Pop pop pop was even though i dont hear gunfire a lot. Fortunately. That was you know, very recognizable. Reporter and inaction. House republicans passed bills to Fund National parks and nih. While we work out our differences here in washington, children should not be denied the treatment. Reporter but the white house calls the picking and choosing game playing and rockville today the president blamed the tea party. They got exactly what they wanted and now theyre trying to figure out how to get out of it. Reporter House Republicans scheduled a vote to give furloughed federal workers back pay if and when the federal government reopens. One sign of reaching across the aisle. Jim moran of virginia and hoyer of maryland as well as republican frank wolfe of virginia sponsored that bill. But federal workers still on the job will not get paychecks until the shutdown is over. That includes the officer who rescued this baby girl who witnessed the car chase from the backseat of the suspects car. And the capitol hill officer who was injured while responding to the incident. My thoughts are with him for a speedy recovery. Reporter the vote on the federal employee retroactive pay fairness act. For others on furlough could come friday or over the weekend. The house meets at 10 00 and starts legislative business at noon. Ko im, wusa9. Now of course the worry still is about the debt ceiling. The Washington Post reports that john boehner is willing to pass an increase of the debt ceiling even if he has to use democrat votes to get it. This is kind of a nice story actually. Regarding the shutdown. The Washington National cathedral is going to open its episcopal garden to any couples whove had to change their wedding plans because of the government shutdown. The bishop says the garden will be offered free of charge to anyone who wanted to hold their wedding ceremonies outdoors what a gorgeous backdrop that would be huh . The permit for 24 weddings at sites have been postponed until the government reopens at the National Mall. More good news, the walk for Breast Cancer event that was supposed to happen at the mall this sunday has found a new venue. The American Cancer Society is now holding its making strides against Breast Cancer 5 k at six flags. Six flags even is throwing in a buy one get one free ticket deal to sweeten the pot. The National Mall is currently barricaded as of course like a lot of other park Service Events because of the government shutdown. October is Breast CancerAwareness Month. And in celebration of buddy check 9s 20th anniversary of saving lives through Early Detection wusa9 is bringing van to our home. The date is thursday, october 10th. To find out if youre eligible or to make an appointment for a mammogram. Call 202 7413252 and remind your buddy to do the same. A Montgomery CountyHigh School Teacher is being held on 250,000 bond for disgusting sex acts with a student. Police say Albert EinsteinHigh School Teacher richard shemmer continued that conversation through email with a female student. The girls parents found the e mails can they called police, he is charged with one count of excuse of a minor sex abuse of a minor. A man who slapped a toddler could be headed to prison. Under a plea agreement joe hundley could spend upped to six months in jail. He was arrested after slapping a 19monthold during a night to atlanta. He said he was grieving. He also admits alcohol may have played a role. The nfl is holding its Fall League Meeting in washington, d. C. Next week. But League Officials wont be the only ones in attendance. The Oneida Indian nation and other opponents of the redskins will be holding their own symposium in the same location. They call their movement the change the mascot campaign. Among the people wholl be joining the Oneida Nation is representative Eleanor Holmes norton. This event will be held monday at the ritzcarlton georgetown. One local university is offering free courses for federal workers during the shutdown. Thats coming up in jessicas your money report. Thats a cool idea. Want to know what the weekend is going to look like and 4 38 on this friday morning. Its got a little bit on the humid side out there. Humiditys creeping up a little bit and weve got some patchy fog in spots and well turn partly sunny. A hot humid day. 85 to 90. Thats way above average. Stray shower capable both north and west. More heat through the weekend. But changes next week. Your seven day coming up in a few minutes. Right now lets go to Monika Samtani with another look at timesaver traffic. Serious overnight crash closes eastbound route 50 at sully road. It was a single vehicle that struck a pole. One person was killed in the accident and it happened around 2 20 this morning. The investigation and cleanup does continue. 66 is in good shape in from manassas. Back to you guys. Thanks monika. It is 4 39. Time for the first your money segment of this fed morning. Happy friday man. It has been a long week. Tough yeah. Absolutely. And you know not over yet. Not even close. You know this is usually one of the biggest economic days of the month. This is usually you know the first friday of the month. Typically we get the unemployment report not so much this month. The reason why of course is because the Labor Department is delaying the release of this report because of the government shutdown. And concerns about the Economic Impact of a prolonged shutdown have sent stocks lower yet again today. Some analysts are saying if this budget stalemate were to continue for three or four weeks it could shave about half a percent from an economy thats only expanding by about 2. 