>> reporter: hundreds of north koreans laid flowers outside the tomb of their founder kim il sung, his grandson and current leader jim jong un also visited the site kicking off the three-day celebration of his father's birth. but neighbors ring countries -- but neighboring countries believe that celebration could include a missile test. >> this is dangerous. it's provocative. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry just wrapped up a trip to the region. he says even if kim jong un tests a missile, he's still prepared to sit down at the gerkting table. >> if he -- negotiating table. >> if he will meet the obligations that we have all set out that are necessary, stopping the provocation, ceasing the threats, moving away from the nuclearization, we're prepared to gerkt on a full range of issues. >> reporter: but north korea rejected an invitation from the south for peace talks. >> the problem is with the unpredictable north korean leadership, we do not know what they want. do they want to escalate further or sit down with talks. >> reporter: secretary kerry believes north korea is not happy with its european allies. u.s. leaders will meet with the chinese with the goal of persuading kim jong un to end his nuclear program. teresa garcia, cbs news. key measures of new york's new gun law will go into effect today. anyone with a gun which has been reclassified as an assault weapon is required to register it. the measure also places new limits on the number of bullets which will be allowed in gun magazines. the national rifle association says it plans to head to court to ask for an immediate halt to the magazine limit. the new measures take effect just days before the senate is expected to vote on a measure to expand federal background checks for gun buyers. with senators working on a bipartisan bill to overhaul the nation's immigration system, they believe that they could introduce the legislation tomorrow. republican senator marco rubio says the bill will provide a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. however, he says, it will not be amnesty for those who entered the country illegally. the supreme court is hearing two sides of a case that could have big implications for medical research. the question is, can a human gene be patented? danielle nottingham has more. >> reporter: the biotech company myriad genetics argues its patent on the human gene is valid. the genes can show if a person has a greater chance of breast or ovarian cancer. but opponents argue that genes are part of nature and that no one the right to patent a part of the human body and they claim patents block other biocompanies from testing on the genes which could prevent potentially life saving cancer breakthroughs. the supreme court's ruling could have an impact on other patents for vaccines, antibiotics, stem cells and hormones. biotech companies argue what they're patenting is not a part of nature. >> instead what is being patented are d.n.a. sequences that are isolated away from nature, manipulated in the laboratory, and then used in an industry type of matter. >> reporter: opponents are also complaining that muriad is not allowing patients to get second opinions on its test results. kathleen says she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer after a test showed women in her family did not have the predisposition gene. >> they were the only game in town to go to. the product wasn't what they advertised it to be, it wasn't a comprehensive test. and i have cancer because of it. >> reporter: the supreme court's ruling is expected in gene r june. danielle nottingham, cbs news, the supreme court. synthetic marijuana is one step closer to becoming illegal. the d.n.a. has changed the classification of the substances known as spice and k2. they cited the popularity of the drug and public health concerns and the move means that a ban on these substances can begin within 30 days. five other forms of the fake marijuana were banned two years ago. police have tracked down a missing fairfax county boy and his mother in alabama. cameron serafin was due back at his father's home a week ago after spending two days with his mother 32-year-old rebecca serafin. she also goes by the name rebecca lover. detectives say they are concerned for the boy's safety. they are issued a felony arrest warrant for the mother. rehoboth beach police are promising an internal investigation after an arrest that was recorded by a cell phone camera. we would like to warn you that this video is disturbing. it shows officers repeatedly using a taser in order to subdue a man. at one point the man is kicked in his head. the suspect is a 34-year-old man from pennsylvania. he says he was on vacation when he got into a confrontation with a hotel worker. well, that's when police were called and the man's pregnant wife started recording the incident. >> officer, can i just take him home? he's my husband. i'm pregnant. i'm stressed. >> he's resisting arrest. >> but they've been tasing him like crazy, kicking him in the head. guys, listen, i want to take him home. >> police say he made a threatening gesture toward an officer. this afternoon the man has been charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and offensive touching of a law enforcement officer. still to come when the news continues, a man wanders off a metro train platform and falls on to the