and sweat into this community. building homes, helping the elderly and the military and even helping out during the snow. >> you all keep it up. maybe i'll see you here in may. >> reporter: nine months later, the challenge was met. >> you reached out -- you have volunteered and applied to organizations like teach for america in record numbers. >> reporter: she's asking the graduating class to continue volunteering. >> you didn't think i'd show up here without another challenge, did you? >> reporter: one is taking it to heart, putting off her goal to one day become a pr exec for now. >> do you have a job yet? >> no, i don't have a job yet. a lot of people including myself have taken the whole service thing to heart. maybe go abroad in the fall. >> you also immersed yourself in the community. becoming active and engaged citizens. >> reporter: by the way, the 5,000 graduates not only met the 100,000 hour goal set by the first lady in september, but they exceeded it by 63,980 hours. the first lady said if she would have known how the students would have reacted to the challenge, she may have increased the goal. i'm surae chinn for 9news now. >> the first lady made reference to a gw student, taylor hubbard who fell from a window. he died in the hospital. his friends are searching for answers tonight. >> reporter: at the george washington university dorm, where taylor hub art lost his life -- hubbard lost his life and next door where he lived. simple tokens of remembrance. >> really funny and happy guy. >> reporter: sundays, there was a moment of silence. >> it is my sad task, however, to inform you that one of our sophomore students, taylor hubbard, passed away after falling yesterday morning from a residence hall window. >> reporter: the bioengineering student was found lying in the grass 4:00 a.m. saturday morning by other students walking past the hall. >> he was barely breathing and had serious internal injuries. >> reporter: hubbard didn't live at the hall, but may have been visiting friends. >> that he was probably in his friends room and they were probably watching tv. >> reporter: how taylor fell and why is a mystery to both police and his friends. >> they hoped halfway up, but you have to like squish down to get through the window. >> reporter: police have not revealed if taylor was with someone when he fell out the window and if that person shed any light. an autopsy report should provide information if he was under the influence when he fell to his death. the one lesson for george washington university students on this day is that life is fleeting and fragile. in northwest dc, 9news now. university says at that point, the death appears to be accidentsal and the investigation is being conducted jointly by georgetown university campus police and the metropolitan police department. excuse me. at this hour, repair crews ron the scene of a water main break in northwest washington at 21st and pennsylvania avenue. it's a leak that will require a major repair. and will likely affect the morning commute in the downtown area. the fop says a retired connecticut police officer who was hit by a car is now conscious. 62-year-old william tinker was in washington for national police week. he was walking back to his hotel after a parade friday night when he was struck at 8th street and new jersey avenue. tinker suffered several broken bones and doctors also evaluated him for possible head injuries. the driver of the vehicle that struck him remained at the scene and told police officers that he had a green light. no charges have been filed thus far. a man's body has been found in a state park in weekend. state police are treating this like a weekend. it was discovered in the park by somebody looking for a place to fish when he spotted on elbow protruding from the dirt. it showed signs of trauma. the next step will be on autopsy of course. rescue workers from maryland and virginia resumed their efforts on the potomac to find a fisherman. daniel figueroa disappeared. that happened saturday evening. several family members reported him missing and today, searchers used kayaks and a helicopters to continue their search. thus far, they've come up empty. busy at the airport. shutting down because of volcanickish drifting across edge -- ash drifting across england from iceland. heathrow is shut down. tomorrow, plane crash -- a plane crashes into a florida residence sending three people to the hospital. it hit the roof in clear water, florida and crashed in the backyard causing a small fire. the pilot and the passengers, they survived, but they were hurt. >> there were three people in the plane. the pilot and a female passenger were transported for nonlife-threatening injuries and another passenger was transported to trauma alert. >> the faa is looking into the cause of the crash tonight. well, the space shuttle atlantis made its final voyage to the international space station today. the team greeted the shuttle crew members hugs and pictures. the astronauts will spend a week at the space station. they'll perform a brief space walk. the first one takes place on monday. now something you don't see every day in the capital. we've got a horse galloping along a road this evening. not sure how he got there. but he was captured unharmed. >> the time now just concerned to keep it from getting hurt. just keeping cars from running into it. started honking the cars. making a lot of noise, you know, letting people know that a big animal is coming through. >> the horse got out of a nearby stable. yeah, we're looking for a rainy forecast moving our way. 76 this afternoon with enough sunshine coming through. here's the wakeup weather with the rain headed our way. when it starts and how long it lasts and how much we're going to get with our complete forecast coming up in just a little bit. -thanks for coming back out. -sure. i think you might have hooked it up wrong, though. yea, we're getting way too many 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[ male announcer ] call now and get fios tv, internet, and phone for just $99.99 a month guaranteed for two years! this is beyond cable. this is fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v. this