san antonio road, old adobe road and river road that is where we're seeing some of the better returns right now. and livermore up to brentwood and oakley, that is where we're seeing some of the better radar returns. all this is moving off to the east with the cold front. so as we expected this afternoon we're going to have light to moderate rate throughout the day. >> embattled sheriff ross mirkarimi took the first step to lifting his suspension from work. they say he acted outside his legal authority when he suspended him for misconduct. courts have ruled that public official cannot be removed unless they are in office. the incident took place more than a week before he was sworn in. he pleaded guilty to false imprison. >> there is serious doubts on the survival of healthcare overhaul. the arguments are focused on the law's individual insurance requirement. anthony kennedy the swing vote questioned whether the mandate is a step beyond what cases are allowed. demonstrators pack the sidewalk of supreme court prompt spirited debate. >> i want people to have the opportunity to receive he

san antonio road, old adobe road and river road that is where we're seeing some of the better returns right now. and livermore up to brentwood and oakley, that is where we're seeing some of the better radar returns. all this is moving off to the east with the cold front. so as we expected this afternoon we're going to have light to moderate rate throughout the day. >> embattled sheriff ross mirkarimi took the first step to lifting his suspension from work. they say he acted outside his legal authority when he suspended him for misconduct. courts have ruled that public official cannot be removed unless they are in office. the incident took place more than a week before he was sworn in. he pleaded guilty to falseimpri. >> there is serious doubts on the survival of healthcare overhaul. the arguments are focused on the law's individual insurance requirement. anthony kennedy the swing vote questioned whether the mandate is a step beyond what cases are allowed. demonstrators pack the sidewalk of supreme court prompt spirited debate. >> i want people to have the opportunity to receive health

but across states i were and the a's a western conference runners the san antonio spurs edged that new orleans hornets on the roadby three points now san antonio with a turnover early in the first quarter sunday for her five games and one blair for the beginning of the big game for him as he talked scored for his side with twenty three points straight to the second now and stephen jackson creating chances for himself to defenders obviously not enough to stop a mass dispersed trailed by it so that early in the third jarrett jack put the hornets entrancing yet again six tickets to six where one handed jam but that was not enough to stop san antonio from winning their third game in a row eighty nine eighty six the final score. as staying in the united states for incentives defending champion nevada jack which passed an early test in his saturday erickson opener. on saturday nights in miami the serbian player defeated former australian open finalist marcos baghdatis six four six four joke which will now play his fellow countrymen and twenty seven seeds for its be in the third round . mardy fish was another once bush'

cotati, petaluma, san antonio, old an doobie road. -- old an did road.w showers in the higher elevations around the santa clara valley that's it for now. still wet outside. >>> with the slick roads it might have contributed to this crash in the oakland maze this is west bound 580 traffic turning into eastbound 80 -- heading towards emeryville. cars off to the right, maybe the right lane is blocked they are calling for a flatbed tow truck and emergency crews. fire department is en route once they get there we could see traffic slowing as lanes are blocked as they try to clear this crash, so keep that in mind. not a big delay right now. looking good elsewhere south bay lights moving well out of downtown san jose area heading towards highway 17. >>> last night's rain and winds sent a huge oak tree crashing into a house. the 100 foot tall tree toppled on to a home in fairfax 7:00 last night. it came down on the driveway and crushed a car three people inside were briefly trapped, no one was hurt. >>> i heard a sound like a jet plane, i said what the bleep was

san antonio. it has been a long road since july. we went into a very compressed discovery period. lots of exchanging of things. lots of depositions. we tried the case on the first workday after labor day. we tried it into mid-september and then we did post trial briefs. we did more briefing in another mini trial. by that time, the state of texas was under way with its lawsuit in the washington d.c. federal court seeking pre-clearance from the courts. i have to disagree with ellen here. if they submitted the plans, the doj would have objected. as doj objected to the house plan in 2001 under bush ii. we would have gotten an objection. texas in its wisdom chose to go to court and filed an unsuccessful summary judgment. we filed that case january 17th until the day before yesterday. in the middle of all that was the appeal interim maps. we have to have elections and we have an early primary elections in texas. they are held the first week in march. the backed up deadlines including under the new military voters and precinct and all of that bring us into october 2011 which is why the d

road all week. they start in san antonio monday then head to dallas on tuesday to take on the mavericks thursday in new orleans and finish up friday in atlanta. >> still to come here on washington weekly. >> now an open letter to my ex-wife. >> to you have someone to complain about? this man does. the website that lets you rant about anything. >> plus the forec >> steve is here with a look at the weather for this week. i think we're going to be making a lot of people happy. >> a lot of folks who like the warmth and humidity they'll love this. but wait for the pollen. take a look outside. the moon rise you can see just on the righthand side of your screen. high clouds out there right now limit the visibility in an hour or two but a beautiful beautiful moon rise outside at this hour and just to the right of it is the hubble space craft. you can't see it though. here's what's going on. 63 degrees for the high temperature average for this date 54 and the record 78 set back in 1967 and can get as cold as 15 degrees on this date. now 52 at reagan national airport. 54 in bladesburg. a high today of 63. st

