the address mailbag@wusa9.com. 9news now will be right back. >>> tune in tomorrow morning for wusa 9news. the latest on the shuttle launch. >>> in the mail bag tonight, the belly bomb the feds say we have to worry about terrorists getting on planes with bombs sewn into their bodies. apparently there is a bit of worried fatigue. holly carter puts it this way. maybe we should just shut down all forms of travel and sit in our living rooms waiting. listen to ed. when i go to the airport now i will have to turn my head and cough? another saying my hubby has a surgical rod in his leg. guess we will have to get to the security gates a day before our flights now. >>> we heard more about the sentencing on acquitted mom casey anthony who will be a free woman as of sometime next week. shelly writes "if she truly is innocent, why isn't she concerned with finding her daughter's murderer. if we didn't know then we know now." there were a lot of facebook fans with that same sentiment who apparently forgot that the defense contended that little caylee's death was actually just a terrible accident. a

reporting live near vwi, scott broom, wusa 9 news now. >> thank you for that, scott. >>> tonight a bristow mother charged with felony murder after leaving his 2-year-old strapped in his car seat all day long. karen murphy is out on bond after making her first appearance in court. peggy fox was there. peggy. >> reporter: her face was filled with grief and pain as she sat in the courtroom this morning waiting for her name to be called. the 40-year-old mother of three is a veterinarian but on her way to work one day last month she made a deadly mistake and forgot about her little boy in the back seat. >> we know the community has been very supportive to you. is that going to help? karen murphy and her husband answered no questions as they walked quickly out of the judicial centre. slee is charged with felony murder, child neglect and abuse after accidentally leaving her 2-year-old son ryan strapped in her honda odyssey. she forget to drop him at the daycare before going to her vetrinary hospital. the child was left in the minivan for more than seven hours. at the end of the day she drove home

try to remember this incident, wusa 9 before you publish a photo of a still innocent person who had a the bad look of being arrested. there was a lot of rush to judgment in this case, i'm reminded sadly of the duke lacrosse team, however, this time around, just because the alleged victim has credibility problems doesn't mean she's not still a victim. how about we don't compound the mistake by rushing to judgment in the other direction. our mail bag address is: >>> that is our report. i'll be right back tonight at 11:00 with anita tax and we'll have more on the investigation into allegations of sexual abuse in the dc summer jobs program. log on any time to wusa9.com. have a great evening. good-bye. >>> this is "entertainment tonight," the most-watched entertainment news magazine in the world. kate, the great. the carriage ride, the recycled engagement dress. >> it shows that she's in touch with regular people. >> and new details from the royal hollywood hopes. >> i'm very much looking forward to that. >> plus, princess di's 50th birthday, today. would she have ever remarried? >> i thin

at independent hill in prince william county, peggy fox, wusa 9 news. >> and justin is expected to be in the hospital for 10 more days. >>> we are following a developing story tonight. a critical arrest in an arson case. 26-year-old maurice dews is charged with arson in dc and is suspected of many areas. we go live to where the arrest was announced. andrea mccarren has the story. >> reporter: in a late afternoon news conference we learned dews claimed to be a volunteer firefighter. he was also spotted at several fire scenes taking photographs, shooting videotape, and according to the investigation, he even called 911 to report fires at least nine times since 2007. >> mayday. >> reporter: the devastating fire in april that injured five dc firefighters prompted arson investigators to solve a case that haunted them. someone was setting fires in dc and after today's break through arrest investigators couldn't hide their satisfaction. >> i think everybody was more than pleased, to say the least, and it is certainly going to be a good feeling to notify the firefighters and their families th

. >> you can watch the shuttle launch this morning at 11:26 right here on wusa 9. kristin fisher will join us live for a preview of this historic day's events. >>> president obama has asked democrats and republican lawmakers for a little special weekend session at the white house on sunday. he wants them to try once again to work out a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling. >> even though president obama called thursday's meeting constructive, he acknowledged the two sides are far apart. both sides are showing signs though they're open to giving some ground on key issues. the white house says it will discuss changes in social security and medicare spending and republicans are leaning toward tax code changes. >>> everything's on the table except raising taxes on the american people. >> we're not going to balance the budget on the backs of america's seniors, women and people with disabilities. >> a debt limit deal needs to be reached by july 22nd in order to get it through congress in time. >>> one of the first licensed handgun dealers in the district could wind up

to learn more about the group or others we profile go to wusa, 9.com and go to features and -- wusa9.com and go to features and click on heros central. >>> mother nature gave us the fireworks last night. >> reporter: yes, and we have quite a few people in the dark this morning. talking to me on facebook, and they must be using their phones or pdas or something. i'm sorry always -- i'm always there. i am on facebook and twitter each morning. >> we have the apps. >> the apps as well on wusa9.com, you can download those. talking about clouds around here. some sunny breaks. temperatures at 9:00, lower 80s. 1:00, 88 this afternoon, the development of a few thunderstorms. going farther south of d.c, opposed to farther north of dc. winds north to north westerly at 5 to 10 miles an hour. the high today, up to 92. by firework time, we should be in better shape. i will show you the firework forecast, 83 degrees. the isolated thunderstorm chance, but it will be mainly south to southeast of town. warm and muggy. satellite and radar, the big storms that andrea was talking about. big hail, and a lo

kristen fisher with wusa covering history and a part of it at the kennedy space center in florida. so many people my age take the space shuttle program for granted and i used to be one of they will. i grew up five minutes away from the johnson space center in houston, texas and everyone in my neighborhood worked for nasa, including my mom and dad. >> you're going to go on a jet. jet, jet. >> reporter: it shouldn't be too surprising my very first word was jet. then came -- >> space shuttles and rockets. >> reporter: for christmas at 17 months old i got a toy airport set from santa. >> airport. >> reporter: and for halloween i was going to be an astronaut like it or not. that's because my parents were astronauts. my mother anna fisher, first mom to fly on the shuttle in space when i was 1-year-old. >> mommy is going to go in space, this is my last night home and i love you more than anything in the whole world. >> reporter: november, 1984, it was the golden age of the shuttle program, "challenger," the first shuttle disaster was still two years away, but my parents knew the risks, it