5 a year which is pretty tepid. Checking the numbers for you the dow not another good day so were going to have to try to regain all of that lost space. If youre looking for something to do while youre being furloughed, how about going back to school . The Georgetown University school of continuing studies is offering six free courses to people affected by the shutdown. Class subjects include manager as a coach, and project management fundamentals. Registration started yesterday and it is limited to 100 workers on a first come, first serve basis. So jump on that if youre interested. A legal win for a oil giant. Bp won a u. S. Court ruling that could lower the amount it opens in the gulf of mexico oil spill. The Appeals Court in new orleans granted an injunction against payments being made to businesses that claimed loss or injury not linked to 2010 oil disaster. This decision reverses previous rulings that went against bps argument that some payments were illegal. And twitter has unveiled its billion dollar initial public offering. This is interesting. In case you were curious, the company is not making any money. Not even close. The Financial Statement shows the social Media Network lost 79 million last year. It brought in almost 317 million in sales. Thats a big burn right. The company on track for even steeper losses in 2013. Already racking up 69 million in losses during the First Six Months of the year. But sales though are rapidly increasing. Twitter recorded 254 million in revenue during the same period despite the unprofitable numbers though, twitters ipo sales is said to be one of the most anticipated of the year. You know what . The ads on there seem unobtrusive if there are any. How to they make any money anyway . You dont feel like youre getting smacked over the head with them. Thats why theres the deference with facebook making 1 billion and twitter making 300 million. You know. So it will be interesting to see as the public company, how their strategys going to change because that company will change if its public. The ad model has to change too. They pop up at different times and so its really interesting the watch. Be glad. Wow. Thanks jess. You got it. It is Breast CancerAwareness Month and coming up after the break, ill tell you about a study that may reduce your chances of getting the disease. And a tropical storm. Looks like it will indeed reach land. But where . Is it going to affect your weekend . The first alert forecast fr rain and refreshing. Two words howard is using in his forecast today. Uhhuh. But well in the seven day for that. Seven day forecast. And extended. Two words for today would be hot and humid. Yeah. Look at this tropical weather. Yeah a big storm out west. This is monster storm out west and the jet stream is way up in the east and were under that and thats lets the warmth and humidity to surge in our direction. Warm heat and humidity. Lets not kid ourselves, it was 86 yesterday and we look like well be a couple of degrees warmer than that today. Checking out the records to beat and i want to show you that here on this friday. Because the record at dulles is 88 in 2007. We may challenge that. 94, 1954 here in d. C. Is safe and same with the 92 in baltimore. All right your day planner. On this friday, mix of sun which clouds and fog early. 85 by 1 00 and on the way to 88 this afternoon. And still in the mid to upper 80s for the drive home. And not much wind out of the west. West northwest at about 5, 8 miles an hour. Still pretty stifling day for the month of october. Fog this morning and visibility this morning really low. Cambridge a quarter mile and look at all the quarter mile we have from manassas and warrenton and culpeper and the mountains weve got three quarters at petersburg but that area southeast and southwest really got to watchth its going to slow you down. Very mild and upper 50s to upper 60s with springfield at 62. Weve got upper 50s at leesburg and lovettsville. Low to mid60s in Anne Arundel County look at that annapolis at 65. Even south in waldorf 62 and in Upper Marlboro 61 degrees. Outside on our michael son weather camera still good visibility here in d. C. 68, partly cloudy. On that dew point, couple of weeks ago when it didnt feel so awful outside, we had dew points in the 40s. Its been creepingup. 