that captivated the country. fox 5 has the reaction from florida and here at home as we look at what's next for casey anthony and the quest to find out what happened to little caylee. good evening, i'm brian bolter. >> and i'm shawn yancy. weeks of testimony, dozens of experts, but it took just 11 hours for jurors to stun millions. fox's jessica stone starts off our coverage tonight from orlando. >> reporter: it was a nail-biter inside the courtroom. then the jury delivering this stunning verdict. >> as to the charge of first-degree murder, verdict to count 1, we the jury find the defendant not guilty, so say we all. >> reporter: the nerves turning to tears and then hugs all around for casey's defense team. her lead attorney, jose baez, says justice was served. >> we're happy for casey, and we're happy that caylee's memory did not get diminished into this circus. >> reporter: defense attorneys say the prosecution failed to explain exactly how little caylee anthony died. >> they never had the evidence to prove her guilty of killing this child, by whatever description. >> reporter: while none of the 12 jurors wanted to talk to the press, one alternate juror says the prosecution failed to show caylee's cause of death. >> it comes down to it was probably an accident, that the family didn't know how to cope with it and instead tried to hide it. >> reporter: the prosecution leaving it to the florida state attorney to sum up dismay. >> we're facing the verdict with surprise, because we know the fact and put in every piece of evidence that existed. >> reporter: casey's parents quietly slipping out of the courtroom following the verdict and asking their lawyer for privacy. casey's former boyfriend says no one will ever know what happened to caylee. >> that's the one thing she's guilty of. she's guilty of lie after lie. >> reporter: casey anthony will be right back here in court on thursday morning to be sentenced for those four counts of lying to police. each carries a maximum of one year in prison. in orlando, jessica stone, fox news. >> today's not guilty verdict stunned the nation. people blew up twitter and facebook surprised to learn that the jury determined there wasn't enough evidence to convict her of murder. we have two experts joining us tonight to take a look back at the case. bob, thanks for being with us. >> you're welcome. >> what makes the verdict, brilliant defense or did the prosecution just blow it? >> i don't know that we really know the answer. there are 12 sets of eyes in the jury box and they're the ones that really account. we get snipits of what occurred in the press, even folks glued to their tv set only see part of the picture, and we don't really know what made the difference. it's always easy to take the verdict and work backwards and say it was not guilty, so trying to figure out why the jury did what they did based upon looking backwards really sometimes isn't very effective. the prosecutor, if they had won, all of those tactical decisions that are being criticized would have been wonderful strokes. >> indeed. let me ask you. i know you can look at this from both ways. the defense came out with a risky decision or was it a risky decision to tell the jury that she drowned in the family pool, that casey's father sexually abused her and that the family has so many secrets that they tried to cover up the death. was that risky or smart? >> by the verdict it appears smart. i think they gave the jury a number of different options and possible explanations, whether all of the jurors agreed on one, whether they each reached this verdict through their own analysis and perhaps a different analysis we won't know unless and until they start speaking. >> let me ask you just from your experience in dealing with all sorts of cases and being on both sides, what are the prosecutors going through tonight? >> it's not fun. i lost some ones i really wanted to win when i was a prosecutor and i have been on this side as well. it's a very down feeling, and it's going to take them awhile, particularly when they took so much time and effort as they did and the defense did in this. it's probably the lowest point of their professional careers. >> all right, robert bonsit, thanks for coming in and giving us a little perspective tonight. it was nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> shawn, down in the newsroom now. when this verdict was read and word got out, literally everybody started talking who had heard the news. most of america had followed this trial in one way or another. social media is a natural outlet for folks to sort of vent, and for better or worse, this trial in many respects became sort of an oj moment where in the public opinion, a vast majority of americans really believe that casey anthony is guilty. but then again, she was not considered guilty by a jury of her peers. so let's turn to our facebook page and twitter pages to get a little bit of a sampling of a response. robin says the whole process was a joke. she's getting away with murder. what's even terrifying is that she can have more kids. christopher muler, though, a little bit of the other side of the coin. despite everyone's personal feelings and mine as well, casey anthony was found not guilty by a jury of her peers. this is one of the rights we hold dear as free americans. maybe if the prosecution had done a better job, the outcome might have been different. and julie says, will we ever know what really happened? that's where the conversation turns to now in the sentencing of casey anthony on those misdemeanor counts of lying to authorities. social