehouse joins us with some answers i hope. >> the truth is sexual harassment is common at every state of education, whether the offense is an inappropriate remark or physical abuse. bottom line for parents, keep talking. parents and kids are getting caught up in the excitement. buzz words in here. markers, notebooks. but parents might also want to keep a communication checklist. >> there is not one typical dialogue or one conversation. it is an ongoing conversation. make sure your kids are talking consistently. >> reporter: a facility where young pictures of workers decorate the walls here so children understand these adults were kids once. while sex abuse may not

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i'm derek mcginty. anita is off tonight. well, you just heard an eyewitness account of what went down at kent island high school earlier today. we have plenty of new information tonight on this developing story. offialusscit joldci u 5 rte0:0 after 5:00 p.m., some football players developed cramps and nausea at that high school. the players had only been practicing for about 35 minutes before they stoth got sick. 12 -- they got sick. 12 of them had to go to the hospital to be treated. the other members of the team that were not transported did not leave the school until 9:00 tonight. this video was shot earlier today from sky nine with players being carried out on stretchers. there was a little bit of inconsistency what b what caused them to get sick. some say it was the heat, others speculate it was some sort of chemical con sam nation. we have live -- contamination. we have live coverage with brittany morehouse who is just outside of kent island. >> reporter: that's right. i'm on kent island right now. but earlier this eve

i'm derek mcginty. anita has the night off. and whether you subscribe to marian barry's theory or not, the national drug policy shows 90% of bank notes from 18 cities all over the country have traces of cocaine on them. and what's more, dc topped the list where the testing took place with 95% of sample bills testing positive. digital correspondent andrew stack has been sniffing around on this one. andrew. >> reporter: well, derek, i spent most of this evening at a chemistry lab at george washington university and learned firsthand pretty much everyone has traces of cocaine on their money. if the latest research is correct, this is still the most popular method for ingesting cocaine. not using $100 bills but rather 5, 10 and 20. the doctor said his assistant are hoping to get results inside their chem lab. >> this was a technique that was recently discovered by purdue university. >> reporter: so for the purposes of testing money off the street, i'm going to go into my own wallet, pull out a couple of the retired tens and 20s and

in your only local news at 7:00, i'm surae chinn in for derek mcginty.onight, back in visit, michael vick heads to the gridiron and a former police chief does not receive a get out of jail free card and inbox full. it is the health care reform e- mail battle. >>> e-mail about health reform is inundating captiol hill. >> a lot of people who are trying to e-mail their member of congress are experiencing a slow down. >> reporter: they are working on it. >> we are in the process, right now, as we speak, of upgrading those systems. >> reporter: in the meantime, persistence will rule the day here. so it is not that those e-mails aren't getting through. if the message is very important to you and you want it to go through, try and try again. >> nor cardin's office. can pl

i'm derek mcginty. anita brikman is off tonight. good evening. tonight a lesbian couple says a silver spring business discriminated against them and tonight they are fighting back. silver springs diner is the type of business where everyone is always welcome. but these protestors insist that was not the case last week. two lesbian woman claim they were kicked out. >> ironically we were standing next to a hetrosexual couple. their public affection was a little more extreme. >> the message is it stops now. >> tonight they came back with friends and supporters who crowded into the diner to place their orders and mount what they call a kiss in. >> peaceful protest solely to show everybody deserves the same respect, the same treatment regardless of sex, color and especially sexual orientation. >> i'm shocked. i can't believe it. >> but the owner said there was no discrimination. they are not telling the whole story she claims. >> they were embracing a lot and it was a little more x- rated than i think that these young ladies are leading everyone to be

. >>> good evening i'm derek mcginty. >> and i'm anita brickman.ight the life and legacy of a man known as the liberal lion of the senate ted kennedy. this was the scene just hours ago indu pont circle, about 100 people held a candlelight vigil in his honor. he touched their lives in so many different ways. >> senator kennedy was a champion for issues of all americans and right now we're in a space in our life where we really got to be fighting for what's right and le was one of those guys who did that. >> i really respected him and i think he really loved and supported civil rights specifically but in turns of civil rights and in turns of economic issues, fair wages. >> and that really is at the center of it. senator kennedy made healthcare the corner stone of his political agenda for years. >> after serving in the senate for nearly half a century kennedy died last night after a 15 month battle with brain cancer. he was 77. his family is perhaps the closest we have to royalty in our country to compound he's known by some as cammellot, and for the