63 now and thats a little bit on the muggy side. Humidity 84 and the barometer is falling. Heres the big picture nationally. Got a severe thunderstorm watch in iowa and northern missouri. Weve got a blizzard raging across parts of wyoming and montana. This is going topull into south dakota, western nebraska so there are blizzard warnings posted for this system. On the warm side now Weather Threat is a concern severe Weather Threat is a concern now in iowa. This area again later today could see severe storms fire. Pretty much along and north of interstate 90 and we are in the warm warm weather. Were looking at the futurecast showing a couple of showers popping this afternoon. Especially just off to our west here. We see it in the mid to Late Afternoon just the isolated stray shower will be possible mostly in the mountains. Well go through tonight into tomorrow. Here were saturday at noon and look north and west of d. C. Spotty showers will be possible there as well. Better chances up to the mason dixon line. Then by sunday were watching this front way out to the west. Sunday looks okay. But by monday i should say, that front combines with karens moisture. Karen by the way is headed toward the gulf coast. This is a hurricane watch for the mississippi and alabama and parts of western florida gulf coast. Tropical storm warnings just south and east of new orleans for Plaquemines Parish and the islands northeast. Some wind sheer on top of it or else it could be a lot worse than what we are looking at. A storm with 65mile an hour winds that will be headed toward the mouth of Mississippi River here and looks like by saturday evening. As a strong tropical storm. Then headed northeast toward oh perhaps pensacola. Destin, those areas east of landfall. Just east of mobile which would keep the highest storm surge out of mobile bay. By monday evening whats left of it expected to be coming in toward North Carolina pretty quickly. Thats going to throw rain our way monday and monday night. I think this will be out of here very early tuesday. So the tuesday looks all right. Today hot humid and stray p. M. Shower. 88. Tonight generally in the 60s and tomorrow about the same. Although i think a better chance of some afternoon showers north of town. 87 hot again on sunday. Heres the change. Monday, thats rain on monday. 76 and then looks like mid 70s very comfortable by the middle of next week. Good morning Monika Samtani. And i think sleeveless is an excellent choice given the forecast. Thank you. Its going to be a little warm this october day. If youre planning to head over on the inbound side of route 50 in chantilly at about 2 20 this morning there was a single vehicle crash, one person dead because of the accident. So the investigation and the cleanup continues eastbound route 50 has been blocked ever since at sully road. And youre going to need to work your way around that activity there. 66 is in great shape. There are no problems coming in from manassas to centreville and right into fairfax this morning no issues on the beltway once there on 495 west side of town. A live look outside and heres springfield on the northbound side of i95. Also in great shape. No problems coming up on to 395. Back over to the maps, this time downtown with that capitol hill shooting yesterday afternoon. Youll just find some Police Activity left over in terms of road closures eastbound constitution avenue at first street northeast only the left lane is blocked. They are letting you get through. But just remember that early this morning. A live look one more time outside. This is the beltway in oxon hill. Very quiet this morning. Back to you guys. All right, thank you monika. We tell you in buddy check 9 screening breast selfexams and lifestyle changes. Its the perfect example. A large new study from the American Cancer Society finds walking just an hour a day could significantly reduce an older womans chances of getting Breast Cancer. The risk is even lower for women who do more vigorous exercise. Yep. And marly hall reports from new york. Reporter friends mary porter and merlan taylor go walking in central park every day. It could help lower their risk of Breast Cancer. Its such a healing stress reducing thing to do. It helps me to start any day. Reporter a new study from the American Cancer Society finds postmenopausal women whose only exercise is walking an hour a day still reduce their chances of getting Breast Cancer 14 . Theyre walking at a really moderate pace. About 3 miles an hour. Reporter women who engage in more vigorous exercise lower their risk even more. 25 . We know that physical activity is associated with sex hormones and we know to be important in Breast Cancer. Reporter current guidelines recommend adults do at least two and a half hours of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous activity per week but studies show less than half of u. S. Women do even that. 68yearold merlan whose mother and sister both had Breast Cancer says keeping fit is a big part of her life. I cant do what i used to be able to do but i can still do almost everything. Reporter researchers say it doesnt have to be a marathon. A leisurely walk every day can still make a big difference. Marly hall, for cbs news. The studys followed more than 73,000 women for 17 years. And i have the full study on the buddy check page on my Facebook Page. Buddy check 9news. In todays health alert a review of medicare spending finds nearly 150 million are spent each year on Prostate Cancer screenings for men. 75 years and older. Even though the tests have little benefit for men in that age group. Prostate cancer most Prostate Cancers are slow growing and unlikely to ever become harmful. Researchers at yale also found the costs varied widely according to region depending on how many followup procedures are ordered. The Study Concludes that