♪when i'm commissioner oh, oh ♪ >> where we going to go? >> they're humming a very different tune in this powerful republican congressman's office. >> we've helped uncover incredible abuse of bonuses dig further. this is very revealing. >> it's not just prouty's bonus that shocked house transportation and infrastructure chairman john mica, it's that in may we reported on this 2011 office and personnel management database obtained by wusa9's sister publication the asbury park press. in it the gsa reported out paying just over $13 million in bonuses. however, we uncovered more than $30 million in bonuses they did not release thus bringing the actual total of gsa bonuses in 2011 to more than $43 million. >> now we can see why they didn't want to give us the details. you've helped uncover incredible abuse of a bonus system. >> our analysis shows 2,500 gsa employees got bonuses in inning bonuses in increments of $5,000 or more, $79,000 or more to deputy commissioner jon jordan but only 5,400 were reported, more than 55 through to commissioner paul prouty reported as over 2,200 a nearly $52,000 bonus to assistant commissioner edward o'hare who is not recorded as receiving any base pay or award pay autism the gsa rapper -- pay at all. the gsa rapper's going on. >> there's very, very serious problems with gsa. >> senior government officials like commissioner prouty with his three year $100,000 bonus total can appeal disciplinary action against them and fight for their jobs depending upon just how badly they want to be commissioner. ♪sing it with me now i want to be commissioner so frickin' bad ♪ >> we sent this information to gsa last week. the agency has not responded to our interview request and has not questioned any numbers. instead gsa issued a statement saying acting administrator dan tangherlini is reviewing all bonuses in this entire reward system and his review has already uncovered clear deficiency in performance of awards. by our account we currently have more than 15 different structures. the agency goes on to say there are questions about the high award rate and questions about whether performance goals are set at a high enough level throughout the agency. as for the $30 million in unreported bonuses, the agency says it reports all data to opm and opm officials point the finger right back at gsa saying it can't explain gsa' processes. finally as for -- gsa's processes. finally as for that commissioner, paul prouty, is he no longer with the gsa. >> everything is not quite right, but did they get questioned about the big bonuses in front of the congress today? >> well, it's interesting because so far there is no admission about the bonuses, but as you heard, they're acknowledging that they are looking at the entire award program. in congress, no answers at all and tonight you're going to see at 6:00 congress grill the gsa, the gsa not give answers on the bonuses and then you'll watch an official turn her back on me. >> what's this i hear about a new convention they're having? >> there is a convention going on right now as we speak in nashville. more on that at 6:00. >> looking forward to hearing about. that thank you, russ. breaking news out of southern california where a wildfire is threatening some very large homes. this is live from riverside county. the fire broke out early this afternoon in a rural area just west of murietta and quickly spread to 1,500 acres in. immediate word on evacuations or how the fire was started. more breaking news this time from texas where a bomb threat forced evacuation of san antonio international airport this afternoon. somebody called and said three packages were left inside a parking garage. passengers were taken out on the tarmac and arriving planes are parked away from the gates. police and federal agents are looking into this. locally at home traffic backed up on i-95 in howard county after a truck flipped over and landed right there in the woods. there were some injuries. it happened on the ramp from i- 95 south to route 100. state police tell 9 news now crews spent 30 minutes getting the driver out of cab. we decent -- don't know about any other injuries. the maryland man accused with threatening an rather style mass shooting was prosecuted today. >> the prosecutor said maryland law has tighter hands. scott broom is in upper marlboro with a man who has an arsenal of assault rifles and called himself a joker facing a misdemeanor charge. >> reporter: the charge against 28-year-old neil prescott is a misdemeanor, telephone misauto, and that's it, prescott the -- misdemeanor, and that's it. prescott was the man who threatened to splatter his brains all over the sidewalk to go joker in the workplace recalling the mass shooting in aurora, colorado, last month at a theater and had an arsenal of mostly assault rifles when he was arrested. he's getting off too easy prince george's county prosecutor angela alsobrooks fears. >> unfortunately maryland does not have a law that makes it expressly illegal for a person to communicate generalized threats over the telephone. i believe that when people like mr. prescott threaten violence, especially in this day in age with all that we have going on right now, he ought to be facing felony charges, not just misdemeanor charges. >> reporter: alsobrooks with her hands tied said prescott's guns were all legal and there will be no charges there. >> he's in a hospital now. >> reporter: police chief mark magaw. >> so we're not walking away from this individual by any means. he'll have a lot to answer to when he is released. >> reporter: regardless of the misdemeanor charge magaw counts this case as a victory. >> it's hard to measure what you prevented, but all the elements were here that we believe that a tragedy was averted in this case. >> reporter: one consolation for prosecutors, the charges will prevent prescott from getting his arsenal of 25 guns back and if he's convicted, he'll lose his right to possess firearms in maryland into the future. in prince george's county scott broom, 9 news now. >> also if he's convicted on that telephone misuse charge, prescott could do three years in prison even though it's only a misdemeanor. police in blacksburg, virginia, say an explosion this morning was caused by a pipe bomb. someone called to report hearing either a gunshot or explosion just blocks from the virginia tech campus in the middle of the night. several cars were damaged. so far no arrests have been