the top at 10:00, a coalition airstrike bombed moammar gadhafi's presidential compound and that's just the beginning. thanks for joining us. i'm will thomas. >> and i'm maureen umeh. the libyan armed forces issued a command to all units to issue an immediate ceasefire. jocks' jane metzler starts us off with the new -- fox's jane metzler starts us off with the new development. >> reporter: operation odyssey dawn and its international airstrikes continue for a second day in lybia. heavy anti-aircraft fire erupted repeatedly in the capital tripoli suggesting coalition fire jets are attacking the libyan forces. today moammar gadhafi issuing an audio message. >> translator: we are preparing ourselves for a long war and a vast land -- in a vast land that you cannot fight on. >> reporter: a pentagon official says air force b-2 bombers targeted a libyan airfield sunday and other u.s., british and french planes attacked moammar gadhafi's ground troops near the opposition strong hold of benghazi. >> we now have the capability to patrol the airspace over lybia and we are doing just that into a more consistent air presence. the no fly zone is effectively in place. >> reporter: rebels in benghazi welcome the international military actions against gadhafi forces. some of them danced on destroyed tanks. the u.s. and other coalition countries launched the military operation yesterday after the united nations authorized all necessary measures to protect civilians in the northern african country. >> we have seen the people of lybia take a courageous stand against a regime determined to brutalize its own citizens. >> reporter: u.s. officials say there have been no reports of civilian casualties, but today the head of the arab league criticized the international mission saying the strikes have gone beyond what the league had supported. >> translator: what happened differs from the no fly zone objectives. what we want is protection of civilians, protection not shelling more civilians. >> reporter: meanwhile defense secretary robert gates says the us expects to turn control of the military operation over to either france and britain or nato in a matter of days. >> we will have a military role, but we will not have the preeminent role. >> reporter: today gadhafi's compounds have been heavily damaged. a senior military official says the u.s. did not target gadhafi or his residence specifically. jane metzler, fox news. the pope benedict xvi is asking world leaders to consider civilian safety in the attacks on lybia. the pope supports the global efforts to help the people of lybia. he did not ask for an end to the assault and did not single out any specific nation in the statement today. the church has a history of quietly supporting humanitarian military efforts but opposing political efforts like the iraqi war. tension across the middle east tonight. in syria protests continue in the south where five demonstrators have been reportedly killed. syria is the latest country to join the wave of pro-democracy protests. there are reports tonight protesters set fire to public buildings, but the activists say it's the government security forces setting those fires. in bahrain a funeral today for a man who became a martyr fighting against the government there. about the streets were filled with mourners after the man died during clashes between protesters and the government forces in the center of bahrain's oil industry. it's been the site of some of the worst violence in recent weeks. 13 people have died so far in the fighting, but activists don't want help from outside the country. in yemen a mass funeral for those killed in a single day of fighting against the government. 42 people died on friday when armed men opened fire on an anti-government rally. the mourners are gathering demanding the end of the presidential rule there. the government in yemen has declared a nationwide state of emergency. new details tonight about a fire that's left an elderly man clinging to life. the flames destroyed his rockville home and hurt two firefighters. investigators do know what started the blaze but believe it could have been prevented. matt ackland is here now to explain. >> an assistant fire chief told me he believes it was a cigarette that likely started this fire, but he doesn't believe the cigarette was likely bought in the state of maryland. if it had been, believes this fire might not have started in the first place. you can see the flames shooting from the roof. it took 65 firefighters nearly a half hour to get this one under control. the elderly couple inside the home escaped, but they were both rushed to the hospital. >> both the occupants had stated to the investigators that there was smoking materials that perhaps could have been involved. >> reporter: assistant fire chief scott graham says when investigators went in after the fire, they found what appeared to be non-safe cigarettes. he says by law only safe cigarettes can be sold in the state