media blowing up tonight on our facebook and twitter page. you can log on and voice your opinion as well, shawn. >> brian, thank you. new tonight, using the web to catch a killer, and dc cops have no problems admitting it. the website launched for the east coast rapist earlier this year allowed the rapist to be locked up. >> a woman dragged into the woods off canal road 13 years ago in germantown. let's start with the dc murder. it was the summer of 1998. christine mrzan was walking to her dorm at georgetown university. someone dragged her into the woods, sexual assaulted her and beat her to death. dc police developed a sketch of the man who may be responsible. investigators also collected dna evidence from the crime scene, entered that into a national database, and linked the murder of the 28-year-old to eight sexual attacks in montgomery county. there's the composite sketch we were talking about. now, dc police will launch a new website dedicated to generating tips in an otherwise cold case. the actual launch is coming soon and veteran detectives aren't afraid to try new approaches, even if that means stepping out of their comfort zone. >> our younger detectives were a little more computer-savvy, a little more understanding of that, but it's a learning process for all of us to how we can use these different things to our advantage. i can speak from my own experience just in the way dna has evolved. when i started homicide, dna was stuff that they talked about that was confusing to a lot of us. >> and that was 20 years ago when captain fair started in homicide in the district. he now believes there is such common knowledge about dna. if the killer is still committing sex crimes, he may be changing his method so he doesn't leave behind dna like when he committed the previous attacks in montgomery county. tonight on the news edge, we'll hear from the man who was married to her when she was murdered and another crime-fighting website the dc police are looking to as sort of inspiration for theirs, shawn. >> we'll look for that report tonight at 11:00. thank you. a virginia mother has been indicted in the death of her 2-year-old son. he was found unresponsive in the family minivan. karen murphy is accused of leaving her son ryan in that van all day on june 17th. murphy found her son still strapped in his car seat around 4:00. he was reportedly last seen alive around 4:00 a.m. she is charged with murder and neglect. we're here with bob barnard who's got a new look at a report from metro regarding the reliability of its escalators has dropped in recent months. not what riders want to hear. that's for sure. >> and ryan, rielt now, there are 82 escalators out of service for some sort of repair of the 588 in the system. metro insists it's working hard to make its escalators more reliable. >> reporter: it's the evening rush at soggy bottom, metro riders getting used to this getting into the station. >> what can you do. you don't want to drive your car, you have to put up with it. >> reporter: one of the escalators is undergoing a month-long and complete overhaul and now the one going south isn't working. >> too far to walk down, too long of a line and my knees hurt. >> reporter: that's why bridget culmer and aj are waiting in this long line to the elevator. >> what grade do you give metro for the escalators and elevators? >> oh, d minus maybe. >> it's not every day, but it can be inconvenient if you have to go to another job like i do. >> reporter: at one point this morning, none of the escalators at soggy bottom were working. this is what it looked like in a photo posted on dc-is. we found another nonworking escalator and last week we were told they were all out of service and at this station it can be a long walk up. >> i can't do that, so i have to take the elevator. >> reporter: according to this report, in may, about 100 escalators were out of service on any given day. that's worse than in previous months. >> we know that these are challenges. you know, all we can do is thank our customers for their patience and forbearance as we rebuild. this is work that should have been done a long time ago, frankly, investments that should have been made a long time ago. >> reporter: agency spokesman dan geko says they're rebuilding its entire system of escalators. it's a long-term $150 million project. >> under these types of conditions with this much traffic, these escalators have a useful life of 20, maybe 25 years if they're properly maintained, maybe 30 if you're lucky and we're well beyond that at this point. >> reporter: in fact, dan says four of the seven escalator manufacturers used during the creation of the subway system don't exist anymore. in some cases, they have to make their own replacement parts. >> we live in a world right now where if something happens across the world. we know about it instantly on twitter, so information is readily available in real time. is there any way for riders to figure this out and get some head's up knowing if there's an escalator out? >> from each other, of course. and metro has a new system of keeping people up-to-date. it's called metro forward. it's on their website and also posted to facebook and twitter, where you can find out real time as we found out tonight, 82 of the 588 are out of service right now. the ridership can do that. >> bob barnard tonight. >> if you'd like to help us monitor metro, if you see something wrong or broken, take a picture and send an e-mail to fox 5 metro @ gmail.com. we have our eyes on another story that has many of you talking tonight. leslie johnson is out, announcing