in her opening statement to the jury prosecutor manned a haynes admitted mistakes were -- amanda haynes admitted mistakes were made along the way but the one man exhaustively investigated by the police congressman gary condit had nothing to do with the murder she said. this case also about the failure of the criminal justice it. the police were distracted. the juicy secret of the congressman and the internal howed guandique to hide in plain sight -- intern allowed guandique to hide in plain sight. it's a circumstantial case. the defense attorney maria howillo told the jury there is no credible evidence supporting the government's theory. their case comes down to prior bad acts and jailhouse informants. they have made him into an easy scapegoat. listening to it and taking notes was chandra levy's mother susan who declined to comment outside the courthouse. ingmar guandiqui is facing felony murder charges for allegedly killing chandra levy. the afternoon's testimony featured something that appeared to be a misstep by the government. they putt a woman on the stand named amber fitzgerald. she says that she was in rock creek park around the time of chandra levy's disappearance and that she was jogging in the park and that she was stalked by a man. she described this man as a latino male well built, slight and he was wearing as she described them sort of street athletic clothes. she got away, but she did not tell the police about this until two years later and while she was being questioned by the prosecution, the prosecutor said well, do you see anybody in the courtroom that has the same kind of complexion as this man? and the woman looked around the courtroom and she said no, even though ingmar guandiqui was sitting right there. we'll bring in roby chavez. roby watched some of the afternoon testimony. they put amber fitzgerald's boyfriend at the time on the stand apparently to try and corroborate her story, but again it seemed like another misstep to you. >> reporter: it was, paul. it was kind of an awkward moment in the courtroom. in fact, a little bit of laughter in the courtroom because he kept very specific notes. he had a day calendar on who he was dating, where they went out to dinner and what they did. he had very specific notes. they asked him about that particular day that she said she went out to dinner with him and she told him about this attack that happened to her. he did not make any kind of notation in his calendar about that. when they asked if he remembered any kind of a conversation about any such attack, he said he did not remember. he didn't say it never happened. he just didn't remember that it happened and as far as he was concerned, again these were very specific notes. he had frowny faces when they got in arguments. e made notations when they spent -- he made notations when they spent the night at each other's house and made notices on their statuses because they broke up a couple times, so it was very specific but nothing about an attack that would have been something i guess that would that v made a note in any of our minds. >> reporter: -- have made a note in my our minds. >> reporter: government is trying to show these attacks occurred at the same time, that ingmar guandiqui was attacking all these women. this is an entirely circumstantial case, so maybe not a great start for the government today. >> if you'd not more information, paul will be blogging from the courthouse throughout the trial. go to www.myfoxdc.com and click on news. you can read those up to the minute reports from inside the courtroom. a murder investigation underway right now in a bethesda neighbor. an american university professor was killed inside her home in the 6200 block of usett tonight police are looking for what they think could be a key piece of evidence. fox 5's bob barnard is live at scene tonight. bob? >> reporter: it's the victim's car that's missing, laura. we'll have more specifics in a moment. the professor's body was found this morning by a friend inside her home over there. that's it, front door right there. police are still working the scene. they say sumar couple was murdered, but was the killer -- they say sue marcum was murdered, but was the killer stranger or somebody she knew? montgomery county homicides detectives have been all over the house along busy massachusetts avenue, a part of bethesda called glenn echo heights. 