>> reporter: fbi agents say they had no indication of any threat against the oak creek temple before sunday's attack and the fbi was looking for a person of interest in this case. they now say that person has been identified, interviewed and ruled out. well, the wounded officer we were talking about was shot eight to nine times at close range. the two other hospitalized victims were both temple worshipers. the local sikh community is responding to the mass shootings with prayer vigils and reminders that they have been targeted before. bruce johnson is live with more on that part of the story from the newsroom. >> that's right. they're no strangers to violent attacks. the first came after 9/11 when the sikhs say they had nothing to do with that and they're now anxious to find out why they're being attacked again. >> it is a white anglo-saxon who did it. he was bald, so can i say he was a skinhead? all these thoughts do come into your mind. >> you can't yes state the local hurt, concern -- overstate the local hurt, concern, maybe even fear caused by the carnage outside the sikh temple in milwaukee this weekend. >> we're in america. we're supposed to have freedom of religion and freedom of inequality that this is all happening. >> reporter: the door to the entrance of the temple, shoes off, head covered. there are maybe 7 to 10,000 members throughout the washington area, 11 temples in all. at the sikh temple on columbia pike in silver spring a group gravid to meet with us this afternoon to discuss the -- agreed to meet with us this afternoon to discuss the apparent assault of one man. >> though we do not know what the motive of the assailant was, but the fact is that he singled out especially the sikhs with the turban on. >> we went through this in 9/11 where the first person who got killed after the 9/11 was a sikh itself just like here, mistaken identity. >> reporter: they need to see others outside the sikh community speaking out against the hate, the violence. >> this is my homeland. this is my home. my children born here. my brother, sisters are here, everybody. >> it's important for us not to put the blame on any one person or group of people. it's to educate one another about who we are, where we're from and what we do. >> reporter: miles away in the district's dams morgan neighborhood other indian americans are -- adams morgan neighborhood other indian men's are outraged. the owner of jody's cafe is roman catholic. >> there's no other explanation. we don't know why. we'd like to know what his motive was. it's fears because we don't know where we are safe right now. >> prayer vigils are planned for this coming wednesday and friday at area sikh temples 8:00. everybody is welcome i'm told. some local police departments have said they'll keep closer watch on the temples in case there's some copycat killers out there. >> it's a shame. the man accused in another deadly shooting rampage is expected to plead guilty tomorrow. jared lee loughner is the accused gunman in the january 11 shootings in tucson arizona. six people died and 12 others hurt including former congresswoman gabrielle giffords. in exchange for pleading guilty loughner will get life in prison and won't face the death penalty. the morning was pretty wet, but now things have gotten significantly drier, but there may be another round of storms tonight, top? >> yeah. we got a frontal boundary just south of town where the access and focus will be to thunderstorms tonight. let me show you live doppler 9000. earlier we had a warning out around harrisonburg in rockingham county, but now we're in pretty good shape. if you're south of 66 in southern prince george's county especially down towards fredericksburg, you'll have some thunderstorms tonight. any one that develops could be hefty. right now the storms are generally south of harrisonburg toward culpeper moving east. in terms. temperatures it's not bad, 91 downtown, 86 gaithersburg, 88 leadsburg and manassas -- leesburg and manassas. that's a bargain. for tonight early thunderstorm possible, some heavy but more south. otherwise partly cloudy, mild, lows 66 to 74. we'll come back, talk about ernesto and florence and another cold front heading our way. while the brits are reveling in their high med al count at the olympics in london one of their own is bringing some am paris. to the royal british navy. -- embarrassment to the royal british navy. that man is in jail tonight charged with destruction of property and assault of an officer. peggy fox has the story live. >> reporter: this is one of the two windows broken friday night around midnight. this isn't just any church. it is the fredericksburg baptist church, 157 years old. it was heavily damaged during the civil war and even survived having its pastor taken hostage by union forces back then. so church leaders now say it will sub i've having a few windows -- survive having a few windows broken out, but they're more surprised about who did it. >> apparently he pushed his way through these doors. these doors open inward. >> reporter: once he broke his way inside the church he tried to get out through a stained glass window, but the plexiglass on the outside wouldn't budge. >> pulled this closet door off of the hinges and threw the door through the window successfully breaking not only the stained glass window but the plexiglass. >> reporter: fredericksburg police were in the area looking for a man who had just tried to kick in the doors of a harrison and a butcher. they heard glass -- a hair salon and a butcher. they heard the glass breaking through the door. police say when the suspect climbed out he immediately surrendered but than began spiriting at the officers and continued -- spitting at the officers and continued to spit until he was placed in the patrol vehicle. 