Looking great. The beltway looks great into oxen hill, 21 included llets go to a live picture. Bags own to or our maps. Things look great, no problems in the northeast corridor. It will take a live look once more. Planning to head 35 across the potomac river. Ail he been back at 50 00. Police have investigating a are investigating a scary attack. Kristen fisher is life at the scene. Reporter this all happened just about a half mile away from here around 7 00. A 21yearold woman jogging. She stopped for to allow deer to cross. Someone knocked her unconscious. Montgomery county Police Spokesman bill sparks describes what happened next. Take a listen and she awoke sometime later off the trail. And was able to get back on the trail. And thankfully, a 40yearold male jogger was passing by. Assisted her to this address, where 911 was called and police arrived. When police arrived, that woman was taken to the hospital with a serious head injury. No word on her condition this morning and still no word on whether or not she was sexually assaulted. Plights are still investigating. They are also still trying to get a good description of the suspect. They believe it was one man act ago lone. There have been several attacks on this trail in reese sent months, including three assaults and attempted robberies in the wisconsin avenue. Police say they believe most of those crimes were committed by teenagers and they think what happened here, something entirely different. Very scary. Police may have a new lead in the murder of a Prince Georges County student. Officers will fan out around Central High School in capital talon heights where junior mark roth was shot about killed while bach being walking walking to school. Detectives are hoping a robbery victim will come forward and describe their assail ants. A Police Officer fasts up to ten years in prison after his conviction on acaught charges. Officer James Harrison was found guilty of Second Degree assault. A second officer, baker was acquitted in the case. They were caught on tape sub dougan university of maryland student john mckenna in march of 2010. Following the verdict, Prince Georges County has agreed to pay 3. 6 million to ten people who were falsely arrested or injured by police. Metro starts a series of public hearings about proposed bus changes tonight. One idea is to avoid parts of dc at night because people have been hurling rocks at the buses. It happened in a couple of neighborhoods off stanton road. Tonights hearing is at the department of housing and community development. It starts at 6 00 p. M. The time right now just about 5 05. Im watching your money. On wall street we are hoping for a better day after the biggest one day sell off in four months. We are already seeing big chill out here, especially out west of town. Overall going to be a very nice work week weatherwise. Heres a look at todays day planner. Expecting sunshine, the chilly start giving way to a nice lunch hour. 64 degrees. Probably 72 for the high here between 3 00 and 4 00. By 58 we are welcome back to 68 degrees. Even warmer temperatures coming in the next few days. Right now heres monika samtani. Reporter monday morning volume on the northbound side of i95. Early on this is what it looks like leaving route 634. At least the lanes are open. Ill have more at 5 16. Back to you guys no making news at 50 00. Police say the gunman who killed three people at a wisconsin spa had been ordered to stay away from his waive. Last we can a judge issued a four year restraining order against 5yearold radcliff hangoutton. , houghton. Tension remain high after fridays car bombing that killed a top intelligence official. Many politicians are blaming syria. In a couple of hours the International Cycling union will announce its position on the Lance Armstrong doping case. It will uphold a lifetime ban against armstrong and strip him of his seven Tour De France titles . The president ial candidates have been off the campaign trail this weekend. More on that at 5 30. In sports tonight there will be a deciding game 7 in the National League championship series. Next howard has details on a gorgeous 7day forecast. Well be right back been spping smart, ca gettincash bk on what . D you gonnaool off fan at hoooound cut nit you gottget yo cash back,n new acks. Usfreedom onunch with ck. Everybody t evebody get nit you gottget yo cashget chase eedom. Howard bernstein is up. Today looks nice. Wednesday looks spectacular. We are talking maybe 80 on wednesday. The upper 70s for a good chunk of the week. I want to show you another picture i took saturday morning when i was making strides against breast cancer. It is a beautiful shot of the Washington Monument there with the color below it. A pretty, pretty weekend. We have temperatures this morning on the chilly said. Upper 30s in spots to even 50, 52 as you head toward annapolis. In the low to mid40s this morning. A sunny day, about 50 by 9 00. West early wind 5, 10 miles per hour. We are going to top out first around 72. By 5 00 back to 69. Looks like a nice afternoon after a chill lay start. Also in manassas, haymarket is 44. Reston is 3. 