of maryland. safe cigarettes are designed to put themselves out. >> so that if somebody doesn't take a breath on a cigarette within x amount of time, the paper will burn back to the non- - to the band and it will actually self-extinguish the cigarette. >> reporter: graham says safe cigarettes do cost more to produce, but he believes it's well worth it when you think about saving lives and property and in this case he believes safe cigarettes would have prevented this tragedy. >> i do. generally speaking, safe cigarettes would prevent about 75% of our smoking-related incidents or fires. >> reporter: we are told the 85- year-old man is not in good shape tonight. he had serious burns across 40% of his chest. the 87-year-old woman is in a little better shape. she suffered from some breathing trouble. firefighters say a neighbor rushed into the home and helped the woman get outside. by the way, it is not against the law to buy non-fire safe cigarettes outside the state and then bring them into maryland. >> thank you for that, matt. over now to calvert county where nine firefighters had to go to the hospital after a a massive fire overnight. -- a massive fire overnight. the fire started around midnight in a 10,000 square foot home in hunting town. the heat was so intense some firefighters jumped out windows or ran through walls to get out. several were injured. two had second degree burns while others suffered from smoke inhalation. the firefighters are all expected to recover. the fire probably started in a basement fireplace officials say of that $2 million home. police are speaking out about what may have led to the murder inside a bethesda clothing store. police say this woman brittany norwood, an employee of lululemon tied up her co-worker jayna murray, then beat and stabbed her to death and then tried to cover it up. according to the washington post detectives are looking into whether the murder is related to norwood being suspected of stealing merchandise from the store. the 28-year-old is due in court tomorrow for bond review. violence in the district claims another young life, an 18-year-old dead and moments ago we received an update from d.c.'s top cop on this one. >> we just got word from police chief cathy lanier there has been an arrest in the case. we're waiting for the details, but sadly here's what we do know, another teenager is dead, someone who liked to play basketball and was looking forward to graduating high school in a few months. it's unclear just how many shots were fired, but when the dust settled, an 18-year-old young man was dead, his family left grieving and their neighbor knows that pain all too well. when this happened, she was on her way to the cemetery to visit her own son. >> i lost my son from a stray bullet. so today i was celebrating my son's birthday. he'd be 29 today. so i have sympathy for the mother because that's what happened with my child. so may god bless them. >> reporter: evidence markers line the building's front walkway, but sources tell fox 5 initial reports indicate the young man was inside an apartment, not his own home. community activist ron moten spoke with some of the young man's friends. he said they're all students he worked with at anacostia senior high school. >> they're very saddened because he was a nice young man, didn't get in no trouble no, gun play, none of that and he's another victim who shouldn't be a victim. >> reporter: neighbors at the washington view apartments say it's been about three years since there's been any trouble here, but moten says the weather is getting warmer and neighborhood rivalries may be heating up, too. >> sad in two or so weeks we lost two very good students at d.c. public high schools who lost their life. >> reporter: all this happened at 2:00 in the afternoon. investigators spoke with lots of witnesses out at that time and apparently that paid off. the chief tells us there has been an arrest in the case and we're learning it is a 15-year- old girl who has been arrested. meanwhile anti-war protesters put on a show outside the quantico marine base today calling for an army private accused of sharing top secrets with wikileaks to be set free. a handful even got into a scuffle with police and ended up in handcuffs. private first class bradley manning is accused of handing over top secret military documents to wikileaks. manning spent 23 hours a day in his cell and is forced to strip naked at night. >> it's a form of torture, there's no question. people don't see it that way generally. they think solitary confinement is just part of being in jail. it isn't. >> daniel ellsburg leaked to the pentagon papers during the vietnam war. the military says the jail conditions are justified. now to a serious competition. marched madness continues and george mason was red march madness continues and george mason was ready to shock the college basketball world today. >> would the patriots' dreams become reality or would the nation's best