Thats a shame. Reporter allen lehman is saddened. A 9yearold girl died in this crash near his house in Prince Georges County. This is a bad intersection. They have accidents probably once a month. But this is the first time i recall a fatality. Reporter police tell me the 9yearold was a passenger in this bmw. Her mother was the driver. They tried to make a left on to Canberra Drive from woodyard road. They turned in front of this car, police say, causing to it flip over. The driver has two broken legs. And an injured back. The 9yearold died on the scene. And her mother isnt seriously injured. Its going to be tough on them and her. Not to mention the rest of the family. Reporter its the second crash tonight. At about 6 30 this evening, a car hit a pedestrian at kenilworth avenue and riverdale road in riverdale. Medics found one person with serious injuries. Police havent told us if its a man or a woman. Authorities did tell us the end of daylight savings could be cause mortgage accidents. According to the National Safety council, traffic fatalities are three times greater at night than during the day. A shame. Reporter now police have not released the name of this 9yearold. Her father told me that she goes to school near this intersection. Live from Prince Georges County in clinton, maryland, im shomari stone, news4. We want to thank you from the bottom of our heart. We had long ago lost hope that justice would ever come. Now that the defendant is found guilty, we can finally start to mourn. Tonight the beginnings of relief and closure for three families terrorized by a killer. Now that man is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison. The jury convicted Charles Severance on all ten counts today in the murders of ruth ann lodato, ron kirby and nancy dunning. They remmed three life sentences. In court kirbys widow recalls the last time she spoke to him, saying the last time he ever said to me was to call me when you get lost, and i am truly lost without him. The verdict brings a sense of closure to an entire community there is no cold case for a homicide of this nature. Unfortunately, other victims got in the way of this particular person who committed these crimes. Today hopefully that person will never harm anyone in any community again. Charles severance is scheduled to officially be sentenced in january. His attorneys are expected to appeal. Its back to the drawing board tonight for metro. The yearlong search for a general manager hit a huge snag today. News4 was first to report last week the Transit Agency had zeroed in on neil cohen. But this afternoon, metro announced negotiations had ended. Transportation reporter adam tuss now with what is next for metro. Reporter well, in the end, an aerospace and defense expert with a financial background and a background in aviation was not the man to run metro. Neil cohen will not be the general manager of metro, even though the two sides were this close to signing a deal. Sources say cohen became increasingly uneasy with his name out in the public before he had even signed a contract. And now what the metro board has to do is go back to the remaining candidates. Were told there are four other candidates that the metro board will go to, tell them the position is open once again, and see if they want to be the person that runs the Transit Agency. In the district, adam tuss, news4. The process to find a new gm started over a year ago when then general manager announced in september of 2014 that he would be retiring. But just a month after he left the job, three finalists withdrew their names, forcing metro to start over. Fast forward almost eight months, the fta assumes safety oversight in metro in part because of a lack of permanent leadership. Then adam learned just last week that neil cohen would be tapped for the top spot. That all again changed today when metro announced it and cohen mutually agreed to part ways. Right now d. C. Police are trying to solve a mystery inside a home near capitol hill in northeast. A young couple found dead here on tennessee avenue here this afternoon. News4s Jackie Bensen has been tweeting updates from the scene all night. Jackie, what are you hearing . Reporter doreen, i know that there is tremendous concern in this neighborhood about what is going on here. And right now i can tell you we have been given no official information from d. C. Police about how these two people died. Now they are described as a man and a woman, a couple in their late 20s or early 30s. According to neighbors. Now what we can tell you is that police are calling this a death investigation. Not a homicide right now. And that the commander of the First Police District is calling this an isolated incident. Now there was an initial crime alert that went out this evening that referred to this as a shooting, we are told. That was in error that is not correct. Now we do know police were called here around 3 30 this afternoon to check on the welfare of the couple. Neighbors tell us they were in the process of renovating this town house and when we arrived, every window on the second floor was open. It is not clear whether police opened them. Investigators also examined photographs and then towed away a vehicle that was parked nearby. My sources tell me there was no sign of forced entry into the house. So right now it appears that police are saying this was an isolated incident. Should it not be caused for greater concern in the neighborhood. But we have absolutely no confirmed information at this point about how these two victims died. Live in northeast washington, Jackie Bensen, news4. Jackie, thank you. Part of the district shining a bit brighter tonight. Community members organized the event to draw attention to the problem they say is plaguing their neighborhood. They tell us the area is way too dark at night, and there has been an uptick in crime because of it. Tonight people brought flashlights, urging police to pay more attention to the northeast part of the district when it comes to Crime Prevention efforts. Surveillance video helped police find a man accused of assaulting a 13yearold boy in arlington. 