in prince george's county south of woodmore that popped up as well moving outside the beltway. entire metro area under a severe thunderstorm watch until 10 p.m. lesli and anita? >> the end of the heat alert can't come soon enough for some residents. seniors and residents with disabilities sweating it out in a building without electricity and a.c. since yesterday. some dc schools canceled classes today. several federal buildings were closed. as were the dc department of health, department of environment, the dc housing authority and others. pepco blames the initial problem on a fault in a power feeder but then a second underground cable failed and the power isn't expected to be restored until midnight. >> bruce johnson is joining us live from 1st street ne where many businesses are still without electricity. how bad is it out there, bruce. >> reporter: pretty bad. pepco as a matter of fact is working down the street trying to repair the cable that you're talking about. let me just show you some of the impact of not having electricity and air- conditioning in the area. right here this building is the office, headquarters of the dc school board. school headquarters closed today. people have been sent home, other people told to work from home. no power, air-conditioning. back there over my shoulder, brand-new grocery store very popular. it would be bustling this time of day. it is closed. no power. no a.c. above it. apartment building in the dark. you've got the hilton garden and they are sending people to other hotels, other hilton establishments throughout the area hailing cabs trying to get people out of there. again, no electricity around the corner, 500, 700 residents that you just referred to they are living in public housing, highrises up to eight stories. that's high here in dc. no power, electricity, no air- conditioning since the middle of yesterday. and they have had it just about up to here. >> dark sweat box inside the tyler house apartments on north capitol street. power lost mid-afternoon yesterday. >> elevators are out. no electricity. nothing is working. >> okay. >> we have got a lot of people in wheelchairs and can't come down. >> reporter: firefighters have been dispatched in shifts. going door-to-door to check on the elderly and handcapped portable fans and cooling centers have been set up on the first floor. food and water are also being passed out. >> what's it like in your apartment? >> like 90 degrees plus. >> really? >> yes. >> and you work here. >> my client is the one with the hat on and she can't be in there like that. >> reporter: the elevators are out so that means everybody is taking the stairs in the hot and dark eight-story building. social workers are helping deliver food and water to residents who can't or won't leave their apartments. residents are also checking on their neighbors in this case. an 80 plus-year-old woman. next door residents were also trying to beat the heat. >> we need some air. >> reporter: a cooling center was busy but not clouded. >> delivering ice water, fruit and some light refreshments for breakfast. >> reporter: a metro bus fully air conditioned was parked outside for residents to chill we are looking live outside on 1st street ne. the hub, if you will, where we have got 1500 to 1700 people. don't have power, electricity. here loading people into cabs hail them right on the street during rush hour. good luck with that. trying to get them to other hilton establishments. it is the scene throughout the area. people just trying to cope without power and electricity. as you say pepco promises to have the electricity, air back on by midnight tonight. then after that it will be hours before these places cool off. back to you. >> hard to imagine. okay, bruce, thank you so much. each successive day of extreme heat increases everybody's vulnerability to heat exhaust. 51 people were treated in emergency rooms across maryland for heat related issues. and a marching band and dozens others treated for dehydration during monday's memorial day parade in dc. mysterious death of a 12- year-old girl in her gaithersburg home. a short time ago police confirmed the death on raven avenue is considered a homicide. now, the question is who did it and why? we go to montgomery county headquarters with new details. scott broom has the story. >> reporter: they just released the photo of this 12-year-old girl. 12 years old. middle schooler at gaithersburg middle school in the gaithersburg area. always on the honor role. a wonderful child according to her friends and neighbors who talked to us about her today who are in shock, disbelief about what has happened to her. nearly 20 hours after the call for help from this home and discovery of jessica's body here. investigators arrived to search for evidence again. an indication that this child murder is nowhere near solved. >> the medical examiner has ruled this death a homicide. >> reporter: but police have little more to offer. >> i can tell you that there is trauma to her upper body. i can't comment about what type of traumat this time. >> reporter: suspect. >> we are not ruling anything in or out right now. >> reporter: meanwhile, shocked classmates. and crying mothers. parading past the house bringing balloons and stuffed animals. >> i just think it is really sad. >> reporter: alexis, a friend since the second grade said jessica was happy, trouble free, and got excellent grades at the gaithersburg middle school. >> means