is beyond cable. this is fios. in detroit, michigan, a 7- year-old girl is shot and killed by a policeman's bullet as she lay sleeping. police tossed a flash grenade through a window and stormed into the home looking for a murder suspect. police say one of the officers got into a scuffle with the girlies grandmother. the -- girl's grandmother. the gun discharged striking the girl in the head. >> they threw a bomb through a window, she got caught on fire and my brother said baby, she got a bullet in her face. >> i'm always going to remember her through her mother and her brothers. it's just sad to see such a waste. for no reason. they're supposed to be trained for this type of stuff. they came in here and killed my baby. she was a good girl and everything. she was asleep. she didn't even know what's going on or what hit her. she don't even know. >> at a press conference, police apologized to the family and community. a full investigation is underway. bp says it could take several days to determine if a new technique to stop the oil leak is actually working. bp was able to hook up a mile long tube to siphon oil. but tarell brown is in venice, louisiana and says a new report shows the damage already done may be worse than expected. >> reporter: oil from the spill in the gulf of mexico is spreading rapiddy. a computer model shows oil has entered the gulf's currents, sending it to the florida keys and now the gulf is filling up with underwater plumes of oil. >> the large globs just below the surface and we also found what we're calling clouds of oil down in the water column hundreds of feet down. >> reporter: scientists estimate the biggest is 10 miles long, four miles wide and as much as 300 feet trick. >> it's quite likely that some of the things living down there are going to mistake it for food and eat it. >> reporter: every day, an estimated 210,000 gallons of oil spill into the gulf of mexico. and some scientists think the numbers could be much worse. but good news -- the unabated oil dispute may be over. bp announced sunday it successfully mounted a mile long pipe from the blownout well on the floor to a tanker on the surface. >> this jump-started the flow into the search tank. >> reporter: the investigation into what went wrong the night of april 20th continues. on sunday, michael williams says officials knew equipment had been damaged and not repaired. >> they discovered chunks of rubber. in the drilling fluid. there's chunks of our seal is now missing. >> reporter: williams survived by dumping 10 stories from the flaming rig into the sea. 11 people didn't make it into what many are calling the worst environmental disaster of all time. tarell brown, venice, louisiana. they are the women in uniform who serve our country and today, a local cosmetology school paid tribute to military women with a mini spa day. students from the aveda institute no washington voluntaried their time. they were treated to man cures, pedicures, facials and lunch. >> it's a great experience for our students. part of our mission is to give back to society. this is a wonderful experience for them. and it was a great opportunity for us to have the chance to do something nice for the women. >> the aveda institute hopes the spa day will become a company wide event. more than 3400 students graduated from northern virginia community college today. one of the largest community colleges in all of the country. the commencement ceremony was in fairfax. the virginia secretary of education, gerard robinson delivered the address. and tomorrow's "washington examiner," montgomery county is trying to dismiss a class action lawsuit. you can read the full story in monday's washington examine per. up next, this sunday night on 9news now, a young woman named lizzie wants to gain some weight more than anything, but she just can't. she was born with a syndrome so rare only two other people in the world are known to have it. that story is next. and rain is on the way. how much and when will it start in the forecast is coming -- it start? 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-- lizzie, how are you and things just go from there. with me, i have to say, i'm lizzie, how are you, i have this syndrome. i am normal and i have to explain everything. >> reporter: when she was born, liz psi weighed just two pounds and three ounces! doctors told my parents that i was never going to walk or talk or do anything. the cause of her illness remains undiagnosed. what doctors do know is the college senior has a very high metabolism. >> i'll eat and 10 or 15 minutes later, i'll want something else. >> reporter: she is blind in one eye. but lizzie does not dwell on the illness. instead, the communications major wants to make a difference. >> god made me this way for a reason. >> reporter: what makes the illness so puzzling is it mimics the characteristics of several syndromes. one of the biggest being progeria. lizzie is now over 5'0" tall. i'm anita brikman, 9news now. >> the other woman is in england. the youngest person is 13 in texas. in colorado this weekend, a severe storm dumped several inches of hail along highways and fields. some areas were under as much as a foot of hail on sunday. how do you get around that? also reports of tornadoes in the denver area. >> break out the snow plow. >> that part of the country, that is the big hail belt they call it and very typical for them to get a lot of hail. you have to pull out the snow plows. not going to see that here, but rain starting to move our way and this is mainly going to be a light to steady rain. it's going to add up after we get this to over the course of the couple of days. first, we've got a lot of rain in the forecast, but the mane vicinity is going to be first -- event is going to be first thing tomorrow. that's going to be more of a steady to just moderate rain at best. really cools us down for the next two. only a high of 58 on tuesday. now, we're back up with some sunshine on wednesday. so let's take you right into this forecast here first. overcast skies already there. not going to fall too far with low temperatures here tonight. that's going to hold temperatures down. i think the showers building towards