. >>> tonight the wizards embarked on a six-game road trip beginning in san antonio against the spursm found the win column 11 straight times against washington. final seconds 1st half the spurs lose the handle. dawan blair to richard jefferson whose three beats the buzzer, wizards down 14 at the break. 2nd half chris singleton to javale mcgee who just floats it in. he's a high floater, had a team high 21, deficit down to 8, but the game belonged to tony parker, missed the last game with a calf injury responded here with 31. wizards fall to the spurs 112- 97. wiz have lost nine of 11 and fall to 3-15 on the road. >>> don't go anywhere. when we return, the maryland women find out who their dance partner will be, ncaa women's tournament selection when we come back. turn left. the passat is one of nine volkswagen models named a 2012 iihs top safety pick. not...that... we'd ever brag about it... turn right. come on, nine. turn left. hit the brakes. huh? how did that get there? [ male announcer ] we can't hide how proud we are to have nine top safety picks like the passat and jetta. so we'

s western conference runners out san antonio spurs edged out new orleans hornets on the road by three points that sense o'neil with a turnover early in the first quarter parker winding down one blair for the beginning of a big game for him as he top scorer for his side with twenty three points now straight to seconds and stephen jackson creating chances for himself as to defenders obviously not enough to stop him as the spurs trailed by two at that point early in the third jarrett jack with the hornets crossed yet again sixty two to six with a one handed jam but it was not enough to stop san antonio from winning their third game in a row eighty nine eighty six the final four. stayed in the u.s. where intent is defending champion about jock they should pass the early test in his cell he eriksson open. on saturday nights in miami a serbian player defeated former australian open final this mark was about that the six four six four joe will now play his fellow countrymen and twenty seventh seed. in the third round. morty fish was another once put his place in the third round after they at

s western conference runners up san antonio spurs edged out said new orleans hornets on the road by three points sounds i want to go with a third over early in the first quarter so he parker finding that one blair for the beginning of a big game for him as he starts to work for his side with that's what gets me points castrates of the seconds and stephen jackson creating chances for himself and some defenders obviously not enough to stop him as the spurs trailed by soon our early in the third jarrod jet put the hornets in france yet again say sitting to six with a one handed jam but it was not enough to stop san antonio problem winning their third game in a row eighty nine eighty six that parnell score. staying in the united states where intent is defending champion jockey paston early it's estan his sony ericsson opener on saturday nights in miami as serbian players if it is former australian open finalist marcus buck got the six four six four will now play his fellow countrymen and twenty seven c. baser toit's in the third round. more to fish was another once a book his place in the thi

san antonio yesterday. seven people were hurt and most of the damage was to roll homes. the road to the gop presidential nomination heads through illinois today >> that romney is ahead and prattle kingston shows us he might get an extra boost at the expense of its biggest rival. >> the polls are open across illinois. voters are picking the republican they want to see challenge president obama this fall. it is a showdown between met ronnie and rick santorum who is trying to recover from a stumble on the campaign trail. >> i don't care what the unemployment rate will be, it doesn't matter to me >> at a rally in peoria romney pounced on his rivals anne state >> one of the people running for the republican nomination says he does not care about the unemployment rate, that does not bother him. i do care about the unemployment rate >> rick santorum later admitted it is important to me and went on to say that his symptoms of the government lives in >> is one of those things where you wish you had eight 2 over but you know what? i think it is important that you try to get a sense of how

chicago bulls on the road tonight playing one of those elite teams san antonio spurs-manu ginobli nightn antonio tonight first quarter derrick rose and tony parker bang knees chicago holding its breath derrick rose was okay state and the game. chicago bulls 50-42 lead at halftime right now 60-50 in the third quarter san antonio. college basketball tonight northwestern chance to do what they have never done before n.c.a.a. tournament all that would have to do tonight defeat no. 11 ohio state tall order john shurna last game at home all-time leading scorer doing work in the second half. rallied from a double-digit deficit to get within five and in the closing seconds down three from 28 ft.. the game is tied at 73 with seven seconds left after a buckeye timeout jared sullinger 22 won the game for ohio state 75-73. 17-12 does not look very good for them in terms of the tournament. add baseball arizona today with chicago cubs all the attention to detail carrying on again today at this time with the outfielders always take lot of eyeballs during spring training workouts today machine was jack

san antonio picked up two to three inches of rain in two hours last night, still problems with water on the roads there. now we're watching areas like waco and dallas, it's just continuing to rain and it's been raining all night lochk. so that morning commute won't be fun. even around austin we've received reports of heavy rain. the little white flashes on the map are lightning strikes. we've had thousands of them. in the last hour, we've had over 12 it,000 lightning strikes from this line of storms through texas. very active weather. the maroon color is flash it flood warnings, tulsa got drenched with flash flooding, too, yesterday. there are all the problems with water around austin and san antonio. who's next? this line of storms will weaken this morning, re-form this afternoon. then from little rock through louisiana, you are going to get a lot of heavy rain the next two days. as far as the temperatures went yesterday, i was talking to lynn earlier, i mean, it was just incredible. we were in some areas near albany, new york, near 80 degrees, wisconsin near 80, minneapolis at 79, and even this

