5yearold. The intensity does increase and our concern level increases. Reporter police dont expect foul play. Theyre leaving everything on the table, and so are parents. I told my kids not to play outside or nothing today. I got a 7yearold and a 10 yearold. Reporter they will continue searching through the night. They have no plans of stopping until they find noah thomas. Authorities have no evidence to believe any foul play is involved in noahs disappearance. They say the family is fully cooperating. Police say theres no amber alert because theres no suspect or vehicle description to give to the public. If they end up getting that information, they will immediately issue one. A truck ran over an 81year old man and killed him in maryland. The man was crossing the street on university boulevard right near arcola when the truck hit him. The driver did stay on the scene. Police are investigating whether the man was in a crosswalk when he was hit. Maryland had the lowest number of traffic deaths in 66 years. Prince georges county has some catching up to do. Reporter on the capitol beltway in prince georges county. It has the most fatalities of any county in the state. 469 deaths in the county since 2010 compared to 325 deaths in Baltimore County and 225 in montgomery. They do not drive safe around here at all. You know, too many cars, too many people. Seems like everybody has road rage. Someone had road rage about two weeks ago, hit the back of my car. Reporter the reasons why are elusive, but the leading theory is speed on sections of the capital beltway and u. S. Route 50. The section of the beltway between college park and u. S. 50 is the worst in the region, a socalled danger corridor with an average of 54. 3 crashes per mile per year between 2010 2012 alone. State officials credit seatbelts, air bags, better road engineering, and enforcement for an overall decline in traffic deaths. Traffic is slowly moving in north west tonight. Ddot is closing lanes because part of the bridge was falling on to the roadway. Closure started early this morning when the chunks of debris were first spotted. Right now secretary of state john kerry hosting a dinner for afghanistan president right here in d. C. President obama held talks at the white house. Mr. Obama said he will delay. At the prince georges count where i Council Meeting earlier today voicing concerns that mgm is not honoring an agreement to hire minorityrun businesses. We have the latest on the story. Reporter some minority Business Owners tell wusa 9 they believe theyre being unfairly kept out of this billion dollar casino project. Mgm denies that and so does the county. Those contractors arent backing down. Murray edwards has owned his business for over a decade, and he is one contractor who maintains he has been unfairly kept out of the mgm project at national harbor. I was advised not to submit my bid, that they already had their minority firm. And this was three weeks before the bid was due. Reporter he and others say the contracts awarded to minorityowned businesses are insignificant, worth thousands instead of millions. Mgm has repeatedly denied those claims. Officials are making sure minorityrun businesses are participating if the construction of mgm. Mgm spokesperson tells wusa 9 the Company Awarded some multi Million Dollar contracts to minorityowned businesses. The hiring rate is well over the goal for this stage of the project. Mgm gave us a list of 16 minorityrun businesses that currently have contracts on the property but would not say how much each contract was worth. A private company normally does not even do that. An abandoned home caught fire in leesburg this afternoon. This is pictures from sky 9 as the heavy smoke just poured out. Fire Officials Say nobody was hurt, and theyre looking into what sparked the flames. Some day firefighters may battle a fire like that not with water but with waves of sound. Reporter at George Mason University where a couple of. Students s have what could be a revolutionary idea dousing flames with sound. It works so well its almost hard to believe. Over and over again Seth Robertson wave the extinguisher douses burning alcohol with just its rumbling bass note. You need heat, you need a fuel source, you need oxygen. Reporter using 600 of equipment amps, a speaker, something they call a columnator, the students are starving the flame of oxygen. The sound pushes the oxygen molecules away from the fuel. Did it work at first . At first, it didnt. It didnt work at all. Reporter and then they hit on just the right low note. Lots of questions about how to take this device to scale, how to turn it from amazing parlor trick into practical Fire Fighting tool. We think that with a little more design, a little more money and time, we could make it happen. All about the bass, no treble. By the way, sometimes genius inventors are rebels. They risked getting an f on their final project, but they instead came up with something