washington after 4:00 in the morning. by about mid-morning, this is where we begin the rain in earnest, around the immediate washington metro. agains out west first and spreading into washington and the entire region is going to be under rain. only lower 60s for high temperatures tomorrow and that's if we're lucky. we're not going to make it there. right now, a very mild night. the blanket of the clouds that had moved in southwest of here. 59 baltimore, frederick at 59. lot of 60s northern virginia and nashville at 66. here's the satellite and radar together and you get a good look at the picture of the rain. again, the general system is slow moving. southwest to northeast here and right around charlottesville and richmond, the rain right now and this is the 9 future cast. it's doing really well with this. this is 10:15, mid-morningment this is the heart of the event. as we go through the afternoon hours here monday and again, it doesn't look like a lot of heavy rain coming down. no thunderstorms out there, just a rain event. lasting through monday evening and then make the transition with lower resolution forecast to put it through the rest of tuesday into wednesday, still hanging around with showers and even through the tuesday time frame, but the showers pull aparking lot and we start to see -- apart and we start to see the sunshine comes back wednesday finally getting the storm system out of here wednesday and by the end to have week. exactly how much rain? anywhere from one inch of rain to near three inches o of rain. i think one, maybe one and a half is pretty likely and again, over the course of a couple of days, not big flooding potential: low temperatures mild tonight. we stay right around there for our high temperatures by the afternoon. this is definitely going to be a cool, rainy day. the zone forecast shows rain for everyone involved. the entire region, western maryland, eastern panhandle of virginia. the 7 day forecast here after the look at the eastern zones, there's the rain, but the worst is through the afternoon hours tomorrow. rain starts to let up by tuesday, but it's still around. wednesday, we're finally done. real quickly, sum up here. radiant cold, most of the rain by monday afternoon. >> thanks a lot. most of us think of immigration law as black or white. but actually, it's more like a maze and in in week's heroest central report, derrick mcbeginty reports. >> for the last 37 years, they've been providing the immigrants to help them navigate a legal system. >> there are immigration benefits for people of victims of domestic violence. and a lot of times, people are unaware they're eligible for the benefits. >> one of our clients came to us from rwanda. he had been the victim of persecution and he arrived after ayuda's door. he helped him -- we helped him get political asylum. after we were able to get him the asylum. his family was in fact alive. so we were able to reunite his family with him. >> ayuda came to the rescue of more than 2300 immigrants from 80 countries last year alone. now, they say the resources are always tight. so they were very excited to learn that the gannett foundation, "usa today" and 9news now are donating a grant of $10,000. for more information on the charities, just go to wusa9.com and click on the heroes central link. derrick mcginty, 9news now. is an july taste of arlington -- annual taste of arlington event. there were tastings of more than 40 restaurants. u.s. army band, the levine school of music were among the performers. a portion benefits the virginia hospital center and the arlington community foundation. stay with us. coming up. a quick look at sports plus. take it one course at a time. that was the advice from 94- year-old hazel suarez who became the world's second oldest graduate. she got a degree in art history in oakland, california this weekend and like many recent college grads, homing to finds a job -- hoping to find a job. >> don't look at me. >> does she do sports? >> i was going say -- don't take my job. >> hey, maybe get a tape. >> you never know. >> what do you have for us? some big hockey news, sports plus a couple of minutes away. caps fans, stick around because we're going to tell you about a big announcement involving your team and a player. they have a significant news and it's player-related. several sources say it's to disclose nicklas backstrom's contract extension. backy has put up big numbers in the shadow of alex ovechkin of course. he was second with 101 points. for the first time this year, the nats lose three in a row after colorado swept them today. they finished up the day with a 3-1 win despite a great effort from olsen. washington opens up a series with st. louis tomorrow. that game was -- you know, in the last couple of innings, you know, they did some small bunt, bunt the wall and sacrifice fly and that was the game. and some football news. what was sports plus be without some redskins stuff management in the community this week? we caught up with the general manager and coach. what they had to say about albert haynesworth and why one might show up in the nation's cap cool. a young arm, coring up for the -- coming up for the nats. he's on his way. a young arm, on his way. >> nice try. don't seize us like this. >> good stuff. we've got rain tomorrow i think for a better part of our mound. around mid-morning, the rain is going to begin. i still think during the morning drive, the rain is roble. most of us is -- possible. most of it is going to be west of here. the afternoon and evening is when the rain is going to be falling. tuesday, projects of line eight here and there -- pockets of line right here and there. the storm system is not out of here until wednesday and by the end of this, looking at one to three inches of water. >> do we need the rain? >> we're short. >> thanks for watching, next on 9news now, tomorrow morning beginning at 4:25. next is sports plus. have a great week everybody. bye bye. so, verizon fios includes cool widgets like facebook, twitter, even access to youtube right on your tv, instead of crowding around your computer. hey -- have you seen the walking ham? 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