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Declined repeated requests to provide us with a list showing the amount of each contract rewarded to minority owned businesses. Jones oversees compliance of the project for prince georges county. That would be for mgm to give out specifics regarding that. Reporter this list of 60 contract businesses recognized by the state asemia forty run. As minority run. But they say the information is going to put the contractors at a disadvantage and that is already way more information than a private company would normally provide. The county seemed to agree. One of the things that has to be understood about this, this is still a private project. Theres no government money involved in the project. Reporter contracts are competitive and this one is far from complete. Only 8 of the project has been left. There are plenty of opportunities left. Reporter and this is the cda agreement that says mgm must hire minority run businesses for at least 30 of the total construction. Which amounts to about 300 million. We cannot know how close they are to reaching the number without knowing how much each contract awarded so far is worth but theres nothing in the document that says mgm has to reach the figure by a specific date. They just needed to it before the end of the construction project. Live from the newsroom, a. M. Allison barber, wusa9. And mgm is planning to old han hold an event at the construction site to celebrate the 1,000 people who are now working to build that casino. Its now been three days since 5yearold noah thomas was last seen. Hes been missing from his familys home in dublin, virginia since sunday morning. Police do not suspect foul play but they are increasingly worried about his safety with each passing day. Our mola lenghi is in dublin in pulaski county. Moela . Reporter well, january, the january, the search continue jan the search continued all day today. As more time passes police say the search will only intensify but so will the concern. All right you ready . On the right rock. Ready on the left. All right floor. Reporter right now the search is in the beginning of a transitional phase from covering as much ground as they can searching everywhere they can reach to soon only responding to specific investigative leads. Hundreds of people are involved in the Police Including police to volunteers average citizens, from around pulaski county. They covered a four mile radius around his house. On foot. In the air with k9 units and even using behavioral statistics. Considering everything from where other people went missing in the past to how much ground a 5yearold can cover on foot typically. But the terrain is a challenge. Huge open fields, that surround big brush and woods. Simply just the large area. Its a huge amount of area to cover. And just making sure again that we didnt miss one little place. And hopefully you know thats that one little place we miss is not where he is at. Reporter the Sheriffs Office have recovered Surveillance Video from stores around town that theyre using to piece together a timeline and hoping that that helps. Now police say they do not suspect any signs of foul play. But again theyre leaving everything on the table and also add that they are going to continue their search 24 7 rain or shine until they find noah. Live in dublin, virginia, im mola lenghi for wusa9. The white house says theres no sign that terrorism was involved in todays crash in the french amps. It was alps. It was operated by a Company Called german wings and it slammed into a mountain during a flight from spain to dusseldorf germany. Carrying 150 people including 16 German High School students all on the way home from an Exchange Program in spain. There are no sins of any survivors. Search teams say the recover riff effort effort could take days but already found one of the planes black boxes. We have to investigate properly with all the professionals what went wrong. Lufthansa says the plane was 25 years old but underwent a routine check just yesterday. Wusa9 has been trying to get answers for you in the case of a confusing parking sign in columbia heights. Perhaps you saw it. Check out this sign in question along the 1200 block of kenyan street northwest. It says no parking tuesday for a two hour window. The sign attached below says except monday for basically the whole day. When we alerted ddot to this two weeks ago, they said they would send out a technician to i vail wait the sign but today, its still there. Do you think the sign is perhaps confusing . A little bit yes. Would you feel comfortable parking there . Id have to think about it for a long time before i committed. Yeah. [ laughter ] ddot says theyre still looking into it although they have not given us a definitive answer yet. They suggest however if you see a sign you find confusing and there can be a lot of ohm this. Call of them. Call 311 and theyre going to make a note and keep the record and i vail wait the sign and evaluate the sign. Can you park there monday can you not . Why have been they moved on it . Havent they moved on it . 