she will be here for me and i will always be there for her. >> reporter: police were called to the house at 7:30 p.m. last night for report of an injured child. they found jessica dead. they scoured the house with grieving onlookers outside. they towed a minivan but no arrests were made. jessica lived here with her family investigators say. but none were here today while the investigation continued. >> she is my best friend. we gave each other everything. >> reporter: investigators will not say who called for help last night and who was home when they arrived. they did tell us yesterday evening that their initial interviews were done with family members and neighbors but that is not necessarily the direction this investigation is taking. still a mystery. the property records show the home is owned by two people. investigators will not comment on their relationship to jessica but they did say that she lived in the home with her family. still a mystery tonight, anita. >> certainly is. scott broom, thank you. sad story. meantime this is day 7 of the trial of casey anthony. the florida woman accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter. anthony's brother lee took the stand in orlando an told jurors about his unsuccessful attempts to track down his sister for a month while the toddler caylee was missing. >> nothing was making sense to me. >> what's not making sense to you? >> why couldn't we or anybody just go get caylee and bring her home. there was no reason to fight with mom at this point. >> if convicted casey anthony could get the death penalty. the defense claims caylee died in an accidental drowning in the family pool. right now the ntsb is holding a news conference on yesterday's bus crash that killed four people in virginia. the bus company sky express has a history of safety violations. federal regulators shut down the company initially but they have now given it a week to repeal its unsatisfactory rating much the driver faces wreckless driving charges because police say he fell asleep at the wheel. delia gonclaves is joining us now. you have been following this story and had you a chance to talk to people who boarded some other discount buses around town. what are they saying? >> well not the same one, different buses. >> sure. >> they say we take these buses because of the discounted price. we all know that the folks yesterday paid $30 to go from north carolina to the big apple. today i talked to folks who paid just $20. but the experts say just because you're looking for a cheap ticket doesn't mean you should sacrifice safety. the buses stop on street corners in chinatown picking up passengers for an inexpensive ride for the big apple. >> i chose this bus because it is cheap. >> no problems at all? >> i never had any bad drivers. i have been one of the fortunate ones. >> reporter: waiting with luggage nearby. >> i have been using them i guess because of the prices and i travel a lot back and forth. >> reporter: but some passengers expressed concern just one day after this deadly bus crash on 95. >> makes me nervous, of course. >> that's what you get for that price. but there should be no excuse. it involves human lives. >> that was eminent. it was going to happen. they had hundreds of violations. >> reporter: but experts say you can still get a cheap ride without the risk. >> mega bus, for example, offeringdiscountedd fares but they put safety first. >> you have something more official. >> reporter: if you don't go to the basement you might miss the office for new century travel bus. >> my name is delia, i'm a reporter from channel 9. >> reporter: while people there could not speak to me. they provide a bus service for those like their friend that speak no english and for those like ava. >> i have never had any problems so far. >> reporter: who are looking for a reasonably priced ride. >> here is a little perspective. transporting 750 million passengers annually and thankfully these crashes don't happen every day. now, experts do say if folks are looking, lesli, for these discounted tickets, they should do their research first. of course, we will put all that information and safety rounders links to find that will be on our website wusa9.com. >> we are just getting in names of the four women killed in that crash. 46-year-old woman from new york. a 63-year-old woman of philadelphia. a 78-year-old woman. a 25-year-old woman from jersey city, new jersey. additionally 20 of the 53 passengers who had been taken to the hospital are still in the hospital for treatment at this point. all right, let's move on to other news right now because the f.a.a. announced a crackdown on people who point powerful lasers at airplanes. they will finally people as much as $11,000 for each incident. laser lights can temporarily blind pilots. a captain for delta talked about his experience with a laser attack outside oklahoma city. >> i also continued to monitor the laser on the grounds keeping my hands very close to my face to reflect the lays, away as it swept through the cockpit which it did on numerous occasions. what really struck me about the laser was the intensity of it. it is indescribable how intense the laser beam was. >> pilots have reported more than 1100 laser attacks in the u.s. so far this year. can you spell overachievers? we are talking about the contestants for the scripps national spelling bee. it started today. all but 38 of the contestants spelled their words right