52-year-old american university accounting professor sue ann marcum was found dead on the house's level lower just before 11:00 this morning. they say they aren't sure when she was killed. >> she was a real nice lady, you know, totally normal, like worked normal hours and was, yeah, just an all round nice neighbor. it's a shame. it's too bad. >> reporter: her neighbor across the street juan feldman said ms. marcum bought the house within the year and was doing a lot to fix it up. >> there was constantly like landscaping people in her yard or people like doing stuff in her house all the time. so i don't know what that means, but who knows? it's pretty sad. >> reporter: there's a second entrance to the house from the back running parallel to massachusetts avenue. it happens this is where the killer broke. in investigators dusted for fingerprints around a sliding glass door. >> they discover signs of forced entry and signs of a struggle within the home. her car is also missing. >> reporter: a woman staying with her daughter next-door said she thinks she saw marcum's stolen jeep cherokee leaving the neighborhood this morning but isn't certain. did you hear anything? >> huh-uh. they've got this construction going on back here and with three kids in the house you don't hear a whole hospital. so no, we didn't hear anything. >> reporter: no -- whole lot. so no, we didn't hear anything. >> reporter: no yelling or gunshots? >> no. >> reporter: police say marcum's house may have been chosen at random. now police tonight are looking for ms. marcum's car. it is a gold or tan colored jeep cherokee with virginia tags yxe1456. investigators believe her killer or killers took it. now besides working at american university, sue marcum worked for a number of years for the ringling brothers circus as a tax adviser. her murder investigation tonight is wide open. >> we know you'll stay on top of it. thank you. a court date for a georgetown university student and his friend involved in a dorm room drug lab bust. police arrested two students and a visitor saturday after finding a dmt lab in a dorm room. dmt is a halluncinogenic drug and today a judge ruled one student will not be prosecuted, but his roommate charles smith and a visiting friend john parone will be held without bail until a hearing later this week, both men charged with manufacturing a controlled substance with intent to distribute. a big shift now in the race for governor in the state of maryland. democrat martin o'malley and republican robert ehrlich are in the middle of a heated rematch. the candidates are straighted by double digit numbers. fox 5's top fitzgerald is here now with the breakdown. what do they show? >> it's been a busy daye down here at the www.myfoxdc.com web center -- day down here at the www.myfoxdc.com web center, three big polls, one of them the lead now in double digits and rasmussen reports is shifting this race from leaning democratic to tonight solidly democratic. let's get to those numbers. the rasmussen report poll out late this afternoon is putting this race now at 52% for o'malley, 42% for bob ehrlich. that is a 10 point swing, double digits now for martin o'malley, but that is also backed up with similar double point leads in other local polls. let's go to the washington post now. they were out today with their survey. the post is finding right now 54% o'malley, ehrlich at 40%. that is a 14% lead for the incumbent democratic governor. the same margin was found by the baltimore sun. they put out a poll saturday again the margin at 14 points, the sun showing this race at 52% o'malley, 38% ehrlich, but shawn, once again we are seeing double digit leads now for martin o'malley in all three of these polls. >> hey, tom, the numbers are perplexing. many polls show voters are unhappy with maryland's economy but that voter discourse is not transferred to the incumbent governor martin o'malley. why is that? >> it's interesting if you look especially at the post polling. they ask voters are you happy with the track maryland is on right now or is maryland on the wrong track? shawn, almost half of the people who answered this poll said maryland is on the brock track, but yet that does -- wrong track, but yet that does not reflect in martin o'malley's poll numbers even though maryland voters told the post that they think the state is on the wrong track. o'malley still is commanding tonight a double digit lead. >> i'm sure the o'malley camp is happy with that. with eight days now until voters head to the polls, could we see those numbers turn around for robert ehrlich? >> it's a tough road ahead for robert ehrlich. this is one of the tools we use a lot down here. this is a www.myfoxdc.com politics page. this is another site. real clear politics which uses an average including the three polls we just showed you, take a look at this. we'll go back to july 16th of this summer. that is when robert ehrlich had taken a slight small lead in this race and he held it only for 10 days and at that point look at what happens to this race right now. martin o'malley in blue, robert ehrlich in red. those two lines diverged and they are heading at very different directions right now, shawn, with only seven days left until this race. now we told you about those polls. we told you all different numbers that everybody is finding here. let's talk to one of those pollsters now joining us live from new jersey, scott rasmussen. scott, how are you? >> doing great. it's an interesting day and interesting election season. >> let's look at your poll. ground a 10% lead for martin o'malley -- you found a 10% lead for martin o'malley and pushed this race solidly into the democratic column but yet there is still a lot of voter unrest about the maryland economy. why isn't that transferring to martin o'malley's poll numbers? >> first of all, because there's a lot of