. >> reporter: he even invited the mcginties to join him sailing. there was no photo-opes, no press, a water color kennedy painted, the lasting image of that day. then he wrote to cindy mcginty, who doesn't know the word defeat. if he thinks that about me, then i certainly can put one foot in going every day.er and keep it really does inspire me. >> reporter: a lasting mark of the legendary senator. hundfdsam o filies came to know as simply ted k. sharyn alfonsi, abc news, bloomfield, connecticut. >> it looks like the east coast will dodge the bullet with tropical storm danny. danny is no longer expected to make landfall after its winds dropped to 45 miles an hour. but a tropical storm watch is in effect for the outer banks of north carolina and forecasters say danny could still bring heavy rain and dangerous surf tomorrow as far north as maine. so there you go. now for the rest of your friday forecast. showers and thunderstorms from louisiana to florida. and up to the northeast. thunderstorms and heavy rain in the upper midwest with flash flood war

. >> i'm derek mcginty. what should you expect from your car dealership? one couple is reeling after their vehicle was stolen. >> it was returned a wreck the month later and the couple says they may be stuck with us. digital correspondent britney moorehouse has the latest. >> we made the first payment on ve cle and it wasn't in our possession. >> reporter: after the vehicle was stolen from the dealership they say they are no better after even though the vehicle was found. elizabeth wise takes us back to the day she brought her brand- new vehicle to the dealership for a radio repair. an hour later the general manager appeared. >> i've got bad news. a car was stolen from our lot today. it has never happened to us before. o . carveurhayo e er>>portur: >> reporter: by the time polic recovered the car the suspect had taken on an crime spree. >> the trash that was int. i bodily fluid stains in the back seat. rear bumper missing. he robbed a jewelry store. >> reporter: naturally the dealer's insurance company is covering the loss but the wises say when they heard

derek mcginty, it's your birthday. >> thank you very much, i appreciate it. >> yes. >> i am suddenlyrprised. >> did you make this? >> i did not. >> okay. >> well thank you very much. >> happy birthday. >> i think that you should blow them out and make a wish. let's give him a chance. so many candles we might need to help him. >> are you ready? exactly. >> what was happening and this is sort after in -- of a new thing when you're out there watching, someone goes down and you could twitter that going out to people immediately instead of waiting for reports or an argument to go online. >> right, you're a die hard redskins fan. they say no to tt. and that is not a no to that if you happen to work for them. and they are in line. >> that is a story, twitter, it's a social networking area, instantly they have made it a phenomenon. but to the redskins, they also made it a threat. team officials refused to go on camera to discuss that band. but the spokesman, they did give this statement. >> and we like other teams, we are concerned about the tip of information that is being reported from pra

here is derrick mcginty. >> i have come here tonight to stand with you. to change america. >> reporter: they called him the last of the old line liberals and he was partisan. his great zest for politics and great skills. >> then $200 billion deficit are at least as wrong when the republicans are in control. >> reporter: even those who opposed him called him one of the most effective legislators. >> like my three brothers before me, i pick up a fallen standard, sustained by their memory of our .priceless years together. >> reporter: edward kennedy was born in 1932, the last son of the wealthy kennedy dynasty. when his older brother won the presidency, massachusetts voters sent ted kennedy to fill out his senate term and they never let him leave. the new young president and his family brought a glamor to washington. the family would seem almost star crossed. assassinned bullets brought him down. in 1969, ted kennedy drove a car off a bridge on the island. his young companion died and for ten hours, kennedy failed to report the crash. what happened that nigh

the balance mcginty balance down, the use of the program is down significantly and ideas they will be in a very good position to exit october 31. >> good. this is for all of the witnesses, so this question has two parts. as i've said before i doubt we can create a regulator that will be able to see and stop systemic risk. so the first question for each of you is if you really think government can't assemble a regulator that will not be outsmarted by wall street, first of all, in other words, can the government really understand what the financial industries are doing and spot the risk ahead of time? or at least as they are happening. and second, it seems to me a more practical and effective way to limit damage firms can do is to limit their size and exposure to other firms not. nordby interactions between major firms. that also has a benefit of allowing the free market to operate, but within reasonable limits. my question for each of you is, do you agree with that? and answer also the first one if you will. you can all take a shot at it. >> in no order. [laughter] >> i will be happy t