route 7, we will look at the camera at spring hill road.oblems from reston area and continuing inside the beltway. final thing to show you inbound toll road no delays from the airport to the junction at 866. 73 degrees outside. you are watching 9 news now and it will continue in a moment. 3f?f?f?f fa >>> overfishing is causing. but good green choices include catfish, alaskan salmon and tilapia. grouper, red snapper and sea bass are ones to avoid. for more go to wusa9.com and click on living green. >>> millions of men and plenty of women are giddy today because the madden 1010 video game comes out at midnight. chris fin fisher has a preview. >>> this is really one of the most, if not the most anticipated release of the year for both football fans and video game addicts alike. according to reviews the latest version of madden nfl will not disappoint fans an we have a special sneak peek of what the game looks like. the footage you are looking at right now is released just under three hours ago and the thing all the blogs are talking about this

past cold springs. another one at the marysville at interstate 70. >> looking at hd doppler radar, there is thunder shower activity and a lot of lightning in centreville and to the south of that. and in baltimore county reaching hagerstown. this blossom, those are burirds. there were up to 3 inches of rain reaching from eastern frederik county into baltimore county end up to 6 inches of rain in harford county. lun watches, and -- flood watches still in effect for cecil county. at the bay is a flood watch that will go into effect at 2:00 this afternoon. this morning the temperatures are in the 70's with high humidity. a front has stalled across the area. it will drift north during the day, allowing more humid air to come into the region. danny will be coming close by, adding to everything coming into the area. recurrence will be a problem along the mid-atlantic coast this weekend along with high serv. if mostly cloudy today with a few scattered thunderstorms especially this afternoon and overnight. we co

this is in the spring valley neighborhood. have more in a live report coming up. >>> the redskins kicking off their pre-season schedule tonight. the battle of the blaze. redskins travel to baltimore to take on the rav an. big names not playing include albert haynesworth and employment portis and also santana moss will likely skip the game tonight and be back in action in the season. >> game conditions looking all right for tonight? >> i haven't been looking at it but it should be okay. it will be warm be maybe a pop- up shower or something hike that. not bad. let's take a look at what is happening with our radar here at home. we do see some precipitation. that blip that is showing up to our north and east, that is nothing. hat is just what we call garbage. out to the east, that is where we're seeing some pretty good rainfall but it is all off the coast at this hour. it is really intensifying. some stormy conditions off the the coast. right now, reagan national, 7 # degrees. winds are out of the north at eight miles per hour. y

at the silver spring home of michael nash, someoneeft a card of cdolence in the front door. 63-year-old michael nash, a track repairman, for metro killed bay piece of equipment while he was working on the orange line sunday. mr. nash worked for metro 21 years and he lived in the silver spring neighborhood for a long time. >> every time he saw me he says hello, how are you, how is everything going. he is a good guy. didn't hear anything bad. >> reporter: today more bad news for metro. word that on july 31, a green line train left a greenbelt station with two too many cars. a passenger alerted the operator

but we didn't see large outbreaks like that in most flu seasons and we saw them this past spring. we expect that it is not unlikely that we will see outbreaks beased in schools in the coming school year, in the fall or as the flu season progresses in the wincht. exactly when, how large, where, only time will tell. one of the defining characteristics of influenza is that it's very hard to preticket what will happen. we have to be ready. and one of the ways that we can be ready is understanding how to respond in schools. in most cases, we need to ensure that kids who are sick stay home. if you have a fever, stay home. you'll get better quicker and you won't make other people sick. cover your cough and sneeze and wash your hands often. those three key measures can make a big difference in how fast and how widely flu spreads. this season is likely to be different because of outbreaks in places like schools, child care settings and elsewhere. and that's why we worked very closely with the education department to get guidance out for schools. what to tell kids, what to tell parents, wha

in the spring of 1954. david wrote a book called polio an american story that won the pulitzer prize for history in 2006. all about how this stood up. very interesting study. it's not a perfect example and of course it was a successful campaign. it was not a perfect example because it was a clinical trial so there was lots of additional recordkeeping but i should say that in standing up a vaccination program where you were targeting 1.3 million students they had to get the assistance of something like 50,000 physicians. almost 200,000 volunteers to stand that trial up. that is just to give you a sense of the magnitude of what we might be facing going forward we talk about trying to vaccinate 100-150, even 200 million people or as many people as want to be vaccinated actually. the last example that we have looked at and many of you have heard or remember the swine flu fiasco as it is known popularly. in 1976 there was h1n1 outbreak at fort dix. a young soldier 22-year-old young man died. this was the first t

