attorney's office is investigating, lesli. >> all right peggy fox, thanks for that report. and while thomas was on the front steps, sulaimon brown was upstairs telling a council committee about his accusations of payoffs by mayor vincent gray and his campaign. the former dark horse candidate brought along receipts of money orders that were given to him by gray's top campaign aids so he would keep up his verbal attacks of then mayor adrian fenty. >> right here if you would like to see them. and these were given to us for our campaign, by the gray campaign. now when they purchased them, i don't know. don't even care. i just know when i received them. >> brown had testy exchanges with just about every council member on the committee. he suggested david would be a witness at trial. and catanya accused brown of delusions and fantasies. he kept listing anyway. mayor gray's office would say it's awaiting the results of three different investigation of brown's allegations. >> now to congressman anthony weiner who is facing a possible investigation of his own tonight. after coming c

i'm peggy fox, back to you. >> for the third straight year, montgomery county public schools have the best graduation rate in the nation. among the nation's 50 largest districts, montgomery county graduated the most students, more than 85%. that is a full 14 points higher than the national average and 9 points higher than the maryland average. the annual diplomas report show it has the second best graduation rate. anne arundel county came in sixth. prince william 17th and prince georges county 20th. >> for the first time this year, maryland's two state casinos saw a drop in the amount of money they brought in. the casino and the hollywood casino took in a combined $13 $13.29 million in may. they are focused on the long- term results. of course we are focused on today, but not just today, the next couple of days because of what is on the way. >> we have a heat wave coming this way. the dew point there tonight really not too bad. but it's really tomorrow and into thursday where we will feel the heat and humidity. so get those ready, we'll hang out. our heat alert is in effect. we have h

peggy fox, 9news now. >> eight years ago. customers cannot get enough, but the missouri health department wants an ice cream shop to cool it with its latest flavor. that shop in columbia is selling ice cream. in fact, it sold out its first batch hours before it debuted. the employees are out there collecting them in the backyards and taking off the wings, covering them in chocolate and brown sugar going and mix it all together and the health department says it's not a good idea. don't use bugs as an ingredient and probably shouldn't eat it. >> i was going to have dinner after this, but now i lost my appetite. >> they are not bad having tasted a couple in my day. what do we have weather wise? >> ice cream weather, cookies and cream maybe. feeling humidity tonight, but not too bad. if you want to have dinner outside, it's a nice night to do that. the next couple nights, not going to feel so nice. here's a look at the heat advisory starting at noon until 8:00 p.m. basically includes the dc area and basically east of the ridge. a

peggy fox has more on the growing anticipation. >> we'll come back and see the baby won't we?rter: all zoo visitors see is the male panda, but it will be his cub, if in fact the female is carrying one. she is inside showing signs of being pregnant, like licking her paws and cradling. >> she's working on her necessary, adding bamboo pieces on a nightly basis. she spending to be indoors in the quiet, air conditioning and conserving energy, resting a lot more than pandas typically do. she is not eating as much bamboo. those are all signs she could be pregnant. >> after they failed to successfully mate last winter, scientists artificially inseminated her last year. it's been 120 days and zoo keepers are hopeful. >> it's hard to tell with pandas, they have a pseudopregnancy, the false pregnancy mimics a true pregnancy. the hormones do the same. >> pandas give birth to twins 60% of the time, in the wild only one baby can survive, but here in case she has twins, they have a tragedy to keep both alive. they'll swap the cubs out to give them both supplemental feedings, but if it's just

. >> i'm peggy fox with momslikeme.com. snack season is in full force. kids eat more snacks this month than any other month of the year. can you give them healthier snacks? mary is snickety snacks is here. what do you have? >> we have mac-and-cheese puffs. they have no preservatives, no msg, no trans fats, fewer in calories and they don't have very much sugar if any. >> you hear all this, and you go, oh, yeah, but how do they taste? >> taste one. >> i eel taste the new sea salt ones. tell me how you got started with this. >> i was pregnant at the time and started to look in the grocery store to see if there were any snacks that i would feed my own children. i wasn't really happy with the offerings, so i decided to start something myself and provide other parents like me with some healthier snacks. >> these are very tasty. you think the kids will like them? >> i do. >> where can you find them? >> safeway, whole foods, wegmans, and lots of other stores. >> local entrepreneur, mary, we thank you. we have more information on momslikeme.com. i'm a dancer. and

. >> i'm peggy fox in the district where dc's attorney general files a lawsuit against one of the city's own councilmen. >> allegations are allegations. fact is fact. >> a defiant harry thomas denied the accusations against him. the civil suit alleges he bought this $60,000oudi suv with public money. >> the oudi was purchased through my business. >> it alleges that the nonprofit thomas set up, team thomas, collected donations from businesses, the likes of children's national medical center and $5,000 from med star to be used to teach at risk kids golf and baseball. but instead, it was used for lavish trips to las vegas and pebble beach, california. >> i have to say that we are extremely disappointed in this violation of public service. >> harry thomas out front, sulaimon brown upstairs. under court order, the dark horse mayoral candidate is finally talking. detailing to a committee his allegations of payoff and patronage. now brown brought along some copies of receipts and many orders that say gray's top campaign aids gave him to vote gray, any color but fenty against the forme incumbent

peggy fox talked to the woman who survived the ordeal. she joins us now from where it happened on an overpass. and peg, we all remember this case. it was just crazy. >> it was crazy. you know, you can imagine yourself driving on i-95, daphne gibson and her new husband were newlyweds. they were driving home from their honeymoon at disney world northbound on i-95. what they didn't know is that someone or a group of people were about to drop a 70-pound boulder off this bridge. >> to the people that did this, you know who you are and so do we. we want you to go in and turn yourself in. >> wan da dudley believes it was four teenagers who stood on this bridge and dropped a 70- pound boulder like this off the road overpass on june 7, 2003. it crashed through her daughter's saturn, crushing her daughter in the face. eight years later, daphne gibson is speaking out because she wants justice. >> i have been through 13 surgeries and got more surgeries to go through and i was supposed to die and i didn't and i'm glad. but imagine yourself going throu

peggy, as soon as 2012. >> wouldn't that be amazing? you mentioned rick perry. we really haven't heard a lot about him just yet. why is he considering a run? >> reporter: he told fox news that sick weeks ago it wasn't even on his radar but now giving it serious thought because supporters came to him and argued that the country needs him but he won't set a time limit on that he won't even say he'll announce within the next month but he has already started attacking democrats. he said of anthony weiner, the congressman who has a lewd photos problem, he is one sick fella. peggy? >> all right, john hendren live from washington, thanks, john. >>> overseas to pakistan this morning where some residents who helped the cia find osama bin laden have been arrested. among those taken into custody by pakistani agents is the owner of a safe house rented by the cia to observe bin laden's compound. a pakistani army major was also taken into custody. what's next for those arrested isn't known. >>> amtrak is implementing new high-tech security measures after osama bin laden's journals revealed plans to attack america's rail system. the head of amtrak's police force told congress th