1200 new people continue to move into the District Of Columbia every month. Apparently the parking is issue is not a problem because the man demand for new housing is pitting outside developers against Single Family home developers. The battle over what they call pop up housing, bruce . Reporter hey guys, this is kansas Avenue Northwest washington. And back here you see the typical two story row houses in the district. But what if a gopper suddenly developer suddenly moves in and puts not one but to stories on two stories on top up there . Its called popups, its taking place with one Single Family moving there but three separate condo families move in and its causing controversy not just here but throughout the city. Ian smith lives in northwest on shepherd street. The High School Teacher is proud owner of a two story row house. Next door is a pop up. A two story home is being converted into a three story structure with three separate conodonts condo units. Looks like nothing else on the block. Its uncasualistic. Reporter youve done other popups right . Yes, sir. Reporter and whats been the response elsewhere . The contractor and mr. Smith have been feuding for months, mainly over mr. Smiths sidewalk that fell down during construction. This walk should have extended this way. Yes. It was there. It was there. On saturday. Reporter just fell down . Yeah. Because of the construction next door. Correct. Weve reviewed the sidewalks and then the backyard make it look good. Reporter cross street here on shepherd that is what the homeowners would prefer to see. This kind of renovation. Which come back over this way and look at the popup. They call that unsightly. Its roughly 900,000 investment and all is said and done they are sold, the investors will probably see some 200 to 300,000 profit. The developer on the street lives in suburban virginia and has similar projects in the district. And while all have been approved by city officials, the Zoning Commission is now considering a proposal that would reduce the residential height limits from 40 feet to 35 feet. That would eliminate a lot of the popups in the future. Now, you can eliminate the pop ups, but theres still the question of design according to a lot of people involved in this controversy. There are no homeowner associations in the district. Theyre talking about also putting before the Zoning Commission a commission that would look at the design of these properties because a lot of these people dont want their neighborhoods chicking. Its on ongoing problem. Controversy in the city. Back to you guys. Bruce johnson live in northwest d. C. That is Something Interesting for sure. Well, by the way i know what youre thinking, how many of these things are there . We dont know because the d. C. Office of consumer and Regulatory Affairs does not keep records on how many pop ups have been added to the citys private housing market. Well, its a new way to tackle an age old problem. Coming up, how drones are being used to help get a handle on the growing number of stray dogs. But first a man acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin explains how the president s comments in the case turned the country against him. Top . We have sunshine here in northwest. And pretty nice evening although you need a jacket if you head on outside. Let me show you the radar, some showers on the doorstep and theyre going to stay to the south for now and talk about when they roll through tomorrow and what that means for the morning commute. And hang on to a crazy temperature roller coaster. George zimmerman blasts president obama in a new video posted on his lawyers website. He was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin. In the video he says he feels no guilt and says the Obama Administration hackedder acted irresponsibly in publicly expressing empathy for the family of Trayvon Martin. He says he has a clean conscience. The u. S. House of representatives on monday approved a resolution urging president barack obama to send weapons to ukraine. It would help the country to protect its sovereignty in its fight against rebels. Russian president s putin denies arming rebels in the car inner war in eastern ukraine. Approved a plan to give family benefits to all spouses of gay u. N. Employees who are leally married regardless of the same sex marriage laws in their own countries. That plan was supported by u. N. Secretary general ban ki moon who is on outscene an outspo its the biggest trade violation in history. Today middle east governments are shredding open skies agreements they signed pumping over 40 billion in prohibited subsidies into their stateowned airlines. Protectionism at its worst. And their actions threaten thousands of u. S. Aviation jobs. Its time for middle east countries to play by the rules. Restore competition. Restore open skies. Fight for american jobs. The Volkswagen Jetta is really funtodrive. Go for it. Okay. Wow. Woohoo im dreaming. Pinch me. No, not while youre driving. And, right now, you can get a onethousanddollar volkswagen credit bonus on jetta models. Seriously, pinch