. >> it is not helping things, we are hearing of an accident on cold spring at green spring avenue. we still have the accident working on the outer loop of the beltway, it is going to be at 295 blocking two right lane, watch for a back up from the beltway to where we had an earlier medical call. that's now clear but the delay is not. an accident also to report on mccormick avenue, fire activity in daytonville at courtney road, transformer fire there and watch for repair work in the city blocking the westbound lane of northern parkway. this live look at 295 at the beltway, an earlier delay there, that has cleared but you will find a slight delay. there's a look at the west side, early delay between liberty and security and 95 still running at full speed. remember wjz 13 is always on at wjz.com. >>> people are anticipate thing day historic day on capitol hill as the senate will decide if judge sonya sotomaior will become the first, here is the latest. >> reporter: the nation's highest court is on track to get the first hispanic justice. >> i am confident that judge sotomaior will make

en silver spring, los ladrones no respetan nada, ni tienen miedo de nada para robar de los vehiculos dejados en las playas estacionamiento del populoso sector..claudia uceda hablo con las autoridades... no es lque usted suele esperar pero en silver spring los crimenes no ocurren mayormente en la calle sino en estos estacionamientos publicos.... ""no es guro, no es seguro ni en la noche ni en el dia..." solo en el mes de julio, se han reportado 17 robos dentro de automoviles.... ladrones se llevan de todo, celulares, localizador de direcciones, computadoras hasta los pocos centavos que muchos tienen.... "a mi me ha dicho incluso la policia, no deje el maletin, no deje nada a la vista para que no te rompan el carro..." "la policia debe de tener mas cuidado en ese, vigilar mas .." "en estos parqueos, que uno piensa que son del condado , que tiene que tener mas seguridad ..." en este estacionamiento cerca al metro de silver spring en east west hwy se han reportado la mayoria de los robos... de dia o de noche, ni las camaras de vig

they are among the changes the federal government passed this spring. the new rules give consumers more notice when changes are made to their accounts. statements are to be mailed 21 days before payments are due instead of 14 and if a payment is missed, car users have more options if companies charge them fees or raise their rates. the next phase of law includes limits on cash rates and companies can charge on existing balances that take effect in february. >>> coming up in the broadcast, the mental health records for the virginia tech gunman were released today. we will tell you what seung-hui cho said to counselors prior to the shooting. >>> look forward to the history of a d.c. neighborhood where munitions turned up several times. >>> bob is back with our forecast. >>> hope diamond, at the smithsonian museum is a beautiful thing. it is going to get a new setting. the jeweler who donated the rare blue yes, ma'am is offering people a chance to help decide what that setting should be. the voting are available on the smithsonian website. the new setting

n silver spring. quick look at the storm stand shows, first off, hurricane bill, a category three storm churning in the atlantic, heading west of bermuda. it's going to get close to new england. but parts of new england from the cape out to nantucket could see some effects. this weekend is when the president is also heading up there, so hopefully everything will stay out to sea, but it should brush through the canadian maritimes. we're watching the cold front to our west. this will trigg storms today and showers tomorrow. your forecast is partly cloudy today, hot and muggy with strong storms possible. highs near 90 degrees this afternoon. setchts with thunderstorms tonight. tomorrow, not much sunshine, muggy and wet. but by sunday, low humidity and comfortable conditions return. lisa baden, i'll see you at the blood drive, but first let's talk about traffic. >> i'll there be at tysons corner center between 10:00 and 2:00 this afternoon, and we'll definitely be there. we'd like you to come out and give

sean springs now playing in new england. springs spent five productive years in washington. productive when healthy. the only real knock on springs. it is one that is often brought up by his former teammates. and very much looking forward to facing their old buddy. >> you know, just because we are not on the same team. we will be friends. you know i have -- from the sideline over there. >> prut sure. i remember seeing him at the tennis match. couple weeks ago. and i can't way to play. and we had in practice. now get to come to the line. and springs if you play. i know, preseason game. so if you play. >> guys are saying that out there. good to see sean on the field friday if he plays. 30 years ago, abe polin and the bullets the first nba team to visit china. in a few days a group is commemorating the historic trip going back to china. wes unseld will join randy foy and butler on the adventure. butler helps the trip will build momentum for the season. >> take that experience. come back. and talk about the championship days. and you know, their legacy what they're trying to do.

in the city, falls road at cold spring lane, that crash remains on scene. jfx and northern parkway, no problems there. back to you. >>> 6:32. how many times is this going to happen? we said that four times ago. another c.o. leak at cove village. linda so is live in essex. >> reporter: carbon monoxide problems plagued cove village over the years. just this past summer there have been calls to the apartments a number of timings. people who live here say they are simply fed up. this is exclusive video shot by pete "on the street" o'neal. it happened around midnight. a woman called 911 when the carbon monoxide detector in her unit went off while she was cooking. when responders arrived they checked neighboring units and found levels were high. a young couple and baby girl had to be taken to franklin square hospital after showing signs of possible carbon monoxide poisoning. cove village had ongoing problems over the years, in 2005 a family was killed. a month later nine people were hospitalized and since then emergency crews have responded to cove village one to