tracks. but fellow riders jumped into action just as the train was coming and saved the victim. we'll have more details and a deadly wave of bombings shake iraq as the country prepares for elections and braces for more i've been combing through the retailer websites to find you deep discounts. brueggers bagels will fill a box of 13 bagels for $10.40. get it? form 1040. they sold more than 10,000 of these bundles. boston market has a tax day deal as well. two rib meals for $10.40 today only. consider this. a rib-bate. get it. sin bon will hand out two free bite size 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have our forecast. >> jc, left the rain gear inside for now. most of the showers are over for us today, but i'm going to let you know you're going to need it more this week. as far as the heavier coats, probably put them away at least for a little while. here's a look at the allergy count and the pollen count has come in. tree pollen still high. grasses, weeds and mold unchanged through the weekend. i'll be back talking about snow in the more than plains and warmer weather ttpcwwww it was an amazing act of courage. metro passengers jumped into action when a man fell on to tracks while a train was approaching. surae chinn talked with the father-daughter team who saved that man's life. >> reporter: jennifer buchanan from annandale, virginia, and her father kent wright who was visiting from massachusetts were on their way to a caps game thursday night. the excitement was supposed to be at the rink on ice, but all the adrenaline would happen during pre-game. and since they're on vacation this weekend, i interviewed them through skype. >> i could see the lights of the train in the tunnel. >> reporter: a man looking down on his cell phone stepped right off the platform into an oncoming metro train at pentagon city station. >> he slipped off the track right in front of us. >> reporter: you can barely make out in this metro surveillance video the man falls down on the tracks. >> he's laying right on the rail. on his face. >> reporter: the crowd gathers around on the platform to see what happens next would save the man's life. >> i got down on my hands and knees. my daughter got down on her hands and knees. i reached down. i said give me your hand. i don't know the train was coming. i just grabbed his hand and yanked him up. my daughter grabbed his leg. we rolled him on to the platform. >> reporter: the quick thinking and mere seconds prevented a tragedy and according to the pair, it was pure instinct. >> i think the guy's alive because we didn't think. we didn't hesitate. as soon as we fell, we were both on our knees by the edge of the tracks pulling him up. >> reporter: it started with a man distracted but ended with a focus of one main goal. >> when i reached down. >> and we pulled him up. >> reporter: the man they helped save is a mystery to them because the father- daughter team went on to the caps game but not before a little gratitude. >> he goes thank you. you see this on the news at different times and you say, i wonder what i have double. well, now we know. >> yes, now we know we would have done the right thing. >> reporter: metro is not releasing the identity of the manual they saved. the father-daughter pair do say that the take away from all this, don't be distracted. stop looking at your cell phone or what have you and pay attention to your surroundings at metro or anywhere else. you may not have good samaritans around to save you. i'm surae chinn for wusa9. >> congratulations to that couple. that was so nice of them. >> hopefully we would do the same ever given the opportunity to return that favor to somebody, pay it forward. weather wise, not a bad start to the week but not a great start to the week. clouds, a couple of sprinkles this morning. we're pretty much done with most of the real sprinkles. we may see one or two this afternoon but that's about it and warmer days for the rest of the week until the weekend. looking outside right now, cloudy, isolated sprinkles here and there for the next few hours and with some luck, we'll get a few sunny breaks this afternoon. mid to perhaps upper 60s. it all depends on the sunny breaks whether or not we get them. with the wind out of the southeast coming off the atlantic, that by itself will keep us a little cool today. that's why we're only going mid- 60s for most of us. you see the rain this morning. most of it is just falling apart. some light showers here in eastern pennsylvania and southern new jersey. looking at doppler 9000, you'll notice here to our east, looking at a couple of showers across areas of prince george's county and anne arundel counties and across the bay toward easton. light sprimples -- sprinkles warrenton some light rain during the 11:00 hour as we zoom in from upper marlboro, shady side. this is where we're looking at a couple of very light showers right now. temperatures being held down due to the cloud cover. 56 for baltimore and annapolis. 