potentially revolutionary. A maryland mom of a 10year old autistic boy had a scare when her son disappeared last week. Police found him quickly with the help of an automatic tracking bracelet. Its part oject lifesaver. You have to meet certain criteria to get one. We spoke with the rockville mom whose son was found with that bracelet. Hes very bright, and he remembers everything. But he cant always express everything. My biggest fear was that someone would pick up connor or he would get hit by a car because he doesnt have that sense of danger. At least 14 Different Police departments around the dmv work with project lifesaver. If youre interested, well have the links up on wusa 9. Parking time confusion. We follow up with ddot on these conflicting signs that have some drivers wondering, am i parked legally . The plan that includes these cute dogs coming up. 47 today was the high. Our average high is now 59. Kind of a chilly day. Showers off to the south and west. West virginia and kentucky stay away for a while. When the showers roll in and well talk about a real temperature roller coaster. Tracking thunderstorms and a few 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. Tomorrow the d. C. Government kicks off potholepalooza. Thousands of potholes created over the winter. The citys Transportation Department says its already filled nearly 7300 potholes over the past two weeks. If theres a pothole you hit every day, head to wu wusa9. Com. You ever try to park your car in the district and wonder what that sign means . Wusa 9 has been working to help parkers where this sign has folks scratching their head. Its right along the 1200 block of kenyan street. It says theres no parking tuesday during a twohour window. Look at the sign below. It says except monday for basically the whole day. When we alerted ddot, they said a technician would show up and check things out. The confusing sign remains in place. What do you think this means . No parking on tuesday. They do street sweeping except on mondays. What does that mean . Im asking you. Were not quite sure either. Ddot is still looking into this, although officials have not given us any definitive answer yet. If you see a sign in your neighborhood youre confused about, call 311 and ddot will make a note of that. Theyll keep a record and work to have that sign checked out. Another follow up tonight. It looks like the perfect cafe for cat lovers is coming to town. Crumbs and whiskers will go in georgetown. Enjoy a cup of joe with the company of adoptable cats. Youll be lining up on that. The park service wants the public to weigh in on using border collies to chase away the geese. The agency says theres a lot of geese down there by the lincoln memorial, reflecting pool, and other spots on the mall. They leave behind some unpleasant parting gifts. One goose can leave behind 23 pounds of poop every day. Pounds . It can clog up pipes and filters. Border collies are are known herders, and they can chase the birds away to other areas of the park. They want to hear from you. New video of the latest embarrassing incident involving the secret service. What the agencys director had to say to lawmakers who are asking tough questions today. See how Frank Underwoods Approval Rating ranked against president obamas. The magic phrase you can use if youre battling bad service from the cable company. Read about how to use that phrase and your rights as a if you are just getting in, recovery teams have hunkered down for the night in the german alps. The plane operated by german wings slammed into the mountain during a flight from barcelona to duceldorf. It carried 16 German High School students. No signs anybody survived. Search teams, however, have recovered one of the planes black boxes. We have to investigate properly with all the professionals what went wrong. The plane underwent a routine Technical Service check just yesterday. The white house says theres no scienter rich had anything to do with this. New video of the latest secret service investigation. Surveillance video shows agents in a government suv nudging a temporary barrier while other agents who were investigating a suspicious package outside the white house. Joe clancy says thats the only video available because its usually only saved for 72 hours. Now hes changed it to one week. He says he needs more time to fix the agency and hire more workers. Angelina jolie had her ovaries and few lope january tubes taken out. She carries a gene mutation. Her mom, grandma, and aunt all died of cancer. Two years ago, she had a double mastectomy to lower her risk. She wants to make sure she has a long life with her husband and children. Those surgeries are not rare. A mother of two had her ovaries and tubes removed several years ago when she was 40. She learned she had the braca 1 gene mutation when she was just 32. She wanted to have children, so she waited. She later also had a double mastectomy. Even though the physical aspect