22-year-old was arrested and charged with burglary, destruction of property and caught on an officer. >> the thing that touches me most is the person who did this, young person who was pursuing a career in the military and i understand that that's probably not going to happen for him now. >> the church leaders are thankful these older and more ornate windows in the sanctuary were not damaged. in 1862 the union army up oned this church and did a lot more -- occupied this church and did a lot more damage. this church was used as a hospital in 1854. >> it's endured a lot. this is just another incident, just like every other incident the church has prevailed and it will certainly prevail through this one as well. >> police say officer edmond whitehead was very inebriated. the administrator, church leader, says he received a call from the royal navy chaplain in britain to apologize and also he says that whitehead's commander has come here twice to apologize and told him that whitehead wants to pay for the damage, should run about $10,000 the commander told the administrator if whitehead can't pay for it, of course, the royal navy will definitely cover the rest of the costs here. i'm peggy fox reporting live in fredericksburg. back to you, derek. >> that's good news at the end there, the church will survive. a dozen unusual cases of swine flu have popped up all around the u.s. and the illnesses have been linked to public contact with pigs at county and state fairs. now the local health officials are warning you to take some common sense precautions, which is why our scott broom is live tonight at the howard county fair grounds with some details. we haven't talked about swine flu in forever. >> reporter: well, at least not for a couple years and look behind me here. this is the kids and critters barn, basically the petting barn at howard county fair and that is a mandatory stop for most kids and families who visit the fair here, but so, too, is the hand washing station. you can see right outside the kids petting barn because of this swine flu alert. it's called swine flu for a reason. a strain of flu is commonly passed from pigs to people. >> you just have to be aware and ask questions. >> reporter: here at the howard county fair's kids and critters barn there's no shortage of pigs or little hands and bare feet coming in close contact. >> my kids love the animals, but they also like to lick their hands. i thought the swine flu was over and done with. >> reporter: not so. the u.s. center for disease control has reported a dozen cases of swine flu in recent weeks, all linged to contact with pigs at -- linked to contact with pigs at fairs from hawaii to indiana. pigs often carry flu. no reason to close the petting corral says the howard county health officer but good reason to take some common sense precautions. >> enjoy the fair whatever state you're in, but try to avoid touching pigs, particularly if you're in a vulnerable population group and if you do touch pigs as part of a 4-h project or whatever, make sure you wash your hand thoroughly with soap and water afterwards. >> that's good advice, i guess. >> reporter: and thus the hand washing station right outside the petting corral here at the howard county fairgrounds. >> i think it's very important. >> what is unusual about it is it's happening during the summer. >> reporter: the doctor asked me to make a couple other points. he said there is no good reason not to come to the fair. this is a simple story about washing your hands which goes for just about every other place you go. the other point was that you cannot get swine flu from eating pork. there is no need to worry about that and some of the other big fairs launched friday night, that one in montgomery county and prince william county in virginia. report live at the howard county fair, scott broom, 9 news now. a d.c. superior court judge is refusing to overturn convictions in the notorious murder of catherine fuller. fuller was beaten, robbed and sodomized with a pole back in 1984. lawyers for the seven men convicted in the case argued earlier this year there was some new evidence pointing to their clients' innocence, but in an opinion released today the judge said the men failed to present dna or scientific evidence that could have exonerated them. sky 9 out over a deadly crash in prince george's county just this morning in the 9400 block of midland turn. that's in upper marlboro. as you can see, there's a car on its side. the driver apparently lost control of that vehicle, crashed. he was trapped inside. rescue crews could not save him. sky 9 also out over oakton, virginia, where police are trying to figure out what caused the driver of this suv to end up in the side of a house this morning. the vehicle rammed the front porch of this home along miller road. the driver was rushed to the