many older men who are diagnosed may end up receiving therapy that could be harmful and costly. Researchers at Harvard Medical School may be one step closer to preventing sudsen heart related deaths. Researchers say they were able to stop the cardiac muscle from thickening for several months by reducing production of a mutant protein. When the muscle thickens, it weakens the heart. The study was done in mice so of course more research is needed. Attention food keys. Before you post pictures online, listen to this. Theres a study out that posting or looking at too many of the food photos can make food less enjoyable to eat. Researchers at Brigham Young university found that people who looked at a lot of photos of food reported feeling phaseuated afterwards like theyd already eaten but if you have a weakness for an unhealthy food like chocolate. Look at the pictures and it could help solve the craving. How about that . Im going to put my oreo cookies and nestle church on. That will be crunch on. That will be your profile picture. Question of the morning time now, happy friday our photographer kevin king blows that away. Log on to the wusa9 Facebook Page and tell us what you think the answer is and why. Well have the answer. The correct one in the 6 00 a. M. Hour. And dont forget were always on at wusa9. Com and the wusa9 app. Well be right b were looking at the patchy fog. Partly cloudy conditions and mainly in the 60s with a few upper 50s to start your day. By the middle of the morning, were looking at temps 60s and low 70s. Now the afternoon a mix of sun and clouds and 82 by lunchtime. This afternoon partly sunny. Could see an isolated shower mainly in the mountains. High temperatures will be in the mid to upper 80s and maybe even flirting with 90s south and west of d. C. Monika . And on the beltway north of town. Its friday Morning Light. No problems in college park. Both loops of the beltway look pretty much like this in prince georges county. Serious overnight accident out in chantilly, virginia. Ill have that coming up in my next report. Back to you andrea. Thanks monika. Ill take it. Remember the man whose boat was shot up with bullets during the search in the Boston Marathon bombing case . That man dave now has a new boat. Thanks to generous donations from people inspired by his story. It was hennen berry who found the boston bombing suspect hiding in his boat in his backyard. Remember that in april when the whole city was locked down . Well donations from strangers across the country totaled about 50,000. How about that . Well, it was a wild week in news. The redskins buckled down and the government shut down. And we were here to go through it all with you. Were glad you were here with us. Lets take a look back. Good morning, how are you . Take that san diego we got your number. At least for another week. And theres andrea roane. We missed you a the beginning andrea at the beginning andrea. A beautiful forecast howard. I had to be over here to share moment with you. Rg3 to pg 1. Pierre garcon. Washington gets the first win of its campaign. Yum. Coming back to the big screen so youre going to be happy. I dont know who it is. Suzanne marquez, we set the ba high around here. We like the weather guys to shower. Clean today. Good morning mr. Clean. Great on this side of the desk. It does. Starting off a new month. Seems like i want something to do. Our floor director earlier this morning. Shes fine. Good morning, and thank you for watching wusa9 at 5 00 a. M. Im andrea roane. Happy friday. And the friday. Hopefully joys face feels better after slamming into the concrete. Poor thing she kept the prompter rolling though. She did. Shes a trouper. Good morning monika. How are you . Mr. Bernstein happy friday. Im excited. This is the weekend and its here. More heat and humidity but im excited about the changes that are coming. Im excited weve got some opportunities for some much needed rainfall. Because you have a lot more to talk about. Exactly. Ill have something to tell you. We have a tropical system in the gulf of mexico which is going to more than likely just be a strong tropical storm. Not a hurricane. But for us, its going to bring some more moisture with a front on monday. Monday night. And that should be our first good rain and i know almost two weeks. Lets talk about whats happening though this morning. Some patchy dense fog in spots. It is going to be a partly sunny day a very warm to hot afternoon. Highs 85 to 90. Yeah. Out toward culpeper and orange could be 90 this afternoon. 28 at 7 00. 82 at 7 00. Any plans out there really the heat is going to be the biggest problem for you. Showers up in pennsylvania this morning with some patchy clouds but look at the fog from warrenton and creeping up to manassas now at a half mile visibility. Some of the mountains of West Virginia and petersburg at a half mile. Thats actually an improvement from zero. In town visibilities are fine. Upper 50s in martinsburg and winchester. And manassas to the low to mid 60s just about everywhere else. A mild start to a hot day. Monika . Well, for the most part, weve got friday Morning Light traffic which just means early on a friday morning, we dont really have volumes until much later in the rush hour. Theres one inci