me. Its not a dream. Ow its the volkswagen stop dreaming, start driving event. Stop dreaming, and testdrive one today. Hurry in and you can get 0 apr plus a 1000 volkswagen credit bonus on 2015 jetta and passat models. In our health alert today, is National Diabetes alert day. Do you know your risks for type 2 diabetes . Andrea roane talked to a local expert who says theres a simple test you can take. Its really a public wake up call. A wakeup thats needed. More than 29 million americans have diabetes, some eight million are unaware they have type 2 diabetes and another 86 million are prediabetic. Dr. Griffin rogers of the National Institutes of health says serious consequences from diabetes even prediabetes exists if its undiagnosed or goes untreated. Like blindness, kidney disease, and amputations. Its a leading cause of nontraumatic amputation. People arent aware it contributes greatly to diseases like strokes and heart attacks. Reporter common risk factors includes genetics, family history, being overweight and obese, and some environmental factors. What we eat. How many activity how much activity we are engaged in and women who develop diabetes during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes also putts you at risk for developing diabetes. Reporter he urging everyone to urges everyone to take a simple test. Its a series of ten questions. If the score is over five youre at risk and you should see your Health Care Provider to be tested. Reporter andrea roane, wusa9. Now there are ways to prevent developing type 2 diabetes. You can find a link to the test on our website. Just go to wusa9. Com. Well, houstons homeless animal population could be getting some muchneeded relief. World Animal Awareness Society is shooting a new tv show called operation houston stray dog city. This is the up close look at the very serious stray dog problems in houston and the men and women who try to save the dogs. The director actually uses drones to fly over the city giving viewers an idea of how big the problem of stays are in houston. The strays are in houston. We can draw a big circle in the area as were film in four confidence. Beautiful you know footage. Its estimated a million stray dogs are roaming the streets in houston. Wow. Thats a lot of stray dogs. You know i used to live there and i got my dog from houston actually. From the humane society. Can you believe that . That cute little thing . A former stray . I dont know. I dont know the history too much but they have a lot of the dogs insane number. Thats an insane number. Ready for some roller coaster temperatures . Woulded matter if we were not . No it would not. Its horrible. Lets take a live look outside. Its our live michael son weather cam. And were looking at really a nice evening yes on the cold side and you can see the the lincoln there and the institutes of peace there. Were looking at really a relatively peaceful opening before goings start going crazy things start going crazy tomorrow. Temps are going to fall. Not quite as low as last night. We had some 20s last night. We should hold in the up 30s 30s tonight. Okay headlines, clouds are going to return by dawn. Not gone for long and be mostly cloudy time you wake up again and bus stop temperatures pretty cold. I mean 30 to 42. Thats fairly cold. And milder though tomorrow. With just a few showers and i still feel that both commutes are going to be dry for about 90 of us new yorkcity yellow alert. And then on of us. No yellow alert. And then on thursday and winds are beginning to pick up and see thunderstorms in the morning on thursday. And for that we did issue a yellow alert. Because we feel its going to be affecting both commutes both to ask from work, futurecast tonight 10 00 you want to walk scrappy . Uhhuh. 36 in gaithersburg and 37 manassas and still 41 downtown and still clear but by 6 00, the clouds return in o a hurry and temperatures in the 30s and a couple of sprinkles popping up here and there. Down toward luray and almost to culpeper, 35 in culpeper but youre kind of few and far between and theyre very light. All right maybe a shower, maybe a shower in fredericksburg. I think theyre going to stay dry in prince georges county. Maybe a shower in la plata. Maybe a couple of showers out in the mountains but nothing really to change your plans. Just set your alarm for the regular time. By 1 00 are a lot of clouds but temperatures in the 40 z in the burr,. 6 00 p. M. Still some clouds but finally 56 in town and 53 in than vas and 51 in leesburg and 51 also in frederick. Now by 8 00 tomorrow, 9 00 were going to go through advance it to thursday morning. And i stopped it right here at 7 00. You see the red and the orange . Thats the big time heavy activity. On our legend and i think were going to hear the rumble of thunder as early as 10 00, 11 00 in the morning on thursday as really much warmer air returns in and were looking at by noon still some showers possible but finally temperatures responding in the mid 60s by noon on thursday. That sounds nice. Just dont yet used to it. 37 on the day planner at 7 00 and 40 at 9 00. Maybe a shower, 46 at 11 00 and 50 at 1 00 also with some clouds. Now theres your yellow alert on thursday. Yes thats a bolt uhhuh. 