42 in croftton. 45 in Prince Frederick checking in this morning. College park is 41. Here in washington the warm spot. Great visibility under clear skies on our michael and son camera no winds actually. Dew point only 40. 60s, 70s in kansas city. In the Northern Rockies again. We are seeing the big time chill in columbia. We have the rain coming on in San Francisco. Hopefully can get out of here. Ahead of it though, much of the countrien i didnt go that warmer regime as the warm air lifts in. One thing with this front, well see showers and clouds up to the north. Tomorrow morning our local model trying to produce a shower. Keeping the clouds north, sunshine south. This could a big temperature range. We may be near 70 up north, close to 80 southwest of dc. By wednesday more sunshine. Upper 70s if not low 80s. Wednesday looks to be spectacular for this time of year. In the metro region. North and west of town. Trying to form here. Maybe a depression in the next day or so. The models became jamaica, cuba. Where does it go after that . Does it come up the east coast . Big question marks on the weekend. This could be a problem late sunday monday. Today 72 and mild. Tonight we are back in the 50s in town. 78 tomorrow more clouds north. More sun south. Wednesday looks great. Thursday and fray even saturday looks good. Lets go over to monika. A vehicle fire along the right side of the road also southbound on 95 in maryland, near route 18. 270 looks great, no problems. Lets take a live look at potomac here. Nice and quiet still here. Back over to our maps. Inbound still looking good out of manassas. A few brake lights looking good on the dulles toll road herndon all the way over to the beltway. A live look northbound 35 at duke street nice and light as you head up to seminary road. More traffic coming up in a few minutes if you are traveling in maryland. Monika is walking over here for a reason. Get over here monika samtani. Best laid plans, she is making the long walk. We were walking this weekend with 2,000 other people right there, is the start of the tebow beats walk. It was so exciting right monika . Talk about beautiful weather and a gorgeous venue. Just a perfect morning for this kind of walk. We are absolutely honored. Yet again this year at the National Harry potter year i think we have found the perfect place. The diabetes walk, i want to say a big hello to ron da. She was one of the walkers. She was diagnosed four yeempleghtz congratulations rhonda for keeping that under control. 2,000 people showed up. We just want to say hod did i, thanks. Next year if you are listening, we want to see you. Your son went out there too . Both my sons went out there too. The ravens suffer a bad loss on the road. Plus a season ending injury redskins means a recent fan favorite is headed back to the roster. Details coming up at sports. In sports. 72 of american men own one of these but only 35 of them actually use it. Heres a response you posted on the wusa9 Facebook Fan Page. Our fans wrote b, a map. Men hate to look like they dont know where they are going. Log onto the wusa9 Facebook Fan Page and receive your, leave your response. 5 22 on this monday morning. Frost in the shanendoah valley. As we head toward 9 00, still 40s. Around 50 degrees. Not looking like we are going to see much in the way of clouds today. High stakes. The National League championship Series Winner take all game seven tonight. Plus the redskins win despite late heroics from rg iii. Many would say the redskins out played the giants. The team rushed for 248 yards, overcame costly turnovers. It looked as if the redskins had pulled off a midamerica rack clues up set in the meadowlands. This perfectly thrown pass to santana moss. And really no big surprise. The skin secondary struggled yet again. Eli manning 77 yards to victor cruz. The skins fall in a heartbreak 2723. I thought wed played extremely hard. You see a great play, robert put the ball right where it neededton. To be. So im thinking great this is our defense standing up to make a play. You see manning his cruz and you are lake no, i cant believe this is happening. Tight end fred davis left yesterdays game with a torn achilles tendon. That members the return of number 47 chris cooley. He was cut after spending eight seasons with the redskins. The ravens yesterday had a much worse thai than the skins. We knew the texans would be a tough test but i think the ravens players forgot to even quiet to the g get to the plane to get on the plane to go to houston. A rough loss to the texans. Now switching gears to baseball, cardinals and giants game 6. In the second giants placed four runs. Giants win 61. Game seven with a trip to the world series on the line. Both have undefeated streaks when it come to elimination games. Have a get monday. A local county means to discuss the impact of gridlock on capitol hill. Plus tonight the president ial candidates meet for their final debate. There is a vehicle fire northbound route 5 at allentown along the right side of the road. More on that at 5 30, you are watching 9news now. Welcome back, everybody. Thank you if joining us on this monday morning. We will get through it together. Monika has our traffic. We will begin with howard bernstein. Chilly this morning. Youll need a jacket. Maybe something sleeveless. She didnt ask me. You look fabulous. Weatherwise though a chilly star this afternoon. Our average should be in the mid60s. We are going to be pushing 80 by wednesday. 