made. severe weather once again within striking distance of our neighborhood. meteorologist topper shutt tracking the storm from the weather center. top. >> earlier we had severe thunderstorm warnings up into pennsylvania, franklin county and that area. now they are discontinued. however, still some pretty big storms on live doppler 9000. pretty quiet around town. nats are in town. i think that game will be okay. at the very most we may see a delay, but we'll zoom into the northwest part of our viewing area to these storms. these are the same storms that prompted the severe thunderstorm warnings earlier in places like adams county and franklin county in pennsylvania. could be some hail in the storm around martinsburg. it's drifting very slowly south and east and possible flash flood between martinsburg and hagerstown. we'll come back and talk about the heat returning and more of these later on tonight. herndon police are trying to piece together two events overnight involving a fatal hit and run leafing a woman dead and a collision involve -- leaving a woman dead and a collision of multiple parked cars. it happened around midnight on center street in herndon. surae chinn joins us live with details about the car registered to the dead woman's husband who is now a person of interest. help break this down for us. >> reporter: herndon police did just name a person of interest. i want to show his picture, 32- year-old fitsim tatio who is also the victim's husband. the victim was found in the parking lot of the apartment complex where she lived. you can see all the markings here. we know three small children were inside their apartment at the time and right now they are without a mother and a father is nowhere to be found. >> he was a great employee. whatever instruction we give him, he answers and he was so quiet. he was so excited when his family came over. >> reporter: pierre sahim said this 32-year-old worked as parity-time driver for him at paesano's piz that herndon. now he's a person of interest -- pizza in herndon. now he's a person interest of in his own wife's hit and run. >> reporter: it was said the driver smashed into these parked cars. >> there was smoke coming up and he makes a couple circles around the car and then he ran away. >> reporter: ahmad called police having no idea a block away a woman lay dying in the parking lot of this apartment complex. the drive is nowhere to be found -- the driver is nowhere to be found. >> we have reason to believe perhaps the driver is involved in both events. >> reporter: police say the black toyota camry involved in crashing into the parked cars is registered to a man married to the woman who was killed. his boss said he failed to show up at work in herndon. did he ever voice any family troubles? >> not at all. yeah. he always, oh, my girls, my wife, you know, talk about them. he always pick up pizza for them. yeah, i mean he was so nice to his family i think. >> reporter: i want to give you some perspective. the victim was found right here and just down the road you might see a bronze car just hundred dollar this white car that's pulling in president of -- behind this white car that's pulling in. that's where the five cars were smashed up because of this collision. the person of interest may have some injuries because of force of the crash over there was so impactful that he may have some injuries. so look out for that. the three children now are in protective services. back to you. coming up find out what caused a hole to be blown out of this plane. >> also ahead controversy on the badminton court. find out why eight olympic athletes have been kicked out of the competition. >> reporter: i'm kristin fisher at of a chick-fil-a in sterling. the owners supporters were out in full force today. i'll let you hear from both sides coming up. ♪ i've never felt this way before, but it's a scary time to be a woman. mitt romney is just so out of touch. 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[ obama ] i'm barack obama, and i approve this message. the same sex marriage debate heated up today at chick- fil-as across the country. it comes one week after the company's ceo publicly announced his op sis to same sex marriage. -- opposition to same sex marriage. today his supporters flocked to the fast food chain for national chick-fil-a appreciation day. our kristin fisher was there and is back now. what did you find? >> there were a lot of people out there. this was all started by former rep cal presidential candidate mike huckabee. he posted this event on facebook. more than 600,000 people signed up, said they would stop and eat at a chick-fil-a location today and that includes sterling supervisor eugene delgalla. zeller supervisor eugene delgado has been at this -- sterling supervisor eugene delgado has been at this chick- fil-a in sterling for breakfast, lunch and dinner. >> i believe the ceo should have the right to express his convictions and his commitment to men and women who eat chick and are faithfully married. >> reporter: -- chicken and are faithfully married. >> reporter: today he's protesting mayor vincent gray saying on twitter given my long standing right for the lbgt, he says in isn't about hate. it's about protecting free speech. >> no mayor or elected official has the right to tell a private company how to conduct their business and how their customers should be. >> reporter: delgado was joined by dozens, mostly conservative republicans, for chick-fil-a appreciation day. >> i think it's absurd for people trying to tell other people what they have to be believe. >> the president of this company has an opinion. they have great food. get over it, come on. >> reporter: outside the drive- thru line wrapped around the building, but i did find one person who said he was not here for pot ticks, just for the food. >> i'm -- the politics, just for the food. >> i'm not going to let the owner's opinion affect what i want and affect some good tasting food. >> god bless everybody, thank you, and eat chicken. >> supporters of same sex marriage are now planning a counter-protest this. friday the group glad says they'll be hosting national same sex kiss day. they're urging people of the same sex to show up at chick- fil-a locations across the country and kiss each other in protest of the ceo's statement. so if there's going to be any sort of conflict, i would expect it to be this friday, not today, just supporters today. friday