hospital. new information on the victims of yesterday's lightning strike at a nascar race in the poconos. >> also ahead a new study finds telling the truth could be the key to better health. we'll take the theory to the streets. >> reporter: new exciting pictures coming back from the rover on mars. see them coming up. over the next four months, you have a choice to make. not just between two political parties, or even two people. it's a choice between two very different plans for our country. governor romney's plan would cut taxes for the folks at the very top. roll back regulations on big banks. and he says that if we do, our economy will grow and everyone will benefit. but you know what? we tried that top down approach. it's what caused the mess in the first place. i believe the only way to create an economy built to last is to strengthen the middle class. asking the wealthy to pay a little more so we can pay down our debt in a balanced way. so that we can afford to invest in education, manufacturing, and home-grown american energy for good middle class jobs. sometimes politics can seem very small. but the choice you face, it couldn't be bigger. ♪ i'm barack obama and i approve this message. touchdown confirmed, we're safe on mars. >> no, it's not the olympics. that's nasa. they're very excited, very complicated mission to has has been pulled off. the safe landing of the 1 ton rover inside a crater on the planet mars. >> they're reacting like they got gold, silver and bronze for that. tonight the u.s. space agency is showing off the first new photos from the red planet. edwar lawrence is at mission control in pasadena, california, with the latest. >> reporter: there was a huge sense of relief here in pasadena, california, when the rover landed and started working. initially nasa got pictures through a lens cover that had red dust on. it they were able to slip off that cover and have wide angle lens pictures from the surface of mars. >> there is the wheel of the rover safely on the surface. >> reporter: nasa released new photos from mars taken hours after the rover curiosity landed. one shows the improved image after the dust cover was removed from the rover's lens. >> we go on vacation to see a different part of the earth on our own planet and here we're seeing a part of mars we've never seen before. >> reporter: they also released a photo showing the rover descending with a supersonic spare chute toward the red planet. >> this was -- parachute toward the red plan. >> the this was taken six minutes after it landed -- planet. >> this was taken six minutes after it landed. >> reporter: the rover landed exactly where it was aimed, inside a giant crater. >> all the data we've gotten congress back from the surface of mars -- coming back from the surface of mars indicates it came in just as we expected, a picture perfect landing. >> reporter: nasa described the descent as seven minutes of terror. it was soaring at 13,000 miles per hour before the chute oped and slowed it down. then a rocket propelled -- opened and slowed it down. then a rocket propelled landing platform helped it to land on mars. over the next few days engineers will give the rover a series of long distance checkups to make sure all systems are working. then it will begin its two year mission selecting and testing martian rock and soil. tomorrow nasa plans to raise the mast on the rover and turn the head and get pictures, high quality pictures, of what they would like to look at. at the moment nasa is making sure the connection between mars and earth is secure. lesli, back to you. >> thank you, ed. president obama called the landing an unprecedented feat of 10 and he thanked those that is -- of technology and he thanked those nasa workers that made the mission possible. now the latest on the devastating wildfires in oklahoma city. despite evacuation orders being lifted in some affected areas, some residents have had to go back to an emergency shelter. some just couldn't get home because of the fire and others found their homes were already gone. a massive effort by city officials started today to roll out to try and help some of those folks. one man is dead, another in custody after an early morning shooting in temple hills. 18-year-old darrell sales is now charged with the murder of 18-year-old anthony boatwright. police tell 9news boatwright was walking along with friend on temple hill road when sales tried to rob them. one friend said the suspect wanted his shoes. the argument led to the shooting. sales was arrested a while later. boatwright's nickname is a-rod and that name man trending on twitter all day long as his friend talk -- has been trending on twitter all day long as his friends talk about his death. the lightning strike in pocono raceway leaving one man in hospital upgraded. one man was killed when the lightning struck the parking lot moment after the race was called off due to weather. nascar says there were numerous warnings for the fans to take cover over the public address systems and through social media. >> apparently, top, you've got some pictures of the lightning. >> we do from different spot. we say this over and over again. lightning is dangerous. we'll start with wichita. as you know, derek, lightning is five times hotter than the sun. just brilliant flashes of lightning