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Prosecutors are resuming their aggressive questioning of former Virginia Governor Bob Mcdonnell once again. Charged with corruption, mcdonnell returned to the witness stand after more than four hours of testimony on monday. Peggy fox is live at the federal courthouse in richmond with more on on whats going on today. Peg . Reporter its like watching a verbal sparring match with prosecutor michael drive firing questions at mcdonnell and mcdonnell answering with a short yes or no and sometimes stopping the prosecutor and saying, you asked me a couple of questions there. Could you rephrase it. This back and forth all morning long about all of the details. In fact Bob Mcdonnell kind of looked exasperated. Take a look at the walkin right there. This morning mcdonnell was escorted once again by his daughter kaelin. The prosecutor has drilled mcdonnell about several handwritten notes he took from a phone conversation with Jonnie Williams about a loan. He said did you understand that hes offering to loan you 150,000 in Star Scientific stock . That you would only have to repay 90,000. Mcdonnell said, quote, it really wasnt clear to me. All i wanted was a loan for 50,000 in cash. Mcdonnell has also disputed what his long time broker testified to about him wanting to separate, having a separate account for star shares. He says he doesnt recall saying that, doesnt remember that happening. Then there were rapid fire questions about mcdonnell promoting anatabloc. Youve seen that picture of him holding that bottle of anap block anatabloc. He was asked how many other companies and products did you pose with that have given you a 50,000 loan, have given your wife a 50,000 loan, have given your daughter 15,000 for her wedding reception and to each question mcdonnell answered none. Heres what Bob Mcdonnell said this morning. I really cant talk about any of my testimony on the stand. Im just looking forward to continuing to tell the truth today. Reporter any regrets not taking the plea . Reporter how difficult is this to watch . Excuse us, guys. Excuse us. I feel pretty good today. Thank you. Reporter another very interesting point this morning, weve all seen it, everybody in the courtroom has seen emails from Bob Mcdonnell referring to Jonnie Williams and misspelling his first name. Jonnie williams spells his first name jonnie. Every single email he has an h in the name. The prosecutor mocked that. Is it our testimony that your personal friend that you dont know how to spell their name, you misspelled it here. You misspell it here. He said no, i just misspelled his name. Thats all. Definitely a point there because mcdonnell has said he took the loan because he thought williams was a personal friend. Ill have more coming up at 5 00 as the testimony continues and crossexamination continues. Mike . Thanks, peggy, peggy fox live in richmond. A local student from maryland is among four young men killed in a plane crash near cleveland. The 18yearold of rockville d;o in the crash last night at could iing on ga cuoga airport. Their cessna crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff. The federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation safety board are investigating the crash. It is back to school time today for Prince Georges County students. The new school year, many new students, new faces, new programs, and new rules. Nikki burdine was there for their exciting first day. Reporter bus driver nancy has her morning routine down. Shes been doing it for 26 years. But this year shes got a few extra steps. Checking the new cameras on her bus. The cameras will catch cars coming and going if they dont stop for the bus. It will also help with bullying with two lenses in the back of the bus. And as kids arrive at school today, theyll notice even more changes, like a lot of new faces. 800 new teachers and 30 new principals. We had a volunteer boot camp for teachers who could come get some extra readiness skills. Reporter there are three new spanish immersion programs this year and 16 more prekindergarten classes plus an expanded breakfast program. A brand new Specialized School opened its doors, too. We have a brand New Elementary School in hyattsville that is themed around arts education. And then we have a new Aeronautics Program at duval high school. Reporter all of this is music to the ears of parents like rhonda pew. This is macy, stacy and tracy, theyre trip. Lets theyre going to first girl. Reporter her girls are starting their first day. What are you most excited about . Because i get to see my new friends and i get to see my new teacher. Reporter is it a bittersweet day . Are you sad to have the girls leave the house or are you ready . Im ready. Im ready, yes. Reporter in Prince Georges County, nikki burdine, wusa9. Wed like to remind you that experts will be standing by at wusa9 tomorrow to answer any backtoschool questions that you might have. Dr. Melissa weisner of Inova Fairfax hospital will be here tomorrow with advice during a live web chat in our noon newscast and a panel of inova doctors will also join us