Streets wet with rain. Now to Prince Georges County with a lot of streets filling fast with rain, no problems for cars moving throughout, though, that area at this hour. Soaked in the city if youre out and about in the district tonight, youll need those umbrellas and you may as well keep them close by. Thanks for joining us. Im jan jeffcoat. Im bruce johnson. Its still moving through the area, so lets go straight to chief meteorologist topper shutt for what to expect overnight and the all important morning commute. I guess some good news. Looking at most of the showers and thunderstorms moving away from us east of i95. Still have some Flood Warnings in effect for loudoun county, portions of Fauquier County until later tonight. The heaviest rain mechanicsville, take another couple hours to move across the bay into the delmarva. No surprise, we had flooding. Look at the rainfall near frederick 4. 4 inches and earlier today in shenandoah she had 2. 4 inches of rain they had 424 inches of rain. 4. 24 inches of rain. By 6 a. M. Clouds, maybe a sprinkle, by 8 00 69 in gaithersburg, 70 in bowie, 71 downtown, by 10 00 low to mid70s with just a few showers, maybe an isolated shower late morning around lunchtime. Well talk about a yellow weather alert on thursday and have your 3degree guarantee. Now to more of those amazing pictures out of James Madison university in harrisonburg, the flooding turns to streams, pretty much to a river and you can see the high water running right through the campus here. Top is cringing because he watched these students here carry an air mattress out into the water. Thankfully they thought better and just turned around. The flooding damaged the Transit Center and some other structures. So far no reports of any injuries. It was a similar scene today in several surrounding states. Some people in Montgomery County, virginia, are out of their homes tonight because of flooding. This is along route 11 where a small creek became a raging river. The department of transportation is using plows tonight to remove debris from the roads. Take a look at this in downtown frederick. Fast moving water flows through Market Street here right in front of bush wallace restaurant. You can almost see waves as cars drive right through it, no word yet how much damage may have bell caused in frederick. Been caused in frederick. Some areas in virginia are still under 2 feet of water. Several counties in North Carolina will be under a Flash Flood Watch all night long. Small streams filled quickly today washing away roads and causing a muddy mess. Fortunately no one was hurt in the flooding, but a lot of roads are still closed. So please if you see high water, dont drive through it. Now would be a good time to download the wusa9 app so you can track the storms and get all the watches and warnings to keep your family safe. The power is back on after people in the U Street Corridor in northwest d. C. Spent several hours in the dark tonight. Pepco said some 1,800 customers were without power after a feeder line was tripped, no word yet on what caused the problem, but it was not weather related were told. New tonight its a number d. C. Hasnt seen since 2010, 120 homicides and counting up 50 from last year. The spike in daily violence didnt end with the summer but has quietly continued even as city leaders struggle for ways to stop the killing. Garrett haake has covered much of the violence for us. Tonight hes live in northwest washington with the story of a man who has been watching all of this for 30 years now. Garrett . Reporter bruce, that homicide spike has hit every corner of the city including rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods like this one in northwest. It seems just about everyone has a theory about whats causing the spike, but so far none of the solutions posed to stop it have worked. While most of d. C. Focused on pope francis historic first night in washington last tuesday, a troubling trend continued at 14th and v in northwest. Thats where 29yearold delaney epps lay bleeding to death from multiple gunshot wounds soon to become one of the districts 120 homicide victims this year. Its been going on for a long time, but now its getting worse and worse. Reporter curtis moseys shaw apartment chronicles his lifes work, stories of people like epps. He loved his kids to his heart. Know what im saying . Reporter his theory on the homicide starts with that violent culture made worse by displacement and economic inequality. These people cant afford to pay rate. They cant afford to survive in a neighborhood that was their neighborhood all their life. That plays a part in their frustration. Reporter statistics show even with this years spike the number of homicides in the last five years was lower than any single year in the previous 50. Chief lanier has pointed to repeat offenders committing Violent Crimes again and again as the root of the problem. Its those people mosey hopes to reach with hills videos before he adds another name his videos before he adds another name to his wall. Try to remind them to love one another because theres a lot of pain on this wall. Reporter police made an arrest in epps case the night he was shot and filed charges of first degree murder the next morning. Weve known Curtis Moseley for years, good man. D. C. Isnt the only big u. S. City dealing with this