69 for a high. Maybe a couple of showers early on friday rather. Temperatures 55 and falling. And then on saturday, well were looking at flurries possible on saturday and only in the low 40s. Low 50s on sunday. Upper 50s monday and mid 50s with sunshine still a little bit cool next tuesday. Oh man. Snow this weekend . Are you kidding me . Stay in and watch the maryland women play basketball. It is they play on saturday. Thats perfect. Stay in and stay warm. Enjoy that you know, its been incredible for them. They had undefeated regular season. And maryland women have that National Title in their sights a look ahead at their sweet 16 matchup. Plus one orioles prospect wants the title too but why does manager buck show in one year 5. 6 million hospital workers helped perform 26. 6 million surgeries deliver 3. 7 million babies and treat 133 million e. R. Patients. Now congress is considering cuts which could increase wait times reduce staff, and threaten your communitys health. Keep the heart of americas hospitals strong. For you and your family Tell Congress dont cut hospital care. Know you can keep your financial big picture under control. Know you can see how much you have to spend and whether you should transfer funds. Know you can easily keep track of what youre putting away. And know youre budgeted for the great escape. Thanks to virtual wallet by pnc. The maryland women are holding down the fort for all of our local teams, they are the only ones remaining. Men or women, in the ncaa tournament. Last night they busted president obamas bracket by beating undefeated princeton. Thnow at was the 26th straight win for the number one seed. Now they face the duke blue devils saturday in the sweet 16. And spokane, washington. Plenty of history of course between the two teams from the acc. Maryland beat duke for the National Championship in 2006. And they know it will be another tough challenge. They have tremendous size. I mean theyre theyre really big. I mean they can rebound. They can floor the ball. So you know being able to kind of you know being able to neutralize that will be huge. Were going to get our leks back and then be right back at it. The journey isnt over. We have and get ready for duke. Spring training enters its final week. The Baltimore Orioles have been without one of the young prospects and thats because hes been busy on the Basketball Court playing towards a National Championship. Pat connauton plays for notre dame. The irish will play butler in the sweet 16 this week. He is also an oriole with a 98 mileperhour fastball. He was drafted by the team this year but has yet to join his new teammates on the field. And for the most part, theyve been pretty understanding. Theyve been great to me and i couldnt thank them enough and you know the only thing the only bone i have to pick with them is that you know, i imagine Buck Showalter says he couldnt wait for us to lose the other day. Put that on hold for a week or two. They want him there practicing. The Washington Wizards have never been happier to be back home. Just wrapped a one win west coast trip that ended with a loss to golden state. The wiz were only down three at the half but lost by 31. Afterwards trash talk. We knew if we hit them they got a couple of stops they would start arguing with each other and quit. Vote in the that will game of the week poll. We are officially into spring sports, heres the four games for you to choose from text it to 25543 and finally tonight the nationals are cover models again. Bryce harper joined by max scherzer on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week. This was one of the previous, because whats guesting all the attention is his change in body shape. You can see that check out the forearms. Look at those forearms, theyre ripped. Isnt that amazing like two, collie years the difference three years the difference his body makes, he dropped some of the weight from last year and has gotten a little more ripped up . Okay. A lot of it. Built up his forearm. Wheres my ring . They want it. They want it now. Hopefully theres no jinx and no cover jinx. Not this year. All right, well thats all for 9news now at 6 00. Stay with wusa9 for the cbs evening news which is next. And were back in 30 minutes for your only local news at 7 00. Well see you then. [ captions by caption colorado pelley no survivors what forced an airliner into a highspeed crash with no warning in fine weather . Also tonight for the first time, we see the socalled accident that got Senior Secret Service agents in hot water. For the second time, Angelina Jolie has surgery to reduce the risk of cancer. And the campaign to change the gender of our tender. Why arent women on the money . Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley why did an airliner crewing in broad daylight in fine weather begin a long, controlled descent into the french alps slamming into a mountain at n

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