here. remember, it can be sunny and you can still get struck by lightning. this is out in st. louis, the gateway to the west, the arch, all the lightning around that, fantastic video. again, you hear thunder. take cover. i know it's summer. kids are outside and in the pool. get them inside. live doppler 9000, we have a couple showers and thunderstorms from harrisonburg sort of overred 2 culpeper and points south -- over toward culpeper and points south. this will be the main focus of storms tonight in the immediate area. north of 50 will be fine. here's ernesto, a minimal strength hurricane with winds 75 miles per hour, forecast to go into the yauch tan. a little further south than we -- yucatan, a little further south than we saw on friday, back in the gulf, then over toward mexico city. some heavy rains are possible even in central mexico and believe it or not, it could travis mexico and then become a -- traverse mexico and then become a storm again in the pacific ocean. that doesn't happen too often. florence is simply a tropical depression and we're not worried about her. we'll keep you posted, but you should download our 9 hurricane tracker. it's free from our website www.wusa9.com. a live look outside brought to you by michael and son, 91, dew point 64, pretty nice. relative humidity is 41% and winds out of north at 5, pressure steady 29.98 inches of mercury. temperatures mainly in the 80s, 86 bethesda, 89 rockville, 88 great falls, 87 vienna, 89 springfield, alexandria, bowie and 91 in college park. so front is just to our south. so most of the storms will be to our south tonight and isolated. grab your shade tomorrow. hot by thursday and then scattered storms again tuesday, wednesday and thursday with an increasing chance, better chance accident as we go through the week. -- chance, as we go through the week. early storms tonight, otherwise partly cloudy and mild, 67 to 74. tomorrow in the morning partly cloudy, warm, grab your sunglasses, 70s and 80s and by afternoon not a bad day, partly cloudy, warm, maybe an isolated storm. that's it, though, high temps near 90, becoming breezy, winds out of the southwest 10 to 15. next three days we'll keep tomorrow code green, a few storms, 89. then we'll go code yellow wednesday and thursday, storms on wednesday, 90 and hot on thursday with a better chance of storms, highs in the low 90s. next seven days front boundary tries to get through here friday, which would be kind of nice, more storms on friday, but then we might be in pretty good shape over the weekend with temperatures holding in the upper 80s. sound pretty good on saturday and sunday -- sounds pretty good on saturday, sunday and monday as well. if you downloaded our weather app, you can turn off the radar and hit the i button and track ernesto right with us. >> or we can just watch you. >> i'm just excited because there's days where there's not thunderstorms in the forecast. coming up montgomery county gets millions of dollars to improve computer access to the walter reed national military medical center in bethesda. >> but first refunds are on the way to some southwest airline customers who got more than they bargained for when they tried to book some dream fares. i got the chance to start my own business. i know what it's like to hire people and to make ends meet. from those experiences, i had the chance of running the olympics. the games were in real trouble. there'd been way too much spending. and in massachusetts i found a budget that was badly out of balance. our legislature was 85% democrat. and every one of the four years i was governor, we balanced the budget. i want to use those experiences to help americans have a better future. we believe in our future. we believe in ourselves. we believe the greatest days of america are ahead. i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. a half priced ticket promotion to fly southwest airlines, it turned really costly for some customers. there was a glitch in the airline's computer system that charged them multiple times like 30 times for a single flight. the special 50% off sale was supposed to celebrate southwest's reach of 3 million facebook fans. the airline says it's going to refund that money back if you endure the multiple charges. forbes m magazine is out with its list of best buys in college education. the top three might just entice some young people to join the military. that's because west point, the air force academy and the naval academy are all leaders in this year's roundup of 100 schools. other schools in the area making the list, james madison followed by university of virginia, university of maryland, virginia tech comes in the a 68 and george mason university ranked 81 -- in at 68 and george mason university ranged university ranked 81. there will be three elevators coming from grant approval after the base relinement and closure increased personnel at walter reed. the brac in 2005 increased personnel at walter reed by 1/3 and doubled its visitor load to 1 million of year. about 50,000 people gathered today at hiroshima peace park in japan to mark 67 years since the u.s. dropped the atomic bomb on that city. japanese leaders are honoring the anniversary of the world war ii attack by calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons. they say japan must lead disarmaments efforts and last year's damage at fukushima shows the dangers of nuclear technology. we are standing by for rg3's final news conference before taking the field for his first nfl game this week. we'll take you there live when it happens. >> also ahead who needs the olympics when you have a high jumping baby goat? we're going to bring you the story behind this viral video. >> reporter: does lying make you sick? i'm bruce leshan, the story coming up. 