confidence in the man sitting in the white house, 56% of maryland voters still proving of the way barack obama is doing his job. he was in the state rally is support. martin o'malley's job approval ratings have moved up as well and that's something that is very important when an incumbent is up for reelection. >> we saw your poll throughout the summer basically have this at a statistical tie up until labor day and things started to change. scott, why is that? did people start simply paying attention once fall rolled around? >> two things. people started paying attention and democrats began to come home. there were a lot of democrats skeptical about the administration or about o'malley, but they finally decided you know what? they're from my party and we're going to support them. right now both candidates are getting a huge level of support from their own party and that gives any democrat an advantage in maryland. >> scott rasmussen coming to us from new jersey tonight, we thank you very much. shawn, you talk to all these folks, you'll hear the same thing. these numbers are very interesting, especially in respect to the level of discontent they're hearing from voters, but yet how they're viewing this in terms when it comes to choosing their own governor. >> tom, we know you'll stay on top of it down to election day. thank you. it wasn't exactly pretty, but the skins pulled it off. still ahead tonight coach shanahan talks about the close win in the windy city. we are in a tornado. we are in a tornado! >> plus amazing video caught on camera as a tornado touches down in texas. we'll be right back. 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[ female announcer ] choose. brew. enjoy. keurig. well, something, it was the ugly -- some think it was the ugliest game of the year but not from a redskins defensive point of view. one redskin tied a redskin record while another played what he considered his best game to date. feldy, got to love the defense this week. >> you do and you don't have to be doc walker to know you're talking about d'angelo hall and albert haynesworth and yes, it was ugly, a combined nine turnovers, but skins only had three of the nine. bears had six and that's your glass half full. albert haynesworth suited up for the first time in three weeks and just the fourth time this season. he made a huge contribution. his stuffing of bear quarterback jay cutler forced the turnover and changed the momentum of the game. d'angelo hall stepped up big, 2nd half four interceptions to tie an nfl record last accomplished in 2001. hall returned his second one 92 yards for the game winning touchdown. the redskins forced six turnovers, got their total for the season to 17, same as all of 2009, the four wins matching their total for last season. mike shanahan, your thoughts. >> you are what you are. we're a 4-3 football team. we're going to have a chance obviously to have six wins, but we're not. obviously got a chance for losses as well. so you are what you are and you got to earn them. so our football team is smart enough to take them one game at a time as the old saying goes and you got to find a way to win those tight games and hopefully we can as time goes on. >> say this about mike shanahan after a win or loss. he sounds the exact same. you didn't watch the game you would have no idea if the skins won or if they lost. coming up at 6:00, more on albert haynesworth and the possibility that his season has turned the corner in the right direction. >> a lot of folks happy about that. feldy, thank you. so the redskins matched their win total from last year, but will they win the nfc east? we invite you to text your votes yes or no to 55171. standard text messaging and data rates may apply. npr's chief executive apologized to her staff for the way juan will jams was fired. he was let go last week -- williams was fired. he was let go last week after comments made about muslims on fox news channel. he said he gets nervous on planes when passengers appear to be muslims, but now vivian schiller said williams deserved a face to face meeting instead of being canned over the phone but does not regret her decision. she told her employees, "i stand by my decision to end npr's relationship with juan, but i deeply regret the way i handled it and explained it." eight days and counting until the midterm elections and candidates are using every possible second to make their final arguments and they have plenty of work ahead. a new associated press poll shows 1/3 of voters still undecided. meanwhile a poll by politico shows an uphill climb for democrats trying to retain control of congress. fox's craig boswell reports. >> reporter: president obama is back on the road in the final week of the campaign shoring up democratic support in rhode island. on the same day rhode island gubernatorial democratic candidate caprio lashed out for the president not endorsing him. >> i said this process about endorsements isn't something i'm concerned about right now and he can take the endorsement and shove it. >> reporter: one of caprio's opponents is lincoln chafee who supported president obama