roads, even flights. >> on top of that, one twister traveled through the tiny town of devine, texas, overnight. touching down southwest of san antonio. 50 homes were damaged. some totally destroyed. so far, there's no confirmed reports of injuries, thankfully. >>> here's a look at what the downpours have done. flooding that stretches into oklahoma. some areas have seen two inches of rain an hour. more severe weather is on tap for later today, with 70-mile-per-hour winds, hail, and a chance of tornadoes from shreveport to houston and southern missouri. rivers in the dallas area are expected to rise up to 20 feet. we will, of course, have a complete update later on "good morning america." >>> and our other major story on this tuesday morning, new insight into the possible offense strategy for army sergeant robert bales. his attorney says bales will not enter an insanity plea in the shooting of 16 afghan civilians. >> lawyers will claim that bales was acting with diminished capacity of a breakdown. we're joined by tahman bradley. >> reporter: good morning. overnight, we got word about what bales says he remembers about the night of the

san antonio last night visiting the spurs. tony parker had a strong comeback for the spurs. he scored 31 points just days after straining his right quadricep. wizards lose 112-97. d.c. stays on the road visiting class tonight. >>> -- dallas tonight. >>> the nationals are 5-3 in the grapefruit league. they beat the cardinals yesterday. d.c. hosts detroit tonight. >>> 6:25 now. still ahead, a legal loophole that let an accused high school coach go free. >>> the new target for thieves high laundry detergent. learn why it's such a hot commodity. >>> a live look at southbound 270. slows down at the montrose road exit but picks up after that monika has another check of the roads in six minutes. keep it right here with 9news now. >>> a live look at the capitol dome. it is warm out this morning. temperatures in the upper 50s. a beautiful start. >> thank you for starting your tuesday with us. i'm andrea roane. >>> i'm mike hydeck. we're glad you're here. howard bernstein live on the weather terrace. we had showers overnight but things are clearing out. good morning, howard. >>> most of the showers to our south and east. it's a very comfortable morning out here. spre spring like, -- very sprin

she drives this road every week, and added it was the first twister she has ever seen. now to san antonioarrowly misses a motorcyclist on the highway. check out this video. recorded by another biker, by the way. you can see a car spins out of control and veers toward the motorcyclist. fortunately, the biker made a quick decision and was able to avoid that collision. >>> let's head north to kirkland lake, canada, where a highway was glittering with gold and silver. nearly $5 million in canadian coins spilled out across the road after a tractor-trailer crashed. the brinks truck was carrying the newly minted uncirculated coins when it slammed into a rock, causing a series of collisions. the other truck involved was carrying candy. the ontario highway covered in snow made the cleanup pretty difficult. luckily they had a huge magnet on pick up all the coins. don't bother driving by. the money is gone. >>> now to kansas city, missouri, where a young boy is being honoredas a hero. this is 9-year-old jason smith. the kansas city police just honored him with a life-saving award only given to membe

road under all that mud and water. well, fortunately a tow truck pulled them back to shore. >> ouch. a guy in san antonio got the basketball great's portrait shaved into the left side of his head and for good measure on the right side, only cost him 75 bucks. >>> two brothers in china have beethoven rolling over in his grave, they can make a symphony from a salad, turning carrots into flutes and the two guys say the fresher the veggie the better the sound. great percussion. >> love that. >>> coming up a little later, graphic and controversial, shocking new ads that hope to scare knew action. we'll look and see if they work. for some of you your local news is next. the rest of you stick around. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." stay with us. >>> top of the morning to you. it is st. patrick's day. i'm gigi barnett. here's what people are talking about. >>> a baltimore police officer pleads guilty to dealing drugs on-the-job. daniel redd admitted his involvement in a major heroin ring. the drugs were flown in from africa. redd got the drugs and handed them off to dealers on the streets. he confes

san antonio. five cars possibly involved in that. there may be some lanes blocked. also on the map we've marked old middlefield roaday, slow northbound. all of these routes, 80, 17, 280, 101 all jamming. southbound 880 coming through heyward and fremont, slowdown. >>> thank you for joining us for the latest trfk and news updates. check out nbc bay area on facebook. another local news update in half an hour. [ female announcer ] off limits? not anymore. fiber one is bringing brownies back. at 90 calories, you can have brownies again. ♪ fiber one 90 calorie brownies. in the granola bar aisle. carol. fiber makes me sad. oh common. and how can you talk to me about fiber while you are eating a candy bar? you enjoy that. i am. [ male announcer ] fiber beyond recognition. fiber one. >>> 8:30 now on this wednesday morning. it's the 7th day of march 2012. we really could not ask for a better late winter day in midtown manhattan. 42 degrees already. al says it will get up to 50 degrees today. how great for the crowd in rockefeller plaza. coming up just ahead, two words -- beer party! >> martha stewart says forget about a win