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[ male announcer ] febreze car. eliminates odors for continuous freshness, so you can breathe happy. lying makes you sick, that's the conclusion of a new study by a psychologist at notre dame. bruce leshan is here with me now and he always tells the truth, right? >> you say that and all of a sudden i'm nervous, sweaty, feeling blue and i got headache and a are so throat. i'm saying that because this stud -- and a sore throat. i'm saying that because this study found people who lied sufficiented a lot more of those kind -- suffered a lot more of those kind of symptoms than people who were told to tell the truth. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> in a city with more than perhaps its fair share of liars it took just minutes to find someone shading the truth. >> reporter: you ever tell white lies? >> no. >> reporter: never? >> never. >> reporter: come on, your eyes are going back and forth. the notre dame study suggests even minor lies can make us sick do. you feel a little stress coming on right now? >> yeah. i don't like to do it. >> reporter: the 10 week study of 110 people found research subjects who told the truth felt less tense and melancholy and had fewer sore throats and headaches. tell me the truth, do not lie. do you ever lie? >> i don't lie. >> reporter: not at all? >> yes. >> reporter: you do. >> come on. >> reporter: researchers say most of us lie about 11 times a week. >> i'm on my way to a place and i haven't quite left yet. >> the study seems to have some questionable merit. >> reporter: chevy chase psychiatrist tony balm questions the researchers' use of polygraph machines and a pretty small sample. if you tell the truth all the time, will you have any friends? she also says some white lies are just part of being social. >> it's called being polite. >> reporter: now the truth tellers say that it ended up not being all that tough. they just stopped exaggerating and if people asked them a really hard question, they just kind of changed the subject, but i'm telling you standing here next to lesli, i do not have to exaggerate to say that you always look great. >> that's very nice. i'll send it back into you, derek. >> okay, then. thanks. the centers for disease control want everybody to take steps to prevent infection by the west nile virus. randall pinkston reports at least four people have contracted it and died in this country so far this year. >> reporter: the sebeno family spends a lot of time outdoors. >> we're out at either baseball games or pool parties or hiking. >> reporter: and with the mosquitoes biting the centers for disease control is warning everyone to take precautions against west nile virus. about 240 people have contracted the virus. that's the highest number at this time of year since 2004. most cases are in texas, mississippi and oklahoma. >> we're early in the season. august and september are usually peak transmission periods. so having this much activity this early and this widespread is cause for concern. >> reporter: the most common symptoms include fever, headache and body aches, but the virus can also trigger potentially deadly symptoms such as inflammation of the brain. people over 50 and those with cancer or diabetic are at greatest risk for serious illness. to keep the bugs away, look for products that contain deet because they are the most effective, but be cautious using them on children. >> you want to minimize your child's exposure to the insect repellant. so once you come inside, give them a bath. wipe off all the insect repellant. >> reporter: wearing sleeves and long pants at dawn and dusk also protects when mosquitoes are at full force. >> i want to make sure i protect my children any which way i can. >> reporter: she wants them to enjoy the summer and stay safe. randall pinkston, cbs news. >> the cdc points out that we're probably seeing more cases of west nile because most of the country had a mild winter and early spring and it's been blazing hot lately. we've had just enough rainfall to make a lot of mosquitoes. from mosquitoes to a high jumping goat that has gone viral on youtube, the 6-week- old nigerian dairy goat named buttermilk became an internet sensation after video of her jumping over other goats made it onto the network news last week. katherine harnish and rob lawless say that buttermilk has been jumping around pretty much since she was born at their farm in maine, but what they captured last month was a first. >> when we brought her out to run in the yard and took the video, that was the first time we've ever seen the real sort of karate kid move. >> the kicking and knocking him over, that's the first time she'd ever done. that we'd never seen her kick the other ones over before. it was sort of serendipity that we caught it on video. >> when the video was posted, she said