team give the patriots a reality check? we're talking sports in our next segment. if you're a t-mobile customer, your chances of getting an iphone might have changed today with news of a merger. >> and not a bad way to start off the first day of spring, gwen. >> absolutely, plenty of sunshine, but things are changing in my forecast. stay tuned. we'll have the workweek in a bit ahead. is there a new oil sheen forming in the gulf of mexico today? stay with us. much more news ahead on the 10:00 this sunday night. ♪ [ male announcer ] nature valley sweet & salty nut bars... they're made from whole roasted nuts and dipped in creamy peanut butter... ♪ ...making your craving for a sweet & salty bar... ♪ ...irresistible. by nature valley. ♪ a flashback here five years ago to george mason. it was a cinderella story, the patriots making it to the final four. i seem to remember, lindsay, there was a player named will thomas back then. >> we still are talking about will thomas. why don't we talk about today's game. >> george mason, will thomas, i don't know, i like it. today if you watched the game, it was kind of like a david and goliath story. i saw some of it. >> here's the thing. even if you played great, you would not be able to beat ohio state. i think mason happened to catch them on a day when they weren't nearly perfect. it's not that george mason played badly. ohio state is just that good. they were given the no. 1 overall seed for a reason and tonight it seemed everything the buckeyes threw up went right into the basket. it also didn't happen mason didn't have luke hancock tonight sick with food poisoning. mason got off to a quick start, cam long's three-pointer from up top off the back of the rim and in. he had a team 16 but the buckeyes would turn the tables. aaron kraft zips across for the lay-in and solinger with 18 and things only got worse. ohio state made 23 of three pointers. no magic for that man, jim layer nation. george mason is crushed by -- larranaga. george mason is crushed by top seed ohio state. dave feldman is in cleveland with the aftermath. >> reporter: luke hancock probably wouldn't have mattered tonight, not the way ohio state was shooting, 61 from behind the field, 61 from beyond three- point land and 100% convincing. >> we didn't play our best game we could have. they played really good. nothing to hang our head over, just had a great season and got to accept our loss when we lose. >> it was 11-2. so with a team like that i knew it wasn't going to be that great. i mean i know it was going to be a battle regardless and it definitely showed it. >> we are very proud of not only making it to the ncaa tournament but winning a game and advancing and playing against a team like ohio state, that was like wow, they were so good at every aspect of the game. >> reporter: this mason team will lose two seniors, cam long who played more games than anyone in school history, and isaiah tate. they also finish with the best record in school history, 27-7, the final four team being 27-8. in cleveland, ohio, dave feldman, fox 5 sports. this season totally not a loss. mason was undefeated at home and held the nation's longest winning streak for a couple weeks of 16 games. it was a great season, sorry it had to end with them playing a no. 1 seed because you wonder if they had played maybe a lower seed, they would have been able to keep this thing going. >> plenty to be proud of. >> definitely. >> thanks, murph. can i call you murph. >> sure. don't have anything good for you, w.t. new tonight the u.s. coastguard trying to pinpoint the cause of an oil slick in the gulf off the coast of mexico. the mile long slick could be coming ashore. the toast guard is testing it because of its rain -- the coastguard is testing it because of its rainbow sheen. relatives and friends of 15 people killed in the tour bus crash on the interstate in new york gathered today to remember. they remember at the crash site in the bronx where a buddhist ceremony was held to honor the victims. the memorial shut down lane of i-95 for an hour. the tour bus was heading back to chinatown from the connecticut casino when it crashed. a child is dead and several others injured after an amusement park train went off the rails in south carolina yesterday. there were about 20 people on the train when it crashed, flipped over and collapsed the tracks while 12 children and adults wound up at the hospital. yesterday was the first day the ride was open for the season, but the train was inspected and had several test runs late last week. if your cell phone service is with at&t, you're about to become part of a very big club. at&t is planning to buy the american brand t-mobile with $39 billion in cash and stock. at&t would become the largest cell phone company in the country. verizon wireless currently holds that distacks. both at&t and t-mobile agreed on the plan. the disaster in japan having a ripple effect on the american economy tonight and hitting a