31yearold Ahmed Al Khatib is accused of touching the boy while he slept in a room near the boston mall. The boy says he woke up and found his pants down. He quickly ran away and told a cousin who works in the building. Police arrested el khatib after looking at the surveillance video. Big shakeup tonight at the top of the gop president ial field. In a new nbc news wall street journal poll, dr. Ben carson has taken a sixpoint lead over donald trump. Carsons 29 is the highest number a gop candidate has received so far. The frontrunners have also more than doubled their competition. Marco rubio at 11 . Ted cruz at 10. Jeb bush in fifth right now with just 8 . Tomorrow the man who has led alexandria for more than a decade could lose his job. Mayor bill euille is waging a writein campaign hoping to stay in office. He lost the democratic primary in june to allison silberberg. Voters have to correctly write in his name in order for the ballot to count. Democrats need one seat to swing the balance of power in the senate. You can find four things to know about the virginia elections in our app when you search election. In maryland, several municipal seats are up for grabs, including mayoral and City Council Elections in rockville, college park, and laurel. And were talking about some very warm temperatures over the next couple of days. Into the 70s. And were even talking the upper 70s. Much more about that. Also notice the cool weather toward the weekend. Thats all coming up in my forecast. Next on 11, the odds already stacked against you. Now some local casinos want to make it harder for you hit it big. The news4 iteam finds out who is in line to win. Pick pockets targeting women at a local shopping center. Its a scary scenario. Why its taking days for the victims to find out. The changes Just Announced for Fairfax County classrooms after the fire that sent five students to local hospitals. At the top of the show,we told you how dangerous the roads have been tonight, and then just like that weve seen yet another accident. Lets take you out now. We have live pictures. Chopper 4 is up in silver spring, maryland, where there has been a hitandrun. This is right around columbia pike near tech road that that is south of cherry hill road. Again, this is all happening just in the last few minutes here. Police are saying they are looking for a dark colored car that probably has some front end damage. Again, a Pedestrian Crossing the street hit. The driver took off. Right now there is no confirmed fatality in this case. But we are keeping an eye on it and well stay on top of this story as it develops. Doreen . Thank you. Two major developments in the wake of that chemistry class fire in Fairfax County last week. We learn but all but one of the five students injured in the fire at Woodson High School have now been released from the hospital. The students still in the hospital is undergoing surgery for serious burns. The fire started while a chemistry teacher was doing a demonstration last friday. Today the School Superintendent banned the use of open flames in the classroom until further notice. She also ordered a review of the School SystemsScience Curriculum and all science teachers will need to review safety protocols for the classroom. A pair of crafty thieves are using the art of distraction to rob women blind in montgomery county. Police tell us the people in this surveillance picture stole from women in Federal Plaza in rockville. One distracts the victim while the other steals a credit card from her purse. But they leave that purse behind. The move means it can take victims days to figure out the cards are missing. And it also gives the pick pockets more time to ring up a big bill with the cards. He is referred to by the fbi as the forever loyal bandit for the shirt he has been seen robbing banks in over the past couple of years in Fairfax County. Tonight new pictures of a serial Bank Robbery Suspect in his latest attempt friday night in falls church. Take a good look. Maybe you can help find him. The fbi believes the man seen robbing the Capital One Bank in the seven Corner Center friday afternoon is the same man who robbed three other banks in the summer of 2014. Maryland casinos want the right to make it harder for you to win at their slot machines. Casinos have asked state leaders to lower the amount of money theyre required to pay out when you pull the handle. A review by Scott Mcfarland and the news4 iteam say some fear its marylands problem gamblers who might end up losing bigtime. Reporter everyone hates to lose at the slots. But some people hate it more than others. Watch these players at maryland live in recent month, beating, headbutting slot machines, breaking them. The video obtained from state police. Some have even fired off emails and letters to marylands state Gaming Commission complaining of low payouts. Saying these machines have a low to nonexistent payout. Im taking my money to delaware. Another questioning if maryland is driving out gamblers on fixed incomes. The combinationsed on permutation and the noise and the themes. Reporter Michael Rosen says its easy to be sucked in by the slot, even when you dont win. He should know. See a recovering problem gambler. You zone Everything Else out, especially today. When i was younger the slot machine was a onearmed bandit. You pulled the handle. But now its like playing a video game. Reporter he says it isnt money motivating some addicted gamblers. Youre playing for the adrenaline. Absolutely for the adrenaline. Reporter and soon even fewer gamblers could walk away winners. State Officials Say maryland casinos are now asking for permission to drop the