reporting live in silver spring, i'm kimberly suiters, news 4. back to you. >> thank you, kimberly. >> thanks, kimberly. time now 5:21, 73 degrees. time for traffic and weather on the 1s. >> we're going to check in with tom kierein up in storm center 4 for an update on the forecast. tom? >> good morning. the moon, stars and planets putting on a show this morning. we can see venus over the potomac river, and the first glow of predawn, the sunrise is 50 minutes away. temperature now 73 in washington. it's in the upper 60s in prince george's county and fairfax counties, mid-60s in montgomery and loudoun as well as frederick and howard counties. southern maryland, charles, calvert, st. mary's, anne arundel, they are in the upper 60s to near 0 near the bay. farther to the west in prince william county, fauquier, spotsylvania,t's in the low 60s. off to mostly clear start. a little bit of haze in the air. a few high clouds in and out as the day proper grez. highs reaching the low 90s. code orange for poor air quality this afternoon. tomorrow, up around

it has been a busy thumber for thieves targeting parked cars in silver spring. last month there were 20 thefts from vehicles in garages. in june, items were taken from 35 vehicles. most of the crimes seem to center around nine public parking garages near the downtown silver spring area. police say thieves will be tempted by anything that is visible inside the car. anything from small change to electronics. gps units seem to be the most popular stolen item. and andrea, police are going as far as telling you to wipe off the marks that the gps holder suction cups leave on the windshield when you put them there because they don't want you to give any indication that your car should be targeted and they will be handing out fliers with this information at this and other garages throughout the silver spring area all of this week. armando trull for 9 news now and wusa9.com. >>> a woman in anne arundel county returned from vacation to deserve her home had been broken in to. he reported the burglary to police but she saw her property being sold at a yard sale down the str

so the spring, for me, was practice. and hopefully for you all, it gives you an opportunity to take your plans and operationalize them and take this entire pandemic issue seriously. i was in florida back in 2005, and it was very hard to get partners to the table. now i think we have everybody's attention, because again, it is a team sport. it is not a health issue or a doe issue or dhs issue. we have to have a global response. if we are going to be successful. and then what are we going to do differently in the fall is another question. so again, we had a very aggressive approach initially, new virus, scary. we have to develop protocols and triggers for school closures. but also school events. community events. you know, dance recitals and so on. by week three, if you will remember, we had a paradigm shift, and the approach was scaled back. and of course, the questions never stopped. now, in the spring we were closing schools. in the fall, as you heard from dr. benjamin, the approach is going to be different. but again,

sean springs for the new england patriots.eful -- doubtful right now and won't let us know until an hour before kickoff. i think sean springs is going to play. he wants to play against the former team. i asked chris cooly what it means to play on a wet field and said it's fine. how long are you going to play? hopefully into the third quarter where the offense can generate stuff because lately as we know, and it's well- documented, the first team offense has yet to score a touchdown. i asked him how is jason campbell holding up. he said he's fine and doesn't seem to let things get to him. if he does, he doesn't share it with anyone else. the patriots have dominated the last two meetings. with plenty of football and a live report coming up later. there is also high school football. let's check in on the game of the week and go back to d.c. and check in with dave ross, our first-ever game university week for this year. >> it's a new year for the game of the week. we have a good one, feldy. everyone's talking about the redskins. a

coming to this health center at silver springs. crossing over capitol view avenue in the walkway when they were hit and dragged by the toyota. >> we can't believe that the person didn't know that he or she struck these two women. and from all indications, it appears that they were in the crosswalk. >> the victims of this hit and run are both from silver spring. they work for home services enterprises. its owner hopes that the hit-and-run driver surrenders or is turned in by a toyota missing a grill. >> they're great responsibilities and great friends. >> montgomery county police department is hoping that anyone with information about this hit and run will give them a call at 301-279-8000. 301-279-8000. they say all callers will be kept anonymous. that's latest from the police headquarters in rockville, back to you in the studio. >> such a tragic story there. thank you >>> the wildfires that are raging out west tonight are getting worse. more than 80,000 acres have now scorched in southern california alone. crews continue fighting e

n the spring u valley neighborhood of washington, d.c. was once the site of awldor war i era chemical testing ground. now roz plater joins us to explain what they found this month. it's apparently mustard, roz? >> reporter: indeed. there had once been an extensive air monitoring system at this that site as an extra safety precaution b that's been long gone. tonight residents are worried and wondering why they're just finding out about this. the army corps of engineers says this is the traffic that tested positive for the chemical agent mustard discovered a week ago at a munitions cleanup site known as pit number 3. now spring valley residents are asking if they were ever at risk. >> did they notice the d.c. -- notify the d.c. metropolitan police department. did they notify the fire department. where was this material stored and when it went to the laboratory, how did it get there and where did it go? we're talking about mustard gas here. >> reporter: to understand their concern, you have to go back nearly 16 years. that's when builders st