30s out there this morning. Well be headed up into the 50degree mark by 9 00. 69 at lunch time. Much more comfortable then. We are back to 6 degrees. You have plans this afternoon or evening. Weather should cooperate very, very nicely. We dont have really anything there weatherwise. We have showers and storms in iowa and missouri lifting off toward the northeast. With High Pressure dominating, warm front will produce cloudiness to our north. This morning we have mid to upper 30s. Frost advisory out west until 9 00. 39 in la plata but 50 here in dc. Grab the jackets and patience. On a monday morning you need that patience, especially dealing with the volume we usually have on a monday morning. Southbound on 35 there is an accident near route 18. Crews are just arriving on the scene. I know our sky 9 is headed out there. Be aware of that southbound on i95. Lets take a live look at the beltway. Planning to head to Georgia Avenue traffic volumes are still okay as you leave the 95 interchange. Inside the beltway, no problems on 66. 395 or 295. A live look on springfield northbound beginning to guild up here. Back to you guys. Thank you monday. The final president ial debate is tonight in boca raton, florida. President obama and governor romney spent the weekend out of sight. In the meantime their lead supporters fanned out across the sunday talk show. The president created this false image of mitt romney. This is going to be a very close race. We feel we are even or ahead. The election is two weeks from tomorrow. Bob scheaffer the host of cbss face the nation will moderate tonights final president ial debate. We are your goto debate station. Beginning at 9 00 p. M. On our website we will be live blogging about what the candidates say. We will be Fact Checking the candidates statement with usa today. This morning a woman is recovering after being attacked while jogging along the capital crescent trail. 9news now reporter Kristen Fisher is live in bethesda. This suspect is on the loose and the victim still recovering this morning after she was knocked unconscious while jogging. It happened right around dusk, around 7 00 yesterday evening. This woman, just 21 years old had stopped running for just a few seconds to allow some deer to cross the trail. Someone knocked her unconscious and tracked her off the trail. Police are investigating what happened next. They are calling it a possible Sexual Assault when the woman woke up, she was able to make her way back to the trail. This is a relatively safer section of the capital crescent trail. After what happened last night many bike enters joggers say this is going to change the way they use the trail. I would not be on the trail alone at dark or dusk. And would definitely think twice about letting my young sons be on the trail without a chaperone. Montgomery county police are asking everyone to be extra careful while the suspect is on the loose. Regardless, theysy it is still important, if you are running or jogging alone on the trails, it is always better to have a buddy. Especially as we head into winter, the days get darker a lot earlier. Back to you. Jury selection begins later this morning in the trial of an fbi agent in Prince Georges County. 37yearold Adrian Johnson is accused of dwi and vehicular manslaughter. He hit a car driven by lawrence garner jr. Garner died in the crash. Agent johnson was offduty at the time of the wreck. Today the man accused of tossing a molotov cocktail, leon trail is expected in court. He faces arson charges in last thursdays incident. The bomb did not ignite and no one was hurt. After officers tracked down trail, police say they found even more explosive materials. I am watching your money. Heres an effect of the soft economy. The number of homeless students in Fairfax CountyPublic Schools may have hit a record breaking high by the end of this school year. The Washington Post reports the count of homeless students may soon top 2500. 