making for some very tense moments. >> g a l l i p o t. >> t a u d r a l y. >> t a w d r a l y. >> okay. >> did he just say tawdraly. the finals will be held tomorrow night. the winner receives more than $40,000 in cash and prizes. coming up on 9news now more problems with the toyota prius. we will tell you why more than 100,000 hybrids are being recalled. topper? >> we are still tracking some severe storms. we will take you out with a live doppler. the entire metro area is under a severe thunderstorm watch. pretty hefty storm in fairfax. watching these storms and come back and track these. there is hail just south of culpeper. can the president and house republicans make progress on a deal to raise the debt limit. i'm danielle nottingham at the white house. i'll have that story coming up. looking for a new lawyer in peru. his current attorney removed himself from the case yesterday because of what he calls a difference of opinion. he is accused of killing the daughter of a prominent businessman and also mentioned as a possible suspect in the disappearance of natalie holloway in aruba. taking steps to keep its staff safe. panic buttons will be given to all the workers at the pierre hotel in new york city. an executive is charged with sexual abuse and forcible touching being held on $25,000 bond. new york congressman anthony weiner has not been able to quiet the questions over a lewd photo sent from his twitter account much the democrat says he cannot say whether the phone of a man's bulging underpants is not him. it was received by a 21-year- old college student in seattle but weiner today denied sending the photo saying it was the work of a hacker. the existence was first reported on a website run by a conservative commentator. gop leaders are saying they won't allow for any more borrowing unless there are cuts in spending. danielle nottingham brings us more from the white house. >> reporter: republicans left the white house united in their message. they will vote to raise the debt ceiling only if trillions in cuts are included. >> this is the moment. this is the window of opportunity where we can deal with this on our terms. we can work together and solve this problem. >> reporter: president obama invited all 240 health republicans how to reduce the deficit. they acknowledged it was good. >> unfortunately what we did not here from the president is a specific plan of his to deal with the debt crisis. >> reporter: if the debt ceiling isn't raised by august 2nd the government could default on loans possibly sparking an economic crisis here and abroad. the white house warns there is no time to waste. >> playing chicken with the full faith and credit of the united states government is a bad idea. >> the president says he is ready to make spending cuts but does not want to attach complicated ones like medicare reform to the debt bill. vice president joe biden has been negotiate ag compromise with a group of bipartisan lawmakers and the white house believes an agreement can be reached. danielle nottingham, cbs news, the white house. >> the treasury secretary is expected to meet with gop house freshmen on the hill coming up on thursday. only one mission remains for nasa's space shuttle program. the space shuttle endeavour landed overnight in florida. the crew spent two weeks in orbit at the international space station. now that he is home, shuttle commandser mark kelly is traveling to houston to be with his wife, wounded congresswoman gabrielle giffords. >> i really miss her and can't wait to get back there tomorrow to see her. >> coming in for landing. >> congresswoman gabrielle giffords watched her are husband's shuttle watch on t.v. she continues to go under rehab after january's assassination attempt when she was shot in the head. you have been talking about severe weather here but also has been severe weather in other places. even a tornado in massachusetts. >> we are lucky. we are under severe thunderstorm watch but north is a tornado watch and this is in springfield. watch this funnel develop and just takes about 20 seconds. just watch what happens as the funnel develops in the conneticut river. look at that. it is unbelievable. this is up near springfield. >> with all the debris going everywhere. looks like water. >> springfield. there are warnings out they are under a watch. but that is still a rather interesting thing to see. just look at the debris. we talk about the debris. that's what is going to cause the injuries. tractor trailer. live picture. that was i believe flipped over. and it stopped raining there at least but the storms themselves have moved further east into eastern massachusetts and heading really towards the boston corridor. let's look at the radar out of there. this is the watch box. springfield. all under a tornado watch. these are the storms that went through springfield that did that damage and now they are headed headed towards boston and providence. the strongest tornado recorded in the east was in wucester, massachusetts. we still have the warnings down to the south and west. these are pretty string storms. hail. rainfall rates anywhere from 1 to 2 inches per hour. culpeper getting hammered. madison as well. storms are generally moving to the east-southeast. and look at the storms in terms of their tops. they are up to about 34,000 feet. 90% chance of hail. they are headed toward winfrey at 5:21. also silver hill at about 5:59. these will crossover 95 too