bank -- sandy springs bank down.epsico's aquafina is selling for half its typical price. coca-cola has been unwilling to lower prices on the sodasani. >> there will soon be a new phase joining the "today" shobes family. jenna bush has been hired as a correspondent for the nbc show. she is currently a teacher in the baltimore city. she has authored two books already. she was intrigued by the idea of getting into television when nbc contacted her. her first show will be in september sometime. >> exciting. 61 degrees on tv hill. another check on the weather and traffic is straight ahead. >> every once in awhile one of the rookies turn out to be a diamond in the rough. would yesterday produce one of those diamonds for the orioles? that is next. >> does the start of the school year have been concerned about the spread of the h1n1 swine flu virus? email us at watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> good morning. kim dacey with the latest on traffic pulse 11. the good news is the gas main break has ended. it's all clear. fayette street

to get information you can log onto green spring rc.com. back to you guys. >> thank you very much, sharon. >> sharon gibala reporting. i expected to see her maybe slamming and rushing the net. >> uh-huh. >> maybe next time. >> yes. a little kournikova action. >>> coming up. >> the recession has forced many people to stop giving as much to their religious community and now churches and synagogues in the area are >>> looking at 90s pretty much for the majority of the week. 92 today, 93 on monday. tuesday we are looking at 92. wednesday 90 with a chance of showers moving in that will knock our temperatures back just a little bit. 89 on thursday, 87 on friday. overnight lows consistently just around 70 degrees. >>> more signs of just how hard the recession is hitting people and communities. >> as weijia jiang explains, people are giving less and less to their churches. >> reporter: what's happening at the university baptist church in baltimore reflects a nationwide trend. no matter the faith, no matter the denomination, kong against are donatin

it goes around bethesda into silver springs. some of the emergency road work was just under that sign. it is hard to tell if it is still there. not much volume coming toward us. there are big delays out of silver spring beginning before connecticut ave. the next camera shot shows it is heading toward georgetown with emergency roadwork still there. more of the delay that takes you into silver spring, nothing reported in the way. heading in the germantown and clarksburg, the pace is very slow at montgomery village avenue. getting up to the lan drop north of 121 with nothing in the way. the final camera takes us to the shot in the landmark stretch. the duke street has been a slow ride as you head down toward the beltway. when traffic is moving away from us. the southbound lanes are finally cleared. that is a look at traffic, back to you. >>> coming up, why some local dealers are refusing to take any more cash for clunkers deals. >> brad pitt gives world war two a twist. >> if you wanted to buy into the all you can jet program, you

the two left lanes remain blocked at cold spring lane. tow truck is on the scene trying to get that out of the way. in towson, circle road closed. it's busy out there. >> really busy. >>> thanks for choosing "good morning, maryland." for more news, watch "good morning, maryland" at 9:00 or go now to abc2news.com. abc 2 works for you.

they started in los angeles in spring and they moved east during the spring and summer of 79. is due to a limited supplies, iran got off its oil supply due to being in the wake of the iranian revolution. it also has something to do with the rationing system that i won't go into detail about here. but let me just give you a sense of what gas lines were like and what the spring and summer of 1979 were like. is a description of what gas lines were like. especially at least as they come from los angeles. ensuring that your car had sufficient gas, search for an open gas station, 95% of the stations in new york city were closed. waiting in long lines for up to six hours. they ran for miles in new jersey. get to the pub and then find out that there is no gas left. and attendant might say that a truck was on his way with resupplied topic a for the. those who saw the sign last car on the car that was last in line would go into a panic. sometimes they would steal it and put it in own cars and hope to get gas. they would idle their engines in long lines. one estimate suggested that ameri

but they're hoping to avoid the chaos of last spring's school shutdowns.isa stark, abc news, washington. >>> here in new york, a lot of people are asking how could she? after learning a mother was drunk and high when she crashed her suv loaded with children. diane schuller drove nearly two miles the wrong way on a major road before slamming head-on into an suv last week. schuller and four, young girls, ages 2 to 9, were killed, as were three men in the other vehicle. yesterday, police said schuller had been smoking marijuana and drinking vodka. >> diane schuller had a blood alcohol content of 0.19%. the legal limit for intoxication in new york state, is 0.8%. >> around that level of alcohol, you also get tunnel vision, where your perception is changed. so, you can't see peripherally all the time, depending on her tolerance she has to alcohol, as well. >> i mean, come on. blaming signs and blaming this. it didn't make sense from the beginning. you know? something caused her to do that. you know? so, now, we know. i think anyone that knows, contributing to t

