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WUSA Wusa 9 News At Noon October 7, 2013

The stuff behind t we are not worried about it. The line itself, this is giving us the torrential downpours and occasionally some of the damaging wind gusts and the tornado warnings that we have had have been doppler indicated, but certainly you have seen some of the damage that has resulted from that. Just want to zoom in quickly, because this line of intense weather coming toward baltimore now, northern Prince Georges County through dc and getting into western charles on the east side of fredericksburg. The tornado warnings have been canceled top . Reporter yes, but we are concerned about the next two hours or so from i95 eastward. If you have folks flying in or out of town, you might want to check, i imagine they will be dancing around these storms for the next hour or so. This is down to the south around stafford and fredericksburg, this originally prompted the tornado warning. It is moving off to the north and east and it is headed toward charles county, as well as southern sections of Prince Georges County. And that means it has weakened a little bit, in terms of its structure, but still when was south of fredericksburg, we had justice possibly 50 to 60 miles per hour. If you are in this area around la plata and waldorf, i would take cover, maybe bring in small chairs and tables, lower your umbrellas if you still have them out on the patio, those can fly around and do damage, if you dont have a tornado. As howard mentioned we are looking at, essentially this lineup and down 95. Once this goes through, that is going to be about it. We think the next couple of hours will be critical for charles county, Prince Georges County, the district. Well keep you posted again, tornado watch until 5 00. Severe thunderstorm warning for charles county, southern Prince Georges County until 12 30. Howard and i will be back in just a minute. He has been hiding from u. S. Authorities for 15 years. Now special forces have nabbed a bombing suspect. They believe he is one of the people responsible for killing more than 200 people at two u. S. Embassies in africa. Wendy gillette has more on not one, but two u. S. Raids that took place over the weekend. Al libi is being questioned for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of american embassies in africa. More than 220 people died in the blast. Before American Special forces captured him in libya on saturday al libi was on the fbis most wanted list. There was a 5 million bounty for his arrest. Libya is calling the arrest an abduction. Secretary of state john kerry defended the operation. The United States of america is going to do everything in its power that is legal and appropriate in order to enforce the law and protect our security. Reporter al libi is expected to be transferred to new york, where he will be put on trial. During a separate raid in somalia saturday, seals stormed a compound trying to catch the mastermind of last months mall attack in kenya. The suspect was not killed or captured. The seals got into a firefight and had to withdraw. Wendy gillette, cbs news. Al libis family members say he has been living openly in libya for several years and did not have ties to terror groups. Today some pentagon employees are back on the job. House Speaker John Boehner says the president needs to be willing to negotiate if he wants the entire government to reopen. But he says if there are no negotiations, there will not be a vote to raise the nations debt limit, either. President obama and Senate Democrats want the gop and the controlled house there to pass a temporary funding bill to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling with no strings attached. John boehner says that be that is just not possible. The votes are not in the that is just not possible. The votes are not in the house to pass it. I stayed in washington this weekend. He knows my phone number. All he has to do is call. Treasury secretary jack lew warns a financial crisis could be triggered as bad as 2008 or even worse. They passed to give furloughed workers their paychecks in the house. An Undercover Police officer was part of the gang of bikers involved in an attack on an suv driver in new york. Witnesses say the gang of bikers yanked the driver out of the vehicle, attacked him in front of his wife and daughter last sunday. One of the bikers, reginald chance, is being held on 75,000 cash bail after his arraignment sunday. Chances attorney admits his client broke the window of the suv but says then he left. It is believed the officer did not intervene for fear of blowing his so its been in the news lately. You must have questions about the affordable healthcare act. If you live in dc we have answers for you this afternoon. Dr. Mohammed ochsner is a member of the dc board of health exchange. We appreciate your time this morning. If people have insurance now and decide wow, could this be a deal for me, is it possible you could get a better deal on this even if you have Health Insurance . Absolutely. If you are paying from your own pocket for your Health Insurance, you may be paying too much, and you may be getting too little in return. The plan on the exchange is standardized and the rates are lower. You will be surprised. Try it. Go on the website, look at the benefits and make your determination. If people havent read about it, who is eligible . Is it based on income . Three types of people are el where i believe. One who have no Health Insurance, regardless of what your income is. You can go on the exchange and find a plan you need. Okay. Second group is Small Business employers who have less than 50 employees. They can go online and find coverage for their employees. The third group is who is paying from their own pocket, but may be paying too much, they can go online and find out what the coverage is. So im a Sole Proprietor of a business and i pay for my Health Insurance, this is a place i check . Absolutely. You must. You go on the website, we have heard about the problems on the website, hopefully those will be fixed soon, where do you start . You start by getting yourself registered. Enter your information your age, name, address, and then you get your password, and then you move on to look at the different plans that are available and there are two important things to do. First look at what the monthly premium is for each of the plans. The plans are standardized, and the reason for that is, that in some cases, where the premiums are lower, the deductible and copayment will be higher. On the other hand, if the premiums are higher you are going to be paying less when you go back and get your care and copayment and deductible. Help is available always 24 7. We have 250 assistants to help you with that. Doctor, i apologize because of the tornado concerns, we have to leave it there. Topper, over to you. Reporter this is what we are concerned about. This is the line just now crossing 95, heading for Prince Georges County and charles county. We will be back and track the storms for you im terry mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. These are Birth Control pills. More than half of american women use them at some point in their lives