spike in violence. Within 15 hours last night 14 people were shot on the streets of chicago. Six of those pool were killed, among the wound people were killed, among the wounded a 2 yearold and an 11monthold whose mother was killed. Mayor emanuel is calling for more illegal weapons to be taken off the streets and says gun laws must reflect the values of the people. Fairfax county police are standing by their officers use of a taser on a man accused of stealing. You can see 35yearold Elton Cansler shocked by the device. Officers say he had a weapon and was resisting arrest. Canslers family said he has Cerebral Palsy and cannot control his movement. They plan to meet with attorneys tomorrow morning and plan to have official comment after that. This is one of several cases recently call for increased use of body cameras. Montgomery county Police Officers have been equipped with those cameras since july and the early verdict is in. Our mola lenghi has the reviews from officers who seem to like how they work, dont they, mola . Reporter jan, while Montgomery CountyPolice Continue to work their way through this Pilot Program, they say theyve already seen the benefits to the public and their Police Officers, but they are still working on perfecting the program. Its a silver lincoln on the wrong side of the road. Reporter nearly 5,000 videos have been captured by Montgomery CountyPolice Body Cameras since the departments Pilot Program began in july. 76 officers from executive staff to School Resource to patrol officers are currently equipped and recording. Maam. Reporter this is a body camera video from officers with the laurel, Maryland Police department, one of the first departments in our region to use the technology. Youre going the wrong way northbound. Reporter but considering its size all eyes are on Montgomery County pd to see how its test run plays out. The main benefit we have seen that is when officers arrive on incidents and the general public realizes the officer is wearing a body camera, it tends to deescalate any potential situations. Reporter a noticeable change in behavior when when cameras are rolling and that works both ways, the public as well as police. Officers say the nuts and bolts of policing has not changed, but now theres a new form of evidence. The video doesnt lie. Still its not perfect. Right now the biggest challenge is going to be the privacy concerns, both for the community and for the officer involved. Reporter the concerns include how to make video public while protecting the privacy of victims, bystanders captured on cameras as well as the officers. There are still questions about how to approach archived video. The video has to be stored somewhere, but the Cameras Police say dont seem to be going anywhere. The concerns, the challenges, the issues facing the Pilot Program are not just being addressed by the Montgomery CountyPolice Department but also by the maryland state task force who is expected to make recommendations to the Department Early next year. Live in Montgomery County im mola lenghi nor wusa9. A judge in for wusa9. A judge in baltimore set trial dates for the Police Officers indicted in the freddie gray case. Gray died after suffering a severe injury while in police the six officers will be tried separately. William porter will face trial first november 30th charged with manslaughter. Prosecutors say he failed to provide or request medical care for gray and did not secure him safely in a police van. A former rlgi friend of Jesse Matthew said matthew was repeatedly raped as a child and theres no doubt it affected his later behavior. She wrote that in a letter to the judge who will sentence matthew this friday for sexually assaulting a woman in Fairfax County in 2005. Hes still awaiting trial for two other murders, those of College StudentHannah Graham and morgan harrington. In a followup to a story we told you about last night the mayor of d. C. Is moving forward on a plan to ease the stress of city ambulances by adding private services. D. C. Medics would still respond to every 911 call and transport patients with private emergencies. However, private ambulances would handle less serious transport. Bowser hopes to get this rolling in a few months. Metro says its expanding every blue line train to eight cars to minimize fallout from its reduced service at the stadium armory stationful during rush hour orange and blue lines are bypassing the armory station for the next six months while damage is repaired from a transformer fire. Lawyers for Kelly Gissendaner have twice failed in their efforts to get stays from the georgia and u. S. Supreme courts. Gissendaner, the procedure was supposed to have started at 7 00. She was convicted for the 1997 murder of her husband who was stabbed to death by her lover. That man received a life sentence. An execution in march was pushed back because of controversy surrounding the drug that was used, no word yet what happens next, but well keep you posted. Virginia is holding to thursday for its execution of convicted serial killer alfredo prieto. Yesterday Governor Terry mcauliffe denied a last minute attempt to delay the sentence. Prietos attorneys argue the 49 yearold should not be put to death because hes intellectually disabled. Its been three years since anyone has been put to death in virginia. If youve noticed your iphone