if the video got 1,000 hit she and rob would make a $25 donation to a local farm sanctuary. needless to say that $25 dough nation has already been made. >> who -- donation has already been made. >> who knew governments could do that? gender history is about -- goats could do that? gender history is about to be made in history. the first female rep sandra easton will be working the first nfl game thursday. she's worked college games before and officiated football contests. the nfl is wrapped up in a labor dispute with its regular referees, so for now the replacement refs get the gig. a team from great falls virginia is set to advance to regional semis of the little league world series, 2-0 in full play. tonight at 7:00 it's west virginia. great falls rallied for the win on friday with a late home run and cruised to a 12-1 victory against south carolina saturday, but no matter how they do tonight great falls will advance to the else round set for thursday. coming up why was this woman turned into the cops? >> up next a 4-year-old girl almost dangling by her head after she gets stuck in the railing of a balcony. >> don't forget we're always on at www.wusa9.com. stay with us. we'll be right back. if you've got a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. my father's hands didn't build this company. my hands didn't build this company. through hard work and a little bit of luck, we built this business. why are you demonizing us for it? 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[ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. caught on tape, a close call for a young girl and yet another lesson. don't leave little kid at home alone. this 4-year-old got her head stuck in the rail of her second floor balcony in china. you can see her whole body kind of hanging there. investigators say she had been left home by herself and she wandered out there. this kind of thing happens. luckily a passer-by called the police. a neighbor used a ladder to get up there and support the little girl until they got her head out. she went to the hospital of the other than a cut on the cheek she seems to be okay. a massachusetts man turns in his own daughter after he comes to believe she is a bank robber. >> that's no fun. meredith cundit's father contacted police after seeing these photos broadcast on the internet saying his daughter was responsible for robberies at three quincy, massachusetts banks over the last several months. >> her father and the uncle came into the station suspecting that their daughter was involved in some type of criminal activity because she saw the pictures on mass most wanted. >> he did the right thing. had he to. i would have done the same thing. -- he had to. i would have done the same thing. you don't want to, but you have to. >> the father called police a few days later when his daughter returned home. in monroe county, michigan, a bikini clad drunken drive led police on a high speed chase last night. finally they caught up with the woman on i-75 near the ohio border. they blocked her car with cruisers and she's not looking too good on the field sobriety test there. nobody hurt fortunately. this florida woman says she did not stop for the cops because she was driving topless. police say 35-year-old mindy ramsey ran a stop sign and crashed into a tree when a patrol car tried to pull her over for speeding. ramsey said she was on route to surprise her boy friend, but she was arrested and released on $5,000 bond which was more surprise than she had in mind. >> what's amazing is we don't make any of this up. still to come tonight, the olympics aren't just making athletes' dreams come true. >> but first good news with bad, a look at roads to avoid the next few days and one major commuter route where the work is finally done. we'll tell you all about it when we come back. back with a commuter alert. the eastbound dulles connector road will be closed tonight between the beltway and route 123. work on the dulles corridor metro project will mean work of night between 11 p.m. and 5 p.m. through thursday. there will be signs for the detour. it's been more than a decade in the making and finally a major milestone in the wilson bridge project that's sure to give commuters a reason to party. delia goncalves with the details. >> it's a good day, glad to see. it. >> reporter: commuters rejoice, five lanes are now open on the beltway at telegraph road. >> make the world a better place. >> reporter: christian gerard has been working the project shortly after it began in 2001. >> of little thing we've done along the -- every little thing we've done along the way makes it a little better. i know the traveling public has been frustrated. we have frustrations, too with the traffic, but i think most people have been very patient. >> reporter: drivers dealing with three lanes of traffic since early 2000 now have five total lawns from wilson bridge to springfield -- lanes from wilson to springfield hoping to ease traffic for the 160,000 estimated cars that daily travel this stretch, especially now with much needed breakdown lanes. >> just a few minutes ago one car had to pull over to the shoulder. ordinarily that would have caused a big pileup. it was almost uneventful. >> reporter: the next phase of this project transitions over to telegraph road and that