state deeply in trouble already, a gm plant in shreveport, louisiana will shut down because it does not have the parts it needs to continue manufacturing. those parts come from japan. the mayor of shreveport is hopeful, but this means at least layoffs in the near future for employees. >> we're a manufacturing facility. we like to come to work and build trucks. that's what we get paid to do and that's what we like to do. >> well, it's not a good thing. when good things happen, it ripples through the economy. same with bad things. >> as production is halted in louisiana, the work in japan is far from over. we're devoting our entire fourth segment tonight to a look at what's happening in japan now, the look ahead and a look back at an unforgettable nuclear incident in the united states. having a tough time getting a doctor's appointment? how about connecting with them on facebook? >> these days we do everything on facebook it seems. friending your doctor could actually help save your life. some people think that and we'll look into the pro's and con's of treatment using social media websites. do you go for chocolate when you're stressed out? try this instead. apparently bananas are a great stress reliever because they contain a chemical proven to help fight depression and bing eating for women -- and binge eating for women. red onions might be a mood booster and berries can help without putting on the pounds. >> research has shown they may have a positive effect on brain chemicals that are normally involved in depression and anxiety. so you cannot go wrong. berry smoothies, so easy to make. >> i agree. even oregano can lift your spirits. it's suggested to keep a food diary so you have a better idea what foods help your mood. >> a lot of folks say chocolate helps me. >> do you know chocolate is not my thing at all. >> you amaze day. >> i aim to please. i'm here all week. >> i do like a good banana. >> me, too. doctors may not make house calls, but it might be nice to have your doc as a facebook friend. >> turns out more doctors are heading to social media sites to help out patients. we'll hear why friending your md could help you heal faster and even save your life. >> reporter: technology has evolved and so have your doctors. >> if you don't move forward, you'll be left behind. >> reporter: dr. angela falls say pediatrician and is is a health director and writes several medical blogs online. >> there's so much information that they don't know what's reliable and what they can count on. the internet allows us to be able to come to the families in the convenience of their own home. >> reporter: dr. falls writes about nutrition and obesity and uses her blogs to connect with her patients and their parents. the hospital uses social media to connect with you chug a twitter account and a youtube channel -- including a twitter account and a youtube channel. there's information about new medical procedures and break- throughs and it helps the doctors to build personal connections with their patients, but dr. falls says don't expect the hospitals or its doctors to diagnose you online. >> there is no replacement necessarily to face to face contact with your doctors. >> reporter: that's because social media sites are no place for medical privacy. it's more suited to broad conversations than intimate talks between doctor and patient, but dr. falls says online conversations lead to in person appointments that could save your life. their job is to search through devastating disaster areas looking for survives. >> tonight the fairfax urban -- survivors. >> tonight the fairfax urban search and rescue team is back from japan. we'll show you their concerns and stories. potential meltdown concerns in japan, turns out there's even bigger dangers than the reactors themselves. back in a moment. 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a teenager and his 80-year-old grandmother were found alive in the rubble of their home today nine days after the initial quake. a local effort to making a difference in japan and after seven days their mission is over. tonight the fairfax county urban search and rescue team is back home sharing harrowing stories of an unforgettable task. it's a bittersweet homecoming for the 74 member fairfax urban search and rescue team deployed for seven days in one of japan's hardest hit areas. >> to walk through there and to see the devastation when you first pull up and to look at everything, it's just overwhelming. >> everything was, you know, very devastating. you couldn't imagine losing all your possessions to include family members and it was very, devastating. >> reporter: despite their round the clock efforts the team found no survivors. elizabeth kreitler helped find earthquake victims in haiti and said this mission was much different, much harder. >> you wonder how they can ever pick up. there was just debris and logs and destruction over uch a wide area that it's hard to even imagine how they could