for discussion and interviews during our 5 00 p. M. Newscast. We hope you can join us for that tomorrow. Cbs news has learned the u. S. Has begun surveillance flights over syria in preparation for possible strikes on isis targets. It would be an expansion of the Bombing Missions already taking place against the sunni militant group in iraq. Tara mergener has the latest from the white house. The. Has not made a decision to pursue any sort of military action in syria. Reporter while president obama deliberates, the pentagon is preparing. Cbs news has learned the u. S. Is conducting surveillance flights over syria with both manned and unmanned aircraft. Syrias foreign minister said his country welcomes help fighting isis militants but would consider u. S. Air strikes without the syrian governments approval and act of aggression. Sources tell cbs news the u. S. Likely wont ask for permission. Ed Obama Administration the Obama Administration says theres no evidence isis is currently planning an attack on u. S. Soil but still considers the group a threat to americans. General Martin Dempsey says isis has an pock limittic end of day apocalyptic end of day strategy which will have to be defeated. These are people who have been radicalized, have gotten military training and even in some cases battle tested. Reporter they also have [ inaudible ] Tara Mergener for cbs news, the white house. Place your bets. A new casino in maryland makes its pxxidebut today. The horseshoe casino will be home to 2500 slot machines and 122 table games in baltimore. The gambling hall is at inner harbor and it will be the fifth casino in maryland. After initially declining to authorize legal gambling in the state, maryland now is one of the Fastest Growing casino markets in country. A 950 million gambling complex is scheduled to open at thangs harbor in at National Harbor in oxon hill coming up in two years. We have a beautiful tuesday under way. The skies are clear. That sunshine is really doing a number, warming things up. Were going to be locally near 90 this afternoon but not too humid. In fact right now were up to 85 at National Airport with 79 in annapolis. Lots of 70s in the Shenandoah Valley so youll only top out in the mid80s there. Not so much concern today but tomorrow as a front is approaching. Heres our futurecast for wednesday. I want to tell you there could be a watch of fog early. Well be okay through the middle of the day. Here we are now at 2 30. Notice a few storms popping up out in the mountains here by mid afternoon. A tough time moving southeast but winchester potentially by 5 30. In the evening hours, 7 00, 8 00, well have to watch along i70, the blue ridge and west for a threat for a couple storms late tomorrow. Well be back with the full sevenday forecast and looking ahead toward the weekend in a few minutes. Michael . Still ahead on wusa9, californias wine country could be in store for a 1 billion loss after sundays earthquake. Plus, burger king says you a revoir to the United States. More on the corporations move the damage estimate from sundays earthquake on sunday in the wine country could reach as much as a billion dollars. The worst quake in the bay area in 25 years injured more than 200 people and the aftershocks rolled through the area yesterday. Many homes and businesses were hit hard but we are learning a majority of the wineries are open and they are encouraging tourists to still visit. Its a whopper of a deal. Burger king confirmed today it is indeed buying the canadian based coffee and donut chain tim hortons and it will move its Corporate Headquarters north of the border. Critics say its a move thats unpatriotic to avoid paying u. S. Taxes. Jan crawford has more. Reporter even talk of moving the home of the whommer to canada was whopper to canada was enough to gettysburger king customer get burger king customers fired up. Burger kings Facebook Page was flooded with messages from people threatening to boycott. This is one of the very few companies where consumers can very easily vote with their wallets. Reporter the deal could mean big tax savings on foreign income. The u. S. Has the highest Corporate Tax rate in the developed world at about 35 . The federal tax rate in canada is closer to 15 . Although legal, the practice known as a tax inversion has faced repeated criticism from president obama. You dont have that option. It aint right. Reporter democratic senator brown from ohio shared that outrage monday saying burger kings decision to abandon the United States means consumers should turn to wendys old fashion hamburgers or white castle sliders. Burger king isnt the First American company to face a backlash. Earlier this month walgreens ditched plans to move its headquarters to europe after an onslaught of negative publicity. Since 2012 at least 21 American Companies have announced or completed similar deals. Most of them involved Health Care Companies until now. Jan crawford, cbs news, washington. Coming up on wusa9, the steep price tag for a college education. We will show you a new tool that can help students lighten the load. Were back utfk welcome back. The