but Ken Cuccinelli sponsored a bill that could have made common forms of Birth Control illegal, including the pill. Cuccinelli was one of only five senators to support this potentially radical intrusion into domestic, family and individual decisionmaking why is Ken Cuccinelli interfering in our private lives . Hes focused on his own agenda. Not us. [ snapping fingers ] man for me. Its staying fit. Its staying motivated. Its. Staying on track. With aetna, i have the tools to monitor my high blood pressure, get warning signs about health risks, and take steps to get back on track. No matter what your healthy is, aetna can help you get there. Whats your healthy . Welcome back. How could a 9yearold boy make it through Airport Security and hop a flight from minneapolis to las vegas without a ticket . That is exactly what the tsa is trying to find out. Reporter a 9yearolds trip to vegas leaves tsa baffled. The boy made it through three checkpoints without a boarding pass i dont i dont know how that would happen, it amazes me. Im willing to bet it was a fairly smart kid then. Reporter a spokesperson confirms he was screened at this checkpoint by tsa agents Tuesday Morning at 10 30. Once the boy got through the checkpoint, we are told by an airport official he went to concourse c, and boarded an 11 15 flight to vegas. Once the plane was in the air, flight attendants became suspicious and contacted police. John austin is a Communication Specialist and former spokesperson for northwest airlines. He says situations like this arent unheard of. They happen occasionally, mainly with kids. They attach themselves to a group and sort of to an outsider it looks like a family of four kids instead of three. Reporter austin points out the security checkpoints arent just there to prevent unauthorized people from going through. It is mostly to screen for dangerous objects. A spokesperson for tsa told us this. They reviewed video of the boy at the checkpoint. Now they are considering whether they should reconfigure barriers. It concerns me that something as simple or not as simple, but a 9yearold can sneak through. The boy took a rail to the airport and his parents didnt even realize it. So now Child Protective Services are also involved in the investigation. Watching the worst of the weather coming through, tornado watches in effect for all these counties. It has been dropped in prince georges. The areas west have been dropped from the tornado watch. What is going to happen is the line moves east, and well continue to shave off the counties from the west. Even though it is in effect until 5 00, not seeing much action out here. This line coming through baltimore, cease side and south side of the metro, that and the threat for Severe Weather the torrential rains, we have video we want to share with you quickly. The rains were coming down in the 4 to 5 inches an hour rate. We are going to look at rain totals. Updating the worst of the rain at the moment on live donor 9000, we turn it over to chief meteorologist topper . Reporter i95, east of town, again lowdon county you are clear of the tornado watch. Fairfax and the district and Prince Georges County you are under the watch. You can see this line of showers and thunderstorms. Even though we dont see tornadoes, these lines have a history of pro ducing very, very strong winds. These are moving off to the north and east at 50 miles per hour. Dont be surprised even if you dont see a tornado. We are going to probably have damage with this particular line. Well zoom in a little bit, this kind of looks like spin art. It does help us kind of determine where the sheer is, if you the sheer is, if you will. Howard mentioned rainfall totals. These were pretty impressive, in fact well zoom in a little bit now to go to montgomery county. Damascus, west of 27, 2. 2 inches. That is fairly impressive. Again flooding is not out of the question with these storms either as we go through the next couple of hours in Prince Georges County and eventually off to the east. Take you through the rest of the forecast. Here is howard. In dc the worst of it is past us. The worst of it is southern maryland, prince georges, down to the northern neck. Still toasty. Strong storms still to go through you. The day planner for the rest of the afternoon, cooling temperatures, we are actually in the mid60s. We may cool a little bit and drop off as the real front comes through. North, northwest after 5 00 p. M. Still cant rule out a couple of lingering showers. Each those showers will be south of dc. Temperatures falling into the low 60s by 9 00. Things are going to change drastically. Heres the difference. We are in the 60degree range, 69 in winchester as the cooler air is coming in. Cumberland 80 in southern maryland. 79 in easton. So this line we are watching is coming into this very warm, rich atmosphere. Upstairs it has good winds, but it doesnt have a great environment. That is why, thankfully, this isnt a big tornado threat, little tornado threat, torrential downpours and damaging wind gusts occasionally with some of these storms. We have the rain, not as heavy as it was a half hour or so ago, but we are rain cooled currently to 66 at national. Dew points dropping a little bit. You notice we are not behind the front yet. The winds will turn west ask northwest. Big picture here it is, you can see the tornado watch from us north to albany, new york. The summertime pattern, we have been dealing with the last few days. That is going to be gone. By 5 00, isolated shower lingering close to town. Then this evening things start to clear out and pull away from us. Midweek by late wednesday, thursday, that could bring more showers around here. It is also going to keep us cool. We have hit our high for the day in the upper 70s. 54 tonight with mid40s north and west of the cool spot. The yellow alert. 72 tomorrow, sunny and cooler. Pretty nice day out there. Late showers possible. Upper 60s. Thursday and friday with temperatures holding in the 60s, and then as we get to saturday and sunday, isolated im a Firm Believer if you put Barbecue Sauce on anything, ill eat it. If you want something that smells amazing, we have a specialist here. 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We have about 45 seconds left. You have your black beans. It is a little bit here,. So you put them underneath as well . I do. Another one finished here. About 30 seconds left. Okay. Then there is the barbecue salmon going on. Just glazed on pretty much. And a little bit of cilantro. Chef thanks so much for coming in. Well see you back here tomorrow morning. Take care, everybody. Billy you cant eat that whole gallon by yourself victoria watch me i will billy youre not gonna be able to eat it without these. Victoria oh, yeah . Billy nope, not till you promise to share. Youre not getting this. Youre not getting this victoria but its Chocolate Fudge with marshmallows. Billy that sounds like exactly what i need after all the energy i expended upstairs victoria did i tire you out trying to make a baby . Billy you think im gonna get tired of that . Victoria we could take the ice cream upstairs, and the spoons, and share. And share. And share. Billy spoons . 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