start to clear it because there is nothing that is still intact. >> reporter: but the team is returning in high spirits. many say just being there finding victims helped give survivors closure. they were thanked by japan's ambassador to the u.s. >> all americans are so proud of you and people in japan are so grateful to you. >> reporter: for family members the team's hard work is nothing new, but they say this time around knowing the ongoing threats of aftershocks and a nuclear meltdown made them worry more than usual. they're happy and relieved to have their loved ones finally home. >> i'm very proud of them and proud of the way that they represented us and they don't, of course, look at themselves as heros, but, of course, we all do. >> the team has been deployed worldwide to both natural and manmade disas isers for about 25 years. -- disasters for about 25 years. as the world watches to see if the fukushima power plant goes into meltdown there are concerns right now about the spent fuel rods. those contain higher levels of radiation than the nuclear reactors themselves. some scientists are saying this could have been foreseen and a contingency plan put in place and radioactivity is a cancer general it's still yet to be seen what health concerns arise. >> radiation today to the area surrounding the fukushima nuclear power plant are lower than the radiation fields that were observed in the chernobyl accident at the same distances. >> nearly 80% of france's population relies on nuclear power. china has announced a moratorium on new power plants. now there's renewed talks in the international community about trying to move away from nuclear power plants to alternative sources of energy. here in the u.s. officials are also monitoring nuclear plants across the nation. the u.s. as you'll remember faced its own disaster at pennsylvania's three mile island back in 1979. tonight fox's doug mccalloway looks at how the government death with it and differences between our -- dealt with it and the differences between our nuclear plant and those in japan. >> reporter: the accident at three mile island in 1979 caused great fear across the nation. when you got to this scene on that morning, i was simply overall intimidated, totally left with a feeling of being lost because we had never been involved in anything like this before. >> reporter: but the nuclear crisis unfolding in japan gives neighbors reason to reflect. >> realize back in those days we didn't have cell phones, the internet, videoconferencing, all the things that you use in an emergency. when he tore lie on landlines and they frequent -- we had to rely on landlines even though they frequently jammed and went down. the hotline i used to connect myself with president carter went dead several times. it was terribly frustrating. >> reporter: 32 years ago a relief valve failed to close spilling radioactive coolant from around the reactor core. the reactor partially melted down. officials blame the faulty valve and human error which followed. at three mile island had there was just one troubled reactor and workers had access to it. no deaths were ever attributed directly to the partial meltdown. studies indicated an increase of cancer and infant mor lels d immediately after the accident. in japan several troubled reactors, two workers missing while dozens risk high radiation levels. >> we're in unchartered territory. >> reporter: no reactors have been commissioned in the united states since the three mile island disaster. four new ones are scheduled to come online in south carolina and georgia by the year 2019. earlier we told you george mason giving it the old college try coming up just a little short. >> hey, they did very well, faced a very tough team today. they know it. i think they're keeping their spirits high. coach l had some nice things to say. lindsay 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whoa ! get sharebuilder from ing direct. hey, my headache's gone. teams from the state of virginia are doing really well, too. mason may have lost, still have richmond and vcu. you hate to see mason go out like that because they had such a good season, undefeated at home, 27-7 record which is a new school record and they have the nation's longest wednesdaying streak. >> if it wasn't -- winning streak. >> if it wasn't ohio, maybe they would have made it to the big dance. >> ohio state was on point. they couldn't miss a thing. let's talk more about this game. we mentioned earlier ohio state shot the lights out 61% from three-point land beating george mason 98-66 ending the patriots' record season. dave feldman has the scoop from leave command. >> reporter: george mason had its season end on sunday, a season that boasted the best record in school history. >> 27-7 and most of those games that we lost was to good teams, great teams like that and i mean going out this way to ohio state was a real great ballclub. i mean it might have been an ugly game, but if it