eventually between stafford and fredericksburg. a monster stormment we are surprised there is not a severe thunderstorm warning on this one. this one has hail. no doubt about it. just southwest of garrisonville. right across i-95 to stafford shortly. tell them to be ready for very heavy rain on i-95. small hail. possibly some high winds as well. the storm moves off to the north-northeast as well. crossing over 95 eventually but crossing over 610 first. this storm is about 34,000 feet in the air which is legitimate. garrisonville at 5:36. mid-way island at 5:46 and wide water at 5:54. so again, we will probably see a warning issued on that it looks like in the next 5 or 10 minutes. warnings of course at the bottom of your screen. next seven days. we break the heat late tonight. in fact, we will salvage a nice night after midnight. 86 on thursday. low 80s on friday. a fantastic day on friday. saturday looks good. we have a thunderstorm. don't give up your tee time, change your plans. in the morning, for the susan g. komen race. upper 80s. break on monday with temps then back near 90 by next wednesday. so in some respects we are kind of lucky sitting with a severe thunderstorm watch compared to what's going on in the northeast. >> could be a lot worse, that's for sure. thank you, topper. >> thank you, top. the reason behind the recall of over 100,000 more toyota priuses. a deadly e. coli outbreak in europe update. we will be right back. in tonight's consumer alert toyota announcing another global recall. 106,000 first generation prius cars. the hybrids have a power steering problem and over time it can cause them to steer with too much force. this recall affects 52,000 prius owners in the u.s., the others were sold overseas. the next time you head to a car dealer showroom you might see a much smaller selection. high gas prices don't just affect how we drive they affect what we drive and more of us are choosing fuel-efficient vehicles and u.s. automakers are responding. >> reporter: almost 1 in 4 vehicles sold in the u.s. in april was a compact or sub compact car. a decade ago they made up just one of 18 sold. of those small cars sold in april about 27% were american models. that is up from 20% a year ago. some new models from gm and ford are fuel conscious and loaded with attractive features. heated leather seats and voice activated entertainment centers. even chrysler, the smallest of the detroit car companies has begun to make changes in a similar direction as it expands its relationship with the italian company fiat. gm and ford have been leading the way in trying to compete with their japanese and korean rivals and they are also preserving american jobs in the process. ford recently converted a former suv plant to build small cars. gm is preparing to make the first sub compact model it has ever produced in this country. these companies may still earn far bigger profits on trucks and suvs but even small cars are now commanding better prices in the showroom. >> they are safe too. recent crash tests from the insurance institute for highway safety shows smaller cars earn high marks in crash tests. six cars top the list. and you can see those small car picks for safety on our website wusa9.com. coming up next, new at 5:30 p.m. >> three young people lost their lives and two teens are fighting for theirs. i'm lindsey mastis. i'll have more on this horrific crash coming up. 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[ male announcer ] mach tower. heart racing. jaw dropping. coming soon to busch gardens williamsburg. it is a severe weather alert day across the dc metro area. our meteorologist topper shutt tracking the storm threat in the weather center with us tonight. topper? >> severe thunderstorm watch covering the entire metro area although we think it will be trimmed back now from the northwest and keep you posted on that. first though i've got to show you live doppler. i'm sorry, live doppler is not up. switch to it directly for me, please. thank you. very heavy thunderstorms to the south and west and does include culpeper, madison and orange until 6 p.m. we are very surprisedded these storms have not been issued on. they are very strong storms. they are about to cross between garrisonville and stafford at this hour. i guarantee they have hail. moving off to the south. now to the east at 16. some of the neighborhoods it will roll through. stafford at about 5:46. coal landing 5:49. white water about 6 p.m. again, these storms in here, these are very, very heavy if not severe. in fact, already one little patch of hail possible on theee side of 95 south of quantico. if you know anybody heading down 95 they will have to go through some big time rains. today is the first day of -- well, actually it is meteorological summer. also hurricane season today. meteorologists are expecting a busier than normal six months. some forecasters predicting between three and six major storms. we get a report now from long island. >> reporter: after winter blizzards and spring tornadoes, federal and state officials are now planning for hurricanes. >> a hurricane of course is such a major event. even compared to the horrible tornadoes we have already suffered through this spring. >> reporter: this year national hurricane center forecasters expect an above normal atlantic season predicting 18 named storms with three to six of them becoming major hurricanes. that means winds over 110 miles an hour. last year was