part of construction is already proving to be quite the challenge. >> the last piece that we've got to do on this is to complete the bridge for telegraph road going over the railroad tracks. working over the railroads is always a challenge. your schedules are pretty much dictated by the railroads. >> reporter: so the final leg of the project is estimated to be complete in 2013, but heck, we've been waiting for more than a decade. what's another year? delia goncalves, 9 news now. >> that new wilson bridge project spans 8 miles with a price tag of $2.5 billion. tomorrow morning work begins on the latest mega project in northern virginia. this is the new express toll lanes along i-95 from garrisonville in staffed county up to the beltway and to the edsel road exit on 395. the groundbreaking ceremony will take part in dale city. the $929 million project will create 29 miles of express toll lanes to be ready for your car in 2014. >> we got a bit of a break today for an august summer in washington. >> not bad. the frontal boundary is south, that's a victory, and we have another front on the map for friday which may lead to a nice weekend. let's start first with radar. there are a couple showers and storms, but it's mainly south of town. if you're south of 66, you may see some showers, but if you are north of 66 and north of 50, i couldn't think you'll see anything tonight. there were heavier showers earlier. there was a severe thunderstorm warning around harrisonburg in rockingham county and there's still a pretty good cell south and east of harrisonburg, but most of the activity is south, south of culpeper and down towards the northern neck. our friends in newlin might get a shower and over towards north cumberland county, but that is about it. live look outside, our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. temperature 91, dew point 64. that's good. dew points in the mid-60s, we can work with. that pressure steady 29.98 inches of mercury, winds out of the north at 5. a lot of 80s on this current map, 88 rockville, 85 bethesda, 85 vienna, 87 great falls, still 91 downtown, 90 in college park, but the 80s have the 90s outnumbered for a change. the front is to our south. isolated storms tonight primarily south of town. grab your shades tomorrow, a pretty respectable day tomorrow. hot by thursday and scattered storms again tuesday, wednesday, thursday with an increasing chance as we go through the week. for tonight early thunderstorm possible, some heavy, more south. otherwise partly cloudy and mild, lows 66 to 74, wind east, southeast at 10. by morning partly cloudy and warm, 70s and 80s, air quality code yellow, moderate air quality about, as good as it gets in summer where we get a real good cold front. by afternoon partly cloudy, warm, isolated storms, high temperatures near 90. winds pick up a little bit becoming breezy in the afternoon, southwest at 10 to 15. we'll break it down. to start 66 to 76 mild, 82 to 86 by noon and then maybe an afternoon storm by evening, temperatures 86 to about 90. next three days we'll keep it code green tuesday, code yellow and again yellow wednesday and thursday. 89 tuesday, a few storms, 90 wednesday, a little better chance of storms, hot with a better chance. storms thursday, temperatures back into the low 90s. next seven days friday a cold front approaches, 89, pretty good chance of thunderstorms and it should be a pretty nice weekend. upper 80s saturday and sun and monday. so a stretch of nice weather, a stretch of 80s, not seen a stretch of 80s for some time. so far in august we've only had 90s, so a little relief over the weekend on the way. >> thank you, top. we'll take you to london. here is your spoiler alert. if you don't want to know what happened, turn away from the tv. in most of these olympics the u.s. women's soccer team ended an 11 year drought and they beat canada with a goal by alex morgan in the 122nd minute of extra time. they were five goals in the 26 minute span in the second. what the u.s. will play japan for the gold medal in a rematch of last year's world cup final won by japan. elsewhere jen sewell won the women's pole vault. here is the current medal count. china leads usa by one medal followed by russia, great britain and japan. zachary nunn just arrived at the summer games in london. >> even though the 15-year-old has never competed professionally, he knows a whole lot about struggle and sacrifice. >> reporter: 15-year-old zach nunn can't believe his eyes. he and his family are in london at the olympics. >> i don't know where you could be that's better than this. >> reporter: it's the trip of a lifetime for a boy who nearly had his life cut short. at birth he was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder. >> when i get sick, it magnifies it almost. it's hard for me to recover. i'm sick much longer. >> reporter: zach's father randall says the disease will remain a threat the rest of his son's life. >> frightening and your world closed in around you and that's the only thing that's important, so getting your son or child better, there's nothing else you can think as a parent. >> reporter: on this day inside the olympic park zach is feeling better. a meal at kensington palace helped. >> i had seven desserts. >> reporter: the make a wish foundation sent zach to the game and more