she will resign her council seat but there is a catch. >> summer time has arrived in dc. much more of the same. a little bit more humidity though. full forecast coming up in just a bit. stay with us. the news at 10:00 will continue. t >> leslie johnson is stepping down from the prince georges county council. her resignation comes after her guilty plea in a corruption probe. the wife of former county exec jack johnson submitted her resignation today but it's not effective until the end of the month. fox 5's sherri ly has the story. >> reporter: leslie johnson took her seat on the prince georges county council just long enough for roll call. >> ms. johnson. >> good morning, present. >> reporter: the discrete council member who pleaded guilty last week to obstruction charges abruptly walked out before the council met for nearly two hours in closed session. johnson's seat was empty as they announced her resignation effective july 31st. unhappy that she will remain on the job until then and continued to vote. >> the prince georges county council has a body, as a body, calls for the immediate resignation of leslie johnson. >> reporter: she and her husband jack johnson are awaiting sentencing in the scandal. >> i think we should have the special election as quickly as possible. which means the resignation should be as quickly as possible. >> reporter: as the fbi moved in on the couple's home, johnson famously stuffed nearly $80,000 in her bran and flushed a $100,000 check down the toilet. bribes her husband took from developers. >> that cloud is terrible. it's hard to, i guess, be affected with that over your head. >> reporter: by law, the council can't force her resignation sooner or cut off her salary, but they put the squeeze on. >> the council as a body has agreed to restrict all other funding to the district 6 office, included but not limited to the use of a county car, county council parking, cell phone usage, grant expenditures and discretionary funding. >> reporter: johnson took responsibility for her actions after last week's plea but some want more. >> as a resident of this county, i think it would be nice if she would offer an apology, at least an apology. >> reporter: whether she's sorry, johnson didn't say, leaving the building before anyone could ask. the staff in district 6 will continue to get paid but must report to the council administrator. during the time that johnson will remain in office, she will earn about $7,000. in the newsroom, sherri ly, fox 5 news. >> political analyst mark watson joins us to talk about this. mark, it's always great to see you. i'm sure you've done some digging. i don't get it. what's the point? does she need the $7,000 that much that she can't go out with grace and dignity here? >> the statement was she wanted to resign the day before the august research starts, which she needed i guess as some sort of book end. if there was ever an example, this is surely it, and it seems to me she's actually prolonging it. the county executive as you know, said we don't want you to wait until july 31. we want you to go now. i think she thought she was preserving a scintilla of dignity to this matter but everybody wants her to go now and they don't understand the extension to the 31st, and you and i are now talking about it rather than the chapter being closed. >> it sort of puts an exclamation point on the opposite side of that argument to the fact that it's all about her, right? >> one thing that hasn't -- one of your interviews highlighted this. i was out there after the sentencing -- excuse me, the pleading, and she said, i made a mistake. she didn't make a mistake. she committed a crime, and so there really is some enormous huberous going on, and she's sentenced in october, and she i. i can't really go in there for the sentencing, although the recommendation is from 12 to 18 months. the judge doesn't have to adhere to that judgment setting, and she would have been in a very bad position if she'd have extended this. now she's in an equally bad position. what's the catch? why don't you just leave now and be over with? >> quickly, is this over? i mean, it feels perhaps emotionally like this may be sort of an end to the probe, but then legally, it's not, is it? >> well, the johnson phase is over, but rod rosenstein, the us attorney, his sdz the investigation into the corruption in prince georges county is ongoing and active so there are going to be some other players. >> thanks for coming in tonight. >> thank you. >> tell us what you think. post your comments on our facebook page. you can find a link at myfoxdc.com, if you're not already a fan of our page. the president is using the media to spot light the push on congress to push the debt limit. we'll have more on his tough words coming up next. plus, it's where you go to confess your sins, but someone went to this church to commit one. find out what vanished during sunday's services. >> the clock is ticking. in a few weeks, the us will reach its debt limit. today, president obama called on leaders from both parties to come to the white house thursday in hopes of reaching a deal. tom fitzgerald reports, both sides still have major hurdles to overcome. >> reporter: in a surprise appearance tuesday afternoon at the white house, president obama said he would personally take over the negotiations on raising the debt ceiling as time begins to run out. >> we need to come together over the next two weeks to reach a deal that reduces the deficit and upholds the full faith and credit of the united states government. >> reporter: the us reached its $14.3 trillion debt