slice of my life and tries to show me as more than just that. >> of the movie premiered in silver spring last month and made its small screen debut on hbo last night. >>> delaware man wishes he wishes -- which is to pick on someone his own size. the 23-year-old stalled a purse with only two dollars in a from a 3-year-old girl waiting in line in a delicatessen in wilmington. he ran away but was caught at a barbershop. investigators say they have not recovered the purse and the child is very upset. >>> general motors showed off its new chevrolet volt. the rechargeable electric car should get 230 miles per gallon in city driving. it is the first to break triple digits in fuel efficiency. it is powered by electric motor. a small gas engine kicks in. it is due in showrooms of november, 2010. >>> turn our attention to the weather. we keep talking about the heat. you say today is a break but not when you can't feel it. >> we have a better chance for thunderstorms this afternoon. if we get those, that will help cool it off. tomorrow will be back in the 80's. the humidity will go down, slowly. it

i'm not sure if the fundamentals have caught up to allow was to go to the upside but as we saw all spring and most of the summer is the investor and the sentiment is going to drive the market forward. we appreciated evan along with us he's with p f g best over at the cme group. still to come kids and money....why the recession sets the stage for parents to start the conversation. but first... healthcare reform remains a hot topic...from healthcare exchanges to co- ops......will they really mean saving money and more coverage? health care exchanges, a public option or health insurance co- ops. those are some of the ideas congress and white house continue debating over health care reform. the challenge for supporters has been to get those happy with their current insurance on board the reform effort while accomplishing president obama's twin goals of holding down cost increasesand providing coverage for those without. you should be able to get some help going into the private insurance market place, and buying health insurance. so we would give you a tax credit, a subsidy of some sort, to h

this one at green spring retirement community. while they were kept in check, outside protesters making their feelings known. digital correspondent, peggy fox with that story. >> in front of the usually quiet entrance to green spring retirement community, angry signs screamed warnings about death panels, socialized medicine. >> i believe it is unconstitutional, unaffordable, and that the government is untrustworthy. >> i feel it would be very bad for america. we have the best system already. >> it's like a great mansion with a leaky roof. you want to take a wrecking ball and tear the mansion down. >> inside, the room held 400 residents, 100 more were on the waiting list to hear congressman's view on healthcare reform. >> i think if you look at the economics of healthcare, we are in trouble. >> he told them that the u.s. spends $7,000 per person every year on healthcare. twice what all other entry yamized nations spend. much of the burden comes from the 47 million americans without insurance. >> deductibles in the last ten years ha

linda lane in camp springs, more nr from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. we want everyone to know where they can get these book bags and to be a part. it is a great way to give back and go to the website or catch us on the facebook group to support us as well. >> you have to fill the bags. there are things you need to fill the bags. for people listening right now, i want to help. we can go to the facebook page and you will tell us where to bring them. where do they bring supplies and what kind of supplies are you talking about? >> we have enough spiral notebooks looking for crayons, more pencils, pens, rulers in particular. so they are going on the website we have a running tally of everything. so they see it. in the last few day on the campaign we are pushing, pushing. we are going to hit this goal. children will have book bags filled with school supplies and they will know the community is not con dent with allowing the education system to be the way it is and we are rallying the commune to get involved and this is a tangible way they can see where their

at one point, last spring, americans were driving 122 billion fewer miles than the year before.aaa and a company called out here, that tracks traffic with gps and road sensors blame the bad economy. >> we saw a huge dip for 14 months in a row. and then in june, we saw some light at the end of the tunnel. >> they say that at one point last year, traffic in the d. kráflt area, they -- d.c. area was down by more than a quarter from the previous year. and now it is starting to creep back up again. >> i don't really think that traffic has been that much affected by the economy to be honest with you. >> reporter: but the federal stats say that d.c. traffic in june was up almost 7% from last summer. >>> in virginia and maryland, it was up by about 2%. >> that might be a sign of recovery. that's what's important. >> i have noticed that the the summer turned down. now schools are back in session and they are getting bad. >> reporter: it is miserable to sit in bumper to bumper traffic. but hey, it could be worse. >> i guess that the one bright side of all of this is that you still have a

and they are 55 at silver spring. 54 out here. upper 60s down towards andrews.62 or so in alexandria. and well, most everybody in their 50s tonight. tomorrow morning, mostly sunny and cool 50s and 60s. winds are northeast to 10. by the afternoon, what could you say? spectacular. mostly sunny, highs out there, northeasterly at 10. they will sink south, pushing them out there. the forecast, all six zones on our website, wusa9.com, 76 in wind chester. >> would you like us to read a poem while we're reading? >> a little haikus. >> the only ones i know are dirty so i'll skip them. >> really? >> yes, thank you for cleaning that up. >> the upper 70s. 80s and then the holiday weekend is a bit unsettled. but not a disaster unlike my show. >> it was fine. >> appellantly, they are having some issues. >> i was making that before the seven-day forecast. >> all right. these things happen. you can redeem yourself later. >> tomorrow i'll be redeemed. >> how are you going to follow that up? >> we'll talk about the kickers who they talk about that now and they are kind of importa