cost of college can seem overwhelming for families. There is now a new online tool that can help make a difference when it comes to trying to pay for it. Were talking about scholargifts. Com. Welcome, the founder. Nice to meet you. Glad to meet you, too. One of the things we had talked about previously before we started the newscast today was that its sort of a crowd funding site. Absolutely. Scholar gifts is an exciting new crowd funding website established several months ago by a small team of people who were swd in helping to interested in helping to provide a community service. There is a crowd of people interested in helping others succeed by donating online to their cause. Are we talking about tuition . Books . I need clothes . All of the above. As long as it is the latest for some type of educational purpose, it can be housed on scholar gifts. Were talking about tuition, books and materials for study, abroad cultural enrichment. Weve had campaigns ranging from an extraordinary youth violinist who was seeking funds to attend a prestigious Berkley College of music to someone who just completed a study abroad, studying culture in south africa. All of those projects were funded as part of scholar gifts. Thers an application process. How do you go about starting Something Like that if you wanted to try it . Absolutely free to post a campaign on scholar gifts. All you do is be inspired by whatever goal youre seeking to fund and post it for free. Theres a Current Campaign on there to assist camario who is an emancipated minor who is seeking funds to stay in college. Theres a campaign to seek awareness for its called donate putting a human face behind someone currently suffering from als going beyond the ice bucket challenge thats there now. Its about awareness. Its bed indication. Its about learning. Its about anything that is needed to succeed. Oftentimes with crowd funding sites, there is a caveat. Theres some sort of fee. How does that apply here . Again, it is absolutely free to post a campaign. Would distinguishes scholar gifts from some of the other online you get to keep the money you raised with some slight fee. With other the sites you dont reach your goal, you get nothing. Pleasure to meet you. Wonderful. Thank you so very much. You bet. Howard, take it away. No weather alert days in our forecast right now. We are watching for the threat for a late day thunderstorm, especially north and west of washington as we get into tomorrow afternoon. Today nothing but severe clear as we call it in the weather world. Sunny, warm, upper 80s, even locally near 90 but the humidity levels are in check. So its a good warm, not that sticky oppressive warmth we can get easily this time of year. This evening you have plans outside, its going to be warm, but doable for sure with low 80s by 7 00. The ac will be on in my probably be able to open it up overnight tonight, pop the windows open and enjoy it because were going to be back in the 60s, if not a few and upper 50s. Mid80s along the i95 corridor from d. C. Up through philly and new york. Out to the west, we still have some 70s out here. Then it gets even stickier, though. Once you get west of columbus, thats where the humidity starts to kick up. Locally were still in the upper 70s in fill month. Leesburg philomount. Leesburg up to 80. Dulles 82 along with college park and laurel is 84 and rockville we have an even 80 degrees. We have a great afternoon under way with plenty of sunshine. Satellite and radar, High Pressure is in control right now. Its in pennsylvania. Its pretty much nosing in over us. We have light winds but as the high moves to the east, well get away from this north, northeasterly flow and the ones will turn more southeast and southwesterly tomorrow. This is bringing in the humidity up into the midwest ahead of this cold front. Thats why weve got these storms firing through chicago and northern indiana, southwestern michigan. That front that is going to play interest our weather later tomorrow. While it will probably come through pretty dry in d. C. North and west could be dealing with a thunderstorm late in the afternoon. So were pretty quiet here. Im taking you forward to noon on wednesday. Its going to heat up. Well get in the low 90s tomorrow. With the humidity it will probably feel mid to upper 90s with the heat index. Here comes some storms by mid to late afternoon. North of us by 5 00. Late afternoon, early evening if they hold together, they could be here 8 00, 9 00 but thats a big if. Then we get drier behind it. In the tropics we have cristobal out in the atlantic. Its a hurricane right now right here. Its going to go north and northeast passing between bermuda and north carolina. It will not be a threat to the u. S. We may get some high surf over the next couple of days at the beaches. Thats the biggest concern. 88 today if not locally 90 but dry. Tonight upper 60s. Closer to 60 in the northwest suburbs. Even a few 50s out there and a patch of fog. 92 tomorrow. The late storm north and west. We cool down some for thursday and friday, mid80s. 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