has suddenly picking up your data, we have a solution, a warning about a new feature thats not so fun. Reporter if youre planning on taking an uber inside of Prince Georges County, your ride may cost you a little bit more. Im ellison barber and ill have more on that in just a minute. Also Forbes Magazine releases its fortune 400 list and guess who isnt happy about an Important Health deadline is looming in Prince Georges County. This morning we told parents what they need to know about some critical vaccinations. Now the Weather Department is tracking another round of rain heading our way. Well tell you when you need to have that umbrella handy. Well see you in the morning. If youre planning on traveling around Prince Georges County in an uber, you could be paying a little extra. As the county prepares to welcome appbased Services Like uber and lyft, the council is also considering adding a 25 cent surcharge to those rides. Ellison barber is live with more in hyattsville. Reporter thats right, jan. This is a proposal that will impact uber, local buses and taxis. Right now popular appbased Services Like uber and lyft arent technically operating out of Prince Georges County. Thats about to change. Theyre on the verge of being here because the state just passed legislation to authorize them to operate fully here in the county. Reporter but it might come with a install catch. The county council is now considering legislation that would place a 25cent surcharge on my appbased car ride that original any appbased car ride originating in the county. The revenue will go towards expanding local bus transportation and retrofitting taxicabs so theyre more with disabilities. Its a win win. Whether its uber, lyft, all those services will strengthen the countys economy. So will strengthening the bus transportation and strengthening our existing stock of taxicabs. Reporter people we spoke to didnt have a problem with the surcharge. It really didnt matter because cabs charge more. Once youre in the cab its automatically 4 to sit in the cab, just like the bag tax. Reporter some think its actually great. Hopefully theyll all okay it. Reporter because they say cabs need to be retrofitted and the bus routes need to be expanded. Transit is pretty thin. The in and out commute transportation is pretty good. Its the crosscounty and the remote areas that need some help. Reporter others still want a little more assurance that the money goes where its supposed to. How do we know that that money will be used for Public Transportation and so forth . Reporter this legislation still need to be formally introduced to the council. Chairman franklin thinks that will happen in the next week or so and then theyll probably vote on this in about a month. In hyattsville im ellison barber, wusa9. Thank you. Forbes magazine unveiled its annual forbes 400 list ranking americas billionaires and topping that list is former microsoft chairman bill gates. Forbes says hes worth 76 billion of investor Warren Buffett is no. 2 with 62 billion no. 3, Larry Ellison founder of oracle worth 47. 5 billion. Donald trump made the list, too, ranked no. 121 and hes not too happy about it, worth 4 billion, but he says hes worth more than 10 billion accuses forbes of trying to make him look bad and calls the publication bankrupt and incompetent. After one week he ended his boycott of fox news. If you upgraded to a new iphone, you should go through the operating system and pay special attention to the settings. If you dont, you could get sticker shock from your next cell phone bill. Theres a title called wifi assist. When thats on, your iphone gobbles up data from your cell phone plan when it encounters a weak wifi router system. That can use up your data fast. To avoid all that, turn wifi assist off. Got it . I dont think i got it. I need charts and graphs, bruce. Do you have the new iphone . It doesnt apply to you. Exactly. With three daughters i dont think ill do an upgrade any time soon. He probably has a rotary. Not quite that bad. Lets talk about the 3 degree guarantee. Lot of clouds and showers, but we thought it would still get warm today. We went 81 and it was 80, not bad, though. Were only 1 degree off and 27 of 29 for september. Were going 79 tomorrow even though a cold front is going to move through. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, still 74, kind. Sticky really, dew points low 70s, wind south at 13, kind of a tropical air mass. Heres first alert doppler over the last hour. The heavy activity is exiting our friend in anne arundel county, calvert county, across the bay and exiting most of howard county. Still some Flood Warnings in effect. So flooding is still possible even though the rain is over. If you come across a flooded street, dont try to cross it by foot or by car. In fact, were still looking at a Flood Warning until 2 00 for much of Prince Georges County. The rain is oh, yes, but flooding is still over, yes, but flooding is still going on. Please be advised. Down to the south notice the red, a little lightning just north of Prince Frederick and south of dunkirk moving across the bay. Headlines, mainly dry commute, couple showers possible but nothing widespread and much less activity, fewer showers and storms wednesday. So we left field off on the yellow weather alert for wednesday. Bus stop temperatures, mild, 66 to 