in 2008. meanwhile vice president joe biden stopped in florida where he talked about taxes. >> it states there will be main cut of 21% across the board except. except doesn't affect taxes for the very wealthy. >> reporter: a new political poll shows independent voters siding with the gop by 14 points over the democrats. while republicans are predicted to take the house, a handful of close races will likely determine the balance of power in the senate. one of them is kentucky. >> reporter: rand paul's latest ad ties democrat attorney general jack conway to the obama administration, a strategy republicans are using in races where administration policies are unpopular but it's hardly keeping the about the off the campaign trail this week. president obama returns to the campaign trail this weekend and will make stops in illinois and ohio where he'll appear with vice president joe biden. craig boswell, fox news, in washington. i don't know if you got a chance to look out behind him, but the sun was out a bit today and it was beautiful. >> even when the clouds came in, it was just a beautiful fall day out there and rather warm, too. >> that's exactly right. as a matter of fact, right now down in culpeper the temperature is 79 degrees. they've had some late afternoon sunshine down there and that's really helping them out. not that warm here, but almost. i mean temperatures have been right up into the 70s. let me take you over to radar to show you what's going on. we did have showers in the forecast for today, but most of the moisture has been trapped down to the south and moved to the northwest. so we're in kind of this little dry area here. maybe in st. mary's city you've gotten a very light rain shower or light sprinkle. that's about it and really it looks like the best chance for any of that rain is going to be coming up well down to the south of us as well. let me take you to true view and show you where all the rain is and the thunderstorm activity, too. down through parts of north carolina, south carolina, severe weather down there, thunderstorms again producing more in the way of the potential for strong to even severe storms and a little bit of wind damage reported down there in places through the carolinas. nothing like that for us. we'll stay around 70 at 7 p.m., only dropping down to the 60s overnight tonight. chance of rain on the way and we stay mild, complete forecast coming up, shawn. >> thank you. we are in a tornado. we are in a tornado! >> can you imagine this? a dangerous spot for this texas man. he recorded this tornado near dallas as it ripped through a building throwing debris in the air. at least four people were hurt in the storm. winds kicked up to an estimated 117 miles per hour. the tornado damaged houses, overturned several cars along the interstate there on sunday. the death toll from a cholera outbreak in hey take is now rise -- haiti is now rising. at least 259 people have died. the disease has been contained to the central rural regions for now, but they're racing to keep it from the capitals. >> we can discharge about 20, but then 20 new ones come. in so we've held steady at about 90 patients in the hospital on any day. >> the waterborne bacterial disease causes severe dehydration and if left untreated it can kill within hours. she made headlines because of her uncontrollable hiccups and now she's in the news for a much different reason. tonight she's facing first degree murder > and conflicting emerging after an american swimmer and uva grad dies overseas. we have the details when we come back. bob ehrlich's 24 years in politics. in congress ehrlich voted with george bush 90% of the time, protecting the special interests. as governor, ehrlich cut education, increased college tuition by 40%, and vetoed an increase in the minimum wage. and after losing his election, bob ehrlich joined a lobbying firm and got paid $2.5 million to represent casinos and wall street banks. bob ehrlich--24 years of putting the special interests first. cwoman 1 sync: i knew what bob ehrlich did as governor. man 1 sync: raised my property taxes 60 percent. woman 2 sync: let utilities hike our rates 72 percent. woman 1 sync: but i didn't know what he's done since he got fired as governor. man 2: ehrlich's raked in millions. man 3: he worked for a wall street bank that took 10 billion dollars from the bailout. woman 3: 10 billion of our money. woman 4: our money. woman 5 sync: and he worked for another bank that collapsed. man 4: costing tax payers 17 million. anncr: tell bob ehrlich big banks don't need help. middle class marylanders do. do you remember that girl who made national headlines because of her uncontrollable hiccups? now she's a murder hiccup. 