the third most active season on record but winds in the upper atmosphere kept the storms prosecute reaching the u.s. coast. forecasters don't know if that luck will continue. >> this is going to be kind of a wild card year. we don't have a strong el nino we are just wait forge the steering currents to set up. >> reporter: the last time those winds didn't blow was 2005 when katrina and rita hammered the golf coast. springtime floods on the mississippi river have new orleans residents especially concerned. officials say they should get ready now. >> if people are well prepared and take care of themselves and take responsibility, then however catastrophic the event the recovery is always better if the evacuation goes well. >> reporter: in charleston where a hurricane hasn't hit for more than 20 years storm surge is the big worry. >> it is the reason we are called low country because all this is very low. it is susceptible to flooding. >> reporter: residents are already preparing. a storm south of the carolinas could become this season's first tropical system. cbs news, long island, new york. >> in 2005 the year of katrina the national hurricane center ran out of names and had to use greek letters. the official hurricane season runs through november 30th and we are offering again free of charge go to our website wusa9.com. you can download our nine hurricane tracker. this year has high resolution maps. all right. back to the radar. remember how we said we were surprised they weren't issuing warnings on those storms. they have now. so you folks in charles county under a severe thunderstorm warning until 6:30 p.m. prince george's county until 6:30 p.m. prince william county also until 6:30 as well as stafford. so this storm indeed has hail. it warrants a warning and i would say if you know someone that is going to kind of leave now from woodbridge, maybe south they should wait because this is a pretty hefty storm especially in between garrisonville and stafford. moving off to the south- southeast. welcome. quantico. get ready. that one storm we showed you earlier in prince george's county has become a heavier storm. i prompted a warning up near woodmore. look for heavy rain if you're coming around the beltway on this side. this will produce 1 to 2 inches of rain per hour lowering visibility. right now just to the north of fedex field. and this storm is moving off to the east-northeast headed towards woodmore. severe thunderstorm watch for the entire metro area until 10 p.m. the warning is at the bottom of your screen. we will keep you posted as it is a severe weather alert day. ladies? the families of three young people are grieving tonight after they were killed in an horrific car crash. >> two others fighting for their lives after the car they were in hit a tree. this all happened as they turned around a bend on bealeton road. lindsey mastis talked to the friends left behind. >> reporter: their names are etched in the tree. their memories are etched in the hearts of those they left behind. >> we were just best friends and i can't believe he is gone. >> reporter: showing a 16-year- old's year book photo. he was sitting in the back seat. his friends both only 20 years old were in front. we are told they all died when their 1986 ford crown victoria hit the tree. there is still glass on some of the tree limbs. >> it is horrible. it is awful. >> will always number our hearts. he is always here. >> reporter: sergeant tyler with virginia state police says two other teens were in the back seat. they are fighting for their lives. >> it is my understanding that their prognosis seems to be good at this time. >> reporter: sergeant tyler says no one was wearing their seat belts. he says it may not have helped save a life but he believes it would have lessened the injuries of the two teens that survived. >> reporter: friends are praying for the recovery of the 18 year old and 17 year old. >> they say he has broken ribs. broken pelvis and a punctured lung. >> devon is a fighter. he is not going to give up. >> reporter: devon's older sister died in the crash. friends say all five were like family. >> she was energetic. she was a kid. shouldn't happen to anybody. >> reporter: a makeshift memorial to help friends remember the good times. i'm lindsey mastis, 9news now. >> police say speed was a factor in the crash but they do not believe that alcohol was involved. european health officials are trying to find the source after deadly e. coli outbreak. business is slow at market stalls like these in northern germany. contaminated vegetables have killed at least 17 people and sickened more than 1500 others. they are trying to figure out the source. three americans recently became ill after traveling to germany. >> sometimes in these outbreaks, actually quite often the original source is never found then the epidemic, the disease just fades away. >> workers in spain crushed cucumbers on camera after germany blamed their country for the contamination. spanish officials are now threatening legal action after they showed tons of their destroyed vegetables were not the source of the e. coli. bring your old reusable water bottle to a dc restaurant. help protect the environment. and save up to $700 a year. dc water has teamed up with 60 restaurants in the city to provide free drinking water to customers. the idea is to encourage you to refill your water bottles and avoid paying for bottled water. the program is called appropriately cap it. check on the evening rush hour. here is monika samtani with time saver. >> i have the yellow light but it is bordering on red. and i'll show you why right here on a map. look at this. the v.w. parkway. all the way down here slowing down at route 50 pretty much continuous all the way to 195. authorities are on the scene of an accident there. two cars involved. they crashed into a tree, brought the tree down. right now only the left side is blocked but it caused that delay. so i suggest you definitely use an alternate route. 