along green spring at deer pen lane. that is at druid hill park. use extra caution there this morning. that accident just coming in to us. pass deania, bedford shut down -- pasadena, bedford road shut down at granada. delaware avenue shut down between howard and whitehall road, due to flooding. a lot of leftover problems from yesterday. a live view of traffic, howard county. 95 both north and southbound running smoothly in the area of 100. we're looking at a pretty nice ride on 97 so far just south of the beltway. that's the latest on traffic pulse 11. back to you. >> thank you. our big story, having a lead foot in baltimore county could soon cost you. >> the county council will hear legislation later tonight on whether to approve speed cameras. police say they are ready for the additions. 11 news reporter jennifer franciotti joins us live outside baltimore county police headquarters with more details. good morning, jen. >> good morning. it does look like approval of this legislation will be a little bit further down the road because tonight the co

rana lives in silver spring with his wife, brother and other family members. joe fitzgerald lives next door. >> he was just a very sweet, very friendly man. he would do anything for you. and he's just a delight to be around. he's a very, very nice man. >> reporter: for him to die this way. >> absolutely tragic. it is horrible. >> reporter: the pizza mart was once a kfc. it is open 24/7 and sold food, drinks and cigarettes through a revolving glass door byay ask through a street side window by night. on the plate glass window outside, mr. rana posted pictures of people he didn't want hanging out at his place. people who live in the neighborhood, they say they are upset by what happened here. >> sad that somebody would do something like that. it is sad. everybody is going to miss him. it is a shock. it is really a shock. you know. it is real sad. >> reporter: who do you think could have done something like this? >> that's a good $100 question. >> reporter: actually, that could be a $25,000 question. if you can provide the information to help police close this mu

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hillside drive at green spring avenue, fallen power cables.oad through the area will not ab fected that will be a much better commute four this morning. as for the welt way, things are look good and we're throfg. heading out on the main light, outer loop sired from jfx to 70. jun just a 12 minute commute. the cars are crews ago long from 70 to 95. that will take six minutes. oath southbound 95, not much to come prain w. we're look ate ten minute ride. that's a look at morning travels. patrice, back to you. >>> here are the stories we're following this morning. the national weather service will determine if a tornado ripped through our ri gone yesterday. strong winds and heavy rain left a lot of damage in some areas leaving many families with a big clean up job today. >> this art 'tis rendering shows the cal ripkin senior foundation hopes to put in plays besides this home plate left over to the memorial yum. it's a site that could be the flag ship for the goal to get kids involved in sports and mentoring them and helping them with the rest of t

beltway heading west from collins park to silver spring. that's the traffic going away from us. the greenway and toll road heading toward the beltway. alison, pamela, back to you. >> 5:13 is your time. we have 74 degrees on a tuesday. >> still ahead on good morning, washington, swine flu and schools. there's a whole new worry for students heading back to class. >> and we'll get a look at hey smart, heard you're getting free nights from hotels.com. how? well, funny you should ask. you see, after i book 10 nights, i get a free one. say i spend 2 nights at a big name hotel, 3 at a boutique, and 5 at a beach resort... and boom! free night. ( dings, monkey chatters ) ( in a baby voice ) aren't you a smart one? ( monkey laughs ) accumulate 10 nights and get a night free. welcomerewards from hotels.com. smart. so smart. the soft places we love could be home to thousands of bacteria. but, lysol disinfectant spray can help protect your family because it can also be used on soft surfaces. it kills 99.9% of bacteria, won't stain, and leaves your soft surfaces with a light, fresh scent. lys

greta: the hippy dream of peace and love was very much alive in the spring of 1967. the burgeoning counterculture had turned its back on straight society and instead embracing long hair, drugs, psychedelic music and free love. the hippy mecca was the asbury district of san francisco. one. thousands that poured into maight-ashbury was ex-con named charles manson. born out of wedlock in ohio to a teenage runaway who would later be jailed for armed robbery, the 5'2" manson never knew his father and had spent