19-year-old jennifer mee hiccupped for five weeks. then they went away on her own. mee is now charged with luring a man to a florida home where two other men robbed and shot the victims. the death of an marine swimmer is being blamed on -- of an american swimmer is being blamed on overexertion. it's believed that is how fran chippen died. they are denying reports of a -- crippen died. they are denying reports he might have had a heart tack. he was completing saturday. -- attack. he was completing saturday. crippen never finished the race. his bother was found two hours after the race in the water. >> the swimmers went out and started looking all over the place. they were going. in. >> some swimmers complained the water temperatures of in the high 80s and that created dangerous conditions. crippen graduated from the university of virginia in 2006. coming up at 5:00 a first for the catholic archdiocese of washington, putting the spotlight on a project that is making house ago fordable for dozen -- housing affordable for dozens of people in d.c. we'll show you how to take advantage of holiday shopping deals weeks ahead of time. this wasn't a terrorist attack it was death by metro, death by mismanagement. i called for an immediate audit, the results were chilling. so i insisted metro actually follow national safety standards for the first time. the brass at metro wasn't happy, but frankly i don't care. i'm not the senator for metro, i'm the senator for maryland. i'm barbara mikulski and i approve this message. ? a religion more than 2,000 years old with millions of followers worldwide there aren't a lot of firsts, but today the catholic archdiocese cut the ribbon on the first affordable housing project in the 80 year history of the archdiocese. >> once pop a time there was a convent -- upon a time there was a convent on p street northeast that most recently served as housing for the homeless, but the folks at st. martin's parish thought that land could serve a greater purpose. this is a city on the move bustling with new buildings and businesses, but it's moving a little too fast for some folks. >> it is hard to live in d.c. and to find decent affordable housing, very hard. >> reporter: pratt and her son brian, an iraq war veteran returned to d.c. after 30 years in miami, but she feared for her granddaughter to spend time in the neighborhoods she could afford. >> it's not safe at all. >> lord, god, we gave you trance and praise for all the hundreds of people that -- thanks and praise for all the hundreds of people that made this possible. >> reporter: this 178 unit building on north capitol and t street northeast was built on the grounds of an old convent by catholic charities and the archdiocese of washington. >> this is a beautiful place, safer. >> reporter: partway through the project they hit a snag when this century old convent was declared historic, but catholic charities kept the faith and in a monumental effort moved this building 200 feet to create a blessed union of two buildings. the interior complete with original stained glass has been converted into modern apartments and in the new structure breathtaking views are offered for an affordable price. >> we have buildings. they serve a push and then when a new purpose comes -- purpose and then when a new purpose comes along, we convert the building into the use of a new group of people. >> reporter: even tiny people were brought into the circle with a rooftop rubberized playground far out of harm's way. >> this is awesome. i love it. it's beautiful. i mean i just can't get enough of it. >> reporter: the summit at st. martin's is open to families and individuals earning up to 60% of the area median income it. has underground parking, two interior courtyards and that really nice playground. >> yeah. incredible. we always hear the city needs more affordable housing. in the story you mentioned they actually moved the convent 200 feet. how did they manage that? >> in it's credible. i'm going to show you the archdiocese sent -- it's incredible. >> i'm going show you the amp diocese sent over some video. -- archdiocese sent over some video. the building was lifted and actually rolled over. the two buildings are just sort of married together. it's a great structure. >> obviously they sped that up because it took a little bit longer. >> just a touch. pretty neat though, isn't it? >> it's a great story. cardinal designate world joined us last friday. you can see his first in depth interview since the pope announced he would become a cardinal go. to www.myfoxdc.com and look under news. the federal government is now investigating whether major banks have been foreclosing on homes illegally. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke expects to release the early results of the review next month. jpmorgan stopped tens of thousands of foreclosures after being accused of making mistakes. bank of america and gmac resumed foreclosures after a brief halt to review those documents. there is even more evidence of the struggling real estate market. sales of previously occupied homes rose last month after a tough summer, but the numbers are still below healthy levels. the national association of realtors reports sales were up 10% in september down 19% from the same time last year. line employment, tight credit and the worry about a decline in home values are keeping buyers away. some good news here. buyers are starting to come out of hibernation for the holiday sales season. one of the hottest web searches right now is black friday