limit in may. the white house warns congress has to raise that ceiling by july 22, or the us could default on its loans on august 2. but republicans say the rush isn't necessary. >> nobody's going to have time to read it or consider the implications of it and is going to say you have to pass it or the economy is going down the tubes. that's just irresponsible. >> reporter: but the difference between these two sides are real. republicans are saying they want deep budget cuts before they come to an agreement, while democrats are saying they want to raise revenue by ending some corporate and individual tax breaks. if the ceiling is not raised, some say the government could partially shut down if it can't borrow money to pay bills. democrats like maryland's ben cardin says the republican cuts go too far. >> we're not going to privatize medicare and put our seniors at risk of the private insurance companies. we're not going to make it that more expensive for families to afford college education. >> reporter: mike tanner of theicato institute say both sides have dug in their heels, but the stakes are too high not for them to move forward. >> what you won't have is enough money to continue the general operations. federal government. it'll be like one of these giant government shut-downs we always go through. >> reporter: both the president and vice president have met with lawmakers before, and while both parties say more progress is being made. >> i promise i will keep you guys updated as time goes on. all right. >> reporter: so far an agreement has not been reached and the days on the calendar are slipping away. on capitol hill, tom fitzgerald, fox 5 news. >> the president's twitter town hall tomorrow will feature questions from twitter users, but the website administrators will choose those questions. the white house director of new media told reporters today the white house will not control which questions the president takes. the questions will be chosen based on popularity with the help of journalists who report on economic issues. one family got a frightening wake-up call this morning. check this out. not exactly what you want to see as the homeowner. find out why one person was hauled away in cuffs. >> sunday morning church service is supposed to be a sacred time for the congregation to come and worship. instead, members of three vienna, virginia churches were violated when someone stole their walletes and purses during the services over the weekend. paul wagner has more on the investigation. >> reporter: sometime between 10:30 and noon sunday, someone slipped inside the vienna presbyterian church just off maple avenue and made off with a wallet belonging to a church staffer. officials say whoever took the wallet was able to access parts of the building unavailable to the public. moments away, someone made their way inside another church and swiped two purses. another church vanished from the church of christ on maple avenue as well. >> this is unusual for our town for this to occur. it's exceptionally disheartening because they're churches and you kind of feel secure and you feel like in that environment, maybe your belongings and things are not going to be tampered with or stolen. >> reporter: vienna police say so far none of the stolen items have turned up and no one has reported any kind of suspicious behavior in or around the churches sunday morning. >> it's pretty sad. you know, you figure somebody goes to a house of worship, the last thing they should have to be concerned about is becoming a crime victim. >> reporter: at all three churches, victims declined to comment on camera. paul wagner, fox 5 news. >> vienna police are looking for your help. if you were in or around any of those churches sunday morning and noticed something suspicious, they'd like to hear from you. a rude awakening for an aspen hills maryland family, an suv slammed into their house landing just inches from a woman sleeping on the soeva. the woman was driving drunk, lost control, crashed into a chain linked fence and into the back of the house. we talked to the woman who was sleeping inside just after she was released from the hospital. >> everything happened so fast, you know, and suddenly everything collapsed and the closet was flying, the washing machine, and the walls all coming towards me, and so i knew -- i said that's it, i'm going to die right now. >> taking a nap, and i heard this loud crash, which i thought was an accident out here on the street. i opened the door to the back room and there was an suv in my dining room. >> can you imagine that? no word on if any charges have been filed against the driver of the suv. strong storms with high winds knocked over trees and power lines sunday night, and nearly 500 homes are still without power at this hour. john henrehan shows us how the community is coping. >> reporter: the storm that blew through north arlington around 6:00 p.m. sunday was ferocious, but it was also very brief. >> i remember looking out and things were swirling, the winds were swirling, and it was just loud as heck for 30 seconds to a minute. >> the storm lasted longer, but the burst of whatever it was was about a minute, and i thought heavy hail or something, and when i looked outside, i saw trees everywhere. >> reporter: big trees. trees that tore down power, telephone and cable lines. so many trees that 44 hours after the storm, some streets were still completely blocked. that slowed down power crews from dominion virginia. it wasn't just trees that were damaged. windows, cars and buildings were smashed by the falling trees. jay