95 or route 1 are your options. let's take you over to the beltway. on the outer loop delays beginning at georgia avenue pretty much all the way down to the dulles toll road. inner loop georgetown to the 270 spur. a little bit of good news. if you're heading north on 270 looks pretty good in clarksburg. got a little bit here and gaithersburg as well. anita, back to you. >> coming up next, a deer caught looking for dough but not of the female kind. coming up new at 6 p.m. >> i'm excited. it will be a good thing we are doing. but four in a day is a long time. i'm kristin fisher. hundreds saying good-byes. a 13-month deployment to iraq. meet the soldiers and their families coming up. >> don't forget, we are always on at wusa9.com. stay with us. we will be right back. cw caught on a tape. a deer in a virginia bank. the deer walked through the doors at the sun trust building yesterday and let's just say gave everybody a real scare as it ran around the bank before a quick thinking guard managed to get it out. >> a gentleman and i were talking right here and he said look, and i turned around was coming through. >> here and here. banged the door really good and hard. >> fortunately no one was hurt. police received several calls about the deer in the bank but it had already bolted before they got to the scene. take a look at what happened when sheriff deputies showed up to serve a drug warrant yesterday in lubbock, texas. he took off down the street. deputies ended up tasering the man and taking him into custody. the child was not hurt but can't imagine what that experience was like for her. and a reporter covering flooding in arkansas suddenly found himself part of the story. an suv right there somehow swept away after the driver tried to cross a water road. not a good idea. but the reporter helped to bring that woman to safety. another man was able to pull both of them from the water before rescuers arrived. topper, you have told us about not doing that. >> it doesn't take much water to displace the weight of your car. we have got record highs at all three area airports. thunderstorm warning until 6:45 p.m. because of a storm entering your county. we will track those when we come back. ok. what if i just had a small slice? i was good today, i deserve it! or, i could have a medium slice and some celery sticks and they would cancel each other out, right? or...ok. i could have one large slice and jog in place as i eat it or...ok. how about one large slice while jogging in place followed by eight celery... mmm raspberry cheesecake... i have been thinking about this all day. wow, and you've lost weight! oh yeah, you're welcome. thank you! [ female announcer ] yoplait light. with 30 delicious flavors all around 100 calories each. yoplait. it is so good. we have got strong severe stuff coming our way. >> it appears most is south of town. if you're in frederick you may be in the clear. under a watch still. south of town you are getting hammered especially down i-95. the broad area there is a sev there -- area there is a severe thunderstorm warning. these are jumping over 95 now heading into western charles county. hail an rainfall rates 1 to 2 inches per hour. also have some strong gusty winds. haven't talked about the lightening. that's not one of the criteria. but if you hear thunder get indoors. all right. this is live doppler. you can access this on our website wusa9.com. also check out our interactive radar. you can zoom into these storms which is what we are going to do first thing we are going to do is go out into prince george's county. this is a pretty big storm. very heavy rainfall. it is crossed over 193 and just going to go north of leyland but it will go down 214 and head towards davidsonville. severe thunderstorm warning because of that storm. that may have some small hail in it too. it did 20 minutes ago. this is hail. no doubt about it. east side of 95. just to the north of springfield. big-time hail there. this also has hail in it on the other side of the river in charles county. this is moving off to the east- northeast at about 20 miles per hour. we will zoom back out and we will put this into motion. where are these storms going to go? get ready. in the next hour, here is where they are going to go. they will move essentially east and they are going to go through la plata, welcome, riverside on to southern maryland and eventually into the bay. these are the storms. prompted the warnings until 6:30 p.m. at the bottom of your screen. all right, record highs. check this out. 95 new record high at dulles. 