>> roby chavez live in silver spring. you'll have more for us tonight at 10:00. >>> the man accused of the deadly shooting inside the u.s. holocaust museum in june is expected to be arraigned this week. a grand jury indicted 789-year-old james von brunn on seven counts including first-degree murder and killing in a federal building. of the charges, four make him eligible for the death penalty. it killed museum guard steven johns. >>> a swine flu scare sweeping across college campuses. colleges are preparing for outbreaks after the world health organization warns a global spread could speed up over the next few months. campuses are among the most vulnerable places for an h1n1 outbreak. to make sure learning continues during an outbreak some schools are setting up online classes as part of the outbreak plan. classrooms are being wired so the student can't get to class, the classroom can be brought to the student. >>> unfortunately one college campus has already been hit with an outbreak of the swine flu. more than 100 cadet

it is hosted by gerry connolly and it will be at the green spring retire community in springfield. and then tonight, congressman jim moran and dr. howard dean will lead another meeting at 7 p.m. at south lakes high school in reston. >>> a zoning dispute in poolesville is pitting neighbor against neighbor. it all started when the couple who live on the left side of a pipe stem driveway received permission from the town to open up optometry offices in their home. their neighbors, don and linda barnes say the tail part of the business, selling contact lenses is flooding the street with too many cars. >> made it clear to them i did not want their business customers coming down a driveway. it would impact the sellability of our house, increase our risk and liability to accidents, et cetera. >> reporter: the barnes say it is against zoning rules for the

and because they know from what's happened both in the spring and what happened south of the equator during their fall flu season, this summer and last spring, we know that some groups, this can move quickly through some populations and it can be quite dangerous. we don't think they're overreacting and if you were the government having been through y2k and katrina, would you take a chance and underreact? probably not. >> any idea why it's attacking the susceptible populations like women who are pregnant and young children and some healthy young people as well? >> the good news is they know who it attacks most severely but don't know why. seniors are relatively better off than they would be with seasonal flu. probably because they've been through so many years of other bad stuff. and have some immunity. and young people who are most susceptible don't. pregnant women is an interesting case. this official from the c.d.c. told me today that pregnant women can get this and get very sick very quickly. from this flu bug. and so they move to the front of the line. that's a controversial issu

slow college park around silver spring.ith the forecast, here's brian. >> jim, thanks so much. it is hot and sticky this morning already. for the most part, lots of sunshine, so no clouds to affect the sun. when you factor in the high humidity, it will feel like 100 to 105. heat advisory in effect for the afternoon. tomorrow, a few storms are possible. by the middle and end of the week, temperatures back down in the low to mid 80's. the big question is will we see sunshine? we'll be close to a system. but bottom line is the extreme heat will be over by the mid week. >> brian, thank you so much. it's already kind of sticky out here. how do you do it in a suit? >> i don't know. i have a fan inside here. >> thank you. and thanks for joining us today. another local update at 7:22. >> thanks for watching, everybody. "good morning america" is next. have a good day. when i was seventeen i was not good to my skin. long summer days and not enough sleep. what i wouldn't do for a do-over. (announcer) new neutrogena total skin renewal.

jfx at cold spring lane, traffic moving nicely in both directions. looking for a business you know you can trust? let your better business bureau do the work for you with the a team business directory. you can go to abc2news.com/bbb. back to you. >>> 6:16. they were like toys in a bathtub. that's how a tornado that touched down in western new york over the weekend treated boats at this yacht club. the twister was 50 yards wide, had winds of up to 90 miles an hour. many of the boats hitting a tornado there gone, beyond repair. >> devastation, had the boat for 20 years and it's just resting on the side in the middle of the pavement. >> trees and wires torn down by high winds. despite the heavy damage the tornado only lasted for about 10 minutes. good news, nobody was hurt in the storm. >>> police thought they were chasing a drunk driver but were shocked when they found a 9-year-old boy cowering in the back seat of this car. you're looking at dash cam video. police say the car was swerving all over the road, the driver didn't pull over. police say that

jfx at cold spring lane, traffic moving along without problems. >>> 5:50.you use parking meters downtown you could be paying more. the parking authority proposed raising the price by 50 cents, maybe more. as roosevelt leftwich tells us they say the reason they are doing it is not to increase revenue, no, it's to increase opportunity. >> reporter: think of it as an exercise in thriftiness. brian jackson and his wife has a reservation. they are already late. >> to pay $8 a day when i'll be here two hours? >> reporter: for a tourist or someone on business who needs to make a quick stop, the moderate humidity is great if you can get one. >> they are designed sore people coming here for shorter stays, looking to do business in the city can find a place to park. but right now we have people parking all day long, lots of people are doing that. >> reporter: the city parking authority is proposing a raise in metered parking rates initially to $1.50 in the central business district, an area bordered by several streets. it will cost $12 for eight hours, comparable to

it's home to an unemployment rate that reached more than 20% this spring.n though the area is a poster child for the recession there, is a determination to keep the fair alive. wes mills takes us there for the story. >> reporter: the goodman family of indiana usually show their sheep at several fairs during the summer. this year they decided to shear their expenses by limiting the fairs that they visit and the number of animals they show. >> we limited ourselves to six because the price of feed has escalated. >> we didn't bring a pig or a cow. the economy is not helping out much. >> reporter: the goodmans have seen how it has flowed down to the county fair. >> we have lost a few sponsors but we have gained more than what we lost. that shows the quality of programming, 4h program has the support of the community. >> reporter: that's quite a feet especially in a county reeling from unemployment. it is the rv capital of the world, producing half of all recreational vehicles in the country. when the economy turned south, rv sales dried up and thousands of jobs