ads. fox 5's money reporter melanie alnwick is live in the net center with a way to combine holiday sales and another saving trend. >> i've been scanning the web looking for those leaked black friday circulars and i've only found two true black friday deals so far. the true valley is one of them, but you know what? there are more coming. certain sites like blackfridayads.net will start posting them in late october. that's about the time they saw them last year in early november. if you're really on your game, you may able to combine two holiday trends into one super deal. t.j. maxx, toys r us, sears, just some of the retailers where lay- away has come roaring back to life. >> you can put everything from toys and jewelry, electronics, appliances, everything. >> research that was conducted the consumer listed lay-away as a no. 1 budgeting item for them that helps them plan their shopping for the local someday season especially. >> reporter: and there's a hidden bonus. you do your research and time it just right. >> most of the stores give you the sales price if it goes on sale during the period of time you have it on lay-away. >> reporter: so toys r us and babies r us basically confirmed to us if you lay away an eligible item and it's on sale the day that you pick it up, you get the sales price. we want to lay out the vaty for you and here it is. first -- strategy for you and here it is. go on the web and start looking for the black friday or holiday sale ads that start popping in mid-november. find those items on sale and put them on lay-away. then be prepared to head to the store and pay in full on the sale date. now there is a fine print pretty straightforward with toys r us, sears and k-mart a bit of fine print involved. they will not honor black friday sales for lay-away items until you are in the state of maryland where the law says that they have to give you a price adjustment and honor the sales price. now after black friday they will honor the sales price, but there is a time limit on those price adjustments for sears, lay-away in two weeks ahead of time and k-mart is just one week they honor a sales price on that. it really pails to plan ahead. there is a possibility you -- pays to plan ahead. there is a possibility you may have to have a small fee for lay-away and if you cancel, there is a penalty. i wouldn't recommend this strategy if you are unsure about items, but if there's an item you absolutely know you want to get, if you can find those black friday circulars, you might be able to get ahead of the competition on this one. >> exactly, melanie. you could stand to save a lot of money. >> i was jotting down notes so i could be prepared. >> good. still ahead tonight bedbugs. you know they are reeking havoc in the big apple. coming up here on fox 5 news at 5:00 why these critters could end up affecting the big apple's tourism dollars. that was very courageous of her to announce herself as a policewoman and for her not to get hurt and anyone else in the shop. >> an off-duty police officer haled a hero after a man with a gun storms a hair salon. we'll be back. will bedbugs take a bite out the big apple's tourism industry? city officials are concerned all the reported infestations will keep people out of new york over the holidays. the bugs turned up in isolated areas at the empire state building, bloomingdale's and lincoln center and some hotels have also been hit by the critters, but the city says there are only a few full blown infestations. tourism, by the way, is a $30 billion a year industry for new york. so the city is worried. staying in new york now a new york city police officer went to the hair salon but got into a shootout instead of getting her hair done on saturday when a gunman came in, demanded cash and belongings from customer. the officer identified herself, ordered the man to drop the gun, but he fired at her. she fired back hitting the gunman in the arm and leg. still he managed to take off but miss caught up with him this morning. >> -- police caught up with him this morning. >> that was very courageous of her to announce herself as a policewoman and for no one to get hurt and it's just a horrible thing. there's so much crime going on in the neighborhood now that you are just scared to leave your house. >> the 19-year-old alleged gunman was the only person hurt during that robbery attempt. as we said earlier, a pretty mild day out there today, actually it was fairly warm. gary is back to tell us when to expect some changes this this weather pattern. and many of you will be going gaga on act 31st. we'll show you what's hot and what's -- on october 31st. we'll show you what's hot and what's not for halloween. here , i grew up learning strong families and hard work means opportunity. and that starts with good schools. it's a tradition here in maryland-- and why in these tough times i've put education first. we've made record investments in our classrooms... doubled the number of charter schools... and we've frozen college tuition for four years in a row. and it's working. experts say we now have the number one schools in the nation. when