98 is a new record high at national. replacing the record high set back in 1895 and record high at v.w. i. for tonight looks like this. scattered thunderstorms. some heavy, some severe. eventually clearing, breezy and cooler. lows in the 60s. we will salvage a pretty good night after the storms go by and, in fact, after midnight we should salvage a pretty good night as winds turn northwesterly at about 10 miles per hour. i cannot for some reason skip to the seven-day. it is not going to change this. it won't help the button any. the race for the cure looking good in the morning. maybe a thunderstorm in the afternoon. >> again, the severe weather is ushering in the cooler stuff. >> exactly. >> what do you do if you have been drafted by a team but have you no team? >> you better go to the gym and work out because eventually this lockout is going to end and you're going to be in the nfl and you won't have practiced for a bunch of months and nobody is going to know who you are and that's the problem a bunch of these redskins draft picks are having. remember three years ago when they were drafting for the drought in wide receiver. how did that work out? been desperate for a decade now. as dave owens tells us if you have never heard of leonard hankerson the redskins are hoping you will soon. >> reporter: the nfl draft left a dry taste in leonard's mouth. >> with the 29th pick. >> reporter: names were called. he wasn't one of them. when he arrived in town last week he didn't mince words. >> anyone that didn't get drafted that last pick should have a chip on his shoulder. >> reporter: in the nfl, 6'3" means you outjump smaller d.b.s and win. something the redskins desperately need. up, he had high draft pick written all over it. but he wasn't. he was a third round selection providing all the motivation necessary for a guy coming into camp trying to prove himself. he didn't get called until number 79. so why the free fall? answer. drop. despite his career receiving yards he earned a rep for losing key hold on the pig skin. he answers critic senior saying it was early in the year. >> i wasn't dropping balls and made me look better. >> reporter: holding onto anything shouldn't be a problem for the former hurricane. at the nfl combine his hands were measured at greater than 10 inches, bigger than anybody elses and the dropsies seem to be well behind him. he impressed at last week's voluntary workouts. >> he is impressive. all his catches are all hands, no body. i think lehelp -- i think he will help us out. dave owens, 9news now. >> his hands are so big he says he could palm a basketball when he was 10. i'm not sure i could palm a tennis ball when i was 10. >> we want him to lay hands on a football. >> that's right. >> can i tell you something, we want anybody to lay some hands on a football. >> thank you, brett. life-saving cancer treatment doesn't have to mean infer tilt. a new procedure giving up hope to wannabe moms. i'm matt jablow. is this a beginning of a hot summer season for pepco customers with this blackout? big, big losses today on wall street. the dow finishing the day down 279 points to close at 12,290. the nasdaq dropped 66 points and the s&p 500 fell 30 points. new information for you in tonight's health alert in the safety of low carb diets. so popular. tracking overweight but otherwise healthy people some who ate a low carb higher fat and protein plan with lots of meat. researchers saw no changes in their arteries contrary to what some doctors expected would happen. >> we found no evidence of any change. >> low carb dieters shed pounds faster with exercise than low fat diet groups. the take home message. low carb works and appears safe as a short term weight loss plan but eating a lot of saturated fat long-term could still set you up for heart disease. cancer. it is a devastating diagnosis for anybody. but for some young women it can close the door on motherhood before they have even had a chance to embrace it. in our health alert tonight preserving fertility while fighting cancer. >> reporter: meet an active 15- month-old baby who is the apple of his mom's eye. all babies are wonders of nature but that's especially true of niko. >> it showed that i now had cancer. this is the gravest news that you want to hear at age 32 thinking that -- trying to start a family. >> reporter: jennifer had cervical cancer. she was faced with treatment that could offer a cure but leave her sterile. >> almost all women had to have a hysterectomy. >> when cancer develops in the cervix that standard surgery involves removing the entire uterus and surrounding tissue. a radical surgery. now there is a less radical but complex surgery. only some tissue is taken out leaving the womb behind. >> the risk of the cancer coming back are not any greater than if we had done the traditional complete removal of the uterus and cervix. we think it is safe and not only is it safe but we are getting women to have children. >> how are you? my baby. >> reporter: this is the first time dr. chin has met his success. it took invisit inv -- it took invitro for letter to get pregnant but he is thriving. >> women who undergo this procedure have a higher risk of miscarriage or premature birth because the cervix is missing. it is a high risk pregnancy but as you can see it can turn out well. delivery of the baby is always by c-section. you can sign up for this saturday's global race for the cure at the national mall but you must do it in person. for more information go to wusa9.com. then after the race join us for our prime time special. it will air right here on channel 9 saturday june 4th at 8 p.m. it is going to be a big weekend. >> thank you for joining us at 5 p.m. 9news now at 6 p.m. starts right now. this is 9news now. 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