400 of the students classified as homeless are children who live without parents or guardians. The rising number is tied to the effects of the recession. You probably heard of capitol hill lawmakers, if they dont reach a budget deal by the end of the year the automatic budget cuts are questioneddialed to scheduled to take effect. Officials will discuss federal leasing, new construction and 277,000 federal workers could lose their job with 14 of the federal work force if Congress Fails to anever the socalled fiscal cliff. I bet you have been seen this. There is an intruder at the airport in melbourne, australia. A kangaroo has decided to hang out in the parking lot. Airport management didnt know what was going on. Eventually they got the kangaroo cornered. Had a flight, didnt think he was going to get through security. They have the kangaroos, we have got the deer. Stale head, a local woman remembers the late senator George Mcgovern and how he influenced her life. Plus this morning, a major renovation job is finished at one of metros busiest red line stations. Keep it here you are watching 9news now. Ifrs out on the weather terrace this morning, where we have temperatures in the 40s, thankfully the winds are light. We have lots of temperatures in the 0z this morning. Jackets, maybe gloves waiting for the bus. A good looking day ahead. We have sunshine all day long. By lunch time i expect readings to be pushing the 60degree mark. This afternoons high 72. I think we hit that around 3 30. Still in the upper 60s and sunny. 35 has been issue free this morning on the northbound side at duke street. As you can see, volumes are still fair on the 14th street bridge. There is an accident in maryland near route 198. Metro officials will be at the Dupont Circle station. After more than 8 months, metro reopened the okay late tors this weekend. The old escalators were among the least reliable in the system. Ill be back with more traffic coming up at 54 00. Thank you monday. I have been combing through the deals to find you deep discounts. Need a good nights sleep . Who doesnt. A contour wedge pillow. You can buy it today from sears. Com for 24. 99. Plus you are getting Free Shipping on this one. Ebay has a deal on a dyson vacuum. It is listed at 289. 99. Actually that is 52 off the normal price. Normally this deal includes Free Shipping and Living Social is offering a discount on a 60s collection. The right temperatures include a double handled coat bag, skinny jeans. The prices range from 73 to 28. It is all part of the malibu collection and if you have an offer, i would love to hear from you on facebook. It is that time of year when we like to be scared at the movie. Paranormal debuted in the top spot. It performs poorly. The movie only cost 5 million. The real life cia thriller argo came in second place. Sonys Hotel Transylvania and alex cross round out the top five. A u. S. Ally in the middle east. Nasa shows off a meet meteorite. Actors for derek jack by is turning 74. He made us laugh. Crist fer lloyd is also 79. Actress annette fine cello is turning 70. Actor jeff gold bloom is 60. Comedian is 45 years old. ] [ominous] [engine roaring and tires rolling through sand] [door open] click [footsteps on sandy gravel] [door close] slam [upbeat] [people cheering] hey, welcome home to the men and women of the United States armed forces, the uso is home. The uso depends on the generosity of the american people. To find out how you can help, visit us at uso dot org. Good morning, everybody. Going to turn out to be a great one. Welcome back, everybody. I am liking the summer like temperatures. I know it is chilly this morning. Z and 40s. We had a chilly morning saturday. You were out at the diabetes walk. I was out with kristenber set. Everybody who came out i cant you couldnt have asked for Better Weather right . A couple of clouds for awhile. Nice for all the folks that came out to support us. There were cheerleaders out there. That was a great, great day. I want to show you a picture we took saturday morning. Beautiful fall color moving in toward dc now. I think we are pretty close to peak. Warm temperatures moving in, you know it is going it be a fine time to maybe enjoy some of those colors if you get a chance outside. Leave drop is about 50 or so. Our bus stop forecast, we have readings down in the 30s in many areas to the 40s as well to near 50 along the bay. Well call it a chill. A nice, sunny day. By lunch time we should warm up into the mid60s. 64 degrees in washington here for lunch time. We are having all sorts of clicker problems this morning. High today 72. By 8 00 p. M. 69 degrees if you see this, that is why. Frost advisory until 9 00. 50 in town, 37 in gaithersburg. Outside great visibility in the background here, this is west wis avenue. We have clear skies, calm winds and the humidity this morning 68 . Thankfully we are going to have a wind chill to factor in. Warm air returning, pushing 80 degrees over the next few days. 70s plus. I think low writs in the warm spot here. Especially by wednesday. Even thursday and friday looks to be warm. Our next big weather problem could be late in the weekend to early next weak. Indications sandy may be forming in the western caribbean. We have a big storm system crashing in the northwestern u. S. That is bringing in rain, cold and snow. You can see in the San Francisco bay area, know in the mountains toward tahoe. Ahead of it though, winds out of the southwest. Well take the warmth and move in our direction here. Other than a warm front producing showers in pennsylvania, we should be in good