of the surge arery is done pretty easily with a laparoscopic surgery, there are so many bigger implications. Instead of a gradual decline into menopause, you basically jump off a cliff. She took hormone replacement therapy to deal with the early menopause. Shes now a staff member of the Organization Called force, which helps people affected by hereditary breast and owe variance ovarian cancers. Frank underwood from house of cards has thrown a journalist under a subway, murdered a congressman, and in a poll viewers give the predatorry president an Approval Rating of 57 . President barack obama only gets 46 . Message to mr. Obama ruthless is popular, at least on the fake president. Always watching, always tracking. Wusa 9s first alert weather. All right, tracking what could be our first spring thunderstorm. When could it get here . Maybe as early as thursday morning. Also a little trivia for you. The issue a severe thunderstorm watch for missouri and arkansas today. Its been a slow Severe Weather season. High temperature 47 today. Still 46. Relative humidity only 34 . Clear skies for the time being and a calm wind. Clouds will roll back in by dawn. In the meantime, well start out clear and mostly cloudy by dawn. Bus stop temperatures still cold. Maybe not as cold as last night, although if the clouds dont get in here quicker, i may have to lower the temperatures. 3242 for bus stop temperatures, 6 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. Thursday warm with some thunderstorms, and some of those thunderstorms could be in here by 1011 00 a. M. Weve issued a yellow alert for thursday. 10 00 p. M. Tonight, were still clear. 38 in leesburg and generally in the upper 30s. By 6 00 a. M. , clouds come back in a hurry. It stays dry, a couple of sprinkles possible south and west of us. Temperatures still in the low 30s 6 00 a. M. By 9 00 a. M. , theres a few sprinkles here and there. I think inside the beltway, youll have a dry commute. For the most part, 85 of you will probably have a dry commute. Either way on 95 north or south. By 1 00 p. M. , clouds are still in place. By 6 00, some breaks in the clouds into southern maryland. Temperatures responding. Mid50s downtown. Mid50s this la plata. Were going to advance this into the future now. By thursday morning, i stopped it here at 7 00. Its at least heavy rain. It doesnt mean it will exactly be there, but you could have heavy rain on your way to work on thursday. You could hear the rumble of thunder before thursday is out. 66 in fredericksburg. The warm air will roll in, in a hurry. It is march. 37 at 7 00. 40, maybe a sprinkle at 9 00. Mostly cloudy skies by 1 00. Theres the yellow alert on thursday with showers and thunderstorms. Temperatures fall, maybe a shower in the morning. Next seven days maybe a flurry on saturday. Low 40s. Low 50s on sunday, back in the thank you, cable for taking longer to upload our family movies. For the slower internet upload speeds. For taking longer to upload my files to the cloud. For making me wait longer to share my photo albums. And for never upgrading to 100 fiber optics thank you cable. Thank you cable, because if we never had you. 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We understand that dad has a degree in meteorology. That would be cool. Wow thats our Angelina Jolie today, after her powerful decision to have her ovaries removed. I applaud it. Something thats going to help save lives. Now in menopause. What will this mean for her daughter . Angelinas genetic children will need a lifetime surveillance. Plus, celine dion, overcome with emotion, talking for the first time about her husbands cancer fight. I feed him. We have a feeding tube. Also tonight, star couples news. Miley and patrick are back together. What we saw them doing right after we snapped this photo. Then you can get out of here. The horrifying cleveland kidnapping. Were behind the new tv movie. It was so amazing. That was really me and thats how it happened. Plus wild new scenes from the entourage movie. And why the mother of dragons is about to blow up game of thrones. Bigger, badder, better. Im going to break the wheel. Now, e. T. Never mess with a woman who has dragons. Hi, everybody. Nancy odell has the night off. Brooke anderson is here with me. We have a lot of news to get through, so lets begin with tonights top story. Angelina jolie is opening up about her cancer fight. The 39yearold actress was snapped this morning in her car wearing sunglasses, just hours after the New York Times published her powerful oped called diary of a surgery. Its a dramatic decision. For angelina to have her fallopian tubes and ovaries removed. Its probably the right decision for her if she really wants to maximize her longterm survival, decrease her risk of ever getting ovarian cancer. Angies husband brad pitt, who was in france, rushed to be by her side while she weighed her options. Jolie writes the be
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