to route 123 south and back into tyson. eastbound you can either use international drive route 123 north to the beltway. another combination is the georgetown pike to either spring hill or swings mill if you know that area and back into tyson's as well. we'll teen you posted on that situation. also, it's going to be a tough couple of nights for drivers in northern virginia. tonight and tomorrow from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. crews will be closing west bound i-66 at the dulles connector roads. find alternate routes. traffic will be detoured on to route 267 west and from 495 north do a u-turn and get back south on the beltway. this is part of the dulles corridor metro rail project. back to you. >> thank you. >> i am happy to join with you today. >> thank you, mike. >> in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. >> it's a long, long time coming. [ applause ] >> with songs in their hearts and tears in their eyes, hundreds of people got their first glimpses today of the new national memorial of dr. martin luther king, jr. organizers called it a soft opening, and you have until thursday to see the memorial before it closes up again until president obama dedicates it sunday. bruce leshan was down on the tidal basin today. >> i thought it was great the way that you can come around the work that he has here. >> reporter: hundreds streamed through a cleft in the mountain of despair to see martin luther king, jr. seemingly ready to leap from a stone of hope. >> thank you, mike. >> reporter: over and over, they spoke of their parents, their grandparents, their great grandparents. >> i know they would love to see this day. >> it's been a long, long time coming. felicia jones kept humming that old sam cook song, a change is going to come. >> how you doing? >> to think about my grandson and my father. >> reporter: by the time the park service opened the gates at 11:00, hundreds of people were in line. >> of course, when i'm older, i will point this out to my grandchildren that i was there at the grand opening. >> it's rights for all americans. working conditions, health care. >> reporter: the quotes trace dr. king's speeches from the montgomery bus boycott to his final struggle for the rights of garbage men in memphis. >> they were not animals, not machines. they were human beings. they needed decent work conditions. >> as you move around the statue, it's almost like he moves around with you. >> reporter: some people told us they cried because they think how much king's message of peace, nonviolence, and equality for all is still something that the world needs to hear. on the tidal basin, bruce leshan, 9 news now. >> thank you, bruce. join 9 news now sunday for a special one-hour show devoted to the unveiling of the mlk memorial. also go to wusa9.com for a look at the story behind the construction. move on now to more of tonight's top stories. a costly game of cat and mouse in d.c. it's all about those parking tickets. and one guess as to who's the cat and who's the mouse. also, police have a new key piece of evidence in the shooting of a toddler over the weekend in glen arden. plus, albert haynes in court today for his sex abuse case at the w. hotel. there is a graphic new detail or two revealed. i'm peggy fox at d.c. superior court where albert haynesworth avoided jail time today by pleading no contest to one of two charges against him. >> mr. haynesworth, any comments for us since you wrote that woman? nfl defensive lineman missed practice today for a date in d.c. superior court. he pled nolo contendere, or no contest to a charge of simple assault. in exchange, the prosecution agreed to drop the more serious charge of sexual abuse. >> this was a difficult time for him, his family. >> reporter: the case stems from a february 13th incident on the rooftop at the w. hotel in washington. prosecutors say when haynesworth tried to give the waitress his credit card, her hands were full of dishes. she asked him to wait for her to put them down. instead prosecutors say haynesworth slid the card between her breasts and then intentionally fondled her nipples. >> he moves forward. he does what he's supposed to do as far as the conditions of disagreement. >> i'm scott broom. glen arden where police are continuing to scour the area for a former olympic hopeful boxer named matos. they want to talk to him about the shooting of a 2-year-old. devon matos is 18-years old. a one-time olympic hopeful boxer. police are searching the area formatos, described as a person of interest after a 2-year-old boy was critically injured by a stray bullet during a gunfight between rivals nearby at about 9:00 p.m. saturday. >> we believe he may know something. >> reporter: police are particularly interested in surveillance video recorded by the apartment complex's quarter million dollar network of cameras. >> that's going to be critical to putting together our case. >> reporter: meanwhile, matos's former coaches have declined to be interviewed about his background. >> i'm brittany morehouse in the district gathering stories about parking meter tickets that many feel are wrong. >> it was still one minute left. and as i approached my car with the corridor to refill the meter, i saw one of the parking people standing there writing a ticket. she said too bad, i already wrote the ticket. you weren't here, and it's about to expire. and just then it turned red and she handed me the