was to lose anybody else, it would have been somebody that i wouldn't have expected to beat them. >> reporter: as if dealing with ohio state's shooting wasn't enough, mason had to play shorthanded. luke hancock got sick last night, never felt good today and spent the 1st half throwing up with an iv in his arm at the team hotel. he got here at halftime but the hero on friday never got on the court sunday. >> it was bad news. any of our teammate being sick no matter who it is, you're not happy about that, but at the same time all we could do was accept it and try to go out here and get the victory for him. >> reporter: mason jumped out early on to an 11-2 lead, but cam long knew it was very early in the game. >> it was 11-2, so what. with a team like that i knew it wasn't going to be that way. i knew it was going to be a battle regardless. they definitely showed it to us. >> reporter: boy, did they. ohio state started making everything in sight. david lighty made all five of his three-point attempts and in the blink of an eye mason was down 26 points in the half. they were only outscored by six in the 2nd half but by then the game was over. the no. 1 seed moves on to newark new jersey in the sweet 16. mason heads back to fairfax. hooch season is over. >> it was pretty -- hoop season is over. >> it was pretty tough, losing by a lot it's embarrassing even though we're in ohio and it's a home game for them. it's embarrassing to go out like this. it's not like you can come back next year in college and play, so just got to deal with it. >> i think this team has put a lot of effort into the entire year and one of the reasons we were so successful is the effort was there every day in practice and in every game. >> reporter: in cleveland, ohio dave feldman, fox 5 sports. >> so mason now will lose two seniors from this class, cam long and isaiah tate and i promise this will be the last time i talk about will thomas, but cam long surpasseds will thomas for the most game -- surpasses will thomas for the most games played in a mason uniform. can you guess the number without peeking at the prompter? and they both looked. 132. will thomas' record was 131. it's now 132 by cam long. this team is young and they're still pretty good. >> if you've ever had food poisoning, you've got to feel for luke hancock. there is no coming out of that. >> the worst was that he was a hero in the first game. he was all revved up to play and he had to watch it. >> they needed him today for sure. >> will, you're all over this basketball thing. >> yeah, you know. >> just call me no. 34, all right. thanks, lindsay or murph. >> sure, w.t. coming up memorial at the site of the world trade center set to open in a few months, just gorgeous and is getting more support tonight from across the country, how to help plus your five-day. ♪ [ male announcer ] nature valley sweet & salty nut bars... they're made from whole 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don't think anybody knows if a guinness official showed up in all that. >> i'm worried about having to clean it up. >> that looks like a lot of fun. would have been a good day to do that around here, a little chilly for my taste, will thomas. he'll have something to say about that. >> i appreciated the nice spring day. >> it was very nice and we're going to see things change a little bit, though, as we move into the week as usual. mother nature just doing all we can, but not a bad day today. things will change in term of temperatures, wind and sky conditions. so we have a whole combination for you. outside a little breezy tonight, but that's a really beautiful shot. we had really clear skies last night. tonight we're seeing a few more clouds starting to roll in and it's a little cooler, but the showers are expected to move in overnight. we've already got some of you in our neighborhood seeing some of that. we'll show you that in a second. the week ahead will be very unsettled. we've got days where we'll have a few storms and even a fair amount of rainfall throughout the course of the week. temperatures will be up and down, but late week we're talking about sunshine. so we'll end the week on a very bright note as we're going to start it. highs today 54 degrees at national airport, 53 dulles and 50 degrees at baltimore, a lot closer to where we should be for the seasonal average than yesterday in the 60s and friday into the 80s, but it was a cooler day. right now it's 47 degrees at national, humidity 52%, a southerly wind at about 12 miles an hour. those winds will pick up a little more as we move through the next 24 hours. temperatures elsewhere 45 degrees in gaithersburg this hour, 48 to the south in fredericksburg and to the west 47 in more tinburg, 46 hagerstown and 44 degrees -- martinsburg, 46 hagerstown and 44 degrees in annapolis, 46 in boston, 40 degrees new york city and raleigh to the south, 56 degrees. they're getting the benefit of that southerly air flow, not quite reaching us all