it comes to expanding opportunity in every neighborhood, i know that we must do even better. woman 1 sync: i knew what bob ehrlich did as governor. man 1 sync: raised my property taxes 60 percent. woman 2 sync: let utilities hike our rates 72 percent. woman 1 sync: but i didn't know what he's done since he got fired as governor. man 2: ehrlich's raked in millions. man 3: he worked for a wall street bank that took 10 billion dollars from the bailout. woman 3: 10 billion of our money. woman 4: our money. woman 5 sync: and he worked for another bank that collapsed. man 4: costing tax payers 17 million. anncr: tell bob ehrlich big banks don't need help. middle class marylanders do. women are charged 40% more for the same health insurance as men. domestic violence is treated as a pre-existing condition in eight states. women are abused by their husbands and then by their insurance companies. and last year they tried to end our coverage for mammograms and other preventive services. well i'm proud to say i got the law changed. i'm barbara mikulski. i approve this message so you'll know that being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition. only a few days left to decide what you're going to be for halloween. some people play it simple and just toss on a black witch's hat or fangs. that's boring. >> yeah, it is, but i end up doing it every year. >> do you really? >> it is boring, going have to think of something new. what are you going to be? >> i haven't decided yet. for those of you who want something a little more memorial fox 5's allison seymour shows us the most popular get-ups this year. >> reporter: forget ghouls and goblins. as halloween gets near this year, one character is clearly scaring up sales. >> i've sold out my wigs of lady gaga. i'm waiting for more of the one with the bow. >> reporter: there's plenty of varieties of the grammy award winning artist known for her extravagant costumes herself including the videos from poker face and telephone. >> lady gaga is just extraordinary. she's always changing, so it creates an icon for that day. >> reporter: gaga's meat dress from the grammy's is a top request, but there hasn't been time to mass market it yet. of course, gaga isn't the only pop culture character making people go gaga this year. try on this tiger woods zombie mask complete with two band- aids, but it isn't selling. >> i guess it's not sexy enough. i don't know why. >> reporter: there's also zombie obama, zombie sarah palin and a zombie hillary clinton. these guys know exactly who they want to be for halloween. >> i want to be in a situation for halloween. he inspires me on tv. i want to get a six-pack just like him. >> i'm snooki. i'm going to be snooki. i'm almost there. >> that's j-lo. >> yeah. i want to be j-lo for halloween. >> reporter: they won't be alone. the jersey shore characters are pumping up sales. here's a scary costume from real life, a bp worker which stands for bad planning and comes with a dead fish, a wrench and blobs of pretend oil. for those on a budget still many options. >> any time you change anything on your face, makeup is very simple. put a wig on. >> reporter: as auld expect, the store is selling lots more traditional -- you'd expect, the store is selling lots more traditional halloween get-ups, vampires and witches. >> there's some creative ideas. >> we visited the costume shop with my 5-year-old yesterday and he couldn't decide. there were just too many options. he wants to have a moustache is all he knows. i'm like you can have a moustache with what he you want. we'll draw that moustache right on there. >> he could start growing it right now. >> that would be kind of scary. hopefully we'll get weather like this minus the rain for halloween. >> it won't be like this. well, there's a disclaimer. we are how many days away? no, no, that's fine. i've been tracking hwed soar it it won't be in the 70s, though. it will probably be in the 50s and 60s. i think sunday the high about 62 or 63 for a high. >> we had rain last year. as long as we don't have rain this year. >> but just a little bit of rain because i like the last six have been really good. so listen, we've had a little bit of rain trying to fall. i'm not so sure we had any rain here in the city today. officially there was a trace, okay? but that doesn't really matter or amount to much. now we've seen a little bit of a break in the cloudiness, too. i mentioned earlier culpeper managed up to 79 degrees with some late afternoon sunshine. our temperature here in town officially at national did jump up to 76. the only rain we're seeing now is well to the south and to the southeast. earlier st. mary's city down here, st. mary's county, did have at least a passing shower. it was very light. right now the rain is south of there. we're not seeing anything north of that. it doesn't look like we'll see anything north of that. here's the forecast for this evening calling for a shoe showers at 7:00 mainly to the -- few showers at 7:00 mainly to the southeast, a little bit of sunshine for us before the sun sets in a while. at 9:00 and 7:00 some clouds. we will be dry