is when we should see the two sides going head to head. >> thank you. there was some anxious moments for passengers on board a united airlines flight out of dallas. >> it was flight no. 1475. it collided with a bird just as the plane was descending into denver airport. good news, none of the 151 passengers were hurt, but can't say the same for the plane. look at that massive hole. flew in the nose. >> nine people including a baby had to be rescued last night near phoenix after being trapped in cars during that flash flood. at its highest the water on the highway was 4 feet. some of the drivers said it didn't look that high, but it was powerful enough to push one vehicle off the road. everyone rescued is said to be okay. wow. >> big time stuff. >> wow about today. >> a little hot today. >> a little hot. >> this is a prelude of what's to come. no triple digits, but it's going to start to get hot. >> it is august. >> final numbers are not in on july. it was not as hot as last july, but we'll probably be top five all time hottest julys. let's start with live doppler 9000. we have talked about these earlier. we do have warnings now. the storm does that hail in. it there are warnings to the west around martinsburg just south of hagerstown. we'll zoom in. looks like berkeley county in west virginia under a severe thunderstorm warning. this does have hail. i talked about that just earlier. right around i-81 around martinsburg, we'll zoom in more and look for the purplish colors, that's sort of the hail right along state highway 45 and just to the east of martinsburg. so we're looking at a pretty heavy storm. it's a very slow mover. it will produce probably some flash flooding, but right now just severe thunderstorm warnings in effect for that storm and also now for frederick county in virginia around winchester. we'll put this into motion. where are these storms going? they're drifting slowly south and east. the computer is diminishing them a little, but we've got a ways to go before this storm clears i-81 corridor. so some flash flooding also a concern of ours as well. right now live look outside. it is our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son, 88 downtown, loft sunshine, dew point barely tolerable -- lots of sunshine, dew point barely tolerable 69, pressure 29.92, 84 in bethesda, 89 ago, low 90s in springfield, 80 -- 89 arlington, low 90s in springfield, 89 in bowie. heating up with more storms, isolated storms tonight, hot tomorrow, dry commute in the morning but a few afternoon storms tomorrow evening. some of those could be severe. tonight isolated thunderstorms, a few heavy, partly cloudy, mild, 66 to 74, winds southwest 5 to 10. by morning partly cloudy, very warm by lunchtime, air quality healthy range and by afternoon partly cloudy and hot with thunderstorms, some heavy, highs 90 to 95. the next three days, yellow, yellow, yellow, hot with storms tomorrow 93, hot with storms friday 95, hot with storms saturday and 94. now it will stay hot. in fact, we're looking at temperatures in the mid-90s on sunday accident just isolated storms on -- sunday, just isolated storms on sunday. cold front on monday may keep us under 90, but in the wake of this front just low 90s tuesday and wednesday with isolated thunderstorms. again severe thunderstorm warnings to the west. we'll put it at the bottom of your screen. anybody for a dip? coming up a camper crashes into a backyard pool. >> up next a violent fresh caught on tape. police need your help -- robbery caught on tape. police need your help to camp the attacker before he strikes about -- catch the attacker before he strikes again. if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. 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? it's time we had somebody who believes in us. someone who believes that achievement should be rewarded not punished. we need somebody who believes in america. [ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. caught on tape a violent crook beating a store clerk july 29th at 11:15 p.m. at the shell station in the seed pleasant area of prince george's county. detectives are telling 9news the man you see in the video tried to exchange something he brought. when the clerk refused, the bandit kicked in the door to the cashier's man and attacked the man. the crook grabbed the property he was after and took off running. please call prince george's county police if you have information. police in baltimore are investigating the shooting of a man by police in a home. visitors say it happened last night after an officer responded to a report of a domestic disturbance. they say that officer got into a confrontation with the man inside and when a second officer spotted a knife near the man, investigators say the officer opened fire. the man was pronounced dead on the scene. here's something you don't see every day in a backyard swimming pool in massachusetts. it's an rv. it came crashing through into the pool in brockton. firefighters got the driver out and had to use a crane to get the camper itself out of a pool that belongs to a neighbor. coming up a pack of coyotes attack a dog in northern virginia and now there are warnings to the people there to take some precautions. >> also ahead a little girl drawing with sidewalk chalk lands her mom in court. >> but up next the olympic badminton controversy, local players react to whether athletes should have been kicked out of the competition for trying hard enough. more controversy at the olympics, this time in badminton. angry crowds booed as eight players from south korea, china and indonesia made mistake after mistake and fans said it became clear the doubles players were purposely trying to lose. >> it's a shame for the sport and in my eyes they should be stop order thrown out. >> officials disqualified those players saying they played poorly to guarantee a better spot in the competition's elimination round. back at home you might be surprised to learn there are badminton clubs in our area where athletes at elite levels coach. >> you're right, i'm a bit surprised, but peggy fox visited 1 in loudoun county and got reaction to what some folks are calling a bad case of bad sportsmanship. >> reporter: i'm here at t-2 badminton in sterling and i've -- k-2 badminton in sterling and i've been talking to some of the kids and older players and they aren't happy about what those eight players in london about. jana was a professional badminton p