than 50 other children with life threatening diseases. >> make a wish. >> it may be my best experience of my life. >> reporter: zach will likely have to rely on periodic blood transfusions because of his disorder. >> as a parent, your whole life turns around in a split second, oh, my god, my child is so sick he could die if we don't get this transfusion. >> reporter: zach doesn't dwell on his struggles. he's an avid sport fan and the next olympics he attends he hopes to compete. >> see how all these people train so hard and sacrifice so much, i'm going to try and be like them. >> reporter: in a way he already is. bigad shaban, cbs news, london. >> today zach got to watch his favorite sport at the olympics, track and field. our area submitted a bid for this year's summer games and obviously we did not win, but one of those organizers tells the baltimore sun that he thinks washington and baltimore are ready for the 2024 olympics. don kinese says he's spoken with several people involved with the 2012 bid and they say they're ready to try it again. so we put this question to you. viewers like you on our wusa9 facebook page and more than 10,000 people read the story in less than two hours. that would be exciting. join the conversation on our facebook page. those two new cheetah cubs at national zoo have names now that the men's and women's 100- meter dash contests are over. you may recall the zoo planned to name them after the fastest american men and women and so the 3-month-old cubs are now known as camalita and justin who won silver and bronze respectively. still ahead just days before maryland lawmakers are set to get in the discussion on expanding gambling, word that one of the existing casino is already trying to scale back. >> reporter: i'm kristin fisher outside the nasa goddard space life center where scientists are celebrating the landing of the curiosity rover on mars. find out how some local scientists helped make it happen. >> but first helping the homeless help themselves, a local program that is helping them earn some money next in hero central. ♪ ♪ i'm thinking sweet ♪ and i'm thinking new ♪ i'm thinking all these brilliant colors ♪ ♪ shining through ♪ i'm thinking sunshine ♪ i'm thinking sunshine ♪ i'm thinking [ whistles ] ♪ i'm thinking [ whistles ] [ female announcer ] 40 delicious flavors that feel as good as they taste. yoplait, it is so good! tonight in hero central giving the homeless a way to earn money, jc hayward takes us to street sense and shows us how the nonprofit is training men and women to work as newspaper verns. >> homelessness doesn't discriminate -- vendors. >> homelessness doesn't discriminate. >> reporter: nine years ago james davis was homeless and depressed after a job loss and divorce. while staying in a homeless shelter he was approached by founders of street sense and they suggested that he should sell a newspaper. >> there's more people buying for the support of the vendor, the person selling the paper. >> reporter: street sense sells the newspaper to vendors for 35 cents each. the vendors charge readers $1 they keep 65 cents. >> i did pretty good. i averaged about maybe selling about 1,000 papers a month. >> reporter: readers of the newspaper find stories on the homeless, area politics and even poetry. >> you become part of the community once you go out there and sell a paper, once you become known to the people that you sell the paper before that's your customer base. >> reporter: a camera manager near 18th and l streets northwest remembered davis. so when an employee quit, the manager offered davis the job. >> in some respects we see it as an alternative to panhandling. >> reporter: street sense executive director brian carone says selling newspapers gives the homeless a way to reconnect with the community, have a routine and move on with their lives. >> they get an opportunity to sell a value product that people appreciate and are willing to pay for. >> street sense, help the homeless help themselves. >> reporter: nine years ago davis met the executive director of street sense. now he trains others on how to become a success story. >> when you see that vendor out there trying to make a living or trying to get back on his feet from a situation that caused him to become homeless, just remember, you know that, it could happen to you. so just give them the heart. >> reporter: i'm jc hayward, 9 news now. >> today davis works for a contractor and advocates for the homeless. street sense is a 16 page biweekly newspaper and to learn more about it go to jchayward.com. this is 9 news now. flags are at half staff in wisconsin tonight in honor of the six people shot and killed inside a sikh temple over the weekend. tonight the man police say was the shooter, wade michael page, is dead. police say they are confident he acted alone. here's what we know about page tonight. 40-year-old was discharged from the army in 1998. the fbi says it had no indication of any previous threats against the temple, but the southern poverty law center says page was well known to white supremacists and other hate groups. as we said, the man police blame for the bloodshed in wisconsin, he had some ties to maryland as well. wade michael page died in that shootout, but as andrea mccarren reports, hi

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