lanes wide open as we return to the graphics and zoom in to 95 and the bw parkway, clean and green to 495. thank you, angie. schools in the district in maryland are celebrating a big win this morning. the obama administration has awarded them a total of $325 million in an education reform contest called race to the top. 9news now reporter kristyn fisher is live at d.c. public school headquarters. good morning. reporter: unfortunately, virginia got knocked out in the first round of the competition. this is a huge and somewhat surprising win for the district and maryland. gene nephews, the head of el haines charter school got the good news yesterday afternoon in time to share with students. the good news is d.c. has won the big grant called race to the top. oh. reporter: the reform proposal she helped author has earned the district $75 million in president obama s race to the top grant competition. that s one-tenth of d.c. s entire annual public school budget. niles s
the website wikileaks says it will release cia documents today. the site released documents in afghanistan earlier this month. westbound interstate 66 will be closed tonight between the dulles toll road and the beltway. that s because of work on the silver line. the closure will go from midnight to 5:00 a.m. and it s back to school today for more districts in our region. in maryland, garrett and st. mary s counties open and in virginia it s clark, culpeper, frederick counties along with winchester. also today education leaders in the district in maryland will decide what they re going to do with massive federal grant. kristin fisher is live in northeast washington with more on the race to the top competition. i know they re excited about the money, kristen. reporter: that s right, andrea they are. first with the bad news, virginia actually got knocked out in the first round of this nationwide contest. they will not be getting any of this grant money. but this is a hug
shed, three wooden sides, a tin roof and opening so horses could be brought in out of the weather. now all that s left, some scorched earth, twisted metal and what police believe is a murder scene.xd the sheriff says mrs. arnold went missing from the neighborhood yesterday afternoon. 30 minutes later that suspicious fire.çó the body discovered, the murder investigation began. and so tonight, no motive and no suspect in the case. the ñiinvestigation, it continu on. doreen, back to you. pat collins reporting from leesburg. a child was hit by a car this afternoon. it happened near the 3900 block of south capitol street in southwest d.c. police say the driver of the suv involved in the accident stayed on the scene. no word tonight on whether he or she will face charges. the child is expected to be okay. there is a call for action after the murder of a college student who was shot and killed near sherman circle while riding his bicycle home from work. now a member of cong
and that s absolutely right. the problem is nobody ever talks about what he should have done if he didn t do it. and he didn t do it and he s adamant about that and always has been. reporter: through his attorney, trainer mcme says he feels vindicated. congressman value hollen says van hollen says lessons can be learned. it s cheating and by the way f you lie about it, that s wrong too and it s going to catch up with you. reporter: if convicted roner clemens faces roger clemens faces up to 30 years in prison and more than a million dollars in fines. redskins rookie trent williams is accused of reckless driving. he s got a court date in fairfax county next week. an officer pulled over williams on the dulles toll road in june. police say he was going 90 in a 55 and because he was allegedly going more than 20 miles over the speed limit, he was charged with reckless driving instead of speeding. williams lawyer tells the washington post his client is looking forward
today were overjoyed to get them back. this was ft. lewis, washington. forces who left iraq a few days ago, many with feelings of accomplishment. it is just amazing if you go to iraq. there is a vast improvement of what we did. reporter: the baghdad government is in chaos. suicide attacks continue. and despite all the happy homecomings, the u.s. combat mission does not officially end until august 31. but today, two weeks early is a turning point for iraq and for america. back to you. steve handelsman, thanks. the u.s. pull its final full combat troops out of iraq now. it is up to them to provide security. here at home, the veterans are reacting to this milestone. the world war ii veterans didn t support the reasons for the u.s. involvement in iraq. i think it was a mistake that we were in there to start with. i m glad they re getting out of there. they ve been fighting for 2,000 years. i think they ll still keep fighting. we ll have complete coverage of the pull