that much. we're getting a little bit, but the winds here are fairly light to moderate. if you look at temperatures across the country, you can see all the warmth to the south. we'll benefit from this in the beginning of the week as we get a south, southeasterly flow. we start to see some of that move its way up the mid- atlantic before it starts to change and then we start to get the cooler air because of a cold front moving through. that cold front with the cooler drier air to the north will be pretty significant near the mason dixon line. that's where we'll see a little winter precipitation before it's all said and done with precip moving in. here's a look you can see on our satellite and radar composite where we're seeing some of the rain edging its way closer towards the metro region, areas to our far west and south seeing some of that. a look at true view will give you another look at all this. just to the north and west of the d.c. metro area we're starting to see parts of central virginia and northern maryland starting to see some of this as well. this will continue into tonight and tomorrow we'll see much more widespread precipitation. let's go back to our weather maps. we're dealing with a couple systems here, a warm front to the north pushing its way through, associated low pressure system and cold front as well. so showers into the overnight hours, but by monday we'll have a few morning hours, maybe not necessarily rain all day long, a little break here and there probably, some showers by the afternoon, but then we're looking at isolated storms popping up as well by tomorrow afternoon. be prepared for that. so a chance of afternoon thunderstorms in our forecast for tomorrow. we'll see periods of rain and showers, winds will be gusty from the southwest up to 30 mile-per-hour wind gusts expected and the thunderstorms will be pretty isolated throughout the course of the day. we are not expecting to see any severe weather with them. that's some good news. the thing about this is, however, the unsettled weather will stick around right through till we reach about thursday where we have another system heading our way. tomorrow a chance of thunderstorms by the afternoon hours. tonight not all bad, some rain moving in overnight, 40 degrees your overnight low, southeasterly winds 10 to 15. those winds change, tomorrow gusty at about 30 miles an hour with a chance of storms. here's your five-day forecast. temperatures back up to the 60s for your monday, the same story for your tuesday, but once again the wet weather sticking around. tuesday will be dry the better part of the day, rain expected to move in by night. wednesday looks like a washout day. we start to lose our temperatures dropping down closer to seasonal. we get cooler by friday but are finally back to dry conditions at this that point with some sunshine. >> the managers at the car washes are waiting. now to the rise of freedom, our cameras following the rebuilding of the world trade center site for months now. we've seen amazing progress. tonight fox's john han hunt shows us how survivors of the attacks -- jonathan hunt shows us how survivors of the attacks and people across the country are chipping in. >> reporter: they're small, but they're making a big difference, signs of support for the 9/11 memorial popping up on restaurants and stores around new york. >> we support the 9/11 memorial forever changed, forever connected. >> reporter: sneaker salesman gary merker was forever changed when his store beneath the world trade center was destroyed on 9/11. he lost $500,000.3000 pairs of shoes under the rubble -- $500,000 and 3,000 pairs of shoes under the rubble but everybody made it out alive. >> we were getting calls from employees what should we do. get out and the second one hit and we're being bombed. so they all went their ways. >> reporter: today gary has 10 super runner shops in other parts of new york, but he is forever connected to the world trade center. >> we were there and we're not going to forget about it. >> reporter: that's why gary is donating money to the signs of support program to help build a permanent memorial at ground zero. it opens in less than six months. 9/11 memorial president joe daniels says business owners like gary will be paid back with customers. >> we're going to tell our visitors when they come down here, go frequent the businesses that are supporting the memorial whether it's hotels, restaurants, bars, delis. >> reporter: so far the signs of support program has raised $80,000 through donations from 150 businesses both big and small. most are in the new york area. there are only four in other parts of the country. the no bull saloon near seattle is one of them. >> i thought this would be a good way to recognize 9/11 and donate to the memorial. >> reporter: al a lan yamamoto's customers -- alan yamamoto's customers chipping in by throwing extra change in a jar. 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