ticket. >> reporter: and the anger only grows louder when they hear the latest numbers 9 news now is gathering, like 6,000. that's how many parking tickets are issued everyday in the district. >> the fact of the matter is, very few cities in the country do it better than washington, d.c. >> reporter: $450 every minute, $8 every second. that's how much money the city is collecting from parking ticket fines. that doesn't even count the money you're putting into meters. >> the thing most people don't do, even if they know they got the ticket in error, they won't challenge it. >> reporter: and we got a lot of response to that ticket story on our facebook page. i'll bring your reaction in mcginty's mailbag a little later in the broadcast. the trackser are eyeing irene. that storm swept through puerto rico. >> the good news is it's a category 1. the bad news is it's going to become a category 2, if not a category 3. rolled through the virgin islands today and also through san juan. winds there were anywhere from 75 to 850 miles per hour through -- 80 miles per hour through st. thomas. knocked down power lines and trees. wasn't a devastating hurricane by any means, but it caused some flooding, rainfall amounts 3 to 6 inches. let's start with a satellite picture. you can see a clear definition of the storm. it is now about 7 '5miles to the west, northwest -- 75 miles to the west/northwest. a pretty good rainfall across the dominican republic. it's going to continue to move to the west/northwest at 13. it is gusting to 100 miles per hour. here's the latest track for the national hurricane center. most of the models are in pretty good agreement, especially you go to the first few days. wednesday, 2:00 in the morning. winds are now 105 miles per hour. and we get into wednesday 2:00 p.m., 110. so it's a high end category 2. it becomes a category 3 once you get 111 or higher. it is probably going to become that. the good news is it turns away from florida and parallels the coast. the highest winds are off the coast of florida. the bad news is it could make landfall around the south carolina border, north carolina border as we get into early on saturday afternoon or late saturday morning. we'll come back and tell you what it does to our weekend after that. derrick? >> thank you, topp. just ahead. detecting macular degeneration before it takes away your sight. first, bikers complain publicly that police crack down on their procession was unfair. now are some of those cops seeking revenge? it's a story you'll see only on 9. some startling claims about the funeral procession for 52- year-old timmy hall that spiraled into a confrontation after it was pulled over by the fairfax county police last week. it is a story you you a saw only on 9. the brother of the dead man says he is getting some threats. andrea mccarren with the story. >> reporter: when the 250 bikers at timmy hawks funeral procession were pulled over by fairfax county police, several bikers told 9 news they thought they were the victims of profiling. >> i don't care if anybody's background, where they're from, what they do, what they wear. they have a right to have a decent burial. >> reporter: fairfax county police say the bikers were pulled over because the procession left earlier than expected. and the police escort wasn't in position. >> there were people apparently from the procession who were directing traffic at stop lights and that sort of thing. not only is this illegal, but it's extremely dangerous. >> reporter: sources inside the department tell us that police mistakenly thought the deceased, timmy hall, was a member of the notorious outlaw motorcycle gang, the pagans. >> timmy has never in his entire life ever been a pay began member -- pagan member. ever. >> i do have a history with the pagans, but it's a history. it's in the past. >> reporter: but that might explain the alleged actions of police at the cemetery. >> fairfax county patrolled the parking lot, scanning tags, taking pictures. it was out of control. >> reporter: and now he says a law enforcement source told him a few officers have it out for him. >> the two guys we talked to said that they were going to kick the hell out of me. at that point he said you need to lay low for a while. >> reporter: the hall family wants to make clear it has the utmost respect for the fairfax police department but would like to see those few officers disciplined for their actions. the department has not yet received a formal complaint from the halls. in the news room, andrea mccarren, 9 news now. >> now it is your turn to chime in. who's right on this one? did the bikers have the right to conduct their funeral procession uninterpreted or were the police just trying to keep everybody safe? sound off at mailbag at wusa9.com and of course on our facebook page. topp is back with your full forecast right after the break. ♪ [ rock ] [ chattering ] [ man on tv ] 96309. [ man ] ♪ she got it, you got it ♪ i got it, we got it [ groans ] ♪ who's got it see you later. ♪ yeah! ♪ come on, she got it you got it, we got it who's got it ♪ we're all different. that's why there are five new civics. the next-generation civic. only from honda. an eye disease known as macular degeneration leaves people unable to see clearly and do common daily tasks like reading or driving. anita brikman joins us life with details about a test to help catch it early and perhaps slow it down. anita? >> reporter: that's