74, probably make it without the umbrella and cooper, almost chilly. Its going to be cooler, almost chilly. Its going to be kind of a shock thursday rain, lucky to hit the low 60s. Tropical storm joaquin, might become a hurricane, move off to the southwest towards the bahamas thursday with wind 100 miles per hour. Then it turns towards the atlantic ocean. This is way different than yesterday and it will probably change again. It takes it far enough out to sea not to cause us any problems over the weekend. Weve got enough tropical rains coming in anyway. Tomorrow morning 60s and 70s with a few isolated showers. On the day planner were 74 at 9 00 and kind of muggy, 75 at 11 00, 77 at 1 p. M. Well, thursday rain and showers, yellow weather alert, 65 and friday guess what . More rain and showers, only 64. Next seven days we got rain on saturday. Were trying to get the rain out of here in time for kickoff sunday, staying kind of mild after two rather chilly days, kind of a chilly wet start to october, get ready. Bad hair days. Can you believe it . Well have all four sports in action for about a week anyway. The wizards back to work today with a new focus and mindset. With a new focus and mindset. Mary from bradley beal coming with a new focus and mindset. Mary from bradley beal coming without the internet i would probably be like a c student. Internet essentials from comcast has brought lowcost high Speed Internet into the homes of hundreds of thousands of lowincome families. It lets students do homework and study at home. So far more than two Million People across america have benefitted. Internet essentials is going to transform the lives of families. I see myself as maybe an entrepreneur. Internet essentials from comcast. Helping to bridge the digital divide. Now wusa9 game on sports with Kristen Berset brought to you by xfinity. The Washington Nationals begin their final road trip tonight against a team with a similar focus end the season on a high note. The braves are one loss away from 100 loss for the First Time Since 1988, nats trying to get another win, bryce harper back in the lineup tonight. In the 6th inning trey turner sends one deep for his First Major League home run. Kind of the future of the nationals as well. That ties the game 11. Taylor roark had a pretty solid guy, practically unhittable except for this one guy, a. J. Pierce. He hit two home runs. Atlanta wins 21. The Washington Wizards are younger, retooled and looking forward to showing off their new pace of play and improved shooting when they take the court at the start of the season. Today they opened Training Camp at towson university. The media didnt get to watch most of practice, but john wall said they ran a lot with an emphasis on speeding up their game play. The wizards spent the entire end of practice shooting three pointers. Bradley beal said theyre not being asked to necessarily take more shots, just be smarter with their shot selection. I think we need more space and coach is always big on if you have an open shot, shoot it. He has confidence in everybody to knock it down. Its not necessarily a set number we want to set this amount, thisamount of layups. Its just playing ball. The Washington Redskins depth has been tested, injuries claiming deshawn jackson, dangelo hall and starting left guard shawn la val who hurt his ankle thursday night, huge loss for this offensive line struggling to get points. Cornerback Justin Rogers is done for the season. Hes been dealing with plantar fasciitis. They join four others already on injured reserve. The maryland terrapins held a players only meeting before practice this morning. The focus was to cut out the negativity and make no more excuses. Coach randy edsall was okay with it as long as they played better than they did against West Virginia. This saturday the terps open up big 10 play against 22nd ranked michigan and players are using last weeks loss as motivation. We realize we got our butts kicked against West Virginia and i think the type of guys we have in the locker room werent happy with that. I think were using that for momentum for michigan. We dont want that to happen again. Caleb roe back as starter. They play here, so maybe theyll get a little homefield advantage. They just lost to West Virginia ranked 23rd and 130 yards now. Bills got a very tough lie here. Looks like we have some sort of sea monster in the water hazard here. I believe thats a kraken, bruce. It looks like hes going to go with a nine iron. That may not be enough club. Well hes definitely going to lose a stroke on this hole. If youre a golf commentator, you whisper. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. This golf course is electric. Just a couple showers tomorrow, kind of catch our breath before a cold start to october. Get ready for some rain on thursday, maybe heavy at Time Thursday night and friday, may see more flood watches. Stay tuned. Thats wusa9 news for tonight. Have a great night, everybody Stephen Colbert is next. I was at my shop tied up with a customer when i realized the time. I had to get to the bank before it closed, so i made a break for it. When i got out it was almost closing time. Traffic was bad. I knew i was cutting it close. But it was ok. I use td bank. Its got the longest hours and stays open an extra ten minutes every day. Im sid. And i bank human at td bank