williams was in his upstairs bathroom when his wife called everyone to the basement. he would have been crushed by the falling tree had he not moved instantly. >> it went all the way through our master bath where i was. >> right where he was standing two seconds before. >> and when it hit the house, my son i was carrying, we were on the stairs running down to the basement. >> reporter: there is significant damage in three floors of the williams' house, but they feel lucky no one was injured. it may take five months for the home to be repaired. but at least everyone is alive, and arlington officials say no one was injured either because of the sunday storm. in arlington, john henrehan, fox 5 news. a fox 5 viewer, travis gerring, gave us this video of a truck fire on i 66 in fairfax. the incident shut down the highway for hours. it was loaded with bails of hay when it caught fire, so the whole thing went up pretty fast. fortunately, the driver was not hurt. the murder case of a teenage girl takes an unexpected twist. tonight, a tabloid is accused of leading her family to believe she was alive when she was actually dead. one cell phone carrier is cutting you off. elizabeth mcdonald has your business report. companies stepping up and buying more, new orders at us factories picking up in may, after dropping down in april. airplanes, autos and oil-drilling equipment in high demand, a sign that supply disruptions from the japan earthquake are fading, and the manufacturing sector is strengthening. meanwhile, us airlines fighting new rules that could hike your ticket prices. an industry group is taking the european union to court, claiming its emission caps on airplanes flying in and out of europe violate international law. the european union admitting costs of the new rule could be passed on to consumers. also, verizon, starting this week, the wireless provider dumping unlimited usage for data, using more data will now be costing you more money. and netflix going south of the border and beyond, announcing it will be streaming movies and shows to 43 countries in latin america and the caribbean. net flex expanded into canada last year. that's business, i'm liz mcdonald. 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claims. the paper is owned by news corp, the parent company of fox 5. an operation mexican officials say purposefully put guns into mexican criminals led to more violence. they say the us gave american sovereignty to guns they knew were heading across the border. analysts don't see this happening. >> generally speaking, us government tries to protect their law enforcement officials from being prosecuted abroad. it would be very difficult for them to get a fair trial in mexico. >> this program was a great mistake in its conception. it is just absurd, especially because human lives were put in danger. >> as many as 40,000 people have died in cartel violence in mexico. a serial rapist connected to a cold case murder in dc. investigators are trying a new tactic to catch the killer and now for the first time, the murder victim's husband is speaking out. we'll hear from him tonight on the news edge at 11:00. the nation-wide drug shortage is hitting hard. what this means for local hospitals at 11:00. >> it's the beginning of the end for nasa. the count down clock started today ahead of the final shuttle launch this friday. atlantis is scheduled to blast off at 11:21 a.m. the crew members will deliver supplies to the international space station in a 12-day mission. the launch could be delayed because of a 60% chance of thunderstorms on friday. exxon mobil is confirming an oil leak into the yellowstone river in montana is larger than first believed. alissia akunia has the latest on the situation. >> reporter: with the national weather service predicting the yellowstone river will reach peak flood level, residents close to the oil spill are worried about the crude being pushed to their land. >> there's oil all over the top soil and i don't want my animals eating that. >> reporter: a 12-inch oil pipe line used by exxon mobil ruptured friday, spilling what's believed to be 42,000 gallons of oil into the river that runs over it. >> we understand we need to get our full arms around where the exposure areas are. we have not fully completed that yet, so we continue to look down stream to make sure we've identified all areas that we need to address. >> reporter: one issue, exposure. at least two people have been hospitalized with symptoms that include dizziness, nausea and shortness of breath. that caused a frustrated rancher to confront an exxon mobil executive about the diagnosis offay acute hydrocarbon exposure for his partner. >> i want to know what we could have been exposed to that's harmful. >> reporter: the agency is conducting both air and water sampling to determine what impacts the spill may have on air or water quality while also ensuring the responsible party is held accountable. the line was temporarily shut down in may after officials raised concern it could be at risk to rising flood waters. exxon mobil officials say at this point they haven't determined the cause of the spill. in denver, alician akunia, fox 9news. the los alamos lab will reopen tomorrow. employees were evacuated a week ago after the state's largest wild fire threatened the facility. residents of the town were allowed home yesterday. it destroyed 63 homes and 37 other buildings. meantime back at home, the heat and humidity have returned . the kids are getting it at camp. >> that's exactly right and i think it only gets worse the next couple of days, but a little