this evening. again, it looks like the rain stays south of us and north of us. 704 and holding. cull -- 74 and holding. culpeper is 77 now cooling a little bit from that 79 and fredericksburg good, too at 76. big bunch of rain to the north of us. that stayed west of us. it's to north now. you can see the showers coming up from the south. a lot of severe weather. all night long the storms coming out of texas yesterday with that big tornado came right across the deep south. now it's in the extreme southeast and what you see here are these colored boxes represent severe thunderstorm watches. the red indicates a tornado watch down there and all of that real strong thunderstorm activity is starting to move offshore. we don't have to worry about anything like that. it looks hike we're going to be pretty much -- like we're going to be pretty much dry overnight tonight, but again the big storm is confined down to the south and southeast. you see she's showers and thunderstorms coming into the central -- these showers and thunderstorms coming into the central plains, a little snow in the upper elevations of the rockies there. that's our next weathermaker coming across tomorrow night and wednesday bringing a chance of showers, maybe even a storm. mostly cloudy tonight, a little fog out there, 62 in the city, not much sunshine tomorrow, some evening showers and then it gets a little bit heavier tomorrow night. high temperature will get up to about 75 degrees. here's your five-day forecast which does not officially include halloween, but it will tomorrow. notice we're in 70s the next few days, rain tuesday night and wednesday, drier on thursday. we cool down friday and saturday into the lower 60s and again i'm thinking halloween, sunny and 62, 63, something like that. >> cool. we can deal with that. >> not too scary, but good for trick-or-treating. >> yes, really good. thank you. talk of the town on tmz tonight kathy peerie and russell brand's wedding -- perry and russell brand's wedding this weekend? we hear the big news was brianna didn't show up. tell us about that. s l3 a h d en - rll even making news? obviously if she had business to take care of and the other person isn't upset? >> reporter: well, because people didn't know it at first that she wasn't upset and there was somebody in her entourage who suggested that katie was, but she wasn't. the fact is they're really good friends and they had a bachelorette party together, so everybody kind of thought oh, well, rihanna is going to show, but they're both in the same business. they understand the game. the two of them are popular. mel gibson's ex got an offer to pose in playboy, but she's not going to do it? were no. she's not going to. they only offered her 75,000- dollar. they have absolutely no interest at all in enter -- $75,000. they have absolutely no interest at all in entertaining this offer. >> harvey levin, thanks very much. we'll look for you 6:30 right here tmz here on fox 5. thank you. local rapper wail-e gave an outdoor cancer -- wail-e gave an outdoor concert over the weekend. some neighbors complained about the news. that prompted the school president to issue an apology. he said if the university had known the lyrics were offensive, the performance would have been done indoors. let's look at the news edge at 6:00. >> that's the big code for we don't know who wall-e is. two georgetown university students accused of cooking up drugs in their dorm room arrested along with an out of town friend over the weekend. today all three appeared in federal court. one walked out a free man. plus a comedy central host preparing for his unique rally on the national mall is making a final push a week ahead of time. we are with the jon stewart audience outside shakespeare theater. our story is coming up tonight on the news edge at 6:00. mosques around this country are holding open houses for nonmuslims hoping to show people more about their faith, but is the plan as innocent as it sounds? that and more at 6:00. hang tight. the following advertisement contains extremely graphic images. wttg is required to air it in accordance with federally mandated rules on political advertising. please direct your comments to smith for congress. a high price tag for massive demonstrations in france. the government says the country is losing more than half a billion dollars a day because of strikes against raising the retirement age. trash is piling up. oil workers are on a work stoppage. there are widespread gas shortages am some sanitation workers are block -- shortages. some sanitation workers are blocking the incinerators with their trucks. the retirement age is to be raised to 62. thanks so much for joining us for fox 5 news at 5:00. the news edge at 6:00 is starting right now. >> this is fox 5 news edge at 6:00. it is one of the most prestigeous schools in the country, but tonight a georgetown university student is accused of cooking up drugs in his dorm room. he was arrested along with two others saturday. all three appeared in court today where one was let off the hook. fox 5's karen gray houston joins us live from the newsroom with