shape around here for much of the work week today temperatures will be climbing into the low 70s after a chilly start. Not as cold tonight. Mid40s in the outer suburbs to low 50s in town. A warm tuesday with a mix of clouds and sun. More clouds north, more sun south. By wednesday buffalo. About yet. We are going to keep this nice weather with us thursday and friday even into saturday. It is later sunday into monday potentially sandy could move this way. We have been telling but this accident on the southbound side of 95 gear route 198 for awhile now involving a couple of vehicles. One into the woods. Be aware of that if you are traveling in the laurel area. This accident was cleared awhile ago and you shouldnt in find any problems as you head past university boulevard. First of all, if you are planning to head here at Georgia Avenue, traffic is moving well. Lets go back over to our maps. This time we are going to check out 270 coming down from frederick. A live look at 55. Ill be back in a few minutes. After becoming unresponsive last week George Mcgovern died sunday of the he was 90 years old. He lost the 172 election in a landslide to richard nixon. We spoke to a local woman. I accept your nomination with a full and agreeful harry potter and first met him in 172. Reporter when George Mcgovern died sunday morning the sun try lost a lion of the political left. Long time cbs news political analyst dottie lynch lost a friend. It is a sad day. Lynch and her husband, who worked on the mcgovern campaign, main tainted a close relationship with the senator over the following 40 years, seeing him most recently this summer for his 90th birthday celebration. He was a little bit more trail. But still, traveling, making speeches and very committed to a number of causes. According to lynch, George Mcgovern the person was exactly the same as George Mcgovern the politician. The kind and smart man with a wonderful sense of humor. He was true to himself and very, very passionate. Reporter lynch said mcgoverns legacy would include his efforts on behalf of the poor and hungry. But more broadly, she thinks George Mcgovern will be accurately remember. I cant his legacy is going to stay and his memory is going to stay if a long time. Funeral services will be held friday. A private burial will be held at a later date at Rock Creek Cemetery in washington. A car bomb flowedded sunday killing 13 people. The blast happened as a United Nations envoy was meeting. 35 people were killed in clashes yesterday across the wartorn country. Neighbors announced they foiled an al qaeda terror plot. 11 suspects are now in custody. They were planning to bomb Shopping Centers and assassinate western diplomats. Thousands of people along the west coast report seeing a streak across the sky wednesday night. Now nasa scientists are showing a piece of a meteor that caused the stir. He later found it in her yard. Time for another look at the question of the day. 72 of american men own one of these, but only 5 of them actually use it. Is it a vacuum cleaner, a map or a cookbook . A response you posted on the Facebook Fan Page. Carolyn smith wrote since i tend to do it most we tend to get lost. I guess he is trying all of the above. Log onto the wusa9 Facebook Fan Page. Leave your response. We are going to have your correct answer for you in about an hour. Coming up, tonights final president ial debate. A couple of americans in naming new catholic saints. Keep it here. You are watching 9news now. Youll need a jacket early. We have temperatures in the 30s and 40s in most spots. Thankfully the winds are light. By 9 00 we are pushing 50 here. Still mid40s in the shanendoah valley. We head to the lunch hour, upper 50s to low 60s. Highs are nice this afternoon. We should make 72 with platts energysyty of sunshine plenty of sunshine. Now they can celebrate a saint of their very own. Anna monday trying ga reports on the popes naming of new saints from the vatican and a ceremony celebrated by bone benedict xvi. Born in 1556 to a mohawk father and christian mother, she was partially blinded by smallpox. She was persecuted by her tribe when she converted to christianity at the anal of 20. The at the age of 20. At vatican says they cured this boy of a flesh eating bacteria in 2006 thanks to his parents prayers. 300 years after the saints death, many wore traditional headdress in her honor. Mother mary ann cope, the 19th century nun and her sisters cared for help pers in an cxfing l help help pers in iowa. She is the spirit of st. Francis. Reporter a frail Pope Benedict named seven saints in all. Most of the new antes are missionaries. Underscoring the popes priority of bringing laches lapsed catholics back to the church. Good morning you are watching 9news now at 6 00 a. M. It is monday, we will get through it together. Andrea roane and mike haiduk are both off. Howard bernstein and i know. Morning traffic. Anything can happen. Reporter weatherwise, looking good this morning. Going to lack good all day. Just grab a jacket. We have a chill out