right, derrick. as with many diseases when you catch it early you can do something. with macular degeneration it can stablelize any progression and save what eyesight it has left. elizabeth is an active 83 year- old who lives alone and loves to read. she certainly wasn't prepared to lose her vision. her eye problems started in 1980 when she was diagnosed with dry macular degeneration in her eye. what happens is there's aging and thinning of the mac can you la in the center of the retina. over time the disease progressedwhen practice july vessels wiped out a crucial part of a person's sight. >> i have no central vision. it's only peripheral vision. >> reporter: since her right eye was caught too late, specialists wanted to make sure the same thing didn't happen to her left, making her legally blind. so dr. richard introduced elizabeth to a home monitoring system. 4c home amd monitor. it can detect distortion of vision before the patient even knows anything is wrong. >> it is a test the patients use at home. it takes a couple of minutes for each eye. the information goes directly to a monitoring center, and it's reviewed and analyzed each day for abnormalities. >> after only a month of radioing the system, elizabeth -- of using the system, elizabeth's doctor was notified those abnormalities were there. >> turns out she had a big problem, but it was too early for her to be able to detect herself. the device detected it. >> elizabeth had three months of intensive treatment and now doctors have it under control. >> i am convinced that the early detection has saved my eyesight. >> reporter: now, she no longer needs the treatment but still needs the monitoring to make sure nothing changes in that other eye. there is no cure for amd, but treatments can control how fast it progresses. also join me tonight at 11:00 for a special health alert about a local couple with a cancer fighting tour they saw here. >> i went to the channel 9 website and saw a box that said there's a new minimally invasive cancer treatment. i clicked on it. it looked amazing. >> reporter: the need for nano. that story tonight at 11:00. >> looking forward to it. thanks. topp, this is the first time this summer we've had our eyes on a big storm. >> it is. it's the first hurricane in the atlantic basin and one that actually could threaten land. that's always the key. if you have 100, who cares if they're out in the atlantic, but when they start threatening the southeast coast, different story. as far as we're concerned right now, fantastic. look at the temperatures. 73 in gaithersburg. 81 downtown. that's pretty good. most of the burbs already in the 70s. 77 in winchester. mid-70s in gaithersburg. only 73 in hagerstown. all right, open the windows, much cooler tonight. a terrific tuesday. still nice on wednesday. irene, yes. if she were to affect us, it's going to be over the weekend. saturday night into sunday morning. especially the dedication of the martin luther king, jr. memorial starting at 11:00 a.m. on sunday. that is in jeopardy. there could be showers and thunderstorms around from irene. tonight, no problems. clear skies. breezy, much cooler. open the windows. lows 54 to 64. winds still northwesterly at 10 to 15. even downtown we're talking low to mid-60s. 64 in arlington. 64 in springfield. 57 in rock field. 55 in gaithersburg. this is good stuff here. 61 in college park and 59 in bowie. normally we tell you to exercise in the morning because of the summer heat. you can exercise this this evening and tonight, no problems. 58 in reston. 58 in fairfax. 54 in leesburg and even 55 in manassas. tomorrow morning, sunny with a cool start. perhaps a little sweater for the kids if they're getting up early. as and 60s and -- 50s and 60s. light winds tomorrow. by afternoon, mostly sunny and just spectacular. oh, yeah, we get low humidity, too. pretty good deal. high temperatures in the low 80s and the winds will be light. all right, let's break it down. 54 to 64 to start. and then 75 to 80 by lunchtime and 78 to 83 by evening. a fantastic day. the next three days, still nice on wednesday. 85. then on thursday, it's going to get hot or at least almost hot. afternoon storm possible. high temperatures near 90. we've got the skins at the ravens thursday night at 8:00 start. all right, next, get a break on friday which is actually often the case before a hurricane affects you. you get what's called sinking air. that ends up with a pretty nice day on friday shall upper 80s. saturday and sunday, we could be looking at showers and storms from irene saturday night into sunday morning particularly. another nice day on monday. so we'll keep you posted. go to our website, wusa9.com. click on the weather tab. go into the forecast and download the hurricane tracker. this storm is very like floyd of 1999. >> interesting to watch all week long, sir. let's get to the weird news file tonight. millionaire bruce wayne once said criminals are a suspicious and cowardly lot. look at this guy. he's got underwear on his head and seems to be wearing a mini dress. he's actually robbing a convenience store right now. he's got something under that dress. we don't know if it's a gun or not, but he's getting money from a customer and the cashier before he makes his break out of there. good news is, there's no forgetting a look like this. bad news is, there's no forgetting a look like this. 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