61 currently in la plata. up north 63 in frederick and out to the west upper 50s and low 60s here on the i-81 corridor. outside on our michael & son weather camera, cloudy skies. not this dark but it is a cloudy afternoon, 61. national reporting light sprinkles on the hour with a dew point of 46. here in northwest it is dry. wind out of the southeast at 6 miles an hour. it has not been dry out west. this has been a rather snowy period. more snow falling. bismarck 17.6 inches of snow yesterday alone. that was a record for them for a 24-hour period in april. looking at showers moving in toward michigan. more snow now coming in toward denver. they're going to get 4, 5, 6 inches of snow later on tonight and tomorrow. as this thing moved away, the upper level support was lost for much of these showers. we still have lots of clouds around with a few breaks in the cloud cover but generally we're looking cloudy for the afternoon with a stray sprinkle. southeast winds hit the ridgetops out west, it will squeeze out a little drizzle or a few sprinkles tonight into tomorrow morning. then tomorrow we'll burn it all off and in the afternoon looks like we'll be sunny here with a chance of a shower out toward i- 81 and points west. a better chance for us on wednesday. so mid-60s today with the isolated shower. back in the low to mid-50s tonight, some spotty drizzle. we'll burn that off and turn partly sunny in the afternoon. 77, a warmer day on tuesday. 80'ish on wednesday. i'm counting on a front to stay generally north of us. if it sags south, we'll be lowering that number with a chance of afternoon thunder. friday, friday night, better chance of some rain before cooling off for the weekend. jc, back to you. as a homeowner, it is important to do routine maintenance on your home. but some people who are on a strict budget don't always have the ability to pay for those repairs. one nonprofit organization is helping residents of alexandria with their home improvements. today i'm saluting rebuilding together: alexandria. >> i feel much more comfortable, much more relaxed to get -- to be able to do stuff. i know my energy bills are down. >> john patterson can't say enough good things about his home makeover that he got from rebuilding together alexandria. >> miserable. what happened before this all happened, i was -- [indiscernible] >> the vietnam veteran was finding it tough carrying his groceries. >> when they would come over here, i'd ask them about putting a gate on my desk so when i pull up with my van, i don't have to lug the groceries. >> rebuilding together alexandria is just part of a nationwide group working to preserve affordable housing and revitalize communities. >> it is absolutely free for the clients because we help low to moderate income homeowners. >> the nonprofit organization did more than what patterson wanted. way more. >> when we come into a house to do an initial walk threw, we're looking for not only the tasks that the homeowner would like done but things related to safety and health. >> a wheelchair ramp was added to his backyard deck, and they also saved money from insulation and energy saving additions to his home. >> i think john saved maybe 20, 25 percent, maybe a little bit more on his heating bills and air conditioning. >> all the work comes from volunteers, skilled craftsman, builders and everyday people. >> oh, my gosh, i love, love what i do. i've been at rebuilding together for about nine years and before then i think i was just a closet handyman. so my tool shed will rival anyone's tool shed. >> find out whether you qualify for a free home makeover. their phone number is 703-836- 1021. you can get this information by getting to my website jchayward.com. we'll i have a copy of the hottest cookbook that's just come out today. you can get it at your local bookstore. you can go online and order it. it is "the washington post" cookbook. i think "the washington post" has some of the greatest recipes ever, and now i have with me bonnie benwick who put together this book. i don't know how she did it. how did you decide what was going in this? this is the first ever. how did you decide what was going in this cookbook? >> it was tough but we actually went to the readers. we're a all here for the washington readership. i sent out e-mails and got people to tell us what they wanted to see in the book and hopefully we've got enough of it in there. >> sometimes when you look at a new cookbook, the recipes are so complicated for someone like me that really isn't a great cook. it's a turnoff. these recipes are really easy. they're not that complicated. >> they're not that complicated. >> even i can follow them. so get a copy of "the washington post" cookbook. it's great. it has great parents in here and actually you brought one recipe. >> i have. this happens to be a dinner in minutes, an easy recipe that is humuni grilled burgers. what you want to do is start with shrimp that's already peeled and deveined. the book says use leftover shrimp, leftover corn bread. you can make your corn bread. you can buy it at the local store. >> just mix it together? >> you do. it's got celery, parsley, scallions, lemon zest. it's got a little bit of may nays, one egg, salt and pepper, a little bit of hot sauce. >> you've given me that recipe and it's on jchayward.com. >> i have. i'm going to chop it up really fast. >> and put it together. >> i'm going to form patties. >> you just saute it? >> absolutely. >> not too much. >> and we'll have you taste this here. >> this is the finished product. oh, my gosh, doesn't that look good? don't forget, get a copy of "the washington post" cookbook. we're going to finish this and i'm going to have lunch. it looks so good. congratulations, bonnie, on a fabulous book. >> thank you. >>