payouts lower. Using public records request, news4 team found the payouts at every casino in west virginia, maryland, delaware, and new jersey. And as you can see, most maryland casinos are near average. For now. A formal regulation change under consideration now would allow maryland to lower payout to as little as 87 cents on the dollar on average. Lower than the payout at casinos throughout the region. And only one of the states casinos, hollywood would tell the iteam why theyre pushing for potentially lower payout, saying its an opportunity for the casino and statebacked taxpayers who get a cut to collect additional revenue. But some would worry what would happen next. Problem gamblers are not very sensitive to payout. Reporter thats particularly problematic because lower payouts may attract more gamblers, may encourage people to gamble longer because theyre hoping to win back the money they lost. Reporter even if the state rakes in more money from losing gamblers, it would not be required to spend more on programs to help problem gamblers. As of now casinos must pay 450 per slot machine each year into a fund to help the addicted. But state gaming Officials Say even if payouts are lowered and the regulations change, the fee would stay the same. The state would keep more money there would be more revenue from the slot machines, but there wouldnt be more money going to the problem gambling fund. Reporter Michael Rosen says no matter what changes are made the addict ready always drawn back until they seek help. There is always the hope theyre going to hit. Reporter hollywood says it must stay competitive. It has no plans to change the payouts of its slot machines and they want the change to allow casinos more flexibility there are safeguards in place to help problem gamblers in maryland, including a voluntary Exclusion Program in which more than 900 people have registered to ban themselves from state casinos. Scott macfarland. On our app, more of the casino complaints the state received. You can check them out. Click on investigation. Doug is here with a check on our weather. Were getting a little bit of a break for november weather. We are going to see a very, very warm first week of november. Today high temperatures into the mid60s. The next couple of days, were this the 70s. And by friday, we could get close to 80 degrees. Out there right now, its a nice cool night after what was pretty nice day. Were seeing a lot of cloud cover. Now clearing skies, and thats allowing temperatures to cool. Down to 52 right now with calm winds. A very nice night across our region. Look at the numbers. 45 gaithersburg. 46 huntingtown. Not cold for this time of year. The average low in d. C. Is 44. I dont think we get anywhere close to that. I think well stay around the 50 degree mark. No rain to talk about. Weve been on the dry side. Look likes were going to stay on the dry side through the next couple of days. Chance of showers on thursday. Well get to thursday in just a second. The rain was making its way up here. Just like we told you, it would all stay down to the south. Thats exactly what is going on. You can see the whole storm system moving to the east and taking the clouds associated with it out of here. A lot of rain for the carolinas. A lot of rain towards georgia today. But for us, we just saw the cloud cover around the region. For tomorrow, that storm system moves out. Well see plenty of sunshine, and we are looking good. Temperatures around 52 degrees. 57 by 9 00 a. M. Rising into the 70s by around 1 00 or 2 00. It is really going to be a beautiful afternoon. And that means great for the kids at the bus stop. 7 00 to 8 00 a. M. Nice temperatures around that 50 degree mark. Nice and mild. This is in some of the suburbs, just outside the beltway. 3 00 to 4 00 in the afternoon. Once again, around that 70 degree mark. Just in time for recess, well be in the low to mid60s. Recess possible is very good. Maybe wear the jacket early. But that will be coming off during the day. The impact forecast is going to be on the low side for sure. Mild, sunny, and very nice. The weather will have a very low impact on your day tomorrow. Next couple of days, here is what you want to see. The temperatures 72 tuesday. 72 on wednesday. 68 on thursday. Now, again, thursday we are going to watch for a chance of showers on thursday. Lets take a closer look at thursday with 68degree temperatures. Still above average. A few showers possible. But most of them will be on the light side, if we see any at all. They will be very light. Take an umbrella with you, just in case. Now on friday, well see a cold front come through. That cold front out ahead of it will boost temperatures to 78 degrees. Thats going to be a very warm day for sure. A lot of wind too. Could be rather breezy. 30 chance of showers that would be late friday night. Maybe by the time youre out to dinner. The weekend, 67 degrees on your saturday. 54 degrees on sunday. Temperatures will actually fall during the day on saturday. There will be more sun on sunday. And its going to be a little bit of a chilly weekend. But all in all, not bad out there at all. The weather really looking quite nice by next monday. Temperatures a little below average, but highs in the upper 50s. Well take that too. Right now enjoy the seven. Well make the most of it, thank you. The redskins get ready for the super bowl champs and some much needed help might be on the way. Carol is up next. But first here is jimmy fallon. Thank you jim and doreen and everyone in washington, d. C. Bryan cranston is my guest. Bryan cranston is my guest. Plus rachel you may think all people who run for office are pretty much the same. But not jill mccabe. Shes a doctor. Whos a pediatric Emergency Room Physician at Inova Loudoun hospital. Shes a mom. Who knows the value of a quality education. Shes a community leader. Who will work in the state senate