bit of relief comes late week. it's so muggy tonight and you might be shocked by just how warm the temperature is. the heat index right now. beautiful evening though, the rains have stayed away, and temperatures have come down enough that it wasn't too terribly hot this evening but it's still warm out there. highs today. this will show you, 91 for reagan international, 92 for dulles, and 93 for bwi. thank goodness at least this afternoon, the humidity wasn't outrageous, but definitely the moisture levels have been creeping up a little bit this evening. the temperature in town, 86 degrees, by far the warmest out there, which is typical of this time of year with all the heat island effect of the city, the concrete that gathers the heat during the day. that takes a long time for it to relief it during the evening hours, so it's normal for us to be warmer than surrounding areas. dulles 78 degrees, martinsburg 76. when you factor in the humidity which has come up quite a bit, really the dew point, the amount of moisture in the air, that's fairly high right now, so it feels like it's 92 degrees outside with the heat index, and still feels rather warm in most locations around this evening. it will be a little bit more humid tomorrow and thursday. we're not talking super, super oppressive humidity, but i think they're definitely going to feel it, as it does come up in the next couple of days or so. again, a little relief by the end of the week. heat and humidity will help to bring on some storms as well as the frontal system too, so we'll be watching that. the next couple of days, we really have a good chance of a storm. friday too, i think of all three of those days, thursday probably looks like we're going to have the most coverage of thunderstorms in the afternoon, but every day from now until friday, at least we'll have a chance of some thunderstorms in the afternoon, and some of them could be strong and maybe even a couple of them severe, but it won't be an outbreak, nothing like that. the weekend is still trending pretty nice out there, with loads of sunshine. not quite as hot and the humidity will calm down just a little bit. so tomorrow, 90 degrees for a high, chance of afternoon and evening thunderstorms. thursday, again, scattered thunderstorms, high of 91, and for friday, a little cooler, but we're still talking about the possibility of a few thunderstorms out there, and as we get into the weekend, things look pretty nice. the stalled out frontal boundary is just to the south of us. why is that important? because it looks like tonight as it moves a little bit farther to the north and along this boundary, there's the potential for a shower or a thunderstorm. as a matter of fact, right here in the last frame of the animation, we're seeing a little bit coming up to the ridge tops and potentially moving off 81, so that can be the beginning of just a few of these overnight showers or thunderstorms, so we've got to keep that in the forecast. most of the rain though down through north carolina, where it has been much more unsettled down there. hot today and very, very steamy too. so mild temperatures overnight tonight. we have the possibility of a shower or a thunderstorm. again, not everybody gets it, but we may have one or two certainly overnight tonight and by sunrise. low in town, around 73 degrees, but that may be a struggle to get down to 73. maybe even only as low as 74 or 75. now, a little cooler in the suburbs where i think temperatures will be able to get down into the mid to upper 60s. for tomorrow, humid, another hot day. temperatures will start off fairly mild, 78 degrees by 9:00 a.m. noon, 88 degrees, and tomorrow at 5:00, right around 90, and again, another chance for some showers and thunderstorms. it's summer in dc, and that's what happens. 91 on thursday. a little cooler on friday. we may still have a lingering shower or a thunderstorm. the weekend looks good though. it looks like sunny skies, dry conditions, upper 80s, and not too terribly humid. anytime you're in july and you can say that, that's a bit of a bonus. >> wash the car . >> wait until the weekend. >> good advice. did you see it? drivers in ohio certainly dead. a 7-year-old arabbian horse named javan escaped and took off down the highway. ashgs rabians are known for endurance so it didn't tire out easily. the horse ran about 8 more miles before the owners finally managed to reign him in. java was not hurt. a stranded penguin is having a tougher time getting home. he wound up 2,000 miles away from his antarctica home. the penguin is recovering but there's a disagreement on how to get the penth win back to antarctica. the recovery could take months. a troubling trend in new york city causing pet stores to change their rules. apparently, le petite puppy in the west village has a problem with people coming in and buying puppies. the store is surrounded by bars and restaurants, now banning drunks from buying pooches. >> a lot of people go i want to buy the puppy and take him home today. if we feel like the dog is not safe and the people are not -- you know, they're not just eccentric. if they're really drunk and not in their right mind, we'll say, come back tomorrow. we're not going to confront them and say you're drunk, we're not going to sell you a dog. >> other folks in the area also implementing the ban. the woman who went to visit her boyfriend in jail came back with him packed in her suit case. correctional officers found the man in the bag when they noticed her looking nervous as she wheeled it out of the 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