it took us about two hours 45 minutes to get here to fedex field just coming from silver spring. it's typically a 20-minute drive. it seems no one was expecting all these traff backups. >> terrible. the traffic's terrible. >> it is a nightmare. but i'm in a hurry to get to the show. >> thousands of people with tickets to go to the paul mccartney concert at fedex field missed part of the show. traffic was backed up on the beltway for hours. aprently because of the thousands of people trying to get to the stadium. >> real long to get here. >> about three hours. >> yeah. >> three hours from where. >> crawford county. >> okay. >> only takes about an hour. >> this limo driver says it took him five hours to get here from baltimore. >> a true nightmare. my people were driving me crazy getting here. go around, go up the shoulder. go up the other shoulder. do this, do that. >> mccartney started the show a little late to give some 60,000 ticket holders a chance to get there. >> 7:30, he ain't even starting till 9:15. i have to go. >> why do you have to leave. >> work. >> the backups were c

this all happened on saturday morning on capitol avenue and silver spring.the women survived, the driver fled the scene. >>> a computer glitch is being problemmed for the special education buses to miss picking them up. the buses failed to show up. the district operates the only school bus system in the nation just for special needs children. >> it is not a hazard that most people on a motorcycle think about. but the family of the n ki lled by a while ile ke on wested or ltimore road is insu meg gontry county r fogo negligence. here is audrey barns with more. >> reporter: john cannon has been riding motorcycles for more than 50 years. >> just a little more tune in nature. >> reporter: the biggest fears are cars and gravel on the road. he never thought much about tree limbs until he heard what happened to the 48-year-old, jones in july of last year. he was struck on the head by this 19 foot tree limb as he road down wested old baltimore road. and he never recovered. >> that's like, well, dropping something on your head that weighs several hundred pounds. fina

. >>> live in silver spring. where is the cash? >>> when we will get a break from the heat. >>> some rain here but steven strasberg is signed, sealed and delived. livered. >>> more than 1000 gm workers will be heading back to work things to the cash for clunkers program. they added 6000 vehicles to the production. demand for the cars is part of the program. the cash for clunkers program seems to be a hit but some dealers are sitting on t fence. >> according to the department of transportation, 400,000 to deals have been submitted. car dealers are waiting for most of that money. >> this lot is full of the 1100 clunkers that have come in. row after row. when it comes time for the government to pay up and pay the dealer, they received funds for two cars. the clunkers keep rolling in in silver spring but the money from the government being the incentives is at best arriving at a trickle. >> we have $4.8 million hanging out there right now. >> same story at fitzgerald. >> we have done something over 600 deals. if i had to guess, i would

he was michael nash, a 63-year-old from silver spring. live in northwest, julie parker, abc 7 news. >> this is the latest in a spring of problems for metro. in june, nine people died when a track sensor apparently failed. that caused two trains to collide on the red line near the takoma station. that led to the discovery of several other malfunctioning sensors across the system. >> a springfield man has been charged with having sex with a underaged girl he met online. police say stephann kamau picked the girl up from her home and took her to his springfield home for sex and then brought the girl home several hours later. the girl's mother called police when she found her daughter missing. >> unsettling news for parent. montgomery county middle school students did much worse on this year's state tests than last year's. 12 of the county's 38 middle schools failed to meet performance goals under the no child left behind act. special education students did the worst of all groups. a school board member tells the examiner officials will take a

it was spring 1991. 11-year-old jaycee was waiting for the school bus. her stepfather close by. he says a car with two passengers pulled up and grabbed jaycee and that he chased them before calling 911. >> my daughter was just kidnapped, top of the hill, it was a gray ford, man and woman in the car. >> reporter: there were posters, and candlelight vej ills. >> on jaycee's birthday, my wife would take her vacation and just

another crash in the city, falls road at cold spring lane. looking at the jfx, we see a little fog at northern parkway but traffic is moving without problems. this traffic report brought to you by the better business bureau. looking for a business you know you can trust? let the better business bureau do the work for you. log on to abc2news.com/bb. back to you. >>> here he is, certified financial planner dale horn. the first question is from ed. he wants to know if i turn 70 1/2 this year and there are no required distributions for my ira when do i have to take the money out? also, are charitable donations still allowed for 2009? thanks, love ed. >> this is a simple answer, complicated explanation. the answer first. the answer is if you're turning 70 1/2 in this year, 2009, you have until the end of 2010 to take your first distribution. what is happening, an act was passed the ends of 2008, on december 23rd that enabled people who have ira's and over the age of 70 1/2 to not have to take out their mandatory distribution. when you turn 70 1/2